After seeing the movie for the first time after 20 some years, Obiwan letting Luke fire up his father's lightsaber kina bothered me a little....
Luke -was- used to driving and flying vehicles with weapons, and possibly using blasters occasionally.
There are places where children are expected to do things earlier than city people are used to. Small tractors at 5 or 6, guns at 7 or 8, cars in the back fields at 9 or 10 (because they need to be bigger to reach the controls). With supervision, though. And accidents are few, in fact lower than around cities.
I knew people that lived in the city until about the age of 30, then took a two week course in driving. Then they were driving next to me on the expressway!! Not a good thing... 8-P
On the other hand, I did think it was a bit unwise to wave it around in the house. But I chalked that up to the actors knowing nothing about weapons.
This was the film that -made- the merchandising strategy. There were a few movie based toys before thet, but they were small stuff compared to this. It was a movie that people liked so much, that they -wanted- to buy lots of the toys. It was a first in many ways. The marketing only works if people want it to work, reguardless of what the salespeople think.
The problem is not in the old films, at least no more than originally. It is in our older selves, worn down and jaded, no longer able to maintain the necessary "willing suspension of disbelief". A good movie requires work from the viewer, not just the actors, writers and crew.
Besides, any hollywood movie is tacky, to a person who makes their living making the real tech! 8-)
However, make sure you know which version you have, Lucas changed the later versions of the movies. 8-(
Nothing says success like the juxtaposition of "Germany" and "technological innovation involving a hydrogen filled container".
It's not the German's fault. The Zepplins were designed to use Helium, but the US had the only supply and refused to sell them any. Of course the ones asking were not friendly, so it is understandable... 8-)
News flash: Most people don't talk in words, they use "Sound symbols" that just sound like words. It's like ships passing, sending light flashes or signal flags to get a response so that they know the other ship sees them and won't collide with them (probably).
Or, like secret agents giving a code word and getting a counter-sign word. it is not meant to be taken literally.
Just give the expected sign/countersign and they will be able to avoid stress. It's much easier that way.
By the way, these signal words are different in different areas. When you go somewhere, listen for the sign/countersign that is in use and copy it. (There are other things to pick up on, too. But they are beyond the scope of this discussion.)
I will be programming in a system that takes my input for what the app should do, and stores the info in a database. With another database for the tables and such. When I do a make, it will read the databases and generate the code files, then run compiles and the link to make the run-able file(s).
But it will allow me to make changes in the code, that are stored in the database and picked up when I do the next make.
It will also allow working at different levels down to assembler, if necessary. And link in other languages. And use different database types, more than one in the same app.
With, of course, convenient screens to enter stuff including windows and forms. Which is also picked up automatically for the next make.
And by the way, it will allow writing scripts to make new code generator operations to generate new kinds of code. Or even text.
P.S. It's called Clarion, sold by SoftVelocity, look it up. But it's not cheap... 8-)
If they 'behave' then they can go on parole, under strict supervision, of course. It's the only way to be sure everyone is safe!
And, it would solve the unemployment problem! All of the homeless could be hired as guards! But they'd probably screw up and hire terrorists, instead, because they were cheaper... 8-P
That you don't know that writing assembly language iswriting directly in opcodes.
The later Macro Assemblers, even as early as the 1960's, where quite advanced over writing in Hex Opcodes. Which I have done, the first Microcomputer chips didn't have any high level language compilers yet, or even any assemblers at first.
Macro means being able to define code blocks by a symbol name and call them by symbol. Later versions even supported arguments for what was later called Procedures. They were much more usable than the kids now think. Many of the ideas used in modern high level languages actually started in Macro Assembler versions.
Assemblers are still used for code that must be highly optimized or uses new unsupported opcodes. But computers are fast enough, now, that such is not usually necessary. Usablity and reliability come first.
The Austrailian police probably did not bring an Electrician with them. It was probably just normal 120-240 split phase. Maybe the police didn't expect 240 to a shed, and the Media was the ignorant ones?
