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The cult recently opened one of their "temples" in California (of course). They have many local churches.

Like the Scientologists who have their "e-meter", these lego freaks have their or psuedo-technological props. They even have an mystic Oracle that you can ask questions on the internet. And just like the leader of the Scientologists, their leaders aspire to be JRR Tolkien. Not only that, these foul fiends have the temerity to rewrite the Bible.

And they are Holocaust revisionists, too boot

1. Exhibit A - one of their foul leaders proudly displays their trumped up "evidence"
2. Exhibit B
3. Exhibit C
4. Exhibit D
5. Exhibit E
6. Exhibit F

They worship strange, vile gods. And are building machines to take over the world.

The cult recently opened one of their "temples" in California (of course). They have many local churches.

Like the Scientologists who have their "e-meter", these lego freaks have their or psuedo-technological props. They even have an mystic Oracle that you can ask questions on the internet. And just like the leader of the Scientologists, their leaders aspire to be JRR Tolkien. Not only that, these foul fiends have the temerity to rewrite the Bible.

And they are Holocaust revisionists, too boot

1. Exhibit A - one of their foul leaders proudly displays their trumped up "evidence"
2. Exhibit B
3. Exhibit C
4. Exhibit D
5. Exhibit E
6. Exhibit F

They worship strange, vile gods. And are building machines to take over the world.

Oh wise and all knowing Magic 8 Ball, will this debate be fruitful?

Concentrate and ask again.

Hmm, perhaps a little vague. Will this ethical debate drag on for years?

Signs point to yes.

And while we debate whether we should use it or not, will the technology be put into production in some foreign asspit who don't give a mouthful of spit about ethical issues?

You may rely on it.

And after that happens, will we terminate our debate on the basis that the cat is out of the bag, and that American industry needs to compete or be destroyed by the Foreign Menace?

Most likely.

And after this happens, will the hissy fitters who predicted the imminent end of the world over this suddenly forget their claims, and instead find a new technology to shriek and gnash their teeth over, as they always do?

Better not tell you now.

Thank you, Magic 8 Ball, your answers are most enlightening.

The cult recently opened one of their "temples" in California (of course). They have many local churches.

Like the Scientologists who have their "e-meter", these lego freaks have their or psuedo-technological props. They even have an mystic Oracle that you can ask questions on the internet. And just like the leader of the Scientologists, their leaders aspire to be JRR Tolkien. Not only that, these foul fiends have the temerity to rewrite the Bible.

And they are Holocaust revisionists, too boot

1. Exhibit A - one of their foul leaders proudly displays their trumped up "evidence"
2. Exhibit B
3. Exhibit C
4. Exhibit D
5. Exhibit E
6. Exhibit F

They worship strange, vile gods. And are building machines to take over the world.

The cult recently opened one of their "temples" in California (of course). They have many local churches.

Like the Scientologists who have their "e-meter", these lego freaks have their or psuedo-technological props. They even have an mystic Oracle that you can ask questions on the internet. And just like the leader of the Scientologists, their leaders aspire to be JRR Tolkien. Not only that, these foul fiends have the temerity to rewrite the Bible.

And they are Holocaust revisionists, too boot

1. Exhibit A - one of their foul leaders proudly displays their trumped up "evidence"
2. Exhibit B
3. Exhibit C
4. Exhibit D
5. Exhibit E
6. Exhibit F

They worship strange, vile gods. And are building machines to take over the world.

Dude... The original poster is deluded. 10 years ago dictation sucked. 5 years ago dictation sucked. (I've got boxes of the stuff that were purchased and stunk so bad no one used them.) I'm talking about dictation that actually works well enough to use.

Modern PDAs do not have the equivalent of a PPro 200. StrongARM 200s are about the same as a Pentium 90 for general purpose work, and right on useless for floating point work.

According to my compilation benchmarks (integer and data pushing, no floating point), a PPro 200 is right about 4 times faster than a strongarm 200. On the other hand the SA200s are little more than twice as fast as a 486-66dx2. :-)

The very latest xscale pdas are proably about twice the speed of the SA-110 200MHz ones, but I don't have any similar hardware to benchmark.

I just unlinked my benchmark page form the web because I hadn't updated it in years, but here is a link. Fun to reminise about all those machines I thought were so fast at the time...
metastones

The cult recently opened one of their "temples" in California (of course). They have many local churches.

Like the Scientologists who have their "e-meter", these lego freaks have their or psuedo-technological props. They even have an mystic Oracle that you can ask questions on the internet. And just like the leader of the Scientologists, their leaders aspire to be JRR Tolkien. Not only that, these foul fiends have the temerity to rewrite the Bible.

