After all these years of SF movies with sound traveling in a vacuum, it'd actually be more dramatic to me to see a spacecraft blowing up in total silence on a viewscreen, and all those lives gone with no *ka-boom* to mark their passing.
Disclaimer: I'm an Honor Harrington fan, and Weber has used that effectively.
Sauron: I know, I'll make this ring that's fueled by antimatter replenished from quantum vacuum fluctuations, and which is a gravitational superconductor which can bend light around the being wearing it! The caculations will be done by a very densely packed quantum supercomputer AI imbedded in the ring...
Picard: Make it so.
Hey, if Scotty can do it...
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So I wonder what Sauron would have thought of thermonuclear weapons....
Heh. Don't have to. The local Radio Shack is the only general electronics store within 60 miles, and I *know* how clueless they are.
Went in there a few weeks ago to look for a switch to put on the ham rig I've been building, asked for a "125 volt 10 amp double-pole single-throw switch" and the poor git there actually wanted to CALL HIS MANAGER AT HOME. I said just point me to your section with small switches, ok? and found it myself in about ten seconds. First time I've been in there (just moved here) and it will probably be the last time.
It's a big store, but he's been there for four years. Sheesh already. Looked at the switch, looked at the price (had to bring it to the register for it to get priced, I HATE that crap, put the prices on the merchandise bin tag already)....and gagged. Went down the street to the local Ace Hardware and found it for 1/4 of what Radioshack had, and the kid working there knew what it was and where it was immediately. Bet he doesn't make the money the moron at RS does, either.
It's a wonder to me that RS has survived as long as it has. Must be all those overpriced home theaters and Compaq computers showing BSODs.
That's actually quite a funny thought. Somewhere in all these files I have a transcription I did years back of the dialogs of the first three movies. Hmmm....good weekend project. IIRC there is a limit to how much you can dump into babblefish.
But would that mean that Yoda's speech would actually come out sounding normal?
At the time I thought a good analogy to that was someone smashing their hand with a hammer and suing the tool maker because the hammer was hard and heavy.
I quit going to McDon's completely after that. At least I can still buy a percolator that makes hot coffee...
2nd Editor's note: If, as Mr. McBride claims, the amount of attention SCO has gotten from the computer press is a rational measure of the company's relevance, then -- at for least this week -- the authors of the sobig.f virus are far more relevant than SCO./end quote
So everyone else that has been hit by sobig this last week (my ISP was hit yesterday and was down for a couple hours) will associate the attacks with the OSS community?
I don't think so. If it is indeed the virus, it sounds more to me like they might have had some unpatched office machines or laptops...
Come on now. I don't think that in that case even Darl would be dumb enough to blame the virus attacks on OSS.
It includes everyone in both communities. SCO is trying to set a precedent that will allow for only proprietary, expensive licensed software being used in the future.
It won't work; but they seem too blind to realize that.
On the behalf of all virus writers out there, thank you for letting us know your schedules. We will make sure to set our activation times accordingly.:)
iterally thousands of these an hour. After it moves the infected message, it generates a nice email letting you know an email that was sent to you is currently in quarantine.
Ow. Does it have a "digest" or "daily mail" setting? What, exactly, are you running here? Seems to me that during a virus flood, you'd be dealing with thousands of more or less identical messages...
"A group of Japanese researchers have proposed a Government plan to spend 50 billion yen per year (that's over 400 billion $US) for 30 years on"
Wait a minute.....
The dollar was trading at 119.01 yen on the Tokyo foreign exchange market Friday, down 0.31 yen from late Thursday and also below the 119.10 yen it bought in New York later that day.
Ok.... 1 dollar equals ~120 yen
Which means that 50 billion yen == 50,000,000,000/120 == ~416666667 dollars, or about 416 million dollars.
$400 Billion US dollars? I don't think so....now I may be drunk tonite, but I'm not *that* drunk....at least I hope not;)
I've been following the legalization issue for twenty years....and I suspect the only thing holding the Feds back from changing the law, despite the overwhelming amount of evidence that it's wrong....is...
