Watch the video. She's cuter than the stills look.
More like "it's a video of a rivet-ish girl using nmap while stripping, and all the dorks on Slashdot can say is that she's not hot enough." Why is it that so many computer geeks don't get dates again?
Is anyone willing to question why playing a fictional hero seems to inspire more interest than helping to free Europe?
My guess is that (at least in the US) WWII is a distant historical event, whereas anyone with a TV can see him playing Scotty at least once a week.
I'm 27. Neither of my parents were born when WWII ended. When I was in high school, WWII was taught in the same way as things that really are ancient history. There was no sense of connection to it on a personal level. Maybe if I had grown up in part of the world where it was actually fought and our class could have seen and touched artifacts of it it would have been more real.
I didn't get a sense of connection to it until 3 or 4 years ago when I watched the old World at War documentary series on DVD, and inherited a naval AA gunsight and barrel of that era from my granddad.
My first instinct was to bask in the glory of successfully bad-grammar-trolling someone with a 4-digit UID.
But then I realized it was a feint, and you were trying to use some kind of ancient nerd-jitsu and reverse the troll against me. Not today, my friend - but I salute you nonetheless!
I've been trying to slowly re-educate the local population.
I have Schroedinger's wavefunction equation tattooed on my arm, and every time someone asks about it, I explain about the cat and the two-slit experiment. It would probably be more effective if I printed out pamphlets, because there isn't enough time to even explain the cat properly if a grocery-store clerk asks.
That's funny. I've always had good luck with Sony products.
I actually have one of the cameras on the list, and not only does it have an awesome UI, but it's survived my hamfisted physical modifications with no damage - including when I accidentally discharged the huge flash capacitor into the adjacent circuitry.
It's not just the resolution. Unless I missed something and high-end DSLRs are using a better colour model than RGB, they're not physically capable of representing the full range of colours we can see.
I was graphically reminded of how far digital imaging has to go when I went to a concert (Dead Can Dance) with amazing lighting last month and realized that a lot of it couldn't be accurately reproduced on a monitor.
The vast majority of ads on the internet are either completely disinteresting to me - trying to sell me a server appliance, or telephone deals in another country. Or they are advertising online casinos that I would never visit. Or they are scams - you know, the "Your computer is not OPTIMIZED click HERE" crap. If interet advertising was actually relevant to my every day needs, and didn't all come across as a cheap scam, then I might be more tolerant.
This is one of my biggest complaints as well. I can remember two ads in the last 2-3 years that were for something I'd potentially be interested in: a videogame, and a green laser pointer. Most of the ones I see are either scams (click on TEH BUNNAY RABBIT and win FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS AND A HAREM!!!), things I already know about, or things that I don't care about.
Advertising in e.g. local papers is very useful to me because it's things like barber shops, music stores, and restaurants that I might go to. I think it will be a long time if ever before that kind of presence works online.
What really got to me was when advertisers noticed that no one was claiming their FREE DINNAR AT APPLEBEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!! and made the ads even more annoying. As if it were a problem with people not noticing them, as opposed to no one wanting a free dinner at a Applebee's, especially if it meant filling out a form. On a related note, sites that have more than a few ads per page are guaranteed not to get me reading any.
If you want me to HATE YOUR PRODUCT, come up with an ad that has sound of any kind. I like to read news at work, and it's amazingly disruptive when some lame ad starts blaring so loud out of my headphones that it sounds like I have desk speakers.
Finally, a lot of ad companies use such shitty methods that it crashes Firefox. That always earns the ad company a global block from me.
The maiden flight of the orbital space plane is sabotaged resulting in an explosion. Unlike every explosion to ever go off on a plane in flight the space plane does not fall out of the sky. The passengers are rescued in orbit using a backup plane.
The author probably saw the same movie I did. When I was a kid back in the 80s, it was shown every Christmas Eve on a local station. I never could figure out why.
A ton of Japanese words are gairaigo, or 'foreign loan words'.
Japanese is even more so - they have a whole second syllabary(*?) with the same sounds as the normal one, which is used to write foreign words. That's pretty hard core.
* = not sure if this is the proper term. Japanese characters are syllables instead of individual letters.
I've been taking care of a friend's California Kingsnake for a few months. He's a little ~meter-long constrictor with a cute garter-snake face.
One time when I was feeding him a mouse, he started eating it backwards*. So there's this little snake head, totally expanded to engulf the mouses's ass. The mouse's back legs were splayed out sideways, but he kept trying to get it down for about half an hour before he gave up and went around the other way. The mouse was dead by then from constriction, but somehow its eyes had been left WIDE OPEN, so it looked like something out of a cartoon.
* apparently this is fairly common for snakes raised in captivity. They never have to learn the hard way that not all prey is as easy to eat as mice. I imagine a bigger snake eating a live rat ass-first would get pretty bloody.
