Ever poke yourself with a DMM? Most of your resistance is in the dead cells on the outer portion of your skin. Get through that, and you quickly drop to less than an Ohm.
If the holodeck computer controls are fscked, the easiest way to deal with it is to turn it off. Of course, you need a functioning computer to do that.
Since the holodecks typically run on their own power sources, you have two options: Disabling the power source, necessitating a crawl through Jeffries tubes, or trying your hand at the stiff manual override hidden in a panel under the computer interface.
Unless you're stuck inside the holodeck...at that point, your best bet is to initiate a site-to-site transport. If your comm badge doesn't work, hold on tight. This episode's all about your problems.
I suspect you're being sarcastic, but here goes...
Playing violent video games is more of a symptom of violent behavior than a cause. So if people enjoy a violent game with a risk of real pain, they're more likely to be comfortable with the real thing.
No, he'll say the state already is illegally forcing people into "camps" (e.g. Guantanamo).
You mean, like this? Not quite without oversight, but the guy behind it apparently uses his position in law enforcement to get wiretaps on, and get officers to tail, his political opponents.
Of course, I'm up here in Michigan. I only hear about the stuff going on over in Arizona.
A lot of the old pure-battery cars were marred by the fact that you couldn't go very far on them.
The hybrid concept is great, but I imagine manufacturers wanted to distance it from the pure-electric cars. A lot of people would have assumed that if a car had a power cord, it would have the same problems as the pure-electric systems.
So instead, you expose people to gasoline-only cars with relatively high gas-milages. Later on, once people have accepted that these new things work well enough, you can add a power cord. And even market it as "New and Improved!"
Basically, you don't want the public to assume that the power cord limits where you can go with it.
The same concept of natural selection applies. A viruses' genetic line only continues as long as more viruses of like form are created. Killing an infected host prevents that host from being used to propogate the virus.
I'm still waiting for someone to produce a VBScript that randomly self-obfuscates every time it tries to spread, and stores itself in a different place, using a different auto-run mechanism, every time it infects a new host.
Add in webcrawling support to find new snippets of VBScript to insert into its code, for self-mutation.
That one will be hard to defend against. Plugging every security hole will be difficult, so long as the script keeps finding proof-of-concept code for new avenues of attack.
Heck...I might try writing something in Perl that eval()s code snippets it finds on the Internet. That ought to be interesting to watch run in a sandbox.
Try dropping in a Knoppix or Ubuntu CD. If those work for you, you can install them to your hard drive. You'll then essentially be running Debian. (Arguably, you'd be running something a little better, because Knoppix and Ubunto have development teams that work on improving the product beyond what Debian provides.)
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Sounds like he wasn't man enough to take the lesson immediately to heart.
Ever poke yourself with a DMM? Most of your resistance is in the dead cells on the outer portion of your skin. Get through that, and you quickly drop to less than an Ohm.
If the holodeck computer controls are fscked, the easiest way to deal with it is to turn it off. Of course, you need a functioning computer to do that.
Since the holodecks typically run on their own power sources, you have two options: Disabling the power source, necessitating a crawl through Jeffries tubes, or trying your hand at the stiff manual override hidden in a panel under the computer interface.
Unless you're stuck inside the holodeck...at that point, your best bet is to initiate a site-to-site transport. If your comm badge doesn't work, hold on tight. This episode's all about your problems.
I can assure you, the best way to get rid of dragons is to have one of your own.
But only one instance of Dragon Army was ever any good...
I suspect you're being sarcastic, but here goes...
Playing violent video games is more of a symptom of violent behavior than a cause. So if people enjoy a violent game with a risk of real pain, they're more likely to be comfortable with the real thing.
This seems oddly relevant.
The suggestion to burn the DoI wasn't modded insightful, it was the message implied by his sarcastic tone that was modded insightful.
I don't often catch sarcasm in nonauditory mediums, but I did that time.
I'd bet that the big clients keep their own archives. Not that those would be easily searchable by non-employees...
I'm cool with it, as long as the following exchange works:
Me: Computer
Remote: (beeps)
me: Replay video, time index minus five seconds
TV: Lay in a persuit course. Engage.
using just your voice as well as build fun complex scripts to make your Robosapien robot dance...
swING your pardner round and round.
Out to the balcony--don't look down!
OK, so combine a lapel mike and a Zaurus. Now your remote control goes with you.
Heh. AMD's 200MHz offering wasn't an Athlon, it was a K6. I should know...I'm installing Debian on one, to be a dial-up router for my network.
Windows has never been run on a supercomputer.
Well, unless you include clusters. But boot times on those are still limited by the abiltiy of each individual node.
No, he'll say the state already is illegally forcing people into "camps" (e.g. Guantanamo).
You mean, like this? Not quite without oversight, but the guy behind it apparently uses his position in law enforcement to get wiretaps on, and get officers to tail, his political opponents.
Of course, I'm up here in Michigan. I only hear about the stuff going on over in Arizona.
A lot of the old pure-battery cars were marred by the fact that you couldn't go very far on them.
The hybrid concept is great, but I imagine manufacturers wanted to distance it from the pure-electric cars. A lot of people would have assumed that if a car had a power cord, it would have the same problems as the pure-electric systems.
So instead, you expose people to gasoline-only cars with relatively high gas-milages. Later on, once people have accepted that these new things work well enough, you can add a power cord. And even market it as "New and Improved!"
Basically, you don't want the public to assume that the power cord limits where you can go with it.
They come in all shapes and sizes. Heck...there are some notebooks out there that are too small.
The same concept of natural selection applies. A viruses' genetic line only continues as long as more viruses of like form are created. Killing an infected host prevents that host from being used to propogate the virus.
I'm still waiting for someone to produce a VBScript that randomly self-obfuscates every time it tries to spread, and stores itself in a different place, using a different auto-run mechanism, every time it infects a new host.
Add in webcrawling support to find new snippets of VBScript to insert into its code, for self-mutation.
That one will be hard to defend against. Plugging every security hole will be difficult, so long as the script keeps finding proof-of-concept code for new avenues of attack.
Heck...I might try writing something in Perl that eval()s code snippets it finds on the Internet. That ought to be interesting to watch run in a sandbox.
Neat idea. Just make sure you're adjusting the brightness of the backlight, and not the pixel values of the LCD itself.
It would probably be easier to implement this on display technologies with illuminating pixels, such as OLEDs.
Try dropping in a Knoppix or Ubuntu CD. If those work for you, you can install them to your hard drive. You'll then essentially be running Debian. (Arguably, you'd be running something a little better, because Knoppix and Ubunto have development teams that work on improving the product beyond what Debian provides.)
You should try being a subscriber. As I write this, there's eight articles posted in the "Mysterious Future."
I think they just decided to queue up the articles, and take the day off.
Some idiots only use text mail clients. See, there is another side to your overwhelming ignorant statement.
Text emails work just as well in Outlook, Gmail and Evolution as HTML emails do. HTML emails don't work well at all in mutt, pine, or mailx.
I don't have a problem with people sending me HTML versions of their emails. Just include a part with a MIME type of text/plain.
Some idiots tell Outlook to only send HTML versions of their email.
I doubt Apple would ever release a product with such an unpronouncable name as "0x2004F200696d"
Ozzucks not withstanding...
Dunno if you remember a game called "QuakeLives!" ... It was a closed-source Quake-compatible FPS based on id's GPL'd code.
The author kept saying he was in compliance with the GPL when, of course, he wasn't.
IIRC, that project died a looong time ago.
He mentions memory exercises, so I'd start from there.
There are plenty of examples of the classic memory game.