And now I'd like to complain about the increasing retard-ification of our society. How can people be unable to choose a few non-obvious passwords (hell, just some random sequences of alphanumeric characters will do) and remember them with a mnemonic device? Why must we create an authentication system geared to the stupid so they can easily exist among us? Maybe they'd smarten up if they chose "password" as their password and had their checking account cleaned out for the third time as a result.
You could make a much more general point out of this. There used to be a mechanism called natural selection, to ensure that only the most able would survive. By luser-friendly technologies we are in fact driving the mankind into a de-evolution.
By the way, the reason there are so many geeks around is an interesting case of natural selection. When the more athletic of cavemen went for a hunt, they ordered the more skinny ones to guard the cave and the women and children inside. Well, while the thugs were out there killing innocent animals, us geeks made it sure that we'd become Homo Sapiens, not Homo Athleticus.
The number of the beast is VI VI VI. Guess that explains it all.
OK, actually that is wrong and the number of the Gates^W Beast is six hundred sixty-six. You can get it from the phrase VICARIVS FILII DEI (Vicar of the Son of God) and using I=1, V=5, L=50, C=100, D=500.
Secant, cosine, tangent, sine
Three point one four one five nine
E to the x dx dy
Radical transcendental pi
Two point seven one eight two eight
Come on folks, let's integrate!
The article states the foam is 4-5 times better than copper, and 3 1/2 times better than aluminum at conducting heat.
I think the article said, the material is 5 times better than copper, but an experiment with heat sinks only shows an improvement of 3 1/2. This may be true if the material has a preferred direction of best conductivity, which I suspect is the case. (An analogy is the tensile strength of glass fiber in different directions.)
I also suspect that the heatsink problem has other limiting factors besides the heatsink itself. For example in a computer you have to take into account the conductivity of the processor itself.
What I fancy is a realtime NetHack with a 3D Quake-style interface to the game. Of course you will lose a lot when going realtime, but then you could add things like multiple players over the net. In fact I have the feeling something like this has already been done. Anyone have pointers?
Each command ('h' for left, for instance) is a string you have to enter into the game. It's a normal line input and you see what you're typing. Therefore you can also Backspace to remove unwanted commands before ing them.
This is my first exposure to Sokoban and I'm already addicted.. well probably because it's hacked in sed. My 2 Eurocents on this game are that it's easier than it seems. Because in many games of this sort, you have to rely on other 'blocks' (or whatever they happen to be) to utilize others, so you have to plan things carefully. But in Sokoban, it seems, other blocks are simply on your way, and it's best to get the easy ones first. Or can someone prove me wrong?
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If you read through sokoban.sed, you'll find it's partly based on VIM Sokoban (at least the levels). Also the movements are HJKL and quitting is with:q.
What is wrong with you Americans? Every civilized person knows that Santa lives in Lapland, Northern Finland. So Nokia and Linux are not Finland's only gifts to the world.
Interesting point. Can we do networking over SATA? Now that would bang the shit out of my measly 10-baseT. Why do we need all these O(10^2) standards anyway? How about a single interface for everything, it can't be that hard.
"What happens if a big asteroid hits the Earth? Judging from realistic
simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can
assume it will be pretty bad." -- Dave Barry
I only know it from the user's point of view and can't tell much more. They also have dedicated clusters (i.e. no desktop usage). Both kinds of clusters run Linux but they probably have others as well (it's a huge organization, about 7 kpeople, so I don't know everything:-). Maybe the cerh.ch webpages and/or google will lead you further.
I sometimes think Windows is an inside joke and Mr. Gates et al are laughing their asses off. The problem is that Windows has gotten too big and too many people/organizations rely on it, so it's impossible for them to come out and say "Just kidding!".
On the other hand, if you really think about it, the whole of Western society is just a big joke. But that only makes sense in connection to M$.
Wrong! I have handled those 5.25" disks myself, though my first disk drive was for 'micro floppies' (you know what that means). Before that I only had machines with tape drives.
