Re:Couple of thoughts on tall buildings
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Most Chinese who live in the cities wouldn't have a car. Maybe a small motorbike. In big cities like Shanghai and Beijing there are very efficient transit systems. Chinese who don't live in the cities are too poor to afford transport and walk everywhere. China is very different demographically from America.
Also, 2.2 kids means 1.2 illegal children under the One Child Policy. Of course, there would be two or more generations living in the house: retired couple, their son, his wife and their son (generally as daughter's aren't prized as highly).
dave
Re:Small Building syndrome...
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Beijing is a very large city which isb't really all that dense. The sraticle is talking about Shanghai, however, which is more constrained by the river and it's location.
Boring Fact: The most densely populated place on the planet is Mong Kok District in Hong Kong with over 250,000 people per square mile.
China has a lot of engineers and quite a lot of experience building tall buildings. The expertise to do something like this would certainly be available in places like Hong Kong where standard public housing is 40 stories high.
I would tend to worry more about the massive corruption in China which would lead to cost-cutting, graft and the potential for quite a massive disaster.
dave
Re:Here's a clue: birth freaking control.
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China already has a national birth control program. The One Child Policy has been in place for over 20 years now and has mainly produced a generation of spoilt boys.
Xmouse has been available for Win95 and later since the OS came out. It was in the Powertoys Collection, along with deskmenu and other useful little toys.
It doesn't seem to be available for Win2k, but TweakUI seems to be doing most of the PowerToys functions now.
FORTRAN has moved with the times, you know. It is now possible to code in Visual FORTRAN.
God, that sounds so wrong.
dave
Re:You don't need to buy one...look around!
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*sigh*
I remember a long time ago - about 1990, I guess - I walked into my local newsagents and they had a few old computers for sale. I walked right by a Vic-20 and an Acorn Electron on sale for TEN IRISH POUNDS!!! I went back the next day, after smacking myself in the head many times, but alas, they were gone.
dave
(The electron was the precursor to the BBC micro and had a good structured BASIC with a built in assmebler as well as half a dozen serial and parallel ports. You could install a Word Processor and a Spreadsheet as ROMs. You could easily use these things to control robot arms or whatnot and they were so small (about the size of a PC keyboard) you could attach them to autonomous devices.)
There's a similarity (to THHGTTG) in the interview too. Douglas Adams says, in 'Mostly Harmless', that he finds writing tremendously difficult. Perhaps there's a certain type of artist who has to struggle to express themselves?
Some, like the wonderful Terry Pratchett just seem to be able to churn out quality.
dave
An earlier setting should have more military overtones and could (or should) be closer in tone to David Gerrold's Star Wolf books.
They've already done exploring (twice: TNG, TOS), lost in space (V) fixed (DS9). What's left?
Star Trek: Navy^W Federation SEALS going undercover, etc
Star Trek: Dark Knight - A federation under martial law, rigid control, very gothic.
Star Trek: Galaxy Quest - Get a completely useless crew who barely survive from one fuckup to the next.
Star Trek: Klingon - A whole series from the Klingon point of view. IMHO, unworkable because the necessary violence would freak out the nanny state.
Star Trek: The Science Guys - A whole series dedicated to a team of scientist observing something and teaching it to the kids. Educational but dull.
Star Trek: Taking the Piss - Picard and the crew add fifty pounds each, forget how to act, wear silly hairpieces otherwise impersonate the TOS crew in the Movies.
dave
1. Dr Strangelove - just because.
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - they can do all those cool flying stunts too
3. Titan A.E.
4. Mars Attacks!
5. All of the Aliens movies - that's gotta be points on the smirk meter to be watching Alien in a space station
6. 2001 - for much the same reason.
7. Solaris - again, same reason.
They should also keep a copy of Highlander II for emergencies. If they're attacked by aliens, they broadcast Highlander II at them and watch the aliens' brains turn to mush.
"Wait! There's something coming through in the harmonics!"
"What is it?"
"It's hard to say, I can only decode one letter at a time. I'll send them to the screen."
YHBT, YHL, HAND.
"But what does it mean?"
>Unfortunately, local subtitling here is very
> bad. I believe it was because CTHD
> uses 'unpopular' Chinese dialect and not using
> English like other popular Hong-Kong made
> kungfu films
Unpopular? It's Mandarin, the common tongue of the PRC. Almost all mainland Chinese and Taiwanese speak it. That's over one billion people. HK movies are done in Cantonese, 'cause that's what is spoken in HK, but Cantonese is the minority, no Mandarin.
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The architect may be european, but most of the construction and engineering would be done locally.
Us engineers have special low terms for architects. "Useless, clueless twits" is one of the more polite ones.
dave
You could always look at The Straight Dope page on this subject.
dave
Most Chinese who live in the cities wouldn't have a car. Maybe a small motorbike. In big cities like Shanghai and Beijing there are very efficient transit systems. Chinese who don't live in the cities are too poor to afford transport and walk everywhere. China is very different demographically from America.
