In higher order animals, such as Orcas, behavioral differences can bring about the separation into two species. There are two distinct groups of Orcas, those which hunt fish and those which hunt seals. These two behaviors are fairly different, as fish hunting Orcas herd schools of fish to make consuming them easier. Seal hunting orcas are know to "dive" several feet onto ice flows to catch seals. They also thrash seals around in the water to subdue them. These two groups do not mix as their learned behaviors and sub-environs are different. It is easy to imagine that these two groups are slowly diverging, as they engage in different diets, breed within their own groups and engage in different physical activities.
Of course, I am a physicist and a mathematician. All of my bio-knowledge comes from The Discovery Channel.
Not a fan of fighting fire with fire, I see. I would like to see a "Do Not Spam List." If you sign up, the system takes care of sending "Do Not Spam" replies. It is automated because one receives way to much spam to unsubscribe from each piece. Is it the lists fault that spammers deliver at such a rate that the replies from the system deliver at a higher rate and DDOS their machines?
Everyone likens spam to junk mail, but it is significantly easier to throw away junk mail then to unsubscribe from each and every piece of spam. Not that unsubscribe works anyway.
-Site an article. -Tell an anecdote. -Site a study. -Site a legal brief.
You have none of this. What makes you think it is a lot more? Did Morley Safer or Ed Bradley tell you on a 20 year old episode of 60 minutes? Are you just shooting your mouth off and speculating about something which you have no knowledge? People are apt to do as such around here.
Vader realizes his hopes of taking over as the new Emperor aren't going to happen because Luke just isn't good enough to pull it off, and he cracks.
When did he realize this, before or after Luke removed his hand and placed him in the same prone position as Anakin placed Dooku? Sure, the Emperor took him down fairly quickly, but that was after Luke threw his Lightsaber away and presented himself defenseless to the Emperor. Well, not defenseless. He had the most powerful weapon in the universe not a yard away from him in the form of his father.
I came away with this. Anakin never had control of his life and never had personal responsibility. He went from a slave on Tatooine to Obi-Wan's padawan. He was always able to use his talent to get him out of the tough spots, but he never learned that his raw talent needed to be tempered by skill and focus. He lost to Dooku in their first battle because he leaned on talent and power. In their second battle, he tells Dooku he has grown powerful not how he has grown more skillfull.
Once he turns to the dark side, he returns to being a slave and he still relys on his power as a crutch. He is Cerebus on a giant chain guarding the doors to the Empire. Anakin fights Obi-wan the same way he fought Dooku. Unless you believe in luck, a clearly less powerful but more skilled warrior won that battle. Anakin is like any young adult. He does not think, he believe's himself to be invincible and he suffers from a monumental case of hubris.
Finally, in that throne room aboard the Deathstar, he makes his first conscious, responsible decision. He looks back on his life and realizes where he went wrong. He remembers the goading by Palaptine that drove him to destroy Dooku. He sees his son at much the same age, who grew up much the same way and had much less training than himself face the same situation and make the same choice. He finally realizes true strength, because his son shows it to him. Why does he return from the dark side of the force? Because he makes the right decision and makes the ultimate sacrifice for that decision. In his final moments, he does save Padme in the form of their son.
Maybe my rose colored glasses need adjusting, but I think that is closer to what the Lucas was thinking. Just my two cents, take it or flush it.
Wanna Be Thug 1 - Yo G, you here 'bout Kutaragi? Man, he called those sucka's out and their system!
Wanna Be Thug 2 - Nah, man. Nah.
WBT1 - Yo homes, for real!
WBT2 - Word?
WBT1 - He call a sucka out like dat, his system gotta be for sheezy.
WBT1 - True.
Pigs! Pigs, I say, slopping at the trough that is pop culture! I will buy the system with the gaming soul. The other do can do whatever they please over there.
1. Dream up and outlandish idea you have no clue how to implement and patent in obscure wording
2. Go into coporate hybernation and wait until someone much smarter implements idea.
3. Sue smarter company for all their hardwork and ingenuity.
4. Profit!!!
Darth Tyranus (Dooku) slices off Anakin's hand. Anakin battles Tyranus in Palpatine's (the Emperor) presence. He is goaded into using his anger, the Dark Side, to defeat Tyranus. He slices off both of Tyranus' hands. He then executes Tyranus, though he can sense how wrong it is.
Darth Vader (Anakin) slices off Luke's hand. Luke battles Vader in the Emperor's (Palapatine) presence. He is goaded into using his anger, the Dark Side, to defeat Vader. He slices off one of Vader's hands. But he resists the urge to execute Vader.
