I remember sitting in high school chem in 1994, thinking that the periodic table would be much better represented as a conical helicoid - a spiral wrapped around a cone.
A few years later I saw a list of known isotopes arranged one element per line and indented based on the weight of the nucleus, with simple hydrogen in the eupper-left corner. The stable isotopes were colored differently, and the color band formed a skewed triangle that would have also wrapped nicely around a cone.
'We're sorry, but you're not a big enough celebrity for our show.'
The last episode of CPS I watched had Sarah Gilbert, Macaulay Culkin, Neil Flynn and Kevin Nealon and some other people too unimportant(er) for me to remember. If I recall, Kevin Nealon won, but it was Neil Flynn who made with the funny.
That said, thanks for the answers, Wil. I didn't really learn anything I didn't already know from reading WWdN, though. Why not go back through the original thread and cull out ten different questions to answer? I'd bet they'd post a sequel article (Wil Wheaton answers ten questions we didn't ask), and you could try answering some questions that didn't pass muster (read: flavorless pap) with whoever was modding that day.
But say a lack of uniformity in the materials (it's wood, after all) caused one die to be chosen more often than the others in the jumbling process. Or even if the dice are chosen with equal frequency, that the bias on each individual die causes a certain number to be rolled more often for that specific die. Patterns, however slight, would emerge over time.
Nope, radioactive decay is the way to go. I say you construct a Schrodinger's Cat apparatus and write down a '1' if the cat's still living when you check on it, and a '0' otherwise. Sure, that's a lot of cats (depending on how many bits you need), but you can reuse the cats until you get a 0, and there are a lot of ex-girlfriends out there that need revenging upon.
Pair off two electrons in a shell, flip the rotation of one and you change the rotation of another - instanteously. Even if they're no longer in the same atom and millions of miles apart.
Polyhedral dice by the handful!...unless you want to choose a number from a set of three or less, in which case a polyhedron is overkill (and for which a normal six-sided die will work). =)
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FFTA:
Q:Why is it important to stop people from violating the GPL? Welte:You can use all the code out there for free, but if you do modifications you have to give them back to the community -- it's a fairness thing. If we allowed violations to become common, the system would be out of equilibrium. This would result in fewer contributions and it would have a large negative impact on the motivation of developers.
Reflecting this argument back on the file-sharing issue does not work, incidentally. American (Pop) Idol proves, if nothing else, that there are a lot of people willing to do just about anything for a shot to record professionally. Artists make little from their album sales; they make shit-tons from touring. The lion's share of album sales goes to the record company, which then spends it on ads telling you you're depriving the artists when you download music.
The music industry is never going to collapse just because songs are traded online; they'll just turn the screws harder on the artists who get them paid. Disillusioning the small percentage of OSS advocates who actually code by allowing their ideology to be violated is an entirely different story.
because they're going to be communicating with Earth while travelling faster than light.
Who said that? I was thinking more like:
"Hey, Earth. The crops we planted seem to attract the wrath of horrifying space monsters, and we only have enough supplies to last us exactly as long as it would take for you to ship us more... Hello? Hello? Yeah, Ross in those leather pants is pretty funny, but seriously, we're hosed."
Humanity finally perfects FTL travel, and the first colonists are lost because the communications channel is filled ads for v|@gr4 and old 'Friends' re-runs and Hitler kicking off the '36 Olympics.
Why don't they invent one even more useful to:... Detect when a woman has had enough to drink and will sleep with almost anyone
Liability, probably. Sex with someone who is not able to give consent is rape. Legally (though IANAL), a woman who's had enough to drink so she'll sleep with anyone is not sober enough to give consent.
My aunt was less lucky. She had her knitting pins confiscated
Were they afraid she was going to knit an Afghan?
There's the usual "I will not commit terrorist acts"
True to my policy of taking as little bullshit from and giving as much bullshit to the TSA as is legally allowed, I'd be likely to respond: "I'm no more likely to commit terrorist acts than if I'd started the day on US soil."
I'm only batting a.333 lifetime average for having flights leave on time anyway.
It should be simple enough - if you have remote access to the machine already (i.e. you want to r00t a machine at school or whatever.) Log in, run the exploit from the shell, bingo bango bongo - you're root.
It's not like the code magically runs on your machine at home...
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I remember sitting in high school chem in 1994, thinking that the periodic table would be much better represented as a conical helicoid - a spiral wrapped around a cone.
A few years later I saw a list of known isotopes arranged one element per line and indented based on the weight of the nucleus, with simple hydrogen in the eupper-left corner. The stable isotopes were colored differently, and the color band formed a skewed triangle that would have also wrapped nicely around a cone.
'We're sorry, but you're not a big enough celebrity for our show.'
The last episode of CPS I watched had Sarah Gilbert, Macaulay Culkin, Neil Flynn and Kevin Nealon and some other people too unimportant(er) for me to remember. If I recall, Kevin Nealon won, but it was Neil Flynn who made with the funny.
