Sure, and a good one at that. According to Wikipedia, which I searched for the character names I remembered, it "tells the story of the Red Team and the Blue Team, ten soldiers belonging to two opposing armies, who occupy two small bases in a box canyon known as Blood Gulch. While both teams generally dislike the other and have standing orders to defeat the other team and capture their flag, neither team's soldiers are very motivated to fight each other. To varying degrees, most members of both teams are lazy, incompetent, or just plain deranged, and teammates often create more problems for each other than for their enemies. According to the story, each team built its base because the other team was building a base."
You have a legitimate point, of course, but allow me to play devil's advocate for a moment: Terrorist attacks also have a very large and very visible economic impact (or at least, 9/11 did, to the best of my knowledge). That's something the government does indeed need to be concerned about, is it not?
He was also an important philosopher, and with his piece 4'33" , he broadened the definition of what is and is not music, just for all you people who are claiming that this stuff "isn't music"
But of course. By posting it here before it makes the usual rounds, it will trigger the Slashdot reflex - though hordes will click the link, none will actually RTFA. Thus, the entire enormous Slashdot crowd will be aware of it, and won't bother clicking the link next time they see it, but they won't know what game or company it's for. There goes the marketing part of their viral marketing campaign.:D
Offtopic? C'mon, mods - the OP was a Gundam reference, the reply (GP to this) played on the Zion name to make a Nazi joke (through Godwin's Law). Maybe it gets funnier if someone explains it.
Hell, even the theory of how they conduct electricity is younger that superconductors, and just see how many of those we have around.
As an aside, superconductivity is now very well understood. It's just that the race for a room-temperature superconductor has stalled out. In those fields where they can afford to keep the superconductors below critical temperature (e.g. NMR/MRI machines), superconductors are very widely used.
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Hardly a 100% mortality rate, actually. Given the exponential nature of human population growth, some have proposed that perhaps as many as 10% of all homo sapiens who have ever lived are still alive today. This means, of course, that being born is currently only about 90% fatal, and that rate is slowly but surely dropping.
One thing I never did understand is why when ever they are talking about distance, they always says kilometers never miles. Is there a reason for this? It is an American show.
It's also set in the future where, presumeably, either the Americans finally came around to metric, or they just didn't have enough pull in the galactic community to convince everyone else to switch back to an archaic system.
It's not just about production costs to the studio. It's about a shitty show that ruins the image of the studio, and destroys 30 years of "Star Trek" branding.
RTFA - once you have the thing building walls, it's very easy to make the robot more complex. It can easily add arbitrary pieces of other stuff between layers. Think of how much current assembly-line robotics can do - everything from very high-precision machining (look at the guts of a modern analog watch, for example) up to industrial welding. The only news here is the idea of making it portable. Really, it's surprising nobody's done it yet, and that's another thing the article touches on.
Someday I will figure out where this 'oot' thing comes from. I've lived in Canada for 30 years and I don't know anyone who speaks like that.
Yeah, and someone who's lived in Japan for 30 years will never notice that they don't know the difference between the phonemes we know as L and R. If you play around making noises, you'll find that the only difference between L and R is tongue position - an L sound involves the tongue touching the roof of your mouth just behind the teeth, while an R sound has the tongue touching about halfway back. Try moving your tongue back a bit for Ls and forward a bit for Rs until they reach the same central point, and you're one step closer to a convincing Japanese accent. Corollary: it's not really true to say Japanese uses the same sound for L and R - it's more accurate to say they don't have L or R, but they do have a phoneme we don't for which L or R are equally good approximations.
There's a point to that: When you learn language as a small child, you learn to pronounce the phonemes that your language requires. Anything else is much harder to pick up as an adult. The 'ou' diphthong as we Canadians pronounce it (house, about) is completely unique to Canadian English (to the best of my knowledge, no other known language uses it - IANALinguist, though). If you try saying those two common words out loud as you normally would, and then with, say, an exaggerated Texan accent (or exaggerated Australian, either works) you can hear the difference quite clearly. Now approach it from the other direction: someone who speaks American English and is unfamiliar with that sound, when they try to repeat it, is going to come up with something that more closely resembles "aboot."
I've been a BC resident for all of my 21 years, so I'm familiar with your list there. Seeing it all in one place, though, really underscores something that's been kind of in the back of my mind for some time:
Apparently, we really like to make fun of the name "watergate."
We seem to have had a lot of these around here recently, and I'll be damned if a KDE utility that doesn't start with "K" isn't the most frightening one yet. Okay, it's the second letter, but still...
"The problem is not knowing that you don't know something. I don't know Python or Perl, but that's okay... I don't try and hand out advice on those topics."
Problem is, that isn't always easy. There have actually been studies done on this. Quote from the abstract of the linked article:
Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.
I guess this kind of general problem applies to any Ask Slashdot, or Wikipedia, or whatever. Just keep doing what you're doing and all that, and it'll even out in the end. We hope.
All fans of video game music remixes should also know of Overclocked Remix and VGMix.com. There's some really great talent floating around these sites, combined with all those nifty tunes you've been humming for the last 20 years.
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Sure, and a good one at that. According to Wikipedia, which I searched for the character names I remembered, it "tells the story of the Red Team and the Blue Team, ten soldiers belonging to two opposing armies, who occupy two small bases in a box canyon known as Blood Gulch. While both teams generally dislike the other and have standing orders to defeat the other team and capture their flag, neither team's soldiers are very motivated to fight each other. To varying degrees, most members of both teams are lazy, incompetent, or just plain deranged, and teammates often create more problems for each other than for their enemies. According to the story, each team built its base because the other team was building a base."
