Black hole and antimatter are ideas but they are less likely ideas:P.
They are at least sensible ideas to hold, unlike the various ideas about UFOs, time travelling guys with a nuclear bomb, and a forgotten invention of Tesla's (which already has two replies!).
Two came through in the year 1993. Unless 1993 was special I would expect that this has happened more than twice.
Somewhat similar to this story is the idea that the Tunguska explosion might have been caused by a small amount of antimatter or even a small black hole hitting Siberia.
Uhm.... the virus writer could compile his virus even if all he could get was a Brainfuck compiler?
Nope.... Once it's compiled, it's all CPU instructions anyway...
Tim
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The guy in the car actually does age negligibly less than someone standing around.
It has been proven with experiments. Two atomic clocks were synchronized, and one was kept on the ground while another was put into a plane and flown around at high speed for a while.
Upon return to the ground the clock that had flown had an earlier time than the one that hadn't.
... Having immunity/vaccination and killing germs are the same thing.
When you are immune your body knows so well how to kill that germ that you just don't get sick from it because it is eradicated whenever it enters your body. For example when you get chicken pox, your body fights it and eventually kills it off, and then the immune system "remembers" how to kill chicken pox quickly and easily. Vaccines give the immune system this "memory" without making you sick, by various means such as dead germs which can't make you sick, but the body will still attack.
The whole pledge of Allegiance was written by Francis Bellamy in 1892, not by any of our founding fathers. The man was actually a Socialist, which makes the whole recitation of the pledge by Dubya-style Patriotic Americans (TM) sorta ironic...
It includes the source, and you don't have to be an elite C++ programmer to realize that functions which are either empty or only have "return 1;" in them aren't going to |-|@xx0r j00.
It is interesting that whenever people say something along the lines of "Terrorist-of-the-day is going to make nanotech to reduce Washington DC to it's component atoms" or "Grey Goo will devour the Earth", remember that, like Ninjas fighting Ninjas, nanotech can fight nanotech. Little bug wars happening inside your body and in the air you breathe...
Often when I find myself napping outside the bed I have dream images that are the exact same image I would be seeing if my eyes were open. So say my head is in my arms on a desk, I will see my arms and the desk in my dream...
Sometimes it happens when I'm still mostly awake and I know my eyes are closed but I'm still seeing. It is really weird...
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Winamp ran excellently in Wine when I tried it. Well enough that I used it instead of any MP3 Player I found that was made for Linux.
Tim
Black hole and antimatter are ideas but they are less likely ideas :P.
They are at least sensible ideas to hold, unlike the various ideas about UFOs, time travelling guys with a nuclear bomb, and a forgotten invention of Tesla's (which already has two replies!).
Tim
Two came through in the year 1993. Unless 1993 was special I would expect that this has happened more than twice.
Somewhat similar to this story is the idea that the Tunguska explosion might have been caused by a small amount of antimatter or even a small black hole hitting Siberia.
Tim
Uhm.... the virus writer could compile his virus even if all he could get was a Brainfuck compiler?
Nope.... Once it's compiled, it's all CPU instructions anyway...
Tim
The guy in the car actually does age negligibly less than someone standing around.
It has been proven with experiments. Two atomic clocks were synchronized, and one was kept on the ground while another was put into a plane and flown around at high speed for a while.
Upon return to the ground the clock that had flown had an earlier time than the one that hadn't.
When time flies you have fun!
Tim
Read Dan Simmons' Hyperion series.
Tim
Some of these things, although I'm not familiar with "Deepfreeze", involve a physical component inside the computer that:
1.) Only allows access (by ANYTHING, linux or not - this is done in hardware) to a certain partition on the Hard Drive.
2.) Restores that partition from a second one that only it can access every time you boot up.
It can be deactivated with a key, but if you don't have the key you have to actually open the computer and disconnect the thing.
And even then it puts drivers on Windows to bitch at you when you do that...
Tim
You forgot the keychains and other "Award Items" you can buy ONLY if you are one of those lucky enough to be included!
Tim
Like missiles can shoot down other missiles and Jedis can duel other Jedis, Nanobots can destroy other nanobots.
In The Future people might have their natural immune system and a Nanobot immune system to go with it.
Tim
... Having immunity/vaccination and killing germs are the same thing.
When you are immune your body knows so well how to kill that germ that you just don't get sick from it because it is eradicated whenever it enters your body. For example when you get chicken pox, your body fights it and eventually kills it off, and then the immune system "remembers" how to kill chicken pox quickly and easily. Vaccines give the immune system this "memory" without making you sick, by various means such as dead germs which can't make you sick, but the body will still attack.
Sorta ruins your whole analogy thing, sorry.
Tim
It actually can use either OpenGL or Direct3D, and of course it still uses the other parts of DirectX even if you use OpenGL rendering.
Tim
There are also more than 5 senses... Balance, the whole bevy of senses we group under "touch" (Temperature, pain...)...
Tim
The whole pledge of Allegiance was written by Francis Bellamy in 1892, not by any of our founding fathers. The man was actually a Socialist, which makes the whole recitation of the pledge by Dubya-style Patriotic Americans (TM) sorta ironic...
Tim
They found the time dilation, so Special Relativity was not disproved by that experiment...
Tim
Sure you can.
Only 9 times though...
Tim
It includes the source, and you don't have to be an elite C++ programmer to realize that functions which are either empty or only have "return 1;" in them aren't going to |-|@xx0r j00.
Tim
It is interesting that whenever people say something along the lines of "Terrorist-of-the-day is going to make nanotech to reduce Washington DC to it's component atoms" or "Grey Goo will devour the Earth", remember that, like Ninjas fighting Ninjas, nanotech can fight nanotech. Little bug wars happening inside your body and in the air you breathe...
Tim
Imperial Tectonics' geotechs can use nanotech to make more land!
Tim
GIFs have only 256 colors.
While you can offset this somewhat by using a selective pallette, most of the time it is still noticeable.
Tim
Clinton may have commited more actual "crimes" but W. Bush is the greater scumbag...
Tim
THIS is the real crazy one.
Tim
... my only experience with macs is a 68040 I had, but there used to be a control panel that let you use the numerical keypad as a mouse.
Accessibility or Handicap Options or something like that.
Tim
We allow people to drink alcohol, but we punish them if they are stupid enough to drive when they are drunk.
Tim
Often when I find myself napping outside the bed I have dream images that are the exact same image I would be seeing if my eyes were open. So say my head is in my arms on a desk, I will see my arms and the desk in my dream...
Sometimes it happens when I'm still mostly awake and I know my eyes are closed but I'm still seeing. It is really weird...
Tim
Because undercover reporting is "lewd and lascivious" taping of women using the bathroom. RTFA!
Tim