Monty Python and the 30cm Martial Arts Robots
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Martial Arts Robots
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I can see it now....
TIM: Too late! [chord] ARTHUR: What? TIM: There he is! ARTHUR: Where? TIM: There! ARTHUR: What, behind the robot? TIM: It is the robot! ARTHUR: You silly sod! You got us all worked up! TIM: Well, that's no ordinary robot. That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered robot you ever set eyes on. ROBIN: You tit! I soiled my armor I was so scared! TIM: Look, that robot's got a vicious streak a mile wide, it's a killer! ???: Get stuffed! ROBIN: What's he do, nibble your bum? TIM: He's got huge, sharp-- he can leap about-- look at the bones! ARTHUR: Go on, Boris. Chop his head off! BORIS: Right! Silly little bleeder. One robot stew comin' right up! TIM: I warned you! But did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little robot, isn't it? Well, it's always the same, I always-- ARTHUR: Oh, shut up! ARTHUR: Oh, shut up and go and change your armor. GALAHAD: Let us taunt it! It may become so cross that it will make a mistake. ARTHUR: Like what? GALAHAD: Well,.... ARTHUR: Have we got bows? ???: No. LAUNCELOT: We have the Holy Hand Grenade. ARTHUR: Yes, of course! The Holy Hand Grenade of Slashdot! 'Tis one of the sacred relics Brother Maynard carries with him! Brother Maynard! Bring up the Holy Hand Grenade! [singing] How does it, uh... how does it work? ???: I know not, my liege. ARTHUR: Consult the Book of Armaments! MAYNARD: Armaments, Chapter Two, Verses Nine to Twenty-One. BROTHER: "And Saint Linus raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'Oh, Lord, bless this thy hand grenade that with it thou mayest blow thy enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin, and people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large --" MAYNARD: Skip a bit, Brother. BROTHER: "And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy OS. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Slashdot towards thou foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.'" MAYNARD: Amen. ALL: Amen. ARTHUR: Right! One... two... five! ???: Three, sir! ARTHUR: Three! [boom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
As I understand it, if you run a "toll free" number you actaully pay the toll charges. I think it is a flat rate discounted to something, but I don't know what exactly. So, how much do you think all those people calling the ATA's toll free number cost the ATA?
Because I suspect that's really why they put up such a fuss...
"Goc damn it, you didn't write it on a "word processor"! Or even on a "computer." What it is, is a goddamn typewrite--a machine for turning fingerstrokes on a keyboard into ink symbols on a piece of paper. (Okay, yours can also be used as a computer when you're not writing--my old Ryal manual can be used as a nutcracker, or a paperweight, or a murder weapon.) The silicon revolution did not change that process--from the user's point of view--much more than did the electric typewriter, it merely streamlined the error-correction process. When it's being used to make words appear on a page, it's a typewriter. To speak of your "word processor" is like refering to your car as an "exothermically powered, myocontrolled matter transporter." [ed. or refering to a flashlight as a "low voltage high density photon projector"] The only purpose of the term is to cue your listeners that you can afford to use a computer as a typewriter, and all it really tells them is that you're insecure enough to worry that people might think you still used one of those old-fashioned things to type on. --Mike"
You might like to look here www.enterprisemission.com and here http://www.mufor.org.
There is a lot of talk that the first Viking photos showed a blue horizon from surface side. This did not fit with NASA thinking and so they were color corected to present the red sky we all know.
I offered this article about how the Navy/Marine network was brought down by the recent spat of worms the other day but was rejected.
There are a number of other articles our there that give info on this and the reports of other nuke plants being affected on the fateful day last Thursday.
Maybe it is a naturally occuring phenomenon. Could it be possible that it developed "naturally" from corrupted code as it traveling across the net?
Yeah, I know this is a far out concept...but doesn't the possibilty for corruption of the code (re elovution) exisit even in self replicating programs?
So the Washington Post article require you to fill out their silly little survey before you read the article. The lower limit of the birth year field is 1900. Isn't it possible that someone older than 103 could concievably be online and looking at this article?
Go after the file sharers: They are doing evil. Go after the parents: The support the file sharers and actaully have some money. Go after the ISP: They provided the access to the internet for sharing. Go after the teleco: They provided the copper the files were shared on. Go after the computer manufacturer: They made the computer used to share the files by the file sharers. Go after the OS developer: They let the apps to share run on the computers involved.
...for me has always been the anticipation that someone is going to have a nasty fiery wreck and then walk away from it.
I really don't think this is what we want in a space "race". I think you need to look at it more from the stand poitn of the America's Cup rather than NASSCAR.;-)
1. Hijack plane. 2. Fly towards "softwall". 3. Kill power on plane (method not discussed in the interest of Homeland Security). 4. Can the "softwall" stop an unpowered (hence uncontrolled) plane (now a ballistic object)?
How about we just get the Gungan's to build us city shields? They were pretty...
