Rimmer kicking the anthropomorphic version of Death in the nuts? WTF?
It's a great counter to his (original self's) earlier exchange with Lister in "Future Echoes":
Lister: Come in number 169, your time is up. OK, what was I wearing? Rimmer: Ahhh... that jacket, and that red T-shirt. [Lister pulls out his hat and replaces it on his head, then yanks a hefty length of piping off the wall.] Lister: You said yourself, I can't stop it. Let's get it over with. Rimmer: Ah, Lister, what's that for? Lister: I'm goin' out like I came in: screaming and kicking. Rimmer: You can't whack death on the head! Lister: If he comes near me I'm gonna rip his nipples off!
If these systems are really simple they produce absurd results: a character is furious one moment and cheerful a second later, like a Warner Brothers cartoon character.
As the opiate of the masses, is washington worried what happens when people lose their pacifier?
Janie Crane: Without regular picture transmissions, thousands are swarming the streets, desperately buying black-market tapes from video vendors.
Mrs. Formby: We're going to go critical if we don't act soon. Edwards: We're going to have riots out there. We should distribute emergency video players immediately!
Janie Crane: Edison... an off switch! Metrocop: She'll get years for that. Off switches are illegal!
Voice: This is a message to the authorities. It is also an ultimatum. You have until sunset to release the detained Blanks. This morning's failures were tests. We can desolate your systems. The reason is the actions of Simon Peller. Release the Blanks or every computer in the city will be simultaneously wrecked. You have until sunset.
Mrs. Formby: My god, they could lobotomize the network. Without television, this city would be ungovernable!
Blank Dominique: Now if all those threats are for real, well, there'd be no networks, would there? Blank Reg: No, Dom. Not if the lads do their business... Blank Dominique: We don't have a computer, do we? Blank Reg: No, we don't. Computers know too much.
Edwards: Chaos out there! People are in a panic, fighting for old video recordings! Ashwell: Personally, I'd rather watch a smoke alarm.
Background: Big Time... Television! Big Time... Television! Twenty-four hours a day, day after day, making tomorrow seem like yesterday! Blank Reg (over): This is Blank Reg, welcoming you to Big Time Television, from sunrise to sunset, filling your empty lives with mindless drek!
Bruno: Our 'bomb' is simply a program. It links all the programs of the city through the main one simultaneously. Massive overload. Goodbye everything from... Security Systems to Network 23. Max: Well, I'll let you know if there's life after the off-switch-tch-tch. Bruno: I already know.
Max: What I want to know is, why you want to wreck our network? Network! Bruno: Your network, and the authorities, are mesmerizing millions into worshiping this new priesthood of the computer! Like... cave men worshiping fire! It's a false faith, Max.
[angry crowd noise] Edison Carter: It's starting to happen. Their world's gone away. Without their TVs, what is there for them?
Edison Carter: Only one man can prevent our city being paralyzed: Simon Peller. Mr. Peller, are you prepared to negotiate to prevent this catastrophe? Bryce Lynch: Micro-link... running... Control. Simon Peller (on tape): My dear Miss Jones, of course I will release these people. I have no intention of risking this city or its television network. Simon Peller: I never said that!
Simon Peller: Those Blanks will be brought to justice. They haven't heard the end of this, Carter. Edison Carter: Oh, I think they have... Simon. Unlike the Fringes, justice here is a lot more than cash flow... or politics.
Max Headroom: What are you laugh-laugh-laughing about? Bryce just tried to kiss me! Kiss me! Edison Carter: Well, you are irresistible. Theora Jones: Well, thank you.
The government doesn't realize that the TV companies have teams ready to go for Feb 17 and all this flip-flopping costs them money in rescheduling, etc..
Why should they reschedule? There's nothing that says they can't make the switch before the deadline, and some already have. The only reason broadcasters should take advantage of a delay is if they aren't going to be ready by Feb 17.
The only benefit for consumers in extending the switch date is the extending of the availability of the coupons for converter boxes.
Incidentally, I suspect there would be a lot less resistance to these newfangled units if they'd had the sense to pick names people could be expected to say with a straight face...
Like giga-binary-bytes? That is the long form of gibibytes.
It would be nice if we could say GB<sub> 2</sub> instead of GiB, but we can't do that here since subscript tags were considered presentational and thus deprecated. Not that this page is under a strict DTD. Can't we at least have span.sub { vertical-align: sub; } in the stylesheet and allow GB<span class=sub> 2</span> ?
