What if someone told you that just because you have hands that are shovel compatible, you should go dig that latrine hole bigger? You'd probably tell them to go fsck themselves. And with the rare counter-example of being in the military, in which case you have signed a contract that says you'll do what you're told to do, it's your right to tell them to fsck off!
Come on, can't we see through this Cathedral-driven charade? There's no rational thought behind Intelligent Drivers. It's all just a dogmatic rehash of the same old Closed Source thinking forced upon our Open Source kernel laboratories! I say, send these Intelligent Drivers ideologues back to Kansas where they came from!
What, you want to support Flying Spaghetti Code Drivers or something?
Lowered ceilings. To justify the cost, just say you need it for the recessed lighting.
Downside: needs more reinforcement, especially if you need to hide an overweight PHB. Upside: if the odors go upwards, the bodies will remain undetected longer.
Or you could just use old enclosed racks as sarcophagi, hiding them in the back of the storage room behind stacks of obsolete boxen.
My brother is a tad dark skinned but still all white bread inside, and one time the family went down to Del Rio and walked over the border to go shopping. On the way back it was "Citizen... citizen... citizen... citizen?"
Their games were light years beyond previous generation because they weren't just three screens of action that repeated until you died, they were fun and interesting worlds that could be explored. And unlike the typical Atari game that just got faster and faster on the same screen until you inevitably died, Nintendo games could be beaten and won.
A big part of the reason had nothing to do with Nintendo, other than them being "too stupid to accept that nobody wanted video games any more". I mean, look at what they had... it had a 6502, which had already been used for years, and it had a video chip that wasn't much more capable what what the Colecovision had, except that it had support for smooth scrolling, and it also (this was actually quite an innovation) brought the video chip bus out to the cartridge port.
What changed between 1984 and 1988 was Moore's Law. Large ROM chips became cheap. Back in '84, even 32K of ROM was a big manufacturing cost. If you don't have much storage space, you re-use it all you can. By 1988, 128K was no problem at all. I mean, look at Pokemon. It's running on a Z-80 type chip that was only better than a TRS-80 in two ways: 1) it was portable, and 2) one megabyte of bank-switched ROM was relatively cheap by then. The NES/GB/CGB was classic-era hardware with modern gameplay.
If "the crash" hadn't happened, you might have seen the Atari 7800 library morph from classic games to the NES/C64-era games. The later games for the system show every sign that this would have happened.
And this old classic gamer these days is playing a lot of Katamari Damacy. It's the other way around, the feel of classic gameplay (even if there is a time limit), but using modern 3-D graphics.
Actually, the Atari 7800 had a better 3rd-party lockout in 1984, two years before the NES, but nobody noticed since the mere 5000 they had manufactured before stopping production were still sitting in a warehouse somewhere. It was only because of dumpster diving that the encryption key was found and homebrew 7800 games are now possible.
I still wouldn't mind having one of those new Game Park thingies. How long until they get released?
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In Katamari Damacy, you can go around kicking all your cousins. Even more fun, you can group them together Pied Piper style, then give them a group ass kicking. I guess it's time for that "M" rating.
It's also a simulation of terrorism by rolling up innocent people into a ball, then hurtling them into space where they will likely be destroyed by a laser beam from the eyes of a giant humanoid alien.
I work in film and here's the general audience's biggest gripe about sci-fi movies. No one wants to feel dumb.
I don't watch film because of my biggest gripe about Hollywood movies. Nobody wants a movie to treat you like you are dumb.
On the other hand, it's easier to make money by aiming regurgitated crap at the mainstream than to aim at the MENSA crowd. But then on the gripping hand, there's a lot less competition up at the top end...
They even have a "Bell Labs"
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Formerly called SBC Technology Resources, Inc., currently called SBC Labs, will it be renamed to Bell Labs now that the former holder of the name gave it up for the trendy 90's marketroid name of "Lucent"?
Ma Bell's daughter grew up, and she's no dammyankee. Bye bye New Jersey, hello Texas.
Heck, CRT's period are surprisingly superior to LCD's in many ways.
