Everybody knows that we aren't going to be contacted by any alien races until we build a warp drive so they can detect the warp signature. Seeing as a "warp signature" is apparently just a big white flare in space, we should be able to detect their warp signatures first.
"Congressman 'Hollywood' Howard Berman (D-CA) used a House subcommittee hearing today to express his view that the DMCA was in need of a rewrite. In his view, it doesn't go too far enough.
TFA says "The SCiB batteries Just coined and it has already joined ATM machine and PIN number in its redundancy. Even in TFA's title. (I was tempted to say "TFA's article title".)
The remaining question is: is it pronounced skeeb, skihb, skyb, seeb, sib, sighb, or throatwarbler mangrove?
Darn, someone beat me to a Real Genius reference. Still, there are other prime quotes you can pull from Real Genius. I think this one is quite appropriate:
"Our studies indicate that this type of weapon is totally useless in warfare."
"Well, it's not intended for use in your kind of warfare, Roy. It's the perfect peacetime weapon. That's why its secret."
I'll take one for the wife please. Can you make it pink? She really likes pink. And one that doesn't shed, get rid of the shedding gene. And how about one that doesn't need food, doesn't poop, doesn't spray, no claws and not moody. One pink tribble. Anything else?
The red cat is either a rather good photoshoping, or the real deal. If the cat were being lit by an external source, the fur would reflect the light. But the fur appears to be blocking the light. If this is real, they must try doing it with reindeer next.
I still like my idea of the RFID Book Finder. The problem is in getting suitable beacons manufactured in bulk at low cost, and deriving enough power from the radio signal to power the optical and audible signals. (Some cost could be reduced by bundling books together in legal file boxes.)
Otherwise, to keep things organized in physical space without having to consult an electronic index, it's important to have enough shelves to make them be sparsely populated. I'm talking two or three times the necessary size to hold them all tightly (each shelf half- or third-full).
I adopted the sparse-shelf solution to my DVD (TV, movies, and games) collection as it hasn't outgrown the ability to physically sort alphanumerically, except for the box sets in the S section of TV series and some oversized packaging. I also put paperback novelizations with the DVDs, especially in the Doctor Who section (gaps between regenerations as feasible, it is the sparsest section). I have over 800 DVD titles in storage (joined Atlantic Penguin racks) capable of holding 3600 standard cases. (Many complete series in my collection are but one titled box set.)
Of course the evolution of humans has accelerated, ever since the Kulthan Empire's psi damper in the Great Pyramid of Cheops was deactivated.
"The development of man hasn't just suddenly stopped. It's going on all the time. In the last hundred years, everything has speeded up. The world has changed out of all recognition, and human beings have changed with it."
Other synchronization events come to mind as well -- I'd like my DVR to begin and end recording when the show actually starts and stops, but my DVR can't actually tell one show from another, so I use the published schedule of shows instead, which again requires that both my clock and the one at some distant location I don't control (i.e. the TV broadcaster) are keeping the same time. This system is even less forgiving for drift, anything more than about a second could get annoying very quickly. Really? I'd like my DVR to begin and end recording about 3 to 5 seconds earlier than the time kept by the cable box, because if it tries to change the channel precisely on time and both units keep the exact same time, the channel change will fail. The possible failure states are (a) that it will fail to change to the new channel, staying on the old one, (b) change to the wrong channel as some of the leading digits get discarded, (c) the box crashes, reboots, and remains in an off state where it won't respond to any signals other than power, or (d) the box locks up entirely displaying not the time (indicating a reset) but the last channel it successfully tuned, and displaying a static image, possibly black, until I notice that it isn't changing channels anymore and I have to turn it off and back on. Or some combination thereof.
It's a race condition where updated guide data appearing on the cable box's banner (displayed because you started a channel change) throws out the user's entered channel number digits. It's only tripped up by third party DVRs controlling the box that keep the same time to the second, as humans aren't that precise and can recognize and correct for the error. And since the cable company has their own DVR service they want to rent to you, that's a big disincentive on fixing it (even though they charge the same amount for DVR boxes as they do tuner boxes).
