"Already, they're wrong...as an attacker, you have to have more armies than dice,"
Indeed! Chalk this one up with the chess article that refers in passing to pawns moving in an "L" pattern, or the video game history article that talks about Pac-Man breaking bigger asteroids into little asteroids.
Next, Science News will publish an article about "Improving the Odds in Clue" that will tell us about good ol Colonel Ketchup in the mud room with the mastadon-leg as the weapon.
If you have multiple boards, you can add to the fun by trying "multiple world" Risk. Either place them side by side (so the Alaska connects to the Kamchata of the other board, and vice versa), or play such that the boards are "stacked" (one Egypt can attack another).
At least this story is from C-Net. If it were from the NYT with a byline by Jayson Blaire (sandwiched between his stories about political upheaval in Grand Fenwick and his new biography of Thomas Crapper), we might have to wonder.
"If you are a 94 year old male with West Nile, AIDS, and SARS who has a bullseye target painted on his back and smokes while eating Big Macs, and you happen to be in a pilotless airplane headed for a mountaintop, and you also enjoy playing Russian Roulette in your leisure time, YES you can get life insurance for just $3 a month."
10. Tin foil helmets will protect us from rays and mind-control particles from microprocessors.
9. Intel from Mars, PPC from Venus
8. No, Porky Pig did not give the PPC its name when he tried to say "PC".
7. Celeron was not named after Celery
6. Go ahead, you can buy a Pentium 3 without worrying that the Blue Man Group will knock on your door and bore you to tears with their post-modern Bolian-hued Mummenschanz antics.
5. "It's a chip, does this mean I can eat it if I dip it in bean dip?"
4. "I paid $2,000 for this screamer back in 1987. It will blow the socks off anything you will put up against it"
3. "Mine's bigger than yours"
2. "Intel Inside"? Consider that label to be a warning.
1. "Get me a microscope. I'm going to open up my PC and look at my micro-processor.
I've got none available, thanks. I don't consider MSN or that one run by L Ron Hubbard's cult that has Earth in the name. I do, however, have better alternatives that are more expensive.
I wish AOL would fix what they have first before adding new things like this Blogger that others likely do better anyway:
Specifically, their e-mail system:
1) They have absolutely no spam filtering (ability to get only e-mail from approved addresses, or blocking the exact address a spam comes from does not count). The free services have better e-mail than AOL.
2) They don't have a way to download complete intact e-mails (file cabinet does not handle attachments.
3) They have a "feature" that destroys e-mails that are left in the inbox for more than a few weeks. Since they make it tough to download them, this means you have to constantly forward them to yourself to keep them there.
This is not the first such monster attack against New England. I recall something like this reported on a Cincinatti radio station during the 1970's:
"Monster lizard ravages East Coast! Mayors in five New England cities have issued emergency requests for federal disaster relief as a result of a giant lizard that descended on the East Coast last night! Officials say that this lizard, the worst since '78, has devastated transportation, disrupted communication and left many hundreds homeless!"
" No one is saying that geniuses are infertile! The question is whether they continue to be productive after marrying and having kids. "
Frank Lloyd Wright seemed to get more and more creative as time went on (right up until his death), even under the thumb of a somewhat domineering third wife. If anything, he became more focused.
Hawking? I don't think he's a dimbulb now, but who knows?
"And what nation would believe the US is building weapons as a defense against potential celestial bodies that are approaching and not just arming itself for invasion.
The only countries that would have to worry about such an invasion would be the Hitlerian dictatorships. Let 'em worry. That is not a bad thing.
You said "UNIX technology was created for the x86 architecture"
First x86: "The 8086 blasted away at amazing speeds of 4.77 and eventually 8 MHz -- hardly a calculator by today's standards. All this started in 1978."
"LOL. This guy thinks they elected czars by voting in the Russian Empire."
Where did you get your knowledge of history from, Bazooka Joe Comics? The Tsars (or Czars) had already been deposed, and Russia had a democratic government. It was this government (Kerensky), not the Czars, that Lenin overthrew.
(AP) In a related story, SCO took its fight against Linux to Antarctica. Little is known of the results, except that there are rumors of significant reductions in the penguin population."
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"Already, they're wrong...as an attacker, you have to have more armies than dice,"
Indeed! Chalk this one up with the chess article that refers in passing to pawns moving in an "L" pattern, or the video game history article that talks about Pac-Man breaking bigger asteroids into little asteroids.
Next, Science News will publish an article about "Improving the Odds in Clue" that will tell us about good ol Colonel Ketchup in the mud room with the mastadon-leg as the weapon.
If you have multiple boards, you can add to the fun by trying "multiple world" Risk. Either place them side by side (so the Alaska connects to the Kamchata of the other board, and vice versa), or play such that the boards are "stacked" (one Egypt can attack another).
The game makers aren't chasing women. They're designing them instead.
At least this story is from C-Net. If it were from the NYT with a byline by Jayson Blaire (sandwiched between his stories about political upheaval in Grand Fenwick and his new biography of Thomas Crapper), we might have to wonder.
