That'd be evidence, not proof, and it'd be fundamentally no different than a bible.
Well, it'd be a bit different from a bible. A bible is written by humans, pi is not. Thus, a bible can contain lies, half-truths, invalid reasoning, and all the other no-nos you learned about in debate class. Pi can't try to mislead or trick you, it is what it is.
Imagine discovering a magic dildo that changes all wombats to umbrellas. Surely it would be of strictly limited productive useage, however, the act of exploring HOW IT ACHIVES ITS FUNCTION would yield far more value than anything that could be gained by using the device itself.
Get real. Everyone knows wombats are far too prudish to use dildos. On the other hand, I can't count the number of times I've been stranded in a rainstorm without an umbrella, but had easy access to a wombat. I think more research is called for.
It might also be important to point out that we only need ten digits to write the integers from 0 to infinity. If we were to count in base three, we'd only need three digits to do it.
btw...anyone know if it would be possible to./ data?
Uh, no. You see, web servers are from real life. Data is a character on a TV show.
I suppose you think you have just impressed everyone with your ability to distinguish fantasy from reality. However, you have only shown your lack of understanding of the English language. The question posed was in subjunctive mood ("if it would be possible"), thus clearly the questioner understood that Data is not real, and was asking a hypothetical question. Had he asked "if it is possible" or even "if it will be possible", your reply would have been justified.
Considering the problems it caused, yeah I am.... As a matter of a fact I'll bet it runs on Windows ME.
No, that can't be right. By the time they fought the Borg in First Contact, it was stable and functioning correctly. Obviously that is impossible for anything based on ME.
Yes they do. At least, most of the time. Some of the phones can be "locked" to a specific carrier. Needless to say, they can also be "unlocked" but of course the carriers and manufacturers frown on that activity.
I've never had any trouble just getting an unactivated GSM phone from any old place and swapping in my T-mobile card, and I've given old phones to Cingular users and they've had no problems swapping their cards in.
You maight want to tell your friend that there are GSM phones in the US as well. T-Mobile (formerly Voicestream (formerly Powertel)) and Cingular are both GSM, and I think there are some smaller carriers as well.
Kick my PC Box several times and wait long enough eventually the bytes inside of the hard drive and memory are going to start moving around until finally get a sophisticated Operating System capable of multi tasking, multi whatever,.
It seems to have worked for Microsoft!
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So, given a choice between your car remaining intact, and yourself staying alive, you prefer the car to remain intact? Interesting priorities you have there.
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That's funny. My wife and I bought a minivan around the time we started trying to have a baby. When she was about six months pregnant, it got totalled in an accident (she wasn't in it at the time, luckily). This left us with a Pontiac Sunfire and a Toyota Echo.
We've since gotten rid of the Sunfire and gotten a Civic, but it's still a bit tight until the baby gets big enough to use a forward-facing seat. And we have no idea how we're going to get all the presents home from Grandma's house for baby's first Christmas....
My service is $35/month for 1.5Mbps downstream. I can thus download a full 680MB CD in an hour (if the sending end can handle it). There are 720 hours in a month (based on an average month, some restrictions apply, offer not valid in February), thus the bandwidth cost per CD is $0.05. Of course, that's a bit academic since I'm paying the nickel this hour whether I download a CD or not.
Imagine how much more you could get out of a mobo like this if you replaced the ps/2 ports, the parallel port, and the serial port with, say, 6 usb and 2 firewire ports. Again, why not?
I use a Via Epia motherboard in my MAME cabinet. Between the need to hook up a keyboard encoder, and the fact that it's running FreeDOS, using USB would not be an option.
These would also make great platforms for car audio and home theater machines, where you're likely to want to run a small LCD or VFD display, most of which will need a serial port. There are still plenty of good reasons to keep the legacy ports, and if you need that many USB ports, you can get a USB hub.
Alabama also thinks that the ten comandments should be in a court of law.
No, one jackass justice (who was elected by a majority, but not an overwhelming majority). A lot of retards live here, but there are also quite a few intelligent, thinking human beings in the state. You might keep in mind that Marshall Space Flight Center is located in Huntsville, AL, and I doubt you'll find many Apollo deniers there.
All matter is made up of combinations of quarks, usually either in pairs (mesons), or trios (baryons).
Bzzt. Not all matter. Electrons, positrons, and neutrinos, and their respective muon and tau counterparts, are all in the lepton family and do not consist of quarks. Not to mention bosons (photon, gluon, W, Z) but those shouldn't count against you because they aren't typically thought of as constituting matter.
