I can create a one-byte universal machine. It's in a language I called "MWoodylazium." In this language, a 1 is interpreted as a universal machine. A 0 is a rabid flying monkey. OK, here's my code:
--- Begin program 1 --- End program
See, wasn't that easy? I should note, though, that this is the second version of my program. The first version is still at large in the greater Manhattan area.
No, I meant lack of time. I am, as I said in my post, disappointed in the reviewers' chioces not to mention they had access to only one pak. But there are only so many hours in a day, and a FREE online game magazine can't spend an insane amount of time checking every possible aspect of a game. Especially when they only have one copy.
Truth be told, without the benefit of hindsight, I would have made the same reports you see quoted above. You gotta take some things at face value, or you'll be fired for taking too long to review a game, and one would think a fact sheet direct from the publisher would refrain from outright lies.
The differences between a thesis and a game review: a) The review is done by a paid employee, but the result is free; b) A thesis is under relatively loose time constraints, especially compared to a periodical; c) A thesis is an academic venture, and therefore operates in a whole different realm of what is considered acceptable. And besides, if part of your project had been completed by a similar, trustworthy team at another university recently, and you read about it in a press release, I would consider it perfectly reasonble to build upon that information in your own work (making sure to check their experimental method and cite your sources, of course). Gotta make some assumptions.
Ultimately, while I don't want to defend this kind of reporting, I also don't want it implied that I'm attacking the moral integrity of the reviewers. It was a minor and unintentional mistake, offered only as a warning to prevent such in the future.
I ran into a problem with folks not reviewing games when the GBA (Game Boy Advance for the un-anointed) first came out. My brother and I were trying to decide which games we should both get vs. which we should just share. Bomberman Tournament was the title we'd anticipated most, so if there was any possibility of increasing the gameplay value by buying two, we were gonna do it.
And, after a quick perusal of two of the largest gaming sites around - Gamespot.com and IGN.com - we decided two cartridges were the way to go. After all, in Gamespot's review, Frank Provo writes:
The game supports both multi- and single-cartridge multiplayer options, although the load times for single-cartridge hosting are somewhat excessive.
Sounds good, especially when paired with David Zdyrko's comments in IGN's review:
The only downside to the one-cart, four-GBA setup is that you'll have to deal with a tremendous amount of load time at the start of each contest, before the victory screen and before the start of the next battle.
This is only a minor annoyance, though, and can be remedied a lot if you happen to have a friend or more that also has a copy of the game.
So, we went and bought two copies, whipped those babies out, and set up a game. And, lo and behold - no multi-cartridge support. Yes, indeed, the single gamepak mode had lots of slow load times. But having more than one doesn't do you any good unless you lose a game in the couch cushions.
There was some moaning about this issue on the Gamespot forums, and as it turns out, the multi-cartridge support had not been brought over to the US version. Some of the reviewers had been given bad data by the company.
To which I first though, "OK, no big whoop. Shit happens." But the more I considered it, the more it bugged me. These two reviewers made claims based on information they got from the company that made the game - NOT their own experiences. They didn't test these features; they just threw them into the review.
I understand the most probable reasons: lack of time, only one cartridge to test with. But all I'm asking is for a simply "We didn't have two copies, so we can say for ourselves, but apparently..." Yes, it sounds a little wussy, but it makes the difference between journalism and an ad. At the very least, they could have corrected the error when they were notified; I'm aware of several people who have contacted both sites, including myself, and one Gamespot official even bothered to reply about it in the forums, but both still stand unchanged.
OK, this is a minor thing, I know. But it did cost me about 30 bucks, and it makes me wonder: how much else in these "reviews" is straight out of a press release?
About 3 years into my computer science major at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, I realized I just wasn't having any fun any more. The coding was allright, but the ridiculous and unnecessary support courses like chemistry and advanced calculus were killing me. What's more, having spent several summers in IT work, I knew that the job awaiting my graduation wasn't likely to be much better.
So, I talked to some professors and my CSC advisor. They asked what else I enjoyed doing, and after a bit of thought, I related that I'd always really enjoyed reading. "Why not try for an English major?"
