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Uh, probably not, considering that that chickens don't realize that they are going to be killed, and no chickens are going to survive to remember not to go into the machine. Heck, they're not even smart enough to avoid the people picking their friends up by the legs!
That's my name for some of these breakfast cereals whose two main ingredients are ususally sugar and high fructose corn syrup. It's just sugar, sugar, then you get to the real ingredients. That's why I like my frosted mini wheats. At least they have something left when you remove the sugar (which tastes like straw -- the reason for adding the sugar).
That's because around 5 grams will kill you. I read on a webpage about caffeine that around 80 cups of coffee is lethal times 60 mg caffeine each is 4.8 grams. My high school chem lab has far more pure caffeine than that, so it is reasonable to have that warning. (Not that I know why our chem lab has three bottles of pure caffeine [I'm estimating 300+ grams] but not a pellet of Nickel (II) Chloride, which would make electroplating a hell of a lot easier.) However, it is a little difficult to kill yourself on coffee, assuming it has no side affects. On the same site, I read that around four cups of coffee a day is addictive. But then again my friend drinks Starbucks lattes with eight shots of espresso and doesn't seem to be addicted, considering he can't drive the 20 minutes to the nearest Starbucks every day. It's amazing some of the things he's done, like drinking two of his drinks when he was putting only 7 shots in, then downing two Bawlz in one night/morning.
Now that you said it, someone will decide that they want to port Linux to a Radeon 9800 Pro with the reason of "BECAUSE I CAN!" That person should be definately labeled insane if they attempt it and a genious if they succeed.
Wait, why do the machines need the people? I just watched it a week ago for the first time, and as I understand it, the machines need their body heat. Now is that the most implausable, inefficient way for anything to get energy? And just feeding them human waste is not going to make the system self sufficient. Not only that, but if these machines are so smart, why is the protocol linking the humans' minds to the Matrix hackable? At least that's my theory on how anyone can do those moves. The machines, being aformentionedly stupid, probably contracted Microsoft out to program the Matrix, leaving a secret backend that was eventually found.
Yes, you are branded a daemon and sent back to *nix where you are grepped, killed, modprobed, then forced to do the SAMBA.
(I know that modprobe is Linux, probably not *nix)
It's funny how many environmentalists want everyone to switch to electic cars. The problem is that the electricity comes from coal and oil burning power plants that are far worse than the heavily regulated gasoline cars.
Pres Eckert and John Mauchly were the ones who came up with what is considered to be the Von Neumann Archetecture. They had been working on the ENIAC and were close to finishing when Von Neumann came on, wrote up a paper (~90 pages) on their ideas, and cited them only a couple times. They soon worked on the UNIVAC and used the much more organized archetecture that Von Neumann had written about. The ENIAC was less organized but had a similar idea. The ENIAC had to be rewired for each program, but the UNIVAC didn't and used a memory/cpu archetecture like today. Therefore, it should rightly be called the Eckert/Mauchly Archetecture!
I hear about people debating over dumb things like who discovered America (It was Columbus! No, it was the Vikings! No, it was the Mongols! etc.), who invented the first computer (Eckert and Mauckley! No, it was Attenesoff! [It's been a while and I don't remember the spellings] Etc.), and who invented the telegraph. It's not really that important who invented it because someone would have invented it anyway. There is sort of a critical mass where people realize that "Hey, we need a (insert fabulous invention here)" and someone goes and invents it. Normally, people with the same idea are within a few years of each other, but sometimes its within a few months and other times its whoever can sprint to the patent office faster.
I just discovered these two programs on my computer and I must say that it's the freakiest thing to seek television and movies in ascii art. What's even freakier is that you can actually see the picures (sort of). Sometimes I think to myself why would someone do this and I am reminded of the generic reason for doing anything:
BECAUSE I CAN!
I just got the March edition of CPU and Alex St. John, a columnist for CPU and "...one of the founding creators of Microsoft's DirectX technology" complained that his company's (WildTangent) browser plugin allowing Java developers to create DirectX games. They originally developed it for both Sun and Microsoft Java, but decided to go totally with Microsoft because of size (M$ Java: 3MB vs. Sun Java: 7MB), stability, and ease of extension concerns. He said that Microsoft added extentions that made it easier for developers. So, he complains that his plugin must be re-ported to Sun Java. Personally, I think that he is complaining about what Java was originally intended to be: an OS independant way to create programs. It is understandable that he made a mistake and chose the wrong Java, but to complain about his company losing money when technology is kept standardized is rediculous.
no body has yet figured out how to toast bread perfectly every time. Why don't they put in a light sensor of some sort and measure when the bread is brown enough. It's often too dark, too light, or passable for pencil lead.
