To be fair, they're not claiming that no later films used optical techniques, just that no later SF films used only those techniques. Total Recall, for example, had the CGI "x-ray tunnel" effect and most likely used digital compositing.
I'm still doubtful that Blade Runner was the last - I don't think E.T. used digital techniques, or the later Dune,Buckaroo Banzai,Ghostbusters,Star Trek III,The Terminator,Cocoon,Aliens,Robocop, etc. not to mention B-movies like Spacehunter and Ice Pirates.
The first movie to use 100% digitally compositing was Disney's The Rescuers Down Under in 1990.
Really people are just sensitive about familiar things being changed ...
Of course it doesn't matter that they cast a black man as Ford Prefect. What matters is that the man they cast had no business at all playing that part because he wasn't funny.
I didn't really mind Mos Def's performance, but I had the odd feeling coming out of the movie that Ford just wasn't in it.
Heck, even Microsoft has prior art - system modal dialog boxes have been around for ages.
I find it pretty ironic, since Apple wrote the following in their Human Interface Guidelines:
"Because the user must explicitly dismiss a modal dialog box before
doing anything else, you should use a modal dialog box only when it's
essential for the user to complete an operation before performing any
other work. Fixed-position modal dialog boxes restrict the user's
freedom of action; therefore, use them sparingly."
Quattro Pro was eating everyones lunch! It was faster the either Lotus or Excel, had a native GUI mode before their was a GUI to be had ( Lotus had a very bad add-in to get it into graphics mode and Excel had none )
Uh, Excel was always a GUI product. Maybe you're thinking of Lotus 1-2-3 or MultiPlan?
> One does not need to be a lawyer to understand what this means. It is absolutely clear that email DOES apply to this.
I think e-mails clearly qualify as "papers" in the context of the amendment; unfortunately, the constitution is not clear on what happens when your "papers" are being handled or stored by a third party, or when the courts have declared that your "papers" actually belong to that third party.
Sure, it's technically correct, but do you want language to degenerate into this? God help us all.
If this case were like virii, which makes no sense in any Latin construction, you'd have a point. It's not. This is no more controversial than the octopuses/octopi variants. Viruses is an established plural in English, so saying virii is a bit like saying "bacteriums" - it's a joke, nothing more.
PS: If I corrected you, what would that make you?
Considering that hypercorrection is "correcting" something that isn't wrong, it leaves me in the same spot and leaves you consigning people to hell over mere style issues!
It's okay. I have reserved my own level of hell for people who say "expresso.":)
> This was obviously a joke, but it's worth noting that the main character in Ben Mezrich's "Bringing Down the House" was asian.
Also worth noting, from the book:
"It's true," Micky added. "One of the best card counters I've ever met is African-American. Wears the gaudiest pimp outfits I've ever seen. Bright blue suits, shirts with ruffles, that sort of thing. He plays alone, bets like wild--raising and lowering from five dollars to five thousand, right under the pit boss's nose. And nobody ever suspects him of anything, because the casinos simply don't believe that a black man can count cards. Their own racism turns around and bites them right in the ass."
...reliable? Highly polished? You should be modded funny. I tried this beast, it didn't even have shared libraries --- compiling an X11 program just added the whole libX11.a into the executable.
Which version was this? I didn't code for A/UX, but I know Apple's compilation process gave priority to static lib references over shared - maybe you just needed to explicitly declare the shared version?
"Has there ever been a major OS that simply went away, period?"
How about A/UX - that went away when the Power Macs arrived. There are a handful of machines on the net still running it.
It's debatable whether you could call it a "major OS," but it's an SVR variant (definitely major) with BSD extensions. It was a reliable and highly-polished OS sold by a major vendor. Today, you'd have to get it on eBay along with the 680x0 Mac to run it.
From TFA: "While tools like the scanning tunneling microscope already map the structure of electrons in a sample of many atoms, 'it's always good to have complimentary approaches,' Goldhaber-Gordon said."
It is indeed good to have approaches that are 'on the house,' so to speak...
"Complimentary coffee, muffins and electrons in the lobby every morning".:)
So why didn't Haiku start with a Linux kernel, which is really good at a lot of stuff, add some patches/drivers to provide the missing mechanisms that they desire and then build on top of that?
