You missed the point here. Apple talks about porting C++ applications from Win32 to Carbon/MacOSX. Most such Win32 applications have been created using the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). In order to move a MFC application to MacOSX, you would have to recreate MFC on the Mac to call the Toolbox. This would be a very challenging project.
Microsoft has or had a product that does this already. Last I used it, I converted an application running on a 486 to a MacIIx, and it was slower than a glacier once ported. I'd imagine it wouldn't be as painful on a modern Mac. In truth, that old cross compiler used an intermittant library that converted Win32 API to Mac Toolbox APIs, which was the real slowdown.
A company called Wind/U has a set of packages for converting MFC applications to Unix with X-Windows. At the time, many methods weren't supported, and it was a PITA to use the product. This information coming from a colleague who worked on this conversion.
Other multiplatform toolsets haven't worked as well. You end up with application with the worst aspects of each platform. Look at Eudora. That was originally a Mac product, based on a portability toolset. The Mac version worked like a PC, and the PC version worked like a Mac. Ugh!
Maybe that would work for your boy bands, but not for real artists. When you go to see Pink Floyd, you go to see David Gilmore play his axe. He's very good at it, and watching some look alike isn't going to be the same. You also go to see the light show, and that can be replicated.
The other thing you miss is that rock concerts are how musicians make their money. They don't make jack through record sales. It's the proceeds from concerts where the real money is.
Sure, it's possible to make decent money working only in the studio (Alan Parsons), but it's not in the same realm.
The opening title sequence is brillant. I'm not a fan of Madonna by any streach, but the song's not half bad. No matter who sings it, the Bond song is pop.
Bond title sequences are usually pretty imaginative, but are a five minute diversion from the story. For once, the story was incorporated into the titel sequence. Sure, there was a lot of beautiful women in their birthday suits, but there was Bond being interrogated by the Chinese. It was a part of 007's life that the movie rarely indulges in. It also gave Bond motivation for tracking down his nemisis, and becoming a pawn to Her Majesty's Service.
It's not enough to throw all of the Bond elements together and hope that they somehow work. A little more precision and craftsmanship are necessary (and a better script wouldn't have hurt things). Let's hope this represents an aberrance, not a trend.
DAD has to be one of the better told, and thought out Bond films in a decade. The plot ran smoothly, nothing was too silly. Every time I've come out of the last three films, I've been left with the impression they were daft. The badies in DAD are believable, as are the crimes they commit. Treating 007 as a pawn, and double crossed by a beautiful infiltrator, were interesting plot twists.
Whether played by Pierce Brosnan or someone else, James Bond will return. Let's just hope that when he does, he's the 007 we have come to love and admire, not the impostor that inhabits Die Another Day.
We'll be hoping for different things, I fear. I truely hope the next Bond film continues in the same creative direction as DAD.
I took some business law many years ago in high school. It was discussed that a sales recript with both party's names and addresses was a form of contract, whilst a normal receipt is not. I don't remember what all the ins and outs where, but felt it pertinant to this discussion.
I'm a daily commuter on the Orange County to LA Metrolink rail service, and without it I wouldn't even consider working in downtown. It's a 50~60 mile ride, with 10 stops 2 minute stops, lasting 90 minutes. During which, I get to relax and read the paper. Once in LA, the majority of us hop on the subway to get to our destinations, the rest take the city busses.
Ever looked into traveling to San Francisco from LA? Yeah, you could fly, take a bus, or drive, but if you want to take a train, Amtrak goes once a day and takes all day. If a HSR system can compete with the airlines, that would be great.
Say it can't be done? There was a recent program on TLC the other night. France has a high speed rail that gets people around faster than planes. Also, the train can take passengers into downtown, while passengers have to disembark planes many miles from the civic center.
The fewer roads trains have to cross, the safer and faster they can be. With our suburban sprawl, bridges have to be built over or under roadways. This all adds to the cost of laying track, as well as aquiring land to lay it, locomotives and rolling stock.
