... has a lot in common with "The Dream Lord/Evil Doctor" character introduced this past season. They could merge the two ideas with a bit of creative story telling.
Davies made some reboot comments prior to the first season but he was selling it to new viewers at the time. As the show has had four more seasons there have been numerous bridges built to recognize the older shows, including actually showing all of the other TV Who actors in flashback (including Paul McGann). There have been references to older adventures, characters from the older shows (Sarah Jane and K-9, hello?). What the show was sold as initially and what it has become are two different things. The story very clearly is telling the further adventures of the Doctor, not a do-over.
... was rumored to be on the short list of candidates to follow Tennant. Ejiofor was great in Serenity and Children of Men. He would have been a really great Doctor.
It wasn't known if the Who re-launch would even be successful and Eccleston didn't want to get tied down. Over the course of his one season Eccleston and Davies had creative differences (meaning they didn't get along).
You're is a small minority if you're a Who fan and not enjoying the new series. The new show has made efforts to honor the older shows and maintain a reasonable continuity. The storytelling has been solid, a good run of actors... I'm a fan of the older shows too but I don't see any reason to dislike the newer episodes.
And I hope they can keep Smith on for 3 or 4 seasons. That's the average run for most of the Doctors.
They're going to need to write around that 13th regeneration limit before long...
After the Challenger explosion NASA briefly pursued the idea of a breakaway cabin for the shuttle that would have parachutes and splashdown inflatables. There would have been a separation line just above the line of the wing and forward of the cargo doors. The idea was abandoned because it would have been too difficult/expensive to retrofit the existing shuttles.
The Orion program will bring back the escape rocket concept. A small cluster of thrusters will pull the crew module off the top of the rocket during a mid-launch abort.
1) A lawyer copies a story from your newspaper and posts it anonymously on a blog or user aggregated news site. Then that same attorney runs to you and says "They stole your story! You should sue!!!"
The notion behind Content Aware fill is to sell PS to managers who don't want to hire an art department. The videos will make people think they can click a button to fix all of the problems in their crappy images. Knowledgeable PS users understand there's never going to be a button for "fix it". There's no way a couple of clicks will replace what an hour of work by someone who really understand the software.
Merely another tool. But if a tool is useful or handy then there's a place for it.
Lightweight, nice display, fun... I don't understand the hate towards iPad. Is it an overgrown iPhone? yep. But even after 3 generations I still think the iphone is cool.
====== snip====== So it was in 1978 that when the proton beam entered Anatoli Bugorski's skull it measured about 200,000 rads, and when it exited, having collided with the inside of his head, it weighed in at about 300,000 rads. Bugorski, a 36-year-old researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, was checking a piece of accelerator equipment that had malfunctioned - as had, apparently, the several safety mechanisms. Leaning over the piece of equipment, Bugorski stuck his head in the space through which the beam passes on its way from one part of the accelerator tube to the next and saw a flash brighter than a thousand suns. He felt no pain.
From what we know about radiation, about 500 to 600 rads is enough to kill a person (though we don't know of anyone else who has been exposed to radiation in the form of a proton beam moving at about the speed of sound). The left side of his face swollen beyond recognition, Bugorski was taken to a clinic in Moscow so that doctors could observe his death over the following two to three weeks.
Over the next few days, skin on the back of his head and on his face just next to his left nostril peeled away to reveal the path the beam had burned through the skin, the skull, and the brain tissue. The inside of his head continued to burn away: all the nerves on the left were gone in two years, paralyzing that side of his face. Still, not only did Bugorski not die, but he remained a normally functioning human being, capable even of continuing in science. For the first dozen years, the only real evidence that something had gone neurologically awry were occasional petit mal seizures; over the last few years Bugorski has also had six grand mals. The dividing line of his life goes down the middle of his face: the right side has aged, while the left froze 19 years ago. When he concentrates, he wrinkles only half his forehead. ====== snip======
During my time on Fedora 11 I fell out of love with Gnome and switched over to KDE. During my transitional phase I played a bit with E. It was the window manager during the redhat 5.x days when I first started with Linux, and I was nostalgic to see how E had changed.
