I particularly like the bit in that episode where people are rioting in the streets because there's no television signal. Seems to me that it would be good for excerpting for the analog cutoff February 2009:
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: Without regular picture transmissions, thousands are swarming the streets, desperately buying black-market tapes from video vendors.
Formby: My god, they could lobotomize the network. Without television, this city would be ungovernable!
Edwards: Chaos out there! People are in a panic, fighting for old video recordings! Ashwell: Personally, I'd rather watch a smoke alarm.
Edison Carter: It's starting to happen. Their world's gone away. Without their TVs, what is there for them?
And those are just the quotes I can find on-line (also available as MP3s). This needs to have a DVD release tout de suite.
I see links for "Download" (as PDF) and "View plain text" to the right. Otherwise the scanned page images don't appear to load for me either.
Ah, I also have scripting disabled for Google. If scripting is enabled, I find the on-page content inaccessible, though my client-side stylesheet might be partly to blame for that. (I have not downloaded the PDF.) Anyway, try disabling Javascript with the NoScript plug-in and try again.
It's interesting that nobody thought of this (a parawing car) before
I'm surprised he's not also adapting it to airboats as used in Florida and Louisiana. Though I guess he gets more press coverage for "flying car" than "sea plane".
With enough explosives altitude won't be a problem but distance and landing may be an issue.
In the arena currently, there are enough explosive devices in place to do that for the current heavy, flightless vehicles. I thus presume the ability to convert to flight may be to evade these same explosives.
Hopefully the enemy doesn't respond with thin metal clothesline technology.
Blank Reg: This is a network linker. It's a bit out of your league, idn'it, Paula? Paula: So, whatch'll you trade for it? [Blank Reg offers her something] Paula: What's that? Blank Reg: It's a book! Paula: Well, what's that? Blank Reg: It's a non-volatile storage medium. It's very rare. You should 'ave one. Paula: Stuff it!
I particularly liked how a CSI:NY episode matched the marks on a dismembered body's bones to the blade of a particular brand of cordless reciprocating saw, then the same saw was advertised in the commercial break, just in case you had some bodies you needed to dismember.
Near the last season of BattleBots the logos they started inserting on the Lexan panels of the arena were really annoying me. Especially when they'd animate their reveal every time the camera angle changed.
Or was it Robot Wars? Whichever one had rows of Lexan panels instead of whole tall sheets of it.
At least in football(US) the ads inserted into the field have some benefit to the viewer in marking the scrimmage and first-down lines. (And hitting the 30-second skip between plays skips past the ads there too.)
Under a cost-benefit analysis, there's exponential profit to be made by a powerful few in taking humanity to brink of extinction, far more than there is profit in saving it, leaving only the profiteers to survive, albeit briefly.
"Can the stock market survive a thermonuclear exchange? Yes, says our next guest, and he will tell us what stocks to buy and what to sell in the event of a nuclear attack, right after these messages."
In Farscape, The Peacekeeper Wars, its Wormhole doomsday weapon was capable of destroying the entire universe. Not many doomsday weapons can beat that. I suppose the only way to go beyond that, would be to also cause total destruction throughout all time as well.
In Lexx, convert all matter of the Light Universe into Mantrid Drones, then cause them all to chase the last remaining unconverted matter in the Light Universe, causing the whole Light Universe to collapse upon itself.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Mk. II could destroy a plural-zone planet in all universes (i.e. all instances along its probability axis).
Of course, if you have time travel, you have the potential to uncause the Big Bang.
Not just the Reality Bomb, but the episode also featured two other doomsday weapons: a Warpstar (a "Warp-fold conjugation" inside a carbonized shell) and the Osterhagen Key ("Osterhagen" is an anagram of "Earth's gone").
Not really a bad idea I suppose - moves the boot time from boot to shutdown, when you are less likely to care.
That would depend on when you want the updates that require restart to be applied.
And what happens after this "shutdown" and you, say, install new drives? Will it see them when the BIOS (or whatever) has already decided they aren't there? What if you want to boot off a different device like a CD?
