I realize that in this case (being dead for 200 years) it is more difficult, but why don't they _just_ use DNA sequencing to determine the classification of animals?
Observation (of both behaviour and appearance) is influenced by the observer and is variable. Two people never see the same thing the same way. Ask a man and wife what colour the living-room couch is and you will get two different answers! =)
The DNA sequence will never lie, and that sequence will tell us FAR more about common evolutionary traits then our eyeballs will.
True horror/fright can only be produced by ones imagination. While Hitchcock understood this and did a decent job of using it only books ever get it right. Instead today as with movies you mostly get sub-par lighting that hides things from your view.
Remember the mess that Doom3(?) was that you couldn't hold your shotgun and flashlight at the same time? The game imposed a limitation on you that felt forced and limited the submersion.
One game that got it right; Thief. The suspense of trying to sneak, and then panic heart-attack when you step on a squeaky floor!
I have played Alone in the Dark, and many others in the genre but none have ever had me wound-uptight as Thief did.
TFA sounds more like; "Yeah, there was this really cool game a long time ago that did it right. Most of you probably never heard of it, so we are more 'leet' the you. It rocked! We hope we can do the same thing now, but better."
Yes Dune2 was kick-ass. (It still is too!) Most RTS now depend on who builds the most grunts the quickest, wins. That removes the whole 'S'trategy aspect of the game.
VapourWare: Lights will be delivered on a first come, first serve basis in early 2009. 90-minute runtime 270 Lumens
The claim is 270L for 1.5h, using three emitters. It looks from that close-up of the head that Crees are used, so most likely XR-Es. I'll use a rough 100L/W for my estimates.
270L/3 = 90L per emitter
90L corresponds to about 350mA at 3.2V (very roughly) from an XR-E.
If*Vf*emitters*time = energy
0.35A*3.2V*3*1.5h = 5.04Wh
So, the supercap has about 5Wh in it (again, very roughly).
The above assumes 270L at the emitter. Let's say it's 270L OTF, which would mean around 360L at the emitters.
360/3 = 120L per emitter
120L corresponds to, say, 450mA at 3.3V or so.
0.45A*3.3V*3*1.5h = 6.7Wh
This more optimistic estimate (in terms of both energy storage and lumen claims) puts us at a little under 7Wh for the supercap used in the light.
Let's see what we get with a common AW 18650:
3.7V*2.2Ah=8.14Wh
So, this flashlight's power source has around 62% (pessimistically) or 82% (optimistically) of the energy of an 18650, but is several times the size.
The movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/ does a great job of showing the dynamics involved at the birth of the 'Personal' computer.
In recent months NASA has proven that there are glaciers of water-ice just sitting under a thin layer of soil. Water-Ice is/was the #1 reason to go looking there. (Yes looking for signs of past life is a big % too, but bear with me.)
Why continue to send probes there (unless they are the terraforming type) when we could/should be sending probes to Europa or Titan to look for living life in the water under the ice.
As with most places it is who you know, not what you know. Applying for a job online you need to compete with MANY x10 applicants who do have letters after their names.
If you are applying for a local job where you know people or cn network with people who do know, then you have a chance.
Having read the books wfirst when I was young, and then again when I was in University I just can't wrap my head around it being possible to show it _all_ good enough in 1 film. A series of films or better yet, several SEASONS of tv shows might be a better idea. Unlike some other epics, this one just can't be compressed.
Take Wheel of Time for example; if you cut out all the 'braid pulling', Aes Sedai scheming, and repetitive explanations of how wonderful 'The Power' is, but you better not take in too much. I think they could cut it down to 1.5 hrs or 500 pages.
According to Monty Python (Meaning of Life); Yorkshire is "The Third World", so this only makes sence that they would make cutbacks.
Personally I think it's courageous of the IOC to grant these impoverished and lower class of civilized existence a chance to exist within the glorious umbrella that the IOC bequeaths.