My point was that I see a bunch of people claiming Whedon changed the backstory of the Reavers, or that the film contradicts an episode of the series, when actually neither of those things are necessarily true.
All of the perks of the U.S. without the nut jobs.
Canada is a nice country, but it has its own share of problems.
I lived there for three years, and I noticed:
- A LOT of petty micromanagement in the government. No country should spend tax dollars on governmental inspectors to ensure that restaurants are limited to a certain number of televisions, and that each of them must be below a maximum size. Or to arbitrarily decide that waitresses can wear a rollerskate on one foot, but not both. Two pieces of photo ID to buy liquor at the store, but only one from a bar? If you have two pieces of ID but your friend only has one, anything they were carrying can't be bought and you can only buy what you have in your hands?
- Stupidly high taxes, probably due mostly to the last point.
- A very conservative attitude re: appearances. I had long hair at the time, and I felt like I was back in the 50s because so many people thought I was a girl.
- A much bigger problem with non-deadly crime, e.g. theft and home invasions. Related to this, the much more restrictive firearm laws, although obviously some people prefer it that way.
- (related to the first point, but split out because this is a long rant) The incredibly annoying Canadian content laws for broadcasters. I had a show at my university's radio station, and there just aren't that many good Canadian industrial bands. Content should be about quality, not country of origin. A lot of the popular music in Canada is even worse than in the US (which is saying a lot) because the law requires radio stations and MuchMusic to play bands that are Canadian knockoffs of American pop bands (who are themselves third- or fourth-generation knockoffs of interesting music). I am looking at you, shitty band I can't remember the name of who tried to pull a Hendrix and turn the Canadian national anthem into a wailing guitar solo.
On the other hand:
- Socialized healthcare is good in many ways, although I think they should take the funding for the petty bureaucrats and use it to make sure people don't have to wait months for surgery.
- University is actually affordable for citizens.
I definitely have fond memories of it, but enough things got under my skin that I wouldn't live there again. That's kind of my dilemma - I feel similarly to the GP, but I don't know of any countries that would as a whole make me happier than the US.
You're right, although I make it four in that area after doing some image enhancement.
My geology is a little rusty. If the big line is a fault, could the "chicken footprint" be where geologic activity caused some underground caverns to collapse?
The line really looks like a depression in that one, whereas in the false colour image it could be a protrusion.
I blew it up considerably in Photoshop and increased the contrast to see details better. There are a number of smaller craters directly in the path of the line. If it were a rock impact, to my (non-astrophysicist/geologist) eye it looks like it behaved like a skipping stone - There are some bigger craters near where the top of the image cuts off the line, and about halfway along there's a pair on opposite sides of what appears to be a hill, as if it were skating along, used the hill as a jump, landed, and continued its movement.
The bigger feature at the end of the line seems more symmetrical in this version. It looks kind of like a Concorde... or a giant bird footprint. Watch out Tethys, Colonel Sanders is too far away to save you.
- In space, the lack of atmosphere gives things an "unreal" look in photographs. See if you can dig up the movie that was done by Messenger as it left Earth. It actually looks less "believable" than a modern Hollywood movie in some ways.
- The images are false colour. This is useful for conveying more information, but it does make them look a little "wrong."
The JPL page says the straight line is probably a fault or other geological feature, but the absence of any others in that area is a little suspicious.
I blew up that section a bit, and it looks a LOT like something diamond- or arrowhead-shaped came screeching along the surface and plowed into the side of a hill, kicking up surface material and burying the leading edge. The "buried" object itself seems to be very sharply defined with straight lines, as opposed to the more "natural" landscape around it.
An alien space probe would be neat, but I'm guessing it's a chunk of rock that impacted the moon at a weird angle. I'm sure Hoagland and his friends will have a field day with it, despite the crappy JPEG compression leading to terrible artifacts when it's blown up.
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I now ask you, gentle sirs and madams, would you use a tool written by a known criminal
Yes.
Next question?
Watch the video. She's cuter than the stills look.
More like "it's a video of a rivet-ish girl using nmap while stripping, and all the dorks on Slashdot can say is that she's not hot enough." Why is it that so many computer geeks don't get dates again?
Is anyone willing to question why playing a fictional hero seems to inspire more interest than helping to free Europe?
My guess is that (at least in the US) WWII is a distant historical event, whereas anyone with a TV can see him playing Scotty at least once a week.
I'm 27. Neither of my parents were born when WWII ended. When I was in high school, WWII was taught in the same way as things that really are ancient history. There was no sense of connection to it on a personal level. Maybe if I had grown up in part of the world where it was actually fought and our class could have seen and touched artifacts of it it would have been more real.