I'm assuming that, architectural differences aside, it's because Linux developers weren't able until recently to come up with a solid, all-purpose scheduler.
The responsiveness of the BeOS depends in large part on efficient scheduling and priority for the GUI, which Linux couldn't match.
While the good ol' File Type and Creator Codes served their purpose, it is finally time to put them to rest for good. I'm glad to see that it's finally happening.
Yes - but they should be retired in favor of something better, more reliable, and more elegant, and filename extensions AIN'T IT.
It remains to be seen if UTIs can fill those shoes. From the article, it looks like Apple doesn't yet know how to make good use of them. They certainly aren't easy for the end user to work with, since I never heard of them before today!
The prefixes represent the power of 2, you dumbass. All these arguments are false. It was done with good reason and intent and not to fool those SI lovers in Europe, trust me.
Okay, then tell me why they chose 1024 rather than 512, 2048 or 4096? I'm sure there's a good reason...
Simply put, in base 2, every digit boundary falls on a power of 2, by definition. There's nothing special about 2^10 in a binary context.
> 1024 is NOT arbitrary. >... > Because computers work in powers of 2.
What he means is, it's an arbitrary choice of *grouping* - there's nothing in the base 2 or base 10 systems that puts 1024 on a digit boundary.
1024 is 2^10 - to be self-consistent, they should have chosen 2^8 or 2^16 for grouping, since 8 = 2^3 and 16 = 2^4, but they chose 2^10 because it happened to be "close to 1000"
They took the "kilo" prefix out of convenience and wedged it into a system not suited for it.
>> Now I really don't exactly know what you're whining about.
> Because it's Apple. Are you new here?
Actually, you're kind of right there. Apple was at the forefront of making computers usable for the average person, and their Human Interface Guidelines specifically recommend that the computer be made to work the way people do, rather than making people work the way the computer does!:)
Lyrics as written in the album pull-out: "if you choose not to decide you cannot have made a choice".
Lyrics as sung: "if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice".
This is covered in the Rush FAQ - evidently it was printed correctly in Canada, which is why whenever some American told them it was wrong, they replied "no it isn't, eh."
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Does that 100,000 include the Star Wars Christmas Special story which mysteriously disappeared yesterday?
To be fair, they're not claiming that no later films used optical techniques, just that no later SF films used only those techniques. Total Recall, for example, had the CGI "x-ray tunnel" effect and most likely used digital compositing.
I'm still doubtful that Blade Runner was the last - I don't think E.T. used digital techniques, or the later Dune, Buckaroo Banzai, Ghostbusters, Star Trek III, The Terminator, Cocoon, Aliens, Robocop, etc. not to mention B-movies like Spacehunter and Ice Pirates.
The first movie to use 100% digitally compositing was Disney's The Rescuers Down Under in 1990.
I didn't really mind Mos Def's performance, but I had the odd feeling coming out of the movie that Ford just wasn't in it.
I find it pretty ironic, since Apple wrote the following in their Human Interface Guidelines:
"Because the user must explicitly dismiss a modal dialog box before doing anything else, you should use a modal dialog box only when it's essential for the user to complete an operation before performing any other work. Fixed-position modal dialog boxes restrict the user's freedom of action; therefore, use them sparingly."
Uh, Excel was always a GUI product. Maybe you're thinking of Lotus 1-2-3 or MultiPlan?
If you're using a Mac, you could send the output of iTunes through Soundflower to a streaming server, and connect to it from other machines.
> Being afraid isn't a crime, nor is it probable cause for a search.
Damn right. If I'm not carrying anything dangerous, I have every right to get on the plane no matter how I smell!
> One does not need to be a lawyer to understand what this means. It is absolutely clear that email DOES apply to this.
I think e-mails clearly qualify as "papers" in the context of the amendment; unfortunately, the constitution is not clear on what happens when your "papers" are being handled or stored by a third party, or when the courts have declared that your "papers" actually belong to that third party.
If this case were like virii, which makes no sense in any Latin construction, you'd have a point. It's not. This is no more controversial than the octopuses/octopi variants. Viruses is an established plural in English, so saying virii is a bit like saying "bacteriums" - it's a joke, nothing more.
