But in 'documentaries' such as CSI, all they have to do is say 'enhance the image' and the guy hits a few keys and the exact part of the picture that they want enhanced is blown up and vastly clarified.
What? They can't do that in real life? Are you calling Jerry Bruckheimer a liar?
This article immediately made me think of BreveWalker, which is a similar "learns to walk" concept using a 4-legged block creature. It's a MacOS X-only screen saver module, and it's a lot of fun to play with. Been around for quite a while, too.
Or collect a bunch of junk mail for a week, stuff it in a prepaid mailer from your least favorite company, and mail. Or if you have a spare fork or anything heavy to drop in and increase their postage...
I agree. I'll see it, but since they went out on a good note with Last Crusade, they have a better than average chance of screwing it all up.
The ended with a good movie. No apology flick is needed (think Star Trek VI), so this is just a cash grab, and it will probably come off as such.
The optimist in me hopes not. But this is a Speilberg/Lucas venture. And those two have seriously gone downhill since the late 80's. As has Harrison Ford. And Sean Connery. So the pessimist in me is winning on this one.
"We were flying at about the 8,000-foot altitude west of Kauai over the ocean and the aircraft simply broke up..."
The cause of the crash is unknown, Brown said. NASA is forming an accident investigation team.
If they didn't feel like using it, do you suppose they're really going to feel like sending in the feedback card?
You have a valid point about watching TV naked. It can also be used as a computer monitor, though, and I suspect there are a few people around here who don't mind browsing Slashdot whilst naked...
There are actually 2 ways to destroy TheOneRing, apparently... casting it into the fires of Mt. Doom, and linking it on Slashdot....was that kinda like what you were looking for?;)
Yes, several things - the interface corruption bug that happened when going back to a playlist from the iTMS when a sample was playing, the sound limiter problem that was flattening out audio and making many songs sound crappy, just to name two. A worthwile update, except for the internet sharing cutoff. But that was good too, in a way, as a gesture to the labels.
Perhaps this is why the foam didn't do much damage before - due to circumstances it never slowed down enough relative to the shuttle to do much damage. But this time, the position or orientation of the foam was right for it to be going way slower than the shuttle when it hit.
"Continental drift occurs on the order of feet per eon."
Actually, rates range up to 20 cm/year in some places. In this case, I thing they were saying 2-3 cm/yr. This is very measureable by continuous GPS from permanent stations; see a lot of these other comments for why.
These GPS networks have been used with great success over the past 15 years or so in places like Japan, California, and New Zealand, to name a few. Nice to see it getting put in in other places
Hey, a little competition may have been all that was needed. And I have no doubts that Apple was playing both sides for the grand benefit of the middle. It just took a while.
>>Apple's responsibility lies with its shareholders, not its users
Companies that ignore their users in favor of their shareholders go down the crapper real fast. Shareholders want a quick buck; users need the company to persist and be profitable long-term. A company has responsibilities to BOTH it's users and its shareholders - ideally, what it is doing for its users makes it a good investment for shareholders.
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If that Cat5 carried data, you maybe could get Root on someone's beer...
Oh, jeez, there's so many appropriate Futurama quotes... maybe just a few:
"I call it a Hawking-Hole"
"I'll just steer towards that Blackish-Holish thing"
Prof: "Fortunately, I had this wormhole installed in the middle of the table." Fry: "Where does the other end come out?" Prof: "You know, I don't know." [Looks through hole. Food splatters down from above onto his head. He reaches down through the hole and wipes his head off with a napkin.]
Sure, so maybe it's a small improvement, not a slowdown, but it ain't what it could have been, and many will feel that it is not a big enough jump to warrant the extra cost.
A lot of people have probably already invested a lot of money in 802.11g equipment because of the 54mbps rate, and now, if they have a mixed environment, will end up with a slower rate than they had with 802.11b (10mbps vs 11mbps). I guess this is the fault of the industry for making promises and shipping equipment before the standards are finalized, but this greatly shrinks the market for 802.11g upgrades.
[dons tin-foil hat] I wonder if the 802.11a proponents *ahem* persuaded the IEEE to do this because they might have lost a lot of invested time/money if 802.11g took over the world... [/tin-foil hat]
Well, if the next one was coming out in another 3 years, I'd agree with you, but since it's coming out in November - nearly back-to-back with this one - I think a cliffhanger is quite appropriate.
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But in 'documentaries' such as CSI, all they have to do is say 'enhance the image' and the guy hits a few keys and the exact part of the picture that they want enhanced is blown up and vastly clarified.
What? They can't do that in real life? Are you calling Jerry Bruckheimer a liar?