No form of transport in the US is unsubsidized. Airports are owned by governments, roadways are owned by governments. They all receive money from tax revenue.
As everyone has noted, the Palm is *much* thinner than the PPC. My m500 is what, a quarter of an inch thick? I can, and do, carry it in my pocket during the day. At work, I can jot down notes and do calculations; on the train, I can write email and use the word processor to write letters; at the mall, I can read a novel or play a game, while my wife spends the rest of my money;-); and at home, I prefer to play with my wife than my palm.
Sure, it would be nice to have wireless integrated into the m500, but I cringe at carrying larger devices all the time. In the end, they just wouldn't get used.
It is really sad that you think Mr. Adams went downhill after he "ran out of radio series and old Dr. Who ideas to recycle". That's a truely cynical view, and possibly sponsored by not reading Salom of a Doubt.
Fiction writing is all about creating a series of scenarios and chaining them together with plot. If he came up with the ideas while trying to create a Dr. Who eppisode, or something in HHG, that's fine. Just because the idea didn't fit in one place, doesn't mean it's rubbish.
Reading Salom made me even sader of our loss of Douglas. Some of his short writings were brillant, and the beginings of SoaD had so much potential. He never lost his ability to tell a good story, or to paint a vibrant image like...they hung in the sky, much in the way that bricks don't....
I will agree, that Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a very good retelling of Shada. The electric monk was a very good addition.
Back in the '70s, there was a BBC series called "Connections", created by a man called James Burke. The premise of the series was that we live in a technological society in which most people do not understand the technology upon which it is based.
What the author of this article is stating is a specialized case of James Burke's "technology trap". From the outside, the technological device seems to work like magic, until it breaks. A code abstraction can break just like an elevator, and leave you stuck.
All technology derives from earlier breakthroughs. The elevator is an abstraction of pullys, electrical circuits, software, and what not. In a simular fashion, software models are built upon other models. Like the technology of day to day life, it is no longer possible to know everything. The elevator repair person can fix an elevator, but he cannot fabricate an electric motor (within a reasonable amount of time).
Developers are in the same world. Your average developer can create GUIs, business objects, models of complex business processes, but it is impractical to know the whole interworking of the OS, of COM, or even the compilers.
As software engineers, we should understand the principals involved. Know the high level design and opperation of the system. Become experts in the systems that we utilize daily. It's not important for every programmer to know how to the Windows messaging system works, or the CLR works. It is important that they have an understanding of the way it works, and that there are people who know the true compexities.
I alway try to be the one who knows the inner complexities. That information can get you out of a lot of trouble quickly, and help one's colleagues who don't have the same depth of knowlege. However, I cannot hope to know everything, but I know other people have experience in things I may have trouble with.
Within an organization, we are a society. Like people in day to day life, everyone specializes in something different. Our society works because we cooperate to build something greater than the sum of its parts; however, we have enough routing in the fundamental principals to dig ourselves out of the technological trap if we need to.
I'm a solid C++ programmer. Done MFC and COM these last few years. MFC's dying. COM's going down. Learn Java or.Net. If you go with.Net, learn either C# or Visual Basic.Net, and get to learn about the CLR. I used to detest VB; it was the OO language that wasn't. VB is now a more verbose C#, and is much better to develop with than the old versions. It's only problem is that it doesn't port, so if you think you're going to be developing.Net on a non-MS platform, do C#.
Fundamentally, a Web server is a piece of software designed to publish information. If you put information on the web server, it is going to be published. You can limit who can get the publication through permissions and rights, but this company did not do so. As someone else said, the browser requested the page, and the server granted the request.
Furthermore, it is the job of a new agency to unearth news. The put spy cameras in brief cases, the send reporters to interview angry people, they employ police scanners, and they peruse corporate web sites, looking for news.
