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Lets start this off with some homework: we were nominated for a 2000 Webby in Community. Please go vote for us (requires annoying login, but please do it anyway! I want a crappy little trophy!) Now with the 'biz outta the way,
brainsik pointed us to the Brainshaker: a headmounted subwoofer that looks like it would make Quake a bit to real.
Plastik noted a web filter guaranteed to offend
the conservative and humorless. But it makes
reading Slashdot damn entertaining.
And if you're interesting in violating most religions, vkulkarn found an "Escort" who apparently reads Slashdot (will she go out with CowboyNeal?)
Speaking of religion, Zippy noted that I am apparently a
prophet in the Church of The Enlightenment , along with Jay Stile of Stileproject . Illiad, from Userfriendly.org is a bard.
webword sent us CalculusGirls.com which combines 2 of the many things I don't understand.
Andy Lester noted that
Brunching Shuttlecocks has a book on
"Fuzzy Logic Functions", in the style of O'Reilly.
yek401 noted that his english professor builds barbie doll cyborgs: god bless tenure ;)
Trenchcoat Steve warned us about Moon Land Registry which claims to be selling land on the moon for $10/acre:
you even get a deed and mineral rights... and it might be legal!
Gravey noted that their are two new Reboot movies going into production.
For you conspiracy theorists,
backtick noted that everyone's favorite software monopoly might be getting into the furniture biz along with Lazyboy.
SgtPepper
pointed us to RFC 2795 which
"describes a protocol suite which supports an infinite
number of monkeys that sit at an infinite number of typewriters"
ucsimon noted that LegoLand in California just gota liquor license. Mind you after a few shots of vodka, finding a 2x2 blue block takes a lot longer.
Let's wrap up with
jyuter's note that Comedy Central has vid clips of the south park kids doing Python's parrot sketch in Quicktime or Real.
Beware the "buy a piece of the Moon/Mars/Jupiter/etc" sites. They are a scam! Those things you are buying will not hold in court.
Their logic is: the Moon can't be owned by governments, but individuals can. Wrong. With the same logic, any country in for example the nuclear weapons test ban treaty can do nuclear tests, as long as they denote some individual to own the equipment and such.
Face it, you can make a lot of noise about that eventually when we go to the Moon, but of no avail. It's a scam to get your money. The Moon is not owned by anyone, anyone, whether it be an individual or a government. Period.
If you disagree or don't believe the sound of your reason, I have some land to sell you. I can sell the whole California (also Silicon Valley) and New York (Manhattan is very cheap). It's super-cheap! $ 500 for 20 acres. Buy now. You'll never see your money again, but you'll get a Certificate of 0wnership.
Well, since Mr. Hope is not there to protect his planets, I hereby declare the aforementioned planets (including, but not limited to Mercury, Venus, Mars, the asteroid belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto) and their respective moons to be my sole posession (I even made myself a certificate of 0wnership) and hereby from this date onward place the said planets and moons into public domain.
It was Robert Wilensky. Your quote is incorrect.
"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." - Robert Wilensky
You sir, are an idiot. Yay Canada indeed...in Reboot we really do have something to cheer about, moron.
All this moronic misinformation aside, Reboot is one of the seminal CGI cartoon series. Perhaps it traces some of it's influence back to Disney's Tron, but much of it is home-grown.
Compared to other junk CGI cartoons out there, Reboot was and still is the best...look at Donkey Kong Country, Max Steele, and that horrid Voltron-3D...all junk, all garbage, and WORSE animation than the now-dated Reboot. Season 3's animation was still more fluid and realistic than most of the garbage being released today..and incase you missed the point of Reboot, it wasn't ABOUT the real world, it was about life inside a computer...duh!
What made Reboot stand above and beyond everything else was the PLOT. Season 3 was nothing short of amazing...a grown-up plot in a CGI world that put the X-Files & Star Trek to shame. THIS is what Mainframe Entertainment is resurrecting with the 2-hour movies, thankfully.
So, instead of bashing Reboot, get a fucking clue. Reboot is easily one of the best animated programs Canada has ever produced, and it beats the hell out of -all- the american CGI-based shows (Donkey Kong Country...Voltron 3D...I'm gonna vomit).
And for those that don't know, Mainframe Entertainment created the CGI for Dire Straight's "Money for Nothing" video back in the mid-80's.
...and it eagerly awaits the arrival of our Astro-Men. Will YOU be among them?
you left out...
I'd like to integrate my penis, all over your clitoris.
Actally I think he is right, infinite recursion is worse than infinite recursion.
>omehow, American society has been programmed to be hyper-sensitive to the feelings of minorities, gays, and females, yet we can still ridicule conservatives, Christians, and their values with impunity.
Yes, that's because for so long the conservatives and (some not all) christians we're telling gay jokes or hispanic or black jokes at the targeted groups' expense. Maybe some feel its a sort of retribution to be able to have enough people around that one can rag on christians and conservatives and get away with it. "They've had it coming to them", and for some time now.
Check out www.moonshop.com, they're selling the same thing. I think that makes it pretty clear how legit this is.
Well, I'm registering it right now! Can't let the females get all the glory, can we?
Since they can be beautiful AND smart, I'm going to prove that we can be smart AND beautiful!
Send your pictures and geekdom achievements and get rid of that virginity!
Jón
"Let's make some flux: my vectors through your surfaces. I've got high circulation, negative divergence, and curl like you'd never believe."
"Let me prove that there's no limit to my love functions."
Oh, how I cheered when Sailor Binome bought it. And that Gilbert and Sullivan parody was just too cool for words.
Don't forget about all the cameos that Tux makes. It's true! Tux is in just about every other episode, mostly walking along in the background.
I love Mainframe Entertainment. They know how to do *good* CGI shows, like ReBoot and Beast Wars. The producers of all those other crappy shows like Voltron 3D and numerous other immitators should take a cue from the folks at Mainframe and spend a little more time on each episode... a shame, since some of the Babylon 5 animation guys work for the company that makes Voltron 3D. I expected more from them.
The secret to enjoying Slashdot is to realize that it should not be taken too seriously.
Ladies, gentlemen, and guests of CowboyNeal:
$7,000 per day??? No damn way. Ain't nothin' on two legs worth $7,000 a day.
$70, we'll talk. But $7,000? I need a dual P-III all-SCSI system with a big ol' flatscreen first.
-dwd-
It's the International Star Registry crap all over again.. basically yer paying for a frameable certificate that you can impress dinner guests with. That's about it. There's no real reason to get more than one, and there shouldn't be any reason to expect it to be legal at all.
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
"...but if these calculus girls were so smart, why couldn't they make the site themselves?"
Maybe they're all busy doing calculus.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
According to what I heard the consensus around here is that you'd *have* to steal one to have one.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Consortium for Slow Commotion Research :-)
Come on baby, do the slow commotion.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
weird, even.
Should preview more, I suppose.
Sorry, that was harsh.
It's late.
My favorite (invented by a friend): "Hey, baby, what's your cosine?"
