Actually most european cars are stick shift. Pop the clutch. Sure you will redline the engine, but at this point throwing a rod seems less dangerous than a high-speed collision.
Besides, your warrently doesn't cover "embedding oneself into concrete."
We've all heard of race conditions in computer science, but this goes way too far.
But seriously, why one earth didn't they engineer in a kill switch. A nice big red button. Your furnace has one. You mainframe has one. Every robot in a factory has one, as do most dumber bits of equipment.
It's the 13th step ladies and gentlemen. Yes I'm studdering and my teeth are green. I have a cold. It's been going on for the last 2 years, just can't seem to shake it.
I used to love the Newton because it was basically a monochrome no-frills laptop. The darn thing was self contained. With a keyboard I could type notes. With the sketch pad I could doodle. Sure, the sync options were primative, but you didn't NEED to sync a Newton.
By contrast my shiny Sony Clie for all it's power is more or less a photo album for digital stills I keep on my memory card. While it will read PDFs and Office docs, it's slow and awkward to get to fit on the screen. I can only really sync it to one computer at a time, my laptop, because it records from any other copy of the database will re-create themselves, or worse, duplicate. And since I don't go anywhere without my iBook, the Palm is superfluous.
You must have trouble getting out of bed in the morning without injuring yourself. I finished Marathon in about 4 days. (FSKInG puzzle levels!!! AARRGG!!!) I was the guy in our Dorm who discovered both the Grendade launcher and the door button when the beta leaked onto our network.
Seriously, while they used elements from Marathon to build Halo, Marathon was very much as 2D texture and tile engine. I remember editing the resource files to tweak the critters. They created shots from various angles, and various movements, then zoomed in or out depending on your distance and direction.
Halo on the other hand uses a true 3d environment.
No, no. They mean autocomplete as in web browser autocomplete. Where you are typing in a credit card order and it suddenly fills in you address from 3 apartments ago. Where you are filling out a form with your wife for an anniversary present, and after tying the letter J is substitutes in the name of an ex girfriend.
Autocomplete is an incarnation of evil. I just want to know where I can get it in a more concentrated form. Well, besides "Clippy"
Last I checked the fireing command for an M-16 assault rifle was a mechanical linkage.
The trouble with a large scale disaster scenario is breadth versus depth. Widespread damage is a fairly trivial exercise. The right codes and you can 0wn most the PC's in the world with a worm. And yes, there are a fair share of PC's in operating around the federal government and the military.
But most of the work performed on these machines are trivial, and any valuable content on them are backed up onto large servers, CD-roms, and tape. Would it be a headache if a virus reformatted every hard drive in the world? Yes. The end of the world? No.
Anything past that requires a solid understanding of the system to be disrupted. If terrorists wanted to start a financial panic they could, theoretically, break into a bank computer and have a field day. But each bank uses a different system, indeed, many banks are Chimeras of formerly competing units with a tangle of different systems. No one attack is going to work on every bank, or even totally wipe out a single large bank.
The same is true with military systems. The more destructive you want to be, the more specific the attack has to be tailored, the less likely it will be portable to more than one target.
I had a new install of XP for a client become infected in 3 minutes, over a dialup line.
No choice one that one though. I was trying to download the patch to prevent XP from becoming infected in 3 minutes by connecting it to the internet...
I propose a new measure of probability: the Franklin. One Franklin is the probability of being hit by lightning per unit time. (Kites and thunderstorms not withstanding.)
I've just come to accept that I'm a modern day car-mechanic.
Most people have the samed glazed look when you try to talk to them about how riding the brakes leads to premature wear, why accellerating to 40mph between stop signs kills gas milage, why changing the oil is important, and the relative merit of heading blinking red lights on the instrument panel.
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Besides, your warrently doesn't cover "embedding oneself into concrete."
But seriously, why one earth didn't they engineer in a kill switch. A nice big red button. Your furnace has one. You mainframe has one. Every robot in a factory has one, as do most dumber bits of equipment.
Seriously, how much would a Big Red Button have cost?
Not what I have in mind when double-fisting.
A wide awake drunk.
--Dennis Leary
Now it's piss. Any wonder why they still keep Clydesdales around?
Hmm, coffee cans on tailpipes. Could that have been the inspiration?
It's like making love in a motorized canoe.
Yes, diluted Thunderbird with Nutrasweet. I had a Strawberry Wine from them once. 4% Alcohol. Tasted like a strawberry kool-aid. No buzz.
Can't buy it. Only rent it.
They must get a nickel every time someone runs to the John. Don't we suffer enough!
By contrast my shiny Sony Clie for all it's power is more or less a photo album for digital stills I keep on my memory card. While it will read PDFs and Office docs, it's slow and awkward to get to fit on the screen. I can only really sync it to one computer at a time, my laptop, because it records from any other copy of the database will re-create themselves, or worse, duplicate. And since I don't go anywhere without my iBook, the Palm is superfluous.
Damn, and I just wanted to run some of my old Odyssey 2 games.
Seriously, while they used elements from Marathon to build Halo, Marathon was very much as 2D texture and tile engine. I remember editing the resource files to tweak the critters. They created shots from various angles, and various movements, then zoomed in or out depending on your distance and direction.
Halo on the other hand uses a true 3d environment.
Autocomplete is an incarnation of evil. I just want to know where I can get it in a more concentrated form. Well, besides "Clippy"
You missed the ultimate hard currency: transit tokens
Just ask Odessius. Oh wait, he's a Complex Greek Hero...
The trouble with a large scale disaster scenario is breadth versus depth. Widespread damage is a fairly trivial exercise. The right codes and you can 0wn most the PC's in the world with a worm. And yes, there are a fair share of PC's in operating around the federal government and the military.
But most of the work performed on these machines are trivial, and any valuable content on them are backed up onto large servers, CD-roms, and tape. Would it be a headache if a virus reformatted every hard drive in the world? Yes. The end of the world? No.
Anything past that requires a solid understanding of the system to be disrupted. If terrorists wanted to start a financial panic they could, theoretically, break into a bank computer and have a field day. But each bank uses a different system, indeed, many banks are Chimeras of formerly competing units with a tangle of different systems. No one attack is going to work on every bank, or even totally wipe out a single large bank.
The same is true with military systems. The more destructive you want to be, the more specific the attack has to be tailored, the less likely it will be portable to more than one target.
Kinda silly isn't it.
Of course this regime would respond to a Digital Pearl Harbor by invading Mexico.
No choice one that one though. I was trying to download the patch to prevent XP from becoming infected in 3 minutes by connecting it to the internet...
I propose a new measure of probability: the Franklin. One Franklin is the probability of being hit by lightning per unit time. (Kites and thunderstorms not withstanding.)
Most people have the samed glazed look when you try to talk to them about how riding the brakes leads to premature wear, why accellerating to 40mph between stop signs kills gas milage, why changing the oil is important, and the relative merit of heading blinking red lights on the instrument panel.
Which is why it made it to Slashdot and the headlines, of course.