I proposed something like this around 20 years ago (on USENET). It was quickly pointed out to me that subduction occurs much too slowly.
As to your joke about dumping in the ocean, this was actually done many years ago. There are now hundreds (possibly thousands) of containers of radioactive waste sitting on the ocean floor, slowly corroding.
I've been using vi (and/or clones) for about 20 years. When I first started using vim (actually, gvim on W95), I didn't like the colored syntax stuff, either. But now that I'm used to it, I find that looking at code in black and white is boring. IOW, syntax highlighting actually helps, for the most part (except for highlighting <b> in bold and <i> in italics when editing HTML files).
And as far as the new features, I occasionally use the mouse to navigate now, and I find that I frequently use #, too. (# searches for the next occurance of the word under the cursor.)
Making and lifting this cable is far beyond any engineering task ever attempted
Well, I don't know about making the cable, but the builders don't have to lift it; instead, they build it in geosynchronous orbit and drop it to the earth (while simultaneously "dropping" the counterweight outward). Where do they get the material? Asteroid(s) redirected into earth orbit.
Arthur C. Clarke described all of this brilliantly in his novel, "The Fountains of Paradise".
What you wrote is misleading as well. Pixar has a rendering farm of over 1000 machines, IIRC. So the average time/frame can be much higher than 3 minutes, and my guess is that it probably was. Using your earlier calculations with a 1000-machine rendering farm, the average time/frame could be up to 50 hours.
The third book is "The Ringworld Throne". It's not as "science-fictiony" as the other two (e.g., no spaceships, etc.). IIRC, it's just Louis Wu wandering around Ringworld, the story having no real beginning or end, but it's been a while since I read it. I think that Niven has gotten away from hard scince fiction, and more toward so-called "science fantasy", in his later works, but even his earliest stories contain some elements of fantasy (e.g., the luck of Teela Brown in the original "Ringworld").
Similarly, if the digits add up to 9, or a number that is divisible by 9, then the original number is divisible by 9. So, we also know that 909 is divisible by 9.
This "digits adding up" thing works for all b-1, where b is even and is the number base. For example, in hexidecimal (base 16), we know that the number 1E is divisible by F, since 1+E = F.
kinda weird considering you have only ONE light source
You've never heard of reflected light?
the camera had some etchings on the lenses that would appear as crosses on the pictures - on some of the pictures there are objects in front of these crosses, definitive proof that somebody tampered with the pictures
or that the bright spots "washed out" the etching marks.
All of the claims made by the "documentary" have been refuted. No, I don't remember where (search Google). I remember watching it all on TV when I was a kid. There is no way that they could have pulled off something as big as a faked moon landing and kept it secret for over 30 years. Somehow, somewhere, someone would have spilled the beans.
I have both MS-Win95 and Slackware Linux installed on one of my old machines. Whenever I boot from MS-Win95 into Linux, the year gets set to 2094. (The month, day, and time are fine.) So I don't know whether there is a connection in the case of your parent poster, but there can be a connection.
Do I really want to be known as just another guy who shot himself?
Why do you care? You'll be dead. Gone. Nothing.
The fact that you care about what other people will think of you after you're gone indicates that part of you may not want to commit suicide after all. I recommend that you seek professional help.
Remember that it doesn't matter how you kill yourself; if you kill yourself, other people will just think that you're a loser (unless you're terminally ill and/or in great physical pain, etc.). Do you really think that anyone really cares how you did it (other than those that have to clean it up)? You'll be forgotten in short order, except maybe by your parents. Suicide is so passe these days.
If you care what others think, if you want to make an impression on people, then get yourself some help, and work to do great things. Then you'll be remembered.
As others have mentioned, it's Superman vs Batman. However, back in the early 1970s, Marvel and DC came together to print a comic that actually had Superman vs Spiderman. I never bought it, but I assume that Spidy's radioactivity is Kryptonite-based. Otherwise, if Kryptonite (or another Kryptonian) is not involved, then Superman will always win against anybody else.
Kurt Vonnegut (sp?) wrote a short story in the late 1960s or early 1970s called "The Big Space Fuck". It was in one of Harlan Ellison's "Dangerous Visions" anthologies. The governament mandated that all people should be equal. Smart people had to wear headphones that would continually distract them with loud noises, so they would have no intellectual advantage over stupider people. There were also devices that would make graceful people uncoordinated, etc. However, I don't remember anything in the story that equalized blind and sighted people.
I remember reading about a keyboard back in the 1980s whose keycaps had 5x8 LCDs on the tops of them. A program (or the OS) could display whatever 5x8 symbol it wanted on the tops of the keys.
My guess is that the reason it never went anywhere was that it was very expensive, and the MTBF couldn't have been all that great either.
Actually, IIRC (and I was alive then), Carter was in the process of converting the country to Metric. (I particularly remember gas pumps that displayed both liters and gallons.) Then he lost the 1980 election to Reagan. Reagan stopped the conversion in its tracks, saying something like: "We have become world leaders in Science without the 'benefit' of the Metric system" (ignoring the fact that most scientific establishments use the Metric system).
Some of the effects of this aborted attempt are felt to this day. For example, many carbonated beverages are now sold by the liter.
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I proposed something like this around 20 years ago (on USENET).
It was quickly pointed out to me that subduction occurs much too slowly.
As to your joke about dumping in the ocean, this was actually done many years ago.
There are now hundreds (possibly thousands) of containers of radioactive waste sitting on the ocean floor, slowly corroding.
I've been using vi (and/or clones) for about 20 years.
When I first started using vim (actually, gvim on W95), I didn't like the colored syntax stuff, either.
But now that I'm used to it, I find that looking at code in black and white is boring.
IOW, syntax highlighting actually helps, for the most part (except for highlighting <b> in bold and <i> in italics when editing HTML files).