I'd think that cable companies would love something like this, where they could stream you televison instead of constantly broadcasting it. It would probably save them gazillions of dollars to only send people the programs they want to watch because they would have to spend so much less on getting enough bandwidth. Not only that, but you could decide whether you want to stick commercials into the stream (as they do now) or for you to pay a higher rate. You could pay by the shows you watch, too. But of course, they wouldn't be able to rip people off constantly.
Uranus needs another moon like Windows needs another security hole and GNU/Linux needs another window manager. What I want to see is someone find a way to get Earth another moon. We Americans can beat someone else to set foot on the Moon V2.0, probably the Japanese. If it's closer than a three days ride, we could put a nice resort on there. I wonder how MoonDisney would fare...
I read somewhere that all new software should be install in/usr/local to make sure that you could track the changes. Of course this would not help for configuration files, but maybe you could do a cron job to backup or diff/etc. I don't really know because I'm not a sysadmin (for anyone but myself) and not even that knowledgable about *nix. Anyway, that's my 2 cents.
I know what I would be doing if I didn't need money. I'd be programming! I know that it's not as glamorous as building a racetrack, but I'm a very boring guy who is easily amused. So, that's what I would do.
I made a trebuchet a couple years ago when I was still tinkering with Legos. I was about fourteen when I built it. It was about two feet high (to the axle) and shot marbles across my living room about 20 feet. I had a lot of fun with it before I dismantled it. My work on a 4 foot high (again, to the axle), stalled when my throwing arm broke (it was flimsy wood anyway). I am going to get a new arm and finish it soon. I have two cheap 25lb. workout weights that I want to use as a counterweight. I know that a bucket would work better, but I'm not an engineer!
Are they going to store this info on Microsoft servers? I wonder if Microsoft is going to require that you be always connected to a Microsoft server, using content approved by them and any friends they have in Hollywood.
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Uh, probably not, considering that that chickens don't realize that they are going to be killed, and no chickens are going to survive to remember not to go into the machine. Heck, they're not even smart enough to avoid the people picking their friends up by the legs!
That's my name for some of these breakfast cereals whose two main ingredients are ususally sugar and high fructose corn syrup. It's just sugar, sugar, then you get to the real ingredients. That's why I like my frosted mini wheats. At least they have something left when you remove the sugar (which tastes like straw -- the reason for adding the sugar).
That's because around 5 grams will kill you. I read on a webpage about caffeine that around 80 cups of coffee is lethal times 60 mg caffeine each is 4.8 grams. My high school chem lab has far more pure caffeine than that, so it is reasonable to have that warning. (Not that I know why our chem lab has three bottles of pure caffeine [I'm estimating 300+ grams] but not a pellet of Nickel (II) Chloride, which would make electroplating a hell of a lot easier.) However, it is a little difficult to kill yourself on coffee, assuming it has no side affects. On the same site, I read that around four cups of coffee a day is addictive. But then again my friend drinks Starbucks lattes with eight shots of espresso and doesn't seem to be addicted, considering he can't drive the 20 minutes to the nearest Starbucks every day. It's amazing some of the things he's done, like drinking two of his drinks when he was putting only 7 shots in, then downing two Bawlz in one night/morning.
Now that you said it, someone will decide that they want to port Linux to a Radeon 9800 Pro with the reason of "BECAUSE I CAN!" That person should be definately labeled insane if they attempt it and a genious if they succeed.
Wait, why do the machines need the people? I just watched it a week ago for the first time, and as I understand it, the machines need their body heat. Now is that the most implausable, inefficient way for anything to get energy? And just feeding them human waste is not going to make the system self sufficient. Not only that, but if these machines are so smart, why is the protocol linking the humans' minds to the Matrix hackable? At least that's my theory on how anyone can do those moves. The machines, being aformentionedly stupid, probably contracted Microsoft out to program the Matrix, leaving a secret backend that was eventually found.
