Acrobat is also prettry slick. I am pretty sure that if you buy the full version of Acrobat Creator from Adobe, it has all sorts of slick search functionality and indexing builtin. And although proprietary, free (beer) viewers exist for nearly every platform.
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DTSN has a lower power consupmtion than TFT screens. having a trim 486DX (66 or 100) laptop with a DTSN screen can give you descent computing power with better than average battery life.
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The reason MSIE is the embedded browser in AOL (and Compuserve) is because AOL wanted to be included in the default Windows install (and on the Desktop) Therefore, M$ told AOL you will use MSIE for your browser or you will not be in Windows. Kind of a nasty trick, eh?
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-Silicon Based Life: This would be based upon silicon instead of carbon. We (and evrything else living on earth) are based on Carbon. Why? Because carbon just so happens to have a valence shell of 4 electrons meaning that it can accept 4 more electrons or donate 4 more electrons. This leads carbon being able to form all sorts of nifty compounds such as rings (benzene, sugars) and chains (hydrocarbons, starches, proteins). Silicon also has 4 valence electrons, so theoretically, it could form all sorts of nifty compounds, too. However, because of some quantum chemistry issues, silicon does not perform quite as well as carbon in forming chains and rings. Silicon is much better for forming nifty crystals as we all know:-).
-Sulfur breating life: We breathe oxygen. Why? Because in order to release the energy stored in fats, sugars, and protiens, they must be oxidized (burned) and we use oxygen to do that. Even plants use oxygen (in small amounts) to metabolize the sugars they produce from photosynthesis. There are forms of life on Earth that do not use oxygen at all, these are chemotrophs (chemical eaters) who live in volcanic vents on the ocean floor and such. They tend to combine and split different chemicals to release the requisite energy for life. Some of them use Sulfur as an oxidizer instead of oxygen. Theoretically Carbon Monoxide, ozone, or even a halide (Chlorine, florine, bromine) could be used.
-Ammonia bathed life: Water is incredibly important for us, because as mentioned earlier, it is an excellent solvent for all the chemical reactions that make up life to occur. Also as mentioned earlier, there are not too many simple molecules that are liquid and polarized at decent temperatures. Water is one of them. Ammonia (NH3) is another. However, ammonia is slightly less polarized than H20 and therefore it doen't quite work as well as water. Other things like like hydrochloric acid might work, but it is a bit strong of a solvent:-) Things like benzene and hydrocarbons and liquid chlorine are not polarized so they really wouldn't work.
As for other things (energy-based life, etc.), although we cerainly do not know enough to completely rule out this type of life, chances are that any based on vastly different chemistry from our own (or NOT chemistry) would find it difficult to communicate with us.
By the way, I am a physics student, so this is a small step down for me (just kidding:-). I did watch lots of Nova and stuff when I was younger.
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We are doing windows coding at work. Before all I ever did was do a little bit of *nix coding at home and school, and the biggest difference is that because Linux/GNU/BSD/etc is an Open platform, the APIs are actually followed. You can use code directly from an MSDN examle in your windows project and it won't work. Also under *nix you get all of the excellent POSIX calls. You can't use POSIX under Windows, it's not there. I had to write a string parser for a project we were working on without the use of POSIX regular expressions, and BOY was that a pain in the ass.
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I _LOVE_ that thing. I spent countless hours on my Apple//e building hundreds of pinball boards. It was the saddest day when the floppy (5 1/4, thank you) that I had saved one board that I had spent nearly a month on died.
I really wish(ed) that someone would remake the game for newer computers. Hey, anyone want to write a GnuPinball Construction Set?
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Hey geek-boys (and girls) go get yourself an SO.;-P
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Re:ASP = rapid application development
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Cause MS stresses ease of use over anything else. (Well, besides world domination:-). Seriously, It is incredibly easy to do relativity simple things with MS products, but if you want to do anything complicated that MS didn't write in explicitly, you are screwed.
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No. I have a behemoth (pardon the pun of those of you who know what machine I'm talking about) of a 340 RS/6000 sitting on my desk at work we have to use AIX 3.x because off all the old software we nolonger have installation media. It was set up SOOOOO badly. I wish maybe that the harddrive would finally die and we could reinstall everything correctly.
I scoured the net looking for something besides AIX to run on this beast, but to no avail. The problem with the POWER chips is that they are not chips as much as they are chipsets. There are about 4 or 5 chips that are on a "processor card" in this machine. REAL UGLY. Plus they don't implement either a sub- or super- set of the PowerPC instruction set, but something completely different that was kind of merged into what was to become the PowerPC.
Ichhh!
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It kind of pisses me of when people say that computers are better than humans at chess. Computers aren't better, they are different.
The way computers play chess is that they brach down through all the possibilities untill they get to the limit of computing power. i.e. They will process down the tree until it gets to computationally intensive and time comsuming to warrant further branching.
Good human players don't follow every path down, and they only look a few tuns deep into any path. They recognize similar board patterns to games in their knowledge and experience and extapolate likely outcomes from the similar positions.