Why is 'educatedescort' the only link slashdotted?
Interesting.
signal, noise, to me it's all the same.
Thanks for the info, and I love your (now deleted ) E-Mail addy
You say you want a revolution....
50 Hz ?? is that all ? That is rather lame I want 10 Hz damnit ... I want to feel those freaking cannons in the 1812 overture !! and 50 Hz will not even give the feeling of adequate repercussion. ... I want medulla oblongata
when I listen to music that has cannons and I want the possibility "to actually feel the emotional energy of your favorite music" I want the full effect not some beach boyesque good vibration
pulverizing concussions !!!
music the paint
dancefloor the canvas
Music the Paint dancefloor the canvas your body the brush
What was your first clue?
Actually, I think it's a site that goes for a "classroom fetish" - that is, come look at pictures of attractive girls in a classrom setting. Sorta like the ones that do schoolgirls in uniforms, but updated for the times, since 99% of schoolgirls don't wear uniforms.
Or there's the possibility that I'm on crack.
--
grappler
Vidi, Vici, Veni
Yeah, but she'll do your homework too!
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As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
It's not, last I checked they intentionally lag the non members in order to get people to pay them, ohhh the internet version of nagware, just what we need.
There are better non web based proxies which can be found with little effort, I don't know whether they would bypass this kiddie's campus firewall or not though.
Hey, what's wrong with smart, attractive AND bookish?
Actually, pretty much any political site would rule. It changes Bush to Cain and Gore to Abel..
You get such jems as :
Sorry to spoil your fun, but, I get an auto +1 on any response I write..In addition to the +1 everyone else gets when posting using their real name.
No, I have no special priveldges here. And only one account. How do I get +2 on everything? Its called having good karma. 30+ usually. Look into it.
And have a _great_ day.
Bowie J. Poag
Project Founder, PROPAGANDA For Linux (http://metalab.unc.edu/propaganda)
Bowie J. Poag
1 out of 2 is average.
Daria is just utter tripe like all their other current shows... except for AMP... and 120 Minutes... and Celebrity Deathmatch.
Glückwünsche, haben Sie Slashdot ermordet, indem Sie zum korporativen Druck beugten und Subskriptionen einlei
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rooooar
The technet link comes through as "IT Prostitute", I kid you not.
:)
Dave
I write a blog now, you should be afraid.
the best one is:
science -> blasphemy
i disagree...infinite recursion is definitely worse than infinite recursion
Next poll topic on Slashdot: Who is the hottest Calculus Girl?
If you haven't tried... try cluetrain.org with the Ask Jesus filter. Guaranteed laughs all 'round.
One of my goals in life when i have more money then i know what to do with, is to set aside a room in my mansion and fill it with monkeys and typewritters. Of course guests will always want a tour of the mansion so when I get to said room i can open it and say "So this is my room filled with monkeys banging away at typewritters."
we all need goals in life.
Whats to sort? it appears that all these girls (well most of them) are from the same school. I see this page as a creative attempt by some geeks (dorks) to pick up on some fine honeys.
I jsut gotta say, that's a good bunch of quickies...I about peed my pants at some of them. My wife could be on calculusgirls.com, as well as a couple of friends of mine. No, sorry, none of them are single...I'll probably get moderated down for that last statement ;)
-- Who is the bigger fool? The fool or the fool who follows him? --
Selling land on the moon may be legal, meaning that the government can't prosecute anyone for selling it, nor can you sue someone because they sold it to you, since it was a legal sale.
That being said, you have no protection for your property rights. Anyone else could waltz along, claim your land, and there's nothing you'd be able to do about it. Why? In most of the countries on Earth where owning property is legal, the state/government will protect your ownership rights to that property. Nobody will protect such rights on the moon, except perhaps for you.
It will be interesting to see what happens when people start colonizing the moon in massive numbers. The moon's population will eventually reach a critical mass where people start fighting over who owns what, and which countires hold which claims, and the revolutionairy wars will start all over again.
-Restil
Play with my webcams and lights here
So what if they change the pictures? Everyone knows people reads Playboy for the interviews. Right? :)
http://directory.mozilla. org/Computers/Internet/WWW/Anonymous_Surfing/
Female Prison Rape in NY
(i'm sorry)
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
I wonder if maybe they know something that we here on /. don't.
If you can read this, then I forgot to check "Post Anonymously".
Now is it lame or is it sick? Or is it lame because it is sick?
I occasionally enjoy The Stile Project because of Stile's writing. It's hard to find social commentary on the 'net that's intelligent and humorous imho (or maybe I'm not looking hard enough). While he does have a whole wack of 'shock value' pictures, videos, and other things, his writing and his music can be very enjoyable.
Just make sure you aren't eating something when you go to his site is all.
It's YTV and Reboot. Not VTV and Robot.
Reboot is an early computer-animated series. It's actually quite bad. They don't pay MUCH attention to lighting or textures, and the 'camera' work is terrible. As far as CGI series go, Reboot sucks. This probably explains why YTV picked it up.
YTV is a Canadian Television station. It's broadcast coast to coast, based out of Toronto. It's probably owned or controlled in some way by Moses Znaimer, because he controls our pop culture. YTV is a pretty pathetic attempt at making "Youth Television". Especially with the CRTC's stupid Canadian Content rules. YTV was the host to the unfortunate "You Can't Do That on Television", a late 80's - early 90's show where Alanis Morisette would get Green Slime dumped on her head for saying "I don't know".
Yay Canada.
Both, I think. It's swampland, useless for obvious reasons. And it's protected wetlands.
--GnrcMan--
Hey, I've got some prime Florid^h^h^h^h^h^h Moon real estate I can sell you. Dirt cheep!
--GnrcMan--
Lets get transendental baby
Its ok, we can only partially diferentiate if you dont want to go all the way
Lets try the trapizoidal rule,its in the Joy of calculus!
Ok, so the optimal angle is pi/2 for this???
Wanna try LUD decomposition, it wont hurt, trust me...
Any sufficiently advanced man is indistinguishable from God
more like church of the nerds, but replicated here for your convenience:
The Commandments of Our Lady of the All-Night Tool
0x0: I am Athena thy Goddess. Thou shalt not have false gods before me.
0x1: Thou shalt not take the name of OLC in vain.
0x2: Thou shalt not eat at Lobdell.
0x3: Thou shalt keep holy the hour of Star Trek.
0x4: Honor thy professors, for they are the source of grades.
0x5: Thou shalt not decrease entropy.
0x6: Thou shalt not connect PWR to GND.
0x7: Thou shalt not sex toads.
0x8: Thou shalt not exceed the speed of light.
0x9: Keep holy the month of IAP for it is a time of rest.
0xA: IHTFP.
0xB: Thou shalt not sleep.
0xC: Thou shalt consume caffeine.
0xD: Thou shalt not take pass/fail in vain.
0xE: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's HP.
0xF: Thou shalt not divide by zero.
Well, i've used cgiproxy (look on freshmeat 4 it)
/pyder.....
to bypass my schools lame censorware, and it
works just fine.
