This experiment is no great revelation, but as a high school freshmen physics teacher, this is a great application for both my speed of light and wave speed lessons.
Yes, the parents are to blame, for sure.
But I for one have experienced the mental shift after playing games like GTA3 (Carmageddon, mainly), thinking thoughts while driving that I probably would not have thought apart from the game experience ("Maybe I should just blow this light...").
Did I kill anyone? No, but I can see how their actions could be facilitated by game experiences that are becoming increasingly realistic.
Riven was 5 CDs because of the base-5 number system in the game and the 5 islands you explore. It could have fit on fewer CDs easily. Or, better still, it could have allowed you to copy all the data onto your HD.
The kids who still write in cursive by the time they reach me (9th grade physics) have the worst handwriting of all. Poorly done cursive is far worse than printing letters ever is.
In fact, if they want to prepare kids well for future science and math classes (a little bias here, yes), they should teach them how to write Greek characters well.
The best thing for my own writing was my transition from cursive to all caps printing in 7th grade -- my writing is so clear and distinctive that it makes a good font...
Ditch cursive completely; stick with block print in schools. Speed writing is no longer an important skill for people to have.
Yes, except when the deeper meaning really *was* there, like in Joyce's Ulysses or Laird's The Boomer Bible. Argue all you want about whether the movie was shite or not, but make no mistake, the Brothers W meant every bit of 'deepness' that viewers percieve in the film to be there. There are probably minute touches that nobody will ever see that they intentionally put in there.
It had a *lot* to do with the story line, or at least the character development!
The scene (in which Randy's older relatives determine who gets what family heirloom by taking each piece and laying it on a huge x-y / sentimental-monetary value axis) lets the reader know just how the nerdiness seen in L.P. Waterhouse (the grandfather, inventor of the computer) is 'genetically' carried down to Randy (hacker extraordinaire) via his older relatives (mathematicians and scientists, all).
But more importantly (if you want plot!), Randy figures out a way to cheat the system he designed and gets a trunk full of old encrypted cards from the war that ultimately allows him (Epiphyte's stockholders, really) to get the gold and the girl (Randy gets the girl, not the stockholders).
What does she recommend, a slot that you put three fingers into, vigorously tapping and prodding internal buttons? The joystick isn't subconsiously phallic, it's just the most obvious design...
I think you're talking about this. It shows the spiral construction you can make with primes and lets you set your own parameters. Also, it makes clear that 2 is prime because its only divisors are 1 and itself, the definition of prime. So 2 is *not* a weird prime because it's divisible by 2.
Didn't read the article, eh? You *can* affect directionality with it:
"...and, to illustrate the directionality of the beam, subtly turns the plate side to side. And the sound is inside my head, roving between my ears in accord with each of Norris's turns."
Nah, I'm just a crypto freak and have gone to great lengths to take my own name off the web. I even paid Google to drop references to me, the *true* Daniel de Angelis Cordeiro, off their results list.
Not at all -- Fincher and Freeman both love the book and took on the project as an attempt to do the book justice. No explosions, no bad guys, just the excitement and mystery of exploring the incredible ship.
I just downloaded Audioscrobbler, a Winamp plugin that checks out the music you listen to and recommends similar music. I haven't used it enough to know how well it works yet, but there it is.
I am an astronomer, and no, the formation of the moon was caused during the settling after a giant impact in the same dust ring (around the proto-sun) from which the Earth was formed. The reason that meteor showers recur yearly is because the Earth passes through the comet's tail remnants, which orbit the sun much more slowly, once every year at roughly the same spot. When the Earth's atmosphere hits these sand-sized bits, they burn and streak into meteors.
We're going to get a 'Storm' this year because we're hitting an old meteor tail dead-on. Every 33 years or so, the Earth will go straight through the center of the particle cloud, rather than just skimming it. Also, if you're planning on checking this out before midnight, forget it -- you have to wait till the Earth rotates into the cloud of sand-like particles.
Be ready; in 1833, the storm was so intense that it looked like rain (see pic).
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That's Halley's Comet -- he probably pronounced it like 'Hall E's', but the acceptable pronunciation is 'Hale E's'.
This experiment is no great revelation, but as a high school freshmen physics teacher, this is a great application for both my speed of light and wave speed lessons.
It's a large collection of tech-support queries and conversations.
