I ran "The Day After Tomorrow" simulation on my PC. According to the simulation, the movie will be number 1 at the box office for 1.0012 weeks, with a 99.7% chance of being knocked off by the new "Harry Potter" movie.
There's also a 37.1% chance that the previews are better than the movie itself, and a 89.9% chance that the guy at the concession stand didn't wash his hands after using the bathroom.
The name "Barney Google" is familiar to anyone who ever watched a TV retrospective of comic strips -- he's the guy with the "goo-goo-googly eyes" in the 1923 Billy Rose song they always play in such retrospectives. Many newspapers use his name in the title of one of their comic strips. And in 1995, he was honored by the U.S. Postal Service in its "Comic Strip Classics" series of commemorative stamps.
I think Billy DeBeck, creator of the strip, has a better claim to prior art than the nephew.
I remember reading that at the Chernobyl accident, the doctors gave the reactor workers vodka for its "anti-radiation" properties.
If the cosmonaut's quote is any indication, Soviet space medicine has advanced beyond Soviet nuclear medicine, if only by the addition of the sauna.
Re:Check the source code, and roll for initiative!
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Too bad you didn't check for traps on the Chest object first. The object is actually a Chest of Memory Devouring. You have suffered a fatal memory leak, and died. Please re-roll your character.
It's definitely some very impressive science and engineering which has let people peer through the atmosphere and take far more useful images of a distant moon - from a distance of ~1,600 million kilometres instead of ~4.5 million kilometres.
Well, science and engineering, sure, but mostly because Titan's atmosphere is transparent to near IR wavelengths, but not to visible light.
Check the source code, and roll for initiative!
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you can not get Array out of Bounds errors on pen and paper D&D
You enter a 10 x 10 array. You see a Null Pointer Exception guarding an Object of type Chest. What do you do?
1) Bad result, but your graduate advisor yells at you. This is not a successful experiment.
2) Good result, but your graduate advisor takes the credit for it. Your advisor might consider this a successful experiment, but then he also calls you his "lab bitch" at faculty luncheons. Call it a draw.
3) Good result, but you will be unable to reproduce it ever again. Like the fabled WOW! event in radio astronomy, this tantalizing glimpse of success will haunt you through your waking hours, spent alternately drinking and working as an assistant manager at Radio Shack.
4) Bad result, but your graduate advisor is "accidentally" vaporized in the process. Although not strictly a successful experiment, you hear no complaints from your fellow grad students, the surviving faculty members, or the long-suffering department secretary as you are lead to the police car, leaving your former lab (and former career in academia) in glorious, if somewhat radioactive, flames.
Oh, relax. The Core was just a 1950's science-fiction movie with modern glitzy effects. Unobtanium! Sonic drills punching holes in the sides of mountains! Reversing the ship's polarity! If you had gone in accepting that it was a B movie, minus the men in rubber monster suits, you would have had a much better time.
Anyway, I'll go out on a limb here and recommend you skip The Day After Tomorrow, coming soon to a theater near you.
From the site: In a 9 mph stream (slow jog) the Jack Rabbit produces about 2,400 watt-hours daily
So, at 2.4 kilowatt-hours a day, at a cost of $0.08 (say) a kilowatt-hour, you would save over 19 cents a day on electricity, or enough to pay off the generator in 17.1 years.
You're probably better off sinking the money into more efficient light bulbs or refrigerators.
Hey, has anyone out there had luck getting a good job after getting a degree at ACCIS (American College of Computer and Information Science?) That is, a good job doing computer work, and not working in a meth lab? Their courses look good, and the cost seems reasonable, but I'd like to know if making a "will work for food" sign is a better career move.
He realizes that Tankado's ring is the "key" to the mystery,
NSA Chief: Aha! The ring is mine! Now our supercomputer with the clever acronym can decode this vitally important document! (hands document to flunky) What does it say?
NSA Underling: (Turns ring and presses buttons on blinkenlights panel.) It says..."Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."
NSA Chief: Ovaltine? A crummy commercial? Son-of-a-bitch! Here, try it again! (hands new document to flunky.)
NSA Underling: (repeats procedure) It says..."All your base-"
NSA Chief: (pulls gun from holster and shoots his underling.)
NSA Underling: AIEEEEEE! (Underling expires.)
NSA Chief: (Shakes fist to heavens.) Curse you, fat German tourist and his red-haired "escort"!!! Cuuurrrse yoooouuu!!!!
that we've become more obsessed about life on other planets, than life on our own planet ?
