I actually enjoyed 'Titanic' as well, but it's definitely a "big screen" movie. I don't own it on DVD just because it's one of those films that doesn't work unless you're in a theater, at least for me.
I've experienced the same sort of thing, with the happy side effect that time seems to go by a lot less quickly when I'm dreaming in the early morning shortly before having to get up. I'll wake up, look at the time and see I have an hour or so left before I have to get up, then will have a ridiculously vivid dream that seems to span hours, and when I wake up again I find that only 10-15 minutes or so has passed. I guess I have a pretty snappy REM cycle during that time, and I guess I can appreciate how Picard felt in "The Inner Light".
My dreams during that period are usually quite vivid and interesting, with some of them making enough of an impression such that I can remember them literally years later. On the flip side, the occasional nightmare during that same period is equally intense and sometimes will leave me shaken for hours afterwards.
However does that still hold true if the green laser breaks and starts spewing out IR?
Yup - that's why they have post-crystal IR filters. That has to be there if they want any chance of getting a Class I CDRH certification since there's a fair bit of IR leakage in any frequency doubled/quadrupled unit. Practically though, it's not a problem. You *can* burn out a KTP crystal, but you generally only see that happen on Class IV units that are run really hard. In many years of working with the big boys (i.e, greater than 5 watts green, greater than 1.5 watt UV), I've never seen a doubler crystal die that wasn't dropped or otherwise mechanically abused.
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Lightcycles could navigate curves in the original movie, and were clearly shown doing so during their escape from the game grid. When I get home tonight I'll pop the DVD in and give you a timestamp to look for.
MAGI/Synthavision certainly would be surprised to learn that, after all the time they spent creating/rendering the light cycle race, among other scenes.
At least you can easily file a request with the NHTSA and find out exactly what was behind any given automotive recall (number of incidents, number of injuries, etc.). Good luck getting the same info from Apple.
They usually don't discuss such matters unless and until they become a publicly visible problem
I guess it depends on what you consider "publicly visible". There are *plenty* of recalls issued by auto manufacturers for stuff that the vast majority of owners don't know the first thing about. For instance, not long after I bought my pickup, GM issued a recall to replace the retaining cables on the tailgate with sturdier stainless-steel ones, even though there wasn't the first thing wrong with mine. Minor recalls like that happen all the time.
My problem with Apple is that they'll outright deny problems that can be proven to exist and tell people there's no record of those problems having been reported, and then quietly fix the design to resolve said problem in the next revision of the product. IMO they're about as trustworthy as Bernie Madoff, and I base that opinion on personal experience with the company involving a number of their machines.
If it's any consolation, a lot of the engineers that are actually working on the project think it's a mess as well. A friend of mine works on the team designing the launch tower, and they're pulling their hair out over these problems.
Considering they have always run the shuttle program while figuring odds of catastrophic failure per launch, your above sentence makes no sense.
Well, it actually does make sense in the context of the decision to launch that day. The engineers said, "it's too f'n cold to launch this morning - the O-rings won't seal properly". Management said, "no, we think it'll be okay". Management predicted a safe outcome, and the rest is history.
And frankly, it's not particularly difficult to work under those constraints. There are a lot of us that were writing code 25-30 years ago, when that level of hardware represented a state-of-the-art microcomputer, except for the 8 MHz CPU - most CPUs then ran only a fraction of that speed. I still marvel at the fact that the tiny BlackBerry that I hold in my hand is *in every way* a faster and more capable computer than what I worked on back in the Dark Ages.
Assembly of any sort isn't that difficult once you get some experience with it, and with the proper macros and defines set up, it can actually be fairly quick to code in. Some chips are easier than others (the 68K was *awesome* to code for), but it just requires some attention to detail and a good understanding of how the machine works.
Go fuck yourself sideways. Copyright (in the US anyway) exists for ONE reason - to enrich society by giving authors an incentive to create by means of giving them a means to profit from their work via an artificial monopoly. Once the author is dead, he can't create, and that social contract becomes null and void. Copyright is a fucking GIFT from the government, not some inherent right people have just because they committed something to paper. The ultimate aim of copyright is NOT to enrich the author's family that often has a pronounced entitlement mentality - let them go create their own works instead of riding on Daddy's coattails.
It's pretty rich calling someone else "freeloading" when that's EXACTLY what the author's family is doing in your example.
People living in coastal areas and large inland lakes unaffected by potential tsunamis still will have plenty of fish to eat, not to mention fungi and other life that doesn't need a lot of light to survive. According to the fossil record, the vast majority of fish survived the actual K-T event, with other species (frogs and most amphibians) not being notably affected at all.
Certainly a sizable percent of people would die in such an event, likely a majority even, but it'd still leave us in a much more hospitable and self-sustaining environment than any other place we know of.
Even if we can't deflect the object, living on a post-strike Earth will almost certainly be easier than living on Mars. Even a K-T level hit is something that a substantial block of the population should be able to survive - people are a *lot* smarter and adaptable than dinosaurs.
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What about "Alien vs. Requiem"? Even acidic blood is no match for Tappy Tibbons' Month of Fury.
I actually enjoyed 'Titanic' as well, but it's definitely a "big screen" movie. I don't own it on DVD just because it's one of those films that doesn't work unless you're in a theater, at least for me.
I've experienced the same sort of thing, with the happy side effect that time seems to go by a lot less quickly when I'm dreaming in the early morning shortly before having to get up. I'll wake up, look at the time and see I have an hour or so left before I have to get up, then will have a ridiculously vivid dream that seems to span hours, and when I wake up again I find that only 10-15 minutes or so has passed. I guess I have a pretty snappy REM cycle during that time, and I guess I can appreciate how Picard felt in "The Inner Light".
