Every winter during most of the 1990s, whenever it snowed, I'd read many, many numbers of announcements on my radio show from the phone company and various local officials requesting people to stay off the damn phones except for essential/emergency calls because everybody was ringing everybody else to ask if they'd heard about the schools or could they borrow some mittens or what have you and thereby paralysing the phone network across the whole county.
You're the one who is projecting and pretending to be other people, not me.
I *know* who I am, and I do not keep my entire self-image beholden to a single ridiculous "accomplishment" for decades on end. And, no, I am not a sockpuppet for Tom/Barbara Hudson, who joined a couple of years *after* I did, and whom you harassed to the point that s/he left the site rather than put up with you.
I actually use my Slashdot account, which, unlike yours, does not automatically post at -1 (which is why you quit using it). I've only the one account. I rarely if ever post AC. (Since I've some years' worth of excellent karma to draw on, I've no need to do so.)
Also, I don't waste my time and others' posting volumes of drivel on a subject about which no-one else gives a shit.
Are you ready to grow up now? Or at least get back on your meds?
Or do I need to ring your up mum and have another little talk with her about you?
I don't have a copy handy--wonder if it's even still in print--but I seem to recall it had something to do with being able to re-create the transportee's quantum states at the target, which caused the transportee simply to start existing there since his quantum states (and thus, he) no longer existed at the point of origin. Blish also said something to the effect that the explanation of direct matter-energy conversion "favoured by the media" was obviously infeasible, given the energies that would be involved.
(I actually used to know a fair bit about quantum mechanics, but have forgotten most of the necessary math. I know I probably can't do tensors any more to save my life. In any case, Blish's explanation seemed a lot more plausible to me at the time than any of the alternatives.)
I'm really surprised Tin Man wasn't listed. For me it's always stuck in my mind as the worst. It was an interesting idea completely marred by that insufferable, whiny ass Tam Elbrun.
James Blish actually had a much better explanation for how transporters are 'really' supposed to work in Spock Must Die! but for reasons obvious to anyone who's ever read it, that book can never be accepted as canon. Which is a pity.
English has many idioms that refer to our common culturall heritage, but Chinese has far more. You can get by in English without studying idioms specifically. In Chinese, there is no way. You have to learn them or you will fail to comprehend almost every conversation.
Bingo. For an example going in the other direction, I had to explain "cross the Rubicon" to my wife just yesterday, in fact. (Her English is good, but it's mostly everyday/around-the-house English with a big dollop of technical stuff relating to her job as a mechanical engineer--and she's had few opportunities to read much literature. I'm trying to get her started on The Hobbit and then maybe after that something from Jonathan Swift or Mark Twain.)
In any event, I always "got" the premise of that episode, but I don't believe that I really *appreciated* Darmok until I started learning chengyu. And as soon as I started learning some of them, it wasn't long before I thought of it.
(And, since you asked--No, *this* wife sounds *nothing* like Kate Mulgrew, thank $_DEITY_OR_DEITIES_.)
One of my first wife's few redeeming qualities is that she could mimic Kate Mulgrew's/Janeway's voice so well that it was squarely in that nebulous region somewhere between side-splittingly funny and downright scary.
BTW, I liked Chakotay and the Doctor. The rest of the STV characters were pretty flat. It's too bad, really, as Mulgrew is actually a fairly good actress.
Where I work, a couple hundred developers and I get paid to work on nothing but GPL software. And that's just our project (which I'll not name, but believe me, it's pretty much everywhere). There's at least that many more getting paid for working on other FOSS projects including the Linux kernel. And it is not a company that people normally associate with FOSS--quite the opposite, in fact.
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She does seem to be rather hung up on the retribution angle of it, yeah.
WARNING: 1972 moment ahead.
Check me on this: wouldn't a POTS network be more resilient against EMP attacks?
Every winter during most of the 1990s, whenever it snowed, I'd read many, many numbers of announcements on my radio show from the phone company and various local officials requesting people to stay off the damn phones except for essential/emergency calls because everybody was ringing everybody else to ask if they'd heard about the schools or could they borrow some mittens or what have you and thereby paralysing the phone network across the whole county.
I too can just as easily quote you out of context and "prove" any humourless, asinine thing I want.
And--any kidding aside, Andy--I know a hell of a lot more about MPS than you might think, having spent nearly 15 years living with someone who has it.
Also, *I* know how to use punctuation and markup correctly. :P
I think it's heaps simpler not to fuck with the clocks, and to let people make their own decisions about bedtimes.
I am now utterly certain that you do not know my first wife.
Mine has one*, and that certainly doesn't seem to slow it down.
