1: Do nothing, and spend no money for like 5 rounds, just to amass some money, since the server we played on gave us new credits at the beginning of each round. No idea if every server is like that. 2: Buy the chaingun and play one round as if it were Quake. 3: Die anyways. 4: Try to convince my friends to play Q3 or UT with me, instead of that stupid terrorists / CT game.
I have an ugly paisley-patterned, pastel-colored tie from the 70s (my dad gave it to me) in reserve for the occasion when someone tells me I must wear a tie for a work event. You want me to wear a tie? fine. You won't like the result.;)
I believe the OP was referencing The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle which states that you cannot accurately know both a particle's momentum and its position. With a little liberty, one could take speed=momentum and precision=position.
I guess this is one of those jokes that's not funny if you have to explain it. Aw hell, it's not all that funny even if you get it right away, though I did chuckle a bit.
Actually to fluently speak a language one cannot mentally translate between languages in your mind - in practice one goes directly from the word in whichever language (house/huis/maison/casa) to the mental concept (in this case the concept of a house).
In practice one can actually think in that language.
At least that's how it works for me.
Definitely. I am not a native French speaker, but I learned the language in high school and college (though I've forgotten much of it by now). Anyways, during the times when I was using the language a lot, there were occasions when I would be able to think of the word in French but not English. Talking with some friends: "uh... I can't remember the english word... parapluie... that thing you use to keep rain off your head." And I was thinking of the little pictures you often see in electronics manuals of an umbrella keeping rain off the device, to say "do not get wet".
On a possibly related note, I used to be an excellent speller in middle school. Then I learned French. Now I can't spell for crap.
I think we're heading for a mass extinction event - of that I am certain - but is highly unlikely we will feel the pinch. These are interesting times to be alive.
Ancient Chinese Curse: "May you lead an interesting life."
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Because a byte is a numeric class, and a char is a character class? Your question is like asking why booleans can't be signed or unsigned.
Being a hw designer, I find it strange that a byte would be considered a numeric class. A byte is just a byte. How you treat it depends on what you want to do with it.
I do this a lot too. Whenever I have to start writing some new function, I just start a new file and start writing out pseudocode. Usually go through a few different approaches before I find one I like, and then it starts turning into more code than pseudocode. Once I've gotten it the way I think I want it, I cut and paste it into its actual source code home (or just save the file, if it's a big enough function).
I'm assuming this is for the High Resolution stream (or whatever they call it)? Most DVD-As also have a DD5.1 track, which is playable in DVD-V players and therefore rippable via DeCSS. This is what I've been doing to the DVD-A (and concert DVDs) that I purchase to rip them to CD for listening in the car. So anyways, what do you do with the High Resolution stream once you've captured it? I believe it's higher resolution than PC sound cards support anyways, so you'd have to downconvert it to play it on your PC, so you may as well have ripped the DD5.1 or 2.0 PCM track in the first place.
was at the very end of the article, from the 16-year old high-school student.
Erika Heikl, 16, one of 14 students from Bishop Seabury Academy, a Christian school in Lawrence, Kan., who attended the hearings, said she believed in evolution - and that the standards should be changed to include its detractors.
"Your views won't change just from being taught that," Erika said. "You'll understand it more."
I fail to see what all the uproar on this issue is about. At my high school, we did indeed talk about intelligent design, along with evolution (and that other theory that I can't remember the name of - the one where the universe exists because we exist to observe it or something along those lines). It's pretty obvious which theory can actually have science applied to it, so yeah, we focused on evolution, but the alternatives were not ignored. And as this young scientist understands, that's the way it should be.
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You're confused and lost. When was the last time you checked? 2000? Cuz that's the last time Cray was anywhere near the top (June 2000, there were a handful of Cray T3Es placed in the top 10, with just under 1TF each).
Lotus Notes has about the worst UI I've ever had to deal with. Not to mention the arcana involved in actually using groupware databases on Dominos servers. ugh. The only thing I've used that's worse is FrameMaker. Two applications that I have to use every day and totally hate. I begged them to let me use OpenOffice, but to no avail.
Check out Green Day's American Idiot. A (damn good IMHO) punk-rock concept album. You're right in general, though, it's a lot less common nowadays than it used to be.
Just out of curiosity, I'd like to see how some of my favourite songs score on such a system. I have a hard time believing that 'Echoes', 'Shine on..', or other great music fits their calcuations very well.
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While you are correct that the M1 money supply was not increased, the y2k bug may have caused the velocity of money to increase. The velocity of money is how many times a given dollar is spent. GDP = M x V. Therefore, with a fixed M, and a flurry of spending activity raising V, the GDP would indeed have grown, which could be interpreted as a bubble. I can easily see how disasters (or the panic from y2k / 2038) could increase V and cause the economy to grow.
