Doesn't that look an awful lot like the Major Matt Mason suits from the 70's? Maybe they had space flight and the Moon vehicles right way back then. Can't wait to see the crawler.
God!!! I had the whole set when I was a kid. I had my ray pistol and would set up a complete moon base in the backyard. Mom almost killed me when I dug up a corner of the yard so I could create a moon-scape. But, this is the same mom that made me an Apollo control panel out of cardboard so I could lay on the bottom bunk of my bed and play with the panel above my head like I was going to the moon.
Anyway, I lost the Major and couldn't find him, I'm think it was in 1970. Because the next summer, '71, was the first summer I could use the power mower. I was rounding the corner by the back fence and pieces of Major Matt Mason went flying out from under the mower. America had lost a hero, and Oxnard, CA contains the grave of one rubber bendy spaceman doll. RIP Major Matt Mason, the moon is your monument./P
Don't drink the water. The local wine or beer is probably much better.
Being half plastered always helped me going through other companies clean room prep process. Especially Fujistu and stripping buck naked and letting some tech dress me in a damp-skin-sticking bunny suit.
An Italian fab worker once told me that if you can't function on half a bottle of wine, its time to floor it and get home as soon as possible.
The problem with your answer is that the bookstore only has "popular" titles......Amazon had many more, but so many you are swamped...at a book club he would get lots of "if you liked that then try this..." recommendations from people who actually read the books...
The real problem is finding quality authors and stories. Back in the early 70's, I was growing tired of cookie cutter Edgar Rice Burroughs stories; "modern man put in a savage environment, finds pretty girl, and becomes king of all he surveys" was just too templated for me whether it was Tarzan or John Carter. I was introduced to Heinlein through "Door into Summer" and followed that with "Stranger in a Strange Land", heavy reading for a 12 year old but Heinlein forever changed my political, social, and religious views. (No, I was more into the "Jubal Harshaw" school of thought.) That was followed by discovering Tolkien in 1974 through a friend, and then joining the SF book club (back then we consided the term "Sci Fi" to be a perjorative) and quickly found Stephen Donaldson. From there, I found and fell in love with Zelazny. In between was a host of others, Asimov and Clark. By the time "Blade Runner" came out, I was ready to try PKD. Moving onto Niven I discovered more.
I took a break from SF and tried Higgens, Clancy, Griffen, Pope, and others. Lately, I've tried to pick up more recent SF only to be sadly disappointed in the quality. None of the current authors seem to rise to even half the level of authors I've mentioned.
When you go to BN or Borders, the SF aisle seems to be burdened with Star Trek, Star Wars, and other TV series related books. The shelves are stocked with Tolkien knock offs, and I was never able to get past Bowser not being in the Sword of Shanana series. Some of the "what if" titles sound good but after awhile, even that gets tiring when they really stretch to provide alternate pasts and futures.
Younger than America, that's actually really impressive.
So if you run that through the Gore-gonator, it becomes: "The birth of America caused a solar system to explode. We are killing the Universe. Everyone must stop driving SUV's (except me)."
Particularly one that's practically indistinguishable from Java
Knock knock.
Who's there?
...long pause...
Java.
The only reason, ONLY reason, to use Java is because you are psychotic and have a deep, long standing hate for your users and wish to inflict some of the most insidious pain and torment upon them.
Actually, you'll find that it is printed more by those that the American left-wing have sympathies with. Yes, a few nuts in Montana and northern Idaho publish them, but folks like Chavez, Castro, Ah-mom-I'm-a-whack-job, have been responsible for state sponsored reprinting of the Protocols.
The problem is that many major legacy applications depend on undocumented behavior because they make sloppy use of the Windows API (e.g. by assuming that a particular function will not segfault when passed a bad argument). For those to keep working, newer revisions of the API implementation must have the same undocumented behavior, which causes a maintenance nightmare.
So, you problem is that programmers make use of undocumented API calls. While "undocumented" does not always equal "unsupported", using them is just plain stupid. Whether it is Windows, Linux, MS-DOS, DR-DOS, OSux using the system in an undocumented/unsupported way is well, U N S U P P O R T E D. Don't blame the OS or the those that coded it, blame those that wrote against the API in an unsupported way.
