Much about the series didn't make sense. Hell, I think that everything after the first movie was just a series of weird-ass dreams Connor was having during the last quickening. Gah, don't even get me started on the Connor vs Duncan outcome in the last movie. Fucking Quintin could kick Duncan's ass...
Not really. I recall an episode of the television series wherein at one point in his past, Duncan was a ship's mate under an unreasonable (and immortal) captain. The crew mutinied and wanted to behead said captain, but Duncan convinced them to simply strand the captain on a deserted island so he'd at least have a chance to survive. Turns out that what little water and vegetation there was on the island was unfit for consumption, and the immortal captain essentially died of thirst every couple days, then revived and died all over again...for something like 80 years. When the two met in modern times, the now very-understandably crazy former captain tried to trap Duncan in a basement prison with no food or water only to be let out after a similar length of time.
I also recall another episode that featured Nefertiti. In her case, she would revive in her coffin only to suffocate minutes later. By modern times, she was quite bat-shit insane.
One day, this guy finds a magic lamp, rubs it, genie pops out, you know the spiel.
"I will grant you any wish." Says the Genie, and the guy thinks about it for a minute.
"I'm sick of paying high prices for airline tickets. I want you to build a bridge from California to Hawaii so I can drive instead."
"Impossible!" Says the Genie. "Do you have any idea of the work that would involve? Between geological instability and current technology in regards to such massive structures, it just can't be done. Wish for something else."
"Well, in that case..." Says the guy. "I'd really like to understand women."
So the Genie says: "Okay, do you want two lanes or four?"
At least television shows don't have scenes anymore where the characters turn to the camera to pitch products directly. It's one thing for a character to be holding a can of {brand name soda} so that the label can be clearly seen, but product placement used to be much worse.
Holy hell, not only is it ugly, but the marble image looks like he threw it together in two minutes using and older version of Bryce with only the included materials. I'm half surprised he didn't use the newbie "orb over water" image instead. Also, he's using frames, but, as you saw, every link opens a new window/tab. Someone hand this man a Guinness.
I personally do style my site with CSS, but I don't use techniques that completely over-ride the user's own settings. For example, for determining font size, I use the following:
body {font: 1em}
Then, for h1/h2/etc, footers, and any instance of larger/smaller text, I use percentages. (For example, I set h1 at 215%.) What this does is sets the default font size for the page at whatever the user has set as default in their browser. The percentages cascade from there. (h1 is 215% of the user's default font setting, a footer will be 85%.)
I believe that a web-author shouldn't feel restricted in terms of creativity, but at the same time, the author should never attempt to completely over-ride the visitor's preferences.
Quite right. I should've added before that this system would still require an outside source material from time to time for reasons such as the one you mentioned. But then again resources will likely run out even without such technology using it all. (Except, new material from meteorites et al would at least be useful for source material, whereas eating ordinary space rocks doesn't sound very healthy.
As for describing a perpetual motion machine, not really. If I proposed the idea of creating the energy source to power the replicator, then yes, that would be a perpetual motion machine, however, that is not quite what I described. What I described was essentially an oven with a nearly-infinite supply of muffin batter. The oven would still need energy to bake said muffins, but at least you'd have near-infinite muffins to bake if you had the energy. Slightly different concept, this is just a slightly more complex version of recycling.
"Atom-X" could simply be recycled from broken or used-up materials from previously replicated material. If one wants to replicate a triple cheeseburger with bacon and a side of poutine, the replicator can be designed to acquire "Atom X" from one's septic tank. In fact, if such a tech existed, homes would likely be designed with a universal refuse storage area that combines normal trash, compost, what we would today call recyclables as well as the above mentioned septic tank. Then, with a store of "Atom-X" at one's disposal, then energy would be the only hindrance left. Even then, by the time such tech is available, a new energy source might well be available as well.
"What difference would it make to you whether those created people believe in you or not?"
You then liken the scenario to a SimCity. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Black&White would be a better comparison. In B&W (or the one I'm thinking of, if I have the title wrong) your status in the game is dependent on what the people in the simulation think of you. Perhaps this video game-playing god needs the Faith Points to level up so he has access to better stuff. Perhaps the people in the simulation need to be leveled-up in order to beat the player's friend's Peoplemon. You started out saying that a god doesn't think the same way we do. That would also mean what's logical for us isn't the same as what would be logical for such a being. However, after spending countless hours/days building your SimCity model, wouldn't you be a tad upset if the people in your game suddenly said: "Fuck this, I wanna run through the streets going 'wokka-wokka-wokka'..."
*Nods* You're thinking of the Golgafrinchum Ark B from Restaurant at the end of the Universe. (Or, Primary Phase, Fit 5 of the radio series; or Episode 5 of the television series...) That was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the summary title.
"This? This is ice. This is what happens to water when it gets too cold. This? This is Kent, this is what happens to people when they get too sexually frustrated..."
I don't know, PETA would probably protest, demanding that the Major Cows be given psychiatric evaluation stating that the restaurant encourages suicidal tendencies. Why don't they just build a Cracker Barrel? There's one near nearly every interstate, so why not build one for the upcoming hyperspace bypass?
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Much about the series didn't make sense. Hell, I think that everything after the first movie was just a series of weird-ass dreams Connor was having during the last quickening. Gah, don't even get me started on the Connor vs Duncan outcome in the last movie. Fucking Quintin could kick Duncan's ass...
