LISTER: (upon seeing a large needle that KRYTEN just removed the air from) Kryten, what's that for?
KRYTEN: It's a mental emetic.
LISTER: A what?
KRYTEN: A mind enema -- so we can flush out your brain.
LISTER: Nobody's flush'n out my brain.
KRYTEN: We'll transfer it back afterwards.
LISTER: You are not sticking that thing in my head.
"The results of the Triple Jump are finally available and the medals will finally be distributed tomorrow, just two weeks after the closing ceremony. None of the bodies of the pole-vaulting entrants have yet been recovered."
Firstly, Australia is a smaller market, so even though a higher majority of the populous will buy the product, the overall size of the populous is dramatically lower than other markets. This is the main reason why cars cost so much more over here.
The other problem, particularly with console games, is the PAL display system. This means that we have to wait for the UK/European translation/release before the games are 'ready' for the Australian market. Then add the OFLC into the deal and you've got a lot of extra overhead just to hit this small market.
And then there is the final icing on the cake. Check out the price difference of the UK import of a Wii game that has been released in Australia. At least $30 cheaper for the import! The only difference I have been able to discern is the OFLC rating (which is just a sticker added to the imports, identical to that printed on the sleeve of the 'official' Australian version). WTF?!
That we already know the answer, let's skip the first millions of years of calculation and get it to design a computer that will come up with the correct question.
He was tried on a charge of heresy in 1536 and condemned to death, despite Thomas Cromwell's intercession on his behalf. He was tied to the stake, strangled, and his dead body then burnt.
Tyndale's final words, spoken "at the stake with a fervent zeal, and a loud voice", were reported as "Lord! Open the King of England's eyes."
LISTER: Do you mean they had a war over whether the doughnut diner hats were red or blue?
HOLLY: Yeah. Most of them were killed fighting about that. It's daft really, innit?
LISTER: You're not kidding. They were supposed to be green.
I agree with many of the recommendations here, but would add to the Hitchhiker's Guides the Red Dwarf novels (Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers and Better Than Life, especially) for two reasons: the discussed universe is restricted by there not being any alien cultures, etc., allowing a somewhat unique viewpoint in the sci-fi world; and it tends to be quite funny. No matter what anyone tells you, comedy requires insightful thought processes on behalf of the audience; being humourous about thoughtful topics even more so.
Yeah, I've never thought of that. Although I know to look for a plane well ahead of where I hear it, and I've seen a fighter jet go from slow and low overhead to fast and distance well before hearing the noise, I heard a strange, loud crackling noise and looked up while a meteorite was burning up. The sound source appeared to be directly from the object with no apparent lag and I did not think odd of it at the time. Now, I do.
I thought they were more like DMs: they keep making stuff up until the entire team is eaten by a grue, out of money or their mums call them all home for dinner. They also get to deal out experience points if a mission ever completes...
...we were taught that once Adam & Eve ate the fruit and became smart, they put clothes on - to be in public without clothes on is an affront to modesty and morality.
Wait a minute... You're not talking about the fruit that they were told not to eat, are you? The one where, once having done so, God was so angry he told them to leave Eden, whence forth that which that had already been engaged in would become toil, and they would be burdened with modesty and morality, and other such human tendencies? You're not talking about that fruit are you? Because, to me, that says that the way we act now (with said morality) is not the way we were designed (if you follow those belief systems).
One of my favourite P&C Adventures, "Muscarine", had the brilliant idea of the mission being to destroy the universe in order to restore the balance from other games requiring you to save it.
The Powerboard was a product designed by Amiga (after Jay Miner left Atari but before they had completed the Lorraine). It's the reason for the "Guru Meditation" message on early Amigas (it was the controller for one of the games the engineers are said to have used when stressed).
I never thought I'd say this, but... if I had mod points right now...
The blitter and the copper of any machine can do much more than Block Image TransfER and screen timings. These two in concert and you can do many, many calculations with no CPU intervention at all (use the copper to control the blitter with blitter feedback into the copper).
But, yes. Only if you can do it all in binary, preferably huge chunks of it at a time.
