Well for HCl you just cut open the stomaches of all the monsters victims and gather the juices then throw it on him, at least thats what I'd suggest.
Well, first this assumes the monster doesn't eat the victims...
Second, as you kill more of the monsters, the number of new victims will decrease - the system will tend toward a stalemate in which a reasonable number of monsters must be kept alive in order to be sure there's enough victims around to kill monsters with...
Yeah, some of the SciFi channel eps I consider to be the pinnacle of Best Brains production, mostly because once Joel was out the way, the jokes got edgier and the skits finally strayed from the (classic, but wearing at the edges) Deep 13 stuff. (though the latter was more due to moving to SciFi I guess).
I don't know - I thought the constant changes of locale in early season 8 had potential, but the more their settings settled down the more stagnant it got, IMO.
Mind you, I'm not gonna argue that the Deep 13 days were perfect - or better, even - except they did have Trace up through the end of season 7 and his was a tough act to follow.
I think "Who's the better evil sidekick" is even worse than "Who's the better host." As far as nerdy debates, I mean.
<shrug> I'm not interested in trying to tell people what to think about the matter, really. I just think Larry (and Josh, in general) seems to be a bit underrated IMO.
Plus I wanted to make it clear, in case people didn't get it, that I was saying "Thank You" as a reference to the first-season catch-phrase, rather than thanking Notquitecajun for his post.:)
Yes, in the very last episode of season 10. Mike and the bots are brought to a fiery crash landing due to a malfunction of Pearl Forrester' joystick. They survive and end up watching the very first bad movie ever riffed by MST3K.
ever riffed by MST3K on cable... important distinction...
But, of course, not many people saw the KTMA run, so really The Crawling Eye is where most of us remember the show starting...
This being the 20th anniversary of the show, I really wish they'd finally dig out some copies of those first couple of KTMA episodes and release 'em. Those are the only episodes in the entire run that aren't available online.
Of course, if the cops show and decide that you're just being an asshat, you could be in trouble for abusing the emergency line...
How is calling the emergency line when being held against your will "abuse"? If you are attempting to leave a location and another person is preventing you from doing so then that person is committing a crime.
Here again is the problem that I am trying to explain:
Ultimately, it doesn't matter if you're right, what matters is if the cop who shows up thinks you're right.
If the cop shows up, hears your story, and responds with, "What, you called the cops just because you didn't want to show the guy your receipt?" he may decide that you are wasting his time - and thus be inclined to approach the situation as if you're in the wrong. (Placing an emergency call for a non-emergency, whatever other punitive BS charges he may decide to threaten you with...) If you want to fight that, then you have to go to court, where you may face a judge who will also not hold your assertion of rights in very high regard. Because, after all, the whole thing would not be an issue if you'd just showed the guy your receipt.
If you can afford the court battle (or battles) required to establish that you're right, and additionally establish that any punitive charges laid on by the police are wrong, then you can really show 'em. Otherwise, you may be the one who gets shafted in a deal like that.
I'm not saying it's right - I'm just saying that, you know, if you're not the one who's prepared to sacrifice something to fight for your rights, then probably starting a big battle over a little issue isn't a good idea.
It's true, you raise an important point about the mad scientists. How is one supposed to perform mad science without the requisite chemicals? I suppose next they'll ban the use of decorative Tesla coils...
But there's another angle: we have to consider how this kind of legislation impacts the upstanding, college-educated, pipe-smoking benevolent scientist. How is Small-Town-Plagued-By-Bizarre-Monsters to be saved if their local College-Educated Scientist can't perform the experiments necessary to find the one chemical which will defeat the evil fiends? How will the comrades of said scientist defeat the monsters if they can't travel to a nearby chemical supply warehouse to get the chemical they need in sufficient quantity?
Now, not all monster scenarios require a chemist, it's true. From time to time a monster will appear whose one weakness is something as simple as Sodium Chloride ("Ordinary table salt!") - but what about the monsters who are vulnerable to sodium in its pure form? Or what if defeating the monsters requires large quantities of hydrochloric acid, or Potassium Iodide, or any one of a number of other sciency-sounding things?
Yep, before you know it we'll be overrun by superintelligent ants or fish-men or mole people or giant lobsters and then we'll just wish we hadn't cracked down on all this science!
