Okay, yes, I know, I used to own the t-shirt too. ("If it's too loud, then you're too old.")
But goddamn it, when I'm in a bar chatting with friends, everywhere around is also buzzing with laughs and good times, why does the barman decide to pump his crappy music up to 110 decibels?
Because people don't drink as much if they're talking. It's to increase his bottom dollar, not to make your night out better.
I would love to be able to remotely reduce the volume or kill the music all together. Somehow, I doubt there'd be a massive outcry from people who were talking to their friends and can now hear them without shouting.
With all the hubbub about global warming, I've been getting more interested in what affect our planet's climate. Recently we have found/discovered a few things that might have some effect.
Aside from strange and exotic cosmic events from far far away, do you know what else has an effect?
Carbon dioxide. Methane. Man made industrial pollutants.
Imagine if enemies that are low in health kept running away and hiding, and then snipe at you from far away when they see that you are busy doing something else. While that might be more realistic, it might not be so fun eh? Who really wants realism in games?
Huh, you must be right. I guess that's why online gaming and LAN parties are so incredibly unpopular.
Personally, I want to see the day where two AI's argue on the battlefield... "You camping b*stard!!" "It's a legitimate strategy!"
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Agreed. Another great game to do this was Descent.
If you flew into a room, started shooting madly, then reversed out so you pick off the enemies as they moved into the doorway one at a time, they quickly learned.
Soon you'd find that the enemies wouldn't chase you. And would in fact, surround the doorway, as if knowing you would have to enter sooner or later... and then they'd all shoot you.
That is definitely the determining factor. Even if you think that the area you live is a sunny area (worthy of solar power) do some independent fact checking on the amount of sunlight which actually reaches the ground where you live, not just the amount of "sunshine" during the day. It might be less than you think, and humans are notoriously bad at subjective probabilities.
There was a throw-away slip-of-the-tongue line in Remeberence of the Daleks, when discussing the Hand of Omega. The Doctor says "And didn't we have trouble with the prototype..." to which Ace replies "we?"
This again, tied into the Cartmel Masterplan, which was the link the Doctor to the mythical "Other" who was a compatriot of Omega and Rassilon.
J. Michael Straczynski's writing on Babylon Five(he wrote much of season 1 and all of seasons 2-5 with the exception of one episode) is one of the few times anyones ever written full hour long 21-23 episode seasons solo.
Nope, sorry. He didn't. Season 2 had several writers. Seasons 3 and 4 were pure Joe. Season 5 had one script by Neil Gaiman.
The Brain of Morbius faces have long been debated in fandom. Some say it was a trick (artifically created memories by the Doctor), and some say it was previously unknown pre-Hartnell incarnations. Some say that they were the incarnations of "The Other", from the Cartmel Masterplan.
Q: If a bomb costs 1000 dollars, and a family of 4 can be housed clothed and fed for one week for 1000 dollars, then how many families could have been housed clothed and fed if we had dropped no bombs on Iraq?
A: None. We'd have spent the money saved on bombs, on some other weapons.
I've always thought that being a lifetime public servant, if your constituents allow it, is far better than being another revolving door politician heading from a law degree into a cushy PR position at a company paying for the laws you gave them.
Great in principle, lousy in practice.
Those people who are lifetime public servants? In the UK they are called the Civil Service. And they make their "political masters" look like amateurs, as anyone familiar with 'Yes Minister' can attest.
If it does a dodgy switcheroo, you have the evidence that you hit the right button, etc...
But honestly, if you were going to fiddle a machine to flip a few votes to the GOP, why have the output show the flip at all? Just edit the totals and display whatever the hell you want on the UI.
No, not bullshit. This is explained to all new hires. Clarifications are to be done face to face. Not over the phone, not over email. Email is considered a completely permanent record (even if it's not actually permanent in practice) and would be the equivalent of having a politician speak to a journalist on the record.
ie. you don't ever do it unless you have to, and then, you clear it with the press office first.
Well, the company I'm talking about was exactly like that. (But not politicians and journalists.)
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And aren't those the target audience for this trick?
Maybe. But as Wil Wheaton says "Don't be a dick."
This is the Useful/Stupid Unix Tricks thread. Not the Malicious Unix tricks thread.
Pshaw! All 1337 sysadmins just live as root!
Yes, but all the really stupid ones do as well.
In other words, it's for getting your face punched. ;)
Hah. I've been managing that for years without the aid of technology.
Okay, yes, I know, I used to own the t-shirt too. ("If it's too loud, then you're too old.")
But goddamn it, when I'm in a bar chatting with friends, everywhere around is also buzzing with laughs and good times, why does the barman decide to pump his crappy music up to 110 decibels?
Because people don't drink as much if they're talking. It's to increase his bottom dollar, not to make your night out better.
I would love to be able to remotely reduce the volume or kill the music all together. Somehow, I doubt there'd be a massive outcry from people who were talking to their friends and can now hear them without shouting.
Well, in D&D gods definitely exist.
I've pissed off more than my fair share in my time.
