A lot of those boxes seemed to be donated by IBM. Hrm, I wonder what they did to get so many 'donations,' and where can I get some of these so called 'donated boxes by IBM.' =)
Seriously, did they go up to IBM and pitch their vision or something?
Also, we've been designing a new site for some time now, and it kills me to think of the time we've put into this, to know that it will probably end up on the.ru site also as soon as it's live, with minimum work on their part.
Make it flash:-) or *even better* one big GIANT java applet!
While I agree with your post, there are a couple of considerations:
1) How are the other kids? If the school isn't properly managed, then he's still going to get picked on. A fat kid is a fat kid is a fat kid.
2) How is the teacher? Does he pick on the fat/skinny/ugly/smelly/newbie/stupid/different kids (see number 1)? Actaully, let me rephrase that: does he pick on them with prejudice?
3) What's the ratio of postive to negative infleuence (see 1 and 2 - see a pattern here?) I will never take you kid to a school where they tell you "You suck, do it again." Encouragement goes a long long way, especially if they don't get enough at home (not to say that everybody is a bad parent, but kids can never get too much encouragement).
4) Tournaments/contests? This is one thing I did miss out on. Team encouragement and encouraging others as well. Plus it offers a sense of accomplishment once you've succeeded in something.
Is that the computer lab under Hill? I don't remember, as I was in school before they created ARC. You aren't referring to those ancient slow computers with the opto/magnetic mouse things that needed that metal mousepad to get it to work, are you? Cause those were SLOW, nobody wanted to use them, unless you had a programming assignment deadline, then that lab would be full to the brim trying to get their assignment to compile. =)
Maybe it was just my eyes jumping around but did anyone else read "Chinese slicing laser"
I think it was Xiaochun Li and Cheese slicing laser....had me worried there for a second
Actually I read it was xiaoxiao and his cheese slicing laser.. I figured it was another one of those cool flash movies...
I totally agree. I have a few lectures that I recieved from some friends of mine, that recorded them on their MD players. I wanted to port them over onto my computer as mp3s or whatnot so I can listen to them on my laptop. However, since the 60 min tracks are nowhere to be found in my computer, the software (I forget the name) won't let me haul it over. I have about 30 MDs, and I'm not about to copy all of them over an analog line. Bleah, talk about annoying!
As for nothing happening, I think I can sum up FOTR in a couple sentences for you.
"Frodo gets a Ring that is really bad and must be destroyed in some special volcano which is really hard to get to. After that, lots of fighting."
Yeah that's the gist of it, but there are a couple of side stories that should (or may not) be of interest:
What happens to the elves?
What happens to Bilbo? Frodo? Sam? Do they live happily ever after?
Will Gondor have a king?
What about the dwarves?
What about Gollum? How does he deal with his ring withdrawl?
What happens to Saruman? Or Wormtongue? Or Merry, or Pippin?
What about Gandalf?
What about the Nazgul?
What happens to Aragorn's jungle fever?
What part of 'Lots of fighting' does any of the above fit in? Or is everything irrelevant because 'they will all die from all that fighting?' Or is it irrelevant because it's got nothing to do with Frodo and his Ring, and is therefore merely 2 hours of 'filler fluff'?
Maybe it is because you didn't read the books, but I was convinced in terms of book to movie translation, this is as good as it's gonna get. This is probably the most complete view of Middle Earth that we'll ever probably see. I'm watching the movies not to discover that Sam is the true hero (Score: -1 Spoiler), but rather to see what Middle Earth would look like.
It's all about a visualization of the book, not having the book read to me. Most people who have read the books will enjoy the movies most, they already know what happens; they want to see how close PJ's visuals may match their imagination. That's the real thrill here, not the cliff's notes synopsis a 3 hour movie is capable of.
It seems more difficult to read handwritten papers that are written with cursive.
Hehe, you should try reading papers written with a quill.
