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It was built for use in the first movie that I ever walked out of, called "Damnation Alley"

But how could you not have liked "Damnation Alley?" With both Jan-Michael Vincent and George Peppard? You just can't go wrong with a cast like that!

Perhaps they should have gone with the woman who is the model for Lara Croft, Nell McAndrew. Here's a shot here and here.

Perhaps they should have gone with the woman who is the model for Lara Croft, Nell McAndrew. Here's a shot here and here.

You do not want long lived processes that are waiting many seconds for a user to click on another link (or go to lunch)....Microsoft is speaking to VB devs that are used to instanating objects and letting them live for the entire scope of the application.

See:
http://geocities.com/tablizer/webstif.htm

I just did the console version. I just downloaded this, and changed Makefile like so:

# @(#)Makefile 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93

PROG= rogue
CFLAGS+=-DUNIX -fwritable-strings
SRCS= curses.c hit.c init.c inventory.c level.c machdep.c main.c \
message.c monster.c move.c object.c pack.c play.c random.c ring.c \
room.c save.c score.c spec_hit.c throw.c trap.c use.c zap.c
DPADD= ${LIBCURSES} ${LIBTERM} ${LIBCOMPAT}
#LDADD= -lcurses -ltermlib -lcompat
LDADD= -lcurses
HIDEGAME=hidegame
MAN6= rogue.0

all: $(SRCS)
gcc -o $(PROG) $(CFLAGS) $(LDADD) $(SRCS)

I was thinking that for Madonna songs. Somehow, I think hearing American Idol's Keith singing "Like a Virgin" would be penalty enough for everyone.

Sure that little man-made contraption can travel, but can he ever beat this guy?

Hi
guys this is me, my name is Steve. I am going to tell you my
story. I was born in 1981 in the month of October, the 7th
day. I am a Libra. Well I had a pretty normal childhood, in
school I was not good. I wasn't good at the homework and I was
even worse at making friends. I never had any friends ever at
all. I graduated High Schoool in 2000. At this time I was
happy that I could go out in the "REAL" World and meet some "nice"
people. After school I started working at Funco Land, they
changed there name and are now known as Gamestop,
I worked there from June 2000-July 2002. In August of 2000 I met a girl
on the internet. She lived a few states away and I drove to meet
her for sexual intercourse. I only met her once, and I only had
sexual intercourse with her once. That was the first time I ever
had sexual intercourse. It was also the last. I never
talked to the girl after we had sex. Than all of the suddan in
July 2002 she instant messages me. She tells me she has AIDS, she
says she doesn't know when she got it and that she thought she might of
got it from me. I told her no way, she was the first girl I was
with, THE ONLY GIRL. Well anyway I set up a appointment for the
docter and get tested for H.I.V. guess what? I GOT H.I.V.

Right now I'm kinda sad that I ruined my life just for sex, it wasn't
even that great. I just made this page to let people know not to
meet girls on the internet, if a girl will meet a guy from the internet
she is obviously crazy, and can't get guys in normal life. I met
one of these crazy girls and she gave me H.I.V. don't ruin your life
for some internet booty. Ok if you wanna be my friend email me.

The LD-50 (lethal dosage that would kill approximately 50% of the population) is 10 grams of oral administration. This is equivalent to approximately 100 cups of coffee, or 50 Vivarin pills. One exceptional case documented survival after ingesting 24 grams of caffeine. The minimum lethal dose of caffeine given intravenously was 3.2 grams.
While coffee drinkers often have caffeine blood concentration of about 1-10 mg/L, a concentration of 80 mg/L is considered lethal.

I suppose one could adjust your /etc/XF86Config to run the size (1024x768, etc) and bpp ( 16, 24, 32) that you can get your graphics card to run) and try that with your LCD monitor.
Some of my .fvwm2rc files are here.

Personal Opinion Section: Can't see how the liquid - crystal monitors can be as clear as a CRT, however, they are just the same as laptop screens, and a lot of us would not want to spend a lot of time using that kind of screen. Could make it do, however, if for instance one were to win one in a 50 cent raffle or something. Can't see paying hundreds of dollars for one.

I suppose one could adjust your /etc/XF86Config to run the size (1024x768, etc) and bpp ( 16, 24, 32) that you can get your graphics card to run) and try that with your LCD monitor.
Some of my .fvwm2rc files are here.