Not really. I recall an episode of the television series wherein at one point in his past, Duncan was a ship's mate under an unreasonable (and immortal) captain. The crew mutinied and wanted to behead said captain, but Duncan convinced them to simply strand the captain on a deserted island so he'd at least have a chance to survive. Turns out that what little water and vegetation there was on the island was unfit for consumption, and the immortal captain essentially died of thirst every couple days, then revived and died all over again...for something like 80 years. When the two met in modern times, the now very-understandably crazy former captain tried to trap Duncan in a basement prison with no food or water only to be let out after a similar length of time.
I also recall another episode that featured Nefertiti. In her case, she would revive in her coffin only to suffocate minutes later. By modern times, she was quite bat-shit insane.
One day, this guy finds a magic lamp, rubs it, genie pops out, you know the spiel.
"I will grant you any wish." Says the Genie, and the guy thinks about it for a minute.
"I'm sick of paying high prices for airline tickets. I want you to build a bridge from California to Hawaii so I can drive instead."
"Impossible!" Says the Genie. "Do you have any idea of the work that would involve? Between geological instability and current technology in regards to such massive structures, it just can't be done. Wish for something else."
"Well, in that case..." Says the guy. "I'd really like to understand women."
So the Genie says: "Okay, do you want two lanes or four?"
What if they built a large wooden badger?
At least television shows don't have scenes anymore where the characters turn to the camera to pitch products directly. It's one thing for a character to be holding a can of {brand name soda} so that the label can be clearly seen, but product placement used to be much worse.
This is /., most people here don't know what a "mate" is...
True, but unless I've seen instances where my CSS wouldn't validate otherwise.
Holy hell, not only is it ugly, but the marble image looks like he threw it together in two minutes using and older version of Bryce with only the included materials. I'm half surprised he didn't use the newbie "orb over water" image instead. Also, he's using frames, but, as you saw, every link opens a new window/tab. Someone hand this man a Guinness.
Then, for h1/h2/etc, footers, and any instance of larger/smaller text, I use percentages. (For example, I set h1 at 215%.) What this does is sets the default font size for the page at whatever the user has set as default in their browser. The percentages cascade from there. (h1 is 215% of the user's default font setting, a footer will be 85%.)
I believe that a web-author shouldn't feel restricted in terms of creativity, but at the same time, the author should never attempt to completely over-ride the visitor's preferences.
If one added cheese, specifically cheese curds to disco fries, one would have poutine.
I will not buy this record, it is scratched...
Quite right. I should've added before that this system would still require an outside source material from time to time for reasons such as the one you mentioned. But then again resources will likely run out even without such technology using it all. (Except, new material from meteorites et al would at least be useful for source material, whereas eating ordinary space rocks doesn't sound very healthy. As for describing a perpetual motion machine, not really. If I proposed the idea of creating the energy source to power the replicator, then yes, that would be a perpetual motion machine, however, that is not quite what I described. What I described was essentially an oven with a nearly-infinite supply of muffin batter. The oven would still need energy to bake said muffins, but at least you'd have near-infinite muffins to bake if you had the energy. Slightly different concept, this is just a slightly more complex version of recycling.
"Atom-X" could simply be recycled from broken or used-up materials from previously replicated material. If one wants to replicate a triple cheeseburger with bacon and a side of poutine, the replicator can be designed to acquire "Atom X" from one's septic tank. In fact, if such a tech existed, homes would likely be designed with a universal refuse storage area that combines normal trash, compost, what we would today call recyclables as well as the above mentioned septic tank. Then, with a store of "Atom-X" at one's disposal, then energy would be the only hindrance left. Even then, by the time such tech is available, a new energy source might well be available as well.
"What difference would it make to you whether those created people believe in you or not?"
You then liken the scenario to a SimCity. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Black&White would be a better comparison. In B&W (or the one I'm thinking of, if I have the title wrong) your status in the game is dependent on what the people in the simulation think of you. Perhaps this video game-playing god needs the Faith Points to level up so he has access to better stuff. Perhaps the people in the simulation need to be leveled-up in order to beat the player's friend's Peoplemon. You started out saying that a god doesn't think the same way we do. That would also mean what's logical for us isn't the same as what would be logical for such a being. However, after spending countless hours/days building your SimCity model, wouldn't you be a tad upset if the people in your game suddenly said: "Fuck this, I wanna run through the streets going 'wokka-wokka-wokka'..."
I think you're thinking of Jellystone Park...
On which end of the remote though?
Hence the phrase: "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur." (Or s/sonatur/videtur, IWALS, so I'm not sure which is correct.)
*Nods* You're thinking of the Golgafrinchum Ark B from Restaurant at the end of the Universe. (Or, Primary Phase, Fit 5 of the radio series; or Episode 5 of the television series...) That was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the summary title.
They also asked that you have their joke dry-cleaned before returning them as well...
Winston wasn't one of the original members of the team. He was hired rather late in the film, and IIRC, wasn't a scientist beforehand.
"...transmitting messages invisibly through the air..."
I think that this has been around for a considerable time. I believe one of the first messages was "Ung..."
"This? This is ice. This is what happens to water when it gets too cold. This? This is Kent, this is what happens to people when they get too sexually frustrated..."
I don't know, PETA would probably protest, demanding that the Major Cows be given psychiatric evaluation stating that the restaurant encourages suicidal tendencies. Why don't they just build a Cracker Barrel? There's one near nearly every interstate, so why not build one for the upcoming hyperspace bypass?
Considering that the term "ark" meant vessel as a container rather than a conveyance such as a ship, building it on dry land was rather a good idea.
Gotcha, I was just being "playfully defensive". ^.^;