In the stage show they had two actors playing Zaphod, at the same time in the same costume. One actor was behind the other - the clothes went round both actors so 'zaphod' had two double thickness legs, one double thickness arm and two normal arms (and two heads of course). The shoes were two paris of normal shoes on plates fixed heel to toe. Obviously the actors need to be of the same height and twins would be ideal. The two actors on stage split the lines and did some nice business with both arms on the same side doing a task together,like feeding the 'opposite' head while the near head spoke. It was very effective.
I wouldn't ever call a test pilot chickenshit. These are the guys who map the safe flight envelope of a new plane - it's not as hard now with the advances in theory and computer modelling but it's still guys doing things with planes that no one else has done yet and living to tell about it.
It is a slow methodical investigation of the properties of the craft - not taking a new crate and see how she goes.
Remember the old saw: "There's old pilots and bold pilots, but no old bold pilots"
My take on Faramir is that he knew that if he picked up the Ring he wouldn't be able to put it down - so he knew he couldn't risk picking it up in the first place. It's not that he was immune to the Ring (he's not Bombadil), rather that he knows himself well enough to not put himself in temptations way.
So I didn't like the changes to Faramir- I think he was more like Galadriel who knew what she would become if she took the Ring.
The change I hated most was the Aragorn/Arwen split - why do it?
Exactly.
What may kill TV advertising is if the analysis shows that many fewer ads are being watched but the product sales are unaffected - then companies may well decide that they have been wasting money for years - except for the tax breaks of course. Some ad campaigns probably do work - but I would not expect that to be a large percentage.
I tend to skip ads using my 'in head filter', there are few products I have purchased as a result of advertising - the only one I can recall being Benecol as my dietician tells me it does actually work. I like some ads as 'art' - and was glad to get a dvd of the Honda 'cog' as a freebie.
It will take a while for the average consumer to go PVR, and many of them may not even skip ads, so don't expect everyone to only have PBS or cable any time soon...
IF YOU DON'T HANDLE YOUR BACKUPS IN CLEAN-ROOM CONDITIONS YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR DATA
I do care about my data but I can't afford an airlock and air-contitioning to the required standard etc. Wearing gloves and using your drive as a pillow don't count as a clean room. Personally I have better things to do while my dvd is burning. You can run a check later or for the truly paranoid burn another copy on a different brand of medium using a different drive on a different pc....
Of course if people smoke while doing backups (or just using pcs) they deserve all they get - apart from the health issues.
I agree with what you say.
Having said that I would like a plug-in (like the mozilla AdBlock) that doesn't show me the ads/images I don't want but still downloaded them from the web site - it should keep the advertisers happy as well as me. Ideally it would queue the rubbish downloads for when I am not using too much bandwidth - i.e. it would throttle back when I need the download. And no, it isn't cheating because I don't click on ads anyway - TV ads are only really noticeable to me when they have some 'artistic' merit, like the Honda Accord 'Cog' ads - really well done. I got a DVD with a mag with that on, probably the only time I was glad to get an ad:-)
One time I was at an air show at Nort Weald (Essex, U.K.) and they had a flypast by a Concorde and a bunch of WWII fighters - the Spitfire and the Concorde being two of the best looking aircraft ever. Of course the spits were going flat out and I was wondering if the Concorde pilot was ignoring the stall warning...
Another awe-inspiring sight was a Vulcan display - watching one of those doing stall turns was almost terrifying - it was nearly silent and then the throttles were cracked and all you could hear was a basso profundo rumble and the subsonics made your chest flutter and your teeth ache. It was like watching the Wrath of God hanging over you, and part of it had to do with your brain saying nothing that big and that shape should be able to fly like that, and if it could it could only be in sraightish lines. Compared to a Vulcan at full throttle a Concorde take off is quite mild - the Conc sounds like very loud tearing sheets while the Vulc makes the ground tremble beneath you. Awesome.