With all the hubbub about global warming, I've been getting more interested in what affect our planet's climate. Recently we have found/discovered a few things that might have some effect.
Aside from strange and exotic cosmic events from far far away, do you know what else has an effect?
Carbon dioxide. Methane. Man made industrial pollutants.
Imagine if enemies that are low in health kept running away and hiding, and then snipe at you from far away when they see that you are busy doing something else. While that might be more realistic, it might not be so fun eh? Who really wants realism in games?
Huh, you must be right. I guess that's why online gaming and LAN parties are so incredibly unpopular.
Personally, I want to see the day where two AI's argue on the battlefield...
"You camping b*stard!!"
"It's a legitimate strategy!"
Agreed.
Another great game to do this was Descent.
If you flew into a room, started shooting madly, then reversed out so you pick off the enemies as they moved into the doorway one at a time, they quickly learned.
Soon you'd find that the enemies wouldn't chase you. And would in fact, surround the doorway, as if knowing you would have to enter sooner or later... and then they'd all shoot you.
It made the game very replayable.
That is definitely the determining factor.
Even if you think that the area you live is a sunny area (worthy of solar power) do some independent fact checking on the amount of sunlight which actually reaches the ground where you live, not just the amount of "sunshine" during the day. It might be less than you think, and humans are notoriously bad at subjective probabilities.
There was a throw-away slip-of-the-tongue line in Remeberence of the Daleks, when discussing the Hand of Omega. The Doctor says "And didn't we have trouble with the prototype..." to which Ace replies "we?"
This again, tied into the Cartmel Masterplan, which was the link the Doctor to the mythical "Other" who was a compatriot of Omega and Rassilon.
However, in one of the early seasons, this limit is removed from the Doctor and it is not clear whether or not it was ever reapplied.
In the best wikipedia tradition.... citation?
J. Michael Straczynski's writing on Babylon Five(he wrote much of season 1 and all of seasons 2-5 with the exception of one episode) is one of the few times anyones ever written full hour long 21-23 episode seasons solo.
Nope, sorry. He didn't. Season 2 had several writers. Seasons 3 and 4 were pure Joe.
Season 5 had one script by Neil Gaiman.
The Brain of Morbius faces have long been debated in fandom. Some say it was a trick (artifically created memories by the Doctor), and some say it was previously unknown pre-Hartnell incarnations.
Some say that they were the incarnations of "The Other", from the Cartmel Masterplan.
The truth is, we just don't know.
Indeed. You're thinking of Mawdryn Undead.
In the old Tom Baker episodes, the 11th doctor shows up and tries to steal the lives of his former self.
Actually, it was Colin Baker. (Trial of Time Lord) :)
How did this possibly get marked informative?
Q: If a bomb costs 1000 dollars, and a family of 4 can be housed clothed and fed for one week for 1000 dollars, then how many families could have been housed clothed and fed if we had dropped no bombs on Iraq?
A: None. We'd have spent the money saved on bombs, on some other weapons.
Proof By Assumption
1) Prove statement k=true
2) Assume k=true
3) k=true by reason of 2). q.e.d
You may have loved philosophy, but I'll bet you flunked math.
Remember Ashley Todd, who claimed she was mugged and had a "B" cut into her face by an imaginary black dude?
God, wasn't that like DAYS ago?
We're in the digital age now! Who can remember that far back into ancient history?
Oh please. Physics and the so-called universe are just mere approximations of mathematical purity.
I've always thought that being a lifetime public servant, if your constituents allow it, is far better than being another revolving door politician heading from a law degree into a cushy PR position at a company paying for the laws you gave them.
Great in principle, lousy in practice.
Those people who are lifetime public servants? In the UK they are called the Civil Service. And they make their "political masters" look like amateurs, as anyone familiar with 'Yes Minister' can attest.
Sometimes you have to take the risk to protect your civil rights.
I don't think a jury would convict you, but America is far from being place where I would want to end up in court for any reason.
Video tape your election vote.
If it does a dodgy switcheroo, you have the evidence that you hit the right button, etc...
But honestly, if you were going to fiddle a machine to flip a few votes to the GOP, why have the output show the flip at all?
Just edit the totals and display whatever the hell you want on the UI.
printf "You have voted for Obama"; McCain++;
Know what I mean?
You must have some pretty weak employment laws where you live.
You must have never worked as a contractor in your life.
It's not illegal (or even uncommon) to be let go on no notice with no warning for no reason.
No, not bullshit.
This is explained to all new hires. Clarifications are to be done face to face. Not over the phone, not over email.
Email is considered a completely permanent record (even if it's not actually permanent in practice) and would be the equivalent of having a politician speak to a journalist on the record.
ie. you don't ever do it unless you have to, and then, you clear it with the press office first.
Well, the company I'm talking about was exactly like that. (But not politicians and journalists.)
If I was dumb enough to try a CYA email, I would receive an email along the lines of
"Of course not! Where did you get that idea?! That would be illegal, and a gross violation of our company's ethics policy!
Have you been doing something like this already without our knowledge? Come by my office immediately."
And no, it wasn't the mafia.