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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.
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.
-BrentSTILEPROJECT ROCKS THE WORLD!!! Everyone be sure to check out his track "wifebeater" at mp3.com - http://www.mp3.com/jstile
:-)
Hey Rob, Thanks for that tarball!
"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion." - Jed Babbin
- 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
Perhaps not in design, but they have some pretty interesting concepts. Slashdot has the most developed moderation system I've ever seen on a website forum, and the idea of letting the community do the interviews was deffinately a step in the right direction. The interviewing system allows the people to ask questions about things they really care about, and the moderation system works to select the most interesting of questions based on the community as well. Even if it is lazy, it's still pretty revolutionary :)
Here's my DeCSS mirror. Where's yours?
Here's my DeCSS mirror, where's yours?
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!
-----
"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.
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
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
Hookers.com
Hah! Bet they wouldn't have written about her if they'd known she reads Slashdot!!!
There sure are a lot of desperate rich guys out there....All the creatures will die, And all the things will be broken. That's the law of samurai. (Jubai, 1605)
Ok, 1/n people will click the link to go the other site. Assuming it's not slashdotted (this is the first problem), then 1/n people at that site will click the slashdot link, and come here! As this goes on for a while and n approaches infinite, the series of the sume from 1 to infinity of (1/n) diverges, going off to infinity. An infinite amount of hits would obviously cause some supreme slashdotting :)
However, the thing is that the other site is going to be slashdotted already, so no one can come back to slashdot, AND the people who go to that site from slashdot probably won't come back to slashdot in such a manner, seeing that they don't need to for the time being, and they won't cause the recursion. Also, the other sites do not cause such web chaos as slashdot does. And we don't have an infinite amount of n's, but we're getting there!
What do you think? And i dunno, what's worse than infinite recursion? Kernel panic? :P
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Berto
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
You weren't the only one. But I'm wondering if I was the only one to feel the need to actually code all of those functions.
// One of the smaller ones
void reconsider (int argc, char* argv[])
while(argv[0])
if(argv[argc])
argc--;
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)....
Sections
4/8
apache
4/10 (11)
askslashdot
1/27
awards
4/8
gospels <--aka tacohell
4/10 (2)
bsd
4/9
features
4/10
interviews
4/5
radio
4/9
blasphemy <-- aka M$
4/10 (3)
yro
-mark
-mark
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.
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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!
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