> You not only deciphered his 'ramblings' but bothered
"Ramblings" should have double quotes around it, not single quotes. Single quotes are reserved for quotes (or setting aside a word or phrase) that are inside double quotes.
I think he's complaining this poor strategizing makes other lame online football players look like shooting fish in a barrel. What that has to do with PK griefing I don't know...
Exactly. Nudging it by a tiny fraction of a mile per hour with 20 years to go will make it clear Earth easily. 1 mph is more than enough with only 1 year to go. Actually, 1/2 mph is more than enough with 1 year to go, assuming you force it to go in the direction closest to missing the Earth, which is to say, nudge it max of half the diameter of the Earth in 1 year.
1. Buy lots of supercomputers 2. Clone people with "rights"
"This is the New, Improved Tom Brokaw v3.0. In a surprising outcome today, the Communist Party won the US presidential election by in excess of seven hundred trillion votes over their nearest competitor, the Republicans. The Democrats trailed a distant third.
"Says the new President-elect, 'They sold us the rope, so to speak, with which to hang them.'"
I was, of course, referring to the ray-traced Quake proof of concept done about 6 months ago. it involved also mirrors, multiple light sources, transparancies, shadows, reflections, etc. That level of detail was estimated at the equivalent of a 30,000 GHz Pentium IV.
"Can you believe they can fit millions onto a single chip nowadays?"
"What, transistors?"
"No, advanced Pentium IV cores."
I guess that "theoretical" 30,000 GHz Pentium IV capable of real-time ray tracing of a 3D game isn't as far as we might think. 10 or so cores, that's all ya need...
> Under this legislation, the FAA's role until > 2012 will be to protect the uninvolved public > on the ground, and allow passengers to ride as > long as they've been properly informed of the > related dangers. Also, the FAA will be able to > regulate certain aspects of the vehicles if > they prove to be dangerous."
Hey, wait! Come back! We just wanna regulate you! Come back down here! Ahhhh, shit!
When the last one leaves the dirtgrubbing overlordland, please turn out the lights.
> AS/400 machines are minicomputers, not > mainframes. They are also quite competetive on > the market, and have been around for almost 20 years.
Perhaps competitive if by competitive you mean in the same sense that you can probably find some Burroughs B4800's still in service and being maintained expensively -- but not as expensively as porting the software.
Unless it's skilled at making copies without copyright, I doubt it.
Still, Asia is building skyscrapers like mad while we don't, excepting a replacement for non-business, purely emotional reasons. Will they become economically powerful or will their residual communism and heavy-handed socialism crush them like a newborn bug?
I have SP1 with full patches up to but not including SP2 (evidently no more patches coming out for security for SP1...) I basically have AdAware SE running in a continuous loop in the background, and have Norton Antivirus active, and also manually run Hijack This every 20 minutes. All this just to keep my system clean.
And somehow that WToolsA/WSup/whatever bastard still managed to self-install itself for the first time yesterday in months, so they must have found another exploit.
I am afraid to install SP2 because I heard not to install it if your system is infected. Is this still true? Reinstall is not an option for me, and it's clear all these tools cannot discover the mechanism installing all these things, even if they can "quiet" the system after the first few iterations after startup.
Ok, so "a magnet weighing 2 tons" mislead us, presumably because we assumed it was like a kiddie magnet from Toys 'R Us, rather than a sophisticated electromagnet, including coils and 2 actual iron rings.
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No, it's merely an accident if it turns out they were wrong about his life expectancy.
> Our species is doomed to die, anyway.
It just seems that way because you're a n3rd with rare to nonexistent procreational opportunities.
Actually, Serious Sam has a mode where flowers spray out instead of blood...
> You not only deciphered his 'ramblings' but bothered
"Ramblings" should have double quotes around it, not single quotes. Single quotes are reserved for quotes (or setting aside a word or phrase) that are inside double quotes.
The Wayniskian sarcasm "not" should end with an exclamation point, not a period.
> an interesting write-up on the theory that
> people who play video games become better
> surgeons.
I guess the less you die, the less they die.
Gosh, looks lke idiot programmer assumed a 256 length crew relocation array was big enuf fer anybuddy!
I think he's complaining this poor strategizing makes other lame online football players look like shooting fish in a barrel. What that has to do with PK griefing I don't know...
