If this kind of thing becomes more common, why not have an "If for some reason a journalist decides to give me money, please send it to the following charity" field in the user preferences?
Lensing occours because of gravity. (duh) Light has mass, not much, but some, so any sufficently massive object can bend light perceptibly.
So, in theory, everything, including Pamela Anderson's old breasts, bend light.
Once you've wrapped your brain around that, imagine what happens when there is a massive object between a light source and the point of observation. Black holes do have a large lens effect, but so do suns (iirc, lensing was proved during a solar eclipse), planets, taco bell burritos...
No, no, no. It was created last tuesday. Along with all your memories, fossil records, etc.
It can be a heck of a lot of fun telling that to people who believe the 4004(?) bc. figure. Simply using their logic against them. Haven't found anyone able to discredit the last tuesday mark based on Creationist logic.
I've been considering just emailing the FBI, CIA and NSA whenever I do something. Just so that their info is up to date. Maybe send some general outlies of my phone calls every now and then. For example "today a telemarketer called, I told him I didn't want any" or "well, I'm off to the bathroom. more email when I get back"
Only problem is that I haven't figured out exactly whom to send it to. DDI maybe? Now if everyone did this, imagine how much money we could save in taxes! Could probably also flood their systems if enough people did it.
Gee, last time I checked, AIDS was the only one with 100% fatality rate and a 9-17 year transmission period
Don't you mean Incubation period? And IIRC it only takes a couple of months for the early symptoms of HIV to be detected, then 2-3 years for AIDS to develop.
Anyone confirm/deny? or do I need a second cup of coffee? Mmmm coffee...
The handy thing about MP3s is that it's an open standard.
If you need a quick and dirty overview of MP3s, check out http://www.id3.org/mp3frame.html
If you really wanted to, you could write a simple preprocessor that searches for a frame header, uses the info in there to get the position of the next frame header, or the end of the frame you're looking at. If there is something funny in there, i.e. not an mp3 frame, delete everything up to the next header.
Should get rid of the obvious advertising, anyway. watermarking the info would be a bit more difficult to get rid of.
As long as there are CDs, and I still have my computer, I'm going to be ripping my CDs and sharing the MP3s with friends, who also share theirs with me. No introduction of another format can stop this.
And when someone comes along with a format that sounds better than mp3?
Don't say it won't happen.
BitPoet
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>Really, if you're going to start choosing political systems out of fictional games, movies, or books, why not go all-out? Robert Anton Wilson's Libertarian Immortalist party (an end to death and taxes!) is by far the best political party we could implement that has no bearing on the real world.
IIRC there is a party called "The Monster Raving Loonie Party" in the UK (anyone confirm or deny?) One of their platforms was to have the Royal Navy tow the island down to the Mediterranian.
(And yes I do play when the prize goes above $100 million, but I like to think of it as donation to schools rather than a chance at millions).
I play every so often. Thinking about what I'd do with the millions of dollars is worth the $5 to me. Much more fun than spending $8 to watch a crappy movie in the theatre.
Microsoft will win out in the end for one, good reason: They control time itself. Yes! its true. Whenever you copy files, etc., time slows down. First it reports that copying the file will take 15 minutes, then within 5 seconds, it is halved, again and again. By the end, the last 5 seconds takes two minutes or more!
How can anyone compete against a copany that controls time?
3) If it is the idea that spreads infectiously through the net, then shouldn't we be looking at a way to preserve our existing cultures? The web can be a way to distribute, as well as influence information. So to put two & two together,
#ifndef RANT #define RANT
Really bugs me that people consider cultures to be static things that need to be 'preserved' The French try to do this, the Quebecoise try to do it. IMHO, they're failing pretty badly.
This one is more of an intellectual challenge than any real information. One of those things where the journey is more important (and fun!) than the destination.
I'd like to take a crack at it in my spare time, however, that is mostly dedicated to sleeping and eating. Ah well. That's what I get for being the only coder in a small company...
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Neither was "Much Ado About Nothing"
Of course, he had a small part...
Omlettes are easy. I'm a guy, and I cook for my GF all the time. Including breakfast.
Now, Eggs Benedict. _Those_ are a pain in the butt to make, especially before you've had your coffee
Being a guy with long hair, I've gotta ask you what shampoo + conditioner you use on your hair.
If this kind of thing becomes more common, why not have an "If for some reason a journalist decides to give me money, please send it to the following charity" field in the user preferences?
BitPoet
Lensing occours because of gravity. (duh) Light has mass, not much, but some, so any sufficently massive object can bend light perceptibly.
So, in theory, everything, including Pamela Anderson's old breasts, bend light.
