...after the "second" arc was launched, ridding the planet of all their advertising directors, hairstylists, and telephone sanitizers, the remaining two thirds of the population lived in happiness until they were all wiped out by a paticularly virulent disease spread by unclean telephones...
rip, dna.
combining the Windows Messenger popup post with this one, we get:
[popup] if you want to see the rest of Princess Leia's message, click here![/popup]
gak.
1. yes, you're correct that it's endothermic, because it requires an external energy source to start the reaction.
2. combustion of any hydrocarbon CxHy, follows the following reaction:
CxHy + O2 ----> CO2 + H2O
the products are not elemental carbon and hydrogen. The products are Carbon Dioxide and Water.
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this, but United Devices has a distributed computing project up that helps find a cure for cancer. Phase II, which began late last summer, is called LIGANDFIT, and 'helps scientists to characterize therapeutic targets and identify and assess drug canididates by performing automated docking of flexible ligands to a protien's binding site.'
I'd encourage anyone who has a box with cycles to spare to check it out- i'm pretty sure they've got a linux client, as well as a windows one. I've been running it for 80+ days now, and i haven't noticed any problems with performance- and it's the least we can do for the public good.
no matter how shitty this movie is a lot of people will go to see it anyway
i disagree. As a percentage of the total movie-viewing public, anime fans are a small group- and most people i've talked to who watch anime share similiar views on the corruption of art as it 'sells out'. Basically, the 'anime group' has a higher concentration of appreciative moviegoers, and by that i mean, the proposed liveaction akira is targeted at a group of people who would never see it.
For those more familiar with the NATO convention for naming rounds, a.223 caliber is a 5.56mm round. Variants of this caliber are chambered for many kinds of rifles these days, among which are the m-16 and it's ilk, the steyer AUG, and others that don't exist only in counter-strike. For comparison, the AK47 fires a 7.62mm Russian, which is roughly comparable to a.30-06 (thirty-naught-six), a severly powerful round.
then again, the.223 is powerful enough.
>What if you are a thief for a living?
then you'd better hope your black clothes includes a cloak of elvenkind. or a cloak of invisibility. even better, a cloak of improved invisibility.
just one simple question. why are there significant hints in the trailer of an arwen-aragonrn-eowyn love triangle? Is hollywood that desperate? in TTT, Aragorn laughs eowyn off, pretty much, then goes off to raise the dead (literally). Why the need for romantic tension that doesn't exist? Arwen gives up her immortality to be with her man- isn't that tragic/sentimental/makes me cry enough?? Why spoil it... especially with Elrond -"goodbye, mr. anderson"- the Elf apparently trying to 'save' his daughter from death and screw Aragorn over. which also doesn't happen in the book.
and that eventually engineers will be substituted by a bestselling software program Engineer-in-a-Box 2.0....
ah, but who engineers Engineer-in-a-Box 2.0?
"and thus, because you have to walk across an infinity of smaller and smaller distances, you can never touch this wal*thwack*... aww, crap.."
One thing i always end up doing while watching a film is to try to see connections with things in it and other cultures. One thing i noticed was that Yubaba, one of the characters, is a very close copy of the norse/russian myth-witch Baba-Yaga: the only difference being that she runs a bathouse of the gods, and doesn't have a house with chicken legs. anyone else notice other tie-ins?
to the best of my knowledge (which most times isn't saying much at all)... the only instance of someone actually dying from a metorite was a courtier in French monarch Louis the 16th's court. apparently, he was playing croquet at the time... while this may be apocryphal (old-school UL started by supporters of the french revolution? ) it's still quite amusing
(start ramble)
As cited in previous posts (above) and various other articles, there is little doubt that most, if not all, hardware or software protective devices will eventually fail. most of them will fail badly (ie, once they fail, they loose all usefulness), leaving whatever it is they were trying to protect vulnerable.
Therefore, isn't this quickly becoming a nonissue? The ability to break the encryption on a device can almost be taken for granted right now, so what's the big deal?
Personally, whilst i have no problems exercising my fair use rights by mp3-(and more recently, ogg-)ing my audio cd collection, i do take issue to non-backup copying of programs. especially games. a quick persual of KaZaA Lite reveals something like 25-50 versions of GTA3, Warcraft 3, and the like. Last time i checked, the game companies weren't exactly up there in the evil department with the likes of microsoft and company, so even a "political" bent doesn't justify the warez-ing of such products. Support your friendly, neighborhood game company: don't download warez, folks! (regardless of legal and moral issues, i've got paranoid heebie-jeebies whenever i consider downloading *.exe from a filesharing service, anyway...) Unlike the record industry, not all of the money from games goes to the middlemen(or women, if you're hillary rosen)... and companies like sierra, valve, and lucasarts put out killer games that deserve our support (speaking of which, where the hell is my monkey island 5??!)
(end ramble)
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...after the "second" arc was launched, ridding the planet of all their advertising directors, hairstylists, and telephone sanitizers, the remaining two thirds of the population lived in happiness until they were all wiped out by a paticularly virulent disease spread by unclean telephones...
rip, dna.
they sell software, they just have to provide the source for it because of the GPL.
