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If that scared you, wait until you have an actual update failure.
Had (and still have) an expensive HP printer, inherited through an office shutdown, that had been working fine forever...for sh*t and giggles one day I went out looking for updates...sure enough, it was years behind. So I grabbed the latest...and it essentially bricked the printer.
I don't recall the procedure, but I did manage to force it to revert back to the original firmware, which might have involved some voodoo, black magic and the sacrifice of a virgin to a volcano god.
The printer's still working fine...too bad about the virgin.
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Next time you feel like sacrificing a virgin: Give me a call!
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Why, you're feeling suicidal?
(zing!)
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Aaaargh! You got me. Mommy, please bury me under the peach tree in the valley.
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Rats!
My hosts file blocks most commercials. Consequently I don't see much on this site. Sorry!
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Bah.. lots of blah blah and a link to a Flash game.
I just shared because I was googling "escape meeting" and I found this game!
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Other series I'd like to see done for TV - and properly, please - Niven's Known Space novels, Zelazny's Amber books, anything by Eddings, Orson Scott Card (but not a crappy movie like last time).
Probably too high quality for most companies though.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Amber! Yes! I'm surprised it hasn't been tried already. It's got everything shows like that need - pretty people arguing, fight scenes (small, big, and immense), and a big chunk of existing content.
A few years back, I would have said they couldn't do Known Space on a TV budget, but The Expanse has been doing quite a nice job of it. It would make for a great series.
Belgariad? Yes please (see above about pretty people arguing)
Maybe even a Riverworld (no, there was never an earlier attempt. No. uh-uh. No how) or Thieves' World/Borderlands/Wild Cards.
TTFN - Kent
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Riverworld would be very good - but they'd have to be careful: Farmer also wrote the "Herald Childe" series which ... um ... isn't "Lounge material" if you know what I mean!
Couple of others: the "Culture" series, Chalker's "Well of Souls", Gibson? So many candidates ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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You know what else they should redo? Babylon 5 ... take the characters as they were in the last series - at their best - and put them back to the beginning. Then go through the Telepath War as well - there is so much they could do now that they couldn't then, and all the foreshadowing for it was in the original series in spades.
Gonna upset a load of purists, though!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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1000% upvote, but sadly, it would never be the same without the G'Kar and Londo actors. Their interactions were irreplacable.
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Honestly, it will be challenging to recreate the atmosphere of the books on screen. I can't wait to see what it is going to look like.
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So I'm taking this course "Design and Analysis of Algorithm" for my masters class and we were doing proofs for NP-complete problems. At the end of today's lecture my professor goes like "If you don't fall in love with these proofs then you should go and get your brain tested!"
Me: (since it's not my favorite subject)
Professor there's one problem. We love these proofs but they don't love us and you know one sided relationships always hurt.
Perhaps my personal life is affecting my academics in much worse way than I anticipated But at least I made the whole class laugh after a boring lecture (so proud of me)
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It is a no-side relationship, I suppose you don't love the proofs either.
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CPallini wrote: I suppose you don't love the proofs either
Ok you caught me there
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love is np-complete.
I'd rather be phishing!
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There you gave me another line to put on my next t-shirt
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How lucky you are to have Sheldon Cooper as teacher!
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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These algorithm stuff are the future..... you need to study them all asap !!! or your brain will explode !
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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A colleague of mine holds a Ph.D in optimization of SQL queries in distributed databases. He told that one of the first things he learned was that such optimization is an NP-complete problem. Working on, he realized that that is a gross oversimplification.
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Anyone know of a Linq To SQL repository example or app I can grab?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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