That is where the true continuity came in to play, IMHO. It is also the beginning of Anakin's fall. I did not find Anakin's turn to be sudden, but a result of his actions throughout the movie. It is just my opinion, however.
I sat next to a mother, father and their 3 year old. Yes, there was the occasional young child/ADD out burst, but he was very well behaved and quite most of the movie. In fact, the three year old was enamored by the movie. He recognized Anakin, which I could not pronouce at age 8. He recognized Obi-Wan. He recognized Darth Vader. The most amazing thing, though, was this quote. "Lukes a baby, mommy!" Only time will reveal the final verdict, but he had captured that boy. Something tells me that in a fan boy vacuum, its no so bad.
I found the design remarkably similar a Bose entertainment center, if you look at it head long in the horizontal orientation. I think they just wanted to out fancy everybody else. Sony is to Convex as Microsoft is to Concave. Strange how that works out, huh?
It quotes a report in Danish newspaper Børsen, which alleges that Gates told Ramissen and two other Danish ministers last November that 800 jobs at Navision would go unless the EU passed the directive.
Have they quoted directly from the Danish source? I do not speak Danish or Donut, so I would have no idea if the original story was true, said what people are saying or just a hoax. I find it disturbing when The Inquirer quotes another website, the NOSOFTWARE patents (?) site which has quoted a Danish News paper, Børsen. It just seems like a very dumb thing to be caught doing, inethical and possibly illegal. Guess I will go check out the Grok' now.
You may think it is stupid, but as a gamer and a consumer, I like to think the company making my game system and writing my games is in it for more than just profit. Yes, I know it is naive, but for the sake of the exercise, bear with me.
Microsoft is a software company looking to create marketshare in a new venue. They are also trying to set up a trojan horse for their MCE initiative.
Sony is a hardware company that is producing cheap razors so they can sell the hell out of the blades. The blades being games, memory sticks and new media formats. Where someone may feel like a brick, Sony is the proverbial wall. Oh yeah, do not forget the media center addition of PS2 (was it PStwo?)
Nintendo, on the other hand, has always professed themselves a gaming company who builds hardware and writes software with the express goal of gaming. This comment from a Nintendo Exec is far from stupid. It is actually very astute. It simultaneously communicates their coporate stance and blasts a competitor for engaging in practices that are harmful to the industry. Quite elegant, actually. Of course, I am probably a fan boy for saying that.
The point is, Nintendo has a niche market carved out, and to be in that niche, they have to appear as the gaming company who is in it for the gamers. They are the Apple of the gaming environment. Of course, DS is a trojan horse for Revolution if you believe Reggie Fils-Aime-Whatever-His-Name-Is-With-A-Hyphen and others have been saying. That and the licensing of PalmOS present some inplication for the DS that make things...interesting. But that is my time!
I will agree with everything except for "Afganistan", wherever that is. Now Afghanistan I would have a problem with as well. There was a clear goal there; capture Bin Laden and liberate the country from terrorist control. Yes, we failed to capture Bin Laden, but I think real good was done there. And you cannot call alterior motives, because there is no oil there. Come to think of it, invading Iran is a little farfetched as well. The only change that will come in that country is within, and I think the US federal government realizes that. But that is just my two-cents.
but also the atmosphere I envisioned Enterprise as being; the primitive tech, the flights of patrol ships, the hard nosed military demenor. Enterprise just is not gritty enough for the time period it is trying to portray. The writers really should have taken a Q from the Earth environment of First Contact.
Now just do not pull the same crap you did with Farscape. One little mini-series to pull everything together that was not worthy of the established story line.
Why is Microsoft spending so much effort and money engaged in a publicity campaign (spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt) against Linux? Is this a standard business practice?
I would put this akin to Chevrolet SUV commercials touting a much lower flip-over rate than Ford SUVs equiped with Firestone tires. If you believe this an unfair comparisson, please explain why. (Keep in mind that buggy/compromised software could present a risk to human life.)
Why don't they used Compact Flash or Secure Digital rather than the damn Sony proprietary junk?
My sentiments exactly. I alread have a number of SD cards as my existing digital camera uses them. Thought I would not call memory stick proprietary junk, they are more expensive per MB in larger sizes than CF or SD. I was also a little put off by their statement of exporting the media files to WMP or a Samsung DVD recorder. It is an MPEG4 based codec, so I will assume it is playable else where. Finally, where is the firewire? Come on, Samsung! I guess more people have USB 2.0 than firewire. Oh well, pretty neat device all told. I will not be picking one up, but still pretty neat.
