Glory Road would be a great choice for a Heinlein novel to make into a film. I'd also like to see Methuselah's Children made into a movie, but I can see how it wouldn;t really translate so well to that medium. Paul Kantner had plans to make a film version, back in the 70s, but theat didn't get very far.
Yep...the most expensive place to get to in the solar system, in terms of energy, is the sun. It's not like we can just let go and have things "fall" into the sun...gotta do a lot of braking to get to it...
Many years ago, I was a bit of a high school prodigy. My SAT scores & grades were very very good. Apparently, based solely on my SAT scores and my first name, which in my region of the country is given to males & females, but is more usually considered to be a woman's name, I received a generous full scholarship offer to a prestigious Ivy Leage women only university. As I am not female, I turned it down. On reflection, looking back, I've been kicking myself over that decision ever since...
Wait a minute - he was a Novell hardliner? I thought you said he was a great admin. Novell was the only thing less like a real operating system than Windows is. Nothing reveals someone as a provincial narrow visioned small minded idiot who has had no exposure to real computing more than a fondness for Novell.
Well, X-rays aren't good for you, true...but nothing is worse than neutrons. It's like the old physics test question - if you have an alpha source, a beta source, a gamma (similar to X-rays) source, and a neutron source, all of similar "intensities", and you can eat one, put one in your pocket, hold one at arm's length, and throw one away...what do you do? You put the alpha source in your pocket, since the cloth in your pants will stop alphas. You hold the beta source at arm's length, since a foot or so of air will stop betas. That leaves the neutron and the gamma...well, you throw away the neutron source, since neutrons will activate and make radioactive any material it is close to, this making more radiation over time. You swallow the gamma, since its range make that just about as bad as the other two alternatives.
"US does not target the innocent -- when we kill them, it is by a tragic mistake, a major failure. Terrorists do target them -- the "decapitated mothers" means success for them, and a cause for celebrations."
Maybe now...but in WWII, plenty of civilian targets in Japan and Germany were pounded into rubble, by the US, on purpose...
I remember a better, halcyon time, when the only people on the Internet were avid sports non-fans. They were all educated computer professionals....good times...
A few years back, I was troubleshooting a problem on my desktop. It had a Duron 800 in it. I got tired of putting the heat sink and CPU fan back on every time I made a change, so I figured, what the hell, how hot can it get in the time it takes to try and boot. It made it through the boot fine. I mused "Works great! I bet it doessn't even get that hot. Wonder how hot it is?" With that thought, I reached in and touched the top of the CPU. It was so hot that it instantaneously branded the text and logo etched in the top of the chip onto my thumbtip, before I could react and yank my hand back. For a few weeks, until it sloughed off, it was readable in reverse on my thumb...taught me new respect for the current consumption & heat generation capabilities of CPUs.
Yeah...I'm just barely old enough to remember when airco started catching on (it took up to the late 50s to get going everywhere). Movie theaters, in the middle of hot Texas summers, would post big signs outside that said "30 degrees cooler inside!"...and people flocked in to cool off.
Yah, VAX Basic (and DEC's Basic-Plus 2 for the PDP-11 before it) were damn fine languages. They didn't require line numbers (well, actually, the first line in a program had to have one, but no others were required). It supported statement labels, and had lots of modern programming constructs, like real function calls, If-then-else, and the like. Two places where it really shone was in its rich set of string handling features, and its close integration with the features of RMS, the file system/record management system on VMS and RSX. DEC's BSIC-PLUS, used on their RSTS operating system, was nothing like VAX Basic and Basic-Plus 2...it was, to be kind, not good...handling data from files was partiulary tedious.
Yes, it's true - Shatner is afflicted with a debilitating speech defect, it's technical name is Pausenia. Victims of Pausenia uncontrollably pepper their speech with pauses that don't belong there. Unfortunately for Shatner, there is no known cure.
In the mid 70s, a disgruntled employee at a newspaper in Louisiana got pissed off and went in the sserver room and killed a PDP-11/70 (a largish expensive system at the time) with a handgun. One of the Digital technicicians who worked on the fixup showed me a picture of the lights & switches front panel, with three bullet holes in it...so there's already been sysadmin meatspace violence, although it was directed at a machine and not a person.
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Glory Road would be a great choice for a Heinlein novel to make into a film. I'd also like to see Methuselah's Children made into a movie, but I can see how it wouldn;t really translate so well to that medium. Paul Kantner had plans to make a film version, back in the 70s, but theat didn't get very far.
Yep...the most expensive place to get to in the solar system, in terms of energy, is the sun. It's not like we can just let go and have things "fall" into the sun...gotta do a lot of braking to get to it...
You're all a bunch of noobs with new gear. I have & use at least once a week, a DEC PDP-11/05...