A short struggle with the administration later (side note: Cal Poly's policy of "you damn well better know what you want to do with the rest of your life WHEN YOU ARRIVE!" sucks major ass), I was an English major. I show up to my first class, and our first assignment is to read Beroul's version of the Tristan and Isolde legend.
I couldn't believe it. No advanced calculations, no hyper-complex snippets of useless code, no lengthy excersizes to learn environment-specific skills that I'd likely never use. Just curl up with a good book, and enjoy. I was in heaven; it took all of one week to figure if I'd made the wrong choice. Smooth sailing from there.
Now, I know this isn't the choice for everyone. But even those with computers on the brain headed for a career in Silicon Valley might consider my path. Having spoken with many people, both at the college and in the industry, an English major is actually a plus with technical jobs. Anyone with a reasonable level of intelligence can learn how to use a program or language on their own in a matter of weeks, really. But the ability to communicate intelligently on paper is a truly unique skill among engineers, and one that will make your application stand out.
Anyway, I'll stop this post here, as I'm about to sit back and relax with several choice selections from Chaucer's earlier works in Middle English. Good luck with your dilemna, and remember: your major doesn't always have to coincide directly with your career to be useful.
An FTC spokesman made the following announcement last Tuesday:
"The FTC has carefully considered the allegations against Microsoft and, more specifically, the Windows XP operating system and Passport data storage center. It is our decision that these charges are unfounded, and that Microsoft will be allowed to continue unimpeded with their designs. The reasons for our ruling are far too complex to go into at this time, but rest assured that we gave the matter considerable, unbiased contemplation. By the way, do you like my hat? It's made of money! Are you staying for lunch? We're having money!"
(Punchline uncerimoniously stolen from Penny Arcade)
I can't find any signifigance of today's date, as a possible explanation. The Oklahoma City bombing was the anniversary of Waco or somesuch; perhaps there is a similar connection here?
"Today in history" sites:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/Thi s_ Day_in_History/
I can't find a good list of common Palestinian holidays, though...
Here's the biggest list I could find (from http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/ )
1609 Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan island
1709 English, Dutch & Austrians defeat French in Battle of Malplaquet
1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace."
1777 Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British
1786 Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce
1789 Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of the Treasury
1814 Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; Americans defeat British
1839 1st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)
1850 "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert
1852 Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R
1853 1st electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos
1875 1st newspaper cartoon strip
1881 Triple landslides bury Elm Switz
1885 Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia
1886 Mayflower (US) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup
1889 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Crooked Man" (BG)
1893 Bronx Gas & Electric Company opens on Frisby & Tremont Ave
1910 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
1912 Phila A's Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game
1918 Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series
1919 US marines invade Honduras
1922 British mandate of Palestine begins
1923 After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires the next 27 Yanks
1923 The ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Tower
1926 Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu
1926 US defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship
1926 Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies
1927 Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers
1928 1st TV drama-WGY's The Queens Messenger
1929 SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
1930 Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
1935 US captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year
1936 A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game
1936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
1941 Charles Lindbergh, charges "the British, the Jewish & the Roosevelt administration" are trying to get the US into WW II
1941 FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight
1944 FDR & Churchill meet in Canada at the 2nd Quebec Conference
1946 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
1950 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
1950 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton Ohio
1950 Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
1951 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim the English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes
1952 West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews
1954 1st Miss America TV broadcast
1956 Cincinnati Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR
1959 Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4
1959 Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0
1960 The 17th Olympic games close in Rome
1961 Bob Dylan's 1st NY performance
1962 Beatles cut "Love Me Do" & "PS I Love You"
1964 George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company
1964 Gillette's 20 year contract with MSG & ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at the Cleve Auditorium
1965 Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1966 Johnny Miller became the 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat
1967 US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material
1972 BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont
1973 Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup
1974 Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Felix Milan & John Milner come to bat 12 times each
1976 Evonne Goolagong loses her 4th straight US Open Final (Evert wins)
1977 Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy O'Connors wins US Open
1977 TV's Rhoda gets divorced
1982 Chris Evert 6th US open title defeats Hana Mandlikava
1983 Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards
1985 Intl Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km
1985 Pete Rose of the Cin Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record
1986 Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
1988 Sports Aid-jogging to feed the world
1989 Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud
1989 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO
1991 "La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family" goes on sale
1991 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston
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Lucky for me, there's no "that joke should be taken out back and shot repeatedly in the head until it screams and dies and then shot some more" moderation choice.
