You are correct, as long as you are in Earth's gravity well (orbiting). Then the weightlessness is simulated due to free fall. But in the absence of a gravity well, say in deep space, you are in fact weightless.
I suppose it's just a semantic difference depending on whether your going into orbital space, or extra-orbital space. Then again, I'm not an astrophysicist, so I could be completely full of crap.
I'm a little offended by your comments. I don't dislike the prequels because it's the "in" thing to do, I dislike them because they are crap and a waste of a huge sci-fi franchise!
As a youngster liked episodes IV & especially V when they came out. But I should have seen the writing on the wall with VI. Ewoks?! Worshipping C3PO?! Puhleez!
So yeah, I'm older and wiser than I was in 1977, but you know what? So is George Lucas. He has more experience, better tools at his disposal, and plenty of great sci-fi movies to draw upon to create what we all know could have been.
I don't think that George understands that the best CGI is the kind you don't know is there. You can give me bad acting, bad plot, and bad dialogue, just don't fuck with my willing suspension of disbelief. Once, you've done that, I start to notice the ceiling fans in the theatre and the candy monkeys coming in to sneak a few minutes of film
Phantom was a 2+hour toy commercial and I was so disappointed with it that I waited for AotC to come out on cable. I'll be doing the same with Ep.III.
As an american graphic designer, I can tell you I would love it if we used the metric paper measurement system. This is not only because of the image-scaleability, but also because of consistent weight measuring.
In the States, we measure the weight, or thickness of paper by pounds, as in 24# paper. This weight comes from measuring 500 full-size sheets. The problem is that different papers come in full-size sheets of different sizes. One type of stock may have a full-size sheet size of 23x35 inches, and another may have a full-size sheet size of 25x37. It's totally stupid!
The metric measurement for paper weight is grams per square meter which seems far more accurate. We also use micrometers to measure the physical thickness of a stock, but this too can be misleading because thickness doesn't always equal rigidity.
Can any of our friends across the pond give their experiences with using the metric measurement for paper weight determination? Does it work?
I just started looking into going to grad school for Materials Science Engineering. I called a local thinktank and spoke with their Advanced Materials guy. He told me that one bright area for nanotech for the foreseeable future is how it applies to homeland security. He told me about a researcher creating a material that gave a visible reaction in the presence of various noxious chemicals.
He also said many in the field are thinking carbon will be the Next Big Thing(tm). Just as steel was in the 1800's and silicon has been for the last 30 or so years, Carbon will be for the next 30+ years.
Wow! How amazingly talented the Graphic Designer was that put this together!
Now miscreants have an official vector-art image of the USAF logo, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs logo, and (drumroll), vector-converted signatures of both General Jumper USAF Chief of Staff, and Dr. Roche, Secretary of the Air Force.
Any manner of documents can now be forged. Someone could do something simple like faking a letter of recommendation from Dr. Roche...to...I shudder to think what could be done that would have more serious consequences.
Not that you couldn't scan these items in and recreate them, mind you, but why on earth make it that easy!
The title comes from the retelling of a story in Carl Sagan's Broca's Brain where a 17th century philosopher/physicist (which one I can't remember) is giving a lecture on how the Earth moves in the Solar System, floating in space. A woman stands and claims the theory is ridiculous. She states everyone knows that the Earth rests on the back of a giant turtle. To which the scientist asks, "Well then, what is the turtle resting on?"
Her reply? "Very clever young man, but it's turtles all the way down!"
It's a great book.
Sig: I'm sorry but your opinion seems to be wrong.
I think what you are experiencing is geographic. I live in central Ohio. I graduated in October, 2002 with a B.S. in Computer and Info Systems at a school well regarded for IT. My cummulative GPA was 3.93. I've had exactly two interviews since I graduated. They were humiliating because they wanted to see extensive knowledge of enterprise-level programming that no one gets in school or through internships. All of the major tech employers (mostly banks, insurance companies, and other large financial services institutions) in the city are reducing or farming out their support staff. So when a job opens up somewhere, guess who I have to compete with...the people who had been working in the financial industry for years.
If you've got a job waiting for you somewhere...take it and be very grateful. Never forget that there are probably tens of thousands of heavily-experience unemployed IT workers who would gladly be in your position.
If you don't work in the industry (apologies to those that do), try to understand...we don't use desktop equipment, we use ultra-high-end hardware solutions from Heidelberg, AGFA, ABDick, Kodak and the like that don't change at the rate of OS architecture. Most of us have highly involved workflows that work, and we aren't going to change for the sake of changing, it has to be better - not different. OSX, while I think it's awesome and can't wait to implement it here in our business, is no where near ready for my industry. You can get files to print to your Epson? Rock on! But there is no way it's going to interface with the Harlequin RIP software sitting on the NT box (don't bother, it wasn't my decision!) that is connected to the ABDick digital plate maker. And that output device prints 99% of the plates we put on the press.
