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Is the Universe its own Largest Computer?

missingmatterboy writes: "If the universe is simply a giant calculating machine, how big is it? Seth Lloyd, who two years ago worked out the theoretical maximum possible power a laptop computer could posess, has now "estimated how much information the Universe can contain, and how many calculations it has performed since the Big Bang." His conclusion: you'd need about 10^90 bits, with something like 10^120 manipulations of those bits, to express the universe since time began."

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  1. Video Game Reviews? by FunkSoulBrother · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does anyone know of a good site for videogame PC/Console reviews that isn't gamespot.com (subscription) or gamefaqs.com (crappy, 10 year old written reviews)?

    Thanks a lot, sorry bout the offtopic.

  2. omg by tps12 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is this the real Jon Katz on Tuesday? I thought you liked Linux?

    :(

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  3. COLONization by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    When we go out at night, and stars are shining bright, up in the skies above
    Or at the highschool dance, where you can find romance
    Baby, it might be love
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    shoowop, shoowally,wally yippity boom-de-boom
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    .

  4. Goatseman: A Great Sorprise to us all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LYRICS BY ALEX KHAVICH.
    Intro]
    Uh uh, Ali and Murphey/ Uh uh, School Boy with the College Boy/ And ah, and ah..

    [Hook: Murphey + Ali]
    Ali and Murphey is.. bourgeois baby/ If it ain't ghetto.. it don't move me baby / Got a lake, a pool.. and a jacuzzi baby / But it's still McDonald's.. and a movie baby /That's so crazy!

    [Ali]Check
    I'm at the bar, industry party, caviar /Denim suits, superstar, Cigarello cigars /Spittin bars to this footer in stilettoes/ She boughetto, that mean she bourgeois and ghetto / Bourgeois cuz her shoes alone cost a grand / Ghetto cuz she cuss too much and talk with her hands
    She say she don't fuck wit rap since Mase got saved / But baby got back like mace got spray
    You know the bourgeois type, ass boombastic
    Mabelline queen, titties all plastic/ Niggaz front with they tank on empty / They ask for e'rythang cuz the top off her Bentley
    I roll the truck slow, the gas; I ease on it
    I got a trailer on the back, four-wheeler with D's on it /Got the leather with the G's on it, gangsta gangsta / Gotta get it get it good and...

    If you got an expensive weave - That's boughetto!
    Spend six hundred on weed - That's boughetto!
    Benz while ya sittin on D's - That's boughetto!
    Tell em what's boughetto - Bourgeois and ghetto!

    Yo Murph' is bourgeois - School boy; ghetto
    What more can I say? I'm boughetto /Aiyyo I'm beautif-hetto, that's beautiful and ghetto
    I got plenty war stories, plenty hood medals
    Did alotta wrong with alotta good fellows
    But I got my shit together (Hello!)
    I took my hustlin ways from them scufflin days
    To eight million copies on my resume
    I moved right out the hood, cuz I don't like the hood / I tell all my people to think twice in the hood /The police; man they don't even lie
    Cuz they got Spud and Boone and 'Trelle up in Riker's / And I just like what the money can get
    A little head e'ry now and then so honey can spit
    Chrome tips, a hundred an forty four of them shits / And a big ass crib cuz...

    A boughetto pimp loose and I know it cuz I come to party/ late, smellin like weed, no matter who throw it /I'm in the curl cap, didn't get paid but done a rap /Dem ain't Rolex diamonds - what the fuck you done to that?! / Throwin trash out the Benz on the highway / But the old school still spillin all in the driveway / And if it stop, never a towtruck pull me home /Fuckin I keep the socks, had the jewelry on /I'm like a pimp in the 80's, a Reverend Run /Preachin it to em, gassin em up like Chev-e-ron/ Got the D's the beeps and the televis-ion/ And my Sprint (Brrrrr..) like a boughetto telethon
    But I'm bourgeois forever cuz I got it to spend it / Ghett-o, put rims on the car that I rented
    Trump money, but it's still the motel and Kyjuan
    And Slo and Nelly and...

    Ali and Murphey is.. /Bourgeois baby.. Bourgeois baby../Bourgeois baby.. Bourgeois baby..
    Ali and Murphey is.. bourgeois baby /That's boughetto.. bourgeois baby/ That's boughetto.. bourgeois baby /That's boughetto.. bourgeois and ghetto...

  5. Re: Goatse Man dead at 73 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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