I think the military would get along with hackers as well as suits in the corporate world have in the past, unless they do something radical like offer unlimited Doritos, caffeine, a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Folder, and someone to pick up the pizza boxes.
My formula was to take the average age of a group and then divide it by the number of people in the group. When three of us got together to write one story, it ended up a long string of toilet humor. At least there was much laughter, as we were essentially 11-year-olds by that point.
The 6502 I knew and loved (Atari!) has a bit in its Processor Status Register called the Decimal Flag. If set, addition and subtraction instructions are all done in BCD. Chaining three bytes (000000-999999) made machine-level counting simple, and it didn't take much effort to convert each half of a byte into ascii to display on the screen. It was a neat way to avoid having to multiply and divide, which wasn't possible at the chip level back then (other than shifting bits for powers of two.)
The real danger was having it set by mistake or not clearing it first. Strange things can happen when adding $01 to $39 makes $40. Looking at it in regular decimal (57+1=64) can cause gray hair.
When I was in my early teens (1982) and the movie "Tempest" came out, I remember a slightly younger kid in an arcade telling me, "It's nothing like the video game!"
I had to suppress laughter. Back then, the name of the movie did catch my eye, but I also knew the word meant "storm," so I figured it was a chick flick. Poor kid, hahahaha!
Asteroids the movie sounds lame to me, but you never know. If it had Larry the Cable Guy, the plot would involve foam rubber donuts...
I think the ammunition rush is like the 9/11 gas panic. That afternoon I was called in to fix our credit card system (Conoco crashed nationwide) and I had a good half-inch of checks to deposit. A couple days later, the price of gas plummeted to 99 cents per gallon, and I imagine everyone didn't feel too bright at that point.
I'm betting we'll have more ammo than we know what to do with, and the prices will go to normal again. Isn't hysteria fun? The manufacturers (and gun store owners) are probably trying to find the right balance so they're not stuck with tons of extra inventory.
As for gold vending machines--whoever is running those is a genius and deserves all the euros they make. If I want to buy gold (more often silver eagles because I'm not rolling in dollars here,) I go to one of the three bullion dealers in my city. It's just a side investment that helps me hang onto a few more dollars in the long run.
Perhaps this means someday our modern TV sets will be able to listen to more cell phone signals just like old TVs can now from defunct channels 80-83. Then again, modern sets don't have a manual fine tune knob, and I can't understand the multiplexed speech fragments anyway.
I imagine the nightlight service must be exciting. "The hurricane has died down, and now, back to our classic cavalcade of Native American test patterns!"
Aye, my money is on Eta Carinae before Betelgeuse. There is a reason hypergiants are rare: their lifetimes are measured in millions of years instead of billions, and that sucker is over one hundred times the mass of the sun and puts out at least four million times the light. Good thing it's almost eight thousand light years away from us!
"I learned about sex from watching dogs in the neighborhood... the most important thing I learned was: never let go of the girl no matter how hard she tries to shake you off."
Hmm. I have two cats that lived under a neighbor's house for years, and I rescued them when I moved. Their coats are in excellent shape despite being strays, and they're definitely "Heinz-57s."
Now, if I just had the money (and space!) to get a couple of these: www.savannahcatbreed.com/breed-info/savannah
"This is Gregory Trimble with the science update, talking with Captain Rice of the first Australian space mission. Captain, what experiments are you performing up there?"
"We're evaluating the effects of zero gravity on the growth of single-celled organisms."
"What sort of single-celled organisms?"
"Various strains of yeast."
One of the crew in the background could be heard saying, "Good dinkum mate!"
Captain Rice turned around and hoarsely whispered, "Shut up!"
I don't think they made it to the air which is a good thing. (Besides that one line, they were pretty awful.) I like to search torrent sites with the keyword "pilot." There are some treasures out there. This wasn't exactly one of them, but it was still interesting to see.
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I think the military would get along with hackers as well as suits in the corporate world have in the past, unless they do something radical like offer unlimited Doritos, caffeine, a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Folder, and someone to pick up the pizza boxes.
It was the killer app for the Atari 800, and I still play it every now and then. I'd love to see it taken into the 21st Century.
That's a great way of looking at it.
My formula was to take the average age of a group and then divide it by the number of people in the group. When three of us got together to write one story, it ended up a long string of toilet humor. At least there was much laughter, as we were essentially 11-year-olds by that point.
...as well as the source to the Firepower pinball machine and the tools used to create those unforgettable classic Williams sound effects!
Say what you may about Eddie Van Halen and Jimi Hendrix... Jarvis was always god to me!
