Comment Re:Sam Kinnison (Score 1) 55
The world would be improved with fewer 'dumb macho guys', so there's no downside to that.
The world would be improved with fewer 'dumb macho guys', so there's no downside to that.
Breed, so that soon SciFy channel can make a movie called Sharkmatoe?
I believe archive.org has (or had) a lot of Byte magazines downloadable as PDFs.
Whichever destination, there's a lot of work to do before the final countdown.
I remember walking by a few lots las time I was there. Some would have been visible from above; others, maybe only Street View would have shown. But yeah, the underground garages wouldn't be easily visible from unless they caught a vehicle coming in or out.
A few minutes using Google Earth or the like would have shown him what it's like there.
Hex, or octal?
If I remember correctly, this is basically the plot of "Far Centaurus", by van Vogt.
In 1998, I visited the USS New Jersey. There was a computer in a compartment near the bridge, running Linux. I seem to recall that it was some kind of HAM radio software, and/or weather-related. I took a picture with my Mavica; I'll have to check it when I get home.
Ditto, in the last week I've spent probably 18 points on 'Offtopic' mods.
... and Frederik Pohl in his Heechee stuff a little after that, both AI simulations of long-dead people (Einstein, Freud) and later, uploading consciousnesses.
The Tao of Programming has been around for many years.
Yeah, an Atari 800 was my first computer. I know all that history now, but at the time was pretty clueless about it.
I called it "Commode-odor". I was an Atari fan, but most of my friends had C=64s.
A few years later, though, I got an Amiga.
I've had it with these motherfucking turnips on this motherfucking moonbase!
The solution of this problem is trivial and is left as an exercise for the reader.