Personally I feel the name of "MegaFLOPS" should be changed to a less accurate but more ear-friendly name of "MegaFLIPS".
"Mega HERTZ" sounds painful, but "Mega FLOPS" sounds limp and squishy.
"Mega FLIPS" sounds like a pancake flipping contest and has a zippy sound.
Yes it sounds silly, but this is an area where incorrect public perception of speed is losing out to actual quality. And if the marketing board doesn't think the name "Mega FLIPS" has punch, change it to "Mega FLIPZ". In this case, the name is more important than the rose.
Which of course is exactly what everybody wants, but chat rooms aren't providing.
I suggest 3D models which are gender endowed and over-endowed which can duplicate all forms of fetishes, foreplay, tickling, sexual positions, human + robot + celebrity + animal forms, all body types, and some sound effects to go with the live voice sampling and playback.
Then add in something to pass the time while uninteresting people come and go (like fighting imaginary monsters for imaginary gold + nifty weapons + armor) or some other quest or adventure (perhaps the joy of being in classic Egypt) or the future (maybe an imaginary other planet or some vision of our own future).
That is why online gaming works. Neverfun (Everquest), Ultima Online (EA is being ran by assholes) and Asheron's Call (making the game suck more with gameplay flaws) are what works for the "Super Chat Room". Now they have to figure ways to split the grouping into more isolated topic areas like "MST3K" or "Stereo Repair" or "Political Rage". That way the group can stay online longer. After all, the group is what entertains each other, the combat is just to keep things from getting too dull.
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Yep. Too stupid Microsoft antics.
All one needs do it save an HTML address in a file, rename "MicrosoftIncompetencePopup.jpg.html" (or whatever you choose with "Name.JPG.HTML" tagged on). Outlook Express opens the file instantly thinking it's a viewable JPG, but also opens the file as a HTML web page (like clicking a www.link.com tag). God I hate Microsoft.
You can. It's cheap and easy. When you think of spyware and online scams, just give a "thank you" to the pioneering work of the Unibomber.
Or perhaps the spyware jerks and online scammers out to be thinking very much about the Unibomber. Push your customers and they push back permanently. I get angry, but there are plenty of people ready to get even.
Bullwinkle: "Rocky? Why is that mountain floating?"
Rocky: (excited) "Bullwinkle! We've found the source of UpsiDaisium!"
Boris: "The moose and squirrel have found it. Now we get rid of moose and squirrel."
Natasha: "But how do we get to the mountain Boris dear if we kill moose and squirrel?"
I dare anyone reading this to tip their keyboard on its side and give the back of it a few whacks. If it isn't unnaturally clean or been recently cleaned, your keyboard hasn't been swapped. Of course this doesn't mean your harddrive is free from SnoopWare.
What's sad is that somebody can't use Google and find
information I learned in 6th grade biology. Yes, I understand that merely
popping a cell isn't stripping off the method of locomotion, but it essentially
impairs it as the outer cell coat pops. And I also understand that many
viruses are just drifters and floaters and some are stretchy-creepers, but I
figured a more active virus model would be easierto
comprehend.
http://www.virology.net/Big_Virology/BVHomePage.ht ml
It is not like this stuff is hard.
http://www.pedid.uthscsa.edu/Microorganisms.htm
The microworld is always an intriguing place.
http://arnica.csustan.edu/grobner/biol3310/Cilia%2 0and%20flagella.htm Microtubules: Cilia and Flagella - Structure and Function General
features - hairlike, motile organelles; project from eukaryote surface Cilia
(oar) move cell in direction perpendicular to them - rigid in power stroke,
flexible in recovery 1.In multicellular organisms, move fluid &
particulate material through various tracts 2. Occur in large numbers on cell
surface, beating activity coordinated
B. Flagella - fewer on cell surface; those present longer; show beating
pattern variety (waveforms) 1. Single-celled alga - pulls itself forward
(waves 2 flagellae in asymmetric manner like breast stroke); pushes itself
through medium with symmetric beat like that of sperm 2. In sperm, beat
undulatory (>1 wave at a time along flagellum length); generates force
pushing cell in direction parallel to flagellum long axis
http://www2.oakland.edu/biology/lindemann/cf.htm
WHAT ARE CILIA AND FLAGELLA?
