The old beater F250 we have does the same thing. You shut it off and it will run for several seconds. You can take the key out, walk away, and it will still be coughing away.
I second the Reuben and Ed comment. Not only is it hilarious, but it inspired the now famous shoe attack on Letterman when Crispin Glover came on the show in character.
As long as you mention the frozen cat in the cooler, you should also mention that they get lost in the desert and have to drink the cooler water as the cat thaws. Great stuff indeed.
In Spiderman 2099 when the new Spidey discovers his organic webshooters he mentions that he is thankful that he isn't more spider-like because then he would have "silk spewing out my butt" or something to that effect.
I am all in favor of organic webshooters. Hopefully this will do away with all the "I have run out of web cartridges, what do I do now?" plots.
My first job out of college was with a group that did some hard-core transaction processing stuff on IBM System 390s. They did a lot of work in assembly because, "You can't really trust a compiler." I didn't stay in the group very long though so I never had to do any of it myself.
When I was in 4th and 5th grade I REALLY wanted to learn machine language for the C64. But I could never find an assembler. I had no idea how people found an assembler in order to write ML programs. Now I find out that I could have bought this book and typed in the assembler in the back that was written in BASIC. At this point that isn't helpful information, it is simply frustrating.
As a side note, I remember being all excited when I found out that we were going to write ML programs in intro to computer theory. Little did I know that the name "ML" is overloaded in the computer languages department. We didn't learn machine language, we learned the "other" ML. Of course I did get really good at recursion. Not that I ever use it now.
I might be biased as an IBMer, but the IBM one sounds better to me. Both are certainly better than the one included with Notes Buddy, which is all the rage in IBM right now since it is so much better than our previous IM tool.
I didn't misread it, but the point you bring up is relevant. The list was sold to Sprint. If there isn't an infrastructure in place to delete unenrolled adresses from the DBs of all the companies that have purchased the list then there is no way that his name could have been taken off in two days. Even if there were such a system it would probably only run twice a week. Certainly not instantly. What do you think the odds are that such a system is even in place? I would be shocked if one exists.
Given that this system exists only in my imagination I agree that there should be a link to an opt out form included with any legitimate business spam. Yeah, he would have to opt out of the Sprint list (even though he didn't sign up for it directly) but that isn't so terrible. That process should be instantaneous and permanent.
You are right that you shouldn't have to track Sprint down, but again, this was a bad test case. If he were still getting spam two months later his case would have been much stronger.
Also, legitimate email lists that you sign up for (and he did sign up for this, though not from Sprint directly) are not where the spam problem really lies. It is fly-by-night unprofessional, non-corporate email grabbers, most of whom seem to be trying to sell me email adresses.
First off, hooray to the submitter for slandering the entire state of Utah. We need more of that on/.
Those of you who read the article will note that the guy asked to be removed and then two days later got "spammed" by Sprint. Two days is not enough time to be removed. This is something he signed up for. It doesn't mention if he continued to receive spam afterwards.
The truely annoying spam is the spam that you never sign up for. Where your email address has been snatched by a spider and there is no way to unenroll. That was not the case here.
My opinion is that they [the NSA] probably do still have a bit of a lead in the area of block ciphers, and probably have a large lead in the area of stream ciphers. And I'm sure they have a large lead in the area of practical cryptology and cryptanalysis. I suspect that academia is ahead in just about every other area.
Um, to say that academia is ahead isn't exactly accurate. Since academia is constantly making public exactly what it is they know, the NSA is never "left behind". They can simply read and be caught up. Of course if by ahead you mean development of skills and talent rather than published knowledge then it is certainly possible that some of the people in academia are more talented than their counterparts in the NSA. But academia doesn't have access to anything that the NSA doesn't have.
IMS is a hierarchical database from IBM. The structure of the DB matches up with XML nicely and it is super fast. Of course it is also one of the oldest software products in existence...