This reminds me of the episode of Turbo Teen where, if he transforms back into the car, the timer on the bomb planted inside him will resume counting down. (Or, if it wasn't an episode, it was a vivid dream I had as a kid based off of that series that has stuck with me. It does seem to be a bit mature of a plot device for kids.)
And what implications for security like disk encryption?
It would depend on the metal. Some alloys may be pliable enough to snap together without permanent deformation. Aluminum might work. For steel, maybe embed little magnets in the posts, or make them rough enough to give friction without giving way (a small clamp could be used to force them together), or just apply enough heat to soften them up a bit. Solder them together?
Then again, a metallic finish on the smooth sides may be enough. Chrome would be nice to have: your LEGO bathroom could have mirrors. They've done chrome for plastic model car parts.
I guess you could paint them yourself with metallic paint, but that would probably upset LEGO art purists. On that point, what is the feeling about using partially melted LEGOs to get more organic shapes? Or melting holes through the join pegs with a hot needle for wiring for structure or electronics? LEDs inside blocks?
How about a mold for making your own blocks out of ice for a LEGO hockey rink? With a functioning LEGO Zamboni? Maybe with a LEGO mobster figure trapped under the ice?
Kerril: [moving closer] What's the matter, killer, lost your nerve? Vila: That's right. Pity I didn't lose my sense of smell as well. Kerril: What's that supposed to mean? Vila: You should try taking a bath sometime; you smell terrible. Kerril: For someone who's lost his nerve, you take risks, little man. Vila: You didn't go to all this trouble just to kill me. Kerril: Move. Vila: Where? Kerril: [gestures with gun] There. Vila: A mouthwash would be a good idea too. Kerril: Move.
Kerril: How did you know I was here? Vila: Sorry? Kerril: When I first came in, how did you know I was here? Vila: I heard you. Kerril: No, you didn't. Vila: Psychic. Kerril: [angry] For a thief, you lie badly.
There are people out there that cite the reuse of those 3D models as proof of an established continuity between the shows (usu. by extension to the so-called Tommy-verse of St. Elsewhere) instead of just an in-joke among the production staff. You might as well say two sitcoms share a continuity because a character in each wore Jordache jeans.
Also, unless you're only ever installing on the system and no one ever actually uses it, you'll probably want to take snapshots immediately before installation as well as immediately after. Things change just from day-to-day use. You wouldn't want a restore after a bad install to lose all your work since the previous install.
Writer A: "Needs more sex." Writer B: "Its a show about a bunch of fighter pilots, what are we going to do, have one of them jump an engineer in the closet?"
You obviously haven't watched the show past the credits.
Writer A: More sex. Writer B: [morphs into a Japanese tentacle rape creature] Writer A: Oh God! NO! [Zoom in to R&D TV logo]
There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life could easily become extremely tiresome just from that factor alone, never mind the deeper existential problems of trying to function as a coherent consciousness in an epistemologically ambiguous physical universe. Just look at cash point machines, for instance. Queues of people standing around waiting to have their fingerprints read, their retinas scanned, bits of skin scraped from the nape of the neck and undergoing instant (or nearly instant -- a good six or seven seconds in tedious reality) genetic analysis, then having to answer trick questions about members of their family they didn't even remember they had, and about their recorded preferences for tablecloth colours. And that was just to get a bit of spare cash for the weekend. If you were trying to raise a loan for a jetcar, sign a missile treaty or pay an entire restaurant bill things could get really trying.
Hence the Ident-i-Eeze. This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all-purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology's greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.
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I particularly like the bit in that episode where people are rioting in the streets because there's no television signal. Seems to me that it would be good for excerpting for the analog cutoff February 2009:
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: Without regular picture transmissions, thousands are swarming the streets, desperately buying black-market tapes from video vendors.
Formby: My god, they could lobotomize the network. Without television, this city would be ungovernable!
Edwards: Chaos out there! People are in a panic, fighting for old video recordings!
