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Indeed, take Buffon's Needle Problem for instance. whoda thunk it.

3/4 water

1/12 dead bacteria

1/12 cellulose, fiber

1/12 cholesterol, phospates, live bacteria, dead cells, intestine mucus, proteins
All values aprox. more info about its composition here

Sorry...here's
the screenshot.

Here's an
OS/2 screenshot...

Soon we'll be seeing the techie equivalent of a swiss army knife.

For example, no games to speak of use BASIC

What? Telengard was written in Basic; I remember one of my first true hacker moments was discovering that if you saved and the tape drive was unplugged, the program would crash to the basic prompt, and you would be able to change the code. (Exp = Exp * 100 was a popular mod to add after killing a monster).

I've collected some thoughts not just on making a house that will last for a long time (though I think that's a great idea), but on households in general, at my angelfire site.

Always looking for new suggestions.

However, right now I don't live very much like the way I describe here, much to certain people's dissatisfaction ...

timothy

I, contrarily, am not so focused on the particulars of the performance's visual appearance,

Well, I am. According to what I was taught in comm courses and what this page corroborates, 93% of communication occurs non-verbally. Mainly, via body language and voice tone. Voice tones are closely related to facial expressions. Gollum is similar in form, but isn't human. I think, we make allowances for this disparity innately. Visual appearances serve to make you adopt a "mode of observation". A talking animal, irrespective of complexities of character, will never be as well appreciated apart from the novelty and wonder factor.

Science Club Rules

The 1st rule of Science is you don't talk about Science

The 2nd rule of Science is you don't talk about Science

The 3rd rule of Science is when someone says stop, or goes limp, the research is over

The 4th rule of Science is only two guys to a research project

The 5th rule of Science is one research project at a time.

The 6th rule of Science is no shirts, no shoes

The 7th rule of Science is research projects go on a long as they have to

The 8th and final rule of Science is if this is your first night, you have to do research

I've read about nuclear-explosion-powered space ships before. Project Orion, in the '60s, was a serious attempt at this. google for more links.

I'd rather collect Goldussssssst

A friend of mine had one of these for a while. I felt a bit better when he finally got rid of it and just learned how to play a keyboard.

someone like Adrian Belew or Allan Holdsworth has to say about it. They, and others, have been working with and actively using this type of technology for almost 2 decades. Roland had their GR-707 guitar synth out back in th early 80's. Sure it was rather low-tech by today's standards, but it sure was "out there" back then.

Up until the 1980s (but primarily in the 1950s), major radio stations produced audio dramas. Sometimes adaptations of books (including both of your examples, Treasure Island and Amontillado, and others of the ilk), sometimes pulp-magazine short stories, and sometimes originals.

A simple websearch for "OTR" or "Old Time Radio" will find many sources for digitized recordings- on CDROM, MP3, or streaming audio.

The providers / traders of these files seem to act as if the stuff is public domain. I guess they haven't heard of the Sonny Bono act. It's hard to blame them for ignoring the law- it seems quite silly to think that something broadcast in 1935 is still copyrighted.

In any event, the widespread availablity of last century's radio plays reduces the incentive for any modern group to work on reading Gutenberg texts aloud. No net.geek will do a better job than Orson Welles.

Heck, an incoming planet killing asteroid would tend to make the Orion project plausable.
Orion Project

My favorite is Big Beaver Airport in Michigan. I kid you not - Big Beaver is Exit 69 on Interstate 75.

Late entry into networking. Let Novell capture small business networking for many years.

Late entry into GUI interfaces. Let apple (and others) have a modern GUI interface years before a successfull MS version.

Late entry into IDEs (Integrated development environments). Borland was the first commercial success with Turbo Pascal (and incidentally the first successful TSR app called Sidekick).

Late entry into browsers. I can clearly remember using Mosaic and Netscape two years before I saw a decent MS browser.

Late entry into office suites. Can anyone say 1,2,3 or Wordstar?