Also, 2.2 kids means 1.2 illegal children under the One Child Policy. Of course, there would be two or more generations living in the house: retired couple, their son, his wife and their son (generally as daughter's aren't prized as highly).
dave
Beijing is a very large city which isb't really all that dense. The sraticle is talking about Shanghai, however, which is more constrained by the river and it's location.
Boring Fact: The most densely populated place on the planet is Mong Kok District in Hong Kong with over 250,000 people per square mile.
dave
China has a lot of engineers and quite a lot of experience building tall buildings. The expertise to do something like this would certainly be available in places like Hong Kong where standard public housing is 40 stories high.
I would tend to worry more about the massive corruption in China which would lead to cost-cutting, graft and the potential for quite a massive disaster.
dave
China already has a national birth control program. The One Child Policy has been in place for over 20 years now and has mainly produced a generation of spoilt boys.
dave
Xmouse has been available for Win95 and later since the OS came out. It was in the Powertoys Collection, along with deskmenu and other useful little toys.
It doesn't seem to be available for Win2k, but TweakUI seems to be doing most of the PowerToys functions now.
dave
FORTRAN has moved with the times, you know. It is now possible to code in Visual FORTRAN.
God, that sounds so wrong.
dave
*sigh*
I remember a long time ago - about 1990, I guess - I walked into my local newsagents and they had a few old computers for sale. I walked right by a Vic-20 and an Acorn Electron on sale for TEN IRISH POUNDS!!! I went back the next day, after smacking myself in the head many times, but alas, they were gone.
dave
(The electron was the precursor to the BBC micro and had a good structured BASIC with a built in assmebler as well as half a dozen serial and parallel ports. You could install a Word Processor and a Spreadsheet as ROMs. You could easily use these things to control robot arms or whatnot and they were so small (about the size of a PC keyboard) you could attach them to autonomous devices.)
T'Pau was a Vulcan Dignitary (possible a priestess) in ST:TOS. I think the episode was 'Amok Time'.
T'Pau the band took their name from her.
dave
> THe important thing here really is that now we can get a game of Network Doom going
> with machines on Phobos, Demios and Earth.
The six minute ping might make deathmatching a little complicated...
dave
There's a similarity (to THHGTTG) in the interview too. Douglas Adams says, in 'Mostly Harmless', that he finds writing tremendously difficult. Perhaps there's a certain type of artist who has to struggle to express themselves?
Some, like the wonderful Terry Pratchett just seem to be able to churn out quality. dave
An earlier setting should have more military overtones and could (or should) be closer in tone to David Gerrold's Star Wolf books.
They've already done exploring (twice: TNG, TOS), lost in space (V) fixed (DS9). What's left?
Star Trek: Navy^W Federation SEALS going undercover, etc
Star Trek: Dark Knight - A federation under martial law, rigid control, very gothic.
Star Trek: Galaxy Quest - Get a completely useless crew who barely survive from one fuckup to the next.
Star Trek: Klingon - A whole series from the Klingon point of view. IMHO, unworkable because the necessary violence would freak out the nanny state.
Star Trek: The Science Guys - A whole series dedicated to a team of scientist observing something and teaching it to the kids. Educational but dull.
Star Trek: Taking the Piss - Picard and the crew add fifty pounds each, forget how to act, wear silly hairpieces otherwise impersonate the TOS crew in the Movies.
dave
1. Dr Strangelove - just because.
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - they can do all those cool flying stunts too
3. Titan A.E.
4. Mars Attacks!
5. All of the Aliens movies - that's gotta be points on the smirk meter to be watching Alien in a space station
6. 2001 - for much the same reason.
7. Solaris - again, same reason.
They should also keep a copy of Highlander II for emergencies. If they're attacked by aliens, they broadcast Highlander II at them and watch the aliens' brains turn to mush.
dave
The tag is the only tag which exists in a closing form only. :)
dave
> Why not just record straight to MP3 format ? you'd fit all that radio into less than 500 megs.
Because maybe you want better quality than mp3 can give?
dave
"Wait! There's something coming through in the harmonics!"
"What is it?"
"It's hard to say, I can only decode one letter at a time. I'll send them to the screen."
YHBT, YHL, HAND.
"But what does it mean?"
dave
Newer versions of pppd render diald unnecesary. Dialling on Demand is now built in to pppd.
dave
Islam, as I understand it, uses science to discover more of the wonders of G-d. It's a pity that fundie Christianity seems to believe the opposite.
dave
>Unfortunately, local subtitling here is very
> bad. I believe it was because CTHD
> uses 'unpopular' Chinese dialect and not using
> English like other popular Hong-Kong made
> kungfu films
Unpopular? It's Mandarin, the common tongue of the PRC. Almost all mainland Chinese and Taiwanese speak it. That's over one billion people. HK movies are done in Cantonese, 'cause that's what is spoken in HK, but Cantonese is the minority, no Mandarin.
dave
Speaking as a lynx user, could we have a link for linx please?
dave
Ranting about communism? You are a BAD troll, no cookie for you!
dave
Writing HTML is NOT programming.
dave
Zeppo! (or Karl)
dave
Nope, try:
Prophesied one comes to rescue Humanity from machine slavery. His Kung Fu is best.
HTH, HAND.
dave