With cursive, it makes a world of a difference. If you try printing with a quill, every time you pick the pen up off the paper, the ink will continue to try to flow out of the pen, leaving nasty large blots at the end of the stroke, which take a LONG time to dry. And, if you are lazy like me, will end up smearing ink all over your hand, and onto the paper.
The only way to remedy that, is to:
1: write quickly, and
2: minimize the times you have to take that pen off the paper
which cursive does well.:-) But you are right, there is no real functionality for cursive anymore; who the hell writes with a quill nowadays (modern quills have better flow control, so those don't count)? It's just an archaic form of art, sort of like fresco painting, and mosaics.
Any oriental language that Iâ(TM)ve seen beats ours in terms of intricacy and beauty.
You've probably never seen them written in cursive.:-)
I have a lot of japanese friends write in 'cursive' japanese, and while I can read japanese, cursive japanese looks, well, funky. Being a korean, I've seen my parents write stuff in korean that looks like nothing more than wacky scribbles.
Much to my amazement though, I can read it, and read it well.
It's got to do with the positioning of the strokes themselves. Chinese, Japanese and Korean writing are all about strokes; the positioning of the strokes, the stroke order, which lines can be crossed, which lines can never be crossed, etcetera. The reason for such rigid rules for writing characters was developed in order to give the optimal positioning of the brush (when it was written in brush, that is).
Cursive English has those rules too; they are based off of the order of strokes of a print letter. Take a look at the lowercase g, and compare it to the cursive g, and even the calligraphy g: you can see that the only characteristic that makes them similar is the stroke and stroke order.
I beleive the problem with the loss of cursive writing isn't the writing style itself, but the actual loss of understanding the reason for the stroke and stroke order. We all take writing, for example, the letter B for granted. But imagine a 100 years from now, people have 'forgotten' how to write B in the proper stroke order (I'm not saying this may actaully happen, but let's imagine anyway). Some people may write it closer to a 13, thinking that the strokes don't need to touch. Or someone may write it similar to a P, thinking that the lower loop isn't that important. Or the letter R. Or 8. Or E. You get the idea. All of a sudden people get frustrated at reading other people's handwriting. *cue in the 1337 jokes here*
Now I'm not saying that handwriting is a very important thing in order to function as a society, but it does make things convenient. And pretty.:-)
I for one, however, highly doubt that our future children will lose the ability how to write in cursive. If they understand the stroke order for writing such characters, they should be fine; after all, cursive is nothing more than a cursory method of writing in print.
I think I counted at least 9 fans. It's a wonder that thing doesn't just float by itself.
Yeah, seriously! At least he'll never have to worry about his LCD overheating.:-) I shudder to think about what all those fans would sound like when turned on!
Lord of the Rings is so popular because it's so detailed and complex.
I agree. What makes Tolkien's works so appealing is that his works have so much academic value, in a geeky, Star Trekkie sort of way. I beleive that it may simply have been that he didn't have any reference to draw from - that is, other than the bible, ancient mythic literature (The Iliad, King Arthur, Beowulf, etc..), and local (and not local) folk tales.
Oh yeah, and people like John Milton, Geoffrey Chaucer, Jules Verne, Voltaire, etcetera.
Don't get me wrong, I love Feist, having read all his books, I find them all entertaining, but that's about it. For crying out loud, he wrote his books up based on a role playing session he had in college! There is no academic value to it; it doesn't make you THINK.
I think the problem with most writers today is that they try and make their books too epic.
When you read any series of Feist's books, or any contemporary fantasy writer, for that matter; you basically understand the whole world. When you read LOTR, you realize that the timeline for those three books is 11 months, and Tolkein has told you almost nothing about ME yet.
It's all in the details.
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Apparently Kobe beef isn't the best Japan's got. One of my friends went to Japan this past winter, and scored himself a $600 steak - for free (but that's another story). Anyways, he asked the chef if this was Kobe beef, and the chef gave him a funny look, "Kobe beef!? That's nothing comapared to this!"
