Were I marketing this product, I would not have thought to produce a crap video of pasty-fleshed youth rocking out with their Soundbug at the fucking *BowlPlex* in some grotty suburban strip-mall. And were I the manager of those esteemed lanes, I think I'd be well and truly freaked by those eerie green ripples coruscating across random vertical surfaces, beckoning my patrons to practice their white-man's overbites and get funky!
I kinda like Barry, but when I kicked in his CD tonight (after plating dinner, pouring the wine and lighting the candles) Love's Theme elicited nothing but a nervous titter from my SO. Granted, it was meant to be ironic, but it rather goes to show that Mr. White, while a very heavy cat, has become somewhat cliche.
One can only hope that unlike my better half, those sharks are living in an irony-free post-september-11 world, and will be transported by the mellow voice of love.
Hey, funny you should mention that. I was just looking at the Junkyard Wars episode guide, and the Season 6 championship (airing February 20th on TLC) is your option 2, albeit with only 10 hours to build, so not as super kickass as it could be:
Car Jousting
The champions' challenge is to take an ordinary car and convert it into a radio-controlled fighting machine. Points are scored for hitting targets on the opposing machine: 10 for a sideswipe, 20 for a rear-ender, and 30 for hammering the roof. If a machine strays outside the ring, it gives away 50 points to the other side. The team with the highest total score after three rounds is the winner.
Note that 30 points are awarded for "hammering the roof" so they're making allowances for vehicles with robot-like arms and whatnot.
2. Will an M1 Abrams fit in an 8'x8'x20' container?
You'd have to break it down a bit. According to the Pakistani Defense Journal, an assembled M1A is about 32' x 12' x 8'.
I suspect that you'd be spending a lot of your own money on that -- the Ultimate Machine Combat budget will probably be just enough to cover an old Nova, some rusty steel plate and an extension ladder.
the nasa press release doesn't say anything about the cameras being turned off:
This week, Galileo will make direct measurements of the charged particles and magnetic environment around Io. Also, its camera and instruments for infrared and thermal imaging have been programmed to make observations during the flyby. As much of the data as possible will be transmitted to Earth from the spacecraft's tape recorder in coming months, Theilig said.
and the only mention of Amalthea is this:
Before its final plunge, Galileo will make the first close flyby of Amalthea, a small, inner moon of Jupiter, in November 2002.
hmm. well, there's more data on Amalthea here, for those interested.
Wowzers. I thought Jackson swiped some Fritz Lang footage of the Maria > Robot transformation from Metropolis. Really, that's all I could think of during Galadriel's "and they shall LOVE me!" scene
... or the "Third World," as we used to call it. Linux is oft cited as the platform which will enable the mud-hut villages of the world to bootstrap their way into the Information Age.
It'll be a while, no doubt, before said villages have fat pipes with conveniently placed RJ45 jacks next to the town well. Until that day, it'll be a good thing if Linux can handle whatever type of modem people have access to.
Because no one who's actually read the post inline has had moderator privs. Alternatively, the only moderators who have actually read it are idiots:)
If you believe in The System, you've got to belive that someone will come along to mod it to Funny, and that the people who voted it "Informative" will lose some cred via meta-moderation. It's a young story yet.
Yar. It's lovely that there are folks interested in recycled/recyclable buildings, but it seems a pity that they had to build such an aesthetically bleah structure for children to play in. Would've been nice if a parallel team had investigated innovative uses of recycled material for interior design. I mean, it doesn't exactly radiate a message of nurturing love.
Snood is a nonviolent arcade-style game that requires a decent amount of forethought and planning. When I was managing labs at a middle school, both the students and teachers couldn't get enough of it. Available for MacOS, Windows, PalmOS and soon, it seems, GameBoy Advance. Download a fully-functional copy of this fine shareware game and give it a try.
Anthros are truly fine. I've had one for, gosh, must be about 5 years now, and it's as solid as the day I first assembled it. Mine's a 3-tier corner unit with a CPU shelf on the side -- particularly sweet for packing the maximum amount of hardware into a corner of your home office. It's something like this, though mine isn't quite as loaded;).
I've moved a couple of times with this desk, and yes you will have to disassemble it to get it through doors, however they're designed to survive repeated breakdowns without losing any structural integrity (unlike, say, prefab bookshelves). No nails or screw threads biting into wood.