Yes, you are branded a daemon and sent back to *nix where you are grepped, killed, modprobed, then forced to do the SAMBA. (I know that modprobe is Linux, probably not *nix)
It's funny how many environmentalists want everyone to switch to electic cars. The problem is that the electricity comes from coal and oil burning power plants that are far worse than the heavily regulated gasoline cars.
Pres Eckert and John Mauchly were the ones who came up with what is considered to be the Von Neumann Archetecture. They had been working on the ENIAC and were close to finishing when Von Neumann came on, wrote up a paper (~90 pages) on their ideas, and cited them only a couple times. They soon worked on the UNIVAC and used the much more organized archetecture that Von Neumann had written about. The ENIAC was less organized but had a similar idea. The ENIAC had to be rewired for each program, but the UNIVAC didn't and used a memory/cpu archetecture like today. Therefore, it should rightly be called the Eckert/Mauchly Archetecture!
I hear about people debating over dumb things like who discovered America (It was Columbus! No, it was the Vikings! No, it was the Mongols! etc.), who invented the first computer (Eckert and Mauckley! No, it was Attenesoff! [It's been a while and I don't remember the spellings] Etc.), and who invented the telegraph. It's not really that important who invented it because someone would have invented it anyway. There is sort of a critical mass where people realize that "Hey, we need a (insert fabulous invention here)" and someone goes and invents it. Normally, people with the same idea are within a few years of each other, but sometimes its within a few months and other times its whoever can sprint to the patent office faster.
I just discovered these two programs on my computer and I must say that it's the freakiest thing to seek television and movies in ascii art. What's even freakier is that you can actually see the picures (sort of). Sometimes I think to myself why would someone do this and I am reminded of the generic reason for doing anything: BECAUSE I CAN!
I just got the March edition of CPU and Alex St. John, a columnist for CPU and "...one of the founding creators of Microsoft's DirectX technology" complained that his company's (WildTangent) browser plugin allowing Java developers to create DirectX games. They originally developed it for both Sun and Microsoft Java, but decided to go totally with Microsoft because of size (M$ Java: 3MB vs. Sun Java: 7MB), stability, and ease of extension concerns. He said that Microsoft added extentions that made it easier for developers. So, he complains that his plugin must be re-ported to Sun Java. Personally, I think that he is complaining about what Java was originally intended to be: an OS independant way to create programs. It is understandable that he made a mistake and chose the wrong Java, but to complain about his company losing money when technology is kept standardized is rediculous.
no body has yet figured out how to toast bread perfectly every time. Why don't they put in a light sensor of some sort and measure when the bread is brown enough. It's often too dark, too light, or passable for pencil lead.
I'd think that cable companies would love something like this, where they could stream you televison instead of constantly broadcasting it. It would probably save them gazillions of dollars to only send people the programs they want to watch because they would have to spend so much less on getting enough bandwidth. Not only that, but you could decide whether you want to stick commercials into the stream (as they do now) or for you to pay a higher rate. You could pay by the shows you watch, too. But of course, they wouldn't be able to rip people off constantly.
Uranus needs another moon like Windows needs another security hole and GNU/Linux needs another window manager. What I want to see is someone find a way to get Earth another moon. We Americans can beat someone else to set foot on the Moon V2.0, probably the Japanese. If it's closer than a three days ride, we could put a nice resort on there. I wonder how MoonDisney would fare...
I read somewhere that all new software should be install in /usr/local to make sure that you could track the changes. Of course this would not help for configuration files, but maybe you could do a cron job to backup or diff /etc. I don't really know because I'm not a sysadmin (for anyone but myself) and not even that knowledgable about *nix. Anyway, that's my 2 cents.
I know what I would be doing if I didn't need money. I'd be programming! I know that it's not as glamorous as building a racetrack, but I'm a very boring guy who is easily amused. So, that's what I would do.
I made a trebuchet a couple years ago when I was still tinkering with Legos. I was about fourteen when I built it. It was about two feet high (to the axle) and shot marbles across my living room about 20 feet. I had a lot of fun with it before I dismantled it. My work on a 4 foot high (again, to the axle), stalled when my throwing arm broke (it was flimsy wood anyway). I am going to get a new arm and finish it soon. I have two cheap 25lb. workout weights that I want to use as a counterweight. I know that a bucket would work better, but I'm not an engineer!
Are they going to store this info on Microsoft servers? I wonder if Microsoft is going to require that you be always connected to a Microsoft server, using content approved by them and any friends they have in Hollywood.