Autobahn is a bad example, I'm afraid. It translates to "motorway," as you said, but does not refer to a specific network of roadways, just as "freeway" is not capitalized when used by itself. Autobahn is *always* capitalized in German, because that's how German treats all nouns.
The keel itself doesn't have to be that impressive; it all depends on how much lead you put in it.;) Seriously, that's what you do.
I agree that the purpose of a keel or daggerboard is more than just vertical stability (as you pointed out, it obviously isn't counter-balancing the mast too much, or retractable ones wouldn't work.) My bad. It's been a while since I lived on a sailboat.:)
Same principles apply as in Earth-based ocean sailing - if you angle the sail, you can deflect the particles, thus allowing you to use the solar wind of another star even though you are approaching it rather than leaving it.
Regardless of space or the ocean, basic principles of physics apply. Action and reaction.
Someone else uses the boss' office? You might want to check the cartoons; one of them is a photo of his office, and his is not the kind that gets shared. Finally, again, if he's supposed to be filling out forms, then why is he playing Solitaire?
If it can be proven that his job only requires that he work 10% of the time, then his job tasks could be easily redistributed to other people and the position eliminated. Otherwise, he needs to find something else to do and stop wasting space, time and taxpayer money.
I've worked in a government job (specifically, university), and I got seriously burned by a boss who spent all his time screwing around rather than doing any work. The pity is, he wasn't always that way, and there were reasons why the behavior got worse (incredible stress in his personal life.) However, that's no excuse in the system's eyes, and it wasn't good for those under him, either.
Justifying a stranger's behavior by saying, "But maybe his job doesn't require a computer," doesn't really work here, either. If he doesn't need a computer, then he has no excuse to be in front of it playing games then, does he? No matter how you slice it, he's wasting time.
Sorry, goes back to the argument of justifiable legitimate use. The media industry won a real victory when they pushed through all of the regional encoding nonsense, which infringes on fair use rights. Once again, the laws completely fail to stop real "criminals," and just manage to piss off legitimate users who don't understand why they can spend money on something legally and still be banned from using it (such as import games.) You should have the right to do whatever you want to your own property, upt to and including blowing it to kingdom come.
The industry continues to mindlessly punish its customers, and continues to fail to make a dent in anything except pissing people off.
Actually, I invented it. Can't believe it wound up on/., but that's six degrees of separation for you.
When I originally decided to move here, my family was somewhat understandably surprised. "Er...but why Japan?" "What, besides the fact that it's cool?"
Sure, I wake up in the morning and brush my teeth just before going to work. Ugh, same as always. But then I remember, "Hey, I'm brushing my teeth...IN JAPAN!" and then I feel much more cheerful.
Wow, where was your name mentioned in the article? Seems you're taking something personal that was in no way directed at you. Unless you're a lawyer, you can't be an ambulance chaser.
Case in point: we just had the Board of Education at the Japanese high school where I teach inform us that teachers have no business parking at the school. Apparently, other schools have had problems with guests not finding parking, so everyone gets punished equally.
I read the 90-word post, and I fail to see where it says that they looked into it. It says that they argued, but beyond that, no mention of actually expending effort was given.
You missed my point. I simply was agreeing that trying is better than nothing at all. Also, I never outlined what I think such a system would entail if actually attempted, so you're shooting me down for something I didn't actually say. Try asking first next time.
Yes, having a centralized list of email addresses that can be mined would be like handing them our heads on a silver platter, I agree. Once again, the law would simply keep honest people from doing things, rather than the ones who are already abusing the system. The ability to authenticate email would be a necessary part of any effective system, which would go a long way towards solving the problem.
Depends on which renderer you're using. Except for LightWave, RenderMan, Mental Ray, Animation Master, Cinema 4D, and even Blender, to name a few, it's true, you'll have problems getting support for OSX...oh, wait, that's quite a few right there, isn't it. Nevermind.
The question with building a headless Intel render farm is going to be licensing. Great, you can build cheap machines, but are you going to have to buy extra licenses just because you chose to go cross-platform? It's not just the main render engine you have to worry about, but also the 3rd-party shaders that you inevitably buy for doing specific things the default package doesn't cover.
