Of course, we all know that's not how it really works, it's not always a trade-off. Many purely functional considerations have the side effect of being very esthetically pleasing. The field of Aerodynamics is a good example.
Have you ever seen the engine from a 60's era Porsche Spyder? That's beauty man.
My fond wish is that the "space parasites" line will be a red-herring, a tool used by the current decadent Jedi hegemony. Perhaps the midichlorians are an effect of the force rather than the cause. Perhaps this philosophical difference characterizes a schism between factions of the Jedi, contributing to their downfall. ("new-school"/midichlorians jedi vs. "old-school"/force jedi - led downward by the Sith, who probably also are of the "old-school" philosophy.
continuing my thread about the design: the Enterprise makes a statement about the civilization that built it. Compare it to the spartan functionality of the Klingon ships, and it appears rather decadent. Compare again to STTNG, and Voyager, and you have people living in deadly luxury.
I have been rather extremely disappointed at the design for Vulcan ships - to carry out the stereotype, Vulcan hardware ought to be of extreme ugly functionality. But where I've seen it, it wasn't.
That's not entirely true though, you can't say that about the pod-racer scenes. That equipment looked exceptionally lived-in.
The Naboo hardware, of course looked sleek and shiny, and regal, because it served a rich, technically advanced, monarchy. A culture who has function down to the point where it's no longer the primary design criterion, and now dwells largely on form. Consider the iMac. Steve Jobs saw that the need for hardware improvement on a machine that just surfs the net and does word processing was not there - so they designed a pretty case, and put the guts in there. Is it beige? no. Can it give you 60 FPS in Quake? no. Can you CAD a passenger jet with it? no. Those are machines where function becomes a stronger consideration. When you're putting form before function in a peice of hardware like an interceptor/air-space defense fighter, that makes a statement about the technology behind them - they've developed it to a peak, and it no longer needs to be ugly, to be deadly and effective. It can be made beautiful, and still adequately serve it's function. Obviously, they don't manufacture droids on Naboo.
I don't agree. There were many flaws in the effects of TPM. Simply put, if you didn't see a shadow of a craft over terrain, that's a flaw. One notable one, is the shadow of the queen's ship as it landed on Tatooine. I hope they clean that up for the special edition, because it looked like crap. Another bad scene was where they rendered the jedi sneaking into the hangar on the droid ship, when they dropped from the air duct to the floor, there was something sloppy about the physics that just screamed "not real!".
The shininess and newness was a stylistic nuance, reflective of a different historical era, and I thought it was nice, and after two decades of Star Wars - junky looking hardware rip-off, it was quite refreshing. It rejuvinated my love of antique cars (even possibly played a part in my purchase of a vintage Porsche). That was good design. Had nothing to do with the bad effects. Which were bad. It's easy to assume that because they've got a multi million dollar SFX budget, and leadership in the field, and decades of experience, that it's supposed to be flawless and they won't cut corners. That, unfortunately, was not the case.
Personally, I thought the fighting in the Matrix was pretty stiff. Especially Morpheus. You could tell that these were non-martial-artists who just took a crash-course. Fortunately, it wasn't too bad of a distraction.
Maybe Chow Yun Fat could be in the Matrix sequel? Pretty please?
I really, really, really liked the fight scene in TPM; but again, I have some technical disagreements with it, there was way too much "showy" acrobatics. At least the Matrix focussed more on functional techniques.
A redeeming thing would be for Mace Windu; annoyed for the final time at Jar Jar's crap, whips out lightsaber, fully castrates Jar Jar, and returns lightsaber to holster on belt, before the smoking genitals hit the floor, all in the blink of an eye, aiaido-style. That would rock.
Personally, the only thing that would allow me to like Bill Gates is: I was reading the Scientific American article on how a Manned Mars Mission will cost $20 Billion. Gates could easily afford this, it's pocket-change to him. He wouldn't be the richest man in the world anymore, but after the first $10 million, you're basically beyond a care, aren't you? Well, if you're a human being with a shred of decency, you *should* be.
