I posted "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.", ran it in German, and got a nice example of recursion...
The spirit is ready for use, but the flesh is weak. The spirit is ready for use to the use, but the flesh is weak. The spirit is ready for use to the use to the use, but the flesh is weak. ...
: Snuff is far more likely to cause cancer than other forms of tobacco.
Actually, a large longitudal study of snuff users here in sweden have conclusively proven that snuff does not increase the risk of cancer. In fact, legislation is underway to remove the cancer warnings on the packages.
OTOH, snuff is known to increase the risk of paradontitis(sp?), while at the same time it lessens the risk of caries.
The thing with drugs is that risk is really a function of both what drugs you use, as well as how much of each drug. Thus, drinking alcohol or smoking pot in moderation is less dangerous than doing both. I feel that I sort of use up my drug quota with alcohol and snuff...
People can do whatever they want, of course, but for me, I'll pass. The main thing I have going for me is my brain, and I'm not going to soak it in THC for a cheap kick -- not to mention that smoking pot is as dangerous as smoking tobacco.... Alcohol and snuff are drugs enough for me.
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The fault lies entirely in the default configuration of Enlightenment; it's a matter of changing a couple of parameters in the enlightenment configuration app.
For me, gnome is very stable (I use the latest RPMs) and a very enjoyable environment.
Now there's a real outstanding debt... Reminds me of wizards in Discworld that always knew when they were going to die: 'they died happily drinking the last of their winecellar and incidentally owing quite large sums of money'
Perhaps it's only me, but I find javascript fairly annoying. First of all, way too many sites uses it for gratuitous effects, like popping up fixed-size windows everywhere, irritating animated effects and the like. Second, I find that netscape crashes much more often if I have javascript activated. So for the forseeable future, I will not allow javascript and just stay away from websites that require it.
Well, I have a Swedish layout, and AltGr is different. Using this key, you can type special characters not covered by the ordinary keys (try it in vim). Typing @, for instance is done with AltGr+2, and | I get with AltGr+. Similarily, curly and straight braces, backslash and tilde needs AltGr, to give room for the Swedish å, ä and ö.
What are they going to reccomend? That all activity use the 207.xx.xx.xx subnet?
Why not bring that idea into the "real world"? "No, don't use that bank office, it's the one that gets robbed", or use Terry Pratchetts idea of licencing thieves, with entrance exams, guild approved training and certification schemes. "What income bracket are you in? Ohhh, I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to rob you yet, maybe next year when I've got my MCA [Masters in Criminal Activity]"
How can they reasonably expect any kind of national legislation to work? I mean, say that USA outlaws nudity on the net; here in Sweden it's perfectly legal, and it's as easy to point your browser to a Swedish site as it is to an american one... The same goes with most information, whether it be nudity, violence, religios or political information or various forms of rumor-mongering.
The only things that really can be outlawed on the net are those few things that governments all over the world can agree on, like child pornography. And even then, there is still the matter of actually finding and prosecuting perpetrators. The ability to locate servers, their owners and the owner of the data on them all over the world makes current extradiction and jurisdictional problems look easy.
Also, AD&D has probably the easiest combat and movement system to implement in a game -- to say nothing of explaining the rules for people that have never played an RPG...
As for being fantasy, I've played an admittedly silly campaign that mixed high fantasy and sci-fi. The ruleset is so transparent and flexible that it was very easy to introduce (a few) pistols ("wand of missile"), machine guns ("staff of tearing") and comsets ("boxes of clairaudience") through a space-time rift:)
without a wide varied number of specimens to clone the species will eventually die out from genetic stagnation anyways
Well, not really. Yes, it increases the risk of pandemics, and if the DNA has a lot of recessive traits you will get a lot of genetic disorders. On the other hand, the entire hamster population of the world had a common ancestor only about a hundred years ago, and all new species start off with only a few genetically similar individuals.
I think the main dividing line regarding what species to save would be between those dying out for 'natural' reasons and those being pushed to extinction due to human activity (introducing new species into the habitat, eating animal parts for their assumed potency and so on).
Even though only "the Color of Magic" contains the two 'heros' TwoFlower and Rincewind,
Actually, Twoflower is a major character in "The Light Fantastic" and "Interesting Times" as well. My two favourites are "Interesting Times" and "Moving Pictures". The latter is a wonderful spoof of Hollywood and movie making -- warmly recommended!
The animated movies were fairly well done and followed the books quite well; what was sorely missing was a voice-over as much of the humour comes from the author's explanations and footnotes in the books. Christopher Lee is great as the voice of Death, though.