If you do in-house programming instead, are you going to have your programmers write an Intel version of the shader as well as a Mac version? Good luck with that! Talk about unnecessary headaches. I think duplicate effort counts as an unjustifiable waste of money.
Finally, it's important to make sure that you don't run into limitations in the software, specifically procedural shaders, that cause the images to render differently on different platforms. It's annoying to get your frames back and they don't look just like the tests; sometimes, that can render the results unacceptable.
Poking holes in a faulty system is one thing; that can be constructive, and lead to plugging said holes until the system works. There is nothing wrong in scoffing at the FTC for not even trying, since at least a crappy system can be fixed, whereas no system doesn't help at all.
The FTC could at least have the decency to lie and say that they're "looking into it."
Because seeing is believing? Of course, photos can be doctored, too, but there's a certain reassurance in seeing a product, rather than a list of imaginary numbers somebody typed up in five minutes.
Apparently, the culture has a lot to do with it. How many other cultures do you know of that are currently producing good stories with good animation on the sheer volume of the Japanese industry? Remember, the emphasis is on "good," so choose your answer carefully.
Besides the simple ability to observe the world around me and see that Japanese, not Chinese, stories with good animations are being sought after, I also live in Osaka.
I am currently applying for a venture capital business incubator contest which is intended specifically to encourage upcoming talent with good ideas to create anime using more modern, computerized techniques, and put the money back in the hands of the Japanese animators. If you can read Japanese, you're welcome to find out more about it here:
I talked to my sensei about this subject today. He says that there's a long-standing story dating back to the Showa Period, when karate first made its way from Okinawa into Kyushu and the rest of Japan. On the mainland, judo and kendo reigned supreme; karate was new and different, and most importantly, viewed as extremely dangerous. They were also worried that this new style would corrupt the purity of their own, and that they would lose followers to it (which they did, although it's still in the minority in Japan.)
The police then decided that two men fighting using karate should be considered not only as fighting, but actually as committing a crime, since the style was so aggressive and effective.
However, there was no specific law to support this. The karate teachers, upon hearing about the trouble with the police, then told their students, "By no means use karate in self-defense, or in fighting, or anything outside of the dojo!" This wasn't philosophy, but a means of keeping their style from being banned in Japan.
The subsequent urban legends and half-understood translations into Western culture you've probably already heard.
My New Zealand aikido instructor also tells us that it's not all about ego, but he (and my Japanese instructor's) main reason for telling students not to fight on the street is because they would suck at it and get their asses kicked. "If you haven't mastered it, don't use it, because then you don't die," is the motto. Especially as someone who practices aikido, you should know that someone who has mastered the art can decide what level of pain they choose to levy on their opponent; if you're not able to practice that sort of control, you aren't quite there yet.
When someone says, "No, I don't want to give you my wallet, and I happen to be a master in a martial art and therefore capable of doing something about it," is not ego, it's the whole damn point of learning a martial art. Martial arts were not developed in order to be nice to people (and the nasty stuff they show you when you reach san dan in aikido would make your eyes pop.)
In short, you use a martial art as a tool. If you don't want to fight and are seeking inner peace, harmony, and a higher consciousness that is above petty things such as having a knife pointed at you, then don't study a martial art; go to the temple.
Maybe you're learning the wrong martial art. In aikido, we're taught how to fight someone no matter what weapon they're wielding or style they're using. The one exception would be if the guy is carrying a gun.
It is common to tell beginners that the best solution is to give in peacefully, because (as beginners) they're likely to get themselves killed thinking that they know a martial art, hence can handle the situation. That, and when the police start asking questions, they can plausibly say, "It's not like we didn't warn them."
A man with a knife threatening you is combat. Saying that learning a martial art means learning to move past the point where you need to fight is great and all, but there is no way on God's green earth that my sensei would give some idiot with a knife his wallet.
If you're looking for noble Oriental philosophy, at least higher-level practitioners have mastered the self-control to decide how much they have to hurt their opponent in order to defeat them. Here in Japan, a martial art is there to act as a means to defend yourself in combat. That's why police are required to show proficiency in either kendo or judo in order to advance, and why both are taught as basic curriculum in high schools.