RTFA turns out to be a effort in slogging through another of the author's attempts to explain why anyone on Windows is just benighted. He blames HIS short comings on the OS.
Saw these at a recent military based symposium in Redmond. It is an incredible idea. Picture a scenario where you need a self powered IT infrastructure immediately. Bring these in and you have everything a disaster area/forward operating base/remote research facility would need for connectivity and information.
Governments, universities, militaries, NGO's could all use them.
Can be shipped by air, over the road, rail road, and sea.
You want your Marines/rescuers/construction team on-site now with a full compliment of IT. POOF. You got it.
Last I heard, they were Americanizing "Life on Mars" with Colm Meany as Gene Hunt. It's supposed to be a script for script transplant with American locations and slang. Scheduled for a Fall replacement slot from what I heard.
Has there ever been another TV show (in any genre) that ended unexpectedly with the villain getting all six main "goodies", plus the eponymous hero, shot dead in the last 30 seconds of the last show? That ending was absolutely extraordinary.
And, because it wasn't that well known in the U.S., more than a few number of geeks thought they were being terribly original by choosing "ORAC" as part of their screen/hacker/account names.
Oh, have to mention something from when I was in Japan in the mid-70's that ties in with B7.
Most outdoor battles done on B7 and Japanese hero shows, Kamen Rider, Rainbow Man, Diamond Eye, etc, were filmed in quarries. Need a place where you can set off explosions, a quarry is a great place. Some were jarring, our heros are in a park or on a beach, then suddenly bad guys show up and we're in a quarry.
Of course, you knew when our heroes were walking through piles of rock the shooting was going to start soon.
I took a tour of Toho Studios in '76 and saw the very short suit for Godzilla, one of the Ultraman suits, and saw the filming of a samurai movie. The production value of a lot of the Toho TV stuff was like the BBC's.
I was stationed in the UK with the USAF and caught the last 2 seasons of B7. I loved it. Sure, the production value wasn't great, but I loved the dark characters, especially Darrow's Avon. These weren't the clean white knights of some quest, these were the gritty, angst riddent, heavily flawed humans. There were no clearly the white knight hero, but there was clearly one single evil, Servilan. God, for the longest time, anyone mentioned "clip haired bitch" I would picture her.
When the show ended with the dreamscape shoot out, I was among the thousands that sent in a plea to continue the show. Even offering a way out of the apparent slaughter of all the crew.
Now, I appreciate the killing off of major characters for the sake of the story. Love "MI-5" ("Spooks"), "Life on Mars" (oh, isn't there a 80's follow on to "Life on Mars"?), and "Torchwood". But, can't stand the new "Robin Hood" with ninjas, an arab female version of Wesley Crusher, and way too much modern crud.
I don't see how this is an argument. If a convicted serial murder known for his knife skills was to ask you to throw him a knife so he could slice an apple, wouldn't you _at least_ give it more careful thought?
You're asking if I'd hand OJ a knife? Am I dating his ex?
That, or they used MS Excel to do the calculations;)
Well, hell, it wouldn't be/. if someone didn't find a way to get an anti-MS comment in on every story. Congrats. But you don't get extra points until you can make it anti-Bush and anti-Christian and then mention Cuba and the holy prophet RMS, holiness is his name, at the same time. Oh, and you also need to remember to correct someone's grammar, and call dupe on Taco, while exhorting others to RTFA and then taking the poster to task for not linking to the printable version or find a version that is not copyrighted.
Did I forget something?
Oh, yeah, you need to mention how your grandmother can install and configure Ubuntu in 3 mouse clicks.
So the US went to war to help China? Not because uh, you know, the little incident at Pearl Harbor which you even linked to?
Hey, Sparky, well before Pearl Harbor we were helping the Chinese. Look up Claire Chennault and you'll find that the U.S. was deeply involved prior to PH.
Hope history doesn't get in the way of the point you were trying to make.
I volunteer at the Seattle incarnation of 826. Stop by the Space Travel Supply! We stock both Certainty and Uncertainty, conveniently stored in jars (though the latter is heavier-- it does weigh on you), anti-gravity tools, 0.9% purity Argon, rocket fuel, and more. The packaging is terribly clever.
There will be a Plutonian protest and rally on the 15th where students will make arguments for the reinstatement of its planethood. If you're in our gravitational field, visit! The kids' creativity will impress.