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That way, when the screen goes black, you'd know the power went out?
LISTER: (upon seeing a large needle that KRYTEN just removed the air from) Kryten, what's that for?
KRYTEN: It's a mental emetic.
LISTER: A what?
KRYTEN: A mind enema -- so we can flush out your brain.
LISTER: Nobody's flush'n out my brain.
KRYTEN: We'll transfer it back afterwards.
LISTER: You are not sticking that thing in my head.
"The results of the Triple Jump are finally available and the medals will finally be distributed tomorrow, just two weeks after the closing ceremony. None of the bodies of the pole-vaulting entrants have yet been recovered."
Firstly, Australia is a smaller market, so even though a higher majority of the populous will buy the product, the overall size of the populous is dramatically lower than other markets. This is the main reason why cars cost so much more over here.
The other problem, particularly with console games, is the PAL display system. This means that we have to wait for the UK/European translation/release before the games are 'ready' for the Australian market. Then add the OFLC into the deal and you've got a lot of extra overhead just to hit this small market.
And then there is the final icing on the cake. Check out the price difference of the UK import of a Wii game that has been released in Australia. At least $30 cheaper for the import! The only difference I have been able to discern is the OFLC rating (which is just a sticker added to the imports, identical to that printed on the sleeve of the 'official' Australian version). WTF?!
That we already know the answer, let's skip the first millions of years of calculation and get it to design a computer that will come up with the correct question.
Wikipedia is as good as anywhere:
I agree with many of the recommendations here, but would add to the Hitchhiker's Guides the Red Dwarf novels (Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers and Better Than Life, especially) for two reasons: the discussed universe is restricted by there not being any alien cultures, etc., allowing a somewhat unique viewpoint in the sci-fi world; and it tends to be quite funny. No matter what anyone tells you, comedy requires insightful thought processes on behalf of the audience; being humourous about thoughtful topics even more so.
There are two kinds of people:
All those that make generalisations ought to be shot.
So, I guess we'll need an updated version of MindGuard then?
Yeah, I've never thought of that. Although I know to look for a plane well ahead of where I hear it, and I've seen a fighter jet go from slow and low overhead to fast and distance well before hearing the noise, I heard a strange, loud crackling noise and looked up while a meteorite was burning up. The sound source appeared to be directly from the object with no apparent lag and I did not think odd of it at the time. Now, I do.
How am I supposed to get good legal commentary if no-one's posting on /.?
"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." -- Futurama
I thought they were more like DMs: they keep making stuff up until the entire team is eaten by a grue, out of money or their mums call them all home for dinner. They also get to deal out experience points if a mission ever completes...
If the application is not time-critical, introducing random jitter would go some way to subverting this, no?
Wait a minute... You're not talking about the fruit that they were told not to eat, are you? The one where, once having done so, God was so angry he told them to leave Eden, whence forth that which that had already been engaged in would become toil, and they would be burdened with modesty and morality, and other such human tendencies? You're not talking about that fruit are you? Because, to me, that says that the way we act now (with said morality) is not the way we were designed (if you follow those belief systems).
Martianmallow?
One of my favourite P&C Adventures, "Muscarine", had the brilliant idea of the mission being to destroy the universe in order to restore the balance from other games requiring you to save it.
If the door opens inward, it cannot be opened during flight due to the pressure difference between the in- and outside of the craft.
Paging Bill Hicks...
I have a visually impaired imagination, you insensitive clod!
What was that about MEMS?
The Powerboard was a product designed by Amiga (after Jay Miner left Atari but before they had completed the Lorraine). It's the reason for the "Guru Meditation" message on early Amigas (it was the controller for one of the games the engineers are said to have used when stressed).
I never thought I'd say this, but... if I had mod points right now...
The blitter and the copper of any machine can do much more than Block Image TransfER and screen timings. These two in concert and you can do many, many calculations with no CPU intervention at all (use the copper to control the blitter with blitter feedback into the copper).
But, yes. Only if you can do it all in binary, preferably huge chunks of it at a time.