a parody of "It's All About The Benjamins" by Puff Daddy
It's all about the Pentiums, baby Uhh, uh-huh, yeah Uhh, uh-huh, yeah It's all about the Pentiums, baby It's all about the Pentiums, baby It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby) It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby) Yeah...
Now, what y'all wanna do? Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers? 9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?
Uh, uh, loggin' in now Wanna run wit my crew, hah? Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do? They call me the king of the spreadsheets Got 'em printed out on my bedsheets My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks But it was obsolete before I opened the box You say you've had your desktop for over a week? Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight My digital media is write-protected Every file inspected, no viruses detected I beta tested every operating system Gave props to some, and others? I dissed 'em While your computer's crashin', mine's multitaskin' It does all my work without me even askin' Got a flat-screen monitor forty inches wide wide I believe that your says "Etch-A-Sketch" on the side In a 32-bit world, you're a 2-bit user You've got your own newsgroup, "alt.total-loser" Your motherboard melts when you try to send a fax Where'd you get your CPU, in a box of Cracker Jacks? Play me online? Well, you know that I'll beat you If I ever meet you I'll control-alt-delete you What? What? What? What? What?
Wow, my post had too few characters per line to be accepted by/. (currently 33.6) - I have two choices: abandon my post (which I probably just should have) or add as much text on one 'line' as needed to bring my average up to some magical number that makes it acceptable. Well, I chose to drop a few lines of the lyrics and type in a paragraph here to make it balance out. Mod me down if you must.;-)
> And that is not misinformative, it's speculative.
Well, I don't disagree that this is a bad idea, I was pointing out that the info in your post, which was modded informative, was wrong.
When you rent a DVD you can watch it how often as you wish during the day you rent it. With their technology, once you saw something, it is gone forever. If you liked a scene, there is no way you can go back and watch it again.
Stating something as fact when it is based on speculation or misunderstanding may not be deliberate misinformation, and I apologize if that term offends, but it isn't informative or insightful either.
In any case, the idea that you pay $7 bucks for something you can watch when you want to (not just within 48-72 hours from time of rental/purchase) isn't bad on general principle, IMO. What I objected to is wastefulness of discarding the disc.
I don't particularly like renting, because I am a lazy ass to begin with. I don't really want to purchase movies, either (on the whole). I simply don't get the repeat viewing value that would make it worth $14 - $25 a pop. I usually end up waiting for something to come to cable where I can TiVo and watch it a couple times before deleting. I would pay $7 for being able to watch a movie when I want and not take it back, as long as the media didn't end up in a land fill.
The DVD doesn't degrade as it is played, it dies after a certain amount of time once the vacuum-sealed packaging is opened and the disc is exposed to air.
I thought the same thing when I looked at the pictures.
I suppose it's all in what you program this plotter to draw and where you set it up to draw that would make it 'graffiti'.
n. pl. graffiti (-t) A drawing or inscription made on a wall or other surface, usually so as to be seen by the public. Often used in the plural.
From the summary, I was half-expecting this to be some robotic arm deal, but this implementation to hang it from wires on the surface of the wall seems kind of interesting.
Could you really use a system like this to tag a subway train? Probably not.
K, replying to my own post, but I thought this was too funny. Prince has apparently never granted permission for any of the parodies Al has done on his music...
AY: Yeah, and the whole Coolio thing got blown out of proportion. [A minor controversy erupted in 1996 when Yankovic parodied Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise," incorrectly assuming he'd had the offended rapper's permission. ?ed.] So, four years after the fact, every single interview I do, I get, "So, what's this whole Coolio thing?" Ugh. "First of all, it was four years ago, and up until Behind The Music, most people had forgotten about it."
O: Do you still even bother to ask Prince for permission? [Prince has never granted Yankovic permission to parody his material. ?ed.]
AY: No, I'm waiting for him to have another hit. It might be a while.
Amish Paradise - parody of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" (Note: Al always gets permission from the artist before he puts the parody on an album. However, after "Amish Paradise" became a hit, Coolio claimed that he said no when Al asked him. Al sent him a letter of apology; no response.)