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*Yes, I actually just set up a new machine that has a 2.5" Samsung 840 EVO-0 SSD, and it rocks. OFF to kdm login screen in about 2 seconds.
I believe that I've not enjoyed a new piece of tech so thoroughly since microwave ovens first came out.
You're the one who is projecting and pretending to be other people, not me.
I *know* who I am, and I do not keep my entire self-image beholden to a single ridiculous "accomplishment" for decades on end. And, no, I am not a sockpuppet for Tom/Barbara Hudson, who joined a couple of years *after* I did, and whom you harassed to the point that s/he left the site rather than put up with you.
I actually use my Slashdot account, which, unlike yours, does not automatically post at -1 (which is why you quit using it). I've only the one account. I rarely if ever post AC. (Since I've some years' worth of excellent karma to draw on, I've no need to do so.)
Also, I don't waste my time and others' posting volumes of drivel on a subject about which no-one else gives a shit.
Are you ready to grow up now? Or at least get back on your meds?
Or do I need to ring your up mum and have another little talk with her about you?
You keep right on refuting arguments I didn't make. I'll get the popcorn.
I don't have a copy handy--wonder if it's even still in print--but I seem to recall it had something to do with being able to re-create the transportee's quantum states at the target, which caused the transportee simply to start existing there since his quantum states (and thus, he) no longer existed at the point of origin. Blish also said something to the effect that the explanation of direct matter-energy conversion "favoured by the media" was obviously infeasible, given the energies that would be involved.
(I actually used to know a fair bit about quantum mechanics, but have forgotten most of the necessary math. I know I probably can't do tensors any more to save my life. In any case, Blish's explanation seemed a lot more plausible to me at the time than any of the alternatives.)
if( $place->visited->means == 'ship' )
$rats->present = TRUE;
It can happen, but emergencies very rarely saturate the POTS network. Nearly every major incident has brought cell service to it's knees.
Well, duh, that's because people now have mobile phones that they use in the event of an emergency.
What do you think happened back in the good old days when POTS was all they had and there was some sort of crisis?
You're telling me you can't remember exactly that occurring 20 years ago? Because I sure can.
Have you heard? It's not 1965 any more; in 21st-Century China, Maoism is reactionary.
Looks like a pretty straightforward case of N V O P, but maybe that's just me.
I'm really surprised Tin Man wasn't listed. For me it's always stuck in my mind as the worst. It was an interesting idea completely marred by that insufferable, whiny ass Tam Elbrun.
Which in my view made it all the more believable.
(And thank you for mentioning that episode.)
I'm glad that it makes you feel special, but if I wanted to read your posts in a monospace fault, I would edit my user.css accordingly.
James Blish actually had a much better explanation for how transporters are 'really' supposed to work in Spock Must Die! but for reasons obvious to anyone who's ever read it, that book can never be accepted as canon. Which is a pity.
And yet... Some of us managed to watch the episode and derive something positive from the experience, in spite of its imperfections.
Friends don't let friends abuse <tt> tags.
English has many idioms that refer to our common culturall heritage, but Chinese has far more. You can get by in English without studying idioms specifically. In Chinese, there is no way. You have to learn them or you will fail to comprehend almost every conversation.
Bingo. For an example going in the other direction, I had to explain "cross the Rubicon" to my wife just yesterday, in fact. (Her English is good, but it's mostly everyday/around-the-house English with a big dollop of technical stuff relating to her job as a mechanical engineer--and she's had few opportunities to read much literature. I'm trying to get her started on The Hobbit and then maybe after that something from Jonathan Swift or Mark Twain.)
In any event, I always "got" the premise of that episode, but I don't believe that I really *appreciated* Darmok until I started learning chengyu. And as soon as I started learning some of them, it wasn't long before I thought of it.
(And, since you asked--No, *this* wife sounds *nothing* like Kate Mulgrew, thank $_DEITY_OR_DEITIES_.)
I always liked Ro. She had a spine.
(Yeah yeah yeah... And she was kind of hot, too.)
One of my first wife's few redeeming qualities is that she could mimic Kate Mulgrew's/Janeway's voice so well that it was squarely in that nebulous region somewhere between side-splittingly funny and downright scary.
BTW, I liked Chakotay and the Doctor. The rest of the STV characters were pretty flat. It's too bad, really, as Mulgrew is actually a fairly good actress.
If you must know, we're actually quite content just to sit here, watch you talk about yourself in the 3rd person, and continue munching our popcorn.
Where I work, a couple hundred developers and I get paid to work on nothing but GPL software. And that's just our project (which I'll not name, but believe me, it's pretty much everywhere). There's at least that many more getting paid for working on other FOSS projects including the Linux kernel. And it is not a company that people normally associate with FOSS--quite the opposite, in fact.