(1) Include your BIOS/OS login password is included in your will. (2) write an email announcing your untimely demise in an email, and save the draft. (include all of your online buddies that you would want to know as a BCC) (3) inform next-of-kin of this draft and you desire to have it sent.
I have used the 'net for many years (my first ICQ account started with a 2, and my/. account was 5 digits {but I forgot the password on that one}) and of all the 'social' sites that I visit I am most active on Slashdot. I doubt any of you would even notice if I just stopped posting one day.
I had a lot of Usenet contacts and IRC contacts over those years, the only ones that still 'matter' I have email addresses for.
They tried doing it your way. It was called MOO3 and it was very bad.
Rehash forgets why the original was great.
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New Star Trek Trailer
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· Score: 3, Interesting
As has already been mentioned this looks more like a Summer Blockbluster then anything else. I was expecting to see Will Smith strut into a scene with a cigar splutting a corney one-liner.
ST is old. We have had 18 YEARS of non-stop Trek (TNG aired in 1987, Enterprise ended in 2005) and reusing the same script for many of those shows. We were/are tired of seeing the same thing over and over again. You know what we are not tired of?
Hope, charisma, and a calm assurance of success.
TOS had this in spades, and we responded with resounding joy. The others all took a piece of that formula, but none had it the same.
This movie looks like it has nothing to offer but flash and CGI. The original Kirk could have just as easily been a pirate-ship captain; he was cunning, daring, full of guile, and a swashbuckler. This new Kirk looks like Prep-School prankster.
This reboot looks like it has lost the original intent. That is why it will fail.
The advantage e-books have over dead-tree versions is in technical material. Shop manuals, technical schematics, medical journals, etc. Any material where being able to 'search' would be a benefit. E-books offer almost 0 benefit for casual or 'entertainment' reading. But that isn't the point. Source material longevity is the key. A good quality hardcover can last HUNDREDS of years! Try that with any electronic device or file-system. I remember a time not too long ago when 16 registers on a CPU were a big deal, and DOS apps couldn't read Mac files (even the 'simple' ASCII txt files) and there were different file-system structures 7bit vs 8bit vs *. We think that.txt is the safest solution for portability and longevity but IBM used to think the same thing about punch-cards!
If you are going to invest enough money in a Kindle to make it a 'worthy' purchase, then you are that-much-more going to benefit 50 years from now with your library of real-books and a pair of eyeballs as your interface to them.
Yes, include and advertising fee. Include an advertising fee in your contract which states that in exchange for driving a vehicle that has their Trademarked images (think Make & Model name badge), they will pay you a fee for advertising their product.
A person is doing something that a private company does not want him/her to do in their establishment. The company then has the right and obligation to insist that he leave the premises and/or call the police to have him removed (which also includes a trespass warrant against entering again).
Now in Ontario, you can only be 'Charged' with a trespass offence if you do NOT leave when first asked.
It seems to me that the government shouldn't get involved at all. The movie 'owners' (MPAA types) then have a civil obligation to sue him if they have evidence that he tried to distribute their product (making a copy {aka "backing up"} is a different can of worms so lets not go there).
I think it's all Nanny-state crap anyway. Let people have a CHOICE, naked and naughty vs clean and sober. If the majority don't want to watch it, it will die a natural death.
Slashdot Mirror
I was expecting a clever article about the Canadian Secret Intelligence Service.
I realize that in this case (being dead for 200 years) it is more difficult, but why don't they _just_ use DNA sequencing to determine the classification of animals?
Observation (of both behaviour and appearance) is influenced by the observer and is variable. Two people never see the same thing the same way. Ask a man and wife what colour the living-room couch is and you will get two different answers! =)
The DNA sequence will never lie, and that sequence will tell us FAR more about common evolutionary traits then our eyeballs will.
For most sites I frequently visit (like /.) I don't care if somebody steals my account, logs in as me, and starts spewing crap.