"If you are a 94 year old male with West Nile, AIDS, and SARS who has a bullseye target painted on his back and smokes while eating Big Macs, and you happen to be in a pilotless airplane headed for a mountaintop, and you also enjoy playing Russian Roulette in your leisure time, YES you can get life insurance for just $3 a month."
10. Tin foil helmets will protect us from rays and mind-control particles from microprocessors.
9. Intel from Mars, PPC from Venus
8. No, Porky Pig did not give the PPC its name when he tried to say "PC".
7. Celeron was not named after Celery
6. Go ahead, you can buy a Pentium 3 without worrying that the Blue Man Group will knock on your door and bore you to tears with their post-modern Bolian-hued Mummenschanz antics.
5. "It's a chip, does this mean I can eat it if I dip it in bean dip?"
4. "I paid $2,000 for this screamer back in 1987. It will blow the socks off anything you will put up against it"
3. "Mine's bigger than yours"
2. "Intel Inside"? Consider that label to be a warning.
1. "Get me a microscope. I'm going to open up my PC and look at my micro-processor.
I've got none available, thanks. I don't consider MSN or that one run by L Ron Hubbard's cult that has Earth in the name. I do, however, have better alternatives that are more expensive.
I wish AOL would fix what they have first before adding new things like this Blogger that others likely do better anyway:
Specifically, their e-mail system:
1) They have absolutely no spam filtering (ability to get only e-mail from approved addresses, or blocking the exact address a spam comes from does not count). The free services have better e-mail than AOL.
2) They don't have a way to download complete intact e-mails (file cabinet does not handle attachments.
3) They have a "feature" that destroys e-mails that are left in the inbox for more than a few weeks. Since they make it tough to download them, this means you have to constantly forward them to yourself to keep them there.
You'd better make sure you match velocities correctly, or the result would be like trying to stop a fastball pitch by holding up a kleenex.
This is not the first such monster attack against New England. I recall something like this reported on a Cincinatti radio station during the 1970's:
"Monster lizard ravages East Coast! Mayors in five New England cities have issued emergency requests for federal disaster relief as a result of a giant lizard that descended on the East Coast last night! Officials say that this lizard, the worst since '78, has devastated transportation, disrupted communication and left many hundreds homeless!"
(Les Nessman reporting)
Or was that Affleck? I often confuse these two almost-lifelike media characters.
" No one is saying that geniuses are infertile! The question is whether they continue to be productive after marrying and having kids. "
Frank Lloyd Wright seemed to get more and more creative as time went on (right up until his death), even under the thumb of a somewhat domineering third wife. If anything, he became more focused.
Hawking? I don't think he's a dimbulb now, but who knows?
" But is creative genius affected here or a more digit-headed cerebral genius? Right brain vs. left brain kinda stuff."
Bach's music has always seemed to me more "digital" and mathematical than that of a lot of other composers.
Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking: at least 2 children each.
Hope at least one counts as a notable scientist !!!!
Stephen Hawking? Hard to top his mind among living scientists. 3 children for him.
Einstein? Two sons there.
Frank Lloyd Wright? World's greatest architect (he said so himself, and not many argue with it). 6 children (or was it 7?)
Here are the stats (numbers of children) for the other two composers considered to be of J.S. Bach's stature:
Beethoven: 0
Mozart: 6
It did not take long to come up with a glaring exception: a man recognized as one of the top few composers of all time:
"Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was the most prolific of the great composers. In his 65 years he produced 1,200 musical works and 20 children. You can find his compositions listed in an encyclopedia."
(For the mathematically minded, that's 60 musical works per child. Isn't P.D.Q. #21 ?)
"This is so tiny that it's like considering a single butterfly's wings when forecasting the weather. It's negligible."
Is the weather really better with the Butterfly?
Last time I saw the rainbow-winged dude (on TV, boiling rubber dog bones in the kitchen), he was not so tiny.
"And what nation would believe the US is building weapons as a defense against potential celestial bodies that are approaching and not just arming itself for invasion.
The only countries that would have to worry about such an invasion would be the Hitlerian dictatorships. Let 'em worry. That is not a bad thing.
It's all about money? I thought it was about the cool evening wear of the mascot.
You said "UNIX technology was created for the x86 architecture"
First x86: "The 8086 blasted away at amazing speeds of 4.77 and eventually 8 MHz -- hardly a calculator by today's standards. All this started in 1978."
(check here)
UNIX invented: "An
interactive time-sharing operating system invented in 1969
by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics"
(click here)
I think we started getting bombarded with the cosmic rays shortly after Dick Cheney completed a trade mission to the Galactic Core.
Haliburton is to blame, somehow.
"LOL. This guy thinks they elected czars by voting in the Russian Empire."
Where did you get your knowledge of history from, Bazooka Joe Comics? The Tsars (or Czars) had already been deposed, and Russia had a democratic government. It was this government (Kerensky), not the Czars, that Lenin overthrew.
I know there has been a big boom in the Asian mail-order bride industry, but now McDonald's is involved?
"One extra-large McBride, with hot apple pie. No fries please".
(AP) In a related story, SCO took its fight against Linux to Antarctica. Little is known of the results, except that there are rumors of significant reductions in the penguin population."