Damn you, Time Warner Cable and your Mystro beta software! I can't use my Series1 TiVos nor TiVo Suggestions on them or Series2 boxes in conjunction with your cable boxes anymore!
Henry Frankenstein: The brain you stole, Fritz. Think of it. The brain of a dead man waiting to live again in a body I made with my own hands!
Garry: That's not a bad idea. Wyatt: What? Garry: Making a girl. Actually making a girl. Like Frankenstein... except cuter. Wyatt: You're serious? Garry: Look me in the eye. Do I look serious?
Victor Moritz: You're crazy! Henry Frankenstein: Crazy, am I? We'll see whether I'm crazy or not.
Wyatt: Gary Wallace, that's-that's gross! That's sick! I am not digging up dead girls!
IIRC, he used lycopodium powder on the surface. Not quite sure why that stuck in my brain for the last 20 years. I know why it is stuck in mine: he used it in several experiments, both with water and also to simulate a grain mill explosion. And I'd watched the same episodes repeat countless times on Nickelodeon back when it didn't have commercials other than for shows on the network (listing air times in four timezones).
I don't recall him ever using the word "hydrophobic", but I think he did say "meniscus" once.
People have had dreams of unicorns for years without them being replicants. The point is not that Deckard dreams of unicorns, it is that he has a memory of encountering a unicorn which he recalls in his dreams. A voice-over narration could have established that as an actual memory surfacing in his dreams instead of being just a dream while preserving the "never told anyone" aspect to give concrete meaning to how Gaff knew.
As to the Director's Cut, I'm more offended that it has been the only version available for years and that the theatrical version has been kept out of print until the final cut editions that include it coming out in 8 days. And probably will be forced out of print again, denying them to future purchasers including people needing to replace damaged disks, maybe even pull the Director's Cut off the market too (with those pregnant pauses of missing narration ripe for MSTing one's own).
Yes, I'm upset that the E.T. theatrical version has been taken out of print as well. And Disney's interminable print-and-pull behavior. It's not like they wouldn't continue to sell.
But simply tagging it as "typo" fails to note the nature of the typo. Since tagging it with the typo in question or variations of the typo tag are discouraged, a comment still appears to be necessary for some typos for the more obscure mistakes.
An example from nearly two weeks ago, a "one legged man in a butt kicking contest" would easily be the winner as the other men in the contest lack legs with which to kick. A "one-legged man" would be the one at a disadvantage as intended by the context. (It's the same error as in the misleading movie title "Eight Legged Freaks", which was actually about freakishly large spiders and not eight freaks who happen to have legs.)
Seriously. There's no way in hell I would buy this thing. The last thing in the world I need is my hard drive deciding what files are and aren't okay to store. You don't have to use their networking service with the device. Indeed, that service isn't even available for Mac users. It has a web interface for setting it up independent of their service. There are also hacks out there to turn it into a Linux server. It has its own ARM processor. A co-worker is planning to move his Subversion server to one. It also has a USB port for hooking up additional storage.
At least Leopard now has the UDF 2.5 drivers needed to mount an HD DVD or Blu-Ray disk. The home-brew ripping tools found for Windows should start appearing for Leopard.
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"No, it's Sleigh as in one horse open."
-- Valencia Police Chief and Sergeant Clifton Sleigh, Curse of the Pink Panther
Idle does need a slogan though. "Distractions for nerds. Stuff that's fun"?
Fixed it for the Congressman.
The remaining question is: is it pronounced skeeb, skihb, skyb, seeb, sib, sighb, or throatwarbler mangrove?
*sigh* It's a famous quotation. The movie is public domain; you can see it for free on YouTube.
I still like my idea of the RFID Book Finder. The problem is in getting suitable beacons manufactured in bulk at low cost, and deriving enough power from the radio signal to power the optical and audible signals. (Some cost could be reduced by bundling books together in legal file boxes.)