For throwaway passwords on the above sites I like to use "ps -A |md5sum" I like it better then pwgen (don't ask why).
For my serious accounts (like banking) I keep it in my head.
True horror/fright can only be produced by ones imagination. While Hitchcock understood this and did a decent job of using it only books ever get it right. Instead today as with movies you mostly get sub-par lighting that hides things from your view.
Remember the mess that Doom3(?) was that you couldn't hold your shotgun and flashlight at the same time? The game imposed a limitation on you that felt forced and limited the submersion.
One game that got it right; Thief. The suspense of trying to sneak, and then panic heart-attack when you step on a squeaky floor!
I have played Alone in the Dark, and many others in the genre but none have ever had me wound-uptight as Thief did.
TFA sounds more like; "Yeah, there was this really cool game a long time ago that did it right. Most of you probably never heard of it, so we are more 'leet' the you. It rocked! We hope we can do the same thing now, but better."
Yes Dune2 was kick-ass. (It still is too!) Most RTS now depend on who builds the most grunts the quickest, wins. That removes the whole 'S'trategy aspect of the game.
VapourWare: Lights will be delivered on a first come, first serve basis in early 2009.
90-minute runtime
270 Lumens
The claim is 270L for 1.5h, using three emitters. It looks from that close-up of the head that Crees are used, so most likely XR-Es. I'll use a rough 100L/W for my estimates.
270L/3 = 90L per emitter
90L corresponds to about 350mA at 3.2V (very roughly) from an XR-E.
If*Vf*emitters*time = energy
0.35A*3.2V*3*1.5h = 5.04Wh
So, the supercap has about 5Wh in it (again, very roughly).
The above assumes 270L at the emitter. Let's say it's 270L OTF, which would mean around 360L at the emitters.
360/3 = 120L per emitter
120L corresponds to, say, 450mA at 3.3V or so.
0.45A*3.3V*3*1.5h = 6.7Wh
This more optimistic estimate (in terms of both energy storage and lumen claims) puts us at a little under 7Wh for the supercap used in the light.
Let's see what we get with a common AW 18650:
3.7V*2.2Ah=8.14Wh
So, this flashlight's power source has around 62% (pessimistically) or 82% (optimistically) of the energy of an 18650, but is several times the size.
I think I'll pass on this one.
The movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/ does a great job of showing the dynamics involved at the birth of the 'Personal' computer.
In recent months NASA has proven that there are glaciers of water-ice just sitting under a thin layer of soil. Water-Ice is/was the #1 reason to go looking there. (Yes looking for signs of past life is a big % too, but bear with me.)
Why continue to send probes there (unless they are the terraforming type) when we could/should be sending probes to Europa or Titan to look for living life in the water under the ice.
Can somebody please supply me with a list of all blocked sites. My 4chan status could really use a boost.
As with most places it is who you know, not what you know. Applying for a job online you need to compete with MANY x10 applicants who do have letters after their names.
If you are applying for a local job where you know people or cn network with people who do know, then you have a chance.
Having read the books wfirst when I was young, and then again when I was in University I just can't wrap my head around it being possible to show it _all_ good enough in 1 film. A series of films or better yet, several SEASONS of tv shows might be a better idea. Unlike some other epics, this one just can't be compressed.
Take Wheel of Time for example; if you cut out all the 'braid pulling', Aes Sedai scheming, and repetitive explanations of how wonderful 'The Power' is, but you better not take in too much. I think they could cut it down to 1.5 hrs or 500 pages.
According to Monty Python (Meaning of Life); Yorkshire is "The Third World", so this only makes sence that they would make cutbacks.
Personally I think it's courageous of the IOC to grant these impoverished and lower class of civilized existence a chance to exist within the glorious umbrella that the IOC bequeaths.
My real name is not B5_geek. I think some/one of you should go kill (your)/(them)selves.