My dreams during that period are usually quite vivid and interesting, with some of them making enough of an impression such that I can remember them literally years later. On the flip side, the occasional nightmare during that same period is equally intense and sometimes will leave me shaken for hours afterwards.
or perhaps 'do not open' (skull, chest)
Nah, just "No user-serviceable parts inside" and some scored stickers on the screws so they know if you've been fiddling around inside there.
However does that still hold true if the green laser breaks and starts spewing out IR?
Yup - that's why they have post-crystal IR filters. That has to be there if they want any chance of getting a Class I CDRH certification since there's a fair bit of IR leakage in any frequency doubled/quadrupled unit. Practically though, it's not a problem. You *can* burn out a KTP crystal, but you generally only see that happen on Class IV units that are run really hard. In many years of working with the big boys (i.e, greater than 5 watts green, greater than 1.5 watt UV), I've never seen a doubler crystal die that wasn't dropped or otherwise mechanically abused.
Lightcycles could navigate curves in the original movie, and were clearly shown doing so during their escape from the game grid. When I get home tonight I'll pop the DVD in and give you a timestamp to look for.
MAGI/Synthavision certainly would be surprised to learn that, after all the time they spent creating/rendering the light cycle race, among other scenes.
I've never really understood why the Copyright Term Extension Act is such a huge issue for some people
Probably because you don't appear to understand why copyright exists in the first place.
At least you can easily file a request with the NHTSA and find out exactly what was behind any given automotive recall (number of incidents, number of injuries, etc.). Good luck getting the same info from Apple.
Look again. Those power adaptors don't run at 70 watts.
Look yourself - Apple sells 45W, 60W and 85W parts.
They usually don't discuss such matters unless and until they become a publicly visible problem
I guess it depends on what you consider "publicly visible". There are *plenty* of recalls issued by auto manufacturers for stuff that the vast majority of owners don't know the first thing about. For instance, not long after I bought my pickup, GM issued a recall to replace the retaining cables on the tailgate with sturdier stainless-steel ones, even though there wasn't the first thing wrong with mine. Minor recalls like that happen all the time.
My problem with Apple is that they'll outright deny problems that can be proven to exist and tell people there's no record of those problems having been reported, and then quietly fix the design to resolve said problem in the next revision of the product. IMO they're about as trustworthy as Bernie Madoff, and I base that opinion on personal experience with the company involving a number of their machines.
Minus about $10,000 or so provided to the appropriate parties to ensure the judge is made an example of.
I didn't write the original post. :-)
If it's any consolation, a lot of the engineers that are actually working on the project think it's a mess as well. A friend of mine works on the team designing the launch tower, and they're pulling their hair out over these problems.
Considering they have always run the shuttle program while figuring odds of catastrophic failure per launch, your above sentence makes no sense.
Well, it actually does make sense in the context of the decision to launch that day. The engineers said, "it's too f'n cold to launch this morning - the O-rings won't seal properly". Management said, "no, we think it'll be okay". Management predicted a safe outcome, and the rest is history.
It's not like Orlando is a particularly large city (famous because of Disney world, yes, large... no)
The Orlando metro area has more than two million people - how big does a city have to be to qualify as "particularly large"?
And frankly, it's not particularly difficult to work under those constraints. There are a lot of us that were writing code 25-30 years ago, when that level of hardware represented a state-of-the-art microcomputer, except for the 8 MHz CPU - most CPUs then ran only a fraction of that speed. I still marvel at the fact that the tiny BlackBerry that I hold in my hand is *in every way* a faster and more capable computer than what I worked on back in the Dark Ages.
Assembly of any sort isn't that difficult once you get some experience with it, and with the proper macros and defines set up, it can actually be fairly quick to code in. Some chips are easier than others (the 68K was *awesome* to code for), but it just requires some attention to detail and a good understanding of how the machine works.
Go fuck yourself sideways. Copyright (in the US anyway) exists for ONE reason - to enrich society by giving authors an incentive to create by means of giving them a means to profit from their work via an artificial monopoly. Once the author is dead, he can't create, and that social contract becomes null and void. Copyright is a fucking GIFT from the government, not some inherent right people have just because they committed something to paper. The ultimate aim of copyright is NOT to enrich the author's family that often has a pronounced entitlement mentality - let them go create their own works instead of riding on Daddy's coattails.
It's pretty rich calling someone else "freeloading" when that's EXACTLY what the author's family is doing in your example.
How about answering the question?
And Justice Frank Murphy is a farking idiot.
that, and the fact that four years later from the original bug report, stored procedures still can't even find out what caused a thrown exception, with no indication that they even give a damn about it. Working with stored procs under MySQL is a frigging joke.
Kermit's fine, if you have all the time in the world on your hands to wait for the transfer to complete.
People living in coastal areas and large inland lakes unaffected by potential tsunamis still will have plenty of fish to eat, not to mention fungi and other life that doesn't need a lot of light to survive. According to the fossil record, the vast majority of fish survived the actual K-T event, with other species (frogs and most amphibians) not being notably affected at all.
Certainly a sizable percent of people would die in such an event, likely a majority even, but it'd still leave us in a much more hospitable and self-sustaining environment than any other place we know of.
Cockroaches and other pest insects flourished.
They're edible, I'm sure. Not particularly appealing, but given how hardy they are, it might be something to consider...
Even if we can't deflect the object, living on a post-strike Earth will almost certainly be easier than living on Mars. Even a K-T level hit is something that a substantial block of the population should be able to survive - people are a *lot* smarter and adaptable than dinosaurs.