Joss wrote an eight-issue series called "Fray" for Dark Horse, about a Vampire Slayer in the future. And he is currently writing the "Astonishing X-Men" series for Marvel.
From Verne's Mysterious Island: "Captain Nemo was an Indian, the Prince Dakkar, son of a rajah of the then independent territory of Bundelkund." (Thanks to Jess Nevin's annotations of the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" comics on which the movie was (loosely) based for a pointer in this direction, and Project Gutenberg for making the text of the novel available.)
> do the robots' eyes turn red whenever they're doing bad things in the book?
Robots didn't do "bad things" in Asimov's books. Asimov created his "Three Laws of Robotics" as a plot device to avoid stories about what he called the "Frankenstein Complex", the fear of man's creations going out of control. An Asimov-type "positronic" brain would melt down at even the hint of breaking the First Law. See "Liar", where even emotional damage to humans is enough to destroy the brain, or The Naked Sun where a robot's indirect contribution to a murder (its limb used by a human as a weapon) is enough to cause noticable brain damage. (Sorry for the spoilers, but I had to illustrate my point.)
Asimov did not write about robots running amok. His stories were about subtle interactions between the Laws, or unusual circumstances which create conficts between the Laws, not about a Matrix-scale robot revolt.
I have not seen this movie, and will never see it.
I think you missed my point; the purpose, at least in the old days, was not to be fast; it was to slow the (super)user down to let the system catch up in flushing the dirty pages. Sync's two and three were effectively no-ops, but the typing thereof gave the system the chance to complete what the first sync put into motion. And the first sync wouldn't begin until after all the typing was done if you used semicolons (or double-amps) instead of returns.
A quick groups.google.com search in alt.folklore.computers found this thread from 1992.
The idiom is "sync[return]sync[return]sync[return]", so that the first sync schedules the dirty page writing, which should (at least in theory) be done by the time the (super)user is done typing the third. Using semi-colons instead of returns defeats the purpose of doing it three times, since nothing happens until the return is typed; the second and third sync's are there only for the typing delay, which doesn't happen if they're ganged up on one command line.
Alternately, one could simply count to five or so before entering the "reboot" command/hitting the reset switch/whatever, but that's less reliable than muscle memory.
And this move will create a monoculture among anti-virus products, and a single choke point through which virus updates will be forced. As if the OS monoculture wasn't friendly enough to viruses, how will a big virus be fought if the single source for the anti- code is slashdotted?
According to Spider Robinson's web site (spiderrobinson.com), Heinlein wrote an outline for a "borderline juvenile" novel in 1957 named "Variable Star"; this outline has been given by Heinlein's estate to Spider to write. It hasn't been sold to a publisher yet, and Spider's got some other work in the queue first, so it won't be finished until mid-'05 at the earliest, but this is one of the most marvelous pieces of news I have heard in a long time.
It's not the place for DNS *servers* to "help confused users"; DNS *clients* would be the place for that kind of thing. (Not that I think IE's redirection to MicroSoft's search is appropriate either, but that's not really part of this discussion.)
... in the late 1970's and early '80s, there was a company called Metagaming which had a line of "Microgames" with a usual price tag of $2.95. The company is long gone, although a couple of its titles were rescued by their designer, Steve Jackson, when he formed his own game company (modestly named Steve Jackson Games), which caried on that kind of pricing for a while, but not currently. (Those rescued titles were "Ogre" and "G.E.V.", about future tank warfare, with cyber-tanks similar to Keith Laumer's Bolos, and hovercraft and infantry in powered armor and so forth.) Almost all of Metagaming's games were hexagon-maps and counters, and playing time from half an hour to two hours or more, not like Cheapass' cards and quick play, but Cheapass was not the first to push the lower limits on pricing.
I'm can't help with packet sniffing, but an easy detection method, based on the data so far, is to look for "..." in the "/tmp" directory. Entries named "." and ".." in a directory are normal (and necessary), but three dots is a fairly obvious attempt to hide something. (Since this name begins with a period, you'll have to use the "-a" argument on "ls" to see it.)