Many years ago, I was a bit of a high school prodigy. My SAT scores & grades were very very good. Apparently, based solely on my SAT scores and my first name, which in my region of the country is given to males & females, but is more usually considered to be a woman's name, I received a generous full scholarship offer to a prestigious Ivy Leage women only university. As I am not female, I turned it down. On reflection, looking back, I've been kicking myself over that decision ever since...
Wait a minute - he was a Novell hardliner? I thought you said he was a great admin. Novell was the only thing less like a real operating system than Windows is. Nothing reveals someone as a provincial narrow visioned small minded idiot who has had no exposure to real computing more than a fondness for Novell.
Ah good - that gives me more time to get my HF antenna up. No sunspots - no HF radio propagation....now I can put off climbing up on the roof.
Guppy06 is right on. The pap that Bradbury wrote is the stuff that English teachers confuse with real science fiction
Well, X-rays aren't good for you, true...but nothing is worse than neutrons. It's like the old physics test question - if you have an alpha source, a beta source, a gamma (similar to X-rays) source, and a neutron source, all of similar "intensities", and you can eat one, put one in your pocket, hold one at arm's length, and throw one away...what do you do? You put the alpha source in your pocket, since the cloth in your pants will stop alphas. You hold the beta source at arm's length, since a foot or so of air will stop betas. That leaves the neutron and the gamma...well, you throw away the neutron source, since neutrons will activate and make radioactive any material it is close to, this making more radiation over time. You swallow the gamma, since its range make that just about as bad as the other two alternatives.
"US does not target the innocent -- when we kill them, it is by a tragic mistake, a major failure. Terrorists do target them -- the "decapitated mothers" means success for them, and a cause for celebrations." Maybe now...but in WWII, plenty of civilian targets in Japan and Germany were pounded into rubble, by the US, on purpose...
You're forgetting the vast treasure that the Templar naval fleet escaped with.
At least I know I'm safe...because I run VMS!
Ferris core? Is the memory arranged in a big wheel, where the bytes ride up and down in little swinging seats? Or, maybe you meant ferrite core...
I remember a better, halcyon time, when the only people on the Internet were avid sports non-fans. They were all educated computer professionals....good times...
Like Dylan said in the 60s, "Ya don't need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
A few years back, I was troubleshooting a problem on my desktop. It had a Duron 800 in it. I got tired of putting the heat sink and CPU fan back on every time I made a change, so I figured, what the hell, how hot can it get in the time it takes to try and boot. It made it through the boot fine. I mused "Works great! I bet it doessn't even get that hot. Wonder how hot it is?" With that thought, I reached in and touched the top of the CPU. It was so hot that it instantaneously branded the text and logo etched in the top of the chip onto my thumbtip, before I could react and yank my hand back. For a few weeks, until it sloughed off, it was readable in reverse on my thumb...taught me new respect for the current consumption & heat generation capabilities of CPUs.
In the beginnig, there was nothing, which then exploded.
Nope, Superman's dead too.
Yeah...I'm just barely old enough to remember when airco started catching on (it took up to the late 50s to get going everywhere). Movie theaters, in the middle of hot Texas summers, would post big signs outside that said "30 degrees cooler inside!"...and people flocked in to cool off.
To young people, the Vietnam War and WWII are probably indistinguishable anyway...
Yah, VAX Basic (and DEC's Basic-Plus 2 for the PDP-11 before it) were damn fine languages. They didn't require line numbers (well, actually, the first line in a program had to have one, but no others were required). It supported statement labels, and had lots of modern programming constructs, like real function calls, If-then-else, and the like. Two places where it really shone was in its rich set of string handling features, and its close integration with the features of RMS, the file system/record management system on VMS and RSX. DEC's BSIC-PLUS, used on their RSTS operating system, was nothing like VAX Basic and Basic-Plus 2...it was, to be kind, not good...handling data from files was partiulary tedious.
I'll match Star Pizza and Fuzzy's pizza, both in HOuston Texas, against the best New York and Chicago have to offer.
Yes, it's true - Shatner is afflicted with a debilitating speech defect, it's technical name is Pausenia. Victims of Pausenia uncontrollably pepper their speech with pauses that don't belong there. Unfortunately for Shatner, there is no known cure.
AS my old work pal, Doktor Bob so succinctly put it, that time is spent going nuts and wishing you were dead.
Jeez! Don't they teach you kids Latin anymore?
In the mid 70s, a disgruntled employee at a newspaper in Louisiana got pissed off and went in the sserver room and killed a PDP-11/70 (a largish expensive system at the time) with a handgun. One of the Digital technicicians who worked on the fixup showed me a picture of the lights & switches front panel, with three bullet holes in it...so there's already been sysadmin meatspace violence, although it was directed at a machine and not a person.