Until we can program a computers to win at chess that doen't use this "brute force" method of finding the best move, I can't be truly impressed with the computer's ability. Right now they have just made computers fast enough to think far enough ahead to approximate recognizing patterns in the pieces.
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There is a group at my university'sphysics department working on a design for a cool planet detecting satillite. It is called BOSS. Check it out, cool stuff.
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When I saw the trailer for this at Toy Story 2, I had to be PHYSICALLY RESTRAINED. My friend actually had to hold me down in my seat, as I was about to get up and do something. I don't know what I would have done, but it would have been bad. Very Bad. May the Ghost of Stanley Kubrick haunt those responsible for this movie with a lust for carnage only rivaled by Alex's lust for UltraViolence.
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only people in science who do get rich are high-prestige scientists who get book contracts, do the lecture circuit, and for the really lucky, get bit parts in TV shows like the Simpsons and Star Trek.
Actually, Stephen Hawking isn't all that wealtly. I watched the Larry King Interview with him on CNN on 12/25 (best hour I EVER spent watching the tube). It is actually exceedingly lucky for him, and us of course, that he is still able to write books and such, as most of that has allowed him to afford the medical care that he needs.
However, you do get a bit of money for doing the lecture circuit, TV shows, and books. This money will allow you to live comfortably, but it really won't make you rich, per se.
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By non-existant threats i mean that the russians weren't stupid. They knew that if missles were launched, it would destroy the entire world. It didn't matter if we lanched fist or they did. SDI would protect against incoming missiles, the only problem is that if there were ANY incoming missles, we'd all be fucked anyway, who cares if we can shoot down 80% of them. There are still enough to obliterate the earth 10 times over. (by the way that leaves 2 earth-obliterations left:-)
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Slashdot Mirror
Acrobat is also prettry slick. I am pretty sure that if you buy the full version of Acrobat Creator from Adobe, it has all sorts of slick search functionality and indexing builtin. And although proprietary, free (beer) viewers exist for nearly every platform.
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Q: And finally James... <hands Bond a pack of Doublemint>
Bond: Gum, Q? But I have Excellent Oral Hygiene.
Q: No James, this is a highly compact digital camera capable of storing over 100 high resolution pictures.
Bond: Indeed.
Q: Oh, and James...
Bond: Yes?
Q: No more taking pictures of the female agents and posting them on the Internet, I've been recieveing far too many complaints about that...
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I meant DSTN. :-)
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DTSN has a lower power consupmtion than TFT screens. having a trim 486DX (66 or 100) laptop with a DTSN screen can give you descent computing power with better than average battery life.
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|\/|@N, +h@+ \/@r|3+y L|nG0 1$ h@RD 2 R33D!!
+h3Y R +0+@11Y n0N-31337!!
h@x0r L|nG0 1$ \/\/@y C0013R!!!
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Well, yeah. :-) Earth kind of has the correct conditions for H20/02/Carbon based life to work best. things might be different elsewhere :-)
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The reason MSIE is the embedded browser in AOL (and Compuserve) is because AOL wanted to be included in the default Windows install (and on the Desktop) Therefore, M$ told AOL you will use MSIE for your browser or you will not be in Windows. Kind of a nasty trick, eh?
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Ok, now for some alternative Biochemistries!!
:-).
:-) Things like benzene and hydrocarbons and liquid chlorine are not polarized so they really wouldn't work.
:-). I did watch lots of Nova and stuff when I was younger.
-Silicon Based Life: This would be based upon silicon instead of carbon. We (and evrything else living on earth) are based on Carbon. Why? Because carbon just so happens to have a valence shell of 4 electrons meaning that it can accept 4 more electrons or donate 4 more electrons. This leads carbon being able to form all sorts of nifty compounds such as rings (benzene, sugars) and chains (hydrocarbons, starches, proteins). Silicon also has 4 valence electrons, so theoretically, it could form all sorts of nifty compounds, too. However, because of some quantum chemistry issues, silicon does not perform quite as well as carbon in forming chains and rings. Silicon is much better for forming nifty crystals as we all know
-Sulfur breating life: We breathe oxygen. Why? Because in order to release the energy stored in fats, sugars, and protiens, they must be oxidized (burned) and we use oxygen to do that. Even plants use oxygen (in small amounts) to metabolize the sugars they produce from photosynthesis. There are forms of life on Earth that do not use oxygen at all, these are chemotrophs (chemical eaters) who live in volcanic vents on the ocean floor and such. They tend to combine and split different chemicals to release the requisite energy for life. Some of them use Sulfur as an oxidizer instead of oxygen. Theoretically Carbon Monoxide, ozone, or even a halide (Chlorine, florine, bromine) could be used.
-Ammonia bathed life: Water is incredibly important for us, because as mentioned earlier, it is an excellent solvent for all the chemical reactions that make up life to occur. Also as mentioned earlier, there are not too many simple molecules that are liquid and polarized at decent temperatures. Water is one of them. Ammonia (NH3) is another. However, ammonia is slightly less polarized than H20 and therefore it doen't quite work as well as water. Other things like like hydrochloric acid might work, but it is a bit strong of a solvent
As for other things (energy-based life, etc.), although we cerainly do not know enough to completely rule out this type of life, chances are that any based on vastly different chemistry from our own (or NOT chemistry) would find it difficult to communicate with us.
