With 1,000,000,000,000,000 or so of my closest friends, everybody take a chunk of integers, give out some factoring code, and start grinding away every night. It all in the organization, think seti@home.
I'm sorry, but the earth is a crazy, spinning planet, our climate goes through cycles and phases just like everything else. It changes. We need more time to decide if we've really screwed it up or not, until then, I'm sick to DEATH of lame movies like AI and Waterworld that tell us about how terrible the world is going to be when we screw it up and can't fix it back. We can't look at 100 years in the life of a billion year old planet and decide how it's going, it just can't happen.
Besides, I like hot weather. Tank tops are comfortable.
I like this page better for lightning, its map is always up.
I came home once to find that my sister had plugged her surge protector into yet another surge protector, I loved it. Just an idea. I don't think it will do anything, I just got a kick out of it.
Here's the story, after the fish...
Microsoft does outside of the USA without Smart tags Microsoft will not build the disputed Smart tags into Germany into the new operating system Windows XP. That experienced the German press agency (dpa) on Thursday from enterprise sets. With the " Smart Tag" technology Microsoft could control the access of the customers to certain Web supplies and services in the Internet and prefer own supplies like the on-line service MSN. The world largest software company will activate hearing after the " Smart tags " only in the US version of Windows XP. Outside of the USA the technology is not to be used for the time being. With the decision however not the doubts of data-security commissioners or trust guards would have played a role, but the high editorial expenditures for the maintenance of the interactive references outside of the USA. With a " Smart day " can offer for web pages additional information or services to Microsoft, if the " Internet Explorer detects 6 " certain key terms. So Albert Einstein a reference to an article could be made in the on-line dictionary Microsoft Encarta by the Nobelpreistraeger when emerging the name. Conceivable it would be also that a city name in the text of a Web Site is linked automatically to a travel supply of the Microsoft service Expedia. Critics criticized that the software company tried this way to expand its supremacy again with the operating systems with unfair means on Internet. " places it itself forwards: They output millions dollar on the organization of a Web Site? and Microsoft has a Smart day, which the user simply on one the own (Microsoft) Sites reroutes ", said expert Michael Silver of the market research institute the on-line service News.com. Speakers of Microsoft answered, everyone could apply in the future the " Smart Tag" technology
"...a large test is needed to answer questions such as the effect on sea life.
Dissolved carbon dioxide could slightly increase the acidity of the water, they found, and an experiment would show whether that injured fish and other life forms."
I hate the thought of harming sea creatures, especially when you consider how unexplored our oceans are. It goes back to that old addage about the cure for cancer being undiscovered in a rainforest somewhere. I'm not an all out environmentalist hippie, but there's reason for concern here. I don't think they'll go through with it to much extent.
In other matters, I've thought before about how interesting it would be if we introduced all this gas into the atmosphere of Mars. Okay, so there's the (nearly impossible, very impractical) matter of getting it there, but the gravity is sufficient to keep it and we could do interesting things to the climate. Am I wrong?
I told everybody who asked that I was waiting to buy a DVD player until Episode I came out, now I'm not so excited. A double DVD? Wow, so I can spend $50 on a movie, that's pretty exciting. There's a point when being a fan and a money machine have to go their seperate ways, I think I just hit that.
You forgot bicycles. Top of the line road bikes are commonly made from carbon fiber these days, as are some mountain bikes (but not many). There are durability problems, professional cyclists tend to go through bikes like they're free (well, to those guys, they are) but for most serious bikers they're worth it. I can see this being the same way, I'm sure the savings in weight will make up for the initial cost eventually.
And of course, we all have to admit it looks very cool.
Are you talking about Pangaea? Tricky, that started breaking up about 220 million years ago, the dinosaurs were extinct about 65 million years ago, although dinosaurs were found that lived 200 million years ago (eg. Cryolophosaurus) so they're close (relatively speaking, of course)
"Here we have pyridine-based alkaloids that appear in tobacco leaves, in marine worms as defensive compounds and in ants to help them obtain food." And to help us cure disease, apparantly, it's so versatile. But Alzheimer's is one of those things that seems to have a new lead every month, some reason we think it happens, some obscure ritual that we think will make a difference. It's hard to be optimistic about things like this, I think it's gotten up to the loftiness "cure for cancer" goals.
And is it just me, but when I hear "pheromone" I think of the chemicals that put entire sorority houses on the same menstrual cycle, talk about yoru destructive chemicals, be careful screwing with this stuff!
