I have always wanted to work for NASA and the space sector. This gives me renewed hope to start looking into it again! I just gotta keep my conversions between standard US measurements and the evil Metric system right!
Clearly the article points to something akin to the Screamers from the 1995 scifi movie. wiki link
Five years into the war, Alliance scientists created a weapon called the Autonomous Mobile Sword, or "screamer". The artificially intelligent screamers were subterranean, self-replicating, crawlers which target and locate a life-form by tracking its pulse. The screamers are equipped with a spinning saw blade designed to kill by "leaping" from the ground and dismembering the target.
Spooky steps to a reality for "Autonomous Mobile Sword".
I hope they make it into some sort of reality tv show. Following the first 90 days of her employment. Let's see if she is up to it or was just blowing smoke!
If we are going to have artificial brains in ten years then my project Samus needs to be speed up. I was planning on a fifteen year release, but I can cut some corners.
All I need now is a hot chick willing to try on my power suit, but mother will not allow me to bring girls into the basement where my laboratory is.
If you are looking for some basic things the 100 pushups, 200 squats, and 200 situps work pretty well and do not require much.
Even a bike trainer to use while watching tv de-stressing at home would be great.
Outside of that you will need to fight for some of your life back. Get time from your boss, make time! Most companies have small gyms at work see if you can get one floated past committee.
Oh the joys of making a mixtape for the special lady friend. If you judge wrong you got dumped via a written note passed through friends and made its way onto your 3rd period desk, but if you judged right then you were riding high on that horse tonight... maybe necking on the swings after school.
I don't consider myself a hacker at all, but I am a software developer and live in a potential base area. It might be time to consider a career change for the military.
On a side note, I wonder if you get uber kewl moniker like pilots... I dibs zer0c00l.
I heard the sad news yesterday, and took some time out of work reminiscing with folks about their time spent with the game (well the ones not afraid of being pegged nerds). I was going to stop by my parents place and see if I could dig up the old red sixteen page d&d book my cousin and I played back in the day. Of course if I was to dig for that then I would have to go bring forth the 2nd edition books my friend bequeathed to me and think of fond memories of THACo, lizard men, and EPs. I am certain I have faded and aged character sheets stuck in those books that should see the light of day... Sadly those books are underneath my 3rd Ed books where I was able to start getting a group together in college. That of course failed, and I just didn't have the time to game like I used to. Thankfully my Hackmaster stint was a few years back with a random group of folks brought back the gushing joy of tables, crits, and magic missiles.
I thoroughly enjoyed the write up, and forwarded it on to a few friends and family members. I have a difficult time trying to get across why I love what I do, and how I willingly add the extra time into a project to make sure it comes out right. I am talking about: teachers, lawyers, doctors, PR folk, accountants, service industry friends, and so forth. The only ones that appreciate the labor of love would be the architects.
Engineering definition bickering aside this was a well thought out post. Good job!
This reminds me of that anecdote from years back about a question asked by a clueless user on how he can "download all of the Internet" at once and take it with him...
Seriously, are we supposed to believe, that "virtually all" of AT&T Internet traffic passes through one facility in San Francisco? It is likely, they have the same rooms in all major nodes, though...
Sir, I disagree. If it could happen in 1999 it can happen now. I also vaguely remember reading about another company, more recent, on engadget that was going to do the same thing but with compression and dual layered dvds.
I just gave my dual 21" dell lcds a mountain dew bath after reading "damned-time-traveling-pirates dept".
I salute you editors - you have given me my happy thought. Now quickly, fly! Second star to the right and straight on until morning!
Yup, i am in the process of trying to branch out, but I have to find something a few clicks away from what I am currently doing, else I get the lovely response "it's not germane to what you are paid to do".
Ok... follow me here. First off a videogame was involved. Second, a hammer was the deciding vote on terrorist or not terrorist. The hammer is closly linked to what videogame? That's right - "It's me, MAAARIO!". Who is nintendo's biggest rival right now, M$ with their blasted xboxes, corporate shennanigans, and viral campaigns.
What better way of instilling fear in the parent population than linking videogames and hammers with terrorism. Parents will shy away from the overly cheerful plumber and run to the open arms of Bill Gates...
Aaaaaarg! What's next to be declared terroristic? Eating mushrooms, climbing through pipes, and collecting coins in my basement?
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I have always wanted to work for NASA and the space sector. This gives me renewed hope to start looking into it again! I just gotta keep my conversions between standard US measurements and the evil Metric system right!
Five years into the war, Alliance scientists created a weapon called the Autonomous Mobile Sword, or "screamer". The artificially intelligent screamers were subterranean, self-replicating, crawlers which target and locate a life-form by tracking its pulse. The screamers are equipped with a spinning saw blade designed to kill by "leaping" from the ground and dismembering the target.
Spooky steps to a reality for "Autonomous Mobile Sword".
I hope they make it into some sort of reality tv show. Following the first 90 days of her employment. Let's see if she is up to it or was just blowing smoke!
After poking around it turns out when ADN has the cookies blocked they require registration.
If we are going to have artificial brains in ten years then my project Samus needs to be speed up. I was planning on a fifteen year release, but I can cut some corners.