When I was about 11 years old I found a lighter on the ground. After discovering that it didn't work I threw it back on the ground. It exploded. I was rather surprised, and quite glad that I didn't catch a shard of what was left of it with my eye. That said, I would guess that there will be very safe methods of carrying fuel cells for laptops.
You make an excellent point. In the short term Linux might not be cheaper. In the long term however, what is going to be cheaper for continuing upgrades, given that the retraining (which might be minimal) only needs to be done once, but you have to pay Microsoft every few years.
If you want to respond to that comment then you should respond to it rather than its parent, don't you think?
The point of the XBox2 post is that MS has some amount of flexibility in when it launches an XB2. Sony is aware of this and would probably rather have the PS3 out as far ahead of XB2 as possible. Hyping the new platform at this point might not be the best idea.
You are right that the XBox has done poorly in the games department. It is still an atractive platform for developers though. Also, MS could "spring" a new platform on developers without much trouble since switching platforms for them (XBox developers) will be relatively easy. Now think of the trouble that a "surprise" new PS would cause developers.
As for backwards compatibility, that is what makes a quick MS move possible without insulting the public. Your existing library of games still plays on the new system. No reason not to leverage that.
That is why I think this is a sham. The developers would need to have their hands on the hardware about two years in advance. My point was that to say, "It can't be true because Sony hasn't hyped it," is silly. There are reasons why Sony might not want to hype it. Your reason is not silly and I agree with it.
I'm trying to distinguish between your use of the terms "couple of years" and "several years". I have to admit that I'm having a hard time of it.
Anyhow, I disagree with your assertion that consoles always outstrip the current offerings of computers. In the past that might have been true some of the time. It certainly wasn't true in 1983 when the C64 was the best game machine out there. I don't think that it is true right now either. Perhaps in the SNES/N64 era there was some truth to that.
MS has a huge advantage in that their upgrade path will always be clear. It will be inexpensive from an R&D standpoint. Backwards compatibility will be a no-brainer. It is a platform that developers are already familiar with. The big disadvantage is that over time your commodity parts become less common rather than more. An example of this is the HD in the XBox, which is now bigger than the original, but still is formatted to the same size.
The Sony advantage is momentum. Right now they have the games, developers, and love of the public. The industry has certainly seen how that can change from one generation of hw to the next.
Let's assume that this story is true, even though it probably is not. It if is, there is are some good reasons for Sony to be in stealth mode for this launch.
1. They don't want to kill current sales of PS2. If they announced now that there would be a new platform for Christmas worldwide it would kill current sales. Also, if they do plan on launching before Christmas and then miss the date they have just killed their sales year. You can be sure that if they think they have something that will be ready for this year, they won't announce it until there are SURE they can deliver.
2. They don't want to alert Microsoft to what is going on. Everyone says that it would be impossible to release a PS3 this quickly, but what about an XBox2? By using what is basically commodity hardware again MS can develop and release a backwards compatible followup to the XBox with relatively little effort. They will be able to meet a Sony launch date with much less prep time. So not tipping off MS would be a huge reason to not hype the PS3 until just before launch.
3. The "surprise" of a new console this quickly will be hype enough. Think about it. How blown away would people be if this were true? It will generate its own hype. Especially if the tech is good.
I think that if you though about it for a while you could probably come up with some reasons of your own why operating in stealth mode would be an advantage even though it is n't what they have done in the past. Remember though, that while your reasoning might be flawed, it doesn't mean that the article is accurate.
The/. crew had its own audio blog/show, Geeks in Space. How long has it been since there was a new installment? I think that laziness is probably the biggest obstacle preventing more production.
On the other hand not only was it not convinient to make, but it wasn't convinient to listen to either. For me it is really hard to listen to Geeks in Space while working. I end up paying to much attention to the show. Also, you can't just run through it really fast like a blog. So it seems the format is inconvinient on both ends.
the project isn't about making the city pretty so much as upgrading a highway that has been overcappacity since it opened.
