Gut feelings and odds have little to do with it. Bookies try to get enough people to bet on both teams. If too many people were betting on the Packers, they would move the spread so more people bet on the Steelers, and vice versa. They have to balance the money on both sides so they have enough to pay out.
Come on, this is slashdot here. Try for a CS or automotive analogy.
Basically a bookie builds a binary tree where the top level node (aka the bookie) has two child nodes, folks betting on team A and folks betting on team B and the bookie rebalances the tree by screwing around with the odds until the top level of the tree has about the same number of $ on its two child nodes, more or less. A successful bookie has a lot of customers first to balance the tree and secondly because he skims off tips in a microtransactional approach, more or less.
Now if you want the standard slashdot car analogy, bookies change odds like inflating and deflating the tires on the left and right side until the car tracks more or less straight without pulling either side, sorta.
Perhaps this just means that American Football is unusually predictable.
Yet the injuries are not... This would seem to imply there is really no quantitative difference between 1st / 2nd / 3rd string players, despite widely held beliefs to the contrary. If player X had a season ending injury (or even just a game ending injury, early enough in the game) back in game 3 and player Y took over, it apparently doesn't matter much.
This would seem to be a big problem for the cult of personality that has grown up around individual players, so I suspect this story will have to be massively downplayed or treated as a statistical fluke.
The simple fact that autism becomes apparent at the time when kids get their vaccinations does not mean that the vaccinations cause autism.
The problem you're facing is not understanding your opposition.
1) As you say there is a chronological correlation with MMR vaccination and Autism symptoms appearing. That unfortunate coincidence is about as scientific as using zodiac symbols for psychotherapy.
2) Autism is an almost purely symptomatic disease, there is no simple "look at a microscope slide" or "titrate this blood sample" to find out if someone has it. The unfortunate coincidence is the symptoms of some people whom have autism are vaguely similar to some people that got brain damage because of vaccination "adverse reactions" which is unfortunately about as scientific as noticing that brain damage due to gunshot and due to baseball bat can sometimes be similar, thus they must have identical sources and baseball bats must be the same as bullets.
3) There seems to be a component of immune system malfunction in many/most autistic people and certainly vaccines mess with the immune system. The unfortunate coincidence is about as scientific as thinking being allergic to amoxicillin guarantees I must be allergic to peanuts, or my allergic reaction to amoxicillin guarantees my kids will be allergic (my pediatrician claims that allergy is 100% non genetic, I find that very hard to believe).
There are other unfortunate coincidences to add to this short list.
The point is that only concentrating on one of the many coincidences is not going to convince anyone.
I think you're missing the euthanasia aspect. If the environmentalist types are correct, we need to go all Pol Pot on the population and rather rapidly reduce it by lets say 9/10ths in order to "saaaveeee the urth!!!". I'm not a big fan of their idea, I'm merely trying to express it accurately. That means either the 9/10ths die young or have utterly miserable lives while the powers that be slowly starve them to death. From a purely euthanasia standpoint, a very rapid onset young death is much less painful to that individual than slow gradual starvation and resource wars and slow genocide. And the original poster has a point, in that if 9/10ths of the population has to die off, I'm guessing the powers that be will make certain the percentage toll is a bit higher in, for example, Somalia, than for example, Manhattan Island, so it is, most certainly, a 3rd world issue to deal with.
What's the advantage of running Debian with a BSD kernel instead of linux?
If you want to make money, and don't want to contribute back to the free software economy, its easier with a BSD license than a GPL license. Other than that...
Quite an oversimplification.
Yet, not bad for just 27 words. If you can do better given that constraint... A laundry list of unique features, license differences, and the (very few) device drivers that work better under BSD than linux, would probably be too long and complicated to be a "summary".
I would go further and state its within the set of questions where if you are able to successfully implement the answer, you are capable enough not to need to ask us the question, or alternately its within the set of questions where if you actually needed to know the answer, you would have already figured it out via very hard experience on linux, although knowing it is a bad question in advance would probably have been impossible because it would have taken more data to evaluate the question than to answer it...
I'm not sure what card I have, it just works at install time in Ubuntu.
pop open a terminal, "lsmod | grep ipw2100" if you see something you have a 2100. "lsmod | grep ipw2200" if you see something you have a 2200.