Late entry into OSes. Gary Kildall had CPM long before Microsoft bought DOS from Tim Patterson.

Late entry into the ISP business. MSN is still behind.

IMHO, the only thing Gates, Ballmer etc are really good at is leveraging its monopoly position on Windows, and forcing OEMS to use its version of office suite, networking, browser, ISP etc. The rest of its technology is for the most part purchased, or stolen.

Douglas Hofstadter made a point about this with A Person Paper on Purity in Language. It was published in his book Metamagical Themas (which is mainly an annotated collection of his columns for Scientific American).

Wouldn't the bathroom of tomorrow have the three shells?

No you can't, unless you're impaired in some way.

Average speaking rate (in English) is 100-180 wpm. The world's fastest typist hit 212 wpm on a Dvorak keyboard. See also this

I took a quickie online typing test, one pass, 60 seconds, and here's my score. I'm a decent typist (better when coding). What's your score?

Percentage Accuracy : 100%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 0.8333333333333334%
Characters per minute : 360 cpm
Characters per second : 6 cps
Words per minute : 67 wpm
Words per second : 1 wps
Total Speed status : Too Good
Overall Accuracy : Absolutely Spot on

Dammit! Beat me to it.

I was going to link: here.

If they want to they can count Ultimate Blaster. I bet this is what they are doing. Counting all the freeware/shareware games out there in addition to the commercial releases. I wonder how much it is going to cost them to ship this box with Windows installed.

There's evidently an australian children's show called "Bananas in Pajamas," which has some rather nightmarish homoerotic(?) overtones.

I'm rather relieved that my Google search for "bananas pajamas porn" returned no results.

Get with the times man, these days people in the Linux community look like this. And yes, they get laid a lot.

...noone got the Ghostbusters quote:

Doctor Peter Venkman: This city is about to face a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical?"
Doctor Raymond Stantz: We mean real wrath-of-God type stuff. Plagues, darkness--
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Doctor Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes--
Doctor Peter Venkman: Riots in the streets, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!

The prime mover of the plot, the "Canopus plague", seems to be a reference to TSR's venerable RPG Gamma World.

for some reason, this post made me think of this powerpoint. It's pretty funny, memo to Osama from the Boeing chairman. Off-topic, I know, but funny nonetheless.

'Round here, I've taken to convincing my parents to sit down and watch "The Fellowship of the Ring" (which they're finally doing as I type this). The rest of the time, I'm sitting around, watching TV and chatting online. Nothing different from any other day, really. And the rest of the time will most likely be spent with my nose in my new Crichton novel, "Prey."

For New Years, my band (Tempered Edge, website coming soon) will be playing a party at my Fire Hall, which should be fun. My first time on stage in over 2 years, a place I've missed since my days with my roommate's band in Pittsburgh...

Lifted from here:

Dr. AlJohn Hammond (Richard Attenborough): "This is just a delay -- all major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked."

Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum): "Yeah, but John, if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists."

That design is so 1970s. ;)

Inuktitut writing [halfmoon.org] looks cryptic. Yet it was devised by whites, and designed to work well with the writing implements available to the inuit: bones and stones. They weren't forced to use the roman alphabet which they could not transcribe properly.

Fascinating web page; thanks for posting the link.

But, I couldn't resist abusing it. I'm very sorry...

[Cut and paste "http://www.angelfire.com/d20/roll_d3_for_this/inu ktitut-puzzle.gif" if AngelFire pulls its usual shennanigans. Kudos to the first person to decode it. I'd offer you a beer, but you'd throw it at me.]

I have been tracking said Slashdot metrics and found that there was a significant drop relating to some -Junis- activity.

Slurpees?

You could at least give credit where due ;)

Here's one of the nicer sites I've seen that has a java applet to simulate this.

