Surely they could sell licenses for the software they use in place of a DHD. Didn't they even develop a DHD-in-a-laptop for emergencies (everything you'd need to dial a 'gate except power).
Seriously though, I would really like to have a copy of the software they use to create all those SGC computer screens and laptop interfaces, or at least the assets used in the software they use and some digital video of their use. Or even just the digital video of their use and I could reverse-engineer that. Something more detailed than cropping and scaling clips from the episode DVDs. They should be able to sell multiple copies at affordable prices.
And have you seen their wall of obsoleted install DVDs for the various software packages used to produce Stargate SG-1 itself? That's some very expensive and cutting-edge-of-the-time software! If they can resell that media and transfer the licenses....
I'd love to just have some hands-on information about Hollywood-style computer interfaces and see what design concepts really could be ported to real systems.
So if aliens invade, it will be for solely their own entertainment, not for economic reasons.
"This planet is so noisy. You're getting noticed. More and more. You'd better get used to it." -- The Doctor
Or rather, this planet has been so noisy, and now that we're switching to shorter-range communications, we're ceasing to be a navigation beacon. And now that's getting us noticed.
We'll be invaded for bureaucratic reasons.
"Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper." -- Riker Odan
Not speaking for the GP, but I do have a Mac Pro 1,1. And I'm getting quite fed up with Apple not supporting any 64-bit OS on this 64-bit machine! I can't boot Snow Leopard in 64-bit mode, XP 64-bit has never been supported, and now it looks like I can't even run Windows 7 on this machine.
On top of that, when I upgraded my internal drives to four 2 TB drives, I couldn't get it to restore my Windows XP NTFS partition. In my last attempt, not only did Disk Copy trigger a kernel panic before finishing the copy, but the system was left unbootable until I restored the drive to be a single Mac OS X partition.
So I'm not holding my breath expecting this Boot Camp update to even enable the remaining two SATA motherboard ports under Windows (so I can use my SATA Blu-ray burning drive under Windows) until I hear otherwise. I'd have switched to GRUB as a bootloader (as from what I've read it can enable those ports) if I could find a site explaining how to do so without presuming previous experience using GRUB as a bootloader on a PC.
Will this open up a whole new trade in sugar smuggling? I hope so just for the comedic benefit.
What, people swallowing condoms full of sugar to mule into the country, only to have them burst while waiting in customs, inducing a blood-sugar rush making them go hyperactive until they fall into diabetic shock, coma, and/or death?
Or just for the comedic benefit of potential The Simpsons references?
Actually his brother is responsible for the 'override password' backdoor into every FBI/NSA computer system.
Which perfectly initializes the position the cursor so that the string of asterisks that will appear on the screen will be perfectly centered before the first key is even pressed, which you think would impossibly (since it compares hashes) disclose the length of the valid password if not for the fact it also pre-centers all the incorrect attempts of differing length, so it also reads the mind of the user (a.k.a. "the script").
Lazlow: Ants, killer bees, fat people, what's plaguing you? Call now! Chatterbox, hello, you're on the air. Caller: Err yes, I'd like to say something about these damn people on trains and buses in this city who yammer on and on into their cell phones. I'm really glad to hear about what your having for dinner! What we should do, is herd them up, and put them on an island. I am the President of a group called Citizens Raging Against Phones. Lazlow: CRAP?!? Caller: Exactly! Lazlow: Your organization's called 'CRAP'... wh-- what kind of moron are you, you wanna round people up for using a phone?!? But you-- your calling up on a phone t-- to tell the world about it! I, I mean, how many people are there in this 'CRAP'? Caller: Citizens are raging against phones, Lazlow!! Lazlow: How many people? Caller: There are three of us. It's hard organizing meetings without the phones though. We've had to resort to carrier pigeons, and they keep disappearing. Lazlow: What are you speaking to me on? What-- what's that in your hand? Caller: I am not the problem! You are! And you're perpetuating the downfall of mankind! Liberty City was great before phones ruined everything. Lazlow: Liberty City was a church, a cow pasture and three houses when the telephone was invented! Caller:Liar!! Lazlow:You're the liar! Caller: Liar, liar, pants on fire! Lazlow: What are... are you three years old?!? Caller: Lazlow's a liar, Lazlow's a liar!! I bet that isn't even your real name. Lazlow: Shut up!! Caller:You shut up!! Lazlow: Stupid! Caller: Nanny nanny boo-boo, stick your head in doo-doo! Lazlow: Ohh...we're going to commercials!
