Why not? A 'colour' is just a wavelength of light, or generally speaking, any EM radiation.
Infrared has a spectrum a couple million times larger than the visible spectrum. Sure, it might make more sense to talk about IR wavelengths than colors (because color is a perceptual thing), but the concept makes sense.
I would love to have this capability for flying the aircraft in Battlefield 1942 (and Desert Combat). My biggest challenge in dogfighting is that I can't crane my neck around to follow the other aircraft off the screen!
I sympathize with you for APDA making life difficult for developers back in the day, but your story doesn't quite ring true.
CodeWarrior first shipped in 1994, whereas Zortech had been bought out by Symantec in 1991. That was right about the time that System 7 came out. The most popular C compiler at that time was THINK C, which was buggy but let you write usable code. It included the THINK Reference so you could write code without a copy of Inside Macintosh, and it sold for under $200. Sorry, I don't know what that was in pounds.
The Inside Macintosh books sold for about $25 each at that time, but if you joined APDA and subscribed to Develop, you got ALL the Inside Mac volumes and the Technotes on CD. You didn't have to shell out for the bound volumes to get started in Mac development. IMHO, Apple's biggest mistake was overcharging for MPW.
One more thing - at the time that System 7 came out, there were already a dozen books on Mac C programming available, with sample code. If your project was canned without writing a line of code, you should probably look at your project management rather than blame the expense or lack of available information.
The whole point of wikipedia is that it is constantly peer reviewed. If things are incorrect, people will eventually correct them - I fail to see how that's Orwellian.
Easy! The previous entry said "The U.S. has never been at war with Iraq."
The current entry says "The U.S. has always been at war with Iraq."
"Charlene Steen, a psychologist who examined Dodele on behalf of the defense in two 2007 trials about whether he should be recommitted to a state hospital, blamed the messenger. 'I think [Oliver and Dodele] are both victims of the Internet,' she said."
Victims of the Internet? How? It's just a series of tubes.
Somebody should inform her that she made that remark out loud.
What I can't figure out is, while Lucas was "freshening up" the original trilogy, why didn't he fix some of the well-known gaffes? A lot of them are still there in the Special Editions.
You can STILL see Kenny Baker through R2's eye. The stormtrooper STILL bangs his head on the door frame. Vader STILL waves his hand after he finishes talking to Tarkin.
And to my mind, the obvious thing to revise would be the stop-motion animation. The AT-ATs and AT-STs in particular really date the film. I remember re-watching The Terminator as well, and wishing they'd replace the stop-motion in the last fight at the factory. It looked fairly cheesy in 1984, and nowadays it just jars you out of the story!
(Falcon roars in, blasting Vader's wingman to bits)
Vader: "Wha..?"
Han: "Yahoo! You're all clear, kid! Now let's blow this thing and...." Chewie: GRONK! Han: "What?" Chewie: urf urf urf! Han: "What do you mean we're caught in a tractor beam - again???"
Considering how all the replicants seemed to recognize/know him (Leon seemed to know him) I can buy that he was one of them that they grabbed and dumped Gaff's (or some other cop's) memories into.
They're Holden's memories. Did you ever notice how much he looks and sounds like Deckard? That's not an accident.:)
IAAL, but it has been a while since I did criminal work
I don't remember the scene well enough to comment on the specifics, but...
If the threat posed by Gredo was a sufficiently IMMINENT threat, Han shooting first is certainly self-defense.
Well, leaving aside the point that this incident took place 'a long time ago, in a bar far far away...' and under who-knows-what kind of laws they had there.
You're pretty much entitled to meet force with equal force. If someone points a gun at you, you have every right to shoot them first, because you have no way to determine whether the other fellow intends to shoot you or not. If he says he just wants to take you to his boss, do you believe him? Maybe he'll shoot you in the back the moment you're out the door.
The only exception is when the police draw on you and order you to stand down. You still have no control over your fate when a possibly corrupt or trigger-happy cop is pointing a gun at you, but the law will not be on your side if you decide to shoot the cop first in 'self defense.' But then, I don't think you were implying that Greedo was a deputized member of the local Imperial precinct, eh?:)
Harrison Ford is a fine actor, and that is arguably the worst reading he has ever done.
