hard to tell. just did not appeal to me. the things i would have liked to do often were just outlined, the lame stuff was always presented in detail. i guess i expected something slightly different from what i got.
I remember reading an article on Make in the Boston Globe that stated that they are doing this on purpose. The vague instructions partially occur because of them trying to lock a person in on a specific product (ie vcr) when any vcr will do.
This is good in a way though, this battle is mostly being fought in the court of public opinion rather than being imposed by governmental fiat.
I actually watched the report card and some of what was stated deeply disturbed me. First of all this coverage of this stories is subpar. The article makes no mention of the fact that Joseph Liberman attended the meeting. Second of all these articles do mention the fact that this orgainization was talking about how the lull between the generation of games is the perfect time to pass legislation. Also, there were disturbing comments about how they Liberman has to act now or else the people who play games today will be debating him soon.
However, even the almost "mainstream" like Ghost in the Shell Series, Inyuasha, Full Metal Alchemist and others you might see on adult swim on Saturday night are worth staying up for.
I swear to god anyone who understands Ghost in the Shell deserves to be given gold medal. I read the original magna and they managed to make lesbian sex confusing. I kept on reading the apendix trying to figure out what was going on. Yes there is a sex scene in the original magna. Oddly enough it was quite surprising reading this in my university's library. It was made even more odd that I knew this was a required reading for a class.
and I don't have to rip it to avoid the stupid non-skippable intro animations on anime DVDs, especially those from ADV films.
Hmmm... I have no freaking clue what you are talking about. I have Cromartie High and I can pretty much skip through any of the intro animation that I want to. By intro animation you do mean the annoying ads at the beginning right?? Yeah I can skip through those.
I love the show, and maybe this would ruin the show's mainstream appeal, but I'd LOVE to have a couple of resident Physicists and Engineers advising them to get more rigorous results. Things get waaaaay too oversimplified.
Sigh.... One of the mythbusters is an enginer. Guess which one. No. Im not kidding.
Let me firstly say that I like your show as entertainment. However, I do not like it as a form of true skepticism or as science. What you do is fun and interesting, but it is not rigorous. I'm thinking particularly of the time you tried to flip a taxi with a jet engine, which failed on your show, but which actually happened in real life. So it's not obvious that a failure on your show means anything.
Or else you wouldn't have picked such a stupid example. The reason why they couldn't reproduce the myth was because they didn't use a plane. It's kind of hard to prove something can't be done when you can't even replicate the scenario exactly.
Only if you choose to drive a car. The US isn't much different, searches don't require a warrant if you're in a vehicle.
I know you were modded up informative but the law does not say police have carte blanch to search your car. They do have every right to use drug dogs if they pull your car over but they can't go further if dogs turn up nothing.
That actually blot off the license plates to cameras watching them. Or how about repaint the plate so it says another number. How about steal another set of plates. Remove the licencse plates??? Place them in the windsheild of their car so the cameras don't see them. Any other ideas??
Whoaaa.... I read this then realized that this a completely differnt episode that I was thinking of. Ever watch the Simpsons episode where Marge has Springfield build a concert hall?? Well the building in the Simpsons is based on a real life which I assume to be the Walt Disney Concert Hall. It's claim to faim was that it was a big giant shiny mirror that heated people's apartments across the street and blinded people as they were driving. Aparently, this effect can be seen in most cities where the temperature is presumably warmer because the buildings reflect the sunlight.
I agree, but sci-fi generally means dealing with something out of the not currently in existance. Examples: teleporting, cyberspace, A.I., time travel, etc. Firefly deals with nothing out of the ordinary. A crew of people on a bus traveling from city to city here on present day earth could deal with the exact same problems. Hence it's not really sci-fi. Sci-Fi requires something not yet in existance, some item, phenomenon, situation, etc
The definition of sci-fi is very tricky because in reality nothing can truely define the genre. And yet using your definition Serenity is sci-fi because as far as I can tell most people don't fly through space. Sure they may face the same problems as people traveling on a bus but that's because we are huuman and I doubt human nature is going to change whether traveling on a bus or on a rocket ship.
What is the regular definition of "dimension", though? The dimension of a vector space at least is not the most basic concept you'll come across in that field - it's not immediately clear why you couldn't have two bases with different cardinality, for example.
You know. You lost me at cardinality. Then I looked up the definition and realized that the cardinality is dimension. So Im guessing you are trying to say that it's not entirely clear that the dimension of a subspace can be given of the minimum number of vectors that span said subspace. Please tell me if I have butchered the definition because honestly I was just taught this yesterday. Also, I believe my teacher never showed us the proof.
Outside of that... yes, that is a pretty good description of Hilbert spaces, but you'd probably lose most non-mathematicians I know by the time you said that there could be more than three dimensions.
Actually, you probably wouldn't. I always understood that you can mathematically describe as many dimensions as you could but it doesn't mean they actually exisist in the real world. Even understanding the regular definition to dimensions isn't that hard to understand. Yes, I find it odd why I need to know the definition of a dimension when I will never work with more than three. Some of the stuff is useful though such as finding the basis of subspace.
Then terrorists will drive truckbombs into buildings, like they did the first time they bombed the World Trade Center in 1993. And drug smugglers will ship their drugs in container ships, like they do every day. It will cost a little more to smuggle, and the lowest rung of losers with stupid girlfriends will have a harder time. But it's pretty shabby cost:benefit tradeoff.
Actually, stopping a truck bomb from driving into a building is fairly simple. They are called big giant concrete planters/barracades. The devices do get a little bit more complicated but basically they are immovable objects. Now stopping the truck from blowing up is an entirely differnt story.
