I am... was a big fanboy for the movies. I got through the Special Editions, and persisted in liking them. I got through Phantom Menace, and wavered a touch, but held my ground. I even defended Jar Jar. Then Attack of the Clones came out. My initial reaction was "that was pretty good... minus this, that, and the other thing."
Then it sat in my head a while, and the sheer weight of the suckage in the two prequels brought the whole facade down. Now I'm bitter, resentful, and accusatory about the movies.
I don't know about filmmaking, but there definately is an art to crushing one's love for a childhood fantasy, and in that art George Lucas is a grand master.
They don't fly TO stars, they fly among them. The major features of the night sky are mostly stars. Most of the destinations you'd probably want to visit are near stars.
Stars, directly and indirectly, are what make the night sky so wonderful to look at.
And if that doesn't bring you around, consider the word "chromosome" and it's origins: "color" and "body." Words aren't required to stay intimately tied to their roots.
The best way to improve one's writing is to write more. The rise of fan-fiction has just provided an attractive outlet to those who wouldn't otherwise be writing.
I have always liked to read, but my lower education English classes did a fair job of beating a love of writing out of me. It wasn't until I accidently stumbled into and started writing fan-fiction online that I learned to enjoy it.
Peer review helps, but the amount that it helps depends on the peer group. Books on writing can be good sources of ideas, but they can't improve your writing for you. If you want to write better, you have to write. Given time, you can't help but improve.
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If they have the idea of ownership, they have math
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When you have property, you need to know what you've got. So you need to have a number system for counting. If you acquire someone else's property, you need to recount what you now own... until you discover the shortcut of addition. Likewise if you sell some of your property, you need to recount what you have, until you discover the shortcut of subtraction.
If you become a big buyer, and acquire the same amount from three different people, you're then stuck with a lot of adding to do... until you eventually discover that additions can be strung together to form multiplication. On the flipside, if you have offfspring or take on partners, and want to give equal shares of your property among them, you're going to have a big problem counting the number of beings you're giving to, and then counting and recounting the amounts you give to each, until you either try doing multiplication backwards, or study the relationships between the numbers and discover that they work like that.
Their higher math may differ, but their lower math will be the same, because the lower math contains the base and relationships all else is built off of.
Rocket scientists wouldn't be too happy having to muck about with microbiology, and the reverse is likewise. Writer's make lousy dancers, and painters, for the most part, can't act. Most, if not all of mankind's greatest achievements have come from people following their passions. Besides, people are happier when they follow their passions.
I also think there's something to be said for competition. It's another layer of motivation -- yeah, it's cool no matter who wins, but can I come up with a more elegent solution than my friend over there?
Seriously... and whip up some kind of orgainizing medium. A web page, or use your slashdot journal. Hell, start a wiki and build ideas.
The parent post with the "imagine" idea, though flawed, has a point. United the human race can do amazing things. "Things" being plural. I can't wrap my head around what humanity could do if it decided to work together on stuff. It could certainly tackle space travel, and I am sure it would have plenty of energy left over to solve other large and complex problems.
But you don't need everyone to do it. Powered flight was a boondoggle pursued by the eccentric rich and enthusiastic hobbists, and upon that foundation a pair of brothers who ran a bicycle company achieved success. Just a few people. Plenty left to discover that chromosomes contain genes, build the Panama Canal, invent ice cream cones, formulate the theory of relativity, and write Heart of Darkness and The Wings of the Dove.
granted... but his post was the first I saw in the thread that came close to asking about the kinds of aims the researchers currently have. If there had been another post asking that in a better way, this one wouldn't have mattered.(and the thread was getting to the point where starting a new top-level comment would get lost)
I really don't know much about this field, so I didn't know that the research was at more of a fundamental stage than a practical one.(and I have no problem with that, nor their contiuation)
His tone is a bit harsh, but vlad_petric raises a fair question: "what do they think they might find, or what ability might they gain?" If the answer is, "they don't know -- they're researching it because it was there," then that's fine... but those of us only peripherally aware of this kind of research wouldn't know that without asking.
And really, compared to some of the people in the threads on space travel, his tone was extremely tame.
Seconded... sort of. Slightly less accusatively, I hope.
I don't begrudge them researching superheavy elements... trying to force a scientist who speciallizes in those to research something else is like trying to force a writer to be a dancer -- neither pretty nor effective. I'm just wondering what they can do with the knowledge and theoretical stable atoms they develop.
So... what might we learn, or what might we be able to make?
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The article has some information about the work and its history, as well as some lines(with translation) so that you can get an idea for the work itself.
Braver souls can take the second link to see the full work in Old English(minus wynn). The section with the dragon, from line 2200 up to at least the damaged section at 2230, should be be of interest to Tolkein fans.
Those who'd like some help figuring that out can go to this article on Old English. It features some history on the language, as well as some instruction on pronunciation and grammar.
