I know I'm summoning the "black helicopters" with this statement, but since the security checkpoints are crowded and insecure, why not rig up a bomb to go off in the checkpoint, killing/injuring thirty to forty people and sowing panic? You probably wouldn't even have to make it be a suicide bombing (although that particular tactic with a vest of C4 and nails would stand the best chance of success). Such an attack, made at enough airports within a similar timeframe would likely cripple air travel more than the TSA already has.
Cade:
I thank you, good people—there shall be no money; all shall eat
and drink on my score, and I will apparel them all in one livery,
that they may agree like brothers, and worship me their lord.
Dick:
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
Cade:
Nay, that I mean to do.
Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4, scene 2, 71–78
I find the Medic's Blutsagher (+HP from damage done) to be an improvement over the syringe gun myself, as not being able to crit (especially with the low damage on the weapon itself) isn't that bad of a tradeoff for draining HP from your enemies.
Yeah, there's a upper-level undergraduate course that does single-board computers with a 8088 MPU and some supporting hardware. It's a mess and I personally believe that the course should be changed to give a "interfacing with reality" bent to it, as a single MCU can be tuned to do the same (external memory bus, etc) and you can go beyond the "look I made a light blink" to "Look I can actually do something useful with this thing".
Upper-level undergraduate course at my university, which is not MIT.
Yeah, there's a upper-level undergraduate course that does single-board computers with a 8088 MPU and some supporting hardware. It's a mess and I personally believe that the course should be changed to give a "interfacing with reality" bent to it, as a single MCU can be tuned to do the same (external memory bus, etc) and you can go beyond the "look I made a light blink" to "Look I can actually do something useful with this thing".
More specifically, the State of Illinois hasn't paid out all budgeted funds to any of its state universities (to be completely fair here, this is because there is no funds to allocate, not any particular mustache-twirling).
State universities are responding by cutting their own budgets. University of Illinois imposed "furlough days", which amount to "don't come in on these days, you're not getting paid for it". Southern Illinois University, where I attend, has tried to do the same thing and is in a nasty fight with the various unions representing faculty (tenure track and non-tenure track), civil servants and even the graduate assistants. That's an entirely different story, though: the unions are claiming that the administration isn't playing fair and is basically using the budget hell to be authoritarian (evil mustache-twirling, which is an odd though when you consider that our new chancellor is a woman).
So it looks like CDE then? I still have CDE on some Solaris 10 Ultra45 workstations and a few aging Blade150s (as their gnome-based "java" desktop system runs terribly on old SPARCs).
I did a "nuke the site from orbit" job on my sister's machine which had gotten infected from something she did to it. Spotting limewire on the machine, I uninstalled it and told her if it happened again (ie, her machine is loaded with malware and she's got crap like limewire installed), she'd have to pay me to clean up after her.
Being able to solve NP-Complete or NP-hard problems optimally in polynomial time would allow engineers to produce better/smaller (on the circuit level) computer systems faster, as the field of physical design automation and testing is littered with NP-complete (or NP-hard) problems. It would also leave a lot of engineering researchers free to look into something else.
PS2 support, so far as I know, died with the PS3Slim, but that was a hardware change. My original model PS3 (sans OtherOS) still plays PS2 games quite happily. The PS2 support on the PS3 was by virtue of including most of the PS2 hardware in the PS3.
And, last I heard, the fuel efficiency of rail is frickin' awesome. While the engine itself is around 1-2MPG (diesel), that engine is towing tons and tons and tons of equipment behind it (American Association of Railroads claims that they get around 457 tons moved one mile per gallon of diesel fuel).
OneNote is a extremely useful piece of software, and the primary reason I keep an Win7 VM around. It easily qualifies for "best tool for the job". Nearest piece of work I've seen is Jarnal (pen input) and/or Tomboy (wikiish notes). The handwriting recognition and math functionality is top-notch (realizing that the handwriting subsystem shipped with Win7).
The Wii will still kill GameCube memory cards (due to heat - has happened to me, so +1 anecdote) if you leave them in and the machine on or in standby. Thus, I consider the Wii to have three operation modes: On (green light), Off (red light), and Overheat (orange light).
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Gaah I am so sick of you libertards
It's "libertardians". Otherwise people will think you're talking about standard "libtards".
I read that as "libtardis", and wondered how someone talked the Doctor into sharing the source.
I know I'm summoning the "black helicopters" with this statement, but since the security checkpoints are crowded and insecure, why not rig up a bomb to go off in the checkpoint, killing/injuring thirty to forty people and sowing panic? You probably wouldn't even have to make it be a suicide bombing (although that particular tactic with a vest of C4 and nails would stand the best chance of success). Such an attack, made at enough airports within a similar timeframe would likely cripple air travel more than the TSA already has.
All:
God save your majesty!
