Apple didn't invent the mouse, quality printing, GUI, MP3 player, 3.5" floppies, online music store, the modern standard location for the keyboard on a laptop computer, or a host of other things i may be forgetting... but they did make it popular... and none of these things may have ever caught on in a big way if apple had not stepped forward.
we might still be using keyboards (only) with MS-DOS XP 2003 Server, printing on green striped paper that has holes on the sides and wakes the neighbors, loading music to our crappy nomad mp3 players.
without apple, who would have been microsofts reason to push forward new technologies? and if it was left to MS alone to decide where to take computing, what would they have come up with?
i shudder to think what the computer would be like today without apple.
Most of the time I watched MST3K very regularly was during the Joel era.
However, going back, I find that it's not really Mike vs. Joel that made episodes better (they're both pretty great)... it was whether or not Frank Conniff had left Arby's yet and joined the cast or was still there before the days of Bobo and Brain Guy... and the movie itself. But I know that it was largely Frank who had the job of sifting through bad movies to find the ones worth doing... mostly because he was the only one who could not only do it without going insane, but actually enjoy it.
BTW, I started to watch The Crawling Hand earlier, and then put on something better since the jokes really aren't good yet (they hadn't hit their stride)... but in the opening song, they claim that it was Dr. Forester and Dr. Ehrhardt who sent Joel into space... but later on it's Dr. F and TV's Frank. As far as I know this is the only inconsistency between all the different versions of the opening credits.
Also, I've bought and read Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese, and Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters... two excellent books that show just how funny Mike is. I reccomend them highly.
Oddly enough I just realized I know my MST3K fan club ID number off the top of my head: 18642 (I think)
What a coincidence, I just finished watching the MST3K Skydivers episode. I hadn't watched an episode in awhile and sort of grabbed it out of the blue.
The article mentioned that Intel is doing flat rates to all manufacturers now... so I don't think buying more intel chips is going to get them any discount on the parts they're already ordering... (and the prices they charge HP, Dell, Apple,... are public information now)
What would save money would be the generally lower cost of AMD chips.
The "Genesis does... Genesis does... Genesis does... what Nintendon't!" commercials were the first time I even KNEW an alternative to Nintendo ("Now you're playing with power!") existed. (Born in 81, Atari was before my time.) And it's still stuck in my mind to this day.
"As was stated by others in the earlier discussion, would there have been a huge outcry if there existed only one advertisement, and it was black over white?
My opinion? I seriously, seriously doubt it.
It would if whites had been slaves to blacks... but that's not what happened.
Well, the guy did say that the user told him his password was his last name, then he looked it up and that was true.
But yeah, I'm amazed the kind of information I've had customer service people blurt out over the phone. When I did customer service I was incredibly tight-lipped about everything sensitive.
This is the one I was going to point out.... other than EGM during the 16-bit era.
I remember when VG&CE had some photos of an NES prototype that looked flatter and used phone jacks to connect the controllers... it looked really cool back then to see something like that.
Of course, there are American citizens named Habib who are smarter than you, less racist than you, speak English better than you do, and could offer tech support better than someone named Jon.
I hate to point out that what that guy did to your original post can be re-applied here and sound even worse...
It must be nice to live in a fantasy world where there are absolutely no differences between blacks and whites. But, here in the real world, there are differences. Some of them are good differences for one or the other, some are bad. But they are real and must be acknowledged.
After all, only a fool would see the same pattern over and over again and still think that it's just a coincidence.
The effects of gravity drop off pretty quickly as the distances increase.
As others have mentioned, the bigger problem is the small amount of gravity caused by the ship itself.
It could be accounted for, especially if the ship was designed so that it's gravitational effects could be accounted for... but it's still a challenge in an experiment like this where precision is key, and the effects they're looking for might be very small.
Maybe they should consider using bigger orbs for the sun and planet... and make the ship some sort of larger inflatable low-mass thing, so that it's gravity would be negligible by comparison.
I have MP3's because it's convenient to have it all or most of it on one device, that I can listen to in my car***. And I go to the cinema still because it's a bigger screen sure, but the big benefit is the sound system... and it's new movies I might not want to wait for, and it's a fun thing to do with family/friends. I don't rip my DVD's because that's a big pain in the butt the last time I tried it... but maybe better programs have been written... either way I have the DVDs already and disk space is limited. All the CDs I do buy are from labels that are not part of the RIAA (Metropolis Records, usually). I do like Air America Radio (love Al Franken...) but now the podcasts aren't free and the reception here sucks for that AM station.
What I'd like to see is some diversity in pop culture for a change. Literally radio is ALWAYS just more of the same. Some new band comes out... and they clearly have nothing special going on, other than some big record contract and media image... no message... no originality. A lot of times they don't even write their own songs or music. It's all fabricated.
I blame the local tv morning news program hosts, pubescent girls that scream and cry, MTV, American Idol, President Bush, NSYNC, Eminem, Red States, make-up artists, Fox News, wardrobe specialists, and ClearChannel for not letting actual creativity exist in a way that people might have the chance to check it out.
*** (Don't bother with those FM tuners that sound like crap, or cassette adapters... I have a Sony CD deck that has auxiliary inputs in the back, just needed a cheap cable from radioshack with RCA plugs on one end and a mini headphone plug on the other)
...the quote in the summary is actually the most accurate thing he said.
"I don't have to have the type of speed they're introducing, but the people who are streaming through 10-12 movies at a time or a whole book at a time... for consumers use, those are not you and me, they're not the consumers, those are providers."