Item 2 is unrelated; the "s" in "srwxr-xr-x" indicates it's not a real file but a interprocess communication socket, which is why cat or more doesn't work on it. I presume this is a communication port between ssh-agent and other ssh processes.
Today's jump by FX back to the first couple of episodes is a one-time thing; tomorrow it'll be back to season 4 where they were yesterday (Monday). (However, they skipped season 4 episode 3, "The Harsh Light of Day", for some unknown reason...)
Maybe it's a bit that FX edited out of "Welcome to the Hellmouth" to squeeze in an extra commercial or something, so check the DVD; Xander was shown in the library's stacks overhearing Buffy and Giles discussing her resumption of slayer activity. Nothing mysterious.
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It probably doesn't correspond to reality, but the topic of killing penny production came up in some episode of _The West Wing_ over a year ago, and the reason given there that it would never fly was that the chair of a committee the proposal would go through was from Indiana, Lincoln's home state...
Yeah. Right. Just like any true SF author would not have the Earth revolving in the wrong direction (first edition of Larry Niven's Hugo-winner Ringworld).
Keynote is not open source. It is open file format, XML, so that other apps (to be written) can generate Keynote presentations (as well as importing/exporting PowerPoint, and exporting PDF and Flash, if I recall correctly), but Steve didn't say anything about Keynote's source code.
The author's other games, "The Puzzle Gallery: At the Carnival" and "Three in 3" are also available from the same page. TPG:ATC is just a collection of puzzles of the same sorts found in The Fool's Errand; but Ti3 has new puzzle types and a well-done story line like TFE had.
Captain America to Spider-Man is trivial; and thanks to the book Marvel Team-Up, you can link Spider-Man to nearly anyone; yes, there was a Spider-Man/Howard The Duck issue. Even Conan the Barbarian is easy, since there was a Spider-Man/Red Sonja issue (though I'm not sure they spoke the same language).
One can probably get to get to the Seven Dwarves through any of the Marvel/DC universe crossovers, the Superman vs Bugs Bunny story, and then Who Framed Roger Rabbit...
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Joss wrote an eight-issue series called "Fray" for Dark Horse, about a Vampire Slayer in the future. And he is currently writing the "Astonishing X-Men" series for Marvel.
Oops; s/but while/but not while/.
Actually, Don Davis (George Hammond) was working on McGyver quite a bit, but while cameras rolled: he was Dana Elcar (Pete Thorton)'s stand in.
From Verne's Mysterious Island: "Captain Nemo was an Indian, the Prince Dakkar, son of a rajah of the then independent territory of Bundelkund." (Thanks to Jess Nevin's annotations of the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" comics on which the movie was (loosely) based for a pointer in this direction, and Project Gutenberg for making the text of the novel available.)
Robots didn't do "bad things" in Asimov's books. Asimov created his "Three Laws of Robotics" as a plot device to avoid stories about what he called the "Frankenstein Complex", the fear of man's creations going out of control. An Asimov-type "positronic" brain would melt down at even the hint of breaking the First Law. See "Liar", where even emotional damage to humans is enough to destroy the brain, or The Naked Sun where a robot's indirect contribution to a murder (its limb used by a human as a weapon) is enough to cause noticable brain damage. (Sorry for the spoilers, but I had to illustrate my point.)
Asimov did not write about robots running amok. His stories were about subtle interactions between the Laws, or unusual circumstances which create conficts between the Laws, not about a Matrix-scale robot revolt.
I have not seen this movie, and will never see it.
A quick groups.google.com search in alt.folklore.computers found this thread from 1992.
Alternately, one could simply count to five or so before entering the "reboot" command/hitting the reset switch/whatever, but that's less reliable than muscle memory.
And this move will create a monoculture among anti-virus products, and a single choke point through which virus updates will be forced. As if the OS monoculture wasn't friendly enough to viruses, how will a big virus be fought if the single source for the anti- code is slashdotted?
