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Looks like [paste your favorite conspiracy perps here] finally got to intelligent voting. I just visited the site to RTFA and got 'Cannot connect to database'. My personal guess is that Ashcroft hired web-monkeys to overload their MySQL database.
oh shit...
Nevermind. I just realized that advancement of voting integrity cannot possibly withstand the movement of masses from/. After 15 reloads, the page finally came up.
My friends and I back in high school would argue constantly over the following equation:
0/0 = 1
Or at least, that's the case I keep trying to make: that the ratio of nothing to nothing is indeed, one. However, alternative principles instruct that ANYTHING divided by 0 is undefined. Yet when graphed on a cartesian coordinate system, a function like 'x = y/0 + a' dictates that for every y, there is a vector or dimension perpendicular to x at a (which is, inherently, a value of x). It basically defines an infinite open-ended ray at a 90 degree angle to x.
It is indeed undefined how to express this. "[+/-] infinity" would be my best guess. But then I guess I'd have to update my equation to:
0/0 = [+/-] 1
Which, is structurally sound if you accept that 0, in being neither postive or negative, can also be said to be both simultaneously. The net effect, of course, is nothing. Yet principally, it illustrates a sort of "optional" element of math, wherein the questionable pre-existing values (such as sqrt(x)) are determined in relation to the answer AFTER completion, or otherwise ambiguously tagged with [+/-].
x = y + 2
for: x = 0; y = -2
x/0 = (y + 2)/0
[+/-] 1 = (-2 + 2)/0
[+/-] 1 = [+/-] 1
Anyone else care to participate in some junk math?:)
"Martians invade Earth after receiving intelligence that Bush was plotting a Mission to Mars. Although they find no Weapons of Mars Destruction they insist we had the capacity to build them. Alien war profiteers reopen Alcatraz, rename it Abu Probe, proceed to "interrogate" humans." - Tatsuya Ishida, http://sinfest.net/
"Martians invade Earth after receiving intelligence that Bush was plotting a Mission to Mars. Although they find no Weapons of Mars Destruction they insist we had the capacity to build them. Alien war profiteers reopen Alcatraz, rename it Abu Probe, proceed to 'interrogate' humans."
What about the environmental affect of sending mass es of flying cars into the air? Each one will churn and disturb the balance of local eco-systems. Just as contrails create cloud patterns, combined and multiplied forces on the atmosphere by hundreds of thousands of turbines could really create a situation that nobody forsees.
"A butterfly in South America flaps its wings, causing it to rain in China."
However, if levitation via gravi[ty/ton/metric] waves could be produced, I believe the environmental impact would be seriously reduced comparitively. Then, and only then, should we consider putting a majority of transit air-borne.
On the comment of M.A.T.R.I.X. being produced by a drug smuggler: who else would know the holes in the system better? This is how countless of my hacker friends have become System Admins or Security Experts for large and small organizations alike. Why? Because they have experience with it. I'm sure you'd sh!t bricks if you found out that your email is hosted on a server administered by none other than someone who used to *read* your emails for fun! But now that he's gainfully employed, he either has less time to hack, or doesn't do it any more. I am for unified information. However, I'm not enthusiastic about the kind of information that is being unified. The core issue with this kind of technology and the designers behind it, is who forgives. Who can forgive you of a five-finger discount in Maryland if it prevents you from obtaining a job in Washington -- strictly because it was on your criminal history? If the answer is "nobody", then it's back to the five-finger discounts to feed yourself.
As much as I take displeasure with Microsoft's Product Activation crap, and their ever increasingly legally-verbose licenses, you gotta hand it to them. Those nerds know how to corner a market.
This is the kind of thing that put them where they are today. "Digital media only available to Windows" I hear. Duh. That's almost the way it is now. I don't have any numbers, but I'd bet money that most of the conventional forms of digital media we enjoy today started development in Windows--with obvious exceptions to other popular formats (eg. Quicktime).
They corner the market. Hell, one of the only reasons I use Windows more than Linux is the fact that so many of my favorite games and media formats are just easier to use (or are only usable) with Windows.
They're trying to corner the market? Doubtful. I think they already have, we just aren't on the same page yet.
But who knows, maybe enough people will not put up with this BS and jump onto the next OS. However, this is people we're talking about here. The majority of which enjoy being led around by others who have arbitrarily assigned themselves authority.
I wonder why they're focusing on educational institutions for illegal software users? If the sheer number of such users are more readily collected in such places, it makes me wonder about the environment. It's true that certain elements only survive under certain conditions. Is necessity a factor? Is the outrageous price for tuition and books driving the minds of our youth to justify downloading a cracked version of Microsft Word to finish a 400-page college paper due yesterday?
