It's not just the quote, it is the delivery that sells it for ridicule (his apoplectic stammering and insistent tone), as well as the surrounding context ("and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff").
And I know I have on an old drive somewhere an animation that depicts Internet packets as a series of trucks, long before his quote.
One lesson to be learned is to never deliver an analogy as if it were authoritative.
Well, if you think of it as time being a loop, then there is no time outside of time (er...) and once it ends, it is back at the beginning again and starts over.
"Time begins, and then time ends, And then time begins once again. It is happening now, it has happened before, It will surely happen again."
Really? How do I get my TV to tune in between the frequencies? I don't see that in my manual.:-) I'm honestly interested in how that is done.
It's not so much "made" to tune between frequencies than it is it wanting to. In my case, it was a matter of switching between the channels on either side repeatedly until it found the desired signal having a stronger lock than one of them, which only happened when the other signal was present: a matter of timing and luck.
Sometimes the signal was a series of beeps ending in a long beep, other times it included a recorded voice message. I never analyzed the beeps nor attempted to act on any information contained in the voice messages (which occasionally contained call-back numbers). Lock-on was best achieved during a voice message, but it would have to be a long message (most were under 5 seconds).
All I could think of was that I really wish they called micro black holes that exist for minute fractions of a second something other than "black holes."
I've been able to listen in on cellular voice pagers on my cable TV for years, somewhere between channels 18 and 20 inclusive (analog). Even modern TVs that don't have manual tuner knobs can be made to tune in between the frequencies to get a better lock.
When they shut down analog TV, I wonder what interesting new signals one will be able to intercept with old TV sets on those frequencies, especially with the TVs that don't mute themselves when they don't get a good video signal.
If your coordinate system is coded such that 1 unit == 1 inch, you're fine as long as you stick to inches. It gets tricky when your software needs to handle both millimeters and inches accurately. You end up needing a coordinate system where 10 units == 1 millimeter and 254 units == 1 inch.
Well, maybe not here in the US (last was 2006 in "As You Like It" according to IMDB), unless it's on BBC America. He's apparently done well as a voice actor for animation, too.
His was the voice of Boss Nass in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).
I have yet to see him as Yrcanos in Doctor Who... damn, forgot that it came out October 7th on DVD!
"My ancestors came here on that first shipment. They had nothing! The Federation gave them no tools, no supplies, so they worked together. They worked hard! And made a community! There were children born here! They were settlers trying to build a new world on a new planet! Later, more Federation prisoners came. There were disagreements. The community began to break up. They fought and killed. All that they had achieved was being destroyed! And it was my great-great-grandfather who found a way to unite them. He gave them a religion! Brought them together in the love and fear of God! That is the line I stem from. That is what gives me the right to rule!"
2. It was a permanent public installation, not an item of clothing on a private person.
You can be wearing an official Disney-licensed Mickey Mouse T-Shirt and have them demand you remove it if you've defaced it. Even something as simple as putting safety pins in Mickey's ears.
But usually only if you're wearing their intellectual property while on their physical property.
You expect actual murderers to be afraid of drawing a picture because you have made a bold statement against "dilution"? Do you think police work will be easier if gangs don't self identify? Will you feel safer with the police distracted by symbols instead of watching out for real crimes?
Buying a computer system you cannot afford to properly use is crazy. Yes, some people are crazy, and those crazy people are going to lose data, but there's no sense in defending it.
Yeah, well, who gets it right the first time every time? The first time you start working with large DV files, you're just trying to keep up with the storage demand, and next thing you know it's going to be a huge expense just to double your capacity once for a single backup. Instead, you just figure out what data you can move off-line awhile to some external volumes. Especially if it started just as a hobby and only becomes a business for the occasional wedding video.
I want a DROBO but those are expensive as hell.
I picked up my drobo from a seller on Amazon and have been very happy with it. Now the same USB model can be obtained for even less than I paid directly from the manufacturer. For me it was a natural choice as I was replacing three internal 500 GB drives (RAID 0) with three internal 1 TB drives (separate volumes) and wanted an enclosure with a migration path to larger drives with mixed capacities. (I'd love to have a PATA drobo as well for my even older drives, but they don't make them.)
And with the SDK available, you can install programs and services that run on the drobo itself or on a droboshare managing it as a NAS.
Oh come on. Do you have 12TB of home data? Seriously? And if you do, it's not that hard to have another another 12TB of external USB drives at some relatives place.
Only if you've established the habit of buying your drives in pairs while you were amassing your data.
Sometimes having an expensive computer system doesn't mean you have money; it means you had money.
This means I'm going to have to backup my drobo so I can reconfigure it from a maximum 4 TB enclosure to a maximum 6 TB enclosure (5.5 TiB actual). Good thing it isn't nearly full yet (and only has three 500 GB drives in it).
Did you hear about Seagate's new Sarahcuda drive? Not only does it also have 1.5 terabytes of capacity, but it scrambles your data so as it make it completely incomprehensible. Plus you get a free one if you vote for John McCain
Would that qualify as a DILF (Drive I'd Like to Fsck)?
