I believe the shortest was a couple months back when Taco posted a dupe 4 articles later. They were both visible without scrolling on an 800x600 screen.
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DOD vs. 802.11b
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Well said from the comfortable position of 1 year's worth of contemplation.
Clinton is a liberal, not a libertarian. Liberals (Democrats) in America are a rough equivalanet of socialist or labor parties, while libertarians take a "less gov't is better" approach.
Republicans (in the US) tend to be caught between the "law and order" types, who would support this measure and the libertarians, who obviously oppose it.
This is not an exact model of the American political system. Just a broad overview.
Fucking in space would be rather painful. I'd much rather fuck in a spaceship.
0-G sex would also introduce control and fluid problems. If you want to try it, I know there are pilots who will take you up in a private airplane and let you join the Mile High club. They top it off by doing Vomit-Comet maneuvers to simulate microgravity.
Russia should consider a porn in space. It helped with the proliferation of the internet.
Gateway Manager : We're terribly sorry for inconveniencing you. We'd like you to know that we value you as a customer and to prove it we are willing to offer your the software you requested at no cost. We will also compensate you for the installation costs. So how much will it cost you to get the software installed?
Anonymous DWord - Actually, I'll install the software for free, seeing as how he's my friend and all.
Gateway manager : Very well. Here is your installation media. Have a nice day and please come see us again sometime.
[door closes and Gateway Manager itemizes the expense report to the corporate office. CO had authorized up to $500 to settle the complaint. The report looks like this...
1 Windows2000 installation media - $0.10
1 Windows2000 license - $100.00
1 Compensation to customer (cash) - $399.90
Gateway Manager then leaves work early and wanders into a tittie bar to squander his good fortune.]
But would the likelihood not go back to favor Earth -> Mars because a rock from earth is much more likely to have life on it? Fewer rocks are ejected, but they have a much higher chance of harboring life. As opposed to more rocks that are mostly dead.
All of this is more or less a numbers game, like the Drake equation. I say we smash some large objects into the Earth and Mars and get some measurements.
There may have been primitive bacteria or algae that were transported to Mars from Earth. These organisms would then lay dormant, waiting for the right conditions to bloom. When the event was over, the organisms would revert to a dormant state to await the next catastrophe/windfall.
There has been a bit of discussion about this "interplanetary cross-pollination" lately. I'm to lazy to look for links, although there have been several slashdot topics posted.
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IDE RAID Examined
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And store that disk or tape in a safe place. Leaving the media on your desk for rugrats or rover is inviting disaster. Also don't forget about the occaisional home fire, known to be unfriendly to media. Make a copy and have a friend in a distant geographic area save it. You never know when you'll be hit with a hurricane/flood/tornado/earthquake. An off-planet repository is not needed to protect against large meteorite impacts due to the fact that if you are dead, nobody cares about your porn and MP3s.
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Use daisy chained redundant UPSes. And don't connect to the power grid, that's where the trouble begins. I'd recommend a propane or natural gas generatior with solar as an auxiliary. And for Christ's sake, don't hook your computer(s) up to the same circuit as your AC and Fridge. Those motors are the cause of so much distortion.
(For the humor-impaired, this post should not be taken seriously).
That is one way to do it, but you can't (easily/cheaply) put a transformer onto silicon. Integrated circuits are mostly transistors and small capacitors, which are easy to fabricate. Resistors are not really difficult, they just take up a lot of space. Inductors are very tricky and it is cheaper to just use transistors to inject current into a circuit.
The problem is that by adding the resistor in a passive circuit, you will reduce the current going into the circuit. Your equations would look more like this...
Initial Voltage : 15 = I * R New Voltage : 15 = (I - i) * (R + r)
The value of i is left as an excercise for the reader;-)
Voltage multipliers require some active components that (If I remember my solid state courses) manipulate capacitance to raise the output voltage over the supply voltage. I think they work by injecting current into a small capacitor. The added charge increases the voltage.
