The PBF Is My Favorite Webcomic (Making XKCD The Second), It's Dark Humor Is Amazingly Well Thought, That Makes It Worth It Waiting The Update. I Always Wanted To Have Them All In Printed Form As A Coffee Book, And Now It's Possible!
They Are Missing Superman 3. The WORST Movie Ever!
[FROM http://www.agonybooth.com/superman_3/default.asp?P age=2%5D
Several students at the "Archibald Data Processing School" have witnessed the mayhem from a window. Inside, we see a small chalkboard and students hard at work on several computer terminals, and Gus Gorman is among them. A female student whose face isn't shown asks the instructor a question, and her line is clumsily looped in. "Excuse me, but what if, uh, you want to program two bilateral coordinates at the same time?" The teacher calls this "impossible" but Gus nervously raises his hand. "Sir?" He shows the commands on his screen and types a few keys. Of course, this computer is one of the first personal models ever made and it's hard to be impressed by flashing green text. [Editor's Note: And as a programmer, I have to step in here and point out that Gus is programming in BASIC, and his entire program is nothing but PRINT statements. Actually, they're mostly empty PRINT statements, meaning Gus has just written a very complex program that will display... absolutely nothing. --Albert]
Nevertheless, it does the trick for the teacher, who exclaims, "Good Lord, how did you do that?" A bewildered Gus says, "I don't know! I just did it!"
That's How You Learn You Are A computer Genius! When You "Just do It!"
Edison Of Our Time? He Wasnt A Genius! Just A Smart Guy With Lots Of Marketing And People To Create Things for Him. Bill Gates Is the Edison Of Our Time!
If You Want To Say Genius, Do It With A Better Example, Like Nicola Tesla.
ANY Pianist knows Rachmaninoff, and It's famous for it's complexity. ANY Pianist have studied about Sorabji's contrapuntal technique, that makes it a very important part in history of keyboard composition.
Don't ask people to talk in terms that everyone understand if you are talking about something you don't understand.
Is the blindfolded pianist talented? Probably. But NONE Of his playing there is impressive or show a supremacy over other pianists at all, even blindfolded. His playing is actually very simple. The main critic is the blindfold show. That doesn't mean he is good, it shows nothing. Any pianist should be able to play a medium difficulty piece blindfolded... Beethoven has some compositions very easy to play that way, so its not a good example. But playing something like Rachmaninoff Concert 1-4 Blindfolded, That would be something!
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I'm sure Carl would approve :)
I wouldn't be so sure. Remember that he sued Apple computers for using his name as the internal name of a Powermac. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
I am personally waiting for USB 3.11 for Workgroups to come out before upgrading.
Now, which version will you get? USB 3.11 home edition, or the professional version that connects to printers at work?
The PBF Is My Favorite Webcomic (Making XKCD The Second), It's Dark Humor Is Amazingly Well Thought, That Makes It Worth It Waiting The Update. I Always Wanted To Have Them All In Printed Form As A Coffee Book, And Now It's Possible!
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They Are Missing Superman 3. The WORST Movie Ever! [FROM http://www.agonybooth.com/superman_3/default.asp?P age=2%5D
Several students at the "Archibald Data Processing School" have witnessed the mayhem from a window. Inside, we see a small chalkboard and students hard at work on several computer terminals, and Gus Gorman is among them. A female student whose face isn't shown asks the instructor a question, and her line is clumsily looped in. "Excuse me, but what if, uh, you want to program two bilateral coordinates at the same time?" The teacher calls this "impossible" but Gus nervously raises his hand. "Sir?" He shows the commands on his screen and types a few keys. Of course, this computer is one of the first personal models ever made and it's hard to be impressed by flashing green text. [Editor's Note: And as a programmer, I have to step in here and point out that Gus is programming in BASIC, and his entire program is nothing but PRINT statements. Actually, they're mostly empty PRINT statements, meaning Gus has just written a very complex program that will display... absolutely nothing. --Albert]
Nevertheless, it does the trick for the teacher, who exclaims, "Good Lord, how did you do that?" A bewildered Gus says, "I don't know! I just did it!"
That's How You Learn You Are A computer Genius! When You "Just do It!"
Edison Of Our Time? He Wasnt A Genius! Just A Smart Guy With Lots Of Marketing And People To Create Things for Him. Bill Gates Is the Edison Of Our Time!
If You Want To Say Genius, Do It With A Better Example, Like Nicola Tesla.
ANY Pianist knows Rachmaninoff, and It's famous for it's complexity. ANY Pianist have studied about Sorabji's contrapuntal technique, that makes it a very important part in history of keyboard composition.
Don't ask people to talk in terms that everyone understand if you are talking about something you don't understand.
Is the blindfolded pianist talented? Probably. But NONE Of his playing there is impressive or show a supremacy over other pianists at all, even blindfolded. His playing is actually very simple. The main critic is the blindfold show. That doesn't mean he is good, it shows nothing. Any pianist should be able to play a medium difficulty piece blindfolded... Beethoven has some compositions very easy to play that way, so its not a good example. But playing something like Rachmaninoff Concert 1-4 Blindfolded, That would be something!
I Hope that gentoo don't start charging money for sync as redhat did with up2date. That will make me cry!