At 16 mph you could qualify for the U.S. Olympic Trials in the men's 1500 M.
At 18 mph you could set the world record in the 1500 and take home a gold medal.
At 18.6 mph you are unrelenting.
Animation isn't getting worse. It's getting better. Very talented people combined with evermore powerful systems have produced absolutely stunning animation. The quality improves with every new release.
The problem with Hollywood animation is with the writing. As many have pointed out here, the latest batch of releases, animated and non-animated, have terrible story lines. And that brings up another question. Has our fascination with technology somehow stunted our creative writing ability? Or is Hollywood so politically correct and careful about its message (good and bad) that it just can't tell a good story?
Great actors can't save a poorly written screenplay. Expert animators can't save a poorly written feature either.
Sulu and Chekov get sued by PriceLine for failing to pay for a room they shared on Rigel 7. PriceLine and the hotel are represented by William Shatner and David Spader. Spader, it turns out, also stayed at the hotel using a Stargate VIP comp. for weekenders only. In and out in the blink of an eye. Sulu and Chekov try to hire the firm of Gould and Romulan to represent them but can't come up with the retainer. Instead, they're assigned public defender Wil Wheaton who can't start 'til Monday because he's out in Vegas playing in a poker tournament.
It's worth noting that the Guardian Unlimited is traditionally left-of-center in its reporting and editorials. They've been reporting on the effects of climate change for quite some time. Some articles, including this, are genuinely interesting and thought-provoking while others, like the one we are commenting on here, deserve only a passing notice.
The kind of bet described, hot or cold in 15 years, is no more than the toss of a coin. The Guardian probably published it to continue stirring the debate on climate change.
The Pentagon report referred to above is available here. Hope their server doesn't overheat. It's conclusions are chilling (no pun intended) and no doubt caught the U.S. Administration's attention. It also gives good insight into how the developed nations actually view climate change. As a national-security issue. It's worth a read.
What I don't understand is why the MMC card on these devices is limited to 512mb. Sandisk and others already offer 1, 2, and 4GB high-speed CF cards. Is it an issue of pre-formatting, the software driver, or something else I'm missing? It would be kind of cool to have an external RAID device consisting of multiple CF cards plugged into a "CF bus."
This wired article on vlogging highlighted a number of new video sites including one called RocketBoom. RocketBoom's author, Amanda Congdon, puts up new video content everyday, Monday through Friday, and by all appearances does a great job. Each day is a separate html page providing quicktime, winmedia and torrent versions of her clips.
A typical clip runs about 2-3 minutes and the.mov and.wmv files run about 20-30MB in size. To properly experience the site requires a good broadband connection, which I have. So far so good.
But it begs the question: who's paying for all that server bandwidth? She solicits no donations, and seems to have survived the exposure wired.com gave her. Can sites like these truly be done inexpensively? If so, how?
For the record, I have no affiliation with her, have never met her, but enthusiastically applaud her efforts. If it is indeed easy to acquire the resources, bandwidth and video production tools necessary to create quality vlog content my guess is we're probably seeing the beginning of a true internet paradigm shift. My gut tells me however, that's a big 'if.'
I'll leave the question of whether we should or not for another day.
Kudos from this high school CS instructor to Amador on their 5th place finish. They should be commended for their effort. It not easy pulling together all the resources and getting kids to stay on task all year. Well done.
Personally, I'd like to see more of this kind of thing offered as an alternative to the AP curriculum. Sorry, java simulations of fish in a lake doesn't cut it with generation-E. This stuff however, fires imaginations.
"Sup yo, we got like 5th or something."
"We're like smart 'n shizzle yo'."
"How you gettin' home?"
"Madre yo'. We'll load this b-itchell in the back of the Tahoe. Don't smell no mo' yo'."
"Koo."
Would Borders be half as successful as a bookseller if it charged its customers just to enter its stores?
I frequent their stores because they generally have good technical material which I read while drinking sub-par coffee made by overinked and overpierced baristas.
Of ten books I review I might purchase one. In reality, my coffee purchases pay their rent.
Back in the day, when super-minis roamed the earth, DEC substantially discounted their systems to colleges and universities knowing that all those starving students would one day be key decision makers. They were right. And they sold a ton of Vax and PDP systems. Sun displaced them by giving away "workstations" and stressing "the network is the system." They too were successful. The Sun boxes ran well and replaced microvaxes in droves.
Now it's the penguin's turn and those labs are in dorm rooms, high schools, eighth grade basements and garages all over the world.
Anyone like to venture a guess what solutions will be proposed by generation Linux when it faces the same IT problems?
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1. Someone will find a way to break it.
2. Stuff will go missing.
3. Nobody knows what happened.
In your field of study is there any evidence to suggest the possibility the poles are shifting, or at least moving uncharacteristically?