In our dojo, they tell you, "If you seek spiritual enlightment, go to a temple. If you seek to learn to fight, go to war. If you seek both, you're in the right place."
Why did this guy get moderated a troll for commenting that a comment that everyone agrees is "funny" got marked "informative?" Can't take the criticism, huh?
Even so, research conducted in the United States shows that gourmet coffee customers are fiercely loyal. More than one in every eight patrons of gourmet coffee shops visit four or more times a week, according to the market-research firm Mintel International Group.
This person has obviously never drank coffee in the United States. American coffee, when not served too weak, usually tastes like battery acid (or, in culinary terms, "robusta," apparently.)
I had to realize the article was from a Canadian paper before I could understand why they were making such a big deal over gas station and donut shop coffee being weaker. In America, that is not only the norm, it barely rates above "hot water that somebody has dipped a dirty rag in."
People, American coffee sucks. I never knew this until I lived in Germany, where the coffee you buy in your supermarket is incredibly superior for the same price as American store-bought coffee. I had to defend American coffee to my German friends because I had no idea what they meant by our coffee being weak.
Heck, here in Japan, they sell coffee in "regular" and "American" styles, where "American" is used synonomously with "weak." I've even had the waitress at a restaurant, unprompted, apologize to me that the only coffee they have to offer is American.
Whatever marketing drones came up with that notion are idiots. Coffee, while not as bad as cigarettes, is definitely an acquired taste for many people. The sip your girlfriend steals out of your cup is not going to be enough to addict them, no matter how much caffeine is in it.
If you want to avoid caffeine withdrawal and also the jitters and hunger pangs of coffee's caffeine, switch over to green tea; not only does it prevent the nasty headaches and sluggishness, it doesn't make you vibrate at high frequencies or eat more often.
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Autobahn is a bad example, I'm afraid. It translates to "motorway," as you said, but does not refer to a specific network of roadways, just as "freeway" is not capitalized when used by itself. Autobahn is *always* capitalized in German, because that's how German treats all nouns.
The keel itself doesn't have to be that impressive; it all depends on how much lead you put in it. ;) Seriously, that's what you do.
:)
I agree that the purpose of a keel or daggerboard is more than just vertical stability (as you pointed out, it obviously isn't counter-balancing the mast too much, or retractable ones wouldn't work.) My bad. It's been a while since I lived on a sailboat.
Keels are there to counter-balance the mast in a gravity environment. I don't think there's much chance of that in space.
Same principles apply as in Earth-based ocean sailing - if you angle the sail, you can deflect the particles, thus allowing you to use the solar wind of another star even though you are approaching it rather than leaving it.
Regardless of space or the ocean, basic principles of physics apply. Action and reaction.
Someone else uses the boss' office? You might want to check the cartoons; one of them is a photo of his office, and his is not the kind that gets shared. Finally, again, if he's supposed to be filling out forms, then why is he playing Solitaire?
If it can be proven that his job only requires that he work 10% of the time, then his job tasks could be easily redistributed to other people and the position eliminated. Otherwise, he needs to find something else to do and stop wasting space, time and taxpayer money.
I've worked in a government job (specifically, university), and I got seriously burned by a boss who spent all his time screwing around rather than doing any work. The pity is, he wasn't always that way, and there were reasons why the behavior got worse (incredible stress in his personal life.) However, that's no excuse in the system's eyes, and it wasn't good for those under him, either.
Justifying a stranger's behavior by saying, "But maybe his job doesn't require a computer," doesn't really work here, either. If he doesn't need a computer, then he has no excuse to be in front of it playing games then, does he? No matter how you slice it, he's wasting time.
Blade Runner the movie: field of entertainment.
BladeRunner the bizarre-looking semi: field of transportation.
Absolutely no conflict whatsoever, according to American patent and trademark laws.
Sorry, goes back to the argument of justifiable legitimate use. The media industry won a real victory when they pushed through all of the regional encoding nonsense, which infringes on fair use rights. Once again, the laws completely fail to stop real "criminals," and just manage to piss off legitimate users who don't understand why they can spend money on something legally and still be banned from using it (such as import games.) You should have the right to do whatever you want to your own property, upt to and including blowing it to kingdom come.