I liked E's speedy response. It's a lightweight WM without much bloat. Very quick and responsive load times.
On the other hand it needs updating. There's no support for compositing, and GL is software rendered. No acceleration. I'm a Blenderhead so this was not good. It doesn't have a good file manager. I found myself using MC whenever I was in E. No easy menu editing.
I very much would like to see E take it's place again as a viable desktop option. It has so much going for it, be clearly developer resources haven't been available like KDE and Gnome.
On linux platforms it is unstable because Flash and Pulse Audio do no play well. Firefox would be doing everyone a favor if they allowed users to block flash from sites the same way you can block images from specific servers.
I've used Fedora since it was split off from RH, and I used RedHat going back to 5.2. For most of that time it was one of the best supported distros from the user community point of view. More recently the pendulum appears to have swung to Ubuntu. Aside from package management what are the differences I would notice by giving Ubuntu a try this time?
So if the GPU become a glorified web client how will they keep soaking everyone for a (bi)yearly card upgrade? If all of the most complex tasks are handed off to a remote server that's where the upgrades should be handled.
Also if part of the secret sauce is being handled remotely NVidia has no further excuses for keeping it's linux drivers closed.
Astro Boy ran out of money and fired it's entire staff of animators at one point. The movie was finished on the cheap. I do not have high hopes for this one.
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... has a lot in common with "The Dream Lord/Evil Doctor" character introduced this past season. They could merge the two ideas with a bit of creative story telling.
Davies made some reboot comments prior to the first season but he was selling it to new viewers at the time. As the show has had four more seasons there have been numerous bridges built to recognize the older shows, including actually showing all of the other TV Who actors in flashback (including Paul McGann). There have been references to older adventures, characters from the older shows (Sarah Jane and K-9, hello?). What the show was sold as initially and what it has become are two different things. The story very clearly is telling the further adventures of the Doctor, not a do-over.
... was rumored to be on the short list of candidates to follow Tennant. Ejiofor was great in Serenity and Children of Men. He would have been a really great Doctor.
It wasn't known if the Who re-launch would even be successful and Eccleston didn't want to get tied down. Over the course of his one season Eccleston and Davies had creative differences (meaning they didn't get along).
You're is a small minority if you're a Who fan and not enjoying the new series. The new show has made efforts to honor the older shows and maintain a reasonable continuity. The storytelling has been solid, a good run of actors... I'm a fan of the older shows too but I don't see any reason to dislike the newer episodes.
And I hope they can keep Smith on for 3 or 4 seasons. That's the average run for most of the Doctors.
They're going to need to write around that 13th regeneration limit before long...
Anything that saves me from walking outside and looking up at the sky and being around nature is progress!
... there were people saying Dungeons & Dragons would lead to devil worship. That used natas to crack me up!!!!
NZ is becoming a new magnet for film making and now software houses have a huge incentive to move there. THIS is how you build an economy.
After the Challenger explosion NASA briefly pursued the idea of a breakaway cabin for the shuttle that would have parachutes and splashdown inflatables. There would have been a separation line just above the line of the wing and forward of the cargo doors. The idea was abandoned because it would have been too difficult/expensive to retrofit the existing shuttles.
The Orion program will bring back the escape rocket concept. A small cluster of thrusters will pull the crew module off the top of the rocket during a mid-launch abort.
That would explain a lot, but now I think it's missing egg beaters and a cricket bat.
1) A lawyer copies a story from your newspaper and posts it anonymously on a blog or user aggregated news site. Then that same attorney runs to you and says "They stole your story! You should sue!!!"
2) Repeat
3) Profit.
