Just a shame the moon conspiracy-believers will claim that "Of course they've found the tapes NOW, now that computers are powerful enough to fake it properly"
And the mice will suddenly start to develop extreme communication skills and figure out how to upset the results of the scientists.
"How better to disguise their real natures, and how better to guide your thinking. Suddenly running down a maze the wrong way, eating the wrong bit of cheese, unexpectedly dropping dead of myxomatosis, - if it's finely calculated the cumulative effect is enormous."
Actually, I wrote a series of screenplays based on something Ellison thought up many years ago... I was thinking about contacting him and asking if he'd let me produce it (shoestring budget, 'natch) but the thing preventing me from doing that is his reputation for suing everyone.
Shame, really. I admire him and would like to dedicate it to him but even that might even make him angry.
Hey! sounds like the ticket for me! I always played that game with the keyboard anyway, I've never had a joystick so that's fine! I'm off to the Wine Apps Database! I check there periodically but I'd never found anything to get Rogue Squadron to run. Thanks!
I love the Wine project. I have seen it mature to where it is amazingly able to reproduce Windows (bugs and all!) which is NO SMALL FEAT. I've installed Crossover Office for someone and seen it able to run Office perfectly.
I just wish in all of that it was able to run Rogue Squadron, an old Windows 98 game because that is really the only game I miss.
But I suppose Rogue Squadron is too much of an oddball; it's old and probably relies on some undocumented jazz in Windows 98...
Send unmanned craft to Mars whose mission is to stay in orbit and deploy a series of reflectors that will concentrate sunlight and keep it focused on the same spot on the surface of Mars, bringing the temperature there up to ~20C.
Then when we finally send manned craft, they will set up camp at that spot. As long as the reflectors don't fail the ground-crew won't have to worry about their heaters breaking and they can build greenhouses to deal with their food and oxygen situation.
If after all this, people willingly choose Windows, then they deserve what they'll get. There is no sense trying to convince them otherwise. Also there is no point because many more people (real people, not astroturfers) are embracing Linux every day, the trend cannot be stopped and MS knows this.
If in the meantime MS wants to keep milking consumers and maybe even tangentially improve their product, then fine.
Not matter what the 'buzz', we all know that when it comes to it, most people seek out their most trusted tech-people and ask "So, this new computer I'm buying, what should I put on it?" or "I'm tired of Vista/XP whatever, what should I do" the answer they'll get will be from someone they know will really have their best interests at heart and that person will invraiably say "Get Linux" or even "Buy a Mac" WAY before they advise them to install Windows (any version)
The bats who were better at gliding but not at making quick course changes bumped into things in the cave and wound up on the floor of the cave.
I saw a documentary about that once, the floor of a bat cave is covered with a multitude of incredible carnivorous(/omnivorous?) insects that would immediately swarm a bat and strip it to the bone and then to nothing in the space of a few minutes.
There's actually a war-zone on the wall where the insects climbing up the wall and the bats with the worst perches would meet and fight it out.
But bats have always appeared to me to be very ungraceful in their flight. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but their motion has always seem sort of chaotic. I suppose that's also what makes them so nimble.
Finally, the docs mention always-on for the repeater mode, there is nothing in the documentation that hints at a repeater mode with the main power turned off.
the XO has a Marvell chip which implements a mesh-networking AP, so that the XO can act as a repeater even when the main power is turned off. Or does it? It was certainly supposed to:)
Hire a bunch more people outside your business to snoop your network... Wouldn,t that result in MORE people potentially tampering with your data, not less?
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I remember in some science-fiction I read many years ago, some clouds were camouflaged UFOs. Actually the clouds were living beings!
Muahahaha!
Get out the tinfoil!
Or maybe the umbrellas, I don't know...
I think it's obvious that this story is pure shenanigans.
When Phil Hartman was killed, they retired all his Simpsons characters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarkovsky_effect
They look related...
If I had mod points...
That's NOT a troll, that's friggin' BRILLIANT!
Just a shame the moon conspiracy-believers will claim that "Of course they've found the tapes NOW, now that computers are powerful enough to fake it properly"
The sun has a sort of liquid... Plasma...
Of course the summary for the article is wrong, so we can just make up stuff if we want to.
"How better to disguise their real natures, and how better to guide your thinking. Suddenly running down a maze the wrong way, eating the wrong bit of cheese, unexpectedly dropping dead of myxomatosis, - if it's finely calculated the cumulative effect is enormous."
No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad.