The industry continues to mindlessly punish its customers, and continues to fail to make a dent in anything except pissing people off.
Actually, I invented it. Can't believe it wound up on /., but that's six degrees of separation for you.
When I originally decided to move here, my family was somewhat understandably surprised. "Er...but why Japan?" "What, besides the fact that it's cool?"
Sure, I wake up in the morning and brush my teeth just before going to work. Ugh, same as always. But then I remember, "Hey, I'm brushing my teeth...IN JAPAN!" and then I feel much more cheerful.
"Pouring?"
Wow, where was your name mentioned in the article? Seems you're taking something personal that was in no way directed at you. Unless you're a lawyer, you can't be an ambulance chaser.
Nothing except the rest of the universe. Or are they adding that in later?
Yes, that reasoning I agree with.
Case in point: we just had the Board of Education at the Japanese high school where I teach inform us that teachers have no business parking at the school. Apparently, other schools have had problems with guests not finding parking, so everyone gets punished equally.
I read the 90-word post, and I fail to see where it says that they looked into it. It says that they argued, but beyond that, no mention of actually expending effort was given.
You missed my point. I simply was agreeing that trying is better than nothing at all. Also, I never outlined what I think such a system would entail if actually attempted, so you're shooting me down for something I didn't actually say. Try asking first next time.
Yes, having a centralized list of email addresses that can be mined would be like handing them our heads on a silver platter, I agree. Once again, the law would simply keep honest people from doing things, rather than the ones who are already abusing the system. The ability to authenticate email would be a necessary part of any effective system, which would go a long way towards solving the problem.
Depends on which renderer you're using. Except for LightWave, RenderMan, Mental Ray, Animation Master, Cinema 4D, and even Blender, to name a few, it's true, you'll have problems getting support for OSX...oh, wait, that's quite a few right there, isn't it. Nevermind.
The question with building a headless Intel render farm is going to be licensing. Great, you can build cheap machines, but are you going to have to buy extra licenses just because you chose to go cross-platform? It's not just the main render engine you have to worry about, but also the 3rd-party shaders that you inevitably buy for doing specific things the default package doesn't cover.
If you do in-house programming instead, are you going to have your programmers write an Intel version of the shader as well as a Mac version? Good luck with that! Talk about unnecessary headaches. I think duplicate effort counts as an unjustifiable waste of money.
Finally, it's important to make sure that you don't run into limitations in the software, specifically procedural shaders, that cause the images to render differently on different platforms. It's annoying to get your frames back and they don't look just like the tests; sometimes, that can render the results unacceptable.
Poking holes in a faulty system is one thing; that can be constructive, and lead to plugging said holes until the system works. There is nothing wrong in scoffing at the FTC for not even trying, since at least a crappy system can be fixed, whereas no system doesn't help at all.
The FTC could at least have the decency to lie and say that they're "looking into it."
Because seeing is believing? Of course, photos can be doctored, too, but there's a certain reassurance in seeing a product, rather than a list of imaginary numbers somebody typed up in five minutes.
Apparently, the culture has a lot to do with it. How many other cultures do you know of that are currently producing good stories with good animation on the sheer volume of the Japanese industry? Remember, the emphasis is on "good," so choose your answer carefully.
Besides the simple ability to observe the world around me and see that Japanese, not Chinese, stories with good animations are being sought after, I also live in Osaka.
I am currently applying for a venture capital business incubator contest which is intended specifically to encourage upcoming talent with good ideas to create anime using more modern, computerized techniques, and put the money back in the hands of the Japanese animators. If you can read Japanese, you're welcome to find out more about it here:
http://www.d-tokiwa.jp/
Because if there is no Japanese anime industry, there will be no anime? Do you think Chinese anime would be the same? It's a cultural thing.
To upper management, everyone, regardless of their industry, looks like manual labor. It's easy to talk smack when it's not your problem.
I talked to my sensei about this subject today. He says that there's a long-standing story dating back to the Showa Period, when karate first made its way from Okinawa into Kyushu and the rest of Japan. On the mainland, judo and kendo reigned supreme; karate was new and different, and most importantly, viewed as extremely dangerous. They were also worried that this new style would corrupt the purity of their own, and that they would lose followers to it (which they did, although it's still in the minority in Japan.)
