I was going to say a KIM-II (6502, hex keypad input, 8-digit 7-segment display output) was my first computer, but your post reminded me that my parents got me a Geniac (or possibly its clone, a Braniac) for Christmas one year when I was in high school. I don't remember what I programmed it for.
I'll never understand the people that confuse "words" and "worlds", they are completely different accordians and aren't even pronounced the same. I've seen it in a slashdot summary a couple of days back too, that's pretty horrible.
Why do Christians balk when someone points out that Hitler was a Christian?
Hitler was not a Christian, although he may have let his subjects believe he was in order to gain/maintain power. He was, however, a vegetarian (to get back on-topic (sort of)).
(Disclaimer: I am not a Christian, but I am a vegetarian (vegan, in fact), just like Hitler. However, I have no interest in genocide or invading Poland.)
Another way of looking at it is as an analogy to potential and kinetic energy. A black hole contains "potential" information that changes to "kinetic", or normal, information (in the form of Hawking radiation) as the black hole dissolves.
like counting how many angels dance on the head of a pin
The answer to that is easy: "One, for any sufficiently large angel (and sufficiently small pinhead)". For smaller angels (or larger pinheads), the answer may depend on other factors (type of dance, whether the angels are wearing deodorant, etc.).
It appears that over 90% of browser attacks are caused by exploiting vulnerabilities (bugs) in scripting code. Turn off scripting, and you're not vulnerable to those attacks. Of course, with scripting turned off, there are some things you can't do (like meta-moderate slashdot, thank you very much), but, for the most part, you don't need scripting at all.
What if you used Linux with a BSD kernel? Is it still Linux?
No, it's BSD. You can't "use Linux with a BSD kernel", because it's not Linux if it's not Linux. Now, if you ask "If I replace Debian's Linux kernel with with s BSD kernel, is it still Debian?", the answer is, "Yes.".
Not when a and b are arrays. Also, the lack of semicolons in his/her example indicate that his/her example language might not be C/C++/D/Objective C, etc., but some other language (I know not which).
Except it wouldn't be a direct path, rather a curve, and we would have to aim for where it really is, instead of where it was 20 years ago.
Actually, you have to aim to where it will be when it gets there, not where it is now.
Actually actually, you have to take gravity, stellar wind, etc., into account, so you have to aim in some direction so that it will be where it will be when it gets there.
And then you have to make course corrections to avoid comets, asteroids, V'ger, Klingon battle cruisers, and so forth. Rocket science is hard.
sight, hearing, touch, feel, taste, comparison shop? This isn't a sixth sense, no matter how you spin it.
Actually, humans have quite a few senses other than the five commonly described; it's just that most of them are internal (sense of hunger, etc.). One that is external, and sometimes called the "sixth sense", is the sense of balance.
I play games for fun, not to be screwed over by other players, and people wonder why EVE doesn't interest me enough
Wow, people wonder that? That's amazing. I can just picture them gathered around the water cooler, chatting. One of them says, "You know, I wonder why EVE doesn't interest Larry enough.". Another one replies, "Yes, I was discussing this with my inflatable girlfriend last night, and both of us were wondering why EVE doesn't interest Larry enough.". And then a third person says, "Maybe it's because he plays games for fun, not to be screwed over by other players."
Yes, I can imagine people wondering why EVE doesn't interest you enough. People who have even less of a life than people who take EVE seriously enough to submit lame articles about it to Slashdot. Or Slashdot editors who post them. Or people who anonymously comment about them. Or respond to anonymous comments about them.
First they came for the murderers and I did not speak out - because I was not a murderer.
Then they came for the child molesters and I did not speak out - because I was not a child molester.
Then they came for those damn kids who won't stay the hell off my lawn and I did not speak out - because I was not a damn kid who won't stay the hell off my lawn.
Then they came for me - and by then has anybody seen my medication?
I know google is amazing, but how are they going to host photos dating from the 1750s from a magazine started in 1936 that showcased images created using a technology invented in 1826. This makes no sense at all.
LIFE magazine has been around for hundreds of billions of years. I still remember fondly poring over pictures the Big Bang in my youth.
