Wolverines, I say. Lots and lots of hungry wolverines. And guards with BFGs. Better yet, why not put valuables on a fast-moving slide that can pop up in the air and hang off the ceiling upon alarm, so access takes awhile. Even two-three minutes could make a difference. A simple set of rails on the ceiling and a pre-tensioned draw-cable could do it. Imagine a garage door opener spring and cable drum on steroids.
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The answer is 'yes'. For years NASA has deliberately ignored my new invention, the Weasel Spleen battery. It's environmentally friendly. Yet they refuse to answer my letters. In case some scientist is reading this and wants to license it, come to Chicken Run Trailer Estates, Arkansas, and ask for "Bubba Q". Or look for the trailer surrounded by dead weasels.
In other news, IBM denied having any weapons of mass code destruction, but SCO decided to attack them anyway, using troups of lawyers in Hummvees as well as bombing them from advanced jets fueled with vaporware. Vice President Darl Cheney then announced that SCOburton had a sole-source contract for reconstructing IBM. "We are spreading democracy to Open Source," he announced, "even if it kills them."
Lately my big pain in the ass has been these `cheapsoft' f*ckers joe-jobbing me -- gotten a few thousand bounces from that.
You too? It started happening to me bigtime this week too. All of them with kind of the same content pattern. There's got to be one guy doing it. And when I find him, he's not going on the no-fly list, he's going on the no-breathe list, if ya get my drift.
Gee, how about if we have two levels of support from police and firemen? The paying customers get immediate 911 support, and the regular citizens, well, we'll get to you when we can. You're not important.
The old citizen fire brigades, where people in small towns pitched in, in mutual support, makes me think of a civic Open Source.
Science fiction has always been about how technology and science affect life. Almost all stories involve something causing a problem for a character, usually the lead character, and that person's having to deal with the problem. In SF stories, the problem is always science or technology related. As pro SF writers know, if you remove the technology basis for the story, the concept would fall flat and the story wouldn't work anymore.
Also, the correct rules of the game (which bad SF doesn't follow) are that the technology or science must have an internal consistency and coherence. This is why ST in many incarnations has been baloney under Brannon-Braga; you cannot throw in bafflegab terms at random to explain pulling rabbits out of a hat. Which they are partial to.
Fantasy stories are based on the intrusion of the supernatural into life, and they should have at least an internal consistency of logic. But a lot of fantasy fails, too, because the writer is lazy and fails to maintain a mental rigor. The reader then spots inconsistencies and cannot maintain dispension of disbelief. SF stories, on the other hand, must be designed to support belief in the technological concepts used in the framework of the story. So how does this relate to prediction? -- Any predictions made must be believable to a rational person. The writer must set up a context in which they are acceptable.
There is an interesting study of reading of Chinese versus English, in the context of understanding dyslexia:
"The researchers, led by Dr Li-Hai Tan believe that this region is implicated because reading Chinese is a different mental task compared with reading an alphabetic language.
With an alphabetic language, reading is done sequentially - the letters are recognised and broken up into blocks of sound which are then matched to a known meaning.
But with Chinese, the reading is more like parallel processing, in which the brain has to seize the meaning of the pictogram almost as simultaneously as it figures out its sound."
I can't get the link to appear properly as a link, apologies, here it is anyway:
As of Sept 1, it appears Bev's site has been shut down. Not willingly, I suspect. Her find should have triggered coverage in the media of the scandal. Did the Feds come in to quiet this down? What is going on here?
Independence Day -- oh yeah -- wasn't that the movie where hackers co-opted alien communications, and sent spam through the universe, and pissed civilizations off enough they came to Earth and blew it up? No wait. Someone put mushrooms in my Red Bull. Never mind.
ktakki, I've run into this sort of thing too. After a lot of debugging, I found that the file was corrupted due to hidden data put in when someone cut and pasted in from another document and links broke as well the.dot template was corrupted. After a lot of experimenting, I found - and can prove - Word's mechanism for handing templates is buggy and malfunctional. Documents will corrupt sometimes when data is pasted from a source created in another version of Word and Word takes hidden attributes in format used by that version and somehow integrates them incorrectly into the template in the new version. I've seen passages vanish and return, driving me crazy.