According to Spider Robinson's web site (spiderrobinson.com), Heinlein wrote an outline for a "borderline juvenile" novel in 1957 named "Variable Star"; this outline has been given by Heinlein's estate to Spider to write. It hasn't been sold to a publisher yet, and Spider's got some other work in the queue first, so it won't be finished until mid-'05 at the earliest, but this is one of the most marvelous pieces of news I have heard in a long time.
It's Yamato; doesn't need any 'mo'.
It's not the place for DNS *servers* to "help confused users"; DNS *clients* would be the place for that kind of thing. (Not that I think IE's redirection to MicroSoft's search is appropriate either, but that's not really part of this discussion.)
... in the late 1970's and early '80s, there was a company called Metagaming which had a line of "Microgames" with a usual price tag of $2.95. The company is long gone, although a couple of its titles were rescued by their designer, Steve Jackson, when he formed his own game company (modestly named Steve Jackson Games), which caried on that kind of pricing for a while, but not currently. (Those rescued titles were "Ogre" and "G.E.V.", about future tank warfare, with cyber-tanks similar to Keith Laumer's Bolos, and hovercraft and infantry in powered armor and so forth.) Almost all of Metagaming's games were hexagon-maps and counters, and playing time from half an hour to two hours or more, not like Cheapass' cards and quick play, but Cheapass was not the first to push the lower limits on pricing.
I'm can't help with packet sniffing, but an easy detection method, based on the data so far, is to look for "..." in the "/tmp" directory. Entries named "." and ".." in a directory are normal (and necessary), but three dots is a fairly obvious attempt to hide something. (Since this name begins with a period, you'll have to use the "-a" argument on "ls" to see it.)
Item 2 is unrelated; the "s" in "srwxr-xr-x" indicates it's not a real file but a interprocess communication socket, which is why cat or more doesn't work on it. I presume this is a communication port between ssh-agent and other ssh processes.
Alan Parsons (not The AP Project anymore, since Eric Woolfson split) is still doing concept albums, "On Air" and "The Time Machine"...
First season of Buffy is only twelve episodes.
Today's jump by FX back to the first couple of episodes is a one-time thing; tomorrow it'll be back to season 4 where they were yesterday (Monday). (However, they skipped season 4 episode 3, "The Harsh Light of Day", for some unknown reason...)
Maybe it's a bit that FX edited out of "Welcome to the Hellmouth" to squeeze in an extra commercial or something, so check the DVD; Xander was shown in the library's stacks overhearing Buffy and Giles discussing her resumption of slayer activity. Nothing mysterious.
It probably doesn't correspond to reality, but the topic of killing penny production came up in some episode of _The West Wing_ over a year ago, and the reason given there that it would never fly was that the chair of a committee the proposal would go through was from Indiana, Lincoln's home state...
Yeah. Right. Just like any true SF author would not have the Earth revolving in the wrong direction (first edition of Larry Niven's Hugo-winner Ringworld).
It's open source; let's fork the code and add tabs! (And see if Apple merges them into their releases...)
Keynote is not open source. It is open file format, XML, so that other apps (to be written) can generate Keynote presentations (as well as importing/exporting PowerPoint, and exporting PDF and Flash, if I recall correctly), but Steve didn't say anything about Keynote's source code.
I was going to suggest this...
The author's other games, "The Puzzle Gallery: At the Carnival" and "Three in 3" are also available from the same page. TPG:ATC is just a collection of puzzles of the same sorts found in The Fool's Errand; but Ti3 has new puzzle types and a well-done story line like TFE had.
Apologies; I don't do Simpsons.
Captain America to Spider-Man is trivial; and thanks to the book Marvel Team-Up, you can link Spider-Man to nearly anyone; yes, there was a Spider-Man/Howard The Duck issue. Even Conan the Barbarian is easy, since there was a Spider-Man/Red Sonja issue (though I'm not sure they spoke the same language).
One can probably get to get to the Seven Dwarves through any of the Marvel/DC universe crossovers, the Superman vs Bugs Bunny story, and then Who Framed Roger Rabbit...
(And currently appearing with Mar-Vell's "son" Genis in the current Captain Marvel series.)