Problems with consistency? She attacked her own brother! And, I was mostly talking about the series, where she wasn't shown kicking anywhere near as much ass as she does in the film.
The characters. They were much more interesting than the usual characters in a show because they were balanced. Think about unit balancing in an RTS. Bowman beats pikeman beats horseman beats bowman. The characters were balanced in similar ways. Every character had at least one or two characters who were the exact opposite (and also the exact opposite from each other in some other way.)
Mal, the captain of the ship was former military who fought the Alliance. River is a crazy girl who was basically tortured by the Alliance.
So, there are two characters who hate the alliance more than anybody else on the ship, but one expects people to be disciplined and follow orders, while the other one is an uncontrollable psychotic.
Jayne was a mercenary. In one sense, he has a similar background to Mal. He is handy in a fight, and makes a good soldier. But, he doesn't hate the alliance. He has always been a hired gun, and would try to sell people out if he gets a good offer. (And, did in the series.)
Inara is a "business woman," and she gets the best business in Alliance territory, but she also seems to have feelings for Mal, making fer fiercely loyal. she is wiser than Jayne, but not a warrior.
So, in that random selection of four characters, you have two characters who hate the alliance, teo who won't mind it two who are loayl, two who are uncontrollable two who are good in a fight, two who are hot babes
When you sit down after watching the whole series, you can make a gigantic rock-paper-scissors map on all the characters, and various aspects of their character like violence, and wisdom, etc. The characters weren't just randomly picked to be cool. somebody sat down and really thought about how to get a very diverse set of characters. Not just very diverse, optimally diverse. It makes it interesting seeing how the different characters react to the same situation, and seeing the interaction between the different characters.
There are about four lines of technobabble in the entire series. I love technobabble, but in Firefly it isn't needed. They make the show about the characters, not about the stuff. This helped me massively with suspension of disbelief, because they never got anything wrong, they only mentioned technology as it pertained to the story.
No sound in space. And, it is done to good effect. Helps nail the lonely feeling. Nice music. There are guitars in space.
Yoshi was nothing. Replay Mario 2 on the NES now that you are old enough to appreciate it. Use magic potions to unlock a door to a shadow universe that you can only see when you drink it. One eyed snakes. All sorts of wierd metaphor that I never noticed when I was a little kid. Far and away, Mario 2 is the most subversive of the Mario games. The only one that features more blatant drug use is Dr. Mario, and that wasn't subversive.
I'm not sure how exactly you would phraze the ammendment, but yeah, I agree that a "one law, one vote" ammendment would do wonderful good for America. Just make it so that anything added into a bill where it doesn't belong is declared unconstitutional as soon as anybody challenges it. While we are at it, we should also have an accuracy in naming clause in the ammendment. So, you can't have a bill that does something terrible, and call it, "clean skies bill," or "school lunches for poor minorities act" which make use of torture illegal.
Gieven the young average age of the slashdot crowd, many may not be familiar with the joys of BBS'ing on modems, so I dare say that in post-Soviet Russia, no carrier jokes are for old people.
I mean, in post Soviet Russia, ICBM welcomes you as overlord for old people.
I am almost tempted to wonder if this is a troll. Is there really anybody left who doesn't understand that this isn't a useful question?
What do you want to do? The G5 will be excellent at some things. The P4 at others. Some server apps which use lots of system calls, thread management, and such will be hampered by the architecture of Mac OS X. Some compute intensive apps will run incredibly well on the G5 compared to the P4. If you want to use Final Cut Pro, the G5 will run it faster, and if you want to run XSI, the P4 will be faster, because you would have to run under emulation to try and run FCP on a P4 or XSI on a G5.
Anand Tech recently did some benchmarks, which you may find interesting.
Are you planning on running your own code? I quite like the XCode IDE because it uses gcc as a backend. Is all your legacy code MSVCPP MFC projects? Then it will be more hassle to get it running on the G5.