And as far as the new features, I occasionally use the mouse to navigate now, and I find that I frequently use #, too.
(# searches for the next occurance of the word under the cursor.)
LS - LiSt
MV - MoVe
CP - CoPy
LN - LiNk
See a pattern?
Making and lifting this cable is far beyond any engineering task ever attempted
Well, I don't know about making the cable, but the builders don't have to lift it; instead, they build it in geosynchronous orbit and drop it to the earth (while simultaneously "dropping" the counterweight outward).
Where do they get the material?
Asteroid(s) redirected into earth orbit.
Arthur C. Clarke described all of this brilliantly in his novel, "The Fountains of Paradise".
From page 10 of the PostScript Language Reference Manual (2nd ed):
"[...]Adobe gives permission to anyone to [...] [w]rite software to interpret programs written in the PostScript language."
What you wrote is misleading as well.
Pixar has a rendering farm of over 1000 machines, IIRC.
So the average time/frame can be much higher than 3 minutes, and my guess is that it probably was.
Using your earlier calculations with a 1000-machine rendering farm, the average time/frame could be up to 50 hours.
The third book is "The Ringworld Throne".
It's not as "science-fictiony" as the other two (e.g., no spaceships, etc.).
IIRC, it's just Louis Wu wandering around Ringworld, the story having no real beginning or end, but it's been a while since I read it.
I think that Niven has gotten away from hard scince fiction, and more toward so-called "science fantasy", in his later works, but even his earliest stories contain some elements of fantasy (e.g., the luck of Teela Brown in the original "Ringworld").
Her response is here.
Similarly, if the digits add up to 9, or a number that is divisible by 9, then the original number is divisible by 9.
So, we also know that 909 is divisible by 9.
This "digits adding up" thing works for all b-1, where b is even and is the number base.
For example, in hexidecimal (base 16), we know that the number 1E is divisible by F, since 1+E = F.
it doesn't work with whitespace (eg, 'my file.htm')
find . -name '*.htm' -print |
while read f
do
rename htm html "$f"
done
the hard-sf novel "Footfall" by Niven + Pournelle
Wasn't that "King David's Spaceship"?
kinda weird considering you have only ONE light source
You've never heard of reflected light?
the camera had some etchings on the lenses that would appear as crosses on the pictures - on some of the pictures there are objects in front of these crosses, definitive proof that somebody tampered with the pictures
or that the bright spots "washed out" the etching marks.
All of the claims made by the "documentary" have been refuted.
No, I don't remember where (search Google).
I remember watching it all on TV when I was a kid.
There is no way that they could have pulled off something as big as a faked moon landing and kept it secret for over 30 years.
Somehow, somewhere, someone would have spilled the beans.
Unless there's been quite a bit of type/class unification progress made ...
There's been quite a bit of type/class unification progress made.
I would assume that they will be mounted on gimbals or some other "stedi-cam"-like device.
If thousands of people were doing this [...] eventually, they would have to stop enforcing it.
Just like they've stopped arresting people for posession of illegal narcotics.
Absolutely.
Here.
I have both MS-Win95 and Slackware Linux installed on one of my old machines.
Whenever I boot from MS-Win95 into Linux, the year gets set to 2094.
(The month, day, and time are fine.)
So I don't know whether there is a connection in the case of your parent poster, but there can be a connection.
Do I really want to be known as just another guy who shot himself?
Why do you care?
You'll be dead.
Gone.
Nothing.
The fact that you care about what other people will think of you after you're gone indicates that part of you may not want to commit suicide after all.
I recommend that you seek professional help.
Remember that it doesn't matter how you kill yourself; if you kill yourself, other people will just think that you're a loser (unless you're terminally ill and/or in great physical pain, etc.).
Do you really think that anyone really cares how you did it (other than those that have to clean it up)?
You'll be forgotten in short order, except maybe by your parents.
Suicide is so passe these days.
If you care what others think, if you want to make an impression on people, then get yourself some help, and work to do great things.
Then you'll be remembered.
As others have mentioned, it's Superman vs Batman.
However, back in the early 1970s, Marvel and DC came together to print a comic that actually had Superman vs Spiderman.
I never bought it, but I assume that Spidy's radioactivity is Kryptonite-based.
Otherwise, if Kryptonite (or another Kryptonian) is not involved, then Superman will always win against anybody else.
Kurt Vonnegut (sp?) wrote a short story in the late 1960s or early 1970s called "The Big Space Fuck".
It was in one of Harlan Ellison's "Dangerous Visions" anthologies.
The governament mandated that all people should be equal.
Smart people had to wear headphones that would continually distract them with loud noises, so they would have no intellectual advantage over stupider people.
There were also devices that would make graceful people uncoordinated, etc.
However, I don't remember anything in the story that equalized blind and sighted people.
You are kidding right?
I remember reading about a keyboard back in the 1980s whose keycaps had 5x8 LCDs on the tops of them.
A program (or the OS) could display whatever 5x8 symbol it wanted on the tops of the keys.
My guess is that the reason it never went anywhere was that it was very expensive, and the MTBF couldn't have been all that great either.
Actually, IIRC (and I was alive then),
Carter was in the process of converting the country to Metric.
(I particularly remember gas pumps that displayed both liters and gallons.)
Then he lost the 1980 election to Reagan.
Reagan stopped the conversion in its tracks, saying something like:
"We have become world leaders in Science without the 'benefit' of the Metric system"
(ignoring the fact that most scientific establishments use the Metric system).
Some of the effects of this aborted attempt are felt to this day.
For example, many carbonated beverages are now sold by the liter.
you would never have done that with other search engines. I mean, just try it:
"I yahooed for the information, but couldn't find it."
Do you, uh, yahoo?