The impact of those lines changes quite a bit when you realize they were uttered by a distraught father concerned about the well-being of his only son....
The most memorable scene in the whole film is when Vader wants to test the trap he's setting for Luke, and Han is about to be frozen in carbonite*, and Leia says, "I Love you" and Han replies, "I know."
That and the hand thingie, but the hand thingie doesn't really become important until Luke cuts off Vader's hand in the next film, showing Vader also had a mechanical hand (and dripping with metaphor or allegory or something), right before Luke decides not to fight any more.
*(I'm convinced Lucas originally envisioned this as "carbon ice" until someone pointed out that the common allotropes of carbon are already solid at room temperature...)
And yet, Apple Desktops and Laptops come with a fairly complete BSD Unix toolset, including several scripting languages (perl, python, ruby, shell, probably some others I don't know about, applescript, automator, a gcc compiler...
How much of that stuff can you get on Windows' default install?
Now, it's apparently true that Xcode is no longer a free download (although I suspect it's still on Snow Leopard install disks...), but let's wait to see what the next version has to offer before we assume they're just taking it all away and locking everyone down to toy computers with no capability for hobbyists and tinkerers.
They don't pay dividends, but they do have highly-paid executives. They take money from taxpayers, and additionally have advertising: their shows are all standard "44 minute hours" with the remaining time taken up letting us all know about how this show was made possible by a grant from the buystufffromus corporation.
As an aside, I really fail to see how "not paying dividends" became some kind of measure of a company's altruism. Let alone a positive one.
During the same part of those 40 years, pagers were sort-of popular, and even if you didn't have one, you could still get pages from people by having them call the number of the place you were going to be at. People made a habit of making sure people who needed to reach them had a way to find that stuff out.
Cell phones, despite the drawbacks, are in general a more elegant solution to the problem. And to pretend that going without a cellphone in 2011 is the same as not having one in 1981 is ridiculous. Much of the infrastructure that you would've used in 1989 has been dismantled or neglected, precisely because cell phones have taken away the demand.
I think the real question is, why should nuclear power plant monitoring and control systems require a full-on desktop/server OS to run? Shouldn't they run things a little closer to the metal than that to reduce the number of pathways where things can go wrong, anyway?
The "jet" is the plume of air rushing out of the engine that provides thrust.
A rocket is as much of a jet as a turbojet is, except that the rocket generates the jet using internal propellant only, whereas a turbojet, turbofan, etc. use the fuel to power machinery to push some of the surrounding air to form the jet.
Meh. Just tatoo a countermanding eula on the inside of your cheek. Since yours would be the most recently "agreed to" eula, presumably it should trump any earlier ones.
I dunno about the workplace safety bit... supercritical CO2 is pretty high pressure. Not so high as a high pressure scuba tank, but still high enough that I wouldn't want to be around a failing (or more likely improperly closed) pressure vessel.
On the plus side, though, you can use your pressure vessels to make aerogel if the decaffeination thing doesn't work out...
IMAX 3D doesn't cost extra but "regular 3D" does. Which brings about a weird effect near me, where 3D films are $2 cheaper in IMAX than they are in the attached regular theater. As in, you can literally compare prices by walking less than 100 ft.
While true, it's definitely more fun if you can affect your environment than if you can't. A game that lets you turn a house into a cool explosion, and afterward, there is a crater where the house is, is probably going to be more fun than one where you can throw all kinds of ordnance around without any effect whatsoever.
Although we don't want to see precisely realistic games, we do want games with the fun parts of realism. And we want games that are games. As in, things you do in the game have an affect on the outcome, and being clever is rewarded. Constrain the actions too much, and you have less of a game and more of a movie.
How do you figure on the "more pollution" count? You're letting water run through a fan. All the pollution occurs when you're building the thing, not during operation.
Uh.. The news you choose to report on (and what you choose to leave out), the tone of the articles, the sources you choose to cite, the things you present as "facts." The list of things that bias affects, deliberately or subconsciously, is manifold.
News is an excellent propaganda medium. Just ask Walter Cronkite about the Tet offensive, or maybe look at how the suit is back
Although one annoying thing about OS X is that if your main user isn't an admin, software update doesn't check for updates periodically: you won't know there are updates to install if you don't check manually and/or log in as an admin.
We want our games to have movie physics, not real physics. Gas tanks should explode. Walls should be demolished. Explosions should cause only minimal personal injury (nothing more than a little clothing damage and soot on your face) as long as your feet are not on the ground. All bullets should be potentially dodge-able, except for NPCs who have delivered all of their exposition.
Interesting. My thought was that companies were going to try to use this as a way to scrimp out on the tools they provide their employees. After all, they're bringing their own gear in anyway...
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The impact of those lines changes quite a bit when you realize they were uttered by a distraught father concerned about the well-being of his only son....
What are you talking about.
The most memorable scene in the whole film is when Vader wants to test the trap he's setting for Luke, and Han is about to be frozen in carbonite*, and Leia says, "I Love you" and Han replies, "I know."
That and the hand thingie, but the hand thingie doesn't really become important until Luke cuts off Vader's hand in the next film, showing Vader also had a mechanical hand (and dripping with metaphor or allegory or something), right before Luke decides not to fight any more.