But not when it comes to weight. Be sure to get someone to help you lift it. Their 32" flat-CRT HD-ready models weigh around 175 pounds. I've had one for about 2 1/2 years and I had it delivered. If I need to get behind it, I can slide it around on the stand. I'm glad I spent the money for the official Sony stand, it's fits perfectly, and it can hold half a dozen video game consoles.
Except that you're comparing apples and oranges. A 32" Wega CRT is about $600-$700, but the HD-ready Wega is about $1000, and was around $1500 two years ago. Oh, and a minor point is that their LCD line seems to be called Bravia, not Wega.
Mmmm... and that LCD has a PC input, too. I know for a fact that their CRT Wega line isn't designed for PC scan rates on the DVI input. You can get 640x480 to work, but there's overscan, and even if you get your video card to generate ATSC scan rates, anything higher than 480p forces the 4:3 CRT into widescreen mode.
Got to love Slackware, the installer hasn't changed since I started out with Linux in 1996!
That's the number one reason I've been using it since 3.6 or so. The installer is good and simple, with no multi-level dependencies to get tripped up on, or to cause unwanted bloat. The defaults are all "wrong" for what I want, but deselecting them is quick. And if you need to add just one package, mount the CD and do an installpkg. The number two reason is it's a great distro if you absolutely don't want a GUI.
I had actually given up on Linux in favor of OS X on cheap older Macs, but I needed Linux for something recently, so I downloaded and burned the first two CDs and it installed nice and quick. The only problem I had was that the hard drive had an earlier Slackware install, and I ran a full install on top of that. I had already moved the/etc directory out of the way, but the package lists were still in/var. So I nuked them and installed it again with no more problems.
Cathedrals and castles in Europe were all built after we had built much smaller and simple things like houses, for hundreds of years. They used known techniques, they planned everything out, etc.
They ones we see are also the ones that survived. Lots of castles that failed are now little more than tourist sites and the subject of postcard photos.
Even if the effort succeeds how comfortable will you feel having a nuclear powered space ship or even several space ships each the size of a large nuclear submarine and their nuclear powered support facilities in earth orbit?
All they have to do is put it in a properly man-rated configuration (the new Crew Launch Vehicle with capsule and abort rocket on top, and absolutely not the Shuttle), to be picked up by a separately-launched mission vehicle, and I'll feel quite comfortable about it. Note that this is a much more reliable (for the safety of the cargo) configuration than everyday space launches get. For one thing, everyday launches don't have a re-entry heat shield going up with them.
Yes, this means three launches for one mission, but I don't see any major reason (other than crew/cargo capacity) why it couldn't go up in the crew launch. They could even dock the fuel launch capsule for extra crew living space and extra cargo landing capacity (think of it full of Moon/Mars rocks) after rendezvous.
On their way back, if they want to be absolutely sure where the jettisoned spent fuel ends up, they can just point the mission vehicle at the moon (it should still have good engines after the crew module separates) and crash it somewhere unimportant. Or put it in solar orbit between Earth and Venus. Or find some way to get it to fall into the sun. Disposing of nuclear waste is much easier when it's already in space and powering a spaceship.
Or better yet, you could have another crew launch ready to swap capsules and re-use the ship immediately. At that point, the extra capsule from a third launch for the fuel could be used as a lifeboat. And you won't need another fuel launch since the nuclear fuel should last for years, so that third launch wasn't such a waste after all. After all, that's why they use nuclear power for aircraft carriers.
Cosmos 954 isn't an issue, since you're not going to be leaving the fuel in a dinky satellite in an inherently unstable low earth orbit. You're going to get it up, then get the hell out of Earth's gravity well. Even if you park it in LEO between missions, it's still got real engines with plenty of power (or else why are you re-using it?) to maintain its orbit. And if you're not going to use the nuclear fuel to get out of Earth's gravity well, then why the hell are you using nuclear fuel at all?
The solid booster did NOT blow up. It was the main liquid tank that did due to the O-ring leaking a plume into it. if we had this system in place, the leakage would have meant that those 2 segments would have had a hole and they would have been unuseable.
Not only that, but in this design has nothing sitting beside the SRB in the Crew Launch Vehicle configuration. So the O-ring could have spewed all the fire it wanted. The worst that could happen is that the craft starts to go off-course in the initial boost. That's why they have the Apollo-style capsule separation rocket on top.