RAM specifications use the 2^x numbering because the device is physically constructed as a square grid of cells with power-of-two numbers of rows and columns. There's a direct mapping between bits on the address bus and the cell that is selected.
Magnetic storage does not have this constraint. The sector size is (arbitrarily) set at 512 bytes and hard drives usually have an even number of read/write heads, but apart from that there are no powers of two. The number of cylinders on the drive, and the number of sectors per cylinder, are arbitrary.
Now explain flash/solid state memory sizes and the "formatted capacity" of memory.
So, it's perfectly fine if I have to pick up the slack for people that are smoking pot and as a result not as sharp as they ought to be? I'm sorry, but I'm failing to see how it is that it's not any of my business.
"My name is Roger Smith. I perform a much-needed job here in this city of amnesia.
"This place, Paradigm City, is a town of forgetfulness. One day, forty years ago, every person here lost all memory of anything which had occurred before that day. But humans are adaptable creatures. They make do and go on with life. If they're smart enough to figure out how to operate machinery and get electricity, they can still have something like a civilization even without a history. People can survive without knowing what did or didn't happen in the past, and each day they try their hardest to do just that. The only ones who regret the loss of these memories are the city's elderly. But memories, like nightmares, sometimes come when you least expect them."
When camera phones that don't click are outlawed, only outlaws will have camera phones that don't click.
My phone has Shutter Tone options that include Chimp, Quack, Flix, Boing, and Click. The default option was None. I thought that maybe my phone would be exempt as it was manufactured before such a law would be enacted, but it will accept updates sent over the EVDO network. Should I expect a forced firmware update to make Click my only option? (Chimp is the loudest and is quite annoying.)
The video option's sound option is just whether or not to record sound with the video.
Meanwhile I have yet to find a cell phone with an option to record the calls made on it.
Chief Bud McGee: Why do you bring a video camera to school? Trevor: The same reason you bring a gun to work. To shoot people.
May as well pass a low mandating all shoes to have "clicky" heels so that we can't sneak up on anyone. Silent shoes are the highest contributors to predatory actions!
Indeed! How dare they even market these silent shoes as "sneakers". That should nail the shoes' makers for vicarious liability right there!
(Yes, this is an analogy to certain copyright rulings forcing certain products with significant fair uses off the shelves based solely on how they were marketed.)
Excuse me sir. I see you're talking on your cell phone. I will ask you to take a picture of me so that I may ascertain whether your phone is "Camera Phone Predator Alert Act" compliant.
Esposito:
From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. Silence! In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now... 16 years old!
That reminds me of an SGI machine at a previous workplace that reportedly had been infected with a rootkit. I was to do a clean reinstall of the operating system with the hardware isolated from the net. Unfortunately, it became clear that the installer itself required connecting to the net to complete the installation. It was allowed a connection only for as long as necessary, and the system was installed and disconnected from the net.
He is one of those people who, in my opinion, qualifies for MUCH more harsh punishment.
Well, the US prosecutor could just allege that he's capable of starting World War III if given an opportunity to whistle into a telephone to get him thrown into solitary confinement. It might even be more believable than the last time they used it successfully.
Ah, that's right. The 20th Anniversary Mac was celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Apple.
Re:mac w128K of RAM - so little power, but powerfu
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Happy 25th, Macintosh!
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I have a Mac Plus. I got it specifically to run a particular version of AppleShare that allowed you to boot an Apple IIgs over an AppleTalk connection. And I never got around to actually doing it. Hmm, now there's something I can look into doing once I get that desk rebuilt. I know I've got an old 40 MB SCSI drive lying around somewhere....
Yeah, but I can still hope for some kind of a Mac Mini-level revision with a bump in speed and a built-in iPod dock to come out tomorrow at a price point of $666.66 (between the prices of the two current configurations), perhaps merging in features of the Apple TV platform.
Or even better, how about a pocket-sized Mac Micro? That would be a shocker!
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Why bother when you can be the first to market wet-look knitwear.
Rimmer kicking the anthropomorphic version of Death in the nuts? WTF?
It's a great counter to his (original self's) earlier exchange with Lister in "Future Echoes":
Lister: Come in number 169, your time is up. OK, what was I wearing?
Rimmer: Ahhh... that jacket, and that red T-shirt.
[Lister pulls out his hat and replaces it on his head, then yanks a hefty length of piping off the wall.]
Lister: You said yourself, I can't stop it. Let's get it over with.
