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[Urwumpe]

You know, that you should spend more time sleeping and less time studying Operations Research, when you start comparing the Viable System Model of Stafford Beer to the descriptions of the planned economy used by the Clans in BattleTech and realize that again the number five is dominant...

There are five inhabited star systems in the Pentagon cluster, which had been the first five world colonized after the first Exodus of the Star League Defense Force, there are five castes in the Clans, a star has five points, a Bloodname initially had 25 (5²) Bloodrights.... and the VSM defines five systems and applies well to a need-oriented economy with strong focus on survival and limited resources like described in the novels. And its as recursive as described...

(But I doubt any author in the Battletech franchise did even know that VSM existed)

 

[Andy44]

And a cluster consists of 5 stars, and a galaxy 5 clusters.

Also, a point of elementals consists of 5 soldiers in powered armor...

I really miss playing BattleTech sometimes. Used to be a blast at game conventions back in the 90s. Still have my stuff in a closet.

Also wondering why nobody has ever made a good B-tech movie. Some of the novels were really good, especially the Aidan Pryde trilogy and follow-ons. Horse and Joanna were my favorite characters in that universe.

 

[jedidia]

If there's one major criticism I have for Netflix, then it's that they're doing an awful job at letting you know about newly available stuff.
I was randomly browsing through the list today, and saw... Cowboy Bebop! How long has it been sitting there without me noticing? This is AWESOME!

 

[PhantomCruiser]

They hit mode 4 last night and should hit mode 3 tonight. Blowing steam out of the roof of the valve vault room. The "to-do" list is finally something managable.

 

[Andy44]

If there's one major criticism I have for Netflix, then it's that they're doing an awful job at letting you know about newly available stuff.
I was randomly browsing through the list today, and saw... Cowboy Bebop! How long has it been sitting there without me noticing? This is AWESOME!

I recently binge-watched the entire series at the suggestion of a friend. Good show that.

The same friend also told me to watch Ghost in the Shell, which I did just prior to the recent live-action version. I can see why people liked it so much.

 

[SolarLiner]

If there's one major criticism I have for Netflix, then it's that they're doing an awful job at letting you know about newly available stuff.

Netflix emails me from time to time with new stuff and recommendations. Also on my mobile phone, the app sends notifications when new stuff is available.

 

[jedidia]

Yeah great. I would just like to see it on the website. No emails or apps for me, thank you very much.

 

[Andy44]

Found the solution to the Fermi Paradox: Zombies.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.8146

 

[Ravenous]

Found the solution to the Fermi Paradox: Zombies.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.8146

"Now that your trousers are presumably the appropriate shade of brown, we must determine how the SNAP planets may be detected remotely and thus avoid them like ... well, the plague."

What a bizarre paper - not sure if it's funny or just dumb. Just shows you can't believe everything you read on the Arxiv.

Think I'll have to google the authors and see if they ever wrote anything else...

(By the way I did check the date. 29 April so a little late for April Fools?)

 

[Urwumpe]

(By the way I did check the date. 29 April so a little late for April Fools?)

Initially, it was submitted on 31th March. :lol:

 

[Andy44]

"Now that your trousers are presumably the appropriate shade of brown, we must determine how the SNAP planets may be detected remotely and thus avoid them like ... well, the plague."

What a bizarre paper - not sure if it's funny or just dumb. Just shows you can't believe everything you read on the Arxiv.

Think I'll have to google the authors and see if they ever wrote anything else...

(By the way I did check the date. 29 April so a little late for April Fools?)

I believe it was an in-joke at NASA. A few years ago when zombie movies and TV shows were all the rage a few US government agencies jumped on the bandwagon. I believe the Center for Disease Control used a zombie virus outbreak as an example of how they would handle a real virus, and someone at the Pentagon published a joke PowerPoint slide show regarding a zombie outbreak as a threat to national security.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Bailed out of work early yesterday. The kiddo and I went to see Post Modern Jukebox. Great show, lots of fun. We both highly recommend it.

 

[steph]

Headcrabs anyone ? (Half-Life). Found them during a visit to an Aquarium. Forgot the name of the species though.

 

[C3PO]

Headcrabs anyone ? (Half-Life). Found them during a visit to an Aquarium. Forgot the name of the species though.

Aaaaw!

 

[Urwumpe]

Headcrabs anyone ? (Half-Life). Found them during a visit to an Aquarium. Forgot the name of the species though.

Should be stingray eggs.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Should be stingray eggs.

Shark egg cases look similar, I believe.

 

[Urwumpe]

Shark egg cases look similar, I believe.

Yes, but only for those sharks, that lay eggs. Catsharks for example. But those look different. The correct English term for the species here would be skate. Never knew it before, my dictionary only knew ray. :lol:

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Does anyone know if there is a mobile version of O-F? I'm traveling for a while and while useable it's a little clunky on the phone.

 

[Artlav]

Does anyone know if there is a mobile version of O-F?

Hm? For me it just show up as a mobile version automatically on a phone unless explicitly asked not to.

 

[Linguofreak]

Does anyone know if there is a mobile version of O-F? I'm traveling for a while and while useable it's a little clunky on the phone.

I know I've seen it, don't know how to get to it from the desktop site. I fled screaming for the desktop site because I find desktop sites are almost universally more mobile friendly than mobile sites or apps that purport to provide a mobile-friendly interface to a given website.

Every once in a while you'll run across bad code in a desktop site that causes a button not to activate when tapped on a mobile device, or some other such bug, and in some cases those issues are so pervasive on a site as to make the desktop site unusable, but the visual layout of such sites is almost always more mobile friendly than the associated mobile site or app, if the code behind it only worked.

The only significant thing that mobile devices have legitimate trouble with on desktop sites (as opposed to "dear web designer, fix your code" trouble) is mouseover text. As a result, I read xkcd through an app on mobile, but with pretty much every other site I visit on a regular basis from my phone, I use the desktop site exclusively.