I think that noise is the root cause of this issue. Apple merely plans to get an edge on the competition for a solution. I've kept at least two or three (desktop) computers running non-stop for about ten years. Nobody bothers crying to me anymore about the wind-tunnel sound effects, but I'm planning to surprise all with passive cooling on the next upgrade cycle. Just my personal observation, but I attribute all my component non-failure to the favorable thermal environment. The ONLY hardware failure I have ever experienced have been the 100% rate of the FDDs. (At very low usage, but they get crudded w/dust from the intense air exchange. I've been meaning to deal w/this issue, usually if I HAVE to read a floppy, I just buy another drive.) With a liquid exchange medium they could move the energy up to a heatsink behind the display and relieve the lap area.
I've often wondered what sort of marketing nightmare the engineers have been dealing with that ANY laptop has EVER been designed with the case NOT being one massive chunk of finned aluminum.
Sorry, but I'd like to mention: I planted a Holm Oak (Q. Ilex)in my Northern California yard a few years back. It's a Mediterranean evergreen, so it should do well here. I'd read that these had low tannin. Well, this was a mast year, so rather than save them all to propagate, I tried eating one fresh off the tree. SWEET! No leaching tannin like an Indian, I'll be harvesting these like a white man in a supermarket. The Bluejays seem to approve as well.
It could have been a dip in the consumer population. Normally most of the crop goes away to someone's larder, squirrels, jays, &c. If a Mast year overwhelms the locals, (or a particularly ambitious housepet) then they lay on the ground and germinate. It works out well since an acorn buried by a jay and left uneaten may be in a sunnier spot. There is a moth larva infesting the oaks on our family farm, and other than mast years, the only acorns that make it to the ground are non-viable. The jays, woodpeckers, and squirrels have skills- that is, I see them shake an acorn, and somehow discern what the insides are like. The ones they toss to the ground invariably have a worm or shriveled meat.
Anyone who isn't scared is not paying attention, IMHO. Mutating fungus scares the shit out of me. If the bee troubles get much worse, I think we can write off a significant percentage of the human population also. BTW there is some new red rust fungus bipping around western Asia that could very well doom the majority of the grain-dependent populations of the world as well. John Christopher wrote a book "No Blade of Grass" that explored that scenario.
The gall-causing thingies are different from the acorn-killing thingies. Excuse my nomenclature, I haven't studied them much, except incidentally, in the field.
Last year I gathered Valley Oak (Q. lobata) acorns that were practically ankle deep from one tree, but then managed to kill ALL 152 of the seedlings that I was propagating for a project I'm working on. This year, that tree had NONE (dammit). The five-year-old Holm Oak (Q. Ilex) in my yard, OTOH, is having its first mast year. This is normal. Up on the family farm in Oregon, all the hickories seem to be producing normally. If this is widespread on the eastern seaboard, expect some major disasters right up the food chain. A squirrel's prime duty is feeding owls, &c. The deer also depend on acorns to prepare for winter, so this could be a very bad year. TFA seems to indicate an anomalous condition, which (I guess) is likely due to badly timed rain.
Bombadil was a likely character to cut, but IIRC the Fellowship got some ancient weaponry (veterans of the same war in an earlier age) from the Barrows, and (I think) that some point should have been made of that. Anyway Aragorn was a light traveler, and SOME explanation as to why he had a roll of spare hardware would have been in order. Why create new plot holes? A screenplay should tie up its loose ends.
I don't recall where I read that, I myself resent allegory in many cases. Good art often leaves itself open to projection, and means various things to different people. I can imagine the horror of seeing my work analyzed by some journalist who is projecting his own POV and telling others what I meant. I have some video of Bob Dylan Trying to talk to reporters in the 60s, I think he finally gave that up as a lost cause.
All they need to do is explore the theme of the stories, or one theme, as they do in movies. Pick a theme, tell it over and over in different ways. Wrap up each section CLEANLY and nobody will notice the personnel change.Can you understand it with no sound? Then it could be a great movie. A talented producer could make an epic from Gibbons' "Decline and Fall". (Actually that might be even easier, it's been so long since I've read them I don't recall the details.) Hell, I heard someone was doing Proust into a movie, proof that anything can be filmed.
