So how would we be able to tell if our universe was a simulation? Whitworth says that if reality was to do something that information processing cannot, then it cannot be virtual. But he falls short of suggesting what this might be.
The thing it could be is Duke Nuke'm Forever getting released.
In my dream radio drops the RIAA catalogs in favor of local bands a shows like the old days. At least I think they had more live shows and bands then they do now. I certainly hope things move in that direction as the RIAA moves in it's current direction. Dreams have an interesting habit of becoming reality sometimes. I might even actually start listening to local radio more if it happened.
Last friday I wraped up the Megazoka from thinkgeek and gave it in the pile of gifts at the office party. People were allowed to do limited trading of gifts if they didn't like what they opened so that thing changed hands, shot people's hair as they unwrapped gifts upfront and everything.
I myself got something cool that I wasn't expecting at all. I ended up with a hand crank flashlight/radio hand held that looks like a phaser right out of Star Trek almost except it has an anolog radio dial on the one side. Crank that thing for 90 seconds and I get 15 minutes of juice. The only down side is it's made in china so I'm wondering what toxic substances are lurking inside it.
* Keep things small, and by small I mean one procedure or function does one thing small. Don't pack it with extras or this or that. KISS it. Using a language without procedures or functions? Space things out and label blocks of code with comments. If you can break that code up in to seperate files with includes then do so. Test all the peices seperatly.
* Documentation, don't put a one liner up at the top of a block of code and call it a day. Be descriptive, say what happens, what comes from where, whats passed in and whats to be expected in the return. The more you spell it out for someone and yourself down the line the quicker the light bulb will go on when someone or yourself has to review what you did several months or years ago.
.. when your watching your boot CD scan pick up hundreds of infected MP3 files on one machine while on the other the 'midgits' directory is hitting a home run on the AV scanner as the owners ask how it possibly could happen to them when they had AV software. Some days I really loved my old job.
I suppose they realized that it would be just a matter of time before someone outside of Microsoft discovers a way to use the kill switch. And then every Internet-connected computer running Vista will die instantly. Hmm... Doesn't sound like such a bad idea after all...
I wouldn't wish this on anyone but it would make one hell of an interesting story for a book or movie if that ever happened. Maybe it could be split up in to a bunch of small stories for each chapter to give different accounts of the disaster that would occure.
Good thing then for Brighteyes (Taylor) that they didn't use a combination lock on the cages. He'd have been stuck there with that girl forever. She was a cutie though thats for sure so it may have not been a bad thing over all.;)
UI enhancements like this scare me. There were a couple of computers that came in to the shop when i worked for a college campus RESNET that flat out refused to work with Cisco's network access software. Apparently the UI enchancement replaced a key OS DLL file that the Cisco stuff needed and wasn't compatable with the Cisco stuff. In order for that person to use their computer on our network we had to uninstall their UI software. Be careful what you purchase for UI enhancements.
I've been sitting on Vista since it nearly came out on my home PC. The primary reason was because of my job repairing computers. I knew that users would get machines with Vista pre-installed. I've wanted to switch back to XP and just live with that but I managed to talk myself out of it not because Vista is better, it's because most everyone that goes to the store will buy a Vista machine.
If the manufacturer of drivers are the problem then those people need to get their acts together. Either way I'm tired of having an OS that is suposed to be newer and better then XP but is anything but up to sub-par to XP. Get the damn thing fixed, jeeze people pay enough for that thing.
One last thing, take the dang confusion out of the 7-9 different flavors. Have two like XP and don't relabel everything just cause it's NEW. I still have a hard time finding Add/Remove Programs.
...would be legging it the other way if I found that under a rock.
Given it's size I'd be concerned that the rock I'm running on is the one it's under. Bugger of a thing to jump off the end of the rock and land right in it's claw.
Too invasive and too much access to sensitive information in my life from a company that can't even make a virus free operating system. When they can make an OS that isn't able to be compromised then maybe we'll start talking. Till then I'm running Mother Nature's OS in my head and only using the peripherals that the good lord gave me.
I'm confused. We have a right to vote? I thought that was a privilege for law-abiding citizens of a certain age only in most states, not a right. Last I checked, there is no right to vote in the Bill of Rights.