And they are Holocaust revisionists, too boot

1. Exhibit A - one of their foul leaders proudly displays their trumped up "evidence"
2. Exhibit B
3. Exhibit C
4. Exhibit D
5. Exhibit E
6. Exhibit F

They worship strange, vile gods. And are building machines to take over the world.

The cult recently opened one of their "temples" in California (of course). They have many local churches.

Like the Scientologists who have their "e-meter", these lego freaks have their or psuedo-technological props. They even have an mystic Oracle that you can ask questions on the internet. And just like the leader of the Scientologists, their leaders aspire to be JRR Tolkien. Not only that, these foul fiends have the temerity to rewrite the Bible.

And they are Holocaust revisionists, too boot

1. Exhibit A - one of their foul leaders proudly displays their trumped up "evidence"
2. Exhibit B
3. Exhibit C
4. Exhibit D
5. Exhibit E
6. Exhibit F

They worship strange, vile gods. And are building machines to take over the world.

When I heard about a list of examples that used many different programming languages to display the song "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall", I thought "Why can't we have examples like this?" It may have been all text based, but it was something I was interested in (beer), and something that was fairly universal (the song). I'm sure that you could come up with more creative examples for for other issues (functions, arrays, etc), but I would've loved more examples like this. (Had my teacher not been a hot South American lady, I probably wouldn't have made it to class that often...)

The only simple to setup expert system I know of is the Magic 8 Ball.

Just wondering. It's along the same lines.

Should be simple enough to find out...

"My sources say no."

Nope, not him.

Is this the magic 8-ball guy?

Just wondering. It's along the same lines.

Art via Geekiosity.

This can.

Will I die peacefully?
Don't Count on It

Will I be murdered?
It is Certain

My God! Is the killer already in my house?
You may rely on it

Can I do something to prevent this?
Very Doubtful

Couldn't I just call the police?
The Lines Are Cut

Wait a minute! You shouldn't . . .

Will I die a horific death?

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No list of esoteric programming languages would be complete without a link to the Beer Page:

http://core.federated.com/~jim/99/ (mirror)

This is a collection of programs written in over 200 languages designed to print the canonical "99 bottles of beer on the wall" song.

Just tried it. The question I asked was "will code red ii sink microsoft". The answer was... guess what...no, not that one, we're talking about Code Red here, not Sircam.

It was: "Most likely".

(in your best australian accent):
"that's not a magic 8 ball - this is a magic 8 ball"(seriously, it's real):

http://8ball.federated.com/

I guess the IE shun code doesn't work right after all. You should get this image, but its fairly contorted and I can believe its busted.

Nothing personal, its just that each person in queue has a process wake up, render a new jpeg, and send it everytime the ball rolls. The herd of processes kills my box if there are too many. (Beside, you probably didn't want to be in queue more than a minute anyway.)

Well, I wouldn't mention it, I've already been slashdotted into the ground once and that was just a quickie fu, but you asked...

The Public 8-Ball is a robotic magic 8-ball driven by Lego bricks, RCX, and a radioshack motor (it's burnt up all my lego motors and they are just too expensive.) Hit it with Netscape and see your destiny in real time.

And please, if anyone has a Java applet to display a stream of JPEG frames let me know, then IE users can see the 8 ball too.

I may be slashdot resistant now. After a dozen or so people are queued for 8 ball shaking I start deflecting.

right -- they're supposed to be wired to the internet and rotated in real time using a debian linux machine... 8)

right -- they're supposed to be wired to the internet and rotated in real time using a debian linux machine... 8)

I use GD as a lightweight portable drawing system and never encode a GIF or read a GIF. (I encode as jpeg usually, too many old non-png browsers around.) There just doesn't seem to be an alternative around. GGI is not portable to windows or mac, X is huge and not easily portable. I need something I can tack on to my programs to draw a JPEG or PNG so I can show the user a graph or picture or whatnot.
You can see over at the Public 8-Ball that I create my queue position messages with GD and then JPEG encode the frame buffer for transmission. I don't worry about the CPU speed, 15 frames/second is easy on the PII-266. You can click the how its done picture and find all the source code plus rantings at Unisys.
Those of you with IE can thank Unisys for making the 8ball unavailable to you. I had realtime animated GIF creation in place for the video, but its too slow without compressing and I don't feel inclined to hire a lawyer and negotiate a license for a license. IE Windows can't handle the mime type for the jpeg movies I use now.

ok, here it is.

The Public 8 Ball

Its a magic 8ball (fortune telling device for those unfamiliar) shaken by a mindstorms cradle, watched by a video camera, all displayed for you in your browser.

Sadly IE Windows will not work. Come with netscape or IE Macintosh. (It uses the multipart/x-mixed-replace mime type for the video.)

Enjoy.