Oh,how I tried to appreciate Jackson's films aside from the parent story. Really, without the spectacle &c., the only one that stands out is the extended version of the first one. In the theaters, it was long and actually didn't make so much sense. The only one that should have been nominated for an academy award was that one, they just didn't give it out when they should have, and the Oscars that they got should have gone to a non-sequel of that year. Did the academy vote for Kerry this year?
...Or the extended DVD of the third film, but they sort of blew it when Grima didn't go flying after the palintir, (and then HE kills Saruman? WTF). The book was not written from the human point of view. Without the original POV, very little plot is left to develop, hence the fluff that everyone else seems offended by. I haven't had to condense any novels into screenplays myself, but somehow the main plot point needs support. Three times was kind of the rule of thumb that comes to mind. I have done some film work, BTW. The essential plot point of LOTR was the protagonists having to reach deeper within themselves to find resources and strength that they didn't know they had, in order to succeed. Boromir fails, kid brother Faramir comes through. Saruman fails, junior wizard Gandalf defies the laws of physics and triumphs. Isildur fails, Aragorn gets to stage a big comeback. The Hobbits were the most humble and peace-loving of all, there is no warrior pride or arrogance, but they stood up when the time came, even Smeagol has his moments. The final section, where the Brandybuck and the Took answer their heritage and raise up the folks at home, WAS the whole point being developed. If you want to see superior might steamroll over groveling malefactors, look for Chuck Norris. It has been said that LOTR was an allegory for a "Nation of Gardeners and Shopkeepers" rising up to stand against Hitler. (By Godwin!)
Actually, the extended DVD of the first movie is easier to watch and makes sense better than the theatrical release. Adding thirty minutes makes it go faster.
I for one, could live with the additions, and can sorta understand the thinking behind changing the POV from the halfling's to the human's. I can live with the substitution of Aragorn's chef's roll of weaponry for the whole Bombadil/Barrow Wight episode. But omission of "The Scouring of the Shire", THE BEST PART of the whole fucking story, was just asinine.
Don't read the book, it'll ruin it. LOTR was a lot of book with several long and tedious stretches, but when they cut the exciting conclusion from the story it rather sucked. I can't even watch my copy of ROTK. I just wanna smack some kiwi ass down the road. Bastards.
I didn't mean to misrepresent BART. I am terribly served by BART but I guess I don't have enough business in the tiny fraction of the state that IS well served by that system. I feel that it disserves the vast majority of the people in this region. If you like to get drunk at ball games or shop at a few select places you might feel very well served. Lucky you. I'd have just made a lighter, less expensive system that went more places, or further, or more often, or faster, or at night, or anything to mitigate the punitive system that I've enjoyed on MY commute. It costs a rocket, compared to any of the other "services" that we provide ourselves with. Don't even get me started about CALTRANS. Or AMTRAK. Bastards.
I am not an engineer, but I worked with auto parts for a while. AFAIK, the main issue is that propane does not act as a lubricant for the valves in the combustion chamber. Special hardened valve-seats are wanted in the cylinder head(s). We had a customer who wanted to save the $1K difference by using a toyota car head in his fork-lift. I always wondered how that worked out. [chuckle]
The Fail Infrastructure, that is, our Fearless Leadership, is an awesomely resilient and redundant system. The popular dissent is used as a tool to explain failure, rather than as useful input for promoting the greater good. Just look at the sheer weight of influencing factors and know the system will sink under he weight of profit-taking. I have a newspaper clipping from the early '60s of a certain tomorrowland fantasy they called Bay Area Rapid Transit. I will say no more.
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Yes, I too have met these scrapings. The local P.D. is recruiting now, so at least they have jobs.
