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Zombie popularity is based on apocalyptic fear and anxiety:

Imperialism, racial anxiety and fears about brainwashing have all had their part to play in the zombie's evolution and popularity. Ultimately, though, these walking corpses are always symbols of death, parodies of the supposed finality of the body and the promised everlasting life of the soul. http://ourspace.uregina.ca/bitstream/handle/10294/3811/Ozog_Cassandra_Anne_200243342_MA_SOC_Spring2013.pdf

Robot/AI popularity comes from our anxiety and fear of technology. In 'Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country', the Vulcan Valeris says "400 years ago, on Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation, flung their wooden shoes called 'sabots' into the machines to stop them. Hence the word 'sabotage'."

"Klaatu barada nikto," is the phrase Helen Benson used to stop the robot Gort from destroying Earth in the 1951 movie 'The Day The Earth Stood Still', where a UFO threatens that if we keep making nukes, they would destroy us.

My favorite SiFi is Fritz Lang's 1927 classic 'Metropolis', where a distopia of effete aristocrats and slaving workers is upended by a robot named Heil. Ah, love is Heil.

you should probably start here:
http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/...

Then you might be able to see how you can have over 100% profit.

You might want to start here: dictionary.com
Profit has a definition, and it is separate from loss for good reason. You don't mix losses in from another company/division/location/account/fund/sub in order to manipulate reported profits of another. That's textbook fraud. Whether you're doing it as account, an investment firm, or reporter doesn't matter.

you should probably start here:
http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/...

Then you might be able to see how you can have over 100% profit.

Except it's not an old saying, it's advertising copy from back in the 1920s that was falsely attributed to ancient Japanese/Chinese philosophers (yes, it flip-flops between ads) to make it sound more impressive. And the point behind this saying? It's to get people to buy advertising campaigns involving images--which bring in more revenue for the advertising firm.

http://uregina.ca/~astro/mb_5.html

Haven't a clue as to what an insurance company would make of something like that...

I remember that too.

A quick google search reveals it to be "Lycopodium" ...

http://www.cmste.uregina.ca/Quickstarts/powderglov e.html

ironically enough - the Canadian English dictionary I have doesn't recognize 'spellcheck' or 'plugin' as words.

shift the processing load to your own machine rather then expect Slashdot to do it, and your spellcheck is site independent.

That is nothing, artists have been doing that for awhile now. Jeff Cliff a semi local musician has offered his music for download freely in mp3 and ogg vorbis for at least 5 years now.

What is the alternative, going deaf because of stupid noises that our jobs expose us to?

I'd much rather go deaf listening to The Dark Side of the Moon and my own music compositions than go deaf because of the stupid buzzer that says 'fries are done' or the one that says 'customer has entered the building' or some sort of jackhammer, or any of a million other ways that I could and will go deaf on the job. Not everyone has a cushy fairly silent cube-farm job-many jobs are downright dangerous, especially to hearing.

My hearing is not as good as it was in 1995, but it still somewhere around or above average (I had awesome hearing in 1995). Besides, if I ever lose my hearing, I'm changing my major from computer science to something like computer-science-medicine-cybernetics or just plain medicine.

SFU was used for all kinds of SF shows. It was the FBI headquarters on the X-Files, that always makes me chuckle. My favourite was watching it get pummeled by a Goa'uld bombardment in Stargate's season six.

Arthur Erickson is a well loved/despised modernist architect who plays with massive spaces. I have a friend who calls it archetorture. He gets to design some pretty trippy buildings and spaces.

"portscan their dorm"
and what exactly, is wrong with portscanning?
...Isn't that how the internet was navigated, pre-gopher?
My university doesn't seem to want us portscanning either...will someone please explain why this is in any way a big deal? (without using the excuse "windows has security holes and if you see security holes you MIGHT use them to crack into the system" ) It's not as if there's a limited amount of bandwidth on that level...
trading mp3s...movies...i can understand giving people shit for that, but portscanning? how else are you supposed to navigate the internet????

