I haven't been really "burnt out", but I've developed terrible waking-up habits. I have gotten so that I can hear the alarm buzz, launch myself out of bed, step across the room, bang the stupid alarm clock silent, then jump back into bed, and not really be conscious of it five seconds afterwards. This was a slight problem when I got the top bunk in my dorm at the beginning of a semester, but I have since overcome it.
To counter this, I set the alarm clock to start beeping ~= 30 minutes before I need to get up, by which time I've usually accumulated enough bounces in and out of bed to realize that I should stop, uh, bouncing.
Well, you could use the Internet Archive's new Ourmedia site; automagic BitTorrent tracking and distribution and the like is definitely something they've been planning and hope to release in the immediate future.
I tried it. I'd be a lot more impressed if the programmer could learn the difference between "your" , the posessive, and "you're", the contraction. If I say
Your Flash animation on the front page is tacky
I don't want the bot to reply
ALICE: Thanks for telling me that I am flash animation on the front page is tacky.
I realize not everyone has grammar skills, but please, why punish those who do? =b
I don't recall my web comic being listed on commoncontent.org, and they seem to have found it easily enough. I think they're looking for the embedded RDF license data in some pages. Here's a select excerpt of the license on my page (view its source if you're overly interested in the full layout):
That's interesting, but will they be adding stuff from OurMedia (now recovered from its first Slashdotting and on much-beefier-servers) and the Wikimedia Commons and the like?
The former, I know, has explicit methods to label content as Creative Commons or other types of license.
I sympathize with the sentiment. It did indeed start out much better than it ended. But you say that you read everything of his you could get your hands on? Dude, Card has some pretty crazy stuff, like Wyrms, A Planet Called Treason, Lost Boys, Lovelock... heck, even Enchantment was rather odd, and Treasure Box was downright freaky.
I don't really care what nonsense he believes, so long as he doesn't push it on ME. Just as I don't care what nonsense *you* believe, so long as it doesn't impact ME.:)
You have little to fear. In his own words,
"Fiction is a very poor tool for conversion, because if I label it as fiction then I'm telling you it's a pack of lies from the very start."
The most religiously-active part of the novel which I can recall is when he describes how Ender's parents were closet Catholics who were dissatisfied with the state's birth/population-control policies.
I took a quick glance at http://affirmation.org/, a site about 'gay and lesbian Mormons' and some questions in their FAQ seem to indicate some issues that some members sometimes have regarding excommunication. Sometimes. Hence "the worst".
Supergenius kid is taken off to orbital training facility where he learns the art of war, ultimately destroying an alien civilization.
Of course, that hardly scratches the surface. (For example, he is ultimately tricked into destroying the aliens -- he's told it's a simulation and he doesn't want to go destroy the aliens so he's like "let's blow up their planet and wipe out the entire species so they think I'm some bloodthirsty monster and are unwilling to let me control the fleet in the future"). Or how his older sister and brother are busy plotting to take over the world while he's away (he ultimately succeeds, even). It doesn't even begin to touch on all the social issues raised (they have a limit of two children for family, Ender is a specially government-commissioned "third"), the various psychological dramas as he rebels against control by the Army and their devious computer-game freeform virtual reality which they try to use to psychologically mold him (with freakish mixed results), rivalries among competing Battle School "armies", the way that Ender is given an army of rejects and submitted to an utterly insane training schedule and wins some rather impossible battles... and the battle tactics and scenes are pretty amazing for mere text. If properly implemented, the eye candy factor alone would make this movie worth seeing.
Orson Scott Card sez: "The Jake Lloyd story is old news. He's already too old to play the part. He would have been a great Ender, though, if we could have put it together in time. You never got a chance to see what Jake could do in a well-written part with a director who knows how to direct actors. Let's just say that Fantum Mennis had neither ingredient. Likewise, Haley Joel Osment would have been brilliant, and will be in anything he does. Like Roddy McDowell and Elijah Wood and Henry Thomas, he can act, but he's also too old." (B&N Chat, Jan 2) "
I wonder about how they intend to depict certain scenes. For example, the scene where the kids are naked in the shower room and Ender fights and kills that other kid whose name I forget... Yeah, I want to take my kids to this movie!
It is, of course, unfair to compare the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to the Ku Klux Klan. The Mormons don't have tendencies to go out and murder homosexuals; the worst they do is excommunicate them if they're members.
Besides, with millions of Hollywood dollars already funding cults like the Church of Scientology, how can any major film these days be considered "clean"?
Now, now, let's be nice and proper. That's the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints", not 'mormon church'. And really, don't millions of Hollywood dollars already find their way into the Church of Scientology? (there are some big names in this list). I don't see how that could possibly be considered any less deplorable...
The sequel to Ender's Game is not "Eating the Dead". It's "Speaker for the Dead"; the sequel to that is "Xenocide" and the sequel to that is "Children of the Mind".
It's not just the design, it's the implementation. Someone needs to teach these guys the difference between a / and a \ because at least half the links are broken.
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"Quantum tunneling is the quantum-mechanical effect of transitioning through a classically-forbidden energy state. The classical analog is to go through a wall, which happens in the quantum world but not with typical matter." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunneling
The thing is, the photon traveling through empty space is not a classically-forbidden energy state. There are no walls in outer space.
No. If it were Duff's device, the switch statement would be outside of the loop, you'd have j = i / 8; and switch(i % 8) (for sufficient values of '8').
It is not possible for the "entire solar system" to fall into it. It might theoretically just perhaps be vaguely possible to have all of Earth 'fall into' a black hole, yes. But what next?