Yes, the parents are to blame, for sure. But I for one have experienced the mental shift after playing games like GTA3 (Carmageddon, mainly), thinking thoughts while driving that I probably would not have thought apart from the game experience ("Maybe I should just blow this light..."). Did I kill anyone? No, but I can see how their actions could be facilitated by game experiences that are becoming increasingly realistic.
Riven was 5 CDs because of the base-5 number system in the game and the 5 islands you explore. It could have fit on fewer CDs easily. Or, better still, it could have allowed you to copy all the data onto your HD.
When they were first going to test the first atomic explosion, some scientists hypothesized that it would ignite the entire atmosphere!
In fact, if they want to prepare kids well for future science and math classes (a little bias here, yes), they should teach them how to write Greek characters well.
The best thing for my own writing was my transition from cursive to all caps printing in 7th grade -- my writing is so clear and distinctive that it makes a good font...
Ditch cursive completely; stick with block print in schools. Speed writing is no longer an important skill for people to have.
In case anyone cares, it's "Four Ton Mantis" by Amon Tobin from the album Supermodified.
And the poster's remark was in *no* way sarcastic. Get a clue, Davak.
Yes, except when the deeper meaning really *was* there, like in Joyce's Ulysses or Laird's The Boomer Bible. Argue all you want about whether the movie was shite or not, but make no mistake, the Brothers W meant every bit of 'deepness' that viewers percieve in the film to be there. There are probably minute touches that nobody will ever see that they intentionally put in there.
The scene (in which Randy's older relatives determine who gets what family heirloom by taking each piece and laying it on a huge x-y / sentimental-monetary value axis) lets the reader know just how the nerdiness seen in L.P. Waterhouse (the grandfather, inventor of the computer) is 'genetically' carried down to Randy (hacker extraordinaire) via his older relatives (mathematicians and scientists, all).
But more importantly (if you want plot!), Randy figures out a way to cheat the system he designed and gets a trunk full of old encrypted cards from the war that ultimately allows him (Epiphyte's stockholders, really) to get the gold and the girl (Randy gets the girl, not the stockholders).
"What's the last thing you do remember?"
"My wife..."
"That's sweet."
"...dying."
Quicksilver is done, people. The delay is from the publishing co. They could have released it as recently as February. Bitch about *them*.
Important question: where do you live? NYC or outside Fargo?
What does she recommend, a slot that you put three fingers into, vigorously tapping and prodding internal buttons? The joystick isn't subconsiously phallic, it's just the most obvious design...
I think you're talking about this. It shows the spiral construction you can make with primes and lets you set your own parameters. Also, it makes clear that 2 is prime because its only divisors are 1 and itself, the definition of prime. So 2 is *not* a weird prime because it's divisible by 2.
"...and, to illustrate the directionality of the beam, subtly turns the plate side to side. And the sound is inside my head, roving between my ears in accord with each of Norris's turns."
C'mon, it was in the 7th paragraph.
Nah, I'm just a crypto freak and have gone to great lengths to take my own name off the web. I even paid Google to drop references to me, the *true* Daniel de Angelis Cordeiro, off their results list.
-DAC
Not at all -- Fincher and Freeman both love the book and took on the project as an attempt to do the book justice. No explosions, no bad guys, just the excitement and mystery of exploring the incredible ship.
Almost all of this film will be done in ground-breaking CG, and I doubt the other two films will be done, according to Fincher.
I just downloaded Audioscrobbler, a Winamp plugin that checks out the music you listen to and recommends similar music. I haven't used it enough to know how well it works yet, but there it is.
I am an astronomer, and no, the formation of the moon was caused during the settling after a giant impact in the same dust ring (around the proto-sun) from which the Earth was formed. The reason that meteor showers recur yearly is because the Earth passes through the comet's tail remnants, which orbit the sun much more slowly, once every year at roughly the same spot. When the Earth's atmosphere hits these sand-sized bits, they burn and streak into meteors.
Just wait till lifters are scale up...
Or try the trusty internet archive: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://fanwing.com
We're going to get a 'Storm' this year because we're hitting an old meteor tail dead-on. Every 33 years or so, the Earth will go straight through the center of the particle cloud, rather than just skimming it. Also, if you're planning on checking this out before midnight, forget it -- you have to wait till the Earth rotates into the cloud of sand-like particles. Be ready; in 1833, the storm was so intense that it looked like rain (see pic).