Oh, Jeremy – it looks like we’re not out of the woods yet. The LHC hasn’t actually smashed anything yet.
Now, I’m not in the “end of the universe” crowd, but I can see the naysayers crying that the enthusiasm of the LHC backers over a “successful” startup is just a cover up ploy.
Andrea – Ike will have long cleared out by the time to come down here. Actually, It’s more likely to be swinging through Chicago while you’re in Texas, so your timing may prove perfect.
Came home from the office this morning to find a note in my mailbox from some stranger wanting to pick apples from my tree. I phoned him up and said yes. Now expecting some strange man to be prowling around my front yard later today :)
The biggest hole (pun intended) in the LHC doomsayer’s theories is that these collisions happen all the time. The LHC is just a tool for allowing us to control and observe these collisions.
Great review by ZP. I’ve avoided “Too Human” based on the reviews. It’s too bad because “Eternal Darkness” was all kinds of awesome and I agree with ZP that it is insane they avoided making a sequel of that. Hell, they could upgrade and port it to the new gen of consoles and still make money on it.
I refuse to upgrade when it’s actually a downgrade. This means I’m often stuck several versions back. Example: I play my audio with winamp 2.8. Really.
If I could find something open source that actually worked, I’d use that.
Jeremy: looked up songbird. Sounds like it does what I refused the new winamps (and others) for. It goes skynet with the damn net.
I hate programs that dial home. I sure won’t use one that tries to spend more time online than I do, hogging resources and doing pure evil besides. Ick.
I got the BSOD with vista. Although it restarted itself and gave me a very polite message, telling me it had a BSOD, and was restoring my session of windows.
It crashes a lot, but it’s more polite about it. The old error messages always reamed the user, which only made you angrier.
Working in the software industry I’ve long realized that all companies are evil. It’s just that since M$ is at the top of the pack they get picked on more than others.
Ed – quite true, it does look like we will miss Ike completely. Gustav on the other hand pissed on Chicago quite a bit. That was a bad day :( Of course seeing what hurricane’s do to the coasts versus the insane thunderstorm we get, I think i have nothing to complain about.
RE:LHC
I think that it will take a few of weeks for the world to end after it starts smashing those Hedrons. This is because the black holes it will create are very small. Size of a pin type things that will orbit the earths core.
Could take days before the first few manage to randomly come in contact with (and pass through at hypervelocity) the first humans. Of course know one will know that they have been reemed by a micro blak hole. They will just suddenly feel this sharp pain throught their body. It won’t be until one of these people manages to get some sort of MRI that they will discover the tiny scar-tissue trail that seems to pass from one side of their body to another.
Still, no one will link this to the LHC even as there will start to be a rash of strange and unexplained failures of otherwise very healthy computers and other machines. Caused by lucky (or unlucky) strikes from the increasing number of these tiny unstoppable phenom.
Eventually a savvy sci-fi writer will figure it all out but by then these black holes will have begun generating their own black holes as their deadly orbits have brought them into collision with “free range” Hedrons.
By now the swarm of tiny death will have started to fatally “swiss cheese” the earths interior as well as those on it’s surface.
… or so it went in the Sci-Fi story I read about 20 years ago.
I think in Omni Magazine.
So far iTunes 8 has been good. It downloaded new podcasts last night and transferred them to my iPod. My only issue was it wanting to display my content as icons instead of the old list format, easily fixed. I too deactivated the genius bar, although I think Ed might get a great deal of use from it.
I feel like a productive pseudo-podcaster tonight! I finished editing all my lines for “Questors” Episode 2, and the first two minutes of the episode are all put together. I’m about to fall asleep here, so, good night! :-)
Yeah, iTunes 8 doesn’t impress me much over the old one, the genius sidebar is “unable to recommend music at this time” as it has since I installed it, wow what a feature.
But it has always worked solidly for me, as a Mac owner with 3 iPods, I see no reason to use anything else…
Well, friends. Ike has me in his sights and we’ve received the mandatory evacutation order for 8am. Knowing what a mess that’s going to be, we’re getting ready to roll out for my parents place within the hour. I’ll check in tomorrow some time from there.
I’m in a ‘I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy’ mood. One of the programmers that created one of my fav games from the early 80′s is posting in a forum I read.
… I wonder how Alvie feels about anything! :/
Alvie ???
Was/is Alice in Chains and Stone Temple Pilots the same band?
No
I survived the upgrade to iTunes 8 ™.
Today in history: Gandalf escapes from Orthanc
http://chronita.com/
DLing iTunes 8…we shall see …
I guess we survived the black hole possibility. The Large Halderon Collider is running and seemingly working.
http://tinyurl.com/6evxwe
Good news Ditto, I’ll upgrade later.
Mad Men fan here, the dinner scene was almost painful to watch, great scene.