1. Judicial Interpretation
2. University of Regine Policy Manual

Note: Although I'm not a lawyer, I have had quite a bit of experience with copyright laws, including a couple of court cases where it was an issue, seminars, business law courses, and drafting of programming contracts. I wouldn't have tried to correct your assumptions unless I was pretty sure they were incorrect.

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Rod Apeldoorn

really? i'd love to know of one. locally i think i have access to two. the first is my university, and only because i'm a student, for 20$/month (30$/month phone line=50$/month. plus added bonus if i were to say something online or host something on my home computer they don't agree of i can be expelled. joy.) or i can go with SaskTel for 50$/month (30$/month phone line=80$/month).
that's it. I'm in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, on Highspeed Cable (27$/month total) because it's the cheapest available. on the other hand i AM interested in switching to an ISP, dialup (>=3000Baud) or otherwise, if they do not have such a fscked up EULA/Lisence Agreement. even at the same price. so where are these 'dime a dozen isps'? i'm pretty sure sasktel drove the all out by now. but i'm interested in knowing whatever it is that you know here, even if it's solely that there are still places in the world where theres' actually competition and thus at least at somewhere descent isp service.

I thought there was someting based on Alpha at OpenCores. But I went to look and didn't see anything.

So then I went over to the CPU Howto and following a link at the bottom I learned that there is a real problem with the Alpha in that compared to some of the designs we're seeing today it was power hungry. It was scaleable, but not really suitable to a power conscious consumer market.

The uncertainty seems to be (according to more than one source I've found) that both discovered it independently at about the same time. Hooke probably first, but Cassini published and took credit. Cassini's complete papers were published as 'Oeuvres diverses' in 1730 - earlier references may be in the papers of the Academie des Sciences (for Cassini) or the Royal Society (for Hooke). Another line of enquiry may be through the work of WF Denning: I found this paper online which talks about his analysis of the spot including a historical analysis (see start of page 22 in that link), and footnote 28 to that chapter (see this document) is a paper which should probably point to the primary sources. In response to the question 'was the red spot known about in the 1660s?' every source I've checked, including the Chambers Biographical Dictionary and a history by John Gribbin, gives the attribution of the discovery to Hooke and/or Cassini - that's sufficiently many independent sources I trust that I'm not inclined to doubt them all.

The uncertainty seems to be (according to more than one source I've found) that both discovered it independently at about the same time. Hooke probably first, but Cassini published and took credit. Cassini's complete papers were published as 'Oeuvres diverses' in 1730 - earlier references may be in the papers of the Academie des Sciences (for Cassini) or the Royal Society (for Hooke). Another line of enquiry may be through the work of WF Denning: I found this paper online which talks about his analysis of the spot including a historical analysis (see start of page 22 in that link), and footnote 28 to that chapter (see this document) is a paper which should probably point to the primary sources. In response to the question 'was the red spot known about in the 1660s?' every source I've checked, including the Chambers Biographical Dictionary and a history by John Gribbin, gives the attribution of the discovery to Hooke and/or Cassini - that's sufficiently many independent sources I trust that I'm not inclined to doubt them all.

They are too, sorry, See this site for a short and concise explanation. They are different representation of the same number.

I WILL GIVE YOU MY REAL NAME!

My real name is John Klein and I am a 4th year computer science major at the University of Regina. I am the representative for the faculty of science at the University of Regina. My email address is kleinjoh@uregina.ca yes please email me at kleinjoh@uregina.ca because I want to enlarge my penis so that men may be impressed by it. I am from Queen City it is because I am a gay
My ICQ NUMBER IS 1850613

I WILL GIVE YOU MY REAL NAME!

My real name is John Klein and I am a 4th year computer science major at the University of Regina. I am the representative for the faculty of science at the University of Regina. My email address is kleinjoh@uregina.ca yes please email me at kleinjoh@uregina.ca because I want to enlarge my penis so that men may be impressed by it. I am from Queen City it is because I am a gay
My ICQ NUMBER IS 1850613

I think I need a better telescope...

Jupiter through a 3" telescope.

Canadian Fireballs ... and other Astronomy information can be had from this website. It is part of my Astronomy professor's site, and he specializes in fireballs.