If you feel so strongly about it, maybe next time you should sign your message, as opposed to posting as an Anonymous Coward. Or are you to afraid of being modded down to stand behind your words. I realize by saying this, I run the risk of being modded a Troll or Flamebait or Overrated, but it needs to be said. To hell with my Karma. You have every right in the world to post anonymously. Just do not think you will ever get anything done or ever be taken seriously if you do not stand behind your words. I certainly will not, and I am sure there are others who just do not want to spend the time to tell you so.
People say if you do not like it, leave it. That is not the American way. If you do not like it, then by God almighty, change it. That is the American way.
That is, excellence is for people who *know* they won't make it to the market first, no matter what, but still want to compete.
And so who exactly fits this any longer? Take Two will pretty much be first and last to market. I do not remember the last Nintendo developed baseball game, MS's games division is defunct, and does EA count for Sony? I guess that leave Take Two as the first and last to market. Exclusivity sucks.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...
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Ken Kutaragi puts it best when he says, "We're growing up," and with any luck future devices won't be crippled with silly formats no one uses.
Growing up implies some sort of learning from ones experiences. Is this not the exact same situation as the Sony Betamax debacle? How about my Minidisc NT that broke trying to load my MP3s onto it. When are they going to grow up?
For that matter, Sony is doing it again with the PSP. Please, buy all the products you have bought in the past on our new media format. The irony of Universal Media Disk should not escape anyone. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me; fool me three times, realize me for a massive, faceless electronics and media company who has had a drop in overall product quality and customer care.
Yes, I know the main goal in business is to make money and grow, but to do that, you must serve the customer as well. At least, that used to be true.
First, I know statistics can lie. Second, the information I found was gathered for/during the Clinton administration. Third, I know it is a federal government document, but it is based upon census bureau data. There is a very small snippet in this
document concerning age vs. wage for women. It is right before the beginning of section III. Note the
figure, which women with and women without children have very similar wage ratios with men. Yes, the women without have a higher ratio, but just slightly. They are quite equal in my view.
However, gains in average pay have been greatest for married women with children (see figure 5).
I think this "de-circularizes" my logic. There is a shrinking correlation between motherhood and income level. I ceed the possibility that less women are staying home to raise their children, so they are not hit as hard at work for not "putting in the time," but that is another can of worms. There are all sorts of factors not contained there, like education level, that would tell a different story. Just more information for the table. Take it as you will.
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In higher order animals, such as Orcas, behavioral differences can bring about the separation into two species. There are two distinct groups of Orcas, those which hunt fish and those which hunt seals. These two behaviors are fairly different, as fish hunting Orcas herd schools of fish to make consuming them easier. Seal hunting orcas are know to "dive" several feet onto ice flows to catch seals. They also thrash seals around in the water to subdue them. These two groups do not mix as their learned behaviors and sub-environs are different. It is easy to imagine that these two groups are slowly diverging, as they engage in different diets, breed within their own groups and engage in different physical activities.
Of course, I am a physicist and a mathematician. All of my bio-knowledge comes from The Discovery Channel.
Not a fan of fighting fire with fire, I see. I would like to see a "Do Not Spam List." If you sign up, the system takes care of sending "Do Not Spam" replies. It is automated because one receives way to much spam to unsubscribe from each piece. Is it the lists fault that spammers deliver at such a rate that the replies from the system deliver at a higher rate and DDOS their machines?
Everyone likens spam to junk mail, but it is significantly easier to throw away junk mail then to unsubscribe from each and every piece of spam. Not that unsubscribe works anyway.
What makes it a lot more?
-Site an article.
-Tell an anecdote.
-Site a study.
-Site a legal brief.
You have none of this. What makes you think it is a lot more? Did Morley Safer or Ed Bradley tell you on a 20 year old episode of 60 minutes? Are you just shooting your mouth off and speculating about something which you have no knowledge? People are apt to do as such around here.
Vader realizes his hopes of taking over as the new Emperor aren't going to happen because Luke just isn't good enough to pull it off, and he cracks.
When did he realize this, before or after Luke removed his hand and placed him in the same prone position as Anakin placed Dooku? Sure, the Emperor took him down fairly quickly, but that was after Luke threw his Lightsaber away and presented himself defenseless to the Emperor. Well, not defenseless. He had the most powerful weapon in the universe not a yard away from him in the form of his father.
I came away with this. Anakin never had control of his life and never had personal responsibility. He went from a slave on Tatooine to Obi-Wan's padawan. He was always able to use his talent to get him out of the tough spots, but he never learned that his raw talent needed to be tempered by skill and focus. He lost to Dooku in their first battle because he leaned on talent and power. In their second battle, he tells Dooku he has grown powerful not how he has grown more skillfull.