The notion behind Content Aware fill is to sell PS to managers who don't want to hire an art department. The videos will make people think they can click a button to fix all of the problems in their crappy images. Knowledgeable PS users understand there's never going to be a button for "fix it". There's no way a couple of clicks will replace what an hour of work by someone who really understand the software.
Merely another tool. But if a tool is useful or handy then there's a place for it.
Lightweight, nice display, fun... I don't understand the hate towards iPad. Is it an overgrown iPhone? yep. But even after 3 generations I still think the iphone is cool.
I'm even looking forward to the iPad clones.
One of these days I'm going to chop that album into little bits and pieces!!!!
Doh!
Still my favorite:
why's (poignant) guide to ruby http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/
Brains and entertaining. Get him to cover big events.
Don't let "TV Pros" anywhere near NASA tv.
source : http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.12/science.html
====== snip======
So it was in 1978 that when the proton beam entered Anatoli Bugorski's skull it measured about 200,000 rads, and when it exited, having collided with the inside of his head, it weighed in at about 300,000 rads. Bugorski, a 36-year-old researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, was checking a piece of accelerator equipment that had malfunctioned - as had, apparently, the several safety mechanisms. Leaning over the piece of equipment, Bugorski stuck his head in the space through which the beam passes on its way from one part of the accelerator tube to the next and saw a flash brighter than a thousand suns. He felt no pain.
From what we know about radiation, about 500 to 600 rads is enough to kill a person (though we don't know of anyone else who has been exposed to radiation in the form of a proton beam moving at about the speed of sound). The left side of his face swollen beyond recognition, Bugorski was taken to a clinic in Moscow so that doctors could observe his death over the following two to three weeks.
Over the next few days, skin on the back of his head and on his face just next to his left nostril peeled away to reveal the path the beam had burned through the skin, the skull, and the brain tissue. The inside of his head continued to burn away: all the nerves on the left were gone in two years, paralyzing that side of his face. Still, not only did Bugorski not die, but he remained a normally functioning human being, capable even of continuing in science. For the first dozen years, the only real evidence that something had gone neurologically awry were occasional petit mal seizures; over the last few years Bugorski has also had six grand mals. The dividing line of his life goes down the middle of his face: the right side has aged, while the left froze 19 years ago. When he concentrates, he wrinkles only half his forehead.
====== snip======
During my time on Fedora 11 I fell out of love with Gnome and switched over to KDE. During my transitional phase I played a bit with E. It was the window manager during the redhat 5.x days when I first started with Linux, and I was nostalgic to see how E had changed.
I liked E's speedy response. It's a lightweight WM without much bloat. Very quick and responsive load times.
On the other hand it needs updating. There's no support for compositing, and GL is software rendered. No acceleration. I'm a Blenderhead so this was not good. It doesn't have a good file manager. I found myself using MC whenever I was in E. No easy menu editing.
I very much would like to see E take it's place again as a viable desktop option. It has so much going for it, be clearly developer resources haven't been available like KDE and Gnome.
Suck it, Germany!
On linux platforms it is unstable because Flash and Pulse Audio do no play well. Firefox would be doing everyone a favor if they allowed users to block flash from sites the same way you can block images from specific servers.
I dug the broken image links but i would have liked to see one or two hrefs point at a C: drive.
I've used Fedora since it was split off from RH, and I used RedHat going back to 5.2. For most of that time it was one of the best supported distros from the user community point of view. More recently the pendulum appears to have swung to Ubuntu. Aside from package management what are the differences I would notice by giving Ubuntu a try this time?
So if the GPU become a glorified web client how will they keep soaking everyone for a (bi)yearly card upgrade? If all of the most complex tasks are handed off to a remote server that's where the upgrades should be handled.
Also if part of the secret sauce is being handled remotely NVidia has no further excuses for keeping it's linux drivers closed.
Astro Boy ran out of money and fired it's entire staff of animators at one point. The movie was finished on the cheap. I do not have high hopes for this one.