Take a look at the output of dmesg, it'll probably have a lot of verbal sorta-english commentary on your wireless card.
If I knew more Ubuntu, I could probably tell you how to figure out which firmware files it has installed and loaded.
Does it count as a "google hack" to flip the laptop over, find the model number, and google for that and the words "debian install" or "linux wifi"? Maybe that would be too elite for the average "google hack".
An interesting addition to future releases would be some kind of "as it boots" analyzer to grep for known troublesome devices and provide commentary, such as that wiki URL if certain strings are seen in dmesg or lspci. For all I know, d-installer already has that, I haven't installed in quite awhile (Debian being one of the few (only?) OS available in the entire computational world where upgrading from previous releases just works)
The "Duh" part is being worried about the wireless, merely because wireless is "new and trendy" to the non-technical masses. The part to worry about is the itunes running bot infested keylogger installed windoze box it syncs and backs up to. Or whatever backend system they're using, perhaps they're just planning on front ending google docs, hope no one share those files to the wrong person.
Also its "easy" to embed watermarking for each individual printout (stupid example, much better exist, player #28 gets 28 extra spaces scattered thru his printout) As far as I know, no one has a system like that for an ipad, so you simply loan the ipad to your new best friend and while you're busy cashing your check, he's busy taking untraceable snapshots of the ipad displaying each page with his cellphone or fancier camera. I've never tried placing my ipad platen down on my photocopier, must try this when I get a chance....
I'm going to guess that it wouldn't work now either... (If I recall correctly the software is ipw2200, or similar.)
So, you bothered to link to a page explaining in extreme detail both that it works, and exactly how to do it line by line, but you're guessing it wouldn't work?
I think you're trying to write in a very complicated manner that you're not sure if your laptop has a ipw2200? I have second hand knowledge that the instructions on the wiki do work quite well if you're unfortunate enough to own a ipw2200 card.
What's the advantage of running Debian with a BSD kernel instead of linux?
If you want to make money, and don't want to contribute back to the free software economy, its easier with a BSD license than a GPL license. Other than that...
My point is that when you are student, your realizations are less important than your will to learn and to share. It may sound like a pukingly everybody-is-nice slogan, but that is the truth. A good student is good at learning and if s/he is good at sharing his/her knowledge too, that is the kind of student we need more.
It would be simpler, rather than being all philosophical, to simply grade the kids half on what they did and half on a short essay / list (I guess now a days you'd use a powerpoint) more or less titled "future research" explaining the kids plans for research improvement and/or research expansion. Adding that to the competition, kind of takes care of that goal, assuming the kids care enough to compete.
This is assuming by "science fair" you mean the "hypothesis / experiment / conclusion" type of science fair rather than the demonstrative "look at my construction paper solar system" type of science fair.
This is by no means a new idea, I had to do this, uh, decades ago, when I was 8 and my experiment was comparing the relative effectiveness of various commercially available cleaning solutions vs various household filth.
I expect to see private/charter schools by walmart or mcdonald's within my lifetime with single minded goals (it won't be quite that simple but the influence will become noticeable enough.)
That place is no joke, I have a relative whom was working her way up the McD corporate structure. For all intents and purposes its a very single minded corporate MBA type program. Unlike a typical MBA its exclusively focused on McD's dogma / propaganda vs a more broad study of "American corporate dogma / propaganda". Its definitely training, not education. Then again, no one wants to employ educated people, just highly trained people.
From the article, "Hamburger University translators can provide simultaneous translation" If you haven't been to a McDonalds in the last decade, its pretty much become "English Speakers need not apply".
Not just tensile strength. 10km of head of pressure is not insignificant, and would require one hell of a pump to push it up there, and a lot of strength to hold it in.
Well, you could put multiple pumps along the hose. Of course there will be problems supplying them, so how about distributed tankage along the hose.
Then maybe you could optimize that, by simplifying, by installing all the pumps and tanks in the vehicle. Hmm. I think this idea has promise, powerpoints and promotions for all!
The OP's idea is speculative, but could be a good way of saving fuel in the first few seconds of rocket flight. But if the general community of engineers has the kind of attitude on display around here, I doubt anyone will even bother to do the calculations.
No need to bother with the numbers. That is optimizing the, by far, cheapest part of a spacecraft flight by a very small percentage indeed at a staggering capital cost. Its merely pointless.