*(I'm convinced Lucas originally envisioned this as "carbon ice" until someone pointed out that the common allotropes of carbon are already solid at room temperature...)
And yet, Apple Desktops and Laptops come with a fairly complete BSD Unix toolset, including several scripting languages (perl, python, ruby, shell, probably some others I don't know about, applescript, automator, a gcc compiler...
How much of that stuff can you get on Windows' default install?
Now, it's apparently true that Xcode is no longer a free download (although I suspect it's still on Snow Leopard install disks...), but let's wait to see what the next version has to offer before we assume they're just taking it all away and locking everyone down to toy computers with no capability for hobbyists and tinkerers.
Sort of.
They don't pay dividends, but they do have highly-paid executives. They take money from taxpayers, and additionally have advertising: their shows are all standard "44 minute hours" with the remaining time taken up letting us all know about how this show was made possible by a grant from the buystufffromus corporation.
As an aside, I really fail to see how "not paying dividends" became some kind of measure of a company's altruism. Let alone a positive one.
2500 W? Where do they plug it in?
I suspect the reason they can't find another one is that most people want to put their microwave oven in the kitchen rather than the laundry room...
A faraday cage attenuates RF. It doesn't eliminate it completely. You'd need perfect conductors for that.
During the same part of those 40 years, pagers were sort-of popular, and even if you didn't have one, you could still get pages from people by having them call the number of the place you were going to be at. People made a habit of making sure people who needed to reach them had a way to find that stuff out.
Cell phones, despite the drawbacks, are in general a more elegant solution to the problem. And to pretend that going without a cellphone in 2011 is the same as not having one in 1981 is ridiculous. Much of the infrastructure that you would've used in 1989 has been dismantled or neglected, precisely because cell phones have taken away the demand.
I think the real question is, why should nuclear power plant monitoring and control systems require a full-on desktop/server OS to run? Shouldn't they run things a little closer to the metal than that to reduce the number of pathways where things can go wrong, anyway?
The "jet" is the plume of air rushing out of the engine that provides thrust.
A rocket is as much of a jet as a turbojet is, except that the rocket generates the jet using internal propellant only, whereas a turbojet, turbofan, etc. use the fuel to power machinery to push some of the surrounding air to form the jet.
Only the first time. If you manage to figure it out before you make it to the bottom, you can apply that solution to all subsequent jumps.
Up up down down left right left right B A select start
Heh... two-player mode...
During a good part of those 40 years, pay-phones were everywhere....
Odd. I would've expected to find BASIC Stamp kits under "microcontrollers and IC's" since it's the only microcontroller they carry..
Meh. Just tatoo a countermanding eula on the inside of your cheek. Since yours would be the most recently "agreed to" eula, presumably it should trump any earlier ones.
I dunno about the workplace safety bit... supercritical CO2 is pretty high pressure. Not so high as a high pressure scuba tank, but still high enough that I wouldn't want to be around a failing (or more likely improperly closed) pressure vessel.
On the plus side, though, you can use your pressure vessels to make aerogel if the decaffeination thing doesn't work out...
IMAX 3D doesn't cost extra but "regular 3D" does. Which brings about a weird effect near me, where 3D films are $2 cheaper in IMAX than they are in the attached regular theater. As in, you can literally compare prices by walking less than 100 ft.
While true, it's definitely more fun if you can affect your environment than if you can't. A game that lets you turn a house into a cool explosion, and afterward, there is a crater where the house is, is probably going to be more fun than one where you can throw all kinds of ordnance around without any effect whatsoever.
Although we don't want to see precisely realistic games, we do want games with the fun parts of realism. And we want games that are games. As in, things you do in the game have an affect on the outcome, and being clever is rewarded. Constrain the actions too much, and you have less of a game and more of a movie.
How do you figure on the "more pollution" count? You're letting water run through a fan. All the pollution occurs when you're building the thing, not during operation.
Uh.. The news you choose to report on (and what you choose to leave out), the tone of the articles, the sources you choose to cite, the things you present as "facts." The list of things that bias affects, deliberately or subconsciously, is manifold.
News is an excellent propaganda medium. Just ask Walter Cronkite about the Tet offensive, or maybe look at how the suit is back
Indeed.
Although one annoying thing about OS X is that if your main user isn't an admin, software update doesn't check for updates periodically: you won't know there are updates to install if you don't check manually and/or log in as an admin.
We want our games to have movie physics, not real physics. Gas tanks should explode. Walls should be demolished. Explosions should cause only minimal personal injury (nothing more than a little clothing damage and soot on your face) as long as your feet are not on the ground. All bullets should be potentially dodge-able, except for NPCs who have delivered all of their exposition.
Interesting. My thought was that companies were going to try to use this as a way to scrimp out on the tools they provide their employees. After all, they're bringing their own gear in anyway...
Where do you get the first world clothes? Local farms are easy enough to find, at least part of the year.
If a black monolith makes you smarter and more violent, what does a white monolith do?
How, though? The film industry is like $14 billion per year, and music is less than that. Where exactly are they getting all this clout?