Then could you please develop a Pad Thai dish which dosen't cause screaming, burning shits?
It never ceases to amaze me how mild Pad Thai goes down easy but always manages to leap out of my asshole without first asking my sphincter while leaving everything irritated and on fire.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that either you're ordering your Pad Thai from the wrong places, or else you have some kind of food intolerance that prevents you from comfortably enjoying the dish. In either case I'd highly recommend that you don't eat that Pad Thai...
They were indeed one of the main forces behind pay-as-you-go DIVX discs, with the players that phoned home to authorize play.
I just want to mention that I think it's a bit funny to note that these things literally "phoned" home... The hookup was a phone line, 'cause most people didn't have ethernet (or even internet, slow or fast) at this point... it was catching on, but hadn't as yet caught on...
They also pushed the ill-fated iOpener. Never did get around to doing anything fun or cool with that thing...
I mean, assuming you had a web browser or something open entering this message - and you removed all the files on your hard drive - the web browser wouldn't immediately crash, 'cause any open files would continue to exist until the last open file handle was closed...
So much easier for me to use than perl. I presume the modern unix user prefers perl.
The lack of any coherent datatypes is one of the weaknesses of the Unix shell. Even if shells offer arrays, for instance, programs running in the shell can't interact with them directly. Having access to useful data structures is IMO one reason why people are moving away from the shell and toward scripting languages.
Talk about completely missing the point. You were off to such a good start when you said, "Presently, this feature of X is being under-utilized." But from there, you should make the jump that nobody gives a damn about a network-transparent graphics protocol and that every minute spent thinking about how to make it better is a wasted minute. The solution is not for application writers to better support X's model, but to realize that X's model is without value and scrap it. Why are you so interested in improving a feature that nobody uses or wants?
Well, because -I- want it, obviously.:D
But I kind of covered the issue as an either-or... Either network transparency should be made practical for the kinds of GUI apps people are really writing, or we should drop it and get network transparency via something like VNC (damn, I think I referred to it as "VLC" in my earlier post...) - and stop fooling ourselves that all our X apps really are network transparent...
Actually, haven't the news agencies decided that they will declare a winner before the West Coast polls closes if one candidate is projected to have 270 EVs?
Xorg isn't broken for most users right now, but planning and creating alternatives is a good idea.
In a sense I think it really is... Admittedly, not necessarily in a way that everybody would notice, as you said - but still...
What X is good at, basically, is putting simple UIs over a network. For instance, I can run XEmacs remotely over the internet, and performance is decent.
Presently, this feature of X is being under-utilized. We're using a network-transparent protocol for the display server, but most people aren't running apps from remote hosts, and applications aren't being written with this in mind.
Basically, for all the overhead associated with something like X to be worthwhile then one of a few possible conditions must be satisfied. Either applications must be designed such that they work efficiently over the network with the present limitations in the display protocol, or the display protocol must be enhanced or altered such that today's applications can run reasonably well over a network link.
Running X apps over an internet link versus a LAN is an extreme case, admittedly - but nevertheless, an old Athena app can do it, while the simplest of GTK or QT apps can have a real problem with it...
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Well for HCl you just cut open the stomaches of all the monsters victims and gather the juices then throw it on him, at least thats what I'd suggest.
Well, first this assumes the monster doesn't eat the victims...
Second, as you kill more of the monsters, the number of new victims will decrease - the system will tend toward a stalemate in which a reasonable number of monsters must be kept alive in order to be sure there's enough victims around to kill monsters with...
...Jews did 9/11. Now you know.
Also, your mom.
Is that you, Rowsdower?
I miss Toblerone!
Yeah, some of the SciFi channel eps I consider to be the pinnacle of Best Brains production, mostly because once Joel was out the way, the jokes got edgier and the skits finally strayed from the (classic, but wearing at the edges) Deep 13 stuff. (though the latter was more due to moving to SciFi I guess).
I don't know - I thought the constant changes of locale in early season 8 had potential, but the more their settings settled down the more stagnant it got, IMO.
Mind you, I'm not gonna argue that the Deep 13 days were perfect - or better, even - except they did have Trace up through the end of season 7 and his was a tough act to follow.