I saw it also and it failed to capture my attention. I realize that it is only 10% of the whole picture, but it looks like they are trying to tie together all the UFO stories into one cohesive plot. It seemed too fragmented to me.
the pressure difference your body (14 lb/sqr inch) and space (~0) would cause you to explode almost instantly.
Your flesh has enough cohesion to hold itself together, even in a vacuum. When people climb Mt. Everest, where the pressure drops about 40%, they do not explode.
IIRC, the US Air Force has some data on it (too lazy to search right now). The results would be a lot like "the bends" that divers get. Although your blood would not instantly boil, many of the gasses would come out of solution and cause bubbles to form in your blood vessels. This gas would increase the pressure in your blood vessels, damaging the more delicate ones exposed to the vacuum (such as lungs and eyes). As the gas comes out of solution, your internal pressure rises and the process reaches equilibrium. However, you have bubbles in your blood and torn capillaries in various critical regions. This combined with the lack of oxygen is ultimately what would kill you in a vacuum.
I hope "The machine that goes ping" does not require the network to run. My guess is that much of that equipment is plugged into the red outlets and can run on its own for a fair amount of time. If it is hooked up to the network it is to report the machine status, which is independant of machine operation.
The network crash in question screwed up the document process, slowed everything down, and made life inconvenient, but I doubt anyone's life was at risk.
Yeah, I know. The folks I work with here use the terms interchangeably. I've been bludgeoned into compliance.
The original post was supposed to be a joke. You know, a statement taken lightly. Instead I get a half dozen replies about how I used the wrong term. The sad thing is it is still moderated at +3 informative.
Or have been working around people who use bitmap and got tired of correcting them.
I should have known better than to make a programming joke. Every coder without a sense of humor - and that is a lot of them - will come out of the woodwork and pick every word apart to prove that they are masters of their craft.
I feel sorry for the guy with the C math signature.
A bitmap is a data structure where a collection of bits is stored. This allows for more compact storing of information. For example a 32 bit word can be used to store 32 true-false values. This is more efficient than storing an array of 32 bytes with TRUE or FALSE in them. Bitmaps are not limited to storing true-false data. A 32 bit word can store 8 four bit values as well.
In the pregnant gay man example, the bitmap likley had bits for male/female, gay/straight and pregnant. Set them all to 1's and you get a pregnant homosexual male.
Uninitialized variables are caused when a function accesses a variable before explicitly setting it. This is a common problem in C/C++ and can result in some odd behavior. An uninitialized variable could result in the bits being set even though the program never explicitly set them.
Why should we assume that bacteria drifting through the void of space haven't evolved in a similar fashion?
Probably because in order to evolve, they need to live and reproduce. For this they need liquid water. Without the liquid water there is no "life" in space. Just seeds waiting for the right conditions.
Bacteria make themselves dormant during hostile conditions. Not to say that an active, living space bug can't exist. It just cant exist with the mechanism that bacteria use.
The first time I heard the expression was with a Brazilian friend of mine. He was schooled over there and was visiting his family here in Florida. We were heading down to the gun range to do some skeet shooting and he mentioned that he wanted to step out and "smoke a fag".
I think you mean fixed buffers. Fixed buffers can be either static or dynamic. malloc is for dynamic buffers. It is used to allocate memory off the heap during run time. A static buffer is created at compile time and resides in the program's data section.
There is nothing inherently wrong with fixed buffers. Just range check the incoming stuff beforehand and make sure it will fit. There are tools that will catch pointer errors. C + Lint generates some pretty solid code.
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I believe the shortest was a couple months back when Taco posted a dupe 4 articles later. They were both visible without scrolling on an 800x600 screen.
Well said from the comfortable position of 1 year's worth of contemplation.
Clinton is a liberal, not a libertarian. Liberals (Democrats) in America are a rough equivalanet of socialist or labor parties, while libertarians take a "less gov't is better" approach.
Republicans (in the US) tend to be caught between the "law and order" types, who would support this measure and the libertarians, who obviously oppose it.
