I agree. I nearly stopped listening to music at home when I started playing the piano. I find it a hell of a lot more fun than listening to recorded music.
> There is no sense in donating, say, a 266 MHz Pentium II...
I'd gladly accept that sort of donation... it's better than my machine.
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If someone were travelling at v=99.99999% of c to Alpha Centauri 4.35 light years away the time involved for that someone would be 4.35*sqrt(1-(0.9999999c)^2/c^2)=0.00195 years, or ~17 hours. 4.35 years would have passed on Earth.
Yes, I ignored acceleration and deceleration. Achieving the speeds required is an enormous practical problem. But this makes 10-20 years sound not too far off.
I tend to go for lots of short walks and I like to think on my feet. Instead of crawling into bed (or turning the monitor and sitting on the couch) to use my computer, I could just walk up to a tall desk. Standing would probably be better for my posture than crouching, which I normally do.
Friends would hate using my computer more than they normally do*. It'd be great!
*...because I swapped the escape and backtick/tilde keys, and remapped capslock to act as the left control key. Just a few steps closer to the way all keyboards should be, IMO. =)
I recommend playing the PC version of Wasteland from Interplay and Electronic Arts if you don't mind EGA graphics and like turn based gameplay.
Now that game was damn fun. Still is, I think.
Some supposed tributes to Wasteland in Fallout:
http://bsc.edu/~bassaf/hqgrid/fallout.html
The first Star Control game mixed strategic turn-based and realtime gameplay well in its "Full Game" mode. Quite fun. Star Control 2 also kicked ass IMO.:)
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REAL geeks do it all in logic!
Just kidding.
Exactly. They could go home to each other.. htm
http://home.wanadoo.nl/c.leung/Pictures/takeittux
Yes! For the love of god, it does matter!
Probably.
Pi in 'base pi' would be represented as 10, would it not?
Consider that 16 in base 16 is written as 10, 2 in base 2 is also 10.
Just a thought.
I thought it was TETSUO!! (etc)
http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary& va=coke
Famous last words:
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Or perhaps Sue?
Ellison: What you say !!
"I can't let that happen, I won't let that happen and I can't let that happen!"
fork, or spoon?
I agree. I nearly stopped listening to music at home when I started playing the piano. I find it a hell of a lot more fun than listening to recorded music.
I'd sooner believe the original Old English verb was ascian rather than axsian. Oh well, I don't study language.
> There is no sense in donating, say, a 266 MHz Pentium II...
I'd gladly accept that sort of donation... it's better than my machine.
If someone were travelling at v=99.99999% of c to Alpha Centauri 4.35 light years away the time involved for that someone would be 4.35*sqrt(1-(0.9999999c)^2/c^2)=0.00195 years, or ~17 hours. 4.35 years would have passed on Earth.
Yes, I ignored acceleration and deceleration. Achieving the speeds required is an enormous practical problem. But this makes 10-20 years sound not too far off.
Hmm... I might give your solution a try.
...because I swapped the escape and backtick/tilde keys, and remapped capslock to act as the left control key. Just a few steps closer to the way all keyboards should be, IMO. =)
I tend to go for lots of short walks and I like to think on my feet. Instead of crawling into bed (or turning the monitor and sitting on the couch) to use my computer, I could just walk up to a tall desk. Standing would probably be better for my posture than crouching, which I normally do.
Friends would hate using my computer more than they normally do*. It'd be great!
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Monopolies offer choice!
> Apple would be selling their own flavor of UNIX.
...again.
(Remember A/UX?)
Since 2^31 - 1 seconds after the epoch is in the year 2038, what about negative values of "seconds since the epoch"?
:)
Mon Jan 18 19:14:07 PST 2038
wraps around to
Fri Dec 13 12:45:52 PST 1901.
Storing the birthdays of most living people works, at least on my system.
There's nothing to stop time_t from being longer than 32 bits, especially not IA-32.
I played Star Control 2 again recently. I don't think I realized how damn funny the dialogue was when I first played it. That is one fun game.
I recommend playing the PC version of Wasteland from Interplay and Electronic Arts if you don't mind EGA graphics and like turn based gameplay.
.44. No Les, no more."
Now that game was damn fun. Still is, I think.
Some supposed tributes to Wasteland in Fallout:
http://bsc.edu/~bassaf/hqgrid/fallout.html
"Lester More, shot by a
The first Star Control game mixed strategic turn-based and realtime gameplay well in its "Full Game" mode. Quite fun. Star Control 2 also kicked ass IMO. :)