The other "minor" engineering problem not discussed so far is the tiny problem of maximizing both the height of the building and the lifetime of the building, because to make a profit vs just burning a little more cheap fuel is going to take centuries, eons. We're talking about budgeting around, thru, and long after the next ice age.
The economic problem is, what is the net present value of a multi trillion dollar building that saves perhaps a couple million per year in fuel costs, in an economic environment where the money supply is growing at about a 10% annual rate. Hmm I'm thinking thats not terribly profitable.
How far back do we need to go before 'Fusion Reactor' was classed as 'Flight of Fancy'?
Probably an extremely narrow window between the concept of fusion being considered and the first working H-bomb being set off? I'm not entirely sure it ever achieved "flight of fancy" status.
I have no direct experience with his books. However, a good operational plan is whenever someone in the mass media describes anything as "smart" that is actually a codeword for "really freaking stupid" and/or its supposed to be an aspirational conspicuous consumption item for young college grads. This crappy overpriced car is "smart". Or voting for this professional liar is "smart". Or "smart" people eat this breakfast cereal. In other words assume the opposite when the mass media uses the word "smart". Doesn't by any means prove his books are worthless, but they're being promoted with a very tired almost anti-marketing message, so, its not looking good.
This is similar to the fact that several aspects of Einstein's theories were indicated via math but not verifiable via experimentation.
Crucial difference: One is an experimental failure due to limits of engineering at that time, one is scientifically unprovable.
Examples: Fusion reactor is an engineering / financial problem. An antimatter powered star trek warp drive is a flight of fancy. Both are currently impossible but they are two very different classes of impossible.
If we worried about the possible, what would we really have?
political "science" or philosophy? Poli Sci is the art of discerning and implementing the possible? Philosophy is about semi-internally self consistent flights of fancy?
Nothing wrong with it, as long as you acknowledge its not even remotely a real science like physics.
But you could say that Feynman should have been taken literally, although he didn't want to be.
Oh I think he was quite serious about his rationalizations for men visiting "gentleman's clubs" and he had some pretty good insights into the problems of lower level science education and also some insights into the dating scene. Oh wait you're talking about his physics work.... thats different, I think?
He had some good ideas, generally, but for some reason people latch on to the flakey woo woo stuff instead of his sobering insights into science education.
I agree, mutliverse is just the atheist equivalent of God. Instead of being omnipotent and omniscient, it is simply everything that could ever be. They like it though cause each one is random, rather than having one that is designed. Though neither are science.
Right conclusion, wrong reasoning. Its the equivalent because no experiments can be performed that would falsify the theory. Or rephrased the theories are both non-falsifiable.
Also your description of an atheist is a description of a non-christian, not a non-theist. Superficially, a multiverse does not appear to be compatible with native animist religious beliefs or even classical greco-roman paganism, so its not much of "God" for atheists.
PS. BTW, regarding such movies - Les Chevaliers du ciel (aka Sky Fighters), while obviously also with completely redundant plot, is much more enjoyable all-flash-no-substance kind of deal - it has much more spectacular cinematography, nvm lots more minutes of actual flying. Unlike Top Gun (where most flight sequences filming was done from the ground) - in Les Chevaliers du ciel the majority of filming was done from the air, largely via cameras hidden in modified fuel tanks of fighters, to great effect.
Anyone who like technology, fighters, sonic boom at ground level, real footage from fighters, post-combustion by night,... in widescreen should see this awesome movie.
The problem is Top Gun was a chick flick where the leading man happened to be a pilot. I think your "sky fighters" sounds more like an action flick.
Chick flick - boy meets girl, boy looses his emotional crutch (his RIO copilot died) and questions if he's right or wrong. In the end, boy and girl live happily ever after. They fly around and stuff but its just to give him something manly to do between romantic moments.
I'm guessing the action flick is just endless chase scenes and explosions like any other action flick.
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If NFL football is this predictable, it's just further proof how idiotic and worthless the sport really is.
If the stock market is this predictable, it's just further proof how idiotic and worthless the stock market really is.
I'm not sure if anthropomorphizing even makes sense in this situation.
Gut feelings and odds have little to do with it. Bookies try to get enough people to bet on both teams. If too many people were betting on the Packers, they would move the spread so more people bet on the Steelers, and vice versa. They have to balance the money on both sides so they have enough to pay out.
