Question: Those two guys in the IBM ads, you know, from the alternate universe where open source software doesn't exist? What happens if you take off their space helmets? Do they explode or something?
No, the Andromeda organism was extraterrestrial in origin. The dirty secret was that the Wildfire base, where they took the Scoop capsule for study, was designed for the study of organisms for biological warfare. I don't remember exactly, but the Scoop probe itself may have been sent up for the same reason. (Hmmm...maybe we should worry about the NASA Stardust probe while we're at it...)
Vinge's ideas about the Singluarity showed up in "Marooned in Realtime", the sequel to "The Peace War." In the first book, billions of people died from bio-engineered plagues before the Singularity ever occurred. So yeah, I'd say you have a really decent shot.
Blue Men 1, 2 and 3 stand in front of a gigantic Pentium IV logo.
Blue Man 1 hits "P" in logo with an enormous mallet.
Pentium IV logo shakes, causing "V" at the other end of logo to topple over, crushing Blue Man 3 to death. Blue goo oozes from under the fallen "V". In fear for his life, Blue Man 2 leaves the group to do Apple commercials with Jeff Goldblum. "It's a great gift for the wife or the kids, or, or, for Geena Davis! But, you know, don't take my word for it! Ask the Blue guy!"
Life's older than it's ever been
and now it's even older,
and now it's even older,
and now it's even older.
Life's older than it's ever been
and now it's even older,
and now it's older still.
Does anyone know if there will be support for files > 2 Gig in the 2.4 kernel? I want to set up a bioinformatics cluster, and dang if the genome isn't 3.2 gigaBases long. We will split the genome sequence into smaller chunks to make file access and database searching faster, but we need to handle monolithic big files before we can do anything. Any info is greatly appreciated.
-fbj
The problem's all inside your head, she said to me
If you want to turn your planet into piles of debris
Then you should buy yourself a copy of "Discovery"
There must be...twenty ways the world could end.
She said I really do not want to panic you,
as I know that these scenarios probably won't come true
and I really doubt, that you'd sleep better if you knew,
There must be twenty ways the world could end.
Twenty ways the world could end.
Just hit a black hole, Joel. Watch the world go insane, Lane.
Make a bunch of gray goo, Lou. Just listen to me.
Have a nuclear war, Moore. See the vaccuum fall flat, Matt.
Dioxins from PVC, Lee, will set yourself free.
She said I normally don't tell my good friends this,
but if the ozone layer goes you will be burned into a crisp.
I said, that's great to hear, and would you please explain again about the twenty ways...
She said, since Brandon Carter says we're gonna fry,
Why should I waste my time explaining all the ways that you could die?
But I kept bugging her, until she told me with a sigh
There must be twenty ways the world could end.
Twenty ways the world could end.
Have a comet impact, Jack. Get a burst of gamma ray, Jay.
Catch a bad pathogen, Len. And listen to me.
Flood-basalt vulcanism, Chisolm. Wake up from existence, Vincent.
Get killed by for E.T., Lee, and set yourself free.
-foobar jones
(Sorry, I couldn't think of a name to rhyme with "Divine Intervention.")
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Question: Those two guys in the IBM ads, you know, from the alternate universe where open source software doesn't exist? What happens if you take off their space helmets? Do they explode or something?
No, the Andromeda organism was extraterrestrial in origin. The dirty secret was that the Wildfire base, where they took the Scoop capsule for study, was designed for the study of organisms for biological warfare. I don't remember exactly, but the Scoop probe itself may have been sent up for the same reason. (Hmmm...maybe we should worry about the NASA Stardust probe while we're at it...)
Vinge's ideas about the Singluarity showed up in "Marooned in Realtime", the sequel to "The Peace War." In the first book, billions of people died from bio-engineered plagues before the Singularity ever occurred. So yeah, I'd say you have a really decent shot.
Blue Men 1, 2 and 3 stand in front of a gigantic Pentium IV logo. Blue Man 1 hits "P" in logo with an enormous mallet. Pentium IV logo shakes, causing "V" at the other end of logo to topple over, crushing Blue Man 3 to death. Blue goo oozes from under the fallen "V". In fear for his life, Blue Man 2 leaves the group to do Apple commercials with Jeff Goldblum. "It's a great gift for the wife or the kids, or, or, for Geena Davis! But, you know, don't take my word for it! Ask the Blue guy!"
Life's older than it's ever been
and now it's even older,
and now it's even older,
and now it's even older.
Life's older than it's ever been
and now it's even older,
and now it's older still.
Does anyone know if there will be support for files > 2 Gig in the 2.4 kernel? I want to set up a bioinformatics cluster, and dang if the genome isn't 3.2 gigaBases long. We will split the genome sequence into smaller chunks to make file access and database searching faster, but we need to handle monolithic big files before we can do anything. Any info is greatly appreciated. -fbj
LOL!!!
Or how about, "Get sent down to Hell, Mel."
The problem's all inside your head, she said to me
If you want to turn your planet into piles of debris
Then you should buy yourself a copy of "Discovery"
There must be...twenty ways the world could end.
She said I really do not want to panic you,
as I know that these scenarios probably won't come true
and I really doubt, that you'd sleep better if you knew,
There must be twenty ways the world could end.
Twenty ways the world could end.
Just hit a black hole, Joel. Watch the world go insane, Lane.
Make a bunch of gray goo, Lou. Just listen to me.
Have a nuclear war, Moore. See the vaccuum fall flat, Matt.
Dioxins from PVC, Lee, will set yourself free.
She said I normally don't tell my good friends this,
but if the ozone layer goes you will be burned into a crisp.
I said, that's great to hear, and would you please explain again about the twenty ways...
She said, since Brandon Carter says we're gonna fry,
Why should I waste my time explaining all the ways that you could die?
But I kept bugging her, until she told me with a sigh
There must be twenty ways the world could end.
Twenty ways the world could end.
Have a comet impact, Jack. Get a burst of gamma ray, Jay.
Catch a bad pathogen, Len. And listen to me.
Flood-basalt vulcanism, Chisolm. Wake up from existence, Vincent.
Get killed by for E.T., Lee, and set yourself free.
-foobar jones
(Sorry, I couldn't think of a name to rhyme with "Divine Intervention.")