Puns don't belong as icons. For one, they fail i18n.
I forget what the application (or was it a game?) was... probably on the Amiga. The 'pause' button was a pair of animal footprints... paws.
I believe the peer-to-peer file sharing application BearShare also used a paw print for a "Pause" button.
I work on development of an application (I won't name) where there is a set of icons I long to replace which use a blue gear and a gray octagon with "1c" printed in it (where c is the cent sign), both outlined in black, to symbolize "Change Options". It's not even a copper penny to represent the verb change: it is a steel penny! And these symbols take up over 50% of the icon's area.
I use NoScript, but one of the things I still don't like about it is when I temporarily allow it to run scripts for one tab, it enables it for all my tabs that have scripts hosted at that location, not just allow scripts in the current tab. So if I were to enable Google Analytics, Google would get a big ping identifying me as being on all those sites at once.
Where is the one who will mourn me when I'm gone Who will pour water on my bed of dirt Who will breathe fire on my neck at night
I heard someone say there's a chance that I will meet her I could be Persephone and she Demeter To pull me from the underground that I call home
Her name is no one, no one, no one She blinds me with her eyes 'cause she's the one, the one She lives somewhere not here, not here Not here
My lovers are as smooth as a politician's tongue The more I look for goodness, the more that I find none
I heard someone say, that she's honest and good. Heard someone say, that she's honest and good. Heard someone say, that she's honest and good.
Her name is no one, no one, no one (Her name is...) No one, no one, no one, no one No one, no one, no one, no one
Her name is no one, no one, no one She blinds me with her eyes 'cause she's the one, the one She lives somewhere not here, not here NOT HERE NEVER HERE NEVER EVER EVER EVER!
I measure out my days with six of the Corona I'm pretty sure she drives an old fucked up Corolla To pull me from the underground that I call home
I've a funny feeling there's no chance that I will meet her So I'll measure out my nights to my metronome's meter
(one two three four) Her name is no one... Her name is no one... Her name is no one...
Love is not reasonable and can not be reasoned with.
So love is like the terminator.
Yeah, you get it, don't you? It finds you. That's what love does! That's all it does! You can't stop it! It'll find you and reach down your throat and rip your fucking heart out and stick it on a Hallmark greeting card with an insipid little tinny tune on a chip and hand it to you!
"Hey, I want to settle down. And as soon as I find the right small group of girls, the seven or eight women who are right for me, my wandering days are over, buddy!"
Tyrol: How many of us ended up with the people we really wanted to be with? Got stuck with the best of limited options? And why? Because the ones we really wanted, the really loved, were dead, and dying, or turned out to be Cylons and they didn't know it. If Boomer had... Adama: Listen. Tyrol: If I had known... Adama: Let's - let's go. Tyrol: No. No. I didn't know. Adama: Let's go home. Tyrol: I didn't know. So I buried my head in the sand, and I took it, and I settled. I settled for that shriek. Those dull, vacant eyes. The boiled cabbage stench of her. And why? Because this is my life! This is the life I picked! And it's fine, but you know what? It's not! I didn't pick this life! This is not my frakkin' life! Adama: What the hell's gotten into you? Don't do this. Don't do this to her memory. Tyrol: You know what? I'm sorry if I'm not going to do this the way you want me to, or the way you might, but I will not make an angel out of someone who wasn't an angel. But I can see you have. And now you've come down here to be in my club. But you're not in my club. You don't know what frakking club I'm in 'cause you never ask the right questions.
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I advise you to also time shift it
I'm still time-shifting last year's game. It's still sitting on my TiVo, marked KUID, unwatched.
Good luck getting that approved in your neighborhood association
If they let his neighbor have a Police Box as his front door, they can hardly say no to a Stargate garage door.
Just don't forget to get a GDO for the iris.
Surely they could sell licenses for the software they use in place of a DHD. Didn't they even develop a DHD-in-a-laptop for emergencies (everything you'd need to dial a 'gate except power).
Seriously though, I would really like to have a copy of the software they use to create all those SGC computer screens and laptop interfaces, or at least the assets used in the software they use and some digital video of their use. Or even just the digital video of their use and I could reverse-engineer that. Something more detailed than cropping and scaling clips from the episode DVDs. They should be able to sell multiple copies at affordable prices.
