but from where I sit, it's 5 hours ago tomorrow in NZ. when the programmers there put together a new build for me to test, I get 'software from the future'!
I know of a few users that would be interested in _buying_ extra clock cycles rather than using theirs to build up credit. You might be amused at the name of the product they're using - MojoWorld...
I watched Mystery Men with a friend the other night who had never seen it. she commented on how occasionally she could hear traces of Prof. Frink's voice in the character of The Blue Raja, played by Hank Azaria. throughout the film, it's hard to get a grasp on Azaria's "real" voice. for most of it he's faking a British accent.
regardless of what the Americans do or don't do in space, I'll be cheering _anyone_ who launches humans and / or robots into space for the purposes of exploration.
it's an alien contact story about a scientist who gets marooned on an alien planet and survives due to the amazing biological abilities of the tree-frog-like natives..
as far as what I've seen others recommend that I'd like to second the recommendations of - Stephenson's _The Diamond Age_, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series (_Red Mars_, _Green Mars_ and _Blue Mars_) and John Varley (his newest, _The Golden Globe_ was quite a fun romp through the solar system - aliens had taken over Earth and Jupiter, but that was only a minor thread in the life story of "Sparky" Valentine, an actor who is a bit down on his luck...)
note that AltiVec doesn't support dual precision floating point (long double) [yet...]. if the software in question needs to use dual precision floating point (as is the case with several photshop filters and all kinds of 3d / animation / raytracing types of apps), then those calculations won't be accelerated by AltiVec. and if that's the majority of stuff that's going on, the programmers probably said, "why bother?"
there's a comment in some SDK source I work with where a second comment indicates that in preparation for outside eyes, the second guy left the first guy's comment in because "he has a way with words".
the first guy's comment was:
// A structure that defines a UIDialog. // hmmmm... confusing you say??? // If you don't like it you can take it up with big momma. // She'll send you down the street with 3 shoes... // 2 on your feet and 1 in your ass!
I imagine not many fans know your level of interest in horses. can you tell us how many horses you own and what competitions you've participated in recently?
if you're interested in rendering landscapes (as opposed to building models and rendering those), I have to recommend MojoWorld. there's a free demo, there's also a free "Transporter" version of the program which lets you explore planets made by others.
you may also want to look in to Bryce - it's relatively inexpensive, it's possible to do some limited modeling with it (I've seen some flat out amazing stuff done w/ only Bryce's tools - but note that Bryce is not "a modeler") - however, with Corel teetering on the brink, Bryce may not be around much longer (all the more reason to look into getting an older version for cheap!)
no, they hit the page with their link in the referrer field. some sites post reports from their web logs showing where hits are referred from, so it'd be like:
and then people looking at the report would say, "hey, the page at wilddonkeysex links to my perfectly/valid/page and it's getting like 500 hits a day from there, woo! let's click on that url and see what the link to my page looks like!"
(first time posting here ever, eep!)
my favorite was from 'xv', an image viewer. if you tried to open something it didn't understand, it'd put up a dialog saying something like, "I'm sorry, I can't open that file."
that's not too great in itself, but what brought it charm was that there was a single button on that dialog that said:
Bummer!
-calyxa
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I thought the dollar was originally backed by silver, not gold. didn't it used to say 'silver certificate' on the back?
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uh, I hate to break this to you, but you're experiencing an acceleration of 1g right now, and you have been most of your life...
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but from where I sit, it's 5 hours ago tomorrow in NZ. when the programmers there put together a new build for me to test, I get 'software from the future'!
-calyxa
_The Fountains of Paradise_
/. is making me wait 20 seconds, I can go get the book and find other useful info, such as ISBN and date of publication...
I guess since
ah, good thing, too, as I'd forgotten the "The" in the title.
copyright 1978, ISBN 0-345-25356-6
-calyxa
wow, that's amazing! I've never been able to get one of those Magic Eye things to work 'til now!
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DO NOT EAT!
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a wonderful gift - go see ROTK opening on my birthday!
yeah, yeah... I know... it's an Evil Bit.
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isn't that the one that also asks questions of its creators? and at one point, it asked, "is Lincoln still dead?"
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I seem to remember reading somewhere that when they first programmed up the AI for the battle scenes, the two armies ran away from each other!
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you obviously haven't seen me throw a ball...
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regardless of what the Americans do or don't do in space, I'll be cheering _anyone_ who launches humans and / or robots into space for the purposes of exploration.
-calyxa
it's an alien contact story about a scientist who gets marooned on an alien planet and survives due to the amazing biological abilities of the tree-frog-like natives..
as far as what I've seen others recommend that I'd like to second the recommendations of - Stephenson's _The Diamond Age_, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series (_Red Mars_, _Green Mars_ and _Blue Mars_) and John Varley (his newest, _The Golden Globe_ was quite a fun romp through the solar system - aliens had taken over Earth and Jupiter, but that was only a minor thread in the life story of "Sparky" Valentine, an actor who is a bit down on his luck...)
-calyxa
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Develop erTools/MachORuntime/2rt_powerpc_abi/PowerPC_Data_ Types.html
-calyxa
quick! somebody carve these words in stone and club the 'net over the head with'em.
_this_ is the crux of the biscuit.
-calyxa
see the last sample on the page...
I haven't read the book yet, but gave a copy to my sister-in-law for xmas.
-calyxa
the first guy's comment was:
-calyxa
I imagine not many fans know your level of interest in horses. can you tell us how many horses you own and what competitions you've participated in recently?
thanks,
-calyxa
if you're interested in rendering landscapes (as opposed to building models and rendering those), I have to recommend MojoWorld. there's a free demo, there's also a free "Transporter" version of the program which lets you explore planets made by others.
http://www.pandromeda.com
you may also want to look in to Bryce - it's relatively inexpensive, it's possible to do some limited modeling with it (I've seen some flat out amazing stuff done w/ only Bryce's tools - but note that Bryce is not "a modeler") - however, with Corel teetering on the brink, Bryce may not be around much longer (all the more reason to look into getting an older version for cheap!)
-calyxa
255.255.255.255 - - [27/Oct/2002:00:00:00 -0000] "GET /perfectly/valid/page/at/yoursite.html" 200 2467 "http://www.wilddonkeysex.com_for_Wild_Donkey_Sex/ " "(SpamBot5000)"
and then people looking at the report would say, "hey, the page at wilddonkeysex links to my perfectly/valid/page and it's getting like 500 hits a day from there, woo! let's click on that url and see what the link to my page looks like!"
-calyxa
http://www.acme.com/jef/netgems/scratch_monkey.htm l
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good stuff.
-calyxa
(first time posting here ever, eep!) my favorite was from 'xv', an image viewer. if you tried to open something it didn't understand, it'd put up a dialog saying something like, "I'm sorry, I can't open that file." that's not too great in itself, but what brought it charm was that there was a single button on that dialog that said: Bummer! -calyxa