What would be awesome is if they filmed the special effects and scenes for the "original" comic series ending, and spliced them back in as a promotional gimmick to sell more DVDs. A version with seamless music to provide the "original" ending would make fanboys happy and give collectors a reason to buy it.
And I'd love to see the effects they would have come up with - given Snyder's faithful recreation of the key comic book panels in various "signature" scenes, the NYC scene just before Manhattan and Silk Spectre pop in would be outstanding.
THAT's exactly the problem - it IS broken. STS is more than twice as expensive as Apollo/Saturn was, despite Apollo/Saturn being expendable. STS carries less than half the payload, was at best launched only about as frequently as Apollo/Saturn (remember, Apollo's man-rated flights only spanned 4 years: 1968-1972), and STS has killed an average of 1 astronaut per 7 flights. Counting Apollo 1, Apollo/Saturn killed 1 astronaut every 4 flights, but if you only count actual SPACEFLIGHTS, Apollo had 11 man-rated flights with no fatalities. This from a non-reusable program that was cheaper despite requiring 4x as many personnel.
Maybe a lot of that was due to the difference in NASA culture between 1960 and 1975 (when final design on the two systems was underway). No matter how you cut it, though, STS has serious issues - it never worked as advertised, the crew vehicle is in the path of shedding debris from other parts of the craft, mission objectives are not separated (crew SHOULD be separate from cargo - it's more economic. Cargo doesn't need life support and its associated weight), the list goes on and on. The design of the CEV addresses a number of those problems, and hopefully fixes it.
One of the reasons it was so impressive is the lack of fuel - a fully loaded 767 of that era weighs about 300,000 lbs., 120,000 lbs. of which are fuel. Bone dry, that leaves a weight of about 180,000 lbs. (60% of maximum takeoff weight)
60 pixels per degree corresponds to the center of your vision. The visual elements in the eye consist of rods and cones. The rods take care of low-light vision and only see in black & white. They have a high concentration in a ring around the center of the retina, and a low concentration in the center. The cones process higher light levels and register colors. They are concentrated in the center of the eye, which is why you notice detail well when looking directly at something and poorly when the object is in your peripheral vision.
If there was a way to change pixel density on the display so that the density was highest in the area where someone was looking, and lower in the peripheral zone, then image quality could be maintained with a much lower number of pixels and much lesser video bandwidth.
Any spacewalk to fix the gyroscope circuit breaker would be only the second time both station crew members would be outside the space station, leaving no one inside.
"Got the keys to the station?"
"I thought you had them."
It *IS* funny, just not to everyone. Humor is a common and healthy reaction to trauma. This does not change the fact that the comment, as a public remark in a public forum, was (IMO) in bad taste. I've found a number of comments in this discussion very amusing, but I would never repeat any of them to other people - I think it would be callous and insensitive for me to do so. The original poster of the comment may or may not agree.
Frankly, I'm happy that people can still post things that I consider are in bad taste, and I'm happy that other people find them funny rather than offensive. Diversity of opinion is one of the things that keeps our society strong.
I do feel really bad for the family, though, and the girlfriend. It's terrible that they're going to go through pain and trauma, doubt and blame. The lawyer and the inevitable lawsuits probably won't help matters.
Possibly - the show was a lot of fun, and predates the more recent world / time / reality hopping shows like Sliders, Stargate, etc.
Interesting that my original post (which was intended to be funny - hence the winking smiley) got modded as "Flamebait" - some people apparently have no sense of humor.;-)
Technically, Steampunk refers to the era from about 1850 to 1910 or 1920. It was popularized by the William Gibson / Bruce Sterling novel "The Difference Engine" and basically ends with the widespread use of the internal combustion engine.
1930's-era pulp is typically referred to as "pulp", though the other terms referred to in the parent post certainly apply.
Black and white episodes of Voyager? You mean that show where the guy and that annoying kid travel through time, setting things right? Man, that show died out in the 80's, dude!;-)
The creators may not have been influenced by Miyazaki at all. Miyazaki's works are recent. The director has clearly stated the Fleischer Brothers' "Mechanical Monsters" (1941) as the source material for the robots - this animation was the original inspiration for the robots in Miyazaki's "Laputa" and "Lupin III: Castle Castigliostro". The lone aviation hero with the masked face is a staple of 1930's pulp films (as are invading robots, for that matter).
Japanese animation borrowed heavily from US 1930's and 1940's culture (not surprising considering our domination of their culture at the end of WWII). Don't confuse the source (1930's-1940's pulp) with the derivative work (anime).
The entire entertainment world does not revolve around anime.
Actually, caffeine doesn't open blood vessels - it closes them. Caffeine is a vasoconstrictor. The headache comes in part as a result of your blood vessels widening after the caffeine is removed from your system. Bloodflow is increased in the brain and you get a headache.