Personal Opinion Section: Can't see how the liquid - crystal monitors can be as clear as a CRT, however, they are just the same as laptop screens, and a lot of us would not want to spend a lot of time using that kind of screen. Could make it do, however, if for instance one were to win one in a 50 cent raffle or something. Can't see paying hundreds of dollars for one.

You insensitive calot! Not all Martians are green!

> I've never heard anyone say they got a prompt after rebooting asking if they wanted to inform MS of the problem.

Well, now you have. And I even took a screenshot. (This is after a video-driver-caused BSOD on my Dell laptop.)

http://www.geocities.com/by426/serious_error.png

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds [microsoft.com] is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman [geocities.com], spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox [microsoft.com] is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual [goatse.cx] propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail [microsoft.com], which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted [salon.com] on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo [comp-u-geek.net] slut [rotten.com]!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual [goatse.cx] perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children [slashdot.org]. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis [rotten.com] in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual [goatse.cx] terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his

Have you looked at WebRFM? It seems old and abandoned (home page gone, mirror remains) but they implemented it on a server at my uni just this year. The "visible" part of WebRFM is web-based file browser but this does include the code to get the per-user stuff happening. Here's the relevant bit from the web page:

"WebRFM implements a virtual-root mechanism, such that each user's access is restricted to his own area (home directory, by default), and it is designed to run in the user's security context (UID/GID) such that OS-based access control and quota limits are also being imposed. A special setuid wrapper to enable this is included. Other wrappers (such as the Apache suEXEC wrapper) can also be used."

I've signed up for the Minneapolis Mob since I've got nothing better to do. I find this sort of social interaction fascinating. Plus, one day it could be extremely useful. I also think that if we neglect to exercise our rights (i.e. freedom of assembly) we will lose them to atrophy.

And just think, if he was American, he'd just march to his high school, kill a few kids, be convicted as an adult and sentenced to death, a new wave of hypersensitive administrators would expel kids for having even a Han Solo collectable doll, George Lucus would be the new Face of Evil, and Jon Katz would have a week's worth of /. articles

Already happened.... well something of the sorts already happened in that province a decade ago. Only it was mysogynist and not the downtroden geek.

Click Here for article

"Yeah, I'm sure we'll se ASSLOADS of innovation from IE7"

Longhorn being a large, dumb animal which consumes vast quantities of resources and turns most of them into shit?

pic

Comics

Wheee!

And your girlfriend will love you for it.

"we're going to need something like 100 IP addresses for each human being."

Exactly. In just a few years, Ethermopians are going to all have computers, cellphones, PDAs, etc. Lol. Guffaw, even. That's a good one.

I consider myself pretty technology-elite, and of all the IP-run devices in my house, it only takes on IP thanks to NAT. I, for one, think the crisis of IPv4 will be solved by a combination of IPv6 and NAT, not just IPv6, and I'd bet some change that a) we won't run out of IPs as fast as "they" say we will, and b) even if we did, IPv6 wouldn't be implemented by the time "they" think it will be needed.

/enjoy that link :P

Sorry to tell you this but...

WRONG!!!

Some people just have too much spare time... oh look at me typing this at 1h50am, sure makes me a a winner too...

Nope...The French concern for the purity of la belle langue francaise goes back well before the "freedom fries" brouhaha. Rene Etiemble wrote Parlez-Vous Franglais? back in 1964, and according to this page, similar opinions had been voiced by Frenchmen as far back as 1757.

I hasten to add that for a long time, French was the language of philosophy, science, mathematics, belles lettres, and diplomacy...but when it comes to this whole "linguistic purity" thing, give it up. (Hey...King Canute wasn't French.)

(Note to Francophones: I tried to put the appropriate diacritical marks in, but /.'s software kept me from doing so.)

You mean like those blond chicks with black eyebrows? You can have them.

Hi,

I use Ogg vorbis on my Sony Ericcson P800 all the time! See http://www.geocities.com/p800tools/ :)

John

I agree completely. So why do you then tell us the following? You have been misled, my friend.

A scramjet seperates the hydrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere and uses the hydrogen molecules as fuel for the engine. In doing this you have an engine that can go significantly faster, an engine that uses up a fraction of the fuel load of traditional aircraft and an aircraft that expels significantly less harmful waste in the atmosphere then a traditional jet engine.