<side thought>
Oh wait, nobody worth their weight in RAM uses Word, what was I thinking? Open Office is so much better.
</side thought>
Anyhow, continuing with my rant: it seems to me that there is a consPIRACY going on.
From: Press Release 15 December, 2000 - 3dfx Announces Three Major Initiatives To Protect Creditors and Maximize Shareholder Value
.....
"We expect that the combined technologies of 3dfx and NVIDIA will continue the legacy that 3dfx began in 1994, " Leupp continued. "NVIDIA is the number one supplier of graphics technology to the OEM market. With the addition of 3dfx's high-quality technology that leads the retail market, we believe the combination of the two will result in even greater PC graphics leadership." .....
Anyone see the creepy corelation to the fact that this is all happening during the production of the next Star Wars flick? Attack of the Clones, indeed.
May the force be with you, and your look-alike.
Indeed. I own a Voodoo5 5500, and the FSAA on it kicks some serious ass. My only problem with it is that there's no official XP drivers. I have to rely on flaky 'hacked' drivers. I've been holding out for the nVidia card which was going to have some of 3dfx's work, otherwise I'd pick myself up a Geforce 3.
On a side note, probably off-topic, but I for one would have paid anything to have a Voodoo5 6000. External power supply baby, aw yeah.
Does anyone know if nVidia has started using the technology that they acquired with the purchase of 3DFX? I know that 3DFX was working on some killer graphics routines and various chipsets before nVidia bought them out, and nVidia at the time was too far along with the GeForce 3 to integrate them. But supposedly they were going to use the technology in their next graphics chip.... which I assume to be the GeForce 4.
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Looks like [paste your favorite conspiracy perps here] finally got to intelligent voting. I just visited the site to RTFA and got 'Cannot connect to database'. My personal guess is that Ashcroft hired web-monkeys to overload their MySQL database.
/. After 15 reloads, the page finally came up.
oh shit...
Nevermind. I just realized that advancement of voting integrity cannot possibly withstand the movement of masses from
My friends and I back in high school would argue constantly over the following equation:
:)
0/0 = 1
Or at least, that's the case I keep trying to make: that the ratio of nothing to nothing is indeed, one. However, alternative principles instruct that ANYTHING divided by 0 is undefined. Yet when graphed on a cartesian coordinate system, a function like 'x = y/0 + a' dictates that for every y, there is a vector or dimension perpendicular to x at a (which is, inherently, a value of x). It basically defines an infinite open-ended ray at a 90 degree angle to x.
It is indeed undefined how to express this. "[+/-] infinity" would be my best guess. But then I guess I'd have to update my equation to:
0/0 = [+/-] 1
Which, is structurally sound if you accept that 0, in being neither postive or negative, can also be said to be both simultaneously. The net effect, of course, is nothing. Yet principally, it illustrates a sort of "optional" element of math, wherein the questionable pre-existing values (such as sqrt(x)) are determined in relation to the answer AFTER completion, or otherwise ambiguously tagged with [+/-].
x = y + 2
for:
x = 0; y = -2
x/0 = (y + 2)/0
[+/-] 1 = (-2 + 2)/0
[+/-] 1 = [+/-] 1
Anyone else care to participate in some junk math?
"Martians invade Earth after receiving intelligence that Bush was plotting a Mission to Mars. Although they find no Weapons of Mars Destruction they insist we had the capacity to build them. Alien war profiteers reopen Alcatraz, rename it Abu Probe, proceed to "interrogate" humans." - Tatsuya Ishida, http://sinfest.net/
Sigh... damn slashcode.
To be Anonymous, or not... that is the question.
http://www.sinfest.net/d/20040929.html/
Tatsuya Ishida also suggests:
"Martians invade Earth after receiving intelligence that Bush was plotting a Mission to Mars. Although they find no Weapons of Mars Destruction they insist we had the capacity to build them. Alien war profiteers reopen Alcatraz, rename it Abu Probe, proceed to 'interrogate' humans."
http://www.khaaan.com/
What about the environmental affect of sending mass es of flying cars into the air? Each one will churn and disturb the balance of local eco-systems. Just as contrails create cloud patterns, combined and multiplied forces on the atmosphere by hundreds of thousands of turbines could really create a situation that nobody forsees.
"A butterfly in South America flaps its wings, causing it to rain in China."
However, if levitation via gravi[ty/ton/metric] waves could be produced, I believe the environmental impact would be seriously reduced comparitively. Then, and only then, should we consider putting a majority of transit air-borne.