I believe MIPS has had 64bits since the R4000 in 1991. See micropressor history.

It all depends when the work was done. If it was done during the time they were being paid, then yes, it should belong to the university. However, if it was done on personal time, it shouldn't.

In my case, I did some contract work for an ISP (2nd level support). While times were slow, I rewrote some script files we used for retrieving customer information. I can't remember what the originals were in, but they could literally take 5 minutes to retrieve basic info like username, mail alias, mailbox size, etc. I rewrote them, using both shell scripts and PERL, and found my scripts would run in 5-10 seconds, a definite improvement. Now admittedly, these were nothing fancy, not much more than a few grep statements and some output modifying, but as far as I was concerned, they were property of the ISP. The time I spent writing them was paid for by them. It wasn't what they were paying me to do, but that's still the way I feel about it. Once I showed the scripts to the admins (and pointed out that I could no longer get root if they switched to my scripts) it was a pretty quick switch over.

The Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present site is a good place to start.

Common occurrence in Canadian universities:

See:
Going once, going twice, SOLD!
for one article talking about this.

(I was a student at The University of Calgary, which accepted an exclusive contract with Pepsi ... damn, we started to miss Coke products after a while!)

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• From "Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present" (fascinating reading all the way through - check out the part about iAPX 432), we have "IBM's choice, the 8086". Read this on an empty stomach. It's fairly incredible.
• A note from the Usenet Oldnews archive - ucbvax.2667 - commentary contemporary to the imminent release of IBM's PC. Interesting mainly because of when it was written.

• From "Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present" (fascinating reading all the way through - check out the part about iAPX 432), we have "IBM's choice, the 8086". Read this on an empty stomach. It's fairly incredible.
• A note from the Usenet Oldnews archive - ucbvax.2667 - commentary contemporary to the imminent release of IBM's PC. Interesting mainly because of when it was written.

I love the 6502. I learned machine code on it as a teenager in the late 70's. But I don't believe any 6502 version was ever space qualified. [I do recall a lot of talk about it in the 80's, though] Maybe there is a "6502-like" CPU, but I'll leave that determination to the CPU experts.

Space Technology ia an area of special interest for me. Here are the CPUs that I use in "back-of-the-envelope" speculation and planning.

AFAIK, the most powerful fully space-qualified CPU is the RAD-6000 SC (rad-hardened IBM/6000 single chip RISC computer akin to a R6000 workstation) used on the Mars pathfinder, the IMAGE satellite (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration) and several other projects. As a guess, the GNU CC-supported MIL-SPEC 1750A (16 bit PDP-11-like CPU ca. 1979) is the most popular CPU in use right now for 'power apps', and 80C85 and 80C86 are quite common among NASA craft currently in space.

I had some links to lists of space qualified CPUs (don't know if they were comprehensive) but they are all dead now. If anyone has the link to the space-qualified hardware list, please post them here.

don't certain PC motherboards allow software to set the clockrate?
meaning a virus really _could_ overclock/overheat/kill the processor?

of course there used to be certain motorola processors with a Halt Catch Fire (HCF) instruction, but that wasn't quite what it did.

It appears they forgot a table tag on the from.
A functioning copy appears at:
http://hyperion.cc.uregin a.ca/~skomoroj/student-form.html

from the dipc-2.0.lsm
Copying-policy: GPL. Copyright (C) Kamran Karimi

http://hyperion.cc.uregina.c a/~skomoroj/colourpalm.jpg

Here is an another article about the difference between CISC and RISC and how much of what we call RISC isn't RISC in the traditional sense.
This is the linky thing.
The article talks about a vast amount of other processor related topics, and incldes the whole RISCSy CISCy thing.

RCA is just a name traded about like Jon Katz's eBay cyber-property.

It is misleading to use "RCA" as a real brand name. It is just a marketing badge, a label, an empty shell.

Its only claim to fame is that once upon a time there was a great technology company named Radio Corporation of America. That company no longer exists, but its good name and initials, like its chairs, desks, and broadcast towers, were sold off to the highest bidders.