Oh by the way, we have NEVER witnessed macro evolution. Only micro evolution. Prove me wrong on this one.
I witness it every Sunday. Homo sapiens go into a building with a tall steeple, and come out transformed into Pan troglodytes. Oh, sorry, I shouldn't be insulting chimpanzees like that.
Of course, micro- and macro- evolution are just concepts creationists came up with since they figured out that species undoubtably DO evolve. So, to make sure there's still a job for God to do, they've decided to amend their "theory" to say that any change greater than X amount in an animal's DNA must be the result of divine creation rather than evolution.
I still have not seen any creationist describe a mechanism by which macroevolution is prevented. I suppose God lets animals adapt to their surroundings, but at a certain point they get too close to becoming another "kind" so He wipes them out, or changes the environment so they adapt back the other way?
Besides, why should anyone have to prove you wrong? If you promote a theory that goes against almost all of mainstream biology, geology, biochemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and cosmology, and posits the existence of an omnipotent invisible friend, isn't the burden of proof on YOU?
Yes, rewards are about the only good reason to put money on a credit card, and then only if you pay it off every month. Even one month's interest on your balance typically erases the value of any cash-back or rewards.
I alternate spending between a Marriott Rewards card which gives points towards hotel stays (or they can be exchanged for airline miles, car rentals, etc) and my new Upromise card which returns 1% of spending into my daughter's college fund (we've probably got half of her first semester paid for, and she's not a year old yet).
Wow, this is offtopic, isn't it? Well, I'll veer almost back by saying I think I'd need to max out 4 of my cards to cover a $30,000 copter.
...why the best computer code is written at 4:27 AM on a tuesday morning...
Am I the only one who is driven insane by hearing or reading 'A.M.' and 'in the morning' in the same sentence? I mean, obviously no one is writing code at 4:27 AM in the afternoon.
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That'd be evidence, not proof, and it'd be fundamentally no different than a bible.
Well, it'd be a bit different from a bible. A bible is written by humans, pi is not. Thus, a bible can contain lies, half-truths, invalid reasoning, and all the other no-nos you learned about in debate class. Pi can't try to mislead or trick you, it is what it is.
The string 8675309 was found at position 9202591 counting from the first digit after the decimal point.
Ah hah! That must be Jenny's new number.
Dude, we've waited long enough for Doom 3 already, don't give them any more ideas!
Well, if you're going to use ridiculous bases, why not just use base pi? Then the value of pi is 10. Nice and simple.
Imagine discovering a magic dildo that changes all wombats to umbrellas. Surely it would be of strictly limited productive useage, however, the act of exploring HOW IT ACHIVES ITS FUNCTION would yield far more value than anything that could be gained by using the device itself.
Get real. Everyone knows wombats are far too prudish to use dildos. On the other hand, I can't count the number of times I've been stranded in a rainstorm without an umbrella, but had easy access to a wombat. I think more research is called for.
It might also be important to point out that we only need ten digits to write the integers from 0 to infinity. If we were to count in base three, we'd only need three digits to do it.
btw...anyone know if it would be possible to ./ data?
Uh, no. You see, web servers are from real life. Data is a character on a TV show.
I suppose you think you have just impressed everyone with your ability to distinguish fantasy from reality. However, you have only shown your lack of understanding of the English language. The question posed was in subjunctive mood ("if it would be possible"), thus clearly the questioner understood that Data is not real, and was asking a hypothetical question. Had he asked "if it is possible" or even "if it will be possible", your reply would have been justified.
Considering the problems it caused, yeah I am.... As a matter of a fact I'll bet it runs on Windows ME.
No, that can't be right. By the time they fought the Borg in First Contact, it was stable and functioning correctly. Obviously that is impossible for anything based on ME.
Yes they do. At least, most of the time. Some of the phones can be "locked" to a specific carrier. Needless to say, they can also be "unlocked" but of course the carriers and manufacturers frown on that activity.
I've never had any trouble just getting an unactivated GSM phone from any old place and swapping in my T-mobile card, and I've given old phones to Cingular users and they've had no problems swapping their cards in.
Somebody should get this guy together with the TimeCube guy.
HST composites only need liqud nitrogen (which costs the same as milk)... ...but is nowhere near as much fun when worn as a mustache!
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Arithmetic according to C: float x = 3.14159; int y = 1/2 * x; Value of y? zero.
Why would you say 'int y = 1/2 * x' anyway? Using 'int y = x / 2' is more efficient, and you get the answer you expect (1).