All I need now is a hot chick willing to try on my power suit, but mother will not allow me to bring girls into the basement where my laboratory is.
Seriously?
"Welcome! To access adn.com content and features for free, you must be a registered user."
First, a wag of the finger to the OP for linking to something I have to register a plethora of information just to read "for free".
Second, a wag of the finger for ADN for requiring so *much* of my information.
Here's a nice link: blob news story on juneauempire
If you are looking for some basic things the 100 pushups, 200 squats, and 200 situps work pretty well and do not require much. Even a bike trainer to use while watching tv de-stressing at home would be great. Outside of that you will need to fight for some of your life back. Get time from your boss, make time! Most companies have small gyms at work see if you can get one floated past committee.
... to it's twitter feed. Hahaha.. I wonder if I can mod this to a bug zapper that powers itself?
Oh the joys of making a mixtape for the special lady friend. If you judge wrong you got dumped via a written note passed through friends and made its way onto your 3rd period desk, but if you judged right then you were riding high on that horse tonight... maybe necking on the swings after school.
As a .ORG domain owner (renter?) I second this question. Is there anything I need to be worried about or need to address?
"I have not talked much about the content of the book because I did not want to provide you with a plain summary."
- because telling me what the book was about would be.. like totally wrong or something.
captcha: docile .. similar to the sheep buying into web 2.0
One person get's nailed.. sends the money in.. gets back the decrypter.. then drop that decrypter on a torrent for the world. Easy cheesy..
I don't consider myself a hacker at all, but I am a software developer and live in a potential base area. It might be time to consider a career change for the military.
On a side note, I wonder if you get uber kewl moniker like pilots... I dibs zer0c00l.
I heard the sad news yesterday, and took some time out of work reminiscing with folks about their time spent with the game (well the ones not afraid of being pegged nerds). I was going to stop by my parents place and see if I could dig up the old red sixteen page d&d book my cousin and I played back in the day. Of course if I was to dig for that then I would have to go bring forth the 2nd edition books my friend bequeathed to me and think of fond memories of THACo, lizard men, and EPs. I am certain I have faded and aged character sheets stuck in those books that should see the light of day... Sadly those books are underneath my 3rd Ed books where I was able to start getting a group together in college. That of course failed, and I just didn't have the time to game like I used to. Thankfully my Hackmaster stint was a few years back with a random group of folks brought back the gushing joy of tables, crits, and magic missiles.
So long Gary and thanks for all the fun!
I thoroughly enjoyed the write up, and forwarded it on to a few friends and family members. I have a difficult time trying to get across why I love what I do, and how I willingly add the extra time into a project to make sure it comes out right. I am talking about: teachers, lawyers, doctors, PR folk, accountants, service industry friends, and so forth. The only ones that appreciate the labor of love would be the architects.
Engineering definition bickering aside this was a well thought out post. Good job!
Sir, I disagree. If it could happen in 1999 it can happen now. I also vaguely remember reading about another company, more recent, on engadget that was going to do the same thing but with compression and dual layered dvds.
> > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> >
> > SYDNEY, Apr 1 1999 -- Viper Communications (http://www.viper.net.au)
> > today announced a revolution in Internet technology, known as
> > "Internet On CD." The product consists of the entire contents of the
> > Internet, packaged into a 6-CD collection. It includes such popular
> > sites as Microsoft, Yahoo and Playboy.
> >
> > "We believe that this product will be very well-received in the
> > marketplace," said Lotat Shubtill, marketing director and the driving
> > force behind product development. "With Internet links rapidly
> > achieving saturation, users will appreciate being able to browse the
> > entire Internet from their CD-ROM drive."
http://archive.humbug.org.au/aussie-isp/1999-04/msg00000.html
it's a counting thing... relative to ages.. here check this out.
http://home1.gte.net/bridavis/timeline.htm
Yeah, just in time for a few more people to watch it get flooded for a new state lake.
BOOOOOOOOOOO (tr)ASHLAND!!!!
I just gave my dual 21" dell lcds a mountain dew bath after reading "damned-time-traveling-pirates dept". I salute you editors - you have given me my happy thought. Now quickly, fly! Second star to the right and straight on until morning!
the only one I know of is the HDC in omaha... (heartland developers conference)
I found my new horse! I am pushing this one hard core...
Heh.. how much more so would it be if I told you I wrote 'purchasing' software? *gag*
Yup, i am in the process of trying to branch out, but I have to find something a few clicks away from what I am currently doing, else I get the lovely response "it's not germane to what you are paid to do".
I thought about this, but alas we are a windows shop only. Most mac commentary or suggestions are quashed with our 'mac-faq-whack'n-stick'. *shrug*
Ok... follow me here. First off a videogame was involved. Second, a hammer was the deciding vote on terrorist or not terrorist. The hammer is closly linked to what videogame? That's right - "It's me, MAAARIO!". Who is nintendo's biggest rival right now, M$ with their blasted xboxes, corporate shennanigans, and viral campaigns.
What better way of instilling fear in the parent population than linking videogames and hammers with terrorism. Parents will shy away from the overly cheerful plumber and run to the open arms of Bill Gates...
Aaaaaarg! What's next to be declared terroristic? Eating mushrooms, climbing through pipes, and collecting coins in my basement?