Actually the commonwealth of MA turned down federal money in the 1970s to expand the "green monster" because they felt it was ugly and they could accomplish more with an investment in mass transit. This left Boston with a traffic crisis. If the project were simply about traffic it wouldn't be an underground freeway. It is about trying to make traffic have a minimal impact on a city. Personally I think that it is an example of corruption and stupidity. Price tag is well over $20 billion now...
How is one of the few posts to actually discuss the content of the episode a troll? Almost everything else posted to this discussion is a discussion of either the Matrix or general posts about the Animatrix and not a discussion of the episode itself. In fact most of the posts I have read seem to be about download speeds. If that isn't offtopic I don't know what is. But here is one of the few posts that is completely on-topic and it gets modded as a troll? Some people's children... end of rant
This is probably one of the largest wastes of money that this state has ever put out.
At least your state isn't building the world's most expensive underground freeway for over $20 billion. I think that EVERY state should build an underground freeway in their largest city, just to keep things "fair".
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The old beater F250 we have does the same thing. You shut it off and it will run for several seconds. You can take the key out, walk away, and it will still be coughing away.
My grandmother loves that movie. She couldn't stop laughing. It was as if they had a direct connection to her sense of humour.
As long as you mention the frozen cat in the cooler, you should also mention that they get lost in the desert and have to drink the cooler water as the cat thaws. Great stuff indeed.
Andy Warhol sucks a big one!
I am all in favor of organic webshooters. Hopefully this will do away with all the "I have run out of web cartridges, what do I do now?" plots.
I just wish I had run into this book in 1984...
...on my Banana 2000?
As a side note, I remember being all excited when I found out that we were going to write ML programs in intro to computer theory. Little did I know that the name "ML" is overloaded in the computer languages department. We didn't learn machine language, we learned the "other" ML. Of course I did get really good at recursion. Not that I ever use it now.
I might be biased as an IBMer, but the IBM one sounds better to me. Both are certainly better than the one included with Notes Buddy, which is all the rage in IBM right now since it is so much better than our previous IM tool.
Given that this system exists only in my imagination I agree that there should be a link to an opt out form included with any legitimate business spam. Yeah, he would have to opt out of the Sprint list (even though he didn't sign up for it directly) but that isn't so terrible. That process should be instantaneous and permanent.
You are right that you shouldn't have to track Sprint down, but again, this was a bad test case. If he were still getting spam two months later his case would have been much stronger.
Also, legitimate email lists that you sign up for (and he did sign up for this, though not from Sprint directly) are not where the spam problem really lies. It is fly-by-night unprofessional, non-corporate email grabbers, most of whom seem to be trying to sell me email adresses.
Those of you who read the article will note that the guy asked to be removed and then two days later got "spammed" by Sprint. Two days is not enough time to be removed. This is something he signed up for. It doesn't mention if he continued to receive spam afterwards.
The truely annoying spam is the spam that you never sign up for. Where your email address has been snatched by a spider and there is no way to unenroll. That was not the case here.
This was simply a bad test case.
Um, to say that academia is ahead isn't exactly accurate. Since academia is constantly making public exactly what it is they know, the NSA is never "left behind". They can simply read and be caught up. Of course if by ahead you mean development of skills and talent rather than published knowledge then it is certainly possible that some of the people in academia are more talented than their counterparts in the NSA. But academia doesn't have access to anything that the NSA doesn't have.
IMS is a hierarchical database from IBM. The structure of the DB matches up with XML nicely and it is super fast. Of course it is also one of the oldest software products in existence...
When I was about 11 years old I found a lighter on the ground. After discovering that it didn't work I threw it back on the ground. It exploded. I was rather surprised, and quite glad that I didn't catch a shard of what was left of it with my eye. That said, I would guess that there will be very safe methods of carrying fuel cells for laptops.
You are right, there need to be plenty of good titles at release. Developers need the machines ahead of time.
You make an excellent point. In the short term Linux might not be cheaper. In the long term however, what is going to be cheaper for continuing upgrades, given that the retraining (which might be minimal) only needs to be done once, but you have to pay Microsoft every few years.
