Not only was Myst written for the Mac, it was developed using a Mac-only hypermedia application HyperCard. The "making of" video included with later versions clearly shows development happening in a HyperCard environment. Bringing it to the PC was less a port than a rewrite.
Writer's Guild, not Author's Guild. The Writer's Guild is a union representing (among others) Hollywood screenwriters, and yes, part of what it's supposed to do is to secure the interests of its dues-paying members.
No one said the WGA was supposed to "sue" anyone for him, but they were supposed to "act" on his behalf and he alleges they haven't been doing that. What he wants it to do is nothing more than its job.
"Historic doorknobs"? That's a new one on me. People forget that the entire building was gutted and rebuilt around 1950, since the original was in immanent danger of collapse. Only the facade is original, and I question the historical value of doorknobs installed only 40 years earlier, even if they existed as described.
You mean "Planck length", which is a concept from physics, not "plank length", which is a concept from carpentry. (Or piracy. Whatever.)
Actually, the only person calling this a "theory" was GP. TFA was very careful not to. At this point it's only a hypothetical explanation for the observed noise, and there could be other causes. But it's useless to rule out hypotheses because they don't fit into any available theoretical framework, especially when, as in this case, none of them work particularly well.
Your counterexample had nothing to do with the specific example, which was of a household where the resident children were all old enough to know better. In such a house, were there to be small children visiting, the sensible parent keeps an eye on them because there's likely to be nothing for them to do.
Yes. Really. I suggest you read the Federalist. If I've gone off the deep end, then so did Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, and the other founders. Our Constitution, and especially the Bill of Rights that was soon added, was designed to limit government for precisely that reason. They had a recent, violent example of an overreaching government they wished to avoid ever repeating.
The real threat to us from terrorism is virtually nonexistent. In terms of actual risk, the threat from terrorism is miniscule compared to any number of risks we routinely assume without even blinking. It's not worth yielding the tiniest fraction of our freedom in order to combat it.
If you want the Constitution to protect your freedoms, then you have to allow it to protect even those you're certain are doing wrong. And yes, we're even willing to let pragmatics take a backseat to freedom.
The government has always been a more clear and present danger to the people than any real-world terrorist threat. The framers of our Constitution knew this, even if they never specifically had terrorists in mind. That's why they were primarily concerned with limiting the government, not granting it vast powers (which it has largely arrogated to itself anyway.)
There are other BASICs out there, and I can't help but think something like that would be a good start. For teaching young children you want something interpreted so they can test single statements and need no intermediate steps to execution and reasonably complete, but without asking for a lot of preamble that just gets in the way of what you really need to convey to teach programming, which is how to think in algorithms.
I'd played with programming without fully grasping what I was doing for some years before I took a course in it in HS. The one assignment that got me into the right mindset was one to divide two numbers and give the result to an arbitrary number of decimal places. Any number, not just to the maximum of the floating point representations we had available. Doing this made me understand for the first time how to correctly analyze a problem and translate each step in the solution into terms the computer could understand.
The post office is a private industry, not the Government.
It's an agency wholly owned by the United States Government, and the top management are all Presidential appointees. In what sense is that "private industry"?
Warner Bros., for example, didn't know it needed Toho's permission to use Godzilla in a 1985 chase scene in Tim Burton's Pee Wee's Big Adventure. The Hollywood studio paid an undisclosed amount to Toho after it was sued.
They may have been able to convince a judge of this and so been able to merely pay out some cash and still release the film, but I don't believe it for a second. No MPAA member, particularly not one that owns the rights to Bugs Bunny, can be ignorant of IP rights associated with a fictional character. Lying sacks of shit.
Recently San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland unveiled a massive concerted effort to become the electric vehicle capitol of the United States.
Capitol is a proper name, originally of a temple and the hill it sat on, but now often of a building that serves as the seat of a legislature. Capital means the city that serves as the seat of government. It also means the chief city of a region, and is the metaphorical sense intended here.
Even if submitter didn't know the difference, a professional editor should have. Good thing we don't have any of those around here, huh?
Except for the permanent effects of WWII and its aftermath, and the long-term effect of Sputnik on the space program and government's involvement in technological development... sure.
For example, calling the USSR's planned economy a "failure" when it took a nation devastated by the sequence of a civil war, WWI, and WWII, and made it the first spacefaring nation and a major world power, is overly simplistic.
You mean the planned economy that starved tens of millions, and collapsed under its own weight only 40 years after WWII ended, surviving in the meantime only because of a black market and barter system? Yes, I call that a failure.
I'm afraid it's not at all clear that FDR's policies did anything to lift us out of the Great Depression. And if your thesis is that the kind of government spending that took place during WWII is a sustainable, feasible model for an economy in the long term and in peacetime, I have to wonder what you're basing that on.
Portraits are not only staged. Photoshopping is normal. It used to be airbrushing, but that's almost never done anymore. Take a good, close look at most HS yearbook portraits, especially if they're "senior pictures".
The AP is having a hissy-fit over something that's perfectly routine. It's virtually certain that any portrait photo they've ever used has been similarly doctored. I wonder what else is going on.
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Not only was Myst written for the Mac, it was developed using a Mac-only hypermedia application HyperCard. The "making of" video included with later versions clearly shows development happening in a HyperCard environment. Bringing it to the PC was less a port than a rewrite.