Seriously, it is great to see them being openly evil like this, for those that are slow or haven't gotten the point.
Well done, RIAA. Try twirling your mustache the next time you accuse anyone, just to really seal the deal.
Scotty IS dead. *moment of silence*
Actually, I wrote a series of screenplays based on something Ellison thought up many years ago...
I was thinking about contacting him and asking if he'd let me produce it (shoestring budget, 'natch) but the thing preventing me from doing that is his reputation for suing everyone.
Shame, really. I admire him and would like to dedicate it to him but even that might even make him angry.
Hey! sounds like the ticket for me!
I always played that game with the keyboard anyway, I've never had a joystick so that's fine!
I'm off to the Wine Apps Database! I check there periodically but I'd never found anything to get Rogue Squadron to run.
Thanks!
I love the Wine project.
I have seen it mature to where it is amazingly able to reproduce Windows (bugs and all!) which is NO SMALL FEAT.
I've installed Crossover Office for someone and seen it able to run Office perfectly.
I just wish in all of that it was able to run Rogue Squadron, an old Windows 98 game because that is really the only game I miss.
But I suppose Rogue Squadron is too much of an oddball; it's old and probably relies on some undocumented jazz in Windows 98...
Zombie Crossing!
Actually, Neil Peart uses a click track.
NOT because he needs one, you're right, but because on lots of Rush albums it keeps the synthesizer sequences in line with his playing.
If you go back before Signals (and even most of Signals), there is no click track.
Rush wanted to branch out and do more layered music without adding additional musicians.
I don't mind their sequences though; you can always tell it is a computer; very square and regular...
They use them as colour when they do (which is less and less these days) and not as a replacement for a musician.
Please elaborate.
Are you saying it is an alternative to the Videotron network?
Cool, when they start doing that, I'm starting a class-action suit against them because they haven't prevented me from receiving spam.
Here's some craziness:
Send unmanned craft to Mars whose mission is to stay in orbit and deploy a series of reflectors that will concentrate sunlight and keep it focused on the same spot on the surface of Mars, bringing the temperature there up to ~20C.
Then when we finally send manned craft, they will set up camp at that spot. As long as the reflectors don't fail the ground-crew won't have to worry about their heaters breaking and they can build greenhouses to deal with their food and oxygen situation.
I could swear you just described the plot on last week's TNG rerun...
Wait a minute, you just described EVERY episode of TNG!
Bravo!
Because an allotrope is a different arrangement of the same element on its own.
You can find a diamond and you can also find graphite.
This would be like a graphite diamond.
Current estimates place the size of our universe as being somewhere between 40 and 90 billion light-years in diameter.
All you'd need in the universe simulating this one is enough storage and you'd be able.
Also, it was discovered recently by people searching for gravity waves that there is a minimum 'resolution' for matter in this universe.
Sounds like we are seeing the scaffolding...
If after all this, people willingly choose Windows, then they deserve what they'll get.
There is no sense trying to convince them otherwise.
Also there is no point because many more people (real people, not astroturfers) are embracing Linux every day, the trend cannot be stopped and MS knows this.
If in the meantime MS wants to keep milking consumers and maybe even tangentially improve their product, then fine.
Not matter what the 'buzz', we all know that when it comes to it, most people seek out their most trusted tech-people and ask "So, this new computer I'm buying, what should I put on it?" or "I'm tired of Vista/XP whatever, what should I do" the answer they'll get will be from someone they know will really have their best interests at heart and that person will invraiably say "Get Linux" or even "Buy a Mac" WAY before they advise them to install Windows (any version)
The elephant in the room is over there...
Evolution at work.
The bats who were better at gliding but not at making quick course changes bumped into things in the cave and wound up on the floor of the cave.
I saw a documentary about that once, the floor of a bat cave is covered with a multitude of incredible carnivorous(/omnivorous?) insects that would immediately swarm a bat and strip it to the bone and then to nothing in the space of a few minutes.
There's actually a war-zone on the wall where the insects climbing up the wall and the bats with the worst perches would meet and fight it out.
But bats have always appeared to me to be very ungraceful in their flight.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but their motion has always seem sort of chaotic.
I suppose that's also what makes them so nimble.
Finally, the docs mention always-on for the repeater mode, there is nothing in the documentation that hints at a repeater mode with the main power turned off.
Have you any links to technical docs about that?
Hire a bunch more people outside your business to snoop your network...
Wouldn,t that result in MORE people potentially tampering with your data, not less?