I don't suppose that it's much worse than life aboard an aircraft carrier. The Carrier (I'm on the USS John C. Stennis) isn't as cramped, but it's noisy, and smells like JP5 (yummy). The berthing is probably just as bad, since I believe we have an even smaller place to sleep. The heads (bathrooms) while fairly large, are usually made to accomodate 12 people at once when they need to accomodate about 30. Not to mention that gentle rock and rolling that puts you to sleep oh so well, but too well, as to not allow you to remember sleep at all, and have the days go by infinitely until the next port. I guess at least there's port, right?
I agree with everything he stated in the article, however; just because we're surrounded by technology, doesn't mean that movies that don't rely on technology suck. Gladiator was brought to us by technology, but the 'Hero' Maximus was a warrior; a brute force kindof guy. Yes, he was a thinker, and yes, he was emotional, but he was still a killer. To me, Gladiator was an AWESOME movie.
One reason people will end up seeing this movie is just for DMX, because he's basically a 'pop-culture icon.'
What if AMD and Transmeta got together, and created a chip as powerful as the Thunderbird, cheap as the Duron, and able to dual boot any x86 operating system, or run PPC OS's like say, Mac OS X?
I may be wrong, but can't Transmeta chips do something similar anyways? I mean, run a different operating system by compiling it in real time? I don't totally understand the way it works, so if someone could explain, that'd be niftyroo.
During RADCOM school @ MCAS Miramar, I heard a story from an instructor that used to work on the flightline when the base belonged to the Navy. Not 10 hours after the Challenger disaster, Astronaut Hoot Gibson ( a 'hero' of modern aviation, in my book) flew into Miramar in a T-38 (Not Uncommon).
A joke or two was told by him having to pertain about the color of Christa McAuliff's eyes (I won't repeat the punchline). When I first heard about it, I laughed my butt off. But then I realized that even though it's a moderately funny joke, you're making fun about the way someone died.
I believe that jokes like this are made to compensate for our own losses. Pilots don't grieve; we just fly on. We will all gather and make jokes about near-misses (near-hits???) and bad landings to take our minds off the fact that what we do can be fatal.
There's a tradition in Boeing, that before any major flighttest, the engineers go out and get drunk while watching videos of airplane crashes. It's the same thing.
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I don't suppose that it's much worse than life aboard an aircraft carrier. The Carrier (I'm on the USS John C. Stennis) isn't as cramped, but it's noisy, and smells like JP5 (yummy). The berthing is probably just as bad, since I believe we have an even smaller place to sleep. The heads (bathrooms) while fairly large, are usually made to accomodate 12 people at once when they need to accomodate about 30. Not to mention that gentle rock and rolling that puts you to sleep oh so well, but too well, as to not allow you to remember sleep at all, and have the days go by infinitely until the next port. I guess at least there's port, right?
I agree with everything he stated in the article, however; just because we're surrounded by technology, doesn't mean that movies that don't rely on technology suck. Gladiator was brought to us by technology, but the 'Hero' Maximus was a warrior; a brute force kindof guy. Yes, he was a thinker, and yes, he was emotional, but he was still a killer. To me, Gladiator was an AWESOME movie. One reason people will end up seeing this movie is just for DMX, because he's basically a 'pop-culture icon.'
What if AMD and Transmeta got together, and created a chip as powerful as the Thunderbird, cheap as the Duron, and able to dual boot any x86 operating system, or run PPC OS's like say, Mac OS X? I may be wrong, but can't Transmeta chips do something similar anyways? I mean, run a different operating system by compiling it in real time? I don't totally understand the way it works, so if someone could explain, that'd be niftyroo.
During RADCOM school @ MCAS Miramar, I heard a story from an instructor that used to work on the flightline when the base belonged to the Navy. Not 10 hours after the Challenger disaster, Astronaut Hoot Gibson ( a 'hero' of modern aviation, in my book) flew into Miramar in a T-38 (Not Uncommon). A joke or two was told by him having to pertain about the color of Christa McAuliff's eyes (I won't repeat the punchline). When I first heard about it, I laughed my butt off. But then I realized that even though it's a moderately funny joke, you're making fun about the way someone died. I believe that jokes like this are made to compensate for our own losses. Pilots don't grieve; we just fly on. We will all gather and make jokes about near-misses (near-hits???) and bad landings to take our minds off the fact that what we do can be fatal. There's a tradition in Boeing, that before any major flighttest, the engineers go out and get drunk while watching videos of airplane crashes. It's the same thing.