This little snippet seemed somehow appropriate...
CART DRIVER - Bring out your dead!
We follow the cart through a wretched, impoverished plague-ridden village. A few starved mongrels run about in the mud scavenging. In the open doorway of one house perhaps we jug glimpse a pair of legs dangling from the ceiling. In another doorway an OLD WOMAN is beating a cat against a wall rather like one does with a mat. The cart passes round a dead donkey or cow in the mud. And a MAN tied to a cart is being hammered to death by four NUNS with huge mallets.
CART DRIVER - Bring out your dead!
There are legs stick out of windows and doors. Two MEN are fighting in the mud - covered from head to foot in it. Another MAN is on his hands in knees shovelling mud into his mouth. We just catch sight of a MAN falling into a well.
CART DRIVER - Bring out your dead!
LARGE MAN - Here's one!
CART DRIVER - Ninepence.
BODY - I'm not dead!
CART DRIVER - What?
LARGE MAN - Nothing... There's your ninepence.
BODY - I'm not dead!
CART DRIVER - 'Ere. He says he's not dead.
LARGE MAN - Yes he is.
BODY - I'm not!
CART DRIVER - He isn't.
LARGE MAN - He will be soon. He's very ill.
BODY - I'm getting better!
LARGE MAN - You're not. You'll be stone dead in a few minutes.
CART DRIVER - I can't take him like this. It's against regulations.
BODY - I don't want to go on the cart.
LARGE MAN - Don't be such a baby.
CART DRIVER - I can't take him.
BODY - I feel fine.
LARGE MAN - Do me a favour.
CART DRIVER - I can't.
LARGE MAN - Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes. He won't be long.
CART DRIVER - I promised I'd be at the Robinson's. They've lost nine today.
LARGE MAN - When's your next round?
CART DRIVER - Thursday.
BODY - I think I'll go for a walk.
LARGE MAN - You're not fooling anyone you know. (to CART DRIVER) Isn't there anything you could do?
BODY - (singing unrecognisably) I feel happy... I feel happy.
The CART DRIVER looks at the LARGE MAN for a moment. Then they both do a quick furtive look up and down the street. The CART DRIVER very swiftly brings up a club and hits the OLD MAN. (Out of shot but the singing stops after a loud bonk noise.)
LARGE MAN - (handing over the money at last) Thanks very much.
CART DRIVER - That's all right. See you on Thursday.
MkLinux, however, will. Okay, so it's not maintained anymore, but it's the only distro I could find that would actually install and run on NuBus. (I would have linked to the main mklinux site (http://www.mklinux.org), but it seems to be having issues at the moment.)
The security industry could use something that can capture 16 individual channels in thier entirety. A lot of video surveillance is done with one camera captured at a time, and switching among the many feeds; or by trying to do some sort of mutitrack where you lose quality on the video. Instead you could build a cluster of capturing PCs, and along with burning software and some sort of index built into the stream as it records, you could have quite a sophisticated system for building/campus/city surveillance and archival.
This has been happening for quite a while now
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There's actually quite a bit of work being done to try and enable UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) to fly in the National Airsapce System without danger to other aircraft and the ground. Very cool systems are being developed to integrate them into normal airspace traffic; systems which allow them to communicate with air traffic control, "see" other aircraft and respond to them (SAA or see and avoid systems), contingency equipment for communications failures etc. It's really some fascinating stuff. I work along side one of the groups comissioned by NASA to develop a "cradle to grave" roadmap which outlines the steps that would be necessary to certify UAVs, individually and as classes of aircraft, from inception to the junkyard. One of the reports that goes with that roadmap is the concept of operations. For more information, you may want to check out AUVSI or google for "Unmanned Systems".
Heh. At least you have your priorities straight. Screw the furniture, must have computer online! (yeah, so who cares if it's online while I'm sitting on the floor and I'm crouched over the keyboard sitting indian-legged looking like I'm having stomach pains, and developing some sort of bone disease which severely arches my back. I'm online dammit!)
