A couple years back people were re-working The Phantom Menance for a more satisfying result (read my lips: no Jar-Jar). This is feasible with the Mac iMedia suite and PC equivalents. They had posted these on the web. LucasFilm initially sounded flattered, then cracked down on copyright.
The Matrix and Rings triologies are candidates for fan's intepretations.
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Lets face it, its sunset for the US manned space program. Huge, bloated projects like the $90 billion Space Station, that might not even be completed. then endless introspection when there is an accident.
China has an efficient, working space program. They've cloned, and modernized the Soyuez, which is a much more cost-effective space vehicle than the space shuttle. And China has a national spirit for science. Its not like the US and Europe when leftists endlessly whine about hazards of progress and diversion of funds from social needs. And the US in a new Vietnam, an interminable war in Iraq and sinkhole for any economic surplus for science.
"Ruguo nimen yao fangwen yuhuan, bixu xuexi Zhongwen!"
Two years ago there was a class-action lawsuit and payout for overcharging of CDs. I filled out the web form expecting $20, but never heard anything. Perhaps that was the cause of some spam.
People were predict like 2015, based on M$ "Moore's Law" growth in stock price in the 1990s. Now the stock price has been stuck at the same place for over three years, and not as likely.
I presume all three movies plus outtakes can be molded into a 12-15 hour special edition. I'd guess there is certain "background material" out there like the description of Hobbittown, the doom of the elves, the earlier wars, etc. that has been filmed, and can be more creatively presented in an expanded edition.
In Toklein's TTT, the cliff-hanger ending is Shelob the spider almost ends the quest. I guess Jackson moved this to the part III for some reason or the other.
During last week's solar event I read somewhere that airplane passengers were receiving fifty times the normal background radiation. For a couple hour flight, this would be like four extra days a year background. You get a 100 days extra over sea level if you live in Colorado.
Airpline employees however are getting like hundreds of days of extra radiation if they've worked regularly the past couple weeks.
Using viruses to attack diseases is a technique from the early 20th century. It was widely used in Russia, but fell out of favor when anitbiotics were discovered. It appears to be reviving.
Earth has sent four probes to Mars. The European Space Agency probe orbits on Christmas. The USA "Spirit" and "Opportunity" land Jan 4 and 25. The long-meadering Japanese probe (launched into wrong trajectory in 1998) may arrive in January too. These four probes join the two active USA camera-orbitors. Martians watch out! We are coming!
In LISP you put your operators in front,
then properly order your arguments.
For example the quadratic formula becomes:
(list (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 4 a c)))) (* 2 a))
(/ (- (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 4 a c)))) (* 2 a)))
You can start off with a half-dozen operators. Improper nesting or parentheses can kill you.
This can be made shorter by binding intermediate variables.
Now in RPN:
b ~ b b * 4 a * c * - sqrt - 2 a * /
b ~ b b * 4 a * c * - sqrt + 2 a * /
This is terser than LISP. This can be made shorter with PUSH/POP, saving the intermediate root value.
The reason their books are so cheap, besides the awful book paper, is most of these publishers blithly ignore copyright conventions and royalties. Do these people think they are American music consumers or something?:-)
All three of these countries have orbited satellites and plan manned space capability. Good to see some part of the world looking toward space as the US and Russia lose interest.
When China's CDP is corrected for its artificially devalued currency, it exceeds Japan, which is current #2. Therefore it has a fair amount of resources to do ambitious projects like a space program.
China's currency has been fixed at 8.3 to the dollar. It thought to be really worth much more, somewheres between 3-5 to the dollar. The US and WTO have been pressuring China to float its currency. A cheap currency keeps labor costs and exports cheap and imports expense, so China has the largest trade surplus in the world.
You have to include the design cost, e.g. a prof
or university IT persons cost would be easily $200K-300K when overhead is folded in. Then you ahve to include housing costs for both systems: How much does it cost to feed and cool 300K watts, and so on.
I saw them at 2001 and 2003. They work OK, with better resolution this year. They draw both perspectives on the screen in quick alternation. Each eye latches on to the one that makes sense.
Other no-glasses 3D at SIGGRAPH include the concave mirror (floating penny) and the spinning LCD plane. These arent very portable.
Another interesting approach I'm waiting to see in person is the Stanford 3D phospher cube. A pair of lasers activates phospher dots in 3D locations. Science stores sell the static version of this: 3D dot images etched inside leucite cubes.
And I'm waiting to see the MIT Media Lab's holographic TV. It computes and redraws the holograph plate in realtime.
Paul Allen, the second largest MS stockholder and founder of MS is the major funder of Rutan's space plane. This one is considered the best candidate to win the X-prize.
NeXT OS was successfully ported to x86 in the mid-1990s. Mac OS-X is the merger of NeXT OS and Mac OS.
The port was never really pushed that hard because NeXT was merging was merging with Apple.
It happend just before Steve J. regained control of the company. Two or three Asian comanies were allowed to offer the Apple OS on their hardware. However, Steve ended this program pretty quick.
Does anyone remember the names of these companies?
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A couple years back people were re-working The Phantom Menance for a more satisfying result (read my lips: no Jar-Jar). This is feasible with the Mac iMedia suite and PC equivalents. They had posted these on the web. LucasFilm initially sounded flattered, then cracked down on copyright.