You really think the only way a union accomplishes anything is by lawsuits? Wow.
Writer's Guild, not Author's Guild. The Writer's Guild is a union representing (among others) Hollywood screenwriters, and yes, part of what it's supposed to do is to secure the interests of its dues-paying members.
No one said the WGA was supposed to "sue" anyone for him, but they were supposed to "act" on his behalf and he alleges they haven't been doing that. What he wants it to do is nothing more than its job.
Do I have to spell it out for you?
Apparently, yes.
"Historic doorknobs"? That's a new one on me. People forget that the entire building was gutted and rebuilt around 1950, since the original was in immanent danger of collapse. Only the facade is original, and I question the historical value of doorknobs installed only 40 years earlier, even if they existed as described.
The nitpick isn't that he was running late, but that he got the Constitutionally-mandated wording wrong.
Modded funny but should be insightful. If someone wrote these, I'm almost positive they'd sell.
You mean "Planck length", which is a concept from physics, not "plank length", which is a concept from carpentry. (Or piracy. Whatever.)
Actually, the only person calling this a "theory" was GP. TFA was very careful not to. At this point it's only a hypothetical explanation for the observed noise, and there could be other causes. But it's useless to rule out hypotheses because they don't fit into any available theoretical framework, especially when, as in this case, none of them work particularly well.
Your counterexample had nothing to do with the specific example, which was of a household where the resident children were all old enough to know better. In such a house, were there to be small children visiting, the sensible parent keeps an eye on them because there's likely to be nothing for them to do.
After all that, I suspect many things are fuzzier to him than to us.
Yes. Really. I suggest you read the Federalist. If I've gone off the deep end, then so did Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, and the other founders. Our Constitution, and especially the Bill of Rights that was soon added, was designed to limit government for precisely that reason. They had a recent, violent example of an overreaching government they wished to avoid ever repeating.
The real threat to us from terrorism is virtually nonexistent. In terms of actual risk, the threat from terrorism is miniscule compared to any number of risks we routinely assume without even blinking. It's not worth yielding the tiniest fraction of our freedom in order to combat it.
If you want the Constitution to protect your freedoms, then you have to allow it to protect even those you're certain are doing wrong. And yes, we're even willing to let pragmatics take a backseat to freedom. The government has always been a more clear and present danger to the people than any real-world terrorist threat. The framers of our Constitution knew this, even if they never specifically had terrorists in mind. That's why they were primarily concerned with limiting the government, not granting it vast powers (which it has largely arrogated to itself anyway.)
Then that would be "informative".
+1 Funny
There are other BASICs out there, and I can't help but think something like that would be a good start. For teaching young children you want something interpreted so they can test single statements and need no intermediate steps to execution and reasonably complete, but without asking for a lot of preamble that just gets in the way of what you really need to convey to teach programming, which is how to think in algorithms.
I'd played with programming without fully grasping what I was doing for some years before I took a course in it in HS. The one assignment that got me into the right mindset was one to divide two numbers and give the result to an arbitrary number of decimal places. Any number, not just to the maximum of the floating point representations we had available. Doing this made me understand for the first time how to correctly analyze a problem and translate each step in the solution into terms the computer could understand.
The post office is a private industry, not the Government.
It's an agency wholly owned by the United States Government, and the top management are all Presidential appointees. In what sense is that "private industry"?
From TFA:
Warner Bros., for example, didn't know it needed Toho's permission to use Godzilla in a 1985 chase scene in Tim Burton's Pee Wee's Big Adventure. The Hollywood studio paid an undisclosed amount to Toho after it was sued.
They may have been able to convince a judge of this and so been able to merely pay out some cash and still release the film, but I don't believe it for a second. No MPAA member, particularly not one that owns the rights to Bugs Bunny, can be ignorant of IP rights associated with a fictional character. Lying sacks of shit.
Recently San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland unveiled a massive concerted effort to become the electric vehicle capitol of the United States.
Capitol is a proper name, originally of a temple and the hill it sat on, but now often of a building that serves as the seat of a legislature. Capital means the city that serves as the seat of government. It also means the chief city of a region, and is the metaphorical sense intended here.
Even if submitter didn't know the difference, a professional editor should have. Good thing we don't have any of those around here, huh?
A contest I indeed rarely lose, but I'm willing to let this one go...
Except for the permanent effects of WWII and its aftermath, and the long-term effect of Sputnik on the space program and government's involvement in technological development... sure.
Oh, good. I misread you then.
You mean the planned economy that starved tens of millions, and collapsed under its own weight only 40 years after WWII ended, surviving in the meantime only because of a black market and barter system? Yes, I call that a failure.
I'm afraid it's not at all clear that FDR's policies did anything to lift us out of the Great Depression. And if your thesis is that the kind of government spending that took place during WWII is a sustainable, feasible model for an economy in the long term and in peacetime, I have to wonder what you're basing that on.
Sorry, no.
Portraits are not only staged. Photoshopping is normal. It used to be airbrushing, but that's almost never done anymore. Take a good, close look at most HS yearbook portraits, especially if they're "senior pictures".
The AP is having a hissy-fit over something that's perfectly routine. It's virtually certain that any portrait photo they've ever used has been similarly doctored. I wonder what else is going on.
If you're calling what was done to this image "completely fictionalizing" it, you need to have your perspective adjusted.