You have a legitimate point, of course, but allow me to play devil's advocate for a moment: Terrorist attacks also have a very large and very visible economic impact (or at least, 9/11 did, to the best of my knowledge). That's something the government does indeed need to be concerned about, is it not?
He was also an important philosopher, and with his piece 4'33" , he broadened the definition of what is and is not music, just for all you people who are claiming that this stuff "isn't music"
I think I have the extended club mix of that one.
Well then, whatever you do, don't kill an afternoon browsing Overclocked Remix.
But of course. By posting it here before it makes the usual rounds, it will trigger the Slashdot reflex - though hordes will click the link, none will actually RTFA. Thus, the entire enormous Slashdot crowd will be aware of it, and won't bother clicking the link next time they see it, but they won't know what game or company it's for. There goes the marketing part of their viral marketing campaign. :D
Offtopic? C'mon, mods - the OP was a Gundam reference, the reply (GP to this) played on the Zion name to make a Nazi joke (through Godwin's Law). Maybe it gets funnier if someone explains it.
Gundam had Nazis? Shit, I need to watch more of that...
To borrow a quote... it's like... how much more dark could this be? And the answer is none. None more dark.
Hell, even the theory of how they conduct electricity is younger that superconductors, and just see how many of those we have around.
As an aside, superconductivity is now very well understood. It's just that the race for a room-temperature superconductor has stalled out. In those fields where they can afford to keep the superconductors below critical temperature (e.g. NMR/MRI machines), superconductors are very widely used.
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Hell, even the theory of how they conduct electricity is younger that superconductors, and just see how many of those we have around.
Hardly a 100% mortality rate, actually. Given the exponential nature of human population growth, some have proposed that perhaps as many as 10% of all homo sapiens who have ever lived are still alive today. This means, of course, that being born is currently only about 90% fatal, and that rate is slowly but surely dropping.
if you needed to make money then you should have gotten into pharmacy.
Or do what I did - study CS (and physics, in my case), and get a girlfriend who's studying pharmacy. Win-win.
One thing I never did understand is why when ever they are talking about distance, they always says kilometers never miles. Is there a reason for this? It is an American show. It's also set in the future where, presumeably, either the Americans finally came around to metric, or they just didn't have enough pull in the galactic community to convince everyone else to switch back to an archaic system.
It's not just about production costs to the studio. It's about a shitty show that ruins the image of the studio, and destroys 30 years of "Star Trek" branding.
I don't think they're too concerned about that.
RTFA - once you have the thing building walls, it's very easy to make the robot more complex. It can easily add arbitrary pieces of other stuff between layers. Think of how much current assembly-line robotics can do - everything from very high-precision machining (look at the guts of a modern analog watch, for example) up to industrial welding. The only news here is the idea of making it portable. Really, it's surprising nobody's done it yet, and that's another thing the article touches on.
It's so busy with tourists during your summer month.
:/
All you pansies near the border can STFU. Farther north, we're lucky if summer falls on a weekend.
Someday I will figure out where this 'oot' thing comes from. I've lived in Canada for 30 years and I don't know anyone who speaks like that.
Yeah, and someone who's lived in Japan for 30 years will never notice that they don't know the difference between the phonemes we know as L and R. If you play around making noises, you'll find that the only difference between L and R is tongue position - an L sound involves the tongue touching the roof of your mouth just behind the teeth, while an R sound has the tongue touching about halfway back. Try moving your tongue back a bit for Ls and forward a bit for Rs until they reach the same central point, and you're one step closer to a convincing Japanese accent. Corollary: it's not really true to say Japanese uses the same sound for L and R - it's more accurate to say they don't have L or R, but they do have a phoneme we don't for which L or R are equally good approximations.
There's a point to that: When you learn language as a small child, you learn to pronounce the phonemes that your language requires. Anything else is much harder to pick up as an adult. The 'ou' diphthong as we Canadians pronounce it (house, about) is completely unique to Canadian English (to the best of my knowledge, no other known language uses it - IANALinguist, though). If you try saying those two common words out loud as you normally would, and then with, say, an exaggerated Texan accent (or exaggerated Australian, either works) you can hear the difference quite clearly. Now approach it from the other direction: someone who speaks American English and is unfamiliar with that sound, when they try to repeat it, is going to come up with something that more closely resembles "aboot."
And now you know.
I've been a BC resident for all of my 21 years, so I'm familiar with your list there. Seeing it all in one place, though, really underscores something that's been kind of in the back of my mind for some time:
Apparently, we really like to make fun of the name "watergate."
As opposed to what, a physicist singing about physics?
Spim = instant messaging spam, for those that don't know.
We seem to have had a lot of these around here recently, and I'll be damned if a KDE utility that doesn't start with "K" isn't the most frightening one yet. Okay, it's the second letter, but still...
"The problem is not knowing that you don't know something. I don't know Python or Perl, but that's okay... I don't try and hand out advice on those topics."
Problem is, that isn't always easy. There have actually been studies done on this. Quote from the abstract of the linked article:
Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.
I guess this kind of general problem applies to any Ask Slashdot, or Wikipedia, or whatever. Just keep doing what you're doing and all that, and it'll even out in the end. We hope.
Yes, everyone emulate Gabe. Brilliant.
The point was to prove Russians are better than us?
In Soviet Russia, we are better than Russians!
Yeah, I'm still trying to figure it out too.
All fans of video game music remixes should also know of Overclocked Remix and VGMix.com. There's some really great talent floating around these sites, combined with all those nifty tunes you've been humming for the last 20 years.