Come on, this is slashdot here. Try for a CS or automotive analogy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_tree
Basically a bookie builds a binary tree where the top level node (aka the bookie) has two child nodes, folks betting on team A and folks betting on team B and the bookie rebalances the tree by screwing around with the odds until the top level of the tree has about the same number of $ on its two child nodes, more or less. A successful bookie has a lot of customers first to balance the tree and secondly because he skims off tips in a microtransactional approach, more or less.
Now if you want the standard slashdot car analogy, bookies change odds like inflating and deflating the tires on the left and right side until the car tracks more or less straight without pulling either side, sorta.
(not that realism necessarily even makes a game fun).
Witness the decline and fall of the flight simulator industry ( *** now including TSA groping in every box!)
Perhaps this just means that American Football is unusually predictable.
Yet the injuries are not... This would seem to imply there is really no quantitative difference between 1st / 2nd / 3rd string players, despite widely held beliefs to the contrary. If player X had a season ending injury (or even just a game ending injury, early enough in the game) back in game 3 and player Y took over, it apparently doesn't matter much.
This would seem to be a big problem for the cult of personality that has grown up around individual players, so I suspect this story will have to be massively downplayed or treated as a statistical fluke.
I'm guessing it might, just might, be the posting to slashdot thing rather than minor writing problems.
The simple fact that autism becomes apparent at the time when kids get their vaccinations does not mean that the vaccinations cause autism.
The problem you're facing is not understanding your opposition.
1) As you say there is a chronological correlation with MMR vaccination and Autism symptoms appearing. That unfortunate coincidence is about as scientific as using zodiac symbols for psychotherapy.
2) Autism is an almost purely symptomatic disease, there is no simple "look at a microscope slide" or "titrate this blood sample" to find out if someone has it. The unfortunate coincidence is the symptoms of some people whom have autism are vaguely similar to some people that got brain damage because of vaccination "adverse reactions" which is unfortunately about as scientific as noticing that brain damage due to gunshot and due to baseball bat can sometimes be similar, thus they must have identical sources and baseball bats must be the same as bullets.
3) There seems to be a component of immune system malfunction in many/most autistic people and certainly vaccines mess with the immune system. The unfortunate coincidence is about as scientific as thinking being allergic to amoxicillin guarantees I must be allergic to peanuts, or my allergic reaction to amoxicillin guarantees my kids will be allergic (my pediatrician claims that allergy is 100% non genetic, I find that very hard to believe).
There are other unfortunate coincidences to add to this short list.
The point is that only concentrating on one of the many coincidences is not going to convince anyone.
I think you're missing the euthanasia aspect. If the environmentalist types are correct, we need to go all Pol Pot on the population and rather rapidly reduce it by lets say 9/10ths in order to "saaaveeee the urth!!!". I'm not a big fan of their idea, I'm merely trying to express it accurately. That means either the 9/10ths die young or have utterly miserable lives while the powers that be slowly starve them to death. From a purely euthanasia standpoint, a very rapid onset young death is much less painful to that individual than slow gradual starvation and resource wars and slow genocide. And the original poster has a point, in that if 9/10ths of the population has to die off, I'm guessing the powers that be will make certain the percentage toll is a bit higher in, for example, Somalia, than for example, Manhattan Island, so it is, most certainly, a 3rd world issue to deal with.
saving about 5,000 pages of printouts per game. Not only is it a huge savings
Somehow, I'm getting the feeling that 5000 pieces of paper is not the only, nor largest, waste resulting from the professional sports industry.
What's the advantage of running Debian with a BSD kernel instead of linux?
If you want to make money, and don't want to contribute back to the free software economy, its easier with a BSD license than a GPL license. Other than that...
Quite an oversimplification.
Yet, not bad for just 27 words. If you can do better given that constraint... A laundry list of unique features, license differences, and the (very few) device drivers that work better under BSD than linux, would probably be too long and complicated to be a "summary".
I would go further and state its within the set of questions where if you are able to successfully implement the answer, you are capable enough not to need to ask us the question, or alternately its within the set of questions where if you actually needed to know the answer, you would have already figured it out via very hard experience on linux, although knowing it is a bad question in advance would probably have been impossible because it would have taken more data to evaluate the question than to answer it...
