The thing about pure mathmatics is, it's a pastime that essentially costs nothing. You don't need any special equipment or a formal higher education.
This means you can do it on welfare from your trailer park home, or from a cardboard box under a bridge if that's your thing. Significant mathmatical breakthroughs have, in the past, been made by incredibly poor persons with little schooling to speak of. Admittedly this is rare, but not unheard of.
You really just need access to a library of some sort and that rarest of commodities, an inquiring mind of your very own...
Why was this modded down? Because some moderators just can't be bothered to read the guidelines.
"Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting...Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down."
Personally, I very rarely mod things down. This is because I know a lot of people read slashdot with a +3 (or higher) filter just to wipe away the crap.
And it's also really annoying to get modded down for a heartfelt genuine comment...
You had me convinced, right up until I realized it was your sig that convinced me. Then my head exploded.
seemed the most obvious place to put it. I've always wanted to be a head-explodey-fu master. I shall call this attack "The nine fingered blow of the code monkey"
A bit Off-Topic, but in that IMDb link, Disney only have 4 entries in the top 20, and only one of those was made after 1940. Pixar and Ghibli justifiably dominate the rest of the list.
In unrelated news Buena Vista (a wholly owned DisneyCorp subsiduary) have distribution contracts with both Pixar and Ghibli...
A while back Roy Disney quit the board in protest of the actions of Eisner, who has seemingly systematically gutted and destroyed the Feature animation departments over the last decade or so...In fact IIRC Brother Bear is the last traditional feature animation Disney will make...
No, you're probably just a hideous monster inside.
Just kidding ^_^; I see where you're coming from: It's pretty predictable from the start that they're doomed, but that's what made it poignant for me...
Garland and Resch are about to test deckard when Resch's world comes crumbling down. Resch's boss Garland turns out to be a replicant, and Garland tells Deckard that Resch is a replicant. Resch then kills Garland and Deckard later tests Resch (after they both "retire" Luba Luft) who turns out to be human after all....in the end Deckard is never tested - There's a presumption that he is human because he's a real policeman.
Mildly entertaining but overly-derivative tripe. It was, in turns, a pastiche of Bradbury's Farenheit 451, Orwell's 1984, Huxley's Brave New World, with a big dollop of The Matrix, and Finally a brief flash of Cube for the ending...
If you don't know that then I suggest you start reading. The movie's up-side is that it introduces the dystopian concepts it borrows to new generations of the illiterati, but on the other hand it doesn't acknowledge the sources, leading people to believe that these plot-devices and themes are new.
The reason no-one else steals them so whole-heartedly is because these novels are very famous and interationally acclaimed Important Literature. 451 and 1984 even have even had very well known and reasonably faithful movies made from them. Movie makers rarely fail to acknowledge obvious sources because critics will call their works "Mildly entertaining but overly-derivative tripe."
I do, however, think the Gunkata concept was quite fun.
A while back this was heavily rumoured to be a feature in IE6. Microsoft were rumoured to be adding a "feature" where they would add contextual(i.e advertising)hyperlinks to plain text. Thank god they didn't! They must have realised no-one wants to pay or ad-ware...
Biometric security readers are a bad idea for anything that people would really want to steal, as the simplest cheapest option is not to clone you retinal pattern or fingerprint. Fit a retinal scanner to ATMs and anyone who's serious about robbing you will have to rob you of your card and your eyes, the same rule applies ot a finger or palmprint scanner.
Why bother copying the key when you can take it?
I, for one, can imagine junkies doing this, and the only possible biometric system to get around this would be impossibly complex. an MRI that checks your internal organs are all exactly right coupled with a vocal stress ananlysis test that asks you random questions...
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Britain's railway network has been often described as the worst in Europe....by the British press. "The grass is always greener". I have also seen SNCF compared badly to the british network by the French press. No-one notices when things go right, they only notice when things go wrong...
OTOH yes, the japanese railways are fabulous. More expensive and slightly less densely packed than the UKs railways, but the quality of service is impeccable. They do make eveyone else look bad by comparison.
And no, I'm not employed by Network Rail in any capacity, nor any of the train companies in the stupidly denationalised British railways.