No, not that Big Bang, the other one.
And publishing was much more difficult back then, because at that time there was no printing press, no camera, and, for that matter, no matter of any kind. (Ah, the pre-baryonic universe. Those were the days. (Well, not "days", really, because planets and stars didn't exist yet, either, and time was still sorting itself out, but you get the idea.))
Any way we could change this to the "interstellar monkey excrement" protocol? [...] monkeys flinging interstellar poo-communiques throughout the universe.
One word: Fecenet. (Excrenet? Internet Number 2(.0)?)
Your post is Offtopic[sic] and un-Insightful[sic] and relates in no way to the Parent post. You merely posted here because you knew you were more likely to get Mod points.
The GP, whose post was discussing marketing, was marketing his/her post by posting it near the top. So his/her post was positionally on-topic, in a self-referential kind of way.
The internet is the best thing that's ever happened to this country and this world.
Better than penicillin? Better than soap? Better than Velcro?
Please don't say that the Internet is better than Velcro, or I shall have to pummel you relentlessly in a verbal fashion until you retract your vile claims, or until I get bored.
Allison DuBois is not a fraud. She is a fictional character in the TV series "Medium". In that fictional world, her psychic powers are very real (in the same way that in the Star Trek fictional world, a being can change its shape and mass between a man and a mouse, and most intelligent aliens are bipeds with size and body proportions similar to humans (except that their heads are generally larger), or in the same way that in the sitcom fictional world, ugly dufuses have hot wives/girlfriends, or in the same way that in the sci-fi fictional world, mutated humans can fly, control the weather, control magnetism, travel through time, and have other fantastic powers, rather than have an extra or fewer appendages, no hair, or even just die as infants (which is what most mutant humans do in the real world), or in the same way that in the Torah, Bible, and Koran, the creator of the entire Universe intervenes in human affairs).
So, no, Allison DuBois is not a fraud, and she would pass Randi's test. Fortunately for Randi, psychics are about as real as Odo, super-powered mutants, and the biblical God.
You've eliminated the need for your short term memory because it's all written down.
From the tips page pointed to by your second link:
2. Write it down. Whatever it is that you have to remember, commit it to writing. Use a white board, bulletin board, notebook, the palm of your hand, or any other format that helps.
(my emphasis)
8. Take good notes. Whether in a class, in a meeting, or simply for personal reasons, take notes.
This is kind of what the GP is doing with his/her diary, which is what you claim is contributing to his/her memory problem.
Not only that, but nothing in the constitution limits those rights to people located in the US geographically. Since the facility at Gitmo is run by the US government, the abuses there are unconstitutional, despite not being in the US.
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I was going to say a KIM-II (6502, hex keypad input, 8-digit 7-segment display output) was my first computer, but your post reminded me that my parents got me a Geniac (or possibly its clone, a Braniac) for Christmas one year when I was in high school. I don't remember what I programmed it for.
xylophones not accordians, sorry.
"words not worlds, sorry."
I'll never understand the people that confuse "words" and "worlds", they are completely different accordians and aren't even pronounced the same. I've seen it in a slashdot summary a couple of days back too, that's pretty horrible.
Hitler was not a Christian, although he may have let his subjects believe he was in order to gain/maintain power.
He was, however, a vegetarian (to get back on-topic (sort of)).
(Disclaimer: I am not a Christian, but I am a vegetarian (vegan, in fact), just like Hitler.
However, I have no interest in genocide or invading Poland.)
Another way of looking at it is as an analogy to potential and kinetic energy.
A black hole contains "potential" information that changes to "kinetic", or normal, information (in the form of Hawking radiation) as the black hole dissolves.
The answer to that is easy: "One, for any sufficiently large angel (and sufficiently small pinhead)".
For smaller angels (or larger pinheads), the answer may depend on other factors (type of dance, whether the angels are wearing deodorant, etc.).
Just turn off all scripting.
Problem solved.
It appears that over 90% of browser attacks are caused by exploiting vulnerabilities (bugs) in scripting code.
Turn off scripting, and you're not vulnerable to those attacks.