Apparently there is all kinds of high quality beef in Japan prohibited from exporting, something about protecting its domestic beef industry. The restaurant buys the entire cow live, and they do all the work in-house. Everything of the cow is used - the menus are made out of the leather of their previous purchases, the bones are used for soup. Those wacky japanese love their stuff fresh..
gaming is non productive because most of what people do while playing video games is learn to play that video game better. you can argue this with training reflexes, logic skills, adding creative juice and all that jazz but it depends which is worth more or less to the gamers themselves.
Gaming should be considered a recreational activity. What makes gaming different from, let's say:
Reading a book?
Playing poker with a couple of buddies?
Watching TV/ going out to Theater?
Listening to music?
Painting?
Playing an instrument?
dancing at a disco?
flying a kite?
going to a theme park?
weight-lifting?
building a trainset?
picnics?
They are all time wasters (some considered antisocial activity), and there's nothing wrong with that. I play all kinds of games (EQ, Diable2, CS, War3) as well as do all of the above. Would you consider my life nonproductive since I don't consider my job my life?
Huh? Have the MPAA go after a buncha ppl that made a shot-by-shot remake of an 80's movie taped on a video camera, when they were 12 years old? That's just plain mean, and besides, nobodys made any money out of it.
I don't think this film was even meant to be distributed around. It was one of those flukes that floated around the web, sorta like the Star Wars kid. I am VERY instereted in seeing how they pulled it off. Anyone got a copy?
Video games desensitize kids to violence as much as sports desensitize kids to violence. With sports, however, a little competition is 'okay' to parents. Behind the screen, a little competition breeds 'psychos.' Disgusting..
You can never get desensitized to taking a human life by playing excessive video games. Think about it: has playing too much Quake 3 (or CS in my case) caused you to have ANY stirrings of spontaneous violence? Seriously. Even when I am a victim of a hate crime, I hesitate to act. I understand the law that governs me, and there will always be consequences, whether they be short of long term. Counterstrike has no effect on my moral behavior.
In game tho, I do talk(and receive) a lot of trash. Many of us talk big, but that's it.
In short: You think me playing a butcher sim is going to desensitize me to slaughtering an animal?
..pump out the most ugly coded, cycle-wasting benchmark. I don't mean one that showcases all the newest rendering techniques, but rather one that strains to put out a simple rotating triangle. Then just have Nvidia pull out all the stops to try to make their card work faster.
It's sort of akin to walking around with a backpack full of cinderblocks. That way, when you put down those cinderblocks(ie benchmark), you'll notice how much stronger you got.
Perhaps they should use.NET for their next benchmark. Or Java. That'll be the true test of a video card:-)
Not necessarily. Who knows if he was trained as a Jedi by a Common (is it Common? or just English?) speaking master, hundreds of years ago. And I don't think people were afraid to correct him, he's a freakin alien! of course English (or Common?) isn't going to be his native tongue. It's like my Engineering teachers from India, or my Comp Sci professors from China, I'm not going to correct them on their bad English, cause I can understand enough to know what they are trying to say. It is annoying sometimes, but whatever.
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Seriously, did they go up to IBM and pitch their vision or something?
and who modded parent interesting??
Make it flash :-) or *even better* one big GIANT java applet!
1) How are the other kids? If the school isn't properly managed, then he's still going to get picked on. A fat kid is a fat kid is a fat kid.
2) How is the teacher? Does he pick on the fat/skinny/ugly/smelly/newbie/stupid/different kids (see number 1)? Actaully, let me rephrase that: does he pick on them with prejudice?
3) What's the ratio of postive to negative infleuence (see 1 and 2 - see a pattern here?) I will never take you kid to a school where they tell you "You suck, do it again." Encouragement goes a long long way, especially if they don't get enough at home (not to say that everybody is a bad parent, but kids can never get too much encouragement).
4) Tournaments/contests? This is one thing I did miss out on. Team encouragement and encouraging others as well. Plus it offers a sense of accomplishment once you've succeeded in something.