So, yeah, it all depends. I use an iBookG4 as my primary system, because it is fast enough for 90% f what I do. It's light, it's portable, it has UNIX guts and a top notch UI. My secondary system is my Athlon64 with Nvidia GFX. It's big, it's fast, I have to turn it on with my car key, the GUI is adequate, and it runs lightwave almost fast enough. (Just need it to be about 10-100 times faster, like always). It's got four fans, and it is noisy. I wouldn't dream of getting rid of either.
If I had a handy copy of tHHGG trilogy of five books, I would post the excerpt about "The Sandwich Maker." Food is chemistry and art, and physics, and a bunch of other stuff. When Arthur became the sandwich maker, he went through extraordinary labors to make the perfect sandwich, use the right knife, bake the perfect bread, cut the perfect slice of meat. Also, look at Alton Brown. Food is great geekery.
Sure, it may have been a useful service if it was well implimented. It wasn't well implimented. You make a place for the public to post anything they want on tEh Intarweb, and you will get crap. Period. Email/Usenet has SPAM, Slashdot has trolls. Email servers can see when the same message is sent to many users. Slashdot has moderators.
The only protection they had in place for dealing with the masses of the Internet was, "gee, I hope we don't get popular." Slashdot has a readership of about a half million. What if they were featured prominently in the NY Times, and on CNN, and a few million people realised that they could say "Bob wuz here." Slashdot wasn't the problem. You don't have to be tech savvy to edit a wiki.
They could have made a system of moderation like slashdot has. They could have allowed a trusted community of editors. They could have done something more than expect that a few official editors could keep track of a public space in the Internet, and keep it clean. Bad web developers, no twinkie. Imagine if Commander taco had to remove every troll post from slashdot by himself!
It's twelve, but they were only on the fourth actor at the point that was first stated, IIRC. 13 forms seemed like way plenty back in 1975 or whenever it was. I mean, seriously, how many writers really expect a show to (mostly ocntinuously) last like 50 years? Averaging four years per actor, 13 doctors would have taken 52 seasons! They didn't know that Paul McGann would only last one show, and Christopher eccelston would only last one season, etc.
Did they tell you more than once in the same call? IMO, it would make sense to say, there are 'x' people in the queue. That number will always go down, but a few really long winded people in a row can drive up the time estimate, making you feel you aren't getting anywhere.
I once worked at a place where we managed to get permission for an MP3 server for hold music. Management was tired of customers thinking they had been hung up on due to hold-silence, and we wanted an excuse to build a server to play MP3's all day.
Management didn't particularly ask what music we were putting on the server, so we just put all the MP3's we had handy, and an ancient version of slackware that would run on the 486 we had lying around, and we had to set the MP3 player to mono only so it would play in real time, and custom compile the kernel with no modules, and only what we needed so it would fit in however much RAM it had...
It was great until a customer confusedly asked one of the suits what they had been listening to. If I recall correctly, it was a comedy track about Nick Danger, Third eye. Very wacky.
Easy - you can no longer raise any argument which includes "200 million" because Apple now owns Numbers. (All of them.) It would be very hard to succeed in a court case against Apple when you have to infringe every time you want to make an argument.
But, you do get a major savings. No need for the first stage rocket motor. The first stage is designed to fly through the thick atmosphere. The upper stages are designed to fly through thin atmosphere or space. So, a four stage design can become a two stage design. That makes it easier to engineer, and the fuel saving from not having to lug two rocket motors are certainly not in the noise.
Another idea is to strap an ion engine to your blimp. In the high altitude you may actually be able to get to orbit with an ion engine. Nobody has done it. Some people have math conclusively saying you can't. But, a few people are pretty sure that it just might work. It would wind up taking afew weeks to get from airship release at high altitude up to orbital velocity, rather than a few minutes for a launch, but could wind up being an extremely fuel efficient way to do a SSTO, and put a significant payload there.
