Reminds me of the first program I wrote in assembler on an Apple II computer. It ran so fast that I thought it didn't work at all and I had to insert debugging code to find out it was working...
Hopefully, the collective mindset that makes americans fear their government will be turned-around, and they will realize that they have far more to fear from the croporations who rule than from their pet minion government...
And MAYBE they will take back democracy from those who have stolen it.
Some people act as if slippery slopes can be avoided, but they cannot.
It is the **DUTY** of every lawyer to explore new slippery slopes, to boldly slip where no one has slipped before!!!
Re:Now that I have Nike RocketAirs...
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...it no longer fazes me when I see 7' goliaths on the basketball court. I just lace them up, ignite the rocket packs embedded in the soles, and dunk all over my meager competition.
- sigh - what ever happenned to good old flubber...
I'm a wrestler, one of the few sports completely unaffected by any technological advances.
How about Spandex????
Well... SCUBA diving, of course!!!
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SCUBA diving is definitely the most high-tech of mainstream sports (and it doesn't have to be extreme - in my diving club, there are 60ish grannies who go on the same dives as everyone else).
But it always was high-tech, even from the onset when it was invented in the 1920's by Yves Leprieur (Cousteau merely improved the gear - by re-using a 1865 design spurned by Leprieur).
During the last 20 years, we've seen composite materials enter the scene to make suits, fins, masks and other gadgets, very fancily machined balanced regulators, and, of course, computers.
But SCUBA-diving is also high-tech because it calls for a good knowledge of human physiology to properly understand what pressure does to the human body, in order to avoid serious crippling injury.
But most advances in recent years involve more "software" than "hardware"; that is, new methods that use slightly modified diving gear, such as Nitrox mixes, that is, oxygen-enriched gases that offers all sort of benefits.
Or, at the other end of the spectrum, special inert gas mixes for deeper diving, once the province of commercial divers, being used by sport divers.
And the rebirth of old technologies, such as rebreathers (used by combat swimmers during World-War II), but with computers monitoring their function to enable mixing a continuously variable breathing mix optimized for the current depth in order to minimize nitrogen exposure without skirting oxygen toxicity.
It's not really a big innovations. The French did it 103 years ago, during the 1900 exhibiton. A rolling sidewalk was running along the exhibition and was whisking visitors at about 8 km/h. It was composed of two side-by-side rolling sidewalks one going at half the speed as the other.
If you ask me, this was a much better design than the neck-breaking jallopy installed in Montparnasse Station...
They also experimented some 30 years ago with one that was shaped like an integral sign; instead of a rubber plate, there were solid plates which slide sideways at the end, effectively yielding a slower speed but without the jarring hells-on-wheels acceleration.
You laugh, but the SNCF (French National Railroads) have trouble recruiting new train engineers (drivers, for you UK types). Their medical standards are so stringent that they have a hard time finding kids with unimpaired hearing, thanks to all those loud discos.
Even worse, whenever a kid shows up for the medical wearing a walkman, he is automatically rejected...
This makes a lot of sense. Why would someone with lots of money be trounced by poorly-paid scientists who have the incredible guts to imply that the rich guy is not right????
After this is America, where "In gold we trust"...
Harry Potter is a children's story set in an adult world. As you go farther along, you begin to see that the HP universe is actually a very frightening place, where very bad things can happen to very nice people.
Also, the characters tend to be far more realistic than you would expect in children's literature. Not all the good guys are nice, and not all the bad guys are mean.
Good news: The **AA's of the world now realize their respective business models are obsolete.
Bad news: Their new business model consists of the following:
You guys with "IRONY" are reminding me of an old French TV show, the "Francophonissime", where a panel of personnalities were shown a silent short-movie about something in particular, one for each panelist.
They had to narrate the movie but were not allowed to name the subject when referring to the subject, but were allowed to name it when NOT referring to it...
The one who did slip the least was the winner...
The comma as seperator is far more prevalent than "just" in Northern Europe. I think it'd be safe to say a large portion the population of the world uses it.
Right now, if I climb on the roof of the building next door, I can see the USA. But we (officially) have to put commas to separate the integer from the mantissa...
It seems to be the developing countries that "get it" and make legislative and legal decisions which are in the interests of the public at large, as opposed to multinational cartels.
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How about 8-track tapes???
Sure. STDs and unwanted pregnancies. Both can be fixed with proper condom technology.
Reminds me of the first program I wrote in assembler on an Apple II computer. It ran so fast that I thought it didn't work at all and I had to insert debugging code to find out it was working...
And MAYBE they will take back democracy from those who have stolen it.
But it always was high-tech, even from the onset when it was invented in the 1920's by Yves Leprieur (Cousteau merely improved the gear - by re-using a 1865 design spurned by Leprieur).
During the last 20 years, we've seen composite materials enter the scene to make suits, fins, masks and other gadgets, very fancily machined balanced regulators, and, of course, computers.
But SCUBA-diving is also high-tech because it calls for a good knowledge of human physiology to properly understand what pressure does to the human body, in order to avoid serious crippling injury.
But most advances in recent years involve more "software" than "hardware"; that is, new methods that use slightly modified diving gear, such as Nitrox mixes, that is, oxygen-enriched gases that offers all sort of benefits.
Or, at the other end of the spectrum, special inert gas mixes for deeper diving, once the province of commercial divers, being used by sport divers.
And the rebirth of old technologies, such as rebreathers (used by combat swimmers during World-War II), but with computers monitoring their function to enable mixing a continuously variable breathing mix optimized for the current depth in order to minimize nitrogen exposure without skirting oxygen toxicity.
If you ask me, this was a much better design than the neck-breaking jallopy installed in Montparnasse Station...
They also experimented some 30 years ago with one that was shaped like an integral sign; instead of a rubber plate, there were solid plates which slide sideways at the end, effectively yielding a slower speed but without the jarring hells-on-wheels acceleration.
Even worse, whenever a kid shows up for the medical wearing a walkman, he is automatically rejected...
Here is a good explanation:9 667.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=67851&cid=621
Those sleazebags will simply move to Canada, where there is already an overabundance of call centers and phone scammers.
After this is America, where "In gold we trust"...
Where do you see in Congress shall not...abridge speech an interdiction of PRIVATE parties refusing data traffic from another PRIVATE network?
Hint: the INTERnet is a BUNCH of various PRIVATE network that are in NO WAY obligated to accept each other's traffic.
... Is it still a big bloated piece of crappy code???
Surely they meant Harry Potter is a nanotechnologist...
After all, nowhere it is said that idiot people should be allowed to have their cake and eat it too...
Are those virii GPLed???
You guys with "IRONY" are reminding me of an old French TV show, the "Francophonissime", where a panel of personnalities were shown a silent short-movie about something in particular, one for each panelist.
They had to narrate the movie but were not allowed to name the subject when referring to the subject, but were allowed to name it when NOT referring to it...
The one who did slip the least was the winner...