Hey you! Yeah you, the one behind the screen typing at a keyboard. You should go hang yourself. I am a sexy women who thinks you are pitiful.
Grr
You are ugly and dumb!
ok, I think that covers it. Send me to jail.
With 2008 census stating that the population of California is: 36,457,549
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06000.html
That means that you could be related to 36,457 or 36 people! (ignoring race for humour purposes)
(1) Include your BIOS/OS login password is included in your will.
(2) write an email announcing your untimely demise in an email, and save the draft. (include all of your online buddies that you would want to know as a BCC)
(3) inform next-of-kin of this draft and you desire to have it sent.
I have used the 'net for many years (my first ICQ account started with a 2, and my /. account was 5 digits {but I forgot the password on that one}) and of all the 'social' sites that I visit I am most active on Slashdot. I doubt any of you would even notice if I just stopped posting one day.
I had a lot of Usenet contacts and IRC contacts over those years, the only ones that still 'matter' I have email addresses for.
Well it has worked ok for New Coke, and great for New York.
They tried doing it your way. It was called MOO3 and it was very bad.
As has already been mentioned this looks more like a Summer Blockbluster then anything else. I was expecting to see Will Smith strut into a scene with a cigar splutting a corney one-liner.
ST is old. We have had 18 YEARS of non-stop Trek (TNG aired in 1987, Enterprise ended in 2005) and reusing the same script for many of those shows. We were/are tired of seeing the same thing over and over again. You know what we are not tired of?
Hope, charisma, and a calm assurance of success.
TOS had this in spades, and we responded with resounding joy. The others all took a piece of that formula, but none had it the same.
This movie looks like it has nothing to offer but flash and CGI. The original Kirk could have just as easily been a pirate-ship captain; he was cunning, daring, full of guile, and a swashbuckler. This new Kirk looks like Prep-School prankster.
This reboot looks like it has lost the original intent. That is why it will fail.
The advantage e-books have over dead-tree versions is in technical material. Shop manuals, technical schematics, medical journals, etc. Any material where being able to 'search' would be a benefit. E-books offer almost 0 benefit for casual or 'entertainment' reading. But that isn't the point. Source material longevity is the key. A good quality hardcover can last HUNDREDS of years! Try that with any electronic device or file-system. I remember a time not too long ago when 16 registers on a CPU were a big deal, and DOS apps couldn't read Mac files (even the 'simple' ASCII txt files) and there were different file-system structures 7bit vs 8bit vs *. We think that .txt is the safest solution for portability and longevity but IBM used to think the same thing about punch-cards!
If you are going to invest enough money in a Kindle to make it a 'worthy' purchase, then you are that-much-more going to benefit 50 years from now with your library of real-books and a pair of eyeballs as your interface to them.
Yes, include and advertising fee. Include an advertising fee in your contract which states that in exchange for driving a vehicle that has their Trademarked images (think Make & Model name badge), they will pay you a fee for advertising their product.
A person is doing something that a private company does not want him/her to do in their establishment. The company then has the right and obligation to insist that he leave the premises and/or call the police to have him removed (which also includes a trespass warrant against entering again).
Now in Ontario, you can only be 'Charged' with a trespass offence if you do NOT leave when first asked.
It seems to me that the government shouldn't get involved at all. The movie 'owners' (MPAA types) then have a civil obligation to sue him if they have evidence that he tried to distribute their product (making a copy {aka "backing up"} is a different can of worms so lets not go there).
As we all know, if you have technology without an interesting name, you can always make an acronym.
I am reminded of old 3DFx advertisments just before they went belly-up.
The easiest way to prove that not only are you a necessary part of ANY organization, but also that your contributions are invaluable and unmeasurable;
go on a 2 week vacation and turn off your phone.
Define "should be".
I think it's all Nanny-state crap anyway. Let people have a CHOICE, naked and naughty vs clean and sober.
If the majority don't want to watch it, it will die a natural death.