If you want more info, you can check this site out. It has lots of info about the movie. Well, maybe not "lots," since there really isn't that much available. No director as of yet, and it looks like the release date is somewhere between 2006 and 2010(!). Also, it's supposed to cover the first few episodes according to the site, but unless the screenwriters are refitting a large amount of the story to fit Hollywood (which isn't always a bad thing) they'll be missing all the key plot developments and depressing turns-of-events that occur later.
I, for one, would love a movie of nothing but Shinji's psychedelic dreams as in episodes 25 and 26 of the series.
At UT-Austin, the first electrical engineering class requires you to design/program a Lego Mindstorms robot to travel along some path and do something at the end of the path. I'm not exactly sure of the project specs because they started the Mindstorms projects the year after I started EE, which kind of sucks. Apparently the Mindstorms thing has been a big success with the students, and it does get students into some cool programming almost immediately. One person told me the retention rate for EE majors beyond their first semester is a little bit higher since they started the Mindstorms projects. Perhaps that's a coincidence, but you never know...
I talked to an exchange student from Japan...
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recently at this party I was at. Apparently, he says Japanese don't look down on Americans like Europeans do (admittedly with reasonable justification). He said Hollywood movies are huge over there as an earlier post mentioned, and the stars are on posters all over the place. For some reason, Brad Pitt is hot right now.
Although the one interesting bit of Japanese culture that's taking over like crazy is manga. If you look at Border's or Barnes, you'll see five or six shelves of Manga, and American comics have been pushed into one small shelf at the end. It's apparently the "in" thing for youngsters, much like Fear Street books were the "in" thing back when I was in school.
Consoles are not generally released in January. It is not a high sales month. Gamecube, XBox, PS2, and I think even the N64 were all fall releases, in anticipation of the holiday rush. The PS2 was released in October, which is a little early for the November shopping extravaganza, but it also had the unique position of being the first of the next-gen consoles to be released, and hype is a company's best friend. So, to answer your question, it's more like 10 months, not 1.
You know what's funny is that, if they released the winning video in theaters (all 5 minutes of it or whatever), it'd make more money than that J-Lo movie that just came out. Hell, maybe they should splice in Halo movies into future films, just to spice things up. "Oh, Ben, you're such hot foxy dude, no matter how bad you act!" "And you, J-Lo, are as - oh, jesus, where the fuck did that warthog come from?!?!"
...is that video games are such an easy target. We're all pretty aware that simulating violence does not cause violence, since that's a ludicrous assumption based on some seriously flawed logic. However, you can't really defend videogames with anything offensive. I mean, has anyone legitimately said that videogames decrease violence? Not really...whereas gun folks have at least had some "experts" contend that guns reduce violence. Of course, whatever issue's on the defensive is an easy target, especially for the media. No studies that I've read have said videogames lower violence, but studies-the-likes-of-which-give-Jack-Thompson-an-o rgasm note that videogames cause violence. Stupid logic 1, reality 0. If some study somewhere came out that said videogames drastically reduce violence (a really hard link to prove, but then again, so is the link of videogames causing violence), then we might see the end of scapegoating the videogame industry. Hopefully. Maybe.
Are you kidding? With Taco at the helm, the Music section would be nothing but The Who, which, although awesome since the Who rawk and all, would not amount to much independent music being heard!
I think the court ruling supersedes that. Arguably, the customers were (maybe, possibly, the RIAA hopes) violating copyrights and Verizon is simply withholding their names. It's akin to a journalist withholding a murderer's name when the murderer confessed to them out of journalistic integrity. That, and I didn't read anything about search warrants in the article (at least the news.com one). The RIAA just wants names, and, although that's pretty shitty of them, it's certainly not a "search and seizure" in a Constitutional sense. I think. Besides, I imagine Verizon has clauses in customer agreements for legal requests of information, such as a hacker's name/etc... if that hacker is a Verizon customer. Unfortunately, Verizon lost, so the RIAA now has a legal request for the users' info.
So, I know Epixtar added their "lightning-quick" phone-bill-altering deal to the tapes after the fact. However, what I want to know is: Is there some sort of legal requirement for how slow/quickly such statements have to be said? I mean, car commercials/ads routinely have quickly-spoken disclaimers at the end of ads and such. If Epixtar had merely tacked on the "we can alter your bill" or whatever phrase, only spoken at a Micro Machines guy speed so it seemed like crackly phone noise, would that be legal?
