It's a piece of...uh... Steak to do this. The scanner has to have an "invalid #" error code. Then the employee just presses three buttons on the sound system.
As usual, this won't happen for a few years for "social" reasons - until some really snarky hip young-person's bistro in NYC does it.
Make no mistake, the Star Trek typecasting was deadly. It took him some 15 years to grind out of it, and that only just barely.
As for the Big Stars thing, some of that is the fault of show design, giving the Big Three better placing than the rest. I believe part of this was that the Big Three were meant as subconscious anchors for the rather untrained audience of that time. Midwest Farmboy, Southern Gentleman, and Boston Brahmin Intellectual (Nimoy). Brilliant trick really, to make intellecual aloofness into an entire species... known for intellectual aloofness!
Then check out the second tier cast. Pretty scarily diverse for 1966. A "pan-Asian", a Russian, a Scotsman, an African American woman, and a couple others. By carefully keeping them "second tier" the show managed to compromise with the needs of the times, yet still get away with more international exposure than almost ever before.
Eerie thing about the timing of Galaxy Quest - I think it went pitch perfect of all the best Star Trek offered, and poked a little fun at the risky "clunk" of the phenomenon. 1999 was to me exactly the end of the golden age of trek. We were all excited by Y2K and the first 5 years of a universal accessible Web, just before the dark tech crash. Then check out the Alumni of Galaxy Quest - going on to great things. Alan Rickman Pwns Harry Potter, Tony Shalhoub mastered Monk, Justin Long made millions delightfully pissing us off in Apple commercials, etc. Look! The actors of the Spoof of Galxy Quest... broke free of the typecasting curse!
Why yes, Cheryl will get that for you ASAP! Meanwhile, how would you like to explore the second derivative of the market curve in a mutually beneficial relationship?
(...waits)
The best MBA's find a scary way of having their Mumbo Jumbo actually mean something, then take the best side of the deal before you can wipe away the smoke. In the above example, Tech is an example of a lurching industry that alternates explosive growth and eerie stalls.
"The day Google ad content becomes indistinguishable from the neo-Trotskyite content I enjoy perusing on aldaily.com (until my eyes glaze over) is the day I pull my plug on the grid and run for the hills."
Challenge Accepted!
---
As often, RandallMonroe of XKCD has provided a jumpgate.
http://www.xkcd.com/788/ (All rights reserved to Randall Monroe, used for educational purposes only.) The Carriage "Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me. The carriage held but just ourselves... ((Action sequence)) ________________________"
In that blank is an ad.
By the time you have seen the Ad Exposure, you cannot un-see it. Therefore, the ad wins. With that New-Carriage Smell you have come to lust for.
Join the Confederates Stop Stick it to the Norhern Bastards Stop Free Girls Too
(The historical accuracy of this simulation was compromised by the Lameness Caps filter. To learn more about the Lameness Caps filter near you, write a post that requires large numbers of capital letters. Some restrictions apply. See post error messages for details.)
"Everyone craves something. Craving isn't so great after all. You really need to tone down, and no matter how much your instincts throw a tantrum, it is possible."
Here's the still terribly fragmentary index page of my envisioned site. Apologies for the unbearably rough nature of the page. I had an audience of 0 until now, so I got lazy. : (
The concept of the site is to version the articles like software programs. So the fragments are currently much like pre-alpha place holders, but you can see where things will go. You're free to email me for any discussion.
P.S. Hey Slashdot, holler if the site goes down, I am doing a small opt-in free host study, and durability is one of the metrics. Colorhost is hoping to be a Paid host, so they need to be able to take a hit.
So what is this beast supposed to be, a 64 core machine?
Didn't we retire the Ghz wars 5 years ago? I know, AMD style "more done per cycle", but isn't a quad core 3.1 Ghz per chip with 20% logistic overhead faster?
Slashdot Mirror
It's a piece of ...uh... Steak to do this. The scanner has to have an "invalid #" error code. Then the employee just presses three buttons on the sound system.
As usual, this won't happen for a few years for "social" reasons - until some really snarky hip young-person's bistro in NYC does it.
"Come see the deadly side of Sears!"
I have a sale on SCUBA apparatus to sell you sir.
Keypunch Software, is that you? (Commodore)
They do on one - weight.
Grand post there.
Make no mistake, the Star Trek typecasting was deadly. It took him some 15 years to grind out of it, and that only just barely.
