It's funny how whatever people are left in country when the music stops assume all historical karma points for all the people who used to live there until just before the music stopped.
Any Vikings left in Denmark, please raise your hand? The successful vikings invaded Scotland and other places, and then, after attempts to dig the Panama Canal with claymore in 1700, they helped found Canada.
It's not about the slightly larger than football field sized island. It's about the 200 miles (or whatever the claim distance is these days) of ocean bottom and resources around it. It's a small island but it casts a large shadow.
Or the text-to-speech that comes with Windows. Tried that, but small distinct sounds work better. (It also has to say the type of access and continuous "TCP 6881, TCP 6881..." when it's a dirty IP address is annoying.) I'll think about voice as an option.
Why not vary the sound depending on the amount of email arriving? With a Ferris Bueller theme, a short note would be a small cough, up to a load of spam and several Powerpoint presentations which would sound like someone coughing up a lung and a face-hugger or two.
Since my new mail sound is currently a Klingon yellow alert, each email could be a hit on the shields, which slowly regenerate. Too much email in a short period would start a warp-core breach warning followed a huge explosion. Real fans could install an explosive charge in their keyboard just the real Enterprise.
You should add my firewall sound effects program too. (I don't have a random option, but with all the crud coming in from the Internet, and a different sound for each port, that's almost as good.)
The money people will hate the idea of self-contained, one-time features. Any that fail will be used as examples of why it's a bad idea, and any that succeed will be pressured to squeeze a sequel or five out of them.
Now we've got the mass infantry and space battles with overdone CGI. Boring! (And the attempts to make it unboring are worse.)
Bot #1138: "Sir, why are firing missles with little droids that slowly disect fighters? Why don't we just, like, blow them up?" General Grabass: "Count Dorkula thinks it's more cinematic. Shut up! *cough*cough*" Bot #1138: "Roger roger!"
Or the original BSG dogfights. The Cylons never once figured out that if they had seat-belts, they too could reverse thrusters and not get shot from the rear like they did every episode.
That's a shame. There might not be much science value in it, but the Sound of Mars would do a lot to make the surface of Mars a real place to the public. (And if we detect Julie Andrews singing "The hiiills are aaalive...", we can mount frikking lasers on the next rovers.)
That's probably the IP of one their previous victims. If you wanted to have fun, rename the role account they're trying for, create a "root" with almost no access and uses Zork (dungeon) as its shell. (Probably best to try this on the junk spare Pentium box, just in case.)
I don't suppose the rovers have microphones (adjusted for the low pressure)? Most of the time it wouldn't be worth the bandwidth to send back, but the bang and rumble from just one lightning strike would be something. And can you imagine the number of New Age "windstorm on Mars" environmental CDs that NASA could sell?
Don't let them sample and gene scan you! They're just selecting their next victims for Disney Abductions!
Have you or anyone you love:
Disappeared for off-the-map hours at a Disney site.
Been completely unable to remember where the time went.
Had a wonderful time, no need to do hypnotic regression recall, keep back you mothers of sons!
If so, you might be Cory Doctorow. Please contact your Magic Kingom Hall.
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Any Vikings left in Denmark, please raise your hand? The successful vikings invaded Scotland and other places, and then, after attempts to dig the Panama Canal with claymore in 1700, they helped found Canada.
Let's ice it up and play hockey for it!
Eventually Microsoft and Borland agreed to a private settlement over this that included a non-speak agreement.
And here's to you, Mrs. Robotison...
Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?
Repliee -- Believe it or not!
Just in case Mars attacks.
Where can I get some open source bees?
Especially when the upstream runs the cheapskate script to locate the problem.
Or the text-to-speech that comes with Windows. Tried that, but small distinct sounds work better. (It also has to say the type of access and continuous "TCP 6881, TCP 6881..." when it's a dirty IP address is annoying.) I'll think about voice as an option.
Since my new mail sound is currently a Klingon yellow alert, each email could be a hit on the shields, which slowly regenerate. Too much email in a short period would start a warp-core breach warning followed a huge explosion. Real fans could install an explosive charge in their keyboard just the real Enterprise.
You should add my firewall sound effects program too. (I don't have a random option, but with all the crud coming in from the Internet, and a different sound for each port, that's almost as good.)
Some people can terrorize with mere coloured chalk.
The money people will hate the idea of self-contained, one-time features. Any that fail will be used as examples of why it's a bad idea, and any that succeed will be pressured to squeeze a sequel or five out of them.
Use a fast pipe and snort the whole first season with P2P. Then everything will make perfect sense.
Or the original BSG dogfights. The Cylons never once figured out that if they had seat-belts, they too could reverse thrusters and not get shot from the rear like they did every episode.
No, just people who don't want to be hit with bullet-point presentations. (Even piecharts in the face wouldn't be enjoyable.)
Ohmigawd! He's going to PowerPoint the subway car! Getim!
That's a shame. There might not be much science value in it, but the Sound of Mars would do a lot to make the surface of Mars a real place to the public. (And if we detect Julie Andrews singing "The hiiills are aaalive...", we can mount frikking lasers on the next rovers.)
That's probably the IP of one their previous victims. If you wanted to have fun, rename the role account they're trying for, create a "root" with almost no access and uses Zork (dungeon) as its shell. (Probably best to try this on the junk spare Pentium box, just in case.)
For those that want to check their own logs. I just get a sprinkling of those, maybe an average of one or two a day.
Yeah. Hack up a backhoe to be your firewall. Then when it roars off into the night, you'll know that it's off to firewall the attacks at the source.
I don't suppose the rovers have microphones (adjusted for the low pressure)? Most of the time it wouldn't be worth the bandwidth to send back, but the bang and rumble from just one lightning strike would be something. And can you imagine the number of New Age "windstorm on Mars" environmental CDs that NASA could sell?
We could call them ajax, 'cause it cleans like a white tornado!
Don't let them sample and gene scan you! They're just selecting their next victims for Disney Abductions! Have you or anyone you love:
Disappeared for off-the-map hours at a Disney site.
Been completely unable to remember where the time went.
Had a wonderful time, no need to do hypnotic regression recall, keep back you mothers of sons! If so, you might be Cory Doctorow. Please contact your Magic Kingom Hall.