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Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition
Chapter 50
Yes, but that would mean —
Would mean what?
Well, for one thing, it might mean that all these people here were just an epilogue to the human race, a brief coda.
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Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition
Chapter 50
Someone was coming up the street, turning sideways to slip between a dump truck that had stalled with two of its wheels on the pavement and the wall of a restaurant called the Pearl Street Kitchen. He had a light jacket slung over one shoulder and was carrying something in one hand that was either a bottle or a gun with a long barrel. In the other hand he had a sheet of paper, probably with an address written on it from the way he was checking street numbers. At last he stopped in front of their building. He was looking at the door as if trying to decide what to do next. Frannie thought he looked a little like a private detective in some old TV series. She was standing less than twenty feet above his head, and she found herself in one of those situations. If she called him, she might scare him. If she didn’t, he might start knocking and wake Stuart up. And what was he doing with a gun in his hand anyway… if it was a gun?
He suddenly craned his neck and looked up, probably to see if any lights were on in the building. Frannie was still looking down. They peered directly into each other’s eyes.
“Holy God!” the man on the sidewalk cried. He took an involuntary step backward, went off the sidewalk into the gutter, and sat down hard.
“Oh!” Frannie said at the same moment, and took her own step backward on the balcony. There was a spider-plant in a large pottery vase on a pedestal behind her. Frannie’s behind struck it. It tottered, almost decided to live a little longer, and then defenestrated itself on the balcony’s slate flags with a loud crash.
In the bedroom, Stu grunted, turned over, and was still again.
Frannie, perhaps predictably, was seized with the giggles. She put both hands over her mouth and pinched viciously at her lips, but the giggles came out anyway in a series of hoarse little whispers. Grace strikes again, she thought, and whisper-giggled madly into her cupped hands. If he’d had a guitar I could have dropped the damned vase on his head. O sole mio… CRASH! Her belly hurt from trying to hold in the giggles.
A conspiratorial whisper wafted its way up from below: “Hey, you… you on the balcony… psssst! ”
“Pssst,” Frannie whispered to herself. “Pssst, oh great.”
She had to get out before she started hee-hawing away like a donkey. She had never been able to hold in her laughter once it got hold of her. She ran fleetly across the darkened bedroom, snatched a more substantial—and demure—wrapper from the back of the bathroom door, and went down the hall struggling it on, her face working like a rubber mask. She let herself out onto the landing and got down one flight before the laughter escaped her and flew free. She went down the lower two flights cackling wildly.
The man—a young man, she saw now—had picked him self up and was brushing himself off. He was slim and well built, most of his face covered with a beard that might be blond or possibly sandy-red by daylight. There were dark circles under his eyes, but he was smiling a rueful little smile.
“What did you knock over?” he asked. “It sounded like a piano.”
“It was a vase,” she said. “It… it…” But then the giggles caught her again and she could only point a finger at him and laugh quietly and shake her head and then hold her aching belly again. Tears rolled down her cheeks. “You really looked funny… I know that’s a hell of a thing to say to somebody you just met but… oh, my! You did!”
“If this was the old days,” he said, grinning, “my next move would be to sue you for at least a quarter of a million. Whiplash. Judge, I looked up and this young woman was peering down at me. Yes, I believe she was making a face. Her face was on, at any rate. We find for the plaintiff, this poor boy. Also for the bailiff. There will be a ten-minute recess.”
They laughed together a little. The young man was wearing clean faded jeans and a dark blue shirt. The summer night was warm and kind, and Frannie was beginning to be glad she had come out.
“Your name wouldn’t happen to be Fran Goldsmith, would it?”
“It so happens. But I don’t know you.”
“Larry Underwood. We just came in today. Actually, I was looking for a fellow named Harold Lauder. They said he was living at 261 Pearl along with Stu Redman and Frannie Goldsmith and some other people.”
That dried her giggles up. “Harold was in the building when we first got to Boulder, but he split quite a while ago. He’s on Arapahoe now, on the west side of town. I can give you his address if you want it, and directions.”
“I’d appreciate that. But I’ll wait until tomorrow to go over, I guess. I’m not risking this action again.”
“Do you know Harold?”
“I do and I don’t—the same way I do and don’t know you. Although I have to be honest and say you don’t look the way I pictured you. In my mind I saw you as a Valkyrie-type blonde right out of a Frank Frazetta painting, probably with a .45 on each hip. But I’m pleased to meet you any way.” He stuck out his hand and Frannie shook it with a bewildered little smile.
“I’m afraid I don’t have the slightest idea what you’re talking about.”
“Sit down on the curb a minute and I’ll tell you.”