He mailed it in.
Now that you mention it, I'm not convinced that Ford is all that great an actor. When he's playing anyone but Han Solo or Indiana Jones, he just seems kind of lost at sea. He has basically two acting chops - "look worried" and "look stern."
But, you must be right - because you'd know better than Ford himself, huh?
Not only was a lot of dialog recycled, but even R2D2's beeps and whistles simplified, he might have had a vocabulary of 3 or 4 responses (compare R2D2's "speech" in ep 4 vs. ep 5).
R2 actually speaks perfect English. The only reason he sounds like that on film is because he's contantly cussing.:)
C3P0 and R2D2 don't recognize Obi Wan for who he was on Tatooine when Luke meets up in Ep4. Maybe they were hiding this fact but it seems like this was missed.
You've got it the wrong way around - 3PO and R2 had their memories wiped at the end of Ep3, so they shouldn't remember anything from the prequels.
Vader and Obi-Wan, OTOH, should obviously recognize the droids!
But I think if you had been paying attention in the first trilogy you might also have come to the conclusion that Jedi are born not made - or was is coincidence that two of the most powerful Jedi just happened to be FATHER and SON!?
Don't forget that Anakin didn't even have a father - unless Shmi was lying, of course.
(Scene I wanted to see):
Qui-Gon: The Force is unusally strong with him, that much is clear. Who was his father? Shmi: There was no father, that I know of... I carried him, I gave him birth... I can't explain what happened. Qui-Gon: You mean Anakin was born of a virgin..!? Shmi: Well, I didn't say that, exactly.
yes and with the faster then lightspeed the pilots encounter no time dilation what so ever. they are able to travel from planet system to planet system as if on a flat absolute time.
Well, that's what 'hyperspace' is, doncha know.
Of course, it doesn't help when Lucas mixes the terminology around, as when Han talks about making the "jump to lightspeed." Not FTL, mind you - just "lightspeed." Even light takes years to get from one star to another!:)
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God says: "I assumed you knew what you're doing. You have free will - you can make your integers overflow, even though you know it's a sin."
> Anyway, it's a little-known fact that 'absolute hot' is 39.6 degrees celsius (about 103.3 degrees fahrenheit).
Indeed, this hypothesis is easily testable. On any given day when the temperature is 39.6 c, just go up and ask people.
"Hot enough for you?"
They will answer "Absolutely!"
> Colours.. of Infrared Light. Hm.
Why not? A 'colour' is just a wavelength of light, or generally speaking, any EM radiation.
Infrared has a spectrum a couple million times larger than the visible spectrum. Sure, it might make more sense to talk about IR wavelengths than colors (because color is a perceptual thing), but the concept makes sense.
The system didn't correct for transmission errors very well...
The first message came through as: "Opus caught rickets from bats!"
I would love to have this capability for flying the aircraft in Battlefield 1942 (and Desert Combat). My biggest challenge in dogfighting is that I can't crane my neck around to follow the other aircraft off the screen!
I sympathize with you for APDA making life difficult for developers back in the day, but your story doesn't quite ring true.
CodeWarrior first shipped in 1994, whereas Zortech had been bought out by Symantec in 1991. That was right about the time that System 7 came out. The most popular C compiler at that time was THINK C, which was buggy but let you write usable code. It included the THINK Reference so you could write code without a copy of Inside Macintosh, and it sold for under $200. Sorry, I don't know what that was in pounds.
The Inside Macintosh books sold for about $25 each at that time, but if you joined APDA and subscribed to Develop, you got ALL the Inside Mac volumes and the Technotes on CD. You didn't have to shell out for the bound volumes to get started in Mac development. IMHO, Apple's biggest mistake was overcharging for MPW.
One more thing - at the time that System 7 came out, there were already a dozen books on Mac C programming available, with sample code. If your project was canned without writing a line of code, you should probably look at your project management rather than blame the expense or lack of available information.
Easy! The previous entry said "The U.S. has never been at war with Iraq."
The current entry says "The U.S. has always been at war with Iraq."
Sorry, I followed that link and got sidetracked reading about Lojban.