Yeah. The two articles are not the same despite being from the same magazine. The one that you just mentioned was a one paragraph blurb. This article is a full fledged story.
There are about five paragraphs on each and every one of those pages. Anything more is unweildly and really annoying.
Why only game books and it's Barnes and Noble
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On the Wizards.com website, the Dungeon Masters Guide II: Price $39.95 ; C$55.95
Our local gaming shop? Just a bit over $56. Our local huge book store? $55.95 Our local huge book online store? $37.48 i####### Member Price: $35.61 (i####### is $20 for a year)
Yeah. It only seems to work for game books though if Im going through Barnes and Noble. They list an additional 20% discount for their books. I wonder why. (Yes it wasn't that hard to figure out which company you were talking about. The $20 discount card gave it away.)
When politicians talk about funding for the Hubble, or for the ISS, or any other project, it's typically because the funding would directly profit their constituents. In the rare case, they believe in the science of the project, but if it doesn't garner them votes, there's no point in voicing their opinion.
Basically, if something doesn't have military signifigance, there's little interest in the government for funding it. If something doesn't have commercial value, there's little interest in the commercial sector for funding it. It all comes down to dollars, and pure science typically comes last.
Hmmm.... Big chain bookstores do carry the books
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About the only places I can find locally are either used bookstores with varied wares (and rarely anything new), or stores dedicated mainly to comic books or collectible card games. Other than the slim pickings there, the only option is mail-order.
Hmm...... I know for a fact that my Barnes and Noble actually carries Dungeon and Dragons game books. I don't know how many but I do know for a fact that since I opened up one of them and started reading it.
Slashdot is pretty much finished [alexa.com] as the top news site in its current form. It needs to reinvent itself. Sites such as Digg are destroying slashdot in readership levels.
Actually the readership levels appear to be the same. If anyone is not reading Slashdot anymore it doesn't show. Anyway why did both websites readership seem to spike in August. I mean it happened at the same exact time though slashdot's spike was larger.
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Personally. I think that everyone should forget lego mindstorms and go for Vex Robotics. This kit is a full fledged robot waiting to be built. No more having to worry about only being able to use three sensors and two motors. http:http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?p roductId=2104567&cp=&pg=2&kw=vex&parentPage=search _ sculpture.cfm
If that doesn't tickle your fancy why not try a scrap metal toy. This is a neat piece of art work that uses rare earth magnets to hold the metal pieces together. http://www.toymagnets.com/gifts/gizmo_scrap_metal
Have a happy chrismkwazakah.
I actually watched the report card and some of what was stated deeply disturbed me. First of all this coverage of this stories is subpar. The article makes no mention of the fact that Joseph Liberman attended the meeting. Second of all these articles do mention the fact that this orgainization was talking about how the lull between the generation of games is the perfect time to pass legislation. Also, there were disturbing comments about how they Liberman has to act now or else the people who play games today will be debating him soon.
Hmmm... I have no freaking clue what you are talking about. I have Cromartie High and I can pretty much skip through any of the intro animation that I want to. By intro animation you do mean the annoying ads at the beginning right?? Yeah I can skip through those.
Just do what NASA does and ram that asteroid kamikaze style.
Or else you wouldn't have picked such a stupid example. The reason why they couldn't reproduce the myth was because they didn't use a plane. It's kind of hard to prove something can't be done when you can't even replicate the scenario exactly.
That actually blot off the license plates to cameras watching them. Or how about repaint the plate so it says another number. How about steal another set of plates. Remove the licencse plates??? Place them in the windsheild of their car so the cameras don't see them. Any other ideas??
Whoaaa.... I read this then realized that this a completely differnt episode that I was thinking of. Ever watch the Simpsons episode where Marge has Springfield build a concert hall?? Well the building in the Simpsons is based on a real life which I assume to be the Walt Disney Concert Hall. It's claim to faim was that it was a big giant shiny mirror that heated people's apartments across the street and blinded people as they were driving. Aparently, this effect can be seen in most cities where the temperature is presumably warmer because the buildings reflect the sunlight.
It appears that the probe is soon going to meat up with it's little robotic brother.
The definition of sci-fi is very tricky because in reality nothing can truely define the genre. And yet using your definition Serenity is sci-fi because as far as I can tell most people don't fly through space. Sure they may face the same problems as people traveling on a bus but that's because we are huuman and I doubt human nature is going to change whether traveling on a bus or on a rocket ship.
You know. You lost me at cardinality. Then I looked up the definition and realized that the cardinality is dimension. So Im guessing you are trying to say that it's not entirely clear that the dimension of a subspace can be given of the minimum number of vectors that span said subspace. Please tell me if I have butchered the definition because honestly I was just taught this yesterday. Also, I believe my teacher never showed us the proof.
Yeah. The two articles are not the same despite being from the same magazine. The one that you just mentioned was a one paragraph blurb. This article is a full fledged story.
There are about five paragraphs on each and every one of those pages. Anything more is unweildly and really annoying.
Yeah. It only seems to work for game books though if Im going through Barnes and Noble. They list an additional 20% discount for their books. I wonder why. (Yes it wasn't that hard to figure out which company you were talking about. The $20 discount card gave it away.)
Hmm...... I know for a fact that my Barnes and Noble actually carries Dungeon and Dragons game books. I don't know how many but I do know for a fact that since I opened up one of them and started reading it.
Actually the readership levels appear to be the same. If anyone is not reading Slashdot anymore it doesn't show. Anyway why did both websites readership seem to spike in August. I mean it happened at the same exact time though slashdot's spike was larger.