The most important thing about the SRBs is that they've proven themselves to be very reliable. Their only in-mission failure caused mission loss via a secondary effect which isn't even possible in the CLV configuration.
Obligatory complaint: this is news? They've been talking about this for months now. Oh wait, this is a Zonk post. Never mind.
You're talking about the standard forms of PIN storage and handling. They've been standard (at least in the US) for a long time. I worked for a place that wrote software that had to use secure PIN pads for debit, and I don't remember anything about the PIN being on the card. The decision of whether the PIN was correct or not was entirely the responsibility of the other side of the network. All the customer side had to do was encrypt it for transport before it left the PIN pad, and the PIN pad would have to be injected with master keys by a trusted party.
This was apparently back in the early days of ATMs, and clearly someone in the UK came up with a less than secure system. To store the pin as a single encrypted value on the card, completely independent from the account number so that it could be copied like a key, borders on criminal stupidity on the part of the designers.
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What if someone told you that just because you have hands that are shovel compatible, you should go dig that latrine hole bigger? You'd probably tell them to go fsck themselves. And with the rare counter-example of being in the military, in which case you have signed a contract that says you'll do what you're told to do, it's your right to tell them to fsck off!
Oh no! That's right next to Pee-Wee's bicycle! The fiends!
What, you want to support Flying Spaghetti Code Drivers or something?
I hear that a Mr. Drax will be contacting them very soon.
I just read too much of "the monastery", and the BOFH stories as well.
Downside: needs more reinforcement, especially if you need to hide an overweight PHB. Upside: if the odors go upwards, the bodies will remain undetected longer.
Or you could just use old enclosed racks as sarcophagi, hiding them in the back of the storage room behind stacks of obsolete boxen.
My brother is a tad dark skinned but still all white bread inside, and one time the family went down to Del Rio and walked over the border to go shopping. On the way back it was "Citizen... citizen... citizen... citizen?"
A big part of the reason had nothing to do with Nintendo, other than them being "too stupid to accept that nobody wanted video games any more". I mean, look at what they had... it had a 6502, which had already been used for years, and it had a video chip that wasn't much more capable what what the Colecovision had, except that it had support for smooth scrolling, and it also (this was actually quite an innovation) brought the video chip bus out to the cartridge port.
What changed between 1984 and 1988 was Moore's Law. Large ROM chips became cheap. Back in '84, even 32K of ROM was a big manufacturing cost. If you don't have much storage space, you re-use it all you can. By 1988, 128K was no problem at all. I mean, look at Pokemon. It's running on a Z-80 type chip that was only better than a TRS-80 in two ways: 1) it was portable, and 2) one megabyte of bank-switched ROM was relatively cheap by then. The NES/GB/CGB was classic-era hardware with modern gameplay.
If "the crash" hadn't happened, you might have seen the Atari 7800 library morph from classic games to the NES/C64-era games. The later games for the system show every sign that this would have happened.
And this old classic gamer these days is playing a lot of Katamari Damacy. It's the other way around, the feel of classic gameplay (even if there is a time limit), but using modern 3-D graphics.
Actually, the Atari 7800 had a better 3rd-party lockout in 1984, two years before the NES, but nobody noticed since the mere 5000 they had manufactured before stopping production were still sitting in a warehouse somewhere. It was only because of dumpster diving that the encryption key was found and homebrew 7800 games are now possible.
I still wouldn't mind having one of those new Game Park thingies. How long until they get released?
No, it was the Power Glove that was "so bad".
It's also a simulation of terrorism by rolling up innocent people into a ball, then hurtling them into space where they will likely be destroyed by a laser beam from the eyes of a giant humanoid alien.
I don't watch film because of my biggest gripe about Hollywood movies. Nobody wants a movie to treat you like you are dumb.
On the other hand, it's easier to make money by aiming regurgitated crap at the mainstream than to aim at the MENSA crowd. But then on the gripping hand, there's a lot less competition up at the top end...
Ma Bell's daughter grew up, and she's no dammyankee. Bye bye New Jersey, hello Texas.