On the other hand, I'm sure you're right, that some crowding would take place (some things would be bought instead of others), but overall, I think there would be an increase in V. Just speculation really. It's been a while since I took any macroeconomic classes (and I've never been professionally employed in the field) so I could be way off.
Off the shelf is used loosely here. The BlueGene processors are indeed custom, but they happen to be based on the PowerPC 440 processors. That is, if you go buy a machine with a PowerPC 440 cpu, it's not exactly the same as what's in BlueGene. It is mostly the same though. What is pretty interesting is that each of the cpus is pretty paltry (the DD1 chips run at 500MHz, and the DD2 chips run at 700MHz), but the overall architecture seems to scale pretty well.
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I haven't seen the movie yet, but I probably will... Anyways, there was a screenplay that Harlan Ellison wrote 20 or so years ago, and it never got made into a movie (20th Century Fox got someone else to write the screenplay for the new movie). However, Ellison's screenplay has been published (search your favourite book site for "I robot screenplay"). There are a couple of interesting forwards, one by Asimov, and one by Ellison. Asimov talks about why he can't write for the screen and differences in writing for print and writing for screen. He also describes Ellison's screenplay as the first truly intelligent sci-fi movie. Unfortunately, it was never made. If you were disappointed in the movie, but loved the book, you may want to check out Ellison's screenplay.
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You probably don't understand that a lot of people are employed in the area. I worked on technology that went into the #6 machine, and yeah, the top500 lists mean a lot to us. I've been waiting a long time for something I worked on to end up in the top 10.
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2: Buy the chaingun and play one round as if it were Quake.
3: Die anyways.
4: Try to convince my friends to play Q3 or UT with me, instead of that stupid terrorists / CT game.
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I have an ugly paisley-patterned, pastel-colored tie from the 70s (my dad gave it to me) in reserve for the occasion when someone tells me I must wear a tie for a work event. You want me to wear a tie? fine. You won't like the result. ;)
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I guess this is one of those jokes that's not funny if you have to explain it. Aw hell, it's not all that funny even if you get it right away, though I did chuckle a bit.
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Definitely. I am not a native French speaker, but I learned the language in high school and college (though I've forgotten much of it by now). Anyways, during the times when I was using the language a lot, there were occasions when I would be able to think of the word in French but not English. Talking with some friends: "uh... I can't remember the english word... parapluie... that thing you use to keep rain off your head." And I was thinking of the little pictures you often see in electronics manuals of an umbrella keeping rain off the device, to say "do not get wet".
On a possibly related note, I used to be an excellent speller in middle school. Then I learned French. Now I can't spell for crap.
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I'm sure there's someone I should cite for that quote, but I can't remember who. ;)
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Ancient Chinese Curse: "May you lead an interesting life."
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Being a hw designer, I find it strange that a byte would be considered a numeric class. A byte is just a byte. How you treat it depends on what you want to do with it.
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I do this a lot too. Whenever I have to start writing some new function, I just start a new file and start writing out pseudocode. Usually go through a few different approaches before I find one I like, and then it starts turning into more code than pseudocode. Once I've gotten it the way I think I want it, I cut and paste it into its actual source code home (or just save the file, if it's a big enough function).
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No, opening on April 2 would have been more appropriate. (Think for a minute.)
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Just out of curiosity, I'd like to see how some of my favourite songs score on such a system. I have a hard time believing that 'Echoes', 'Shine on..', or other great music fits their calcuations very well.
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On the other hand, I'm sure you're right, that some crowding would take place (some things would be bought instead of others), but overall, I think there would be an increase in V. Just speculation really. It's been a while since I took any macroeconomic classes (and I've never been professionally employed in the field) so I could be way off.
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From what I've seen, most people cannot design a program even if they have written code.
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Off the shelf is used loosely here. The BlueGene processors are indeed custom, but they happen to be based on the PowerPC 440 processors. That is, if you go buy a machine with a PowerPC 440 cpu, it's not exactly the same as what's in BlueGene. It is mostly the same though. What is pretty interesting is that each of the cpus is pretty paltry (the DD1 chips run at 500MHz, and the DD2 chips run at 700MHz), but the overall architecture seems to scale pretty well.
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It took about 10 seconds for me to realize I was a dumbass.
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I haven't seen the movie yet, but I probably will... Anyways, there was a screenplay that Harlan Ellison wrote 20 or so years ago, and it never got made into a movie (20th Century Fox got someone else to write the screenplay for the new movie). However, Ellison's screenplay has been published (search your favourite book site for "I robot screenplay"). There are a couple of interesting forwards, one by Asimov, and one by Ellison. Asimov talks about why he can't write for the screen and differences in writing for print and writing for screen. He also describes Ellison's screenplay as the first truly intelligent sci-fi movie. Unfortunately, it was never made. If you were disappointed in the movie, but loved the book, you may want to check out Ellison's screenplay.
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