Otherwise, to keep things organized in physical space without having to consult an electronic index, it's important to have enough shelves to make them be sparsely populated. I'm talking two or three times the necessary size to hold them all tightly (each shelf half- or third-full).
I adopted the sparse-shelf solution to my DVD (TV, movies, and games) collection as it hasn't outgrown the ability to physically sort alphanumerically, except for the box sets in the S section of TV series and some oversized packaging. I also put paperback novelizations with the DVDs, especially in the Doctor Who section (gaps between regenerations as feasible, it is the sparsest section). I have over 800 DVD titles in storage (joined Atlantic Penguin racks) capable of holding 3600 standard cases. (Many complete series in my collection are but one titled box set.)
Of course the evolution of humans has accelerated, ever since the Kulthan Empire's psi damper in the Great Pyramid of Cheops was deactivated.
"The development of man hasn't just suddenly stopped. It's going on all the time. In the last hundred years, everything has speeded up. The world has changed out of all recognition, and human beings have changed with it."
It's a race condition where updated guide data appearing on the cable box's banner (displayed because you started a channel change) throws out the user's entered channel number digits. It's only tripped up by third party DVRs controlling the box that keep the same time to the second, as humans aren't that precise and can recognize and correct for the error. And since the cable company has their own DVR service they want to rent to you, that's a big disincentive on fixing it (even though they charge the same amount for DVR boxes as they do tuner boxes).
Damn you, Time Warner Cable and your Mystro beta software! I can't use my Series1 TiVos nor TiVo Suggestions on them or Series2 boxes in conjunction with your cable boxes anymore!
Henry Frankenstein: The brain you stole, Fritz. Think of it. The brain of a dead man waiting to live again in a body I made with my own hands!
Garry: That's not a bad idea.
Wyatt: What?
Garry: Making a girl. Actually making a girl. Like Frankenstein... except cuter.
Wyatt: You're serious?
Garry: Look me in the eye. Do I look serious?
Victor Moritz: You're crazy!
Henry Frankenstein: Crazy, am I? We'll see whether I'm crazy or not.
Wyatt: Gary Wallace, that's-that's gross! That's sick! I am not digging up dead girls!
I don't recall him ever using the word "hydrophobic", but I think he did say "meniscus" once.
Dream sequence, dream sequence....
People have had dreams of unicorns for years without them being replicants. The point is not that Deckard dreams of unicorns, it is that he has a memory of encountering a unicorn which he recalls in his dreams. A voice-over narration could have established that as an actual memory surfacing in his dreams instead of being just a dream while preserving the "never told anyone" aspect to give concrete meaning to how Gaff knew.
As to the Director's Cut, I'm more offended that it has been the only version available for years and that the theatrical version has been kept out of print until the final cut editions that include it coming out in 8 days. And probably will be forced out of print again, denying them to future purchasers including people needing to replace damaged disks, maybe even pull the Director's Cut off the market too (with those pregnant pauses of missing narration ripe for MSTing one's own).
Yes, I'm upset that the E.T. theatrical version has been taken out of print as well. And Disney's interminable print-and-pull behavior. It's not like they wouldn't continue to sell.
But simply tagging it as "typo" fails to note the nature of the typo. Since tagging it with the typo in question or variations of the typo tag are discouraged, a comment still appears to be necessary for some typos for the more obscure mistakes.
An example from nearly two weeks ago, a "one legged man in a butt kicking contest" would easily be the winner as the other men in the contest lack legs with which to kick. A "one-legged man" would be the one at a disadvantage as intended by the context. (It's the same error as in the misleading movie title "Eight Legged Freaks", which was actually about freakishly large spiders and not eight freaks who happen to have legs.)
23.0468076 years to go...
Fixed.
With great power comes great responsibility.
With absolute power comes absolute irresponsibility.
Power corrupts; absolute power violates general relativity.
It's true then: the bar for normalcy is so low today that only perennial Limbo Champion Slim Paperbody can get under it.
At least Leopard now has the UDF 2.5 drivers needed to mount an HD DVD or Blu-Ray disk. The home-brew ripping tools found for Windows should start appearing for Leopard.