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Compression? No. ENCRYPTION, however...
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Well, as others have rightly noted, this solution wouldn't work. It takes N digits to represent a number of N digits, quantum mathematics aside, as long as those digits are more or less random. Compression programs like ZIP only work at all because certain strings of numbers are more common than others in computer files (if I understand the technology correctly).
However, this idea could go the way of all complex (yet failed) compression algorythms: encryption! Imagine trying to decode the resulting index, with no idea that Pi was even involved. Not gonna happen.
I can't say the idea didn't intrigue me for a few seconds, though; adding infinity to any equation always makes for the most fascinating possibilities. ---
You've rather neatly argued against this law. Death threats via e-mail are already illegal, as are any personal threats of mortal harm through any medium. You can, could, and should call the police any time a teacher, or indeed any individual feels his or her life seriously threatened by a communication.
And with anything short of the aforementioned death threat, why bring the cops into it at all? A school is supposed to be a self-governing body for individuals who are learning how to get along in a society with greater protections and less harsh penalties than the "real world". No teenager surreptitiously installing quake on a library computer or firing an angry e-mail off to an a$$hole teacher needs to be put in jail; that just turns a normal kid into a criminal. Should school bullies, who not only threaten but often cause damage to other kids, be dealt with by the local authorities before the administration? I really hope the answer is, and remains, no.
Finally, not to sound harsh or anything, but a teacher who get overly depressed by several delinquent students with anonymous mailers needs a new line of work. Schools are an early cross-section of society, and let's face it, there are a LOT of jerks out there. That's one fact that ain't gonna change any time soon. ---
I can't count the number of times recently that I've heard myself mutter, "If that was illegal when I was a kid, I'd be in jail now..." Are we aiming for our entire @#$@# nation to spend at least some time in the slammer, or what? ---
Granted, I haven't been following this too closely, but didn't it also spell doom for certain flavors of Cisco routers? Although, I suppose those in charge of the routers tended to be better equipped to deal with problems than those merely running IIS by default.
I just drew up a quick form letter and fired it off to close off my site from their database; I'd suggest others do the same.
I would like to request that the following domains be excluded from unlawful content changes by your KaZaA-distributed adware, TopText / InternetText / HotText / ContextPro / etc:
(sitenames)
Any indication of further interference between the site and it's intended users will be considered an alteration and redistribution of copyrighted material, and will be dealt with accordingly.
I would appreciate notification, via e-mail, when this change has been completed on your servers, or else incorporated into further versions of the product.
Thank you.
- (sendername)
I probably don't have a legal leg to stand on, but it sounds good and gets the point across. ---
Well, IIRC, some military and police SWAT teams use a throat mic to pick up and transmit subvocalizations. So rather than speaking out loud, you'd sort of softly hum them. I'm not an expert on the technology by any means, but if they're useful, clear, and quiet enough to convey commands in a high-tension stealth situation, they might be good for PDA communication. They don't, after all, need to recognize real English words off the bat; it could be trained to pick out certain distinct shorthand sounds instead, in much the same way as Palm graffiti doesn't need actual letters. ---
What I'd like to see is a constant connection between the PC and the PDA. In my experience, "Hotsync" type operations involve a temporary link to the palm, and then that link is terminated. With a wee bit of tweaking, the PDA's touchable screen could be useful as a secondary monitor. I know I've heard discussion of a secondary LCD screen being used for input and the like recently; why not use an already widespread device?
Of course, this is hardly an epiphany, and we'll probably start seeing stuff like this pop up soon, especially as more PDAs go to USB instead of serial. It will be nice to be able to tap "shotgun" instead on a nearby cradled PDA instead of remembering the number equivalents. Come to think of it, it would likely work in much the same way as Nintendo's promised support for the Game Boy Advance as an extra screen/controller for the Gamecube, although with the added bonus of touch-response. I could also see it useful for tablet-style input into a graphics program, the ability to add a real signature to electronic documents, a display for multiple clipboard contents, a constant terminal access point while the bigger screen handles the GUI, etc.