Is that the computer lab under Hill? I don't remember, as I was in school before they created ARC. You aren't referring to those ancient slow computers with the opto/magnetic mouse things that needed that metal mousepad to get it to work, are you? Cause those were SLOW, nobody wanted to use them, unless you had a programming assignment deadline, then that lab would be full to the brim trying to get their assignment to compile. =)
How do you wash it? Dryclean? A soft moist cloth? Those lysol wipes, and that cool foamy spray stuff to clean your desk with?
Maybe it was just my eyes jumping around but did anyone else read "Chinese slicing laser" I think it was Xiaochun Li and Cheese slicing laser ....had me worried there for a second
Actually I read it was xiaoxiao and his cheese slicing laser.. I figured it was another one of those cool flash movies...
I totally agree. I have a few lectures that I recieved from some friends of mine, that recorded them on their MD players. I wanted to port them over onto my computer as mp3s or whatnot so I can listen to them on my laptop. However, since the 60 min tracks are nowhere to be found in my computer, the software (I forget the name) won't let me haul it over. I have about 30 MDs, and I'm not about to copy all of them over an analog line. Bleah, talk about annoying!
Ah, a lakh is a compltely obscure number - it means "hundred thousand."
What's wrong with saying "1,500,000 engineers?"
Because it's off by 1,350,000?
you in sensitive clod!
Yeah that's the gist of it, but there are a couple of side stories that should (or may not) be of interest:
What part of 'Lots of fighting' does any of the above fit in? Or is everything irrelevant because 'they will all die from all that fighting?' Or is it irrelevant because it's got nothing to do with Frodo and his Ring, and is therefore merely 2 hours of 'filler fluff'?
Maybe it is because you didn't read the books, but I was convinced in terms of book to movie translation, this is as good as it's gonna get. This is probably the most complete view of Middle Earth that we'll ever probably see. I'm watching the movies not to discover that Sam is the true hero (Score: -1 Spoiler), but rather to see what Middle Earth would look like.
It's all about a visualization of the book, not having the book read to me. Most people who have read the books will enjoy the movies most, they already know what happens; they want to see how close PJ's visuals may match their imagination. That's the real thrill here, not the cliff's notes synopsis a 3 hour movie is capable of.
Yeah, it's called affordability.
You could always get a laser turntable if you don't want to scratch your record. Expensive, though.
Hehe, you should try reading papers written with a quill.
With cursive, it makes a world of a difference. If you try printing with a quill, every time you pick the pen up off the paper, the ink will continue to try to flow out of the pen, leaving nasty large blots at the end of the stroke, which take a LONG time to dry. And, if you are lazy like me, will end up smearing ink all over your hand, and onto the paper.
The only way to remedy that, is to:
- 2: minimize the times you have to take that pen off the paper
which cursive does well.You've probably never seen them written in cursive. :-)
I have a lot of japanese friends write in 'cursive' japanese, and while I can read japanese, cursive japanese looks, well, funky. Being a korean, I've seen my parents write stuff in korean that looks like nothing more than wacky scribbles.
Much to my amazement though, I can read it, and read it well.
It's got to do with the positioning of the strokes themselves. Chinese, Japanese and Korean writing are all about strokes; the positioning of the strokes, the stroke order, which lines can be crossed, which lines can never be crossed, etcetera. The reason for such rigid rules for writing characters was developed in order to give the optimal positioning of the brush (when it was written in brush, that is).
Cursive English has those rules too; they are based off of the order of strokes of a print letter. Take a look at the lowercase g, and compare it to the cursive g, and even the calligraphy g: you can see that the only characteristic that makes them similar is the stroke and stroke order.