This article immediately made me think of BreveWalker, which is a similar "learns to walk" concept using a 4-legged block creature. It's a MacOS X-only screen saver module, and it's a lot of fun to play with. Been around for quite a while, too.
PDF is the default screen capture format in Mac OS X (10.2), and I assume in Panther as well.
Just Hide it. Then it's out of the way but still in the Dock reminding you that you eventually should restart.
Well, I believe the highest honor in this ranking system would be the "Natalie Portman w/Hot Grits" award, so Kirsten gets bumped down a bit.
And because it was so good the first time, we want second hits of the same information!
Or collect a bunch of junk mail for a week, stuff it in a prepaid mailer from your least favorite company, and mail. Or if you have a spare fork or anything heavy to drop in and increase their postage...
I agree. I'll see it, but since they went out on a good note with Last Crusade, they have a better than average chance of screwing it all up.
The ended with a good movie. No apology flick is needed (think Star Trek VI), so this is just a cash grab, and it will probably come off as such.
The optimist in me hopes not. But this is a Speilberg/Lucas venture. And those two have seriously gone downhill since the late 80's. As has Harrison Ford. And Sean Connery. So the pessimist in me is winning on this one.
I suspect a piece of foam.
So this story should have been from the dept-of-redundancy dept.?
If they didn't feel like using it, do you suppose they're really going to feel like sending in the feedback card?
You have a valid point about watching TV naked. It can also be used as a computer monitor, though, and I suspect there are a few people around here who don't mind browsing Slashdot whilst naked...
Well, considering the air molecules are still colliding with *something*, namely the force field, the air friction would still be there...
There are actually 2 ways to destroy TheOneRing, apparently... casting it into the fires of Mt. Doom, and linking it on Slashdot. ...was that kinda like what you were looking for? ;)
Yes, several things - the interface corruption bug that happened when going back to a playlist from the iTMS when a sample was playing, the sound limiter problem that was flattening out audio and making many songs sound crappy, just to name two. A worthwile update, except for the internet sharing cutoff. But that was good too, in a way, as a gesture to the labels.
Perhaps this is why the foam didn't do much damage before - due to circumstances it never slowed down enough relative to the shuttle to do much damage. But this time, the position or orientation of the foam was right for it to be going way slower than the shuttle when it hit.
"Continental drift occurs on the order of feet per eon."
Actually, rates range up to 20 cm/year in some places. In this case, I thing they were saying 2-3 cm/yr. This is very measureable by continuous GPS from permanent stations; see a lot of these other comments for why.
These GPS networks have been used with great success over the past 15 years or so in places like Japan, California, and New Zealand, to name a few. Nice to see it getting put in in other places
Hey, a little competition may have been all that was needed. And I have no doubts that Apple was playing both sides for the grand benefit of the middle. It just took a while.
>>Apple's responsibility lies with its shareholders, not its users
Companies that ignore their users in favor of their shareholders go down the crapper real fast. Shareholders want a quick buck; users need the company to persist and be profitable long-term. A company has responsibilities to BOTH it's users and its shareholders - ideally, what it is doing for its users makes it a good investment for shareholders.
If that Cat5 carried data, you maybe could get Root on someone's beer...
"We will search far and wide to find our Frodo."
Send forth the Casting Nasgûl!
Oh, jeez, there's so many appropriate Futurama quotes... maybe just a few:
"I call it a Hawking-Hole"
"I'll just steer towards that Blackish-Holish thing"
Prof: "Fortunately, I had this wormhole installed in the middle of the table."
Fry: "Where does the other end come out?"
Prof: "You know, I don't know." [Looks through hole. Food splatters down from above onto his head. He reaches down through the hole and wipes his head off with a napkin.]
That's enough for now.
Sure, so maybe it's a small improvement, not a slowdown, but it ain't what it could have been, and many will feel that it is not a big enough jump to warrant the extra cost.
A lot of people have probably already invested a lot of money in 802.11g equipment because of the 54mbps rate, and now, if they have a mixed environment, will end up with a slower rate than they had with 802.11b (10mbps vs 11mbps). I guess this is the fault of the industry for making promises and shipping equipment before the standards are finalized, but this greatly shrinks the market for 802.11g upgrades.
[dons tin-foil hat] I wonder if the 802.11a proponents *ahem* persuaded the IEEE to do this because they might have lost a lot of invested time/money if 802.11g took over the world... [/tin-foil hat]
Mr. Wong (about Mars): We own entire Western Hemisphere. That the best hemisphere!
Prof. Farnsworth: It's the same way on Earth!
Well, if the next one was coming out in another 3 years, I'd agree with you, but since it's coming out in November - nearly back-to-back with this one - I think a cliffhanger is quite appropriate.