You'd feel the same way about Microsoft if you spent the first half of the 1990's editing autoexec.bat and config.sys files trying to cram everything into 640k of RAM just to get the fucking thing to work.
I swore in 1993 that I would never forgive Microsoft for that, no matter what. It's 2000, and I still don't.
Actually, this news going out probably has a positive impact on Oracle's stock value - to know that this company is willing to do whatever it takes to protect itself from predators like MS.
Of course, that's largely the justification MS uses for it's practices.
First, Gore is *not* Clinton. Second, Clinton may indeed be the most nefariously evil president in the history of the US - with George Herbert Walker Bush running a VERY close second, but GW Bush the younger - will make Clinton look like an angel. Trust me. The man is quoted as stating: "there ought to be limits on freedom." Where Gore is accused of saying he invented the internet, it was an unintended slip, combined with misquoting - the man is not THAT stupid. I'll even defend Qualye's "potatoe" gaff on similar grounds. (Qualye has plenty of other scary statements). While I don't think Gore is squeaky clean either, he's a saint compared to George W Bush. 'yall SHOULD have voted for McCain. Or even Orin Hatch (but then watch Novell quickly become the government IT standard - for servers AND clients. hey, it's got a GUI now. ..)
. . . in fact, MS wouldn't even have to bundle MS SQL with NT. All they have to do is subsidize MS SQL with profits from their OS Monopoly, combined with the technical benefits of undocumented OS API, and combined with MS's famous FUD campaigns, and sell MS SQL for ridiculously low prices (which IMHO, and many others', they do), and Oracle sales and marketshare will be significantly harmed (which they have).
I even think that Oracle probably has a good case for a civil lawsuit after the DOJ gets through with MS.
Yeah, this is exactly why MS partnered with Sybase instead of Oracle, so they could steal their technology, and fuck them in the ass with MS SQL.
But that's beside the point. Oracle may not be technically better than Sybase, or even it's bastard child MS SQL. But Oracle has a right to exist, a right to compete, and attempt to survive and win in the marketplace, and Microsoft could very easily bundle MS SQL with NT and Oracle would be a faint memory before Judge Jackson could blink. In that respect, Oracle also has a lawful right to hire a PI to find evidence of unlawful behavior on Microsoft's part in order to bolster the government's case in it's attempt to restrain the evil beast.
Okay, we're not talking about corporate espionage here, or even extortion, or "market research". We're talking about a victim of a crime, not satisfied that the Government can fully "do the job" of ensuring justice without a little LAWFUL help.
A PI would be the appropriate measure, and I'm sure many private citizens would have done the same exact thing in the same circumstances scaled back to a personal level. This is the whole reason PI's exist in the first place. To supplement the meager, lowest-common-denominator, government-provided justice. If government justice were adequate, the 1995 DOJ case against MS would have gone this far, and we'd have a split up Microsoft by now already, instead of waiting 5+ years, allowing them to delay, delay, appeal, etc. while they fuck up the industry even worse (ie. the Bungie acquisition).
I wrote him email, told him to screw the FAA and just drive it down and launch from downtown Tiujuana. Land in the Baja desert, spend the evening with pretty senoritas serving you cervesas. Sounds like fun to me.
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Yes, but absense of evidence is not evidence of absense.
I can understand that looking at the mythology of many religious systems, how belief in a god can look pretty silly.
But in reality, the silly thing is to be absolutely convinced that there is no god. To me, that is neither rational, nor scientific.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
what the hell is going to happen to the platform that was to bring us 'affordable, scalable RISC
Processing'?
Motorola's Bill Walker is going to keep flushing until it goes down.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
Yes, the Borg, excellent point!
Of course, we all know that's not how it really works, it's not always a trade-off. Many purely functional considerations have the side effect of being very esthetically pleasing. The field of Aerodynamics is a good example.
