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[Urwumpe]

It doesn't know the difference between a crow and a goose!

So, even the essential question of wether it can tell apart a European swallow from an African swallow is not guaranteed? :blink:

 

[Notebook]

If it can measure the velocity, it should be ok.

N.

 

[Urwumpe]

If it can measure the velocity, it should be ok.

N.

But what if it does not anticipate its unladen velocity correctly? Can it acquire a radar lock then?

 

[Notebook]

The article doesn't specify the tracking system, if its visual then its easy, the European Swallow is a freighter version, the African passenger. So if it has a standard ISO container on its back its a European Swallow:

For clarification:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_DH_108

 

[jedidia]

You guys are beating a dead parrot... :shifty:

 

[Urwumpe]

You guys are beating a dead parrot... :shifty:

I will not buy this record, it is scratched. :dry:

 

[mojoey]

Well, does it know the difference between a crow and a Eurofighter Typhoon? :lol:

Well...the crow gets off the ground. I'd say that's a big enough difference.

 

[Andy44]

Well...the crow gets off the ground. I'd say that's a big enough difference.

Savage.

 

[C3PO]

You guys are beating a dead parrot... :shifty:

I'm sure it's just pining for the fjords.

 

[Andy44]

Blade Runner 2049 has gotten me obsessed with the Blade Runner franchise lately.

I finally got around to reading the Philip K. Dick novel that started it all, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I am usually a huge fan of anything Dick wrote, but I have to say I'm very glad the movie strayed from the novel's storyline and characterization.

 

[jedidia]

I am usually a huge fan of anything Dick wrote

You ever read "the oracle on the mountain"? :lol:

 

[Andy44]

You ever read "the oracle on the mountain"? :lol:

Doesn't ring a bell. Mostly I read his short stories.

 

[jedidia]

Doesn't ring a bell. Mostly I read his short stories.

It's probably the weirdest thing I've ever read. Like, I have no idea what that book is supposed to be about.

 

[n122vu]

Well...the crow gets off the ground. I'd say that's a big enough difference.

A wild mojoey appears!

Boy, you don't see many of them around these parts lately...

 

[Andy44]

It's probably the weirdest thing I've ever read. Like, I have no idea what that book is supposed to be about.

Well. Dick was known for doing a lot of drugs, so that's not surprising, I'll have to check it out.

Most of his stories deal with people being unsure of what reality is, or what their identity is. The whole Blade Runner thing deals with Replicants being so close to being natural humans that one can't tell the difference.

One of his stories deals with a guy who accidentally discovers he is an android one day while getting ready for work, he finds an access panel on his chest and inside his chest there is a tape drive running. He figures out he can alter the universe as he knows it by editing and splicing the tape.

The story Total Recall is based on deals with the fact that the main character can't tell if his memories are real or not. (So, again, does Blade Runner; both Racheal and K have crises regarding memories that may or may not be real).

The odd thing about Blade Runner is that it is more like a Dick story than Dick's actual story. In that case, Ridley Scott beat him at his own game. The novel's Deckard is never uncertain that he is an actual human, and the book's androids never really get human enough to become totally sympathetic characters the way that Racheal does.

 

[Linguofreak]

Most metal syslog entry ever:

Out of memory: Kill process 2350 (nginx) score 729 or sacrifice child

I like how it suggests that the system will magically have more memory if you sacrifice a child... :rofl:

Unix people have been making jokes for *decades* about the type of strange looks / calls to the police you might get if you discuss things like killing zombie children in the presence of people who don't know what those words mean in the context of managing a Unix system.

Of course, these days, people might just think that you're enthusiastically discussing a Walking Dead episode. I'm not sure what that says for our culture...

 

[jedidia]

Most of his stories deal with people being unsure of what reality is

The oracle is no different, there's just... no point to it that I remember. It's multiple personal stories in an alternate timeline where the Reich won the war and the US is occupied by Japan. The protagonists are a guy that fakes antiques for a living, some girl that is having a fling and goes on a road trip with a guy that turns out to be an asasin (Who then gets assasinated), and a Japanese director that is having hallucinations of the actual timeline bleeding into the timeline of the book. Somehow they all end up at the "oracle", who is some guy, and have a chat about something, but nothing profound enough for me to remember... While the stories and characterisations of the protagonists are pretty interesting as far as I remember, and the world building is pretty good, I can't for the life of me remember an actual narrative point to it all.

 

[statickid]

You're describing "The Man in the High Castle" :blink:

It must have different names in different countries... learn something new every day.


EDIT:

If you want to be REALLY confused read Valis and then the Exegenisis of Philip K. Dick

The oracle is no different, there's just... no point to it that I remember. It's multiple personal stories in an alternate timeline where the Reich won the war and the US is occupied by Japan. The protagonists are a guy that fakes antiques for a living, some girl that is having a fling and goes on a road trip with a guy that turns out to be an asasin (Who then gets assasinated), and a Japanese director that is having hallucinations of the actual timeline bleeding into the timeline of the book. Somehow they all end up at the "oracle", who is some guy, and have a chat about something, but nothing profound enough for me to remember... While the stories and characterisations of the protagonists are pretty interesting as far as I remember, and the world building is pretty good, I can't for the life of me remember an actual narrative point to it all.

 

[jedidia]

You're describing "The Man in the High Castle"

Indeed. It's called "Das Orakel auf dem Berge" in german, and I didn't dig out the book to look up the original title.

If you want to be REALLY confused read Valis and then the Exegenisis of Philip K. Dick

You mean there's still weirder stuff? I don't even...

 

[PhantomCruiser]

RUmor has it Unit 2 will start putting fuel back in the pot sometime today.