Quick primer on scramjets, from the top:

In a typical jet engine (see here, for example) air enters through an intake at the front, and passes through several fan stages to compress (and heat) the incoming air. Squirt fuel into this hot air, and the rapid combustion generates exhaust at high temperature and pressure. This high pressure exhaust propels the jet (and drives a turbine which turns the fans in the compressor).

The downside of this design is that it is mechanically complex--those compression stages have large, finely-machined, rapidly-moving parts which are subject to wear, tear, and accidental failure; they also add a significant amount of weight to the engine.

Enter the ramjet. (See also cutaway figure.) Instead of using fans to compress incoming air, a ramjet uses a specially shaped inlet. Air enters the jet inlet at high speed, and then is forced through a narrow aperture. The result is compression without fans. Unfortunately, the ramjet will only work when the jet is travelling at significant speed--there isn't going to be any air coming into the engine if the aircraft isn't moving.

A scramjet is a supersonic combustion ramjet. In a plain vanilla ramjet, the incoming air is slowed while it is compressed to the point where it is travelling slower than sound. Combustion takes place in air that is still moving quite quickly, but not supersonically. Although easier to manage from an engineering standpoint, requiring subsonic combustion places an upper limit on the speed of a conventional ramjet.

The scramjet functions in a similar manner--incoming air is compressed and heated through a properly shaped inlet, then fuel is injected, and the combustion products propel the jet. The defining difference is that combustion takes place in a supersonic airflow; in practice, this dictates certain changes to the basic ramjet design. Again, the scramjet requires significant airspeed before it can be started.

Quite correctly, you note that the fuel for these beasts is often hydrogen, though in principle nearly any air-combustible liquid or gas could be used. The fuel must be supplied, however--a scramjet cannot extract hydrogen from ambient water vapour. The hydrogen scramjet is inherently no cleaner burning than any other air-breathing hydrogen engine. Given its high operating temperature, I would be quite surprised if it didn't generate significant nitrogen oxides in operation.

I'm feeling weird replying to myself.

Found this link.

I don't know if that is still good, but it states:

"Any passenger carry-on electronic device which is not an intentional transmitter of radio signals: a. should be prohibited for use during taxi, takeoff, climbout, descent, final approach, and landing. These devices include, but are not limited to laptop computers, video cameras, tape recorders, radio and TV receivers, CD and tape players, electronic entertainment devices, and electric shavers. b. should be allowed to operate during other stages of flight (other than taxi, takeoff, climbout, descent, final approach, and landing) unless the operator of the airplanes has determined that the device can not be operated."

So it would be cool on airplanes too.

Lately, kind sir, I have been quite perturbed by certain events that have been proliferating in our society. Was it not so long ago, that in more civilized times, children respected and obeyed their parents, under the threat of a firm thrashing if their impudence and audacity got out of hand? But oh, kind father, the trials that parents today must suffer! Not just the other day, whist I was dining upon a fresh garden salad, my daughter, of not even 6 years old, insisted upon uprooting most unrest in requesting I purchase for her a milky-way bar! I quickly remarked to the impudent creature that one of our many servants would be more than willing to carriage her to the local general store; but no! she insisted that I -personally- drive the buggy to make the purchase! Oh wise man of God, what is a poor woman to do in these hard times! Before you can open your Moses-lovin' mouth Pastor, I have proposed a final solution to the problem of "youthful indiscretion"- Prison Labor!

Before you bring up cries of protest from your liberalism-saturated mind, hear me out! Our disrespectful children will learn the true meaning of honor and sacrifice while they're hard at work pounding license plates and assembling adding machines! Honestly, what better way is there to whip our children into shape? Scare them with threats of the boogey-man? Psh-haw! Just look at the wondrous effects prison labor had on the Dell kid! Not only will prison labor harden our children into obedient automatons, it will show them the reality they will have to face if they follow their current paths and become criminals!

Thank you for your attention kind Minister, and God-Bless!

http://www.geocities.com/pjsdrivers/radar.jpg

I thought he meant Sisko. (I'd like to see Hawk whoop-up on the *AA while ranting about his flying cars...)

The IRS is a great agency for exacting revenge on people idiotic enough to declare themselves your enemy.

That's no joke. Just ask the Christic Institute. The Christic Institute is a government watchdog agency that has been a thorne in the side of Uncle Sam for a great many years.

I first hear about Christic during the Iran Contra "guns for drugs" scandle in the mid 1980s. They were the ones who actually brought the suit against the government.