Have you ever seen the engine from a 60's era Porsche Spyder? That's beauty man.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
My fond wish is that the "space parasites" line will be a red-herring, a tool used by the current decadent Jedi hegemony. Perhaps the midichlorians are an effect of the force rather than the cause. Perhaps this philosophical difference characterizes a schism between factions of the Jedi, contributing to their downfall. ("new-school"/midichlorians jedi vs. "old-school"/force jedi - led downward by the Sith, who probably also are of the "old-school" philosophy.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
continuing my thread about the design: the Enterprise makes a statement about the civilization that built it. Compare it to the spartan functionality of the Klingon ships, and it appears rather decadent. Compare again to STTNG, and Voyager, and you have people living in deadly luxury.
I have been rather extremely disappointed at the design for Vulcan ships - to carry out the stereotype, Vulcan hardware ought to be of extreme ugly functionality. But where I've seen it, it wasn't.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
Reeves will reject all offers to appear in Matrix two. He wants to spend more time with his "rock band".
He will be replaced by the guy from Terminator 2.
(did anyone else hear that Arnold is in talks with James Cameron for Terminator 3?)
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
That's not entirely true though, you can't say that about the pod-racer scenes. That equipment looked exceptionally lived-in.
The Naboo hardware, of course looked sleek and shiny, and regal, because it served a rich, technically advanced, monarchy. A culture who has function down to the point where it's no longer the primary design criterion, and now dwells largely on form. Consider the iMac. Steve Jobs saw that the need for hardware improvement on a machine that just surfs the net and does word processing was not there - so they designed a pretty case, and put the guts in there. Is it beige? no. Can it give you 60 FPS in Quake? no. Can you CAD a passenger jet with it? no. Those are machines where function becomes a stronger consideration. When you're putting form before function in a peice of hardware like an interceptor/air-space defense fighter, that makes a statement about the technology behind them - they've developed it to a peak, and it no longer needs to be ugly, to be deadly and effective. It can be made beautiful, and still adequately serve it's function.
Obviously, they don't manufacture droids on Naboo.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
I don't agree. There were many flaws in the effects of TPM. Simply put, if you didn't see a shadow of a craft over terrain, that's a flaw. One notable one, is the shadow of the queen's ship as it landed on Tatooine. I hope they clean that up for the special edition, because it looked like crap. Another bad scene was where they rendered the jedi sneaking into the hangar on the droid ship, when they dropped from the air duct to the floor, there was something sloppy about the physics that just screamed "not real!".
The shininess and newness was a stylistic nuance, reflective of a different historical era, and I thought it was nice, and after two decades of Star Wars - junky looking hardware rip-off, it was quite refreshing. It rejuvinated my love of antique cars (even possibly played a part in my purchase of a vintage Porsche). That was good design. Had nothing to do with the bad effects. Which were bad. It's easy to assume that because they've got a multi million dollar SFX budget, and leadership in the field, and decades of experience, that it's supposed to be flawless and they won't cut corners. That, unfortunately, was not the case.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
Now that's what we need, a Jar Jar dialectizer!
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
Personally, I thought the fighting in the Matrix was pretty stiff. Especially Morpheus. You could tell that these were non-martial-artists who just took a crash-course. Fortunately, it wasn't too bad of a distraction.
Maybe Chow Yun Fat could be in the Matrix sequel? Pretty please?
I really, really, really liked the fight scene in TPM; but again, I have some technical disagreements with it, there was way too much "showy" acrobatics. At least the Matrix focussed more on functional techniques.
A redeeming thing would be for Mace Windu; annoyed for the final time at Jar Jar's crap, whips out lightsaber, fully castrates Jar Jar, and returns lightsaber to holster on belt, before the smoking genitals hit the floor, all in the blink of an eye, aiaido-style. That would rock.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
fuck yeah! that would be awesome!
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
Ah yes, and Quarterdeck! that awesome great company that Microsoft ruthlessly stomped out of existence with Windows95! The audacity!
(hint: I'm getting a little punchy)
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
IIRC the "death tax" was recently killed by a senate vote. (not sure if it's passed and signed tho - I think Clinton was threatening a Veto).
