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What sort of scares me is that now even 1.2TB of SDRAM is an order of magnitude less expensive than the HP disk was.
Posted by: ReallyBored at Friday, May 30 2008 02:27 AM (rCCRy)
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But would you say those are EXACTLY a million to one? Because, you know nobody's ever said it's a 999,995 to one shot, but it just might work, and then actually have it work.
Maybe blindfolded, on one foot and with your off hand.
:-D
Posted by: tommy at Friday, May 30 2008 12:57 PM (Ffmbd)
I missed class when the new instructions were given out...can'st you drop me a private note so that I can get the new R/J up to speed? (No, I can't wax political -- I still work in television, but some of the rules have been relaxed)...
Posted by: Michael at Saturday, May 31 2008 09:38 AM (tXnBG)
That was the season finale of House. (Part 1 last week, part 2 today.)
But while the second half of the finale of House had some problems, it was better than Bones, which just spontaneously retroactively self-destructed through force of sheer boneheaded idiocy.
Bones doesn't so much jump the shark as skin the shark alive, boil the flesh from its cartilage, grind the cartilage into powder, make soup from the powder, feed the soup to hungry beetles, blend the beetles into porridge, and shoot the porridge into the Sun.
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I thought House was good... very evocative, anyway. But Bones... egads, what did we do to be treated like that?
Posted by: pam at Wednesday, May 21 2008 01:08 AM (l6NIn)
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The first half of the finale of House was superb; the second half wasn't bad, but wasn't up to the standards of the first half.
But Bones, well, ugh.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 21 2008 01:22 AM (PiXy!)
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Yes but even a weak episode of House is generally better than 99% of what is on television.
Posted by: Stephen Macklin at Wednesday, May 21 2008 12:07 PM (R7LgM)
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I watched a few episodes of the first season of Bones. It wasn't bad.
David Boreanaz is always good. Just found it very uneven so I didn't go back.
House which I don't watch a lot of either. At least has an interesting mix of characters. If the story itself isn't great, the character interactions usually are.
Posted by: Andrew at Wednesday, May 21 2008 02:13 PM (/5NwX)
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I keep trying to watch Bones, because of Angel (David B.). But I rarely do.
House, on the other hand, we almost never miss. Although where in the hell did "medical hypnosis" come from?!?
Posted by: Yahzi at Wednesday, May 21 2008 02:58 PM (yn9dj)
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Pix, you ever watch Dexter? You should see if you can get the season one DVDs...or torrent them, whatever.
Posted by: doubleplusundead at Saturday, May 24 2008 01:40 PM (ZuzXA)
I thought they'd almost fixed the awful bar in beta 5; with RC1, it's back in all its craptastic glory. It's the most completely worthless "enhancement" I've seen since Vista's "A program wants to do something!!!" nag screens.
In Firefox 2, if I want to go to Chizumatic, I type a c in the url bar. That brings up Chizumatic (http://chizumatic.mee.nu), Cute Overload (http://cuteoverload.com) and other sites whose urls start with c. I hit down arrow once or twice, and enter, and there I am.
In Firefox 3, the way it works is, well, it wipes all your history and doesn't do anything at all. But after that, the way it works is, it brings up sites at random where the url or the title of the page or the name of the sites in your history or bookmarks or elsewhere in its tiny, confused mind, has a c in it somewhere. Anywhere at all. And displays two lines of text per site, so it wastes space and is much harder to read.
It's a complete pile of crap, and you can't set it back to the old way that actually worked.
Zero out of ten for style, and minus several million for good thinking. Wonder if Innova Editor works in Opera yet...
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I consider the new history implementation a great enhancement in FF3. Type "chi" instead of just "c".
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wednesday, May 21 2008 05:19 AM (qNSKg)
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If that worked, it would merely be a nuisance rather than an abomination. It doesn't work.
Presumably it's supposed to work after you train it for some unspecified period, but that's no excuse for it shipping brain-damaged when the previous algorithm was better than the expected trained result anyway.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 21 2008 08:44 AM (PiXy!)