On the comment of M.A.T.R.I.X. being produced by a drug smuggler: who else would know the holes in the system better? This is how countless of my hacker friends have become System Admins or Security Experts for large and small organizations alike. Why? Because they have experience with it. I'm sure you'd sh!t bricks if you found out that your email is hosted on a server administered by none other than someone who used to *read* your emails for fun! But now that he's gainfully employed, he either has less time to hack, or doesn't do it any more.
I am for unified information. However, I'm not enthusiastic about the kind of information that is being unified.
The core issue with this kind of technology and the designers behind it, is who forgives. Who can forgive you of a five-finger discount in Maryland if it prevents you from obtaining a job in Washington -- strictly because it was on your criminal history? If the answer is "nobody", then it's back to the five-finger discounts to feed yourself.
I think that's called an abacus. I'm not sure though...
That's what they said about 640 Kilobytes.
I guess if one were to fall, it probably would make some noise ("Jingle Bells... Jingle Bells...") whether or not anyone was around.
I guess if one were to fall, it probably would make some noise ("Jingle Bells... Jingle Bells...") whether or not anyone was around.
Now EQ fans can afford the upgrade they're gonna need to play the latest expansion on their P4s.
As much as I take displeasure with Microsoft's Product Activation crap, and their ever increasingly legally-verbose licenses, you gotta hand it to them. Those nerds know how to corner a market.
This is the kind of thing that put them where they are today. "Digital media only available to Windows" I hear. Duh. That's almost the way it is now. I don't have any numbers, but I'd bet money that most of the conventional forms of digital media we enjoy today started development in Windows--with obvious exceptions to other popular formats (eg. Quicktime).
They corner the market. Hell, one of the only reasons I use Windows more than Linux is the fact that so many of my favorite games and media formats are just easier to use (or are only usable) with Windows.
They're trying to corner the market? Doubtful. I think they already have, we just aren't on the same page yet.
But who knows, maybe enough people will not put up with this BS and jump onto the next OS. However, this is people we're talking about here. The majority of which enjoy being led around by others who have arbitrarily assigned themselves authority.
My .sig shines through yet again.
Thanks for expanding on the thought, and I agree with your statements.
I wonder why they're focusing on educational institutions for illegal software users? If the sheer number of such users are more readily collected in such places, it makes me wonder about the environment. It's true that certain elements only survive under certain conditions. Is necessity a factor? Is the outrageous price for tuition and books driving the minds of our youth to justify downloading a cracked version of Microsft Word to finish a 400-page college paper due yesterday?
<side thought>
Oh wait, nobody worth their weight in RAM uses Word, what was I thinking? Open Office is so much better.
</side thought>
Anyhow, continuing with my rant: it seems to me that there is a consPIRACY going on.
Stop humping the laser!
This is Dravis from the PTMC. You are hereby ordered to return home. Oh yeah, and don't forget to use that new WarpDriveXP we gave ya.
Did anyone check to see if Kraft Foods was one of the companies trying to hit pay-dirt on the moon?
From: Press Release 15 December, 2000 - 3dfx Announces Three Major Initiatives To Protect Creditors and Maximize Shareholder Value
.....
"We expect that the combined technologies of 3dfx and NVIDIA will continue the legacy that 3dfx began in 1994, " Leupp continued. "NVIDIA is the number one supplier of graphics technology to the OEM market. With the addition of 3dfx's high-quality technology that leads the retail market, we believe the combination of the two will result in even greater PC graphics leadership."
.....
Check it: http://www.3dfx.com/rel-15dec_2.htm
Anyone see the creepy corelation to the fact that this is all happening during the production of the next Star Wars flick? Attack of the Clones, indeed.
May the force be with you, and your look-alike.
Indeed. I own a Voodoo5 5500, and the FSAA on it kicks some serious ass. My only problem with it is that there's no official XP drivers. I have to rely on flaky 'hacked' drivers. I've been holding out for the nVidia card which was going to have some of 3dfx's work, otherwise I'd pick myself up a Geforce 3.
On a side note, probably off-topic, but I for one would have paid anything to have a Voodoo5 6000. External power supply baby, aw yeah.
Does anyone know if nVidia has started using the technology that they acquired with the purchase of 3DFX? I know that 3DFX was working on some killer graphics routines and various chipsets before nVidia bought them out, and nVidia at the time was too far along with the GeForce 3 to integrate them. But supposedly they were going to use the technology in their next graphics chip.... which I assume to be the GeForce 4.
They must've been thinking: "Where's Bruce Willis when you need him?"
rm -r /bin/laden
(I know this is a little old, but hell... someone out there hasn't seen it yet).