That they'd look like fools. There are whole *generations* who have grown up (two since I started smoking, one since I quit preaching and went totally underground) who have had this drilled into them - and a lot of those kids have known it was stupid, or haven't cared.
Politicians *hate* to look like fools. Even when (especially when?) they're following established policy.
Then there's all that wonderful income (confiscation, fines, etc) that started in the 80s when the "War on Drugs" (what a C4F) started. Thanks, Nancy Reagan. Bitch.
We're finally getting some of the younger generation(2 of them) into politics, where, in the long run, once all the baby-boomer hype is gone, might do some good.
Sigh. Well put, and don't ever worry about the soapbox (unless you're preaching locally, and then stay clean, bro)
Anyone who considers that the illegality of mary jane doesn't benefit the government is wearing blinders.
Consider: fines (both state and local), employment (DEA and local and ATF, for that matter), confiscation laws (which have gotten extremely draconion in the last twenty years)....I'm sure I could find other things.
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After all these years of SF movies with sound traveling in a vacuum, it'd actually be more dramatic to me to see a spacecraft blowing up in total silence on a viewscreen, and all those lives gone with no *ka-boom* to mark their passing.
Disclaimer: I'm an Honor Harrington fan, and Weber has used that effectively.
realityshunt
Sauron: I know, I'll make this ring that's fueled by antimatter replenished from quantum vacuum fluctuations, and which is a gravitational superconductor which can bend light around the being wearing it! The caculations will be done by a very densely packed quantum supercomputer AI imbedded in the ring...
Picard: Make it so.
Hey, if Scotty can do it...
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So I wonder what Sauron would have thought of thermonuclear weapons....
realityshunt
Heh. Don't have to. The local Radio Shack is the only general electronics store within 60 miles, and I *know* how clueless they are.
Went in there a few weeks ago to look for a switch to put on the ham rig I've been building, asked for a "125 volt 10 amp double-pole single-throw switch" and the poor git there actually wanted to CALL HIS MANAGER AT HOME. I said just point me to your section with small switches, ok? and found it myself in about ten seconds. First time I've been in there (just moved here) and it will probably be the last time.
It's a big store, but he's been there for four years. Sheesh already. Looked at the switch, looked at the price (had to bring it to the register for it to get priced, I HATE that crap, put the prices on the merchandise bin tag already)....and gagged. Went down the street to the local Ace Hardware and found it for 1/4 of what Radioshack had, and the kid working there knew what it was and where it was immediately. Bet he doesn't make the money the moron at RS does, either.
It's a wonder to me that RS has survived as long as it has. Must be all those overpriced home theaters and Compaq computers showing BSODs.
realityshunt
and it gets increasingly more (in)comprehensible (double meaning meant).
Diversity it shows. Of what we know not, shows more, it does.
realityshunt
That's actually quite a funny thought. Somewhere in all these files I have a transcription I did years back of the dialogs of the first three movies. Hmmm....good weekend project. IIRC there is a limit to how much you can dump into babblefish.
But would that mean that Yoda's speech would actually come out sounding normal?
realityshunt
Yeah.
At the time I thought a good analogy to that was someone smashing their hand with a hammer and suing the tool maker because the hammer was hard and heavy.
I quit going to McDon's completely after that. At least I can still buy a percolator that makes hot coffee...
Some people are just plain stupid.
realityshunt
2nd Editor's note: If, as Mr. McBride claims, the amount of attention SCO has gotten from the computer press is a rational measure of the company's relevance, then -- at for least this week -- the authors of the sobig.f virus are far more relevant than SCO. /end quote
realityshunt
from the babblefished Heise:
With the conspiracy theory that Microsoft behind SCO stands,
I can just see Gates saying it:
"Around the [SCO] survivors, a perimeter create!"
realityshunt
It *is* useful. We geeks need our daily dose of hysterical laughter.
realityshunt
From the link:
SCO rattled the technology world early this year by filing a $3 billion lawsuit against IBM
IMHO, that should be:
SCO has alternately infuriated and amused the technology world since filing a $3 billion lawsuit against IBM........
I don't seriously think all that many people have been rattled.
reailtyshunt
So everyone else that has been hit by sobig this last week (my ISP was hit yesterday and was down for a couple hours) will associate the attacks with the OSS community?