You maight want to tell your friend that there are GSM phones in the US as well. T-Mobile (formerly Voicestream (formerly Powertel)) and Cingular are both GSM, and I think there are some smaller carriers as well.
...also has this article that might interest the Slashdot crowd.
Kick my PC Box several times and wait long enough eventually the bytes inside of the hard drive and memory are going to start moving around until finally get a sophisticated Operating System capable of multi tasking, multi whatever,.
It seems to have worked for Microsoft!
So, given a choice between your car remaining intact, and yourself staying alive, you prefer the car to remain intact? Interesting priorities you have there.
That's funny. My wife and I bought a minivan around the time we started trying to have a baby. When she was about six months pregnant, it got totalled in an accident (she wasn't in it at the time, luckily). This left us with a Pontiac Sunfire and a Toyota Echo.
We've since gotten rid of the Sunfire and gotten a Civic, but it's still a bit tight until the baby gets big enough to use a forward-facing seat. And we have no idea how we're going to get all the presents home from Grandma's house for baby's first Christmas....
I dunno about the original poster, but:
My service is $35/month for 1.5Mbps downstream. I can thus download a full 680MB CD in an hour (if the sending end can handle it). There are 720 hours in a month (based on an average month, some restrictions apply, offer not valid in February), thus the bandwidth cost per CD is $0.05. Of course, that's a bit academic since I'm paying the nickel this hour whether I download a CD or not.
Imagine how much more you could get out of a mobo like this if you replaced the ps/2 ports, the parallel port, and the serial port with, say, 6 usb and 2 firewire ports. Again, why not?
I use a Via Epia motherboard in my MAME cabinet. Between the need to hook up a keyboard encoder, and the fact that it's running FreeDOS, using USB would not be an option.
These would also make great platforms for car audio and home theater machines, where you're likely to want to run a small LCD or VFD display, most of which will need a serial port. There are still plenty of good reasons to keep the legacy ports, and if you need that many USB ports, you can get a USB hub.
Alabama also thinks that the ten comandments should be in a court of law.
No, one jackass justice (who was elected by a majority, but not an overwhelming majority). A lot of retards live here, but there are also quite a few intelligent, thinking human beings in the state. You might keep in mind that Marshall Space Flight Center is located in Huntsville, AL, and I doubt you'll find many Apollo deniers there.
All matter is made up of combinations of quarks, usually either in pairs (mesons), or trios (baryons).
Bzzt. Not all matter. Electrons, positrons, and neutrinos, and their respective muon and tau counterparts, are all in the lepton family and do not consist of quarks. Not to mention bosons (photon, gluon, W, Z) but those shouldn't count against you because they aren't typically thought of as constituting matter.
I don't think there'd be a sonic boom. Something the size of a cell isn't going to displace much air.
Oh by the way, we have NEVER witnessed macro evolution. Only micro evolution. Prove me wrong on this one.
I witness it every Sunday. Homo sapiens go into a building with a tall steeple, and come out transformed into Pan troglodytes. Oh, sorry, I shouldn't be insulting chimpanzees like that.
Of course, micro- and macro- evolution are just concepts creationists came up with since they figured out that species undoubtably DO evolve. So, to make sure there's still a job for God to do, they've decided to amend their "theory" to say that any change greater than X amount in an animal's DNA must be the result of divine creation rather than evolution.
I still have not seen any creationist describe a mechanism by which macroevolution is prevented. I suppose God lets animals adapt to their surroundings, but at a certain point they get too close to becoming another "kind" so He wipes them out, or changes the environment so they adapt back the other way?
Besides, why should anyone have to prove you wrong? If you promote a theory that goes against almost all of mainstream biology, geology, biochemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and cosmology, and posits the existence of an omnipotent invisible friend, isn't the burden of proof on YOU?
Yes, rewards are about the only good reason to put money on a credit card, and then only if you pay it off every month. Even one month's interest on your balance typically erases the value of any cash-back or rewards.
I alternate spending between a Marriott Rewards card which gives points towards hotel stays (or they can be exchanged for airline miles, car rentals, etc) and my new Upromise card which returns 1% of spending into my daughter's college fund (we've probably got half of her first semester paid for, and she's not a year old yet).
Wow, this is offtopic, isn't it? Well, I'll veer almost back by saying I think I'd need to max out 4 of my cards to cover a $30,000 copter.
...why the best computer code is written at 4:27 AM on a tuesday morning...
Am I the only one who is driven insane by hearing or reading 'A.M.' and 'in the morning' in the same sentence? I mean, obviously no one is writing code at 4:27 AM in the afternoon.