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
Personally, the only thing that would allow me to like Bill Gates is: I was reading the Scientific American article on how a Manned Mars Mission will cost $20 Billion. Gates could easily afford this, it's pocket-change to him. He wouldn't be the richest man in the world anymore, but after the first $10 million, you're basically beyond a care, aren't you? Well, if you're a human being with a shred of decency, you *should* be.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
You'd feel the same way about Microsoft if you spent the first half of the 1990's editing autoexec.bat and config.sys files trying to cram everything into 640k of RAM just to get the fucking thing to work.
I swore in 1993 that I would never forgive Microsoft for that, no matter what. It's 2000, and I still don't.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
Because Pot and LSD are harmless.
If he were dealing coke and heroin, that would be a different story.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
Actually, this news going out probably has a positive impact on Oracle's stock value - to know that this company is willing to do whatever it takes to protect itself from predators like MS.
Of course, that's largely the justification MS uses for it's practices.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
First, Gore is *not* Clinton. .)
Second, Clinton may indeed be the most nefariously evil president in the history of the US - with George Herbert Walker Bush running a VERY close second, but GW Bush the younger - will make Clinton look like an angel. Trust me. The man is quoted as stating: "there ought to be limits on freedom." Where Gore is accused of saying he invented the internet, it was an unintended slip, combined with misquoting - the man is not THAT stupid. I'll even defend Qualye's "potatoe" gaff on similar grounds. (Qualye has plenty of other scary statements).
While I don't think Gore is squeaky clean either, he's a saint compared to George W Bush.
'yall SHOULD have voted for McCain. Or even Orin Hatch (but then watch Novell quickly become the government IT standard - for servers AND clients. hey, it's got a GUI now. .
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
. . . in fact, MS wouldn't even have to bundle MS SQL with NT. All they have to do is subsidize MS SQL with profits from their OS Monopoly, combined with the technical benefits of undocumented OS API, and combined with MS's famous FUD campaigns, and sell MS SQL for ridiculously low prices (which IMHO, and many others', they do), and Oracle sales and marketshare will be significantly harmed (which they have).
I even think that Oracle probably has a good case for a civil lawsuit after the DOJ gets through with MS.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
Yeah, this is exactly why MS partnered with Sybase instead of Oracle, so they could steal their technology, and fuck them in the ass with MS SQL.
But that's beside the point. Oracle may not be technically better than Sybase, or even it's bastard child MS SQL. But Oracle has a right to exist, a right to compete, and attempt to survive and win in the marketplace, and Microsoft could very easily bundle MS SQL with NT and Oracle would be a faint memory before Judge Jackson could blink. In that respect, Oracle also has a lawful right to hire a PI to find evidence of unlawful behavior on Microsoft's part in order to bolster the government's case in it's attempt to restrain the evil beast.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
Okay, we're not talking about corporate espionage here, or even extortion, or "market research". We're talking about a victim of a crime, not satisfied that the Government can fully "do the job" of ensuring justice without a little LAWFUL help.
A PI would be the appropriate measure, and I'm sure many private citizens would have done the same exact thing in the same circumstances scaled back to a personal level. This is the whole reason PI's exist in the first place. To supplement the meager, lowest-common-denominator, government-provided justice. If government justice were adequate, the 1995 DOJ case against MS would have gone this far, and we'd have a split up Microsoft by now already, instead of waiting 5+ years, allowing them to delay, delay, appeal, etc. while they fuck up the industry even worse (ie. the Bungie acquisition).
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
holy shit you rock 575!
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
Maybe someone can talk him into doing some productive science while he's up there. . .
Or maybe the Flat Earthers can pay him to take pictures, so they can prove that the Round Earth is all just a big government conspiracy.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
oh no, after salvaging stuff from the moon, they went and fought crime, helped people, and stuff like that. Very A-Team-ish.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
I wrote him email, told him to screw the FAA and just drive it down and launch from downtown Tiujuana. Land in the Baja desert, spend the evening with pretty senoritas serving you cervesas. Sounds like fun to me.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!