Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough, And people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, And you feel that you've had quite enough,
[singing] Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned, A sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day, In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour, Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars. It's a hundred thousand light years side to side. It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick, But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide. We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point. We go 'round every two hundred million years, And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, In all of the directions it can whizz. As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know, Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth, And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
I sure hope the "solar-cell covered Earth" is not the future.
You're thinking short-term. In the longer term, the Earth will be demolished when the sun explodes. What I wrote about was a partial solution for the waste that will create.
I am very little concerned about our environment because nanotechnology is 10-20 years away (perhaps less) and with it we'll be able to clean up all of our messes.
It's like my friends, the day before the cleaning lady gets there the dirty dishes are overflowing in the sink. They know they can make a mess because "the future" will clean it up for them. Not a perfect analogy, but it's funny to visit them a day before their cleaning lady arrives.
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how does the named karma level breakdown work (what are the names and point requirements for each name)? i had around 26 points, now my karma is 'excellent'.
I'm not 100% sure, but I've seen "Bad", "Positive", and "Excellent." It would appear that:
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Just an OT on your sig: I was at 42 when they changed it from numerical to something silly. Almost got to the cap. Wonder if there still is one?
Back on topic: solar-cell covered Earth is the future. It's the first step toward solar preservation. The next step is a Dyson sphere, a shell around the sun with solar panels on the inside and batteries on the outside. It'll save as much as it can, and when the sun's due to explode it'll separate and move the pieces out of blast range, to be reused once things settle down.
The goal is to help make the universe last longer, by delaying entropy.
These organizations know which battles they should be fighting. They've done a good job so far of picking only the ones they are likely to win. I doubt they will go after Perens. It's just too risky.
I agree with you, but I don't think that's the point.
Bruce wants one of us to report him. To make sure that he is arrested as soon as he breaks the region-encoding. He needs to be arrested, and he's convinced that one of us will make the call.
At least that's what I hope. Sure, the enemy won't pull the trigger, but it'll have the same effect.
And when we call to report his crime, we can even pretend to be the enemy.
In other words, depending on how big your hard drive is, the addressing method would change to address sectors of a certain size, keeping the need for indexes/tables/whatever down to a certain size, etc.?
I like this idea. Could be used for memory addressing as well, so you never run out of RAM.
I see it working like this: use a 64-bit dword to store the address (or head/cylinder/sector/etc.). Only use 63 bits. When you run out of room, use the 64th bit to indicate that another 64-bit dword will be used along with the first (making it 126 bits of addressing, since the 64th bit of the second word would be used to denote a third 64-bit dword, which would give 192-3=189 bits, ad nauseum).
We'd never run out of addresses, although there may be a performance hit once we start addressing really large amounts of data.
But when will it support that most popular of languages, Perl? I hear talk, but I don't see action! Is there a serious effort for Perl? That'd rock, and I'd join 'em immediately!
ActiveState has a Perl IDE, called Komodo. It's NOT open source, but it has saved me a ton of time. They have a 21-day evaluation version, and if you want a home license it's $29.50 (under 30 bucks, the price point all software should strive for).
Check it out: Komodo. They have both Linux and Windows versions, and the IDE is based on Mozilla (and other open source technologies). It's kind of a shame they make it closed-source, but it's well worth the money. It also supports many other languages (Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Tcl, XML, XSLT and more -- 24 languages total).
They (the FCC) have been getting lobster dinners, hot lobbyists, and secret funds jerking around corporate Japan (because NONE of the HD patents are owned by US companies) for years being "indecisive" about the standard.
obConspiracyTheory: the US corporations are taking their time deciding on the standard in order to run out the time of the other countries' patents.
My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain IBM...
When I first heard Mr. Roboto, I interpreted the last part as "my brain I B.M." (where "B.M." is short for bowel movement, i.e. "I shit out my brain").
Surprisingly, it seems that Love has done the same in order to rid himself of hippies.;-)
How much are you willing to bet that Tom Ridge's folks are keeping a keen eye on their team? Whatever they learn about rocketry must give the feds the willies.
Granted there's a legitimate reason for the Homeland Security to exist, but I am concerned that we're being manipulated into staying scared.
I watched the Simpsons yesterday (I think it had been recorded the previous day -- ReplayTV), it was the one where they went to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
They interrupted the broadcast, not once but twice, first to say a plane was near the White House and its radio had broken (not in so many words; they stressed the words "evacuated the White House!" over and over).
They broke in again to say "No worries."
I lost about a third of the show. If I want news, I'll turn on CNN. Thanks.
