Well, many thousands of years from now, when we start to run out of hydrogen (oceans are big) for our fusion plants, we might just start fusing helium. Think of "hydrogen" as being the first easiest stepping stone... but everything upto Iron can be fused:-)
By the time hydrogen runs out, we'd likely be burning through the gasses of Jupiter, and looking for other solar systems to colonise.
I got my EeePC a day after it first came out, and... I won't be buying another one for a while. Not because of the OS (Ubuntu runs so much better on EeePC than whatever crap Asus shipped), but because of keyboard. The right shift key is on top of the up-arrow key!
I was looking for a netbook recently, went around stores to try out typing on different ones, and it seems that outside of a few manufacturers (Samsumg and HP) all the netbooks [even the new ones from Asus!] suffer from the same broken keyboard design [and manufacturers that have `ok' keyboards suck in some other ways]. So... I'll stick with my overpriced and fragile Thinkpad X running Ubuntu for the time being.
More interesting: now that we know how to make these, we might find these already on our planet (left by a super intelligent species who abandoned our planet a billion years ago:-)
This -could- be interesting. What if you could upload a Java Applet and have it sold for you by Sun/Oracle... I'd imagine there are more Java Applets on the Internet than there are apps in the Apple store. Also, there are way more Java programmers than Objective-C ones (or anyone who programs Apple stuff, for that matter).
Eh? the 'n' in memcpy call is number of -bytes-. not "things" you're trying to copy. it doesn't matter if you give it an array of signed 8 bit characters and copy it over to 32bit unsigned longs... you just specify n to be number of -bytes- to copy.
I think point is that out of millions of folks "connected" to the game at any given time, each one should be able to "find" the other in the game world.
They can also enforce collision detection among players, so you wouldn't be able to fit hundreds of folks in the same "space". Though they'd have to make entrances, and any game enclosures huge enough for lots of folks to visit comfortably without pushing... But then it's all virtual, so building something 100x as `large' isn't that big of an issue.
well (joke, becoming a hypothetical example) this may be a form of consumption tax, where body weight increase implies higher consumption, thus, higher tax. more often than not this would be fat related.
The 2-year-old-kid case someone else mentioned; if IRS handles that, then you don't pay mass-tax until you start earning income---at which point if you're still gaining mass, then the higher tax would apply.
(wow, that's a messed up tax idea... but, eh, some real ones are even wackier than that)
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...and I'll upgrade my car when my Model-T stops running :^)
Well, many thousands of years from now, when we start to run out of hydrogen (oceans are big) for our fusion plants, we might just start fusing helium. Think of "hydrogen" as being the first easiest stepping stone... but everything upto Iron can be fused :-)
By the time hydrogen runs out, we'd likely be burning through the gasses of Jupiter, and looking for other solar systems to colonise.
...if the Telcos will litigate Google
Sadly, you won't be able to find said Telcos on the Internet... :-/
I got my EeePC a day after it first came out, and... I won't be buying another one for a while. Not because of the OS (Ubuntu runs so much better on EeePC than whatever crap Asus shipped), but because of keyboard. The right shift key is on top of the up-arrow key!
I was looking for a netbook recently, went around stores to try out typing on different ones, and it seems that outside of a few manufacturers (Samsumg and HP) all the netbooks [even the new ones from Asus!] suffer from the same broken keyboard design [and manufacturers that have `ok' keyboards suck in some other ways]. So... I'll stick with my overpriced and fragile Thinkpad X running Ubuntu for the time being.
More interesting: now that we know how to make these, we might find these already on our planet (left by a super intelligent species who abandoned our planet a billion years ago :-)
Oh, no, these places -help- to spread the word by removing roadblocks to scientific research. /sarcasm
...no wonder you can't stop at just 1 :-)
RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (it's company wide...)
Maybe they'll all be playing ghosts?
O_o
$ ssh -V
OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003
This -could- be interesting. What if you could upload a Java Applet and have it sold for you by Sun/Oracle... I'd imagine there are more Java Applets on the Internet than there are apps in the Apple store. Also, there are way more Java programmers than Objective-C ones (or anyone who programs Apple stuff, for that matter).
I say go with Shock Pants... Works on employees too!
Eh? the 'n' in memcpy call is number of -bytes-. not "things" you're trying to copy. it doesn't matter if you give it an array of signed 8 bit characters and copy it over to 32bit unsigned longs... you just specify n to be number of -bytes- to copy.
How can this be confusing?
Exactly! You want to copy n bytes from src to dest. Why should the -size- of the buffers matter at all?
Don't $HOSTILEs already do that, by hanging around the summoning stone?
I think point is that out of millions of folks "connected" to the game at any given time, each one should be able to "find" the other in the game world.
They can also enforce collision detection among players, so you wouldn't be able to fit hundreds of folks in the same "space". Though they'd have to make entrances, and any game enclosures huge enough for lots of folks to visit comfortably without pushing... But then it's all virtual, so building something 100x as `large' isn't that big of an issue.
well (joke, becoming a hypothetical example) this may be a form of consumption tax, where body weight increase implies higher consumption, thus, higher tax. more often than not this would be fat related.
The 2-year-old-kid case someone else mentioned; if IRS handles that, then you don't pay mass-tax until you start earning income---at which point if you're still gaining mass, then the higher tax would apply.
(wow, that's a messed up tax idea... but, eh, some real ones are even wackier than that)
tax people in proportion to the weight they gain year by year. see how popular -that- tax will be!
Step. ? Revolution?
Step ?+1: Profit!
*kicks rock, wishes for holodeck*
...unless you're already in one.
Something Mythbusters should take on!
...also, who is this General Failure, and why is he reading my hard disk?
Kinda like Schrodinger's cat... except there are two of them! Do they exist if they only observe each other?
I think he said something along the lines of: MS hates it when Windows is pirated, but if an OS has to be pirated, they'd rather it be Windows.