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yes, it's infrasructure density that I'm talking about. My apologies if that wasn't clear.
And if you're going to compare the poor quality commuter lines of kent to the French TGV lines, then the ride quality is subtantially different - the difference between English and French commuter lines is less distinct. I wonder how it will be when the express line to St Pancras station is completed...
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I'm not sure how well devoloped the British rail system is
Currently it's approximately 21,000 miles of track, 1,000 signal boxes 9,000 level crossings, and 2,500 stations. There's about 10,000 mainline passenger train movements each day in and out of central London alone. In infrastructure terms britain has the best railway in the world, and that's after more than 2/3 of the original network was decomissioned in the sixties.
For a country about the same area as Oregon or Colarado that's a lot of rails. Of course in many ways the trains are not very good, but as long as America keeps her railroads running, we know we're not the worst! ^_^
Jack of all trades, master of none.
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Innovation is A Good Thing, but this project has all the complexities and drawbacks of both systems. The more components something has, the more likely it is to break.
Plus the main benefit of rail is that you know exactly where everything is supposed to be. The signalmen are not going to want this thing wrecking their entire schedule because it's stuck on a minor road doing 15mph behind Granny Betty.
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The thing about pure mathmatics is, it's a pastime that essentially costs nothing. You don't need any special equipment or a formal higher education.
This means you can do it on welfare from your trailer park home, or from a cardboard box under a bridge if that's your thing. Significant mathmatical breakthroughs have, in the past, been made by incredibly poor persons with little schooling to speak of. Admittedly this is rare, but not unheard of.
You really just need access to a library of some sort and that rarest of commodities, an inquiring mind of your very own...
Why was this modded down?
Because some moderators just can't be bothered to read the guidelines.
"Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting...Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down."
Personally, I very rarely mod things down. This is because I know a lot of people read slashdot with a +3 (or higher) filter just to wipe away the crap.
And it's also really annoying to get modded down for a heartfelt genuine comment...
You had me convinced, right up until I realized it was your sig that convinced me. Then my head exploded.
seemed the most obvious place to put it. I've always wanted to be a head-explodey-fu master. I shall call this attack "The nine fingered blow of the code monkey"
Haggis: The food that was invented as a dare...
"go'an Tam! Eat it big yin! A dare ye!"
"naw. A cannae dee that. Ye'll nivver eat that 'n live, boab."
I'd like to point out that Steve Jobs Did not say this.
The fundamental difference? When Jobs says something is cool, it's cool. When random execs at Apple say something's cool it means nothing.
At least, that's the way it seems to work...
A bit Off-Topic, but in that IMDb link, Disney only have 4 entries in the top 20, and only one of those was made after 1940. Pixar and Ghibli justifiably dominate the rest of the list.
In unrelated news Buena Vista (a wholly owned DisneyCorp subsiduary) have distribution contracts with both Pixar and Ghibli...
A while back Roy Disney quit the board in protest of the actions of Eisner, who has seemingly systematically gutted and destroyed the Feature animation departments over the last decade or so...In fact IIRC Brother Bear is the last traditional feature animation Disney will make...
I doubt you'll get an answer to that, as although it was test-screened on July 30th it's not officially released in Japan until November...
No, you're probably just a hideous monster inside.
Just kidding ^_^; I see where you're coming from: It's pretty predictable from the start that they're doomed, but that's what made it poignant for me...
Grave of the Fireflies, a lesser known product of Studio Ghibli.
IF you watch it I dare you not to cry.
Innocence
/. anyone who can't handle it...
Steamboy
Howl's Moving Castle
You'll find links onward to trailers from here...I'd paste the direct links, but I don't want to
I'm sorry if I'm being obtuse, but you're missing my point.
You are saying Equilibrium should make it into "a top sci-fi movies" list.
I'm just saying it's simply not original enough to do that...
Umm...no.
Garland and Resch are about to test deckard when Resch's world comes crumbling down. Resch's boss Garland turns out to be a replicant, and Garland tells Deckard that Resch is a replicant. Resch then kills Garland and Deckard later tests Resch (after they both "retire" Luba Luft) who turns out to be human after all....in the end Deckard is never tested - There's a presumption that he is human because he's a real policeman.