60,000,000,000,000 watts turns me on...
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My top 3 practical applications for this (wish we had full text, then I'd have at least 5)...
A back-up sun so when ours starts to get old and engulfs us, we can just blow it up and make our own.
Add a whole new sun, besides obvious gravity problems we'd deal with can you imagine how great things would grow?
Two-story target chamber lazer gun pointed right at, um, France! Come on, you can't say you didn't think it too...
"Cellular architecture uses ideas that have already been developed, such as putting a whole system--memory and processors--on a chip, and using many processors in parallel to carry out instructions"
This would be interesting to try in market systems, not many of us would go for it because of obvious upgradeablility, but it would speed things up a bit. If the idea's been developed, does anyone have links to where we might have seen it before? Any talk of putting it on the shelf?
"With one million processors, each performing a billion operations per second, Blue Gene will be capable of one petaflop--a thousand trillion calculations per second. Such speed will be devoted to a single set of problems--simulating how proteins fold after they are generated in cells."
Awe, is that as exciting as they can get with the application? Can't they have at least one fun-filled 900 player Quake tournament on these things before they turn to practical things like particle physics and protein folding? I'm such a dumb American, articles like this are always so dissapointing, like they kick all the mischevious geeks off the projects months before they're even concieved. Every computer in the world should in my opinion be capable of one task that will impress or amuse the general population.
ha ha, you're implying that geeks are social there, the above action would involve human contact. I tried to do this once, my geek friends were too retarded.
"ask a couple of questions..."
Bad words, ewe, questions. I've found that I can't ask anybody a question about anything computer related unless they're really good friends of mine because instead of answers I get hit with attacks, asking why I'm such an idiot. Hell, even posting on/. gets me in trouble usually, and I'm not even asking anything, just expressing my thoughts, I'd say half my posts get some mean reply from an AC that I don't think I deserve. Computer people are very hostile. I don't ask RTFM questions either. So I've learned a LOT from online tutorials like this one, and books.
I admire anybody who makes tutorials, thanks for helping us out, I've found that in general people who know languages already are either really bad teachers or just plain rude. You can argue that the only way to get a hostile answer is to ask a stupid question, but I've found that it doesn't matter, especially for a curious beginner like myself. I hope the average tutorial isn't crap, they're how I survive.
I honestly wouldn't mind paying a little cash to download a song, I think the artists deserve something (I know, I know, not that it goes to the artist anyway, but it's a nice thought, huh?) It's the convinience of going and getting a song and having it on my computer I like, not the fact that it's free, that's nice too but it just doesn't feel right to me still. Now paying for the "privilege" of having a song up for sharing, that's a little weird.
Any news on when this whole bad napster bit is going to hit the other sites doing similar actions? Audiogalaxy is still alive and well, I can get all kinds of Metallica (or Metallicka, in this case, ha ha) there.
Hell, who cares. I'm sick and tired of every internet service in the entire world. This doesn't surprise me at all, it's not isolated either, companies just don't see a need to make people happy no matter who they are. Like a lot of people, I thought broadband was going to be like heaven, I pictured these endless fields of bandwidth (think Julie Andrews in Sound Of Music) and got hell, we signed up for the other evil, DSL. It took forever to get signed up, they wanted my firstborn male child in exchange for a second IP address, the cap is nuts, and the service isn't fast. So anyway, Australia, I feel your pain and dissapointment, we all hope for the best with these things, I am a bitter angry disconnected person and this article just contributed to that. Time to try another service. Sigh.
But all ET's aside, I wish I had a clone, we'd be like best friends.
Me: Hey, want to go out for taco bell?
Clone: Hell yeah, I love taco bell!
Me: Awe, clone, your my best friend. Hey, I haven't checked slashdot all afternoon!
Clone: Oh, don't worry, I checked it for you, I even posted our thoughts on the AT&T legal battles, you sounded really smart and got a 5.
Me: Wow, thanks! Hey, eat this taco I dropped on the floor and tell me if I'd be able to taste the floor scum on it.
Clone: Okay!
Never mind that my clone would be 20 years younger than me, of course, by the time I get a clone we'll find some way around that.
"Microsoft said it had not been served with the lawsuit and could not comment."
Yeah, see, they don't even recognize the fact that it exists yet, something tells me not much is going to come out of this. But still, there's nothing more exciting than a big fight between corporations that nobody seems to like, am I wrong? Maybe once AT&T loses, they'll try to get back at microsoft by stealing their patents, and it'll start a vicious war, we'll eventually be getting blue screens of death on our cell phones and getting calls during dinner time asking us to switch to Windows ME.