Cilia and flagella are whip-like appendages of many living cells that are
used to move fluid or to propel the cells. Cilia beat with an oar-like motion
and flagella have a snake-like motion as illustrated in Figure 1. The cilia in
your lungs keep dirt and dust from clogging your breathing tubes (the bronchi)
by moving a layer of sticky mucous along to clean out the airways. Sperm cells
use a flagellum as a propeller to move the cell through the fluid of the oviduct
to reach the egg. Thousands of animals and plants use cilia and flagella for
swimming (example: paramecium), or feeding (example: clams and mussels) or
mating (example: green algae). It is a curious fact that all of these cilia and
flagella have a very similar internal arrangement of tubes (the outer doublets)
and protein connectors (the nexin links and dynein arms) that suggest that there
is something very special about this particular way of building a cell
propeller. Figure 2 is a diagram of these internal parts of a cilium. Nature
tends to keep designs that work well. Possibly if we can understand why this
particular design works so well we might be able to design miniature devices
that use the same principles of operation!
Is it just me or is the gravity variable way too high on that game? I can only escape being sucked into the "star" at the center by aiming the ship sideways. It's a challange, but not a terribly fun challange. If I had to pay a quarter for that I'd feel cheated and avoid the game in the future.
If the game designers want my money from more than a first minute con job with pretty graphics, they'd better concentrate on making enjoyable games and not wallet-suckers.
You skimmed too fast. The nanotubes don't pop the infected cells, they pop the virus. Thusly the article title, "Bacterial back-stabbing -Antibiotic prototype punctures bugs. 26 July 2001"
The common flu and cold virus retain their internal code under a disposable outer coating. Once popped, they lose their transport mechanism and are 100% vulnerable to the human body's defenses.
A simple example would be having you go swimming in a wetsuit in the ocean, then I come along like a shark, tear away your wetsuit along with your arms and legs, then go looking for another snack.
I could go into detail about things like flagella or cilia. Flagella being a whiplike tail like on a sperm cell used for swimming. Cilia being hundreds of tiny oars on the cell body used for swimming. And I could mention that without these, the viruses are pretty much dead in the water without arms or legs to move them, but I already have. As for HIV, once popped, the virus is still just as deadly. Most other viruses cannot withstand the popping though.
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When I last had my Amiga 2000 I'd shrink boot times by two simple tricks.
First - On my AMIGA 500 - I'd make good use of the WAIT command in the boot batch file (once I put WAIT 1 second pause the single-task loader was quicker). For the AMIGA 2000, a WAIT command would stop the hard drive thrashing on loading many small files at once (which was DEAD SLOW). Waiting a second or three would speed the load times up dramatically over the try-to-load-everything-at-the-same-time approach that was default. I was able to shrink the load times to around 30 seconds that way from 1 minute + 30 seconds before.
Second - I learned a better trick. I'd push all the small loading files into a *.LHA file, copy that to a virtual RAMDISK, unzip, boot from that, then change volume to the real hard disk. I shrank the boot time to 10 seconds flat. The PC load times are using the same slow method the AMIGA used as default without the benefit of a WAIT command or the ability to switch your main boot hard drive (at least without a moronic REBOOT). God I miss the Amiga's MOUNT command and the other useful CLI tricks I learned. Windows sucks so very badly.
You're thinking too small.
Combine Gold + Silver + Iron = Element 152 (79+47+26
atoms)
After doing so, you'll have the material that powers the
Legion of Superheros' Flight Rings.
http://plaza.v-wave.com/legion_headquarters/rollca ll/monel.htm
And look at these built-in features!
http://plaza.v-wave.com/legion_headquarters/transp ortation/air.htm
Just think of the cash you'll rake in with an antigravity
metal that is telepathically responsive.
http://members.nbci.com/lightning_lad/Role_Playing/Legion_Technology/Flight_Rings/flight_rings.html
One of the pieces of Legion equipment created by Invisible Kid, the flight
rings are made out of Element 152, an anti-gravity metal created by Mon-El.
Experimenting with the metal for months, Invisible Kid developed a flight ring
with the following attributes:
* Flight through the will power of the
wearer.
* Allows its wearer to link with other ring-wearers.
This allows all those linked to travel at the speed of the fastest linked
character.
* Signaling device is activiated by twisting the L
symbol clockwise a quarter turn. This activates the ring's SOS transmission and
tracking beam.
* Allows the wearer to hover even is he/she loses
consciousness.
* Communication
is allowed via ring to other wearers. The wearer focuses his or her will through
the ring to "send" a message to another person or persons. For more personal
messages or ones that need to be kept from others, telepathic plugs must be
used.
Small wonder that Booster Gold made
a fortune with his.
And the number of digits to represent any formula for the digits of Pi will always equal each other.
Which is SMALLER?
355/113 or 3.141592
You still have the same basic number of digits.