I think that noise is the root cause of this issue. Apple merely plans to get an edge on the competition for a solution. I've kept at least two or three (desktop) computers running non-stop for about ten years. Nobody bothers crying to me anymore about the wind-tunnel sound effects, but I'm planning to surprise all with passive cooling on the next upgrade cycle. Just my personal observation, but I attribute all my component non-failure to the favorable thermal environment. The ONLY hardware failure I have ever experienced have been the 100% rate of the FDDs. (At very low usage, but they get crudded w/dust from the intense air exchange. I've been meaning to deal w/this issue, usually if I HAVE to read a floppy, I just buy another drive.) With a liquid exchange medium they could move the energy up to a heatsink behind the display and relieve the lap area.
I've often wondered what sort of marketing nightmare the engineers have been dealing with that ANY laptop has EVER been designed with the case NOT being one massive chunk of finned aluminum.
Charlie "Brown" Artman is rolling in his grave.
Sorry, but I'd like to mention: I planted a Holm Oak (Q. Ilex)in my Northern California yard a few years back. It's a Mediterranean evergreen, so it should do well here. I'd read that these had low tannin. Well, this was a mast year, so rather than save them all to propagate, I tried eating one fresh off the tree. SWEET! No leaching tannin like an Indian, I'll be harvesting these like a white man in a supermarket. The Bluejays seem to approve as well.
It could have been a dip in the consumer population. Normally most of the crop goes away to someone's larder, squirrels, jays, &c. If a Mast year overwhelms the locals, (or a particularly ambitious housepet) then they lay on the ground and germinate. It works out well since an acorn buried by a jay and left uneaten may be in a sunnier spot. There is a moth larva infesting the oaks on our family farm, and other than mast years, the only acorns that make it to the ground are non-viable. The jays, woodpeckers, and squirrels have skills- that is, I see them shake an acorn, and somehow discern what the insides are like. The ones they toss to the ground invariably have a worm or shriveled meat.
You are redundant and parent is funny? pfff..
Anyone who isn't scared is not paying attention, IMHO. Mutating fungus scares the shit out of me. If the bee troubles get much worse, I think we can write off a significant percentage of the human population also. BTW there is some new red rust fungus bipping around western Asia that could very well doom the majority of the grain-dependent populations of the world as well. John Christopher wrote a book "No Blade of Grass" that explored that scenario.
The gall-causing thingies are different from the acorn-killing thingies. Excuse my nomenclature, I haven't studied them much, except incidentally, in the field.
Last year I gathered Valley Oak (Q. lobata) acorns that were practically ankle deep from one tree, but then managed to kill ALL 152 of the seedlings that I was propagating for a project I'm working on. This year, that tree had NONE (dammit). The five-year-old Holm Oak (Q. Ilex) in my yard, OTOH, is having its first mast year. This is normal. Up on the family farm in Oregon, all the hickories seem to be producing normally. If this is widespread on the eastern seaboard, expect some major disasters right up the food chain. A squirrel's prime duty is feeding owls, &c. The deer also depend on acorns to prepare for winter, so this could be a very bad year. TFA seems to indicate an anomalous condition, which (I guess) is likely due to badly timed rain.
Bombadil was a likely character to cut, but IIRC the Fellowship got some ancient weaponry (veterans of the same war in an earlier age) from the Barrows, and (I think) that some point should have been made of that. Anyway Aragorn was a light traveler, and SOME explanation as to why he had a roll of spare hardware would have been in order. Why create new plot holes? A screenplay should tie up its loose ends.
I don't recall where I read that, I myself resent allegory in many cases. Good art often leaves itself open to projection, and means various things to different people. I can imagine the horror of seeing my work analyzed by some journalist who is projecting his own POV and telling others what I meant. I have some video of Bob Dylan Trying to talk to reporters in the 60s, I think he finally gave that up as a lost cause.
Pretty creepy, even for an AC.
Yes, many parts are not missed. The parts that were ESSENTIAL TO THE PLOT are.