An apt description of the Christic Institute (as appearing in this article)"The institute has won several landmark civil lawsuits, including the "Greensboro massacre" case against members of the American Nazi Party and Ku Klux Klan who assassinated demonstrators in 1979, and the "Silkwood" case against the nuclear industry. The institute does not charge legal fees and depends entirely on contributions from churches, Jewish philanthropies, private foundations and individual supporters."

Another decent (and slightly more in-depth) history of the organization can be found here. The sad truth is that the IRS is likely to revoke their not for profit status making them liabel for back taxes for all of the years they have been in operation. Many feel that this is in direct retaliation to the Avrigan vs. Hull lawsuit. The government is alredy quite fond of issuing hefty fines to the institute for what it deems to be "frivolous lawsuits" (I'll let you judge that one for yourselves) as a means of intimidating them into not persuing their just causes. But if this IRS thing the IRS has in mind at the prompting of ultra conservative members of the house, it could mean the final curtain call for a heroic agency that has done much to keep america free.

I think the Kwing looks like a Star Fury from Babylon 5.

Don't believe me compare and cantrast:

His K wing.
A picture of a Star Fury I found on the interweb.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds [microsoft.com] is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman [geocities.com], spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox [microsoft.com] is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual [goatse.cx] propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail [microsoft.com], which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted [salon.com] on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo [comp-u-geek.net] slut [rotten.com]!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual [goatse.cx] perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children [slashdot.org]. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis [rotten.com] in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of

From: http://www.geocities.com/foogert99

DIRECTV, in their haste to make it easier for you to add expensive programming options and order PPV movies, has made it very easy for somebody to hijack your DIRECTV account with just one simple phone call. Once your account has been hijacked, it's easy to:

• Cancel your DIRECTV service
• Change your service package
• View the make, model and location (e.g. Sony TIVO receiver in Living Room) of DIRECTV equipment in your home
• Order Pay-Per-View movies, which *you* will be billed for Activate additional receivers and have them charged to *you*

Well, while we're being technical, at least as early as 1755 "pirate" had come to mean "Pirate (Piraat) n.f. [grieks, piratica, Lat. pirate Fr.] I. A fea-robber. II. Any robber; particularly a bookfeller who feizes the copies op other men."

There are many evils you can ascribe to the RIAA, perverting "piracy" isn't one of them.

It's still the child of a deamon though. In fact, much of UNIX was created by satan. I like heat myself, and just love the little deamon. ;)

Of course, if you really want to be free of satan's influence there is always Jesux!

Uh oh, Lucifer is gonna make me suffer for giving a link to the enemies operating system! *runs and hides*

The Fly-Borg's Director of Operations

If you want to know about dick in his own words read The Shifting Realities of Philip K Dick and/or the essayHow To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later.

Dick was a one of a kind crazy literary genius who is totally underrated. I wish he had lived longer.

I highly recommend any PKD book to anyone who wants to get an open mind and science fiction like no other. Don't make a judgement on him based on the movies you have seen that are based on his writings, namely Blade Runner, Total Recall, & Minority Report. The only one that came close to doing him justice was Blade Runner, but it fell far short in my opinion but is a good movie in its own right.

And looks great, at least on my Mandrake system.

Of course, the scary part will be when Jabba the Hutt purchases your frozen balls for his private collection.

Of course, the scary part will be when Jabba the Hutt purchases your frozen balls for his private collection.

1. OpenOffice.org 1.1 RCs are not available for OS X. We just got it compiling a few days ago. And it'll require much more work then simply compiling it, such as testing, integration with the asian fonts and input methods, etc.

   Want it faster? Well, there's only so much two guys can do. We just finished our first full Gold Master release just two weeks ago and man, we need a vacation!

2. Our OpenOffice.org Mac version is X11 based. It looks identical to using the Win32 version. It's functional, not pretty.

   Its installer will help a Mac X11 neophyte through the process of setting up an X11 environment. It's also got the Start OpenOffice.org project to allow you to launch it like a normal Mac application and do document associations (e.g. double clicking an OOo doc opens it up!).

3. The Aquanative porting work is being undertaken in the NeoOffice project, not within OpenOffice.org. NeoOffice is a free software GPL version of OpenOffice.org.

   Two native versions are in the works, NeoOffice (Cocoa) and NeoOffice/J (Java2D...only for UI, it's still 99% C++! It's the shoddy C++ that's slow, not Java!).