By the way, I am a physics student, so this is a small step down for me (just kidding
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I have seen an X11 subsystem for BeOS. Dig around a bit on the Be website or on one o fthe Be info sites.
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Your stupid computers!!! Stupid, stupid!!!!
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We are doing windows coding at work. Before all I ever did was do a little bit of *nix coding at home and school, and the biggest difference is that because Linux/GNU/BSD/etc is an Open platform, the APIs are actually followed. You can use code directly from an MSDN examle in your windows project and it won't work. Also under *nix you get all of the excellent POSIX calls. You can't use POSIX under Windows, it's not there. I had to write a string parser for a project we were working on without the use of POSIX regular expressions, and BOY was that a pain in the ass.
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Now for tiebreakers, they should have the additional requirement that your coding statements are in Haiku form.
Embeded Haiku,
Hidden within the sourcecode.
It should break the tie.
And now for a Meta-Haiku:
Multisyllabic,
Using five, seven, and five
A haiku is formed.
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Pinball Consruction Set?
//e building hundreds of pinball boards. It was the saddest day when the floppy (5 1/4, thank you) that I had saved one board that I had spent nearly a month on died.
I _LOVE_ that thing. I spent countless hours on my Apple
I really wish(ed) that someone would remake the game for newer computers. Hey, anyone want to write a GnuPinball Construction Set?
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Hey geek-boys (and girls) go get yourself an SO. ;-P
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Cause MS stresses ease of use over anything else. (Well, besides world domination :-). Seriously, It is incredibly easy to do relativity simple things with MS products, but if you want to do anything complicated that MS didn't write in explicitly, you are screwed.
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Use a tunnel. THere are some pretty ingenious packages out there. Tunneling over http headers, icmp requests, or email messages.
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As opposed to a -1924562 release?
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No. I have a behemoth (pardon the pun of those of you who know what machine I'm talking about) of a 340 RS/6000 sitting on my desk at work we have to use AIX 3.x because off all the old software we nolonger have installation media. It was set up SOOOOO badly. I wish maybe that the harddrive would finally die and we could reinstall everything correctly.
I scoured the net looking for something besides AIX to run on this beast, but to no avail. The problem with the POWER chips is that they are not chips as much as they are chipsets. There are about 4 or 5 chips that are on a "processor card" in this machine. REAL UGLY. Plus they don't implement either a sub- or super- set of the PowerPC instruction set, but something completely different that was kind of merged into what was to become the PowerPC.
Ichhh!
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
It kind of pisses me of when people say that computers are better than humans at chess. Computers aren't better, they are different.
The way computers play chess is that they brach down through all the possibilities untill they get to the limit of computing power. i.e. They will process down the tree until it gets to computationally intensive and time comsuming to warrant further branching.
Good human players don't follow every path down, and they only look a few tuns deep into any path. They recognize similar board patterns to games in their knowledge and experience and extapolate likely outcomes from the similar positions.
Until we can program a computers to win at chess that doen't use this "brute force" method of finding the best move, I can't be truly impressed with the computer's ability. Right now they have just made computers fast enough to think far enough ahead to approximate recognizing patterns in the pieces.
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sox should be able to do renormalization in unixland. No need for fancy Winders Software.
cdripper | sox -normalization_flags | mp3encoder Voila!
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There is a group at my university's physics department working on a design for a cool planet detecting satillite. It is called BOSS. Check it out, cool stuff.
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Not only is today Pi Day, it is also Albert Einstein's Birthday! Have a Relitivistic Day!
By amazing coincedence, I was actually watching Pi last night.
"12:45, Restate my assumptions..."
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When I saw the trailer for this at Toy Story 2, I had to be PHYSICALLY RESTRAINED. My friend actually had to hold me down in my seat, as I was about to get up and do something. I don't know what I would have done, but it would have been bad. Very Bad. May the Ghost of Stanley Kubrick haunt those responsible for this movie with a lust for carnage only rivaled by Alex's lust for UltraViolence.
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
only people in science who do get rich are high-prestige scientists who get book contracts, do the lecture circuit, and for the really lucky, get bit parts in TV shows like the Simpsons and Star Trek.
Actually, Stephen Hawking isn't all that wealtly. I watched the Larry King Interview with him on CNN on 12/25 (best hour I EVER spent watching the tube). It is actually exceedingly lucky for him, and us of course, that he is still able to write books and such, as most of that has allowed him to afford the medical care that he needs.
However, you do get a bit of money for doing the lecture circuit, TV shows, and books. This money will allow you to live comfortably, but it really won't make you rich, per se.
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
By non-existant threats i mean that the russians weren't stupid. They knew that if missles were launched, it would destroy the entire world. It didn't matter if we lanched fist or they did. SDI would protect against incoming missiles, the only problem is that if there were ANY incoming missles, we'd all be fucked anyway, who cares if we can shoot down 80% of them. There are still enough to obliterate the earth 10 times over. (by the way that leaves 2 earth-obliterations left :-)
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