Funny, I thought it was because it was too similar to "The Revenge of Khan" (which was changed to "The Wrath of Khan")
"The Wrath of Khan" was originally "the Vengeance of Khan" but changed because it sounded too similar to the supposed "Revenge of the Jedi". And before it was "the Vengeance of Khan", it was "the Undiscovered Country". According the Leonard Nimoy's autobiography.
It's also worth nothing that Disney has acquired the Totoro DVD rights and will be putting out their own version, probably sometime in 2005. It'll be widescreen, anamorphic, bilingual and will undoubtedly sport a new dub.
yes, and it's even less common used than png... why create an extra format ?
Animated GIFs are an ugly hack that the PNG people didn't want to repeat. Splitting animated and non-animated images into two formats was the right thing to do. Unfortunately, since MNG supports so many fancy features beyond just simple animations, its adoption has been virtually nil - unlike PNG which is widely supported even on Windows with IE (for the most part).
Newman described his basic outline for Doctor Who thus; "It had to be a children's programme and still attract both teenagers and adults. Also, as a children's programme, I was intent upon it containing basic factual information that could be described as educational, or, at least, mind opening for them. So my first thought was of a time-space machine with contemporary characters who would be able to travel forward and backward in time, and inward and outward in space. All the stories were to be based on scientific or historical facts as we knew them at the time." According to Newman he passed a memo on to Donald Wilson whom he'd appointed as Head of Serials and told him "Here's a great idea for Saturday afternoons."
The notion of it as a mostly science fiction show came later.
James Bond has survived quite nicely without S.P.E.C.T.R.E. If it was up to me I would create an alien scurge that is so bad ass that their main claim to fame is that they completely wiped out the Daleks.
The Daleks already wiped themselves out at the end of season 4's "the Evil of the Daleks". It was, as the Doctor put it, "their final end." That didn't stop the writers from continuing to use them (presumably in stories set before the Daleks' final destruction). But in general, Doctor Who doesn't reuse villains all that often and should be able to make do without them if need be.
Though for the sake of ratings, it'd be nice to have the homicidal pepper pots back once in awhile.
The surviving historicals are actually quite entertaining, but if I remember my Who history right, they were sort of tacked on to the early series to give it "educational value".
That shouldn't be too surprising, since Dr. Who came out of the BBC's children's department. Nobody considered the show would be wholly science fiction for the first couple of seasons. But since the historicals got lousy ratings (whereas the Daleks brought in big numbers), the show phased them out. IIRC, the last pure historical was "the Highlanders" which introduced Jamie.
well, I think it is the fact that Karry is claming to be one of the working class. And to know the problems of the working class, I don't think he can if he is rich. So I think the problem is, is that he is a hipocrite.
The problem is, if he wasn't rich he'd have no chance whatsoever to be president. But since no candidate likes to come across as a wealthy snob, they all like to embrace the "I'm a working class guy, just like you" rhetoric - despite their substantial personal wealth.
I'd just assume there would be a way to print envelopes/labels from linux. Even if it was an OO.o template, or some such. It's a fairly simple task.
gLabels has been around for three years. It might look nicer now and support more labels than it did then, but it isn't as if Linux has gone without a method of making them until now.
That's a tricky tradeoff, though... the more stuff the compiler checks, the longer a compile takes.
Some things couldn't be caught at compile-time, too. I mean, the compiler would have to actually run the program to ensure it correctly allocated and deallocated memory. That's what stuff like Valgrind is for...
In general, a program can be expected to be run a lot more often than it is compiled. So while keeping a compiler in anal-retentive mode might be time-consuming for the programmer, it's all worth it if it leads to a better and more stable program for the user.
But in this particular case, I think it's provably impossible for the compiler to tell if there's memory leaks in a program. Even Valgrind will only catch them for a particular run, rather than any possible memory leak. So, it'll be up to the programmers to do the best they can (or, in the case of automated memory management, offload the task to the programmers maintaining that automation).
That's because the original Ghost in the Shell is chock full of joyless, Oshii-directed pretentiousness. Some like to claim it's the Best Anime Ever, which typically indicates they haven't seen a lot of anime. And since Oshii is back to direct the sequel, "Innocence" promises to deliver another very pretty movie with no entertainment value whatsoever.
Personally, I'd skip it and watch "GitS: Stand Alone Complex" which won't be so mind-numbingly tedious to watch.
But why even bother to expend the resources to develop a browser if you're not going to get anything out of it - they could've just bundled Netscape with windows. If MS hadn't cobbled IE together then Netscape wouldn't be competition anyway.
