Fermat's Last Theorem is a theorem. It's been proved. Before Wiles' proof, it could have been called "Fermat's Last Conjecture". But it is now a theorem.
Clarke explicitly stated (in "The Lost Worlds of 2001), and had Chandra state in 2010, that it was a coincidence. He said had he realized it at the time he would have changed the name, because IBM had been extremely helpful during the development of 2001.
HAL stands for Heuristic ALgorithmic. In 2010, one of the characters comments that you could hear Chandra capitalize the letters when he says the phrase.
My daughter was at the right age, but Disney had not re-released "The Little Mermaid" on VHS. I wanted to buy a copy (packaging, coupons, not to mention "doing the right thing"), but couldn't. So I got a copy made from a friends laserdisc (remember those?).
By the time they did put it back on the market, my kids were too old for me to consider buying it.
Besides, the guys who hijacked the planes on 9/11 didn't use fake ID.
Agreed. I always thought one of the stupidest rules they came up with after 9/11 was "Only ticketed passengers past security".
HELLO! The hijackers had tickets! This is just part of the mentality to show that they're Doing Something! Anything(tm)...
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Reminds me of when I was at college (WUSTL). Some buddies stole HN03, H2S04 and HCl from the lab so they could make nitroglycerin. DISCLAIMER: IANAChemist, so I have no clue if they really needed those three for that.
Anyway, they wound up dropping acid on beetles. Of course, somebody knocked over one of the bottles, and it ate away a 6 ft^2 area of the carpet all the way to the concrete. before somebody got some baking soda to dump on it.
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To hell with Moore's Law. Could somebody explain Amdahl's Law to me?
Fermat's Last Theorem is a theorem. It's been proved. Before Wiles' proof, it could have been called "Fermat's Last Conjecture". But it is now a theorem.
Personally, I would love to see an OS take advantage of more than 2 of the 4 "rings" an x86 processor has.
Can you say OS/2?
Yep. NT3.51 had a rock solid reputation that I haven't seen on an NT system since (though W2KSP2 comes fairly close).
I had MSDN Universal at the time. NT4 had all four architectures: MIPS, Alpha, PPC, and x86.
Clarke explicitly stated (in "The Lost Worlds of 2001), and had Chandra state in 2010, that it was a coincidence. He said had he realized it at the time he would have changed the name, because IBM had been extremely helpful during the development of 2001.
HAL stands for Heuristic ALgorithmic. In 2010, one of the characters comments that you could hear Chandra capitalize the letters when he says the phrase.
"We expect all of our customers to install the security fixes,"
Except for our own people, in the case of Slammer!
Yes.
Maybe they'll get Microsoft to fully document NTFS!
I usually get "You work with computers. Can you fix my problem with ?"
My stock answer is, "Sorry, I don't know AOL." (AOL is the #1 thing I'm asked about).
Alternatively, I tell them that my rate is $100/hr. (A few people I do freebies for, but that's another story).
You might like this site. We hang out there and nitpick stuff like movies, Star Trek, etc...
Same thing with me... only it was a Disney video.
My daughter was at the right age, but Disney had not re-released "The Little Mermaid" on VHS. I wanted to buy a copy (packaging, coupons, not to mention "doing the right thing"), but couldn't. So I got a copy made from a friends laserdisc (remember those?).
By the time they did put it back on the market, my kids were too old for me to consider buying it.
No. If I was new, I'd have read your entire post before replying :-P </HUMOR>
Maybe he needs his membership processed NOW! And a 5us delay will blow up the club???</HUMOR>
HUMOR tags provided to accomodate the humor impaired, as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
I had an Am586-133. 486 socket compatible, 486 instruction set (with a few others like CPUID). Roughly equivalent in performance to a P5-75.
Why stop there (yeah, I know... because THG only went to 100MHz)?
Why not go to 64Kbit DIP DRAMs! Anyone else remember populating an AST SixPack with those?
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you!
But what does the New World Man do?
You're new here, aren't you?
I know you're not being serious and yes I did see the implied <HUMOR> tags, but he's got a 5 digit ID.
(Don't those stupid intern commercials make you wish they'd bring the Dell Dude back?)
Because, "Dude, he's getting a (jail) Cell!"
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IEEE is an international organization.
IEEE-USA is the US arm of the IEEE.
Maybe because many products don't make license info available?
Tell me where, on Microsoft's website, I can find a copy of the license for Windows XP Home Upgrade Edition.
If you have AIDS, anyone who you fuck should be told anyway.
But I don't fuck my employer. Why should my employer know that I have cancer/am diabetic/am HIV positive/have [INSERT MEDICAL CONDITION HERE]?
I've found that a lot of companies have their IT department running one version of OS with a Google browser
WTF is a "Google Browser"?? I thought Google was a search engine!
Besides, the guys who hijacked the planes on 9/11 didn't use fake ID.
Agreed. I always thought one of the stupidest rules they came up with after 9/11 was "Only ticketed passengers past security".
HELLO! The hijackers had tickets! This is just part of the mentality to show that they're Doing Something! Anything(tm)...
Reminds me of when I was at college (WUSTL). Some buddies stole HN03, H2S04 and HCl from the lab so they could make nitroglycerin. DISCLAIMER: IANAChemist, so I have no clue if they really needed those three for that.
Anyway, they wound up dropping acid on beetles. Of course, somebody knocked over one of the bottles, and it ate away a 6 ft^2 area of the carpet all the way to the concrete. before somebody got some baking soda to dump on it.
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