Exactly. Nudging it by a tiny fraction of a mile per hour with 20 years to go will make it clear Earth easily. 1 mph is more than enough with only 1 year to go. Actually, 1/2 mph is more than enough with 1 year to go, assuming you force it to go in the direction closest to missing the Earth, which is to say, nudge it max of half the diameter of the Earth in 1 year.
Could never happen. Process to win an election:
1. Buy lots of supercomputers
2. Clone people with "rights"
"This is the New, Improved Tom Brokaw v3.0. In a surprising outcome today, the Communist Party won the US presidential election by in excess of seven hundred trillion votes over their nearest competitor, the Republicans. The Democrats trailed a distant third.
"Says the new President-elect, 'They sold us the rope, so to speak, with which to hang them.'"
I was, of course, referring to the ray-traced Quake proof of concept done about 6 months ago. it involved also mirrors, multiple light sources, transparancies, shadows, reflections, etc. That level of detail was estimated at the equivalent of a 30,000 GHz Pentium IV.
"Can you believe they can fit millions onto a single chip nowadays?"
"What, transistors?"
"No, advanced Pentium IV cores."
I guess that "theoretical" 30,000 GHz Pentium IV capable of real-time ray tracing of a 3D game isn't as far as we might think. 10 or so cores, that's all ya need...
> Under this legislation, the FAA's role until
> 2012 will be to protect the uninvolved public
> on the ground, and allow passengers to ride as
> long as they've been properly informed of the
> related dangers. Also, the FAA will be able to
> regulate certain aspects of the vehicles if
> they prove to be dangerous."
Hey, wait! Come back! We just wanna regulate you! Come back down here! Ahhhh, shit!
When the last one leaves the dirtgrubbing overlordland, please turn out the lights.
Later on this uber-nerd will go home and practice One-Man sex.
> AS/400 machines are minicomputers, not
> mainframes. They are also quite competetive on
> the market, and have been around for almost 20 years.
Perhaps competitive if by competitive you mean in the same sense that you can probably find some Burroughs B4800's still in service and being maintained expensively -- but not as expensively as porting the software.
Unless it's skilled at making copies without copyright, I doubt it.
Still, Asia is building skyscrapers like mad while we don't, excepting a replacement for non-business, purely emotional reasons. Will they become economically powerful or will their residual communism and heavy-handed socialism crush them like a newborn bug?
Meanwhile you get winded lugging your obese computer-sittin' ass upstairs because you've neglected to have 3 backup rolls in the downstairs toity.
> ... AND Patrick Stewart.
Speaking loudly and clearly does not a Charleton Heston make.
The guy who played Data can act rings around Stewart. But nooooooooooo.... He's destined to be a character actor.
As skinny as she is, I'd buy that for a dollar.
Although the luckiest guys in Hollywood are:
1. John Derek -- Ursula Andress, Linda Evans, and Bo Derek were his wives, in order
2. That redheaded cur from Love Potion #9 -- He was slappin' away on Sandra Bullock for a few years, then on Jennifer Aniston for a few years
> On that note, will Indy lose an eye in this one? I love continuity.
I hope not. It's like demanding continuity of the Star Wars Christmas Special.
(Actually, the live action parts of Chewbacca's home world were perfectly reasonable. It's the cartoon stuff that was crap.)
I hear the title will be "Indiana Jones and the Crypt of Decay: This Time It's From The Inside"
I have SP1 with full patches up to but not including SP2 (evidently no more patches coming out for security for SP1...) I basically have AdAware SE running in a continuous loop in the background, and have Norton Antivirus active, and also manually run Hijack This every 20 minutes. All this just to keep my system clean.
And somehow that WToolsA/WSup/whatever bastard still managed to self-install itself for the first time yesterday in months, so they must have found another exploit.
I am afraid to install SP2 because I heard not to install it if your system is infected. Is this still true? Reinstall is not an option for me, and it's clear all these tools cannot discover the mechanism installing all these things, even if they can "quiet" the system after the first few iterations after startup.
No, not nerdy enough, yet.
> between Ken and opponent Nancy Zerg
Looks like Jeopardy should've done the Zergling rush a little earlier this year.
Ahhhh, that's nerdlier.
> After seeing that car, I don't think I would want to go 90MPH in it....
Certainly not when the crumple zone is your knees.
For god's sake, you might get killed by hitting a motorcyclist in that thing.
I heartily encourage all of you to drive it, though!
Ok, so "a magnet weighing 2 tons" mislead us, presumably because we assumed it was like a kiddie magnet from Toys 'R Us, rather than a sophisticated electromagnet, including coils and 2 actual iron rings.