If you're daft enough to give your quarterly report, or whatever, an easilly guessed name, and place them at the disposal of a piece of software for publishing documents, you're going to have news agencies find it.
I mean, don't you think that there is something funky going on when a company provides both health care and manufacturers guns and nuclear reactors?
No, I do not. I think personal guns are uncalled for, but military weapons are required for national defense.
In my book, nuclear reactors are no worse than fossil fuel power plants. Our atmosphere is polluted with green house gasses, coal miners used to get black lung or trapped in mine collapses, and we'll run out of these resources. The nuclear industry has a better safety record than the fossil fuel industry, the nazardous waste can be contained, rather than inhaled daily.
And, if you're talking about nuclear weapons, they have kept a third world war from occuring for some fourty years. As long as everyone realizes how catestrophic the next world war will be, it won't happen.
I think Suddam realizes this, but I'm not sure if Bush does. The US government's shyed away from Mutually Assured Destruction. Ever since the Evil Empire broke down in financial ruin, it's been shunned. We need to make sure that every tin pot dictator with a nuke knows that if one of our cities is ruined by an atomic explosion, his capital will a memory. It sounds terrible, I know, it is, but so is war.
Peace is always the answer. The question is, how are you going to ensure it.
Don't forget: In each instance, The Doctor stole the TARDIS. The lore of Doctor Who states that The Doctor fled Galifrey in a stolen Type-40 TARDIS, that was in for repairs, to escape the Time Lord society that allowed itself to stand by while other civilizations clobbered themselves to bits.
Each of the other times The Doctor has returned to Galifrey, he has been reminded of his duty to stay as Lord President. At which point, he has snuck back into his faithful TARDIS and dematerialized.
This also reminds me of so many ties Dr Who had with the Second World War. Everyone connected with the show denies it, but it's fairly obvious that the Daleks are Nazis. Especially after reading some of the Dr Who novels. Furthermore, I've just realized that Galifreyan society letting other civilizations get destroyed draws a parellel to the United States standing by while Europe became overrun by Hitler's Arian nation.
Then there are people who live in some tightly knit communities that don't have answering machines. These people, and those that don't like technology, have a tendancy to simply hang-up. You don't know the number of messages I've received on my answering machine. I don't know why the bloody hell the US phone system doesn't pass along foriegn phone numbers as caller IDs.
Ah, but now you should be able to build a machine that will scan the caller ID. If it's a known friend, make the phone ring. If it's a known foe, "beep beep beep This number has been disconnected or is no longer in service." For anyone else, either ring the phone differently, or take a message.
Government refused to establish a standard for AM Stereo. Listened to any AM Stereo stations lately? No, cause it died from too many formats.
If the government didn't state a digital tv standard, there'd be a different format from each vendor. Few stations would convert and only fools would would buy receivers.
I remember when I first discovered GNU in 1991. I requested their litterature. They made it quite clear that they dispised the IBM PC, and wanted nothing to do with porting their tools to it. That was a task for other developers, if they chose, without the support from the FSF. I went ahead and bought Minix.
In the interrum, GNU thrashed around trying to create Hurd. Yeah, that's progressed by leaps and bounds, hasn't it? The GNU tools got ported over to Linux, and I'm not even certain who did that in the end. Was it the FSF? I wonder.
Now, they find their tools locked arm in arm with the Linux movement. They want credit for it, but as other posters have noted, there's more to the common Linux distro than just GNU tools, and we can't name every one in the title.
My definition of an opperating system revolves more around a kernal and a set of APIs, than a set of tools. They make the OS useful, but they are not the OS. Windows is the Mach kernal with Win32, POSIX and OS/2 APIs, MacOS X is Mach with a BSD and Toolbox APIs, and Linux is the Linux kernal with POSIX and Linux APIs.
