IS the scientist in this video wearing flip flops with this ball lightning scurrying around the floor by hiw feet? Is it just me or is this not a good idea. I want to see the blooper reel of this video.
Yep I can see a Darwin award in the making here, just upscale the whole thing using the same great safety standards.
In X-Men 3, they developed a computer effects algorithm that made Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart look very young. In fact, it was so well done that I reckoned them able to go in and make a new original cast Star Trek film. (With the surviving members anyway, may the fallen RIP.) I also reckoned they could make Ian McKellen (Glandolf) and Ian Holm (Bilbo) look younger in The Hobbit with this technique. (Has anyone seen Sam Lowry?)
clearly u don't know much about Tolkiens books, yes they would need a young bilbo, but Gandalf is old centuries before the hobit.
This is a pretty common thing to do. We call it "Daddy I want a Pony".
Here's how it works:
Kid: Daddy, I want a pony
Dad: Honey, be reasonable. A pony requires land, a stable, and constant care!
Kid: But Daddy, I want a pony!
Dad: It would cost thousands of dollars, we can't afford it, you don't know if you like horses.
Kid: (crying) BUT DADDY, I WANT A PONY!
Dad: Uh uh uh... How about a dog instead?
Kid: (crying stops) Oh okay, I can settle for that.
So dad thinks "Phew! That was close, I almost had to buy a pony"......and the kid thinks "Easiest way to get a dog!"
You see this with taxes all the time. They threaten to tax everything... cars, boats, children, blades of grass, pimples on your chin. And then they "settle" for raising income tax another few points. And then you're supposed to feel "relieved".
Nope not even close to start with the Liberal Party (conservatives) control both houses, nothing gets stopped unless some of their own decide to cross the floor on an issue, secondly you don't know our Prime Minister Little Johnny Howard, Johnny has take being a slimy little fascist git to new levels, you can be sure of one thing Johnny really wanted the Original form of it, and he's quiet putout to have failed to get it.
Hmmm the parent has lots of good points, but it would be better if the author learned to quote properly then we'd be better able to tell quoted text from comment hint I put quoted text in
and put a
inside that the blockquote indents the margins, the div seems to have been set up in css (for/.) to be "dimmed" the result is that the quoted text is destinctly different from the surrounding text i.e.
We do have a bit of a problem with that in the UK. (This is a general comment, without reference to the particular case under discussion about which I know nothing other than what has been in the news.)
Once upon a time people who were unable to lead a normal life in society were locked up in mental hospitals. But we've closed all those and replaced them with "care in the community". This policy, which in fact is implemented as "neglect in the community", has a variety of outcomes for the people concerned.
Some do actually cope with life on the outside (maybe they didn't need to be in the mental hospitals in the first place), with or without any extra support that they are lucky enough to receive. Some don't cope, and end up homeless and living on the streets, maybe dying of drug overdoses or exposure in winter. Some cope fine with keeping themselves alive but end up in prison because their behaviour, which they can't do anything about, is unacceptable to society.
Prison is generally reckoned not to be a suitable place to keep these people locked up, as you say... but we no longer have anywhere else.
The story is precisely the same here in Oz (Australia), now and again the politicians all say how bad it is and tut tut about it but nothing gets done.
...an operating system that actually morphed and adapted to the needs of the users...
Users? Aren't those the guys who always need their passwords reset and profiles restored? It already morphed and adapted and became Windows. We have only ourselves to blame. In Soviet Russia OS does not adapt to users; users adapt to... Oh, wait.
There's more truth to that than you know, the Article fails to tell us how any of this is supposed to work, fuzzy thinking like this; "oh hey that would be cool", is what made many of the nastiest widows fetchers. The OS and it's applications; and it's the application layer that the artcle really means by OS, shouldn't morph with out sanity checks, the FOSS model already achieves this with fetcher requests and bug reports, even propriety software has a week form of this. self learning systems are just vapourware for the most part, they cannot add new fetchers to your program and they could hope to do is jumble about what was already there until it was a unworkable heap of junk.
Armor that covered the knee? This was 1500 BC not AD.
Actually, it was 1322. By the New Kingdom, Egypt had complex armor making capabilities. They were in fact distributing chariot armies all over the Senet area on a standardized-width rut road system, something typically attributed to Rome. Egypt had some fairly complex metallurgy practices, and even had rudimentary pit steel-making capabilities, though there were no surface iron deposits nearby for them to really use in the way that the Assyrians did.
The reason you don't see armor on depictions of Egyptian warfare isn't a technological one in the sense that they didn't know how to make armor, but rather that the climate generally didn't allow for it - Egypt is fucking hot, and people would cook. Tutankhamen and other pharoahs wore armor as a ceremonial and last ditch protective thing (fat lot of good it did him,) and could get away with it because they were being moved in covered, shaded transportation vessels. Even then, several pharoahs are never depicted wearing armor - Seti I and Setnahke being good examples, shown wearing only normal clothes and the lapis crown.