Personally, I just want to see a manned "Dark Sky Station" as a tourist destination. Not quite in space, but you see the night sky during your whole stay, and get to look down at the curved earth far below you. Not having zero-G also means that you can attract a very broad range of potential customers, no worries about space sickness among your elderly millionaires. Would be a fun place to spend a week.
-Hey, Bob, let's give away some of the content sitting in our vault to a no-ads channel, so people will watch our competitor instead of us, and our ad revenue will drop.
-Wow, Fred, you have issues with your brain being missing.
Probably a ground test. "This engine has thrust like a motherfucker, but we had it bolted to the ground." If it wasn't bolted to the ground, and was actually attached to an airplane, it would be able to go faster than 0 MPH.
I suppose the big concern now is that somebody will use one of the hash-attacks which have been recently published, and generate a fake file with virually random data, which passes the chunk hash verifications... Then, you will have a problem with Bit Torrent. I expect the next version of Bit Torrent will allow more flexibility in how the hash is done.
No reasonable person is arguing that you shouldn't pay for software. The argument is simply that not paying for software doesn't always hurt the company that makes the software. That doesn't make it right. That doesn't make it legal. But, when some 15 year old pirates a copy of Oracle, the company hasn't lost any money.
It is often an effort to fatten up a book, without providing benefit, but not being hard to do. If it just repeats information that is readily available in the book, then it is a waste. If it has lots of information that isn't in the book, the why didn't the author want to talk about it?
It can be done well, or it can be done poorly. In a book on a foreign language, I expect a dictionary section at the back, even though all the foreign word are already scattered throughout the book.
OTOH, a math book which has an appendix dedicated to ten pages each of digits of the ten most important trancendental numbers, well, that has no point, and is probably disjoint from the rest of the book. Another example would be copying man pages directly into the back of the book. I can just use "man," or read the information in the book, don't need it duplicated. I could print out the man pages myself if I need them as dead trees.
Also, explain what an algorithm is. People assume it's a new idea. It isn't. I recently had a discussion about software patents, and I explained an algorithm by using an ancient method to approximate pi and the circumference of a circle.
Draw a circle. Make a square around it. You know how to calculate the length of the edges of a square. Now, change it to a pentagon. Then, a hexagon. Keep adding sides. The more sides you add, the better the approximation of a circle, and the closer your value of pi.
There, that is a simple mathematical algorithm that anybody can understand. It's thousands of years old. Now, talk about some of the mathematics advances in recent centuries. Like, the Fourier transform. No need to try and give a lawmaker a full understanding of what it does. Explain that it has uses in signal processing, and the math is very well understood.
Now, explain that some jackass was able to get patents on image and video compression just by using the old math they didn't invent, but prefixing it with "Use a computer to:" and suffixing it with "... on an image buffer." Now, anybody who wants to write their own software from scratch using old school math may have to pay a licensing fee to a jerk with a patent who is a leech and doesn't do anything to help the economy.
Now, next step explain that most useful video software is developed in Europe because of US patents. Things like VLC, and mplayer. You can't start a project like that in the US, which means there are very few US citizens who are as familiar with the technology. This means lots of high tech jobs in Europe because there is nobody who has the experience to do them here. (Or, importing workers at best, and leaving Americans jobless...) So, money is flowing out of our economy and into Europe, and internal economic inefficiencies are introduced because US comapnies have to waste time and effort fighting in courts, when they could be making actual products which help the economy because they can be exported.
That's how I'd structure the explanation. Point by point, starting with, "It just sounds hard, but this is all obvious shit," and clinching it with, "this costs US jobs, and hurts the economy"
My reccomendation would be to come up with some simple algorithm for generating a password based on the date. Doesn't have to be cryptographically secure, just something that will make it not-obvious from one day's use.
For example, a weekly rotation of prefix: Apple = Sunday Baker = Monday Chirp = Tuesday Doggy, Egbert, Frontenac, Golgafrincham =...