Pi=3.1415926535897932384626433832795
The formula to represent this will use 32 digits.
Want an interesting hobby?
Divide any number into 1.
Take 1/7 = 0.142857 142857...etc
All the numbers that can be divided into 1 to equal the same number of digits before repeating infinitely will ALWAYS be prime. This set of primes are just 1/3 of all prime numbers, but they prove the concept of irrational numbers not being the result of a division of N/X.
Then we get a "DIVIDE BY ZERO" error and the entire Matrix computer-generated universe comes crashing down.
I don't know about you, but I'm going to enjoy the happy fun superslide ride given it's the last thing to enjoy before the sewage pool plunge.
Matrix's Law - Nazis don't like to be called Nazis because people know how rotten and evil they were.
So now we're not allowed to call evil by its name? Suck my dick Republican Nazis. What's next - Cuddly's Law = Nazis are your friend and protectors, thank Godwin for squashing the bad PR.
Godwin is a Nazi buddy. To silence the memory of how horrible the Nazis were compared to the assholes of today out of "respect" to those who suffered then is BULLSHIT!
Allow me to present this short educational film deliciously laced with propoganda.
--- DON'T BE A ROBOSEXUAL ---
And all the humans fell in love with their robot dream lovers. They let society crumble and produced no babies. The End.
I figure the end will come by Nanny-Bots, "Don't do that. Just lay back in your super-deluxe LazyBoy Easychair and let me fetch your supper and massage those feet. No no no. I can't let you go to work, just lay back and I'll send Nanny-Bot#2 to do your 8-hour shift at the hog rendering plant. Just lay back. Rest. Don't you dare raise a finger."
All people resisting the future of perpetual suffocating comfort will be considered insane and dealt with by the ever-caring and ever-controlling Nanny-Bots. If not in the first generation, then in the second or third. Just lay back and don't let it trouble you. Nanny-Bot will take care of everything. Nanny-Bot wouldn't want you to hurt yourself.
Slashdot Mirror
Not if the secret Klansman Bob Barr gets his way. http://www.i5ive.com/article.cfm/9578/71860
Personally I feel the name of "MegaFLOPS" should be changed to a less accurate but more ear-friendly name of "MegaFLIPS".
"Mega HERTZ" sounds painful, but "Mega FLOPS" sounds limp and squishy.
"Mega FLIPS" sounds like a pancake flipping contest and has a zippy sound.
Yes it sounds silly, but this is an area where incorrect public perception of speed is losing out to actual quality. And if the marketing board doesn't think the name "Mega FLIPS" has punch, change it to "Mega FLIPZ". In this case, the name is more important than the rose.
Just to piss YOU off!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
So WE DO HAVE the perfect George Worthless Bush simulator!
So we finally have the perfect George Worthless Bush simulator? Does it need a Dick Cheney coprocessor?
And the drug smugglers only need to get 1% of their product in to cover 99% of the losses.
Microsoft - The King of Mediocre Software that bullies and schemes its way into power.
Sony, your Playstation 2 is selling great. Isn't it time to hire a yakuza to off Bill Gates? You know you want to. Go ahead. We won't mind at all.
Which of course is exactly what everybody wants, but chat rooms aren't providing.
I suggest 3D models which are gender endowed and over-endowed which can duplicate all forms of fetishes, foreplay, tickling, sexual positions, human + robot + celebrity + animal forms, all body types, and some sound effects to go with the live voice sampling and playback.
Then add in something to pass the time while uninteresting people come and go (like fighting imaginary monsters for imaginary gold + nifty weapons + armor) or some other quest or adventure (perhaps the joy of being in classic Egypt) or the future (maybe an imaginary other planet or some vision of our own future).
That is why online gaming works. Neverfun (Everquest), Ultima Online (EA is being ran by assholes) and Asheron's Call (making the game suck more with gameplay flaws) are what works for the "Super Chat Room". Now they have to figure ways to split the grouping into more isolated topic areas like "MST3K" or "Stereo Repair" or "Political Rage". That way the group can stay online longer. After all, the group is what entertains each other, the combat is just to keep things from getting too dull.
Yep. Too stupid Microsoft antics.
.html" (or whatever you choose with "Name.JPG .HTML" tagged on). Outlook Express opens the file instantly thinking it's a viewable JPG, but also opens the file as a HTML web page (like clicking a www.link.com tag). God I hate Microsoft.
All one needs do it save an HTML address in a file, rename "MicrosoftIncompetencePopup.jpg
Would you be interested in Mailing Death ?