First of all, only a certain set of Dell cartridges have these chips according to the article. You can choose to buy the standard cartridges rather than the chip-laden "use and return" cartridges. The only barrier to buying the standard cartridges from anyone but Dell is the size mismatch issue, but that'll be solved by third-parties in a matter of 6 months, tops. And, sure, you have to buy "Use and Return" cartridges only from Dell, but that's why they're cheaper in the first place. So, why is anyone complaining about this? Because there are evil "chips" in the cheaper cartridges? Because only a certain set of their cartridges (once again, the cheaper "Use and Return" kind) have these "chips"? Good gravy, chill out. Dell's just doing smart business. They aren't invading your privacy or anything.
Honestly, after looking at the screenshots and whatnot, I wouldn't have had the faintest clue that was Helm's Deep if I hadn't read the title of the Slashdot article.
Um...what do they use for baptisms in Germany? Heineken? What the hell else is the priest brewing alcohol in his washer for? I mean, if he had a wine distillery or something in the machine, that'd make sense.
Well...it's a little bit harder to manage this time around. As transistors get smaller, if I remember correctly, one of the main reasons for current leakage is quantum tunneling between the source and drain of a given transistor as the channel length decreases (I think). Also, you get leakage through electrons/holes tunneling though the gate of the MOSFET as the insulating material decreases in width. You can't really outmaneuver quantum mechanics.
Of course, I think something else will pop up (like the aforementioned optoelectronic switch, perhaps), since companies are resourceful folks. Academia is good about researching ways to reduce current leakage, and my prof says high-K dielectric insulators are a good way to reduce leakage through the gate. Whatever...something will come up.
My point is that the situation now is a lot more physically complex than that of, say, 1989 or something, where the limitation was "we can't go past 100 MHz because we haven't thought of a way to do it!" Now it's more "we can't go past [whatever]Ghz because of goddamn physics!"
By the way, anyone else think Gordon Moore gets a little too much by having a "law" named after him? I mean, sheesh...all he did was draw a freakin' best-fit curve on a plot of easily-found data. And on top of that, Moore's Law isn't a law at all...it's a statistic.
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I, for one, would love a movie of nothing but Shinji's psychedelic dreams as in episodes 25 and 26 of the series.
At UT-Austin, the first electrical engineering class requires you to design/program a Lego Mindstorms robot to travel along some path and do something at the end of the path. I'm not exactly sure of the project specs because they started the Mindstorms projects the year after I started EE, which kind of sucks. Apparently the Mindstorms thing has been a big success with the students, and it does get students into some cool programming almost immediately. One person told me the retention rate for EE majors beyond their first semester is a little bit higher since they started the Mindstorms projects. Perhaps that's a coincidence, but you never know...
Although the one interesting bit of Japanese culture that's taking over like crazy is manga. If you look at Border's or Barnes, you'll see five or six shelves of Manga, and American comics have been pushed into one small shelf at the end. It's apparently the "in" thing for youngsters, much like Fear Street books were the "in" thing back when I was in school.
Food for thought...
What's a battle?
What about Windows ME? I know some people who still run that OS (or POS, rather). Does anyone else still run it, and if so, why?
Consoles are not generally released in January. It is not a high sales month. Gamecube, XBox, PS2, and I think even the N64 were all fall releases, in anticipation of the holiday rush. The PS2 was released in October, which is a little early for the November shopping extravaganza, but it also had the unique position of being the first of the next-gen consoles to be released, and hype is a company's best friend. So, to answer your question, it's more like 10 months, not 1.
While you think about that, I'll check my e-mail
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[you have 6*10^15 unread messages in your mailbox]
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I take that back. DDOS them into the stone age, boys!
Um...another "fusion" story from Utah, home of "cold fusion"? Excuse me while I fake interest :)
Remember Y2K? Me neither. Guess I'm still waiting for those missiles to accidentally launch.
Have you considered becoming an astronaut?
Yeah, it's only taken 2 years to put out the PC port.
You know what's funny is that, if they released the winning video in theaters (all 5 minutes of it or whatever), it'd make more money than that J-Lo movie that just came out. Hell, maybe they should splice in Halo movies into future films, just to spice things up. "Oh, Ben, you're such hot foxy dude, no matter how bad you act!" "And you, J-Lo, are as - oh, jesus, where the fuck did that warthog come from?!?!"
