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I was once told that the prefix giga- comes from the word gigantic.. so etymologically, "jigga" is probably more correct. Seems that the "gig uh" pronunciation is far more popular, and ipso facto correct. Now if only I could get people to start saying "guy gah.":)
is will it be able to deflect bullets? That would be cool for a weird crimefighter type dude. (s'pose you'd still have to worry about napalm and plastique though)
Yeah, if you accidentally hit a line drive straight at the pitcher's mound, poor Roger Clemens may end up with a gutful of shrapnel, rather than the intended anti-baseball evilpeople on the other side. Not to mention the risk, in a sizeable unit of similar swatters, of clipping a fellow projectilist with an overzealous swing.
Golf clubs may be a little more suitable, because they're intended to hit a stationary ball. If you had a long line of concussion grenades (one whack to set, 2 whacks to explode) and a fellow with a golf club, you might get some interesting results.
Then again, slings and arrows are cheaper/easier to make, and probably just as accurate, with practice.
I actually wrote a script for bc to degodelize the number in "The Gold at the Starbow's End", and found that the first hundred or so letters of the message were all 'A':-P Didn't have the patience to look any further. I thought it was kind of funny that in the story, "even the whole of IBM didn't have enough data storage for that big of a number." I forget how big the number was, exactly, but I don't think it was more than a few million digits.. easily holdable by your average Pentium/120 with 8 megs ram.:)
So if you had a CD-diameter disc, 1cm thick, with say a dozen lasers constantly illuminating a fixed area on any given cylinder therein... You could have full-motion real-time immersive 4-d senso-vid!
Fifteen hundred gee. That sounds like a lot.. but what does that mean in real terms. I mean, how hard do you have to huck the thing against a concrete wall to shock it? I presume it's definitely good enough to be able to shake a sackful out onto a table (assuming they become cheap enough to buy a sackful for under $25,000.)
I've always thought it would be cool if there was a tough enough medium that Gibson-style hax0rs could wander around with a grimy shoebox full of data cartridges.. something analogous to the box of audio cassettes you might expect to see in the back of a rusted 1984 Firebird.
Is that Aughra's orrery for real? It looks like the product of a mad scientist! I wish I could acquire the metalworking skills necessary to create something like that.
One other question; would it be possible, or make sense at all, to try to make an orrery that used some other force (say, magnetism) to simulate gravity? I suppose suspension of the bodies would be a problem.
Ah yes.. good point. I may have been playing a smaller version.. The hardest things to get were the bear's chain and the rug from the dragon. But then, my dad made a map of the Maze Alike, so I memorized the route through it.
... for each site that closes, another two spring up
I like.. Reminds me of _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_.
Regarding the severance of their link.. what if they have multiple links via different media to different providers.. Then any would-be censors would have to:
Send frogmen down to cut the deeply buried fiber-optics
Blanket the sky with radiation to prevent satellite links (or just hope it stays overcast for a long time:)
Torpedo all the ham radio repeaters on fishing boats (is this farfetched? maybe not a lot, if the content was important enough)
I suppose I could think of more, but they'd get progressively sillier. Of course, I suppose they could solve them all at once with a tac-nuke, but I think a few of the friendly boys with big sticks would take umbrage at that.
If you write a book that you want to copyright, you obviously want to expose it to more people than your descendants. If your publisher refuses to continue printing the book, both you and your audience are screwed.. unless you can make enough copies on your own to satisfy demand.. or, you allow people to make copies from copies they already have.
Actually, it's the X Window System. Or simply X11R6. Reference to it as "X Windows" is discouraged for exactly the reason that you just stated, or so I've read. Windows is owned (like 90% of the known universe) by Microsoft. If somebody put an X implementation in a box labeled "X Windows" and sold it at Staples, I have no doubt that MS would take legal action.
Printed manuals? Don't they come in bright colors with neat line drawings of animals on the cover?:)
Seriously, most of the software I use comes with a README, a mailing list, and that's it. I think that electronic documentation is completely appropriate for electronic products.
Hmm.. has anyone made a laptop using the StrongARM processor? I think they ran a Netwinder (without hard drive) for like an hour on a nine-volt battery.
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I was once told that the prefix giga- comes from the word gigantic.. so etymologically, "jigga" is probably more correct. Seems that the "gig uh" pronunciation is far more popular, and ipso facto correct. Now if only I could get people to start saying "guy gah." :)
is will it be able to deflect bullets?