Data "never" used contractions (although in earlier episodes they either had not established this, or forgot a few times), but I don't believe the computer (or Data) had problems understanding contractions. Also, Lore (Data's evil brother, with emotions) used contractions, and this was a point in one of the Lore episodes (I believe the original, Datalore) when Lore turned Data off and was posing as him.
Considering Data wrote new subroutines for himself fairly frequently I never understood why couldn't cope with s/will not/won't/g etc.
If you purchase a music cd and then try to play it in your computer is there any law relating to the music publisher installing software on my computer without my permission? Consider if they screw up their software and infect my machine with a virus, is there a difference?
Any bets on a class action lawsuit? Not that I think it's a good idea but it may be a useful threat.
I haven't read 'The Island...' but I'd take Eco over Stephenson, his writing is better and he can write an ending to a book, rather than just stopping with the reader going "Uhh, Where's the last chapter?"
The ideas in Cryptonomicon where quite interesting, but the execution I found lacking.
BTW the film of The Name Of The Rose while good is only 1/3 to 1/2 of the detail in the book. The rest is probably unfilmable but wonderful to read. His being a history professor shows.
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It's a wake up call - after a few ignored letters saying "You're(Ab)using our trademark" the OCLC seems to have decided to shout a little louder. It's a trademark thing, so they have to 'use it or lose it'.
Nope, it has to be Upper Case, and -IF.. THEN.. GOTO used to be the only flow control. So it wasn't bad form, you had no choice.
It now has loops, e.g. -SET &INDEX = 0; -REPEAT LOOPFLAG FOR &INDEX FROM 1 TO 5 STEP 1 -TYPE HELLO, INDEX = &INDEX -LOOPFLAG
And yes it is a pain, but it's a control language called DIALOG MANAGER for the FOCUS 4GL.
Best bit of Focus is that assignments are the other way round so all the logic controlling a variables value may be in the same place, e.g. (excuse/. formatting):
VAR/A10 = IF TEST1 EQ TEST2 THEN RESULT1
ELSE IF TEST3 EQ TEST4 THEN RESULT2
ELSE IF DAYOFWEEK LT 'SATURDAY' THEN RESULT3
ELSE 'NOT FOUND'; Which I quite like, it's different from the usual way of doing things but makes about as much sense.
You'd be better of heading for Iceland. IIRC it has the least changed language of the Nordic countries and seems to be (NO pun intended) a cool place to live. Apparently you can use a snowmobile to cross open stretches of water if you're going fast enough - it will plane if you don't slow down or turn.
I haven't been yet, but I'd like to. Shame there are no trees though.
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In the stage show they had two actors playing Zaphod, at the same time in the same costume.
One actor was behind the other - the clothes went round both actors so 'zaphod' had two double thickness legs, one double thickness arm and two normal arms (and two heads of course). The shoes were two paris of normal shoes on plates fixed heel to toe. Obviously the actors need to be of the same height and twins would be ideal.
The two actors on stage split the lines and did some nice business with both arms on the same side doing a task together,like feeding the 'opposite' head while the near head spoke. It was very effective.
I know - you mean another big company, and I'm inclined to agree.
No. It was a verbal vote, so there's no record of who voted which way. Handy.
These are the guys who map the safe flight envelope of a new plane - it's not as hard now with the advances in theory and computer modelling but it's still guys doing things with planes that no one else has done yet and living to tell about it.
It is a slow methodical investigation of the properties of the craft - not taking a new crate and see how she goes.
Remember the old saw: "There's old pilots and bold pilots, but no old bold pilots"
So I didn't like the changes to Faramir- I think he was more like Galadriel who knew what she would become if she took the Ring.
The change I hated most was the Aragorn/Arwen split - why do it?
Interesting advice for someone on a long haul flight or lengthy train journey...
What may kill TV advertising is if the analysis shows that many fewer ads are being watched but the product sales are unaffected - then companies may well decide that they have been wasting money for years - except for the tax breaks of course.
Some ad campaigns probably do work - but I would not expect that to be a large percentage.