Nope, your nightmate was real. I recall eagerly going out and buying a copy of this to run on my C64c (had to upgrade from my C64 because I blew out the something or other sound/graphics chip that I do not recall the name of via static electricy thru the joystick port when attaching my favortite Atari 2600 joystick--evidently a common problem on the C64 and hence my first attempt at circuit board IC replacement soldering). It sood for Graphic Environment Operating System. It was very MAC like looking.
I was certain it was going to replace my Kwik-Write word processor. And I remember several late nights writting a term paper in high school that was due the next day--ever the procrastinator. The advantage of it was that for documents it allowed you to change to all sorts of fonts beyond the one native to the printer (C-8050 dot matrix as I think it was...) The fonts were great for making the document longer...larger fonts...
I'm now reminded about a little game I had called "Computer People" or something like that. Especially after having read an aritcle in Wired about "The Sims". This was way pre-Sims...
I lug a Dell Laditude C840 around with a 15" display. It works very well for what I need it to do when I am travelling. However I find even it's 8.4+#'s of weight to be quite the back breaker sometimes. Especially those dashes thru an airport to catch an earlier flight. I just could not imagine lugging 10+#'s around just for a 17" screen with lower resolution.
If you REALLY need a bigger display, the way to go shoudl be some sort of personal vision system such as those spiffy Sony goggles with the display inside. I mean, with a 17" screen do I really want to be lighting the whole cabin with it and letting the guy in row 23 see what's on my screen. I may be surfing my offline p0rn collection!!!;-)
Anyhow, to mitigate toting my Dell around, I've gone the route of getting a dial-up modem for me Visor Prism. I can check email and do some surfing while traveling. I can IM most people. And all for under a pound. Good guys win!
YAY! to the 17" screen! BOO! the gravity well it comes with!
Slashdot Mirror
I can see it now....
TIM: Too late!
[chord]
ARTHUR: What?
TIM: There he is!
ARTHUR: Where?
TIM: There!
ARTHUR: What, behind the robot?
TIM: It is the robot!
ARTHUR: You silly sod! You got us all worked up!
TIM: Well, that's no ordinary robot. That's the most foul,
cruel, and bad-tempered robot you ever set eyes on.
ROBIN: You tit! I soiled my armor I was so scared!
TIM: Look, that robot's got a vicious streak a mile wide, it's
a killer!
???: Get stuffed!
ROBIN: What's he do, nibble your bum?
TIM: He's got huge, sharp-- he can leap about-- look at the
bones!
ARTHUR: Go on, Boris. Chop his head off!
BORIS: Right! Silly little bleeder. One robot stew comin'
right up!
TIM: I warned you! But did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew
it all, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little robot, isn't
it? Well, it's always the same, I always--
ARTHUR: Oh, shut up!
ARTHUR: Oh, shut up and go and change your armor.
GALAHAD: Let us taunt it! It may become so cross that it will
make a mistake.
ARTHUR: Like what?
GALAHAD: Well,....
ARTHUR: Have we got bows?
???: No.
LAUNCELOT: We have the Holy Hand Grenade.
ARTHUR: Yes, of course! The Holy Hand Grenade of Slashdot! 'Tis
one of the sacred relics Brother Maynard carries with him! Brother
Maynard! Bring up the Holy Hand Grenade!
[singing]
How does it, uh... how does it work?
???: I know not, my liege.
ARTHUR: Consult the Book of Armaments!
MAYNARD: Armaments, Chapter Two, Verses Nine to Twenty-One.
BROTHER: "And Saint Linus raised the hand grenade up on high,
saying, 'Oh, Lord, bless this thy hand grenade that with it thou
mayest blow thy enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the Lord
did grin, and people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and
carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and
fruit bats, and large --"
MAYNARD: Skip a bit, Brother.
BROTHER: "And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out
the Holy OS. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less.
Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the
counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either
count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is
right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be
reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Slashdot towards
thou foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.'"
MAYNARD: Amen.
ALL: Amen.
ARTHUR: Right! One... two... five!
???: Three, sir!
ARTHUR: Three!
[boom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
Pilot precise V extra fine
Just curious...
As I understand it, if you run a "toll free" number you actaully pay the toll charges. I think it is a flat rate discounted to something, but I don't know what exactly. So, how much do you think all those people calling the ATA's toll free number cost the ATA?
Because I suspect that's really why they put up such a fuss...
Well, too bad for them.
The important answer to your important question: 42
There. I did it. Someone had to...
Guess I should have used a "word process" to cut and paste that post...
"Goc = God". Opps...
I'm sure there are more...
If I may quote Spider Robinson a moment:
"Goc damn it, you didn't write it on a "word processor"! Or even on a "computer." What it is, is a goddamn typewrite--a machine for turning fingerstrokes on a keyboard into ink symbols on a piece of paper. (Okay, yours can also be used as a computer when you're not writing--my old Ryal manual can be used as a nutcracker, or a paperweight, or a murder weapon.) The silicon revolution did not change that process--from the user's point of view--much more than did the electric typewriter, it merely streamlined the error-correction process. When it's being used to make words appear on a page, it's a typewriter.