Another problem arises when a source document you are cutting and pasting from, itself uses material linked in from another document on a server. Sometimes the linked link embeds but when the 'meta' source grandfather is unavailable on the current PC, the link breaks and so does Word. Take a look at Edit/Links and experiment with Update Now and maybe Change Source.
When normal.dot gets massive, one trick is to make sure you have invoked the Reviewing command Accept All Changes, which then deletes a lot of hidden retained tracking data. Then delete all text in the document, and save the document as a template. Then rename the saved.dot file as the normal.dot. Now go back to the original document file and attach the cleaned up normal.dot (use menu Tools/Templates/ then Attach the newly cleaned.dot file as the template). This overcomes the effect of some bugs.
Maybe it's not just a different way of thinking, maybe it's no thinking or foresight at all.
My (current contract) Indian boss called a staff meeting at 4:45 PM Friday (!). Announced he was under a mandate from headquarters to reduce his budget costs by outsourcing a percentage of work. Then he asked us for suggestions on what parts of our work could be outsourced.
This is definitely the right way to motivate your staff before a weekend. Management greed and stupidity know no bounds.
I wanted to suggest "How about outsourcing management to Bangalore?" but I have to keep putting rice and fishheads on my dinner table.
They're not just for breakfast anymore! -- How could somebody be so clueless as to pick a ferret as the mascot for ratting out your buddies? A skunk might have been better.
I'm not playing with myself, I'm conducting research into my DNA to find out if I'm part of a device to perform some calculation. So far, I've calculated that Hustler magazine has 104 pages, plus or minus a 5% margin of error and a few staples.
Well, as for technology, few people know that the real reason Daleks always lost in the end was that they used Windows. All the Doctor had to do was induce the Blue Screen of Dalek Death. K9, of course, ran on Gallifreyian Linux.
He's right. So what if a suited soldier can leap tall buildings with a single bound, if his batteries just died he's SOL.
Plus, the higher the tech, the worse the reliability all too often.
"Sarge, my CPU died. All my displays are down. I can't target. Wait, there's a guy with a ROCK crawling up to me.... ARRRGGGHHHHH! (transmission lost)"
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Wolverines, I say. Lots and lots of hungry wolverines. And guards with BFGs. Better yet, why not put valuables on a fast-moving slide that can pop up in the air and hang off the ceiling upon alarm, so access takes awhile. Even two-three minutes could make a difference. A simple set of rails on the ceiling and a pre-tensioned draw-cable could do it. Imagine a garage door opener spring and cable drum on steroids.
The answer is 'yes'. For years NASA has deliberately ignored my new invention, the Weasel Spleen battery. It's environmentally friendly. Yet they refuse to answer my letters. In case some scientist is reading this and wants to license it, come to Chicken Run Trailer Estates, Arkansas, and ask for "Bubba Q". Or look for the trailer surrounded by dead weasels.
Now I can stop worrying about archiving my pRoN collection.
And this is why I crossed an iPod with a douche bag. Now I can enjoy music and have very clean ears, too.
In other news, IBM denied having any weapons of mass code destruction, but SCO decided to attack them anyway, using troups of lawyers in Hummvees as well as bombing them from advanced jets fueled with vaporware. Vice President Darl Cheney then announced that SCOburton had a sole-source contract for reconstructing IBM. "We are spreading democracy to Open Source," he announced, "even if it kills them."
You too? It started happening to me bigtime this week too. All of them with kind of the same content pattern. There's got to be one guy doing it. And when I find him, he's not going on the no-fly list, he's going on the no-breathe list, if ya get my drift.
The old citizen fire brigades, where people in small towns pitched in, in mutual support, makes me think of a civic Open Source.
Also, the correct rules of the game (which bad SF doesn't follow) are that the technology or science must have an internal consistency and coherence. This is why ST in many incarnations has been baloney under Brannon-Braga; you cannot throw in bafflegab terms at random to explain pulling rabbits out of a hat. Which they are partial to.
