The "PC Compatibility Card" was actually a fairly complicated setup. It required some special hardware on the motherboard to link the PC sound output into the Mac speakers, and also output video from the PC hardware. On top of that, there was a special extension required in the MacOS to switch back and forth between Mac and Windows, meaning that the card is useless in PPC Linux or OS X. Also, it required special drivers in Windows, meaning other PC OSes are out the window as well.
There was a company, I believe Orange Micro, making similar cards a few years ago that I don't think were as complicated. They also had more powerful x86 CPUs than the lackluster Pentium 133 or Cyrix 586 that Apple's cards had. Can't remember the exact details, though.
Obligatory "lol mc hammer moved to my hometown after running out of money" post.
I know a guy who knows a guy who invited him to do a benefit concert locally, and he turned it down. Guess he's still coasting on the success of Hammerman.
So with a PPU, you have to decide on a common library of collisions. Good news: more objects you can play with and let the PPU decide what's getting hit. Bad news: everybody's game will react basically the same and they'll have to decide if that's a good idea.
This, then, is an excellent opportunity for open source. Imagine the equivalent of OpenGL for physics cards. Once a standard is in place, then all that has to happen is something like libSDL that implements this standard in an open, portable manner.
Once a library like that is in place, then yeah, everyone's game will probably act the same. But that will most likely be the beginning of a push towards games as a sort of "interactive cinema..." In other words, it'll be like the story-driven holodeck programs seen in some episodes of Star Trek: TNG, such as Captain Picard's "Dixon Hill" program. Somebody just needs to build something like a holodeck in order to free these games from a 2D projection surface.
So that explains why every little town has a default page containing census data! I honestly thought somebody was going through and copying and pasting all the census data into Wikipedia by hand.
I must say I appreciate the Jack Kerouac reference in my hometown's article, though.
Isn't it sad that in the 50 years since, the ideals of country have been torn to shreds by politicians, the home has been reduced to a consumer commodity and soulless status symbol by profiteering developers, and the traditional family has been rent asunder by the demands of a big-spending modern lifestyle?
At least these people have found something in the modern world to be passionate about, and it doesn't involve murdering infidels/terrrrists.
Or the line is blurred between state and corporate power.
Personally, I agree with the guy above who likes decentralization. I think if you paid closer attention, you would find a large number of libertarians and perhaps outright anarchists. They just don't seem that way because they believe that some corporations abuse state power.
Wait, rotating in one dimension? I assume that in layman's terms, one dimension would best described as a line, with a single point being dimensionless. So in order to rotate in one dimension... what? You can move up and down a line with respect to some point, but that's linear movement!
Yeah, I think you're right. No idea of your credentials, but the physicist often is right in such discussions.
I remember FrameMaker being bundled with my 400MHz iMac a few years ago. It was quite a capable little program. A lot of the programs that Adobe is failing to support on Mac seem to have equivalents from Apple (like FCP), but FrameMaker didn't at the time and as far as I know still doesn't. Maybe you can count Pages in iWork, but it's not intended specifically for the same purpose as FrameMaker. The next best (free) thing is Nvu, but that really bites hard on OS X.
There are a lot of people, from Manny Coto who's currently on the inside to J. Michael Strazyncki (sp) who's a big Hollywood scifi player, who do NOT want to see such a thing happen. I think Johnathan Frakes would even come back for a movie or even a TV show, at least in a director's capacity. He's said that he misses the days of filming TNG.
Besides, Star Trek is one of Paramount's biggest cash cows. I think if Viacom didn't have MTV then the Paramount studio would have a lot more pressure on it to put out good product. The problem, of course, is that they've been treating it as a cash cow and assuming the fans will keep on coming back for more. That's not true. If the finale spoilers I just read are true (and there's no reason to believe that they aren't) then the fan goodwill for Enterprise is going to be wasted and so, I think, is a good portion of B&B's credibility with the suits. If only...
This only really happened with TOS, but sadly that was getting pretty bad in the 3rd season. However, it was something people hadn't seen before, and they wanted more.
TNG, DS9, and Voyager were all pretty much planned to end, and each had a (fairly) satisfying finale that gave some amount of closure to the story.
