Not strictly an IT job, but this week Orkney Council advertised posts for a Registrar and a Burial Ground Clerk, paying 357 and 148 pounds sterling a year respectively. (Roughly $650 and $250).
There is a (scary) prophylactic available called the femidom, which is only a couple of letters away... but my money's on the Famicomafia or the Famicommunists.
Aye, they're teaching children that a [i]sound[/i] is "bad", yet the doll's outfit incorporates the very real threat of a BEE! Soon children, influenced by the doll, will be running around trying to capture bees to use as impromptue corsages on their own clothing, many succumbing to anaphylactic shock when the bees defend themselves from this onslaught.
Words are only harmful so long as "the guardians of society" perpetuate the myth that they are harmful - bees are only harmful so long as they've got a stingerful of acid that can make your arm swell to twice its normal size.
For some reason children seem to appreciate game play much more than adults do; when I was at the GameOn exhibition in Edinburgh the children were completely ignoring the newest Xbox/PS2/Gamecube games but were totally engrossed with The Collosal Cave Adventure, Adventure on the 2600 and Pitfall. The grown-ups, on the other hand, seemed much more interested in the games with impressive graphics (there was a big queue for Pong, but even that comes into this category in this instance as you were controlling the action on a 12 foot screen). I am not overly given to sentimentality, but I can tell you it actually made me feel warm inside and gave me a glint of optimism about the future to see children enchanted by a text adventure.
Aye, he originally wanted at as one volume, divided (hexivided?) into six "books". As it is, it's usually found as three volumes, each containing two "books". Although the first volume (books i+ii) is pretty linear, the second and third volumes (books iii+iv and books v+vi) have each book largely covering the same time (one book Frodo + Sam's journey, the other book Merry + Pippin's journey). As such, splicing all three movies together into one ginormous movies still wouldn't be entirely faithful to the original story, if only because the films don't follow this structure. (Though it could be re-edited to make it fit). Nevertheless, one huge film would be way cool.
Please ignore this story; this has been sent back through time at great expense to aid the fight against Skynet by inspiring a young Linus Torvalds to create an OS named Linux which, by providing a system without the communication security holes will allow the creation of T800 without the vulnerabilities that allowed other models to be controlled by the TX, thus in turn allowing the details of the conflict between the T800 and TX to be relayed back in time to Jonathon Mostow, and helping springboard Arnold Schwarzenegger's political career, ultimately culminating in his presidency, and the creation of a global utopian American superpower.
It's not even as if no-one has used an organic brain to control a robot before either. Personally I prefer the idea of a piece of fishbrain suddenly finding itself trundling about on dry ground on a little trolley, as it's expanding its horizons by a fair amount, and letting it travel where no Lamprey has gone before; a piece of ratbrain in a robot will just be laughed at by all the real rats until the Blue Fairy comes along to turn him into a real rat (unless it ends up under the sea for ages upon ages, by which point robots will be the only intelligence on the planet, and they'll have the techology to... oops; sorry; I was a little traumatised by the last half-hour of A.I. (okay, I spelt "traumatised with an S, but I am British, dash it)).
Well, of even lower (artificial) intelligence, but to my mind hugely more impressive is the classic, unbelievable, ladies and gentlemen please put your hands together for David Horne's chess program for the unexpanded ZX81! It's amazing what can be done in 1K (well, 672 bytes really).
Hey! Obesity and diabetes are at an all-time high because of Moore's law; more computing power = more alluring computers = more time spent in front of the VDU = more cola + crisps + less exercise = more obesity and diabetes.
And as those nice Intel machines'll need equally nice software to run on them, we'll find our little Sims people running down to their Simulated PC-World and bringing back a Simulated copy of The Sims to run on their machine... and then the Sims will find their little simulated Sims people running down to....
Well, at the very least it would be nice if the Sims could get "Little Computer People" running on their PCs...
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Not strictly an IT job, but this week Orkney Council advertised posts for a Registrar and a Burial Ground Clerk, paying 357 and 148 pounds sterling a year respectively. (Roughly $650 and $250).
There is a (scary) prophylactic available called the femidom, which is only a couple of letters away... but my money's on the Famicomafia or the Famicommunists.
Words are only harmful so long as "the guardians of society" perpetuate the myth that they are harmful - bees are only harmful so long as they've got a stingerful of acid that can make your arm swell to twice its normal size.
For some reason children seem to appreciate game play much more than adults do; when I was at the GameOn exhibition in Edinburgh the children were completely ignoring the newest Xbox/PS2/Gamecube games but were totally engrossed with The Collosal Cave Adventure, Adventure on the 2600 and Pitfall. The grown-ups, on the other hand, seemed much more interested in the games with impressive graphics (there was a big queue for Pong, but even that comes into this category in this instance as you were controlling the action on a 12 foot screen). I am not overly given to sentimentality, but I can tell you it actually made me feel warm inside and gave me a glint of optimism about the future to see children enchanted by a text adventure.
Aye, he originally wanted at as one volume, divided (hexivided?) into six "books". As it is, it's usually found as three volumes, each containing two "books". Although the first volume (books i+ii) is pretty linear, the second and third volumes (books iii+iv and books v+vi) have each book largely covering the same time (one book Frodo + Sam's journey, the other book Merry + Pippin's journey). As such, splicing all three movies together into one ginormous movies still wouldn't be entirely faithful to the original story, if only because the films don't follow this structure. (Though it could be re-edited to make it fit). Nevertheless, one huge film would be way cool.
Please ignore this story; this has been sent back through time at great expense to aid the fight against Skynet by inspiring a young Linus Torvalds to create an OS named Linux which, by providing a system without the communication security holes will allow the creation of T800 without the vulnerabilities that allowed other models to be controlled by the TX, thus in turn allowing the details of the conflict between the T800 and TX to be relayed back in time to Jonathon Mostow, and helping springboard Arnold Schwarzenegger's political career, ultimately culminating in his presidency, and the creation of a global utopian American superpower.
So, you ain't seen me, right?
It's not even as if no-one has used an organic brain to control a robot before either. Personally I prefer the idea of a piece of fishbrain suddenly finding itself trundling about on dry ground on a little trolley, as it's expanding its horizons by a fair amount, and letting it travel where no Lamprey has gone before; a piece of ratbrain in a robot will just be laughed at by all the real rats until the Blue Fairy comes along to turn him into a real rat (unless it ends up under the sea for ages upon ages, by which point robots will be the only intelligence on the planet, and they'll have the techology to... oops; sorry; I was a little traumatised by the last half-hour of A.I. (okay, I spelt "traumatised with an S, but I am British, dash it)).
That's not how you spell "monsieurs"!
Well, of even lower (artificial) intelligence, but to my mind hugely more impressive is the classic, unbelievable, ladies and gentlemen please put your hands together for David Horne's chess program for the unexpanded ZX81! It's amazing what can be done in 1K (well, 672 bytes really).
Hey! Obesity and diabetes are at an all-time high because of Moore's law; more computing power = more alluring computers = more time spent in front of the VDU = more cola + crisps + less exercise = more obesity and diabetes.
Well, there's always Penn Gillette's idea from this PC-Computing article.
And as those nice Intel machines'll need equally nice software to run on them, we'll find our little Sims people running down to their Simulated PC-World and bringing back a Simulated copy of The Sims to run on their machine... and then the Sims will find their little simulated Sims people running down to....
Well, at the very least it would be nice if the Sims could get "Little Computer People" running on their PCs...