I thought the Ogre Mk. I was built from a SHVY chassis, not an infantry carrier? Or are they planning a robotic Abrams, too?
So, how many tread units does a Stryker have?
So, is there anybody out there that can name a change or two that they actually considered a major let-down?
Omitting the confrontation between Gandalf and the Lord of the Nazgul, which for me is the central dramatic moment of the whole war,
That silly business with dropping the Lembas wafers,
Not letting Saruman be his own faction,
Leaving out the confrontation between Frodo/Sam and Gollum on the slopes of Mount Doom, and
Worst of all, turning Gollum's fall into the fire into an accident, rather than the lingering effects of Gollum's oath to Frodo. "If I, wearing the Ring, were to order you to leap into the Crack of Doom, you would do so... and such would be my command!"
Raise your hand if you ever had a "bang-path" email address. For that matter, raise your hand if you know what a bang-path address is.
*raise hand*
Not to mention having to hand-construct paths to get mail through to obscure sites that the local UUCP smarthost didn't recognize, or weren't in the mapping project... or because the mail that you were sending predated either of those things.
Somewhere in the depths of my basement, I have an old AT&T 7300 (MC68010-based "Unix PC") with an on-board 8088 PC emulator card that can run old DOS programs. I used the 7300 and some low-level hardware libraries that another hacker wrote in the late 80s/early 90s as my target machine for OS hacking back before I got scooped by Linux. I'm tempted to haul the thing out, snag the Contiki x86 distro, and hack something together to make the two talk to each other.
Hmm, and with a StarLAN to 10baseT router, I could get the resulting beastie on the net. Hmm....
If the Mississippi or the Missouri killed a thousand people this year, there'd the twenty dams on it within five years.
There are twenty dams on the Missori already. More than twenty, in fact. There's serious talk of removing them, and returning the river to its natural course.
I was seriously depressed for a day and a half after I first visited 2081. The ending (epilogue) rang really false for me, though -- it seemed awfully nihilistic.
at many points in the story Gandalf or Elrond or whomever will completely stop the action and retell some part of Middle Earth history, which, while it throws some light on the story, would absolutely completely kill the momentum in a movie.
You mean like the scene in TTT where Elrond and Galadriel really do completely stop the action to retell the previous movie and a half?
I know of over 20 transsexual game designers. It is like gays in the floral industry.
More generally, trans women in the computer industry in general are enough of a stereotype that my circle of friends uses "tall women with laptops" as the trans equivalent of "women in comfortable shoes." And if you erased all of the code (and other contributions such as VLSI design methods) written by trans women, the economy would abruptly grind to a halt. More so than it already has, I mean....:-)
(But you knew that already. *wave* Hi, Jamie! :-))
In a profile of a person who had undergone a sex-change operation, you would think they would pay more than passing notice to it.
The article got it just right -- it didn't try to hide the fact that Dani had transitioned, but it didn't make it the central fact, either. Which is a Good Thing, as there's much more to a person than just the fact of having had SRS or not.
Dani would have been the first to tell you that, too -- she had a very negative view of her transition, and posted an article on her web site
(which didn't make it onto her memorial site) advising people considering transition not to. I disagree with her perspective on that (stop for a moment and parse the name "Futaba-chan":-)), but there's a lot more to being trans than just transition.
BTW, she changed her last name to "Berry" when she transitioned.
I do long-distance hiking, also (working up for a thru-hike of the A.T. in a year or two), and "thru-hiker smell" just means that you've been neglecting your hygiene. It is possible to get clean out in the backcountry, if you have a liter of water to spare (but carry it away from the spring or stream to get clean; don't bathe there!); the fact that many male thrus seem to not bother is something I've always found mildly icky.
OTOH, when did you fetch these hikers? There was a huge drought late last summer, and they may not have had any water to spare for cleanup.
Can we even see as far as "Profit!!!"? Among other things, the article posits that X-Box will dominate the home entertainment market, without even acknowledging that the PS/2 exists. Given that the PS/2 is totally eating X-Box's lunch, that doesn't exactly fill me with confidence about the rest of the article....
And, of course, the Sonic Cruiser would have no effect whatever on the time that the typical aircraft spends waiting in line on the ground for a takeoff slot....
The engine dies - so what! Just look for a place to land.
"Look for" != "find". This gadget could be the difference between life and death for a pilot rapidly running out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas in a dense forest or crowded urban area -- not to mention the people on the ground.