I beleive the problem with the loss of cursive writing isn't the writing style itself, but the actual loss of understanding the reason for the stroke and stroke order. We all take writing, for example, the letter B for granted. But imagine a 100 years from now, people have 'forgotten' how to write B in the proper stroke order (I'm not saying this may actaully happen, but let's imagine anyway). Some people may write it closer to a 13, thinking that the strokes don't need to touch. Or someone may write it similar to a P, thinking that the lower loop isn't that important. Or the letter R. Or 8. Or E. You get the idea. All of a sudden people get frustrated at reading other people's handwriting. *cue in the 1337 jokes here*
Now I'm not saying that handwriting is a very important thing in order to function as a society, but it does make things convenient. And pretty. :-)
I for one, however, highly doubt that our future children will lose the ability how to write in cursive. If they understand the stroke order for writing such characters, they should be fine; after all, cursive is nothing more than a cursory method of writing in print.
Yeah, seriously! At least he'll never have to worry about his LCD overheating. :-) I shudder to think about what all those fans would sound like when turned on!
I agree. What makes Tolkien's works so appealing is that his works have so much academic value, in a geeky, Star Trekkie sort of way. I beleive that it may simply have been that he didn't have any reference to draw from - that is, other than the bible, ancient mythic literature (The Iliad, King Arthur, Beowulf, etc..), and local (and not local) folk tales.
Oh yeah, and people like John Milton, Geoffrey Chaucer, Jules Verne, Voltaire, etcetera.
Don't get me wrong, I love Feist, having read all his books, I find them all entertaining, but that's about it. For crying out loud, he wrote his books up based on a role playing session he had in college! There is no academic value to it; it doesn't make you THINK.
I think the problem with most writers today is that they try and make their books too epic.
When you read any series of Feist's books, or any contemporary fantasy writer, for that matter; you basically understand the whole world. When you read LOTR, you realize that the timeline for those three books is 11 months, and Tolkein has told you almost nothing about ME yet.
It's all in the details.
Apparently there is all kinds of high quality beef in Japan prohibited from exporting, something about protecting its domestic beef industry. The restaurant buys the entire cow live, and they do all the work in-house. Everything of the cow is used - the menus are made out of the leather of their previous purchases, the bones are used for soup. Those wacky japanese love their stuff fresh..
or you could also call it ReverseDoS..
or Self-Slashdotting! :-)
Granted, it's still being worked on, but looks pretty impressive- especially for java.
Gaming should be considered a recreational activity. What makes gaming different from, let's say:
Reading a book?
Playing poker with a couple of buddies?
Watching TV/ going out to Theater?
Listening to music?
Painting?
Playing an instrument?
dancing at a disco?
flying a kite?
going to a theme park?
weight-lifting?
building a trainset?
picnics?
They are all time wasters (some considered antisocial activity), and there's nothing wrong with that. I play all kinds of games (EQ, Diable2, CS, War3) as well as do all of the above. Would you consider my life nonproductive since I don't consider my job my life?
I don't think this film was even meant to be distributed around. It was one of those flukes that floated around the web, sorta like the Star Wars kid. I am VERY instereted in seeing how they pulled it off. Anyone got a copy?
You can never get desensitized to taking a human life by playing excessive video games. Think about it: has playing too much Quake 3 (or CS in my case) caused you to have ANY stirrings of spontaneous violence? Seriously. Even when I am a victim of a hate crime, I hesitate to act. I understand the law that governs me, and there will always be consequences, whether they be short of long term. Counterstrike has no effect on my moral behavior.
In game tho, I do talk(and receive) a lot of trash. Many of us talk big, but that's it.
In short: You think me playing a butcher sim is going to desensitize me to slaughtering an animal?
It's sort of akin to walking around with a backpack full of cinderblocks. That way, when you put down those cinderblocks(ie benchmark), you'll notice how much stronger you got.
Perhaps they should use .NET for their next benchmark. Or Java. That'll be the true test of a video card :-)
Not necessarily. Who knows if he was trained as a Jedi by a Common (is it Common? or just English?) speaking master, hundreds of years ago. And I don't think people were afraid to correct him, he's a freakin alien! of course English (or Common?) isn't going to be his native tongue. It's like my Engineering teachers from India, or my Comp Sci professors from China, I'm not going to correct them on their bad English, cause I can understand enough to know what they are trying to say. It is annoying sometimes, but whatever.