I love it when people say they're waiting for a digicam that has swappable sensors. It just isn't going to happen. The name of the game with cameras, whether they be SLR or pocket, is to make them compact and integrated. The moment you try to make the electronics more generic, you're going to loose this. Not only will you have to swap out the sensor, but the memory, and the CPU too. If the general public wanted to use cameras the size of medium and large format cameras, they'd be using medium and large format cameras.
Every time I read a review of a top of the line SLR film camera, they tear it apart, and I wonder how the bloody hell do they get all that in there? Cameras, digi and film, are like laptops. They're packed in like jacks in the box, and they'll never be upgradable. You can't change the pentaprism, and you won't be able to change the sensor.
Maybe they should drop the idea of a live action HHG movie, and set Nick Park on the project of a claymation HHG movie.
Nick Park is the genious animator behind "The Wrong Trousers", and other Wallace and Gromit films.
I love the HH series, from the radio drama to the novels and the horrible TV series. Mostly Harmess was a bad way to end it, and Mr. Adams more or less admits to it in Salom of a Doubt. There were a lot of very good writings in that book, including the biscuits at the railway station, and the draft of Salom. I had meant to write both his wife and his publisher a letter of thanks for sharing the last scraps of genious from such a wonderfully tallented man.
A program I saw recently made an interesting point: People who are with you in a car or whatnot, can see you're entering a dangerous situation, and will stop talking to allow you to handle it. People jabbering on a cell cannot see the out of control lorry or red pedestrian crossing, and will continue to take your concentration.
I purchased my wife's engagement ring knowing full well that the market for diamonds is an artificial one. There was an interesting program on PBS some hundred years ago that opened my eyes to this folly when I was still young.
Yet, I was also aware of the social preasures for a man to give a woman a precious gift when he asks her hand in marriage. My wife desired a diamond ring -- nothing gaudy, just nice and simple. I proposed, and when she said yes, we went out together and selected a diamond and a ring.
Now, you can either go to your local mall diamond store, and get ripped off, or you can go to the big city, find the jewelry district, and get yourself a high quality stone for less than half the price of the mall. You might be buying into the folly, but at least you're being sensible about it.
The final thing I have to say is that I got my money's worth out of that purchase. Every time I see my wife wearing that ring, I see how happy she is, I remember our wedding day and how happy I was. It may all be redicilous, but that's what most human behaviour is anyway.
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You missed the point here. Apple talks about porting C++ applications from Win32 to Carbon/MacOSX. Most such Win32 applications have been created using the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). In order to move a MFC application to MacOSX, you would have to recreate MFC on the Mac to call the Toolbox. This would be a very challenging project.
Microsoft has or had a product that does this already. Last I used it, I converted an application running on a 486 to a MacIIx, and it was slower than a glacier once ported. I'd imagine it wouldn't be as painful on a modern Mac. In truth, that old cross compiler used an intermittant library that converted Win32 API to Mac Toolbox APIs, which was the real slowdown.
A company called Wind/U has a set of packages for converting MFC applications to Unix with X-Windows. At the time, many methods weren't supported, and it was a PITA to use the product. This information coming from a colleague who worked on this conversion.
Other multiplatform toolsets haven't worked as well. You end up with application with the worst aspects of each platform. Look at Eudora. That was originally a Mac product, based on a portability toolset. The Mac version worked like a PC, and the PC version worked like a Mac. Ugh!
It's just about to output the result of it's program, but it doesn't think you're going to like it:
Fourty-two.
The problem was that you didn't really know what the question was.
Thank you Mr. Adams.
Maybe that would work for your boy bands, but not for real artists. When you go to see Pink Floyd, you go to see David Gilmore play his axe. He's very good at it, and watching some look alike isn't going to be the same. You also go to see the light show, and that can be replicated.
The other thing you miss is that rock concerts are how musicians make their money. They don't make jack through record sales. It's the proceeds from concerts where the real money is.
Sure, it's possible to make decent money working only in the studio (Alan Parsons), but it's not in the same realm.
The opening title sequence is brillant. I'm not a fan of Madonna by any streach, but the song's not half bad. No matter who sings it, the Bond song is pop.