I tend to skip ads using my 'in head filter', there are few products I have purchased as a result of advertising - the only one I can recall being Benecol as my dietician tells me it does actually work. I like some ads as 'art' - and was glad to get a dvd of the Honda 'cog' as a freebie.
It will take a while for the average consumer to go PVR, and many of them may not even skip ads, so don't expect everyone to only have PBS or cable any time soon...
Yep, you can even script it if you dig a bit.
ACLs are a finer-grained solution than the unix permissions, but ideally I'd have a combination the two.
Wearing gloves and using your drive as a pillow don't count as a clean room. Personally I have better things to do while my dvd is burning. You can run a check later or for the truly paranoid burn another copy on a different brand of medium using a different drive on a different pc....
Of course if people smoke while doing backups (or just using pcs) they deserve all they get - apart from the health issues.
I agree with what you say. :-)
Having said that I would like a plug-in (like the mozilla AdBlock) that doesn't show me the ads/images I don't want but still downloaded them from the web site - it should keep the advertisers happy as well as me. Ideally it would queue the rubbish downloads for when I am not using too much bandwidth - i.e. it would throttle back when I need the download.
And no, it isn't cheating because I don't click on ads anyway - TV ads are only really noticeable to me when they have some 'artistic' merit, like the Honda Accord 'Cog' ads - really well done. I got a DVD with a mag with that on, probably the only time I was glad to get an ad
Another awe-inspiring sight was a Vulcan display - watching one of those doing stall turns was almost terrifying - it was nearly silent and then the throttles were cracked and all you could hear was a basso profundo rumble and the subsonics made your chest flutter and your teeth ache. It was like watching the Wrath of God hanging over you, and part of it had to do with your brain saying nothing that big and that shape should be able to fly like that, and if it could it could only be in sraightish lines.
Compared to a Vulcan at full throttle a Concorde take off is quite mild - the Conc sounds like very loud tearing sheets while the Vulc makes the ground tremble beneath you. Awesome.
What Perl/tk is available for WinCE/PocletPC?
Maybe, but for the extra I'd go for something like this instead for the added convenience?
Why watch it at all?
Any bets on a class action lawsuit?
Not that I think it's a good idea but it may be a useful threat.
Sad (me) but true...
There are lots of sites on the web where you find material to help you to help yourself....
The ideas in Cryptonomicon where quite interesting, but the execution I found lacking.
BTW the film of The Name Of The Rose while good is only 1/3 to 1/2 of the detail in the book. The rest is probably unfilmable but wonderful to read. His being a history professor shows.
....while hopped up to the eyeballs on morphine.
It's a wake up call - after a few ignored letters saying "You're(Ab)using our trademark" the OCLC seems to have decided to shout a little louder.
It's a trademark thing, so they have to 'use it or lose it'.
Why are you bringing logic to a
(For the humour impaired, yes I release that the poster to whom I am replying has a much lower slashid then I do).
It now has loops, e.g. ;
-SET &INDEX = 0
-REPEAT LOOPFLAG FOR &INDEX FROM 1 TO 5 STEP 1
-TYPE HELLO, INDEX = &INDEX
-LOOPFLAG
And yes it is a pain, but it's a control language called DIALOG MANAGER for the FOCUS 4GL.
Best bit of Focus is that assignments are the other way round so all the logic controlling a variables value may be in the same place, e.g. (excuse /. formatting): ;
VAR/A10 = IF TEST1 EQ TEST2 THEN RESULT1
ELSE IF TEST3 EQ TEST4 THEN RESULT2
ELSE IF DAYOFWEEK LT 'SATURDAY' THEN RESULT3
ELSE 'NOT FOUND'
Which I quite like, it's different from the usual way of doing things but makes about as much sense.
IIRC it has the least changed language of the Nordic countries and seems to be (NO pun intended) a cool place to live.
Apparently you can use a snowmobile to cross open stretches of water if you're going fast enough - it will plane if you don't slow down or turn.
I haven't been yet, but I'd like to. Shame there are no trees though.