That would be cool for a weird crimefighter type dude. (s'pose you'd still have to worry about napalm and plastique though)
Yeah, if you accidentally hit a line drive straight at the pitcher's mound, poor Roger Clemens may end up with a gutful of shrapnel, rather than the intended anti-baseball evilpeople on the other side. Not to mention the risk, in a sizeable unit of similar swatters, of clipping a fellow projectilist with an overzealous swing.
Golf clubs may be a little more suitable, because they're intended to hit a stationary ball. If you had a long line of concussion grenades (one whack to set, 2 whacks to explode) and a fellow with a golf club, you might get some interesting results.
Then again, slings and arrows are cheaper/easier to make, and probably just as accurate, with practice.
How come earplugs are not an option?
What about big active noise filter flight headsets?
I actually wrote a script for bc to degodelize the number in "The Gold at the Starbow's End", and found that the first hundred or so letters of the message were all 'A' :-P Didn't have the patience to look any further. I thought it was kind of funny that in the story, "even the whole of IBM didn't have enough data storage for that big of a number." I forget how big the number was, exactly, but I don't think it was more than a few million digits.. easily holdable by your average Pentium/120 with 8 megs ram. :)
So if you had a CD-diameter disc, 1cm thick, with say a dozen lasers constantly illuminating a fixed area on any given cylinder therein... You could have full-motion real-time immersive 4-d senso-vid!
:-P
Or like 27432 x 10 ^ 32 full-length MP3's
cool.. thanks for the link. :-)
I guess I'll research the vibrational sensitivity on my own
Fifteen hundred gee. That sounds like a lot.. but what does that mean in real terms. I mean, how hard do you have to huck the thing against a concrete wall to shock it? I presume it's definitely good enough to be able to shake a sackful out onto a table (assuming they become cheap enough to buy a sackful for under $25,000.)
I've always thought it would be cool if there was a tough enough medium that Gibson-style hax0rs could wander around with a grimy shoebox full of data cartridges.. something analogous to the box of audio cassettes you might expect to see in the back of a rusted 1984 Firebird.
Is that Aughra's orrery for real? It looks like the product of a mad scientist! I wish I could acquire the metalworking skills necessary to create something like that.
One other question; would it be possible, or make sense at all, to try to make an orrery that used some other force (say, magnetism) to simulate gravity? I suppose suspension of the bodies would be a problem.
Telephone broken?
Waves lie heavy in the air.
Where's the damn tin-foil?
Ah yes.. good point. I may have been playing a smaller version.. The hardest things to get were the bear's chain and the rug from the dragon. But then, my dad made a map of the Maze Alike, so I memorized the route through it.
Well, all the puzzles that I ever found you could solve without XYZZY. It made the golden nugget puzzle a lot easier though.
I like.. Reminds me of _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_.
Regarding the severance of their link.. what if they have multiple links via different media to different providers.. Then any would-be censors would have to:
I suppose I could think of more, but they'd get progressively sillier. Of course, I suppose they could solve them all at once with a tac-nuke, but I think a few of the friendly boys with big sticks would take umbrage at that.
Actually, id also did Commander Keen. If I remember correctly, John Romero (you know.. Daikatana) was chief coder for Commander Keen.
You mean the pinball wizard?
No keyboard? Rats.
Guess I'll have to work on that telepathic ethernet interface.
My eyes are bugging out of my head.
I can't wait to play Quake on one. Anybody want to give it to me for my birthday?
What's the point?
If you write a book that you want to copyright, you obviously want to expose it to more people than your descendants. If your publisher refuses to continue printing the book, both you and your audience are screwed.. unless you can make enough copies on your own to satisfy demand.. or, you allow people to make copies from copies they already have.
Is that a nest of furry mice,
or a nest of input device mouses?
Is your name Irene?
Of course, they couldn't use anything simple like morse code.
They had to play back the rhythm of some weird alien glockenspiel.
Now _that's_ geeky.
Actually, it's the X Window System. Or simply X11R6. Reference to it as "X Windows" is discouraged for exactly the reason that you just stated, or so I've read. Windows is owned (like 90% of the known universe) by Microsoft. If somebody put an X implementation in a box labeled "X Windows" and sold it at Staples, I have no doubt that MS would take legal action.
Printed manuals? Don't they come in bright colors with neat line drawings of animals on the cover? :)
Seriously, most of the software I use comes with a README, a mailing list, and that's it. I think that electronic documentation is completely appropriate for electronic products.
Ehm.. why are you running wc on a zip file? Wouldn't df -sh be a little less obfuscatory? :)
Hmm.. has anyone made a laptop using the StrongARM processor? I think they ran a Netwinder (without hard drive) for like an hour on a nine-volt battery.