Yes, even better than Manos. Manos is more horrible to behold, but Prince of Space is funny from start to finish
What's that? What did you say?
(Ah, literal translation of Japanese idioms...)
My favorite was at the end, when Phantom is sending the scientists to their overly-elaborate deaths...
"Each of you will board a space capsule."
"What?"
Servo: "Oh, for crying out loud... EACH OF YOU WILL BOARD A SPACE CAPSULE!"
Of course, "I'll throw my doll at you!" was great, too...
Actually it's "Attack of the The Eye Creatures". Yes, "the" actually appears twice on the title screen.
They just didn't care.
I think "Who's the better evil sidekick" is even worse than "Who's the better host." As far as nerdy debates, I mean.
<shrug> I'm not interested in trying to tell people what to think about the matter, really. I just think Larry (and Josh, in general) seems to be a bit underrated IMO.
Plus I wanted to make it clear, in case people didn't get it, that I was saying "Thank You" as a reference to the first-season catch-phrase, rather than thanking Notquitecajun for his post. :)
P.S.: YOUR MOTHER FLOSSES IN HELL! GAAAAAAAA!
...He tried to kill him with a forklift...
Push the button, Frank.
Thank you!
(In retrospect, I like Larry better than Frank.)
Yes, in the very last episode of season 10. Mike and the bots are brought to a fiery crash landing due to a malfunction of Pearl Forrester' joystick. They survive and end up watching the very first bad movie ever riffed by MST3K.
ever riffed by MST3K on cable... important distinction...
But, of course, not many people saw the KTMA run, so really The Crawling Eye is where most of us remember the show starting...
This being the 20th anniversary of the show, I really wish they'd finally dig out some copies of those first couple of KTMA episodes and release 'em. Those are the only episodes in the entire run that aren't available online.
Of course, if the cops show and decide that you're just being an asshat, you could be in trouble for abusing the emergency line...
How is calling the emergency line when being held against your will "abuse"? If you are attempting to leave a location and another person is preventing you from doing so then that person is committing a crime.
Here again is the problem that I am trying to explain:
Ultimately, it doesn't matter if you're right, what matters is if the cop who shows up thinks you're right.
If the cop shows up, hears your story, and responds with, "What, you called the cops just because you didn't want to show the guy your receipt?" he may decide that you are wasting his time - and thus be inclined to approach the situation as if you're in the wrong. (Placing an emergency call for a non-emergency, whatever other punitive BS charges he may decide to threaten you with...) If you want to fight that, then you have to go to court, where you may face a judge who will also not hold your assertion of rights in very high regard. Because, after all, the whole thing would not be an issue if you'd just showed the guy your receipt.
If you can afford the court battle (or battles) required to establish that you're right, and additionally establish that any punitive charges laid on by the police are wrong, then you can really show 'em. Otherwise, you may be the one who gets shafted in a deal like that.
I'm not saying it's right - I'm just saying that, you know, if you're not the one who's prepared to sacrifice something to fight for your rights, then probably starting a big battle over a little issue isn't a good idea.
It's true, you raise an important point about the mad scientists. How is one supposed to perform mad science without the requisite chemicals? I suppose next they'll ban the use of decorative Tesla coils...
But there's another angle: we have to consider how this kind of legislation impacts the upstanding, college-educated, pipe-smoking benevolent scientist. How is Small-Town-Plagued-By-Bizarre-Monsters to be saved if their local College-Educated Scientist can't perform the experiments necessary to find the one chemical which will defeat the evil fiends? How will the comrades of said scientist defeat the monsters if they can't travel to a nearby chemical supply warehouse to get the chemical they need in sufficient quantity?
Now, not all monster scenarios require a chemist, it's true. From time to time a monster will appear whose one weakness is something as simple as Sodium Chloride ("Ordinary table salt!") - but what about the monsters who are vulnerable to sodium in its pure form? Or what if defeating the monsters requires large quantities of hydrochloric acid, or Potassium Iodide, or any one of a number of other sciency-sounding things?
Yep, before you know it we'll be overrun by superintelligent ants or fish-men or mole people or giant lobsters and then we'll just wish we hadn't cracked down on all this science!
Then could you please develop a Pad Thai dish which dosen't cause screaming, burning shits?