That's in the near future, of course. In the long run, I want my PDA to predict the future and print free money. ^_^ ---
In a related story, Duchovny has announced an about-face on his earlier abandonment of the long-running show, and will be returning this fall. Asked to comment on his sudden change of attitude, the X-Files star replied, "Ah... Um... I, er, missed Scully. Yeah. And I wanted to hang with that T2 guy. Really." ---
But, this is exactly what I was saying. Most BIOS are set to AutoDetectHDD, so a master/slave switch will almost always end up in both hard drives being accessible. The article talks like that's impossible, and laments over the restriction. The NickLock website I didn't examine too closely, so it may have been more correct. ---
Some folks are claiming that the article is correct, since the drive doesn't allow you to set the "slave" jumper. But 99% of drives out there assume that an open master jumper means slave. If a slave jumper is even present, it's just a holding place. Why use two jumpers, and thereby create a four-state system, when you only need to know on or off?
Another thing that had been bugging me was why there were four connectors. I should have read the nicklock site closer, so that I would have found this picture. Each drive connection has two different size jumpers to accomodate different drive styles. Duh on my part.
All in all, a cool little device. Might pick on up, even if that IS too much for those parts, since I've neither the time nor the inclination to build one myself. ---
Did the author of that article even test the product? It seems he understands the whole concept of "master pin closed on one drive means master, open on other means slave," and he even gives diagrams of how the cables connect to the jumpers, but he still thinks the lock disables one drive!? How, by switching which HDD is master and which is slave, does one become inactive? As long as both have power and are on the same IDE chain (neither of which is affected by this device) both will be seen by any reasonably competent BIOS.
Maybe the author is trying to indicate that the device may not work in a single-drive system, which may indeed be the case on older drives (those that won't allow a single HDD to be set to "Master" instead of "single). Maybe he knows some intricate secret of HDD setups that I've missed in many a year of buidling and fixing computers. Maybe he's just a moron, and folks should check out the NickLock website instead of reading this POS review. Guess which one I choose?
Note: Having read the Nicklock website, it appears that it is not much better than Tom's Hardware for explanations. Yeesh. ---
I we sure it's a mistake? I hope somebody can get their hands on a reverse DNS lookup of the IPs this RNG generates with the default seed. It may be a purposefully chosen number that attacks its [i]real[/i] target(s) while everyone laments the impending fall of the completely useless whitehouse.gov.
I'm surprised that they don't make the attack list public; while those at the top are probably already up $hit creek sans paddle, those further down may not yet realize just how screwed they truly are. A quick script that runs down the list and sends an e-mail to webmaster@, admin@, whatever@ each ip address effected would probably save millions in lost bandwith and business downtime. ---
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Of course it has palindrome detection. I didn't say they were STUPID rabid flying monkeys, did I?
And I switched majors from CSC to English the quarter before I was supposed to take Theory of Computing. Maybe it was for the best. ^_^
I can create a one-byte universal machine. It's in a language I called "MWoodylazium." In this language, a 1 is interpreted as a universal machine. A 0 is a rabid flying monkey. OK, here's my code:
--- Begin program
1
--- End program
See, wasn't that easy? I should note, though, that this is the second version of my program. The first version is still at large in the greater Manhattan area.
Uh, oh. I get lots of spam on my computer, and it sucks. And now I'm going to get lots of spam on my phone.
The difference?
I can throw my phone...
Truth be told, without the benefit of hindsight, I would have made the same reports you see quoted above. You gotta take some things at face value, or you'll be fired for taking too long to review a game, and one would think a fact sheet direct from the publisher would refrain from outright lies.
The differences between a thesis and a game review: a) The review is done by a paid employee, but the result is free; b) A thesis is under relatively loose time constraints, especially compared to a periodical; c) A thesis is an academic venture, and therefore operates in a whole different realm of what is considered acceptable. And besides, if part of your project had been completed by a similar, trustworthy team at another university recently, and you read about it in a press release, I would consider it perfectly reasonble to build upon that information in your own work (making sure to check their experimental method and cite your sources, of course). Gotta make some assumptions.
Ultimately, while I don't want to defend this kind of reporting, I also don't want it implied that I'm attacking the moral integrity of the reviewers. It was a minor and unintentional mistake, offered only as a warning to prevent such in the future.
