Don't expect to get something like what you'd see out of the Hubble. In my light-polluted area (suburban), with a 50mm f/1.8 lens, I was able to get a small hazy disc with a central bulge. I suspect my focus was a bit off (very hard to focus a camera on a dark sky - use live view if you have it). Even so, it was fairly clear that the object was a galaxy.
I have a 10" Newtonian Reflector-type telescope, and that's about all I can see of Andromeda with it, at least from my area.
To this day, I can still recite that stupid thing backwards. As a kid, I went to McDonald's once, and they were giving out an iron-on transfer of that whole "Two all-beef patties..." thing. I never asked Mom to iron it onto a shirt for me, but by reading the (translucent) iron-on backwards a few times, it stuck in my memory. One of these days, I'll try dislodging it, maybe with an ice pick...
My knowledge of COBOL is limited to what I remember from a summer class between my junior and senior years of high school, many years ago. I have worked extensively in the Foxbase and Foxpro variants of 'xbase', and they always felt to me like a mix of Pascal, BASIC, COBOL and Fortran - the COBOL mostly in the PICTURE clauses available to some commands.
Apollo Domain was nifty. I never used it for much, but in college, I worked as a sysadmin for a robotics lab that had a couple nodes. I remember remotely running the "crumble" and "melt" programs (which made the screen do exactly that) on the Domain workstations in the engineering lab up the hall. Good times...
As a freshman at ULowell in 1984-85, I had to use the Cyber running NOS for programming assignments. The main terminal room was all print terminals, except for 3 video terminals that were, for obvious reasons, in great demand. I found a manual to the terminals and learned how to lock them with a password. So, henceforth, I always got a video terminal. To to this day, I still feel bad about doing that. It's probably the most anti-social thing I've ever done in my life. But at least I got to use VSE (the visual screen editor) to write my code...
I believe that year was the last for the Cyber. It got replaced with a high end VAX/VMS machine for the general student body, and a Sequent (I believe) multiple-CPU Unix machine for the CS students.
That's something I don't like, either - running the same instance over and over. I don't find it to be much fun at all to do that - with the caveat that I'll do it with different characters, because then at least I'm playing it a different way. But doing it over and over with the same character, and possibly with the same group of people, in the hope that some rare piece of gear you can actually use will drop... that's not for me.
Yeah - others would be the Fall of Gondolin, any of the fights with Balrogs (have you noticed that anyone who actually defeats a balrog in combat winds up dying as well), the whole story of Beren and Luthien.
A movie of The Silmarillion would be interesting, but very hard to do well. It spans many thousands of years, from the very mythical times before the sun and moon, and before the Earth was round, to the sinking of Numenor...
There's an idea - a movie about Numenor, Ar^Pharazon, Sauron, Elendil & sons, etc. might be accessible to viewers.
I bought a 'generic roleplaying supplement' some time around 1981 called 'The City of Carse', published by Midkemia Press. A few years later when I read 'Magician', it was pretty easy to see that it came from an AD&D campaign.
Anyway, am I the only person who actually read The Hobbit, thought it was a great book, read Lord of the Rings and thought it was good, if long-winded, and then absolutely hated the films?
I've read The Hobbit, LotR, and The Silmarillion many times each. "Hated the films?" No. But my feelings about the files is, to paraphrase from RotK, "there is much that is good here, and some that is less than good"
Anyway, am I the only person who actually read The Hobbit, thought it was a great book, read Lord of the Rings and thought it was good, if long-winded, and then absolutely hated the films?
I've read The Hobbit, LotR, and The Silmarillion many times each. "Hated the films?" No. But my feelings about the files is, to paraphrase from RotK, "there is much that is good here, and some that is less than good".
That describes my typing method as well. I did take a typing class in high school, about 28 years ago, and reached the mandatory 50wpm (I think) required to pass. By the time I began using computers the following year, I had forgotten most of what I learned, and developed the hyper-advanced form of hunt&peck I use to this day.
Compu$erve's 'CB Simulator' (chat room) helped my typing a lot. But in those days, nobody used the stupid chatspeak crap that seems prevalent today.
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I'm amused that someone mod'd you "Flamebait" for calling yourself a moron.
Don't feel bad - they left out mithril and adamantium, too.
Don't expect to get something like what you'd see out of the Hubble. In my light-polluted area (suburban), with a 50mm f/1.8 lens, I was able to get a small hazy disc with a central bulge. I suspect my focus was a bit off (very hard to focus a camera on a dark sky - use live view if you have it). Even so, it was fairly clear that the object was a galaxy.
I have a 10" Newtonian Reflector-type telescope, and that's about all I can see of Andromeda with it, at least from my area.
He was typing that from a VIC-20, you insensitive clod!