This is not an exact model of the American political system. Just a broad overview.
Fucking in space would be rather painful. I'd much rather fuck in a spaceship.
0-G sex would also introduce control and fluid problems. If you want to try it, I know there are pilots who will take you up in a private airplane and let you join the Mile High club. They top it off by doing Vomit-Comet maneuvers to simulate microgravity.
Russia should consider a porn in space. It helped with the proliferation of the internet.
Gateway Manager : We're terribly sorry for inconveniencing you. We'd like you to know that we value you as a customer and to prove it we are willing to offer your the software you requested at no cost. We will also compensate you for the installation costs. So how much will it cost you to get the software installed?
Anonymous DWord - Actually, I'll install the software for free, seeing as how he's my friend and all.
Gateway manager : Very well. Here is your installation media. Have a nice day and please come see us again sometime.
[door closes and Gateway Manager itemizes the expense report to the corporate office. CO had authorized up to $500 to settle the complaint. The report looks like this...
1 Windows2000 installation media - $0.10
1 Windows2000 license - $100.00
1 Compensation to customer (cash) - $399.90
Gateway Manager then leaves work early and wanders into a tittie bar to squander his good fortune.]
I remember the joy of being able to play Doom and download porn from the local BBS at the same time.
Then I found the tool that let you manipulate the textures in Doom.
Ah! Good point.
But would the likelihood not go back to favor Earth -> Mars because a rock from earth is much more likely to have life on it? Fewer rocks are ejected, but they have a much higher chance of harboring life. As opposed to more rocks that are mostly dead.
All of this is more or less a numbers game, like the Drake equation. I say we smash some large objects into the Earth and Mars and get some measurements.
There may have been primitive bacteria or algae that were transported to Mars from Earth. These organisms would then lay dormant, waiting for the right conditions to bloom. When the event was over, the organisms would revert to a dormant state to await the next catastrophe/windfall.
There has been a bit of discussion about this "interplanetary cross-pollination" lately. I'm to lazy to look for links, although there have been several slashdot topics posted.
And store that disk or tape in a safe place. Leaving the media on your desk for rugrats or rover is inviting disaster. Also don't forget about the occaisional home fire, known to be unfriendly to media. Make a copy and have a friend in a distant geographic area save it. You never know when you'll be hit with a hurricane/flood/tornado/earthquake. An off-planet repository is not needed to protect against large meteorite impacts due to the fact that if you are dead, nobody cares about your porn and MP3s.
-or-
Use daisy chained redundant UPSes. And don't connect to the power grid, that's where the trouble begins. I'd recommend a propane or natural gas generatior with solar as an auxiliary. And for Christ's sake, don't hook your computer(s) up to the same circuit as your AC and Fridge. Those motors are the cause of so much distortion.
(For the humor-impaired, this post should not be taken seriously).
That is one way to do it, but you can't (easily/cheaply) put a transformer onto silicon. Integrated circuits are mostly transistors and small capacitors, which are easy to fabricate. Resistors are not really difficult, they just take up a lot of space. Inductors are very tricky and it is cheaper to just use transistors to inject current into a circuit.
Again, this is if my memory serves me right.
The problem is that by adding the resistor in a passive circuit, you will reduce the current going into the circuit. Your equations would look more like this...
;-)
Initial Voltage : 15 = I * R
New Voltage : 15 = (I - i) * (R + r)
The value of i is left as an excercise for the reader
Voltage multipliers require some active components that (If I remember my solid state courses) manipulate capacitance to raise the output voltage over the supply voltage. I think they work by injecting current into a small capacitor. The added charge increases the voltage.
I saw it also and it failed to capture my attention. I realize that it is only 10% of the whole picture, but it looks like they are trying to tie together all the UFO stories into one cohesive plot. It seemed too fragmented to me.
I did like the opening scene, tho.
the pressure difference your body (14 lb/sqr inch) and space (~0) would cause you to explode almost instantly.