I ran into a problem with folks not reviewing games when the GBA (Game Boy Advance for the un-anointed) first came out. My brother and I were trying to decide which games we should both get vs. which we should just share. Bomberman Tournament was the title we'd anticipated most, so if there was any possibility of increasing the gameplay value by buying two, we were gonna do it.
And, after a quick perusal of two of the largest gaming sites around - Gamespot.com and IGN.com - we decided two cartridges were the way to go. After all, in Gamespot's review, Frank Provo writes:
Sounds good, especially when paired with David Zdyrko's comments in IGN's review:
So, we went and bought two copies, whipped those babies out, and set up a game. And, lo and behold - no multi-cartridge support. Yes, indeed, the single gamepak mode had lots of slow load times. But having more than one doesn't do you any good unless you lose a game in the couch cushions.
There was some moaning about this issue on the Gamespot forums, and as it turns out, the multi-cartridge support had not been brought over to the US version. Some of the reviewers had been given bad data by the company.
To which I first though, "OK, no big whoop. Shit happens." But the more I considered it, the more it bugged me. These two reviewers made claims based on information they got from the company that made the game - NOT their own experiences. They didn't test these features; they just threw them into the review.
I understand the most probable reasons: lack of time, only one cartridge to test with. But all I'm asking is for a simply "We didn't have two copies, so we can say for ourselves, but apparently..." Yes, it sounds a little wussy, but it makes the difference between journalism and an ad. At the very least, they could have corrected the error when they were notified; I'm aware of several people who have contacted both sites, including myself, and one Gamespot official even bothered to reply about it in the forums, but both still stand unchanged.
OK, this is a minor thing, I know. But it did cost me about 30 bucks, and it makes me wonder: how much else in these "reviews" is straight out of a press release?
Simple. Switch majors.
About 3 years into my computer science major at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, I realized I just wasn't having any fun any more. The coding was allright, but the ridiculous and unnecessary support courses like chemistry and advanced calculus were killing me. What's more, having spent several summers in IT work, I knew that the job awaiting my graduation wasn't likely to be much better.
So, I talked to some professors and my CSC advisor. They asked what else I enjoyed doing, and after a bit of thought, I related that I'd always really enjoyed reading. "Why not try for an English major?"
A short struggle with the administration later (side note: Cal Poly's policy of "you damn well better know what you want to do with the rest of your life WHEN YOU ARRIVE!" sucks major ass), I was an English major. I show up to my first class, and our first assignment is to read Beroul's version of the Tristan and Isolde legend.
I couldn't believe it. No advanced calculations, no hyper-complex snippets of useless code, no lengthy excersizes to learn environment-specific skills that I'd likely never use. Just curl up with a good book, and enjoy. I was in heaven; it took all of one week to figure if I'd made the wrong choice. Smooth sailing from there.
Now, I know this isn't the choice for everyone. But even those with computers on the brain headed for a career in Silicon Valley might consider my path. Having spoken with many people, both at the college and in the industry, an English major is actually a plus with technical jobs. Anyone with a reasonable level of intelligence can learn how to use a program or language on their own in a matter of weeks, really. But the ability to communicate intelligently on paper is a truly unique skill among engineers, and one that will make your application stand out.
Anyway, I'll stop this post here, as I'm about to sit back and relax with several choice selections from Chaucer's earlier works in Middle English. Good luck with your dilemna, and remember: your major doesn't always have to coincide directly with your career to be useful.
"time shiting?"
You're missing a 't' there, should be "shitting."
Glad I could help.
^_^
(OK, OK, bring on the -1, Offtopic; I couldn't help it...)
"The FTC has carefully considered the allegations against Microsoft and, more specifically, the Windows XP operating system and Passport data storage center. It is our decision that these charges are unfounded, and that Microsoft will be allowed to continue unimpeded with their designs. The reasons for our ruling are far too complex to go into at this time, but rest assured that we gave the matter considerable, unbiased contemplation. By the way, do you like my hat? It's made of money! Are you staying for lunch? We're having money!"
