What this *does* mean is that Pixar will make any sequels to Toy Story et al, rather than Disney trying to do it with some crappy in-house team. The terms of the contract for Pixar's first five movies was that Disney had the rights to the characters and any spinoffs, exclusively. That's still true, but now they can guarantee on Pixar being on board to make said spinoffs. Oh, and Cars might finally get released;-)
In other thoughts; does this sound like something we've seen before? Small Steve-owned company gets bought for vastly more than its market value by big failing company, Steve gets put in charge of big failing company, big failing company becomes big meteoric success company? Does the word NeXT spring to mind for anyone else?
Making the Discworld into a film would certainly put LotR to shame just in terms of length. Actually, it would be a much better screenplay too. But let's say they concentrate on one particular aspect; I wonder what it would be? Suppose the screenplay is novel[1], I'd expect it to be based on Ankh-Morpork, but probably with both the City Watch and UU involved somehow. Otherwise it would need to be the whole plot of one of the existing books, but one which is self-contained and also doesn't have too much in the way of explanatory passages. Pyramids would probably be right out, Last Continent would be doable but probably wouldn't make a good film. So I think in these cases they'd probably go right back to the start and make The Colour of Magic, or perhaps Wyrd Sisters.
Out of interest, which game are you referring to? I've played the first two computer games but missed out on Discworld Noir. My overriding memory of playing Discworld computer games is "that doesn't work".
[1]Puns, like Gods, are brought into existence purely by narrative imperative.[2] [2]As are explanatory footnotes.
In fact Rhapsody (the developer previews of OS X) ran on Intel before PowerPC and was dual-architecture up until the release of OS X Server v1.0. After all, it was just an OPENSTEP port...
In some instances, it may render web pages even better than Firefox, since Konqueror passed the Acid2 test.
Acid2 only measures the particular edgecasitis that the Acid2 authors managed to think of - web developers seem capable of introducing many more. What's needed isn't more acid tests but a W3-approved regression suite.
Yeah, because no-one owns a Harley 883 or a Suzuki GSX-R or a Porsche 944...those brand names are just confusing. And no-one ever bought a transistor with a geeky name like BC109 either;-)
Erm, don't know much Objective-C? How about runtime symbol lookup or exceptions? "C with classes bolted on" sounds like "C with classes" to me, which is of course how C++ started out...
In fusion, most things up to Iron can be produced. However, it's not the *entire* star that becomes a black hole, it's whatever's left at the end (which may include after a supernova) - if there was a supernova towards the end of a star's life then that can provide the pressures necessary to create heavier elements. What's left over can become a white dwarf, neutron star or black hole or whatever - and a nice pretty planetary nebula too;-)
This is indeed the eye of the beholder, it took me a while to figure it out even what the problem was. Apparently blacks are apes
I had the same problem working out what people's beef was with King Kong - apparently enslaving a huge gorilla when it's the only such example of a huge gorilla is somehow related to enslaving African people. Maybe I'm naïve but I didn't see that connection.
The Marthin Luther King example can indeed be seen as both being about racism and the fight against it. The original Planet of the Apes was using the sci-fi trick of turning the roles around to give its message.
There was an even more explicit example of same - Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein. In that a white family + black slave from 1950s America get transported into the future, where a black supremacist version of Islam (yeah, I don't see the connection either) has forced all Caucasians into slave roles and the black slave is treated like a prince. The head of the household is shocked to find that while he's given everything he wants he's property of someone else.
do {"We must stop the pr0n!" "The church does not want you to admit that there is pr0n to be stopped" "Then we allow the pr0n!" "The church does not want you to allow pr0n"} while(1);
Of course it's not. The air-filled balloon has an appreciable bouyancy in comparison with its weight; above poster ignored this to try and support another argument. The bouyancy of an object in air is the weight of air displaced, so for an air-filled balloon in air it's (volume of balloon)*(density of air)*g. This means that an air-filled balloon will fall slower than an unfilled balloon. This contradicts parent's statement: weigh an unfilled balloon and an air-filled balloon on a set of balances (which can be in a standard temperature and pressure environment if you like; it's easy that way;-)) and you'll see that the air-filled balloon weighs more.
I think that Dell just realised it couldn't be seen dead with the same CPUs as Apple in their machines;-) Bring back the WebObjects version of Dell's online store, I say....