At 16 mph you could qualify for the U.S. Olympic Trials in the men's 1500 M. At 18 mph you could set the world record in the 1500 and take home a gold medal. At 18.6 mph you are unrelenting.
Is a restaurant. Everybody knows that. Sheesh.
Animation isn't getting worse. It's getting better. Very talented people combined with evermore powerful systems have produced absolutely stunning animation. The quality improves with every new release.
The problem with Hollywood animation is with the writing. As many have pointed out here, the latest batch of releases, animated and non-animated, have terrible story lines. And that brings up another question. Has our fascination with technology somehow stunted our creative writing ability? Or is Hollywood so politically correct and careful about its message (good and bad) that it just can't tell a good story?
Great actors can't save a poorly written screenplay. Expert animators can't save a poorly written feature either.
Sulu and Chekov get sued by PriceLine for failing to pay for a room they shared on Rigel 7. PriceLine and the hotel are represented by William Shatner and David Spader. Spader, it turns out, also stayed at the hotel using a Stargate VIP comp. for weekenders only. In and out in the blink of an eye. Sulu and Chekov try to hire the firm of Gould and Romulan to represent them but can't come up with the retainer. Instead, they're assigned public defender Wil Wheaton who can't start 'til Monday because he's out in Vegas playing in a poker tournament.
I'd sit for that.
It's worth noting that the Guardian Unlimited is traditionally left-of-center in its reporting and editorials. They've been reporting on the effects of climate change for quite some time. Some articles, including this, are genuinely interesting and thought-provoking while others, like the one we are commenting on here, deserve only a passing notice.
The kind of bet described, hot or cold in 15 years, is no more than the toss of a coin. The Guardian probably published it to continue stirring the debate on climate change.
The Pentagon report referred to above is available here. Hope their server doesn't overheat. It's conclusions are chilling (no pun intended) and no doubt caught the U.S. Administration's attention. It also gives good insight into how the developed nations actually view climate change. As a national-security issue. It's worth a read.
Seems like I've seen a similiar specification for the Blackdog somewhere before.
What I don't understand is why the MMC card on these devices is limited to 512mb. Sandisk and others already offer 1, 2, and 4GB high-speed CF cards. Is it an issue of pre-formatting, the software driver, or something else I'm missing? It would be kind of cool to have an external RAID device consisting of multiple CF cards plugged into a "CF bus."
This wired article on vlogging highlighted a number of new video sites including one called RocketBoom. RocketBoom's author, Amanda Congdon, puts up new video content everyday, Monday through Friday, and by all appearances does a great job. Each day is a separate html page providing quicktime, winmedia and torrent versions of her clips.
.mov and .wmv files run about 20-30MB in size. To properly experience the site requires a good broadband connection, which I have. So far so good.
A typical clip runs about 2-3 minutes and the
But it begs the question: who's paying for all that server bandwidth? She solicits no donations, and seems to have survived the exposure wired.com gave her. Can sites like these truly be done inexpensively? If so, how?
For the record, I have no affiliation with her, have never met her, but enthusiastically applaud her efforts. If it is indeed easy to acquire the resources, bandwidth and video production tools necessary to create quality vlog content my guess is we're probably seeing the beginning of a true internet paradigm shift. My gut tells me however, that's a big 'if.'
I'll leave the question of whether we should or not for another day.
Kudos from this high school CS instructor to Amador on their 5th place finish. They should be commended for their effort. It not easy pulling together all the resources and getting kids to stay on task all year. Well done.
Personally, I'd like to see more of this kind of thing offered as an alternative to the AP curriculum. Sorry, java simulations of fish in a lake doesn't cut it with generation-E. This stuff however, fires imaginations.
"Sup yo, we got like 5th or something."
"We're like smart 'n shizzle yo'."
"How you gettin' home?"
"Madre yo'. We'll load this b-itchell in the back of the Tahoe. Don't smell no mo' yo'."
"Koo."
Would Borders be half as successful as a bookseller if it charged its customers just to enter its stores?
I frequent their stores because they generally have good technical material which I read while drinking sub-par coffee made by overinked and overpierced baristas.
Of ten books I review I might purchase one. In reality, my coffee purchases pay their rent.
Back in the day, when super-minis roamed the earth, DEC substantially discounted their systems to colleges and universities knowing that all those starving students would one day be key decision makers. They were right. And they sold a ton of Vax and PDP systems. Sun displaced them by giving away "workstations" and stressing "the network is the system." They too were successful. The Sun boxes ran well and replaced microvaxes in droves.
Now it's the penguin's turn and those labs are in dorm rooms, high schools, eighth grade basements and garages all over the world.
Anyone like to venture a guess what solutions will be proposed by generation Linux when it faces the same IT problems?