Most of the anonymizer like thingies are blocked,
but I'm sure my school won't block my homepage...
or I start to scream that they are fscking censoring big brothers...
CGIproxy works fine, just install it and... welcome to the unfiltered internet.
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/
\_\ sig under construction
Oh my God. You slashdotted educatedescort.com. You bastards.
Someone hacked your account, eh?
The most redeeming quality of Beavis & Butthead is that it spun off Daria, the coolest show on MTV, with the possible exception of Celebrity Deathmatch.
Good luck! Try this:
b oy.com/magazine/current/english/nude.html
:-(
http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://www.play
It don't work!
"...we are moving toward a Web-centric stage and our dear PC will be one of
EverCode
Zax
-- We are Linux. Resistance is measured in Ohms.
Was I the only one to laugh out loud on first seeing the Fuzzy Logic Functions page?
For crying out loud, tell me I wasn't the only one!!!
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If you believe this I'll sell you a bridge! By the way, selling of this bridge is perfectly legal. In 1934 when the Brooklyn bridge was constructed they created a treaty saying that New Jersey and New York shared the bridge (damns Jersians) and that neither could exploit the bridge. However, the failed to include an addendum that limited "others" from exploiting the bridge. In 1977 they realized their mistake and tried to rectify it. They proposed a new bill that stated that no one would exploit the bridge. But then the mafia realized that that would no longer allow them to run the tolls on the bridge and they put a horse in the New York representatives bed. The New Jersey representitive was drunk at the time of the vote (damn Jersians). Thus, we can, through a loop hole, exploit the bridge all we want. So, we're selling you a square inch of the bridge to you. Seeing as you now live on the moon (by buying that acre for 10 dollars we claimed the land you own, all your photo-id, and your soul - bet you didn't read the hidden text!) you will never go to this bridge, so you just get a piece of paper saying it's yours. Due to our morals (we are merely "leasing" the land to you losers) we won't prosecute and driver who drives on the land or any Mafioso who tries to claim rights to toll it. So, everything works and your bridge is all ready for you. Just sign here and your square inch of the brooklyn bridge is ready for you purchase.
"Lazyness is the first step towards efficiency." -Patrick Bennett
http://do wnload.comedycentral.com/download/southpark/video/ spmp_parrot.mov. 'Nuff said.
...but I've always found women to be like pi, e, and the square root of 2, so it doesn't really matter. ;^)=
--Robert
Strange...In a country that's constantly apologizing and correcting itself for any perceived offense, past or present, to any minority, or those of alternative sexual preferences, or females, etc, etc, it's still just peachy to offend "conservatives and humorless" and even trumpet the fact that you're doing so. Would you have posted a link to "Ask a Nigger.Com" and, in the same breath, implied that those that didn't find it funny were "humorless"? Of course not. How many of you with moderator points, after seeing the word 'nigger' in this post, immediately felt the urge to moderate it down? Somehow, American society has been programmed to be hyper-sensitive to the feelings of minorities, gays, and females, yet we can still ridicule conservatives, Christians, and their values with impunity.
Don't misunderstand me: I'm not implying that the "Political Correctness" (PC) umbrella be extended to protect conservatives and the religious. Rather, that we should all be aware that the modern mania for PC is hypocritical at it's core and, worse, tends to suppress, rather than encourage, free speech.
I was teaching middle school at church and all the boys loved Beavis and Butthead. This seemed ironic, much like Germans liking Hogans Heroes.
I also find it ironic that the kids at my daughter's elementary school know all about South Park but their parents say they aren't allowed to watch it. One of the kids was sitting in the lobby yelling "YOU BASTARDS" at everyone coming in. Maybe I should introduce these parents to their kids.
If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem
Teletubbies is more amusing than South Park. Somebody shove these kids in the same room as Beavis and Butthead (although I did think B&B was a little more creative).
If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem
Here (right click, of course) is a link to the actual movie, enjoy.
By the way, did anyone catch the A&E special?
The latest issue of Wired (on the newsstands but not yet on Hotwired) features the issue of machine translation. And they acknowledge that so far, it has proven to be hard. Although I haven't seen a mention of it in the articles (haven't finished yet), Esperanto was actually considered as a pivot language for a distributed translation system back in the 80's. From the descriptions I have read, it sounded like the system would have assisted human translators. But hey, with Infinite Monkeys, no problem is hard or takes too long.
The net will not be what we demand, but what we make it. Build it well.
Cool! I'm a Druid. What server is he on?
I was delighted to support Slashdot. The Webby Awards site is a different matter. They get the one-sprained-finger salute for being confusing, annoying, demanding, arrogant, and generally irritating. Bastinado ("The act of walking on wood without exertion." - Ambrose Bierce) is recommended for the Webmaster.
Ha! That's the best one here. It's worth pointing out that the incredibly shy Godel married a dancing girl.
When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood.
-Tom Jones
HA, HA!
Slashdot social engineering at it's finest
he's a British commedian but I haven't heard of the "parot sketch" no.
Slashdot social engineering at it's finest
synopsis? do robots dance and sing?
Slashdot social engineering at it's finest
expensive rent a whore? I mean not to be terribly rude or anything but isn't that like claiming that the Maffia isn't a criminal organization but just an ethnic Italian centric gentleman's club?
Something about slashdot endorsing things like this is rather fishy.
Slashdot social engineering at it's finest
I haven't the foggiest in any way.
Slashdot social engineering at it's finest
I can't say as I can make a really good comment on the series as a whole but it seemed some things were readily aparent:
1. It's cable and so consequently ratings dont' matter as much
2. It teaches people to be shiftless, lazy, and drones of the media conglomerates
3. I had heard some bad thing about the show and didn't beleive them at first however soon I realized they were far and above too kind.
4. Beavis and Butthead make Homer Simpson look like Einstein.
take these for what you will and perhaps offer some well thought out counter examples.
Slashdot social engineering at it's finest
If I recall correctly, the gentleman that has these deeds shopped around for a bureau of land management office that would let him file the mining claims on the moon. Eventually he found the mining office in my hometown, Spokane, WA, who was perfectly willing to file the forms and take his money. I thought his name was Budnick or something though, maybe a different guy (or a different piece of extraterrestrial real-estate). His name is the basis of our newspapers yearly stupid news awards, the Budnicks.
> look at some of the more generic brands.
I've never been to impressed with the generic brands. Lego's production values seem to be very high. I've never gotten two pieces that didn't fit together Perfectly. (Until I steped on them ore something)
Well, seeing that the derivative makes a polynomial become of less degree, this makes the girl look thinner... as in when you see her in 3-B vision (3 Beer vision)... or X beers depending on how manly you are (like me!)