Cade:
I thank you, good people—there shall be no money; all shall eat
and drink on my score, and I will apparel them all in one livery,
that they may agree like brothers, and worship me their lord.
Dick:
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
Cade:
Nay, that I mean to do.
Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4, scene 2, 71–78
http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/lets-kill-all-lawyers
I haven't been able to find it in the original Klingon, apologies.
"Well this would be fucking obvious to you viewers if you weren't science retards."
Well that's just great. Now I have that rolling around in my head in Jamie's voice.
I find the Medic's Blutsagher (+HP from damage done) to be an improvement over the syringe gun myself, as not being able to crit (especially with the low damage on the weapon itself) isn't that bad of a tradeoff for draining HP from your enemies.
Yeah, there's a upper-level undergraduate course that does single-board computers with a 8088 MPU and some supporting hardware. It's a mess and I personally believe that the course should be changed to give a "interfacing with reality" bent to it, as a single MCU can be tuned to do the same (external memory bus, etc) and you can go beyond the "look I made a light blink" to "Look I can actually do something useful with this thing".
Upper-level undergraduate course at my university, which is not MIT.
Yeah, there's a upper-level undergraduate course that does single-board computers with a 8088 MPU and some supporting hardware. It's a mess and I personally believe that the course should be changed to give a "interfacing with reality" bent to it, as a single MCU can be tuned to do the same (external memory bus, etc) and you can go beyond the "look I made a light blink" to "Look I can actually do something useful with this thing".
(if you're on an open source OS and not using blob drivers, odds are that it's compiled using code that I worked on)
<obligatory>Hey, I use an S3 ViRGE, you insensitive clod! </obligatory>
My university charges per-credit hour up to 15, after which it stays at the 15 cr. hour price. Now, taking 15+ in a semester can be pure pain.
More specifically, the State of Illinois hasn't paid out all budgeted funds to any of its state universities (to be completely fair here, this is because there is no funds to allocate, not any particular mustache-twirling).
State universities are responding by cutting their own budgets. University of Illinois imposed "furlough days", which amount to "don't come in on these days, you're not getting paid for it". Southern Illinois University, where I attend, has tried to do the same thing and is in a nasty fight with the various unions representing faculty (tenure track and non-tenure track), civil servants and even the graduate assistants. That's an entirely different story, though: the unions are claiming that the administration isn't playing fair and is basically using the budget hell to be authoritarian (evil mustache-twirling, which is an odd though when you consider that our new chancellor is a woman).
I think most people try to forget the Virtual Boy.
So it looks like CDE then? I still have CDE on some Solaris 10 Ultra45 workstations and a few aging Blade150s (as their gnome-based "java" desktop system runs terribly on old SPARCs).
CDE is ugly.
So you want to ping God?
(original reference)
I didn't think there were any keybindings not used by Emacs.
I did a "nuke the site from orbit" job on my sister's machine which had gotten infected from something she did to it. Spotting limewire on the machine, I uninstalled it and told her if it happened again (ie, her machine is loaded with malware and she's got crap like limewire installed), she'd have to pay me to clean up after her.
Oracle's fix going forward is probably to say "Everything will only run on Oracle Solaris, now piss off."
I remember that power brick -- saw one attached to the ill-fated inspiron model that used a prescott P4 (I believe it was the 9100) a few years ago.
Being able to solve NP-Complete or NP-hard problems optimally in polynomial time would allow engineers to produce better/smaller (on the circuit level) computer systems faster, as the field of physical design automation and testing is littered with NP-complete (or NP-hard) problems. It would also leave a lot of engineering researchers free to look into something else.
PS2 support, so far as I know, died with the PS3Slim, but that was a hardware change. My original model PS3 (sans OtherOS) still plays PS2 games quite happily. The PS2 support on the PS3 was by virtue of including most of the PS2 hardware in the PS3.
Yeah, my university has a biomedical engineering master's degree program. They're getting popular now.
And, last I heard, the fuel efficiency of rail is frickin' awesome. While the engine itself is around 1-2MPG (diesel), that engine is towing tons and tons and tons of equipment behind it (American Association of Railroads claims that they get around 457 tons moved one mile per gallon of diesel fuel).
The Sony eReader devices function well, I am told by people whose opinion I trust.
OneNote is a extremely useful piece of software, and the primary reason I keep an Win7 VM around. It easily qualifies for "best tool for the job". Nearest piece of work I've seen is Jarnal (pen input) and/or Tomboy (wikiish notes). The handwriting recognition and math functionality is top-notch (realizing that the handwriting subsystem shipped with Win7).
The Wii will still kill GameCube memory cards (due to heat - has happened to me, so +1 anecdote) if you leave them in and the machine on or in standby. Thus, I consider the Wii to have three operation modes: On (green light), Off (red light), and Overheat (orange light).