Doohan's contributions were great, but he wasn't the only one. I can't summarize George Takei's vast undertakings, but his involvement with the Japanese-American National Museum and Independent Task Force on Television Measurement are notable.
George Takei attended James Doohan's last convention and the reception of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and his retelling is an moving account.
...but the cause of death was a combination of Pneumonia and Alzheimer's.
My grandfather passed away of the same causes (he worked around a good deal of asbestos). Suffice it to say, may James Doohan be remembered for his long and interesting life.
...I think it's kind of insulting to James Doohan just to encapsulate remberences of him solely as his most well-known character.
I see your point, but as stated in the CNN obituary, he totally accepted the character and the fact that he was the living embodiment thereof.
"I took his advice [to 'go with the flow']," said Doohan, "and since then everything's been just lovely."
And regarding that infamous quote:
"I'm not tired of it at all," he replied. "Good gracious, it's been said to me for just about 31 years. It's been said to me at 70 miles an hour across four lanes on the freeway. I hear it from just about everybody. It's been fun."
Certainly, he was much more than Scotty, but geeks can't be blamed for toasting him for his most captivating persona. All that said, I'd like to hear more about his life outside Star Trek.
Given my own expirience with live sound, and bass, I would say that MythBusters could have gone slightly further. In a live music venue, for example, you have a somewhat resonant wood floor coupled to large bass bins (instead of effectively immobile concrete ground) and an enclosed area (as compared to open air), and this seems to magnify that feeling of quaking guts.
They also could have tried interference beats at a higher volume (higher than 150dB-- am I on crack?!?). Though to be honest, I don't know if that would have got them any further. Or did they try that?
All that said, I don't think that the brown sound is actually achievable.
But exactly what apps are these media pros using on BeOS?
IIRC, Blender started out on BeOS. Of course, that was years ago, and there isn't a current BeOS / Zeta port, but given what it currently runs under, perhaps it's not far off.
Floppies won't be dead until there's another disposable storage media.
My mileage varied.
Where I work, everyone has public folders on a server, with plenty of free space. Failing that, there's email. I haven't used a floppy disc in years (no exageration).
... people will be more likely to see that the keys change when they hit control and think they broke the keyboard.
Even if the keys went back to normal after releasing the control key? Taking my wife as a typical user, I think she would be surprised, but pleased. But then again, she doesn't use ctrl-c to copy; she uses context menus.
Mmmm, now that's something I could get behind. Screw all this picture/cellphone/video-iPod nonsense; I don't need or want that, nor could I effectively use it.
But I could use a compact device which played and stored music like an iPod and had all the PDA functionality of my basic Palm.
Specifically, combine the pointer / touch screen / graffiti / beam and basic todo list, address book, calender, and memo apps of my PDA with iPod's size and music-related functionality, and I would happily replace both my Palm and Archos jukebox. If I'm carrying around one, I also have the other-- why not combine them into one? I know you can get basic apps like a calendar for the iPod, but I just can't see using them with the scroll/click-wheel. Give me a PDA interface (not that micro-keyboard, though) in addition to the click-wheel, and I'm set.
...I'm perfectly happy with the Cash version- I simply want to appreciate it, not alter it- which doesn't seem to fit with Gibson's idea that we're all going to be remixing what everyone else has done.
In thinking over the article, I extended Gibson's use of the word "remix", in terms of music, to include the custom creation and shuffling of playlists. That is to say, instead of listening to tracks in a specific order on an album as dictated by the artist, picking and choosing songs.
With the growing popularity of large-capacity digital music players players (computers, iPods, etc.), I think this personalization (remix to fit one's own wants) is a growing trend. My wife almost never listens to albums any longer, perferring iTunes or custom-mixed CDs (made in iTunes), and I only listen to regular albums because my own jukebox is busted.
Lifting actual recorded tracks to reuse, with 2-3 new words chanted over and over, and a synthetic drum beat? Sorry...I hardly call that music. Anything the common man, IMHO, could do with time and equipment (especially if "I" could do it)...just isn't talent.
Anyone could pick up a guitar and bang out a simple song. Anyone could pick up some drumsticks and whack out a simple beat. Anyone could pick up a bass and thumb out a simple bassline. And anyone could sit down at a computer and loop some prerecorded beats.
The trick is doing it well. Try that for a while, then complain about talentless samplers, as if you could do it. It's not something the "common man" can do well.
Most home users can afford to buy a new computer every 3-5 years.... and oftentimes a critical application is no longer in development or even available.
What is a "critical application" to a home user? A web browser? Or perhaps a tax application, word processor, or speadsheet? Last I looked around, there was a fair amount of interopability between various suites (even if it had to be backwards engineered).