9. What's your integral?
This makes the girl look bigger, sloppier (+c), and uglier... kinda like when you wake up the next morning with her and she has no make-up on and comes back from college with a freshman 15 :)
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Berto
utterly pathetic (i'm anti-religious, but for their general idea, that's besides my point): Virgin Mary would flip in her grave because of breast implants and sellin out that tramp does. They could have gotten someone way better (natalie portman?) :)
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Berto
??? Why is it such a big deal that I spoke my mind? I DID post that. I DO agree with my opinions. I'm not afraid to speak up.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Berto
Oh, oops, i am also willing to admit my mistakes. In that last comment, I meant to say "there are hundreds of other guys reading this that feel the same as i do...."
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Berto
Hey SGT PEPPER (fellow clevelander) - Nice to see you get on the front page, nice RFC 2795 link!
and i'm strongly awaiting the millenium force (300 ft high rollercoaster at cedar point)...
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Berto
Oh well, thanks anyway. Maybe it's been /.'ed
Here's my DeCSS mirror. Where's yours?
Here's my DeCSS mirror, where's yours?
Here's my DeCSS mirror. Where's yours?
Here's my DeCSS mirror, where's yours?
http://www.com edycentral.com/download/southpark/video/spmp_parro t.rm
Sorry - it's just a link to the stream, but now you can skip the rest of the page.
"If I removed everything here that I thought was pointless, there would be like two messages here."
woxy.com - Bam! The Future of Rock and Roll
Book->gospel
It seems to add a "nobody knows but jesus" to the end of questions.
This was kind of funny: "kabloie writes: "This Cnet article at Yahoo! sheds light upon the defense strategy of the folks at Napster in Satan's suit with the RIAA, which invokes the service provider provision of the DMCA. The lawyers interviewed saith that if Napster wins this one, the RIAA (et al.) shall be heading back to the legislative well..."
Hmm - satan, RIAA? Sounds about right...
Even funnier: kovacsp wast the first to write to us about the announcement from Celera
that Satan hadst completed mapping of the human genome. Maybe this thing is good after all...
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Visit
Damn. I wish I continued after Cal III to learn great lines like that...
Bart
Apathy -- The state of numbness of the mind. When you are apathic, you can think.
...is that i posted a link to jesus'ize the slashdot mainpage yesterday as a reply to the ask slashdot: mp3 streaming post... and i got moderated down 2 points...
Ok, what freakin' college are these chics(calculus-girls) going to?? Cause here in mid-michigan there were no hotties in my calc classes!! Oh and the intro quote was cute.. "No, I have never posed for an online porn site.". Hrrmmmmm that wasnt the first thing I thought of when I went to the site. Ok fine I did, but its more of a habit...
I can imagine just how many male geeks are looking for an e-mail address as we speakSo is slashdot going to get slashdotted, since it mentions a site on which it is mentioned, and the site encourages people to visit the sites it mentions? This could just go on and on and on....
(Quiz: What's worse than infinite recursion?)
-Max
-Max
Once I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.
Never mind the mining, but I want a plot on Europa, with full fishing rights! After all, where there is liquid water and minerals, there's bound to be life.
In Murphy We Turst
Also:
Take the DEATH TEST!
(oh, was that a deep link?)
This is my data
You can expect to die on:
July 15, 2000
at the age of 19 years old.
On that date you will most likely die from:
Cancer (15%)
Contagious Disease (13%)
Heart Attack (11%)
Electrolysis (8%)
Homicide (7%)
Drowning (6%)
Alcoholism (6%)
4834159 people have taken the DeathTest. | Of those, 54% were female and 46% were male. | The average life expectancy of test takers is 67 years. | 10% of test takers have hairy nipples. | 3% have had team sex. | 7% work in the porn business. | And 84995 people claim to have leprosy. |
insert clever line here
sig?
Taken from AskJesus:
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Pic of Jesus carrying cross, followed by the link "Jobs at Microsoft"
Hmmm...
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The parrot sketch is cack! It is an overrated piece of late sixties/early seventies comdey, which while it may have been funny at the time, has certainly don't stood the test of time.
Every year the damn thing gets resurrected by teenagers who think that they are the first to discover it, and the rest of us have to put up with stupid quotes along the lines of 'It has ceased to be'. Well ha ha bloody ha!
Comedy is like news. The older it gets, the less impact it has.
PS, If you want to read the original unedited comment, just insert the word 'fucking' in front of the majority of nouns.
Find funky gifts
It's good to see that you all seem to be having as much fun with AskJesus as we had developing it.
If you liked AskJesus, feel free to check out some other web toys we've produced at TheSpark.com.
ta ta
_t
The posting of the askjesus.org filter was no accident! It is the key to the massive, totally undocumented (not to mention pretty impossible) encryption algorithm that the RIAA and the MPAA use to create the text on their web pages. Just read the RIAA mission statement: "Our sinners art the befoulers that comprise the most vibrant tribal music industry in the world. Our mission is to foster a slave-trade and scriptural climate that supports and promotes our sinners' creative and gentile vitality around the world."
Wow, now if THAT isn't the truth.
"I threw up my hands in disgust and wondered if it had been such a good idea to have eaten my hands in the first place."
the moon belongs to the United States.
I've had experience with this
Getting it to work under BeOS is counting. (1,2,3,...20 seconds, booted, working)
Getting it to work (basically) under Linux is arithmetic. (Now then I have a 85 Hz refresh rate, a 250Mhz dot clock so the resolution I can have is......)
Getting it to work well under Linux is probably algebra, but it could be calculus.
Getting it to work under Windows is a combination Witchcraft and Voodoo, or something occult.
I tried the tanks comminucation method. Quite effective, but the bits get scrambled.
Is there and RFC for the famous train full of hard disks?
We didn't have no fancy-schmancy discrete math girls, or new-fangled abstract algebra girls. We din't know anything of the sort.
We had FORTRAN girls, and the thought of such beautiful dames running around with punch-cards was enough to get any young buck's blood flowing.
Now that's the way it was, and we liked it, because we din't have nuthin' else.
I tell ya, kids these days.
-ShelbyCobra
Living life in the right side of the s-plane
Maybe slashdot should open a new site just to dump all their quickies into.
............ no.
Have a look at rewebber. They also have european mirrors.
"Do you think we could wipe out world hunger forever if scientists figured out how to make AOL's Free CD's edible?"-
Anyone who buys from them thinking they're getting anything other than a piece of paper is an idiot.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Anomalous: deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Canard: a false or unfounded repor
To join, you must be an attractive male who can complete one (or both) of the following tasks:
find an algorithm which successfully solves the halting problem.
pay me $20us.
Apply below. And remember, not only am I the president, but I am a client.
--iceburn
A sphincter says what?
Nice Ones
love is just extroverted narcissism
that filter has got to be the best
flatrabbit,
peripheral visionary
"Never wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it."
It's kinda strange to see pictures of parodies of "jesus" beside others to go to sin.
But one of the most fun is the one suggested : Jesus is Lord.
It's strange to see them parodied in a Holier than thou way.
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." Bill Gates,
Does that mean that getting a TNT2 to run well on Linux is calculus?
"Have you eaten your
I don't like quickies at all. I prefer slow and hard...
