Big Iron sure isn't as big as it was in the Good Olde Days(tm). Why, sonny, when I went to college, the CDC 3150, with 32 k words of memory took up a whole room. They had to kick out some walls to add another 32k. And it was actually made out of iron, not a bunch of silicon and plastic.
are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe, typically containing a few hundred to thousands of galaxies, each of which in turn contains many billions of stars.
That's gonna be one really huge (or really small) black hole one day.
BTW, if it turns out there is enough matter, wouldn't the universe be the largest gravitationally bound structure in the Universe?
I had a Higgs boson too. I found it at a garage sale for only $1.50. Then I got married. My wife threw it away, along with my old comic books and porn collection.
Asteroids, gamma ray blasts, mass insanity, deadly viruses, divine intervention, etc.
Now we have to worry about colliding with another galaxy. What next?
Oh shit, there's an election next week.
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Death March
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I seem to recall that he actually DID move out to the desert in Arizona or somewhere like that to ride out the Y2K disaster. Looks like he crawled out from under his rock.
I'm in the process of dumping Verio. My friends would complain that every once in awhile their email to me would bounce. Whenever I sent a copy of the bounce message to Verio "customer support", they would tell me it must be something wrong with my settings.
It's been my experience that Windows mutates just by itself. I never know what to expect each time I start it up or shut it down. I figure it has a half-life of about 6 months. Then, due to bit decay, it's time to reinstall it.
"Anyone who's studied the history of computing will know how great a contribution PARC has had to the advancement of technology, and especially to GUI development."
Maybe they can sell it to someone who will know what to do with it. Remember PARC developed Smalltalk, GUI, the mouse, etc in the 70's, but it took Steve Jobs to release it to the world, and Bill Gates to steal that and make it popular. Xerox management didn't know what they had,mush less how to market it.
Did your group consider Plan 9? They even designed a new protocol (Internet Layer) for efficient RPC. Maybe at the time your group got started it wasn't "open source". It still isn't completely open, but it's getting closer. Plus, Lucent (Bell Labs) isn't exactly unknown, like GNU/HURD.
Microsoft announced today that it will release a Windows version of P2P software "soon, in fact before any of those other companies can do it. If it looks like one of them will beat us, we'll buy them anyway, so you should wait for ours." The first release will run only on Window ME, and will most likely be named "P-On-ME".
It was also revealed today that the first virus for P-On-ME has been discovered. It is contained in email messages with the subject line "Do Not Open - Virus Inside".
Step 1. Stick finger in ear.
Step 2. Twist arm around so microphone is aimed at mouth.
Step 3. Dial by wiggling thumb.
I just tried it, it looks like I am shooting myself in the head with a "hand" gun.
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Does P = NP?
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If you can solve that, you can solve them all and you're THE MAN. Or - preferably - THE WOMAN offcourse.
Or the slime mold.
I just tried an experiment where I laid out a maze in the classic Traveling Salesman problem. Then I put my smartest slime mold "Silly Green Putty" on it and it was solved in about 18 hours.
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Does P = NP?
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It's been so long since I was a CS grad student, even Hello World looks NP-complete to me.
Incorporate Family.com. Give stock options to Chief Wife Officer, Chief Kid Officer 1 and Chief Kid Officer 2. Heck I'll even give options to Individual Contributors dog, cat and goldfish. I'm sure the car and house would want some too. Did I leave anyone out? How about Chief Dead Relative, late Uncle Bill.
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At least this was delivered on time.
Big Iron sure isn't as big as it was in the Good Olde Days(tm). Why, sonny, when I went to college, the CDC 3150, with 32 k words of memory took up a whole room. They had to kick out some walls to add another 32k. And it was actually made out of iron, not a bunch of silicon and plastic.
are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe, typically containing a few hundred to thousands of galaxies, each of which in turn contains many billions of stars.
That's gonna be one really huge (or really small) black hole one day.
BTW, if it turns out there is enough matter, wouldn't the universe be the largest gravitationally bound structure in the Universe?
I had a Higgs boson too. I found it at a garage sale for only $1.50. Then I got married. My wife threw it away, along with my old comic books and porn collection.
Asteroids, gamma ray blasts, mass insanity, deadly viruses, divine intervention, etc.
Now we have to worry about colliding with another galaxy. What next?
Oh shit, there's an election next week.
I seem to recall that he actually DID move out to the desert in Arizona or somewhere like that to ride out the Y2K disaster. Looks like he crawled out from under his rock.
M$FT is up to their old tricks:
preemptive announcements, vaporware, FUD, etc, etc.
Ooooh, too late.
I'm in the process of dumping Verio. My friends would complain that every once in awhile their email to me would bounce. Whenever I sent a copy of the bounce message to Verio "customer support", they would tell me it must be something wrong with my settings.
Then use OpenBSD.
Well, pharmeceuticals to be specific. I would love to get my hands on the "source code" for a few things.
It must be Pioeer 10, merged with a sinister alien space probe, turned into a planet eater.
a plumarhoid?
It IS out there past Uranus.
It's been my experience that Windows mutates just by itself. I never know what to expect each time I start it up or shut it down. I figure it has a half-life of about 6 months. Then, due to bit decay, it's time to reinstall it.
"Anyone who's studied the history of computing will know how great a contribution PARC has had to the advancement of technology, and especially to GUI development."
Maybe they can sell it to someone who will know what to do with it. Remember PARC developed Smalltalk, GUI, the mouse, etc in the 70's, but it took Steve Jobs to release it to the world, and Bill Gates to steal that and make it popular. Xerox management didn't know what they had,mush less how to market it.
Did your group consider Plan 9? They even designed a new protocol (Internet Layer) for efficient RPC. Maybe at the time your group got started it wasn't "open source". It still isn't completely open, but it's getting closer. Plus, Lucent (Bell Labs) isn't exactly unknown, like GNU/HURD.
Playing video games does cause brain damage.
Then Al Gore could have been elected, after he loses that other election. After all, he did invent FreeBSD, didn't he?
How about a genetic test for Parliament? Naw, they probably could muster a quorum, unless they started importing French Canadians.
Microsoft announced today that it will release a Windows version of P2P software "soon, in fact before any of those other companies can do it. If it looks like one of them will beat us, we'll buy them anyway, so you should wait for ours." The first release will run only on Window ME, and will most likely be named "P-On-ME".
It was also revealed today that the first virus for P-On-ME has been discovered. It is contained in email messages with the subject line "Do Not Open - Virus Inside".
Instruction manual:
Step 1. Stick finger in ear.
Step 2. Twist arm around so microphone is aimed at mouth.
Step 3. Dial by wiggling thumb.
I just tried it, it looks like I am shooting myself in the head with a "hand" gun.
If you can solve that, you can solve them all and you're THE MAN. Or - preferably - THE WOMAN offcourse.
Or the slime mold.
I just tried an experiment where I laid out a maze in the classic Traveling Salesman problem. Then I put my smartest slime mold "Silly Green Putty" on it and it was solved in about 18 hours.
It's been so long since I was a CS grad student, even Hello World looks NP-complete to me.
Maybe I can right off R&D costs for Kid Version 3.0.
Incorporate Family.com. Give stock options to Chief Wife Officer, Chief Kid Officer 1 and Chief Kid Officer 2. Heck I'll even give options to Individual Contributors dog, cat and goldfish. I'm sure the car and house would want some too. Did I leave anyone out? How about Chief Dead Relative, late Uncle Bill.
They might have something at Hotmail. Or maybe their Linux portation group. Heck, now they might be able to get you in at Corel.