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  1. Someone remind me on Gridwars Parallel Programming Challenge · · Score: 1

    What was the name of the old game where two programs batteled for survival? Trying to shut each other down or something like that. I think it was back in the Vaxen days, but due to heavy memory fragmentation I'm not quite sure.
    This article just rings a bell... No wait, that's the tripwire. Gotta go.

  2. Wonderful! on Zen And The Art of Nomad Hacking · · Score: 1

    Now I don't have to open my own NJ3 just to see what's inside. I for some strange reason got a compulsion to take apart and put back together everything electronic I have, but now urge is at least partially quenched. Goot thing too, as the damn thing is expensive...

  3. I have been to the future... on High Speed Travelator · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...And it's located in the tunnels beneath the Geneve airport. They've got a system like this there, but I'm not sure they run it at the same speed. At least I didn't think it was moving that fast when I used it. Quite fun, atually.
    I also use a similar thing in a local supermarket. All you'd have to do is crank up the speed on it to equal the Paris one, but then again, it's slighly elevated and I don't think people like being catapulted from the 2nd floor...

    Is this a reinvention of the wheel (Kakakaka! Transportation!) or did I miss something? Prolly the latter, so please releive me of my blissful ignorance.

  4. Re:I, too on Speed of Gravity Experiment Challenged · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Switching off my sense of humor for a bit, what he's saying is that 'speed' as we know it won't be a factor in the final equation, but a result of it. Some theories (heard this at CERN in 2001) say that the graviton is a 4D particle/wave. Therefore it would also 'travel' in the time dimension and to call the graviton a tachyon might not even be a silly idea.

    Getting off the beaten path of time, velocity and momentum is /essential/ in coming up with the ToE (Theory of Everything). It'll require a new kind of thinking in the proportions the ToR was to Classic physics. The ToE will take the form of mutual dependency between variables where interaction is not a process, but a function.

  5. Re:Wait...12/21/2012? on Incas Used Binary? · · Score: 1

    20121221 in base 3 gives 4831 in base 10.
    Someone tell me what hebrew word that translates into? If any?

    I'll crunch the numbers a bit more tomorrow. Good night.

  6. Re:Not unique on Incas Used Binary? · · Score: 1

    Well, there's a lot of information on the net regarding this, but the most difficult part is determining the quacks from the sages.
    Persoanlly I take everything into concideration, but if the piece doesn't fit it's not part of the puzzle. To simply dismiss every idea that doesn't rock your boat is ignorant to say the least, but still if it rubs you the wrong way it might very well be false. To study occultism basicly means that you'll have to _really_ like reading, 'cos you're going to be spending a lot of time doing that.

    Some further advice:
    Go to the source and do not accept other people's interpritation of a certain work as fact. still, take them into concideration.
    A lot of occultists, especially Wiccans (the goddess bless their good hearts), don't have a scientific mindset and are often superstitious. By that I mean that some of their words and actions are not based on their own reason.
    Pythagoras was an occultist, but your math teacher didn't tell you that.
    Aristoteles was a lot smarter than the people dismissing his ideas as superstition.

    Also, 'occult' means hidden, so you'll have to use quite a bit of your own wit to get anywhere. Many claim this is to prevent any idiot from abusing this knowledge.

    As for linking. Nah, I'll let you google your way to the information you want. If you work for it you'll appriciate it more. =)

    A final word of advice:
    Some of the people who wrote the texts you'll find managed to scare themselves half to death in their research. If they give you a warning about something, it just might be a good idea to at least listen to them.

    P.S.
    Texts from the Theosophical Society are very heavy reading and throw Life, the Universe and Everthing (kitchen sink?) at you like you were a chardcore guru. The ideas they present usually need quite a bit of time to be understood.

  7. Re:Not unique on Incas Used Binary? · · Score: 1

    To answer you question, and bite the bait; no.

  8. Re:News for Nerds? on Microsoft Rolls Out Pocket PC 2003 · · Score: 1

    Running the risk of getting down-modded when I could simply reply anon:

    It's the thought that counts. =P

  9. Re:News for Nerds? on Microsoft Rolls Out Pocket PC 2003 · · Score: 1

    It's an excuse to slashdot MS. What more could you ask?

  10. Re:Not unique on Incas Used Binary? · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe that's how they managed to organize their empire.
    But then again the empire fell...
    Oracle has done a good job of covering up that piece of corporate history, but the truth is finally reveiled! Thank the pantheon for MySQL!

  11. Not unique on Incas Used Binary? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Chinese I Ching uses 6 bit binary to map 64 symbols, one bit essentially being a 'yes' or 'no' answer from a form of oracle. There's a bit more math behind it, but that's the core of it.
    The symbols provide an array of wisedom and advice for those who map them.

    Oddly enough, Terence McKenna managed to calculate the end of the world to December 21, 2012 using I Ching, while the Incas (Or was it Mayas? I confuse them.) calculated it to the same date. - Behold the powers of binary.

  12. Re:Government control of speech on the internet on Digging For Truth Online Is Up To You · · Score: 1

    That is provided they have any idea at all who you are and you bother taking them seriously. I'd like to see /them/ dig through an 8 node deep proxy chain just to convince you that you should (take them seriously). Other examples are Freenet, which seems to be growing still.
    Again, legislation and reality clash. When will people realize we live and die by our own sense of morals, regardless of what they write in their books?

    (What was the topic again?)

  13. Re:Sue SCO on Linus Moves To OSDL, Will Work On Kernel Full-Time · · Score: 1

    He'd proably want to build that villa back in his old stomping grounds, but due to the heavy taxes we have here (.fi) I doubt it would be economically plausible. So who needs money (The issue of him getting paid for his work.), when it'd all go into taxes anyway?

    I'm fairly certain this is the force that drives him.