   Because of political issues of submitting patches and difficulty modifying code owned by the gsl project, it's difficult to do this work within OpenOffice.org. We're also trying to take the project in directions that Sun doesn't want to take StarOffice, and OpenOffice.org really is just the StarOffice development team with its own motivations needed to keep their jobs...and helping a bunch of free software dudes isn't one of them. As sucn, there may unfortunately never be an official OpenOffice.org Aqua port with a true Mac UI.

4. We're moving NeoOffice up to 1.1, but have to get OOo compiling first. Not enough people are helping out to allow us to focus on the fun stuff, so we've got to do the grunt work as well.

5. We're working as hard as we can (c'mon, we're not paid!), and you should keep your pantyhose on. OpenOffice.org 1.1 Developer Preview for MacOS X shall be coming soon (e.g. we've had time to stop committing patches and make a really rough really untested binary). And also coming down the pike is another binary of NeoOffice/J with full Japanese support, both for input as well as localization!

Who's watching Pump Up the Volume tonight?!! WOOOO! Go Christian Slater!! Go generic top-lifing love-interest chick, GO!

Aside from the one's you mentioned, there's also the Hardy Boys and Einstein Anderson. I remember both of those series quite fondly, though the book covers on SeymourSimon.com look much, much lamer than I recall.

That's a good question. There is, however, a material difference between the future and the past: writing and libraries. Unless we assume widespread distruction on a unprecedented level, there still will be people who understand some of the major languages of this era. Written language is very compact and clear, compared to pictographs; it'd be worth a try in addition to pictographs, especially for the most heavily radioactive first couple thousand years.

Aha! But we have had writing (and by writing, I mean script; not, for example, cave paintings) for some 5000+ years, dating back to the egyptians. (Shameless google-provided proof here). But after just 5,000 years, no one could read it. The egyptians were still there, there was no widespread destruction, and presumably there were scholars. But it took the *chance* finding of the Rosetta stone to allow us to decipher it - a stone with both egyptian and newer (totally understood) greek writing on it. So, just because it's written in what is today a popular language and format doesn't mean it will be readable in 5,000 years, even by scholars. [Let alone 100,000]. There's already historical precedent to say that's just not true.

I'd even go further - I'd say with the internet, the language will evolve much faster, not slower. Merrian-Webster just completed their decennial update by adding by-far more words than ever in history, mostly because of the internet.

I prefer Approval Voting. It has significant advantages over Plurality, IRV and (IMO) other ranking methods:

1. It's simple to explain
2. It's a strict superset of plurality, so anyone who votes the old way will still be valid
3. It's supported by voting machines designed for plurality
4. There are no paradoxes, and no situations where voting against your favorite candidate is a good strategy
5. It encourages consensus rather than polarization

I agree with your point in general but evolved warriors are having increasing success in Corewars of late and similar strides can be expected in Gridwars.

For example a recent Redcoder Frenzy round was won by this warrior Wild Equilibria by Dave Hillis.

No, it's not pretty.

Even more impressive an evolved "paper" (self-replicating warrior) made the premier 94nop hill this year albeit with the help of a human coded quickscan.

There's more info re evolving to be had at the Wiki.

I agree with your point in general but evolved warriors are having increasing success in Corewars of late and similar strides can be expected in Gridwars.

For example a recent Redcoder Frenzy round was won by this warrior Wild Equilibria by Dave Hillis.

No, it's not pretty.

Even more impressive an evolved "paper" (self-replicating warrior) made the premier 94nop hill this year albeit with the help of a human coded quickscan.

There's more info re evolving to be had at the Wiki.

It did not take long to come up with a glaring exception: a man recognized as one of the top few composers of all time:

"Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was the most prolific of the great composers. In his 65 years he produced 1,200 musical works and 20 children. You can find his compositions listed in an encyclopedia."

(For the mathematically minded, that's 60 musical works per child. Isn't P.D.Q. #21 ?)

Ahhh - I can't resist!

HL / CS: Souperman
Online games: Cerebus (as in the Aardvark)
RPGs (electronic): Bascule (from Feersum Endjinn by Ian M Banks)
RPGs (tabletop): Recent ones include Sir Cecil the Paladin, Milo the Halfling Bard (complete with squeeky voice and bad jokes - guaranteed to wind up those other players!), and Demo the iconoclastic Fighter/Cleric (Lots of DnD recently!)