You can. It's cheap and easy. When you think of spyware and online scams, just give a "thank you" to the pioneering work of the Unibomber.
Or perhaps the spyware jerks and online scammers out to be thinking very much about the Unibomber. Push your customers and they push back permanently. I get angry, but there are plenty of people ready to get even.
Bullwinkle: "Rocky? Why is that mountain floating?"
Rocky: (excited) "Bullwinkle! We've found the source of UpsiDaisium!"
Boris: "The moose and squirrel have found it. Now we get rid of moose and squirrel."
Natasha: "But how do we get to the mountain Boris dear if we kill moose and squirrel?"
SWAPPED THE KEYBOARD ?!?
I dare anyone reading this to tip their keyboard on its side and give the back of it a few whacks. If it isn't unnaturally clean or been recently cleaned, your keyboard hasn't been swapped. Of course this doesn't mean your harddrive is free from SnoopWare.
And Triplets are inherently good, evil, and ambivalent? Are Quadruplets good, evil, good, and evil then?
I want to see the spreadsheet on this graph.
Could be worse Revenge of the Jedi Nerds
A little bit of abrasive glued to the outer tracks would do the same job much quicker and could have valid-looking magnetic tracks under it.
Hey, I was a bit of an anarchist during the 286 Wintel days.
http://arnica.csustan.edu/grobner/biol3310/Cilia%
Microtubules: Cilia and Flagella - Structure and Function
General features - hairlike, motile organelles; project from eukaryote surface
Cilia (oar) move cell in direction perpendicular to them - rigid in power stroke, flexible in recovery
1.In multicellular organisms, move fluid & particulate material through various tracts
2. Occur in large numbers on cell surface, beating activity coordinated
B. Flagella - fewer on cell surface; those present longer; show beating pattern variety (waveforms)
1. Single-celled alga - pulls itself forward (waves 2 flagellae in asymmetric manner like breast stroke); pushes itself through medium with symmetric beat like that of sperm
2. In sperm, beat undulatory (>1 wave at a time along flagellum length); generates force pushing cell in direction parallel to flagellum long axis http://www2.oakland.edu/biology/lindemann/cf.htm
WHAT ARE CILIA AND FLAGELLA?
Cilia and flagella are whip-like appendages of many living cells that are used to move fluid or to propel the cells. Cilia beat with an oar-like motion and flagella have a snake-like motion as illustrated in Figure 1. The cilia in your lungs keep dirt and dust from clogging your breathing tubes (the bronchi) by moving a layer of sticky mucous along to clean out the airways. Sperm cells use a flagellum as a propeller to move the cell through the fluid of the oviduct to reach the egg. Thousands of animals and plants use cilia and flagella for swimming (example: paramecium), or feeding (example: clams and mussels) or mating (example: green algae). It is a curious fact that all of these cilia and flagella have a very similar internal arrangement of tubes (the outer doublets) and protein connectors (the nexin links and dynein arms) that suggest that there is something very special about this particular way of building a cell propeller. Figure 2 is a diagram of these internal parts of a cilium. Nature tends to keep designs that work well. Possibly if we can understand why this particular design works so well we might be able to design miniature devices that use the same principles of operation!
Is it just me or is the gravity variable way too high on that game? I can only escape being sucked into the "star" at the center by aiming the ship sideways. It's a challange, but not a terribly fun challange. If I had to pay a quarter for that I'd feel cheated and avoid the game in the future.
If the game designers want my money from more than a first minute con job with pretty graphics, they'd better concentrate on making enjoyable games and not wallet-suckers.
You skimmed too fast. The nanotubes don't pop the infected cells, they pop the virus. Thusly the article title, "Bacterial back-stabbing -Antibiotic prototype punctures bugs. 26 July 2001"
The common flu and cold virus retain their internal code under a disposable outer coating. Once popped, they lose their transport mechanism and are 100% vulnerable to the human body's defenses.
A simple example would be having you go swimming in a wetsuit in the ocean, then I come along like a shark, tear away your wetsuit along with your arms and legs, then go looking for another snack.
I could go into detail about things like flagella or cilia. Flagella being a whiplike tail like on a sperm cell used for swimming. Cilia being hundreds of tiny oars on the cell body used for swimming. And I could mention that without these, the viruses are pretty much dead in the water without arms or legs to move them, but I already have. As for HIV, once popped, the virus is still just as deadly. Most other viruses cannot withstand the popping though.
When I last had my Amiga 2000 I'd shrink boot times by two simple tricks.