(Punchline uncerimoniously stolen from Penny Arcade)
I can't find any signifigance of today's date, as a possible explanation. The Oklahoma City bombing was the anniversary of Waco or somesuch; perhaps there is a similar connection here?
i s_ Day_in_History/
"Today in history" sites:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/Th
I can't find a good list of common Palestinian holidays, though...
Here's the biggest list I could find (from http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/ )
1609 Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan island
1709 English, Dutch & Austrians defeat French in Battle of Malplaquet
1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace."
1777 Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British
1786 Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce
1789 Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of the Treasury
1814 Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; Americans defeat British
1839 1st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)
1850 "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert
1852 Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R
1853 1st electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos
1875 1st newspaper cartoon strip
1881 Triple landslides bury Elm Switz
1885 Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia
1886 Mayflower (US) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup
1889 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Crooked Man" (BG)
1893 Bronx Gas & Electric Company opens on Frisby & Tremont Ave
1910 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
1912 Phila A's Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game
1918 Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series
1919 US marines invade Honduras
1922 British mandate of Palestine begins
1923 After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires the next 27 Yanks
1923 The ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Tower
1926 Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu
1926 US defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship
1926 Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies
1927 Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers
1928 1st TV drama-WGY's The Queens Messenger
1929 SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
1930 Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
1935 US captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year
1936 A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game
1936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
1941 Charles Lindbergh, charges "the British, the Jewish & the Roosevelt administration" are trying to get the US into WW II
1941 FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight
1944 FDR & Churchill meet in Canada at the 2nd Quebec Conference
1946 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
1950 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
1950 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton Ohio
1950 Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
1951 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim the English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes
1952 West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews
1954 1st Miss America TV broadcast
1956 Cincinnati Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR
1959 Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4
1959 Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0
1960 The 17th Olympic games close in Rome
1961 Bob Dylan's 1st NY performance
1962 Beatles cut "Love Me Do" & "PS I Love You"
1964 George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company
1964 Gillette's 20 year contract with MSG & ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at the Cleve Auditorium
1965 Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1966 Johnny Miller became the 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat
1967 US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material
1972 BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont
1973 Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup
1974 Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Felix Milan & John Milner come to bat 12 times each
1976 Evonne Goolagong loses her 4th straight US Open Final (Evert wins)
1977 Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy O'Connors wins US Open
1977 TV's Rhoda gets divorced
1982 Chris Evert 6th US open title defeats Hana Mandlikava
1983 Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards
1985 Intl Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km
1985 Pete Rose of the Cin Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record
1986 Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
1988 Sports Aid-jogging to feed the world
1989 Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud
1989 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO
1991 "La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family" goes on sale
1991 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston
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You mean "ricochet" won't bounce back this time?
* rimshot *
Lucky for me, there's no "that joke should be taken out back and shot repeatedly in the head until it screams and dies and then shot some more" moderation choice.
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Well, as others have rightly noted, this solution wouldn't work. It takes N digits to represent a number of N digits, quantum mathematics aside, as long as those digits are more or less random. Compression programs like ZIP only work at all because certain strings of numbers are more common than others in computer files (if I understand the technology correctly).
However, this idea could go the way of all complex (yet failed) compression algorythms: encryption! Imagine trying to decode the resulting index, with no idea that Pi was even involved. Not gonna happen.
I can't say the idea didn't intrigue me for a few seconds, though; adding infinity to any equation always makes for the most fascinating possibilities.
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And with anything short of the aforementioned death threat, why bring the cops into it at all? A school is supposed to be a self-governing body for individuals who are learning how to get along in a society with greater protections and less harsh penalties than the "real world". No teenager surreptitiously installing quake on a library computer or firing an angry e-mail off to an a$$hole teacher needs to be put in jail; that just turns a normal kid into a criminal. Should school bullies, who not only threaten but often cause damage to other kids, be dealt with by the local authorities before the administration? I really hope the answer is, and remains, no.
Finally, not to sound harsh or anything, but a teacher who get overly depressed by several delinquent students with anonymous mailers needs a new line of work. Schools are an early cross-section of society, and let's face it, there are a LOT of jerks out there. That's one fact that ain't gonna change any time soon.
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I can't count the number of times recently that I've heard myself mutter, "If that was illegal when I was a kid, I'd be in jail now..." Are we aiming for our entire @#$@# nation to spend at least some time in the slammer, or what?
