Did they seriously just post some assorted Lucas Arts titles and not include Maniac Mansion UR COMING WITH ME, CRATER-HEAD!!

garage hot rodding would have new remote implications with my idea i post below :) ha ha good times friend, i'll have to bring this up on the sims social forums now, see if we can get some sim-space missions theme peace

The abstract makes me imagine.. you know how people book out time on the telescopes in Arizona, Now all the cool kids go on NewEgg and buy a couple of NBPs running NetBSD! shoot it out unplug the house mic and let 'er go! Build some contraptions that shoot pictures and the (within tolerances) direction / attitude / vector / rotation you want the contraption disembarked at, load them up on a public space shuttle deal and a company could disperse them into space from on board. Hmm! And of course the contraptions run NetBSD! lol They could take pictures, and imagine the delight as the customer's latency increased as they plunged farther and farther into the outer reaches! And if it gets lots whoops! The point is it rocked! They could guide their selves with some onboard compressed air and solar action too. Excellent, it really is 2011 isn't it!

To manufacture a system with similar effects as an existing system, but somehow yours is better internally or comes about in a better fashion, I don't know. I cry foul on the very notion of prior art really. To the tigers in the zoo, Madeline was like "POO POO". It seems like the inverse operation doesn't hold up. Engineer 1 invents a broadcast light source, the camp light, patents it and who would want to be walking around with a candle on a plate eh, eh? This is easier than moving your smoking coal fire. Engineer 2 in the other valley lights up one of his hanging art pieces against the rock face and finds it lights up the whole area for an hour. Engineer 1 sues engineer 2 for infringing on prior art of broadcasting light, and has all these people backing him up since the camp light sales just went way down who want their money. That's how I see it and that's why I just duff around and put stuff in the public domain explicitly if anything, generally.

Ja I was thinking like, doesn't having a passenger in the car who sees the store and reminds you we're out of milk at home fall under prior art? *facepalm* What'll they patent next, a sign for a urinal that reminds you to kind of lean into the urinal to save on splatter?

Like many of younger generations, one of the best first ways I learned the skill of the bluff was watching The Corbomite Maneuver. And the weak encryption strategy appeals especially to the truly geeky audiences. Has The Corbomite Maneuver strategy shown analogues in any real life situations for you, or can you regale us of any humorous anecdotes pertaining to The Corbomite Maneuver? Everybody's talking about.. The Corbomite Maneuver! If nothing else, make sure that ghostly alien prop prop shows up on the Conan O'Brien show next time you have a cameo :). Ha ha ha.

So what was the placebo in this study, twiddling your thumbs? :)

they're too busy reading `man zic`!

Yeah I was just wondering about that; I interviewed for that team with Robbins/Hilf etc. There was a bunch of publicity about Hilf's "coopetetive" / "coopetition" ideas etc. Doesn't seem to be much fresh news on the subject on a quick search. Personally, I went back to ignoring Microsoft and things worked out A-OK! :)

Good point there. My first thought was I hope it was a real bat and not a replica full of bomb or something.

> why is 1234567890 such a special timestamp?

I would tender that because 1234567890 is ten times 0123456789. We're surrounded by decimal representations of number. Fascinating.

Go the full shebang and use my handy utility for observing, especially with bash -x mode: http://github.com/topromulan/12345/tree/master