The police then decided that two men fighting using karate should be considered not only as fighting, but actually as committing a crime, since the style was so aggressive and effective.
However, there was no specific law to support this. The karate teachers, upon hearing about the trouble with the police, then told their students, "By no means use karate in self-defense, or in fighting, or anything outside of the dojo!" This wasn't philosophy, but a means of keeping their style from being banned in Japan.
The subsequent urban legends and half-understood translations into Western culture you've probably already heard.
My New Zealand aikido instructor also tells us that it's not all about ego, but he (and my Japanese instructor's) main reason for telling students not to fight on the street is because they would suck at it and get their asses kicked. "If you haven't mastered it, don't use it, because then you don't die," is the motto. Especially as someone who practices aikido, you should know that someone who has mastered the art can decide what level of pain they choose to levy on their opponent; if you're not able to practice that sort of control, you aren't quite there yet.
When someone says, "No, I don't want to give you my wallet, and I happen to be a master in a martial art and therefore capable of doing something about it," is not ego, it's the whole damn point of learning a martial art. Martial arts were not developed in order to be nice to people (and the nasty stuff they show you when you reach san dan in aikido would make your eyes pop.)
In short, you use a martial art as a tool. If you don't want to fight and are seeking inner peace, harmony, and a higher consciousness that is above petty things such as having a knife pointed at you, then don't study a martial art; go to the temple.
Maybe you're learning the wrong martial art. In aikido, we're taught how to fight someone no matter what weapon they're wielding or style they're using. The one exception would be if the guy is carrying a gun.
It is common to tell beginners that the best solution is to give in peacefully, because (as beginners) they're likely to get themselves killed thinking that they know a martial art, hence can handle the situation. That, and when the police start asking questions, they can plausibly say, "It's not like we didn't warn them."
A man with a knife threatening you is combat. Saying that learning a martial art means learning to move past the point where you need to fight is great and all, but there is no way on God's green earth that my sensei would give some idiot with a knife his wallet.
If you're looking for noble Oriental philosophy, at least higher-level practitioners have mastered the self-control to decide how much they have to hurt their opponent in order to defeat them. Here in Japan, a martial art is there to act as a means to defend yourself in combat. That's why police are required to show proficiency in either kendo or judo in order to advance, and why both are taught as basic curriculum in high schools.
In our dojo, they tell you, "If you seek spiritual enlightment, go to a temple. If you seek to learn to fight, go to war. If you seek both, you're in the right place."
Why did this guy get moderated a troll for commenting that a comment that everyone agrees is "funny" got marked "informative?" Can't take the criticism, huh?
I believe it. Been to Vienna. :)
Although the original conversation with my German friends took place in Italy.
This person has obviously never drank coffee in the United States. American coffee, when not served too weak, usually tastes like battery acid (or, in culinary terms, "robusta," apparently.)
I had to realize the article was from a Canadian paper before I could understand why they were making such a big deal over gas station and donut shop coffee being weaker. In America, that is not only the norm, it barely rates above "hot water that somebody has dipped a dirty rag in."
People, American coffee sucks. I never knew this until I lived in Germany, where the coffee you buy in your supermarket is incredibly superior for the same price as American store-bought coffee. I had to defend American coffee to my German friends because I had no idea what they meant by our coffee being weak.
Heck, here in Japan, they sell coffee in "regular" and "American" styles, where "American" is used synonomously with "weak." I've even had the waitress at a restaurant, unprompted, apologize to me that the only coffee they have to offer is American.
Whatever marketing drones came up with that notion are idiots. Coffee, while not as bad as cigarettes, is definitely an acquired taste for many people. The sip your girlfriend steals out of your cup is not going to be enough to addict them, no matter how much caffeine is in it.
If you want to avoid caffeine withdrawal and also the jitters and hunger pangs of coffee's caffeine, switch over to green tea; not only does it prevent the nasty headaches and sluggishness, it doesn't make you vibrate at high frequencies or eat more often.