I never got into MUDs for gaming. For me, it was partly the social aspect but mostly for the construction and coding. I played TinyMUDs, then later TinyMUCKs. I learned Forth by learning MUF.
I think I was the first person to code an elevator that wasn't just a set of numbered exits. Instead, choosing a floor number swapped out an invisible object with a new exit attached leading to the floor you chose. It would also swap the object on that floor to indicate that the elevator was there waiting for you to enter (otherwise you'd have to press the call button to bring the car to the floor). It didn't even need MUF until I wanted to figure out how to make it take time (because otherwise someone could just keep summoning the elevator to one floor keeping anyone else from getting off where they wanted to). I never got around to implementing that part though.
Working on that and other state machines got me to come up with the line, "Invisible objects aren't really invisible; they only look that way." For most people it's just a funny line, but in TinyMUCK it references that an invisible object can always be seen by its owner. There was a bit of a complaint in that: there didn't seem to be an option to hide my own invisible objects from myself.
I remember wishing that someone would create a client that would remember all the object IDs returned by @dig and @open and the like so that construction of complicated structures was simplified, to the extent where I could say "dig a room from here linked as north and backlinked as south" and other constructs that would negate my need to know actual object numbers.
I had also intended to implement my own version of TinyMUD in ACOS (GBBS Pro), and later in METAL (FutureVision), for use on a single-line dial-up BBS. Players left in a room would act as recorders of what happened in that room, creating a messaging system which you had to seek out the people you wanted to converse with and avoid interlopers you didn't want listening in. Implementation was to use the message forum file format for the object database, each object being a single message in that database, and each player object recording the size of the room they were in to know where to start reading anew. Once a room was vacated, its message history would be archived. Unfortunately, it was difficult to code such a system on a BBS intended to be live 24/7, and then the BBS scene ending and my educational requirements prevented me from implementing it.
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It's not just the quote, it is the delivery that sells it for ridicule (his apoplectic stammering and insistent tone), as well as the surrounding context ("and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff").
And I know I have on an old drive somewhere an animation that depicts Internet packets as a series of trucks, long before his quote.
One lesson to be learned is to never deliver an analogy as if it were authoritative.
But will they be served consecutively or concurrently?
Well, if you think of it as time being a loop, then there is no time outside of time (er...) and once it ends, it is back at the beginning again and starts over.
"Time begins, and then time ends,
And then time begins once again.
It is happening now, it has happened before,
It will surely happen again."
Really? How do I get my TV to tune in between the frequencies? I don't see that in my manual. :-) I'm honestly interested in how that is done.
It's not so much "made" to tune between frequencies than it is it wanting to. In my case, it was a matter of switching between the channels on either side repeatedly until it found the desired signal having a stronger lock than one of them, which only happened when the other signal was present: a matter of timing and luck.
Sometimes the signal was a series of beeps ending in a long beep, other times it included a recorded voice message. I never analyzed the beeps nor attempted to act on any information contained in the voice messages (which occasionally contained call-back numbers). Lock-on was best achieved during a voice message, but it would have to be a long message (most were under 5 seconds).
All I could think of was that I really wish they called micro black holes that exist for minute fractions of a second something other than "black holes."
Bugophants?
Actually, in that book they don't evaporate and never stop eating, but they do send information back in time commensurate with their size.
a picture is worth a thousand words...
and a video is worth a million.
Yet a picture can take up a million words
And a video take a billion.
It's a penny for your thoughts
When you put your two cents in,
But you make it up in volume
And you rake the profit in.
I've been able to listen in on cellular voice pagers on my cable TV for years, somewhere between channels 18 and 20 inclusive (analog). Even modern TVs that don't have manual tuner knobs can be made to tune in between the frequencies to get a better lock.
When they shut down analog TV, I wonder what interesting new signals one will be able to intercept with old TV sets on those frequencies, especially with the TVs that don't mute themselves when they don't get a good video signal.
If your coordinate system is coded such that 1 unit == 1 inch, you're fine as long as you stick to inches. It gets tricky when your software needs to handle both millimeters and inches accurately. You end up needing a coordinate system where 10 units == 1 millimeter and 254 units == 1 inch.
A missile that never leaves the ground won't be detected on radar scanning the air, nor by seismic sensors.
Though perhaps "missile" is the wrong term, as would be "torpedo". Would it just be a ram?
But then there's braking distance to consider.
To be fair, the entire US customary measuring system is obsolete...
And yet its powers of two make it far easier to represent in binary memory without incurring rounding errors.
Well, maybe not here in the US (last was 2006 in "As You Like It" according to IMDB), unless it's on BBC America. He's apparently done well as a voice actor for animation, too.
His was the voice of Boss Nass in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).
I have yet to see him as Yrcanos in Doctor Who... damn, forgot that it came out October 7th on DVD!
"My ancestors came here on that first shipment. They had nothing! The Federation gave them no tools, no supplies, so they worked together. They worked hard! And made a community! There were children born here! They were settlers trying to build a new world on a new planet! Later, more Federation prisoners came. There were disagreements. The community began to break up. They fought and killed. All that they had achieved was being destroyed! And it was my great-great-grandfather who found a way to unite them. He gave them a religion! Brought them together in the love and fear of God! That is the line I stem from. That is what gives me the right to rule!"