Quick test: if you have a web server running on each of your dozens of machines (all on port 80...no bucking the standard), can I connect to each of them using http?
No? Why not? Why can't you just get more IPv4 addresses so that I can connect to each of them?
If you have that many web servers in one institution and need external visitors to be able to connect directly to each I would suggest you don't have an effective sysadmin.
The patch to get PowerMac G4s working properly was too late to get into 6.0, but there's now a 7.0 snap which ought to work (I've tested the kernel, but not actually tried installing the OS yet). Hopefully....:-)
Flicking through a nearby Cocoa in a Nutshell for class names I don't recognise from OpenStep, the differences between Foundation on 10.2 and Foundation on OpenStep/Yellow Box/10.0 include NSAppleEvent*, NSAppleScript, NSScript*; all of which seem too platform-specific to be able to provide compatibility with on GNUstep. Similarly AppKit's NSQuickDrawView (which frankly should die under Cocoa anyway), even providing complete AppKit/Foundation compatibility at the 10.2 level seems overkill. I'm waiting for FreeBSD to work on my PowerMac G4, so that I can get back up to speed with GNUstep and try implementing NSNetService/NSNetServiceBrowser:-)
The problem GNUstep is going to have in providing 10.2 compatibility is that 10.2 only had to run on Darwin 6.x, whereas GNUstep supports Linux, some BSDs (including Darwin), Solaris, Windows...take one of the 10.2 frameworks such as NSMailDelivery, it should be simple to supply that atop Pantomime. However, now look at DiscRecording.framework...
Both OS X's Cocoa and GNUstep are based on the same API specification; "OpenStep" jointly written by NeXT Software and Sun Microsystems in the mid-1990s. Code which targets OpenStep will work on both Cocoa and GNUstep - however from thereon there are divergences...GNUstep has classes which Cocoa lacks and vice versa. It would be possible to reimplement the missing classes on the other system, just it hasn't been done.
I think I had it wrong both times as I had --i the first time. That would have caused i to be decremented then compared to 0, causing the loop to stop at i=1...i-- is indeed correct and my loop should read:
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What this *does* mean is that Pixar will make any sequels to Toy Story et al, rather than Disney trying to do it with some crappy in-house team. The terms of the contract for Pixar's first five movies was that Disney had the rights to the characters and any spinoffs, exclusively. That's still true, but now they can guarantee on Pixar being on board to make said spinoffs. Oh, and Cars might finally get released ;-)
In other thoughts; does this sound like something we've seen before? Small Steve-owned company gets bought for vastly more than its market value by big failing company, Steve gets put in charge of big failing company, big failing company becomes big meteoric success company? Does the word NeXT spring to mind for anyone else?
Making the Discworld into a film would certainly put LotR to shame just in terms of length. Actually, it would be a much better screenplay too. But let's say they concentrate on one particular aspect; I wonder what it would be? Suppose the screenplay is novel[1], I'd expect it to be based on Ankh-Morpork, but probably with both the City Watch and UU involved somehow. Otherwise it would need to be the whole plot of one of the existing books, but one which is self-contained and also doesn't have too much in the way of explanatory passages. Pyramids would probably be right out, Last Continent would be doable but probably wouldn't make a good film. So I think in these cases they'd probably go right back to the start and make The Colour of Magic, or perhaps Wyrd Sisters.
Out of interest, which game are you referring to? I've played the first two computer games but missed out on Discworld Noir. My overriding memory of playing Discworld computer games is "that doesn't work".
[1]Puns, like Gods, are brought into existence purely by narrative imperative.[2]
[2]As are explanatory footnotes.
That wasn't a misspelling; they're now called iItanium because they're going to be used in the Xserve.
In fact Rhapsody (the developer previews of OS X) ran on Intel before PowerPC and was dual-architecture up until the release of OS X Server v1.0. After all, it was just an OPENSTEP port...
Acid2 only measures the particular edgecasitis that the Acid2 authors managed to think of - web developers seem capable of introducing many more. What's needed isn't more acid tests but a W3-approved regression suite.
Yeah, because no-one owns a Harley 883 or a Suzuki GSX-R or a Porsche 944...those brand names are just confusing. And no-one ever bought a transistor with a geeky name like BC109 either ;-)
And with good reason - it fell off a Chevy. They're made by Delphi and used in the Blazer.