Once Microsoft realized the web was the Next Big Thing and that Netscape was at the forefront of it, Netscape became a competitor with the prospect of making operating systems irrelevant. Netscape had gotten big selling browsers and web servers, so Microsoft decided to undercut and eliminate them by making IE better and giving it away ("cutting off Netscape's air supply"). So, what Microsoft got out of it was the commoditization of web browsers (to the point where spending money on one today seems novel) and the elimination of a threat to their OS monopoly.
But why are MS always trying to put all the other browsers out of business for something they get nothing back from?
IE was designed, given away and bundled to combat the Netscape threat. So long as Netscape provided a threat, MS put a lot of resources into making IE a better browser. Once the Netscape threat was eliminated and IE achieved monopoly market share, MS stopped giving a shit about it or its users. I feel only some sort of renewed browser threat will change Microsoft's mind, but Mozilla/Opera don't have enough market share for that yet.
This really does get boring, reading about these IE holes and vulnerabilities. I'm still at a loss to understand why a powerful global corperation in business for decades is incapable of fixing fundamental problems with their browser which are showing up again and again.
It's because they don't care. IE generates no revenue for MS and since people are willing to use it regardless of the holes, there's no incentive for them to overhaul it beyond the occasional patch.
Look closer. The numbers double as F-keys when used with the Fn key, and the arrow keys are under the [ ; ' / keys. As I recall, the left alt can also be mapped to the Fn key. Fn+tab can also function as a caps lock, but I've never missed having a physical key for it.
And the Control key is in the right spot, just like on the old Sparc keyboards I used to use.
Does OOG have much more memory requirements than other formats ? If so, why ?
Vorbis is a better codec at sticking more audio data in less space due to the years of research between itself and MPEG-1. But decoding that data doesn't come for free, and so Vorbis decoding is more memory and CPU intensive than mp3 is. But thanks to the integer decoder, that difference mainly shows up in high bitrate Vorbis files.
Lack of software - particularly "killer app" software. Linux could run open-source Unix software almost right from the start. Its "killer apps" are Apache, Sendmail, BIND and Samba. BeOS was a desktop OS with no "must have" desktop software - and it fizzled.
I can't say precisely, but it's a safe bet this method will involve some Windows-specific program that's intended to auto-launch when the CD is inserted and meant to protect the contents. The notion of anyone using a non-Windows computer to copy audio from a CD isn't going to cross their minds.
After all, won't Longhorn be released with an updated IE that has popup-blocking, tabs, and ActiveX malware protection?..Effectively nullifying Firefox's most visible benefits?
Possibly. But Mozilla/Firefox will be far ahead 2-3 years from now. Not only that, but they'll continue to evolve faster because they don't have an entire operating system that relies on them to function. But if pressure from Mozilla & friends forces IE into better standards-compliance, everybody wins. The ideal of a browser-independent web should be our goal, IMHO.
Heck, how many people even realise that there are other Internet Explorers out there?
A lot of people will realize it once their friends tell them. Since Internet Explorer is essentially abandonware, people are left with the options of either sticking with an increasingly obsolete browser or migrating to something else like Mozilla or Opera. And, sooner or later, web users and developers are going to treat IE like Netscape 4: a browser to be endured and worked-around rather than a favored platform. Then, perhaps we can start moving the web forward again.
Unfortunately, the titles on the 2600-in-a-Joystick are ports/remakes of the originals rather than the genuine article. It would've been nice if they were properly emulated for accuracy, but I suppose it's better than nothing.
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"The Wrath of Khan" was originally "the Vengeance of Khan" but changed because it sounded too similar to the supposed "Revenge of the Jedi". And before it was "the Vengeance of Khan", it was "the Undiscovered Country". According the Leonard Nimoy's autobiography.
That's Star Trek V, and probably the best line in the whole film.
It's also worth nothing that Disney has acquired the Totoro DVD rights and will be putting out their own version, probably sometime in 2005. It'll be widescreen, anamorphic, bilingual and will undoubtedly sport a new dub.
Animated GIFs are an ugly hack that the PNG people didn't want to repeat. Splitting animated and non-animated images into two formats was the right thing to do. Unfortunately, since MNG supports so many fancy features beyond just simple animations, its adoption has been virtually nil - unlike PNG which is widely supported even on Windows with IE (for the most part).