A vitamin C deficiency results in an underhydroxylation of proline and lysine in collagen which results in a lower melting temperature of the resulting collagen fibers which causes a breakdown of the protein collagen needed for connective tissue, bones and dentin, the major portion of teeth. Collagen is a cementing material that binds cells together, and is an essential connective tissue protein in the body. Whenever the body is wounded, collagen glues the separated tissues together to form a scar.
A lack of collagen causes the walls of the body's blood capillaries to break down and hemorrhaging occurs in cells throughout the body. When capillaries lose the "glue" that holds them together, symptoms of scurvy appear.
An affected person becomes weak and has joint pain. Internal hemorrhages cause black-and-blue marks to appear on the skin. At the first visible signs of scurvy, raised red spots appear on the skin around the hair follicles of the legs, buttocks, arms and back.... Gums hemorrhage and their tissue becomes weak and spongy.
Man, I can see how "scurvy dogs" were looked at as though they had some disease. Interesting that they eventually figured out the link between citrus and scurvy and started provisioning preserved limes and lemons on British Naval vessels. This is apparently where the epithet "limey" came from.
thought it was canals that he thought he saw. Sure, channels would mean the presense of water, but _canals_ would mean the presence of intelligent life.
Unfortunately, Lowell's descriptions were flawed. Slipher's methods were not sensitive enough to detect atmospheric water vapor. Contemporary astronomers Antoniadi and Hale disputed the geometrical patterns that he termed canals, and few believed them to be waterways.
My wife has chronic cold hands/feet this time of year. She does not smoke, drink and is not overweight.
I bought her some insulated slippers (with the little inserts you can microwave). We keep the house at a reasonable 68-70 degrees during the winter, though it doesn't seem to matter --- she can't get warm no matter what the stat is set to.
Think it's a thyroid thing or something -- I am always fine (or I throw on a sweater and it solves the problem). I've seen her trying to read with mittens on, not a pretty sight. She usually goes and soaks in a warm tub and then she is fine until she gets out.
The open-development model allowed hackers to modify and add to the kernel via computer terminals linked around the world, each new chunk of code enabling the next.
A minor malfunction, mishap, or technical problem; a snag: a computer glitch; a navigational glitch; a glitch in the negotiations
Well, I agree that 'glitch' has a connotation if something unexpectedly going wrong through no fault of the user, but this definition does not appear to rule out a mistake.
This was a mishap. It was technical in nature. Yeah, it ammounted to some tech making a stupid blunder and leaving supposedly secure documents available to anyone on the machine. I don't think 'glitch' is the best word, maybe 'snafu', but I think you could argue that making and error in setting up access controls to sensitive data could be called a 'technical glitch'.
...and we extend the definition of "hacking" to include browsing unprotected network shares?
A technician hired by the new judiciary chairman, Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, apparently made a mistake that allowed anyone to access newly created accounts on a Judiciary Committee server shared by both parties -- even though the accounts were supposed to restrict access only to those with the right password.
Someone else already said this is more like walking into an office and finding that the file cabinet has been accidentally left unlocked and thumbing through to see if there is anything interesting. They even left a yellow sticky saying that the cabinet was unlocked. After 2+ years of seeing the cabinet never locked, the temptation was too great to not keep poking around to see what interesting bits were there.
These guys tore apart a disposable camera and wired it up to a micocontroller with the delay set up with some dip switches, and got some suprisingly decent results!
Sure, it isn't going to produce images with comparable detail to a 1/200,000 second strobe, but it is pretty interesting what they were able to accomplish with much less sophisticated gear.
Heh, reminds me of the "blue ice" incidents we used to have here in the Chicago burbs around O'Hare.
Homes were being "bombed" with mysterious chunks of bluish-green ice.
Leaky lavatories were found to be the culprit. Seems that waste water was leaking out of the plane and forming nice big chunks on the fuselage. When the plane would descend for landing, the chunk would warm up enough to break off and hurtle down into some unsuspecting suburban houswive's libing room (via the attic).
FAA investigated and no specific airline, mfr model, etc was ever singled out (that I can recall), but it stopped as suddenly as it started.
(couldn't find a good link to back up my recollection, but the FAA debunks it here: http://www1.faa.gov/fsdo/ord/bluetxt.htm )
> with perpetual resupply flights behind them, then in theory the people sent could survive indefinitely, until a disaster or disease does each person in just like on Earth.