Considering that hypercorrection is "correcting" something that isn't wrong, it leaves me in the same spot and leaves you consigning people to hell over mere style issues!
It's okay. I have reserved my own level of hell for people who say "expresso." :)
You might try actually looking it up before you hypercorrect someone...
> This was obviously a joke, but it's worth noting that the main character in Ben Mezrich's "Bringing Down the House" was asian.
Also worth noting, from the book:
"It's true," Micky added. "One of the best card counters I've ever met is African-American. Wears the gaudiest pimp outfits I've ever seen. Bright blue suits, shirts with ruffles, that sort of thing. He plays alone, bets like wild--raising and lowering from five dollars to five thousand, right under the pit boss's nose. And nobody ever suspects him of anything, because the casinos simply don't believe that a black man can count cards. Their own racism turns around and bites them right in the ass."
I had no trouble scoring a Quadra 800 for under $50.
The A/UX FAQ lists several models that are still pretty easy to find.
Which version was this? I didn't code for A/UX, but I know Apple's compilation process gave priority to static lib references over shared - maybe you just needed to explicitly declare the shared version?
How about A/UX - that went away when the Power Macs arrived. There are a handful of machines on the net still running it.
It's debatable whether you could call it a "major OS," but it's an SVR variant (definitely major) with BSD extensions. It was a reliable and highly-polished OS sold by a major vendor. Today, you'd have to get it on eBay along with the 680x0 Mac to run it.
From TFA: "While tools like the scanning tunneling microscope already map the structure of electrons in a sample of many atoms, 'it's always good to have complimentary approaches,' Goldhaber-Gordon said."
It is indeed good to have approaches that are 'on the house,' so to speak...
"Complimentary coffee, muffins and electrons in the lobby every morning". :)
I'm assuming that, architectural differences aside, it's because Linux developers weren't able until recently to come up with a solid, all-purpose scheduler.
The responsiveness of the BeOS depends in large part on efficient scheduling and priority for the GUI, which Linux couldn't match.
Yes - but they should be retired in favor of something better, more reliable, and more elegant, and filename extensions AIN'T IT.
It remains to be seen if UTIs can fill those shoes. From the article, it looks like Apple doesn't yet know how to make good use of them. They certainly aren't easy for the end user to work with, since I never heard of them before today!
> Kilo, mega and giga would sound silly too if they were unfamiliar words.
True - which is why it's worth looking into why they were readily accepted, and why there's so much resistance to the 'binary' versions.
Okay, then tell me why they chose 1024 rather than 512, 2048 or 4096? I'm sure there's a good reason...
Simply put, in base 2, every digit boundary falls on a power of 2, by definition. There's nothing special about 2^10 in a binary context.
> 1024 is NOT arbitrary. ...
>
> Because computers work in powers of 2.
What he means is, it's an arbitrary choice of *grouping* - there's nothing in the base 2 or base 10 systems that puts 1024 on a digit boundary.
1024 is 2^10 - to be self-consistent, they should have chosen 2^8 or 2^16 for grouping, since 8 = 2^3 and 16 = 2^4, but they chose 2^10 because it happened to be "close to 1000"
They took the "kilo" prefix out of convenience and wedged it into a system not suited for it.
>> Now I really don't exactly know what you're whining about.
> Because it's Apple. Are you new here?
Actually, you're kind of right there. Apple was at the forefront of making computers usable for the average person, and their Human Interface Guidelines specifically recommend that the computer be made to work the way people do, rather than making people work the way the computer does! :)
I think that's a big reason why people have a problem with "KiBi," "MeBi," "GiBi" etc. - they just sound silly.
Since "bit" is a contraction of "binary digit" anyway, I would prefer something like "bi-kilobyte," "bi-megabyte," etc., written "KB(sub)2"
This is covered in the Rush FAQ - evidently it was printed correctly in Canada, which is why whenever some American told them it was wrong, they replied "no it isn't, eh."
> The hidden variable itself could be dynamic controlled by another hidden variable.
You can't fool me, young man! It's variables ALL the way down! :)
So would the International Olympic Committee!