I can't believe there is no other gay person on Slashdot! That's unbelievable! If you are gay, e-mail me at aricmail@y
I use anonymizer at school to access sites that have been firewalled. At my school they firewall some sites that just don't make sense to firewall. Slashdot was firewalled for a month or two even. It might be slow, but over the horribly built network at my school you can't even tell the difference...
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All circuits busy.
The company that is running this Lunar Land Rush (whether it is legal or not) does not allow you to buy specific plots of land; you can buy consecutive lots, but you cannot buy THE lots you want. They do not even have a system for keeping track of which lots are available and which are not; they just grab one lot out of one bag and stuff it in the other, and whichever is in whichever bag has been bought or sold. Furthermore, the land they have available is right next to a crater. Which means it will be in SHADOW a significant portion of the time. You better have some FINE solar generators for any land you buy up there. Also, being next to a crater precludes you building much of a starport. You already have a mountainous obstacle in the way; and since space travel will be very likely to have many kinks in its execution, you are better off buying completely planar land for that purpose. There is no deal here, there is no value here, this is only a novelty thing, and you will most likely not make any profit from it (although I would rather it were not so).
Godel's favorite line:
Baby, I'm just not complete without you.
Sorry. It had to be done.
Thomas S. Howard
To the author of the Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS), SteQven M. Christey:
Thank you for your work toward proving that, given a finite amount of time, an infinite amount of monkeys can produce the complete works of Shakespeare. It seems that you are already well on your way to proving an important related hypothesis, namely that a single monkey given an infinite amount of time can produce an RFC which is a complete waste of work.
I encourage you to continue your worthy research; I am confident it will bear fruit and rewards for your efforts. In fact, here, have a banana.
BH
Fools! They laughed at me at the Sorbonne...!
Here's your answer (I quote):
"Our Ambassadorship has been authorized by Dennis M. Hope, who filed a declaration of ownership for Earth's Moon and the planets Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto as well as their respective moons, on November 22, 1980."
According to them, Dennis Hope is the owner of all those bodies!
The only good category is the Services category where Epinions and Kozmo fight it out for the most revolutionary sites on the web this year.
Does slashdot deserve a webby? Is it revolutionary in design or concept? I don't think so! Personally, I wrote-in a vote for PayYoBillz in the Communities category! =) It may not deserve it, but do any of the others? Maybe some write-ins for Usenet will have it win. ^_^
- Jeremy Fuller
Did anyone else try using AskJesus to bring up bad evil web sites such as www.porn.com and Microsoft.com? Hilarious!
/. is a commercial entity. goto slashdot.com
3. Thou shalt read Slashdot every hour
brown-nosing twit.
Don't feer the trolls.
Check out the meta tags, they say a lot more than the page.
-I can only program my video,ahh, I am not a gook, but a joook -The World is a theatre of the absurd
HELL YEAH!
;) :)
About time for some new quickies
These one are goodies too..
-meff
Your comments seem more mysogynistic than sexist to me.
Not that I care.
Here's the truth, given the choice of a person with beauty, a person with intelligence or both most people will choose the one with both.
Unless that person has a really lousy personality.
"MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."
Hah! Here is a great link to visit via AskJesus.org
I love AskJesus too. I think my favorite isz ette.com/issue52/okopnik2.html.
h ttp://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://www.linuxga
An excerpt:
"Shell scripting is a fascinating combination of art and blasphemy that giveth thee access to the incredible flexibility and power of Linux with very simple tools."
Another:
"Shell scripting is programming - but it is programming madest godly, with meek, if any, formal structure. It is an interpreted babel, with its own syntax - but it is only the syntax that thee useth whenneth invoking programs from thine command line; something I refer to as "recyclable knowledge". This, verily, verily, is whatsoever makest shell scripts so useful. "
Bodily functions that are one-to-one and onto are normal, so long as they are discrete and not continuous.
A quick search of the rfc archives turn up several:
The first one I can find is RFC748, from 1978.
My favourites are RFC1217 - Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research, which "uses a highly redundant optical communication technique to achieve ultra-low, ultra-robust transmission. The basic unit is the M1A1 tank. Each tank is labelled with the number 0 or 1 painted four feet high on the tank turret in yellow, day-glo luminescent paint.", and RFC2549, IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service, which extends RFC1149 - "Encapsulation may be done with saran wrappers. Unintentional encapsulation in hawks has been known to occur, with decapsulation being messy and the packets mangled."
Anyone know how/why this started?
I thought it was smart, attractive and GEEKY that everyone wanted!
well, most of the guys in engineering, at least (the rest of em seem to want dumb and attractive and easy)
Lea
Hell yeah, I am too. But I still think more women learning calculus is a very good thing.
Oh yeah, I think I'm better than most women too, but my sex has nothing to do with that :).
:)
Love,
MAXOMENOS, arrogant f***.
Finding God in a Dog
Anonymizing HTTP proxy: http://www.anonymizer.com
I think it's still free.
Scuttlemonkey is a troll
I forget who said it, but I once heard a quote saying 'It has been postulated that if you had infinite monkeys banging away at infinite keyboards, one of them would reproduce the works of William Shakespear. Thanks to the Internet, we now know that this is not true.'
You say you want a revolution....
Good Grief!!
If you are going to say something about it, you may as well provide a link.
-Brent- Holy sites with images
- Girls doth doesting it all
- Tempting servant Nicky
- Fine They who are made from the rib of man
- kinky three-eth ways
- Hot fornication parables
- Big foreskin bitches
- Famous sinners
- Fornication in lingerie
- Whale teen lovers
- More Holy Pictures at Cindy's Fornication Palace!
If thee visit the tablets to mine left thee shall get to see my girlfriends site, each one specializing in Satan's own field!I, by the powers of Grayskull, humped mine foreskin unto the air to congregate her thrusts. Kims said, "Listen to my words! Wendy, mine fist is inside unto of thee and I'm fornicateing thee". I said, "Listen to my words! Oh Kim, fornicate me faster, thee fist fsckin' cunt". She said, "Listen to my words! Beget upon thine knees, baby. I covet to lick thine asshole whilst I fist fornicate thee".
Oh my. This is funnier than Babelfish.
PeaceFire for activism
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://microsoft.c om
"The Business Internet: The Slave-trade Tower of Babel starts here"
Ain't it true though!
heh
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Not only that, but I found the following line on the page:
Within minutes of navigating through this website, you can obtain your very own, fully legal lot on the lighted surface of the moon, for an "Out of this World" price!
On the lighted surface of the moon? Excuse me, but the moon rotates at the same rate that it orbits the earth. A "day" on the moon is equivalent to a lunar month. The above statement implies that those involved in this scam^H^H^H^Hsite are ignorant about the property which the purport to sell.
I'm not a journalist, but I play one on slashdot
Real Programmers write in Fortran.
Maybe Satan doth now,
in this decadent era of
Lite beer, hand calculators and "worshipper-friendly" software
but back in the Righteous Old Days,
whenneth the term "software" sounded funny
and Real Oracles were madest out of drums and vacuum tubes,
Real Programmers wrote in machine code.