...or until the program runs out of funding to send the next resupply flight.
"Um, oh... and one more thing. The next scheduled resupply launched has been scrubbed."
"Oh, ok... when is it rescheduled?"
"Um, it's not..."
"What do you mean, 'it's not'??"
"Well, we're having a bit of a problem with checks bouncing, you know... and you can imagine how those contractors are... you mis 6 or 7 payments and, well, they kind of stop working on the launch vehicles, heh heh..."
"so, what's the plan to get that fixed!!!??"
"oh, don't worry... I'm sure we'll think of *something* Bye now - CLICK"
Yeah, I seem to recall this as well. I can think back to any number of series (upstairs downstairs, all creatures great and small, etc) where the indoor looked different from the outdoor and I always wondered what the deal was.
Looking back, it does seem that the location sequences always looked filmed where the in-studio stuff always looked taped.
Interesting observation -- I wonder if the issue was really quality via lighting vs portability of the film cameras and equipment over studio video equipment, though.
...and each gravastar holds an entire universe which holds a finite number of gravastars each containing yet another universe and so on...
kind of like the russian dolls metaphor, eh?
Question: why would we assume that there is ever an outermost gravistar that holds the universe and then... nothing? Wouldn't it be easier on the limited human intellect to just assume that the gravistar->universe->gravistar-> encapsulation is infinite in each direction?
Reminds me of Farnsworth's "universe in a box" experiment where each universe held a number of boxes each leading to a parallel universe in which Farnsworth had created a number of boxes which each holding a parallel universe....
"Good news, everyone..."
Ow, my brain has just been subjected to a paralyzing blow -- think I'll take the rest of the day off and drink vodka tonics until the throbbing goes away.;-)
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at first the slasdot title puzzled me, then I remembered It's All About The Pentiums by Al Yankovic?
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/. (currently 33.6) - I have two choices: abandon my post (which I probably just should have) or add as much text on one 'line' as needed to bring my average up to some magical number that makes it acceptable. Well, I chose to drop a few lines of the lyrics and type in a paragraph here to make it balance out. Mod me down if you must. ;-)
a parody of "It's All About The Benjamins" by Puff Daddy
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
Uhh, uh-huh, yeah
Uhh, uh-huh, yeah
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
Yeah
Now, what y'all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?
Uh, uh, loggin' in now
Wanna run wit my crew, hah?
Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?
They call me the king of the spreadsheets
Got 'em printed out on my bedsheets
My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box
You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique
Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great
If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight
My digital media is write-protected
Every file inspected, no viruses detected
I beta tested every operating system
Gave props to some, and others? I dissed 'em
While your computer's crashin', mine's multitaskin'
It does all my work without me even askin'
Got a flat-screen monitor forty inches wide wide
I believe that your says "Etch-A-Sketch" on the side
In a 32-bit world, you're a 2-bit user
You've got your own newsgroup, "alt.total-loser"
Your motherboard melts when you try to send a fax
Where'd you get your CPU, in a box of Cracker Jacks?
Play me online? Well, you know that I'll beat you
If I ever meet you I'll control-alt-delete you
What? What? What? What? What?
Wow, my post had too few characters per line to be accepted by
Well, I don't disagree that this is a bad idea, I was pointing out that the info in your post, which was modded informative, was wrong.
Stating something as fact when it is based on speculation or misunderstanding may not be deliberate misinformation, and I apologize if that term offends, but it isn't informative or insightful either.
In any case, the idea that you pay $7 bucks for something you can watch when you want to (not just within 48-72 hours from time of rental/purchase) isn't bad on general principle, IMO. What I objected to is wastefulness of discarding the disc.
I don't particularly like renting, because I am a lazy ass to begin with. I don't really want to purchase movies, either (on the whole). I simply don't get the repeat viewing value that would make it worth $14 - $25 a pop. I usually end up waiting for something to come to cable where I can TiVo and watch it a couple times before deleting. I would pay $7 for being able to watch a movie when I want and not take it back, as long as the media didn't end up in a land fill.
this isn't insightful, it is mis-informative.
The DVD doesn't degrade as it is played, it dies after a certain amount of time once the vacuum-sealed packaging is opened and the disc is exposed to air.
apparently, spraypaint on wall == graffiti
I thought the same thing when I looked at the pictures.