You sound like you know what your talking about, What the hell are you doing on/.
As an engineer who works on some equipment that could really do bad things if it messed up, I can tell you that pessimistic engineers do better work. That's the defensive pessimist that the article talks about.
However, we're miserable most of the time, and we burn out quick. That's because we blame ourselves for every single little thing that goes wrong, and we feel guilty about every mistake for the rest of our lives. It's a pretty high standard to hold yourself to.
I imagine it's worse for Doctors, but that profession allows you to blame something else for your screw up a lot more, so maybe not.
I think that Heinlein was talking about striking a balance between the 2, like most stuff in life it's all about balance, the imbalances are what kill us.
The biggest mistake they made was the one size fits all. It would have been a big deal to fit in some accordian type fit. Probably this will work for teenagers and small adults, but not for children and regular adults.
Yep having naturally huge wrists I can tell you that one size fits all mean it don't fit me.
It's not that boggling when you consider 62% of all Insightful's are Overrated and 83% of all Funny's are Redundant.
shouldn't that be 83% of all Funny's are not very funny, to the point where you need to look twice (or more) to realise that the stupid comment is an attempt at funny.
ESR, shut the fuck up, you've done your good deeds, now don't start destroying it all just because you're not in the spotlight anymore.
Exactly. He got it right with "The cathedral and the bazaar", but everything he has said or written ever since was crap.
Why does Slashdot keep publishing his idiocies?
hmmmm ESR does appear to be on crack here, the interview was appalling though the guy hardly let ESR get a word in edge ways at times so bent was he on his own agenda's.
But in the end ESR made a complete fool of himself without help.
Just a slight comment on the serious side, when were we promised this stuff and by whom, there where the odd predictions, but promises I must have missed those.
This could be a great advertising opportunity for them, better still they could hook into the who email thing with add-lines like "... the only Spam I like is the real Spam in a can, say NO to unsolicited email"; and no doubt better lines, making email spam a bonus to them instead of a curse.
it's based on Basic, yuck, what would be nice would be a multi-language RAD tool a bit like kylix, but completely open source, so far I don't know of one like that:-(, ohh welll
Actually, isn't Euler's formula Exp[i*theta] = cos[theta] + i*sin[theta] ? and then substitute in the value of pi into theta, and the more famous result appears.
Yep and that gets my vote, well except maybe Exp(i*theta) = cosh(i*theta) + sinh(i*theta), or how about c = 2*pi*r or A = pi * r^2, dammm I just love Equations....
Under the slashdot story which points to a Linus Torvalds interview there is an advertisement for Windows 2003 server and it's telling me that it's 17% cheaper to run!
Thanks nice to know what Adblock is blocking hee hee:-P
Ok personally I wouldn't, reasons, well it's part (== mostly) propriety, and I really hate that; well to be accurate I think thats bad, not as in morally bad, but bad for the computing industry/world and users: infrastructure should be free.
Besides imagine how even more unbearable the mac zealots would be if this happened
Imagine a web browser that ties directly into Google.
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And much much more. You see... I know things. I know what Google is doing, and it both amazes me, excites me, and scares me.
Thank god for stock options.
Hmmmm I know many things too, things I couldn't possibly know, I even have an inside track on what G. W Bush is thinking, but then my psychiatrist makes me take the drugs, and it all goes away.:'( ----:-P
Take a hint mate, you reveal oh so much about yourself when you write crap like that.:-P
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Nope not even close to start with the Liberal Party (conservatives) control both houses, nothing gets stopped unless some of their own decide to cross the floor on an issue, secondly you don't know our Prime Minister Little Johnny Howard, Johnny has take being a slimy little fascist git to new levels, you can be sure of one thing Johnny really wanted the Original form of it, and he's quiet putout to have failed to get it.
Is it just me or do other people get visions of men getting electric shocks up the privates here.
should hi tech and urinals ever mix.
I just started to use it and I'm being spammed unmercifully does yahoo advertise ur email address to get u spammed ???
hmmmm ESR does appear to be on crack here, the interview was appalling though the guy hardly let ESR get a word in edge ways at times so bent was he on his own agenda's. But in the end ESR made a complete fool of himself without help.
seriously way to go google this is a good(TM) thing to do.
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Just a slight comment on the serious side, when were we promised this stuff and by whom, there where the odd predictions, but promises I must have missed those.
This could be a great advertising opportunity for them, better still they could hook into the who email thing with add-lines like "... the only Spam I like is the real Spam in a can, say NO to unsolicited email"; and no doubt better lines, making email spam a bonus to them instead of a curse.
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it's based on Basic, yuck, what would be nice would be a multi-language RAD tool a bit like kylix, but completely open source, so far I don't know of one like that :-(, ohh welll