Use whatever ordered list of words you can readily recall. It doesn't matter that they are alphabetical because the attacker will only ever see one day unless he is extremely organised and monitors every web cafe (or you only have one available to visit), in which case you simply are not sufficiently paranoid. Knowing that Baker is for Monday wouldn't tell you that Chirp is for the next day.
Then, take the date : 6/13/2005, and run the numbers together: 6132005. Take the log, or sin, or whatever obfuscator you want (use you calculator, not the suspicious box). Take the first 5 digits of the result.
Today's password would be: Baker67876
Wow, that's a palindrome in the number part. Actually, you would probably want to use digits from a few into the number if you are using log, because the beginning will be the same throughout unless you are on a very long trip.
Tomarrow's is Chirp67883
Again, I just used log, and the very start of the number. You can do better without it being any harder.
Now, you have your algorithm. Just make a script on your personal server to change you password every day (note time zone differences). Telnet in and use pine to get your email. I am absolutely sure that this is more than sufficient security for a traveller who will be in a different cafe every day through his trip. If you want to go nuts, include the hour instead of just the date.
1) In order to properly vire the affected images, the user must initially realign the ocular viewing aparatus. The vector between the two ocular elements should be nonperpendicular to the local ground plane. After step B has concluded, a conditional feedback decision loop can be entered, whereby the user may adjust the angle between the vector between the two occular elements and the local ground plane (LGP) for optimal results.
b) After aligning the wetware containment unit (per step 1), the ocular element covers should be adjusted. By limiting the exposure of the full globe of the eyeball, best results can be achieved. Also, attempt to look very interested in what you are observing.
Oh, actually, I guess you were right. NASA just has their own way to say it.
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Problems with consistency? She attacked her own brother! And, I was mostly talking about the series, where she wasn't shown kicking anywhere near as much ass as she does in the film.
The characters. They were much more interesting than the usual characters in a show because they were balanced. Think about unit balancing in an RTS. Bowman beats pikeman beats horseman beats bowman. The characters were balanced in similar ways. Every character had at least one or two characters who were the exact opposite (and also the exact opposite from each other in some other way.)
Mal, the captain of the ship was former military who fought the Alliance. River is a crazy girl who was basically tortured by the Alliance.
So, there are two characters who hate the alliance more than anybody else on the ship, but one expects people to be disciplined and follow orders, while the other one is an uncontrollable psychotic.
Jayne was a mercenary. In one sense, he has a similar background to Mal. He is handy in a fight, and makes a good soldier. But, he doesn't hate the alliance. He has always been a hired gun, and would try to sell people out if he gets a good offer. (And, did in the series.)
Inara is a "business woman," and she gets the best business in Alliance territory, but she also seems to have feelings for Mal, making fer fiercely loyal. she is wiser than Jayne, but not a warrior.
So, in that random selection of four characters, you have
two characters who hate the alliance, teo who won't mind it
two who are loayl, two who are uncontrollable
two who are good in a fight, two who are hot babes
When you sit down after watching the whole series, you can make a gigantic rock-paper-scissors map on all the characters, and various aspects of their character like violence, and wisdom, etc. The characters weren't just randomly picked to be cool. somebody sat down and really thought about how to get a very diverse set of characters. Not just very diverse, optimally diverse. It makes it interesting seeing how the different characters react to the same situation, and seeing the interaction between the different characters.
There are about four lines of technobabble in the entire series. I love technobabble, but in Firefly it isn't needed. They make the show about the characters, not about the stuff. This helped me massively with suspension of disbelief, because they never got anything wrong, they only mentioned technology as it pertained to the story.
No sound in space. And, it is done to good effect. Helps nail the lonely feeling. Nice music. There are guitars in space.