Most P2P applications that the record industry hates so much run on MSWindows.
The legality of file sharing remains in question.
Copyright was never intended to prevent people from sharing information. In fact, it was intended to create more information for people to share.
Other posters have addressed the bullet points, I wanted to address the entire comment:
We don't know what the lawyer did or did not say, we only know from this article what the reporter decided to report on. There could be pages worth of additional material that was not compressed into the standard media sound-bite.
Anyone have an alternate source for this prosecutor's quote?
You ARE wrong. Novell didn't kill Word Perfect OR Quattro Pro - Corel did that all on their own.
Perfect Office was rivaling MS Office 6 / Office 95 when Novell sold it to Corel. Corel managed to screw up the Word Perfect / Quattro Pro suite of applications just like it screwed up its Linux distro. Corel sank WP.
Not quite true - with the latest version of NetWare (6.5), you can install on an unlimited number of servers. They're making their money off the client access licenses and support.
I just installed a new Netware 6 SBS server less than 3 months ago. It was thousands of dollars cheaper than a Win2K SBS server. Granted, Linux would be cheaper yet, but our firm has been on Netware since version 3 and Netware 7 will run on the Linux kernel anyway. You could say I'm getting us to Linux from the other direction.
but the Empire destroyed an entire planet with no weapons on it
That would be like if North Korea decided to nuke the Swiss.
The Swiss are neutral, not pacifists. Switzerland has a heckuva lot of weaponry - every member of the Swiss Army stores their weapons in their homes when not doing their annual 2-3 week drilling, including heavy weapons such as mortars. Check out This link on Swiss gun ownership. The fact that about 14% of Swiss households have military weaponry could be why gun crime in Switzerland is rare. You can make a strong case for saying Switzerland is peaceful, but you'll have a harder time arguing that they have no weapons.
From my perspective as a former sysadmin/security guy, how could someone not notice that 2 main fileservers were suddenly offline?
The article said they posed as EDS employees - perhaps someone DID notice. If someone had complained about the downed machines, they may have been told "yes, we know, there's a couple of EDS guys here fixing it."
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Why not? Cats need a vacation too. What are you, pro-dog?
What would be awesome is if they filmed the special effects and scenes for the "original" comic series ending, and spliced them back in as a promotional gimmick to sell more DVDs. A version with seamless music to provide the "original" ending would make fanboys happy and give collectors a reason to buy it. And I'd love to see the effects they would have come up with - given Snyder's faithful recreation of the key comic book panels in various "signature" scenes, the NYC scene just before Manhattan and Silk Spectre pop in would be outstanding.
THAT's exactly the problem - it IS broken. STS is more than twice as expensive as Apollo/Saturn was, despite Apollo/Saturn being expendable. STS carries less than half the payload, was at best launched only about as frequently as Apollo/Saturn (remember, Apollo's man-rated flights only spanned 4 years: 1968-1972), and STS has killed an average of 1 astronaut per 7 flights. Counting Apollo 1, Apollo/Saturn killed 1 astronaut every 4 flights, but if you only count actual SPACEFLIGHTS, Apollo had 11 man-rated flights with no fatalities. This from a non-reusable program that was cheaper despite requiring 4x as many personnel. Maybe a lot of that was due to the difference in NASA culture between 1960 and 1975 (when final design on the two systems was underway). No matter how you cut it, though, STS has serious issues - it never worked as advertised, the crew vehicle is in the path of shedding debris from other parts of the craft, mission objectives are not separated (crew SHOULD be separate from cargo - it's more economic. Cargo doesn't need life support and its associated weight), the list goes on and on. The design of the CEV addresses a number of those problems, and hopefully fixes it.
I totally agree. Run, do not walk, RUN to your local gaming store and order this game!
A one-dimensional wall of bricks - you mean a line?
One of the reasons it was so impressive is the lack of fuel - a fully loaded 767 of that era weighs about 300,000 lbs., 120,000 lbs. of which are fuel. Bone dry, that leaves a weight of about 180,000 lbs. (60% of maximum takeoff weight)
60 pixels per degree corresponds to the center of your vision. The visual elements in the eye consist of rods and cones. The rods take care of low-light vision and only see in black & white. They have a high concentration in a ring around the center of the retina, and a low concentration in the center. The cones process higher light levels and register colors. They are concentrated in the center of the eye, which is why you notice detail well when looking directly at something and poorly when the object is in your peripheral vision.
If there was a way to change pixel density on the display so that the density was highest in the area where someone was looking, and lower in the peripheral zone, then image quality could be maintained with a much lower number of pixels and much lesser video bandwidth.
Lots of cool pictures and info on the Visby at the following sites:
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http://www.kockums.se/News/photostock/photosurfac
http://www.kockums.se/surfacevessels/visby.html
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/visby/
http://www.memagazine.org/backissues/jan01/featur
3D! Da corn is popping in your face inna... [throws popcorn in his own face] 3-D! -The Swedish Chef
Any spacewalk to fix the gyroscope circuit breaker would be only the second time both station crew members would be outside the space station, leaving no one inside.