And have you seen their wall of obsoleted install DVDs for the various software packages used to produce Stargate SG-1 itself? That's some very expensive and cutting-edge-of-the-time software! If they can resell that media and transfer the licenses....
I'd love to just have some hands-on information about Hollywood-style computer interfaces and see what design concepts really could be ported to real systems.
So if aliens invade, it will be for solely their own entertainment, not for economic reasons.
"This planet is so noisy. You're getting noticed. More and more. You'd better get used to it." -- The Doctor
Or rather, this planet has been so noisy, and now that we're switching to shorter-range communications, we're ceasing to be a navigation beacon. And now that's getting us noticed.
We'll be invaded for bureaucratic reasons.
"Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper." -- Riker Odan
Not speaking for the GP, but I do have a Mac Pro 1,1. And I'm getting quite fed up with Apple not supporting any 64-bit OS on this 64-bit machine! I can't boot Snow Leopard in 64-bit mode, XP 64-bit has never been supported, and now it looks like I can't even run Windows 7 on this machine.
On top of that, when I upgraded my internal drives to four 2 TB drives, I couldn't get it to restore my Windows XP NTFS partition. In my last attempt, not only did Disk Copy trigger a kernel panic before finishing the copy, but the system was left unbootable until I restored the drive to be a single Mac OS X partition.
So I'm not holding my breath expecting this Boot Camp update to even enable the remaining two SATA motherboard ports under Windows (so I can use my SATA Blu-ray burning drive under Windows) until I hear otherwise. I'd have switched to GRUB as a bootloader (as from what I've read it can enable those ports) if I could find a site explaining how to do so without presuming previous experience using GRUB as a bootloader on a PC.
Indeed, that form of trojan is to prevent spawning of child processes.
And also contains an invading army brought into the guarded fortress. And when they escape, they complete the analogism of their name to the original.
Will this open up a whole new trade in sugar smuggling? I hope so just for the comedic benefit.
What, people swallowing condoms full of sugar to mule into the country, only to have them burst while waiting in customs, inducing a blood-sugar rush making them go hyperactive until they fall into diabetic shock, coma, and/or death?
Or just for the comedic benefit of potential The Simpsons references?
Actually his brother is responsible for the 'override password' backdoor into every FBI/NSA computer system.
Which perfectly initializes the position the cursor so that the string of asterisks that will appear on the screen will be perfectly centered before the first key is even pressed, which you think would impossibly (since it compares hashes) disclose the length of the valid password if not for the fact it also pre-centers all the incorrect attempts of differing length, so it also reads the mind of the user (a.k.a. "the script").
hunt down and kill the families of all spammers
Good thing you didn't include friends, 'cause then there'd be a reason to add another check-box to the list:
( ) Kevin Bacon
Of course, it does depend on how you define families. Especially if you're a Creationist.
I find that getting only half the conversation is almost always more entertaining. Less is more.
Well it probably is déjà vu. It sounds like it.
According to studies, talking on a cellphone is far more distracting than talking on a car.
Seems to me that talking on a car might actually be easier than talking on a Sidekick.
"I resemble both of those, Michael." -- K.I.T.T.
Lazlow: Ants, killer bees, fat people, what's plaguing you? Call now! Chatterbox, hello, you're on the air. ... wh-- what kind of moron are you, you wanna round people up for using a phone?!? But you-- your calling up on a phone t-- to tell the world about it! I, I mean, how many people are there in this 'CRAP'?
Caller: Err yes, I'd like to say something about these damn people on trains and buses in this city who yammer on and on into their cell phones. I'm really glad to hear about what your having for dinner! What we should do, is herd them up, and put them on an island. I am the President of a group called Citizens Raging Against Phones.
Lazlow: CRAP?!?
Caller: Exactly!
Lazlow: Your organization's called 'CRAP'
Caller: Citizens are raging against phones, Lazlow!!
Lazlow: How many people?
Caller: There are three of us. It's hard organizing meetings without the phones though. We've had to resort to carrier pigeons, and they keep disappearing.
Lazlow: What are you speaking to me on? What-- what's that in your hand?
Caller: I am not the problem! You are! And you're perpetuating the downfall of mankind! Liberty City was great before phones ruined everything.
Lazlow: Liberty City was a church, a cow pasture and three houses when the telephone was invented!
Caller: Liar!!
Lazlow: You're the liar!
Caller: Liar, liar, pants on fire!
Lazlow: What are... are you three years old?!?
Caller: Lazlow's a liar, Lazlow's a liar!! I bet that isn't even your real name.