Erm, don't know much Objective-C? How about runtime symbol lookup or exceptions? "C with classes bolted on" sounds like "C with classes" to me, which is of course how C++ started out...
In fusion, most things up to Iron can be produced. However, it's not the *entire* star that becomes a black hole, it's whatever's left at the end (which may include after a supernova) - if there was a supernova towards the end of a star's life then that can provide the pressures necessary to create heavier elements. What's left over can become a white dwarf, neutron star or black hole or whatever - and a nice pretty planetary nebula too ;-)
Unpaid manual labourer then, if you like.
I had the same problem working out what people's beef was with King Kong - apparently enslaving a huge gorilla when it's the only such example of a huge gorilla is somehow related to enslaving African people. Maybe I'm naïve but I didn't see that connection.
There was an even more explicit example of same - Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein. In that a white family + black slave from 1950s America get transported into the future, where a black supremacist version of Islam (yeah, I don't see the connection either) has forced all Caucasians into slave roles and the black slave is treated like a prince. The head of the household is shocked to find that while he's given everything he wants he's property of someone else.
No, two heads are more numerous than one, but that's all.
do {"We must stop the pr0n!" "The church does not want you to admit that there is pr0n to be stopped" "Then we allow the pr0n!" "The church does not want you to allow pr0n"} while(1);
Of course it's not. The air-filled balloon has an appreciable bouyancy in comparison with its weight; above poster ignored this to try and support another argument. The bouyancy of an object in air is the weight of air displaced, so for an air-filled balloon in air it's (volume of balloon)*(density of air)*g. This means that an air-filled balloon will fall slower than an unfilled balloon. This contradicts parent's statement: weigh an unfilled balloon and an air-filled balloon on a set of balances (which can be in a standard temperature and pressure environment if you like; it's easy that way ;-)) and you'll see that the air-filled balloon weighs more.
I think that Dell just realised it couldn't be seen dead with the same CPUs as Apple in their machines ;-) Bring back the WebObjects version of Dell's online store, I say....
If you have that many web servers in one institution and need external visitors to be able to connect directly to each I would suggest you don't have an effective sysadmin.
Cross-platform code that doesn't suck = GNUstep. wxWidgets is not nice - I've written software for both GNUstep/Cocoa and wx.
The patch to get PowerMac G4s working properly was too late to get into 6.0, but there's now a 7.0 snap which ought to work (I've tested the kernel, but not actually tried installing the OS yet). Hopefully....:-)
Flicking through a nearby Cocoa in a Nutshell for class names I don't recognise from OpenStep, the differences between Foundation on 10.2 and Foundation on OpenStep/Yellow Box/10.0 include NSAppleEvent*, NSAppleScript, NSScript*; all of which seem too platform-specific to be able to provide compatibility with on GNUstep. Similarly AppKit's NSQuickDrawView (which frankly should die under Cocoa anyway), even providing complete AppKit/Foundation compatibility at the 10.2 level seems overkill. I'm waiting for FreeBSD to work on my PowerMac G4, so that I can get back up to speed with GNUstep and try implementing NSNetService/NSNetServiceBrowser :-)
The problem GNUstep is going to have in providing 10.2 compatibility is that 10.2 only had to run on Darwin 6.x, whereas GNUstep supports Linux, some BSDs (including Darwin), Solaris, Windows...take one of the 10.2 frameworks such as NSMailDelivery, it should be simple to supply that atop Pantomime. However, now look at DiscRecording.framework...
GNUstep has drag and drop, and doesn't have much eye candy.
Both OS X's Cocoa and GNUstep are based on the same API specification; "OpenStep" jointly written by NeXT Software and Sun Microsystems in the mid-1990s. Code which targets OpenStep will work on both Cocoa and GNUstep - however from thereon there are divergences...GNUstep has classes which Cocoa lacks and vice versa. It would be possible to reimplement the missing classes on the other system, just it hasn't been done.
I think I had it wrong both times as I had --i the first time. That would have caused i to be decremented then compared to 0, causing the loop to stop at i=1...i-- is indeed correct and my loop should read:
//...
for(i=someNumber;i--;)
{
}
erm, oops...see what happens when you can't read the words "submit" and "preview" distinctly? I meant
for(int i=someValue; 1+i--; )