Once he turns to the dark side, he returns to being a slave and he still relys on his power as a crutch. He is Cerebus on a giant chain guarding the doors to the Empire. Anakin fights Obi-wan the same way he fought Dooku. Unless you believe in luck, a clearly less powerful but more skilled warrior won that battle. Anakin is like any young adult. He does not think, he believe's himself to be invincible and he suffers from a monumental case of hubris.
Finally, in that throne room aboard the Deathstar, he makes his first conscious, responsible decision. He looks back on his life and realizes where he went wrong. He remembers the goading by Palaptine that drove him to destroy Dooku. He sees his son at much the same age, who grew up much the same way and had much less training than himself face the same situation and make the same choice. He finally realizes true strength, because his son shows it to him. Why does he return from the dark side of the force? Because he makes the right decision and makes the ultimate sacrifice for that decision. In his final moments, he does save Padme in the form of their son.
Maybe my rose colored glasses need adjusting, but I think that is closer to what the Lucas was thinking. Just my two cents, take it or flush it.
Wanna Be Thug 1 - Yo G, you here 'bout Kutaragi? Man, he called those sucka's out and their system!
Wanna Be Thug 2 - Nah, man. Nah.
WBT1 - Yo homes, for real!
WBT2 - Word?
WBT1 - He call a sucka out like dat, his system gotta be for sheezy.
WBT1 - True.
Pigs! Pigs, I say, slopping at the trough that is pop culture! I will buy the system with the gaming soul. The other do can do whatever they please over there.
1. Dream up and outlandish idea you have no clue how to implement and patent in obscure wording
2. Go into coporate hybernation and wait until someone much smarter implements idea.
3. Sue smarter company for all their hardwork and ingenuity.
4. Profit!!!
I hate parasites.
Ever read a Greek tragedy? Everybody dies. That's part of the tragedy.
SPOILERS!
Consider this.
Darth Tyranus (Dooku) slices off Anakin's hand. Anakin battles Tyranus in Palpatine's (the Emperor) presence. He is goaded into using his anger, the Dark Side, to defeat Tyranus. He slices off both of Tyranus' hands. He then executes Tyranus, though he can sense how wrong it is.
Darth Vader (Anakin) slices off Luke's hand. Luke battles Vader in the Emperor's (Palapatine) presence. He is goaded into using his anger, the Dark Side, to defeat Vader. He slices off one of Vader's hands. But he resists the urge to execute Vader.
That is where the true continuity came in to play, IMHO. It is also the beginning of Anakin's fall. I did not find Anakin's turn to be sudden, but a result of his actions throughout the movie. It is just my opinion, however.
I sat next to a mother, father and their 3 year old. Yes, there was the occasional young child/ADD out burst, but he was very well behaved and quite most of the movie. In fact, the three year old was enamored by the movie. He recognized Anakin, which I could not pronouce at age 8. He recognized Obi-Wan. He recognized Darth Vader. The most amazing thing, though, was this quote. "Lukes a baby, mommy!" Only time will reveal the final verdict, but he had captured that boy. Something tells me that in a fan boy vacuum, its no so bad.
I found the design remarkably similar a Bose entertainment center, if you look at it head long in the horizontal orientation. I think they just wanted to out fancy everybody else. Sony is to Convex as Microsoft is to Concave. Strange how that works out, huh?
Score one for...the...bad guys? Huh?
Sorry, I've been watching too much C-Span.
Funny, I have been getting the same message from the Fox News Network. Fair and Balanced and all.
It quotes a report in Danish newspaper Børsen, which alleges that Gates told Ramissen and two other Danish ministers last November that 800 jobs at Navision would go unless the EU passed the directive.
Have they quoted directly from the Danish source? I do not speak Danish or Donut, so I would have no idea if the original story was true, said what people are saying or just a hoax. I find it disturbing when The Inquirer quotes another website, the NOSOFTWARE patents (?) site which has quoted a Danish News paper, Børsen. It just seems like a very dumb thing to be caught doing, inethical and possibly illegal. Guess I will go check out the Grok' now.
You may think it is stupid, but as a gamer and a consumer, I like to think the company making my game system and writing my games is in it for more than just profit. Yes, I know it is naive, but for the sake of the exercise, bear with me.
Microsoft is a software company looking to create marketshare in a new venue. They are also trying to set up a trojan horse for their MCE initiative.
Sony is a hardware company that is producing cheap razors so they can sell the hell out of the blades. The blades being games, memory sticks and new media formats. Where someone may feel like a brick, Sony is the proverbial wall. Oh yeah, do not forget the media center addition of PS2 (was it PStwo?)
