...about kicks, limbo and sedatives. Here is all the dialog about those topics for everyone who will "remember" a character saying something they never said:
Sedation/Kicks:
Arthur: Three layers down, dreams are going to collapse with the slightest disturbance Yusuf: Sedation. For sleep stable enough to create three layers of dreaming we'll have to combine it with extremely powerful sedatives. [Yusuf slaps a sleeping Arthur who doesn't wake up.] Yusuf: The compound we'll be using to share the dream creates a very clear connection between dreamers whilst actually accelerating brain function. Cobb: In other words, it gives us more time on each level. Yusuf: Brain function in the dream will be about twenty times normal. Now when you enter a dream within that dream the effect will be compounded. There's three dreams. 10 hours to... Eames: I'm sorry, math was never my strong subject. So h-how much time is that? Cobb: It's a week the first level down. Six months, the second level down. Third level is... Ariadne: 10 years! [Cobb nods] Ariadne: Who'd want to be stuck in a dream for 10 years? Yusuf: Depends on the dream. Arthur: So, once we've made the plant, how do we get out? I'm hoping you have something more elegant in mind than shooting me in the head? Cobb: Kick. Ariadne: What's a kick? Eames: This, Ariadne, would be a kick. [Eames nudges Arthur's chair that is on two legs and Arthur loses balance but catches himself before he falls.] Cobb: It's that feeling of falling you get that jolts you awake. It snaps you out of the dream. Arthur: Are we going to feel a kick with this kind of sedation? Yusuf: Ah! That's the clever part. I customized the sedative to leave inner ear function unimpaired. That way, however deep the sleep, the sleeper still feels falling... [Yusuf pushes a sleeping Arthur over in a chair. Arthur awakes] Yusuf: or tipping... [Yusuf tips a sleeping Arthur over in a chair. Arthur awakes] Cobb: The trick is to synchronize a kick that can penetrate all three levels. Arthur: We could use the musical countdown to synchronize the different kicks.
Limbo: Cobb: Don't do that. Don't do that! Eames: He's in agony, I'm waking him up. Cobb: No. It won't wake him up. Eames: What do you mean it won't wake him up... Cobb: It won't wake him up. Eames:...if we die in a dream we wake up. Yusuf: Not from this. We're too heavily sedated to wake up that way. Eames: Right. So what happens when we die? Cobb: We drop into limbo. Arthur: Are you serious?! Ariadne: Limbo?! Arthur: Unconstructed dream space. Ariadne: Well, what the hell is down there? Arthur: Just raw, infinite subconscious. Nothing is down there. Except for whatever might have been left behind by anyone sharing the dream who's been trapped there before. Which in our case is just you. Ariadne: Well, how long can we be stuck there? Yusuf: Can't even think about trying to escape until the sedation... Eames: How long?! Yusuf: Decades. It could be infinite. I don't know. Ask him. He's the one who's been there. Arthur: Let's get him upstairs. Saito: Eames: Great... Thank you. So now we are trapped in Fischer's mind battling his own private army and if we get killed we'll be lost in limbo till our brains turn to scrambled egg.
More Limbo: Cobb: How's he doing? Ariadne: He's in a lot of pain. Cobb: When we get down to the lower levels, his pain will be less intense. Ariadne: And if he dies? Cobb: Worst case scenario: when he wakes up his mind is completely gone. Saito: Cobb. I'll still honor the arrangement. Cobb: I appreciate that Saito, but when you wake up you won't even remember that we had an arrangement. Limbo's going to become your reality, you're gonna be lost down there so long that you're going to become an old man... Saito:...filled with regret... Cobb:...waiting to die alone. Saito: No. I'll come back. And we'll be yo
"These phones have no downloadable apps, no games, not even a calendar. They're not meant to be expandable smart phones; instead very good messaging phones."
Because no one does a simple and elegant device like Microsoft.
This will be a roaring success... when compared to the UMPC.
No, that's $50/user/year not $50/user/month.
That's $4.17/user/month. For 200 people paying $833/mo for mail and up to 5 TB of offsite storage is pretty good.
The SLA on Premiere allows for about 8.75 hours of downtime per year.
All in all, that's hard to beat.
losing Boeing's corporate offices, while not preferable, was hardly a huge blow. The remainder of operations in the Seattle area for Boeing are quite large and that's not going to change any time soon.
Whatever other steps you take, please be sure that your process documentation is published and announced to people in the company and even go over it in a presentation to all staff. Nothing is worse than a committee or working group creating a bunch of process documentation for processes that maybe never existed and then never telling anyone about the documented process until they violate the process. I just went through a year of hell with newly created and documented processes that sat in an obscure network share and were never told to anyone until an offense against the process was performed. Then it was roadblock after roadblock because "this is out of process". Inevitably, my response would be "do you mean a documented process? because I've never seen it documented or been told that it had been"
What I typically download is country music as well as 1960's music. I'm a baby boomer, so the Beatles and the Stones and some of the old groups from the 1960's are my favorites, I listen to them and I listen to country. I might have some inspirational music as well, but those are the highlights for me. So, could he be in favor of P2P so he can get his Beatles fix because we all know that isn't coming through iTunes.
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...about kicks, limbo and sedatives. Here is all the dialog about those topics for everyone who will "remember" a character saying something they never said:
Sedation/Kicks:
Arthur: Three layers down, dreams are going to collapse with the slightest disturbance
Yusuf: Sedation. For sleep stable enough to create three layers of dreaming we'll have to combine it with extremely powerful sedatives.
[Yusuf slaps a sleeping Arthur who doesn't wake up.]