"Good at math, good at physics, and with no social graces whatsoever. And this was before being a nerd was considered to be a good thing."
Am I not old enough? When was being a nerd not a good thing? When did people not realize that nerds made the money and got all the chicks? Okay, or at least made the money. Linus was always cool, I won't hear otherwise!
Well, since no one else seems to have an opinion, I'll throw in my useless one.
I don't think software is the issue, something like that would be really easy to set up using database stuff that's out there now that might not look beautiful, but it would do the trick. My concerns are mostly commerce related, first off, there needs to be some way to sort out the scum of the business world, affiliates just wanting in on everybody else's work, which implies a cost involved (as with anything), and who's to decide a registration fee that won't lead everyone into practically being part of a big business?
Outside of that, it sounds like a really easy thing to do, it's just a matter of getting businesses to want to go in together on it, promotion, etc. Call it your own, do it yourself, make the world a better place, like most ideas it just sounds like a lot of setup.
I hear so much complaining people, when are we going to learn that economics don't stop just because we die? The Beatle's released new songs in the '90's, complete with John's voice. John Candy and Marilyn Monroe died filming movies that were later (or will be anyway) finished and thrown out there.
I certainly wouldn't mind if I died and somebody updated my web page. Let's not let the world end because of some little departure.
Nothing like a good old fashioned test pilot, that's what I always say, if they'd man the thing it'd take a little longer to fail, there's got to be a way to strap a guy on there and let him really sweat it out. Makes blaming the failure on something easier anyway.
<FEMINAZI>
and kill another MAN in the process, YEAH! BURN! WE WILL RULE THE WORLD SOMEDAY!
</FEMINAZI>
Whoh, I don't know where that came from, shut up evil PMS spacefem, you go back to bed, no supper!
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With 1,000,000,000,000,000 or so of my closest friends, everybody take a chunk of integers, give out some factoring code, and start grinding away every night. It all in the organization, think seti@home.
Windows: no mascot
Linux: the penguin
SuSE: the penguin AND the GEEKO!
Are we seeing how it stacks up yet? Conclusions? Yup, I love my SuSE!
(I'm running 7.2, having an orgasmic time, it'll come out okay, just wait and see.)
I'm sorry, but the earth is a crazy, spinning planet, our climate goes through cycles and phases just like everything else. It changes. We need more time to decide if we've really screwed it up or not, until then, I'm sick to DEATH of lame movies like AI and Waterworld that tell us about how terrible the world is going to be when we screw it up and can't fix it back. We can't look at 100 years in the life of a billion year old planet and decide how it's going, it just can't happen.
Besides, I like hot weather. Tank tops are comfortable.
I like this page better for lightning, its map is always up.
I came home once to find that my sister had plugged her surge protector into yet another surge protector, I loved it. Just an idea. I don't think it will do anything, I just got a kick out of it.
Here's the story, after the fish...
Microsoft does outside of the USA without Smart tags Microsoft will not build the disputed Smart tags into Germany into the new operating system Windows XP. That experienced the German press agency (dpa) on Thursday from enterprise sets. With the " Smart Tag" technology Microsoft could control the access of the customers to certain Web supplies and services in the Internet and prefer own supplies like the on-line service MSN. The world largest software company will activate hearing after the " Smart tags " only in the US version of Windows XP. Outside of the USA the technology is not to be used for the time being. With the decision however not the doubts of data-security commissioners or trust guards would have played a role, but the high editorial expenditures for the maintenance of the interactive references outside of the USA. With a " Smart day " can offer for web pages additional information or services to Microsoft, if the " Internet Explorer detects 6 " certain key terms. So Albert Einstein a reference to an article could be made in the on-line dictionary Microsoft Encarta by the Nobelpreistraeger when emerging the name. Conceivable it would be also that a city name in the text of a Web Site is linked automatically to a travel supply of the Microsoft service Expedia. Critics criticized that the software company tried this way to expand its supremacy again with the operating systems with unfair means on Internet. " places it itself forwards: They output millions dollar on the organization of a Web Site? and Microsoft has a Smart day, which the user simply on one the own (Microsoft) Sites reroutes ", said expert Michael Silver of the market research institute the on-line service News.com. Speakers of Microsoft answered, everyone could apply in the future the " Smart Tag" technology
to all you pagans out there. Anybody know any songs?
