Posts by John 62 1038 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2009
I'm reading flatland at the minute. Just got to the bit where the square explains to his grandson the relation between mathematics and geometry for 2D and the grandson asks if anything can be raised to the third. And I've seen Marcus De Sotoy's TV programme twice now where he tries to explain the hypercube in the Grande Arche in Paris, but I'm still not quite getting it.
To be fair I got the remastered Monkey Island and the original graphics are totally crap.
However, I upvoted you because I have seen the updated Star Trek FX and they're totally crap. Completely lost the feel of the original.
When I was a child I cheered when the first special edition Star Wars came out, because when you are a child you think newer is always better. Now, as an adult I think Lucas should just have left it alone. Cleaning up the film reels is one thing, swapping all the cool models for shiny CG is unnecessary.
Granted, most sane TV broadcasters do get aspect ratios right (though sports seem to get it wrong more often for some reason), but sadly my cheap upscaling DVD player won't make the TV automatically switch for my Seinfeld DVDs for the 16:9 stuff and the episodes themselves which are 4:3.
Probably most hobbyist programmers and schoolchildren won't know what to do with all the memory available (except maybe when they manage to get 3D going that needs large maps and textures), but when you start throwing significant javascript around on a webpage with some images, that's when things really start to get hairy.
And don't forget that while there's certainly a lot of bloat in many software packages, a lot of modern ones actually do significant stuff that needs lots of RAM.
Probably because it's not just a bolt-on module and would require significant time and money to get right. I'm sure they are working on auto-docking, but when they have the arm on the station, it's best to get the 'basic' bit of just flying up to the station right. This launch is actually putting things ahead of schedule. SpaceX was planning to perform a test flight of a Dragon up to the ISS, but not dock with it, but that flight was cancelled. If they can match orbit and be docked, even manually, it will be a significant achievement.
so you've just recorded some video of your mate faceplanting off his skateboard and you want to share it with your other mates. Oh noes! the video is 100MB! That will take months to share wirelessly! But hurrah and huzzah! You and your friend each have a Samsung Galaxy S III with high-speed ad-hoc networking. A bonk together and you can share the vid in seconds.
Has HP-BASIC been updated to allow whitespace? I used to have to look at the odd bit of HT-BASIC (HP-BASIC clone used by my previous employer). The whole environment was just weird, but they were using it in a test suite hooked up to fragile, doddery old GPIB equipment up until at least 2005.
By that metric, Ang Lee's Hulk is worse.
Judge Dredd was very bad. Though they gave themselves a bit of a mountain to climb by having Dredd helmet-less for so long.
Anyway, to be honest I'm not a huge fan, and have only read the Blockmania collection, but that was rather superb and I'd love to see a film of it.
Children should be introduced to the popular tools of computing (throughout the stack, from apps to presentational all the way down to logic gates) just like they should be introduced to music, literature, art, craft and design.
You don't teach all children all the intricacies of music theory from the start, but you give them a recorder/keyboard and get them to play a scale and a couple of simple tunes, or a guitar and a couple of chord shapes, or a couple of drums. Let the interested ones flourish and try to support them as they learn and then the ones who have no interest can try something else.
For computing, what needs to change is the CGSE curriculum, which was pretty dumbed down when I breezing through the course and it has got worse since.
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