When the first two motherships showed up in orbit:
"Perhaps when the warships of your world attack... Surely you have such vessels?"
"Well, we have a number of... shuttles."
"These shuttles, they are a formidable craft?"
"Oh yeah. Yeah... Bad day."
ARM has those conditional execution bits at the beginning of every instruction. Useful, undoubtedly, but it adds another layer of complexity to teaching the thing.
Side note, one of the coolest things I remember from EECS 2xx was how many instructions weren't implemented on MIPS hardware but they had anyway, mostly via the zero register. NEG? Sure, it might exist in the assembler, but its going to get turned into a SUB instruction from R0 by the time it hits machine code. Load immediate? No, you mean add immediate, with your value plus good ol' R0. There were a few more of these psydo-instructions, and I remember being pretty impressed by the hackishness of them all to cut down on transistors.
My first thought when talking about TV shows about space travel and ancient myths would, of course, bye Stargate, not Star Trek. Granted, the 'Gates (mostly SG-1, but Atlantis does have, well, Atlantis) tend to twist the mythology of the week in some pretty odd ways some time, but they tend to pull from myths pretty offten.
Of course, Thor, Norse god of thunder, really being an alien of the same species that crashed at Roswell is completly true. The government just got the writers to put it into the show for plausable denyability. The same thing is true for the plots of episodes #100 and #200. They were just hanging laterns on the fact.
Its safe to treat seasons nine and ten almost as a spin off from the old SG-1 that gave us seasons one through eight. I mean, at the beginning of season eight, we had two new team members, a new general and a new enemy. (Plus, finally a new doctor to replace Frasier.) The only things left over from season eight were two of the team members, both of which were trying to move on to other things and the sets. Oh, and Walter, but its not Stargate without Walter.
The same reason you can listen to songs on the radio for free but have to pay to get a copy at the record store. The radio/TV plays whatever the people at the station feel like playing right now. YouTube or iTunes (video or audio) plays whatever you want it to play this second. The RIAA feels you should pay for this freedom (making it, I suppose, a paydom).
While there isn't a fix for PvP puzzles, the duty and shop puzzles have scalling dificulty now. As an able pirate, you won't get the boards you need to score increadables. You'll get sailing boards with just one or two target platforms, your gunnery peices will move at a crawl, you'll only have four diferent pieces in blige, and all of the alchemestry bottles will only require one primary color to fill.
Of course, you can still sit arround the docks with a Scimitar and slice and dice greenies till your rank goes up and they learn to stay away. Wait, they never learn.;)
Up. Which, given that the enemy's gate is down, has some interesting ramifications.
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AOL used to send me 3.5" flopies in the mail all the time for me to reformat and use for whatever. Now all I get is read-only coasters. Sigh, can't get good swag anymore.
In other words, he's not even a project manager - he's works with the guys who takes all the complaints from people (from the helldesk/helpdesk), organizes them, and gives them to someone else... but giving him a title of "Lead Project Manager" sounds better. Just how many "Lead Project Managers" are working on the IE7 project, anyway?
So what you do is you take the specifications from the customers and you bring them down to the software engineers?
I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to!! I have people skills!! I am good at dealing with people!!! Can't you understand that?!? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!!!!!!!
Mod me down for agreeing with the DVD point, but I think its a decent idea. Remember, not everyone likes a million devices haning off thier TV, or even has 16 video inputs on thier TV. Adding DVD playback frees up a set of video inputs and saves space by the TV, which can really help in some some of the closets they call dorm rooms.
people leaving their systems on overnight for the sake of 20 seconds in the morning are wasting energy and money
If you have your XP system doing a cold boot in 20 seconds, congradulations. Otherwise, you have to compare the cost of electricty needed to keep the ram alive overnight vs. the electrity burned in the morning boot up's CPU and hard drive thrashing. Sounds like something Ars or Tom's Hardware would do. Quickly, to the bat-google!
