Gentlemen, phase three. We place a giant laser on the moon. Let me demonstrate.
(beat)
Where's my laser?
Dr. Evil looks around and sees Mini-Me gnawing on the model laser. Dr. Evil takes it from his mouth
DR. EVIL
Mini-Me, don't chew my laser.
(to room)
Not feeling well. He has an ear infection, but tit's OK.
(pause)
No? Nothing?
(back to model)
Anyway, the laser is powerful enough to destroy every city on the planet at will. We'll turn the moon into what I like to call a "Death Star".
Scott SNICKERS.
DR. EVIL
What?
SCOTT
(snickering again)
Nothing Darth.
DR. EVIL
What did you call me?
SCOTT
Nothing.
(pretends to sneeze)
Rip-off!
DR. EVIL
(unsure)
Bless you? Anyways, since my "death star" laser was invented by the noted Cambridge physicist, Dr. Parsons. I thought we'd name it in his honor-- the Alan Parsons Project.
Scott SNICKERS again.
DR. EVIL
What now?
SCOTT
The Alan Parsons Project was a progressive rock band from 1982. Why don't you just name it Operation Wang Chung, ass?
DR. EVIL
(indicating laser)
When you get your own evil empire, you can call it whatever you want.
Gentlemen, allow me to demonstrate the awesome lethality of the Alan Parsons Project. Fire the laser!
53 INSERT SHOT:
A giant laser beam smashes down through the roof of the White House, causing it to explode.
Everyone is shocked by the laser's power.
NUMBER TWO
My God, Dr. Evil, you destroyed the Wihite House with no warning!
DR. EVIL
Actually, that was just footage from the 1996 blockbuster motion Picture Independence Day, but it would be a lot like that. What do you think, Scott?
SCOTT
Yeah, Codename: Thompson Twins was really impressive.
I raised the GPL concern with LinuxDA earlier in the year. I was informed that until the GPL was upheld under a court challenge, they didn't think it carried much weight. Curiously, they felt they were justified in cutting the GPL corner with a statement like "how else can anyone make money with Linux?"
As several readers have pointed out, the map bright spots are closely matched with population/industrialization concentrations. And they mostly seem to make sense, except why in the heck are the Falkland Islands (off the East coast of Argentina) so damned bright? I mean, really, the Islands have an ordinarily resident population of 2,221 people.
Maybe the UK used some secret weapons during the 1982 war that left those bright spots behind?
The shift to ARM will mean of course incompatible binaries for all those vendor-supplied and open-source projects. Generally not too big a deal since there are lots of tools for ARM (gcc supports cross-compiling to ARM of course).
But, perhaps more interestingly, a new version of POSE is required. Development of the original POSE (nee CoPilot) is a fascinating story of reverse-engineering, ingenuity, and personal persistence of Greg Hewgill. Do a Google search for 13hewgil.pdf for an interesting account.
Let's hope Palm publishes the data sheet for the chip they're using -- unlike the originally secret Dragonball -- so POSE can be implemented for the new architecture without too much headache.
And of course, nerd-dom will prevail with something like:
"You get your 'tude from Google?" That is soooo lame! Everybody who's somebody uses MetaGopher"
For the love of god, don't use Java. Java has it's place, but not in portable gaming devices, were every cycle counts.
You said it. One thing to remember about cell phones is they are highly optimized for call processing and voice. Low voltage, low frequency CPUs. Many are based on the efficient ARM CPU core. The CPU goes to sleep as much as possible to prolong battery life. To get any decent performance of a JVM, you need about 10x-40x horsepower on a RISC CPU. Games, especially JVM-implemented, would suck battery faster than a six-year-old on a melted milkshake. Clock cycles are very precious on a cell phone.
On the other hand, companies like Zucotto Wireless are betting their future on direct-on-silicon Java execution for cell phones. I hope it doesn't end up being J W Bush style "execution"!
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An anomaly in the space-time continuum. Adjust shield harmonics to compensate. QED.
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The tape is probably stick-side up.
Okay, I'm willing to think "outside the box", and I say it's sticky side down. Besides my wanting to impress the Australians, this is space, after all.
But almost every time it found a six-word match, it found long passages in common, up to cases where "virtually the entire paper is the same."
C'mon, let's be fair about this. Is the professor or TA or whomever really taking the time to read these 1500-word papers? How could they not know that copying was going on?
A magic matching program to catch complete lifting of entire text? Unless they have Alzheimer's, how can this go missed when each paper is marked in the same time frame? Unless...
IMHO the markers give so little attention to the papers, and the students know this, so cheating is effectively encouraged. I've heard "urban legends" of guys purposely removing random numbered pages from assignments, and having it go unnoticed. So who is screwing whom in this system?
NATO ME - the monolith is discovered in the Cold War posturing between the West and the Iron Curtain, and this is Kubrick's way of downing Communism
A MONTE - referring to a popular game show at the time, and that the monolith was at various times in the movie under a curtain marked number two, and behind a door marked number three
OAT MEN - Quaker paid Kubrick for subliminal advertizing
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...you'll be lookin' at a whole lotta Kentucky Fried Penguin!
DR. EVIL
Gentlemen, phase three. We place a giant laser on the moon. Let me demonstrate.
(beat)
Where's my laser?
Dr. Evil looks around and sees Mini-Me gnawing on the model laser. Dr. Evil takes it from his mouth
DR. EVIL
Mini-Me, don't chew my laser.
(to room)
Not feeling well. He has an ear infection, but tit's OK.
(pause)
No? Nothing?
(back to model)
Anyway, the laser is powerful enough to destroy every city on the planet at will. We'll turn the moon into what I like to call a "Death Star".
Scott SNICKERS.
DR. EVIL
What?
