And Quality, don't forgt Quality. I don't mean the old fashioned kind, where things are well made and valuable, I mean the new kind...managers love to hear about that, and wouldn't countenance anything that threatens it.
PKD had nothing to do with "Super Toys Play All Summer Long". That was by Brian Aldiss.
Speaking of movies, last night, it occurred to me who could actually make a movie out of "Neuromancer" and not have it be a disaster...Quentin Tarantino!
This is terrible! All that extra sun is going to be really hard on my lawn! And it will causes droughts and crop failures from the extra hours of sun! This could be a worse disaster than global warming...
Toxic is the least of it...oxygen can cause things to burst into flame! And it is a potent...oxidizer. This stuff is dangerous, and I think it should be banned on airline flights, due to its potential for use by terrorists.
And don't get me started on how dangerous its compound with hydrogen is...
Well, not just then, but they'd been working with me long enough to know that I wasn't over 53 years old (heck, that was in 98, and I'm still not 53 years old).
Heck, when saving Private Ryan came out, I had a bunch of 20 somethings convinced that I watched the Normandy Invasion live, on color TV, relayed by satellite, as our troops were landed by helicopters and the Nazi gun emplacements were attacked by our fleets of jet bombers launched from our nuclear aircraft carriers...and none of them even realized that Normandy was 8 years before I was born.
But, many cars have a engine kill feature that will shut the engine off when there is no oil pressure at all (admittedly, a little different than having low oil levels). If only consumer PCs were set up to take themselves offline automatically when they are screwed up...
I remember a halcyon time, before the web, when getting online was sufficiently obscure and difficult that only the most motivated and technically proficient could accomplish it...it was a golden age...no spam, no newbies, very few disagreeable folks. Enlightened people, reasoning together...we never should have let the mundanes in, the unwashed masses have ruined everything...
Heck ya - every time a pixel switches from a 1 to a 0, the resultant decrease in entropic state causes a photon of bit radiation to be launched right at you! Fortunately, as it slowly erodes your frontal lobes, you lose the ability to care about it happening.
If you think CD's contain too little music, just think what things were like back in the 60s and 70s, when a typical LP had about 20 minutes of music on a side...we had to get up and change the record constantly, and they were darned delicate, too.
Hmm...buying a few assembled components and sticking them into a box is called "building a computer".
Those of us who have designed and built complicated electronic projects from components find that....amusing.
I concur...and there is no such thing as a frequency where no one will notice you...there is always an amateur radio op or scanner fan checking the spectrum for interesting signals.
Captain America has been enjoying a modern renaissance in recent issues of The Ultimates from Marvel. The stories often deal with what it's like being a 40s kind of guy here inthe 21st Century. Pretty interesting writing.
Because these cars were not so good...now, when Chrysler did the same thing (produced a bunch of cars, distributed them on a trial basis, decided not to produce them, and then scrapped all but one or two of them) with the Turbine cars in the late 60s, there was a tragedy...those were great cars...good looking, fast, and would run on anything from diesel fuel to cheap vodka...those were the cars of the future...and don't get me going on how the US government had all of the Flying Wings scrapped...
Umm...ectually, in some places, switchblades are legal for people who only have the use of one hand. Thus, it's another example of something that legal or illegalm depending...
That's the way it's headed. It's like that old joke about the cockpit complement on future airliners - instead of a pilot and a copilot, it will just be a pilot and a dog. The dog's job is to bite the pilot if he starts trying to mess with the controls.
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And Quality, don't forgt Quality. I don't mean the old fashioned kind, where things are well made and valuable, I mean the new kind...managers love to hear about that, and wouldn't countenance anything that threatens it.
PKD had nothing to do with "Super Toys Play All Summer Long". That was by Brian Aldiss. Speaking of movies, last night, it occurred to me who could actually make a movie out of "Neuromancer" and not have it be a disaster...Quentin Tarantino!
This is terrible! All that extra sun is going to be really hard on my lawn! And it will causes droughts and crop failures from the extra hours of sun! This could be a worse disaster than global warming...
Toxic is the least of it...oxygen can cause things to burst into flame! And it is a potent...oxidizer. This stuff is dangerous, and I think it should be banned on airline flights, due to its potential for use by terrorists. And don't get me started on how dangerous its compound with hydrogen is...
Well, not just then, but they'd been working with me long enough to know that I wasn't over 53 years old (heck, that was in 98, and I'm still not 53 years old).
Heck, when saving Private Ryan came out, I had a bunch of 20 somethings convinced that I watched the Normandy Invasion live, on color TV, relayed by satellite, as our troops were landed by helicopters and the Nazi gun emplacements were attacked by our fleets of jet bombers launched from our nuclear aircraft carriers...and none of them even realized that Normandy was 8 years before I was born.
But, many cars have a engine kill feature that will shut the engine off when there is no oil pressure at all (admittedly, a little different than having low oil levels). If only consumer PCs were set up to take themselves offline automatically when they are screwed up...
I remember a halcyon time, before the web, when getting online was sufficiently obscure and difficult that only the most motivated and technically proficient could accomplish it...it was a golden age...no spam, no newbies, very few disagreeable folks. Enlightened people, reasoning together...we never should have let the mundanes in, the unwashed masses have ruined everything...
If someone does, they should do it twice, in honor of all the duplicated articles on slashdot.
Heck ya - every time a pixel switches from a 1 to a 0, the resultant decrease in entropic state causes a photon of bit radiation to be launched right at you! Fortunately, as it slowly erodes your frontal lobes, you lose the ability to care about it happening.
It's "Sigue Sigue Sputnik"....not "Zig Zig Sputnick"...
If you think CD's contain too little music, just think what things were like back in the 60s and 70s, when a typical LP had about 20 minutes of music on a side...we had to get up and change the record constantly, and they were darned delicate, too.
Some comedian said, if they removed porn from the Internet, all that would be left is one site, and it would be www.bringbacktheporn.com
Hmm...buying a few assembled components and sticking them into a box is called "building a computer". Those of us who have designed and built complicated electronic projects from components find that....amusing.
Gallagher was an idiot too.
I concur...and there is no such thing as a frequency where no one will notice you...there is always an amateur radio op or scanner fan checking the spectrum for interesting signals.
This post got me to fantasizing that Google could decide to do an OS project, and buy VMS from HP, then adapt it to x86 and other architectures...
Captain America has been enjoying a modern renaissance in recent issues of The Ultimates from Marvel. The stories often deal with what it's like being a 40s kind of guy here inthe 21st Century. Pretty interesting writing.
..and I thought it was clever when Larry Niven wrote about it in "The Hole Man" (although that was Mars he destroyed), circa 1969.
Because these cars were not so good...now, when Chrysler did the same thing (produced a bunch of cars, distributed them on a trial basis, decided not to produce them, and then scrapped all but one or two of them) with the Turbine cars in the late 60s, there was a tragedy...those were great cars...good looking, fast, and would run on anything from diesel fuel to cheap vodka...those were the cars of the future...and don't get me going on how the US government had all of the Flying Wings scrapped...
For another modern interpretation of Beethoven with electric guitars, check out The Great Kat.
Umm...ectually, in some places, switchblades are legal for people who only have the use of one hand. Thus, it's another example of something that legal or illegalm depending...
But, all play and no work makes Jack a jerk.
That's the way it's headed. It's like that old joke about the cockpit complement on future airliners - instead of a pilot and a copilot, it will just be a pilot and a dog. The dog's job is to bite the pilot if he starts trying to mess with the controls.
My afvorite Catch-22 quote...Yossarian says to, I think, Doc "That's some catch, that Catch-22". Doc replies "It's the best there is".