Actually, they already have the Buddhist superhero "Monkey"
Is that the same one that the Japanese did a TV version of in the late 1970s?
Very strange. I remember seeing the English language "version" of this on the BBC in the early 80s. Japanese people playing characters in a mainly Chinese story (no wonder I always got the two cultures mixed up) with Indian bits in. The Monkey who didn't look like monkey. The girl who I later found out was meant to be a boy monk, but later still found out *was* played by a girl (so I wasn't *that* stupid when I was four or five). And the dubbing which, having seen it again since, is extremely toungue-in-cheek and sits on top of the Japanese humour of the original to give an extremely odd result.
The black BMW I had the misfortune of following the other day positively glinted in the midday sun.
And I can see my multicoloured reflection in a red car on a sunny day, but that doesn't make the car any less red.
In fact, I'd say that the light that is being *reflected* off the surface says nothing about the colour at all, because it isn't interacting with the material. Hence your specular highlight on a shiny red ball, car, whatever.
I guess the car has the added complexity of different layers of paint, and I'm certainly not an expert in this area, but I'd guess the principle holds.
Hugh showed that once you get someone away from their peer group, you have much better access to them in a social and mental sense.
See, this is what I mean about 'genuinely alien'. The Borg, as originally seen, were only human enough to be dramatically interesting, no more than that. They were plausibly genuine as "alien", regardless of their origins.
I wanted at least *one* enemy that couldn't be treated as a pseudo-human. It still would have made great TV, but they couldn't manage that.
Your comment suggests that you want all aliens to be aspects of humanity, some sociological metaphor.
Enough of the pseudo-humanity!
And nothing can be completely alien to humanity...we've seen all manner of social behavior.
You know, your examples are all fictitious...! I doubt HIV's super-intelligent cousin from space could be related to by humans at all, let alone reasoned with, if it actually existed.
Star Trek has always been about about hope and bridging gaps, not about enforcing them or making them wider.
Which is reliant on everyone ultimately being amenable to reason because they're Just Like Us. Like a naive 15-year old who wants world peace, etc. etc. but doesn't stop to consider that this might involve changes to their way of life too.
IMHO, ST:TNG had one of the best enemies I've seen in a sci-fi series; the Borg- simply because they were more plausibly 'alien' (in a genuine sense) than any other baddies I've seen in a mainstream sci-fi TV series- as opposed to 'different facets of humanity' aliens in other series (yeah, even B5, which I mostly loved at the time).
So, what did they do with this potentially brilliant enemy?
They *humanized* them.
Hugh Borg was bad. But that cretinous film with the Borg Queen in it was worse.
(Grandparent)"If I had gone to university and attained a bachelor's in CS,
(Parent)...algorithms, O notation, principles of optimization, etc, have all changed completely and totally in the past 12 years!
Exactly what I was thinking. However, CS varies a lot from one university to another, and some of the more "applied" courses concentrate on specific technologies; which will be out of date soon. Are these really Computer Science courses though?
This is a great story, but I think it's an urban legend. Suspicious, I did a little searching and got this; do a text search on "urinate" to get the right part.
Besides I find I dont get nearly as sick as my sniviling germ phobe friends, probably cause my body adjusts and forms antibodies to it.
Apparently, the Japanese have a high incidence of allergies (I had a Japanese friend asking me about allergies in my country as if it was part of everyday life). They are also extremely concerned with cleanliness. Coincidence?
In case you don't realize, not everything needs to be made of plastic. There was once this material called 'metal' (pronounced me' tal). Many metals are quite fire resistant. Computers, keyboards, and mice could easily be made of such a material.
They could be made from such a material. Not 'easily', though. Not in the sense that they can be made 'easily' with moulded plastic.
And not inexpensively. Personally, I think modern plastics are *way* underrated for the quality of life they've given us. This isn't an attempt to justify the worst excesses of our modern consumer society- our plastic 'supply' is no more infinite than the petrochemicals required to make it, and we should have our eye towards more recycling. For all that, I'd rather try to deal sensibly with the problems plastics cause than engage in some reactionary and ultimately counter-productive reversion to 'natural' materials.