Yoshi was nothing. Replay Mario 2 on the NES now that you are old enough to appreciate it. Use magic potions to unlock a door to a shadow universe that you can only see when you drink it. One eyed snakes. All sorts of wierd metaphor that I never noticed when I was a little kid. Far and away, Mario 2 is the most subversive of the Mario games. The only one that features more blatant drug use is Dr. Mario, and that wasn't subversive.
I'm not sure how exactly you would phraze the ammendment, but yeah, I agree that a "one law, one vote" ammendment would do wonderful good for America. Just make it so that anything added into a bill where it doesn't belong is declared unconstitutional as soon as anybody challenges it. While we are at it, we should also have an accuracy in naming clause in the ammendment. So, you can't have a bill that does something terrible, and call it, "clean skies bill," or "school lunches for poor minorities act" which make use of torture illegal.
Gieven the young average age of the slashdot crowd, many may not be familiar with the joys of BBS'ing on modems, so I dare say that in post-Soviet Russia, no carrier jokes are for old people.
I mean, in post Soviet Russia, ICBM welcomes you as overlord for old people.
I am almost tempted to wonder if this is a troll. Is there really anybody left who doesn't understand that this isn't a useful question?
What do you want to do? The G5 will be excellent at some things. The P4 at others. Some server apps which use lots of system calls, thread management, and such will be hampered by the architecture of Mac OS X. Some compute intensive apps will run incredibly well on the G5 compared to the P4. If you want to use Final Cut Pro, the G5 will run it faster, and if you want to run XSI, the P4 will be faster, because you would have to run under emulation to try and run FCP on a P4 or XSI on a G5.
Anand Tech recently did some benchmarks, which you may find interesting.
Are you planning on running your own code? I quite like the XCode IDE because it uses gcc as a backend. Is all your legacy code MSVCPP MFC projects? Then it will be more hassle to get it running on the G5.
So, yeah, it all depends. I use an iBookG4 as my primary system, because it is fast enough for 90% f what I do. It's light, it's portable, it has UNIX guts and a top notch UI. My secondary system is my Athlon64 with Nvidia GFX. It's big, it's fast, I have to turn it on with my car key, the GUI is adequate, and it runs lightwave almost fast enough. (Just need it to be about 10-100 times faster, like always). It's got four fans, and it is noisy. I wouldn't dream of getting rid of either.
If I had a handy copy of tHHGG trilogy of five books, I would post the excerpt about "The Sandwich Maker." Food is chemistry and art, and physics, and a bunch of other stuff. When Arthur became the sandwich maker, he went through extraordinary labors to make the perfect sandwich, use the right knife, bake the perfect bread, cut the perfect slice of meat. Also, look at Alton Brown. Food is great geekery.
Sure, it may have been a useful service if it was well implimented. It wasn't well implimented. You make a place for the public to post anything they want on tEh Intarweb, and you will get crap. Period. Email/Usenet has SPAM, Slashdot has trolls. Email servers can see when the same message is sent to many users. Slashdot has moderators.
The only protection they had in place for dealing with the masses of the Internet was, "gee, I hope we don't get popular." Slashdot has a readership of about a half million. What if they were featured prominently in the NY Times, and on CNN, and a few million people realised that they could say "Bob wuz here." Slashdot wasn't the problem. You don't have to be tech savvy to edit a wiki.
They could have made a system of moderation like slashdot has. They could have allowed a trusted community of editors. They could have done something more than expect that a few official editors could keep track of a public space in the Internet, and keep it clean. Bad web developers, no twinkie. Imagine if Commander taco had to remove every troll post from slashdot by himself!
This week only, buy second head, get third arm free. Great place to store your extra half brain!
Oh, no. This is an *Intel* chip. It will be best used with Mac OS X, of course.
The only good way for a monopoly to expand brand recognition requires first making investments in SETI.
It's twelve, but they were only on the fourth actor at the point that was first stated, IIRC. 13 forms seemed like way plenty back in 1975 or whenever it was. I mean, seriously, how many writers really expect a show to (mostly ocntinuously) last like 50 years? Averaging four years per actor, 13 doctors would have taken 52 seasons! They didn't know that Paul McGann would only last one show, and Christopher eccelston would only last one season, etc.