All they need to do is explore the theme of the stories, or one theme, as they do in movies. Pick a theme, tell it over and over in different ways. Wrap up each section CLEANLY and nobody will notice the personnel change.Can you understand it with no sound? Then it could be a great movie. A talented producer could make an epic from Gibbons' "Decline and Fall". (Actually that might be even easier, it's been so long since I've read them I don't recall the details.) Hell, I heard someone was doing Proust into a movie, proof that anything can be filmed.
They bought the title. IIRC there wasn't an awful lot of story in the book that would attract the unwashed.
Oh,how I tried to appreciate Jackson's films aside from the parent story. Really, without the spectacle &c., the only one that stands out is the extended version of the first one. In the theaters, it was long and actually didn't make so much sense. The only one that should have been nominated for an academy award was that one, they just didn't give it out when they should have, and the Oscars that they got should have gone to a non-sequel of that year. Did the academy vote for Kerry this year?
...Or the extended DVD of the third film, but they sort of blew it when Grima didn't go flying after the palintir, (and then HE kills Saruman? WTF). The book was not written from the human point of view. Without the original POV, very little plot is left to develop, hence the fluff that everyone else seems offended by. I haven't had to condense any novels into screenplays myself, but somehow the main plot point needs support. Three times was kind of the rule of thumb that comes to mind. I have done some film work, BTW. The essential plot point of LOTR was the protagonists having to reach deeper within themselves to find resources and strength that they didn't know they had, in order to succeed. Boromir fails, kid brother Faramir comes through. Saruman fails, junior wizard Gandalf defies the laws of physics and triumphs. Isildur fails, Aragorn gets to stage a big comeback. The Hobbits were the most humble and peace-loving of all, there is no warrior pride or arrogance, but they stood up when the time came, even Smeagol has his moments. The final section, where the Brandybuck and the Took answer their heritage and raise up the folks at home, WAS the whole point being developed. If you want to see superior might steamroll over groveling malefactors, look for Chuck Norris. It has been said that LOTR was an allegory for a "Nation of Gardeners and Shopkeepers" rising up to stand against Hitler. (By Godwin!)
Actually, the extended DVD of the first movie is easier to watch and makes sense better than the theatrical release. Adding thirty minutes makes it go faster.
I for one, could live with the additions, and can sorta understand the thinking behind changing the POV from the halfling's to the human's. I can live with the substitution of Aragorn's chef's roll of weaponry for the whole Bombadil/Barrow Wight episode. But omission of "The Scouring of the Shire", THE BEST PART of the whole fucking story, was just asinine.
Don't read the book, it'll ruin it. LOTR was a lot of book with several long and tedious stretches, but when they cut the exciting conclusion from the story it rather sucked. I can't even watch my copy of ROTK. I just wanna smack some kiwi ass down the road. Bastards.
I didn't mean to misrepresent BART. I am terribly served by BART but I guess I don't have enough business in the tiny fraction of the state that IS well served by that system. I feel that it disserves the vast majority of the people in this region. If you like to get drunk at ball games or shop at a few select places you might feel very well served. Lucky you. I'd have just made a lighter, less expensive system that went more places, or further, or more often, or faster, or at night, or anything to mitigate the punitive system that I've enjoyed on MY commute. It costs a rocket, compared to any of the other "services" that we provide ourselves with. Don't even get me started about CALTRANS. Or AMTRAK. Bastards.
I am not an engineer, but I worked with auto parts for a while. AFAIK, the main issue is that propane does not act as a lubricant for the valves in the combustion chamber. Special hardened valve-seats are wanted in the cylinder head(s). We had a customer who wanted to save the $1K difference by using a toyota car head in his fork-lift. I always wondered how that worked out. [chuckle]
The Fail Infrastructure, that is, our Fearless Leadership, is an awesomely resilient and redundant system. The popular dissent is used as a tool to explain failure, rather than as useful input for promoting the greater good. Just look at the sheer weight of influencing factors and know the system will sink under he weight of profit-taking. I have a newspaper clipping from the early '60s of a certain tomorrowland fantasy they called Bay Area Rapid Transit. I will say no more.
I thought the fleet of EV-1s at the Berkeley BART station was a good start, but someone kiboshed those. Lister?