Well, remember the male / female / cowboyneal pole question a few months back. There were more cowboy neals then women. http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?section=a rticles& qid=406&aid=-1 Go to the seti@home site and look at the user gender stats there http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/polls.html Out of over 100,000 poll takers, 7.29% were women.
Not to be sexist, but most women simply don't care how things work. They want to click a button and have it simply work. There is a reason that women make up maybe 5% of the techno-nerd population.
I'd far prefer to have a monitor the size of an HDTV, as monitors are capable of much better resolution. The huge monitors and the nifty video boards that will follow will give the ultimate resolution.
DC manufactured Sept 2000 or before can run anything, and are the ones you want to get.
Some Oct 2000 and all Dec 2000 and later do not boot using the audio+data format. This is the format that most pirated games and emulator disks use. There is an alternative burn method to get the later manufactured ones to boot CDs, www.dccopyworld.com and www.isonews.com and www.dcemulation.com has more info on that.
Only VERY few DCs were manufactured that do NOT boot from CDs at all. They were only released in Japan, and were generally "special" DCs, like the Sakuren Taisen (sp?) special edition DC.
BleemDC works on all US DCs, so other CDs should also.
French, the only people more hated then Americans.
I hope they get rid of the stupid jump button
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I'm tired of fragging frigging jack rabits that have the jump button on auto-fire.
Hell, I think I liked DOOM better, no jumping, no ducking, and auto aim. It was simple.
Technical manuals are the only thing I see them good for, as long as they have a good search ability. Anything else, no thanks.
If Donald Knuth believed in software patents...
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Donald Knuth invented some of the most important computer algorithms in the early 60's. If he had patented them then, computer science research would have grinded to a halt. Searching, sorting, databases, he did it all. Hell, he might have even had a patent on the concept of good programming.
http://sunburn.stanford.edu/~knuth/
All this human vs computer chess matches are plain dumb and prove nothing. No one claims that a calculator is smarter then a human because it can find the cube root of 43469873629 faster then a human. A computer playing chess just evaluates all possible moves, and the algorythm is a modification of the maze-deadend-backtrack we all learned in 2nd semester programming.
Now a game that has a random factor, like axis and allies or monopoly, now that is a challenge to program.
You can get digital cable in my area now, and once lots of homes have to the curb fiber connection is when the large backbone fiber connections will take off. Having 512bps cable modem connection is great, but once I have 512Kbps is when all the sci-fi uses really take off. Video phones without jaggies, fast movie downloads, and everything else you see in the movies will be reality.
Cable Modem installation was under an hour, and I didn't even have to reboot the PC (already had a net card) to get it to work. Unless you live in a cave or the sticks, you already have cable access. Digital cable is coming, and that will be even more bandwidth available. I wont call DSL dead, because it never lived.
I know now one will ever read this but...
Methane is natural gas, and is found on Jupitor and Saturn, as well as other planetary bodies. Oil can be made from natural gas, and coal probably can too. All it takes is heat and pressure.
It's only a silly myth that oil, coal, and natural gas are formed by ancient animal / vegetable matter. If this were true then Jupitor, Saturn, and many other planetary bodies in our solar system would not have methane atmospheres. You'd just have to dig for it very deep, perhaps 50 miles or so. But it is probably there.
Once the hacker's get done with that site, call up the company.
"Oh, I read about your security problems on (popular IT news site). Perhaps you would benefit from our services?"
The article makes no mention of the type of CDR, 74 min or 80 min. 6 months ago 80 min were harder to find and much more expensive then 74 min. Now 80 min our commonplace and in the 25 - 35 cent range. Will they go up alot?
Most of these cheapie 5 - 10 cent CDRs are cheaply manufactured, and my Sega wont read them anyways:(
Those silly spacedaily people, you don't need 1 continuous cable (assuming you don't use magnetics). Cable A lifts you 1 km, then cable B attaches (cable A is released) and pulls you another 1 km up, then cable C etc. 47,000 1 km cables powered by 47,000 motors. Actually, due to the decrease in gravity, the higher up you are the longer the cable can be.
Stick a metal pole parrel to the floor on a ball. Spin the ball, doesn't the pole fly off. Now stick a pole ontop of the ball, perpendicular to the floor and spin the ball. Wouldn't a polar space elevator require a lot less anchoring?
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It was at least 10 years ago, maybe 15. Dave had one on his show. Slashdot sets a new record on reporting old news....