This is not about guns, but about dangerous levels of control.
To quote an old saying: "Government is like a fire in your fireplace. It can make you very warm and comfortable, but if you let it get out of control it can destroy everything you value."
The new gun channel sounds interesting, though... 8-)
That's the problem with most of these people who want to "play" Rambo with their "compensating for a small penis" toys.... they're usually too big of cowards to actually step up and serve.
I assume you are posting from a base in Afganistan?? No?... 8-P
The pressure is to make the layer of thermal paste thin, i.e. to push it out and only leave enough to bridge the tiny gaps caused by unevenness in the heat spreader surface and the cooler surface....
Pressure to spread the thermal paste is not a good idea. Better to spread it with a single-edge razor blade, which you can get at hardware stores. That spreads and levels the thermal paste. In addition, it allows you to detect grains or crystals in the paste or from contamination. Remove those and spread smooth, it will make a much better thermal joint that merely pressure. Thermal paste does not flow well under pressure, it tends to harden instead.
I have installed CPUs since they first had heatsinks, and the only reason I have seen mine burn out or (later days) throttle is because of dust buildup over time. Don't forget to check them for dust, every year or so. 8-)
The disease Leprosy does not cause all of those terrible symptoms, directly. It only kills the pain nerves. All of the missing fingers and toes, and worse, are dure to the lack of pain and the occaisional mistakes it causes.
Autonomous vehicles will do a great job... If your goal is to limit the overpopulation!
If you think they will be safer than people, then you are being superstitious. And I speak as an Engineer working with automated equipment. "If Engineers built buildings the way Programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization!"
This will amount to nothing. It will never make it to the market. In a few months time, nobody will remember it. Anybody want to bet against me on this?
That sounds like a beauracrat's tactic of predicting something random, then hoping that no-one will remember it if they are wrong... 8-)
Human beings can detect static magnetic fields (not changing). This has been known since the '70s.
The human neural system is partly electronic, the nerves are not just chemical.
Some people claim to be able to detect RF, but the scientific tests are not in the literature. The tests for the static magnetic fields are... why?
Just because a superstitious person believes something, does not necessarily make it false.
I'm an electronics engineer and I know what's what. 8-) I have a cellphone, but I turn it off when in known "shadow" areas and never touch it to my face. I don't have any WiFi transceivers in my house.
once again: targets are NOT chosen for whether or not guns are allowed on premises. in no mass shooting over the past 5 years has it come to light that THAT was why the place was targeted....
The mass media are very careful not to report such things, but since most of the shootings are in "Gun Free Zones" it is pretty clear that it had an effect.
The other reasons are probably also true, but they are not all of the question.
The problem is there's announcements several times a year about super-dooper battery tech that is just about to storm the market. The reality is that battery technology is evolving slower than most other technologies and is lagging behind by a massive margin.
If by "other technologies" you mean computers and electronics, that is not a normal speed of change. And even that is slowing right now.
Development actually proceeds in "stairsteps", a big "fast" change with a slowing for a while afterward. And change in the different fields, happens at different rates and times.
But of course, advertising continues full speed... 8-)
But we never seem to find any of these new technologies finding their way to actual batteries the general public can access.
Where do you think the battery tech in your laptop or smartphone came from? These same sales press releases where here for those! Not all of them are jokes, the question is: Which Ones?
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Timothy Zahn is a well respected Science Fiction writer, who wrote many novels before the Thraun trilogy.
And I enjoyed them, too.
After seeing the movie for the first time after 20 some years, Obiwan letting Luke fire up his father's lightsaber kina bothered me a little. ...
Luke -was- used to driving and flying vehicles with weapons, and possibly using blasters occasionally.
There are places where children are expected to do things earlier than city people are used to. Small tractors at 5 or 6, guns at 7 or 8, cars in the back fields at 9 or 10 (because they need to be bigger to reach the controls). With supervision, though. And accidents are few, in fact lower than around cities.