Your flesh has enough cohesion to hold itself together, even in a vacuum. When people climb Mt. Everest, where the pressure drops about 40%, they do not explode.
IIRC, the US Air Force has some data on it (too lazy to search right now). The results would be a lot like "the bends" that divers get. Although your blood would not instantly boil, many of the gasses would come out of solution and cause bubbles to form in your blood vessels. This gas would increase the pressure in your blood vessels, damaging the more delicate ones exposed to the vacuum (such as lungs and eyes). As the gas comes out of solution, your internal pressure rises and the process reaches equilibrium. However, you have bubbles in your blood and torn capillaries in various critical regions. This combined with the lack of oxygen is ultimately what would kill you in a vacuum.
Nitpick:
Actually, isnt DNA base-4? Not 1,0 but G,A,C,T. It is a discrete system, but not digital. However base-4 to base-2 conversions should be a snap.
I hope "The machine that goes ping" does not require the network to run. My guess is that much of that equipment is plugged into the red outlets and can run on its own for a fair amount of time. If it is hooked up to the network it is to report the machine status, which is independant of machine operation.
The network crash in question screwed up the document process, slowed everything down, and made life inconvenient, but I doubt anyone's life was at risk.
Yeah, I know. The folks I work with here use the terms interchangeably. I've been bludgeoned into compliance.
The original post was supposed to be a joke. You know, a statement taken lightly. Instead I get a half dozen replies about how I used the wrong term. The sad thing is it is still moderated at +3 informative.
Sheesh.
Or have been working around people who use bitmap and got tired of correcting them.
I should have known better than to make a programming joke. Every coder without a sense of humor - and that is a lot of them - will come out of the woodwork and pick every word apart to prove that they are masters of their craft.
I feel sorry for the guy with the C math signature.
For non-programmers:
A bitmap is a data structure where a collection of bits is stored. This allows for more compact storing of information. For example a 32 bit word can be used to store 32 true-false values. This is more efficient than storing an array of 32 bytes with TRUE or FALSE in them. Bitmaps are not limited to storing true-false data. A 32 bit word can store 8 four bit values as well.
In the pregnant gay man example, the bitmap likley had bits for male/female, gay/straight and pregnant. Set them all to 1's and you get a pregnant homosexual male.
Uninitialized variables are caused when a function accesses a variable before explicitly setting it. This is a common problem in C/C++ and can result in some odd behavior. An uninitialized variable could result in the bits being set even though the program never explicitly set them.
It's probably a set up as a bitmap of attributes. I hope they initialize all their variables.
My standard reply to sites requesting personal information:
G.W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington DC 20010
202-456-1414
email : gwbush@whitehouse.gov
Why should we assume that bacteria drifting through the void of space haven't evolved in a similar fashion?
Probably because in order to evolve, they need to live and reproduce. For this they need liquid water. Without the liquid water there is no "life" in space. Just seeds waiting for the right conditions.
Bacteria make themselves dormant during hostile conditions. Not to say that an active, living space bug can't exist. It just cant exist with the mechanism that bacteria use.
The first time I heard the expression was with a Brazilian friend of mine. He was schooled over there and was visiting his family here in Florida. We were heading down to the gun range to do some skeet shooting and he mentioned that he wanted to step out and "smoke a fag".
You can imagine the confusion that caused.
This is similiar to the chinese fortune cookie gimmick. Append "in bed" to the fortune to give it a whole new meaning.
Perhaps it is time to go through the patent archives and do a mass submission, appending "with computers" to each one.
This would all go away if we stopped responding to the emails.
But I guess people will always need a cellphone while refinancing their house and getting their penis enlarged.
I think you mean fixed buffers. Fixed buffers can be either static or dynamic. malloc is for dynamic buffers. It is used to allocate memory off the heap during run time. A static buffer is created at compile time and resides in the program's data section.
There is nothing inherently wrong with fixed buffers. Just range check the incoming stuff beforehand and make sure it will fit. There are tools that will catch pointer errors. C + Lint generates some pretty solid code.