It never ceases to amaze me how mild Pad Thai goes down easy but always manages to leap out of my asshole without first asking my sphincter while leaving everything irritated and on fire.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that either you're ordering your Pad Thai from the wrong places, or else you have some kind of food intolerance that prevents you from comfortably enjoying the dish. In either case I'd highly recommend that you don't eat that Pad Thai...
If you knew anything about Slashdot
tgd (2822) ...
Bryansix (761547)
*scratches head*
That's the answer! tgd is so old he's forgotten everything he ever knew about Slashdot! Or else he only remembers the really really old versions...
They were indeed one of the main forces behind pay-as-you-go DIVX discs, with the players that phoned home to authorize play.
I just want to mention that I think it's a bit funny to note that these things literally "phoned" home... The hookup was a phone line, 'cause most people didn't have ethernet (or even internet, slow or fast) at this point... it was catching on, but hadn't as yet caught on...
They also pushed the ill-fated iOpener. Never did get around to doing anything fun or cool with that thing...
Just before CompUSA closed, I had a manager and security guard refuse to let me leave the building until I showed them my receipt
That's the point where I would have pulled out my cell phone, called 911 and told the dispatcher that I was being held against my will.
Of course, if the cops show and decide that you're just being an asshat, you could be in trouble for abusing the emergency line...
Ok, just think of this in terms of a car ...
Thanks! That made it much clearer!
rm -rf /
wtf??? (do not try this at home)
Really? What does it do? Think I'll try it and s
CARRIER LOST
Now that doesn't make any sense!
I mean, assuming you had a web browser or something open entering this message - and you removed all the files on your hard drive - the web browser wouldn't immediately crash, 'cause any open files would continue to exist until the last open file handle was closed...
So much easier for me to use than perl. I presume the modern unix user prefers perl.
The lack of any coherent datatypes is one of the weaknesses of the Unix shell. Even if shells offer arrays, for instance, programs running in the shell can't interact with them directly. Having access to useful data structures is IMO one reason why people are moving away from the shell and toward scripting languages.
export DISPLAY=someotherworkstation:0.0
xmelt &
Granted, this worked a lot better back when people were carelessly using "xhost +servername"...
Talk about completely missing the point. You were off to such a good start when you said, "Presently, this feature of X is being under-utilized." But from there, you should make the jump that nobody gives a damn about a network-transparent graphics protocol and that every minute spent thinking about how to make it better is a wasted minute. The solution is not for application writers to better support X's model, but to realize that X's model is without value and scrap it. Why are you so interested in improving a feature that nobody uses or wants?
Well, because -I- want it, obviously. :D
But I kind of covered the issue as an either-or... Either network transparency should be made practical for the kinds of GUI apps people are really writing, or we should drop it and get network transparency via something like VNC (damn, I think I referred to it as "VLC" in my earlier post...) - and stop fooling ourselves that all our X apps really are network transparent...
I think that Muslim guy's gonna win, there's no way you can lose running on a platform of spare change
I don't trust him. I heard he consorts with Terriers.
Actually, haven't the news agencies decided that they will declare a winner before the West Coast polls closes if one candidate is projected to have 270 EVs?
Yes. Headlines will read "Dewey Defeats Truman".
Secretary: Part 1
Secretary: Part 2
Secretary: Part 3
Secretary: Part 4
Secretary: Part 5
Xorg isn't broken for most users right now, but planning and creating alternatives is a good idea.
In a sense I think it really is... Admittedly, not necessarily in a way that everybody would notice, as you said - but still...
What X is good at, basically, is putting simple UIs over a network. For instance, I can run XEmacs remotely over the internet, and performance is decent.
Presently, this feature of X is being under-utilized. We're using a network-transparent protocol for the display server, but most people aren't running apps from remote hosts, and applications aren't being written with this in mind.
Basically, for all the overhead associated with something like X to be worthwhile then one of a few possible conditions must be satisfied. Either applications must be designed such that they work efficiently over the network with the present limitations in the display protocol, or the display protocol must be enhanced or altered such that today's applications can run reasonably well over a network link.
Running X apps over an internet link versus a LAN is an extreme case, admittedly - but nevertheless, an old Athena app can do it, while the simplest of GTK or QT apps can have a real problem with it...