SCOTT
(snickering again)
Nothing Darth.
DR. EVIL
What did you call me?
SCOTT
Nothing.
(pretends to sneeze)
Rip-off!
DR. EVIL
(unsure)
Bless you? Anyways, since my "death star" laser was invented by the noted Cambridge physicist, Dr. Parsons. I thought we'd name it in his honor-- the Alan Parsons Project.
Scott SNICKERS again.
DR. EVIL
What now?
SCOTT
The Alan Parsons Project was a progressive rock band from 1982. Why don't you just name it Operation Wang Chung, ass?
DR. EVIL
(indicating laser)
When you get your own evil empire, you can call it whatever you want.
Gentlemen, allow me to demonstrate the awesome lethality of the Alan Parsons Project. Fire the laser!
53 INSERT SHOT:
A giant laser beam smashes down through the roof of the White House, causing it to explode.
Everyone is shocked by the laser's power.
NUMBER TWO
My God, Dr. Evil, you destroyed the Wihite House with no warning!
DR. EVIL
Actually, that was just footage from the 1996 blockbuster motion Picture Independence Day, but it would be a lot like that. What do you think, Scott?
SCOTT
Yeah, Codename: Thompson Twins was really impressive.
What I want to know is how long until some industrous folks start driving around with an access point to really screw us up...
Better a PR hack than a NASA engineer!
I raised the GPL concern with LinuxDA earlier in the year. I was informed that until the GPL was upheld under a court challenge, they didn't think it carried much weight. Curiously, they felt they were justified in cutting the GPL corner with a statement like "how else can anyone make money with Linux?"
God's honest truth.
Like the other day I was frustrated in heavy traffic and actually thought about locating a railgun or BFG...
A truly great computer programmer is lazy, impatient and full of hubris, says Larry Wall (developer of Perl).
I say you stay programming. Once you demonstrate laziness, you'll be truly great.
...if Katz digitally removed the word "vapid" from his review.
What the hell does it mean anyway?
As several readers have pointed out, the map bright spots are closely matched with population/industrialization concentrations. And they mostly seem to make sense, except why in the heck are the Falkland Islands (off the East coast of Argentina) so damned bright? I mean, really, the Islands have an ordinarily resident population of 2,221 people.
Maybe the UK used some secret weapons during the 1982 war that left those bright spots behind?
The shift to ARM will mean of course incompatible binaries for all those vendor-supplied and open-source projects. Generally not too big a deal since there are lots of tools for ARM (gcc supports cross-compiling to ARM of course).
But, perhaps more interestingly, a new version of POSE is required. Development of the original POSE (nee CoPilot) is a fascinating story of reverse-engineering, ingenuity, and personal persistence of Greg Hewgill. Do a Google search for 13hewgil.pdf for an interesting account.
Let's hope Palm publishes the data sheet for the chip they're using -- unlike the originally secret Dragonball -- so POSE can be implemented for the new architecture without too much headache.
Why waste time with C programs?
Try % echo "$string" | tr 'a-zA-Z' 'n-za-mN-ZA-M'
And of course, nerd-dom will prevail with something like:
"You get your 'tude from Google?" That is soooo lame! Everybody who's somebody uses MetaGopher"
Project lead Jed Clampett is eagerly anticipating the first trials of the concrete canoe in the "see-ment pond".
For the love of god, don't use Java. Java has it's place, but not in portable gaming devices, were every cycle counts.
You said it. One thing to remember about cell phones is they are highly optimized for call processing and voice. Low voltage, low frequency CPUs. Many are based on the efficient ARM CPU core. The CPU goes to sleep as much as possible to prolong battery life. To get any decent performance of a JVM, you need about 10x-40x horsepower on a RISC CPU. Games, especially JVM-implemented, would suck battery faster than a six-year-old on a melted milkshake. Clock cycles are very precious on a cell phone.
On the other hand, companies like Zucotto Wireless are betting their future on direct-on-silicon Java execution for cell phones. I hope it doesn't end up being J W Bush style "execution"!
And they recently inked a deal with Firestone for military-spec exploding tires. Good price too!
Man this guy misses the point A FLAW RODENT HE
You can find anagrams in anything to back-up a premise A TRAWL FED HE ON
Some pretty crazy stuff, A HALF DEER WON'T
And jokes that are pretty obvious when you want them to be A FART HOLDEN WE
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Anyone remember those flying bikes in Galactica 1980?
Dammit, Bones!
An anomaly in the space-time continuum. Adjust shield harmonics to compensate. QED.
Okay, I'm willing to think "outside the box", and I say it's sticky side down. Besides my wanting to impress the Australians, this is space, after all.
C'mon, let's be fair about this. Is the professor or TA or whomever really taking the time to read these 1500-word papers? How could they not know that copying was going on?
A magic matching program to catch complete lifting of entire text? Unless they have Alzheimer's, how can this go missed when each paper is marked in the same time frame? Unless...
IMHO the markers give so little attention to the papers, and the students know this, so cheating is effectively encouraged. I've heard "urban legends" of guys purposely removing random numbered pages from assignments, and having it go unnoticed. So who is screwing whom in this system?
More fun than a TI-99/4A with speech-synthesis card. Those wouldn't say the bad words at all.
Yeah, the TI-99/4A voice synth was quite limited, but we ended up with...
This dude missed a few TMA-ONE interpretations:
NATO ME - the monolith is discovered in the Cold War posturing between the West and the Iron Curtain, and this is Kubrick's way of downing Communism
A MONTE - referring to a popular game show at the time, and that the monolith was at various times in the movie under a curtain marked number two, and behind a door marked number three
OAT MEN - Quaker paid Kubrick for subliminal advertizing
Check all the others here