No, I haven't RTFA, but a few things to take into account before wetting yourselves over this - sheet size (apparently A6 - which is postcard sized), what's the drying time on the inks, and how many prints can you do before changing the cartridges, is that engine repeat speed or first page out (the enigine may be that fast, but how fast is the interpreter?), is that speed sustainable or burst speed only?
Given production colour lasers can't do that speed yet, I'm skeptical as to the practical realities of such a device.
*sigh* Australian owner of a dodgy m125 which seems to drain new batteries simply by turning it on and has had to be restored so manay time I haven't had a 'current' backup in 12 months, because it doesn't stay 'up' long enough to get fresh data into it. *sigh*
Professionals when adjusting live CRTs do the following:
Use nylon tools - or at least fully shielded tools, to reduce the risk of discharge (note I said reduce, not eliminate)
Ensure that there is someone else present to keep an eye on them in case they do get a significant shock - big monitors bite, I;ve been given bad enough shocks that I've been shaky and a little number for over an hour after working on a 21" 'safely' - there is no true safe when working with a faulty CRT
Generally work with one hand behind their back - bend your arm so your fist is sitting in the small of your back, it's to reduce the risk of any discharge running current through your heart which is a electro-chemical pump/motor
The 'glue' refered to is probably 'LockTite', it is a brittle substance applied in liquid form to hold screws in place and to show if something has been tampered with. Using a real glue could potentially stuff things up ongoing.
Excellent, I'll be in Adelaide for work shortly with my PowerBook and WoW in tow, I can save the hotel dial up bills and just use free wireless:)
having been to Adelaide before, there's not a whole heap to do after hours... I've been present for drinking the Colonel Light dry once already, and casinos aren't really that entertaining any more.
Will they make Arthur into a romantic lead again, instead of the hapless bumbler he was meant to be?
Oddly enough, he's quite competent and assertive in the original radio series. Several of his best lines are given to Ford (or innocent bystanders) in the books and TV series, creating the effect that he is overall less competant.
"they hung in the air exactly the same way bricks don't" originally came from the radio series and was reused in the books.
Personally, I always found the lyricism in Dougies prose the thing that made the series (in any format) magical. It worries me slightly what will happen without him around to vet the scripts.
As a review for the movie: not as good as I'd hoped, but much better than I'd feared.
I want to see the sofa sequence in Dirk Gently make it onto the big screen, complete with computer modeling how it got to that position on the landing in the first place.
Having spoken several times to both Terry and Douglas I strongly recommend that should you ever be in the position to repeat that observation to Terry, DON'T.
Even in the Radio Series, they originally got beamed up from Earth using the sub-etha device (Thumb). The radio series didn't introduce towels until well into the second season or later (I'm Rooster, and this is my towel).
Towels were introduced in Book Two and were used significantly in the TV series and computer game, all of which still used the sub-etha device to get picke dup by the vogons.
LARPing can be pretty painful, I would agree, freeforming (an Australian varient on LARP) can rock. Freeforming is to LARPing as DnD (or perhaps Amber diceless RPG) is to Wargaming. Done right it can be a sublime experience. VtM was somewhat heavy on mechanics and the game world escalated into stupidity.
Don't recall all the history perfectly, but most of it was licensed for stupidly little money given how important some of these things became: e.g. GUIs, ethernet, etc...
If your player croaks, then he turns into a ghost... which can be revived, or die horribly. It seems like a good balance. The players don't mind too much. It works because hey, they had a chance to avoid perma-death. Most of the time
I'm hoping you mean if your character croaks, in the world I live in, if the player croaks, it's fairly final...
Ahem... Xerox is still around. I know 'coz I'm sitting here typing from a Xerox owned resource in a Xerox office.
BTW PARC (and our other research centres) is still inventing new stuff for geeks to drool over when it finally hits the market, we just have to get better at developing and marketing stuff ourselves rather than just licensing or abandoning them.
I always thought the Dirk Gently books would make for an easier transition onto celluloid than the HHGttG
After all, Dirk is almost a Hero. He almost gets the girl. He engages in action sequences (even if it's with refrigerators and eagles, and always comes off second best). And they are more self-contained stories.
WRT the second question, it has been widely publicised that the movie intends to cover the first book only.
Whether this is because they wanted to leave it open for sequals is up for a guess. More likely it was to manage the huge amount of materially which could othewise be considered for inclusion, it's hard enough to adapt one short-ish book to the big screen without trying to do an entire series.
And the towels weren't a joke in the original radio series until much later ("This is Rooster, and this is Rooster's Towel" "Hello Rooster, hello Towel").
Programes I've watched via download rather than wait for commercial stations out here to get into gear: The West Wing, CSI, Six Feet Under, Buffy, Angel, Oz, Lost. In the case of all except the last one, Austrlaian TV either isn't getting it at all, or were 12-18 months behind in scheduling.
Why carry an ipod and a PSP when the PSP will do everything the iPod does and more?
The whole point is that the iPod doesn't try to be all things to all people. It pitches as a MP3 player, and does it exceptionally well. It also acts as a self-powered external firewire HDA, but that's a bonus. One of the reasons that the iPod is so successful is the simplicity of the interface. The more options you add the more complex it gets. Apple gets it, the question is whether industry pundits or Sony do too.
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No, I haven't RTFA, but a few things to take into account before wetting yourselves over this - sheet size (apparently A6 - which is postcard sized), what's the drying time on the inks, and how many prints can you do before changing the cartridges, is that engine repeat speed or first page out (the enigine may be that fast, but how fast is the interpreter?), is that speed sustainable or burst speed only?
Given production colour lasers can't do that speed yet, I'm skeptical as to the practical realities of such a device.
