full coverage front screen that double as a touch controller for the music side and the when-you-need-them controls that iphoto has on the mac - you need to do what a tungsten can do and what iphoto can already do - you don't want your breakthru features to be behind existing stuff.
yes we can install on jaguar, but panther demands 128...
part of the trick is to not do the additional languages, bsd subsystem, all the fonts, and all the printers - really speeds things up - these are machines for kids and teachers to borrow for surfing, email, appleworks, basic stuff.
it's not a screamer, but it works. 10.3 needs 128 of physical ram, so it looks doable, but i'd like to see the about screen and a run of Apple System Profiler...
What other Ford would you be embarassed about --- oh, yeah - right. The Festiva, The Aspire, The Tempo, The Contour, The mid Cougars All the Thunderbirds between the one in American Graffitti and the new old one.
IIRC the complete autoland - deorbit to ground - has never been flight tested, so there is a hybrid with autoland typically used for a lot of it, alongside the fly-by-wire system that allows the pilot to direct the shuttle on its path, within the limits of the flight profile. Early flights needed a bit more correction and could essentially override the profile, as John Young had to once, as he didn't like the look of several "pinned" indictors. I hear those are bad in a cockpit except for scaring newbies. The pilot could do the whole thing FBW but never does, several parts are just too much piloting, the autoland could theoretically control the whole thing but similarly never has - last I heard from an astronaut tilting at the funding problems, it wasn't fully flight tested because the money wasn't there - the programs are written, in the computers, but not certified for full use. This may have changed with the glass cockpit upgrades...
yeah, we need to see the approach details - it could have easily been atypical flight path - i've been on some once-arounds on comm air that made me think twice about going greyhound... and a great bank on a 747 where we swore we were looking straight up (and the other side of the plane straight down i suppose)
It had to come from somewhere they could also see, and a 737 cockpit like most modern ones sees lots more 'up' than 'down'. If it was a terrorist or kiddie, they'd have to have a hell of a scope and a steady hand with the plane almost on the ground - if you're really close (laser does spread) and shooting from the ground you won't be able to hit the cockpit glass on an up-angle... though we do need more details.
Of course if it's in the Washington Times, you can bet it was democrat who's to blame.
We did some work with DEC in the late 80s when they were trying not to laugh at our PDP11/35 and get us to buy some newer stuff. One of their showcases was a laserdisc / computer system that did training simulations. The corporate one was called "Decision Point", where you had to train as an exec and make decisions and reap the rewards or suffer the consequences. Full motion video, great camera work and angles, in one clip you were at a meeting and the camera turned to the guy next to you who would lean in an give you some gossip, etc. You would be walking thru the hall when some other worker would confront you and bother you about that raise she'd talked to you about weeks ago - you would at each point have four choices - decide yes, decide no, get more information, or put off the decision. The twenty minutes later, the raise decision would come back to bite you, or something like that. Great production values. And I remember people going thru this and getting flop sweat after a certain amount of that - I took that as a sign of realism...
I remember my ed tech grad students hearing the Oregon Trail sounds when we did SW evals, and their eyes opening wide from memories of the apple II days and recounting in excruciating detail what they had to do when to get the supplies, survive, etc...
When it's good it works - when it's bad, it's not even worth ignoring.
RHPS was a well cast and in some cases nuanced effort to bring a a far out stage show to the big screen. As a film, it never would have made another cinema dime if it wasn't parodied like this - and since they have to pay royalties for every screening, this can only make money for Lucas - no one would go to see SW in a regular cinema right now - the faithful just paid $40 for the home version, so wat else is going to bring them in? Something as funny as RHPS shown at midnight - the faithful will go, and word will spread if its funny.
Lighten up, George.
Re:seeing as it's the directors saying it...
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realism - the artistic definition - as in things looked real. you didn't have to imagine that those foam rubber rocks bouncing off kirk's head were actual rocks.
no obviously fake props. no wobbly on a string ship from lost in space, no fog machine buck rogers exhaust no plan 9 stage curtains...
seeing as it's the directors saying it...
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... there's a bit more credence than if undredentialed fans just gushed for an hour. Granted this is promotional material, and Lucas had this made, but when Ridley Scott and James Cameron can tell you why this opened their minds to doing what they have done so well, you tend to listen. Especially when they're referring to a guy who bucked the system, paid thru the nose to defy the DGA, then eventually quit the DGA and MPAA to retain creative control. He could have pulled an Alan Smithee.