Of course, with scripting turned off, there are some things you can't do (like meta-moderate slashdot, thank you very much), but, for the most part, you don't need scripting at all.
No, it's BSD.
You can't "use Linux with a BSD kernel", because it's not Linux if it's not Linux.
Now, if you ask "If I replace Debian's Linux kernel with with s BSD kernel, is it still Debian?", the answer is, "Yes.".
Or
(possibly followed by ";", depending on context).
Not when a and b are arrays.
Also, the lack of semicolons in his/her example indicate that his/her example language might not be C/C++/D/Objective C, etc., but some other language (I know not which).
Then explain why bagpipes are still around.
Actually, you have to aim to where it will be when it gets there, not where it is now.
Actually actually, you have to take gravity, stellar wind, etc., into account, so you have to aim in some direction so that it will be where it will be when it gets there.
And then you have to make course corrections to avoid comets, asteroids, V'ger, Klingon battle cruisers, and so forth.
Rocket science is hard.
You've obviously never dropped a TV on a puppy.
Not a big one, anyway.
Actually, humans have quite a few senses other than the five commonly described; it's just that most of them are internal (sense of hunger, etc.).
One that is external, and sometimes called the "sixth sense", is the sense of balance.
Wow, people wonder that?
That's amazing.
I can just picture them gathered around the water cooler, chatting.
One of them says, "You know, I wonder why EVE doesn't interest Larry enough.".
Another one replies, "Yes, I was discussing this with my inflatable girlfriend last night, and both of us were wondering why EVE doesn't interest Larry enough.".
And then a third person says, "Maybe it's because he plays games for fun, not to be screwed over by other players."
Yes, I can imagine people wondering why EVE doesn't interest you enough.
People who have even less of a life than people who take EVE seriously enough to submit lame articles about it to Slashdot.
Or Slashdot editors who post them.
Or people who anonymously comment about them.
Or respond to anonymous comments about them.
LIFE magazine has been around for hundreds of billions of years.
I still remember fondly poring over pictures the Big Bang in my youth.
No, not that Big Bang, the other one.
And publishing was much more difficult back then, because at that time there was no printing press, no camera, and, for that matter, no matter of any kind.
(Ah, the pre-baryonic universe. Those were the days. (Well, not "days", really, because planets and stars didn't exist yet, either, and time was still sorting itself out, but you get the idea.))
One word: Fecenet. (Excrenet? Internet Number 2(.0)?)
The GP, whose post was discussing marketing, was marketing his/her post by posting it near the top.
So his/her post was positionally on-topic, in a self-referential kind of way.
Better than penicillin?
Better than soap?
Better than Velcro?
Please don't say that the Internet is better than Velcro, or I shall have to pummel you relentlessly in a verbal fashion until you retract your vile claims, or until I get bored.
Never mind; I'm bored already.
I stand corrected.
Allison DuBois is not a fraud.
She is a fictional character in the TV series "Medium".
In that fictional world, her psychic powers are very real (in the same way that in the Star Trek fictional world, a being can change its shape and mass between a man and a mouse, and most intelligent aliens are bipeds with size and body proportions similar to humans (except that their heads are generally larger), or in the same way that in the sitcom fictional world, ugly dufuses have hot wives/girlfriends, or in the same way that in the sci-fi fictional world, mutated humans can fly, control the weather, control magnetism, travel through time, and have other fantastic powers, rather than have an extra or fewer appendages, no hair, or even just die as infants (which is what most mutant humans do in the real world), or in the same way that in the Torah, Bible, and Koran, the creator of the entire Universe intervenes in human affairs).
So, no, Allison DuBois is not a fraud, and she would pass Randi's test.
Fortunately for Randi, psychics are about as real as Odo, super-powered mutants, and the biblical God.
From the tips page pointed to by your second link:
(my emphasis)
This is kind of what the GP is doing with his/her diary, which is what you claim is contributing to his/her memory problem.
Not only that, but nothing in the constitution limits those rights to people located in the US geographically.
Since the facility at Gitmo is run by the US government, the abuses there are unconstitutional, despite not being in the US.