None that I can find. My comment was more directed at Disney's recent creations(since The Little Mermaid). Several of the earlier films, I believe, actually were from original stories, and I think you hit on two of them.
I haven't seen it, but Kimba the White Lion is purported to have a very similar story and character set, and was made around thirty years earlier in Japan. Wikipedia's Lion King page makes the assertion that some of the film's animators thought they were doing a remake.
If I'd seen or knew more about the Emperor's New Groove, I could probably drag up something there too.(aside from a very superficial and hardly indicting reference in the title)
Nevertheless, it is a fairly safe bet that any theatrically released Disney animated feature will be based on an existing story(out of copyright:), and include a list of characters determined by formula.(One true-blue sidekick, approximately two, but possibly more, comic relief tag-alongs, and one villain's sidekick whose role likely spills over into comic relief tag-along. There might be as many as three comic tag-along villains.) I could probably do more, if I kept at it.
Nevertheless, you're right about the cheapquels-- they're the real bad news. The cheapquels receive less care than the features, and they're released more often.
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How did I get a +1 informative? I was talking about Gundams not being released internationally. I would RTFA to see if such applied to the mech in question as well, but unfortunately I don't read as much Japanese as I'd like.
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They aren't releasing them internationally yet.
Me, I want a megadeus. I'd prefer full size, but I'll settle for a seven foot one if it comes to that.
Do you really want geeks showing up on your doorstep in full chainmail, a sword, and the amulet of Yendor?
You should be safe, unless a view from the West of where you live beholds a white house, with a boarded front door, in an open field. You're also safe so long as grues remain abundant in the wild.
Well, as I said to the other fellow, I remembered to look the word up when I used it in the body.:}
But it does make me look rather foolish letting that slip by just above my diatribe in favor of proper grammar and spelling. Hoisted by my own petard...
I still say my ideas in that post have merit, just forgive me this one blemish on its credibility.:}
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I am... was a big fanboy for the movies. I got through the Special Editions, and persisted in liking them. I got through Phantom Menace, and wavered a touch, but held my ground. I even defended Jar Jar. Then Attack of the Clones came out. My initial reaction was "that was pretty good... minus this, that, and the other thing."
Then it sat in my head a while, and the sheer weight of the suckage in the two prequels brought the whole facade down. Now I'm bitter, resentful, and accusatory about the movies.
I don't know about filmmaking, but there definately is an art to crushing one's love for a childhood fantasy, and in that art George Lucas is a grand master.
*honk*
They don't fly TO stars, they fly among them. The major features of the night sky are mostly stars. Most of the destinations you'd probably want to visit are near stars.
Stars, directly and indirectly, are what make the night sky so wonderful to look at.
And if that doesn't bring you around, consider the word "chromosome" and it's origins: "color" and "body." Words aren't required to stay intimately tied to their roots.
*honk*
I wish I could say I was beginning to wonder when PIE was going to come into it. I wish that, and I bow my head in shame for not wondering that.
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The best way to improve one's writing is to write more. The rise of fan-fiction has just provided an attractive outlet to those who wouldn't otherwise be writing.
I have always liked to read, but my lower education English classes did a fair job of beating a love of writing out of me. It wasn't until I accidently stumbled into and started writing fan-fiction online that I learned to enjoy it.
Peer review helps, but the amount that it helps depends on the peer group. Books on writing can be good sources of ideas, but they can't improve your writing for you. If you want to write better, you have to write. Given time, you can't help but improve.
*honk*
When you have property, you need to know what you've got. So you need to have a number system for counting. If you acquire someone else's property, you need to recount what you now own... until you discover the shortcut of addition. Likewise if you sell some of your property, you need to recount what you have, until you discover the shortcut of subtraction.
If you become a big buyer, and acquire the same amount from three different people, you're then stuck with a lot of adding to do... until you eventually discover that additions can be strung together to form multiplication. On the flipside, if you have offfspring or take on partners, and want to give equal shares of your property among them, you're going to have a big problem counting the number of beings you're giving to, and then counting and recounting the amounts you give to each, until you either try doing multiplication backwards, or study the relationships between the numbers and discover that they work like that.
Their higher math may differ, but their lower math will be the same, because the lower math contains the base and relationships all else is built off of.
*honk*
Rocket scientists wouldn't be too happy having to muck about with microbiology, and the reverse is likewise. Writer's make lousy dancers, and painters, for the most part, can't act. Most, if not all of mankind's greatest achievements have come from people following their passions. Besides, people are happier when they follow their passions.
I also think there's something to be said for competition. It's another layer of motivation -- yeah, it's cool no matter who wins, but can I come up with a more elegent solution than my friend over there?
*honk*
Seriously... and whip up some kind of orgainizing medium. A web page, or use your slashdot journal. Hell, start a wiki and build ideas.
The parent post with the "imagine" idea, though flawed, has a point. United the human race can do amazing things. "Things" being plural. I can't wrap my head around what humanity could do if it decided to work together on stuff. It could certainly tackle space travel, and I am sure it would have plenty of energy left over to solve other large and complex problems.