Again - it's less science fiction, more space opera. Not much in the way of history-changing technology or advanced science uncovering deep truth and human potential. OK , there may be a little of it, but it's secondary to the plot and drama and spectacle.
In truth, look at the state of science fiction before Star Wars - you had story or realism, but rarely both, and you forgave the missing one. But you still missed it. 2001, Silent Running were two popular exceptions. Star Trek had passable story, cheesy realism, but it was all we had. This had both.
Ditto the state of computer graphics - like Edison, who didn't invent the light bulb, but did invent the electric *company* - Lucas didn't invent CG but likely invented the CG *shop* as we know it today. And that has changed filmmakiing in a deeper way than we usually realize. The Terminal - a movie about a guy in a couple of rooms - had a visual effects department and hired CafeFx - Ok they did the outdoor parts - but today you don't need to move an entire production company made of meat across the country to shoot 30 seconds of film. You pick up the phone and get the bits moving. To paraphrase Nicholas Negroponte, the movement of bits is easier than asses.
For everyone under the age of 27, Star Wars always existed, like electricity or clouds. Under 37, probably also true if they started paying attention to movies about age 10... and by age 37 you've covered more than half the people in the US anyway... so they're not far off the mark for most people. And that's only increasing.
and in self-referential news...
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it's 'minutiae' not 'minutae'
the extras dvd is impressive...
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for the documentary on the making of the other three movies, it's amazing what had to be done to get these things made. Say what you want abotu Lucas' judgement on recent things, he had the brains and the stones to get star wars done - In some ways it's as compelling a story as any of the films. And as the man says, iit has the added advantage of being true.
And for the trailers - they are ruly insufferable - hard to believe anyone went to see ANH on the strength of the trailer - the ROTJ trailer is just tolerable by today's standards,
Also - did I miss something? Wasnt the piece on VH1 last week - with Kevin Smith and lots of others also supposed to be on the DVD set?
Speaking of minutiae, step thru the draw between Greedo and Han;-) And can you find the translucent x-wings flying through each other?
they make very little consequential pc hardware (keyboards, mice, discontinued wifi) - where does it matter for what they do?
unless they want to be clear about what the hw reqs are for a given sw package - and with karma to burn, he offered - won't they simply say that all ms bloat^H^H^H^H^Hsoftware needs level n+1 anyway?
or is it just another case of "we're from microsoft - we're here to help"
apple doesn't really do levels except with BTO they say good better best, and it's mostly the things that count, and those mostly in step - ram and hd and ghz and video sorta jump as one... additionally good better best is relative and numbers are absolute - tough to do for long.
on the 'vomit comet', they issue small bags you can scrunch around your mouth and do your best - and they do seem to use them... though the Duke student team never seemed to need them...
Until the police benevolent society office drives into the driveway to solicit for their annual fund. Having a gi-normous gun automagically enter the sights of an armed officer prolly isn't on your list of intended consequences... Remember people have been cut down for brandishing a 3 musketeers bar, much less a large gun-ish erm, - gun.
First - Somebody prolly knows the details on this - but I'd heard a story that Enrico Fermi used to do a radio show where people would try and trip him up on questions of estimation - like how many piano tuners are there in Brooklyn or how many ears of corn in Iowa - and he would do it just with reasonable assumptions in-his-head calcs - and if he hit within 10% either side he wins - the point was they had to stop the program because nobody could stump him. He also used some little pieces of paper and a couple of lines in the desert sand to estimate the yield of the Trinity fusion bomb and hit that within 10%...
The other is that bicycle computers now have a "pace arrow" (Avocet) or "speed control" or some such indicator that tells you when you're above or below the average speed for your ride... Can a better mathematician than me confirm a suspicion - that the rider will want to spend as much time 'above' as possible - but that will raise the average - won't you basically spend half your ride above the average and half below - in other words, you can't always be above the average - unless you steadily increase throughout the ride?