I think people are more concerned about the show being cancelled without any prospect for more new Trek at all. The show itself is getting better, but it's taken so long to get there with so much bad stuff as a leadup that I don't think there's a huge fanbase enthusiastic about Enterprise specifically. It's more the idea of bad Trek being better than no Trek at all.
Point is, though, the producers think it's the greatest thing ever. With the exception of Manny Coto, who's the one behind the well-liked episodes this season, everybody else thinks the show up till now has been just grand. Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, the two guys who have been running the show completely since DS9 ended, honestly believe that the first three years of the show are quality entertainment.
Another case in point: Berman is apparently working on a script treatment for Star Trek XI with some guy who produced the Inspector Gadget movies for Disney (including the direct to video sequel). In an interview he gave on this subject, Berman said that Nemesis was a great movie and he can't understand why it did so poorly. Perhaps that was because it was in fact an AWFUL movie, and he's gotten it into his head that he can do no wrong. He and Braga were saying the same thing about Enterprise when it was about to be canned last time around. It's still pretty mediocre, but at least Manny Coto sees the flaws and listens to the fans.
The fact that you characterize my reply as a tangent indicates that there is a much larger argument here that you're missing entirely. Given the berkeley.edu homepage address, I'm not surprised.
Is this due to a law restricting the resale of such ticket, or due to the policy of the airline companies themselves?
This would probably be a good leadin to an argument on whether all the increased airport security is necessary (and how effective it is). It also seems to me that if it's an airline policy, somebody might stand to make a decent amount of money if they did allow you to resell your tickets. Of course, most if not all American airlines are heavily subsidized, so that's probably foolish speculation.
When the finale of TNG pulled in record numbers of viewers for first-run syndicated television. Say what you want about syndicated numbers being lower than network numbers, but that show struck a chord with people outside the fanbase.
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Oh come on, TOS only used the Nazi gimmick... twice.
And they weren't even alien Nazis. Technically.
So, legislative, executive, judicial... and the FAA? Still doesn't make much sense.
I keep seeing this argument and I keep failing to understand it. Why does the evolution of technology mandate a larger government?
Actually, no. The "rule of law" is based on guns. Lots of guns.
The "PC Compatibility Card" was actually a fairly complicated setup. It required some special hardware on the motherboard to link the PC sound output into the Mac speakers, and also output video from the PC hardware. On top of that, there was a special extension required in the MacOS to switch back and forth between Mac and Windows, meaning that the card is useless in PPC Linux or OS X. Also, it required special drivers in Windows, meaning other PC OSes are out the window as well.
There was a company, I believe Orange Micro, making similar cards a few years ago that I don't think were as complicated. They also had more powerful x86 CPUs than the lackluster Pentium 133 or Cyrix 586 that Apple's cards had. Can't remember the exact details, though.
Take notice! The Temporal Cold War isn't over yet!
Obligatory "lol mc hammer moved to my hometown after running out of money" post.
I know a guy who knows a guy who invited him to do a benefit concert locally, and he turned it down. Guess he's still coasting on the success of Hammerman.
This, then, is an excellent opportunity for open source. Imagine the equivalent of OpenGL for physics cards. Once a standard is in place, then all that has to happen is something like libSDL that implements this standard in an open, portable manner.
Once a library like that is in place, then yeah, everyone's game will probably act the same. But that will most likely be the beginning of a push towards games as a sort of "interactive cinema..." In other words, it'll be like the story-driven holodeck programs seen in some episodes of Star Trek: TNG, such as Captain Picard's "Dixon Hill" program. Somebody just needs to build something like a holodeck in order to free these games from a 2D projection surface.
So that explains why every little town has a default page containing census data! I honestly thought somebody was going through and copying and pasting all the census data into Wikipedia by hand.
I must say I appreciate the Jack Kerouac reference in my hometown's article, though.
Isn't it sad that in the 50 years since, the ideals of country have been torn to shreds by politicians, the home has been reduced to a consumer commodity and soulless status symbol by profiteering developers, and the traditional family has been rent asunder by the demands of a big-spending modern lifestyle?
At least these people have found something in the modern world to be passionate about, and it doesn't involve murdering infidels/terrrrists.
Well, in that case, it ought to have a NetBSD port fairly soon!
Or the line is blurred between state and corporate power.