Collectors have always been interested in the ephemera of their subject; a stamp collector, for instance, is often much more interested in a stamp if it has a unique history (saved from the Titanic or something). Even with ordinary CDs, it is possible (and fairly easy) to make an exact duplicate, byte for byte, of the original. What he as a collector thus is interested in is the package; the original artwork on the CD, the booklet that accompanies the CD, and most of all, that it is an 'official' CD. A perfect CD copy would not interest him, for the same reason mp3 doesn't.
Thing is, he would probably change his mind if record companies would start putting out 'official' CD collections of mp3 songs just as they are doing now, complete with covers, 'limited edition' nonsense (that made some sense with vinyl, but not with CDs) and so on. The difference between mp3 and the CD format is only one of data structure, after all.
Actually, a number of studies show that there is very little -- if any at all -- correlation between brain size and intelligence. The fascinating part of this piece (I read it in a Swedish newspaper) is that the windings on a part of the parietal lobe was different from normal. Not enough info to determine what areas actually were different, though.
As for that "we only use xx% of our brain" thing, the explanation is easy. First, we do not need all those brain functions at the same time (don't need to identify faces when we aren't looking at a face, for instance); second, the central nervous system is the most energy demanding part of our body, and we wouldn't have a chance to achieve sufficient cooling if a larger part was in use at the same time -- we would overheat, and nerve cells really doesn't take heat well, so we'd literally think ourselves to death:)
For a start: chip designers everywhere use FPGA:s to prototype their designs. No magic; they are reasonably fast (but not as fast as custom designed chips), and _way_ more expensive. Having a large array of them would indeed make it possible to run DES at a frightening speed -- but so would a mass of standard computers. The sticking point is that the collection of FPGA:s emulating a standard CPU would be way slower for any given budget for CPU:s than a custom chip (like the PII, PIII or AMD K7) -- and way more expensive.
Think about it: both Intel and AMD (and everybody else) uses FPGA:s for prototyping their chips. If it was so much more efficient, why do they not release chips whith this technology already?
As for the reprogramming component part of this design: translating from low-level code to actual chip surface (which it still is very much about) is largely a manual even for very simple circuits, largely because the available chip-compiler technologies simply aren't up to the job.
Besides, have any of you thought about the context-switch penalty of a computer that will have to reprogram its' logic for every process:)
Yes, he was a fellow human, and yes, he touched the lives of a number of people; most importantly, the lives of his family and friends. Everybody who dies leaves an emptiness behind.
He was, though, also, one man who -- intentionally or not -- has shaped the perception of what the future will bring, and he did this in a way that inspires confidence in all fans (who would not gladly accept treatment by his character?).
We are showing respect to his departure, but also to his part of a vision of the future of us all.
.. would't it be easy to modify the code and recompile, so that you could cheat?
You mean like, as oppoesd to the dozens (hundreds?) of cheats published in game rags every month?
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I've found that the stability seems very dependent on two things: whether you are running Communicator (with mail, news, etc.) or the stripped down Navigator; and whether you insist on allowing for Java and Javascript. Me, I have these turned off by default, and turn either on only when I view a site where I really need it. I sure would wish for some way to dynamically reconfigure Netscape depending on the URL I'm viewing.
Well, having the code developed by an American citizen is not enough (it would make US programmers pretty much unemplyable outside their country); instead the decision must be based upon the nationality of the organization having the ownership. This could be
i) the individual copyrightholders, in which case it is up to the US government to show that more than 10% are American;
ii) Linus Torvalds (as copyrightholder of the Linux name), and as far as I know, he is a Finnish citizen so no problem;
iii) the country of business of the distributor, in which case it's just to choose a non-American one (like SuSe or Pacific Hi-Tech)
I seriously doubt that you would get into any kind of trouble over it.
Should any of us deal with Iran? As a poster has pointed out, opening communications and interacting with others is the best way to get along and a great incentive to curb unacceptable behavior by another party. Had there never been a trade embargo with Cuba, I seriously doubt that nation would still be Marxist...
Exactly; it is a game. What's the point if you're not going to play? It's a bit like having cheats giving unlimited life and such - it's just taking all the fun out of it, making the game pointless. But hey, it's their money...
Ugh. "Upgrade path" sounds so suitey and phbey, it makes me wince.
Sorry, bit it is an upgrade path... If you want, we could all call it "update way" or "The Road to Further Enlightenment" (which is oddly fitting, considering enlightenment is a package...)
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I posted "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.", ran it in German, and got a nice example of recursion...
The spirit is ready for use, but the flesh is weak.
The spirit is ready for use to the use, but the flesh is weak.