I suppose it's all in what you program this plotter to draw and where you set it up to draw that would make it 'graffiti'.
n. pl. graffiti (-t)
A drawing or inscription made on a wall or other surface, usually so as to be seen by the public. Often used in the plural.
From the summary, I was half-expecting this to be some robotic arm deal, but this implementation to hang it from wires on the surface of the wall seems kind of interesting.
Could you really use a system like this to tag a subway train? Probably not.
K, replying to my own post, but I thought this was too funny. Prince has apparently never granted permission for any of the parodies Al has done on his music...
from and interview on the onion A.V Club site:
AY: Yeah, and the whole Coolio thing got blown out of proportion. [A minor controversy erupted in 1996 when Yankovic parodied Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise," incorrectly assuming he'd had the offended rapper's permission. ?ed.] So, four years after the fact, every single interview I do, I get, "So, what's this whole Coolio thing?" Ugh. "First of all, it was four years ago, and up until Behind The Music, most people had forgotten about it."
O: Do you still even bother to ask Prince for permission? [Prince has never granted Yankovic permission to parody his material. ?ed.]
AY: No, I'm waiting for him to have another hit. It might be a while.
well, he asks (and usually does get permission).
IIRC, a particular exception was Coolio.
Amish Paradise - parody of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" (Note: Al always gets permission from the artist before he puts the parody on an album. However, after "Amish Paradise" became a hit, Coolio claimed that he said no when Al asked him. Al sent him a letter of apology; no response.)
according to listology
Right, forget the viper then. How about this instead?
I know this is _way_ OT, and I expect to be modded as such, but I'm bored at work and want to have a little 'fun'...
Scurvy is not an parasitic infestation or even a disease. It is a condition caused by malnourishment, specifically ascorbic acid (vitamin C).
Vitamin C and Scurvy
A vitamin C deficiency results in an underhydroxylation of proline and lysine in collagen which results in a lower melting temperature of the resulting collagen fibers which causes a breakdown of the protein collagen needed for connective tissue, bones and dentin, the major portion of teeth. Collagen is a cementing material that binds cells together, and is an essential connective tissue protein in the body. Whenever the body is wounded, collagen glues the separated tissues together to form a scar.
A lack of collagen causes the walls of the body's blood capillaries to break down and hemorrhaging occurs in cells throughout the body. When capillaries lose the "glue" that holds them together, symptoms of scurvy appear.
An affected person becomes weak and has joint pain. Internal hemorrhages cause black-and-blue marks to appear on the skin. At the first visible signs of scurvy, raised red spots appear on the skin around the hair follicles of the legs, buttocks, arms and back.
Man, I can see how "scurvy dogs" were looked at as though they had some disease. Interesting that they eventually figured out the link between citrus and scurvy and started provisioning preserved limes and lemons on British Naval vessels. This is apparently where the epithet "limey" came from.
well, yes - obviously
my point is not that it took some herculean effort to do this, but that someone would want to do this at all
my gawd, someone actually went out of their way to make text (regular text, not links, or anything) change from black to red on mouseover!!!???
thought it was canals that he thought he saw. Sure, channels would mean the presense of water, but _canals_ would mean the presence of intelligent life.
Unfortunately, Lowell's descriptions were flawed. Slipher's methods were not sensitive enough to detect atmospheric water vapor. Contemporary astronomers Antoniadi and Hale disputed the geometrical patterns that he termed canals, and few believed them to be waterways.
if you bought online, you can go and print out the invoice (more often than not in my experience)
My wife has chronic cold hands/feet this time of year. She does not smoke, drink and is not overweight.
I bought her some insulated slippers (with the little inserts you can microwave). We keep the house at a reasonable 68-70 degrees during the winter, though it doesn't seem to matter --- she can't get warm no matter what the stat is set to.
Think it's a thyroid thing or something -- I am always fine (or I throw on a sweater and it solves the problem). I've seen her trying to read with mittens on, not a pretty sight. She usually goes and soaks in a warm tub and then she is fine until she gets out.
This came up last time - I still have the link in my cache:
listen for yourself
It does sound like "illudium pew-36" to my ears.
I like this line better:
The open-development model allowed hackers to modify and add to the kernel via computer terminals linked around the world, each new chunk of code enabling the next.
those nutty hackers and their computer terminals!