I'm not sure what card I have, it just works at install time in Ubuntu.
pop open a terminal, "lsmod | grep ipw2100" if you see something you have a 2100. "lsmod | grep ipw2200" if you see something you have a 2200.
Take a look at the output of dmesg, it'll probably have a lot of verbal sorta-english commentary on your wireless card.
If I knew more Ubuntu, I could probably tell you how to figure out which firmware files it has installed and loaded.
Does it count as a "google hack" to flip the laptop over, find the model number, and google for that and the words "debian install" or "linux wifi"? Maybe that would be too elite for the average "google hack".
An interesting addition to future releases would be some kind of "as it boots" analyzer to grep for known troublesome devices and provide commentary, such as that wiki URL if certain strings are seen in dmesg or lspci. For all I know, d-installer already has that, I haven't installed in quite awhile (Debian being one of the few (only?) OS available in the entire computational world where upgrading from previous releases just works)
Kindle is way way WAY cheaper and does all the same things that they need to do.
Like scroll around really fast and zoom in on some weird detail? Hmm, I think not.
Turn the wireless function off
Duh???
The "Duh" part is being worried about the wireless, merely because wireless is "new and trendy" to the non-technical masses. The part to worry about is the itunes running bot infested keylogger installed windoze box it syncs and backs up to. Or whatever backend system they're using, perhaps they're just planning on front ending google docs, hope no one share those files to the wrong person.
Also its "easy" to embed watermarking for each individual printout (stupid example, much better exist, player #28 gets 28 extra spaces scattered thru his printout) As far as I know, no one has a system like that for an ipad, so you simply loan the ipad to your new best friend and while you're busy cashing your check, he's busy taking untraceable snapshots of the ipad displaying each page with his cellphone or fancier camera. I've never tried placing my ipad platen down on my photocopier, must try this when I get a chance....
I'm going to guess that it wouldn't work now either... (If I recall correctly the software is ipw2200, or similar.)
So, you bothered to link to a page explaining in extreme detail both that it works, and exactly how to do it line by line, but you're guessing it wouldn't work?
I think you're trying to write in a very complicated manner that you're not sure if your laptop has a ipw2200? I have second hand knowledge that the instructions on the wiki do work quite well if you're unfortunate enough to own a ipw2200 card.
What's the advantage of running Debian with a BSD kernel instead of linux?
If you want to make money, and don't want to contribute back to the free software economy, its easier with a BSD license than a GPL license. Other than that...
My point is that when you are student, your realizations are less important than your will to learn and to share. It may sound like a pukingly everybody-is-nice slogan, but that is the truth. A good student is good at learning and if s/he is good at sharing his/her knowledge too, that is the kind of student we need more.
It would be simpler, rather than being all philosophical, to simply grade the kids half on what they did and half on a short essay / list (I guess now a days you'd use a powerpoint) more or less titled "future research" explaining the kids plans for research improvement and/or research expansion. Adding that to the competition, kind of takes care of that goal, assuming the kids care enough to compete.
This is assuming by "science fair" you mean the "hypothesis / experiment / conclusion" type of science fair rather than the demonstrative "look at my construction paper solar system" type of science fair.
This is by no means a new idea, I had to do this, uh, decades ago, when I was 8 and my experiment was comparing the relative effectiveness of various commercially available cleaning solutions vs various household filth.
I expect to see private/charter schools by walmart or mcdonald's within my lifetime with single minded goals (it won't be quite that simple but the influence will become noticeable enough.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_University
That place is no joke, I have a relative whom was working her way up the McD corporate structure. For all intents and purposes its a very single minded corporate MBA type program. Unlike a typical MBA its exclusively focused on McD's dogma / propaganda vs a more broad study of "American corporate dogma / propaganda". Its definitely training, not education. Then again, no one wants to employ educated people, just highly trained people.
From the article, "Hamburger University translators can provide simultaneous translation" If you haven't been to a McDonalds in the last decade, its pretty much become "English Speakers need not apply".
Not just tensile strength. 10km of head of pressure is not insignificant, and would require one hell of a pump to push it up there, and a lot of strength to hold it in.
Well, you could put multiple pumps along the hose. Of course there will be problems supplying them, so how about distributed tankage along the hose.
Then maybe you could optimize that, by simplifying, by installing all the pumps and tanks in the vehicle. Hmm. I think this idea has promise, powerpoints and promotions for all!