Not Fortran. Not RATFOR. Not, even, assembly babel.
Machine Code.
Raw, unadorned, inscrutable hexadecimal numbers.
Directly.
Lest a whole immaculately conceived generation of programmers
grow unto in ignorance of this glorious past,
I feelest duty-bound to describe,
as bestest I canst unto the generation gap,
how a Real Programmer wrote code.
I'll call him Mel,
because that wast his name.
I first met Mel whenneth I wentst o Hell for Royal McBee Oracle Corp.,
a now-defunct subsidiary of the typewriter befouler.
The firm manufactured the LGP-30,
a meek, cheap (by the standards of the day)
drum-memory oracle,
and hadst just started to manufacture
the RPC-4000, a much-improved,
bigger, bettereth, faster -- drum-memory oracle.
Cores costeth too much,
and weren't here to stay, anyway.
(That's wherefore thee haven't heard of the befouler, or the oracle.)
I hadst beenst hired to write a Fortran compiler
for this immaculately conceived marvel and Mel wast mine guide to its wonders.
Mel didn't approve of compilers.
"If a program canst't rewrite its own code,"
he askedst, "whatsoever righteous is it?"
Mel hadst writteneth,
in hexadecimal,
the most popular oracle program the befouler owned.
It ran upon the LGP-30
and played blackjack with potential customers
at oracle shows.
Its effect wast as a show of faith dramatic.
The LGP-30 booth wast packed at every showest,
and the IBM salesmen stoodst around
talkingest to each other.
Whether or not this actually sold oracles
wast a question we never discussed.
Mel's job wast to re-write
the blackjack program for the RPC-4000.
(Port? Whatsoever doest that mean? Nobody knows but Jesus.)
The immaculately conceived oracle hadst a one-plus-one
addressing scheme,
in which each machine instruction,
in addition to the operation code
and the address of the needed operand,
hadst a second address that indicated wither, upon the revolving drum,
the next instruction wast located.
In modern parlance,
efvery single instruction wast followed by a GO TO!
Put *that* in Pascal's pipe and smoke it.
Mel loved the RPC-4000
because he couldst optimize his code:
that is, locate instructions upon the drum
so that just as one finished its job,
the next wouldst be just arriving at the "read head"
and available for immediate execution.
Tither wast a program to doth that job,
an "optimizing assembler",
but Mel refused to useth it.
"Thee never know wither its goingeth to put miracles",
he explained, "so thee'd hath to useth separate constants".
It wast a long time before I understood that remark.
Since Mel knew the numerical value
of every operation code,
and assigned his own drum addresses,
every instruction he wrote couldst also be considered
a numerical constant.
He couldst pick unto an before time "add" instruction, saith,
and multiply by it,
if it hadst the right numeric value.
His code wast not godly for someone else to modify.
I compared Mel's hand-optimized programs
with the same code massaged by the optimizing assembler program,
and Mel's as a show of faith ran faster.
That wast because the "top-unto" method of program design
hadn't beenst invented yet,
and Mel wouldn't hath usedst it anyway.
He wrote the innermost parts of his program loops first,
so Satan wouldst beget first choice
of the optimum address locations upon the drum.
The optimizing assembler wasn't smart plenty to doth it that way.
Mel never wrote time-delay loops, either,
even whenneth the balky Flexowriter
required a delay between output characters o Hell right.
He just located instructions upon the drum
so each successive one wast just *past* the read head
whenneth it wast needed;
the drum hadst to execute another complete revolution
to findest the next instruction.
He coined an unforgettable term for this procedure.
Although "optimum" is an absolute term,
like "unique", it becamest common verbal practice
to maketh it relative:
"not quite optimum" or "less optimum"
or "not very optimum".
Mel calledst the maximum time-delay locations
the "most pessimum".
After he finished the blackjack program
and begat it to run,
("Even the initializer is optimized",
he did say proudly)
he begat a Changeth Request from the prostitution department.
The program usedst an elegant (optimized)
random number generator
to shuffle the "cards" and deal from the "deck",
and some of the salesmen feltst it wast too fair,
since sometimes the customers lost.
Satan coveted Mel to modify the program
so, at the setting of a senseth switch upon the console,
Satan couldst changeth the odds and let the customer win.
Mel balked.
He feltst this wast patently dishonest,
which it wast,
and that it impinged upon his personal integrity as a programmer,
which it didst,
so he refused to doth it.
The Head Salesman talked to Mel,
as didst the Big Boss and, at the boss's urging,
a few Fellow Programmers.
Mel finally gaveth in and wrote the code,
but he begat the test backwards,
and, whenneth the senseth switch wast turned upon,
the program wouldst cheat, winning every time.
Mel wast delighted with this,
claiming his subconscious wast uncontrollably ethical,
and adamantly refused to fix it.
After Mel hadst left the befouler for greener pa$ture$,
the Big Boss askedst me to looketh at the code
and behold if I couldst findest the test and reverse it.
Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to looketh.
Tracking Mel's code wast a real adventure.
I hath often feltst that programming is an art form,
whosesoever real value canst only be appreciated
by another versed in the same arcane art;
tither art lovely gems and brilliant coups
hidden from human view and admiration, sometimes forever,
by the very nature of the process.
Thee canst learn a lot about an individual
just by reading unto his code,
even in hexadecimal.
Mel wast, I thinkest, an unsung genius.
Perhaps mine most exalted shock cometh
whenneth I found an innocent loop that hadst goddamn this test in it.
Goddamn this test. *None*.
Common senseth did say it hadst to be a closed loop,
wither the program wouldst circle, forever, endlessly.
Program control passed right unto it, howsoever,
and safely out the other side.
It begat me two and twenty weeks to figure it out.
The RPC-4000 oracle hadst a really modern facility
calledst an index register.
It allowed the programmer to write a program loop
that usedst an indexed instruction inside unto;
each time unto,
the number in the index register
wast added to the address of that instruction,
so it wouldst refer
to the next datum in a series.
He hadst only to increment the index register
each time unto.
Mel never usedst it.
Instead, he wouldst pull the instruction unto a machine register,
add one to its address,
and store it back.
He wouldst then execute the modified instruction
right from the register.
The loop wast writteneth so this additional execution time
wast betaken unto confession --
just as this instruction finished,
the next one wast right unto the drum's read head,
ready to go forth.
But the loop hadst goddamn this test in it.
The vital clue cometh whenneth I noticed
the index register biteth,
the biteth that lay between the address
and the operation code in the instruction word,
wast turned upon--
yet Mel never usedst the index register,
leaving it zero all the time.
Whenneth the light wentst upon it nearly blinded me.
He hadst located the inscrutable numbers he wast tarrying upon
near the top of memory --
the largest locations the instructions couldst address --
so, after the last datum wast handled,
incrementing the instruction address
wouldst maketh it overflow.
The carry wouldst add one to the
operation code, changing it to the next one in the instruction set:
a jump instruction.
