But there's only a finite number of gods, whatever pantheon is being used, and potentially billions of planets. And more planets are being discovered all the time.
So eventually planets are going to have to be named whatever their discoverer chooses simply because there won't be time to go through formal naming processes for them all. Inevitably, some day there will be a Planet Goatse, and its colonists will be mocked throughout the human diaspora.
A friend of mine and her boyfriend just bought their first flat, rather than renting. One of the first things on the agenda (before they even moved in!) was installing satellite, with a Sky+ DVR and a setup that allows different channels and recordings to be watched in different rooms.
In a week and a half, my friend has gone from practically tech-illiterate to Mistress of Sky+, so that she can watch every episode of Most Haunted the box can find in one room while her boyfriend watches sport in the other. He was the one who wanted Sky+ in the first place, but she's the one making the most use of the box!
I've been researching the National Security Agency for a novel I'm writing. The part of Fort Meade, MD, that's home to the NSA is largely a blank space on US maps, even Google Maps.
However, switch to 'satellite' view on Google Maps, zoom in, take a bunch of screencaps, and with an hour or so's assembly work in Photoshop you too can have a large, hi-res, full-colour map of the NSA that probably beats in detail anything the Soviets could obtain in the entire Cold War! Ain't technology great?
Save LA from a nuke, get a university named after you. Cool!
So is season 5 of '24' going to be Kiefer versus the $800 terrorist swarmbots? Chloe'll have them reprogrammed in no time.
What actual new *features* are there?
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So, no WinFS, no major security improvements, and you need an uber-machine just to run it. As TFA noted, there doesn't seem to be anything there that actually helps increase productivity.
Go to Germany and see the big long road where there is no speed limit, and there are fewer accidents per 100,000 miles then in the US.
I've never driven on Germany's autobahns, but I've *been* driven on them... and it was a scary experience!
Only two lanes (compared to a three-lane UK motorway with a 70mph limit), trucks zooming down both lines like mobile walls, and the nearest thing to 'lane discipline' being "Hey, my car will fit through that gap! Woohoo!"
Now I love driving fast, and I'll freely admit that given a chance and a stretch of empty motorway I'll top the ton. But my German drivers cheerfully exceeded that on busy roads with other cars whipping out of junctions right in front of them, and frankly it scared the shit out of me. No wonder the world's best Grand Prix drivers come from countries like Germany, Italy and Brazil, where driving is treated like combat!
...it's necessary to go backwards. Expendable stacks and capsules rather than re-usable orbiters.
On the one hand, I'm glad. The Shuttle has proved to be a horrible waste of money, a boondoggle of 1970s technology dictated by political pork and military paranoia rather than being designed for an actual specific purpose, and I'm glad it's going to be replaced.
It's just a shame that the only way we can get people out into space seems to be with 1960s technology rather than 2000s. At least, under the current government-funded model.
On the very rare occasions I need to use one, I just boot up AppleWorks 6. Whoa, and there it is! Rows and columns, all interacting and everything! Came free with the computer too.
But I guess they mean 'a spreadsheet... THAT LOOKS KEWL!'
When Anakin started to burn up after losing most of his limbs, it is quite possible that his penis was severely burned. Considering that he was engulfed in flames, it is probably safe to say that his penis and scrotum were literally quite gone.
Alternate dialogue from ROTS:
Vader: Padme... is she all right?
Emperor: She's fine. But really, I'd forget about her if I were you.
Vader: Why?
Emperor: Look down.
Vader: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I know 'acrylic' is a type of paint. But for the majority of people of a certain age, 'acrylic' is more likely to bring back awful memories of horrid clothing made from synthetic fibres.
MS should stick to their usual dull-yet-informative naming protocols. 'Office' reminds you of, well, the office. 'Paint' reminds you of the kind of masterpieces you could create with paint - when you were six. And 'Bob' reminds you of a small floating turd.
"Ooh, we're so cutting edge we're not going to use a capital letter at the start of our company's name." Pretentious twats. I bet they all have poncy rectangular tinted glasses and soul patches and ride around their offices on scooters as well.
I went there in (I think) '97 when I was in Tokyo to attend Space World, and even then it was... well, Geek Central.
Wandering around Akihabara at random, I went into what I thought was a comic shop. Which it was... but a very specialised comic shop. It was devoted to fan-produced manga based on videogame characters.
Pornographic fan-produced manga based on videogame characters. A whole shop of it.
Now if that's not an extremely specialised geek market, I don't know what is!