I think you are refering to the Monte Carlo method of Pi calculation. Its specifically called the "Buffons needle" method. There is also a cool screensaver that utilizes this method to calculate Pi! Sweet, even in an idle state, my computer can still do something allmost useful!

Spike: And I should do what with my spare time? Sit at home knitting cunning sweater sets? Ep: Out of My Mind

Just in case people think I have way too much time on my hands, I did a Google search and this was at the top of the list.

I must say the spiral curve the guy did looks a bit hallucinogenic... maybe he was on something?

The great leader of the free world

Maybe I can be of some assistance. You may want to purchase a copy of The Big Bang Theory- A Personal View written by Eccentrica Gallumbits (the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six). It is published by Ursa Minor and does not sell quite as well as the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

It's quite clear if you look up "Universe" in the Guide link I have provided that the material for the Big Bang came from the spontaneous disappearance of a previous universe which someone had figured out.

There you go, now you are fulfilled.

similar to bit reduction decimation (look about halfway down the page for a quick explanation of decimation as an audio effect).

You can learn about Hello Kitty's sexual skills here.

Here's a book that may interest you, although it's incomplete.

As someone who understands, I say hang on, brother. Life has good things in store for us. You'll see.

According to the floorplan we have:
the Zen room,
2 bedrooms (really the same room with different lightbulbs - pink for sluts and blue for assholes),
the Master bedroom (chains included)
the living room where hobbits folk dance,
the dining room,
the Foyer, (why is the banister sticky?)
and the Library. (this man has no fucking neck!)

Note that Hobbit Holes don't have phones, asshole!

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Burt did, in fact, meet with Osama bin Laden.

Not only that, but giant Rabbits are real, fat cats can really fly, donkeys really do wear jetpacks , and yes, all your base really does belong to us.

Another prime example of bacterial space survival was found by Apollo 12 when it brought back parts of the unmanned Surveyor 3. Conrad's quote here has been censored, incidentally; his original quote was a little pithier...

I heard morphos screenshots have been banned from da web, but I managed to take my own screenmshotz(I got betatester). I got one only for now, but it give a great idea of possible. You cleArly can see that windows can have iregular sizes and fonts not fixed, also pointer is like this. Also dock is really nice and you canb see mos amp running(a new great players for morphos). It does not run in pal screen but in very big hires 640 by 480 and so you can see much more. Here is the screensot, I will work hard to test the pegasus board and make motre shotz. Keep tjuned. I was in a hury cause of time, so sorry for making typos.

Morphos screenshot

You'd think, getting caught once or twice at it. . .

That's easy, his singing career...

Tambourine Man blurb.wav

Full Lucy in the Sky w/ Diamonds track .wma (Oh my God!)

On the other hand, even a low-end pair of bookshelf regular-hi-fi speakers have a naturalness and full-range quality for a fraction of the price. I use a pair of fifteen-year-old Radio Shack Minimus 7's that I'm very happy with.

The only gotcha: computer speakers, by design, have very wimpy little magnets in them. Hi-fi speakers tend to have much stronger magnets, and will require placement much further away from color monitors.

Those wishing to learn more about Reverse Engineering software may find the following pages useful:

Fravia's pages - A huge, sprawling resource of RE information. Chances are, any info you need is in here somewhere. It's just a matter of finding it...

The Art of Assembly and other essential ASM programming links. If you want to learn RE, sooner or later you're going to have to learn assembly. Get to it.

Mammon's Tales to his Grandson and other useful RE classics by a G.O.M. of the genre. Oh, and an older mirror, possibly with extra/different stuff on it.

Google's directory listing for Disassemblers, which you'll be wanting at least one of...
...and the listing for Testing tools, which may come in handy.

Finally, Compuware's SoftIce page - SoftIce being the single most popular RE tool for Win32 software... Not that you're likely to be paying for it, you warez monkey, you.

Have fun, kids, and release Open Source.

(Posting Anon because I don't need the Karma or the implication of knowledge =)...

Get my drift?