100 hours a week? Is that even humanly possible? I remember when I was doing some overtime, I worked about 55-60 hours a week, and didn't have week-ends 2 times in a row. That was enough to make me agitated and nervous, and decided I'm not going to do that again anymore. I can do a few hours overtime now and then, but will never skip a weekend. I just can't.
But I was paid extra for the overtime hours. I can't imagine you were not even paid normal hours for the overtimes. Tha would have made me bitter beyond belief.
I really like A.I. - I think it has a very special atmosphere, and the more I watch it the more it mesmerises me. Interestingly enough, even my wife liked it more the second time, and said "hmm.. yeah, there is something in it". For me, A.I. is a very powerful artistic event. It leaves me half-sad, but totally immersed.
Your post proves my original argument completely. For you BBC is the mouthpiece of truth, yet you can't see through the thick cloud of your own bias. Your post is full of lies (that most people might take at face value), and you probably feel the BBC completely agrees with your views. Ergo, the BBC is biased, just like you.
But I'll add more: the BBC is not simply biased; it completely distorts the facts in order to comply to its bias. So much so, that the BBC reporters, when they lie, they contradict each other and the presenter at the studio! No wonder, lies come in various colors and shapes, they are bound to contradict each other. In the best case, they just "omit some details", sometimes they fail to investigate the information they get from (always the same) one source. Often times they show the views of only one side, while, at best, giving the other side only one insinuating question to answer.And then there's the distortion of historic data, the omission of important historical facts, and generally, they rely very much on the audience's ignorance. Often BBC fails to translate some very interesting speeches by their hero Arafat.
But it all makes perfect sense: the islamic world is a 1 billion+ market, rich with oil and on the increase. You don't want to piss off that, right? Truth and journalistic integrity be damned.
I think that wouldn't be a wise step to take, career-wise. Things being as they are now, he could still get job with some understanding employer. But if he sues over a comment from his ex-employer, there won't be nobody that would want him, evermore.
Not only beceause he'll have the aura of a hostile, potentially dangerous employee, but also because his fame will be much greater, after the lawsuit.
My wife, who went to N.Y. once, told me that, in fact, New Yourk has an OK public transportation system. I wold like to visit N.Y. sometimes, expecially now that Giuliani has made it safe.
It's crowded, smelly, and slow. You wait for it exposed to the elements. It runs on it's own schedule, not yours. It takes you where it wants to go, leaving you to walk the rest of the way (which can be several kilometers)
In short, public transit can't compete with cars.
I am sorry to hear your experience with public transportation has been as you described. But, to tell you the truth, the Helsinki public transportation is NOTHING like the one you described. You described a mockery of public transportation, a total crap.
It requires no parking (space, effort or cost), zero maintenance, it's extremely environment-friendly and it's very silent.
Other advantages: no need for a garage, no problem starting it up in winter and, best of all, it steers itself to destination.
It's only used in urban areas, but so are the SMARTs.
This wonder of modern technology is our rock-solid public transportation network. My visit to Dallas a couple of years ago has convinced me that Americans have no clue of this concept. Heck, I'm not even sure you guys ever heard of bycile lanes or walkways.
The Atmel AVR is probably the most powerful (as in, raw performance) line of 8-bit MCUs, and there is a ton of code and utilities out there. And guess what? The applications these MCUs are designed to work with/in/for do not need a 32 bit MCU. Take, for example, the ATtiny2313: at 20 MHz, that part produces almost 20 MIPS... that's power that barely any application can top. The PIC MCUs have about the 1/8th to 1/10th of this performance, and still noone complains that they are too slow.
I don't see the AVR core disappearing just because of the new 32 bit Atmel kid on the block. It will have it's applications, but most AVR developers won't find too many compelling reasons to switch just yet. Remember, this is not like the desktop computer market, you don't look under the hood of your automated wheat mill to see whatmakes it tick.
One of the things I really like about W3D is that is NOT dark but rather quite clear and illuminated, and yet, the game designers managed to create a genuinely cold and terrifying world.
I am not sure an "extensive world and characters" is really necessary precondition for a good movie. That can be easily added, but it's important that there is a "fun idea" or "attactive idea", something that makes the movie click.
Hollywood: The place good stories go to die. Not always: I think "Andromeda Strain" is the exception to the rule. "Blade Runner" is another example. Sure, it's different than the novel, but not worse.
I would really love to see a movie based on that game. I like the setup, it just tickles my imagination and arises my curiosity. On the other hand, it would be really easy to spoil the atmosphere of the game, if the filmmakers get it wrong. Which they almost always do. So, beware of the Doom movie, it might be a let-down for many Doom fans.
OTOH, I really like "Resident Evil" the movie, better than the game.
I read in another article that these folks worked on this research in the '80-es. It sure is a long way to a nobel prize! The youngest of the three guys is 57 years old. The other two are 67 and 73.
Well, I should get really busy if I want to get my Nobel prize while I can still enjoy the money and fame.