To this day, I can still recite that stupid thing backwards. As a kid, I went to McDonald's once, and they were giving out an iron-on transfer of that whole "Two all-beef patties..." thing. I never asked Mom to iron it onto a shirt for me, but by reading the (translucent) iron-on backwards a few times, it stuck in my memory. One of these days, I'll try dislodging it, maybe with an ice pick...
I visited it a few years back as well - great place. The mug I bought eventually cracked and leaked. Make of that what you will :-).
It had a job as the 4th level of the TRON video game for a while.
My knowledge of COBOL is limited to what I remember from a summer class between my junior and senior years of high school, many years ago. I have worked extensively in the Foxbase and Foxpro variants of 'xbase', and they always felt to me like a mix of Pascal, BASIC, COBOL and Fortran - the COBOL mostly in the PICTURE clauses available to some commands.
The tags say it all:
Blizzard games it! Wow, technology story.
Apollo Domain was nifty. I never used it for much, but in college, I worked as a sysadmin for a robotics lab that had a couple nodes. I remember remotely running the "crumble" and "melt" programs (which made the screen do exactly that) on the Domain workstations in the engineering lab up the hall. Good times...
As a freshman at ULowell in 1984-85, I had to use the Cyber running NOS for programming assignments. The main terminal room was all print terminals, except for 3 video terminals that were, for obvious reasons, in great demand. I found a manual to the terminals and learned how to lock them with a password. So, henceforth, I always got a video terminal. To to this day, I still feel bad about doing that. It's probably the most anti-social thing I've ever done in my life. But at least I got to use VSE (the visual screen editor) to write my code...
I believe that year was the last for the Cyber. It got replaced with a high end VAX/VMS machine for the general student body, and a Sequent (I believe) multiple-CPU Unix machine for the CS students.
That pretty much sounds like paradise to me. I wonder if there's a way to become a professional juror... :-)
Gneiss one.
Bilbo twinked Frodo with a unique epic ring, purple armor, and a purple sword.
That's something I don't like, either - running the same instance over and over. I don't find it to be much fun at all to do that - with the caveat that I'll do it with different characters, because then at least I'm playing it a different way. But doing it over and over with the same character, and possibly with the same group of people, in the hope that some rare piece of gear you can actually use will drop... that's not for me.
Oops, you were referring to Champions, not CoH. Sorry.
I'd love a PPC OS X version of Champions and CoH/V, but luckily I also have a windows machine for games.
CoH/V has an OS X version, but it's for Intel only.
People are usually only willing to give a penny for your thoughts.
I have no problems administering Unix/Linux boxes 200 miles away, but -- MS PR aside -- I'd want to keep a Windows box 'close to home'.
An thanks to ILOM, DRAC, et al, I have no problem looking after Windows machines on the other side of the planet. What's your point ?
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" ?
This is a humorous web comic of the LotR movie being run as a D&D campaign. Very well done.
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?cat=14
Yeah - others would be the Fall of Gondolin, any of the fights with Balrogs (have you noticed that anyone who actually defeats a balrog in combat winds up dying as well), the whole story of Beren and Luthien.
A movie of The Silmarillion would be interesting, but very hard to do well. It spans many thousands of years, from the very mythical times before the sun and moon, and before the Earth was round, to the sinking of Numenor...
There's an idea - a movie about Numenor, Ar^Pharazon, Sauron, Elendil & sons, etc. might be accessible to viewers.
I bought a 'generic roleplaying supplement' some time around 1981 called 'The City of Carse', published by Midkemia Press. A few years later when I read 'Magician', it was pretty easy to see that it came from an AD&D campaign.
Gack, I screwed those tags up. Try:
Anyway, am I the only person who actually read The Hobbit, thought it was a great book, read Lord of the Rings and thought it was good, if long-winded, and then absolutely hated the films?
I've read The Hobbit, LotR, and The Silmarillion many times each. "Hated the films?" No. But my feelings about the files is, to paraphrase from RotK, "there is much that is good here, and some that is less than good"
Anyway, am I the only person who actually read The Hobbit, thought it was a great book, read Lord of the Rings and thought it was good, if long-winded, and then absolutely hated the films?
I've read The Hobbit, LotR, and The Silmarillion many times each. "Hated the films?" No. But my feelings about the files is, to paraphrase from RotK, "there is much that is good here, and some that is less than good".
That describes my typing method as well. I did take a typing class in high school, about 28 years ago, and reached the mandatory 50wpm (I think) required to pass. By the time I began using computers the following year, I had forgotten most of what I learned, and developed the hyper-advanced form of hunt&peck I use to this day.
Compu$erve's 'CB Simulator' (chat room) helped my typing a lot. But in those days, nobody used the stupid chatspeak crap that seems prevalent today.