SoftLayer, the company where I host mu.nu and mee.nu, has announced a content delivery network they call CDNLayer. It has an API that I can easily integrate into Minx so that I can distribute static (and eventually, semi-static) files to 21 locations around the world. Admittedly, 15 of those are in North America and kind of pointless because that's where the servers are located anyway, but the others are in London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney.
Bandwidth charges are a little steep, but storage is free, and the account fee is only $20 a month. Definitely something I'll be trying out.
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Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, May 14 2008 01:27 AM (+rSRq)
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It's a laundry list of annoyances that have chosen to land on me all at once. Individually minor, but they are of a nature such that they multiply rather than just adding. So my life for the past few days has been craptastic, and it's only going to get worse tomorrow.
I'll survive. Probably.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 14 2008 01:50 AM (PiXy!)
I'm busy tweaking the mu.nu->Minx syncromatic dimensional portaliser for increased efficiency. I want to run it at frequent intervals to update the Minx versions of the blogs in as close to real-time as possible. (Given that the two systems have entirely different database structures and all, so simple replication is out of the question.)
Teeny leetle mistake made one key function run 18,000 times slower than expected.
Another major problem is with spammers: The program checks any post updated in the last two days. That includes any post hit by spam, which is a lot more than the number of posts with valid updates or comments. That one's harder to fix, but I can tweak it a little.
Nearly there, folks, nearly there.
Update: And if you set the post status wrong, you don't see anything.
Update: Blargh! Userids. It's always the userids!
Update: Okay, that's got it. Sort of. Need to populate the user mapping table, and there's something weird going on with categories. But apart from that, um, and checking that it's auto-generating the banners properly, it looks like it's working.
Update: Bleh. Categories still playing up. That will have to wait until tomor... Later today.
Update: But before I go - yep, it's generating the banners correctly. Just my test domain playing up a little in serving the images.
Not bad for a random process. Well, a random process and the generosity of PD Photo.
hi, i was told to ask you about the text editor used here, at mee.nu... the one i am using now to write this. i understand that it is built in. but, did you get this from somewhere in the internet? is it available somewhere?
at my company we're looking for a text editor as the current one we're using is not that great and this one is much better.
There's this story idea I've been tinkering with regarding unimaginably ancient intelligent space ships that exist outside of our universe, and merely project some small part of themselves into our reality, leaving them with the ability to travel anywhere, anywhere at all. I called them void ships.
New Doctor Who, season 2, episode 12. I guessed what the thingy was about five seconds before the Doctor identified it - but I didn't expect them to steal my name as well as my idea!
Grumble.
Ah well, let's see where they go with it, since I got nowhere.
Update: Ooh, it's like a Kinder Surprise egg... Full of scorpions... When you're knee deep in a snake pit.
Its light and fun, especially with David Tennant. I miss the edge that Christopher Eccleston brought to the Doctor. I'd have liked another season of him.
Regardless I've liked how they put just enough thought into things to make it work. Wibbley wobbley timey wimey.
My all time favourite episode was Blink. More Sally Sparrow I say.
Posted by: Andrew at Monday, May 12 2008 09:34 AM (HH43m)
Science is Bad...reallyreally Bad, unless there is Religion to guide it...and btw, we are JUST AS SMART as you snotty scientists that wont teach IDT in their classrooms...and anyways.....YOU'RE ALL NAZIS!"
Posted by: matoko_chan at Friday, May 02 2008 01:19 AM (bqE4v)
Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.
Mad. Totally bananas.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 02 2008 01:46 AM (PiXy!)
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Does this mean I can't enjoy "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" any more?
Posted by: Ryan at Friday, May 02 2008 03:46 AM (b4JBG)
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Well, you can always fast forward past the classroom scene and go straight on to Twist and Shout.
That's what I do.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 02 2008 03:50 AM (PiXy!)