Now I've used up the whole afternoon and I still don't know anything about AJAX. :-/
"Charlene Steen, a psychologist who examined Dodele on behalf of the defense in two 2007 trials about whether he should be recommitted to a state hospital, blamed the messenger. 'I think [Oliver and Dodele] are both victims of the Internet,' she said."
Victims of the Internet? How? It's just a series of tubes.
Somebody should inform her that she made that remark out loud.
What I can't figure out is, while Lucas was "freshening up" the original trilogy, why didn't he fix some of the well-known gaffes? A lot of them are still there in the Special Editions.
You can STILL see Kenny Baker through R2's eye.
The stormtrooper STILL bangs his head on the door frame.
Vader STILL waves his hand after he finishes talking to Tarkin.
And to my mind, the obvious thing to revise would be the stop-motion animation. The AT-ATs and AT-STs in particular really date the film. I remember re-watching The Terminator as well, and wishing they'd replace the stop-motion in the last fight at the factory. It looked fairly cheesy in 1984, and nowadays it just jars you out of the story!
The scene I always wanted to see:
Vader: "I have you now!"
(Falcon roars in, blasting Vader's wingman to bits)
Vader: "Wha..?"
Han: "Yahoo! You're all clear, kid! Now let's blow this thing and...."
Chewie: GRONK!
Han: "What?"
Chewie: urf urf urf!
Han: "What do you mean we're caught in a tractor beam - again???"
They're Holden's memories. Did you ever notice how much he looks and sounds like Deckard? That's not an accident. :)
Well, leaving aside the point that this incident took place 'a long time ago, in a bar far far away...' and under who-knows-what kind of laws they had there.
You're pretty much entitled to meet force with equal force. If someone points a gun at you, you have every right to shoot them first, because you have no way to determine whether the other fellow intends to shoot you or not. If he says he just wants to take you to his boss, do you believe him? Maybe he'll shoot you in the back the moment you're out the door.
The only exception is when the police draw on you and order you to stand down. You still have no control over your fate when a possibly corrupt or trigger-happy cop is pointing a gun at you, but the law will not be on your side if you decide to shoot the cop first in 'self defense.' But then, I don't think you were implying that Greedo was a deputized member of the local Imperial precinct, eh? :)
Now that you mention it, I'm not convinced that Ford is all that great an actor. When he's playing anyone but Han Solo or Indiana Jones, he just seems kind of lost at sea. He has basically two acting chops - "look worried" and "look stern."
But, you must be right - because you'd know better than Ford himself, huh?
"There is always an easy solution to every problem -- neat, plausible and wrong." - H.L. Mencken
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia :)
Obsolete women are not modern, whereas absolute women are not relatives?
> Yeah, Some people say the boiling point of water is 100 degrees and others who insist that it's 212 degrees.
I think we should split the section off into a new article titled "Degree naming controversy." Anyone agree?
"First you get the absolute money, then you get the absolute power, then you get the Absolut vodka, then you get the absolute women!"
http://xkcd.com/202/
R2 actually speaks perfect English. The only reason he sounds like that on film is because he's contantly cussing. :)
You've got it the wrong way around - 3PO and R2 had their memories wiped at the end of Ep3, so they shouldn't remember anything from the prequels.
Vader and Obi-Wan, OTOH, should obviously recognize the droids!
Don't forget that Anakin didn't even have a father - unless Shmi was lying, of course.
(Scene I wanted to see):
Qui-Gon: The Force is unusally strong with him, that much is clear. Who was his father?
Shmi: There was no father, that I know of... I carried him, I gave him birth... I can't explain what happened.
Qui-Gon: You mean Anakin was born of a virgin..!?
Shmi: Well, I didn't say that, exactly.
Well, that's what 'hyperspace' is, doncha know.
Of course, it doesn't help when Lucas mixes the terminology around, as when Han talks about making the "jump to lightspeed." Not FTL, mind you - just "lightspeed." Even light takes years to get from one star to another! :)
The Kinks oughta sue themselves for plagiarism. "Paranoia" is essentially the same song as "All Day and All of the Night." :)
> I don't know, and anybody who says they do is probably guessing.
:)
Well, given the facts of thermodynamics that people keep inconveniently bringing up, they have to go one of three places:
1. energy
2. fat
3. toilet