You sound like you've done your homework, so I have to give you credit for that.
However, you are mistaken when you say GPL removes B's right to distribute his own code - provided that code constitutes a derivative work, B never had the right to choose licensing for it. That stems from copyright law: the original author sets the terms for derivative works.
You forgot about the need to keep physical disks in an optical reader to play the game.
Yeah, that can be inconvenient.
What I'd really like is a robot arm that automatically opens the Xbox drawer, takes the disc out, puts it back in its case on the shelf, and fetches another one and loads it in the drawer.
Chris Farley: “You remember when you were with the Beatles, and you were supposed to be dead, and there’s all these clues, that, like you’d play some song backwards, and it’d say, like, ‘Paul is dead’ and, uh, everyone thought that you were dead and stuff?”
Yeah, I remember Amiganauts singing the praises of "hardware multitasking," which is of course a misnomer—like the Mac and PC didn't use any hardware.
I remember when I was learning Mac programming and found out you could insert a small handler into the VBI (vertical blanking interval) of the video hardware to run "at interrupt time."
It meant MP3s played flawlessly on my "inferior" Mac, while my friend's "superior" Linux laptop suffered skips and dropouts. His excuse? "It's not a real-time OS!"
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - the Natalie Portman + hot grits meme was found dead in its Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss it - even if you didn't enjoy its endless repetition, there's no denying its contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
One warning: Preview.app keeps a list of "recent windows" (separate from the File menu list of "recent documents" which is easy to clear).
When you go into window selection mode, all those documents show up in a list at the bottom. You can see them by right-clicking Preview.app in the Dock and choosing "Show All Windows."
This can be a problem if someone's looking over your shoulder and you have *ahem* sensitive documents in that list.
Steve had left by the time the Mac II came out, and it was Gassee's call to allow expansion slots.
I will say the Power Mac 7500 I bought in 1995 was supremely expandable, and easy to open the case and work inside it. I upgraded the RAM, hard drive, CPU (to a G3) and optical drive. I got a lot of miles out of that Mac!
"A reminder to those of our viewers who missed our story last week on the influx of so-called Killer Dope in urban areas around the country: Weekend Update has been analyzing the samples of marijuana sent to us anonymously all week.
"We are pleased to report that, so far, the only significant finding has been that if you force a baby squirrel to smoke seven hundred cannabis joints a day, he will become disoriented, and seems to take the laws of self-preservation less seriously, tending to play with his nuts rather than store them."
What I do with my MacBooks is replace the hard drive, install the newest OS and apps on the new drive, stick the old drive in an enclosure and migrate my user data.
That way, if anything goes wrong I can just stick the old drive back in the Mac. If everything goes right, I have a snapshot backup from before the migration.
Morpheus: "Hello, Neo. I am Morpheus." Neo: "Jesus..." Morpheus: "What?" Neo: "Nothing, I just thought...you were a white guy." Morpheus: "Most white guys do!"
A spaceship with FTL is fine if you're watching a sci-fi movie, but it's not okay for the Titanic to be saved at the last minute by a hidden FTL drive in the 4th smokestack.
I have a few high and low moments in films. The Oliver Stone Apollo 11 was a travesty, because it was about a historical event but the portrayal of Grumman's role (they made the LEM) was a nasty fiction. I met Gene Kranz once and when I brought it up, he immediately labeled it "bullshit."
Which film is this? I'd like to see it, but I'm not finding any Apollo 11 connected with Oliver Stone.
I don't believe anyone has ever matched the realism of the carousel in 2001: A Space Odyssey. I've never heard of anyone else attempting to construct such a thing.
Not on that scale, but they built a rotating set for the hallway fight in Inception and it was pretty cool.
The thing that strikes me now when watching 2001 is the scenes outside the centrifuge, where people are supposed to be weightless but "anchored" by velcro shoes.
Aside from the lack of necessity to "walk" in zero-gee (a practical necessity for filming at the time) it's painfully obvious that the actors have weight in these scenes, like when Dave and Frank repair the AE-35 sitting on a workbench or when they sit and talk inside the pod. Maybe it's only obvious today, now that we've seen lots of real footage of real astronauts in zero-gee, but it still stands out to me. As you say, most of the audience won't care.
The Martian mostly got it right, but there are a few gaffes like when people change direction in mid-air without touching anything. Su-per-man!
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What you're describing is scientism, not science.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm a scientismist myself.
Try Archive.org
You sound like you've done your homework, so I have to give you credit for that.
However, you are mistaken when you say GPL removes B's right to distribute his own code - provided that code constitutes a derivative work, B never had the right to choose licensing for it. That stems from copyright law: the original author sets the terms for derivative works.
Yeah, that can be inconvenient.
What I'd really like is a robot arm that automatically opens the Xbox drawer, takes the disc out, puts it back in its case on the shelf, and fetches another one and loads it in the drawer.
