This guy didn't violate any norms of society, although some people think that hey may have violated some laws. Norms are things that most people believe (ie kiddy porn is bad, don't steal, go to highschool, etc.), and laws are specific documents listing actions that you must or must not do according to the government.
The language is a fucking mutant freak, wank-ass OO tacked on to "BASIC" (Which was always considered a lame language). VB is ugly, and weak. and slow on top of that!
Most of the people who do VB work professionaly A) Don't know anything else and B) are idiots.
Actualy, John Carmack was thinking of putting a JVM into quake to handle scripting, but later decided to go with plain C because he was worried about support issues of using more extermal technology.
JScript is the same thing as JavaScript. No one is allowed to call anything Java* except sun, (and apperantly netscape with JavaScript), so MS calls it's JavaScript implementation JScript.
So, you do see a lot of JScript.
I think you meant VBScript, which, yeh, no one uses.
Though thats not what the article says, Id say it falls in the same broad category of narrow perspective.
The artical spesificaly said that the Coltrain was helping Congo, not hurting it. And though the miners sloshed around in the mud quite a bit, they didn't seem to unhappy with anything other then the falling price.
Just mesure the speed of the force propagation. If its faster then the speed of light, it's probably a magnetic effect. If its instantanious, then its probably gravitational.
OTOH, the testing pendulums with diffrent materials should work to, and would be cheaper. But this test would certanly prove it was a gravitational effect
Now try it with a ring of magnetized iron. Does the same thing happen?
Remember this guy tried it with both magnetic and non-magnetic objects. If it were a magnetic effect then the reaction of those objects would be different.
Also, the effect was the same regardless of the distance. Paramagnetic forces vary with difference.
I can't tell you how happy it makes me that someone who doesn't even know the name of the force he's talking about feels that he is qualified to call someone capable of building his own superconductors a '-NUT-'.
voice coil system" that can literally surf on the Earth's magnetic field. This technology has existed secretly for quite some time.
I actualy crunched the equasions in highschool. I was all excited untill I realized it would only work at the earths equater, and where else and you'd zip twards the magnetic poll. The farther from the equater the faster you'd go. At the actual poll you'd get no upward force at all, and you'd smash into the ground. Not really too helpfull.
While it may 'explain' why anti-gravity is imposible from Asimov's understanding, it is entirely possible that he was wrong. After all, newton was wrong to...
(think about the firewire, 1.5 Gb RAM support, Gigabit ethernet, DVD burning options, etc.).
Most PC motherboards will support 1.5gb max ram, and given ram prices you could probably do it for pretty resonable prices. Gigabyte ethernet is almost completly useless at this point unless your running a server or transfering video all over the place (which a mac user might be doing). And DVD burning is nice I guess.. but DVD players can play VCDs.
Information like 'ships ready to make CDs out of MP3s and vice versa and edit together home movies off the digital camera', or 'plug in two wires into the only places you can plug 'em, and go' or 'the failure modes for this are known and easily worked around and I can fix it up myself if it gets sick'
I've always been amazed at how arrogent mac users are. I wouldn't call someone who pays $1000 because plugging in 5 cables(usb,net,power,monitor,printer) rather then 6(kb,mouse,net,power,monitor,printer) very bright.
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Memory's a similar issue. Yes, Apple charges too much for memory, but it's pre-tested, so you don't have that 'My machine came in, but I have to wait 3 more days for my new memory to come in' problems.
Apple charges something like %5,000 market value for RAM. But you can grab any old SDRAM and stick them in
PPC systems aren't restricted to less than 15 interrupts like Intel systems. They make good laptops, if you only need one mouse button..
*sigh* why do people who have no idea about what their talking about constantly feel the need to talk anyway?
The Intel ISA has 256 interrupts and 256 exceptions. There is a limitation on Interrupt Requests but that was a limitation of IBM's original PC design (just two cascading Interrupt controllers) for the CPU/pretrial interface.
While IRQs are still around for compatibility, modern machines don't have any problems anymore (PCI and USB devices can share IRQs)
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This guy didn't violate any norms of society, although some people think that hey may have violated some laws. Norms are things that most people believe (ie kiddy porn is bad, don't steal, go to highschool, etc.), and laws are specific documents listing actions that you must or must not do according to the government.
He most certanly didn't violate any norms.
The language is a fucking mutant freak, wank-ass OO tacked on to "BASIC" (Which was always considered a lame language). VB is ugly, and weak. and slow on top of that!
Most of the people who do VB work professionaly A) Don't know anything else and B) are idiots.