Did they tell you more than once in the same call? IMO, it would make sense to say, there are 'x' people in the queue. That number will always go down, but a few really long winded people in a row can drive up the time estimate, making you feel you aren't getting anywhere.
I once worked at a place where we managed to get permission for an MP3 server for hold music. Management was tired of customers thinking they had been hung up on due to hold-silence, and we wanted an excuse to build a server to play MP3's all day.
Management didn't particularly ask what music we were putting on the server, so we just put all the MP3's we had handy, and an ancient version of slackware that would run on the 486 we had lying around, and we had to set the MP3 player to mono only so it would play in real time, and custom compile the kernel with no modules, and only what we needed so it would fit in however much RAM it had...
It was great until a customer confusedly asked one of the suits what they had been listening to. If I recall correctly, it was a comedy track about Nick Danger, Third eye. Very wacky.
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/danger_n.html
Suits insisted that it didn't project a professional image, so we cleaned things up, and moved to all funk and scriabin.
Ah, good times.
HyperCard!
Uhhhh... Just run it under emulation.
Easy - you can no longer raise any argument which includes "200 million" because Apple now owns Numbers. (All of them.) It would be very hard to succeed in a court case against Apple when you have to infringe every time you want to make an argument.
But, you do get a major savings. No need for the first stage rocket motor. The first stage is designed to fly through the thick atmosphere. The upper stages are designed to fly through thin atmosphere or space. So, a four stage design can become a two stage design. That makes it easier to engineer, and the fuel saving from not having to lug two rocket motors are certainly not in the noise.
Another idea is to strap an ion engine to your blimp. In the high altitude you may actually be able to get to orbit with an ion engine. Nobody has done it. Some people have math conclusively saying you can't. But, a few people are pretty sure that it just might work. It would wind up taking afew weeks to get from airship release at high altitude up to orbital velocity, rather than a few minutes for a launch, but could wind up being an extremely fuel efficient way to do a SSTO, and put a significant payload there.
Personally, I just want to see a manned "Dark Sky Station" as a tourist destination. Not quite in space, but you see the night sky during your whole stay, and get to look down at the curved earth far below you. Not having zero-G also means that you can attract a very broad range of potential customers, no worries about space sickness among your elderly millionaires. Would be a fun place to spend a week.
-Hey, Bob, let's give away some of the content sitting in our vault to a no-ads channel, so people will watch our competitor instead of us, and our ad revenue will drop.
-Wow, Fred, you have issues with your brain being missing.
Probably a ground test. "This engine has thrust like a motherfucker, but we had it bolted to the ground." If it wasn't bolted to the ground, and was actually attached to an airplane, it would be able to go faster than 0 MPH.
I suppose the big concern now is that somebody will use one of the hash-attacks which have been recently published, and generate a fake file with virually random data, which passes the chunk hash verifications... Then, you will have a problem with Bit Torrent. I expect the next version of Bit Torrent will allow more flexibility in how the hash is done.
No reasonable person is arguing that you shouldn't pay for software. The argument is simply that not paying for software doesn't always hurt the company that makes the software. That doesn't make it right. That doesn't make it legal. But, when some 15 year old pirates a copy of Oracle, the company hasn't lost any money.
It is often an effort to fatten up a book, without providing benefit, but not being hard to do. If it just repeats information that is readily available in the book, then it is a waste. If it has lots of information that isn't in the book, the why didn't the author want to talk about it?
It can be done well, or it can be done poorly. In a book on a foreign language, I expect a dictionary section at the back, even though all the foreign word are already scattered throughout the book.
OTOH, a math book which has an appendix dedicated to ten pages each of digits of the ten most important trancendental numbers, well, that has no point, and is probably disjoint from the rest of the book. Another example would be copying man pages directly into the back of the book. I can just use "man," or read the information in the book, don't need it duplicated. I could print out the man pages myself if I need them as dead trees.