"Got the keys to the station?"
"I thought you had them."
-Houston, we have a problem.
It *IS* funny, just not to everyone. Humor is a common and healthy reaction to trauma. This does not change the fact that the comment, as a public remark in a public forum, was (IMO) in bad taste. I've found a number of comments in this discussion very amusing, but I would never repeat any of them to other people - I think it would be callous and insensitive for me to do so. The original poster of the comment may or may not agree.
Frankly, I'm happy that people can still post things that I consider are in bad taste, and I'm happy that other people find them funny rather than offensive. Diversity of opinion is one of the things that keeps our society strong.
I do feel really bad for the family, though, and the girlfriend. It's terrible that they're going to go through pain and trauma, doubt and blame. The lawyer and the inevitable lawsuits probably won't help matters.
-Mod how you like, we'll make more
Possibly - the show was a lot of fun, and predates the more recent world / time / reality hopping shows like Sliders, Stargate, etc.
;-)
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Interesting that my original post (which was intended to be funny - hence the winking smiley) got modded as "Flamebait" - some people apparently have no sense of humor.
Or maybe I just don't understand
Technically, Steampunk refers to the era from about 1850 to 1910 or 1920. It was popularized by the William Gibson / Bruce Sterling novel "The Difference Engine" and basically ends with the widespread use of the internal combustion engine.
1930's-era pulp is typically referred to as "pulp", though the other terms referred to in the parent post certainly apply.
Black and white episodes of Voyager? You mean that show where the guy and that annoying kid travel through time, setting things right? Man, that show died out in the 80's, dude! ;-)
The creators may not have been influenced by Miyazaki at all. Miyazaki's works are recent. The director has clearly stated the Fleischer Brothers' "Mechanical Monsters" (1941) as the source material for the robots - this animation was the original inspiration for the robots in Miyazaki's "Laputa" and "Lupin III: Castle Castigliostro". The lone aviation hero with the masked face is a staple of 1930's pulp films (as are invading robots, for that matter).
Japanese animation borrowed heavily from US 1930's and 1940's culture (not surprising considering our domination of their culture at the end of WWII). Don't confuse the source (1930's-1940's pulp) with the derivative work (anime).
The entire entertainment world does not revolve around anime.
Actually, caffeine doesn't open blood vessels - it closes them. Caffeine is a vasoconstrictor. The headache comes in part as a result of your blood vessels widening after the caffeine is removed from your system. Bloodflow is increased in the brain and you get a headache.
- There is no connection between OSS and piracy.
- Most P2P applications that the record industry hates so much run on MSWindows.
- The legality of file sharing remains in question.
- Copyright was never intended to prevent people from sharing information. In fact, it was intended to create more information for people to share.
Other posters have addressed the bullet points, I wanted to address the entire comment:We don't know what the lawyer did or did not say, we only know from this article what the reporter decided to report on. There could be pages worth of additional material that was not compressed into the standard media sound-bite.
Anyone have an alternate source for this prosecutor's quote?
You ARE wrong. Novell didn't kill Word Perfect OR Quattro Pro - Corel did that all on their own.
Perfect Office was rivaling MS Office 6 / Office 95 when Novell sold it to Corel. Corel managed to screw up the Word Perfect / Quattro Pro suite of applications just like it screwed up its Linux distro. Corel sank WP.
Not quite true - with the latest version of NetWare (6.5), you can install on an unlimited number of servers. They're making their money off the client access licenses and support.
I just installed a new Netware 6 SBS server less than 3 months ago. It was thousands of dollars cheaper than a Win2K SBS server. Granted, Linux would be cheaper yet, but our firm has been on Netware since version 3 and Netware 7 will run on the Linux kernel anyway. You could say I'm getting us to Linux from the other direction.
but the Empire destroyed an entire planet with no weapons on it
That would be like if North Korea decided to nuke the Swiss.
The Swiss are neutral, not pacifists. Switzerland has a heckuva lot of weaponry - every member of the Swiss Army stores their weapons in their homes when not doing their annual 2-3 week drilling, including heavy weapons such as mortars. Check out This link on Swiss gun ownership. The fact that about 14% of Swiss households have military weaponry could be why gun crime in Switzerland is rare. You can make a strong case for saying Switzerland is peaceful, but you'll have a harder time arguing that they have no weapons.
From my perspective as a former sysadmin/security guy, how could someone not notice that 2 main fileservers were suddenly offline?
The article said they posed as EDS employees - perhaps someone DID notice. If someone had complained about the downed machines, they may have been told "yes, we know, there's a couple of EDS guys here fixing it."
-I don't have a cool