:-)
I don't think so. If it is indeed the virus, it sounds more to me like they might have had some unpatched office machines or laptops...
Come on now. I don't think that in that case even Darl would be dumb enough to blame the virus attacks on OSS.
Then again, well....
realityshunt
You gotta say this for Sontag, he certainly did some good spin control on the code issue. He's slicker than Mark Heise is. He's wrong - but slick.
Smart putz.
realityshunt
It includes everyone in both communities. SCO is trying to set a precedent that will allow for only proprietary, expensive licensed software being used in the future.
It won't work; but they seem too blind to realize that.
realityshunt
From the Infoworld article:
"You've got all of these guys and it looks like the whole world is coming against SCO."
Geez, Darl, you think? Couldn't be because you're attacking virtually the whole community?
What a putz.
realityshunt
This joke is getting so old even my ten year old daughter realizes it.
We both got a good laugh, tho. Especially over the creative formatting. Thanks.
Holy moley....
realityshunt
Yeah, a friend emailed me today and told me he was buried up to his fingers.
Good luck, you guys. Really. I'm just glad I quit TS some years back.
Here's to hoping it doesn't get any worse (hah!) I have two days off and I'm hoisting a ice-cold glass....
realityshunt
On the behalf of all virus writers out there, thank you for letting us know your schedules. We will make sure to set our activation times accordingly. :)
realityshunt
iterally thousands of these an hour. After it moves the infected message, it generates a nice email letting you know an email that was sent to you is currently in quarantine.
Ow. Does it have a "digest" or "daily mail" setting? What, exactly, are you running here? Seems to me that during a virus flood, you'd be dealing with thousands of more or less identical messages...
realityshunt
Good lord. The interface problems must be nightmares.
realityshunt
Floating point math would be used in, say, computer radar calculations on incoming missiles. Would that be integer? I don't think so.
The real point is that an application crash should not NOT NOT NOT bring down the whole system. Holy bejesus!!
realityshunt
Damn! This morning I can't download it, and wget is showing
/revolutions_640_dl.zip: Unsupported scheme.
08:02:51 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
WTF?
I think they got slashdotted and wisened up. Oh well, on to read the rest of the comments and find a mirror.
realityshunt
Heh. And...
:)
"If you think my driving...err, flying...sucks, call 1800eatshit"
realityshunt
"A group of Japanese researchers have proposed a Government plan to spend 50 billion yen per year (that's over 400 billion $US) for 30 years on"
;)
Wait a minute.....
The dollar was trading at 119.01 yen on the Tokyo foreign exchange market Friday, down 0.31 yen from late Thursday and also below the 119.10 yen it bought in New York later that day.
Ok.... 1 dollar equals ~120 yen
Which means that 50 billion yen == 50,000,000,000/120 == ~416666667 dollars, or about 416 million dollars.
$400 Billion US dollars? I don't think so....now I may be drunk tonite, but I'm not *that* drunk....at least I hope not
realityshunt
I've been following the legalization issue for twenty years....and I suspect the only thing holding the Feds back from changing the law, despite the overwhelming amount of evidence that it's wrong....is...
That they'd look like fools. There are whole *generations* who have grown up (two since I started smoking, one since I quit preaching and went totally underground) who have had this drilled into them - and a lot of those kids have known it was stupid, or haven't cared.
Politicians *hate* to look like fools. Even when (especially when?) they're following established policy.
Then there's all that wonderful income (confiscation, fines, etc) that started in the 80s when the "War on Drugs" (what a C4F) started. Thanks, Nancy Reagan. Bitch.
We're finally getting some of the younger generation(2 of them) into politics, where, in the long run, once all the baby-boomer hype is gone, might do some good.
Sigh. Well put, and don't ever worry about the soapbox (unless you're preaching locally, and then stay clean, bro)
realityshunt
Anyone who considers that the illegality of mary jane doesn't benefit the government is wearing blinders.
Consider: fines (both state and local), employment (DEA and local and ATF, for that matter), confiscation laws (which have gotten extremely draconion in the last twenty years)....I'm sure I could find other things.
realityshunt