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Big Mac Officially Ranks 3rd
An anonymous reader noted that
according to Wired, it will be announced officially on Monday the Big Mac supercomputer is the third-fastest super-computer. The article also talks about some of the amazing supercomputers in the planning stages. The sort of stuff that will make Big Mac look like that old TI-85 collecting dust in your drawer.
Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce chees pickles onion on a seasame seed bun.
Can it sing the whole song without messing up so we all win the big prize? or doesnt anyone remember getting a record with their bigmac all those years ago...
*There's Klingons on the starboard bow, scrape em off Jim!*
The TI-85 is a super-calc.
My desk drawer has a TI-58C, TI-59, and an SR-56. I turn them on occasionaly to bask in their soft red glow for a while.
that's right, not only is this program wwwildly popular, it is also unbreakable, & wwworks on several (more than 3) dimensions.
'big science' will have to 'discover' it's conscience before it can tap into this stuff.
Two programs have gotten the cosmic nod, so far. The top priorities are the creators' planet/population rescue, & newclear power initiatives. Other goals mandated include the permanent disempowerment of unprecedented evile, & assurance that the planet/population is around to enjoy the gnu millennium of open/honest communications/commerce. Your grandchildren will survive to produce additional uses for the powers that are rescuing us from the greed/fear/ego based life0cide, as the lights come up...
consult with/trust in yOUR creator... get ready to see the light. there's never a cover charge/subscription fee. see you there? tell 'em robbIE?
I have a few >3 years old Snapple bottles, are they safe to drink? Why are there no "best before" date printed on the bottles? Why isn't my question answered in the Snapple FAQ?. I justt drank one andI donnt feeel very well.
A great graphics calculator.
:)
Great to program with - I wrote a vm in an exam because I was bored and too suspicious to leave early.
Even things like bezier curves were fun to get going.
The only thing that anoyed me was that the TI-85 had no means of finding out if a pixel had been turned on or off in the graph view (the way you did graphics). The TI-82 had it, but not the TI-85. Why is this anoying ? It makes collision detection very hard to do and thus gaming was somewhat limited. So even though I was Mr-Fancy-Pants with my TI-85, I couldn't get the good games that my friends with the TI-82 could. Although I did write an elementry space invaders game in the text mode part of the calculator in a double lesson of pure mathematics.
Ohwell, the time wasted at school
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Wow, computers have come a long way since my 2400 baud/s modem.
As noted on SlashDot earlier, this will be running Linux.
Thank god it's not going to be running MicroSoft.