Free as in beer would have been "bezplatnovo" - literally "payless".
I'll remember that next time I need new shoes.
2. It was a permanent public installation, not an item of clothing on a private person.
You can be wearing an official Disney-licensed Mickey Mouse T-Shirt and have them demand you remove it if you've defaced it. Even something as simple as putting safety pins in Mickey's ears.
But usually only if you're wearing their intellectual property while on their physical property.
You expect actual murderers to be afraid of drawing a picture because you have made a bold statement against "dilution"? Do you think police work will be easier if gangs don't self identify? Will you feel safer with the police distracted by symbols instead of watching out for real crimes?
"The sign hurts us. We cannot hear the machine."
Buying a computer system you cannot afford to properly use is crazy. Yes, some people are crazy, and those crazy people are going to lose data, but there's no sense in defending it.
Yeah, well, who gets it right the first time every time? The first time you start working with large DV files, you're just trying to keep up with the storage demand, and next thing you know it's going to be a huge expense just to double your capacity once for a single backup. Instead, you just figure out what data you can move off-line awhile to some external volumes. Especially if it started just as a hobby and only becomes a business for the occasional wedding video.
I want a DROBO but those are expensive as hell.
I picked up my drobo from a seller on Amazon and have been very happy with it. Now the same USB model can be obtained for even less than I paid directly from the manufacturer. For me it was a natural choice as I was replacing three internal 500 GB drives (RAID 0) with three internal 1 TB drives (separate volumes) and wanted an enclosure with a migration path to larger drives with mixed capacities. (I'd love to have a PATA drobo as well for my even older drives, but they don't make them.)
And with the SDK available, you can install programs and services that run on the drobo itself or on a droboshare managing it as a NAS.
Link
Check the map.
Whose scripts do I need to enable to see the map?
Oh come on. Do you have 12TB of home data? Seriously? And if you do, it's not that hard to have another another 12TB of external USB drives at some relatives place.
Only if you've established the habit of buying your drives in pairs while you were amassing your data.
Sometimes having an expensive computer system doesn't mean you have money; it means you had money.
The only thing a e-voting machine should be used for is printing a paper ballot.
Count the paper ballots.
You also have to make sure it prints completed ballots when and only when a voter is present and voting, once per voter.
And only when the voter has made all his choices and warns the voter if he leaves without completing the ballot submission process.
This means I'm going to have to backup my drobo so I can reconfigure it from a maximum 4 TB enclosure to a maximum 6 TB enclosure (5.5 TiB actual). Good thing it isn't nearly full yet (and only has three 500 GB drives in it).
Did you hear about Seagate's new Sarahcuda drive? Not only does it also have 1.5 terabytes of capacity, but it scrambles your data so as it make it completely incomprehensible. Plus you get a free one if you vote for John McCain
Would that qualify as a DILF (Drive I'd Like to Fsck)?
I never got into MUDs for gaming. For me, it was partly the social aspect but mostly for the construction and coding. I played TinyMUDs, then later TinyMUCKs. I learned Forth by learning MUF.
I think I was the first person to code an elevator that wasn't just a set of numbered exits. Instead, choosing a floor number swapped out an invisible object with a new exit attached leading to the floor you chose. It would also swap the object on that floor to indicate that the elevator was there waiting for you to enter (otherwise you'd have to press the call button to bring the car to the floor). It didn't even need MUF until I wanted to figure out how to make it take time (because otherwise someone could just keep summoning the elevator to one floor keeping anyone else from getting off where they wanted to). I never got around to implementing that part though.
Working on that and other state machines got me to come up with the line, "Invisible objects aren't really invisible; they only look that way." For most people it's just a funny line, but in TinyMUCK it references that an invisible object can always be seen by its owner. There was a bit of a complaint in that: there didn't seem to be an option to hide my own invisible objects from myself.
I remember wishing that someone would create a client that would remember all the object IDs returned by @dig and @open and the like so that construction of complicated structures was simplified, to the extent where I could say "dig a room from here linked as north and backlinked as south" and other constructs that would negate my need to know actual object numbers.
I had also intended to implement my own version of TinyMUD in ACOS (GBBS Pro), and later in METAL (FutureVision), for use on a single-line dial-up BBS. Players left in a room would act as recorders of what happened in that room, creating a messaging system which you had to seek out the people you wanted to converse with and avoid interlopers you didn't want listening in. Implementation was to use the message forum file format for the object database, each object being a single message in that database, and each player object recording the size of the room they were in to know where to start reading anew. Once a room was vacated, its message history would be archived. Unfortunately, it was difficult to code such a system on a BBS intended to be live 24/7, and then the BBS scene ending and my educational requirements prevented me from implementing it.
My workplace still uses RCS. We also use XEmacs 19.13, a 1995 codebase last built in 2001.
The aliens have learned How Not To Be Seen.