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Granted, I haven't been following this too closely, but didn't it also spell doom for certain flavors of Cisco routers? Although, I suppose those in charge of the routers tended to be better equipped to deal with problems than those merely running IIS by default.
Er, that's more of a "ride the nuke down like a cowboy" (a la Dr. Strangelove) kind of move, if you ask me.
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Well, IIRC, some military and police SWAT teams use a throat mic to pick up and transmit subvocalizations. So rather than speaking out loud, you'd sort of softly hum them. I'm not an expert on the technology by any means, but if they're useful, clear, and quiet enough to convey commands in a high-tension stealth situation, they might be good for PDA communication. They don't, after all, need to recognize real English words off the bat; it could be trained to pick out certain distinct shorthand sounds instead, in much the same way as Palm graffiti doesn't need actual letters.
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What I'd like to see is a constant connection between the PC and the PDA. In my experience, "Hotsync" type operations involve a temporary link to the palm, and then that link is terminated. With a wee bit of tweaking, the PDA's touchable screen could be useful as a secondary monitor. I know I've heard discussion of a secondary LCD screen being used for input and the like recently; why not use an already widespread device?
Of course, this is hardly an epiphany, and we'll probably start seeing stuff like this pop up soon, especially as more PDAs go to USB instead of serial. It will be nice to be able to tap "shotgun" instead on a nearby cradled PDA instead of remembering the number equivalents. Come to think of it, it would likely work in much the same way as Nintendo's promised support for the Game Boy Advance as an extra screen/controller for the Gamecube, although with the added bonus of touch-response. I could also see it useful for tablet-style input into a graphics program, the ability to add a real signature to electronic documents, a display for multiple clipboard contents, a constant terminal access point while the bigger screen handles the GUI, etc.
That's in the near future, of course. In the long run, I want my PDA to predict the future and print free money. ^_^
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In a related story, Duchovny has announced an about-face on his earlier abandonment of the long-running show, and will be returning this fall. Asked to comment on his sudden change of attitude, the X-Files star replied, "Ah... Um... I, er, missed Scully. Yeah. And I wanted to hang with that T2 guy. Really."
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But, this is exactly what I was saying. Most BIOS are set to AutoDetectHDD, so a master/slave switch will almost always end up in both hard drives being accessible. The article talks like that's impossible, and laments over the restriction. The NickLock website I didn't examine too closely, so it may have been more correct.
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Some folks are claiming that the article is correct, since the drive doesn't allow you to set the "slave" jumper. But 99% of drives out there assume that an open master jumper means slave. If a slave jumper is even present, it's just a holding place. Why use two jumpers, and thereby create a four-state system, when you only need to know on or off?
Another thing that had been bugging me was why there were four connectors. I should have read the nicklock site closer, so that I would have found this picture. Each drive connection has two different size jumpers to accomodate different drive styles. Duh on my part.
All in all, a cool little device. Might pick on up, even if that IS too much for those parts, since I've neither the time nor the inclination to build one myself.
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Maybe the author is trying to indicate that the device may not work in a single-drive system, which may indeed be the case on older drives (those that won't allow a single HDD to be set to "Master" instead of "single). Maybe he knows some intricate secret of HDD setups that I've missed in many a year of buidling and fixing computers. Maybe he's just a moron, and folks should check out the NickLock website instead of reading this POS review. Guess which one I choose?
Note: Having read the Nicklock website, it appears that it is not much better than Tom's Hardware for explanations. Yeesh.
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I we sure it's a mistake? I hope somebody can get their hands on a reverse DNS lookup of the IPs this RNG generates with the default seed. It may be a purposefully chosen number that attacks its [i]real[/i] target(s) while everyone laments the impending fall of the completely useless whitehouse.gov.
I'm surprised that they don't make the attack list public; while those at the top are probably already up $hit creek sans paddle, those further down may not yet realize just how screwed they truly are. A quick script that runs down the list and sends an e-mail to webmaster@, admin@, whatever@ each ip address effected would probably save millions in lost bandwith and business downtime.
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As long as the dominant operating system is a Microsoft product, I have no worries about "smart" machines.
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Aw, fuck, been posting on VBB boards long enough, I've plum forgotten HTML. What a moron...
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