It's amazing what new clothes, a hat or hair net, and thoroughly bathing beforehand can do to leave no useful evidence.
"That man, get him!"
"What? He's just standing there."
"Can't you bloody see? He's shaved off all his hair, even his eyebrows!"
"Cor! Must be planing a nefarious crime alright!"
They've been reprinted a number of times in books. The sequence appears in The Impollutable Pogo:
Hyena (Spiro T. Agnew): "Lawnorder will prevail!
I fine you another thousand, and remand you to the custody of your cell."
Churchy LaFemm: "How about the Bill of Rights?"
Howland Owl: "Shh... You can pay that later."
Kelly, Impollutable Pogo , 106 (1970)
It's like everybody's allowed to wear bulletproof vest, just don't be the only survivor in a drive by shooting.
"If you let us keep your DNA on file, we can use it to prove you are innocent, further if you ever go missing we can us it to trace you if you leave a trail. So it's a good thing, you see?
DNA from innocent people should be kept on file incase the person ever commits a crime. Then DNA from the crime scene can be matched. In fact, all newborns should have their DNA put on record.
That way investigating crimes in the future will be a piece of cake.
I've always admired you, your clever way with words and such. You're my hero! Can you please send me a lock of your hair?
If you can ever find Walk Kelly's Pogo strips from the 70's, he nails Agnew for this very line of logic. Guess who isn't the one locked up in the jail? It is a bit like Nixon, again, isn't it?
DA Nola Foulston said, 'I think some people are overwrought about their concerns.'
In a country where the federal government has been concentrating power in the capital, I can't see
where she gets such bizarre ideas.
We're heading for a country where everyone is a potential suspect, eventually. And when the congress pulls and late nighter
and the president flies back to the capital to quickly sign a bill allowing the government to barge past
states rights and personal descisions it's discomforting. It would probably be a small matter to bury into a large bill
some little thing that allows the transportation of all DNA evidence to be conveniently sent to the Foggy Bottom and
squirreled away somewhere, where it could be called upon the next time someone needs a roundup of the usual suspects and a filing error
could easily send anyone off to Gitmo.
That sounds like communism to me. "Take the extra money away from the rich, they don't really need it, and redistribute it to the poor who could use it."
Backward, actually. More along the lines of: "Hey, that peasant doesn't need all that land, let's develop it and sell to the rich who can afford big homes, and we'll put them along the water, so they have a river view and let's stop that peasant's from raising crops or having smelly livestock around."
This sort of thing has happened too many places. The best example I can think of, though, are artists, who went off into the mountains to seek peace and quiet and mostly a place where they could make a racket or mess without bothering neighbors. Next thing you know the -ing rich show up and say, 'oh, wouldn't it be lovely to live among these creative people in this lovely valley.' But once they get their split-level with two-car garage and pool put in they find they can't get any sleep because the sculptor gets up at dawn to bang his chisel. They can't have parties to show off their nifty digs, because the sloppy artists have rubbish all over the place and it's an eyesore. So the new home owners form the local equivilent of a Nazi party and ban the artists from their work and insist the clean up, etc. So the artists leave, to get away again, while the former 'art colony' with all it's cachet gets developed further.
Blame that on the people who refuse to upgrade to current stuff and bitch at MS when their stuff breaks, forcing MS to support their old, piece of crap hardware.
I fail to see why office or home applications should dictate a particular architecture. Gaming and lab work are probably the only things which may be picky, due to bus speeds. The AMD64 is a nice start, but when can we exepct some of the other housecleaning of PC design? All I've got on my desk at home is very souped up PC-XT. Meanwhile some really good architecture has died along the way as everyone fought to support quite possibly the most exasperating legacy beast, just like everyone else. Moo.
Microsoft requirements (to their legacy code and operating system) are what really holds the PC back. Has there been any decent effort to break this mold?
Can't be bothered to RTFA, how many base stations can I set up?
It didn't seem to go into enough detail on that regard. What frequencies does it use, how many channels are available, etc.
My 900MHz phone works ok within 30ft of the base and starts to pickup all sorts of RFI as I get further away. I suppose in a rural area I could get double the range.
This sounds to me like it'll be short-lived. More than ten people in your neighborhood get one and it's all over.