*sigh* Australian owner of a dodgy m125 which seems to drain new batteries simply by turning it on and has had to be restored so manay time I haven't had a 'current' backup in 12 months, because it doesn't stay 'up' long enough to get fresh data into it. *sigh*
Question: if you've totally blocked thier acces - how do they get the email telling them to clean up their act?
Surely that would be:
Recipient address rejected: cleric attempts to turn zombie
AFAIK engines currently top out arouns 200 ppm (A4/US Letter) for an iGen engine
Professionals when adjusting live CRTs do the following:
Use nylon tools - or at least fully shielded tools, to reduce the risk of discharge (note I said reduce, not eliminate)
Ensure that there is someone else present to keep an eye on them in case they do get a significant shock - big monitors bite, I;ve been given bad enough shocks that I've been shaky and a little number for over an hour after working on a 21" 'safely' - there is no true safe when working with a faulty CRT
Generally work with one hand behind their back - bend your arm so your fist is sitting in the small of your back, it's to reduce the risk of any discharge running current through your heart which is a electro-chemical pump/motor
The 'glue' refered to is probably 'LockTite', it is a brittle substance applied in liquid form to hold screws in place and to show if something has been tampered with. Using a real glue could potentially stuff things up ongoing.
Excellent, my husband and I have expressed a preference for having a girl when do do finally get around to reproducing.
Somewhere I have a pad of black post-its and some opaque pastel gel pens for writing on them. :)
Excellent, I'll be in Adelaide for work shortly with my PowerBook and WoW in tow, I can save the hotel dial up bills and just use free wireless :)
having been to Adelaide before, there's not a whole heap to do after hours... I've been present for drinking the Colonel Light dry once already, and casinos aren't really that entertaining any more.
You should see/hear Anne Rice's response to all movie versions of her work[1]...
[1] she even went to the extent of recording an answering machine message disavowing Interview with a Vampire.
[1.1] not that I think her books are classic literature, but then I don't care that much about LeGuin's material either.
Will they make Arthur into a romantic lead again, instead of the hapless bumbler he was meant to be?
Oddly enough, he's quite competent and assertive in the original radio series. Several of his best lines are given to Ford (or innocent bystanders) in the books and TV series, creating the effect that he is overall less competant.
"they hung in the air exactly the same way bricks don't" originally came from the radio series and was reused in the books.
Personally, I always found the lyricism in Dougies prose the thing that made the series (in any format) magical. It worries me slightly what will happen without him around to vet the scripts.
As a review for the movie: not as good as I'd hoped, but much better than I'd feared.
I want to see the sofa sequence in Dirk Gently make it onto the big screen, complete with computer modeling how it got to that position on the landing in the first place.
Having spoken several times to both Terry and Douglas I strongly recommend that should you ever be in the position to repeat that observation to Terry, DON'T.
Even in the Radio Series, they originally got beamed up from Earth using the sub-etha device (Thumb). The radio series didn't introduce towels until well into the second season or later (I'm Rooster, and this is my towel).
Towels were introduced in Book Two and were used significantly in the TV series and computer game, all of which still used the sub-etha device to get picke dup by the vogons.
LARPing can be pretty painful, I would agree, freeforming (an Australian varient on LARP) can rock. Freeforming is to LARPing as DnD (or perhaps Amber diceless RPG) is to Wargaming. Done right it can be a sublime experience. VtM was somewhat heavy on mechanics and the game world escalated into stupidity.
Don't recall all the history perfectly, but most of it was licensed for stupidly little money given how important some of these things became: e.g. GUIs, ethernet, etc...
If your player croaks, then he turns into a ghost... which can be revived, or die horribly. It seems like a good balance. The players don't mind too much. It works because hey, they had a chance to avoid perma-death. Most of the time
I'm hoping you mean if your character croaks, in the world I live in, if the player croaks, it's fairly final...
Ahem... Xerox is still around. I know 'coz I'm sitting here typing from a Xerox owned resource in a Xerox office.
BTW PARC (and our other research centres) is still inventing new stuff for geeks to drool over when it finally hits the market, we just have to get better at developing and marketing stuff ourselves rather than just licensing or abandoning them.
I always thought the Dirk Gently books would make for an easier transition onto celluloid than the HHGttG
After all, Dirk is almost a Hero. He almost gets the girl. He engages in action sequences (even if it's with refrigerators and eagles, and always comes off second best). And they are more self-contained stories.
WRT the second question, it has been widely publicised that the movie intends to cover the first book only.
Whether this is because they wanted to leave it open for sequals is up for a guess. More likely it was to manage the huge amount of materially which could othewise be considered for inclusion, it's hard enough to adapt one short-ish book to the big screen without trying to do an entire series.
As fabulous as Zem is, he doesn't appear in the first book, so is unlikely to appear in a movie based on the first book only.
And the towels weren't a joke in the original radio series until much later ("This is Rooster, and this is Rooster's Towel" "Hello Rooster, hello Towel").
First thing to check is if there's a cat called Mehitebel hanging around dancing and singing...
I tried to get the liberreto for Achy and Mehitabel recently, but it's only available for performances as a suitable licensing fee.
Programes I've watched via download rather than wait for commercial stations out here to get into gear: The West Wing, CSI, Six Feet Under, Buffy, Angel, Oz, Lost. In the case of all except the last one, Austrlaian TV either isn't getting it at all, or were 12-18 months behind in scheduling.
Why carry an ipod and a PSP when the PSP will do everything the iPod does and more?
The whole point is that the iPod doesn't try to be all things to all people. It pitches as a MP3 player, and does it exceptionally well. It also acts as a self-powered external firewire HDA, but that's a bonus. One of the reasons that the iPod is so successful is the simplicity of the interface. The more options you add the more complex it gets. Apple gets it, the question is whether industry pundits or Sony do too.