I didn't get a sense of connection to it until 3 or 4 years ago when I watched the old World at War documentary series on DVD, and inherited a naval AA gunsight and barrel of that era from my granddad.
My first instinct was to bask in the glory of successfully bad-grammar-trolling someone with a 4-digit UID.
But then I realized it was a feint, and you were trying to use some kind of ancient nerd-jitsu and reverse the troll against me. Not today, my friend - but I salute you nonetheless!
I've been trying to slowly re-educate the local population.
I have Schroedinger's wavefunction equation tattooed on my arm, and every time someone asks about it, I explain about the cat and the two-slit experiment. It would probably be more effective if I printed out pamphlets, because there isn't enough time to even explain the cat properly if a grocery-store clerk asks.
Just because words sound the same doesn't mean you can switch them.
While pouring over messageboard posts, you should of come to the conclusion that for all intensive purposes, the battle your fighting... its hopeless.
That's funny. I've always had good luck with Sony products.
I actually have one of the cameras on the list, and not only does it have an awesome UI, but it's survived my hamfisted physical modifications with no damage - including when I accidentally discharged the huge flash capacitor into the adjacent circuitry.
It's not just the resolution. Unless I missed something and high-end DSLRs are using a better colour model than RGB, they're not physically capable of representing the full range of colours we can see.
I was graphically reminded of how far digital imaging has to go when I went to a concert (Dead Can Dance) with amazing lighting last month and realized that a lot of it couldn't be accurately reproduced on a monitor.
The vast majority of ads on the internet are either completely disinteresting to me - trying to sell me a server appliance, or telephone deals in another country. Or they are advertising online casinos that I would never visit. Or they are scams - you know, the "Your computer is not OPTIMIZED click HERE" crap. If interet advertising was actually relevant to my every day needs, and didn't all come across as a cheap scam, then I might be more tolerant.
This is one of my biggest complaints as well. I can remember two ads in the last 2-3 years that were for something I'd potentially be interested in: a videogame, and a green laser pointer. Most of the ones I see are either scams (click on TEH BUNNAY RABBIT and win FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS AND A HAREM!!!), things I already know about, or things that I don't care about.
Advertising in e.g. local papers is very useful to me because it's things like barber shops, music stores, and restaurants that I might go to. I think it will be a long time if ever before that kind of presence works online.
What really got to me was when advertisers noticed that no one was claiming their FREE DINNAR AT APPLEBEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!! and made the ads even more annoying. As if it were a problem with people not noticing them, as opposed to no one wanting a free dinner at a Applebee's, especially if it meant filling out a form. On a related note, sites that have more than a few ads per page are guaranteed not to get me reading any.
If you want me to HATE YOUR PRODUCT, come up with an ad that has sound of any kind. I like to read news at work, and it's amazingly disruptive when some lame ad starts blaring so loud out of my headphones that it sounds like I have desk speakers.
Finally, a lot of ad companies use such shitty methods that it crashes Firefox. That always earns the ad company a global block from me.
Pick one or both:
- Surprises are fun.
- The people posting those links hate you personally.
The maiden flight of the orbital space plane is sabotaged resulting in an explosion. Unlike every explosion to ever go off on a plane in flight the space plane does not fall out of the sky. The passengers are rescued in orbit using a backup plane.
The author probably saw the same movie I did. When I was a kid back in the 80s, it was shown every Christmas Eve on a local station. I never could figure out why.
I agree. It was sad to see the bitter Slashdot dork response to something cute and fun for kids.
Although English speakers would probably say shotO-kAn and shotA-kOn in the same way, it's a big difference in Japanese.
The "to" syllable in Japanese is pronounced like the things on the end of your feet.
"Ka" is like the first part of "KHAAAAAAAAAAN!!!"
"Ta" is like the first syllable in "toddler."
"Ko" is like the first syllable in "Coke."
Note: the "shotacon" == "shotakon" because of the way the Japanese language works.
A ton of Japanese words are gairaigo, or 'foreign loan words'.
Japanese is even more so - they have a whole second syllabary(*?) with the same sounds as the normal one, which is used to write foreign words. That's pretty hard core.
* = not sure if this is the proper term. Japanese characters are syllables instead of individual letters.
Apparently, the answer is "yes."
The amusing part of this hoax is the concept of a 'B' side on a wax cylinder.
I thought the amusing part was the amateur hour trumpet work and the Muppet vocals.
Adding ../ to the end of a URL is not the same as "B&Eing into a biker hangout." It's peeking in the windows at worst.
I can totally see it happening, too.
I've been taking care of a friend's California Kingsnake for a few months. He's a little ~meter-long constrictor with a cute garter-snake face.