I'd be interested in finding out how good a computer we could build with 'natural' materials and no plastics. Not something with the power of anything approaching a PC I'd bet, and even with mass production, probably hideously expensive.
In the long run, customers will demand more convience, just as they are doing with recorded music. The studios will have no choice.
Yes. I can see that the studios will respond positively to consumer demand for more convenient films in the same way that *cough* this happened *cough* with music. *cough-file-sharing-lawsuits* *cough-copy-protection-cough*.
Just tried sprinkling lots of black pepper and a bit of salt onto some cucumber and (good quality) tomatoes; pretty damn nice- tasted like a dressing, without the need for any oil or fake "low fat" substitutes.
I also like salad as an accompaniment because I don't have to bother cooking it.:-)
So I guess you were right, although I can't ever see myself eating nothing but that for dinner... I definitely think that more/better flavour --> Less need to eat lots of crap.
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it's hard to get the mechanic to take a $100 CompUSA card in payment.
Sure he would, just not for its full $100 value, maybe some proportion dependent on whether he needed it or could sell it on, etc etc...
And I still often give my brother gift certificates because the sword incident sticks in my mind.
Mmmm... he didn't *literally* stick one of the swords in your mind, did he? Yeuch.
I was reading only the other day about the Google File System. So there are now two acronymns which are both GFS
Since the other GFS came first, I suggest Google rename their system 'GooFS'. The marketing guys'll love it!
Actually, they already have the Buddhist superhero "Monkey"
Is that the same one that the Japanese did a TV version of in the late 1970s?
Very strange. I remember seeing the English language "version" of this on the BBC in the early 80s. Japanese people playing characters in a mainly Chinese story (no wonder I always got the two cultures mixed up) with Indian bits in. The Monkey who didn't look like monkey. The girl who I later found out was meant to be a boy monk, but later still found out *was* played by a girl (so I wasn't *that* stupid when I was four or five). And the dubbing which, having seen it again since, is extremely toungue-in-cheek and sits on top of the Japanese humour of the original to give an extremely odd result.
Weird show.
Out of curiosity, do most Indian comics have names that sound like Linux distros?
Yeah, 'Slackware' is a particularly popular Indian comic; the main character is a mysterious guy simply known as "The Red Hat".
The black BMW I had the misfortune of following the other day positively glinted in the midday sun.
And I can see my multicoloured reflection in a red car on a sunny day, but that doesn't make the car any less red.
In fact, I'd say that the light that is being *reflected* off the surface says nothing about the colour at all, because it isn't interacting with the material. Hence your specular highlight on a shiny red ball, car, whatever.
I guess the car has the added complexity of different layers of paint, and I'm certainly not an expert in this area, but I'd guess the principle holds.
Apparently, when I loaded the story to post my comment, it had silently been changed...
No, it always said that, we have always been at war, and Emmanuel Goldstein has always been our enemy.
Does the 3D exaggeration work when viewing the girl nextdoor through her window?
At the risk of getting modded down as a troll, I'll give this one the reply it deserves
"No, and it won't work when you try to impress her with your tiny dick either"
Hugh showed that once you get someone away from their peer group, you have much better access to them in a social and mental sense.
See, this is what I mean about 'genuinely alien'. The Borg, as originally seen, were only human enough to be dramatically interesting, no more than that. They were plausibly genuine as "alien", regardless of their origins.
I wanted at least *one* enemy that couldn't be treated as a pseudo-human. It still would have made great TV, but they couldn't manage that.
Your comment suggests that you want all aliens to be aspects of humanity, some sociological metaphor.
Enough of the pseudo-humanity!
And nothing can be completely alien to humanity...we've seen all manner of social behavior.
You know, your examples are all fictitious...! I doubt HIV's super-intelligent cousin from space could be related to by humans at all, let alone reasoned with, if it actually existed.
Star Trek has always been about about hope and bridging gaps, not about enforcing them or making them wider.
Which is reliant on everyone ultimately being amenable to reason because they're Just Like Us. Like a naive 15-year old who wants world peace, etc. etc. but doesn't stop to consider that this might involve changes to their way of life too.
1) "Aww! It's a cute little space alien!!"
2) "Oh no! It's a Rift!!"
3) "Oops! We Traveled Through Time!!"