Ashwell: Personally, I'd rather watch a smoke alarm.
Edison Carter: It's starting to happen. Their world's gone away. Without their TVs, what is there for them?
And those are just the quotes I can find on-line (also available as MP3s). This needs to have a DVD release tout de suite.
I see links for "Download" (as PDF) and "View plain text" to the right. Otherwise the scanned page images don't appear to load for me either.
Ah, I also have scripting disabled for Google. If scripting is enabled, I find the on-page content inaccessible, though my client-side stylesheet might be partly to blame for that. (I have not downloaded the PDF.) Anyway, try disabling Javascript with the NoScript plug-in and try again.
It's interesting that nobody thought of this (a parawing car) before
I'm surprised he's not also adapting it to airboats as used in Florida and Louisiana. Though I guess he gets more press coverage for "flying car" than "sea plane".
With enough explosives altitude won't be a problem but distance and landing may be an issue.
In the arena currently, there are enough explosive devices in place to do that for the current heavy, flightless vehicles. I thus presume the ability to convert to flight may be to evade these same explosives.
Hopefully the enemy doesn't respond with thin metal clothesline technology.
Blank Reg: This is a network linker. It's a bit out of your league, idn'it, Paula?
Paula: So, whatch'll you trade for it?
[Blank Reg offers her something]
Paula: What's that?
Blank Reg: It's a book!
Paula: Well, what's that?
Blank Reg: It's a non-volatile storage medium. It's very rare. You should 'ave one.
Paula: Stuff it!
I particularly liked how a CSI:NY episode matched the marks on a dismembered body's bones to the blade of a particular brand of cordless reciprocating saw, then the same saw was advertised in the commercial break, just in case you had some bodies you needed to dismember.
Near the last season of BattleBots the logos they started inserting on the Lexan panels of the arena were really annoying me. Especially when they'd animate their reveal every time the camera angle changed.
Or was it Robot Wars? Whichever one had rows of Lexan panels instead of whole tall sheets of it.
At least in football(US) the ads inserted into the field have some benefit to the viewer in marking the scrimmage and first-down lines. (And hitting the 30-second skip between plays skips past the ads there too.)
Under a cost-benefit analysis, there's exponential profit to be made by a powerful few in taking humanity to brink of extinction, far more than there is profit in saving it, leaving only the profiteers to survive, albeit briefly.
"Can the stock market survive a thermonuclear exchange? Yes, says our next guest, and he will tell us what stocks to buy and what to sell in the event of a nuclear attack, right after these messages."
facepalm!
entropy does not decrease
never
Every time I shuffle my deck of one cards it always produces the same order.
There is even one for if the LHC has destroyed the world or not!
Hee hee. The jokes on them. If the Earth is destroyed there'd be no Internet left by which to access that site!
a process known as General Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU).
Eugene: Jeep jeep!
In Farscape, The Peacekeeper Wars, its Wormhole doomsday weapon was capable of destroying the entire universe. Not many doomsday weapons can beat that. I suppose the only way to go beyond that, would be to also cause total destruction throughout all time as well.
In Lexx, convert all matter of the Light Universe into Mantrid Drones, then cause them all to chase the last remaining unconverted matter in the Light Universe, causing the whole Light Universe to collapse upon itself.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Mk. II could destroy a plural-zone planet in all universes (i.e. all instances along its probability axis).
Of course, if you have time travel, you have the potential to uncause the Big Bang.
Not just the Reality Bomb, but the episode also featured two other doomsday weapons: a Warpstar (a "Warp-fold conjugation" inside a carbonized shell) and the Osterhagen Key ("Osterhagen" is an anagram of "Earth's gone").
can the human race auto-evolve itself larger penises?
Can't you do that by erotic-thought alone?
Not really a bad idea I suppose - moves the boot time from boot to shutdown, when you are less likely to care.
That would depend on when you want the updates that require restart to be applied.
And what happens after this "shutdown" and you, say, install new drives? Will it see them when the BIOS (or whatever) has already decided they aren't there? What if you want to boot off a different device like a CD?