Ive read “Singularity Sky” and “Iron Sunrise.” He writes well, but it takes a little getting into his style and universe.
I’m currently reading “Century Rain” by Alistair Reynolds (like 40 page left). He’s one of my faves and I love the Revelation Space universe.
An extra scene too much.
They haven’t started colliding anything larger than protons yet.
JfS: There was never a black-hole possibility with the LHC.
Oh, Jeremy – it looks like we’re not out of the woods yet. The LHC hasn’t actually smashed anything yet.
Now, I’m not in the “end of the universe” crowd, but I can see the naysayers crying that the enthusiasm of the LHC backers over a “successful” startup is just a cover up ploy.
So, I wonder when the real action does begin.
Andrea – Ike will have long cleared out by the time to come down here. Actually, It’s more likely to be swinging through Chicago while you’re in Texas, so your timing may prove perfect.
Morning Deadpan!
Came home from the office this morning to find a note in my mailbox from some stranger wanting to pick apples from my tree. I phoned him up and said yes. Now expecting some strange man to be prowling around my front yard later today :)
Here’s an interesting take on McCain’s VP choice from the perspective of military strategy:
http://www.d-n-i.net/dni/2008/09/01/is-mccain-inside-obamas-ooda-loop/
The biggest hole (pun intended) in the LHC doomsayer’s theories is that these collisions happen all the time. The LHC is just a tool for allowing us to control and observe these collisions.
I think it amazing that it will take a year before the LHC is fully powered up. Kinda reminds me of Ghostbusters. ;)
“Why worry? Each of us is carrying an untested nuclear accelerator on his back. Switch me on, Ray.”
OMG, guys! I almost forgot to tell you that I was flipping channels last night and came across this nightmare of a game show:
http://tinyurl.com/6hpvvj
Have you heard of Hole in the Wall? It’s absurd!
ZP takes an axe to ‘Too Human’:
http://tinyurl.com/6dovj4
The real reason why Mario went to all that trouble:
http://tinyurl.com/5bmu8l
or even:
http://tinyurl.com/5bmu8l
Crap, anti tinyurl.com alert:
http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=31464
Van: That was awesome!
I think I found the “presented by Burger King” the strangest part of that.
Great review by ZP. I’ve avoided “Too Human” based on the reviews. It’s too bad because “Eternal Darkness” was all kinds of awesome and I agree with ZP that it is insane they avoided making a sequel of that. Hell, they could upgrade and port it to the new gen of consoles and still make money on it.
Upgrading to version 8 of iTunes, heart in mouth mode.
Think I had better have a cup of tea to calm my nerves.
I’m going to let you guys be the guinea pigs for the new Itunes this time.
I refuse to upgrade when it’s actually a downgrade. This means I’m often stuck several versions back. Example: I play my audio with winamp 2.8. Really.
If I could find something open source that actually worked, I’d use that.
So far I like it. May not activate the Genius bar though.
I KNOW we weren’t going to be gobbled by a little black hole. It was for teh_funneh.
Marlodianne, have you tried Songbird?
Thoughts on iTunes Genius are mixed:
http://answers.polldaddy.com/viewPoll.aspx?view=results&id=916201&msg=voted
So many links to click, but no time!
I don’t know what this freaking insane day is going to mean for tonight’s Deadpan.
I’m still waiting for the Maximillian robot to emerge from the Hadron Collider.
OK, back into the madness.
CP: Give up on Ghosts – Computer vs. Banjo (I really dig this tune)
Worth a giggle:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/09/10/funny-pictures-when-i-woke-up-at-the-vet/
CP: Tongue Tied — Jesus Jones
Picked up Spore yesterday. Am enjoying it so far. What little I’ve played of it.
BSOD on Vista machines according to Engadget..aarrrggghhh!
Oh well there is a work around if it happens.
OMG. We’ve got a bigger problem than the LHC!!! WHAT IS IN OUR WATER SUPPLY?!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6HsiixFS8
Jeremy: looked up songbird. Sounds like it does what I refused the new winamps (and others) for. It goes skynet with the damn net.
I hate programs that dial home. I sure won’t use one that tries to spend more time online than I do, hogging resources and doing pure evil besides. Ick.
I got the BSOD with vista. Although it restarted itself and gave me a very polite message, telling me it had a BSOD, and was restoring my session of windows.
It crashes a lot, but it’s more polite about it. The old error messages always reamed the user, which only made you angrier.
Although I never had windows 2000 crash. Not once.
Sigh.
Every version of Windows that I’ve used has crashed on me. Repeatedly. But I tend to stress most OS’s that I use.
CP: Underground — Moist
You can put lipstick on a Microsoft, but it’s still a Microsoft.
I believe that lipstick is offensive to everybody.
How about chap stick?
About to pass halfway on my Gutenberg project. Fixing OCR and setting their ascii standards is slooooooooooooooow…
Lip gloss may be approved for medical reasons only. On doctor’s note.