The Matrix and Rings triologies are candidates for fan's intepretations.
Lets face it, its sunset for the US manned space program. Huge, bloated projects like the $90 billion Space Station, that might not even be completed. then endless introspection when there is an accident.
China has an efficient, working space program. They've cloned, and modernized the Soyuez, which is a much more cost-effective space vehicle than the space shuttle. And China has a national spirit for science. Its not like the US and Europe when leftists endlessly whine about hazards of progress and diversion of funds from social needs. And the US in a new Vietnam, an interminable war in Iraq and sinkhole for any economic surplus for science.
"Ruguo nimen yao fangwen yuhuan, bixu xuexi Zhongwen!"
Two years ago there was a class-action lawsuit and payout for overcharging of CDs. I filled out the web form expecting $20, but never heard anything. Perhaps that was the cause of some spam.
People were predict like 2015, based on M$ "Moore's Law" growth in stock price in the 1990s. Now the stock price has been stuck at the same place for over three years, and not as likely.
I presume all three movies plus outtakes can be molded into a 12-15 hour special edition. I'd guess there is certain "background material" out there like the description of Hobbittown, the doom of the elves, the earlier wars, etc. that has been filmed, and can be more creatively presented in an expanded edition.
Yes, but they sold out within hours after the tickets were offered online.
In Toklein's TTT, the cliff-hanger ending is Shelob the spider almost ends the quest. I guess Jackson moved this to the part III for some reason or the other.
During last week's solar event I read somewhere that airplane passengers were receiving fifty times the normal background radiation. For a couple hour flight, this would be like four extra days a year background. You get a 100 days extra over sea level if you live in Colorado.
Airpline employees however are getting like hundreds of days of extra radiation if they've worked regularly the past couple weeks.
Using viruses to attack diseases is a technique from the early 20th century. It was widely used in Russia, but fell out of favor when anitbiotics were discovered. It appears to be reviving.
Earth has sent four probes to Mars. The European Space Agency probe orbits on Christmas. The USA "Spirit" and "Opportunity" land Jan 4 and 25. The long-meadering Japanese probe (launched into wrong trajectory in 1998) may arrive in January too. These four probes join the two active USA camera-orbitors. Martians watch out! We are coming!
A google is so much more than a micro, that it would still be a google. Go GoogleSoft!
The half dozen or so hydrogen stations in California will extract their hydrogen from natural gas. Read here
In LISP you put your operators in front, then properly order your arguments. For example the quadratic formula becomes:
(list (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 4 a c)))) (* 2 a))
(/ (- (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 4 a c)))) (* 2 a)))
You can start off with a half-dozen operators. Improper nesting or parentheses can kill you. This can be made shorter by binding intermediate variables.
Now in RPN:
b ~ b b * 4 a * c * - sqrt - 2 a * /
b ~ b b * 4 a * c * - sqrt + 2 a * /
This is terser than LISP. This can be made shorter with PUSH/POP, saving the intermediate root value.
$699 is just a "promotional discount" according to sco.com
The reason their books are so cheap, besides the awful book paper, is most of these publishers blithly ignore copyright conventions and royalties. Do these people think they are American music consumers or something? :-)
All three of these countries have orbited satellites and plan manned space capability. Good to see some part of the world looking toward space as the US and Russia lose interest.
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When China's CDP is corrected for its artificially devalued currency, it exceeds Japan, which is current #2. Therefore it has a fair amount of resources to do ambitious projects like a space program.
China's currency has been fixed at 8.3 to the dollar. It thought to be really worth much more, somewheres between 3-5 to the dollar. The US and WTO have been pressuring China to float its currency. A cheap currency keeps labor costs and exports cheap and imports expense, so China has the largest trade surplus in the world.
Since you can get 6 GFLOP in a conventional x86 compatible CPU, why go to incompatible technology for a 4X speed improvement?
MicroSoft the master of pre-announcing vaporware. Sometimes it eventually does work!
You have to include the design cost, e.g. a prof or university IT persons cost would be easily $200K-300K when overhead is folded in. Then you ahve to include housing costs for both systems: How much does it cost to feed and cool 300K watts, and so on.
I saw them at 2001 and 2003. They work OK, with better resolution this year. They draw both perspectives on the screen in quick alternation. Each eye latches on to the one that makes sense.
Other no-glasses 3D at SIGGRAPH include the concave mirror (floating penny) and the spinning LCD plane. These arent very portable.
Another interesting approach I'm waiting to see in person is the Stanford 3D phospher cube. A pair of lasers activates phospher dots in 3D locations. Science stores sell the static version of this: 3D dot images etched inside leucite cubes.
And I'm waiting to see the MIT Media Lab's holographic TV. It computes and redraws the holograph plate in realtime.
Paul Allen, the second largest MS stockholder and founder of MS is the major funder of Rutan's space plane. This one is considered the best candidate to win the X-prize.
NeXT OS was successfully ported to x86 in the mid-1990s. Mac OS-X is the merger of NeXT OS and Mac OS. The port was never really pushed that hard because NeXT was merging was merging with Apple.
It happend just before Steve J. regained control of the company. Two or three Asian comanies were allowed to offer the Apple OS on their hardware. However, Steve ended this program pretty quick.
Does anyone remember the names of these companies?