"...a large test is needed to answer questions such as the effect on sea life. Dissolved carbon dioxide could slightly increase the acidity of the water, they found, and an experiment would show whether that injured fish and other life forms."
I hate the thought of harming sea creatures, especially when you consider how unexplored our oceans are. It goes back to that old addage about the cure for cancer being undiscovered in a rainforest somewhere. I'm not an all out environmentalist hippie, but there's reason for concern here. I don't think they'll go through with it to much extent.
In other matters, I've thought before about how interesting it would be if we introduced all this gas into the atmosphere of Mars. Okay, so there's the (nearly impossible, very impractical) matter of getting it there, but the gravity is sufficient to keep it and we could do interesting things to the climate. Am I wrong?
I told everybody who asked that I was waiting to buy a DVD player until Episode I came out, now I'm not so excited. A double DVD? Wow, so I can spend $50 on a movie, that's pretty exciting. There's a point when being a fan and a money machine have to go their seperate ways, I think I just hit that.
You forgot bicycles. Top of the line road bikes are commonly made from carbon fiber these days, as are some mountain bikes (but not many). There are durability problems, professional cyclists tend to go through bikes like they're free (well, to those guys, they are) but for most serious bikers they're worth it. I can see this being the same way, I'm sure the savings in weight will make up for the initial cost eventually.
And of course, we all have to admit it looks very cool.
Are you talking about Pangaea? Tricky, that started breaking up about 220 million years ago, the dinosaurs were extinct about 65 million years ago, although dinosaurs were found that lived 200 million years ago (eg. Cryolophosaurus) so they're close (relatively speaking, of course)
"Here we have pyridine-based alkaloids that appear in tobacco leaves, in marine worms as defensive compounds and in ants to help them obtain food." And to help us cure disease, apparantly, it's so versatile. But Alzheimer's is one of those things that seems to have a new lead every month, some reason we think it happens, some obscure ritual that we think will make a difference. It's hard to be optimistic about things like this, I think it's gotten up to the loftiness "cure for cancer" goals.
And is it just me, but when I hear "pheromone" I think of the chemicals that put entire sorority houses on the same menstrual cycle, talk about yoru destructive chemicals, be careful screwing with this stuff!
A back-up sun so when ours starts to get old and engulfs us, we can just blow it up and make our own.
Add a whole new sun, besides obvious gravity problems we'd deal with can you imagine how great things would grow?
Two-story target chamber lazer gun pointed right at, um, France! Come on, you can't say you didn't think it too...
It'll go perfectly with my cordless mouse I can use from three meters away, I love it, one step closer to using my computer from the couch.
Wow, cool article...
"Cellular architecture uses ideas that have already been developed, such as putting a whole system--memory and processors--on a chip, and using many processors in parallel to carry out instructions"
This would be interesting to try in market systems, not many of us would go for it because of obvious upgradeablility, but it would speed things up a bit. If the idea's been developed, does anyone have links to where we might have seen it before? Any talk of putting it on the shelf?
"With one million processors, each performing a billion operations per second, Blue Gene will be capable of one petaflop--a thousand trillion calculations per second. Such speed will be devoted to a single set of problems--simulating how proteins fold after they are generated in cells."
Awe, is that as exciting as they can get with the application? Can't they have at least one fun-filled 900 player Quake tournament on these things before they turn to practical things like particle physics and protein folding? I'm such a dumb American, articles like this are always so dissapointing, like they kick all the mischevious geeks off the projects months before they're even concieved. Every computer in the world should in my opinion be capable of one task that will impress or amuse the general population.
ha ha, you're implying that geeks are social there, the above action would involve human contact. I tried to do this once, my geek friends were too retarded.
"ask a couple of questions..." /. gets me in trouble usually, and I'm not even asking anything, just expressing my thoughts, I'd say half my posts get some mean reply from an AC that I don't think I deserve. Computer people are very hostile. I don't ask RTFM questions either. So I've learned a LOT from online tutorials like this one, and books.
Bad words, ewe, questions. I've found that I can't ask anybody a question about anything computer related unless they're really good friends of mine because instead of answers I get hit with attacks, asking why I'm such an idiot. Hell, even posting on
I admire anybody who makes tutorials, thanks for helping us out, I've found that in general people who know languages already are either really bad teachers or just plain rude. You can argue that the only way to get a hostile answer is to ask a stupid question, but I've found that it doesn't matter, especially for a curious beginner like myself. I hope the average tutorial isn't crap, they're how I survive.
