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Hell, Caramilk bars now have an ad which is a parody of the "Kama Sutra" -- you could never do that 15-20 years ago without causing a huge uproar.


Way off topic, but... It's funny you say that... when I was in college my dorm was actually called Kama Sutra...

Here is the deal though, they (for political, not library, reasons) are moving off of it and onto a different system. As this entire afair was made with state dollars I am a bit curious to know what is going to be done with the code base. I got the email addy of the top developer and I can shoot him off an email tomorrow to see what he says. If you are interested let me know. seraphim_72 [at] yahoo.com.deletethis.

Here is the deal though, they (for political, not library, reasons) are moving off of it and onto a different system. As this entire afair was made with state dollars I am a bit curious to know what is going to be done with the code base. I got the email addy of the top developer and I can shoot him off an email tomorrow to see what he says. If you are interested let me know. seraphim_72 [at] yahoo.com.deletethis.

This is a duplicate artical!11 Teh /. editors all sux0r it hard! Fux the moderator5!!111!!! Deja vu is a glitch in /. It happens when tehy change something.

well...Adamantane already exists, so why not?!

There are ways of testing the accuracy of at least some of these methods. Carbon-14 dating, for example, has been compared with tree ring dating methods going back 10K (IIRC) or so years. There have probably been similar attempts with other isotope based methods.

Primar on archeological dating methods

Archeologists date flakes.

Back in 1978, when I studied PL/1 at SSU in Minnesota, I went nuts trying to figure out why my program, the first assignment of the class, wasn't working. I re-read every punch card (yes, punch cards!) and I still couldn't find the bug. Between each run of the program, I had to wait 30 minutes for my "job" to get it's turn (good ol' batch processing).

I focused all of my energies on card 47, column ten - the debugger was sure that there lay the problem. It was just what I expected, though, a period! Finally, a classmate came into the lab, and I asked if I could see his card #47. I held the two cards up to the light, and sure enough, there was a difference. My card and his had a different punch pattern for column 10! Turns out that I had a comma and not a period, but the print head on the card punch machine was broken, and wouldn't print any descenders, so what looked like a period was actually a comma!!

I dropped the class the next day, and never took another programming course. I have been programming ever since, but never again in PL/1.

How gullible do they think people are?

Many more quotes on Einstein's religious views are available here, with many citations.

The University of Minnesota, Crookston claims to be "the first campus in the nation to issue laptop computers to all full-time students" according to this site.

Also, I think Winona State University also requires laptops.

precision is something on the order of magnitude 50k, so that if they *tried* carbon dating, they'd find that it was at least 50k years old, without knowing how much older it was...

This is based on the half life of C14 being 5730 years, as explained by this Carbon Dating guide

The nick is a joke! Really!

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.