A far better "don't piss off anybody" approach would've been to gradually prepare us for this by telling developers to think about writting their code for portability to something like x86 just in case. And to make fat binaries, even though we don't support other platforms YET.
I disagree. I don't code for OS-X, but I can tell you that a sure-fire way to piss off a software developer is to tell them to do a bunch of work for something that might happen on a platform that they don't have access to. What a waste of time! How are they supposed to test portability if they don't have a machine to work with, never mind any nitty-gritty details? Not to mention that the API wasn't locked down until 10.4 to begin with. And how would have this "just in case" situation have helped consumers if, when they get a shiney new Mactel (tm) machine, all their old "fat" PowerPC OS-X software doesn't work because the developers couldn't test it?
I would imagine if the SGAE tried to shut down (or fine, or whatever) the University, the Uni would be forced to sue or something, and the courts would have a chance to smack down the SGAE.
How would it have reached the courts? I'm not being snide, I honestly don't know what your reasoning is.
the Dean (pressured by the Spanish Recording Industry Association "Promusicae" as I found out later, and he recognized himself in a quote to the national newspaper El Pais, and even the Motion Picture Association of America, as another newspaper quotes) tried to stop it.
and how?
Also from the article:
The Director... told me about the pressures and threats he and the Program received (to be subjected to software licenses inspection, copyright violations inspections, or anything that may damage them).
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Are [the lyrics] meant to be humourous, or do they just come off that way...? ;-)
:)
Oh yes, they're meant that way.
You know they are taking themselves seriously because there is no hint of self-parody.
First, a lack of self-parody does not equate to seriousness.
Second, I strongly encourage you to listen to some MC Frontalot, whose very name belies any ego. (To front, you see, is to bullshit.)
And in this case, any seriousness is too serious
Wrong again. I'll refer back to MC Frontalot, and his track Special Delivery
Who would have thought that MC Hawking could have spawned an entire genre?
You misspelled "MC Frontalot".
Doohan really gave so much back to the community.
Doohan's contributions were great, but he wasn't the only one. I can't summarize George Takei's vast undertakings, but his involvement with the Japanese-American National Museum and Independent Task Force on Television Measurement are notable.
George Takei attended James Doohan's last convention and the reception of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and his retelling is an moving account.
...but the cause of death was a combination of Pneumonia and Alzheimer's.
My grandfather passed away of the same causes (he worked around a good deal of asbestos). Suffice it to say, may James Doohan be remembered for his long and interesting life.
...I think it's kind of insulting to James Doohan just to encapsulate remberences of him solely as his most well-known character.
I see your point, but as stated in the CNN obituary, he totally accepted the character and the fact that he was the living embodiment thereof.
"I took his advice [to 'go with the flow']," said Doohan, "and since then everything's been just lovely."
And regarding that infamous quote:
"I'm not tired of it at all," he replied. "Good gracious, it's been said to me for just about 31 years. It's been said to me at 70 miles an hour across four lanes on the freeway. I hear it from just about everybody. It's been fun."
Certainly, he was much more than Scotty, but geeks can't be blamed for toasting him for his most captivating persona. All that said, I'd like to hear more about his life outside Star Trek.
Given my own expirience with live sound, and bass, I would say that MythBusters could have gone slightly further. In a live music venue, for example, you have a somewhat resonant wood floor coupled to large bass bins (instead of effectively immobile concrete ground) and an enclosed area (as compared to open air), and this seems to magnify that feeling of quaking guts.
They also could have tried interference beats at a higher volume (higher than 150dB-- am I on crack?!?). Though to be honest, I don't know if that would have got them any further. Or did they try that?
All that said, I don't think that the brown sound is actually achievable.
...of this fully armed and operational BASS STATION
;)
No, this is a Bass Station. That's just a run-of-the-mill Death Star / subwoofer.
But exactly what apps are these media pros using on BeOS?
IIRC, Blender started out on BeOS. Of course, that was years ago, and there isn't a current BeOS / Zeta port, but given what it currently runs under, perhaps it's not far off.
Floppies won't be dead until there's another disposable storage media.
My mileage varied.
Where I work, everyone has public folders on a server, with plenty of free space. Failing that, there's email. I haven't used a floppy disc in years (no exageration).
Heh, apparently you missed the days of those cardboard layouts that went over keyboards.
I had quite a few Microprose games with those overlays. Handy when you were face to face with a couple Russian tanks.
What happened to the renaissance geek? Where's the passion for the obscure and beautiful, no matter the subject area?
They're all to busy R'ing TFA to post responses.
Because in Soviet Russia, keyboards dynamically map YOU!
:)
Why do I laugh out loud every time these jokes are told? Oh yeah, I'm easily amused...