The spirit is ready for use to the use to the use, but the flesh is weak.
...
: Snuff is far more likely to cause cancer than other forms of tobacco.
Actually, a large longitudal study of snuff users here in sweden have conclusively proven that snuff does not increase the risk of cancer. In fact, legislation is underway to remove the cancer warnings on the packages.
OTOH, snuff is known to increase the risk of paradontitis(sp?), while at the same time it lessens the risk of caries.
The thing with drugs is that risk is really a function of both what drugs you use, as well as how much of each drug. Thus, drinking alcohol or smoking pot in moderation is less dangerous than doing both. I feel that I sort of use up my drug quota with alcohol and snuff...
People can do whatever they want, of course, but for me, I'll pass. The main thing I have going for me is my brain, and I'm not going to soak it in THC for a cheap kick -- not to mention that smoking pot is as dangerous as smoking tobacco.... Alcohol and snuff are drugs enough for me.
The fault lies entirely in the default configuration of Enlightenment; it's a matter of changing a couple of parameters in the enlightenment configuration app.
For me, gnome is very stable (I use the latest RPMs) and a very enjoyable environment.
Now there's a real outstanding debt... Reminds me of wizards in Discworld that always knew when they were going to die: 'they died happily drinking the last of their winecellar and incidentally owing quite large sums of money'
Perhaps it's only me, but I find javascript fairly annoying. First of all, way too many sites uses it for gratuitous effects, like popping up fixed-size windows everywhere, irritating animated effects and the like. Second, I find that netscape crashes much more often if I have javascript activated. So for the forseeable future, I will not allow javascript and just stay away from websites that require it.
Well, I have a Swedish layout, and AltGr is different. Using this key, you can type special characters not covered by the ordinary keys (try it in vim). Typing @, for instance is done with AltGr+2, and | I get with AltGr+. Similarily, curly and straight braces, backslash and tilde needs AltGr, to give room for the Swedish å, ä and ö.
Apples 328780
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Oranges 106720
Which proves that you can compare "Apples" and "Oranges"
What are they going to reccomend? That all activity use the 207.xx.xx.xx subnet?
Why not bring that idea into the "real world"? "No, don't use that bank office, it's the one that gets robbed", or use Terry Pratchetts idea of licencing thieves, with entrance exams, guild approved training and certification schemes. "What income bracket are you in? Ohhh, I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to rob you yet, maybe next year when I've got my MCA [Masters in Criminal Activity]"
How can they reasonably expect any kind of national legislation to work? I mean, say that USA outlaws nudity on the net; here in Sweden it's perfectly legal, and it's as easy to point your browser to a Swedish site as it is to an american one... The same goes with most information, whether it be nudity, violence, religios or political information or various forms of rumor-mongering.
The only things that really can be outlawed on the net are those few things that governments all over the world can agree on, like child pornography. And even then, there is still the matter of actually finding and prosecuting perpetrators. The ability to locate servers, their owners and the owner of the data on them all over the world makes current extradiction and jurisdictional problems look easy.
Mmmmm.... Paranoia... I always love to play a character from R but then, my favourite AD&D race is the tinkerer gnomes of Dragonlance fame :)
Also, AD&D has probably the easiest combat and movement system to implement in a game -- to say nothing of explaining the rules for people that have never played an RPG...
:)
As for being fantasy, I've played an admittedly silly campaign that mixed high fantasy and sci-fi. The ruleset is so transparent and flexible that it was very easy to introduce (a few) pistols ("wand of missile"), machine guns ("staff of tearing") and comsets ("boxes of clairaudience") through a space-time rift
without a wide varied number of specimens to clone the species will eventually die out from genetic stagnation anyways
Well, not really. Yes, it increases the risk of pandemics, and if the DNA has a lot of recessive traits you will get a lot of genetic disorders. On the other hand, the entire hamster population of the world had a common ancestor only about a hundred years ago, and all new species start off with only a few genetically similar individuals.
I think the main dividing line regarding what species to save would be between those dying out for 'natural' reasons and those being pushed to extinction due to human activity (introducing new species into the habitat, eating animal parts for their assumed potency and so on).
Even though only "the Color of Magic" contains the two 'heros' TwoFlower and Rincewind,
Actually, Twoflower is a major character in "The Light Fantastic" and "Interesting Times" as well. My two favourites are "Interesting Times" and "Moving Pictures". The latter is a wonderful spoof of Hollywood and movie making -- warmly recommended!
The animated movies were fairly well done and followed the books quite well; what was sorely missing was a voice-over as much of the humour comes from the author's explanations and footnotes in the books. Christopher Lee is great as the voice of Death, though.