What really struck me about the place was that even however many years ago it was, they were selling hardware that's still barely reached Western markets - and at sale prices! Saw my first ever HDTV in Akihabara, and nobody seemed interested in it but me...
The UK ID card system is now estimated at £18 billion
Or UKP300 per person, at the current population of 60 million. Now gee, will everyone will be given their 'mandatory' ID card for free? Somehow I don't think so.
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'Precover'? Is that like backing something up before you've even created the file? I can see how that would be a major timesaver.
So eventually planets are going to have to be named whatever their discoverer chooses simply because there won't be time to go through formal naming processes for them all. Inevitably, some day there will be a Planet Goatse, and its colonists will be mocked throughout the human diaspora.
In a week and a half, my friend has gone from practically tech-illiterate to Mistress of Sky+, so that she can watch every episode of Most Haunted the box can find in one room while her boyfriend watches sport in the other. He was the one who wanted Sky+ in the first place, but she's the one making the most use of the box!
However, switch to 'satellite' view on Google Maps, zoom in, take a bunch of screencaps, and with an hour or so's assembly work in Photoshop you too can have a large, hi-res, full-colour map of the NSA that probably beats in detail anything the Soviets could obtain in the entire Cold War! Ain't technology great?
Longhorn looks better than the garish XP, at least. But is it anything more than a re-skinned update?
Doesn't anyone realise these creatures are only an opposable thumb away from slaughtering us in our beds? Stop teaching them stuff!
So long as they don't find and clone Cro-Mags. Didn't those bastards kill Gimli?
Though of course with no visible matter in the simulation, it's too dark to make out any details.
So is season 5 of '24' going to be Kiefer versus the $800 terrorist swarmbots? Chloe'll have them reprogrammed in no time.
But hey, transparent windows!
I've never driven on Germany's autobahns, but I've *been* driven on them... and it was a scary experience!
Only two lanes (compared to a three-lane UK motorway with a 70mph limit), trucks zooming down both lines like mobile walls, and the nearest thing to 'lane discipline' being "Hey, my car will fit through that gap! Woohoo!"
Now I love driving fast, and I'll freely admit that given a chance and a stretch of empty motorway I'll top the ton. But my German drivers cheerfully exceeded that on busy roads with other cars whipping out of junctions right in front of them, and frankly it scared the shit out of me. No wonder the world's best Grand Prix drivers come from countries like Germany, Italy and Brazil, where driving is treated like combat!
On the one hand, I'm glad. The Shuttle has proved to be a horrible waste of money, a boondoggle of 1970s technology dictated by political pork and military paranoia rather than being designed for an actual specific purpose, and I'm glad it's going to be replaced.
It's just a shame that the only way we can get people out into space seems to be with 1960s technology rather than 2000s. At least, under the current government-funded model.
'MS Search', despite the fact that it even *contains* a verb already... not gonna happen. Ever.
But I guess they mean 'a spreadsheet... THAT LOOKS KEWL!'
Give up Word 5.1? NEVER!
Alternate dialogue from ROTS:
Vader: Padme... is she all right?
Emperor: She's fine. But really, I'd forget about her if I were you.
Vader: Why?
Emperor: Look down.
Vader: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
MS should stick to their usual dull-yet-informative naming protocols. 'Office' reminds you of, well, the office. 'Paint' reminds you of the kind of masterpieces you could create with paint - when you were six. And 'Bob' reminds you of a small floating turd.
...people who RTFA before modding a post as 'Offtopic'.
"Ooh, we're so cutting edge we're not going to use a capital letter at the start of our company's name." Pretentious twats. I bet they all have poncy rectangular tinted glasses and soul patches and ride around their offices on scooters as well.
The objective of politicians is to gain power.
This just combines the two.
Or does he hate them to pieces?
Wandering around Akihabara at random, I went into what I thought was a comic shop. Which it was... but a very specialised comic shop. It was devoted to fan-produced manga based on videogame characters.
Pornographic fan-produced manga based on videogame characters. A whole shop of it.
Now if that's not an extremely specialised geek market, I don't know what is!
What really struck me about the place was that even however many years ago it was, they were selling hardware that's still barely reached Western markets - and at sale prices! Saw my first ever HDTV in Akihabara, and nobody seemed interested in it but me...
I thought that it took ten years for stupid ideas from the States to reach the UK. Not seven. (The DMCA being signed in 1998.)
I'm still running OS 8.6, you insensitive clod!
Or UKP300 per person, at the current population of 60 million. Now gee, will everyone will be given their 'mandatory' ID card for free? Somehow I don't think so.