</rant>
I wouldn't be surprised if the first holographic enabled desktop computer I own (when they are finally ready) is shipped to my plot of land on lunar colony 12b sector 7g.
"If the plant ye wish to flee,
Go to sector 7G."
"To avoid the spider's curse,
simply quote a Bible verse."
And he threw a rock instead. (It's an old Simpson's episode, and I'm sure that's what you intended to invoke when you typed "sector 7g".;-)
Now that I've vented, can someone please explain to me how retroactive unspecified charges can be applied? If the IRS were to say, "We're going to tax you next year, but we're not going to decide how much those taxes are going to be for a couple of years and then you'll have to pony up the dough," I would think someone would take them to court and manage to get the charges wiped.
This (retroactive taxation) has already occurred in the USA. It was done in 1993 under the Clinton administration.
OK, now other than working around this utterly stupid law, what else can we do?
Most radio consists of playlists and filler. What we could do as a workaround is compress the playlists into a string (such as, "Mother - Pink Floyd - The Wall - 1979" etc.) and broadcast that. The "player" would then find this song in the listener's collection, and play it.
It could have a fuzzy search so if the listener didn't have that particular song, it could play one very similar ("Mother - Roger Waters - The Wall Live in Berlin - 1990" or "Mother - Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes - 1991", for a "sloppy" fuzzy).
Since the station is not broadcasting SONGS, they aren't required to pay royalty fees.
A separate company could even develop software to find and download each upcoming song from one of the search engines/P2P platforms. (Separate because of liability.)
Adding to the previous paragraph, the station would likely broadcast a playlist an hour or so in advance, to give listeners time to obtain the songs. And since there's a lot of dead space, the station can send the "filler material" (ads, interviews, humor, etc.) at a higher bitrate, since it won't need to be streamed -- it could be sent a few minutes ahead of time, taking twice the amount of time to transmit as it does to play (for example).
It's "illegal" because publishing this number could be considered trafficking in a circumvention device, in violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, 17 USC 1201.
I always get a kick out of reading that USC code. Anyone else see the movie with Jonathan Silverman, Helen Slater, and Martin Landau, "12:01"? Day repeating, like Groundhog Day, but with a science to it.
Seeing the USC 1201 constantly reminds me that at this very moment, we could already be trapped in the "time bounce" (the wonderful technical term;-).
First they ignored us,
then they laughed at us,
then they fought us,
then we won.
I think it's great that Linux and open/free software in general got such a huge "account." And the irony is too cool -- the Engineers (finally!) triumphing over Marketing. Perhaps Disney could do a movie about a king getting ousted by his magicians. An autobiography.;-)
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You're thinking short-term. In the longer term, the Earth will be demolished when the sun explodes. What I wrote about was a partial solution for the waste that will create.
I am very little concerned about our environment because nanotechnology is 10-20 years away (perhaps less) and with it we'll be able to clean up all of our messes.
It's like my friends, the day before the cleaning lady gets there the dirty dishes are overflowing in the sink. They know they can make a mess because "the future" will clean it up for them. Not a perfect analogy, but it's funny to visit them a day before their cleaning lady arrives.
I'm not 100% sure, but I've seen "Bad", "Positive", and "Excellent." It would appear that:
I wish I had had the chance to hit the cap. It was a fun game. ;-)
Just an OT on your sig: I was at 42 when they changed it from numerical to something silly. Almost got to the cap. Wonder if there still is one?
Back on topic: solar-cell covered Earth is the future. It's the first step toward solar preservation. The next step is a Dyson sphere , a shell around the sun with solar panels on the inside and batteries on the outside. It'll save as much as it can, and when the sun's due to explode it'll separate and move the pieces out of blast range, to be reused once things settle down.
The goal is to help make the universe last longer, by delaying entropy.
I agree with you, but I don't think that's the point.
Bruce wants one of us to report him. To make sure that he is arrested as soon as he breaks the region-encoding. He needs to be arrested, and he's convinced that one of us will make the call.
At least that's what I hope. Sure, the enemy won't pull the trigger, but it'll have the same effect.
And when we call to report his crime, we can even pretend to be the enemy.
All's fair and all.
I can understand a certain amount of vulnerability after 420...
I like this idea. Could be used for memory addressing as well, so you never run out of RAM.
I see it working like this: use a 64-bit dword to store the address (or head/cylinder/sector/etc.). Only use 63 bits. When you run out of room, use the 64th bit to indicate that another 64-bit dword will be used along with the first (making it 126 bits of addressing, since the 64th bit of the second word would be used to denote a third 64-bit dword, which would give 192-3=189 bits, ad nauseum).