As for the Big Stars thing, some of that is the fault of show design, giving the Big Three better placing than the rest. I believe part of this was that the Big Three were meant as subconscious anchors for the rather untrained audience of that time. Midwest Farmboy, Southern Gentleman, and Boston Brahmin Intellectual (Nimoy). Brilliant trick really, to make intellecual aloofness into an entire species ... known for intellectual aloofness!
Then check out the second tier cast. Pretty scarily diverse for 1966. A "pan-Asian", a Russian, a Scotsman, an African American woman, and a couple others. By carefully keeping them "second tier" the show managed to compromise with the needs of the times, yet still get away with more international exposure than almost ever before.
Eerie thing about the timing of Galaxy Quest - I think it went pitch perfect of all the best Star Trek offered, and poked a little fun at the risky "clunk" of the phenomenon. 1999 was to me exactly the end of the golden age of trek. We were all excited by Y2K and the first 5 years of a universal accessible Web, just before the dark tech crash. Then check out the Alumni of Galaxy Quest - going on to great things. Alan Rickman Pwns Harry Potter, Tony Shalhoub mastered Monk, Justin Long made millions delightfully pissing us off in Apple commercials, etc. Look! The actors of the Spoof of Galxy Quest ... broke free of the typecasting curse!
Why yes, Cheryl will get that for you ASAP! Meanwhile, how would you like to explore the second derivative of the market curve in a mutually beneficial relationship?
(...waits)
The best MBA's find a scary way of having their Mumbo Jumbo actually mean something, then take the best side of the deal before you can wipe away the smoke. In the above example, Tech is an example of a lurching industry that alternates explosive growth and eerie stalls.
They hand plant each blade of grass for that high quality finish!
"The day Google ad content becomes indistinguishable from the neo-Trotskyite content I enjoy perusing on aldaily.com (until my eyes glaze over) is the day I pull my plug on the grid and run for the hills."
Challenge Accepted!
---
As often, RandallMonroe of XKCD has provided a jumpgate.
http://www.xkcd.com/788/ (All rights reserved to Randall Monroe, used for educational purposes only.) ... ((Action sequence)) ________________________"
The Carriage
"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me. The carriage held but just ourselves
In that blank is an ad.
By the time you have seen the Ad Exposure, you cannot un-see it. Therefore, the ad wins. With that New-Carriage Smell you have come to lust for.
"What's the Matter, Steve? You Look Nervous. End Of Line."
Join the Confederates Stop Stick it to the Norhern Bastards Stop Free Girls Too
(The historical accuracy of this simulation was compromised by the Lameness Caps filter. To learn more about the Lameness Caps filter near you, write a post that requires large numbers of capital letters. Some restrictions apply. See post error messages for details.)
Harvard gives you financial AIDS for a Sumer course.
Then there's the Linux Kernel. When will they ever go to Kernel 3.0?
Your spelling of "through" disturbs me.
Nah. Buddhism is pretty realistic.
Switching to modern language, it becomes:
"Everyone craves something. Craving isn't so great after all. You really need to tone down, and no matter how much your instincts throw a tantrum, it is possible."
The Greeks had Prior Myths there.
Zeus was rather grouchy.
Pascal sent a letter. He wants his Wager back.
Hi!
I finally get a chance to use one of my home grown pages in a discussion! Here's the list of my Buddhism shelf. I'd consider most of them "good".
http://taophoenix.colorhost.net/Buddhism/BuddhismArticle2c.html
Here's the still terribly fragmentary index page of my envisioned site. Apologies for the unbearably rough nature of the page. I had an audience of 0 until now, so I got lazy. : (
http://taophoenix.colorhost.net/ReVisionWide.html
The concept of the site is to version the articles like software programs. So the fragments are currently much like pre-alpha place holders, but you can see where things will go. You're free to email me for any discussion.
P.S. Hey Slashdot, holler if the site goes down, I am doing a small opt-in free host study, and durability is one of the metrics. Colorhost is hoping to be a Paid host, so they need to be able to take a hit.
Fark is consistently a whole 1-2 days faster than Slash-D lately. And their "Idle" section is better.
So what is this beast supposed to be, a 64 core machine?
Didn't we retire the Ghz wars 5 years ago? I know, AMD style "more done per cycle", but isn't a quad core 3.1 Ghz per chip with 20% logistic overhead faster?
Hurricane Earl became sentient, called, and would like Thursday back!
Right, because I'm dying to know how Mac OS in 1984 isn't Prior Art. When it totally hosed it even gave you a cute Minesweeper Bomb of Death.
Actually, the French like their copy. It's been there for years.
Awesome time for music.
Not so good when the cutting edge of computing was the DOS Clone wars.
DAAS!
Dictionary As A Service!