Yusuf: The compound we'll be using to share the dream creates a very clear connection between dreamers whilst actually accelerating brain function.
Cobb: In other words, it gives us more time on each level.
Yusuf: Brain function in the dream will be about twenty times normal. Now when you enter a dream within that dream the effect will be compounded. There's three dreams. 10 hours to...
Eames: I'm sorry, math was never my strong subject. So h-how much time is that?
Cobb: It's a week the first level down. Six months, the second level down. Third level is...
Ariadne: 10 years!
[Cobb nods]
Ariadne: Who'd want to be stuck in a dream for 10 years?
Yusuf: Depends on the dream.
Arthur: So, once we've made the plant, how do we get out? I'm hoping you have something more elegant in mind than shooting me in the head?
Cobb: Kick.
Ariadne: What's a kick?
Eames: This, Ariadne, would be a kick.
[Eames nudges Arthur's chair that is on two legs and Arthur loses balance but catches himself before he falls.]
Cobb: It's that feeling of falling you get that jolts you awake. It snaps you out of the dream.
Arthur: Are we going to feel a kick with this kind of sedation?
Yusuf: Ah! That's the clever part. I customized the sedative to leave inner ear function unimpaired. That way, however deep the sleep, the sleeper still feels falling...
[Yusuf pushes a sleeping Arthur over in a chair. Arthur awakes]
Yusuf: or tipping...
[Yusuf tips a sleeping Arthur over in a chair. Arthur awakes]
Cobb: The trick is to synchronize a kick that can penetrate all three levels.
Arthur: We could use the musical countdown to synchronize the different kicks.
Limbo: ...if we die in a dream we wake up.
Cobb: Don't do that. Don't do that!
Eames: He's in agony, I'm waking him up.
Cobb: No. It won't wake him up.
Eames: What do you mean it won't wake him up...
Cobb: It won't wake him up.
Eames:
Yusuf: Not from this. We're too heavily sedated to wake up that way.
Eames: Right. So what happens when we die?
Cobb: We drop into limbo.
Arthur: Are you serious?!
Ariadne: Limbo?!
Arthur: Unconstructed dream space.
Ariadne: Well, what the hell is down there?
Arthur: Just raw, infinite subconscious. Nothing is down there. Except for whatever might have been left behind by anyone sharing the dream who's been trapped there before. Which in our case is just you.
Ariadne: Well, how long can we be stuck there?
Yusuf: Can't even think about trying to escape until the sedation...
Eames: How long?!
Yusuf: Decades. It could be infinite. I don't know. Ask him. He's the one who's been there.
Arthur: Let's get him upstairs.
Saito:
Eames: Great... Thank you. So now we are trapped in Fischer's mind battling his own private army and if we get killed we'll be lost in limbo till our brains turn to scrambled egg.
More Limbo: ...filled with regret... ...waiting to die alone.
Cobb: How's he doing?
Ariadne: He's in a lot of pain.
Cobb: When we get down to the lower levels, his pain will be less intense.
Ariadne: And if he dies?
Cobb: Worst case scenario: when he wakes up his mind is completely gone.
Saito: Cobb. I'll still honor the arrangement.
Cobb: I appreciate that Saito, but when you wake up you won't even remember that we had an arrangement. Limbo's going to become your reality, you're gonna be lost down there so long that you're going to become an old man...
Saito:
Cobb:
Saito: No. I'll come back. And we'll be yo
That's what Slashdot used to cover. I miss that.
In related news, the iPhone4 has no antenna problems.
to log in.
Agreed. Repeating information (good, bad, and ugly) is what the Internet does best.
Who's running things over there?
"These phones have no downloadable apps, no games, not even a calendar. They're not meant to be expandable smart phones; instead very good messaging phones." Because no one does a simple and elegant device like Microsoft. This will be a roaring success... when compared to the UMPC.
No, that's $50/user/year not $50/user/month. That's $4.17/user/month. For 200 people paying $833/mo for mail and up to 5 TB of offsite storage is pretty good. The SLA on Premiere allows for about 8.75 hours of downtime per year. All in all, that's hard to beat.
I mean one who's actually practicing celibacy...
Especially now that we are in the year of Linux on the desktop.
There's always a catch.
$1,012,321.14 for property tax (that includes the $1.95 fee for noxious weed)
source: https://payments.metrokc.gov/metrokc.ecommerce.propertytaxweb/RealProperty.aspx?Parcel=9208900079
I'm sure the rest is made up by the remaining 35,000 employees living in the state.
losing Boeing's corporate offices, while not preferable, was hardly a huge blow. The remainder of operations in the Seattle area for Boeing are quite large and that's not going to change any time soon.
The Year of Linux on the Desktop!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigbee
The Year of Linux on the Desktop.
Whatever other steps you take, please be sure that your process documentation is published and announced to people in the company and even go over it in a presentation to all staff. Nothing is worse than a committee or working group creating a bunch of process documentation for processes that maybe never existed and then never telling anyone about the documented process until they violate the process. I just went through a year of hell with newly created and documented processes that sat in an obscure network share and were never told to anyone until an offense against the process was performed. Then it was roadblock after roadblock because "this is out of process". Inevitably, my response would be "do you mean a documented process? because I've never seen it documented or been told that it had been"
NSA
CIA
FBI
DHS
This could end up being good for the ratification of 802.11n. The spec that gets its power usage down to meet the 802.3af power first, wins.
The PC Mag folks need to all take a break from each other for awhile...
Steve Ballmer, stop posting as an anonymous coward!
Can you imagine if this was as popular as Guitar Hero and Rock Band???