Yep. That'd be a game-changer.
Yep, a bonified editor would see it didn't jive, and just fix it.
Wallah!
Chris Farley: “You remember when you were with the Beatles, and you were supposed to be dead, and there’s all these clues, that, like you’d play some song backwards, and it’d say, like, ‘Paul is dead’ and, uh, everyone thought that you were dead and stuff?”
Paul McCartney: “Yeah?”
Chris Farley: “That was a hoax, right?”
Paul McCartney: “Yeah...I wasn’t really dead!”
What? I don't understand. Where's the tea?
Yeah, I remember Amiganauts singing the praises of "hardware multitasking," which is of course a misnomer—like the Mac and PC didn't use any hardware.
I remember when I was learning Mac programming and found out you could insert a small handler into the VBI (vertical blanking interval) of the video hardware to run "at interrupt time."
It meant MP3s played flawlessly on my "inferior" Mac, while my friend's "superior" Linux laptop suffered skips and dropouts. His excuse? "It's not a real-time OS!"
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - the Natalie Portman + hot grits meme was found dead in its Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss it - even if you didn't enjoy its endless repetition, there's no denying its contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
"What NeXT?" I think you mean.
One warning: Preview.app keeps a list of "recent windows" (separate from the File menu list of "recent documents" which is easy to clear).
When you go into window selection mode, all those documents show up in a list at the bottom. You can see them by right-clicking Preview.app in the Dock and choosing "Show All Windows."
This can be a problem if someone's looking over your shoulder and you have *ahem* sensitive documents in that list.
If you hit alt-tab to switch apps, then press the up or down arrow while switching apps, you go into window-selection mode.
You can then use the tab key to switch apps and the arrow keys to switch windows within apps.
It's a bit clunky, but it's there.
Against Steve's wishes, though.
Steve Jobs objected, because he didn't like the idea of customers mucking with the innards of their computer. He would also rather have them buy a new 512K Mac instead of them buying more RAM from a third-party. But this time Burrell prevailed, because the change was so minimal. He just left it in there and no one bothered to mention it to Steve, much to the eventual benefit of customers, who didn't have to buy a whole new Mac to expand their memory.
Steve had left by the time the Mac II came out, and it was Gassee's call to allow expansion slots.
I will say the Power Mac 7500 I bought in 1995 was supremely expandable, and easy to open the case and work inside it. I upgraded the RAM, hard drive, CPU (to a G3) and optical drive. I got a lot of miles out of that Mac!
Ah, back when Unix was in her teens... she was so beautiful! :')
"Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are."
Anyone know who said it first?
"A reminder to those of our viewers who missed our story last week on the influx of so-called Killer Dope in urban areas around the country: Weekend Update has been analyzing the samples of marijuana sent to us anonymously all week.
"We are pleased to report that, so far, the only significant finding has been that if you force a baby squirrel to smoke seven hundred cannabis joints a day, he will become disoriented, and seems to take the laws of self-preservation less seriously, tending to play with his nuts rather than store them."
What I do with my MacBooks is replace the hard drive, install the newest OS and apps on the new drive, stick the old drive in an enclosure and migrate my user data.
That way, if anything goes wrong I can just stick the old drive back in the Mac. If everything goes right, I have a snapshot backup from before the migration.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ... what with a new Blade Runner movie coming out in a few weeks.
It's not a long book. Next up: Ready Player One
It's just not practical for me to move every half hour. That's not enough time for me to pack and unpack everything, let alone rent a U-Haul.
Morpheus: "Hello, Neo. I am Morpheus."
Neo: "Jesus..."
Morpheus: "What?"
Neo: "Nothing, I just thought...you were a white guy."
Morpheus: "Most white guys do!"
That, I'd pay IMAX prices to see!
> Oops. Apollo 13.
I'm not finding any Apollo 13 connected with Oliver Stone. :)
(j/k - this could only be the Tom Hanks/Ron Howard film)
Which film is this? I'd like to see it, but I'm not finding any Apollo 11 connected with Oliver Stone.
Not on that scale, but they built a rotating set for the hallway fight in Inception and it was pretty cool.
The thing that strikes me now when watching 2001 is the scenes outside the centrifuge, where people are supposed to be weightless but "anchored" by velcro shoes.
Aside from the lack of necessity to "walk" in zero-gee (a practical necessity for filming at the time) it's painfully obvious that the actors have weight in these scenes, like when Dave and Frank repair the AE-35 sitting on a workbench or when they sit and talk inside the pod. Maybe it's only obvious today, now that we've seen lots of real footage of real astronauts in zero-gee, but it still stands out to me. As you say, most of the audience won't care.
The Martian mostly got it right, but there are a few gaffes like when people change direction in mid-air without touching anything. Su-per-man!
Does the world need polyglots?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph9I-qPQ6FU