Lazlow: Shut up!!
Caller: You shut up!!
Lazlow: Stupid!
Caller: Nanny nanny boo-boo, stick your head in doo-doo!
Lazlow: Ohh...we're going to commercials!
Puns don't belong as icons. For one, they fail i18n.
I forget what the application (or was it a game?) was... probably on the Amiga. The 'pause' button was a pair of animal footprints... paws.
I believe the peer-to-peer file sharing application BearShare also used a paw print for a "Pause" button.
I work on development of an application (I won't name) where there is a set of icons I long to replace which use a blue gear and a gray octagon with "1c" printed in it (where c is the cent sign), both outlined in black, to symbolize "Change Options". It's not even a copper penny to represent the verb change: it is a steel penny! And these symbols take up over 50% of the icon's area.
I use NoScript, but one of the things I still don't like about it is when I temporarily allow it to run scripts for one tab, it enables it for all my tabs that have scripts hosted at that location, not just allow scripts in the current tab. So if I were to enable Google Analytics, Google would get a big ping identifying me as being on all those sites at once.
Where is the one who will mourn me when I'm gone
Who will pour water on my bed of dirt
Who will breathe fire on my neck at night
I heard someone say there's a chance that I will meet her
I could be Persephone and she Demeter
To pull me from the underground that I call home
Her name is no one, no one, no one
She blinds me with her eyes 'cause she's the one, the one
She lives somewhere not here, not here
Not here
My lovers are as smooth as a politician's tongue
The more I look for goodness, the more that I find none
I heard someone say, that she's honest and good.
Heard someone say, that she's honest and good.
Heard someone say, that she's honest and good.
Her name is no one, no one, no one
(Her name is...) No one, no one, no one, no one
No one, no one, no one, no one
Her name is no one, no one, no one
She blinds me with her eyes 'cause she's the one, the one
She lives somewhere not here, not here
NOT HERE NEVER HERE NEVER EVER EVER EVER!
I measure out my days with six of the Corona
I'm pretty sure she drives an old fucked up Corolla
To pull me from the underground that I call home
I've a funny feeling there's no chance that I will meet her
So I'll measure out my nights to my metronome's meter
(one two three four)
Her name is no one...
Her name is no one...
Her name is no one...
Love is not reasonable and can not be reasoned with.
So love is like the terminator.
Yeah, you get it, don't you? It finds you. That's what love does! That's all it does! You can't stop it! It'll find you and reach down your throat and rip your fucking heart out and stick it on a Hallmark greeting card with an insipid little tinny tune on a chip and hand it to you!
"Hey, I want to settle down. And as soon as I find the right small group of girls, the seven or eight women who are right for me, my wandering days are over, buddy!"
Tyrol: How many of us ended up with the people we really wanted to be with? Got stuck with the best of limited options? And why? Because the ones we really wanted, the really loved, were dead, and dying, or turned out to be Cylons and they didn't know it. If Boomer had...
Adama: Listen.
Tyrol: If I had known...
Adama: Let's - let's go.
Tyrol: No. No. I didn't know.
Adama: Let's go home.
Tyrol: I didn't know. So I buried my head in the sand, and I took it, and I settled. I settled for that shriek. Those dull, vacant eyes. The boiled cabbage stench of her. And why? Because this is my life! This is the life I picked! And it's fine, but you know what? It's not! I didn't pick this life! This is not my frakkin' life!
Adama: What the hell's gotten into you? Don't do this. Don't do this to her memory.
Tyrol: You know what? I'm sorry if I'm not going to do this the way you want me to, or the way you might, but I will not make an angel out of someone who wasn't an angel. But I can see you have. And now you've come down here to be in my club. But you're not in my club. You don't know what frakking club I'm in 'cause you never ask the right questions.
Sounds like a way to create your own Stewie/Master driven insane by a constant rhythm-of-four drumbeat.
...government TiVos you!
Great. Now we're flying over alien planets looking for signs of artificial terrestrial life.
Just because I draw a smiley on a piece of paper, it doesn't mean the paper is smiling
I think Bob Ross would have disagreed with you.
If so, then Skynet is going to be so zonked out, it will never get around to starting its war of extermination. Rather sad, really.
Are you sure?
"More mushrooms!"
I really want an @compuserve.com email address. Retro-cool.
U WANT RETRO, GET BIFF@BIT.NET!
0xB1FF
Me too.
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