Actualy, John Carmack was thinking of putting a JVM into quake to handle scripting, but later decided to go with plain C because he was worried about support issues of using more extermal technology.
JScript is the same thing as JavaScript. No one is allowed to call anything Java* except sun, (and apperantly netscape with JavaScript), so MS calls it's JavaScript implementation JScript.
So, you do see a lot of JScript.
I think you meant VBScript, which, yeh, no one uses.
Come on dude, you might be able to fill a plane with beef, but actualy getting it out into the middle of the jungle would be all but imposible...
Dude, they're digging holes. Even the guy running the park said the impact wasn't really that great.
Though thats not what the article says, Id say it falls in the same broad category of narrow perspective.
The artical spesificaly said that the Coltrain was helping Congo, not hurting it. And though the miners sloshed around in the mud quite a bit, they didn't seem to unhappy with anything other then the falling price.
Fucked company?
Really, could have given us a little more info....
The team wouldn't have to start from scratch, they'd just have to clone the Q3A engine.
Just?
'fanfic', or other sorts of 'takeoff's arn't covered by copyright.
I also used to read Kats on HotWired He seemed pretty insitefull then.
But not so much anymore.
you're wrong
Just mesure the speed of the force propagation. If its faster then the speed of light, it's probably a magnetic effect. If its instantanious, then its probably gravitational.
OTOH, the testing pendulums with diffrent materials should work to, and would be cheaper. But this test would certanly prove it was a gravitational effect
Now try it with a ring of magnetized iron. Does the same thing happen?
Remember this guy tried it with both magnetic and non-magnetic objects. If it were a magnetic effect then the reaction of those objects would be different.
Also, the effect was the same regardless of the distance. Paramagnetic forces vary with difference.
I can't tell you how happy it makes me that someone who doesn't even know the name of the force he's talking about feels that he is qualified to call someone capable of building his own superconductors a '-NUT-'.
Goedel's Theorem: You don't know what you think you know.
Goedel's Theorem:
That isn't godels theorem at all.
Since someone else commented on your sig, I figured I would as well.
The government prints its own money.
voice coil system" that can literally surf on the Earth's magnetic field. This technology has existed secretly for quite some time.
I actualy crunched the equasions in highschool. I was all excited untill I realized it would only work at the earths equater, and where else and you'd zip twards the magnetic poll. The farther from the equater the faster you'd go. At the actual poll you'd get no upward force at all, and you'd smash into the ground. Not really too helpfull.
While it may 'explain' why anti-gravity is imposible from Asimov's understanding, it is entirely possible that he was wrong. After all, newton was wrong to...
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Carmack put this in his .plan file shortly after beginning development mac development of q3a.
I rebooted my mac system more times the first weekend than I have rebooted all the WinNT systems I have ever owned
-- john Carmack
(think about the firewire, 1.5 Gb RAM support, Gigabit ethernet, DVD burning options, etc.).
Most PC motherboards will support 1.5gb max ram, and given ram prices you could probably do it for pretty resonable prices. Gigabyte ethernet is almost completly useless at this point unless your running a server or transfering video all over the place (which a mac user might be doing). And DVD burning is nice I guess.. but DVD players can play VCDs.
who would unscrew a pulugged in and powered mac?
Information like 'ships ready to make CDs out of MP3s and vice versa and edit together home movies off the digital camera', or 'plug in two wires into the only places you can plug 'em, and go' or 'the failure modes for this are known and easily worked around and I can fix it up myself if it gets sick'
I've always been amazed at how arrogent mac users are. I wouldn't call someone who pays $1000 because plugging in 5 cables(usb,net,power,monitor,printer) rather then 6(kb,mouse,net,power,monitor,printer) very bright.
Memory's a similar issue. Yes, Apple charges too much for memory, but it's pre-tested, so you don't have that 'My machine came in, but I have to wait 3 more days for my new memory to come in' problems.
Apple charges something like %5,000 market value for RAM. But you can grab any old SDRAM and stick them in
PPC systems aren't restricted to less than 15 interrupts like Intel systems. They make good laptops, if you only need one mouse button..
*sigh* why do people who have no idea about what their talking about constantly feel the need to talk anyway?
The Intel ISA has 256 interrupts and 256 exceptions. There is a limitation on Interrupt Requests but that was a limitation of IBM's original PC design (just two cascading Interrupt controllers) for the CPU/pretrial interface.
While IRQs are still around for compatibility, modern machines don't have any problems anymore (PCI and USB devices can share IRQs)