Rimmer: Ah, Lister, what's that for?
Lister: I'm goin' out like I came in: screaming and kicking.
Rimmer: You can't whack death on the head!
Lister: If he comes near me I'm gonna rip his nipples off!
Within the article, you'll find that this is a gas giant. It's so large that its own gravitational effect causes its sun to swell on approach.
So then weather is going to suck on pretty much every planet in that system.
If these systems are really simple they produce absurd results: a character is furious one moment and cheerful a second later, like a Warner Brothers cartoon character.
Or Basil Fawlty?
As the opiate of the masses, is washington worried what happens when people lose their pacifier?
Janie Crane: Without regular picture transmissions, thousands are swarming the streets, desperately buying black-market tapes from video vendors.
Mrs. Formby: We're going to go critical if we don't act soon.
Edwards: We're going to have riots out there. We should distribute emergency video players immediately!
Janie Crane: Edison... an off switch!
Metrocop: She'll get years for that. Off switches are illegal!
Voice: This is a message to the authorities. It is also an ultimatum. You have until sunset to release the detained Blanks. This morning's failures were tests. We can desolate your systems. The reason is the actions of Simon Peller. Release the Blanks or every computer in the city will be simultaneously wrecked. You have until sunset.
Mrs. Formby: My god, they could lobotomize the network. Without television, this city would be ungovernable!
Blank Dominique: Now if all those threats are for real, well, there'd be no networks, would there?
Blank Reg: No, Dom. Not if the lads do their business...
Blank Dominique: We don't have a computer, do we?
Blank Reg: No, we don't. Computers know too much.
Edwards: Chaos out there! People are in a panic, fighting for old video recordings!
Ashwell: Personally, I'd rather watch a smoke alarm.
Background: Big Time... Television! Big Time... Television! Twenty-four hours a day, day after day, making tomorrow seem like yesterday!
Blank Reg (over): This is Blank Reg, welcoming you to Big Time Television, from sunrise to sunset, filling your empty lives with mindless drek!
Bruno: Our 'bomb' is simply a program. It links all the programs of the city through the main one simultaneously. Massive overload. Goodbye everything from... Security Systems to Network 23.
Max: Well, I'll let you know if there's life after the off-switch-tch-tch.
Bruno: I already know.
Max: What I want to know is, why you want to wreck our network? Network!
Bruno: Your network, and the authorities, are mesmerizing millions into worshiping this new priesthood of the computer! Like... cave men worshiping fire! It's a false faith, Max.
[angry crowd noise]
Edison Carter: It's starting to happen. Their world's gone away. Without their TVs, what is there for them?
Edison Carter: Only one man can prevent our city being paralyzed: Simon Peller. Mr. Peller, are you prepared to negotiate to prevent this catastrophe?
Bryce Lynch: Micro-link... running... Control.
Simon Peller (on tape): My dear Miss Jones, of course I will release these people. I have no intention of risking this city or its television network.
Simon Peller: I never said that!
Simon Peller: Those Blanks will be brought to justice. They haven't heard the end of this, Carter.
Edison Carter: Oh, I think they have... Simon. Unlike the Fringes, justice here is a lot more than cash flow... or politics.
Max Headroom: What are you laugh-laugh-laughing about? Bryce just tried to kiss me! Kiss me!
Edison Carter: Well, you are irresistible.
Theora Jones: Well, thank you.
The government doesn't realize that the TV companies have teams ready to go for Feb 17 and all this flip-flopping costs them money in rescheduling, etc..
Why should they reschedule? There's nothing that says they can't make the switch before the deadline, and some already have. The only reason broadcasters should take advantage of a delay is if they aren't going to be ready by Feb 17.
The only benefit for consumers in extending the switch date is the extending of the availability of the coupons for converter boxes.
Aliens vs. Replicants?
What, you think an Apple II can't use USB?
Incidentally, I suspect there would be a lot less resistance to these newfangled units if they'd had the sense to pick names people could be expected to say with a straight face...
Like giga-binary-bytes? That is the long form of gibibytes.
It would be nice if we could say GB<sub> 2</sub> instead of GiB, but we can't do that here since subscript tags were considered presentational and thus deprecated. Not that this page is under a strict DTD. Can't we at least have span.sub { vertical-align: sub; } in the stylesheet and allow GB<span class=sub> 2</span> ?
RAM specifications use the 2^x numbering because the device is physically constructed as a square grid of cells with power-of-two numbers of rows and columns. There's a direct mapping between bits on the address bus and the cell that is selected.