A lot of ads in the media call it a right to vote. That term while it may not be accurate is widely used to encourage people to vote. They don't try to sell it as a privilige because I think there's some political correctness involved. Though maybe they changed recently. I don't know, I haven't seen any recent ads encouraging people to vote other then by slinging mud at a political opponent. I think even half of those tell people it's a right not a privilige.
Would cost them everything they ever had and will have in the future. If they can't meet that price then they don't get it. The beauty of that price is I get my right to vote back and they get nothing for even thinking of something like that. I can only begin to imagine the number of people rolling over in their graves if they found out people were selling their right to vote which was paid for in lots of blood to begin with.
I feel bad for the family of the man she was implicated of killing. That said, I also feel bad for her because she really doesn't seem like the kind of person that would do such a thing. After 35 years you'd think there would be some sign, some slip up.
I'm kind of leaning on the notion that she didn't do it and had a crapy lawyer back in the day. It's a shame really. I wonder where they took her and if she's got a lawyer yet? The article says she's all but disappeared.
And they can't get an operating system out the door that copies files properly? I'm saying this not as someone seeking a flame war or anything but someone who shelled out the $$$ for a copy of Home Premium. I also say this as someone who when copying my entire documents directory to an external drive may have experienced this bug because I had to restart the system to unfreeze stuff at the time.
Hey MS, less features and more SOLID OS please or the penguin will really be biting away at you more then it is now.
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So how would we be able to tell if our universe was a simulation? Whitworth says that if reality was to do something that information processing cannot, then it cannot be virtual. But he falls short of suggesting what this might be.
The thing it could be is Duke Nuke'm Forever getting released.
In my dream radio drops the RIAA catalogs in favor of local bands a shows like the old days. At least I think they had more live shows and bands then they do now. I certainly hope things move in that direction as the RIAA moves in it's current direction. Dreams have an interesting habit of becoming reality sometimes. I might even actually start listening to local radio more if it happened.
Last friday I wraped up the Megazoka from thinkgeek and gave it in the pile of gifts at the office party. People were allowed to do limited trading of gifts if they didn't like what they opened so that thing changed hands, shot people's hair as they unwrapped gifts upfront and everything.
I myself got something cool that I wasn't expecting at all. I ended up with a hand crank flashlight/radio hand held that looks like a phaser right out of Star Trek almost except it has an anolog radio dial on the one side. Crank that thing for 90 seconds and I get 15 minutes of juice. The only down side is it's made in china so I'm wondering what toxic substances are lurking inside it.
Two thins I can suggest:
* Keep things small, and by small I mean one procedure or function does one thing small. Don't pack it with extras or this or that. KISS it. Using a language without procedures or functions? Space things out and label blocks of code with comments. If you can break that code up in to seperate files with includes then do so. Test all the peices seperatly.
* Documentation, don't put a one liner up at the top of a block of code and call it a day. Be descriptive, say what happens, what comes from where, whats passed in and whats to be expected in the return. The more you spell it out for someone and yourself down the line the quicker the light bulb will go on when someone or yourself has to review what you did several months or years ago.
I still remember being to tell through the speaker what speed I would end up getting when the connection finished.
;_;
I miss being able to do that.
.. when your watching your boot CD scan pick up hundreds of infected MP3 files on one machine while on the other the 'midgits' directory is hitting a home run on the AV scanner as the owners ask how it possibly could happen to them when they had AV software. Some days I really loved my old job.
I suppose they realized that it would be just a matter of time before someone outside of Microsoft discovers a way to use the kill switch. And then every Internet-connected computer running Vista will die instantly. Hmm... Doesn't sound like such a bad idea after all...
I wouldn't wish this on anyone but it would make one hell of an interesting story for a book or movie if that ever happened. Maybe it could be split up in to a bunch of small stories for each chapter to give different accounts of the disaster that would occure.
Good thing then for Brighteyes (Taylor) that they didn't use a combination lock on the cages. He'd have been stuck there with that girl forever. She was a cutie though thats for sure so it may have not been a bad thing over all. ;)
install Foxit if they start pumping out Ads to PDF files.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
I'm not sure paper would survive in it's atmosphere. It'd have to be one hell of a news paper.