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/coda
Dictionary.com
coda
a concluding section or part, especially one of a conventional form and serving as a summation of preceding themes, motifs, etc., as in a work of literature or drama.
anything that serves as a concluding part.
coda in Culture
coda definition
An ending to a piece of music, standing outside the formal structure of the piece. Coda is the Italian word for “tail.”
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Source Code (2011)
Quotes
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Colter Stevens: [to Goodwin] If you're reading this e-mail, then Source Code works
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STARGATE WIKI
2.16 "The Fifth Race" [ Stargate SG-1 ]
O'NEILL
I'm back.
DANIEL
What happened?
TEAL'C
Do you still possess the knowledge of the Ancients?
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STARGATE WIKI
2.16 "The Fifth Race" [ Stargate SG-1 ]
CARTER
Sir, the new Stargates did not come from the Abydos cartouche data that we put in.
HAMMOND
But that's the only reference we have, isn't it?
CARTER
The Colonel must've input new Stargate locations into the computer.
DANIEL
(To O'Neill)
Well, I guess that thing must've downloaded more that a language into your brain. That circular inscription read 'the place of our legacy'. What if that thing you looked into was some sort of alien database, like the one we found on Ernest's planet, all the knowledge that these particular aliens possessed?
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Springfield! Springfield!
Halt and Catch Fire
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Here's the interesting part.
Just to avoid doing it, they ended up using a sophisticated Ethernet encode and streaming data over line they were using to steal pay television.
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CNE
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NetWare
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NetWare is a computer network operating system developed by Novell, Inc. It initially used cooperative multitasking to run various services on a personal computer, using the IPX network protocol.
The original NetWare product in 1983 supported clients running both CP/M and MS-DOS, ran over a proprietary star network topology and was based on a Novell-built file server using the Motorola 68000 processor, but the company soon moved away from building its own hardware, and NetWare became hardware-independent, running on any suitable Intel-based IBM PC compatible system, and a wide range of network cards. From the beginning NetWare implemented a number of features inspired by mainframe and minicomputer systems that were not available in its competitors.
In the early 1990s, Novell introduced separate cheaper networking products, unrelated to classic NetWare. These were NetWare Lite 1.0 (NWL), and later Personal NetWare 1.0 (PNW) in 1993.
In 1993 the main product line took a dramatic turn when Version 4 introduced NetWare Directory Services (NDS), a global directory service similar to Microsoft's Active Directory released seven years later. This, along with a new e-mail system, GroupWise, application configuration suite, ZENworks, and security product BorderManager were all targeted at the needs of large enterprises.
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PEARSON
A Brief Summary of Ethernet
Ethernet dates back to the late 1960s, when Norman Abramson designed the University of Hawaii's Aloha radio network. It connected the IBM mainframe on the island of Oahu to the other islands and ships at sea.
Bob Metcalfe was working for Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the early 1970s. He stumbled across the earlier work of Abramson during his task to connect the ALTO (first PC with a graphical user interface) to ARPANET. The Alto Aloha Network first ran in 1973, and Bob Metcalfe talked about the physical medium as ether. The original Ethernet bandwidth was 2.94 Mbps.
Today, Ethernet works over various speeds (10, 100, 1000, and 10,000 Mbps) and over a multitude of media types such as coax, twisted pair, fiber, and wireless.
10-Mbps Ethernet
The 2.94-Mbps Xerox Ethernet set the stage for Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and Digital Intel Xerox (DIX) Ethernet. In 1980 Xerox along with Digital and Intel published DIX Ethernet version 1. This same consortium published DIX version 2 (Ethernet II) around 1982. Before the final standards were in place, Metcalfe was off in another entrepreneurial venture helping 3Com productize Ethernet with Ethernet NICs and other devices.
About the same time the DIX specs were published, the IEEE 802 project formed. According to grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/overview2000.pdf, the first meeting of the IEEE local network standards committee was in February 1980. This is certainly an easy way to remember the 802 standards (1980, February). The IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD Ethernet standard was first published in 1985. By the late 1980s, Ethernet gained international recognition by the ISO through standard IS88023.
The 10-Mbps Ethernet standards are categorized as follows:
10BASE5
10BASE2
10BASE-T
10BASE-FL
10BASE-FB
10BASE-FP
The majority of Ethernet networks use baseband signaling as in 10BASE5, which means that all stations share the same frequency channel. A broadband network is more like cable TV where different services communicate across different channels (frequencies). Think of band as a range of frequencies. In sharing the band, one can take turns using the entire band (baseband/time-division multiplexing [TDM]) or divide the band into multiple frequency channels (broadband/frequency-division multiplexing [FDM]). With baseband, for instance, there are time slots for data, voice, and video. With broadband, however, data, voice, and video are more simultaneous. Each one runs at a different frequency, which means that all stations utilize a shared limited frequency range.
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