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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Do you recognise any of these phrases?
Date: 19 Jun 2008 04:17:50
Message: <485a162e@news.povray.org>
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somebody wrote:
> "Invisible" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote
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>> Some programs are, in fact, designed to solve a specific problem.
>>
>> Other programs are instead designed to make money.
>
> Well, that also is a specific problem.
I was waiting for somebody to point that out.
[You see what I did there?]
Reminds me of the expensive IBM line printer. Apparently, for an
exorbitant fee, IBM could sent a field engineer to perform an "upgrade"
to your printer that makes it print at double speed. This upgrade
consists of removing one drive wheel and installing another with twice
the diameter.
It's an engineering solution - once you realise that the goal is "suck
every last penny out of the customer".
[Obviously, all this was back in the Dark Ages of giant mainframe
computers that filled entire warehouses...]
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible wrote:
> [Obviously, all this was back in the Dark Ages of giant mainframe
> computers that filled entire warehouses...]
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...and of course we are now in the enlightened days of small desktop
machines and blade servers which fill entire warehouses
John
--
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:4859258f$1@news.povray.org...
> Chambers wrote:
> > ...until they got overused to the point where you're willing to beat
> > your manager to death with a sardine if he utters his favorite phrase
> > one more time.
> Seems to me most managers have the mental age of a typical 5 year old.
Not a very flattering statement about the mental age of those working
_under_ said managers and making _less_ money, enjoying _less_ job
satisfaction...
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From: Bill Pragnell
Subject: Re: Do you recognise any of these phrases?
Date: 19 Jun 2008 09:14:10
Message: <485a5ba2@news.povray.org>
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> Found the script reference I mentioned. Seems to imply that the above
> interpretation is correct.
>
> http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kessel_Run
>
> a.. n the original draft of A New Hope in 1976, the description for
> "Kessel Run" is put as follows:
> HAN: It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs!
> Ben reacts to Solo's stupid attempt to impress them with obvious
> misinformation.
I read somewhere (I forget where... probably online) that the Kessel Run
was a series of deliveries / pickups on a moving convoy, and that the
'parsecs' in the quote refer to how far the convoy had travelled by the
time the whole run was finished.
This sounds plausible, since Han's piloting would certainly shave a lot
of time off over less reckless approaches, and Ben's reaction could just
as easily be disbelief that this was possible instead of transparent
bullshit.
However, I'm with Warp - Lucas didn't know what a parsec was when he
wrote the screenplay. :-)
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Whoops, should have read Patrick's reply first.
That'll teach me to be a half-witted nerf-herder. ;-)
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From: Gail Shaw
Subject: Re: Do you recognise any of these phrases?
Date: 19 Jun 2008 11:42:24
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"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmail com> wrote in message
news:485a5ba2@news.povray.org...
> Gail Shaw wrote:
> > Found the script reference I mentioned. Seems to imply that the above
> > interpretation is correct.
> >
> > http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kessel_Run
> >
> > a.. n the original draft of A New Hope in 1976, the description for
> > "Kessel Run" is put as follows:
> > HAN: It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs!
> > Ben reacts to Solo's stupid attempt to impress them with obvious
> > misinformation.
>
> I read somewhere (I forget where... probably online) that the Kessel Run
> was a series of deliveries / pickups on a moving convoy, and that the
> 'parsecs' in the quote refer to how far the convoy had travelled by the
> time the whole run was finished.
It's a smuggling run. It cuts very near to a cluster of black holes (1). The
faster your ship, the closer you can go to the black holes without getting
trapped.
It's a smuggler's boast to say how short he can make the Kessel run. See
above link.
> However, I'm with Warp - Lucas didn't know what a parsec was when he
> wrote the screenplay. :-)
Very likely
(1) In a later book, the Maw cluster is describes as being artifical, but no
one knows how it formed or what race helped it along.
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> "Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmail com> wrote in message
>> I read somewhere (I forget where... probably online) that the Kessel Run
>> was a series of deliveries / pickups on a moving convoy, and that the
>> 'parsecs' in the quote refer to how far the convoy had travelled by the
>> time the whole run was finished.
>
> It's a smuggling run. It cuts very near to a cluster of black holes (1). The
> faster your ship, the closer you can go to the black holes without getting
> trapped.
> It's a smuggler's boast to say how short he can make the Kessel run. See
> above link.
Having read this version more thoroughly, I don't think it's the same
definition that I heard before (this would have been at least 10 years
ago, maybe longer). Interesting, especially since the one you describe
is obviously now canon (it's even in Wikipedia).
StarWars quotes that sound better after replacing a single word with
'pants', no 12:
"Governor Tarkin. I recognized your foul pants when I first came on board."
(probably works better for the UK definition of 'pants')
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