One time when I was feeding him a mouse, he started eating it backwards*. So there's this little snake head, totally expanded to engulf the mouses's ass. The mouse's back legs were splayed out sideways, but he kept trying to get it down for about half an hour before he gave up and went around the other way. The mouse was dead by then from constriction, but somehow its eyes had been left WIDE OPEN, so it looked like something out of a cartoon.
* apparently this is fairly common for snakes raised in captivity. They never have to learn the hard way that not all prey is as easy to eat as mice. I imagine a bigger snake eating a live rat ass-first would get pretty bloody.
My point was that I see a bunch of people claiming Whedon changed the backstory of the Reavers, or that the film contradicts an episode of the series, when actually neither of those things are necessarily true.
In Firefly, an individual who was the sole survivor of a Reaver attack starts becoming a Reave
No, he doesn't. Re-watch the episode. He starts becoming LIKE one in his behaviour. No one ever says that he's actually becoming one.
All of the perks of the U.S. without the nut jobs.
Canada is a nice country, but it has its own share of problems.
I lived there for three years, and I noticed:
- A LOT of petty micromanagement in the government. No country should spend tax dollars on governmental inspectors to ensure that restaurants are limited to a certain number of televisions, and that each of them must be below a maximum size. Or to arbitrarily decide that waitresses can wear a rollerskate on one foot, but not both. Two pieces of photo ID to buy liquor at the store, but only one from a bar? If you have two pieces of ID but your friend only has one, anything they were carrying can't be bought and you can only buy what you have in your hands?
- Stupidly high taxes, probably due mostly to the last point.
- A very conservative attitude re: appearances. I had long hair at the time, and I felt like I was back in the 50s because so many people thought I was a girl.
- A much bigger problem with non-deadly crime, e.g. theft and home invasions. Related to this, the much more restrictive firearm laws, although obviously some people prefer it that way.
- (related to the first point, but split out because this is a long rant) The incredibly annoying Canadian content laws for broadcasters. I had a show at my university's radio station, and there just aren't that many good Canadian industrial bands. Content should be about quality, not country of origin. A lot of the popular music in Canada is even worse than in the US (which is saying a lot) because the law requires radio stations and MuchMusic to play bands that are Canadian knockoffs of American pop bands (who are themselves third- or fourth-generation knockoffs of interesting music). I am looking at you, shitty band I can't remember the name of who tried to pull a Hendrix and turn the Canadian national anthem into a wailing guitar solo.
On the other hand:
- Socialized healthcare is good in many ways, although I think they should take the funding for the petty bureaucrats and use it to make sure people don't have to wait months for surgery.
- University is actually affordable for citizens.
I definitely have fond memories of it, but enough things got under my skin that I wouldn't live there again. That's kind of my dilemma - I feel similarly to the GP, but I don't know of any countries that would as a whole make me happier than the US.
You're right, although I make it four in that area after doing some image enhancement.
My geology is a little rusty. If the big line is a fault, could the "chicken footprint" be where geologic activity caused some underground caverns to collapse?
The greyscale clear filter image I mentioned in another post is better for this work, and has less compression artifacts.
The line really looks like a depression in that one, whereas in the false colour image it could be a protrusion.
I blew it up considerably in Photoshop and increased the contrast to see details better. There are a number of smaller craters directly in the path of the line. If it were a rock impact, to my (non-astrophysicist/geologist) eye it looks like it behaved like a skipping stone - There are some bigger craters near where the top of the image cuts off the line, and about halfway along there's a pair on opposite sides of what appears to be a hill, as if it were skating along, used the hill as a jump, landed, and continued its movement.
The bigger feature at the end of the line seems more symmetrical in this version. It looks kind of like a Concorde... or a giant bird footprint. Watch out Tethys, Colonel Sanders is too far away to save you.
I think there are two factors at work:
- In space, the lack of atmosphere gives things an "unreal" look in photographs. See if you can dig up the movie that was done by Messenger as it left Earth. It actually looks less "believable" than a modern Hollywood movie in some ways.
- The images are false colour. This is useful for conveying more information, but it does make them look a little "wrong."
For comparison, here's another version of the Tethys shot. It looks a lot less surreal, because it's greyscale.
Wow, that is kind of eerie.
The JPL page says the straight line is probably a fault or other geological feature, but the absence of any others in that area is a little suspicious.
I blew up that section a bit, and it looks a LOT like something diamond- or arrowhead-shaped came screeching along the surface and plowed into the side of a hill, kicking up surface material and burying the leading edge. The "buried" object itself seems to be very sharply defined with straight lines, as opposed to the more "natural" landscape around it.
An alien space probe would be neat, but I'm guessing it's a chunk of rock that impacted the moon at a weird angle. I'm sure Hoagland and his friends will have a field day with it, despite the crappy JPEG compression leading to terrible artifacts when it's blown up.