To really understand something, it helps to know where it came from. Finding a second instance of life in the solar system could help us better understand how life on Earth originated. We have theories about how nucleic acids led to simple replicating 'organisms', but to find one on a world like Europa or Titan would be invaluable in determining whether these theories are right or wrong.
Sooner or later we'll just be what we've created in the movies: A group of living things going from planet to planet stripping it of its resources.
Which resources? All the sunlight that gets radiated to empty space? Or the water and minerals on the lifeless worlds that might compose 99% of the planets in the galaxy? Besides, if (as the tone of your post suggests) you believe that life is the most valuable resource that Earth contains, shouldn't we be exporting it to those places that don't have any?
They need to ship the old, dead, non-growth skills out to lower cost economies that can sustain those types of job and then retrain the workforce to take on new challenges that help the country and it's economy on the road to growth.
Hey, that's a great idea! Why don't you go down to the unemployment office on the bad side of town, and tell everyone there to forget the assembly line and just go back to school to become Genetic Engineers and Nuclear Physicists!
No, really, go ahead! I'll even help you find your teeth afterwards!
I was just going to make some comment about Daystrom quitting computer science and becoming the King of Cartoons, but then I found this. So long, Doc, we'll miss ya.
I can't wait until they create a watch that works with the I-PASS system. You know, the little box that automagically pays your toll as you drive past the toll gates at 20 mph? If I only had an I-PASS watch, I could just stick my arm out while I drive past the scanner like this and AAAAAGH MY HAND!!! THE BLOOD!!! OH GOD THERE'S SO MUCH BLOOD!!! AAAGGGHH!!!
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I ran "The Day After Tomorrow" simulation on my PC. According to the simulation, the movie will be number 1 at the box office for 1.0012 weeks, with a 99.7% chance of being knocked off by the new "Harry Potter" movie.
There's also a 37.1% chance that the previews are better than the movie itself, and a 89.9% chance that the guy at the concession stand didn't wash his hands after using the bathroom.
From Toonopedia:
The name "Barney Google" is familiar to anyone who ever watched a TV retrospective of comic strips -- he's the guy with the "goo-goo-googly eyes" in the 1923 Billy Rose song they always play in such retrospectives. Many newspapers use his name in the title of one of their comic strips. And in 1995, he was honored by the U.S. Postal Service in its "Comic Strip Classics" series of commemorative stamps.
I think Billy DeBeck, creator of the strip, has a better claim to prior art than the nephew.
I remember reading that at the Chernobyl accident, the doctors gave the reactor workers vodka for its "anti-radiation" properties.
If the cosmonaut's quote is any indication, Soviet space medicine has advanced beyond Soviet nuclear medicine, if only by the addition of the sauna.
Too bad you didn't check for traps on the Chest object first. The object is actually a Chest of Memory Devouring. You have suffered a fatal memory leak, and died. Please re-roll your character.
It's definitely some very impressive science and engineering which has let people peer through the atmosphere and take far more useful images of a distant moon - from a distance of ~1,600 million kilometres instead of ~4.5 million kilometres.
Well, science and engineering, sure, but mostly because Titan's atmosphere is transparent to near IR wavelengths, but not to visible light.
you can not get Array out of Bounds errors on pen and paper D&D
You enter a 10 x 10 array. You see a Null Pointer Exception guarding an Object of type Chest. What do you do?
No, I think you mean:
1) Bad result, but your graduate advisor yells at you. This is not a successful experiment.
2) Good result, but your graduate advisor takes the credit for it. Your advisor might consider this a successful experiment, but then he also calls you his "lab bitch" at faculty luncheons. Call it a draw.
3) Good result, but you will be unable to reproduce it ever again. Like the fabled WOW! event in radio astronomy, this tantalizing glimpse of success will haunt you through your waking hours, spent alternately drinking and working as an assistant manager at Radio Shack.
4) Bad result, but your graduate advisor is "accidentally" vaporized in the process. Although not strictly a successful experiment, you hear no complaints from your fellow grad students, the surviving faculty members, or the long-suffering department secretary as you are lead to the police car, leaving your former lab (and former career in academia) in glorious, if somewhat radioactive, flames.
Hope this helps!
Oh, relax. The Core was just a 1950's science-fiction movie with modern glitzy effects. Unobtanium! Sonic drills punching holes in the sides of mountains! Reversing the ship's polarity! If you had gone in accepting that it was a B movie, minus the men in rubber monster suits, you would have had a much better time.