Though 826 is a writing center primarily, we see everything at drop-in tutoring. Everything. Another tutor and I deal primarily with mathematics... we do our best with everything else.
Send your children over, Seattle. We'll make sure they do their homework (beyond the magnitude limit).
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God!!! I had the whole set when I was a kid. I had my ray pistol and would set up a complete moon base in the backyard. Mom almost killed me when I dug up a corner of the yard so I could create a moon-scape. But, this is the same mom that made me an Apollo control panel out of cardboard so I could lay on the bottom bunk of my bed and play with the panel above my head like I was going to the moon.
Anyway, I lost the Major and couldn't find him, I'm think it was in 1970. Because the next summer, '71, was the first summer I could use the power mower. I was rounding the corner by the back fence and pieces of Major Matt Mason went flying out from under the mower. America had lost a hero, and Oxnard, CA contains the grave of one rubber bendy spaceman doll. RIP Major Matt Mason, the moon is your monument./P
Being half plastered always helped me going through other companies clean room prep process. Especially Fujistu and stripping buck naked and letting some tech dress me in a damp-skin-sticking bunny suit.
An Italian fab worker once told me that if you can't function on half a bottle of wine, its time to floor it and get home as soon as possible.
Did you try to read even the summary? Don't worry about RTFA, try reading the summary before trying to get that first post.
Awww, come on, that was funny.
Did someone give mod points to a Google worker?
A buddy of mine once said it would've been cool to put a little mini-web server on the Spirit rover.
Latency aside, can you imagine what would have happened if they had done so and someone posted the URL to /.?
The real problem is finding quality authors and stories. Back in the early 70's, I was growing tired of cookie cutter Edgar Rice Burroughs stories; "modern man put in a savage environment, finds pretty girl, and becomes king of all he surveys" was just too templated for me whether it was Tarzan or John Carter. I was introduced to Heinlein through "Door into Summer" and followed that with "Stranger in a Strange Land", heavy reading for a 12 year old but Heinlein forever changed my political, social, and religious views. (No, I was more into the "Jubal Harshaw" school of thought.) That was followed by discovering Tolkien in 1974 through a friend, and then joining the SF book club (back then we consided the term "Sci Fi" to be a perjorative) and quickly found Stephen Donaldson. From there, I found and fell in love with Zelazny. In between was a host of others, Asimov and Clark. By the time "Blade Runner" came out, I was ready to try PKD. Moving onto Niven I discovered more.
I took a break from SF and tried Higgens, Clancy, Griffen, Pope, and others. Lately, I've tried to pick up more recent SF only to be sadly disappointed in the quality. None of the current authors seem to rise to even half the level of authors I've mentioned.
When you go to BN or Borders, the SF aisle seems to be burdened with Star Trek, Star Wars, and other TV series related books. The shelves are stocked with Tolkien knock offs, and I was never able to get past Bowser not being in the Sword of Shanana series. Some of the "what if" titles sound good but after awhile, even that gets tiring when they really stretch to provide alternate pasts and futures.
Where are and who are the great visionaries?
So if you run that through the Gore-gonator, it becomes: "The birth of America caused a solar system to explode. We are killing the Universe. Everyone must stop driving SUV's (except me)."
Knock knock.
Who's there?
...long pause...
Java.
The only reason, ONLY reason, to use Java is because you are psychotic and have a deep, long standing hate for your users and wish to inflict some of the most insidious pain and torment upon them.
Actually, you'll find that it is printed more by those that the American left-wing have sympathies with. Yes, a few nuts in Montana and northern Idaho publish them, but folks like Chavez, Castro, Ah-mom-I'm-a-whack-job, have been responsible for state sponsored reprinting of the Protocols.
So, you problem is that programmers make use of undocumented API calls. While "undocumented" does not always equal "unsupported", using them is just plain stupid. Whether it is Windows, Linux, MS-DOS, DR-DOS, OSux using the system in an undocumented/unsupported way is well, U N S U P P O R T E D. Don't blame the OS or the those that coded it, blame those that wrote against the API in an unsupported way.
RTFA turns out to be a effort in slogging through another of the author's attempts to explain why anyone on Windows is just benighted. He blames HIS short comings on the OS.