I'm sure glad we had the Firehose to filter out crap like this.
Oh, wait...
A filter like this is only as good as the people using it. The good ones have to use it regularlly in order for it to be effective.
Super Mario Brothers 7.4
Pong 6.1
How the heck did that happen? Pong is more of a classic then Mario ever will be.
RESedential NETwork. Dorm network access.
UI enhancements like this scare me. There were a couple of computers that came in to the shop when i worked for a college campus RESNET that flat out refused to work with Cisco's network access software. Apparently the UI enchancement replaced a key OS DLL file that the Cisco stuff needed and wasn't compatable with the Cisco stuff. In order for that person to use their computer on our network we had to uninstall their UI software. Be careful what you purchase for UI enhancements.
I've been sitting on Vista since it nearly came out on my home PC. The primary reason was because of my job repairing computers. I knew that users would get machines with Vista pre-installed. I've wanted to switch back to XP and just live with that but I managed to talk myself out of it not because Vista is better, it's because most everyone that goes to the store will buy a Vista machine.
If the manufacturer of drivers are the problem then those people need to get their acts together. Either way I'm tired of having an OS that is suposed to be newer and better then XP but is anything but up to sub-par to XP. Get the damn thing fixed, jeeze people pay enough for that thing.
One last thing, take the dang confusion out of the 7-9 different flavors. Have two like XP and don't relabel everything just cause it's NEW. I still have a hard time finding Add/Remove Programs.
...would be legging it the other way if I found that under a rock.
Given it's size I'd be concerned that the rock I'm running on is the one it's under. Bugger of a thing to jump off the end of the rock and land right in it's claw.
1> Get a midevil catapul. ...
2> Put the catapult on the top of a tall building with your 'Old Tech' ammo.
3> Fire!!!!!!!
4>
5> Profit or get arrested!
Too invasive and too much access to sensitive information in my life from a company that can't even make a virus free operating system. When they can make an OS that isn't able to be compromised then maybe we'll start talking. Till then I'm running Mother Nature's OS in my head and only using the peripherals that the good lord gave me.
I'm confused. We have a right to vote? I thought that was a privilege for law-abiding citizens of a certain age only in most states, not a right. Last I checked, there is no right to vote in the Bill of Rights.
A lot of ads in the media call it a right to vote. That term while it may not be accurate is widely used to encourage people to vote. They don't try to sell it as a privilige because I think there's some political correctness involved. Though maybe they changed recently. I don't know, I haven't seen any recent ads encouraging people to vote other then by slinging mud at a political opponent. I think even half of those tell people it's a right not a privilige.
Would cost them everything they ever had and will have in the future. If they can't meet that price then they don't get it. The beauty of that price is I get my right to vote back and they get nothing for even thinking of something like that. I can only begin to imagine the number of people rolling over in their graves if they found out people were selling their right to vote which was paid for in lots of blood to begin with.
But it doesn't explain why all the /really/ old people you see are skinny. You won't find an overweight 90-year-old.
You haven't met my grandmother. She's getting there.
God I wish I had mod points right now. Funny stuff on the cobol listing. :P
I feel bad for the family of the man she was implicated of killing. That said, I also feel bad for her because she really doesn't seem like the kind of person that would do such a thing. After 35 years you'd think there would be some sign, some slip up.
I'm kind of leaning on the notion that she didn't do it and had a crapy lawyer back in the day. It's a shame really. I wonder where they took her and if she's got a lawyer yet? The article says she's all but disappeared.
And they can't get an operating system out the door that copies files properly? I'm saying this not as someone seeking a flame war or anything but someone who shelled out the $$$ for a copy of Home Premium. I also say this as someone who when copying my entire documents directory to an external drive may have experienced this bug because I had to restart the system to unfreeze stuff at the time.
Hey MS, less features and more SOLID OS please or the penguin will really be biting away at you more then it is now.
*Tink tink tink!*
GET OUT OF MY HEAD YOU ROTTEN PAPER CLIP!
*Tink tink tink!*
ARGHH!!! It's in my head! Aarrggghhh!
*Tink tink tink!*