Well, remember the male / female / cowboyneal pole question a few months back. There were more cowboy neals then women.a rticles& qid=406&aid=-1t of over 100,000 poll takers, 7.29% were women.
http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?section=
Go to the seti@home site and look at the user gender stats there http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/polls.html
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Not to be sexist, but most women simply don't care how things work. They want to click a button and have it simply work. There is a reason that women make up maybe 5% of the techno-nerd population.
That should teach them a lesson.
I'd far prefer to have a monitor the size of an HDTV, as monitors are capable of much better resolution. The huge monitors and the nifty video boards that will follow will give the ultimate resolution.
An emulator on a laptop, I swear that will be the top reason for eventually buying a laptop.
Thats how I backed up my mp3/warez collection. If I loose a few cds, I know several people with copies.
A mass melting might release enough C02 to jump start the warming process and trigger global warming on mars. A few nukes might just do the trick.
DC manufactured Sept 2000 or before can run anything, and are the ones you want to get.
Some Oct 2000 and all Dec 2000 and later do not boot using the audio+data format. This is the format that most pirated games and emulator disks use. There is an alternative burn method to get the later manufactured ones to boot CDs, www.dccopyworld.com and www.isonews.com and www.dcemulation.com has more info on that.
Only VERY few DCs were manufactured that do NOT boot from CDs at all. They were only released in Japan, and were generally "special" DCs, like the Sakuren Taisen (sp?) special edition DC.
BleemDC works on all US DCs, so other CDs should also.
French, the only people more hated then Americans.
I'm tired of fragging frigging jack rabits that have the jump button on auto-fire. Hell, I think I liked DOOM better, no jumping, no ducking, and auto aim. It was simple.
Technical manuals are the only thing I see them good for, as long as they have a good search ability. Anything else, no thanks.
Donald Knuth invented some of the most important computer algorithms in the early 60's. If he had patented them then, computer science research would have grinded to a halt. Searching, sorting, databases, he did it all. Hell, he might have even had a patent on the concept of good programming. http://sunburn.stanford.edu/~knuth/
All this human vs computer chess matches are plain dumb and prove nothing. No one claims that a calculator is smarter then a human because it can find the cube root of 43469873629 faster then a human. A computer playing chess just evaluates all possible moves, and the algorythm is a modification of the maze-deadend-backtrack we all learned in 2nd semester programming. Now a game that has a random factor, like axis and allies or monopoly, now that is a challenge to program.
All the geeks know that video games = no sex. No sex = no AIDS. Brilliant!
You can get digital cable in my area now, and once lots of homes have to the curb fiber connection is when the large backbone fiber connections will take off. Having 512bps cable modem connection is great, but once I have 512Kbps is when all the sci-fi uses really take off. Video phones without jaggies, fast movie downloads, and everything else you see in the movies will be reality.
Cable Modem installation was under an hour, and I didn't even have to reboot the PC (already had a net card) to get it to work. Unless you live in a cave or the sticks, you already have cable access. Digital cable is coming, and that will be even more bandwidth available. I wont call DSL dead, because it never lived.
I know now one will ever read this but... Methane is natural gas, and is found on Jupitor and Saturn, as well as other planetary bodies. Oil can be made from natural gas, and coal probably can too. All it takes is heat and pressure.
It's only a silly myth that oil, coal, and natural gas are formed by ancient animal / vegetable matter. If this were true then Jupitor, Saturn, and many other planetary bodies in our solar system would not have methane atmospheres. You'd just have to dig for it very deep, perhaps 50 miles or so. But it is probably there.
Once the hacker's get done with that site, call up the company. "Oh, I read about your security problems on (popular IT news site). Perhaps you would benefit from our services?"
The article makes no mention of the type of CDR, 74 min or 80 min. 6 months ago 80 min were harder to find and much more expensive then 74 min. Now 80 min our commonplace and in the 25 - 35 cent range. Will they go up alot? Most of these cheapie 5 - 10 cent CDRs are cheaply manufactured, and my Sega wont read them anyways :(
Those silly spacedaily people, you don't need 1 continuous cable (assuming you don't use magnetics). Cable A lifts you 1 km, then cable B attaches (cable A is released) and pulls you another 1 km up, then cable C etc. 47,000 1 km cables powered by 47,000 motors. Actually, due to the decrease in gravity, the higher up you are the longer the cable can be.
Stick a metal pole parrel to the floor on a ball. Spin the ball, doesn't the pole fly off. Now stick a pole ontop of the ball, perpendicular to the floor and spin the ball. Wouldn't a polar space elevator require a lot less anchoring?
It just doesn't come back. But it isn't that big of a jump to guide a missile to a target, deploy whatever weapons it has, then fly it back.
Will this I wonder apply to console and arcade roms too? Perhaps our old freind Mame DK will be hosting roms again, legally.