Yes, Gibson actually called it Chiba City in Neuromancer. He was refering to a city in Japan.
Funny thing about it in Neuromancer it is one of the highest tech places in the world. Right now it is one of the more rural cities in Japan. I know people who build a log cabin there.
My cousin, Sun Dog, has a pretty good (cob) web site about Pratchett's Discworld books, if anyone is interested in reviews and other related stuff. It hasn't been updated for over a year, but what can you do?
Okay after my last 3 posts on abusing non-controlled dangerous substances. I will agree with you. Sleep is a good thing too. No matter how much I wire my body up, in the end I always end up crashing. And before I crash, I usually end up doing stupid things.
rm/etc/rc.d/rc.M -is NOT- vi/etc/rc.d/rc.M
Yes, I did that. No, I don't run Slackware, I just built my own install and happen to have been raised on Slack.
Ginko and a hand full of Penguin Mints... Makes for an interesting combination. I had taken ginko in the past, but never had much effect. One day before a review class for Bio 201, I just desided to try the ginko thing one more time. This time I took 3 times what was recommended, and my usual 20 Penguin Mints. Lets just say that the descriptions of plants reproductive organs my teacher was giving in his lecture became a little to visual for me. Though I did remember everything for the test, and still to this day (6 months later), and probally for the rest of my life. Freaky.
No, diuretic just means it'll make you piss more. Mix it with alcohol, which is also a "natural diuretic", and you're just asking for an amazing hangover. Note: Hangovers are caused by dehydrating your body. To avoid them. Don't passout. Stay awake until you start to sober up a little bit. Drink as much pure water as you can. Go to sleep. Wake up and make lots of noise for the benefit of your friends who didn't follow these instructions.
It wasn't this drink, but 2 guarana pills, washed down with an mocha espresso. My heart rate jumped up to about 200 bpm. I could actually see my chest moving. And it hurt.
I just layed down and forced myself to sleep it off. There was no coding that day.
Now, I just hang on the edge of an over dose of Penguin Mints. About 20 a day. If my heart hurts one day, I just cut back for two.
While on the topic of high tech speakers, have a look at these. If I ever saved up a couple of bucks I'd get a pair, but since they are designed for music and not home theater, perhaps, I'd need 2 pairs, but what to do for the center channel?
Anyway, anyone have a fetish for electrostatic speakers? I really like the idea, but too bad you have to go to this much overkill just to get them to have proper bass responce.
I would hope JPEG would give a sample implimentataion and C libs like they have done with the past specification. They have seemed to be pretty open in the past.
It has 256 channels. Seriously though, I don't see it taking off very fast. Wavelet (de)compression is a slow process. While todays newest computers probally won't have much trouble with this, it will be painful to view the images on a (4|5)86, and you might as well totally forget about saving the images. While messing with wavelets on my 486 it wasn't unusual for a 640x480 image to take 16 hours to compress. I could view the compressed image back rather fast, but it definaly didn't flow onto the screen like JPEGs or PNGs.
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Yes, Gibson actually called it Chiba City in Neuromancer. He was refering to a city in Japan.
Funny thing about it in Neuromancer it is one of the highest tech places in the world. Right now it is one of the more rural cities in Japan. I know people who build a log cabin there.
You should always reverse out all your non-standard patches before patching up to the next official release.
Second I always wait a few days after a release to patch up cause I do run a few non-standard patches that aren't available right away.
Third, 13 is my lucky number.
One of my co-workers in charge of purchasing heard me complaining about a two button mouse in E, and ordered me a nice new 3 button job.
Who needs configurability with co-workers like that?
Anyway time to go get E16.
My cousin, Sun Dog, has a pretty good (cob) web site about Pratchett's Discworld books, if anyone is interested in reviews and other related stuff. It hasn't been updated for over a year, but what can you do?
Check it out: members.xoom.com/SunDog
Okay after my last 3 posts on abusing non-controlled dangerous substances. I will agree with you. Sleep is a good thing too. No matter how much I wire my body up, in the end I always end up crashing. And before I crash, I usually end up doing stupid things.
/etc/rc.d/rc.M /etc/rc.d/rc.M
rm
-is NOT-
vi
Yes, I did that. No, I don't run Slackware, I just built my own install and happen to have been raised on Slack.
Ginko and a hand full of Penguin Mints... Makes for an interesting combination. I had taken ginko in the past, but never had much effect. One day before a review class for Bio 201, I just desided to try the ginko thing one more time. This time I took 3 times what was recommended, and my usual 20 Penguin Mints. Lets just say that the descriptions of plants reproductive organs my teacher was giving in his lecture became a little to visual for me. Though I did remember everything for the test, and still to this day (6 months later), and probally for the rest of my life. Freaky.
No, diuretic just means it'll make you piss more. Mix it with alcohol, which is also a "natural diuretic", and you're just asking for an amazing hangover. Note: Hangovers are caused by dehydrating your body. To avoid them. Don't passout. Stay awake until you start to sober up a little bit. Drink as much pure water as you can. Go to sleep. Wake up and make lots of noise for the benefit of your friends who didn't follow these instructions.
It wasn't this drink, but 2 guarana pills, washed down with an mocha espresso. My heart rate jumped up to about 200 bpm. I could actually see my chest moving. And it hurt.
I just layed down and forced myself to sleep it off. There was no coding that day.
Now, I just hang on the edge of an over dose of Penguin Mints. About 20 a day. If my heart hurts one day, I just cut back for two.
I don't think I need this stuff.
While on the topic of high tech speakers, have a look at these. If I ever saved up a couple of bucks I'd get a pair, but since they are designed for music and not home theater, perhaps, I'd need 2 pairs, but what to do for the center channel?
Anyway, anyone have a fetish for electrostatic speakers? I really like the idea, but too bad you have to go to this much overkill just to get them to have proper bass responce.
I would hope JPEG would give a sample implimentataion and C libs like they have done with the past specification.
They have seemed to be pretty open in the past.
It has 256 channels.
Seriously though, I don't see it taking off very fast. Wavelet (de)compression is a slow process. While todays newest computers probally won't have much trouble with this, it will be painful to view the images on a (4|5)86, and you might as well totally forget about saving the images. While messing with wavelets on my 486 it wasn't unusual for a 640x480 image to take 16 hours to compress. I could view the compressed image back rather fast, but it definaly didn't flow onto the screen like JPEGs or PNGs.
Do your pixies talk to you? Mine say things like, build glibc 2.1, egcs 1.1.2, and various other packages from the source.
Of course it could be the tin of Penguin Mints a day that I eat.
-g0 -O99 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=i486
The cartoon was based off a game.
...and by ZiLOG not Motorola.