..this story would be about a MMORPG featuring the characters from here? I was really hoping for stats on the Shirt Ninja. -grungebox
...is that video games are such an easy target. We're all pretty aware that simulating violence does not cause violence, since that's a ludicrous assumption based on some seriously flawed logic. However, you can't really defend videogames with anything offensive. I mean, has anyone legitimately said that videogames decrease violence? Not really...whereas gun folks have at least had some "experts" contend that guns reduce violence. Of course, whatever issue's on the defensive is an easy target, especially for the media. No studies that I've read have said videogames lower violence, but studies-the-likes-of-which-give-Jack-Thompson-an-o rgasm note that videogames cause violence. Stupid logic 1, reality 0. If some study somewhere came out that said videogames drastically reduce violence (a really hard link to prove, but then again, so is the link of videogames causing violence), then we might see the end of scapegoating the videogame industry. Hopefully. Maybe.
Are you kidding? With Taco at the helm, the Music section would be nothing but The Who, which, although awesome since the Who rawk and all, would not amount to much independent music being heard!
Dude, it totally says 8pm EASTERN in the article header, and like stuff :)
I think the court ruling supersedes that. Arguably, the customers were (maybe, possibly, the RIAA hopes) violating copyrights and Verizon is simply withholding their names. It's akin to a journalist withholding a murderer's name when the murderer confessed to them out of journalistic integrity. That, and I didn't read anything about search warrants in the article (at least the news.com one). The RIAA just wants names, and, although that's pretty shitty of them, it's certainly not a "search and seizure" in a Constitutional sense.
I think. Besides, I imagine Verizon has clauses in customer agreements for legal requests of information, such as a hacker's name/etc... if that hacker is a Verizon customer. Unfortunately, Verizon lost, so the RIAA now has a legal request for the users' info.
So, I know Epixtar added their "lightning-quick" phone-bill-altering deal to the tapes after the fact. However, what I want to know is: Is there some sort of legal requirement for how slow/quickly such statements have to be said? I mean, car commercials/ads routinely have quickly-spoken disclaimers at the end of ads and such. If Epixtar had merely tacked on the "we can alter your bill" or whatever phrase, only spoken at a Micro Machines guy speed so it seemed like crackly phone noise, would that be legal?
I think George Lucas should watch the DVD extras so he can learn a thing or two about making good movies.
First of all, only a certain set of Dell cartridges have these chips according to the article. You can choose to buy the standard cartridges rather than the chip-laden "use and return" cartridges. The only barrier to buying the standard cartridges from anyone but Dell is the size mismatch issue, but that'll be solved by third-parties in a matter of 6 months, tops. And, sure, you have to buy "Use and Return" cartridges only from Dell, but that's why they're cheaper in the first place.
So, why is anyone complaining about this? Because there are evil "chips" in the cheaper cartridges? Because only a certain set of their cartridges (once again, the cheaper "Use and Return" kind) have these "chips"? Good gravy, chill out. Dell's just doing smart business. They aren't invading your privacy or anything.
Honestly, after looking at the screenshots and whatnot, I wouldn't have had the faintest clue that was Helm's Deep if I hadn't read the title of the Slashdot article.
Um...what do they use for baptisms in Germany? Heineken? What the hell else is the priest brewing alcohol in his washer for? I mean, if he had a wine distillery or something in the machine, that'd make sense.
Of course, I think something else will pop up (like the aforementioned optoelectronic switch, perhaps), since companies are resourceful folks. Academia is good about researching ways to reduce current leakage, and my prof says high-K dielectric insulators are a good way to reduce leakage through the gate. Whatever...something will come up.
My point is that the situation now is a lot more physically complex than that of, say, 1989 or something, where the limitation was "we can't go past 100 MHz because we haven't thought of a way to do it!" Now it's more "we can't go past [whatever]Ghz because of goddamn physics!"
By the way, anyone else think Gordon Moore gets a little too much by having a "law" named after him? I mean, sheesh...all he did was draw a freakin' best-fit curve on a plot of easily-found data. And on top of that, Moore's Law isn't a law at all...it's a statistic.
Why did they need to take Dolby's bribe? Couldn't they get their students to help?
1)pr0n
2)AIM
3)Anime
The score is now IBM: 1, Education: 0 (unless you're in a class about sending anime porn to your friends via IM)