Bond title sequences are usually pretty imaginative, but are a five minute diversion from the story. For once, the story was incorporated into the titel sequence. Sure, there was a lot of beautiful women in their birthday suits, but there was Bond being interrogated by the Chinese. It was a part of 007's life that the movie rarely indulges in. It also gave Bond motivation for tracking down his nemisis, and becoming a pawn to Her Majesty's Service.
It's not enough to throw all of the Bond elements together and hope that they somehow work. A little more precision and craftsmanship are necessary (and a better script wouldn't have hurt things). Let's hope this represents an aberrance, not a trend.DAD has to be one of the better told, and thought out Bond films in a decade. The plot ran smoothly, nothing was too silly. Every time I've come out of the last three films, I've been left with the impression they were daft. The badies in DAD are believable, as are the crimes they commit. Treating 007 as a pawn, and double crossed by a beautiful infiltrator, were interesting plot twists.
Whether played by Pierce Brosnan or someone else, James Bond will return. Let's just hope that when he does, he's the 007 we have come to love and admire, not the impostor that inhabits Die Another Day.We'll be hoping for different things, I fear. I truely hope the next Bond film continues in the same creative direction as DAD.
I took some business law many years ago in high school. It was discussed that a sales recript with both party's names and addresses was a form of contract, whilst a normal receipt is not. I don't remember what all the ins and outs where, but felt it pertinant to this discussion.
I'm a daily commuter on the Orange County to LA Metrolink rail service, and without it I wouldn't even consider working in downtown. It's a 50~60 mile ride, with 10 stops 2 minute stops, lasting 90 minutes. During which, I get to relax and read the paper. Once in LA, the majority of us hop on the subway to get to our destinations, the rest take the city busses.
Ever looked into traveling to San Francisco from LA? Yeah, you could fly, take a bus, or drive, but if you want to take a train, Amtrak goes once a day and takes all day. If a HSR system can compete with the airlines, that would be great.
Say it can't be done? There was a recent program on TLC the other night. France has a high speed rail that gets people around faster than planes. Also, the train can take passengers into downtown, while passengers have to disembark planes many miles from the civic center.
The fewer roads trains have to cross, the safer and faster they can be. With our suburban sprawl, bridges have to be built over or under roadways. This all adds to the cost of laying track, as well as aquiring land to lay it, locomotives and rolling stock.
No form of transport in the US is unsubsidized. Airports are owned by governments, roadways are owned by governments. They all receive money from tax revenue.
As everyone has noted, the Palm is *much* thinner than the PPC. My m500 is what, a quarter of an inch thick? I can, and do, carry it in my pocket during the day. At work, I can jot down notes and do calculations; on the train, I can write email and use the word processor to write letters; at the mall, I can read a novel or play a game, while my wife spends the rest of my money ;-); and at home, I prefer to play with my wife than my palm.
Sure, it would be nice to have wireless integrated into the m500, but I cringe at carrying larger devices all the time. In the end, they just wouldn't get used.
Fiction writing is all about creating a series of scenarios and chaining them together with plot. If he came up with the ideas while trying to create a Dr. Who eppisode, or something in HHG, that's fine. Just because the idea didn't fit in one place, doesn't mean it's rubbish.
Reading Salom made me even sader of our loss of Douglas. Some of his short writings were brillant, and the beginings of SoaD had so much potential. He never lost his ability to tell a good story, or to paint a vibrant image like ...they hung in the sky, much in the way that bricks don't....
I will agree, that Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a very good retelling of Shada. The electric monk was a very good addition.
Back in the '70s, there was a BBC series called "Connections", created by a man called James Burke. The premise of the series was that we live in a technological society in which most people do not understand the technology upon which it is based.
What the author of this article is stating is a specialized case of James Burke's "technology trap". From the outside, the technological device seems to work like magic, until it breaks. A code abstraction can break just like an elevator, and leave you stuck.