But not when it comes to weight. Be sure to get someone to help you lift it. Their 32" flat-CRT HD-ready models weigh around 175 pounds. I've had one for about 2 1/2 years and I had it delivered. If I need to get behind it, I can slide it around on the stand. I'm glad I spent the money for the official Sony stand, it's fits perfectly, and it can hold half a dozen video game consoles.
Mmmm... and that LCD has a PC input, too. I know for a fact that their CRT Wega line isn't designed for PC scan rates on the DVI input. You can get 640x480 to work, but there's overscan, and even if you get your video card to generate ATSC scan rates, anything higher than 480p forces the 4:3 CRT into widescreen mode.
That's the number one reason I've been using it since 3.6 or so. The installer is good and simple, with no multi-level dependencies to get tripped up on, or to cause unwanted bloat. The defaults are all "wrong" for what I want, but deselecting them is quick. And if you need to add just one package, mount the CD and do an installpkg. The number two reason is it's a great distro if you absolutely don't want a GUI.
I had actually given up on Linux in favor of OS X on cheap older Macs, but I needed Linux for something recently, so I downloaded and burned the first two CDs and it installed nice and quick. The only problem I had was that the hard drive had an earlier Slackware install, and I ran a full install on top of that. I had already moved the /etc directory out of the way, but the package lists were still in /var. So I nuked them and installed it again with no more problems.
Could the BOFH be working for the BBC? That's just the kind of thing he would do.
Yes, but did you get any questions about your rodent rights record?
It's his site, he gets to put it on the front page. Duh.
They ones we see are also the ones that survived. Lots of castles that failed are now little more than tourist sites and the subject of postcard photos.
All they have to do is put it in a properly man-rated configuration (the new Crew Launch Vehicle with capsule and abort rocket on top, and absolutely not the Shuttle), to be picked up by a separately-launched mission vehicle, and I'll feel quite comfortable about it. Note that this is a much more reliable (for the safety of the cargo) configuration than everyday space launches get. For one thing, everyday launches don't have a re-entry heat shield going up with them.
Yes, this means three launches for one mission, but I don't see any major reason (other than crew/cargo capacity) why it couldn't go up in the crew launch. They could even dock the fuel launch capsule for extra crew living space and extra cargo landing capacity (think of it full of Moon/Mars rocks) after rendezvous.
On their way back, if they want to be absolutely sure where the jettisoned spent fuel ends up, they can just point the mission vehicle at the moon (it should still have good engines after the crew module separates) and crash it somewhere unimportant. Or put it in solar orbit between Earth and Venus. Or find some way to get it to fall into the sun. Disposing of nuclear waste is much easier when it's already in space and powering a spaceship.
Or better yet, you could have another crew launch ready to swap capsules and re-use the ship immediately. At that point, the extra capsule from a third launch for the fuel could be used as a lifeboat. And you won't need another fuel launch since the nuclear fuel should last for years, so that third launch wasn't such a waste after all. After all, that's why they use nuclear power for aircraft carriers.
Cosmos 954 isn't an issue, since you're not going to be leaving the fuel in a dinky satellite in an inherently unstable low earth orbit. You're going to get it up, then get the hell out of Earth's gravity well. Even if you park it in LEO between missions, it's still got real engines with plenty of power (or else why are you re-using it?) to maintain its orbit. And if you're not going to use the nuclear fuel to get out of Earth's gravity well, then why the hell are you using nuclear fuel at all?
Not only that, but in this design has nothing sitting beside the SRB in the Crew Launch Vehicle configuration. So the O-ring could have spewed all the fire it wanted. The worst that could happen is that the craft starts to go off-course in the initial boost. That's why they have the Apollo-style capsule separation rocket on top.
The most important thing about the SRBs is that they've proven themselves to be very reliable. Their only in-mission failure caused mission loss via a secondary effect which isn't even possible in the CLV configuration.
Obligatory complaint: this is news? They've been talking about this for months now. Oh wait, this is a Zonk post. Never mind.
This was apparently back in the early days of ATMs, and clearly someone in the UK came up with a less than secure system. To store the pin as a single encrypted value on the card, completely independent from the account number so that it could be copied like a key, borders on criminal stupidity on the part of the designers.
Wait until next year and it'll be something else.
Probably (not "prolly", people!) the same reason that lose vs loose is so fucking hard for so many people. Because they just don't fucking care.