Not a great fan of MS, but the way Apple gets aways with a load of crap cos their products look cool constantly amazes me.
So the next you get shafted by an Apple product, smile and start singing ‘It’s Cool for Cats’…
No lipstick. . .? Hmm, that might be why I’ve been having computer troubles . .
Working in the software industry I’ve long realized that all companies are evil. It’s just that since M$ is at the top of the pack they get picked on more than others.
Conference call. Amuse yourself with Adam Savage playing with gas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-XbjFn3aqE
For those of you who support Obama, here’s a funny for you’s. I made it today.
http://www.x-dezyn.com/temp/mcsame_failin.jpg
JfS: that’s funny, no matter who you support. Well done, sir.
but, but, but…I love my lipstick!!! :(
*sobs*
Jeremy thats hi-larious
Ed – quite true, it does look like we will miss Ike completely. Gustav on the other hand pissed on Chicago quite a bit. That was a bad day :( Of course seeing what hurricane’s do to the coasts versus the insane thunderstorm we get, I think i have nothing to complain about.
TSHs are here!
But I have to disappear for awhile.
Stay dry, everyone (will that comment get perverted? We’ll see ;) )
Good one, JfS!
This one is dedicated to JOe:
CP: Hot Cha – TMBG
[going there]
Oh, I’m never dry when your around, Jack
[/going there]
Wha Huh?!?!
I detected John and John.
I’m with Ed on the iTunes 8 thing.
I’m going to give it a couple of weeks and see if there is a rash of skull explosions.
Nice, JFS.
RE:LHC
I think that it will take a few of weeks for the world to end after it starts smashing those Hedrons. This is because the black holes it will create are very small. Size of a pin type things that will orbit the earths core.
Could take days before the first few manage to randomly come in contact with (and pass through at hypervelocity) the first humans. Of course know one will know that they have been reemed by a micro blak hole. They will just suddenly feel this sharp pain throught their body. It won’t be until one of these people manages to get some sort of MRI that they will discover the tiny scar-tissue trail that seems to pass from one side of their body to another.
Still, no one will link this to the LHC even as there will start to be a rash of strange and unexplained failures of otherwise very healthy computers and other machines. Caused by lucky (or unlucky) strikes from the increasing number of these tiny unstoppable phenom.
Eventually a savvy sci-fi writer will figure it all out but by then these black holes will have begun generating their own black holes as their deadly orbits have brought them into collision with “free range” Hedrons.
By now the swarm of tiny death will have started to fatally “swiss cheese” the earths interior as well as those on it’s surface.
… or so it went in the Sci-Fi story I read about 20 years ago.
I think in Omni Magazine.
Well I didn’t get the BSOD after the upgrade (but I did have photo syncing off).
Didn’t bother switching Genius on, and so far, so good.
Well David Brin’s Earth, had an alien created black hole gobbling up the Earth…well until the novel’s protagonist does…
I don’t know JOe. Sounds to me that these micro black holes could be the new tready weight lose break through.
Talk about sucking it in. *rimshot*
HERE IT IS FOLKS!!!!
Video from the first test of the Large Hadron Collider !!!!!
http://tinyurl.com/5rhph6
So far iTunes 8 has been good. It downloaded new podcasts last night and transferred them to my iPod. My only issue was it wanting to display my content as icons instead of the old list format, easily fixed. I too deactivated the genius bar, although I think Ed might get a great deal of use from it.
I feel like a productive pseudo-podcaster tonight! I finished editing all my lines for “Questors” Episode 2, and the first two minutes of the episode are all put together. I’m about to fall asleep here, so, good night! :-)
Yeah, iTunes 8 doesn’t impress me much over the old one, the genius sidebar is “unable to recommend music at this time” as it has since I installed it, wow what a feature.
But it has always worked solidly for me, as a Mac owner with 3 iPods, I see no reason to use anything else…
Oh, yeah guess I have recording for Effpiem, an I think I promised a DAM a few weeks back, oughta deliver.
But got my Angel Between the Lines script in on time (one of four that did so out of the 12…).
So a positive iTunes 8 review from lostralph. mehs from a few others, and “not touching that” from a few of us.
OK, I have no idea how 104 is gonna turn out. Here goes.
Have fun storming the podcast, Jack! :)
Well, friends. Ike has me in his sights and we’ve received the mandatory evacutation order for 8am. Knowing what a mess that’s going to be, we’re getting ready to roll out for my parents place within the hour. I’ll check in tomorrow some time from there.
Good luck Ed! Best wishes for reals.
I’m reminded of that Winston Churchill speech in regards to DP 104.
Good luck Ed and Morning Pan.
The wait for DP 104 begins…
I’m in a ‘I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy’ mood. One of the programmers that created one of my fav games from the early 80′s is posting in a forum I read.
cough
Good luck Ed!