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full coverage front screen that double as a touch controller for the music side and the when-you-need-them controls that iphoto has on the mac - you need to do what a tungsten can do and what iphoto can already do - you don't want your breakthru features to be behind existing stuff.
and in 3 hours and 58 mins *Mrs.* Soundtrack will let go of this guy's short ones.
yes we can install on jaguar, but panther demands 128...
part of the trick is to not do the additional languages, bsd subsystem, all the fonts, and all the printers - really speeds things up - these are machines for kids and teachers to borrow for surfing, email, appleworks, basic stuff.
it's not a screamer, but it works. 10.3 needs 128 of physical ram, so it looks doable, but i'd like to see the about screen and a run of Apple System Profiler...
What other Ford would you be embarassed about --- oh, yeah - right.
The Festiva,
The Aspire,
The Tempo,
The Contour,
The mid Cougars
All the Thunderbirds between the one in American Graffitti and the new old one.
Now we have our choice of
Angry drunks
Sad drunks
Happy drunks
PLUS!
Hyper drunks
Chatty drunks
Oscillating drunks.
Woohoo.
And which genius at AB decided what beer needs is MORE diuretic effect.
IIRC the complete autoland - deorbit to ground - has never been flight tested, so there is a hybrid with autoland typically used for a lot of it, alongside the fly-by-wire system that allows the pilot to direct the shuttle on its path, within the limits of the flight profile. Early flights needed a bit more correction and could essentially override the profile, as John Young had to once, as he didn't like the look of several "pinned" indictors. I hear those are bad in a cockpit except for scaring newbies. The pilot could do the whole thing FBW but never does, several parts are just too much piloting, the autoland could theoretically control the whole thing but similarly never has - last I heard from an astronaut tilting at the funding problems, it wasn't fully flight tested because the money wasn't there - the programs are written, in the computers, but not certified for full use. This may have changed with the glass cockpit upgrades...
yeah, we need to see the approach details - it could have easily been atypical flight path - i've been on some once-arounds on comm air that made me think twice about going greyhound... and a great bank on a 747 where we swore we were looking straight up (and the other side of the plane straight down i suppose)
Of course if it's in the Washington Times, you can bet it was democrat who's to blame.
Hope it wasn't one of these...
1908 German Pigeon Fleet... As a remote sensing experiment - I believe they got 1 picture of a castle and a lot they couldn't use...
We did some work with DEC in the late 80s when they were trying not to laugh at our PDP11/35 and get us to buy some newer stuff. One of their showcases was a laserdisc / computer system that did training simulations. The corporate one was called "Decision Point", where you had to train as an exec and make decisions and reap the rewards or suffer the consequences. Full motion video, great camera work and angles, in one clip you were at a meeting and the camera turned to the guy next to you who would lean in an give you some gossip, etc. You would be walking thru the hall when some other worker would confront you and bother you about that raise she'd talked to you about weeks ago - you would at each point have four choices - decide yes, decide no, get more information, or put off the decision. The twenty minutes later, the raise decision would come back to bite you, or something like that. Great production values. And I remember people going thru this and getting flop sweat after a certain amount of that - I took that as a sign of realism...
I remember my ed tech grad students hearing the Oregon Trail sounds when we did SW evals, and their eyes opening wide from memories of the apple II days and recounting in excruciating detail what they had to do when to get the supplies, survive, etc...
When it's good it works - when it's bad, it's not even worth ignoring.
RHPS was a well cast and in some cases nuanced effort to bring a a far out stage show to the big screen. As a film, it never would have made another cinema dime if it wasn't parodied like this - and since they have to pay royalties for every screening, this can only make money for Lucas - no one would go to see SW in a regular cinema right now - the faithful just paid $40 for the home version, so wat else is going to bring them in? Something as funny as RHPS shown at midnight - the faithful will go, and word will spread if its funny.
Lighten up, George.
realism - the artistic definition - as in things looked real. you didn't have to imagine that those foam rubber rocks bouncing off kirk's head were actual rocks.
no obviously fake props. no wobbly on a string ship from lost in space, no fog machine buck rogers exhaust no plan 9 stage curtains...
... there's a bit more credence than if undredentialed fans just gushed for an hour. Granted this is promotional material, and Lucas had this made, but when Ridley Scott and James Cameron can tell you why this opened their minds to doing what they have done so well, you tend to listen. Especially when they're referring to a guy who bucked the system, paid thru the nose to defy the DGA, then eventually quit the DGA and MPAA to retain creative control. He could have pulled an Alan Smithee.