A minor malfunction, mishap, or technical problem; a snag: a computer glitch; a navigational glitch; a glitch in the negotiations
Well, I agree that 'glitch' has a connotation if something unexpectedly going wrong through no fault of the user, but this definition does not appear to rule out a mistake.
This was a mishap. It was technical in nature. Yeah, it ammounted to some tech making a stupid blunder and leaving supposedly secure documents available to anyone on the machine. I don't think 'glitch' is the best word, maybe 'snafu', but I think you could argue that making and error in setting up access controls to sensitive data could be called a 'technical glitch'.
...and we extend the definition of "hacking" to include browsing unprotected network shares?
A technician hired by the new judiciary chairman, Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, apparently made a mistake that allowed anyone to access newly created accounts on a Judiciary Committee server shared by both parties -- even though the accounts were supposed to restrict access only to those with the right password.
Someone else already said this is more like walking into an office and finding that the file cabinet has been accidentally left unlocked and thumbing through to see if there is anything interesting. They even left a yellow sticky saying that the cabinet was unlocked. After 2+ years of seeing the cabinet never locked, the temptation was too great to not keep poking around to see what interesting bits were there.
Wrong? yes.
Hacking? your're kidding, right?
Well, sure - but that's not the point.
These guys tore apart a disposable camera and wired it up to a micocontroller with the delay set up with some dip switches, and got some suprisingly decent results!
Sure, it isn't going to produce images with comparable detail to a 1/200,000 second strobe, but it is pretty interesting what they were able to accomplish with much less sophisticated gear.
Heh, reminds me of the "blue ice" incidents we used to have here in the Chicago burbs around O'Hare.
Homes were being "bombed" with mysterious chunks of bluish-green ice.
Leaky lavatories were found to be the culprit. Seems that waste water was leaking out of the plane and forming nice big chunks on the fuselage. When the plane would descend for landing, the chunk would warm up enough to break off and hurtle down into some unsuspecting suburban houswive's libing room (via the attic).
FAA investigated and no specific airline, mfr model, etc was ever singled out (that I can recall), but it stopped as suddenly as it started.
(couldn't find a good link to back up my recollection, but the FAA debunks it here: http://www1.faa.gov/fsdo/ord/bluetxt.htm )
Eric S Rayrnond (739458)
Mostly +5 with lots of replies each. Nicely done.
ESR (3702)
who hasn't posted since October.
"Um, oh... and one more thing. The next scheduled resupply launched has been scrubbed."
"Oh, ok... when is it rescheduled?"
"Um, it's not..."
"What do you mean, 'it's not'??"
"Well, we're having a bit of a problem with checks bouncing, you know... and you can imagine how those contractors are... you mis 6 or 7 payments and, well, they kind of stop working on the launch vehicles, heh heh..."
"so, what's the plan to get that fixed!!!??"
"oh, don't worry... I'm sure we'll think of *something* Bye now - CLICK"
No worse than sending a load of useless hardressers and phone sanitizers...
Yeah, I seem to recall this as well. I can think back to any number of series (upstairs downstairs, all creatures great and small, etc) where the indoor looked different from the outdoor and I always wondered what the deal was.
Looking back, it does seem that the location sequences always looked filmed where the in-studio stuff always looked taped.
Interesting observation -- I wonder if the issue was really quality via lighting vs portability of the film cameras and equipment over studio video equipment, though.
it could... it could....
* I've had a sufficient quantity of vodka and tonic water now that anything seems plausible
...and each gravastar holds an entire universe which holds a finite number of gravastars each containing yet another universe and so on...
... nothing? Wouldn't it be easier on the limited human intellect to just assume that the gravistar->universe->gravistar-> encapsulation is infinite in each direction?
....
;-)
kind of like the russian dolls metaphor, eh?
Question: why would we assume that there is ever an outermost gravistar that holds the universe and then
Reminds me of Farnsworth's "universe in a box" experiment where each universe held a number of boxes each leading to a parallel universe in which Farnsworth had created a number of boxes which each holding a parallel universe
"Good news, everyone..."
Ow, my brain has just been subjected to a paralyzing blow -- think I'll take the rest of the day off and drink vodka tonics until the throbbing goes away.