I knew people that lived in the city until about the age of 30, then took a two week course in driving. Then they were driving next to me on the expressway!! Not a good thing... 8-P
On the other hand, I did think it was a bit unwise to wave it around in the house. But I chalked that up to the actors knowing nothing about weapons.
You are right... except:
This was the film that -made- the merchandising strategy. There were a few movie based toys before thet, but they were small stuff compared to this.
It was a movie that people liked so much, that they -wanted- to buy lots of the toys. It was a first in many ways.
The marketing only works if people want it to work, reguardless of what the salespeople think.
The problem is not in the old films, at least no more than originally. It is in our older selves, worn down and jaded, no longer able to maintain the necessary "willing suspension of disbelief". A good movie requires work from the viewer, not just the actors, writers and crew.
Besides, any hollywood movie is tacky, to a person who makes their living making the real tech! 8-)
However, make sure you know which version you have, Lucas changed the later versions of the movies. 8-(
Nothing says success like the juxtaposition of "Germany" and "technological innovation involving a hydrogen filled container".
It's not the German's fault. The Zepplins were designed to use Helium, but the US had the only supply and refused to sell them any.
Of course the ones asking were not friendly, so it is understandable... 8-)
News flash: Most people don't talk in words, they use "Sound symbols" that just sound like words. It's like ships passing, sending light flashes or signal flags to get a response so that they know the other ship sees them and won't collide with them (probably).
Or, like secret agents giving a code word and getting a counter-sign word. it is not meant to be taken literally.
Just give the expected sign/countersign and they will be able to avoid stress. It's much easier that way.
By the way, these signal words are different in different areas. When you go somewhere, listen for the sign/countersign that is in use and copy it.
(There are other things to pick up on, too. But they are beyond the scope of this discussion.)
I will be programming in a system that takes my input for what the app should do, and stores the info in a database. With another database for the tables and such. When I do a make, it will read the databases and generate the code files, then run compiles and the link to make the run-able file(s).
But it will allow me to make changes in the code, that are stored in the database and picked up when I do the next make.
It will also allow working at different levels down to assembler, if necessary. And link in other languages. And use different database types, more than one in the same app.
With, of course, convenient screens to enter stuff including windows and forms. Which is also picked up automatically for the next make.
And by the way, it will allow writing scripts to make new code generator operations to generate new kinds of code. Or even text.
P.S. It's called Clarion, sold by SoftVelocity, look it up. But it's not cheap... 8-)
Good god, I think the UK actually copied that 2001 article! Is that what they consider "accurate and up to date"? 8-}
If they 'behave' then they can go on parole, under strict supervision, of course. It's the only way to be sure everyone is safe!
And, it would solve the unemployment problem! All of the homeless could be hired as guards!
But they'd probably screw up and hire terrorists, instead, because they were cheaper... 8-P
That you don't know that writing assembly language is writing directly in opcodes.
The later Macro Assemblers, even as early as the 1960's, where quite advanced over writing in Hex Opcodes. Which I have done, the first Microcomputer chips didn't have any high level language compilers yet, or even any assemblers at first.
Macro means being able to define code blocks by a symbol name and call them by symbol. Later versions even supported arguments for what was later called Procedures. They were much more usable than the kids now think. Many of the ideas used in modern high level languages actually started in Macro Assembler versions.
Assemblers are still used for code that must be highly optimized or uses new unsupported opcodes. But computers are fast enough, now, that such is not usually necessary. Usablity and reliability come first.
The Austrailian police probably did not bring an Electrician with them. It was probably just normal 120-240 split phase.
Maybe the police didn't expect 240 to a shed, and the Media was the ignorant ones?
This is not about guns, but about dangerous levels of control.
To quote an old saying:
"Government is like a fire in your fireplace. It can make you very warm and comfortable, but if you let it get out of control it can destroy everything you value."