All technology derives from earlier breakthroughs. The elevator is an abstraction of pullys, electrical circuits, software, and what not. In a simular fashion, software models are built upon other models. Like the technology of day to day life, it is no longer possible to know everything. The elevator repair person can fix an elevator, but he cannot fabricate an electric motor (within a reasonable amount of time).
Developers are in the same world. Your average developer can create GUIs, business objects, models of complex business processes, but it is impractical to know the whole interworking of the OS, of COM, or even the compilers.
As software engineers, we should understand the principals involved. Know the high level design and opperation of the system. Become experts in the systems that we utilize daily. It's not important for every programmer to know how to the Windows messaging system works, or the CLR works. It is important that they have an understanding of the way it works, and that there are people who know the true compexities.
I alway try to be the one who knows the inner complexities. That information can get you out of a lot of trouble quickly, and help one's colleagues who don't have the same depth of knowlege. However, I cannot hope to know everything, but I know other people have experience in things I may have trouble with.
Within an organization, we are a society. Like people in day to day life, everyone specializes in something different. Our society works because we cooperate to build something greater than the sum of its parts; however, we have enough routing in the fundamental principals to dig ourselves out of the technological trap if we need to.
I'm a solid C++ programmer. Done MFC and COM these last few years. MFC's dying. COM's going down. Learn Java or .Net. If you go with .Net, learn either C# or Visual Basic.Net, and get to learn about the CLR. I used to detest VB; it was the OO language that wasn't. VB is now a more verbose C#, and is much better to develop with than the old versions. It's only problem is that it doesn't port, so if you think you're going to be developing .Net on a non-MS platform, do C#.
Furthermore, it is the job of a new agency to unearth news. The put spy cameras in brief cases, the send reporters to interview angry people, they employ police scanners, and they peruse corporate web sites, looking for news.
If you're daft enough to give your quarterly report, or whatever, an easilly guessed name, and place them at the disposal of a piece of software for publishing documents, you're going to have news agencies find it.
A little red light comes on, telling you not to do that.
No, I do not. I think personal guns are uncalled for, but military weapons are required for national defense.
In my book, nuclear reactors are no worse than fossil fuel power plants. Our atmosphere is polluted with green house gasses, coal miners used to get black lung or trapped in mine collapses, and we'll run out of these resources. The nuclear industry has a better safety record than the fossil fuel industry, the nazardous waste can be contained, rather than inhaled daily.
And, if you're talking about nuclear weapons, they have kept a third world war from occuring for some fourty years. As long as everyone realizes how catestrophic the next world war will be, it won't happen.
I think Suddam realizes this, but I'm not sure if Bush does. The US government's shyed away from Mutually Assured Destruction. Ever since the Evil Empire broke down in financial ruin, it's been shunned. We need to make sure that every tin pot dictator with a nuke knows that if one of our cities is ruined by an atomic explosion, his capital will a memory. It sounds terrible, I know, it is, but so is war.
Peace is always the answer. The question is, how are you going to ensure it.
That would've been great if Star Trek hadn't started in 1966, and Doctor Who in 1963. Hmmmm?
Each of the other times The Doctor has returned to Galifrey, he has been reminded of his duty to stay as Lord President. At which point, he has snuck back into his faithful TARDIS and dematerialized.
This also reminds me of so many ties Dr Who had with the Second World War. Everyone connected with the show denies it, but it's fairly obvious that the Daleks are Nazis. Especially after reading some of the Dr Who novels. Furthermore, I've just realized that Galifreyan society letting other civilizations get destroyed draws a parellel to the United States standing by while Europe became overrun by Hitler's Arian nation.
Then there are people who live in some tightly knit communities that don't have answering machines. These people, and those that don't like technology, have a tendancy to simply hang-up. You don't know the number of messages I've received on my answering machine. I don't know why the bloody hell the US phone system doesn't pass along foriegn phone numbers as caller IDs.
