Considering the original Star Wars had Obi Wan Kenobi living in a cave in the Desert, The Empire Strikes Back had Yoda living in a swampy hellhole, and the entire Trilogy had Anakin Skywalker be Darth Vader (spoiler: except for the last few minutes), evil number 2 of a galactic empire, I assume that the good guys all stay undestroyed, with the exception of Anakin's lungs. These will attempt to burst through his chest in an effort to stop him having yet another rage of raging rage, but Emperor Palpitating will perform a quick lung bypass operation using a cloud of midichlorians, an old vacuum cleaner and a packet of cigarettes (not 'lights', sillies, nor filters). The only Jedi's to be totally destroyed by bad guys will be the faceless ones; SLJ and any other sympathetic characters who simply have to go will sacrifice themselves valiantly.
I can imagine that works in Tokyo. But I bet if the average free speech slashdotter were to put out a box, with stamps, they would take care to put it in front of someone elses place; just in case a free beer slashdotter came by and took the stamps but not the junk PC.
The short explanation: Geological processes are slow. So was Multics. (The word Unix is a joke on the word Multics, a dinosaur of an OS)
But the reason it is rated up as funny may be because some people understood the context. Roger Needham was at the time the head of the Computer Laboratory in Cambridge. Both Needham (now head of the MS lab in Cambs) and the town (in the context of the Hawking item) have been mentioned here on/. in the last couple of days. The funny part is, we undergraduates took a long while to realise that he was making a joke - he had not made one in the previous lectures, and he said it in an absolutely deadpan voice. So a class of about 40-50 Cambridge Computer Science Diploma postgrad students sat there for about 2-3 seconds before we realised the joke.
To anyone other than the asker reading this: isn't it odd how explaining a joke makes it no longer funny? And to the AC: it's only +4 and it should be to RN's Karma, since its not my joke.
So I'd fit weight-wise - if I went slower than others I would blame it on wind resistance - but the centre of gravity (compared to walking) would move down only very slightly if at all.
Back of envelope calculation, assuming 100kg guy, 180cm tall, CoG at beer belly-height (my shape:), 1m, and a 'keel' keeping machine CoG at virtualy zero distance from the ground (presumably a 33.333 kg black hole engine, watch the scrape marks). 100kg now at 120cm, 33.333 at 0, (120 x 100 + 33 x 0) / 133 = 90ish. That is a minimum (standing).
So as far as Centre of Gravity is concerned, it would be no better than wearing heavy stage boots. And bicycles work by taking advantage of our sense of balance; you may not forget how to ride them but it is surprisingly hard to ride 'no hands' when you haven't cycled for a long time. Those weird and scary lay-back bikes must have a lower CoG, but they certainly don't look any more stable to me!
Having said all that to prove I truly am a nerd, efficiency is way more important, both fuel and time-wise. Better (medium range) mass transport in combination with better (long range)communication would help to make this work for short ranges by allowing people to drop their cars.
I'm not sure how much storage Deep Thought had, but certainly the computer it was priviliged to design has more than any database on this planet - by definition, since that database is simply a subsystem!
Even more impressively it compresses down to just two (base 13) nibbles: 42.
... albeit using Delphi:)...
1. I hope that this is a good addition to JBuilder and makes life easier for developers using it;
2. Would like to see a profiler (officially) back in Delphi. Turbo Profiler seems never to have been made 32 bit;
3. Can recommend the (free and open source) GpProfile by Primoz Gabrijelcic, even if it is instrumenting (i.e. modifies the source code).
Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book is nice and free:
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165f/
Downloadable as a bunch of.pdf.gz files (1 per chapter)
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Considering the original Star Wars had Obi Wan Kenobi living in a cave in the Desert, The Empire Strikes Back had Yoda living in a swampy hellhole, and the entire Trilogy had Anakin Skywalker be Darth Vader (spoiler: except for the last few minutes), evil number 2 of a galactic empire, I assume that the good guys all stay undestroyed, with the exception of Anakin's lungs. These will attempt to burst through his chest in an effort to stop him having yet another rage of raging rage, but Emperor Palpitating will perform a quick lung bypass operation using a cloud of midichlorians, an old vacuum cleaner and a packet of cigarettes (not 'lights', sillies, nor filters). The only Jedi's to be totally destroyed by bad guys will be the faceless ones; SLJ and any other sympathetic characters who simply have to go will sacrifice themselves valiantly.
I can imagine that works in Tokyo. But I bet if the average free speech slashdotter were to put out a box, with stamps, they would take care to put it in front of someone elses place; just in case a free beer slashdotter came by and took the stamps but not the junk PC.
But the reason it is rated up as funny may be because some people understood the context. Roger Needham was at the time the head of the Computer Laboratory in Cambridge. Both Needham (now head of the MS lab in Cambs) and the town (in the context of the Hawking item) have been mentioned here on /. in the last couple of days. The funny part is, we undergraduates took a long while to realise that he was making a joke - he had not made one in the previous lectures, and he said it in an absolutely deadpan voice. So a class of about 40-50 Cambridge Computer Science Diploma postgrad students sat there for about 2-3 seconds before we realised the joke.
To anyone other than the asker reading this: isn't it odd how explaining a joke makes it no longer funny? And to the AC: it's only +4 and it should be to RN's Karma, since its not my joke.
Multics was an operating system designed for the real-time simulation of geological processes.
It took us a while for it to sink in before we worked it out.
From their site:
- Payload: Passenger: 250 lbs. (110 kg)
- Cargo: 75 lbs. (34 kg)
- Space: Platform height: 8 inches (20 cm)
- Weight: 80 lbs. (36 kg)
So I'd fit weight-wise - if I went slower than others I would blame it on wind resistance - but the centre of gravity (compared to walking) would move down only very slightly if at all.Back of envelope calculation, assuming 100kg guy, 180cm tall, CoG at beer belly-height (my shape :), 1m, and a 'keel' keeping machine CoG at virtualy zero distance from the ground (presumably a 33.333 kg black hole engine, watch the scrape marks). 100kg now at 120cm, 33.333 at 0, (120 x 100 + 33 x 0) / 133 = 90ish. That is a minimum (standing).
So as far as Centre of Gravity is concerned, it would be no better than wearing heavy stage boots. And bicycles work by taking advantage of our sense of balance; you may not forget how to ride them but it is surprisingly hard to ride 'no hands' when you haven't cycled for a long time. Those weird and scary lay-back bikes must have a lower CoG, but they certainly don't look any more stable to me!
Having said all that to prove I truly am a nerd, efficiency is way more important, both fuel and time-wise. Better (medium range) mass transport in combination with better (long range)communication would help to make this work for short ranges by allowing people to drop their cars.
Secondly: Please do NOT moderate this up as funny. This is written on a PC with such a SIS MoBo, AMD K6-2 500 and a PCI TNT. Sulk, pout.
I'm not sure how much storage Deep Thought had, but certainly the computer it was priviliged to design has more than any database on this planet - by definition, since that database is simply a subsystem! Even more impressively it compresses down to just two (base 13) nibbles: 42.
... albeit using Delphi :) ...
1. I hope that this is a good addition to JBuilder and makes life easier for developers using it;
2. Would like to see a profiler (officially) back in Delphi. Turbo Profiler seems never to have been made 32 bit;
3. Can recommend the (free and open source) GpProfile by Primoz Gabrijelcic, even if it is instrumenting (i.e. modifies the source code).
Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book is nice and free: http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165f/ Downloadable as a bunch of .pdf.gz files (1 per chapter)
If it is then 'Here is a summary of the original aricle' has been missed. They are more common...
0. Summaries of basic categories expected :)