More like you'll have people get these, in a neighborhood a Ham, like my father lives in, and the amature radio blows the phone out of the water. Next thing you know the neighbors are whining about how the amature radio operator is wrecking things for everyone, in something they didn't even use before, but he's been using for 40+ years.
As for Troy's other qualities: well, let's just say that it seemed badly paced and too long. I saw the film with four others, and we all agreed that we just wanted them to get it over and done with well before the conclusion came around. When you're all looking at your watch thinking "I hope this ends soon", then you know something is very wrong.
Likely as a result of your highly developed short-attention-span. I found Titanic unbearable, probably due in no small part to having had a 32 oz. coke and the damn lack of intermissions these days.
Neither of us likely really cut out for drama, which when you come down to it, is about all Ender's Game is.
So it's basically a long range phone, not an actual cell phone. Fine if you live on a ranch, but with all the structures and interference in town, I wonder how effective it really is.
FWIW I avoid cell phones because the cost is just too damn high for what little I need one for. I'd consider pay-as-you-go without some stupid limit placed upon how soon I need to use up my time or artificial wallet robbing schemes
Troy was not bad but it also was not good. I cannot imagine a movie will do those stories the justice they deserve.
Troy was actually pretty good. Let's see how people would like it if the story was followed letter for letter.
Same applies to LoTR. How many people would have fawned all over the three films if all the characters spoke like they did in the books and all the dialogue was left in.
As adaptations go, they were satisfactory. Heck, Troy was actually pretty good compared to a lot of the dreck people shell out money for.
As for how you adapt Ender's Game to a screen play, lots of luck. I have high hopes for lots of revered novels, but realize too many of them would require significant change to fit. Can't have people standing around all the time doing soliloquies all the time so you know what's on their minds.
Only a day after flaming open source as insecure, unscalable and unfit for Australian consumption in its Agility Alliance, services vendor EDS has revealed it really does have a soft spot for the penguin deep in its heart.
Left hand, meet right hand. We'll introduce you to brain later.
In other news: EDS global vice president for Agility Alliance Rob Rasmussen was found not to be scalable.
An anonymous insider said, "We still give him rubber pencils and an Etch-A-Sketch for a laptop, he's getting better about drooling, too."
Except Dan/Dani didn't want to introduce elements of war to M.U.L.E. which then head of EA wanted. Rather than take the money and corrupt a much beloved work, it was dropped.
i advice you to enjoy yourself in the first place! It's tha best years, and they'll pass fast, so enjoy life should be rule 1 for every student. To hell with work etc - you'll have plenty in a future if you'll still be alive!
The 11 years I spent working on my first Associate degree were the best of my life (excepting those two years which really kinda sucked, but I got over them.)
The Summers Program ounds like a wonderful opportunity to me. Anyone with an ingenious nature should will give their right arm to get into this one.
Sounds ideal, but is it practical? Without having an actual idea to start with, some experience in the field the product would be employed in, it's just an exercise.
What to do first summer in college? Work. Work somewhere, even if you have to volunteer, but work! If you're observant enough you find a need, a niche, an opportunity for something somewhere. That's your launchpad.
Me? I'm an old cuss working in a small shop, converting legacy stuff with new tools. I'll save them a bundle. I may release some of my code open source, just so others can benefit. There's so many needs around me, it's more than I can keep up with. Occasionally I come across something that'd be great beyond these four walls. If only I could take a break and expand upon it...
Why would they reintroduce M.U.L.E? I have a working copy sitting on my desk as I type this. What would updating it bring?
Rather than respond to your whole Instant-Response-Just-Remove-Thinking-Broadly, how about a new M.U.L.E., which could be played over a network, wifi, phones, whatever? EA has latched onto these consoles, which are finally networkable, why not revive some of these old concepts and take advantage of it? Heck, as long as they don't go overboard with eye candy and music, these could have a decent ROI. The people who originally coded these games did it painstakingly in assembler, don't even get me started on what they had to do for graphics and sound (i did sound for one C64 game, it was a pain fiddling with those registers to get an auto sound right!)
Probably is more appropriate that indies go about it, but you can't quite make money on a multiplayer M.U.L.E. without attracting the attorneys of a company which has no plans to do anything with it anyway.