Ask Red Hat. They don't seem to mind.
combining the Windows Messenger popup post with this one, we get:
[popup] if you want to see the rest of Princess Leia's message, click here![/popup]
gak.
1. yes, you're correct that it's endothermic, because it requires an external energy source to start the reaction.
2. combustion of any hydrocarbon CxHy, follows the following reaction:
CxHy + O2 ----> CO2 + H2O
the products are not elemental carbon and hydrogen. The products are Carbon Dioxide and Water.
mind you , moose bites can be pretty nasti...
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this, but United Devices has a distributed computing project up that helps find a cure for cancer. Phase II, which began late last summer, is called LIGANDFIT, and 'helps scientists to characterize therapeutic targets and identify and assess drug canididates by performing automated docking of flexible ligands to a protien's binding site.' I'd encourage anyone who has a box with cycles to spare to check it out- i'm pretty sure they've got a linux client, as well as a windows one. I've been running it for 80+ days now, and i haven't noticed any problems with performance- and it's the least we can do for the public good.
no matter how shitty this movie is a lot of people will go to see it anyway
i disagree. As a percentage of the total movie-viewing public, anime fans are a small group- and most people i've talked to who watch anime share similiar views on the corruption of art as it 'sells out'. Basically, the 'anime group' has a higher concentration of appreciative moviegoers, and by that i mean, the proposed liveaction akira is targeted at a group of people who would never see it.
fas.org agrees- thanks for the heads up.
For those more familiar with the NATO convention for naming rounds, a .223 caliber is a 5.56mm round. Variants of this caliber are chambered for many kinds of rifles these days, among which are the m-16 and it's ilk, the steyer AUG, and others that don't exist only in counter-strike. For comparison, the AK47 fires a 7.62mm Russian, which is roughly comparable to a .30-06 (thirty-naught-six), a severly powerful round.
.223 is powerful enough.
then again, the
>What if you are a thief for a living?
then you'd better hope your black clothes includes a cloak of elvenkind. or a cloak of invisibility. even better, a cloak of improved invisibility.
(obligatory D&D reference)
it is dark.
you are likely to be eaten by a grue
I don't think that sentence means what the poster intended it to mean.
un-possible!
just one simple question. why are there significant hints in the trailer of an arwen-aragonrn-eowyn love triangle? Is hollywood that desperate? in TTT, Aragorn laughs eowyn off, pretty much, then goes off to raise the dead (literally). Why the need for romantic tension that doesn't exist? Arwen gives up her immortality to be with her man- isn't that tragic/sentimental/makes me cry enough?? Why spoil it... especially with Elrond -"goodbye, mr. anderson"- the Elf apparently trying to 'save' his daughter from death and screw Aragorn over. which also doesn't happen in the book.
and that eventually engineers will be substituted by a bestselling software program Engineer-in-a-Box 2.0....
ah, but who engineers Engineer-in-a-Box 2.0? "and thus, because you have to walk across an infinity of smaller and smaller distances, you can never touch this wal*thwack*... aww, crap.."
One thing i always end up doing while watching a film is to try to see connections with things in it and other cultures. One thing i noticed was that Yubaba, one of the characters, is a very close copy of the norse/russian myth-witch Baba-Yaga: the only difference being that she runs a bathouse of the gods, and doesn't have a house with chicken legs. anyone else notice other tie-ins?
to the best of my knowledge (which most times isn't saying much at all)... the only instance of someone actually dying from a metorite was a courtier in French monarch Louis the 16th's court. apparently, he was playing croquet at the time... while this may be apocryphal (old-school UL started by supporters of the french revolution? ) it's still quite amusing
sadly true. somehow, Guybrush looked so right in MI3
where's my monkey island 5??!!!
full throttle 2 looks great...
(start ramble)
As cited in previous posts (above) and various other articles, there is little doubt that most, if not all, hardware or software protective devices will eventually fail. most of them will fail badly (ie, once they fail, they loose all usefulness), leaving whatever it is they were trying to protect vulnerable.
Therefore, isn't this quickly becoming a nonissue? The ability to break the encryption on a device can almost be taken for granted right now, so what's the big deal?
Personally, whilst i have no problems exercising my fair use rights by mp3-(and more recently, ogg-)ing my audio cd collection, i do take issue to non-backup copying of programs. especially games. a quick persual of KaZaA Lite reveals something like 25-50 versions of GTA3, Warcraft 3, and the like. Last time i checked, the game companies weren't exactly up there in the evil department with the likes of microsoft and company, so even a "political" bent doesn't justify the warez-ing of such products. Support your friendly, neighborhood game company: don't download warez, folks! (regardless of legal and moral issues, i've got paranoid heebie-jeebies whenever i consider downloading *.exe from a filesharing service, anyway...) Unlike the record industry, not all of the money from games goes to the middlemen(or women, if you're hillary rosen)... and companies like sierra, valve, and lucasarts put out killer games that deserve our support (speaking of which, where the hell is my monkey island 5??!) (end ramble)