I just created some stuff online, revealing nothing about myself besides an IP address
Which could also feasabliy be his. If you live in Joe's neighborhood, and you have the same ISP (and, given the fact that most people's ISP these days is either the local phone company or the local cable company, its not to hard), you will probably both be in the same subnet, so you'll both be drawing from the same DHCP pool.
I can see how this can be difficult. All Google is doing is querrying it's databases for the most frequent search terms that match ServersCheck*. Its kind of hard to classify in what contexts should certain phrases not be suggested. I mean, if I started typing "G4 Cube", it might be perfectly legitimate for google to suggest "G4 Cube Cracks", not because I want to search for craked software for a G4 Cube but because the cases for this machine were known to develop cracks. The word has many meanings, and if you can figure out a way to programatically determine whats ment by a short phrase worth of context, then it has alot more practicall uses then filtering Google.
Keygen, I could see just skipping over for suggestions. Not as many legitimate uses. Of course, that starts down a very slippery slope, especially when you think of things like Google.cn
I assume the GP is referring to the fact that France is a permanent member of the security council and hence has veto rights. Of course, I don't think this is a security council issue, but rather one for the general assembly, so it doesn't really matter.
Usually, the driver licenses are given for free to whoever wants them. They are mainly concerned that you buy the hardware. The software that lets you use your shiny new video card isn't where they make thier money.
Genesis and SNES games on the same machine? Legally?/me prepares for the apocalypse. (Yeah, yeah, I know Sega and Nintendo have been on good terms for a few years now, what with Sonic Advance and Monkey Balls, but still, this is 16-bit stuff we are talking about. They were after each other with a vengence back then.)
On the plus side, I wouldn't mind them porting Knights or whatever that game was called.
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When the first two motherships showed up in orbit:
"Perhaps when the warships of your world attack... Surely you have such vessels?""Well, we have a number of... shuttles."
"These shuttles, they are a formidable craft?"
"Oh yeah. Yeah... Bad day."
If they could get the buttons worked out, seems like the prefect way to play Metroid or Megaman.
ARM has those conditional execution bits at the beginning of every instruction. Useful, undoubtedly, but it adds another layer of complexity to teaching the thing.
Side note, one of the coolest things I remember from EECS 2xx was how many instructions weren't implemented on MIPS hardware but they had anyway, mostly via the zero register. NEG? Sure, it might exist in the assembler, but its going to get turned into a SUB instruction from R0 by the time it hits machine code. Load immediate? No, you mean add immediate, with your value plus good ol' R0. There were a few more of these psydo-instructions, and I remember being pretty impressed by the hackishness of them all to cut down on transistors.
Which, of course, emphasizes what the data moves through to get across the internets to get to your computer.
You'd need metal bricks (or at least lego tapshoes) to get that distinctive sound out of them, though. (Plus, of course, the servo noise.)
My first thought when talking about TV shows about space travel and ancient myths would, of course, bye Stargate, not Star Trek. Granted, the 'Gates (mostly SG-1, but Atlantis does have, well, Atlantis) tend to twist the mythology of the week in some pretty odd ways some time, but they tend to pull from myths pretty offten.
Of course, Thor, Norse god of thunder, really being an alien of the same species that crashed at Roswell is completly true. The government just got the writers to put it into the show for plausable denyability. The same thing is true for the plots of episodes #100 and #200. They were just hanging laterns on the fact.
All other shark jumps pale in comparison to 200. That was a set of trampolines set up around a feeding frenzy.
Its safe to treat seasons nine and ten almost as a spin off from the old SG-1 that gave us seasons one through eight. I mean, at the beginning of season eight, we had two new team members, a new general and a new enemy. (Plus, finally a new doctor to replace Frasier.) The only things left over from season eight were two of the team members, both of which were trying to move on to other things and the sets. Oh, and Walter, but its not Stargate without Walter.
The same reason you can listen to songs on the radio for free but have to pay to get a copy at the record store. The radio/TV plays whatever the people at the station feel like playing right now. YouTube or iTunes (video or audio) plays whatever you want it to play this second. The RIAA feels you should pay for this freedom (making it, I suppose, a paydom).