Fantasy stories are based on the intrusion of the supernatural into life, and they should have at least an internal consistency of logic. But a lot of fantasy fails, too, because the writer is lazy and fails to maintain a mental rigor. The reader then spots inconsistencies and cannot maintain dispension of disbelief. SF stories, on the other hand, must be designed to support belief in the technological concepts used in the framework of the story. So how does this relate to prediction? -- Any predictions made must be believable to a rational person. The writer must set up a context in which they are acceptable.
Mosquito Terminator 1000 (in a tiny ultrasonic voice) "I'll be baaaaack." (Mosquitos spray it with detergent and it sinks.) "No, you won't!"
"The researchers, led by Dr Li-Hai Tan believe that this region is implicated because reading Chinese is a different mental task compared with reading an alphabetic language.
With an alphabetic language, reading is done sequentially - the letters are recognised and broken up into blocks of sound which are then matched to a known meaning.
But with Chinese, the reading is more like parallel processing, in which the brain has to seize the meaning of the pictogram almost as simultaneously as it figures out its sound."
I can't get the link to appear properly as a link, apologies, here it is anyway:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3618060.stm
As of Sept 1, it appears Bev's site has been shut down. Not willingly, I suspect. Her find should have triggered coverage in the media of the scandal. Did the Feds come in to quiet this down? What is going on here?
Independence Day -- oh yeah -- wasn't that the movie where hackers co-opted alien communications, and sent spam through the universe, and pissed civilizations off enough they came to Earth and blew it up? No wait. Someone put mushrooms in my Red Bull. Never mind.
Another problem arises when a source document you are cutting and pasting from, itself uses material linked in from another document on a server. Sometimes the linked link embeds but when the 'meta' source grandfather is unavailable on the current PC, the link breaks and so does Word. Take a look at Edit/Links and experiment with Update Now and maybe Change Source.
When normal.dot gets massive, one trick is to make sure you have invoked the Reviewing command Accept All Changes, which then deletes a lot of hidden retained tracking data. Then delete all text in the document, and save the document as a template. Then rename the saved .dot file as the normal.dot. Now go back to the original document file and attach the cleaned up normal.dot (use menu Tools/Templates/ then Attach the newly cleaned .dot file as the template). This overcomes the effect of some bugs.
I plan to soon announce my 'Fizzy' tablet-based Athlon cooler. After I work out the bugs and the case mods.
The woman's locker room Web Cams for the Greek games are pretty good. Bet you didn't know those Russian women weightlifters wear jockstraps.
Hot, fresh pizza in only 30 minutes or your money back! Um, that pizza will be $195 - we have to pay for the insurance.
Certainly makes one wonder what happened to three-color retinas...
I'm not a moronic sheep! *I* can program in Visual Basic! .. okay. I *AM* a moronic sheep.
My whole sex life is based on a floppy... Wait... That didn't sound right...
My (current contract) Indian boss called a staff meeting at 4:45 PM Friday (!). Announced he was under a mandate from headquarters to reduce his budget costs by outsourcing a percentage of work. Then he asked us for suggestions on what parts of our work could be outsourced.
This is definitely the right way to motivate your staff before a weekend. Management greed and stupidity know no bounds.
I wanted to suggest "How about outsourcing management to Bangalore?" but I have to keep putting rice and fishheads on my dinner table.
They're not just for breakfast anymore! -- How could somebody be so clueless as to pick a ferret as the mascot for ratting out your buddies? A skunk might have been better.
I'm not playing with myself, I'm conducting research into my DNA to find out if I'm part of a device to perform some calculation. So far, I've calculated that Hustler magazine has 104 pages, plus or minus a 5% margin of error and a few staples.
Hey! Can I play this on my cellphone while driving? ... No? ... what good is it then? (grumble)
Well, as for technology, few people know that the real reason Daleks always lost in the end was that they used Windows. All the Doctor had to do was induce the Blue Screen of Dalek Death. K9, of course, ran on Gallifreyian Linux.
Plus, the higher the tech, the worse the reliability all too often.
"Sarge, my CPU died. All my displays are down. I can't target. Wait, there's a guy with a ROCK crawling up to me.... ARRRGGGHHHHH! (transmission lost)"