Collectors have always been interested in the ephemera of their subject; a stamp collector, for instance, is often much more interested in a stamp if it has a unique history (saved from the Titanic or something). Even with ordinary CDs, it is possible (and fairly easy) to make an exact duplicate, byte for byte, of the original. What he as a collector thus is interested in is the package; the original artwork on the CD, the booklet that accompanies the CD, and most of all, that it is an 'official' CD. A perfect CD copy would not interest him, for the same reason mp3 doesn't.
Thing is, he would probably change his mind if record companies would start putting out 'official' CD collections of mp3 songs just as they are doing now, complete with covers, 'limited edition' nonsense (that made some sense with vinyl, but not with CDs) and so on. The difference between mp3 and the CD format is only one of data structure, after all.
Actually, a number of studies show that there is very little -- if any at all -- correlation between brain size and intelligence. The fascinating part of this piece (I read it in a Swedish newspaper) is that the windings on a part of the parietal lobe was different from normal. Not enough info to determine what areas actually were different, though.
:)
As for that "we only use xx% of our brain" thing, the explanation is easy. First, we do not need all those brain functions at the same time (don't need to identify faces when we aren't looking at a face, for instance); second, the central nervous system is the most energy demanding part of our body, and we wouldn't have a chance to achieve sufficient cooling if a larger part was in use at the same time -- we would overheat, and nerve cells really doesn't take heat well, so we'd literally think ourselves to death
For a start: chip designers everywhere use FPGA:s to prototype their designs. No magic; they are reasonably fast (but not as fast as custom designed chips), and _way_ more expensive. Having a large array of them would indeed make it possible to run DES at a frightening speed -- but so would a mass of standard computers. The sticking point is that the collection of FPGA:s emulating a standard CPU would be way slower for any given budget for CPU:s than a custom chip (like the PII, PIII or AMD K7) -- and way more expensive.
:)
Think about it: both Intel and AMD (and everybody else) uses FPGA:s for prototyping their chips. If it was so much more efficient, why do they not release chips whith this technology already?
As for the reprogramming component part of this design: translating from low-level code to actual chip surface (which it still is very much about) is largely a manual even for very simple circuits, largely because the available chip-compiler technologies simply aren't up to the job.
Besides, have any of you thought about the context-switch penalty of a computer that will have to reprogram its' logic for every process
Yes, he was a fellow human, and yes, he touched the lives of a number of people; most importantly, the lives of his family and friends. Everybody who dies leaves an emptiness behind.
He was, though, also, one man who -- intentionally or not -- has shaped the perception of what the future will bring, and he did this in a way that inspires confidence in all fans (who would not gladly accept treatment by his character?).
We are showing respect to his departure, but also to his part of a vision of the future of us all.
.. would't it be easy to modify the code and recompile, so that you could cheat?
You mean like, as oppoesd to the dozens (hundreds?) of cheats published in game rags every month?
I've found that the stability seems very dependent on two things: whether you are running Communicator (with mail, news, etc.) or the stripped down Navigator; and whether you insist on allowing for Java and Javascript. Me, I have these turned off by default, and turn either on only when I view a site where I really need it. I sure would wish for some way to dynamically reconfigure Netscape depending on the URL I'm viewing.
Well, having the code developed by an American citizen is not enough (it would make US programmers pretty much unemplyable outside their country); instead the decision must be based upon the nationality of the organization having the ownership. This could be
i) the individual copyrightholders, in which case it is up to the US government to show that more than 10% are American;
ii) Linus Torvalds (as copyrightholder of the Linux name), and as far as I know, he is a Finnish citizen so no problem;
iii) the country of business of the distributor, in which case it's just to choose a non-American one (like SuSe or Pacific Hi-Tech)
I seriously doubt that you would get into any kind of trouble over it.
Should any of us deal with Iran? As a poster has pointed out, opening communications and interacting with others is the best way to get along and a great incentive to curb unacceptable behavior by another party. Had there never been a trade embargo with Cuba, I seriously doubt that nation would still be Marxist...
Exactly; it is a game. What's the point if you're not going to play? It's a bit like having cheats giving unlimited life and such - it's just taking all the fun out of it, making the game pointless. But hey, it's their money...
I love the title of this newsbit; an encryption algorithm being slightly broken is like being slightly pregnant.
What, me worry?
Ugh. "Upgrade path" sounds so suitey and phbey, it makes me wince.
:)
Sorry, bit it is an upgrade path... If you want, we could all call it "update way" or "The Road to Further Enlightenment" (which is oddly fitting, considering enlightenment is a package...)
Not to be taken seriously, BTW