Also, explain what an algorithm is. People assume it's a new idea. It isn't. I recently had a discussion about software patents, and I explained an algorithm by using an ancient method to approximate pi and the circumference of a circle.
Draw a circle. Make a square around it. You know how to calculate the length of the edges of a square. Now, change it to a pentagon. Then, a hexagon. Keep adding sides. The more sides you add, the better the approximation of a circle, and the closer your value of pi.
There, that is a simple mathematical algorithm that anybody can understand. It's thousands of years old. Now, talk about some of the mathematics advances in recent centuries. Like, the Fourier transform. No need to try and give a lawmaker a full understanding of what it does. Explain that it has uses in signal processing, and the math is very well understood.
Now, explain that some jackass was able to get patents on image and video compression just by using the old math they didn't invent, but prefixing it with "Use a computer to:" and suffixing it with "... on an image buffer." Now, anybody who wants to write their own software from scratch using old school math may have to pay a licensing fee to a jerk with a patent who is a leech and doesn't do anything to help the economy.
Now, next step explain that most useful video software is developed in Europe because of US patents. Things like VLC, and mplayer. You can't start a project like that in the US, which means there are very few US citizens who are as familiar with the technology. This means lots of high tech jobs in Europe because there is nobody who has the experience to do them here. (Or, importing workers at best, and leaving Americans jobless...) So, money is flowing out of our economy and into Europe, and internal economic inefficiencies are introduced because US comapnies have to waste time and effort fighting in courts, when they could be making actual products which help the economy because they can be exported.
That's how I'd structure the explanation. Point by point, starting with, "It just sounds hard, but this is all obvious shit," and clinching it with, "this costs US jobs, and hurts the economy"
My reccomendation would be to come up with some simple algorithm for generating a password based on the date. Doesn't have to be cryptographically secure, just something that will make it not-obvious from one day's use.
...
:
For example, a weekly rotation of prefix:
Apple = Sunday
Baker = Monday
Chirp = Tuesday
Doggy, Egbert, Frontenac, Golgafrincham =
Use whatever ordered list of words you can readily recall. It doesn't matter that they are alphabetical because the attacker will only ever see one day unless he is extremely organised and monitors every web cafe (or you only have one available to visit), in which case you simply are not sufficiently paranoid. Knowing that Baker is for Monday wouldn't tell you that Chirp is for the next day.
Then, take the date : 6/13/2005, and run the numbers together: 6132005. Take the log, or sin, or whatever obfuscator you want (use you calculator, not the suspicious box). Take the first 5 digits of the result.
Today's password would be
Baker67876
Wow, that's a palindrome in the number part. Actually, you would probably want to use digits from a few into the number if you are using log, because the beginning will be the same throughout unless you are on a very long trip.
Tomarrow's is
Chirp67883
Again, I just used log, and the very start of the number. You can do better without it being any harder.
Now, you have your algorithm. Just make a script on your personal server to change you password every day (note time zone differences). Telnet in and use pine to get your email. I am absolutely sure that this is more than sufficient security for a traveller who will be in a different cafe every day through his trip. If you want to go nuts, include the hour instead of just the date.
Actually, I got an excerpt from the manual:
1) In order to properly vire the affected images, the user must initially realign the ocular viewing aparatus. The vector between the two ocular elements should be nonperpendicular to the local ground plane. After step B has concluded, a conditional feedback decision loop can be entered, whereby the user may adjust the angle between the vector between the two occular elements and the local ground plane (LGP) for optimal results.
b) After aligning the wetware containment unit (per step 1), the ocular element covers should be adjusted. By limiting the exposure of the full globe of the eyeball, best results can be achieved. Also, attempt to look very interested in what you are observing.
Oh, actually, I guess you were right. NASA just has their own way to say it.