The people at Anthro are great to work with, and their corporate values are in the right place too -- they're a consistent contributor to Public Broadcasting. Spend some time looking at their options -- you can build an Anthrocart almost any way you like -- and you won't be disappointed with the results.
i have a 9600 power mac at home with my pc's but it wont run the latest release
You can run OSX on your 9600. Get thee hence to Ryan Rempel's OS X for Legacy Macs and download his Unsupported UtilityX. It will allow you to install OSX on a vast range of machines that Apple's installer doesn't want to run on, your 9600 included.
Granted, OSX will tax a 604 beyond its resources, and if you haven't already you'll soon want to drop ~ $350US on a fast G3 / slower G4 processor upgrade. Throw in a Firewire&USB PCI card for another ~$100US and you've got yerself a fairly modern mac to play with.
I've never heard anyone pronounce the word "canadarm, " though I've read it often enough. I'm just wondering... is it "Canada-RUM" or "Canad-ARM" ? I'm betting on the latter, but I honestly don't know.
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Mr Cringley has cribbed a bit belatedly
> I believe it would be something along the lines of
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. . . for which the homograph "craw rot" seems most apropos
Yes, truly shocking.
Were I marketing this product, I would not have thought to produce a crap video of pasty-fleshed youth rocking out with their Soundbug at the fucking *BowlPlex* in some grotty suburban strip-mall. And were I the manager of those esteemed lanes, I think I'd be well and truly freaked by those eerie green ripples coruscating across random vertical surfaces, beckoning my patrons to practice their white-man's overbites and get funky!
One can only hope that unlike my better half, those sharks are living in an irony-free post-september-11 world, and will be transported by the mellow voice of love.
Note that 30 points are awarded for "hammering the roof" so they're making allowances for vehicles with robot-like arms and whatnot.
You'd have to break it down a bit. According to the Pakistani Defense Journal, an assembled M1A is about 32' x 12' x 8'.
I suspect that you'd be spending a lot of your own money on that -- the Ultimate Machine Combat budget will probably be just enough to cover an old Nova, some rusty steel plate and an extension ladder.
and the only mention of Amalthea is this:hmm. well, there's more data on Amalthea here, for those interested.
um. read the article at panspermia. they would survive, could potentially thrive, and regardless would confuse things.
Wowzers. I thought Jackson swiped some Fritz Lang footage of the Maria > Robot transformation from Metropolis. Really, that's all I could think of during Galadriel's "and they shall LOVE me!" scene
It's just a tree with a computer in it.
:)
Which makes it an embedded system. Last year he probably could've gotten some sweet funding for that
... or the "Third World," as we used to call it. Linux is oft cited as the platform which will enable the mud-hut villages of the world to bootstrap their way into the Information Age.
It'll be a while, no doubt, before said villages have fat pipes with conveniently placed RJ45 jacks next to the town well. Until that day, it'll be a good thing if Linux can handle whatever type of modem people have access to.
If you believe in The System, you've got to belive that someone will come along to mod it to Funny, and that the people who voted it "Informative" will lose some cred via meta-moderation. It's a young story yet.
Yar. It's lovely that there are folks interested in recycled/recyclable buildings, but it seems a pity that they had to build such an aesthetically bleah structure for children to play in. Would've been nice if a parallel team had investigated innovative uses of recycled material for interior design. I mean, it doesn't exactly radiate a message of nurturing love.
Snood is a nonviolent arcade-style game that requires a decent amount of forethought and planning. When I was managing labs at a middle school, both the students and teachers couldn't get enough of it. Available for MacOS, Windows, PalmOS and soon, it seems, GameBoy Advance. Download a fully-functional copy of this fine shareware game and give it a try.
I've moved a couple of times with this desk, and yes you will have to disassemble it to get it through doors, however they're designed to survive repeated breakdowns without losing any structural integrity (unlike, say, prefab bookshelves). No nails or screw threads biting into wood.
The people at Anthro are great to work with, and their corporate values are in the right place too -- they're a consistent contributor to Public Broadcasting. Spend some time looking at their options -- you can build an Anthrocart almost any way you like -- and you won't be disappointed with the results.
You can run OSX on your 9600. Get thee hence to Ryan Rempel's OS X for Legacy Macs and download his Unsupported UtilityX. It will allow you to install OSX on a vast range of machines that Apple's installer doesn't want to run on, your 9600 included.
Granted, OSX will tax a 604 beyond its resources, and if you haven't already you'll soon want to drop ~ $350US on a fast G3 / slower G4 processor upgrade. Throw in a Firewire&USB PCI card for another ~$100US and you've got yerself a fairly modern mac to play with.
I've never heard anyone pronounce the word "canadarm, " though I've read it often enough. I'm just wondering... is it "Canada-RUM" or "Canad-ARM" ? I'm betting on the latter, but I honestly don't know.