The OP's idea is speculative, but could be a good way of saving fuel in the first few seconds of rocket flight. But if the general community of engineers has the kind of attitude on display around here, I doubt anyone will even bother to do the calculations.
No need to bother with the numbers. That is optimizing the, by far, cheapest part of a spacecraft flight by a very small percentage indeed at a staggering capital cost. Its merely pointless.
The other "minor" engineering problem not discussed so far is the tiny problem of maximizing both the height of the building and the lifetime of the building, because to make a profit vs just burning a little more cheap fuel is going to take centuries, eons. We're talking about budgeting around, thru, and long after the next ice age.
The economic problem is, what is the net present value of a multi trillion dollar building that saves perhaps a couple million per year in fuel costs, in an economic environment where the money supply is growing at about a 10% annual rate. Hmm I'm thinking thats not terribly profitable.
How far back do we need to go before 'Fusion Reactor' was classed as 'Flight of Fancy'?
Probably an extremely narrow window between the concept of fusion being considered and the first working H-bomb being set off? I'm not entirely sure it ever achieved "flight of fancy" status.
I have no direct experience with his books. However, a good operational plan is whenever someone in the mass media describes anything as "smart" that is actually a codeword for "really freaking stupid" and/or its supposed to be an aspirational conspicuous consumption item for young college grads. This crappy overpriced car is "smart". Or voting for this professional liar is "smart". Or "smart" people eat this breakfast cereal. In other words assume the opposite when the mass media uses the word "smart". Doesn't by any means prove his books are worthless, but they're being promoted with a very tired almost anti-marketing message, so, its not looking good.
This is similar to the fact that several aspects of Einstein's theories were indicated via math but not verifiable via experimentation.
Crucial difference: One is an experimental failure due to limits of engineering at that time, one is scientifically unprovable.
Examples: Fusion reactor is an engineering / financial problem. An antimatter powered star trek warp drive is a flight of fancy. Both are currently impossible but they are two very different classes of impossible.
If we worried about the possible, what would we really have?
political "science" or philosophy? Poli Sci is the art of discerning and implementing the possible? Philosophy is about semi-internally self consistent flights of fancy?
Nothing wrong with it, as long as you acknowledge its not even remotely a real science like physics.
But you could say that Feynman should have been taken literally, although he didn't want to be.
Oh I think he was quite serious about his rationalizations for men visiting "gentleman's clubs" and he had some pretty good insights into the problems of lower level science education and also some insights into the dating scene. Oh wait you're talking about his physics work.... thats different, I think?
He had some good ideas, generally, but for some reason people latch on to the flakey woo woo stuff instead of his sobering insights into science education.
I agree, mutliverse is just the atheist equivalent of God. Instead of being omnipotent and omniscient, it is simply everything that could ever be. They like it though cause each one is random, rather than having one that is designed. Though neither are science.
Right conclusion, wrong reasoning. Its the equivalent because no experiments can be performed that would falsify the theory. Or rephrased the theories are both non-falsifiable.
Also your description of an atheist is a description of a non-christian, not a non-theist. Superficially, a multiverse does not appear to be compatible with native animist religious beliefs or even classical greco-roman paganism, so its not much of "God" for atheists.
PS. BTW, regarding such movies - Les Chevaliers du ciel (aka Sky Fighters), while obviously also with completely redundant plot, is much more enjoyable all-flash-no-substance kind of deal - it has much more spectacular cinematography, nvm lots more minutes of actual flying. Unlike Top Gun (where most flight sequences filming was done from the ground) - in Les Chevaliers du ciel the majority of filming was done from the air, largely via cameras hidden in modified fuel tanks of fighters, to great effect.
Anyone who like technology, fighters, sonic boom at ground level, real footage from fighters, post-combustion by night, ... in widescreen should see this awesome movie.
The problem is Top Gun was a chick flick where the leading man happened to be a pilot. I think your "sky fighters" sounds more like an action flick.
Chick flick - boy meets girl, boy looses his emotional crutch (his RIO copilot died) and questions if he's right or wrong. In the end, boy and girl live happily ever after. They fly around and stuff but its just to give him something manly to do between romantic moments.
I'm guessing the action flick is just endless chase scenes and explosions like any other action flick.