To speak of your "word processor" is like refering to your car as an "exothermically powered, myocontrolled matter transporter." [ed. or refering to a flashlight as a "low voltage high density photon projector"] The only purpose of the term is to cue your listeners that you can afford to use a computer as a typewriter, and all it really tells them is that you're insecure enough to worry that people might think you still used one of those old-fashioned things to type on.
--Mike"
Take it for what it is worth...
Hack these with a worm or something so they all wander around exclaiming, "EXTERMINATE!"
Opps...
I actually should have sent you to The Color of Mars bit on this site.
Thanks.
Depends on who you believe.
.
You might like to look here www.enterprisemission.com and here http://www.mufor.org
There is a lot of talk that the first Viking photos showed a blue horizon from surface side. This did not fit with NASA thinking and so they were color corected to present the red sky we all know.
Just my 2 cents. Enjoy.
Do you like what you get when you buy that CD?
Buy that DVD?
Buy tickets and go to a concert?
Yes? Then stop complaining.
'nuff said
Here is a news bite I found thru Tom's Hardware . It talks about Microsoft using a Linux device to protect its domain. Rather interesting...
I offered this article about how the Navy/Marine network was brought down by the recent spat of worms the other day but was rejected.
There are a number of other articles our there that give info on this and the reports of other nuke plants being affected on the fateful day last Thursday.
Is it April 1st again already?
Maybe it is a naturally occuring phenomenon. Could it be possible that it developed "naturally" from corrupted code as it traveling across the net?
Yeah, I know this is a far out concept...but doesn't the possibilty for corruption of the code (re elovution) exisit even in self replicating programs?
Just a thought...
Once they get power back, rumor is the new name will be blackoutium.
My family in northeast Pennsylvania inicate that they have not have any power problems.
Interesting note: Chicago is also on the same grid as NYC, Detroit, et al..
www.foxnews.com has finally posted a breaking news headline about this... ...aren't they in NYC?
So the Washington Post article require you to fill out their silly little survey before you read the article. The lower limit of the birth year field is 1900. Isn't it possible that someone older than 103 could concievably be online and looking at this article?
Dunno, I just found it interesting.
Hoo RAH!
Go Troopers!
Let's look to Starchip Troopers for this...
Go after the file sharers: They are doing evil. .
Go after the parents: The support the file sharers and actaully have some money.
Go after the ISP: They provided the access to the internet for sharing.
Go after the teleco: They provided the copper the files were shared on.
Go after the computer manufacturer: They made the computer used to share the files by the file sharers
Go after the OS developer: They let the apps to share run on the computers involved.
Dare I go on....?
...for me has always been the anticipation that someone is going to have a nasty fiery wreck and then walk away from it.
;-)
I really don't think this is what we want in a space "race". I think you need to look at it more from the stand poitn of the America's Cup rather than NASSCAR.
Get rid of the airplanes and airports:
Hire Chicago's Mayor Daly for a night to fix the airport ala Meigs Field.
1. Hijack plane.
2. Fly towards "softwall".
3. Kill power on plane (method not discussed in the interest of Homeland Security).
4. Can the "softwall" stop an unpowered (hence uncontrolled) plane (now a ballistic object)?
How about we just get the Gungan's to build us city shields? They were pretty...
Nope, your nightmate was real. I recall eagerly going out and buying a copy of this to run on my C64c (had to upgrade from my C64 because I blew out the something or other sound/graphics chip that I do not recall the name of via static electricy thru the joystick port when attaching my favortite Atari 2600 joystick--evidently a common problem on the C64 and hence my first attempt at circuit board IC replacement soldering). It sood for Graphic Environment Operating System. It was very MAC like looking.
I was certain it was going to replace my Kwik-Write word processor. And I remember several late nights writting a term paper in high school that was due the next day--ever the procrastinator. The advantage of it was that for documents it allowed you to change to all sorts of fonts beyond the one native to the printer (C-8050 dot matrix as I think it was...) The fonts were great for making the document longer...larger fonts...
I'm now reminded about a little game I had called "Computer People" or something like that. Especially after having read an aritcle in Wired about "The Sims". This was way pre-Sims...
'nuff said
I lug a Dell Laditude C840 around with a 15" display. It works very well for what I need it to do when I am travelling. However I find even it's 8.4+#'s of weight to be quite the back breaker sometimes. Especially those dashes thru an airport to catch an earlier flight. I just could not imagine lugging 10+#'s around just for a 17" screen with lower resolution.
;-)
If you REALLY need a bigger display, the way to go shoudl be some sort of personal vision system such as those spiffy Sony goggles with the display inside. I mean, with a 17" screen do I really want to be lighting the whole cabin with it and letting the guy in row 23 see what's on my screen. I may be surfing my offline p0rn collection!!!
Anyhow, to mitigate toting my Dell around, I've gone the route of getting a dial-up modem for me Visor Prism. I can check email and do some surfing while traveling. I can IM most people. And all for under a pound. Good guys win!
YAY! to the 17" screen!
BOO! the gravity well it comes with!