The 6502 I knew and loved (Atari!) has a bit in its Processor Status Register called the Decimal Flag. If set, addition and subtraction instructions are all done in BCD. Chaining three bytes (000000-999999) made machine-level counting simple, and it didn't take much effort to convert each half of a byte into ascii to display on the screen. It was a neat way to avoid having to multiply and divide, which wasn't possible at the chip level back then (other than shifting bits for powers of two.)
The real danger was having it set by mistake or not clearing it first. Strange things can happen when adding $01 to $39 makes $40. Looking at it in regular decimal (57+1=64) can cause gray hair.
When I was in my early teens (1982) and the movie "Tempest" came out, I remember a slightly younger kid in an arcade telling me, "It's nothing like the video game!"
I had to suppress laughter. Back then, the name of the movie did catch my eye, but I also knew the word meant "storm," so I figured it was a chick flick. Poor kid, hahahaha!
Asteroids the movie sounds lame to me, but you never know. If it had Larry the Cable Guy, the plot would involve foam rubber donuts...
It's more entertaining if you mention a "peanut butter and jelly sandwich" to an Englishman, or they ask to "borrow a rubber."
Translation: 1) "Jelly" means Jell-o to them and sounds quite "daft."
2) "Rubber" is an eraser to them, but something entirely different to us!
I think the ammunition rush is like the 9/11 gas panic. That afternoon I was called in to fix our credit card system (Conoco crashed nationwide) and I had a good half-inch of checks to deposit. A couple days later, the price of gas plummeted to 99 cents per gallon, and I imagine everyone didn't feel too bright at that point.
I'm betting we'll have more ammo than we know what to do with, and the prices will go to normal again. Isn't hysteria fun? The manufacturers (and gun store owners) are probably trying to find the right balance so they're not stuck with tons of extra inventory.
As for gold vending machines--whoever is running those is a genius and deserves all the euros they make. If I want to buy gold (more often silver eagles because I'm not rolling in dollars here,) I go to one of the three bullion dealers in my city. It's just a side investment that helps me hang onto a few more dollars in the long run.
Then again, haven't they always had those "weather satellites"?
Perhaps this means someday our modern TV sets will be able to listen to more cell phone signals just like old TVs can now from defunct channels 80-83. Then again, modern sets don't have a manual fine tune knob, and I can't understand the multiplexed speech fragments anyway.
I imagine the nightlight service must be exciting. "The hurricane has died down, and now, back to our classic cavalcade of Native American test patterns!"
Aye, my money is on Eta Carinae before Betelgeuse. There is a reason hypergiants are rare: their lifetimes are measured in millions of years instead of billions, and that sucker is over one hundred times the mass of the sun and puts out at least four million times the light. Good thing it's almost eight thousand light years away from us!
Someone forgot to clear the chad bit!
Aye, Russell Peters is great, but you gotta keep in mind he's Canadian since he grew up there.
All of you are really creepy.
Score!
To quote Steve Martin:
"I learned about sex from watching dogs in the neighborhood ... the most important thing I learned was: never let go of the girl no matter how hard she tries to shake you off."
Hmm. I have two cats that lived under a neighbor's house for years, and I rescued them when I moved. Their coats are in excellent shape despite being strays, and they're definitely "Heinz-57s."
Now, if I just had the money (and space!) to get a couple of these: www.savannahcatbreed.com/breed-info/savannah
Thanks for that link--fascinating stuff!
I thought genetic similarity led to weak populations, like the problem they're having with Cheetahs now.
Do animals benefit from "hybrid vigor" like plants when the most dissimilar individuals of the same species mix?
Hey, it's important to me!
"This is Gregory Trimble with the science update, talking with Captain Rice of the first Australian space mission. Captain, what experiments are you performing up there?"
"We're evaluating the effects of zero gravity on the growth of single-celled organisms."
"What sort of single-celled organisms?"
"Various strains of yeast."
One of the crew in the background could be heard saying, "Good dinkum mate!"
Captain Rice turned around and hoarsely whispered, "Shut up!"
If only Alec Guinness could see this!
Mark my words: a century from now, no one there will be over thirty... they just mysteriously disappear from the dome.
I don't think they made it to the air which is a good thing. (Besides that one line, they were pretty awful.) I like to search torrent sites with the keyword "pilot." There are some treasures out there. This wasn't exactly one of them, but it was still interesting to see.
LMAO! Thanks for pointing that out. NBC would have flamingoed it up, eh?
That some fool gets in the news by trying to be a superhero and promptly gets himself hurt.