We'd never run out of addresses, although there may be a performance hit once we start addressing really large amounts of data.
Sounds like cigarettes.
ActiveState has a Perl IDE, called Komodo. It's NOT open source, but it has saved me a ton of time. They have a 21-day evaluation version, and if you want a home license it's $29.50 (under 30 bucks, the price point all software should strive for).
Check it out: Komodo . They have both Linux and Windows versions, and the IDE is based on Mozilla (and other open source technologies). It's kind of a shame they make it closed-source, but it's well worth the money. It also supports many other languages (Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Tcl, XML, XSLT and more -- 24 languages total).
(I'm joking of course. I'm pretty sure it's "Mean Time To Recovery" or "Mean Time To Repair", from other Google results.)
"The Simpsons already did that."
I'm considering naming my firstborn "3.0" instead of the Gatesian "III".
I'm also considering getting a life and choosing a name, instead of defaulting one.
No humor, but I do smell some BSD...
obConspiracyTheory: the US corporations are taking their time deciding on the standard in order to run out the time of the other countries' patents.
I won't be impressed until it can drum to the beat of Monkey Phonics .
When I first heard Mr. Roboto, I interpreted the last part as "my brain I B.M." (where "B.M." is short for bowel movement, i.e. "I shit out my brain").
Surprisingly, it seems that Love has done the same in order to rid himself of hippies. ;-)
Granted there's a legitimate reason for the Homeland Security to exist, but I am concerned that we're being manipulated into staying scared.
I watched the Simpsons yesterday (I think it had been recorded the previous day -- ReplayTV), it was the one where they went to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
They interrupted the broadcast, not once but twice, first to say a plane was near the White House and its radio had broken (not in so many words; they stressed the words "evacuated the White House!" over and over).
They broke in again to say "No worries."
I lost about a third of the show. If I want news, I'll turn on CNN. Thanks. </rant>
Go to sector 7G."
"To avoid the spider's curse,
simply quote a Bible verse."
And he threw a rock instead. (It's an old Simpson's episode, and I'm sure that's what you intended to invoke when you typed "sector 7g". ;-)
This (retroactive taxation) has already occurred in the USA. It was done in 1993 under the Clinton administration .
Most radio consists of playlists and filler. What we could do as a workaround is compress the playlists into a string (such as, "Mother - Pink Floyd - The Wall - 1979" etc.) and broadcast that. The "player" would then find this song in the listener's collection, and play it.
It could have a fuzzy search so if the listener didn't have that particular song, it could play one very similar ("Mother - Roger Waters - The Wall Live in Berlin - 1990" or "Mother - Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes - 1991", for a "sloppy" fuzzy).
Since the station is not broadcasting SONGS, they aren't required to pay royalty fees.
A separate company could even develop software to find and download each upcoming song from one of the search engines/P2P platforms. (Separate because of liability.)
Adding to the previous paragraph, the station would likely broadcast a playlist an hour or so in advance, to give listeners time to obtain the songs. And since there's a lot of dead space, the station can send the "filler material" (ads, interviews, humor, etc.) at a higher bitrate, since it won't need to be streamed -- it could be sent a few minutes ahead of time, taking twice the amount of time to transmit as it does to play (for example).
Who wants to start writing this?
I think it's amusing that the robot that broke free shares its name (homonym) with the creation at MindPixel (that one's "GAC" and is software).
Perhaps one day we can put GAC in Gaak and gawk at the marvel we have wrought.
Can anyone who has a faster pipe verify this?
The release notes appear to be hastily translated from German -- there are a couple "ist"s (where there should be "is"s).
I always get a kick out of reading that USC code. Anyone else see the movie with Jonathan Silverman, Helen Slater, and Martin Landau, "12:01"? Day repeating, like Groundhog Day, but with a science to it.
Seeing the USC 1201 constantly reminds me that at this very moment, we could already be trapped in the "time bounce" (the wonderful technical term ;-).
Another poster quoted the famous Ghandi quote:
I think it's great that Linux and open/free software in general got such a huge "account." And the irony is too cool -- the Engineers (finally!) triumphing over Marketing. Perhaps Disney could do a movie about a king getting ousted by his magicians. An autobiography.I would go even further and say it's ignorant to frame any debate in terms of conservative vs. liberal.
'Course, then all we'd do is debate, and we need an uneducated populace to dig ditches for us to shit in, so that'd never work. 1/4 :)