They've got plenty of characteristics: You've got phase, amplitude, wavelength, direction and polarization.
Anyways, this has that april fools funky science written all over it. The ability to emit controlled, discrete photons goes against (my understanding of) quantum physics.
BULLSHIT! ZOMBIES ATE MY NEIGHBORS IS A GREAT GAME!
Seriously. I like that game. It has nice music too. The article refers to its levels as being all essentially the same, but that's not really true. There aren't bosses at the end of levels either. I wonder if they actually played the game.
The article is also completely oblivious of how it's a spoof of cheesy horror movies of the 80's and 90's. Which is absolutely groundbreaking. Any game taken at face value without any sort of cultural circumstance is going to look ridiculous.
I personally think whoever wrote the article just went through a list of games, picked out those who looked silly, and then badmouthed them without ever really playing them, thinking they could get away with it because nobody plays them anymore.
I'm pretty sure MacGyver did his own 1985 census with a paperclip, a piece of scotch tape, and 3 guys he found standing outside a Home Depot in Tucson.
No, that was his manned lunar mission. He made the consensus with a rolled up newspaper, an apple and an old rusty cookie jar.
Any time we replaced a hard drive in anyone's computer, the old drive was wiped according to US Department of Defense clearing standard DOD 5220.22-M. This is a rather intensive operation, and plenty of old hard drives didn't survive it. Any drive that failed got chucked into a 55-gallon drum that sat next to the wiping station. When the drum was full it was taken to a scrap yard and two company employees watched as each drive was fed into a metal shredder, one drive at a time.
Funny part is that shredding a hard drive will not destroy the data. It is at least theoretically possible to restore the information therein. Extremely time consuming, and most likely doomed to fail? Yes. Impossible? No. The only viable way of completely and utterly wipe a hard drive is to heat it beyond it's Curie point. That is the only foolproof way.
I'm rarely awake before 2pm, you insensitive clod!
Better yet, I live close enough to the north pole that I have a significant period of the year when the sun never sets. I can sleep in near broad daylight.
Write your own language... it's certainly more educational.
Indeed. And then you've naturally got to implement your language in itself. Or if it's too horrible to be done, write a compiler that compiles some other, easier language into your language, and then implement your first language in the auxiliary language.
Atleast -I- use open source because the other options are much, much more agonizing.
Example: You are given a choice between unanesthetized face-surgery with pair of rusty scissors by some guy with Parkinson's disease (Microsoft Word); or a slice of cheesecake (LaTeX). What do you choose?
Even though cheesecakes hold no intrinsic value to me, if those two are the options, I'd much rather have a cheesecake than the painful face-surgery.
Or, they could simply take shots in the dark against the most common names.
Worth a try.
John Smith: This is a message directed for you, and only you. Yes -you-, John Smith. Buy my snake oil! It cures everything, even *that* special problem. Only $99.
Yes, I look into my crystal sphere, and in it I see the future comments of this thread:
* Yes, but do they have frickin' laser beams attached to their head? * In soviet Russia, Robots arm YOU! * I, for one, welcome our new gun-toting robot overlords (points for being uncomfortably close to the truth) * References to the matrix or terminator series and/or I robot.
It wasn't an anti-satellite missile. It was an anti-missile missile, and it only worked because of the decayed orbit of the satellite. This missile would not be able to touch a "working" satellite.
Hypothetically, if the US -would- launch an anti-sattelite missile, and say it was an anti-missile missile, how could we tell the difference?
Blow it up, sure, but shoot it down? It's not a bird. It doesn't flap it's wings to stay up there, it does so just by it's momentum. So, what I'm asking is,... is the shoot down part just a colloquialism for "blow into pieces", or are they actually trying to collide a missile with it head on, removing it's momentum and sending it hurling towards Earth?
I'm sure the mob did 1 or 2 things that were legal too. That doesn't excuse all the other illegal things.
But that analogy does not follow. The Pirate Bay does not actually do anything criminal, merely facilities connections without making any judgement. Surely the phone company can't be held accountable if the mob uses their phone lines to extort businesses, much like a boat maker can't be held accountable if someone uses their products to smuggle cigars out of Cuba.
It's like blaming the airplanes for crashing into WTC.
Would probably not be hard to do, either. I mean, what would happen if you were to strap your cellphone to one of those old, slightly beta-radioactive smoke detectors? Furthermore, you could strap it to a semi trailer, and the department of paranoia over radioactive stuff on the loose would be led on a wild goose chase that would take them across the world.
These sort of weaknesses needs to be worked out before this sort of stuff is deployed. Because, as of now, all it takes is one kid with a sense of humor...
For real! For the longest time, I thought he was trying to push capitalism on German children. I think it's the capitalization of 'Kinder Capitalism' that is the problem. If it said 'kinder capitalism', somehow it doesn't bring your thoughts to yodeling kids in lederhosen and tiny terminators.
I'm not sure you're reading that right. Your response is purely genetic. This limb issue is technology that is being added to make him better than his competition. My initial thought was that you can't make it fair. Two separate competitions would have to be held, one with technology, and one without. Unless somebody else came up with a way to make it fair, which is what I was trying to get people to suggest if they could.