Once you've wrapped your brain around that, imagine what happens when there is a massive object between a light source and the point of observation. Black holes do have a large lens effect, but so do suns (iirc, lensing was proved during a solar eclipse), planets, taco bell burritos...
BitPoet
My doctor gave me a good bit of advice when I told him that if I did something specific, and strange, to my knee that it would hurt like a bastard.
His advice was "don't do it"
Would you consider the code in 'The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer' in Hacker's Dictionary: Appendices to be a form of art?
No, no, no. It was created last tuesday. Along with all your memories, fossil records, etc.
It can be a heck of a lot of fun telling that to people who believe the 4004(?) bc. figure. Simply using their logic against them. Haven't found anyone able to discredit the last tuesday mark based on Creationist logic.
you mean being well paid, educated and able to communicate with people in "real life"?
BitPoet
All depends on the size of the circle and the accuracy of the measurement.
;)
BitPoet
Highlander 2
I've been considering just emailing the FBI, CIA and NSA whenever I do something. Just so that their info is up to date. Maybe send some general outlies of my phone calls every now and then. For example "today a telemarketer called, I told him I didn't want any" or "well, I'm off to the bathroom. more email when I get back"
Only problem is that I haven't figured out exactly whom to send it to. DDI maybe? Now if everyone did this, imagine how much money we could save in taxes! Could probably also flood their systems if enough people did it.
Gee, last time I checked, AIDS was the only one with 100% fatality rate and a 9-17 year transmission period
Don't you mean Incubation period? And IIRC it only takes a couple of months for the early symptoms of HIV to be detected, then 2-3 years for AIDS to develop.
Anyone confirm/deny? or do I need a second cup of coffee? Mmmm coffee...
Also done in Red Mars.
There was a mission along these lines in MechWarrior2 (given, not to Mars...)
Probably many more terraforming-type books have the same basic idea.
BitPoet
yeah? you want visual quality? check out:
http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/
The handy thing about MP3s is that it's an open standard.
If you need a quick and dirty overview of MP3s, check out http://www.id3.org/mp3frame.html
If you really wanted to, you could write a simple preprocessor that searches for a frame header, uses the info in there to get the position of the next frame header, or the end of the frame you're looking at. If there is something funny in there, i.e. not an mp3 frame, delete everything up to the next header.
Should get rid of the obvious advertising, anyway. watermarking the info would be a bit more difficult to get rid of.
BitPoet
As long as there are CDs, and I still have my computer, I'm going to be ripping my CDs and sharing the MP3s with friends, who also share theirs with me. No introduction of another format can stop this.
And when someone comes along with a format that sounds better than mp3?
Don't say it won't happen.
BitPoet
>Really, if you're going to start choosing political systems out of fictional games, movies, or books, why not go all-out? Robert Anton Wilson's Libertarian Immortalist party (an end to death and taxes!) is by far the best political party we could implement that has no bearing on the real world.
IIRC there is a party called "The Monster Raving Loonie Party" in the UK (anyone confirm or deny?) One of their platforms was to have the Royal Navy tow the island down to the Mediterranian.
I could be completely wrong.
>1 word: scissors
Leatherman. The true tool of the Geek.
>I mean, this has just *got* to be Grey technology. I suppose that it does great curly fries too.
Aliens created curly fries? Whoa! _now_ I'm impressed!
BitPoet
(And yes I do play when the prize goes above $100 million, but I like to think of it as donation to schools rather than a chance at millions).
I play every so often. Thinking about what I'd do with the millions of dollars is worth the $5 to me. Much more fun than spending $8 to watch a crappy movie in the theatre.
Last time I checked, I was a member of Team UFie... I did /. for awhile, though. Hmmmm.
Microsoft will win out in the end for one, good reason: They control time itself. Yes! its true. Whenever you copy files, etc., time slows down. First it reports that copying the file will take 15 minutes, then within 5 seconds, it is halved, again and again. By the end, the last 5 seconds takes two minutes or more!
How can anyone compete against a copany that controls time?
BitPoet
3) If it is the idea that spreads infectiously through the net, then shouldn't we be looking at a way to preserve our existing cultures? The web can be a way to distribute, as well as influence information. So to put two & two together,
#ifndef RANT
#define RANT
Really bugs me that people consider cultures to be static things that need to be 'preserved' The French try to do this, the Quebecoise try to do it. IMHO, they're failing pretty badly.
#endif
This one is more of an intellectual challenge than any real information. One of those things where the journey is more important (and fun!) than the destination.
I'd like to take a crack at it in my spare time, however, that is mostly dedicated to sleeping and eating. Ah well. That's what I get for being the only coder in a small company...
BitPoet