The new gun channel sounds interesting, though... 8-)
The state militias include every able-bodied male (white males originally).
Actually, that was a hundred years later. Originally there was no such restriction. And even later, it was not in every state.
That's the problem with most of these people who want to "play" Rambo with their "compensating for a small penis" toys.... they're usually too big of cowards to actually step up and serve.
I assume you are posting from a base in Afganistan?? No? ... 8-P
If this had been an auto-driving car, in all likelihood the accident would never have happened.
That would only be true if the car was operated by Magic, instead of a computer... 8-)
The pressure is to make the layer of thermal paste thin, i.e. to push it out and only leave enough to bridge the tiny gaps caused by unevenness in the heat spreader surface and the cooler surface. ...
Pressure to spread the thermal paste is not a good idea. Better to spread it with a single-edge razor blade, which you can get at hardware stores. That spreads and levels the thermal paste. In addition, it allows you to detect grains or crystals in the paste or from contamination. Remove those and spread smooth, it will make a much better thermal joint that merely pressure. Thermal paste does not flow well under pressure, it tends to harden instead.
I have installed CPUs since they first had heatsinks, and the only reason I have seen mine burn out or (later days) throttle is because of dust buildup over time. Don't forget to check them for dust, every year or so. 8-)
Lack of pain can be fatal.
The disease Leprosy does not cause all of those terrible symptoms, directly. It only kills the pain nerves. All of the missing fingers and toes, and worse, are dure to the lack of pain and the occaisional mistakes it causes.
Liberals are easy to manipulate, they're foolish and eager to stroke their own ego's. Their arrogance will be their downfall.
The Soviets even had a term for them: "Useful Idiots".
Autonomous vehicles will do a great job... If your goal is to limit the overpopulation!
If you think they will be safer than people, then you are being superstitious. And I speak as an Engineer working with automated equipment.
"If Engineers built buildings the way Programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization!"
Guess we won't need to mine asteroids to get "absurdly valuable" minerals, technology always gets better.
No, they will mine things like Iron and Water so as to avoid lifting them up out of a gravity well.
Why bother with bringing them back to Earth? 8-)
This will amount to nothing. It will never make it to the market. In a few months time, nobody will remember it. Anybody want to bet against me on this?
That sounds like a beauracrat's tactic of predicting something random, then hoping that no-one will remember it if they are wrong... 8-)
Human beings can detect static magnetic fields (not changing). This has been known since the '70s.
The human neural system is partly electronic, the nerves are not just chemical.
Some people claim to be able to detect RF, but the scientific tests are not in the literature. The tests for the static magnetic fields are... why?
Just because a superstitious person believes something, does not necessarily make it false.
I'm an electronics engineer and I know what's what. 8-)
I have a cellphone, but I turn it off when in known "shadow" areas and never touch it to my face.
I don't have any WiFi transceivers in my house.
once again: targets are NOT chosen for whether or not guns are allowed on premises. ...
in no mass shooting over the past 5 years has it come to light that THAT was why the place was targeted.
The mass media are very careful not to report such things, but since most of the shootings are in "Gun Free Zones" it is pretty clear that it had an effect.
The other reasons are probably also true, but they are not all of the question.
The problem is there's announcements several times a year about super-dooper battery tech that is just about to storm the market. The reality is that battery technology is evolving slower than most other technologies and is lagging behind by a massive margin.
If by "other technologies" you mean computers and electronics, that is not a normal speed of change. And even that is slowing right now.
Development actually proceeds in "stairsteps", a big "fast" change with a slowing for a while afterward. And change in the different fields, happens at different rates and times.
But of course, advertising continues full speed... 8-)
But we never seem to find any of these new technologies finding their way to actual batteries the general public can access.
Where do you think the battery tech in your laptop or smartphone came from? These same sales press releases where here for those! Not all of them are jokes, the question is: Which Ones?