Does this mean they've stopped doing Holodeck stories? Thank God!
Good device in TNG, horribly unimaginative by the time they were doing Voyager.
IMHO, ST:TNG had one of the best enemies I've seen in a sci-fi series; the Borg- simply because they were more plausibly 'alien' (in a genuine sense) than any other baddies I've seen in a mainstream sci-fi TV series- as opposed to 'different facets of humanity' aliens in other series (yeah, even B5, which I mostly loved at the time).
So, what did they do with this potentially brilliant enemy?
They *humanized* them.
Hugh Borg was bad. But that cretinous film with the Borg Queen in it was worse.
Man, they really fucked that one up.
Dude, you had a deprived childhood. This is Lego
I know what Lego is; I still have lots of Lego at my parents' house. The question I asked was, what is/are 'Legos'?
From that commercial where they build that car from legos.
What's a legos anyway?
some just teach C++ and MS Visual Studio for 4 years
Man, I can't think of anything that's more likely to be out-of-date in the near future than the latest *anything* from Microsoft.
(Grandparent)"If I had gone to university and attained a bachelor's in CS,
(Parent)...algorithms, O notation, principles of optimization, etc, have all changed completely and totally in the past 12 years!
Exactly what I was thinking. However, CS varies a lot from one university to another, and some of the more "applied" courses concentrate on specific technologies; which will be out of date soon. Are these really Computer Science courses though?
I like linux, photography and cooking.
Lemme guess; you killed Tux, cooked his liver and photographed the results for a posh food magazine.
Then you ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. Fa fa fa.
The brain is like any other muscle
Uh... the brain is most definitely not a muscle!
a modem cost $300 when your cat chewed through the power cable? (I miss poor fluffy.)
Fluffy seems like an unusual name for a modem.
This is a great story, but I think it's an urban legend. Suspicious, I did a little searching and got this; do a text search on "urinate" to get the right part.
Yeah, I know. What a spoilsport.
There's also a bunch of TVs at the gym.
Gym?... gym?!
ObCliche: You're new here, aren't you?
Besides I find I dont get nearly as sick as my sniviling germ phobe friends, probably cause my body adjusts and forms antibodies to it.
Apparently, the Japanese have a high incidence of allergies (I had a Japanese friend asking me about allergies in my country as if it was part of everyday life). They are also extremely concerned with cleanliness. Coincidence?
In case you don't realize, not everything needs to be made of plastic. There was once this material called 'metal' (pronounced me' tal). Many metals are quite fire resistant. Computers, keyboards, and mice could easily be made of such a material.
They could be made from such a material. Not 'easily', though. Not in the sense that they can be made 'easily' with moulded plastic.
And not inexpensively. Personally, I think modern plastics are *way* underrated for the quality of life they've given us. This isn't an attempt to justify the worst excesses of our modern consumer society- our plastic 'supply' is no more infinite than the petrochemicals required to make it, and we should have our eye towards more recycling. For all that, I'd rather try to deal sensibly with the problems plastics cause than engage in some reactionary and ultimately counter-productive reversion to 'natural' materials.
I'd be interested in finding out how good a computer we could build with 'natural' materials and no plastics. Not something with the power of anything approaching a PC I'd bet, and even with mass production, probably hideously expensive.
I swear they have more chlorine in their water then in a pool! We can't stand drinking it, so we buy bottled water.
Leave it standing in a jug in the fridge for a while; the chlorine evaporates off and makes it more palatable, if it's a problem.
In the long run, customers will demand more convience, just as they are doing with recorded music. The studios will have no choice.
Yes. I can see that the studios will respond positively to consumer demand for more convenient films in the same way that *cough* this happened *cough* with music. *cough-file-sharing-lawsuits* *cough-copy-protection-cough*.
Cough.
Heh...
:-)
Just tried sprinkling lots of black pepper and a bit of salt onto some cucumber and (good quality) tomatoes; pretty damn nice- tasted like a dressing, without the need for any oil or fake "low fat" substitutes.
I also like salad as an accompaniment because I don't have to bother cooking it.
So I guess you were right, although I can't ever see myself eating nothing but that for dinner... I definitely think that more/better flavour --> Less need to eat lots of crap.