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i got banned at chicago boyz today. do you now what i said? some guy was using Liberal Fascism to defend Stein... and it occurred to me (wait for it)
Expelled is just the cartoon version of Goldbergs Liberal Fascism.
and they banned me! those fascists. hehe
Posted by: matoko_chan at Friday, May 02 2008 01:08 PM (bqE4v)
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btw pixy, i sure hope you are girding your loins. im layin in full hammerhoff and tegmark armament.
Posted by: matoko_chan at Friday, May 02 2008 01:12 PM (bqE4v)
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an ima bring my homies with me. who's your second? SDB?
this gonna be a theory of consciousness rumble. there will be blood.
Posted by: matoko_chan at Friday, May 02 2008 01:20 PM (bqE4v)
Although the scientists are not finished examining their data, they
have told me one thing: they’ve seen results they’ve never seen before
with their equipment.
One reason it is taking so long is that our water had a great deal of
variation an hour before the experiment was run. This could mean that
our anticipation of the event began to affect the water. Or it could
mean that our hypothesis is wrong.
Or it could mean that with intention, we are emanating an energy like a
Qigong master, which is being picked up by the spectroscopy before the
event.
Or it could be that your scientists are incompetent clowns who bollixed up a simple procedure.
The scientists chose to use Raman spectroscopy because they discovered
one published study showing that Qigong Grandmaster called Dr. Yan Xin
significantly altered the structure of a water sample, as measured by a
Raman spectrometer, when he sent his Qi from a place seven kilometers
away from the water sample.
So, not because Raman spectroscopy is actually suited to the task, or they are particularly familiar with the procedure, but because someone else found a unicorn with it.
Some of the comments following the post are so stupid that I am tempted to believe that they are satirical, but my hopes have been dashed too many times for that.
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Pixy, I tire of your denialist rejections of the truth.
If you add Ramen to your water sample you will alter the properties of that sample.
If you add the accompanying flavor packet to the sample, you will alter it even more, if the water to ramen proportionality is correct you will utterly change the physical charachteristics of the sample and that will will only be augmented with the addition of an egg, scallions and possibly some sort of meat.
This is no doubt well within the capability of a Quigon Master irregardless of weather or not you for some inexplicable (but probably bureaucratic) reason choose to conduct spectroscopy on the bowl.
I hope this clarifies things.....misterwebmaster.
feh...
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Friday, May 02 2008 11:51 AM (V5zw/)
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That's the most sensible explanation for this mess that I've seen so far.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 02 2008 01:02 PM (PiXy!)
I think I'd only seen one or two episodes before now, and somehow managed to find a the only lame ones in a consistently strong series. I went back and started from the beginning of the new series, and it's much better than my earlier impression. Even the effects are excellent, which is most un-Doctor-Whoish.
Apparently there are plans under way to bring back Blake's 7. If they do as good a job with that as the BBC has done with Doctor Who, I'll be there.
Update: Uh. Except for the episodes which are really, really terrible.
I can't see it. Blakes 7 was cheesy dialogue, cheesy sets, cheesy stories, and especially cheesy acting. The appeal of Blakes 7 was that it was crummy. It was high camp.
If it gets done again, and done well, that will drain all the charm out of it.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thursday, May 01 2008 10:15 PM (+rSRq)
Who knows, it might not even make it to air. We'll see.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 02 2008 12:03 AM (PiXy!)
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Steven, you just described the attraction of Doctor Who as well. And yet, the remake is not half-bad.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Friday, May 02 2008 09:35 AM (xC579)
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Well I've also enjoyed the remake, especially David Tennant and Billie Piper who made a great team.
I am now going through the first series of Torchwood - I didn't see the beginning of it on TV so when I watch some it didn't make sense - until I got the DVD's and started from the beginning. Some parts of the story lines are a bit far fetched, but otherwise great character building and very enjoyable. Much different from traditional Doctor Who - closer to Buffy.
Posted by: Kean at Friday, May 02 2008 12:33 PM (pyMkY)
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Yep. I watched one epsiode on TV with you - I think it was Fear Her - and it just happened to be of the few bad ones. So I never bothered to watch any more until recently.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 02 2008 01:09 PM (PiXy!)