Ah, but now you should be able to build a machine that will scan the caller ID. If it's a known friend, make the phone ring. If it's a known foe, "beep beep beep This number has been disconnected or is no longer in service." For anyone else, either ring the phone differently, or take a message.
Government stipulated the old standard: NTSC.
Government refused to establish a standard for AM Stereo. Listened to any AM Stereo stations lately? No, cause it died from too many formats.
If the government didn't state a digital tv standard, there'd be a different format from each vendor. Few stations would convert and only fools would would buy receivers.
I remember when I first discovered GNU in 1991. I requested their litterature. They made it quite clear that they dispised the IBM PC, and wanted nothing to do with porting their tools to it. That was a task for other developers, if they chose, without the support from the FSF. I went ahead and bought Minix.
In the interrum, GNU thrashed around trying to create Hurd. Yeah, that's progressed by leaps and bounds, hasn't it? The GNU tools got ported over to Linux, and I'm not even certain who did that in the end. Was it the FSF? I wonder.
Now, they find their tools locked arm in arm with the Linux movement. They want credit for it, but as other posters have noted, there's more to the common Linux distro than just GNU tools, and we can't name every one in the title.
My definition of an opperating system revolves more around a kernal and a set of APIs, than a set of tools. They make the OS useful, but they are not the OS. Windows is the Mach kernal with Win32, POSIX and OS/2 APIs, MacOS X is Mach with a BSD and Toolbox APIs, and Linux is the Linux kernal with POSIX and Linux APIs.
I love it when people say they're waiting for a digicam that has swappable sensors. It just isn't going to happen. The name of the game with cameras, whether they be SLR or pocket, is to make them compact and integrated. The moment you try to make the electronics more generic, you're going to loose this. Not only will you have to swap out the sensor, but the memory, and the CPU too. If the general public wanted to use cameras the size of medium and large format cameras, they'd be using medium and large format cameras.
Every time I read a review of a top of the line SLR film camera, they tear it apart, and I wonder how the bloody hell do they get all that in there? Cameras, digi and film, are like laptops. They're packed in like jacks in the box, and they'll never be upgradable. You can't change the pentaprism, and you won't be able to change the sensor.
Maybe they should drop the idea of a live action HHG movie, and set Nick Park on the project of a claymation HHG movie.
Nick Park is the genious animator behind "The Wrong Trousers", and other Wallace and Gromit films.
I love the HH series, from the radio drama to the novels and the horrible TV series. Mostly Harmess was a bad way to end it, and Mr. Adams more or less admits to it in Salom of a Doubt. There were a lot of very good writings in that book, including the biscuits at the railway station, and the draft of Salom. I had meant to write both his wife and his publisher a letter of thanks for sharing the last scraps of genious from such a wonderfully tallented man.
And with the LaserJet 1100, with it's multi-feed problem, it can truely go through a lot of pages per print job.
A program I saw recently made an interesting point: People who are with you in a car or whatnot, can see you're entering a dangerous situation, and will stop talking to allow you to handle it. People jabbering on a cell cannot see the out of control lorry or red pedestrian crossing, and will continue to take your concentration.
...Peril Sensitive?
Thank you Mister Adams.
Yet, I was also aware of the social preasures for a man to give a woman a precious gift when he asks her hand in marriage. My wife desired a diamond ring -- nothing gaudy, just nice and simple. I proposed, and when she said yes, we went out together and selected a diamond and a ring.
Now, you can either go to your local mall diamond store, and get ripped off, or you can go to the big city, find the jewelry district, and get yourself a high quality stone for less than half the price of the mall. You might be buying into the folly, but at least you're being sensible about it.
The final thing I have to say is that I got my money's worth out of that purchase. Every time I see my wife wearing that ring, I see how happy she is, I remember our wedding day and how happy I was. It may all be redicilous, but that's what most human behaviour is anyway.