"Don't Panic", the Biography of Hitchhiker's and Douglas Adams, by Neil Gaiman. Thanks for trying to keep the site honest, although as another poster has pointed out, i recalled the story from memory and made a couple of minor errors.
It's also possible that the BBC needed their own copies for archival purposes, I guess, and copies wouldn't suit.
What's so great about them? I trust the/. community to inform me of the joy that is Hitchhiker.
Wordplay, and complex humo(u)r. A couple of paraphrased examples from memory...
"The Vogon constructor fleet hung in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't" (HHGTTG)
[while doing underwater exploration]... "'Ship, do what I do' said Zaphod. The ship had a long think for a few milliseconds, and then began, slowly and inexorably, to sink to the lowest depths..." (Yound Zaphod Plays It Safe, a short story from his posthumous collection and published in a couple of other places as well)
If you're getting the same image at the top of the article as I am, the guy in front of all the christmassy ladies is Bill Nighy, the actor lined up for Slartibartfast.
On a related note, Slartibartfast was originally a working name for the character, which Adams chose just because he didn't like the typist the BBC had assigned for him whilst he was writing the scripts.
Anything by Iain M Banks, as long as it's got the M (Iain Banks is the same guy writing contemporary fiction - good, but not as good. Creator of the oft-mentioned Culture. Check out his ship names for an idea of the tone - dark, sometimes funny, often disturbing, always clever.
The sole purpose of these machines is to create droplets which will evaporate more easily than the big flat(tish) sea. Basically they just create a mist of seawater.
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Which was based on the PKD short story "The Days of Perky Pat", which featured a doll-like creation for which the players had to scrimp and save spare parts from their spartan world, to provide their Pat doll with furnishings and items, which would then help when they played against their neighbours (usually for more furnishings and items). Sort of like Sim Barbie.
I've always wanted to have a 3-D desktop - so that the documents I had most attention on were in the foreground and the desktop itself was in the background. This could be done by (eg) using a double output graphics card outputting interleaved frames to a single monitor whilst wearing rapidly switching LCD eyewear. The 3D effect would be a little unreal (no parallax effect so you can't peek behind stuff) but would be a much better way of organising attention and importance (and it would be cool to see the mouse pointer zooming off into the distance). This technique would also work for a VR headset (motion detection not necessary).
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It has.
They died out, but history is unclear as to whether that was their fault.
There's a little known movie called "Jurassic Park" where you might be able to see an example.
HTH.
You can hear Jimmy using a transperformance system to retune his guitar mid-song on the eponymous collaboration album "Coverdale Page".
Not sure if this is an update, but that album was released in 1993.
"Don't Panic", the Biography of Hitchhiker's and Douglas Adams, by Neil Gaiman. Thanks for trying to keep the site honest, although as another poster has pointed out, i recalled the story from memory and made a couple of minor errors.
It's also possible that the BBC needed their own copies for archival purposes, I guess, and copies wouldn't suit.
Wordplay, and complex humo(u)r. A couple of paraphrased examples from memory...
"The Vogon constructor fleet hung in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't" (HHGTTG)
[while doing underwater exploration]...
"'Ship, do what I do' said Zaphod. The ship had a long think for a few milliseconds, and then began, slowly and inexorably, to sink to the lowest depths..."
(Yound Zaphod Plays It Safe, a short story from his posthumous collection and published in a couple of other places as well)
If you're getting the same image at the top of the article as I am, the guy in front of all the christmassy ladies is Bill Nighy, the actor lined up for Slartibartfast.
On a related note, Slartibartfast was originally a working name for the character, which Adams chose just because he didn't like the typist the BBC had assigned for him whilst he was writing the scripts.
1000 times. Otherwise it would be a gibinova.
Anything by Iain M Banks, as long as it's got the M (Iain Banks is the same guy writing contemporary fiction - good, but not as good. Creator of the oft-mentioned Culture. Check out his ship names for an idea of the tone - dark, sometimes funny, often disturbing, always clever.
The sole purpose of these machines is to create droplets which will evaporate more easily than the big flat(tish) sea. Basically they just create a mist of seawater.
Which was based on the PKD short story "The Days of Perky Pat", which featured a doll-like creation for which the players had to scrimp and save spare parts from their spartan world, to provide their Pat doll with furnishings and items, which would then help when they played against their neighbours (usually for more furnishings and items). Sort of like Sim Barbie.
Does anyone know whether these sails work with a bernoulli effect (like a yacht sail) or simple momentum transfer (like a parachute)?
Please forgive the oversimplification, it's done in the name of clarity.
I've always wanted to have a 3-D desktop - so that the documents I had most attention on were in the foreground and the desktop itself was in the background. This could be done by (eg) using a double output graphics card outputting interleaved frames to a single monitor whilst wearing rapidly switching LCD eyewear. The 3D effect would be a little unreal (no parallax effect so you can't peek behind stuff) but would be a much better way of organising attention and importance (and it would be cool to see the mouse pointer zooming off into the distance). This technique would also work for a VR headset (motion detection not necessary).