it was ironic that it was a car crash. Didn't he have some sort of air bag, or other nifty gadget?:)
According to what he repeated many times in several interviews, he didn't really like any technical gadgets at all in the real life (tm). In his experience, all gadgets almost magically ceased to work at his presence.
So if we suppose that the airbag in his car didn't function correctly, this malfunction hardly came as a surprise to him!:-I
I'm sure he intended WiNE to be his last Bond film.
According to what he has himself been saying in the recent interviews and what some sources say, he was supposed to continue acting at least in the next Bond movie as well.
John Cleese was not introduced as "R" because Llewellyn would have liked to retire but because of his old age (as a kind of a precaution, which apparently - sadly - paid off).
Maybe they will find some intelligent life there. (One can always hope.)
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Ideally, software should be designed such that if you *have* to use the mouse (ie: in a paint or drawing program), you should be able to keep your hand there for a long time, and have one-key accelerators for your non-mouse hand to use. Deluxe Paint III on the Amiga did this. Actually, Star Craft does this as well...
Deluxe Paint, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere and Real 3D are model examples of software with great one-key shorcut functions assigned to nearly all of the keys. Accessing functions by unchorded keypresses is exactly what makes any software title a breeze to use, the only exception being a program that is primarily designed for entering / editing text.
Most Windows programmers just don't get it. Even if their program does not use the keyboard practically for anything (in their normal operating mode, anyway), they still tend to make all the shortcut functions chorded. Why? Why can't I simply punch G instead of some akward Ctrl-Shift-F6 combination?
Adobe got it. Amiga programmers got it. Why do Windows programmers insist on awkward chorded combinations when they are, for most graphical applications, neither practical or necessary?
We need to come up with a good GPLed VCD player (I can't find any, you know of one?
I'd hack the SDLmpeg code myself to do this, if I knew something about the VCD format:-) After all, it's all in the headers, right? MpegTV (an evil capitalist piece of proprietary chicken poo) does this just by parsing the headers and separating the audio/video stream, IIRC.
You would also need to support still images, menus, remote control functions, playlists, CD-DA tracks & other Video CD 2.0 (White Book) features. VCD is not just about MPEG files.
BTW, when DeluxePaint will be ported to Linux? The local former Amiga users seem to really want that ported. =) I, too, have hard time 'cuz DeluxePaint 5 doesn't always run properly in UAE...
Good ol' DPaint is an excellent program for fine pixel-level image editing (e.g. when creating pixel-perfect icons, animated 2D game characters etc. with a restricted palette). It would be very nice to have one real old-skool paint program amongst all these dumb-ass scanned image manipulators. Creating images by cutting and pasting scanned photographs and applying some filters to them does not IMHO require much talent. Hand-painting them pixel by pixel with a mouse when you only have some 32 colors available does.
Deluxe Paint was originally created by Daniel Silva and published by Electronic Arts. There was also an MS-DOS version available, but it was not a 1:1 port (there were some functional differences and for some reason, the integrated animator was released as a separate application called "Deluxe Animator"). A real DPaint port is unlikely to ever happen unless someone can persuade EOA to release the source. Well, who knows - it might just be possible, as nowadays EÓA only develops games... Maybe somebody should ask them?
I'd be perfectly happy to dump a quarter-litre in; but it's ludicrous to talk about dumping "250 millilitres" (or even better, "237 millilitres") in, as if it would affect the recipe if I dumped in 249 or 252---as if I could or would even bother to measure it that precisely. It is this madness that I hope (futilely, I suppose) to avoid when and if the US ever converts to metric.
As for recipes, it would be expressed simply as "2 ½ dl" or "2.5 dl" (i.e. in deciliters, not in millilitres).
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According to what he repeated many times in several interviews, he didn't really like any technical gadgets at all in the real life (tm). In his experience, all gadgets almost magically ceased to work at his presence.
So if we suppose that the airbag in his car didn't function correctly, this malfunction hardly came as a surprise to him! :-I
According to what he has himself been saying in the recent interviews and what some sources say, he was supposed to continue acting at least in the next Bond movie as well.
John Cleese was not introduced as "R" because Llewellyn would have liked to retire but because of his old age (as a kind of a precaution, which apparently - sadly - paid off).
Maybe they will find some intelligent life there. (One can always hope.)
Deluxe Paint, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere and Real 3D are model examples of software with great one-key shorcut functions assigned to nearly all of the keys. Accessing functions by unchorded keypresses is exactly what makes any software title a breeze to use, the only exception being a program that is primarily designed for entering / editing text.
Most Windows programmers just don't get it. Even if their program does not use the keyboard practically for anything (in their normal operating mode, anyway), they still tend to make all the shortcut functions chorded. Why? Why can't I simply punch G instead of some akward Ctrl-Shift-F6 combination?
Adobe got it. Amiga programmers got it. Why do Windows programmers insist on awkward chorded combinations when they are, for most graphical applications, neither practical or necessary?
Not to forget Dave Haynie.
You would also need to support still images, menus, remote control functions, playlists, CD-DA tracks & other Video CD 2.0 (White Book) features. VCD is not just about MPEG files.
And when you input the glowing food & beverages, I wonder will the output also glow?
Good ol' DPaint is an excellent program for fine pixel-level image editing (e.g. when creating pixel-perfect icons, animated 2D game characters etc. with a restricted palette). It would be very nice to have one real old-skool paint program amongst all these dumb-ass scanned image manipulators. Creating images by cutting and pasting scanned photographs and applying some filters to them does not IMHO require much talent. Hand-painting them pixel by pixel with a mouse when you only have some 32 colors available does.
Deluxe Paint was originally created by Daniel Silva and published by Electronic Arts. There was also an MS-DOS version available, but it was not a 1:1 port (there were some functional differences and for some reason, the integrated animator was released as a separate application called "Deluxe Animator"). A real DPaint port is unlikely to ever happen unless someone can persuade EOA to release the source. Well, who knows - it might just be possible, as nowadays EÓA only develops games... Maybe somebody should ask them?
As for recipes, it would be expressed simply as "2 ½ dl" or "2.5 dl" (i.e. in deciliters, not in millilitres).