$ ed help ? list ? quit ? bye ? die ? FSCK OFF and DIE you fscking BASTARD!!! ? ^C
Actually, substitute the ?s for loud beeps and strange letters flooding the screen, and you've got vi.
It's a great idiot proof tool for making. If you don't care about security, but don't want dangerously unsavvy people to get at the guest account or whatever, just start up vi in the console as you leave the computer, and only those that can prove themselves worthy against the mighty dragon that is vi shall pass.
Where do you get your numbers. I can do things in 20 lines of COBOL that would take 100's of lines in C.And it performs faster then those languages. When you are doing millions of financial calculations and hour, you need reliability and rock solid performance.
Except, in C, you can make order of magnitude millions of financial (or otherwise) calculations a second.
There is however some level of auto moderation in this system, in that if a terrorist is bat fucking crazy enough to attempt to destroy the world, it is very likely their being bat fucking crazy will foil their plans.
It's like a reverse catch 22 or something of that nature.
Terrorists will wait 10 years, and then blow up the gas stores. It'll only take one good hole in the surface above the cavern. A second explosion inside will force the gas out into the atmosphere.
Of course we could plant trees topside.
Uh, what terrorists would these be? I mean, the aim of any terrorist would be at most to topple the evil western empire, not wipe civilization as we know it off the planet.
Terrorists, unlike villains from spy shows from the '60s, have some sort of agenda, they don't sit around in their volcano lair plotting ways of destroying humanity whilst intermittently laughing manically for the sake of it.
Well, for one, it is completely unfalsifiable. In that sense, it's no better or worse than saying God thought it was a burrito and ate it for lunch.
Furthermore, we have no empirical evidence of particles traveling backwards in time. And nothing to indicate that. No reverse causality, or reverse entropy.
So, you are simply exchanging one unanswered question -- where is the antimatter -- for another one -- why is no antimatter created in the future?
Exactly what I thought - what about other sources of mangentic interference (say the motor of an electric vehicle, etc.)?
Most magnetic fields are very weak, unless designed not to be. Most sources of magnetic fields, like transformers and solenoids bleed very little outside their surface, and commonly decay very quickly.
Depending on how this technology works, it may also be possible to effectively filter out any magnetic field not emanating from below (or above) the bus. The induced current in a loop of wire in the same plane as the floor of the bus will have a factor sin(theta), where theta is the angle between the loop and the magnetic field.
117?! This is an overkill. I can boil them down to 3 subatomic particles - electron, proton and neutron. Physicists, feel free to pitch in. Lets get to the bottom of these pesky diseases.
It's icky to compare electrons to protons and neutrons. You really need to break it all down into fermions.
What you'll end up with is Up-quarks, down-quarks and electrons (possibly positrons).
Furthermore, to bind these together, you'll want strong, weak and electromagnetic forces. So, add to that W bosons, Z bosons and photons. Gravity is a non-issue on a subatomic level, so we don't need gravitons. Perhaps Higgs bosons if they do exist.
So basically, TFS says that wikipedia edits are made to a relevant article prior to an event, and therefore, these wikipedia articles were caused by the event.
Come on! Some skepticism please. You need a lot bigger sample size than this to make any sort of statement in either direction.
Oh, and yeah, cue jokes about wikipedia's supposed lack of skepticism.
Or does it? They are putting diet coke on the mentos, not mentos in the diet coke. I imagine drizzling a small amount of diet coke on a mento back here on terra firma is a comparable non-event.
Furthermore, this sort of government nannying leaves people completely unable to judge risks for themselves in the real world.
Sweden is quite adept at this sort of ban-anything-that-could-possibly-be-dangerous lawmaking as well, some times taken to ridiculous extremes, where bridges have fences and cameras so that you can't jump off them, and windows above a certain story can't be opened in case someone gets the idea to jump out a window (both cases are actual suggestions from Swedish lawmakers, I think the bridge fences/cameras have been implemented somewhere.)
It is better to teach people to handle danger themselves, than to shield them from it.
Right now (in Sweden), a generation of kids is growing up who never built tree houses, let alone climbed trees because of the dangers of falling. It's ridiculous, these kids won't be able to function in society when they are adults, because they'll expect everything to be safe.
I'll never trust an image or video ever again. Never. Ever. Make sure you watch the "enhance video of a static scene" clip.
I suspect the main use of this technology will be myspace. Today, girls use strange photo angles to not like a 400 lbs swamp monster. With this technology, they won't have to.
Still, I expected to see more Italian<->British relation/overlap (because of the whole roman deal you mentioned). Looking at British people and Italian people, you can often see the resemblance in facial features hair/skin color, etc. in a way you can't between, say, Italian and German people (naturally, there are Italian looking Germans, but they are to my experience more rare than Britons).
Dear Rick, Will you please linking to your music video everywhere? I have already seen it and it's honestly not -that- good. What is it with you? Anyways, please stop.
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$ ed
help
?
list
?
quit
?
bye
?
die
?
FSCK OFF and DIE you fscking BASTARD!!!
?
^C
Actually, substitute the ?s for loud beeps and strange letters flooding the screen, and you've got vi.
It's a great idiot proof tool for making. If you don't care about security, but don't want dangerously unsavvy people to get at the guest account or whatever, just start up vi in the console as you leave the computer, and only those that can prove themselves worthy against the mighty dragon that is vi shall pass.
Where do you get your numbers. I can do things in 20 lines of COBOL that would take 100's of lines in C.And it performs faster then those languages. When you are doing millions of financial calculations and hour, you need reliability and rock solid performance.
Except, in C, you can make order of magnitude millions of financial (or otherwise) calculations a second.