Anyway, I'll go out on a limb here and recommend you skip The Day After Tomorrow , coming soon to a theater near you.
From the site:
In a 9 mph stream (slow jog) the Jack Rabbit produces about 2,400 watt-hours daily
So, at 2.4 kilowatt-hours a day, at a cost of $0.08 (say) a kilowatt-hour, you would save over 19 cents a day on electricity, or enough to pay off the generator in 17.1 years.
You're probably better off sinking the money into more efficient light bulbs or refrigerators.
"A Martian Odyssey", by Stanley G. Weinbaum, c. 1934! Great story!
Pop...a...poppler in your mouth
when you come to Fishy Joe's!
What they're made of is a mystery
where they come from no one knows.
You can pick 'em, you can lick 'em,
you can chew 'em, you can stick 'em.
If you promise not to sue us,
you can shove one up your nose.
Khaaaaaaaan!!!
Hey, has anyone out there had luck getting a good job after getting a degree at ACCIS (American College of Computer and Information Science?) That is, a good job doing computer work, and not working in a meth lab? Their courses look good, and the cost seems reasonable, but I'd like to know if making a "will work for food" sign is a better career move.
He realizes that Tankado's ring is the "key" to the mystery,
NSA Chief: Aha! The ring is mine! Now our supercomputer with the clever acronym can decode this vitally important document! (hands document to flunky) What does it say?
NSA Underling: (Turns ring and presses buttons on blinkenlights panel.) It says..."Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."
NSA Chief: Ovaltine? A crummy commercial? Son-of-a-bitch! Here, try it again! (hands new document to flunky.)
NSA Underling: (repeats procedure) It says..."All your base-"
NSA Chief: (pulls gun from holster and shoots his underling.)
NSA Underling: AIEEEEEE! (Underling expires.)
NSA Chief: (Shakes fist to heavens.) Curse you, fat German tourist and his red-haired "escort"!!! Cuuurrrse yoooouuu!!!!
that we've become more obsessed about life on other planets, than life on our own planet ?
To really understand something, it helps to know where it came from. Finding a second instance of life in the solar system could help us better understand how life on Earth originated. We have theories about how nucleic acids led to simple replicating 'organisms', but to find one on a world like Europa or Titan would be invaluable in determining whether these theories are right or wrong.
Sooner or later we'll just be what we've created in the movies: A group of living things going from planet to planet stripping it of its resources.
Which resources? All the sunlight that gets radiated to empty space? Or the water and minerals on the lifeless worlds that might compose 99% of the planets in the galaxy? Besides, if (as the tone of your post suggests) you believe that life is the most valuable resource that Earth contains, shouldn't we be exporting it to those places that don't have any?
This also explain why so many characters have two L's in their names.
I am pretty sure King Kong can't handle /. traffic himself. ;)
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Slashdot killed the beast!
You think THAT's bad? Some physicists will continue to work on dark matter for years and years AFTER their deaths.
There's nothing more piteous than a zombie scientist scouring the halls of CERN, muttering about "Brains!" and "WIMPs!" for all eternity.
They need to ship the old, dead, non-growth skills out to lower cost economies that can sustain those types of job and then retrain the workforce to take on new challenges that help the country and it's economy on the road to growth.
Hey, that's a great idea! Why don't you go down to the unemployment office on the bad side of town, and tell everyone there to forget the assembly line and just go back to school to become Genetic Engineers and Nuclear Physicists!
No, really, go ahead! I'll even help you find your teeth afterwards!
I was just going to make some comment about Daystrom quitting computer science and becoming the King of Cartoons, but then I found this. So long, Doc, we'll miss ya.
He must have been the other Dave Thomas!
Okay! That's my post, so good day, eh?
I can't wait until the day when we have rovers or people up on Mars who can go check out some of these things.
A nice depiction of this day is available here.
I can't wait until they create a watch that works with the I-PASS system. You know, the little box that automagically pays your toll as you drive past the toll gates at 20 mph? If I only had an I-PASS watch, I could just stick my arm out while I drive past the scanner like this and AAAAAGH MY HAND!!! THE BLOOD!!! OH GOD THERE'S SO MUCH BLOOD!!! AAAGGGHH!!!
Well, if you're using tape to hold up a building, you probably deserve what happens next.
One thing bothers me, however. Okay, so we know that there's going to be an earthquake somewhere in the world. The question is, what can we do?
Bubble wrap! Miles and miles of bubble wrap.