Black holes, contrary to popular perception and their portrayal in the media (/me kicks Stargate!) have no more attractive power than the planets (or stars, etc) they formerly were, because that's all the mass they have. If Earth were replaced with an Earth-mass black hole, the Moon would continue about in its orbit just as it does now (well, minus some trivial tidal effects and the like because of mass distribution with the oceans... let's ignore those for now, hmm?) while the system itself continued to orbit about the Sun. Nothing else would be gravitationally affected any differently.
The force of gravity has an inverse-square relationship with distance. So it's one thing to be right next to an Earth-sized mass the size of Earth, while it's another to be right next to an Earth-sized mass of radius, say, three feet (Earth-sized black holes may actually need to be smaller, but whatever). You can get a lot closer, so the force you experience will be much stronger, and the effects of General Relativity (slower time, et cetera) will be significant.
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To counter this, I set the alarm clock to start beeping ~= 30 minutes before I need to get up, by which time I've usually accumulated enough bounces in and out of bed to realize that I should stop, uh, bouncing.
Well, you could use the Internet Archive's new Ourmedia site; automagic BitTorrent tracking and distribution and the like is definitely something they've been planning and hope to release in the immediate future.
Stupid. I pasted that twice. Ignore the duplication please. =b
The former, I know, has explicit methods to label content as Creative Commons or other types of license.
Duh! Libcrypto! It's a cryptography library! Isn't being un-understandable, like, the entire point?
I sympathize with the sentiment. It did indeed start out much better than it ended. But you say that you read everything of his you could get your hands on? Dude, Card has some pretty crazy stuff, like Wyrms , A Planet Called Treason , Lost Boys , Lovelock... heck, even Enchantment was rather odd, and Treasure Box was downright freaky.
You have little to fear. In his own words,
The most religiously-active part of the novel which I can recall is when he describes how Ender's parents were closet Catholics who were dissatisfied with the state's birth/population-control policies.
I took a quick glance at http://affirmation.org/, a site about 'gay and lesbian Mormons' and some questions in their FAQ seem to indicate some issues that some members sometimes have regarding excommunication. Sometimes. Hence "the worst".
Of course, that hardly scratches the surface. (For example, he is ultimately tricked into destroying the aliens -- he's told it's a simulation and he doesn't want to go destroy the aliens so he's like "let's blow up their planet and wipe out the entire species so they think I'm some bloodthirsty monster and are unwilling to let me control the fleet in the future"). Or how his older sister and brother are busy plotting to take over the world while he's away (he ultimately succeeds, even). It doesn't even begin to touch on all the social issues raised (they have a limit of two children for family, Ender is a specially government-commissioned "third"), the various psychological dramas as he rebels against control by the Army and their devious computer-game freeform virtual reality which they try to use to psychologically mold him (with freakish mixed results), rivalries among competing Battle School "armies", the way that Ender is given an army of rejects and submitted to an utterly insane training schedule and wins some rather impossible battles... and the battle tactics and scenes are pretty amazing for mere text. If properly implemented, the eye candy factor alone would make this movie worth seeing.
Orson Scott Card sez:
"The Jake Lloyd story is old news. He's already too old to play the part. He would have been a great Ender, though, if we could have put it together in time. You never got a chance to see what Jake could do in a well-written part with a director who knows how to direct actors. Let's just say that Fantum Mennis had neither ingredient. Likewise, Haley Joel Osment would have been brilliant, and will be in anything he does. Like Roddy McDowell and Elijah Wood and Henry Thomas, he can act, but he's also too old." (B&N Chat, Jan 2) "
I wonder about how they intend to depict certain scenes. For example, the scene where the kids are naked in the shower room and Ender fights and kills that other kid whose name I forget... Yeah, I want to take my kids to this movie!
And he makes no secret of it. Heck, I've been told that the Homecoming"saga is based off the Book of Mormon.
Besides, with millions of Hollywood dollars already funding cults like the Church of Scientology, how can any major film these days be considered "clean"?
Now, now, let's be nice and proper. That's the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints", not 'mormon church'. And really, don't millions of Hollywood dollars already find their way into the Church of Scientology? (there are some big names in this list). I don't see how that could possibly be considered any less deplorable...
See the article in Wikipedia for more details.
I had the idea of the movie filed away with Duke Nukem Forever and the like.
It's not just the design, it's the implementation. Someone needs to teach these guys the difference between a / and a \ because at least half the links are broken.
The thing is, the photon traveling through empty space is not a classically-forbidden energy state. There are no walls in outer space.
Best of luck!
No. If it were Duff's device, the switch statement would be outside of the loop, you'd have j = i / 8; and switch(i % 8) (for sufficient values of '8').
Anyway, it seems to be 'corrected' to the improper-grammer form (however entymologically prefrable that version may be...)
Not just IP addresses... IPv6 addresses. Say hello to the newest wireless standard, 802:153a:e1e1:0aff:5559:1234:dead:beef!
Black holes, contrary to popular perception and their portrayal in the media (/me kicks Stargate!) have no more attractive power than the planets (or stars, etc) they formerly were, because that's all the mass they have. If Earth were replaced with an Earth-mass black hole, the Moon would continue about in its orbit just as it does now (well, minus some trivial tidal effects and the like because of mass distribution with the oceans... let's ignore those for now, hmm?) while the system itself continued to orbit about the Sun. Nothing else would be gravitationally affected any differently.
The force of gravity has an inverse-square relationship with distance. So it's one thing to be right next to an Earth-sized mass the size of Earth, while it's another to be right next to an Earth-sized mass of radius, say, three feet (Earth-sized black holes may actually need to be smaller, but whatever). You can get a lot closer, so the force you experience will be much stronger, and the effects of General Relativity (slower time, et cetera) will be significant.