Magnetic storage does not have this constraint. The sector size is (arbitrarily) set at 512 bytes and hard drives usually have an even number of read/write heads, but apart from that there are no powers of two. The number of cylinders on the drive, and the number of sectors per cylinder, are arbitrary.
Now explain flash/solid state memory sizes and the "formatted capacity" of memory.
Given a big enough partition table, I could put 125 ProDOS partitions on that (4 GB / 32 MiB).
So, it's perfectly fine if I have to pick up the slack for people that are smoking pot and as a result not as sharp as they ought to be? I'm sorry, but I'm failing to see how it is that it's not any of my business.
That could be the Alzheimer's kicking in.
"My name is Roger Smith. I perform a much-needed job here in this city of amnesia.
"This place, Paradigm City, is a town of forgetfulness. One day, forty years ago, every person here lost all memory of anything which had occurred before that day. But humans are adaptable creatures. They make do and go on with life. If they're smart enough to figure out how to operate machinery and get electricity, they can still have something like a civilization even without a history. People can survive without knowing what did or didn't happen in the past, and each day they try their hardest to do just that. The only ones who regret the loss of these memories are the city's elderly. But memories, like nightmares, sometimes come when you least expect them."
When camera phones that don't click are outlawed, only outlaws will have camera phones that don't click.
My phone has Shutter Tone options that include Chimp, Quack, Flix, Boing, and Click. The default option was None. I thought that maybe my phone would be exempt as it was manufactured before such a law would be enacted, but it will accept updates sent over the EVDO network. Should I expect a forced firmware update to make Click my only option? (Chimp is the loudest and is quite annoying.)
The video option's sound option is just whether or not to record sound with the video.
Meanwhile I have yet to find a cell phone with an option to record the calls made on it.
Chief Bud McGee: Why do you bring a video camera to school?
Trevor: The same reason you bring a gun to work. To shoot people.
May as well pass a low mandating all shoes to have "clicky" heels so that we can't sneak up on anyone. Silent shoes are the highest contributors to predatory actions!
Indeed! How dare they even market these silent shoes as "sneakers". That should nail the shoes' makers for vicarious liability right there!
(Yes, this is an analogy to certain copyright rulings forcing certain products with significant fair uses off the shelves based solely on how they were marketed.)
Excuse me sir. I see you're talking on your cell phone. I will ask you to take a picture of me so that I may ascertain whether your phone is "Camera Phone Predator Alert Act" compliant.
Esposito:From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. Silence! In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now... 16 years old!
Fielding Mellish:What's the Spanish word for straitjacket?
In all seriousness, it's a really bad idea to suggest that being capable of something, or representing a threat, is enough to punish someone for.
Yeah, I'm not sure why I'm getting Funny mods for referencing the treatment of Kevin Mitnick either.
That reminds me of an SGI machine at a previous workplace that reportedly had been infected with a rootkit. I was to do a clean reinstall of the operating system with the hardware isolated from the net. Unfortunately, it became clear that the installer itself required connecting to the net to complete the installation. It was allowed a connection only for as long as necessary, and the system was installed and disconnected from the net.
It still tested positive for a rootkit afterward.
I never heard anything more about it.
All the better for ensuring immunity of your weapon deployment platform from your own weapon.
Someone will use it to try to create Terry McGinnis' Batsuit.
observing a quantum event changes that event
Yes, so you can't use this to look up quantum skirts.
He is one of those people who, in my opinion, qualifies for MUCH more harsh punishment.
Well, the US prosecutor could just allege that he's capable of starting World War III if given an opportunity to whistle into a telephone to get him thrown into solitary confinement. It might even be more believable than the last time they used it successfully.
Ah, that's right. The 20th Anniversary Mac was celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Apple.
I have a Mac Plus. I got it specifically to run a particular version of AppleShare that allowed you to boot an Apple IIgs over an AppleTalk connection. And I never got around to actually doing it. Hmm, now there's something I can look into doing once I get that desk rebuilt. I know I've got an old 40 MB SCSI drive lying around somewhere....
Yeah, but I can still hope for some kind of a Mac Mini-level revision with a bump in speed and a built-in iPod dock to come out tomorrow at a price point of $666.66 (between the prices of the two current configurations), perhaps merging in features of the Apple TV platform.
Or even better, how about a pocket-sized Mac Micro? That would be a shocker!