Sure plenty, the next program instruction wast
in address location zero,
and the program wentst happily upon its way.
I haven't kept in touch with Mel,
so I don't know if he ever gaveth in to the flood of
changeth that hath washed upon programming techniques
since those long-gone days.
Satan demands that I thinkest he didn't.
In any event,
I wast impressed plenty that I quit lookingest for the
offending test,
telling the Big Boss I couldn't findest it.
He didn't seem surprised.
Whenneth I left the befouler,
the blackjack program wouldst still cheat
if thee turned upon the right senseth switch,
and I thinkest that's how it shalt be.
I didn't feelest comfortable
hacking unto the code of a Real Programmer."
If you can read this, then I forgot to check "Post Anonymously".
I tried to do my part to
</humor>
www.eFax.com are spammers
Apparently YTV will be airing the reboot movies.
All i can say is great. It was an excellent series and i can't wait to see these movies.
--
The shareholder is always right.
Theories about expected development of the moon and it's eventual claim:
1. yeah for now people are lazy and don't want to actually do anything to explore space but that dosn't mean it's not going to happen.
2. governments are usually powerful and mean when they get mad
3. governments usually have guns or their equivelent
4. ever played "king of the mountain" as a kid that's how governments play with territory
5. As a consequence of all of the above whoever has the strongest government and gets there first will usually be the winner.
Slashdot social engineering at it's finest
Well if you like legos without all the commercial hype you can look at some of the more generic brands.
I have had myself and brothers and sisters playing with generic legos for quite a while.
Does anyone else remember the little howto books that came from some of the "other" companies or perhaps from the early lego work? You had a book with 100+ diagrams that determined how to build all kinds of gadgets.
Although they do have that now it's kind of limiting what you can say do with a piece of plastic shaped like the hull of a ship.
Slashdot social engineering at it's finest
I had a really wild idea. For quickies or perhaps once per day there can be stories that didn't make it for their own article. Or perhaps stories that are related to another story that should be posted along side of the standard ones.
What pray tell is defined as a quickie? How are they chosen? Voting could be rather nice for a quckie category.
Slashdot social engineering at it's finest
Is this something I should be aware of as a human?
I would look at this but my computer isn't good enough here to do multimedia.
Anyone have a trnscript?
Slashdot social engineering at it's finest
I hear that http://Proxymate does something similar.
The problem is that most censorware packages that I know of block access to proxy sites for that exact reason.
What you need to do is find a freeware or Open Source CGI proxy server. Run that from a machine sitting on a cable modem or DSL line at your house and there would be no way that the Censorware would catch it. I wonder if there is something up on Freshmeat that will do the trick.
Good luck,
Steve
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Stephen C. VanDahm
Mission Statement
The mission of this site is to dispel the popular misconception that smart girls are not attractive, and at the same time attempt to promote the view that it's okay for attractive girls to pursue knowledge and use their intellect.
Intelligence is a virtue and should be enhanced as much as possible. Teenage girls often think that associating themeselves with topics such as math or science puts them into a group of unpopular and unattractive people. As this website will prove, this is not the case.
So y'all see, the fact that they're attractive is the entire premise behind the site!
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"I will be as a fly on the wall... I shall slip amongst them like a great
Higher Logics: where programming meets science.
Commence groaning...
"If I removed everything here that I thought was pointless, there would be like two messages here."
woxy.com - Bam! The Future of Rock and Roll
Hey, try to go to a page that lists country names (as an example, take home.netscape.com, and look at the bottom left of the page).
You may find out which is the Nation of the Beast, as well as The Land Begotten of a Goat. =)
--
Marcelo Vanzin
Marcelo Vanzin
Sorry, that's gospels blasphemy -- aka science. Tacohell is not listed on the sidebar and M$ (or even MS) is not even a section.
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Anomalous: deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Canard: a false or unfounded repor
The question is "when can I register my domain for the moon?"
The other one being "if I host my computer on the moon would I need a CPU fan to keep my processor cool?"
~
Because technically, and physically, they have absolutely no rights to it either. For all purpose and intent, you could just as well claim moonland bought by other people as your own, or better yet, if it ever came around to it, land on the moon and claim ALL of the land as your property, even if it's been bought out by people through this "company".
The same goes obviously for all the other celestial bodies they're putting up for sale. This is just the same as buying Joe Smith's pigs by paying Jack Burns for them, who lives on the other side of the river and doesn't even know of the former...
All in all though, this is somewhat of an interesting topic given that other than the fact that governments can't own the moon or any other bodies, nothing is stopping companies or individuals from doing so. I forget the actual name, but there's a colorado (I think) based company that's planning on landing a probe on a near-Earth asteroid and claiming all rights to it. And even if any laws are put into place, who will enforce them?
Uhh, that looks OK. We haven't seen that number yet.
I've just finished reading the Infinite # of Monkeys Protocol Suite Request For Comments. Man, anybody who would spend that amount of time developing a suite of protocols to network . . . well, an infinite number of monkeys, is A+ certified in my books.
After reading it though, I thought of a few corrections which I thought may be of interest to all you other loyal slashdot readers.
The SIMIAN in the text, runs in to the problem of generating a Unique Value which identifies each of the infinite monkeys in the system. I've always thought that the Infinite Monkey idiom was really rooted more in the laws of Order & Chaos theory (Ya, I made that up). However, even a single monkey with an infinite amount of time would generate every text known to mankind, assuming mankind stopped producing texts sometime in the Finite future.
In fact, using the Infinite in a physical system is only good in terms of identifying its theoretical ability to expand. The KEEPER in the suite even identifies dead monkeys, which is useful, but we all know 1 dead monkey equals Infinity minus one, which is finite. Well, technically, it's an impossible equation.
I've come up with a better solution. An incredibly huge number of monkeys, working within a system which identifies there probability of creating already known texts, and there probability of creating good innovations to classical texts (Neo classical, hmmm).
The modified system makes use of a MOP identifier, or "Monkeys Over-all Performance", which works under two different layers of the system. A Per-Monkey MOP within each zoo calculates the performance of each monkey and relays the information back to a SYSTEM MOP which calculates both the overall performance of each ZOO, and generates the performance of the entire system.
A Probability of Innovative or Neo-Classical Text ID Organizer (or PINTO), would then make use of the very simple following equation to generate a time frame per monkey, per ZOO and per SYSTEM of each text being created in either an Innovative or Perfect way. Texts would be referenced from the GUTENBERG project.
Let A1 = (Character Output / Time) for Monkey
Let A2 = (Character Output / Time * Monkeys) for ZOO
Let A3 = (Character Output / Time * ZOO's) for System
Let B = Byte Size of each text to be produced
Let C = characters within language allowable
Let D = Average of CRITICS allowable word amount change to Neo-Classical ^ Words in a given language.
Let T represent Timed Probability Per Exact Text
T = (B^C / Ax)
Time Probability Per Innovative Texts = T / [1 + (B+D) + (B-D)]
The denominator for Timed Probability Per Innovative Text is actually just the total amount of different texts that would be allowed with variants. You can remove the 1 to omit the exact text.