I honestly wouldn't mind paying a little cash to download a song, I think the artists deserve something (I know, I know, not that it goes to the artist anyway, but it's a nice thought, huh?) It's the convinience of going and getting a song and having it on my computer I like, not the fact that it's free, that's nice too but it just doesn't feel right to me still. Now paying for the "privilege" of having a song up for sharing, that's a little weird.
Any news on when this whole bad napster bit is going to hit the other sites doing similar actions? Audiogalaxy is still alive and well, I can get all kinds of Metallica (or Metallicka, in this case, ha ha) there.
Hell, who cares. I'm sick and tired of every internet service in the entire world. This doesn't surprise me at all, it's not isolated either, companies just don't see a need to make people happy no matter who they are. Like a lot of people, I thought broadband was going to be like heaven, I pictured these endless fields of bandwidth (think Julie Andrews in Sound Of Music) and got hell, we signed up for the other evil, DSL. It took forever to get signed up, they wanted my firstborn male child in exchange for a second IP address, the cap is nuts, and the service isn't fast. So anyway, Australia, I feel your pain and dissapointment, we all hope for the best with these things, I am a bitter angry disconnected person and this article just contributed to that. Time to try another service. Sigh.
Hello... aliens...
But all ET's aside, I wish I had a clone, we'd be like best friends.
Me: Hey, want to go out for taco bell?
Clone: Hell yeah, I love taco bell!
Me: Awe, clone, your my best friend. Hey, I haven't checked slashdot all afternoon!
Clone: Oh, don't worry, I checked it for you, I even posted our thoughts on the AT&T legal battles, you sounded really smart and got a 5.
Me: Wow, thanks! Hey, eat this taco I dropped on the floor and tell me if I'd be able to taste the floor scum on it.
Clone: Okay!
Never mind that my clone would be 20 years younger than me, of course, by the time I get a clone we'll find some way around that.
"Microsoft said it had not been served with the lawsuit and could not comment."
Yeah, see, they don't even recognize the fact that it exists yet, something tells me not much is going to come out of this. But still, there's nothing more exciting than a big fight between corporations that nobody seems to like, am I wrong? Maybe once AT&T loses, they'll try to get back at microsoft by stealing their patents, and it'll start a vicious war, we'll eventually be getting blue screens of death on our cell phones and getting calls during dinner time asking us to switch to Windows ME.
From the quote on ThinkGeek...
"Good at math, good at physics, and with no social graces whatsoever. And this was before being a nerd was considered to be a good thing."
Am I not old enough? When was being a nerd not a good thing? When did people not realize that nerds made the money and got all the chicks? Okay, or at least made the money. Linus was always cool, I won't hear otherwise!
Well, since no one else seems to have an opinion, I'll throw in my useless one.
I don't think software is the issue, something like that would be really easy to set up using database stuff that's out there now that might not look beautiful, but it would do the trick. My concerns are mostly commerce related, first off, there needs to be some way to sort out the scum of the business world, affiliates just wanting in on everybody else's work, which implies a cost involved (as with anything), and who's to decide a registration fee that won't lead everyone into practically being part of a big business?
Outside of that, it sounds like a really easy thing to do, it's just a matter of getting businesses to want to go in together on it, promotion, etc. Call it your own, do it yourself, make the world a better place, like most ideas it just sounds like a lot of setup.
I hear so much complaining people, when are we going to learn that economics don't stop just because we die? The Beatle's released new songs in the '90's, complete with John's voice. John Candy and Marilyn Monroe died filming movies that were later (or will be anyway) finished and thrown out there.
I certainly wouldn't mind if I died and somebody updated my web page. Let's not let the world end because of some little departure.
Okay, I suppose you have a point, the soon to be dead deserve something.
But you should know I usually reserve oral sex for very special purposes (like, if a someone with mod abilities were to help me out here, hey?)
"She's not smart, how'd her Karma get so high?"
"Blowjobs."
Rockets, rockets...
Nothing like a good old fashioned test pilot, that's what I always say, if they'd man the thing it'd take a little longer to fail, there's got to be a way to strap a guy on there and let him really sweat it out. Makes blaming the failure on something easier anyway.
<FEMINAZI>
and kill another MAN in the process, YEAH! BURN! WE WILL RULE THE WORLD SOMEDAY!
</FEMINAZI>
Whoh, I don't know where that came from, shut up evil PMS spacefem, you go back to bed, no supper!