Peacetime Procurement?! Has it occurred to anyone else that we're not at war? In a very strict sense: war has not been declared by congress. If we're not actually at war, why would we use anything but the Peacetime Procurement procedures?
Yes -- Exactly so. I am an Anime enthusiast. NGE came recommended to me by friends, so one day I sat down to watch it. My first reactions? Cliche. Giant robots, young teenage girls with big boobs, quirky little anthropomorphic animal (penpen), & etc.
But... then the last few episodes are a revelation. It turns out that the series was never really about what I'd thought. Instead, the entire thing was transformed into allegory. To me, the series perfectly captures one universal human experience: the crossing of a threshold; in this case, from child, through initiation, into adult society.
The symbolism is so rich that my head spun for days. I suddently saw Giant Robots as the maturing adult bodies that pubescent children begin to inhabit; Oedipus, with Misato as a maternal figure; Hamlet in Shinji's hesitation & unwillingness to enter into his father's world; and it goes on. It all comes to light in the last two episodes, when Shinji undergoes the Initiation.
It is the classic experience: his entire world is demolished--the people killed, his city destroyed, all relationships stripped away; until he is at last alone. And then, with one simple choice, he breaks through into a bright, shining new world. Everything is returned to him, and he is welcomed with smiles and cheers.
For me, experiencing this series was enlightening. Of course, YMMV. But let me say this: there is room for things to mean more than they literally mean. Keep an open mind.
Both players feature audio functions not seen in MP3 Player before, like SRS, WOW and TruBass.
I'm not sure what this person was thinking, but I have an iRiver H120 which has SRS, WOW, and TruBass. This product line has been out for quite a while, too.
Fantastic. I'm embarking on my own phd work this fall after a year spent considering whether I wanted to. My eventual take on the phd, which convinced me that I needed to pursue one, was very similar to this. It is nice to see that I have some hope of keeping a positive outlook on the process even after I've gone through it.
The human sense/processing system includes an amazing pattern-recognition ability. A brief survey or current computational efforts in pattern recognition very quickly illustrates this. Consider face or speech recognition. These are not trivial tasks, and yet very specialized systems in our biology perform them (more or less) instantly, without conscious effort. Or consider a game of chess. Fast computers can calculate all positions five or ten moves away; humans can see sequences of as many moves along certain lines of play--based on observed patterns in the game.
Human perception and processing systems have millions of years--stretching back into the mammalian systems we've built on--of pedigree within them. I am personally loathe to discount them in favor of automated scripts.
I think that finding ways of presenting data in forms that capitalize on human pattern recognition is a fantastic idea, and that more work should be done in the area.
An OS survives by being good, not by how its being received by other competitors in the market
The brutal irony, of course, is that most of the people reading this realize that windows is not a particularly good operating system. Nor has windows survived on its virtues as an operating system.
It is easy to see that windows has 'succeeded' for reasons other than being a good operating system. It is difficult to realize that linux could 'fail' for reasons not related to its value as an OS. There are forces at work beyond a single user's choice of 'good' and 'bad'. I think this is an important point to consider.
At the same time, this is the classic struggle of the virtuous vs. the mighty. My vote lies always with the virtuous.
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Peacetime Procurement?! Has it occurred to anyone else that we're not at war? In a very strict sense: war has not been declared by congress. If we're not actually at war, why would we use anything but the Peacetime Procurement procedures?
But ... then the last few episodes are a revelation. It turns out that the series was never really about what I'd thought. Instead, the entire thing was transformed into allegory. To me, the series perfectly captures one universal human experience: the crossing of a threshold; in this case, from child, through initiation, into adult society.
The symbolism is so rich that my head spun for days. I suddently saw Giant Robots as the maturing adult bodies that pubescent children begin to inhabit; Oedipus, with Misato as a maternal figure; Hamlet in Shinji's hesitation & unwillingness to enter into his father's world; and it goes on. It all comes to light in the last two episodes, when Shinji undergoes the Initiation.
It is the classic experience: his entire world is demolished--the people killed, his city destroyed, all relationships stripped away; until he is at last alone. And then, with one simple choice, he breaks through into a bright, shining new world. Everything is returned to him, and he is welcomed with smiles and cheers.
For me, experiencing this series was enlightening. Of course, YMMV. But let me say this: there is room for things to mean more than they literally mean. Keep an open mind.
I'm not sure what this person was thinking, but I have an iRiver H120 which has SRS, WOW, and TruBass. This product line has been out for quite a while, too.
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Fantastic. I'm embarking on my own phd work this fall after a year spent considering whether I wanted to. My eventual take on the phd, which convinced me that I needed to pursue one, was very similar to this. It is nice to see that I have some hope of keeping a positive outlook on the process even after I've gone through it.
Human perception and processing systems have millions of years--stretching back into the mammalian systems we've built on--of pedigree within them. I am personally loathe to discount them in favor of automated scripts.
I think that finding ways of presenting data in forms that capitalize on human pattern recognition is a fantastic idea, and that more work should be done in the area.
The brutal irony, of course, is that most of the people reading this realize that windows is not a particularly good operating system. Nor has windows survived on its virtues as an operating system.
It is easy to see that windows has 'succeeded' for reasons other than being a good operating system. It is difficult to realize that linux could 'fail' for reasons not related to its value as an OS. There are forces at work beyond a single user's choice of 'good' and 'bad'. I think this is an important point to consider.
At the same time, this is the classic struggle of the virtuous vs. the mighty. My vote lies always with the virtuous.