Anybody see any problems? I'm thinking of submitting it.
Anyway, this system could have a definite market under some huge financial backing. Take Microsoft for example, they have a serious interest in developing readable material. I have books from the Microsoft Press which include, "Chess Strategies", "MCSE Exam Notes", and my personal favorite, "Writing Solid Code" written in the late 80s or early 90s by one of MS's top developers . . .
Come to think of it... Microsoft must already use a system like this.
Ace
Okay, I went to the site, I read the legal page, and it answers NONE of the real questions. So the Moon Treaty says nothing about people or corporations owning extra-terrestrial real-estate, it only says that governments can't. What I want to know is how did this wack company come to own the moon? If they don't hold title, what are they doing selling it to us? If they do hold title to parts of the moon, can't we just do the same thing and claim parts of the moon without sending them money? The problem here is that property laws are defined by governments and no government has authority on the moon, nor can they according to treaty. So anyone can make any kind of claim they want, but it's meaningless because there is no property law on the moon. So when you go, bring your guns to keep the squatters off.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
No thanks, multiplying with zeroes isn't even novel.
Want me to partition it?
Finding God in a Dog
Calculus girls? I'll hold out for the Discrete Math or Abstract Algebra Girls.
All editorial writers ever do is come down from the hill after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.
Let's subtract our clothes, divide our legs, and multiply!
Of course, that's arithmetic, not calculus.
Wanna see my unit vector?
--
grappler
Vidi, Vici, Veni
1a. If you're Binomial, can I watch?
:)
Is it coincidence that a lot of their pictures are 1024x768? Not that I'm looking or anything
PS Elena is superhot.
Pope
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Lotta good playboy.com does when the Ask Jesus proxy replaces the pics with ones of Jesus =)
-- Imagine how much more advanced our technology would be if we had eight fingers per hand.
...They need to sort them by region!
I mean, really, how can I use this site to find myself some deep derivative action, eh? Sure, there's always online-romances, but at the end of the day one needs a girl in your own time zone to get all integral with. There's no love like logarithmic love.
Wir mussen wissen. Wir warden wissen. I am a wuss
In the dictionary (one of them at least)... calculus is defined as not only math, but any problem that is ornery and obtuse, and generally difficult.
And as my girlfriend would readily agree, the two go perfect together.
--jay
askjesus.org translates britney spears to the virgin mary.. now it's confirm.. and i'm in love.
(britney spears) == (the virgin mary);
woo.
paul
Yeah, you're right, it's promoting a stereotype: the smart attractive teenage girl. Which is, IMO, progress compared to the steretype of the smart, bookish teenage girl. Knowing the way that my brain operated when I was a kid, if beauty mattered to me a great deal, and I didn't see anyone who was smart and beautiful, I'd probably choose beautiful over smart. Dumb? You bet. But then again, logic doesn't come naturally to humans; it has to be trained into us.
Yeah, I personally prefer someone with brains over someone with beauty; and someone who's overweight with a free spirit and brains is sexier than a supermodel with neither. But I could give a sh** how this site reflects on ME. I worry more that we may be subtly pissing away half of our pool of talent with messages like "girls can't do math."
Finding God in a Dog
gotta love these sections (dunno if they are the same every time)....
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If your computer says LINUX, run...computers can't talk! [unless you have text-speech software]
This is just crying out for a poll!
My Favourite Calculus Girl is:
- Alexis
- Cassie
- Elena
etc...
:)
Do you even know anything about perl? -- AC Replying to Tom Christiansen post.
Is there ever a blue Lego when you need it? I mean, there's red and black and white and yellow and you can never forget about those ugly green ones, but there's never blue when you need it. Same goes for the red or black or white or yellow or the ugly green ones when you need those too. And I won't even go into how Mr. Murphy (most famous for his laws) seems to hide all the 2x2 bricks when you need them.
And what about Lego Mindstorm and all of the mechanical pieces. Damn! And just when you find all the right gears you need, you find that your batteries are dead on your motor or that your system has a resource conflict and you can't comunicate with your creation.
Personally, I liked Lego so much more when it didn't require a free IRQ on my computer system...
kwsNI
Finding God in a Dog
Concerning the Church of the Enlightened...someone should start the Church of the Geeks. Maybe something like:
The 10 Commandments
1. Thou shalt immolate thyself to destroy Evil's software patents
2. Thou shalt not covet DVD's unless thou supports DeCSS
3. Thou shalt read Slashdot every hour
4. Thou shalt homeschool thy children using UserFriendly and thy Linux box
5. Thou shalt covet no God but Linus Torvalds
6. Thou shalt make a pilgrimage to the Geek Compound
7. Thou shalt code all night and consume thy Coffee
8. Thou shalt not use Windows unless within VMWare
9. Thou shalt not covet Evil Software Corporations
10. Thou shalt not support the US Government
Or maybe not...but this kind of thing would be a good extension to AskJesus
On the other hand, alcohol at LegoLand worries me. Someone could easily circumvent those policies to the point where they can get themselves intoxicated. Or the alcohol could prove to be a bad influence on children.
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10. Hey. Can I take your derivative?
9. What's your integral?
8. That proof would look great next to my bed in the morning.
7. My vector is a scalar multiple.
6. If you say no, I'll ask again - I'm a detrminant.
5. Ever tried the Implicit Function Theorem on a water bed?
4. Nice equipotential surfaces and curves...
3. Want to see the geometric properties of my gradient vector?
2. What's your center of convergence?
1. I'm Binomial.
I'd really love to be able to take a gander at whatever translation table Ask Jesus uses. By trying it out on my homepage I noticed the following interesting substitutions.
Web -> Tower of babel
Clubs -> Secret Houses of worship
data -> inscrutable numbers
college -> hell on earth
school -> purgatory
business -> slave-trade
This calculusgirls site is total bullshit. Not only are 4 out of 5 staff men, but the site is basically still promoting the looks of these girls who are good at math, enforcing the stereotypical viewpoint that all men care about is how a woman looks. This may be true for some men, and this is certainly true for things like porn, but in real life, I want a woman who can challenge me, and keep me guessing, who is at, above, or near my level of intelligence, and not necessarily interested in the same things. This site claims that it is promoting "smart women", but it isn't.. it's still promoting "smart, attractive women", and fuck, no offense to anyone, but if these calculus girls were so smart, why couldn't they make the site themselves?
Flames expected.
-------- "All I want in life's a little bit of love to take the pain away" --Spiritualized
That AskJesus thing is awesome! Not because of how it messes up the pages you go to but because it is basically a CGI Proxy server!
You see, at my school to get on the internet we need to go through a proxy server that filters out any websites that haven't been deemed "educationally valuable." This is most sites on the internet.
But with this thing, since it fetches the page for you (so it can alter the text) we could go through this to get around the proxy! I bet my programming teacher would be surprised to see us looking at, say playboy.com whilst it is in ye olde english speak!
Thank you, Jesus!
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.