While there isn't a fix for PvP puzzles, the duty and shop puzzles have scalling dificulty now. As an able pirate, you won't get the boards you need to score increadables. You'll get sailing boards with just one or two target platforms, your gunnery peices will move at a crawl, you'll only have four diferent pieces in blige, and all of the alchemestry bottles will only require one primary color to fill.
Of course, you can still sit arround the docks with a Scimitar and slice and dice greenies till your rank goes up and they learn to stay away. Wait, they never learn. ;)
AOL used to send me 3.5" flopies in the mail all the time for me to reformat and use for whatever. Now all I get is read-only coasters. Sigh, can't get good swag anymore.
So what you do is you take the specifications from the customers and you bring them down to the software engineers?
I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to!! I have people skills!! I am good at dealing with people!!! Can't you understand that?!? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!!!!!!!
Mod me down for agreeing with the DVD point, but I think its a decent idea. Remember, not everyone likes a million devices haning off thier TV, or even has 16 video inputs on thier TV. Adding DVD playback frees up a set of video inputs and saves space by the TV, which can really help in some some of the closets they call dorm rooms.
Of course it is? Why else would lunar whales be in such demand that they become extinct by the year 3000?
We're whalers on the moon,
We carry a harpoon.
But there ain't no whales
So we tell tall tales
And sing our whaling tune.
Well, they were refuling off the temporal rift left over from a previous (by ~9 episodes or ~125 years) visit.
Back on our rather mundane version of Earth, the show is filmed in Cardif, as is Torchwood, the upcoming spinoff, which also takes place there.
people leaving their systems on overnight for the sake of 20 seconds in the morning are wasting energy and money
If you have your XP system doing a cold boot in 20 seconds, congradulations. Otherwise, you have to compare the cost of electricty needed to keep the ram alive overnight vs. the electrity burned in the morning boot up's CPU and hard drive thrashing. Sounds like something Ars or Tom's Hardware would do. Quickly, to the bat-google!
Stargate outtake with a rant on Jack's lack of jurry rigging skills. "You used to be MacGyver, now you MacNothing, MacUseless!"
I just created some stuff online, revealing nothing about myself besides an IP address
Which could also feasabliy be his. If you live in Joe's neighborhood, and you have the same ISP (and, given the fact that most people's ISP these days is either the local phone company or the local cable company, its not to hard), you will probably both be in the same subnet, so you'll both be drawing from the same DHCP pool.
I can see how this can be difficult. All Google is doing is querrying it's databases for the most frequent search terms that match ServersCheck*. Its kind of hard to classify in what contexts should certain phrases not be suggested. I mean, if I started typing "G4 Cube", it might be perfectly legitimate for google to suggest "G4 Cube Cracks", not because I want to search for craked software for a G4 Cube but because the cases for this machine were known to develop cracks. The word has many meanings, and if you can figure out a way to programatically determine whats ment by a short phrase worth of context, then it has alot more practicall uses then filtering Google.
Keygen, I could see just skipping over for suggestions. Not as many legitimate uses. Of course, that starts down a very slippery slope, especially when you think of things like Google.cn
I assume the GP is referring to the fact that France is a permanent member of the security council and hence has veto rights. Of course, I don't think this is a security council issue, but rather one for the general assembly, so it doesn't really matter.
/me adds A Laptop Like You to the list. Though a love song to a PowerBook might not fly in all circles.
Usually, the driver licenses are given for free to whoever wants them. They are mainly concerned that you buy the hardware. The software that lets you use your shiny new video card isn't where they make thier money.
Grandparent was saying Sega would press new discs from the master copies in the vault.
Genesis and SNES games on the same machine? Legally? /me prepares for the apocalypse. (Yeah, yeah, I know Sega and Nintendo have been on good terms for a few years now, what with Sonic Advance and Monkey Balls, but still, this is 16-bit stuff we are talking about. They were after each other with a vengence back then.)
On the plus side, I wouldn't mind them porting Knights or whatever that game was called.