This reminds me of the episode of Turbo Teen where, if he transforms back into the car, the timer on the bomb planted inside him will resume counting down. (Or, if it wasn't an episode, it was a vivid dream I had as a kid based off of that series that has stuck with me. It does seem to be a bit mature of a plot device for kids.)
And what implications for security like disk encryption?
It would depend on the metal. Some alloys may be pliable enough to snap together without permanent deformation. Aluminum might work. For steel, maybe embed little magnets in the posts, or make them rough enough to give friction without giving way (a small clamp could be used to force them together), or just apply enough heat to soften them up a bit. Solder them together?
Then again, a metallic finish on the smooth sides may be enough. Chrome would be nice to have: your LEGO bathroom could have mirrors. They've done chrome for plastic model car parts.
I guess you could paint them yourself with metallic paint, but that would probably upset LEGO art purists. On that point, what is the feeling about using partially melted LEGOs to get more organic shapes? Or melting holes through the join pegs with a hot needle for wiring for structure or electronics? LEDs inside blocks?
How about a mold for making your own blocks out of ice for a LEGO hockey rink? With a functioning LEGO Zamboni? Maybe with a LEGO mobster figure trapped under the ice?
You can already get whatever you want.
I don't see any options for metal blocks there.
We picked up a huge bin at a garage sale last summer.
So, it was you!
Don't they call them car-port sales there?
Kerril: [moving closer] What's the matter, killer, lost your nerve?
Vila: That's right. Pity I didn't lose my sense of smell as well.
Kerril: What's that supposed to mean?
Vila: You should try taking a bath sometime; you smell terrible.
Kerril: For someone who's lost his nerve, you take risks, little man.
Vila: You didn't go to all this trouble just to kill me.
Kerril: Move.
Vila: Where?
Kerril: [gestures with gun] There.
Vila: A mouthwash would be a good idea too.
Kerril: Move.
Kerril: How did you know I was here?
Vila: Sorry?
Kerril: When I first came in, how did you know I was here?
Vila: I heard you.
Kerril: No, you didn't.
Vila: Psychic.
Kerril: [angry] For a thief, you lie badly.
Gog: Ooh. Tonda.
Vipers cost two nuts so that you won't mind flying solo.
A Raptor, now that's a ship with room to party in the back.
There are people out there that cite the reuse of those 3D models as proof of an established continuity between the shows (usu. by extension to the so-called Tommy-verse of St. Elsewhere) instead of just an in-joke among the production staff. You might as well say two sitcoms share a continuity because a character in each wore Jordache jeans.
Also, unless you're only ever installing on the system and no one ever actually uses it, you'll probably want to take snapshots immediately before installation as well as immediately after. Things change just from day-to-day use. You wouldn't want a restore after a bad install to lose all your work since the previous install.
I think I know what the meeting sounded like:
Writer A: "Needs more sex."
Writer B: "Its a show about a bunch of fighter pilots, what are we going to do, have one of them jump an engineer in the closet?"
You obviously haven't watched the show past the credits.
Writer A: More sex.
Writer B: [morphs into a Japanese tentacle rape creature]
Writer A: Oh God! NO!
[Zoom in to R&D TV logo]
There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life could easily become extremely tiresome just from that factor alone, never mind the deeper existential problems of trying to function as a coherent consciousness in an epistemologically ambiguous physical universe. Just look at cash point machines, for instance. Queues of people standing around waiting to have their fingerprints read, their retinas scanned, bits of skin scraped from the nape of the neck and undergoing instant (or nearly instant -- a good six or seven seconds in tedious reality) genetic analysis, then having to answer trick questions about members of their family they didn't even remember they had, and about their recorded preferences for tablecloth colours. And that was just to get a bit of spare cash for the weekend. If you were trying to raise a loan for a jetcar, sign a missile treaty or pay an entire restaurant bill things could get really trying.
Hence the Ident-i-Eeze. This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all-purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology's greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.