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You could make a much more general point out of this. There used to be a mechanism called natural selection, to ensure that only the most able would survive. By luser-friendly technologies we are in fact driving the mankind into a de-evolution.
By the way, the reason there are so many geeks around is an interesting case of natural selection. When the more athletic of cavemen went for a hunt, they ordered the more skinny ones to guard the cave and the women and children inside. Well, while the thugs were out there killing innocent animals, us geeks made it sure that we'd become Homo Sapiens, not Homo Athleticus.
OK, actually that is wrong and the number of the Gates^W Beast is six hundred sixty-six. You can get it from the phrase VICARIVS FILII DEI (Vicar of the Son of God) and using I=1, V=5, L=50, C=100, D=500.
Secant, cosine, tangent, sine
Three point one four one five nine
E to the x dx dy
Radical transcendental pi
Two point seven one eight two eight
Come on folks, let's integrate!
If I lived in the US I might actually vote with my feet. Or, rather, with my airline ticket if they let me and all my cybernetic implants through.
On a side note, I might want to ask the Americans who come up with bills like this one: "What part of 'Land of the Free' did you not understand?"
I think the article said, the material is 5 times better than copper, but an experiment with heat sinks only shows an improvement of 3 1/2. This may be true if the material has a preferred direction of best conductivity, which I suspect is the case. (An analogy is the tensile strength of glass fiber in different directions.)
I also suspect that the heatsink problem has other limiting factors besides the heatsink itself. For example in a computer you have to take into account the conductivity of the processor itself.
Copper is a better conductor of heat than aluminium. 'nuff said.
Anyone else reminded of the movie Brainstorm? This soulds like the step in the right (?) direction.
What I fancy is a realtime NetHack with a 3D Quake-style interface to the game. Of course you will lose a lot when going realtime, but then you could add things like multiple players over the net. In fact I have the feeling something like this has already been done. Anyone have pointers?
Besides, isn't it already stupid to talk about email even when it's going through fiber?
Except the copyright, which is there automatically for everything you write.
A 'truly free' program cannot be under any license.
Then again, I'm off for a holiday just on the day before.. great timing :-/ (I'm studying in Cambridge).
Each command ('h' for left, for instance) is a string you have to enter into the game. It's a normal line input and you see what you're typing. Therefore you can also Backspace to remove unwanted commands before ing them.
This is my first exposure to Sokoban and I'm already addicted.. well probably because it's hacked in sed. My 2 Eurocents on this game are that it's easier than it seems. Because in many games of this sort, you have to rely on other 'blocks' (or whatever they happen to be) to utilize others, so you have to plan things carefully. But in Sokoban, it seems, other blocks are simply on your way, and it's best to get the easy ones first. Or can someone prove me wrong?
If you read through sokoban.sed, you'll find it's partly based on VIM Sokoban (at least the levels). Also the movements are HJKL and quitting is with :q.
Are those the things with IC circuits on them?
What is wrong with you Americans? Every civilized person knows that Santa lives in Lapland, Northern Finland. So Nokia and Linux are not Finland's only gifts to the world.
Interesting point. Can we do networking over SATA? Now that would bang the shit out of my measly 10-baseT. Why do we need all these O(10^2) standards anyway? How about a single interface for everything, it can't be that hard.
"What happens if a big asteroid hits the Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad." -- Dave Barry
The first name of the cyberpunk writer Stephenson is
Spell checker becomes more purposful.
at weekends I make-up as an MP.
I only know it from the user's point of view and can't tell much more. They also have dedicated clusters (i.e. no desktop usage). Both kinds of clusters run Linux but they probably have others as well (it's a huge organization, about 7 kpeople, so I don't know everything :-). Maybe the cerh.ch webpages and/or google will lead you further.
On the other hand, if you really think about it, the whole of Western society is just a big joke. But that only makes sense in connection to M$.
<sarcasm>
I have a leather jacket older than you, so shut up!
</sarcasm>