If you want to respond to that comment then you should respond to it rather than its parent, don't you think?
The point of the XBox2 post is that MS has some amount of flexibility in when it launches an XB2. Sony is aware of this and would probably rather have the PS3 out as far ahead of XB2 as possible. Hyping the new platform at this point might not be the best idea.
You are right that the XBox has done poorly in the games department. It is still an atractive platform for developers though. Also, MS could "spring" a new platform on developers without much trouble since switching platforms for them (XBox developers) will be relatively easy. Now think of the trouble that a "surprise" new PS would cause developers.
As for backwards compatibility, that is what makes a quick MS move possible without insulting the public. Your existing library of games still plays on the new system. No reason not to leverage that.
That is why I think this is a sham. The developers would need to have their hands on the hardware about two years in advance. My point was that to say, "It can't be true because Sony hasn't hyped it," is silly. There are reasons why Sony might not want to hype it. Your reason is not silly and I agree with it.
Anyhow, I disagree with your assertion that consoles always outstrip the current offerings of computers. In the past that might have been true some of the time. It certainly wasn't true in 1983 when the C64 was the best game machine out there. I don't think that it is true right now either. Perhaps in the SNES/N64 era there was some truth to that.
MS has a huge advantage in that their upgrade path will always be clear. It will be inexpensive from an R&D standpoint. Backwards compatibility will be a no-brainer. It is a platform that developers are already familiar with. The big disadvantage is that over time your commodity parts become less common rather than more. An example of this is the HD in the XBox, which is now bigger than the original, but still is formatted to the same size.
The Sony advantage is momentum. Right now they have the games, developers, and love of the public. The industry has certainly seen how that can change from one generation of hw to the next.
1. They don't want to kill current sales of PS2. If they announced now that there would be a new platform for Christmas worldwide it would kill current sales. Also, if they do plan on launching before Christmas and then miss the date they have just killed their sales year. You can be sure that if they think they have something that will be ready for this year, they won't announce it until there are SURE they can deliver.
2. They don't want to alert Microsoft to what is going on. Everyone says that it would be impossible to release a PS3 this quickly, but what about an XBox2? By using what is basically commodity hardware again MS can develop and release a backwards compatible followup to the XBox with relatively little effort. They will be able to meet a Sony launch date with much less prep time. So not tipping off MS would be a huge reason to not hype the PS3 until just before launch.
3. The "surprise" of a new console this quickly will be hype enough. Think about it. How blown away would people be if this were true? It will generate its own hype. Especially if the tech is good.
I think that if you though about it for a while you could probably come up with some reasons of your own why operating in stealth mode would be an advantage even though it is n't what they have done in the past. Remember though, that while your reasoning might be flawed, it doesn't mean that the article is accurate.
Fair enough. :) They need to work you harder though. Judge Judy should not be one of your courses...
On the other hand not only was it not convinient to make, but it wasn't convinient to listen to either. For me it is really hard to listen to Geeks in Space while working. I end up paying to much attention to the show. Also, you can't just run through it really fast like a blog. So it seems the format is inconvinient on both ends.
Actually the commonwealth of MA turned down federal money in the 1970s to expand the "green monster" because they felt it was ugly and they could accomplish more with an investment in mass transit. This left Boston with a traffic crisis. If the project were simply about traffic it wouldn't be an underground freeway. It is about trying to make traffic have a minimal impact on a city. Personally I think that it is an example of corruption and stupidity. Price tag is well over $20 billion now...
How is one of the few posts to actually discuss the content of the episode a troll? Almost everything else posted to this discussion is a discussion of either the Matrix or general posts about the Animatrix and not a discussion of the episode itself. In fact most of the posts I have read seem to be about download speeds. If that isn't offtopic I don't know what is. But here is one of the few posts that is completely on-topic and it gets modded as a troll? Some people's children... end of rant
How would you know? :)
At least your state isn't building the world's most expensive underground freeway for over $20 billion. I think that EVERY state should build an underground freeway in their largest city, just to keep things "fair".