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Apple didn't invent the mouse, quality printing, GUI, MP3 player, 3.5" floppies, online music store, the modern standard location for the keyboard on a laptop computer, or a host of other things i may be forgetting... but they did make it popular... and none of these things may have ever caught on in a big way if apple had not stepped forward.
we might still be using keyboards (only) with MS-DOS XP 2003 Server, printing on green striped paper that has holes on the sides and wakes the neighbors, loading music to our crappy nomad mp3 players.
without apple, who would have been microsofts reason to push forward new technologies? and if it was left to MS alone to decide where to take computing, what would they have come up with?
i shudder to think what the computer would be like today without apple.
Most of the time I watched MST3K very regularly was during the Joel era.
However, going back, I find that it's not really Mike vs. Joel that made episodes better (they're both pretty great)... it was whether or not Frank Conniff had left Arby's yet and joined the cast or was still there before the days of Bobo and Brain Guy... and the movie itself. But I know that it was largely Frank who had the job of sifting through bad movies to find the ones worth doing... mostly because he was the only one who could not only do it without going insane, but actually enjoy it.
BTW, I started to watch The Crawling Hand earlier, and then put on something better since the jokes really aren't good yet (they hadn't hit their stride)... but in the opening song, they claim that it was Dr. Forester and Dr. Ehrhardt who sent Joel into space... but later on it's Dr. F and TV's Frank. As far as I know this is the only inconsistency between all the different versions of the opening credits.
Also, I've bought and read Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese, and Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters... two excellent books that show just how funny Mike is. I reccomend them highly.
Oddly enough I just realized I know my MST3K fan club ID number off the top of my head: 18642 (I think)
What a coincidence, I just finished watching the MST3K Skydivers episode. I hadn't watched an episode in awhile and sort of grabbed it out of the blue.
Why is X11 listed as PPC and not Intel/PPC?
Also... Why is MAMP listed? Isn't the 'A' in MAMP installed by default even if it's not OS X Server?
I think what's missing is DarwinPorts... that's a nice fast way to install stuff.
The article mentioned that Intel is doing flat rates to all manufacturers now... so I don't think buying more intel chips is going to get them any discount on the parts they're already ordering... (and the prices they charge HP, Dell, Apple, ... are public information now)
What would save money would be the generally lower cost of AMD chips.
I agree, those price points would be perfect.
I wonder how much it actually costs to manufacture these things, and how much is profit.
I bet my intel core solo mac mini cost less than $300 to make.
The "Genesis does... Genesis does... Genesis does... what Nintendon't!" commercials were the first time I even KNEW an alternative to Nintendo ("Now you're playing with power!") existed. (Born in 81, Atari was before my time.) And it's still stuck in my mind to this day.
It would if whites had been slaves to blacks... but that's not what happened.
You mean bread in the VCR slot, right?
Or did the VCR actually toast the bread?
I don't understand how any of these stories were funny or interesting. I guess the Office Space references at the end?
Well, the guy did say that the user told him his password was his last name, then he looked it up and that was true.
But yeah, I'm amazed the kind of information I've had customer service people blurt out over the phone. When I did customer service I was incredibly tight-lipped about everything sensitive.
This is the one I was going to point out.... other than EGM during the 16-bit era.
I remember when VG&CE had some photos of an NES prototype that looked flatter and used phone jacks to connect the controllers... it looked really cool back then to see something like that.
Of course, there are American citizens named Habib who are smarter than you, less racist than you, speak English better than you do, and could offer tech support better than someone named Jon.
that was a juicy bug
F = G * (m1*m2)/r^2
The effects of gravity drop off pretty quickly as the distances increase.
As others have mentioned, the bigger problem is the small amount of gravity caused by the ship itself.
It could be accounted for, especially if the ship was designed so that it's gravitational effects could be accounted for... but it's still a challenge in an experiment like this where precision is key, and the effects they're looking for might be very small.
Maybe they should consider using bigger orbs for the sun and planet... and make the ship some sort of larger inflatable low-mass thing, so that it's gravity would be negligible by comparison.
If you use it like that, then Google is your spellchecker, not your dictionary.
Our next president will be a single, vegan, buddhist, black lesbian... just you wait!
I have MP3's because it's convenient to have it all or most of it on one device, that I can listen to in my car***. And I go to the cinema still because it's a bigger screen sure, but the big benefit is the sound system... and it's new movies I might not want to wait for, and it's a fun thing to do with family/friends. I don't rip my DVD's because that's a big pain in the butt the last time I tried it... but maybe better programs have been written... either way I have the DVDs already and disk space is limited. All the CDs I do buy are from labels that are not part of the RIAA (Metropolis Records, usually). I do like Air America Radio (love Al Franken...) but now the podcasts aren't free and the reception here sucks for that AM station.
What I'd like to see is some diversity in pop culture for a change. Literally radio is ALWAYS just more of the same. Some new band comes out... and they clearly have nothing special going on, other than some big record contract and media image... no message... no originality. A lot of times they don't even write their own songs or music. It's all fabricated.
I blame the local tv morning news program hosts, pubescent girls that scream and cry, MTV, American Idol, President Bush, NSYNC, Eminem, Red States, make-up artists, Fox News, wardrobe specialists, and ClearChannel for not letting actual creativity exist in a way that people might have the chance to check it out.
*** (Don't bother with those FM tuners that sound like crap, or cassette adapters... I have a Sony CD deck that has auxiliary inputs in the back, just needed a cheap cable from radioshack with RCA plugs on one end and a mini headphone plug on the other)
Hah... I own an iPod because I don't LIKE anything on AM/FM.
It's pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic.
Fox News does talk radio?
10 or 12 movies is nothing... but... a WHOLE BOOK, man! That could be hundreds of pages!
...the quote in the summary is actually the most accurate thing he said.
"I don't have to have the type of speed they're introducing, but the people who are streaming through 10-12 movies at a time or a whole book at a time... for consumers use, those are not you and me, they're not the consumers, those are providers."