As for the Quark vs. Adobe(PM, InD) argument, that could be changing. Adobe burned some bridges by stating there was not going to be future updates on Pagemaker and then shoveling that POS InDesign 1.0 to us. But InDesign 2.0 is very cool! I like it alot and I'm using it more. Quark Killer? I don't think so. But it might split my project load with Quark.
I use hammers to pound nails, and screwdrivers to turn screws. I'll use the software that works best for the job at hand...and none of them do everything perfectly, so save religion for church! -- I'm sorry, but your opininion seems to be wrong.
...to the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field? I guess I have to see one in person, but the new iMac looks plain stupid. I so wish I didn't feel that way. I saw the keynote at the Apple Store, and although we all clapped, many expressed disappointment. Under the hood, the improvements are stellar, but on the surface? I was hoping for wireless keyboard and mouse. Can video be sent wirelessly? How about an iMac that "senses" one or more wireless flat panels? H2H gaming! I really hope it does well, but I won't buy one.
You people only see the trees. Quit nitpicking the author's grasp on sociology and try to see the big picture for once. This guy is absolutely right. Sure it's a little obvious and maybe mental masturbation, but it needs to be said every once in awhile. We are spoonfed our reality.
If you live the U.S. (as I do), try spending a few weeks in another country and watch the news. You'll see exactly how much pro-US-spin our news really is. You will also begin to understand why some countries don't particularly like us. Large conglomerates DO OWN the media. Look at the argument hemp-growers make. There is nothing inherently wrong with hemp. You can't get high from it. It is a natural wonder-fiber. Yet we hardly use it at all. Why? Because a large company (I think it was Dow Chemical) made paper from wood pulp. Paper can be made from hemp too, and at less cost. Dow also owned many newspapers. Suddenly all the newspapers were filled with stories about hemp-growers and getting high. We now know that you can't get high from hemp, but the stigma still stands.
This story should serve as a rallying cry. MAKE YOUR REALITY!
Something I keep thinking about is how this distribution model will affect interoperability issues between large and small software manufacturers. For example, I upgraded to Adobe Illustrator 9.0 as soon as it was out only to discover that it conflicts with my font management program Font Reserve (I use a Mac, but I'm sure there are similar issues on the PC side of things).
Font Reserve is a very powerful font manager and regarded as one of the best. It also comes from a tiny software publisher called DiamondSoft. Adobe's impetus to resolve the problem comes from the fact that they know designers use FontReserve, and may not upgrade to Illustrator 9 until the conflict is solved. If Illustrator users are forced to upgrade, not only does Adobe not have to fix the problem, now they can steer FontReserve users toward Adobe's own font manager, ATM!
Consumer advocacy groups really need to look into subscription-ware. I'm getting sick just typing this.
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I suppose it's just a semantic difference depending on whether your going into orbital space, or extra-orbital space. Then again, I'm not an astrophysicist, so I could be completely full of crap.
As a youngster liked episodes IV & especially V when they came out. But I should have seen the writing on the wall with VI. Ewoks?! Worshipping C3PO?! Puhleez!
So yeah, I'm older and wiser than I was in 1977, but you know what? So is George Lucas. He has more experience, better tools at his disposal, and plenty of great sci-fi movies to draw upon to create what we all know could have been.
I don't think that George understands that the best CGI is the kind you don't know is there. You can give me bad acting, bad plot, and bad dialogue, just don't fuck with my willing suspension of disbelief. Once, you've done that, I start to notice the ceiling fans in the theatre and the candy monkeys coming in to sneak a few minutes of film
Phantom was a 2+hour toy commercial and I was so disappointed with it that I waited for AotC to come out on cable. I'll be doing the same with Ep.III.
In the States, we measure the weight, or thickness of paper by pounds, as in 24# paper. This weight comes from measuring 500 full-size sheets. The problem is that different papers come in full-size sheets of different sizes. One type of stock may have a full-size sheet size of 23x35 inches, and another may have a full-size sheet size of 25x37. It's totally stupid!
The metric measurement for paper weight is grams per square meter which seems far more accurate. We also use micrometers to measure the physical thickness of a stock, but this too can be misleading because thickness doesn't always equal rigidity.
Can any of our friends across the pond give their experiences with using the metric measurement for paper weight determination? Does it work?
He also said many in the field are thinking carbon will be the Next Big Thing(tm). Just as steel was in the 1800's and silicon has been for the last 30 or so years, Carbon will be for the next 30+ years.
Wow! How amazingly talented the Graphic Designer was that put this together!
Now miscreants have an official vector-art image of the USAF logo, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs logo, and (drumroll), vector-converted signatures of both General Jumper USAF Chief of Staff, and Dr. Roche, Secretary of the Air Force.