North Korea IS a serious threat to South Korea. There is a very large number of hidden pieces of artillery along the North Korean border, pointed at Seoul. It is estimated that, should a conflict break out, North Korea could kill most of the population of Seoul in a matter of minutes. This, combined with the fact that N. Korea has a very active development program in nerve gases (tested on individuals and entire families in their numerous concentration camps), makes N. Korea a very dangerous entity to at least S. Korea.
However, I shold remind you that N. Korea has succesfully tested a ballistic missile that flew above Japan a couple of years ago. This, coupled with their activity in enriching uranium (it is estimated that they have enough enriched uranium for 4 to 6 fission bombs) makes N. Korea a serious threat to a larger number of countries.
How is this informative? Everyone knows this stuff. Besides, the post isn't completely accurate, either. According to accounts from chronicles, it's known that: - The pole was sharp and not blunt. - The condemned would usually die within the same day, in a few hours in fact. Exceptions were the ones that had to be punished particularly severely, in which case the executioner would receive explicit orders to extend the agony of the condemned. The executioner would achieve this by carefully routing the sharp end of the pole around any vital organs. As this is a delicate and time-consuming process, my guess is that it was rarely performed. Expecially if you consider that impaling was usually used to punish a larger group of people and there would never be enough "trained" executioners.
And strangely as it may sound, impalation is not the most terrible form of death penalty. The infamous "Hundred Pieces" must have been more terrifying. The details are left as an excercise in imagination to the reader.
when will those graphing calculators be upgraded with displays capable of more than 86x48 resolution (B&W, at that)? I have the impression that HP, Casio and TI are stuck in a time-gap with their graphing calcs.
You have a good point. I am aware of the not-so-great quality of the PS2 DVD player, but it's tolerable, and I do not watch as many DVDs nowadays as I used to. The new PS2is really tiny and good looking, and that's a big advantage.
Besides, I am curious about the older FF games. And Spyro the dragon, I kinda like that.
I like it, it's really tiny. If it plays DVDs, I might opt for it to reduce space consumption in the living room, plus the odd PS1 and PS2 game I might fancy playing.
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I do. I'm in Finland, and working overtime without being paid is unimaginable here - it's considered a gross breach of law.
100 hours a week? Is that even humanly possible? I remember when I was doing some overtime, I worked about 55-60 hours a week, and didn't have week-ends 2 times in a row. That was enough to make me agitated and nervous, and decided I'm not going to do that again anymore. I can do a few hours overtime now and then, but will never skip a weekend. I just can't.
But I was paid extra for the overtime hours. I can't imagine you were not even paid normal hours for the overtimes. Tha would have made me bitter beyond belief.
I really like A.I. - I think it has a very special atmosphere, and the more I watch it the more it mesmerises me. Interestingly enough, even my wife liked it more the second time, and said "hmm.. yeah, there is something in it". For me, A.I. is a very powerful artistic event. It leaves me half-sad, but totally immersed.
Your post proves my original argument completely. For you BBC is the mouthpiece of truth, yet you can't see through the thick cloud of your own bias. Your post is full of lies (that most people might take at face value), and you probably feel the BBC completely agrees with your views. Ergo, the BBC is biased, just like you.
But I'll add more: the BBC is not simply biased; it completely distorts the facts in order to comply to its bias. So much so, that the BBC reporters, when they lie, they contradict each other and the presenter at the studio! No wonder, lies come in various colors and shapes, they are bound to contradict each other. In the best case, they just "omit some details", sometimes they fail to investigate the information they get from (always the same) one source. Often times they show the views of only one side, while, at best, giving the other side only one insinuating question to answer.And then there's the distortion of historic data, the omission of important historical facts, and generally, they rely very much on the audience's ignorance. Often BBC fails to translate some very interesting speeches by their hero Arafat.
But it all makes perfect sense: the islamic world is a 1 billion+ market, rich with oil and on the increase. You don't want to piss off that, right? Truth and journalistic integrity be damned.
The BBC is very biased: it's a very pro-arab and leftist news agency.
Just because it's biased the way YOU like it, does not make it good.
That sounds exactly like "pulling a SCO".In any case, it'sa way to abuse the legal system to make a buck.
I think that wouldn't be a wise step to take, career-wise. Things being as they are now, he could still get job with some understanding employer. But if he sues over a comment from his ex-employer, there won't be nobody that would want him, evermore.
Not only beceause he'll have the aura of a hostile, potentially dangerous employee, but also because his fame will be much greater, after the lawsuit.
If I was him, I'd be low profile for awhile.
My wife, who went to N.Y. once, told me that, in fact, New Yourk has an OK public transportation system. I wold like to visit N.Y. sometimes, expecially now that Giuliani has made it safe.
I've used public transit.
It's crowded, smelly, and slow.
You wait for it exposed to the elements.
It runs on it's own schedule, not yours.
It takes you where it wants to go, leaving you to walk the rest of the way (which can be several kilometers)
In short, public transit can't compete with cars.
I am sorry to hear your experience with public transportation has been as you described. But, to tell you the truth, the Helsinki public transportation is NOTHING like the one you described. You described a mockery of public transportation, a total crap.