But our technology is as much part of humanity as genes are. It's what defines us. If the others can't keep up, then too bad for them.
Slashdot Mirror
It isn't slashdotted, it is merely providing you with the classic, 9600 baud experience.
They've got plenty of characteristics: You've got phase, amplitude, wavelength, direction and polarization.
Anyways, this has that april fools funky science written all over it. The ability to emit controlled, discrete photons goes against (my understanding of) quantum physics.
Here's the revised version:
hotness_t is_good_looking_drunk(void* girl) {
return ID_TAP_THAT;
}
void hangover(void* girl) {
if(is_slashdotter(this) || girl == NULL) {
basement.exit();
new breakfast()->eat();
throw new moan();
}
try {
if(memory.search(LAST_NIGHT, "condom") || !is_good_looking_sober(girl)) {
exit(EXIT_QUIETLY);
} else throw new logic_error("Yeah right");
} catch (amnesia_error* e) {
aspirin* a = find(this->apartment(), T_ASPIRIN);
if(a == NULL) throw new moan();
else this->ingest(a);
}
}
The article is also completely oblivious of how it's a spoof of cheesy horror movies of the 80's and 90's. Which is absolutely groundbreaking. Any game taken at face value without any sort of cultural circumstance is going to look ridiculous.
I personally think whoever wrote the article just went through a list of games, picked out those who looked silly, and then badmouthed them without ever really playing them, thinking they could get away with it because nobody plays them anymore.
No, that was his manned lunar mission. He made the consensus with a rolled up newspaper, an apple and an old rusty cookie jar.
Funny part is that shredding a hard drive will not destroy the data. It is at least theoretically possible to restore the information therein. Extremely time consuming, and most likely doomed to fail? Yes. Impossible? No. The only viable way of completely and utterly wipe a hard drive is to heat it beyond it's Curie point. That is the only foolproof way.
Better yet, I live close enough to the north pole that I have a significant period of the year when the sun never sets. I can sleep in near broad daylight.
Indeed. And then you've naturally got to implement your language in itself. Or if it's too horrible to be done, write a compiler that compiles some other, easier language into your language, and then implement your first language in the auxiliary language.
Atleast -I- use open source because the other options are much, much more agonizing.
Example: You are given a choice between unanesthetized face-surgery with pair of rusty scissors by some guy with Parkinson's disease (Microsoft Word); or a slice of cheesecake (LaTeX). What do you choose?
Even though cheesecakes hold no intrinsic value to me, if those two are the options, I'd much rather have a cheesecake than the painful face-surgery.
Or, they could simply take shots in the dark against the most common names.
Worth a try.
John Smith: This is a message directed for you, and only you. Yes -you-, John Smith. Buy my snake oil! It cures everything, even *that* special problem. Only $99.
What
The summary didn't clear things up either. It was like... I could see words, words I knew and understood, but they didn't form coherent sentences.
Yes, I look into my crystal sphere, and in it I see the future comments of this thread:
* Yes, but do they have frickin' laser beams attached to their head?
* In soviet Russia, Robots arm YOU!
* I, for one, welcome our new gun-toting robot overlords (points for being uncomfortably close to the truth)
* References to the matrix or terminator series and/or I robot.
I can't be the only European to ask my self who the hell Ralph Nader is.
Hypothetically, if the US -would- launch an anti-sattelite missile, and say it was an anti-missile missile, how could we tell the difference?
LILO is not obsolete! They'll have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands. GRUB is the work of Satan!
How, pray tell, does one shoot down a sattelite?
... is the shoot down part just a colloquialism for "blow into pieces", or are they actually trying to collide a missile with it head on, removing it's momentum and sending it hurling towards Earth?
Blow it up, sure, but shoot it down? It's not a bird. It doesn't flap it's wings to stay up there, it does so just by it's momentum. So, what I'm asking is,
But that analogy does not follow. The Pirate Bay does not actually do anything criminal, merely facilities connections without making any judgement. Surely the phone company can't be held accountable if the mob uses their phone lines to extort businesses, much like a boat maker can't be held accountable if someone uses their products to smuggle cigars out of Cuba.
It's like blaming the airplanes for crashing into WTC.
You'll find there are non-infringing uses of the pirate bay as well. http://thepiratebay.org/search/slackware/0/99/0
Is that an African or European 12 ton satellite?
Would probably not be hard to do, either. I mean, what would happen if you were to strap your cellphone to one of those old, slightly beta-radioactive smoke detectors? Furthermore, you could strap it to a semi trailer, and the department of paranoia over radioactive stuff on the loose would be led on a wild goose chase that would take them across the world.
These sort of weaknesses needs to be worked out before this sort of stuff is deployed. Because, as of now, all it takes is one kid with a sense of humor...
For real! For the longest time, I thought he was trying to push capitalism on German children. I think it's the capitalization of 'Kinder Capitalism' that is the problem. If it said 'kinder capitalism', somehow it doesn't bring your thoughts to yodeling kids in lederhosen and tiny terminators.
COBOL is the only really useful web language.
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
But our technology is as much part of humanity as genes are. It's what defines us. If the others can't keep up, then too bad for them.