Again - it's less science fiction, more space opera. Not much in the way of history-changing technology or advanced science uncovering deep truth and human potential. OK , there may be a little of it, but it's secondary to the plot and drama and spectacle.
In truth, look at the state of science fiction before Star Wars - you had story or realism, but rarely both, and you forgave the missing one. But you still missed it. 2001, Silent Running were two popular exceptions. Star Trek had passable story, cheesy realism, but it was all we had. This had both.
Ditto the state of computer graphics - like Edison, who didn't invent the light bulb, but did invent the electric *company* - Lucas didn't invent CG but likely invented the CG *shop* as we know it today. And that has changed filmmakiing in a deeper way than we usually realize. The Terminal - a movie about a guy in a couple of rooms - had a visual effects department and hired CafeFx - Ok they did the outdoor parts - but today you don't need to move an entire production company made of meat across the country to shoot 30 seconds of film. You pick up the phone and get the bits moving. To paraphrase Nicholas Negroponte, the movement of bits is easier than asses.
For everyone under the age of 27, Star Wars always existed, like electricity or clouds. Under 37, probably also true if they started paying attention to movies about age 10... and by age 37 you've covered more than half the people in the US anyway... so they're not far off the mark for most people. And that's only increasing.
it's 'minutiae' not 'minutae'
for the documentary on the making of the other three movies, it's amazing what had to be done to get these things made. Say what you want abotu Lucas' judgement on recent things, he had the brains and the stones to get star wars done - In some ways it's as compelling a story as any of the films. And as the man says, iit has the added advantage of being true.
;-) And can you find the translucent x-wings flying through each other?
And for the trailers - they are ruly insufferable - hard to believe anyone went to see ANH on the strength of the trailer - the ROTJ trailer is just tolerable by today's standards,
Also - did I miss something? Wasnt the piece on VH1 last week - with Kevin Smith and lots of others also supposed to be on the DVD set?
Speaking of minutiae, step thru the draw between Greedo and Han
they make very little consequential pc hardware (keyboards, mice, discontinued wifi) - where does it matter for what they do?
unless they want to be clear about what the hw reqs are for a given sw package - and with karma to burn, he offered - won't they simply say that all ms bloat^H^H^H^H^Hsoftware needs level n+1 anyway?
or is it just another case of "we're from microsoft - we're here to help"
apple doesn't really do levels except with BTO they say good better best, and it's mostly the things that count, and those mostly in step - ram and hd and ghz and video sorta jump as one... additionally good better best is relative and numbers are absolute - tough to do for long.
I'm sorry Dave, but I can't let you do that.
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we're driven:
"work" is #103
"play" is #443
and imaginative: "what if" (45&46)
77-81 seem to portend humanoids or clones "may these new also people"
Equal video game time for everyone's favorite aardvark! Yaaaah- Huh? It's who? He's a what? Tarim - there is no justice!
on the 'vomit comet', they issue small bags you can scrunch around your mouth and do your best - and they do seem to use them... though the Duke student team never seemed to need them...
a free Zero-G Tote Bag!
barf bag, tote bag - don't be such a nitpicker...
Worst redundant story EVER.
(See May 27)
Until the police benevolent society office drives into the driveway to solicit for their annual fund. Having a gi-normous gun automagically enter the sights of an armed officer prolly isn't on your list of intended consequences... Remember people have been cut down for brandishing a 3 musketeers bar, much less a large gun-ish erm, - gun.
But hey, it's your descending aorta.
First - Somebody prolly knows the details on this - but I'd heard a story that Enrico Fermi used to do a radio show where people would try and trip him up on questions of estimation - like how many piano tuners are there in Brooklyn or how many ears of corn in Iowa - and he would do it just with reasonable assumptions in-his-head calcs - and if he hit within 10% either side he wins - the point was they had to stop the program because nobody could stump him. He also used some little pieces of paper and a couple of lines in the desert sand to estimate the yield of the Trinity fusion bomb and hit that within 10%...
The other is that bicycle computers now have a "pace arrow" (Avocet) or "speed control" or some such indicator that tells you when you're above or below the average speed for your ride... Can a better mathematician than me confirm a suspicion - that the rider will want to spend as much time 'above' as possible - but that will raise the average - won't you basically spend half your ride above the average and half below - in other words, you can't always be above the average - unless you steadily increase throughout the ride?