Nintendo, on the other hand, has always professed themselves a gaming company who builds hardware and writes software with the express goal of gaming. This comment from a Nintendo Exec is far from stupid. It is actually very astute. It simultaneously communicates their coporate stance and blasts a competitor for engaging in practices that are harmful to the industry. Quite elegant, actually. Of course, I am probably a fan boy for saying that.
The point is, Nintendo has a niche market carved out, and to be in that niche, they have to appear as the gaming company who is in it for the gamers. They are the Apple of the gaming environment. Of course, DS is a trojan horse for Revolution if you believe Reggie Fils-Aime-Whatever-His-Name-Is-With-A-Hyphen and others have been saying. That and the licensing of PalmOS present some inplication for the DS that make things...interesting. But that is my time!
I will agree with everything except for "Afganistan", wherever that is. Now Afghanistan I would have a problem with as well. There was a clear goal there; capture Bin Laden and liberate the country from terrorist control. Yes, we failed to capture Bin Laden, but I think real good was done there. And you cannot call alterior motives, because there is no oil there. Come to think of it, invading Iran is a little farfetched as well. The only change that will come in that country is within, and I think the US federal government realizes that. But that is just my two-cents.
but also the atmosphere I envisioned Enterprise as being; the primitive tech, the flights of patrol ships, the hard nosed military demenor. Enterprise just is not gritty enough for the time period it is trying to portray. The writers really should have taken a Q from the Earth environment of First Contact.
Now just do not pull the same crap you did with Farscape. One little mini-series to pull everything together that was not worthy of the established story line.
Why is Microsoft spending so much effort and money engaged in a publicity campaign (spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt) against Linux? Is this a standard business practice?
I would put this akin to Chevrolet SUV commercials touting a much lower flip-over rate than Ford SUVs equiped with Firestone tires. If you believe this an unfair comparisson, please explain why. (Keep in mind that buggy/compromised software could present a risk to human life.)
An interesting fact:
Said user only started at Google on 17 Jan 05. Under a month and out the door. Just thought I would point it out. Jump to your own conclusions.
Go Google it.
Why don't they used Compact Flash or Secure Digital rather than the damn Sony proprietary junk?
My sentiments exactly. I alread have a number of SD cards as my existing digital camera uses them. Thought I would not call memory stick proprietary junk, they are more expensive per MB in larger sizes than CF or SD. I was also a little put off by their statement of exporting the media files to WMP or a Samsung DVD recorder. It is an MPEG4 based codec, so I will assume it is playable else where. Finally, where is the firewire? Come on, Samsung! I guess more people have USB 2.0 than firewire. Oh well, pretty neat device all told. I will not be picking one up, but still pretty neat.
If you feel so strongly about it, maybe next time you should sign your message, as opposed to posting as an Anonymous Coward. Or are you to afraid of being modded down to stand behind your words. I realize by saying this, I run the risk of being modded a Troll or Flamebait or Overrated, but it needs to be said. To hell with my Karma. You have every right in the world to post anonymously. Just do not think you will ever get anything done or ever be taken seriously if you do not stand behind your words. I certainly will not, and I am sure there are others who just do not want to spend the time to tell you so.
People say if you do not like it, leave it. That is not the American way. If you do not like it, then by God almighty, change it. That is the American way.
That is, excellence is for people who *know* they won't make it to the market first, no matter what, but still want to compete.
And so who exactly fits this any longer? Take Two will pretty much be first and last to market. I do not remember the last Nintendo developed baseball game, MS's games division is defunct, and does EA count for Sony? I guess that leave Take Two as the first and last to market. Exclusivity sucks.
Ken Kutaragi puts it best when he says, "We're growing up," and with any luck future devices won't be crippled with silly formats no one uses.
Growing up implies some sort of learning from ones experiences. Is this not the exact same situation as the Sony Betamax debacle? How about my Minidisc NT that broke trying to load my MP3s onto it. When are they going to grow up?
For that matter, Sony is doing it again with the PSP. Please, buy all the products you have bought in the past on our new media format. The irony of Universal Media Disk should not escape anyone. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me; fool me three times, realize me for a massive, faceless electronics and media company who has had a drop in overall product quality and customer care.
Yes, I know the main goal in business is to make money and grow, but to do that, you must serve the customer as well. At least, that used to be true.
"Who puts a 'Destroy the Engines' button on a ship, anyway!?!" - Kree, The Kids Next Door
I think this "de-circularizes" my logic. There is a shrinking correlation between motherhood and income level. I ceed the possibility that less women are staying home to raise their children, so they are not hit as hard at work for not "putting in the time," but that is another can of worms. There are all sorts of factors not contained there, like education level, that would tell a different story. Just more information for the table. Take it as you will.