It requires no parking (space, effort or cost), zero maintenance, it's extremely environment-friendly and it's very silent.
Other advantages: no need for a garage, no problem starting it up in winter and, best of all, it steers itself to destination.
It's only used in urban areas, but so are the SMARTs.
This wonder of modern technology is our rock-solid public transportation network. My visit to Dallas a couple of years ago has convinced me that Americans have no clue of this concept. Heck, I'm not even sure you guys ever heard of bycile lanes or walkways.
the product line I'm involved with has an AVR 8-bit micro in it...
Let me guess... FPSLIC? If you d in the FPSLIC product line, I would have a few questions for you.
The Atmel AVR is probably the most powerful (as in, raw performance) line of 8-bit MCUs, and there is a ton of code and utilities out there. And guess what? The applications these MCUs are designed to work with/in/for do not need a 32 bit MCU. Take, for example, the ATtiny2313: at 20 MHz, that part produces almost 20 MIPS... that's power that barely any application can top. The PIC MCUs have about the 1/8th to 1/10th of this performance, and still noone complains that they are too slow.
I don't see the AVR core disappearing just because of the new 32 bit Atmel kid on the block. It will have it's applications, but most AVR developers won't find too many compelling reasons to switch just yet. Remember, this is not like the desktop computer market, you don't look under the hood of your automated wheat mill to see whatmakes it tick.
One of the things I really like about W3D is that is NOT dark but rather quite clear and illuminated, and yet, the game designers managed to create a genuinely cold and terrifying world.
I am not sure an "extensive world and characters" is really necessary precondition for a good movie. That can be easily added, but it's important that there is a "fun idea" or "attactive idea", something that makes the movie click.
Hollywood: The place good stories go to die.
Not always: I think "Andromeda Strain" is the exception to the rule.
"Blade Runner" is another example. Sure, it's different than the novel, but not worse.
I would really love to see a movie based on that game. I like the setup, it just tickles my imagination and arises my curiosity. On the other hand, it would be really easy to spoil the atmosphere of the game, if the filmmakers get it wrong. Which they almost always do. So, beware of the Doom movie, it might be a let-down for many Doom fans.
OTOH, I really like "Resident Evil" the movie, better than the game.
I read in another article that these folks worked on this research in the '80-es. It sure is a long way to a nobel prize! The youngest of the three guys is 57 years old. The other two are 67 and 73.
Well, I should get really busy if I want to get my Nobel prize while I can still enjoy the money and fame.
North Korea IS a serious threat to South Korea. There is a very large number of hidden pieces of artillery along the North Korean border, pointed at Seoul. It is estimated that, should a conflict break out, North Korea could kill most of the population of Seoul in a matter of minutes. This, combined with the fact that N. Korea has a very active development program in nerve gases (tested on individuals and entire families in their numerous concentration camps), makes N. Korea a very dangerous entity to at least S. Korea.
However, I shold remind you that N. Korea has succesfully tested a ballistic missile that flew above Japan a couple of years ago. This, coupled with their activity in enriching uranium (it is estimated that they have enough enriched uranium for 4 to 6 fission bombs) makes N. Korea a serious threat to a larger number of countries.
I think that was more information than I wanted to know.
You forgot one: PA-RISC. RIP.
If you don't like the word "terrorism", don't use it. But that has NOTHING to do with whether you should be afraid or not!
How about this: some sicko puts poison in the fruits in the grocery store. This way, he kills dozens. Is he a terrorist? Who gives a shit.
How is this informative? Everyone knows this stuff.
Besides, the post isn't completely accurate, either. According to accounts from chronicles, it's known that:
- The pole was sharp and not blunt.
- The condemned would usually die within the same day, in a few hours in fact. Exceptions were the ones that had to be punished particularly severely, in which case the executioner would receive explicit orders to extend the agony of the condemned. The executioner would achieve this by carefully routing the sharp end of the pole around any vital organs. As this is a delicate and time-consuming process, my guess is that it was rarely performed. Expecially if you consider that impaling was usually used to punish a larger group of people and there would never be enough "trained" executioners.
And strangely as it may sound, impalation is not the most terrible form of death penalty. The infamous "Hundred Pieces" must have been more terrifying. The details are left as an excercise in imagination to the reader.
Impressive museum. But, you know what they don't have? The Shuttle. Apparently, according to many in NASA, they should....
when will those graphing calculators be upgraded with displays capable of more than 86x48 resolution (B&W, at that)? I have the impression that HP, Casio and TI are stuck in a time-gap with their graphing calcs.
You have a good point. I am aware of the not-so-great quality of the PS2 DVD player, but it's tolerable, and I do not watch as many DVDs nowadays as I used to. The new PS2is really tiny and good looking, and that's a big advantage.
Besides, I am curious about the older FF games. And Spyro the dragon, I kinda like that.
I like it, it's really tiny. If it plays DVDs, I might opt for it to reduce space consumption in the living room, plus the odd PS1 and PS2 game I might fancy playing.