Equilibrium? Equilibrium??
Mildly entertaining but overly-derivative tripe. It was, in turns, a pastiche of Bradbury's Farenheit 451, Orwell's 1984, Huxley's Brave New World, with a big dollop of The Matrix, and Finally a brief flash of Cube for the ending...
If you don't know that then I suggest you start reading. The movie's up-side is that it introduces the dystopian concepts it borrows to new generations of the illiterati, but on the other hand it doesn't acknowledge the sources, leading people to believe that these plot-devices and themes are new.
The reason no-one else steals them so whole-heartedly is because these novels are very famous and interationally acclaimed Important Literature. 451 and 1984 even have even had very well known and reasonably faithful movies made from them. Movie makers rarely fail to acknowledge obvious sources because critics will call their works "Mildly entertaining but overly-derivative tripe."
I do, however, think the Gunkata concept was quite fun.
Parent post is referring Ridley's direction that Decker is a replicant -- although he was not in the book
You say he wasn't, but the book doesn't.
In the end there is no answer to the question "Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?"...but we know that Deckard does.
PJ is a contraction of Pajamas (or pyjamas, take your pick.)
"A Jam Spa" would be an anagram of "Pajamas"
personally I prefer "Pyjamas"for its anagram "Jam Pays"
I feel pedanticulatedly sated...
A while back this was heavily rumoured to be a feature in IE6. Microsoft were rumoured to be adding a "feature" where they would add contextual(i.e advertising)hyperlinks to plain text. Thank god they didn't! They must have realised no-one wants to pay or ad-ware...
If titbit blows some tiny american mind, find that person and discuss the nesting habits of the Great Tit with them...
Biometric security readers are a bad idea for anything that people would really want to steal, as the simplest cheapest option is not to clone you retinal pattern or fingerprint. Fit a retinal scanner to ATMs and anyone who's serious about robbing you will have to rob you of your card and your eyes, the same rule applies ot a finger or palmprint scanner.
Why bother copying the key when you can take it?
I, for one, can imagine junkies doing this, and the only possible biometric system to get around this would be impossibly complex. an MRI that checks your internal organs are all exactly right coupled with a vocal stress ananlysis test that asks you random questions...
the difference is this:
"You are a * head"
"You are a head"
Britain's railway network has been often described as the worst in Europe....by the British press. "The grass is always greener". I have also seen SNCF compared badly to the british network by the French press. No-one notices when things go right, they only notice when things go wrong...
OTOH yes, the japanese railways are fabulous. More expensive and slightly less densely packed than the UKs railways, but the quality of service is impeccable. They do make eveyone else look bad by comparison.
And no, I'm not employed by Network Rail in any capacity, nor any of the train companies in the stupidly denationalised British railways.
yes, it's infrasructure density that I'm talking about. My apologies if that wasn't clear.
And if you're going to compare the poor quality commuter lines of kent to the French TGV lines, then the ride quality is subtantially different - the difference between English and French commuter lines is less distinct. I wonder how it will be when the express line to St Pancras station is completed...
I'm not sure how well devoloped the British rail system is
Currently it's approximately 21,000 miles of track, 1,000 signal boxes 9,000 level crossings, and 2,500 stations. There's about 10,000 mainline passenger train movements each day in and out of central London alone. In infrastructure terms britain has the best railway in the world, and that's after more than 2/3 of the original network was decomissioned in the sixties.
For a country about the same area as Oregon or Colarado that's a lot of rails. Of course in many ways the trains are not very good, but as long as America keeps her railroads running, we know we're not the worst! ^_^
Innovation is A Good Thing, but this project has all the complexities and drawbacks of both systems. The more components something has, the more likely it is to break.
Plus the main benefit of rail is that you know exactly where everything is supposed to be. The signalmen are not going to want this thing wrecking their entire schedule because it's stuck on a minor road doing 15mph behind Granny Betty.
Maybe they're just really sick of him forgetting his pass.
there's no ask-slashdot that google couldn't solve...
But 90% of the answer is in knowing how to ask exactly the right question.
The same is true of life.
That's kind of the point of "42" in Hitchhikers.. by Douglas Adams.