Saw these at a recent military based symposium in Redmond. It is an incredible idea. Picture a scenario where you need a self powered IT infrastructure immediately. Bring these in and you have everything a disaster area/forward operating base/remote research facility would need for connectivity and information.
Governments, universities, militaries, NGO's could all use them.
Can be shipped by air, over the road, rail road, and sea.
You want your Marines/rescuers/construction team on-site now with a full compliment of IT. POOF. You got it.
Son, never, ever, never, leave the door that wide open again. So many punchlines, not enough time during my lunch to post.
I knew a programmer with a beard, but that was because he didn't want his Mormon folks to find out.
Last I heard, they were Americanizing "Life on Mars" with Colm Meany as Gene Hunt. It's supposed to be a script for script transplant with American locations and slang. Scheduled for a Fall replacement slot from what I heard.
I do not have high hopes.
And, because it wasn't that well known in the U.S., more than a few number of geeks thought they were being terribly original by choosing "ORAC" as part of their screen/hacker/account names.
Oh, have to mention something from when I was in Japan in the mid-70's that ties in with B7.
Most outdoor battles done on B7 and Japanese hero shows, Kamen Rider, Rainbow Man, Diamond Eye, etc, were filmed in quarries. Need a place where you can set off explosions, a quarry is a great place. Some were jarring, our heros are in a park or on a beach, then suddenly bad guys show up and we're in a quarry.
Of course, you knew when our heroes were walking through piles of rock the shooting was going to start soon.
I took a tour of Toho Studios in '76 and saw the very short suit for Godzilla, one of the Ultraman suits, and saw the filming of a samurai movie. The production value of a lot of the Toho TV stuff was like the BBC's.
I was stationed in the UK with the USAF and caught the last 2 seasons of B7. I loved it. Sure, the production value wasn't great, but I loved the dark characters, especially Darrow's Avon. These weren't the clean white knights of some quest, these were the gritty, angst riddent, heavily flawed humans. There were no clearly the white knight hero, but there was clearly one single evil, Servilan. God, for the longest time, anyone mentioned "clip haired bitch" I would picture her.
When the show ended with the dreamscape shoot out, I was among the thousands that sent in a plea to continue the show. Even offering a way out of the apparent slaughter of all the crew.
Now, I appreciate the killing off of major characters for the sake of the story. Love "MI-5" ("Spooks"), "Life on Mars" (oh, isn't there a 80's follow on to "Life on Mars"?), and "Torchwood". But, can't stand the new "Robin Hood" with ninjas, an arab female version of Wesley Crusher, and way too much modern crud.
You're asking if I'd hand OJ a knife? Am I dating his ex?
Uh, wait...too soon?
If anyone else were to suggest this approach, you'd all be saying, "Makes sense."
Well, hell, it wouldn't be /. if someone didn't find a way to get an anti-MS comment in on every story. Congrats. But you don't get extra points until you can make it anti-Bush and anti-Christian and then mention Cuba and the holy prophet RMS, holiness is his name, at the same time. Oh, and you also need to remember to correct someone's grammar, and call dupe on Taco, while exhorting others to RTFA and then taking the poster to task for not linking to the printable version or find a version that is not copyrighted.
Did I forget something?
Oh, yeah, you need to mention how your grandmother can install and configure Ubuntu in 3 mouse clicks.
Hey, Sparky, well before Pearl Harbor we were helping the Chinese. Look up Claire Chennault and you'll find that the U.S. was deeply involved prior to PH.
Hope history doesn't get in the way of the point you were trying to make.
Just what I thought, AC's are incapable of getting the joke.
And, you teach writing skills?
Is it any wonder...?
Hence, the reference to the DON, or for those of you who Acronymically Challenged - the Department of the Navy.
The B-3 program will be canceled by a sweater wearing President Obama in 2011 after 15 are delivered.
The B-4 will be purchased for the Star Wars II initiative (Reagan shoots first) by President Jeb Bush in 2013.
The replacement for the B-52, the B-6 Stratoshield will be brought into service in 2017, during President Jeb's second term.
The B-2 will retire in 2010.
The B-3 will retire in 2018.
The B-4 will retire in 2020.
The B-6 will retire in 2021.
The B-52 will retire in 2048.