Any manner of documents can now be forged. Someone could do something simple like faking a letter of recommendation from Dr. Roche...to...I shudder to think what could be done that would have more serious consequences.
Not that you couldn't scan these items in and recreate them, mind you, but why on earth make it that easy!
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Memory fading, but I'll be close...
The title comes from the retelling of a story in Carl Sagan's Broca's Brain where a 17th century philosopher/physicist (which one I can't remember) is giving a lecture on how the Earth moves in the Solar System, floating in space. A woman stands and claims the theory is ridiculous. She states everyone knows that the Earth rests on the back of a giant turtle. To which the scientist asks, "Well then, what is the turtle resting on?"
Her reply? "Very clever young man, but it's turtles all the way down!"
It's a great book.
Sig: I'm sorry but your opinion seems to be wrong.
I think what you are experiencing is geographic. I live in central Ohio. I graduated in October, 2002 with a B.S. in Computer and Info Systems at a school well regarded for IT. My cummulative GPA was 3.93. I've had exactly two interviews since I graduated. They were humiliating because they wanted to see extensive knowledge of enterprise-level programming that no one gets in school or through internships. All of the major tech employers (mostly banks, insurance companies, and other large financial services institutions) in the city are reducing or farming out their support staff. So when a job opens up somewhere, guess who I have to compete with...the people who had been working in the financial industry for years.
If you've got a job waiting for you somewhere...take it and be very grateful. Never forget that there are probably tens of thousands of heavily-experience unemployed IT workers who would gladly be in your position.
If you don't work in the industry (apologies to those that do), try to understand...we don't use desktop equipment, we use ultra-high-end hardware solutions from Heidelberg, AGFA, ABDick, Kodak and the like that don't change at the rate of OS architecture. Most of us have highly involved workflows that work, and we aren't going to change for the sake of changing, it has to be better - not different. OSX, while I think it's awesome and can't wait to implement it here in our business, is no where near ready for my industry. You can get files to print to your Epson? Rock on! But there is no way it's going to interface with the Harlequin RIP software sitting on the NT box (don't bother, it wasn't my decision!) that is connected to the ABDick digital plate maker. And that output device prints 99% of the plates we put on the press.
As for the Quark vs. Adobe(PM, InD) argument, that could be changing. Adobe burned some bridges by stating there was not going to be future updates on Pagemaker and then shoveling that POS InDesign 1.0 to us. But InDesign 2.0 is very cool! I like it alot and I'm using it more. Quark Killer? I don't think so. But it might split my project load with Quark.
I use hammers to pound nails, and screwdrivers to turn screws. I'll use the software that works best for the job at hand...and none of them do everything perfectly, so save religion for church!
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I'm sorry, but your opininion seems to be wrong.
...to the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field? I guess I have to see one in person, but the new iMac looks plain stupid. I so wish I didn't feel that way. I saw the keynote at the Apple Store, and although we all clapped, many expressed disappointment. Under the hood, the improvements are stellar, but on the surface? I was hoping for wireless keyboard and mouse. Can video be sent wirelessly? How about an iMac that "senses" one or more wireless flat panels? H2H gaming! I really hope it does well, but I won't buy one.
You people only see the trees. Quit nitpicking the author's grasp on sociology and try to see the big picture for once. This guy is absolutely right. Sure it's a little obvious and maybe mental masturbation, but it needs to be said every once in awhile. We are spoonfed our reality.
If you live the U.S. (as I do), try spending a few weeks in another country and watch the news. You'll see exactly how much pro-US-spin our news really is. You will also begin to understand why some countries don't particularly like us.
Large conglomerates DO OWN the media. Look at the argument hemp-growers make. There is nothing inherently wrong with hemp. You can't get high from it. It is a natural wonder-fiber. Yet we hardly use it at all. Why? Because a large company (I think it was Dow Chemical) made paper from wood pulp. Paper can be made from hemp too, and at less cost. Dow also owned many newspapers. Suddenly all the newspapers were filled with stories about hemp-growers and getting high. We now know that you can't get high from hemp, but the stigma still stands.
This story should serve as a rallying cry. MAKE YOUR REALITY!
Something I keep thinking about is how this distribution model will affect interoperability issues between large and small software manufacturers. For example, I upgraded to Adobe Illustrator 9.0 as soon as it was out only to discover that it conflicts with my font management program Font Reserve (I use a Mac, but I'm sure there are similar issues on the PC side of things). Font Reserve is a very powerful font manager and regarded as one of the best. It also comes from a tiny software publisher called DiamondSoft. Adobe's impetus to resolve the problem comes from the fact that they know designers use FontReserve, and may not upgrade to Illustrator 9 until the conflict is solved. If Illustrator users are forced to upgrade, not only does Adobe not have to fix the problem, now they can steer FontReserve users toward Adobe's own font manager, ATM! Consumer advocacy groups really need to look into subscription-ware. I'm getting sick just typing this.