Personally, I agree with the guy above who likes decentralization. I think if you paid closer attention, you would find a large number of libertarians and perhaps outright anarchists. They just don't seem that way because they believe that some corporations abuse state power.
They could be real assholes and play the trailer during the series finale of Enterprise.
Any experiments involving time would ideally use DeLoreans, but I guess that wasn't in their budget.
Wait, rotating in one dimension? I assume that in layman's terms, one dimension would best described as a line, with a single point being dimensionless. So in order to rotate in one dimension... what? You can move up and down a line with respect to some point, but that's linear movement!
Yeah, I think you're right. No idea of your credentials, but the physicist often is right in such discussions.
I remember FrameMaker being bundled with my 400MHz iMac a few years ago. It was quite a capable little program. A lot of the programs that Adobe is failing to support on Mac seem to have equivalents from Apple (like FCP), but FrameMaker didn't at the time and as far as I know still doesn't. Maybe you can count Pages in iWork, but it's not intended specifically for the same purpose as FrameMaker. The next best (free) thing is Nvu, but that really bites hard on OS X.
There are a lot of people, from Manny Coto who's currently on the inside to J. Michael Strazyncki (sp) who's a big Hollywood scifi player, who do NOT want to see such a thing happen. I think Johnathan Frakes would even come back for a movie or even a TV show, at least in a director's capacity. He's said that he misses the days of filming TNG.
Besides, Star Trek is one of Paramount's biggest cash cows. I think if Viacom didn't have MTV then the Paramount studio would have a lot more pressure on it to put out good product. The problem, of course, is that they've been treating it as a cash cow and assuming the fans will keep on coming back for more. That's not true. If the finale spoilers I just read are true (and there's no reason to believe that they aren't) then the fan goodwill for Enterprise is going to be wasted and so, I think, is a good portion of B&B's credibility with the suits. If only...
So after your first computer didn't work out, you tried to build Spock?
These are the voyages of the starship Uninspired.
Its continuing mission:
To beat strange, old horse corpses.
To seek out banal plotlines and bad characterization.
To horribly fuck up that which has not been this horribly fucked up before.
(Cue Alexander Courage theme played through a toy synthesizer)
This only really happened with TOS, but sadly that was getting pretty bad in the 3rd season. However, it was something people hadn't seen before, and they wanted more.
TNG, DS9, and Voyager were all pretty much planned to end, and each had a (fairly) satisfying finale that gave some amount of closure to the story.
I think people are more concerned about the show being cancelled without any prospect for more new Trek at all. The show itself is getting better, but it's taken so long to get there with so much bad stuff as a leadup that I don't think there's a huge fanbase enthusiastic about Enterprise specifically. It's more the idea of bad Trek being better than no Trek at all.
Point is, though, the producers think it's the greatest thing ever. With the exception of Manny Coto, who's the one behind the well-liked episodes this season, everybody else thinks the show up till now has been just grand. Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, the two guys who have been running the show completely since DS9 ended, honestly believe that the first three years of the show are quality entertainment.
Another case in point: Berman is apparently working on a script treatment for Star Trek XI with some guy who produced the Inspector Gadget movies for Disney (including the direct to video sequel). In an interview he gave on this subject, Berman said that Nemesis was a great movie and he can't understand why it did so poorly. Perhaps that was because it was in fact an AWFUL movie, and he's gotten it into his head that he can do no wrong. He and Braga were saying the same thing about Enterprise when it was about to be canned last time around. It's still pretty mediocre, but at least Manny Coto sees the flaws and listens to the fans.
The fact that you characterize my reply as a tangent indicates that there is a much larger argument here that you're missing entirely. Given the berkeley.edu homepage address, I'm not surprised.
Is this due to a law restricting the resale of such ticket, or due to the policy of the airline companies themselves?
This would probably be a good leadin to an argument on whether all the increased airport security is necessary (and how effective it is). It also seems to me that if it's an airline policy, somebody might stand to make a decent amount of money if they did allow you to resell your tickets. Of course, most if not all American airlines are heavily subsidized, so that's probably foolish speculation.
Perhaps Archer rubbing down his dog == soft porn. I think that was another attempt to fit into the UPN demographic.
When the finale of TNG pulled in record numbers of viewers for first-run syndicated television. Say what you want about syndicated numbers being lower than network numbers, but that show struck a chord with people outside the fanbase.