But you don't need everyone to do it. Powered flight was a boondoggle pursued by the eccentric rich and enthusiastic hobbists, and upon that foundation a pair of brothers who ran a bicycle company achieved success. Just a few people. Plenty left to discover that chromosomes contain genes, build the Panama Canal, invent ice cream cones, formulate the theory of relativity, and write Heart of Darkness and The Wings of the Dove.
Let us have space.
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If the two rovers are on opposite sides of the planet, then it is always daylight(worktime) for one of them, and data can be collected continuously.
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granted... but his post was the first I saw in the thread that came close to asking about the kinds of aims the researchers currently have. If there had been another post asking that in a better way, this one wouldn't have mattered.(and the thread was getting to the point where starting a new top-level comment would get lost)
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(beats a troll mod :)
I really don't know much about this field, so I didn't know that the research was at more of a fundamental stage than a practical one.(and I have no problem with that, nor their contiuation)
Again, thanks for the response.
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His tone is a bit harsh, but vlad_petric raises a fair question: "what do they think they might find, or what ability might they gain?" If the answer is, "they don't know -- they're researching it because it was there," then that's fine... but those of us only peripherally aware of this kind of research wouldn't know that without asking.
And really, compared to some of the people in the threads on space travel, his tone was extremely tame.
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Seconded... sort of. Slightly less accusatively, I hope.
I don't begrudge them researching superheavy elements... trying to force a scientist who speciallizes in those to research something else is like trying to force a writer to be a dancer -- neither pretty nor effective. I'm just wondering what they can do with the knowledge and theoretical stable atoms they develop.
So... what might we learn, or what might we be able to make?
*honk*
This is redeemable for exactly one imagination and one half sense of adventure, or one sense of adventure and one half of an imagination. Those of us who think this kind of thing is cool apologize for the veiled and unveiled flame, and hope you will enjoy whichever combination you choose.
Exchangable cash value for this coupon is one hundredth of a cent($0.0001)
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A few links on those interested in seeing Beowulf in old English:
Article
Beowulf
The article has some information about the work and its history, as well as some lines(with translation) so that you can get an idea for the work itself.
Braver souls can take the second link to see the full work in Old English(minus wynn). The section with the dragon, from line 2200 up to at least the damaged section at 2230, should be be of interest to Tolkein fans.
Those who'd like some help figuring that out can go to this article on Old English. It features some history on the language, as well as some instruction on pronunciation and grammar.
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None that I can find. My comment was more directed at Disney's recent creations(since The Little Mermaid). Several of the earlier films, I believe, actually were from original stories, and I think you hit on two of them.
:}
Me and my non-specific mouth.
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I haven't seen it, but Kimba the White Lion is purported to have a very similar story and character set, and was made around thirty years earlier in Japan. Wikipedia's Lion King page makes the assertion that some of the film's animators thought they were doing a remake.
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Tarzan and Hercules were original?
:), and include a list of characters determined by formula.(One true-blue sidekick, approximately two, but possibly more, comic relief tag-alongs, and one villain's sidekick whose role likely spills over into comic relief tag-along. There might be as many as three comic tag-along villains.) I could probably do more, if I kept at it.
If I'd seen or knew more about the Emperor's New Groove, I could probably drag up something there too.(aside from a very superficial and hardly indicting reference in the title)
Nevertheless, it is a fairly safe bet that any theatrically released Disney animated feature will be based on an existing story(out of copyright
Nevertheless, you're right about the cheapquels-- they're the real bad news. The cheapquels receive less care than the features, and they're released more often.
*honk*
How did I get a +1 informative? I was talking about Gundams not being released internationally. I would RTFA to see if such applied to the mech in question as well, but unfortunately I don't read as much Japanese as I'd like.
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They aren't releasing them internationally yet.
Me, I want a megadeus. I'd prefer full size, but I'll settle for a seven foot one if it comes to that.
*honk*
Do you really want geeks showing up on your doorstep in full chainmail, a sword, and the amulet of Yendor?
You should be safe, unless a view from the West of where you live beholds a white house, with a boarded front door, in an open field. You're also safe so long as grues remain abundant in the wild.
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will it speak like Pierce Brosnan?
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Most of my writing I start in BBEdit. I copy into Appleworks to add bolding and italics, formatting, and for printing.
Considering giving TextEdit more of a try though...
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Wouldn't SCO not suing anyone new merit the front page?
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Well, as I said to the other fellow, I remembered to look the word up when I used it in the body. :}
:}
But it does make me look rather foolish letting that slip by just above my diatribe in favor of proper grammar and spelling. Hoisted by my own petard...
I still say my ideas in that post have merit, just forgive me this one blemish on its credibility.
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Well... I /did/ say I was practicing. I haven't gotten it perfected yet. ;)
:}
Besides, am I not supposed to include at least one spelling mistake in a post about spelling?
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