1. Changing to D2
2. Coming up with a good critique of why there isn't really a top "10"
3. extend that with how it belittles the rest of the work that has been done
4. complain about not gettin/. anniversary t-shirt.
5. Change sig
6.
Of course the Infinite Improbability Drive is powered by tea.
Depends which Hitchhiker's version. Apparently, in the German radio episodes, 'a nice cool beer replaces hot tea as the source for brownian motion. While this appears as nonsense from a scientific point of view, it was perhaps done because of the cliché that beer is "the favourite drink in Germany" instead of tea' [Wikipedia 'Differences...' article].
It's going to be a new DRM infested attempt to get a monopoly in the media distribution market anyway
...good point. This is right there, in their own words: "[Expression] enables rapid import, compression and Web publishing of digital video imported from a variety of popular formats, including AVI and QuickTime, into WMV"
Enjoying the tacit admission even they don't think WMV is popular;)
W.
PC World's cessation of floppy sales also got a mention in the UK's free "Metro" commuter newspaper, adding yet more to the years worth of "it's dead already" reportage (eg. BBC, 2003)
While it's true that the more savvy Windows user will have noticed the move to deprecation (if not complete obsolescence) of floppies in the Windows install process, and others that Word documents no longer fit, this hardly means the floppy is dead.
Floppies remain an efficient method of updating the BIOS (and simultaneously backing up the old image), and then there's the potential re-use of machines that can't be upgraded (if only the mainstream press would suggest it): ripping out the hard drive and making a diskless, hence quiet, firewall.
Yes, you can *sometimes* use memory sticks for these, but not everyone is that close to Microsoft's bleeding edge that they necessarily have motherboards with support for it.
The author of 2001, Arthur C Clarke emphatically denies the
legend in his book "Lost Worlds of 2001", claiming that "HAL"
is an acronym for "Heuristically programmed algorithmic
computer". Clarke even wrote to the computer magazine Byte to
place his denial on record.
[http://tafkac.org/movies/HAL_wordplay_on_IBM.html , goes on to
argue this is unconvincing... given HAL has a different name
in the working drafts]
Fittingly, the asteroid carried the provisional designation 2001 DA42, thus commemorating the year of his untimely death, containing his initials, and incorporating the famous answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
Perhaps more fittingly, it was described as "relatively unremarkable". Sounds vaguely familiar...;)
Slashdot Mirror
[Scotty turns to landing party member] You've got red on your shirt!
(...engages cloaking device)
Depends which Hitchhiker's version. Apparently, in the German radio episodes, 'a nice cool beer replaces hot tea as the source for brownian motion. While this appears as nonsense from a scientific point of view, it was perhaps done because of the cliché that beer is "the favourite drink in Germany" instead of tea' [Wikipedia 'Differences...' article].
Numerous documentaries screened in the UK before now have speculated on this possibility.
A quick web search just now brings up this article from April 2006, which suggests decodings and recordings have existed since 2004.
Enjoying the tacit admission even they don't think WMV is popular ;)
W.
I got binary nonsense when I followed the link to the article.
The Mirrordot link works: http://mirrordot.org/stories/bdc4f568dcc5c7b125832 2aec4d77944/index.html
PC World's cessation of floppy sales also got a mention in the UK's free "Metro" commuter newspaper, adding yet more to the years worth of "it's dead already" reportage (eg. BBC, 2003)
While it's true that the more savvy Windows user will have noticed the move to deprecation (if not complete obsolescence) of floppies in the Windows install process, and others that Word documents no longer fit, this hardly means the floppy is dead.
Floppies remain an efficient method of updating the BIOS (and simultaneously backing up the old image), and then there's the potential re-use of machines that can't be upgraded (if only the mainstream press would suggest it): ripping out the hard drive and making a diskless, hence quiet, firewall.
Yes, you can *sometimes* use memory sticks for these, but not everyone is that close to Microsoft's bleeding edge that they necessarily have motherboards with support for it.
There are 31 further letters according to the
j udgement/
Register.
Article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/27/da_vinci_
Letters: j a e i e x t o s t g p s a c g r e a m q w f k a d p m q z v (ie. that's a 'G' and a 'Z' in addition to the above)
Fittingly, the asteroid carried the provisional designation 2001 DA42, thus commemorating the year of his untimely death, containing his initials, and incorporating the famous answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
;)
Perhaps more fittingly, it was described as "relatively unremarkable". Sounds vaguely familiar...
"And here we have an equation for loss of interest in the subject over time"
(...ZZZzzz...)