There is however some level of auto moderation in this system, in that if a terrorist is bat fucking crazy enough to attempt to destroy the world, it is very likely their being bat fucking crazy will foil their plans.
It's like a reverse catch 22 or something of that nature.
Terrorists will wait 10 years, and then blow up the gas stores. It'll only take one good hole in the surface above the cavern. A second explosion inside will force the gas out into the atmosphere.
Of course we could plant trees topside.
Uh, what terrorists would these be? I mean, the aim of any terrorist would be at most to topple the evil western empire, not wipe civilization as we know it off the planet.
Terrorists, unlike villains from spy shows from the '60s, have some sort of agenda, they don't sit around in their volcano lair plotting ways of destroying humanity whilst intermittently laughing manically for the sake of it.
Well, for one, it is completely unfalsifiable. In that sense, it's no better or worse than saying God thought it was a burrito and ate it for lunch.
Furthermore, we have no empirical evidence of particles traveling backwards in time. And nothing to indicate that. No reverse causality, or reverse entropy.
So, you are simply exchanging one unanswered question -- where is the antimatter -- for another one -- why is no antimatter created in the future?
Didn't you get the memo? A meme that is 20+ years old is an old meme. A tired meme. A meme that needs to rest in peace.
My god! It's full of stars!
Exactly what I thought - what about other sources of mangentic interference (say the motor of an electric vehicle, etc.)?
Most magnetic fields are very weak, unless designed not to be. Most sources of magnetic fields, like transformers and solenoids bleed very little outside their surface, and commonly decay very quickly.
Depending on how this technology works, it may also be possible to effectively filter out any magnetic field not emanating from below (or above) the bus. The induced current in a loop of wire in the same plane as the floor of the bus will have a factor sin(theta), where theta is the angle between the loop and the magnetic field.
So what happens when this happens again?
Well, first "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
Otherwise, "Are you sure it's plugged in?"
117?! This is an overkill. I can boil them down to 3 subatomic particles - electron, proton and neutron.
Physicists, feel free to pitch in. Lets get to the bottom of these pesky diseases.
It's icky to compare electrons to protons and neutrons. You really need to break it all down into fermions.
What you'll end up with is Up-quarks, down-quarks and electrons (possibly positrons).
Furthermore, to bind these together, you'll want strong, weak and electromagnetic forces. So, add to that W bosons, Z bosons and photons. Gravity is a non-issue on a subatomic level, so we don't need gravitons. Perhaps Higgs bosons if they do exist.
But still, that's a lot fewer than 117.
Or carry an umbrella?
Aren't we talking about the middle-east anyway? Don't they mostly wear robes which would conceal a lot of the walking mechanics?
The way the world is going, in 10 years umbrellas might as well be classified as "terror paraphernalia," possession punishable by life in prison.
... unless he's using upside-down-ternet.
The Slashdot editors do realize they've posted a British-centric story at 3:44 AM London time...
Ah, but slashdot is news for nerds. It's an integral part of the geek culture to be 6-10 hours out of sync with your timezone.
The relevant XKCD panel is #448.
So basically, TFS says that wikipedia edits are made to a relevant article prior to an event, and therefore, these wikipedia articles were caused by the event.
Come on! Some skepticism please. You need a lot bigger sample size than this to make any sort of statement in either direction.
Oh, and yeah, cue jokes about wikipedia's supposed lack of skepticism.
Or does it? They are putting diet coke on the mentos, not mentos in the diet coke. I imagine drizzling a small amount of diet coke on a mento back here on terra firma is a comparable non-event.
Honestly, anything... even interpretive dance would be more useful than reading them untranslated for Joe Sixpack.
Furthermore, this sort of government nannying leaves people completely unable to judge risks for themselves in the real world.
Sweden is quite adept at this sort of ban-anything-that-could-possibly-be-dangerous lawmaking as well, some times taken to ridiculous extremes, where bridges have fences and cameras so that you can't jump off them, and windows above a certain story can't be opened in case someone gets the idea to jump out a window (both cases are actual suggestions from Swedish lawmakers, I think the bridge fences/cameras have been implemented somewhere.)
It is better to teach people to handle danger themselves, than to shield them from it.
Right now (in Sweden), a generation of kids is growing up who never built tree houses, let alone climbed trees because of the dangers of falling. It's ridiculous, these kids won't be able to function in society when they are adults, because they'll expect everything to be safe.
Takes on a whole new twist if you substitute "breathing" for Gallium Arsenide...
It works pretty well if you substitute Gallium Arsenide for it's molecular formula GaAs too.
No, it's called a millimetre. From the french millimètre.
Say what? The Milli- prefix indicates a power of 10^-3. What's requested is a power of 10^-6, thus, Micro-.
It's called micrometer. I know, that sounds too sciency, sorry.
Meter sounds too European. A five thousand thousandth of a rod is colloquial enough for those imperialists to understand.
I'm on a bandwidth cap you insensitive clo(u)d!
I'll never trust an image or video ever again. Never. Ever. Make sure you watch the "enhance video of a static scene" clip.
I suspect the main use of this technology will be myspace. Today, girls use strange photo angles to not like a 400 lbs swamp monster. With this technology, they won't have to.
I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing.
Still, I expected to see more Italian<->British relation/overlap (because of the whole roman deal you mentioned). Looking at British people and Italian people, you can often see the resemblance in facial features hair/skin color, etc. in a way you can't between, say, Italian and German people (naturally, there are Italian looking Germans, but they are to my experience more rare than Britons).
That's right - they were compassionate.
Compassionate like a 20 feet anaconda trying to hug you to death.
Dear Rick, Will you please linking to your music video everywhere? I have already seen it and it's honestly not -that- good. What is it with you? Anyways, please stop.
~ E.