From Matt's letter: "Anyway, please, just stop the whining. Stop telling people about
how horrible the games industry is. Stop telling them that they can't succeed without
radical industry changes. It's bunk and you should know better. Are you intentionally
trying to discourage people from getting into the industry?"
Funny how it was, back in the begining that games were developed at home, by individuals,
who put in whatever hours it took to get the thing done, usually settled for a set price and/or
small additional royalty for their work. If they were working a career job, it wouldn't have justified
the hours, but a sudden flood of $30,000 can make people think they've struck gold. Dollar
votes separated the winners from the losers. It was a lot like the early rock and roll music scene.
Now, it is a career profession, so like any other line of work you do what you have
to, respond to purchaser demand, follow "me-too" the market leaders and give up on actually
writing something which would be fun to play. Kinda like the manufactured pop music of today.
I stopped by EA at SDWest and asked them when they'd be re-introducing M.U.L.E. or Mail Order Monsters,
while some golf and football games were sitting there. The guy didn't even know what I was
talking about. That's part of what's wrong, the industry has driven a wooden stake through the heart
of it's heritage and buried it.
"Think we can work John Madden into a new version of Ultima?"
"You see, the troll here has lots of hit points, but the elf is much faster, so he'll probably try and end-around and...
Slashdot Mirror
"That man, get him!"
"What? He's just standing there."
"Can't you bloody see? He's shaved off all his hair, even his eyebrows!"
"Cor! Must be planing a nefarious crime alright!"
They've been reprinted a number of times in books. The sequence appears in The Impollutable Pogo:
"If you let us keep your DNA on file, we can use it to prove you are innocent, further if you ever go missing we can us it to trace you if you leave a trail. So it's a good thing, you see?
I've always admired you, your clever way with words and such. You're my hero! Can you please send me a lock of your hair?
If you can ever find Walk Kelly's Pogo strips from the 70's, he nails Agnew for this very line of logic. Guess who isn't the one locked up in the jail? It is a bit like Nixon, again, isn't it?
In a country where the federal government has been concentrating power in the capital, I can't see where she gets such bizarre ideas.
We're heading for a country where everyone is a potential suspect, eventually. And when the congress pulls and late nighter and the president flies back to the capital to quickly sign a bill allowing the government to barge past states rights and personal descisions it's discomforting. It would probably be a small matter to bury into a large bill some little thing that allows the transportation of all DNA evidence to be conveniently sent to the Foggy Bottom and squirreled away somewhere, where it could be called upon the next time someone needs a roundup of the usual suspects and a filing error could easily send anyone off to Gitmo.
That was quite obviously a troll. Not many posters have the spine to troll and show their face at the same time.
Whom would that be? I passed mine. Got a brother with a license, too.
Backward, actually. More along the lines of: "Hey, that peasant doesn't need all that land, let's develop it and sell to the rich who can afford big homes, and we'll put them along the water, so they have a river view and let's stop that peasant's from raising crops or having smelly livestock around."
This sort of thing has happened too many places. The best example I can think of, though, are artists, who went off into the mountains to seek peace and quiet and mostly a place where they could make a racket or mess without bothering neighbors. Next thing you know the -ing rich show up and say, 'oh, wouldn't it be lovely to live among these creative people in this lovely valley.' But once they get their split-level with two-car garage and pool put in they find they can't get any sleep because the sculptor gets up at dawn to bang his chisel. They can't have parties to show off their nifty digs, because the sloppy artists have rubbish all over the place and it's an eyesore. So the new home owners form the local equivilent of a Nazi party and ban the artists from their work and insist the clean up, etc. So the artists leave, to get away again, while the former 'art colony' with all it's cachet gets developed further.
Examples: Aspen, Carmel, Sedona
I fail to see why office or home applications should dictate a particular architecture. Gaming and lab work are probably the only things which may be picky, due to bus speeds. The AMD64 is a nice start, but when can we exepct some of the other housecleaning of PC design? All I've got on my desk at home is very souped up PC-XT. Meanwhile some really good architecture has died along the way as everyone fought to support quite possibly the most exasperating legacy beast, just like everyone else. Moo.
Microsoft requirements (to their legacy code and operating system) are what really holds the PC back. Has there been any decent effort to break this mold?
It didn't seem to go into enough detail on that regard. What frequencies does it use, how many channels are available, etc.