That said, thanks for the answers, Wil. I didn't really learn anything I didn't already know from reading WWdN, though. Why not go back through the original thread and cull out ten different questions to answer? I'd bet they'd post a sequel article (Wil Wheaton answers ten questions we didn't ask), and you could try answering some questions that didn't pass muster (read: flavorless pap) with whoever was modding that day.
A mortally wounded gunshot victim?
What luck! I just happen to be...
*collapses on floor*
doesn't that make basically all c code underhanded?
Nope. Only the code that includes
#include <windows.h>
*ducks*
But say a lack of uniformity in the materials (it's wood, after all) caused one die to be chosen more often than the others in the jumbling process. Or even if the dice are chosen with equal frequency, that the bias on each individual die causes a certain number to be rolled more often for that specific die. Patterns, however slight, would emerge over time.
Nope, radioactive decay is the way to go. I say you construct a Schrodinger's Cat apparatus and write down a '1' if the cat's still living when you check on it, and a '0' otherwise. Sure, that's a lot of cats (depending on how many bits you need), but you can reuse the cats until you get a 0, and there are a lot of ex-girlfriends out there that need revenging upon.
How about an ansible?
Pair off two electrons in a shell, flip the rotation of one and you change the rotation of another - instanteously. Even if they're no longer in the same atom and millions of miles apart.
Polyhedral dice by the handful! ...unless you want to choose a number from a set of three or less, in which case a polyhedron is overkill (and for which a normal six-sided die will work). =)
fully compensating the original authors, and their descendants
What luck! I'm of the Merovingian bloodline, you see. And a direct descendant of King Arthur. And the reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes.
Yep, sure is great to be me.
OS X.9453: "CowboyNeal"
Of course, they'd have to go through "Ocelot" first, which would be kick-ass.
Worked beautifully for me using gcc, like so:
gcc -fwritable-strings -o maze maze.c
This is what I said the last time this topic came up.
:)
Why is a story that's primarily about Napster posted on apple.slashdot.org? I thought stories about Napster went on yro.slashdot.org.
Please to be excusing my grammar badness.
FFTA:
Q: Why is it important to stop people from violating the GPL?
Welte: You can use all the code out there for free, but if you do modifications you have to give them back to the community -- it's a fairness thing. If we allowed violations to become common, the system would be out of equilibrium. This would result in fewer contributions and it would have a large negative impact on the motivation of developers.
Reflecting this argument back on the file-sharing issue does not work, incidentally. American (Pop) Idol proves, if nothing else, that there are a lot of people willing to do just about anything for a shot to record professionally. Artists make little from their album sales; they make shit-tons from touring. The lion's share of album sales goes to the record company, which then spends it on ads telling you you're depriving the artists when you download music.
The music industry is never going to collapse just because songs are traded online; they'll just turn the screws harder on the artists who get them paid. Disillusioning the small percentage of OSS advocates who actually code by allowing their ideology to be violated is an entirely different story.
Does the title of that book sound like a beastiality extravaganza, or what?
Obviously, you do remember Jon Katz.
I kid, I kid...
No stress-testing a protocol like a good Slashdotting. :)
because they're going to be communicating with Earth while travelling faster than light.
Who said that? I was thinking more like:
"Hey, Earth. The crops we planted seem to attract the wrath of horrifying space monsters, and we only have enough supplies to last us exactly as long as it would take for you to ship us more... Hello? Hello? Yeah, Ross in those leather pants is pretty funny, but seriously, we're hosed."
Humanity finally perfects FTL travel, and the first colonists are lost because the communications channel is filled ads for v|@gr4 and old 'Friends' re-runs and Hitler kicking off the '36 Olympics.
Fan-frickin'-tastic.
I just used 'emerge -C security_holes', and it didn't find anything to remove. ;)
$10,000 to fill your iPod vs. $14.95 per month with Napster
My iPod is pretty full already, $0, largely due to songs I downloaded from Napster a few years ago.
Oh? I was supposed to delete those?
Why don't they invent one even more useful to: ... Detect when a woman has had enough to drink and will sleep with almost anyone
Liability, probably. Sex with someone who is not able to give consent is rape. Legally (though IANAL), a woman who's had enough to drink so she'll sleep with anyone is not sober enough to give consent.
> I don't want to wire. Anything.
I suggest batteries.. a lot of them
Connected to your electronic components how?
My aunt was less lucky. She had her knitting pins confiscated
.333 lifetime average for having flights leave on time anyway.
Were they afraid she was going to knit an Afghan?
There's the usual "I will not commit terrorist acts"
True to my policy of taking as little bullshit from and giving as much bullshit to the TSA as is legally allowed, I'd be likely to respond: "I'm no more likely to commit terrorist acts than if I'd started the day on US soil."
I'm only batting a
upon first glance I thought it said Blue Virgin
I'd never ride in one of those. It would keep on getting shot down.
We are practically a Google Temple here, folks.
More like a Pantheon: Google and *nix and Firefox and IP violation, and our dark gods, Microsoft and software patents.
It should be simple enough - if you have remote access to the machine already (i.e. you want to r00t a machine at school or whatever.) Log in, run the exploit from the shell, bingo bango bongo - you're root.
It's not like the code magically runs on your machine at home...