You get 5,000 characters 'free', with additional characters available for $0.01 each thereafter.
If I backspace over my keystrokes, do I get my money back?
... people will be more likely to see that the keys change when they hit control and think they broke the keyboard.
Even if the keys went back to normal after releasing the control key? Taking my wife as a typical user, I think she would be surprised, but pleased. But then again, she doesn't use ctrl-c to copy; she uses context menus.
Maybe a randomly shifting or rotating alphabet pattern -- now that would harm most peoples' ability to type!
You don't have many friends, do you?
1. Move around corner ... PROFIT!
2. Light turns off
3. Loud noise
4. Option - Load Saved Game
5. Wash - Rinse - Repeat.
6.
Unfortunately, with that infinate loop at step 5, you'll never get to profit...
An iPod with PDA functionality.
Mmmm, now that's something I could get behind. Screw all this picture/cellphone/video-iPod nonsense; I don't need or want that, nor could I effectively use it.
But I could use a compact device which played and stored music like an iPod and had all the PDA functionality of my basic Palm.
Specifically, combine the pointer / touch screen / graffiti / beam and basic todo list, address book, calender, and memo apps of my PDA with iPod's size and music-related functionality, and I would happily replace both my Palm and Archos jukebox. If I'm carrying around one, I also have the other-- why not combine them into one? I know you can get basic apps like a calendar for the iPod, but I just can't see using them with the scroll/click-wheel. Give me a PDA interface (not that micro-keyboard, though) in addition to the click-wheel, and I'm set.
...I'm perfectly happy with the Cash version- I simply want to appreciate it, not alter it- which doesn't seem to fit with Gibson's idea that we're all going to be remixing what everyone else has done.
In thinking over the article, I extended Gibson's use of the word "remix", in terms of music, to include the custom creation and shuffling of playlists. That is to say, instead of listening to tracks in a specific order on an album as dictated by the artist, picking and choosing songs.
With the growing popularity of large-capacity digital music players players (computers, iPods, etc.), I think this personalization (remix to fit one's own wants) is a growing trend. My wife almost never listens to albums any longer, perferring iTunes or custom-mixed CDs (made in iTunes), and I only listen to regular albums because my own jukebox is busted.
Lifting actual recorded tracks to reuse, with 2-3 new words chanted over and over, and a synthetic drum beat? Sorry...I hardly call that music. Anything the common man, IMHO, could do with time and equipment (especially if "I" could do it)...just isn't talent.
Anyone could pick up a guitar and bang out a simple song. Anyone could pick up some drumsticks and whack out a simple beat. Anyone could pick up a bass and thumb out a simple bassline. And anyone could sit down at a computer and loop some prerecorded beats.
The trick is doing it well. Try that for a while, then complain about talentless samplers, as if you could do it. It's not something the "common man" can do well.
Most home users can afford to buy a new computer every 3-5 years. ... and oftentimes a critical application is no longer in development or even available.
What is a "critical application" to a home user? A web browser? Or perhaps a tax application, word processor, or speadsheet? Last I looked around, there was a fair amount of interopability between various suites (even if it had to be backwards engineered).
A far better "don't piss off anybody" approach would've been to gradually prepare us for this by telling developers to think about writting their code for portability to something like x86 just in case. And to make fat binaries, even though we don't support other platforms YET.
:)
I disagree. I don't code for OS-X, but I can tell you that a sure-fire way to piss off a software developer is to tell them to do a bunch of work for something that might happen on a platform that they don't have access to. What a waste of time! How are they supposed to test portability if they don't have a machine to work with, never mind any nitty-gritty details? Not to mention that the API wasn't locked down until 10.4 to begin with. And how would have this "just in case" situation have helped consumers if, when they get a shiney new Mactel (tm) machine, all their old "fat" PowerPC OS-X software doesn't work because the developers couldn't test it?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're wrong.
I would imagine if the SGAE tried to shut down (or fine, or whatever) the University, the Uni would be forced to sue or something, and the courts would have a chance to smack down the SGAE.
How would it have reached the courts? I'm not being snide, I honestly don't know what your reasoning is.
Don't use the word piracy to describe copyright infringement.
You are entirely correct, copyright infringement is the correct term. I tend to get a little sloppy with my colloquialisms.
Who was applying pressure to the Dean...
... told me about the pressures and threats he and the Program received (to be subjected to software licenses inspection, copyright violations inspections, or anything that may damage them).
;)
From the article:
the Dean (pressured by the Spanish Recording Industry Association "Promusicae" as I found out later, and he recognized himself in a quote to the national newspaper El Pais, and even the Motion Picture Association of America, as another newspaper quotes) tried to stop it.
and how?
Also from the article:
The Director
Reading, who knew you could learn so much?