This proposal from the Senate Subcommittee of Science and Technology gives all of us a chance to use our brainpower for something other than maintaining corporate networks or communication systems and surfing for pr0n. We actually may have opportunity to help save lives and ease the pain of those affected in times of crisis. I dont know about you, but giving blood and money just wasnt enough for me. I wanted to help in a more direct way as well as giving my financial and "biological" support. I humbly suggest that you let your senators know of your desire to help. http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cf m
So every time I place a phone call to someone with caller ID, or to an 800 number which has to keep track of where calls are coming from just so they can pay thier phone bill, I'd be volunteering my medical history, my credit history, and the records of my wife and kids. Remember that theyre info is often tied into mine, and vice versa (IE Credit apps). Could almost be a Gattaca thing.
We can categorize by mass of course. And I don't know why people don't do that...(anybody has any ideas?)
Ah, well, you see... We're taught not to judge a book by it's cover. Ever since I was but a wee lad I was taught never to make assumptions or sterotypes about someone just because they were fat.
Berzerk Online was doing this 2 years ago with thier games... such as "You dont know Jack, the Netshow" "Acrophobia" , etc. The ads themselves were between rounds or after X number of plays, and the ads were actually kind of entertaining. They were similar to flash animations, but not quite so.. well, flashy. If only they had more than 4 ads in rotation per 2 weeks, it wouldnt have been so bad.
The Linux Router Project should be using these card/drives... but that's the only REAL use I can think of for them... too tiny for anything more. Deffinately arent going to get a (for instance) SQL Based financial database on them.
Keep in mind that the engineers call those speakers near-field monitors for a reason. They are sonically a great set of speakers and reproduce the ausio spectrum with a great degree of fidelity, _however_, they are "near-field" monitors. The engineers are only sitting 3 feet away from these speaks. They have volume, but start sounding wierd after you get a bit away from them. They're not designed to fill a large living room with great sound, but rather a small recording studio's engineering room.
If you want professional sound in a larger room, get a set of JBL, Yamaha, or EAW(oh, baby!) 2 or 3 way speaks, and an adequate (crown or mackie) amp.
Perhaps using one of those "Free" ISPs you can distribute your software fairly anonymously over IRC, DCCing it to interested parties, perhaps getting it distributed in a "warez" channel, etc.
IRC Would at least be a good "injection" point for the software, then advertising on usenet etc.
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We follow the cart through a wretched, impoverished plague-ridden village. A few starved mongrels run about in the mud scavenging. In the open doorway of one house perhaps we jug glimpse a pair of legs dangling from the ceiling. In another doorway an OLD WOMAN is beating a cat against a wall rather like one does with a mat. The cart passes round a dead donkey or cow in the mud. And a MAN tied to a cart is being hammered to death by four NUNS with huge mallets.
CART DRIVER - Bring out your dead!
There are legs stick out of windows and doors. Two MEN are fighting in the mud - covered from head to foot in it. Another MAN is on his hands in knees shovelling mud into his mouth. We just catch sight of a MAN falling into a well.
CART DRIVER - Bring out your dead!
LARGE MAN - Here's one!
CART DRIVER - Ninepence.
BODY - I'm not dead!
CART DRIVER - What?
LARGE MAN - Nothing... There's your ninepence.
BODY - I'm not dead!
CART DRIVER - 'Ere. He says he's not dead.
LARGE MAN - Yes he is.
BODY - I'm not!
CART DRIVER - He isn't.
LARGE MAN - He will be soon. He's very ill.
BODY - I'm getting better!
LARGE MAN - You're not. You'll be stone dead in a few minutes.
CART DRIVER - I can't take him like this. It's against regulations.
BODY - I don't want to go on the cart.
LARGE MAN - Don't be such a baby.
CART DRIVER - I can't take him.
BODY - I feel fine.
LARGE MAN - Do me a favour.
CART DRIVER - I can't.
LARGE MAN - Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes. He won't be long.
CART DRIVER - I promised I'd be at the Robinson's. They've lost nine today.
LARGE MAN - When's your next round?
CART DRIVER - Thursday.
BODY - I think I'll go for a walk.
LARGE MAN - You're not fooling anyone you know. (to CART DRIVER) Isn't there anything you could do?