First - On my AMIGA 500 - I'd make good use of the WAIT command in the boot batch file (once I put WAIT 1 second pause the single-task loader was quicker). For the AMIGA 2000, a WAIT command would stop the hard drive thrashing on loading many small files at once (which was DEAD SLOW). Waiting a second or three would speed the load times up dramatically over the try-to-load-everything-at-the-same-time approach that was default. I was able to shrink the load times to around 30 seconds that way from 1 minute + 30 seconds before.
Second - I learned a better trick. I'd push all the small loading files into a *.LHA file, copy that to a virtual RAMDISK, unzip, boot from that, then change volume to the real hard disk. I shrank the boot time to 10 seconds flat. The PC load times are using the same slow method the AMIGA used as default without the benefit of a WAIT command or the ability to switch your main boot hard drive (at least without a moronic REBOOT). God I miss the Amiga's MOUNT command and the other useful CLI tricks I learned. Windows sucks so very badly.
Wrong noise -
* BOING * *BOING* *boing*
You're thinking too small. Combine Gold + Silver + Iron = Element 152 (79+47+26 atoms) After doing so, you'll have the material that powers the Legion of Superheros' Flight Rings. http://plaza.v-wave.com/legion_headquarters/rollca ll/monel.htm
And look at these built-in features!
http://plaza.v-wave.com/legion_headquarters/transp ortation/air.htm
Just think of the cash you'll rake in with an antigravity
metal that is telepathically responsive.
http://members.nbci.com/lightning_lad/Role_Playing /Legion_Technology/Flight_Rings/flight_rings.html
One of the pieces of Legion equipment created by Invisible Kid, the flight
rings are made out of Element 152, an anti-gravity metal created by Mon-El.
Experimenting with the metal for months, Invisible Kid developed a flight ring
with the following attributes:
* Flight through the will power of the
wearer.
* Allows its wearer to link with other ring-wearers.
This allows all those linked to travel at the speed of the fastest linked
character.
* Signaling device is activiated by twisting the L
symbol clockwise a quarter turn. This activates the ring's SOS transmission and
tracking beam.
* Allows the wearer to hover even is he/she loses
consciousness.
* Communication
is allowed via ring to other wearers. The wearer focuses his or her will through
the ring to "send" a message to another person or persons. For more personal
messages or ones that need to be kept from others, telepathic plugs must be
used.
Small wonder that Booster Gold made
a fortune with his.
And the number of digits to represent any formula for the digits of Pi will always equal each other.
Which is SMALLER?
355/113 or 3.141592
You still have the same basic number of digits.
Pi=3.1415926535897932384626433832795
The formula to represent this will use 32 digits.
Want an interesting hobby?
Divide any number into 1.
Take 1/7 = 0.142857 142857...etc
All the numbers that can be divided into 1 to equal the same number of digits before repeating infinitely will ALWAYS be prime. This set of primes are just 1/3 of all prime numbers, but they prove the concept of irrational numbers not being the result of a division of N/X.
Then we get a "DIVIDE BY ZERO" error and the entire Matrix computer-generated universe comes crashing down.
I don't know about you, but I'm going to enjoy the happy fun superslide ride given it's the last thing to enjoy before the sewage pool plunge.
Matrix's Law - Nazis don't like to be called Nazis because people know how rotten and evil they were.
So now we're not allowed to call evil by its name? Suck my dick Republican Nazis. What's next - Cuddly's Law = Nazis are your friend and protectors, thank Godwin for squashing the bad PR.
Godwin is a Nazi buddy. To silence the memory of how horrible the Nazis were compared to the assholes of today out of "respect" to those who suffered then is BULLSHIT!
So FUTURAMA was dead on the money.
Allow me to present this short educational film deliciously laced with propoganda.
--- DON'T BE A ROBOSEXUAL ---
And all the humans fell in love with their robot dream lovers. They let society crumble and produced no babies. The End.
I figure the end will come by Nanny-Bots, "Don't do that. Just lay back in your super-deluxe LazyBoy Easychair and let me fetch your supper and massage those feet. No no no. I can't let you go to work, just lay back and I'll send Nanny-Bot#2 to do your 8-hour shift at the hog rendering plant. Just lay back. Rest. Don't you dare raise a finger."
All people resisting the future of perpetual suffocating comfort will be considered insane and dealt with by the ever-caring and ever-controlling Nanny-Bots. If not in the first generation, then in the second or third. Just lay back and don't let it trouble you. Nanny-Bot will take care of everything. Nanny-Bot wouldn't want you to hurt yourself.
I still have dibs on Trademarking Jesus.
(Rubs hands together in evil contemplation)
Excellent...