If PVRs become a commodity, as the article predicts, then whither advertising? If the average viewer can't be counted on to actually watch the typical 30-second commercial in the middle of the show, will advertisers stick with them? Or will we see a return of the 1950s model of an advertiser sponsoring an entire show (perhaps with a bug over the credits or the beginning of each act or whatnot)? Will product placements become more important?
PVRs may have created an arms race for advertisers, but I rather doubt that the advertisers will just fold up their tents. It will be interesting to see what sorts of creative tactics they use in response. Hopefully, it won't involve lawyers, DMCA-ish provisions, or the like....
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I thought the Ogre Mk. I was built from a SHVY chassis, not an infantry carrier? Or are they planning a robotic Abrams, too? So, how many tread units does a Stryker have?
*raise hand*
Not to mention having to hand-construct paths to get mail through to obscure sites that the local UUCP smarthost didn't recognize, or weren't in the mapping project... or because the mail that you were sending predated either of those things.
Natsukashii desu yo, ne?
...maybe the MPAA can use the EPIC homeless tracking software to find audiences for stinkers like Gigli.
You get Tuck....
Hmm, and with a StarLAN to 10baseT router, I could get the resulting beastie on the net. Hmm....
There are twenty dams on the Missori already. More than twenty, in fact. There's serious talk of removing them, and returning the river to its natural course.
Someone I know has thought fairly seriously of doing just that:e r/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bolger2/files/Carri
(membership required, et cetera).
The real question, of course, is whether or not the filmmakers will realize this....
I was seriously depressed for a day and a half after I first visited 2081. The ending (epilogue) rang really false for me, though -- it seemed awfully nihilistic.
You mean like the scene in TTT where Elrond and Galadriel really do completely stop the action to retell the previous movie and a half?
http://www.mult.ru -- it helps if you can speak (and read) Russian, but it's utterly hilarious even if you don't.
More generally, trans women in the computer industry in general are enough of a stereotype that my circle of friends uses "tall women with laptops" as the trans equivalent of "women in comfortable shoes." And if you erased all of the code (and other contributions such as VLSI design methods) written by trans women, the economy would abruptly grind to a halt. More so than it already has, I mean.... :-)
(But you knew that already. *wave* Hi, Jamie! :-))
The article got it just right -- it didn't try to hide the fact that Dani had transitioned, but it didn't make it the central fact, either. Which is a Good Thing, as there's much more to a person than just the fact of having had SRS or not.
Dani would have been the first to tell you that, too -- she had a very negative view of her transition, and posted an article on her web site (which didn't make it onto her memorial site) advising people considering transition not to. I disagree with her perspective on that (stop for a moment and parse the name "Futaba-chan" :-)), but there's a lot more to being trans than just transition.
BTW, she changed her last name to "Berry" when she transitioned.
It may be cool, but it brings new meaning to the term "vaporware...."
OTOH, when did you fetch these hikers? There was a huge drought late last summer, and they may not have had any water to spare for cleanup.
Well, no Jupiter == no radiation belt, so perhaps that's the reason why the Monoliths have chosen now to ignite the planet....
Can we even see as far as "Profit!!!"? Among other things, the article posits that X-Box will dominate the home entertainment market, without even acknowledging that the PS/2 exists. Given that the PS/2 is totally eating X-Box's lunch, that doesn't exactly fill me with confidence about the rest of the article....
Oh, quit vamping for karma....
"Stable" doesn't exactly describe this release -- I just installed it, and it just crashed.
And, of course, the Sonic Cruiser would have no effect whatever on the time that the typical aircraft spends waiting in line on the ground for a takeoff slot....
That would be news to Spenser. And Mallory. And Lord Dunsany. And many others....
No, no, no! Wrong devil. Disney is next to Dispater. Saban is next to Satan....
"Look for" != "find". This gadget could be the difference between life and death for a pilot rapidly running out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas in a dense forest or crowded urban area -- not to mention the people on the ground.
If PVRs become a commodity, as the article predicts, then whither advertising? If the average viewer can't be counted on to actually watch the typical 30-second commercial in the middle of the show, will advertisers stick with them? Or will we see a return of the 1950s model of an advertiser sponsoring an entire show (perhaps with a bug over the credits or the beginning of each act or whatnot)? Will product placements become more important? PVRs may have created an arms race for advertisers, but I rather doubt that the advertisers will just fold up their tents. It will be interesting to see what sorts of creative tactics they use in response. Hopefully, it won't involve lawyers, DMCA-ish provisions, or the like....