BODY - (singing unrecognisably) I feel happy... I feel happy.
The CART DRIVER looks at the LARGE MAN for a moment. Then they both do a quick furtive look up and down the street. The CART DRIVER very swiftly brings up a club and hits the OLD MAN. (Out of shot but the singing stops after a loud bonk noise.)
LARGE MAN - (handing over the money at last) Thanks very much.
CART DRIVER - That's all right. See you on Thursday.
It's the 7th month. Satan is an Idiot.
MkLinux, however, will. Okay, so it's not maintained anymore, but it's the only distro I could find that would actually install and run on NuBus. (I would have linked to the main mklinux site (http://www.mklinux.org), but it seems to be having issues at the moment.)
The security industry could use something that can capture 16 individual channels in thier entirety. A lot of video surveillance is done with one camera captured at a time, and switching among the many feeds; or by trying to do some sort of mutitrack where you lose quality on the video. Instead you could build a cluster of capturing PCs, and along with burning software and some sort of index built into the stream as it records, you could have quite a sophisticated system for building/campus/city surveillance and archival.
There's actually quite a bit of work being done to try and enable UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) to fly in the National Airsapce System without danger to other aircraft and the ground. Very cool systems are being developed to integrate them into normal airspace traffic; systems which allow them to communicate with air traffic control, "see" other aircraft and respond to them (SAA or see and avoid systems), contingency equipment for communications failures etc. It's really some fascinating stuff. I work along side one of the groups comissioned by NASA to develop a "cradle to grave" roadmap which outlines the steps that would be necessary to certify UAVs, individually and as classes of aircraft, from inception to the junkyard. One of the reports that goes with that roadmap is the concept of operations. For more information, you may want to check out AUVSI or google for "Unmanned Systems".
Here's a mirror of the screenshot.
http://www.zianet.com/endikos/sedsokoban.png
Check out the "Behind the scenes at Microsoft" Featuring SMARTY PANTS (toward the end)
Heh. At least you have your priorities straight. Screw the furniture, must have computer online! (yeah, so who cares if it's online while I'm sitting on the floor and I'm crouched over the keyboard sitting indian-legged looking like I'm having stomach pains, and developing some sort of bone disease which severely arches my back. I'm online dammit!)
This proposal from the Senate Subcommittee of Science and Technology gives all of us a chance to use our brainpower for something other than maintaining corporate networks or communication systems and surfing for pr0n. We actually may have opportunity to help save lives and ease the pain of those affected in times of crisis. I dont know about you, but giving blood and money just wasnt enough for me. I wanted to help in a more direct way as well as giving my financial and "biological" support. I humbly suggest that you let your senators know of your desire to help. http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cf m
So every time I place a phone call to someone with caller ID, or to an 800 number which has to keep track of where calls are coming from just so they can pay thier phone bill, I'd be volunteering my medical history, my credit history, and the records of my wife and kids. Remember that theyre info is often tied into mine, and vice versa (IE Credit apps). Could almost be a Gattaca thing.
Ah, well, you see... We're taught not to judge a book by it's cover. Ever since I was but a wee lad I was taught never to make assumptions or sterotypes about someone just because they were fat.
Berzerk Online was doing this 2 years ago with thier games... such as "You dont know Jack, the Netshow" "Acrophobia" , etc. The ads themselves were between rounds or after X number of plays, and the ads were actually kind of entertaining. They were similar to flash animations, but not quite so.. well, flashy. If only they had more than 4 ads in rotation per 2 weeks, it wouldnt have been so bad.
The Linux Router Project should be using these card/drives... but that's the only REAL use I can think of for them... too tiny for anything more. Deffinately arent going to get a (for instance) SQL Based financial database on them.
If you want professional sound in a larger room, get a set of JBL, Yamaha, or EAW(oh, baby!) 2 or 3 way speaks, and an adequate (crown or mackie) amp.
After being kidnapped by aliens, they kicked him out after a lot of whiskey and too many renditions of Heartbreak Hotel.
http://www.zianet.com/endikos/msad.jpg
IRC Would at least be a good "injection" point for the software, then advertising on usenet etc.