Or perhaps 86.75.30.9
The Daleks already wiped themselves out at the end of season 4's "the Evil of the Daleks". It was, as the Doctor put it, "their final end." That didn't stop the writers from continuing to use them (presumably in stories set before the Daleks' final destruction). But in general, Doctor Who doesn't reuse villains all that often and should be able to make do without them if need be.
Though for the sake of ratings, it'd be nice to have the homicidal pepper pots back once in awhile.
That shouldn't be too surprising, since Dr. Who came out of the BBC's children's department. Nobody considered the show would be wholly science fiction for the first couple of seasons. But since the historicals got lousy ratings (whereas the Daleks brought in big numbers), the show phased them out. IIRC, the last pure historical was "the Highlanders" which introduced Jamie.
The problem is, if he wasn't rich he'd have no chance whatsoever to be president. But since no candidate likes to come across as a wealthy snob, they all like to embrace the "I'm a working class guy, just like you" rhetoric - despite their substantial personal wealth.
gLabels has been around for three years. It might look nicer now and support more labels than it did then, but it isn't as if Linux has gone without a method of making them until now.
"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."
In general, a program can be expected to be run a lot more often than it is compiled. So while keeping a compiler in anal-retentive mode might be time-consuming for the programmer, it's all worth it if it leads to a better and more stable program for the user.
But in this particular case, I think it's provably impossible for the compiler to tell if there's memory leaks in a program. Even Valgrind will only catch them for a particular run, rather than any possible memory leak. So, it'll be up to the programmers to do the best they can (or, in the case of automated memory management, offload the task to the programmers maintaining that automation).
Skip the Sky Captain and wait for Steamboy to come to North America in October.
Personally, I'd skip it and watch "GitS: Stand Alone Complex" which won't be so mind-numbingly tedious to watch.
Once Microsoft realized the web was the Next Big Thing and that Netscape was at the forefront of it, Netscape became a competitor with the prospect of making operating systems irrelevant. Netscape had gotten big selling browsers and web servers, so Microsoft decided to undercut and eliminate them by making IE better and giving it away ("cutting off Netscape's air supply"). So, what Microsoft got out of it was the commoditization of web browsers (to the point where spending money on one today seems novel) and the elimination of a threat to their OS monopoly.
IE was designed, given away and bundled to combat the Netscape threat. So long as Netscape provided a threat, MS put a lot of resources into making IE a better browser. Once the Netscape threat was eliminated and IE achieved monopoly market share, MS stopped giving a shit about it or its users. I feel only some sort of renewed browser threat will change Microsoft's mind, but Mozilla/Opera don't have enough market share for that yet.
It's because they don't care. IE generates no revenue for MS and since people are willing to use it regardless of the holes, there's no incentive for them to overhaul it beyond the occasional patch.
And the Control key is in the right spot, just like on the old Sparc keyboards I used to use.
Vorbis is a better codec at sticking more audio data in less space due to the years of research between itself and MPEG-1. But decoding that data doesn't come for free, and so Vorbis decoding is more memory and CPU intensive than mp3 is. But thanks to the integer decoder, that difference mainly shows up in high bitrate Vorbis files.
Lack of software - particularly "killer app" software. Linux could run open-source Unix software almost right from the start. Its "killer apps" are Apache, Sendmail, BIND and Samba. BeOS was a desktop OS with no "must have" desktop software - and it fizzled.
I can't say precisely, but it's a safe bet this method will involve some Windows-specific program that's intended to auto-launch when the CD is inserted and meant to protect the contents. The notion of anyone using a non-Windows computer to copy audio from a CD isn't going to cross their minds.
Possibly. But Mozilla/Firefox will be far ahead 2-3 years from now. Not only that, but they'll continue to evolve faster because they don't have an entire operating system that relies on them to function. But if pressure from Mozilla & friends forces IE into better standards-compliance, everybody wins. The ideal of a browser-independent web should be our goal, IMHO.
A lot of people will realize it once their friends tell them. Since Internet Explorer is essentially abandonware, people are left with the options of either sticking with an increasingly obsolete browser or migrating to something else like Mozilla or Opera. And, sooner or later, web users and developers are going to treat IE like Netscape 4: a browser to be endured and worked-around rather than a favored platform. Then, perhaps we can start moving the web forward again.
Considering they were first shown in the first episode of ST:TNG, one can assume they were invented between the 23rd and 24th century.
Unfortunately, the titles on the 2600-in-a-Joystick are ports/remakes of the originals rather than the genuine article. It would've been nice if they were properly emulated for accuracy, but I suppose it's better than nothing.