My 900MHz phone works ok within 30ft of the base and starts to pickup all sorts of RFI as I get further away. I suppose in a rural area I could get double the range.
More like you'll have people get these, in a neighborhood a Ham, like my father lives in, and the amature radio blows the phone out of the water. Next thing you know the neighbors are whining about how the amature radio operator is wrecking things for everyone, in something they didn't even use before, but he's been using for 40+ years.
Likely as a result of your highly developed short-attention-span. I found Titanic unbearable, probably due in no small part to having had a 32 oz. coke and the damn lack of intermissions these days.
Neither of us likely really cut out for drama, which when you come down to it, is about all Ender's Game is.
FWIW I avoid cell phones because the cost is just too damn high for what little I need one for. I'd consider pay-as-you-go without some stupid limit placed upon how soon I need to use up my time or artificial wallet robbing schemes
Troy was actually pretty good. Let's see how people would like it if the story was followed letter for letter.
Same applies to LoTR. How many people would have fawned all over the three films if all the characters spoke like they did in the books and all the dialogue was left in.
As adaptations go, they were satisfactory. Heck, Troy was actually pretty good compared to a lot of the dreck people shell out money for.
As for how you adapt Ender's Game to a screen play, lots of luck. I have high hopes for lots of revered novels, but realize too many of them would require significant change to fit. Can't have people standing around all the time doing soliloquies all the time so you know what's on their minds.
Left hand, meet right hand. We'll introduce you to brain later.
In other news: EDS global vice president for Agility Alliance Rob Rasmussen was found not to be scalable.
An anonymous insider said, "We still give him rubber pencils and an Etch-A-Sketch for a laptop, he's getting better about drooling, too."
Except Dan/Dani didn't want to introduce elements of war to M.U.L.E. which then head of EA wanted. Rather than take the money and corrupt a much beloved work, it was dropped.
The 11 years I spent working on my first Associate degree were the best of my life (excepting those two years which really kinda sucked, but I got over them.)
Sounds ideal, but is it practical? Without having an actual idea to start with, some experience in the field the product would be employed in, it's just an exercise.
Me? I'm an old cuss working in a small shop, converting legacy stuff with new tools. I'll save them a bundle. I may release some of my code open source, just so others can benefit. There's so many needs around me, it's more than I can keep up with. Occasionally I come across something that'd be great beyond these four walls. If only I could take a break and expand upon it...
Rather than respond to your whole Instant-Response-Just-Remove-Thinking-Broadly, how about a new M.U.L.E., which could be played over a network, wifi, phones, whatever? EA has latched onto these consoles, which are finally networkable, why not revive some of these old concepts and take advantage of it? Heck, as long as they don't go overboard with eye candy and music, these could have a decent ROI. The people who originally coded these games did it painstakingly in assembler, don't even get me started on what they had to do for graphics and sound (i did sound for one C64 game, it was a pain fiddling with those registers to get an auto sound right!)
Probably is more appropriate that indies go about it, but you can't quite make money on a multiplayer M.U.L.E. without attracting the attorneys of a company which has no plans to do anything with it anyway.
Castles of Dr. Creep - Seriously addictive fun for masochists of all ages.
Funny how it was, back in the begining that games were developed at home, by individuals, who put in whatever hours it took to get the thing done, usually settled for a set price and/or small additional royalty for their work. If they were working a career job, it wouldn't have justified the hours, but a sudden flood of $30,000 can make people think they've struck gold. Dollar votes separated the winners from the losers. It was a lot like the early rock and roll music scene.
Now, it is a career profession, so like any other line of work you do what you have to, respond to purchaser demand, follow "me-too" the market leaders and give up on actually writing something which would be fun to play. Kinda like the manufactured pop music of today.
I stopped by EA at SDWest and asked them when they'd be re-introducing M.U.L.E. or Mail Order Monsters, while some golf and football games were sitting there. The guy didn't even know what I was talking about. That's part of what's wrong, the industry has driven a wooden stake through the heart of it's heritage and buried it.
"Think we can work John Madden into a new version of Ultima?" ...
"You see, the troll here has lots of hit points, but the elf is much faster, so he'll probably try and end-around and
I've got the Pod Racer 3D, but haven't played it in a while.