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A software program called Avida allows researchers to track the birth, life, and death of generation after generation of the digital organisms by scanning columns of numbers that pour down a computer screen like waterfalls.
Am I the only one who noticed that this program seems to be exactly like the matrix? I mean, is this some kind of joke? They intentionally designed a life simulating program to display output in the form of endlessly scrolling columns of data. I can't imagine how that format is more useful than something more standard. Why not output the data into an indexed database? Why not have a visual form that displays real time stats on the digital organisms? I can't see any reason for doing it this way other than "ooh, we want it to be like the matrix, won't that be super cool?"
Dunno what your mail client is, but is it not viable to filter all mail from (bsdlisterv domain) into a BSD folder or some such? and then not have your spam filter hit them? I mean, I do that in thunderbird for the couple mailing lists I'm on.
Hey, the people watching "Who's your Daddy?" have no damned business even beginning to consider these things, so leave the morons alone and let the nerds handle it.
This is a known issue in Firefox, has to do with the not so graceful way that it renders malformed code. But since IE renders it properly, and everyone knows that designing IE-only is ok, it won't be changed. I'm not certain if the Firefox team will feel compelled to alter their program in order to render bad code more like IE does. Try this however, hold CTRL and then scroll your mouse wheel up and then back down. That will make two adjustments to the size of text on the page, and will fix the problem. (If you don't have a mousewheel, use the + and - keys.)
My mouse, keyboard, and monitor are the primary means by which I "interface" with my machine. So my computer's user interface is 3d, as all of these objects have length, width, and height.
I'm gonna call bullshit on this one, and point to a couple sources to back me up, unlike the parent. Prescott Bush did not have any direct affiliation with the Nazi Party, nor was he a known supporter thereof. He was neither tried nor convicted, although a single share of stock that he held in the UBC was seized by the government. He was even reimbursed the value of his stock by the government following the seizure. See http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030214.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush for verification of my counterclaim.
The thing that bothers me about benchmarking software is this: At some point, someone compiled that software. In most cases, you could track down who produced which benchmarks, but identifying the machine the final product was compiled on, the architecture used, compile flags, and so forth is a different matter. So you have benchmarks, but you have no verifiable means of determining if they're biased towards any particular processor/architecture.
This is wonderful, I work for Dell, doing technical support. There's a guy here named Kevin, and he jerks people around to no end...you know us too well.
Bush did plan the Sept 11 attack, and he did it for the good of the American people. We're all just too in the dark to know about it. You see, Bill Clinton did have peopel whacked in Arkansas, and in fact, he can have just about anyone whacked at anytime anywhere. He's the leader of an international liberal crime syndiate, you see. Anyway, our fearless leader, GW, became aware of a mass meeting of all of Clinton's top lieutenants. They were gathering together to plot the impending "liberal coup" that was to permanently destroy capitalism and turn everyone into a bunch of hippies on welfare. This meeting was to take place on Sept 11, 2001, at the world trade center. Now, as you may or may not know, all of lower Manhattan is swarming with Clinton's shock troops, so it's practically impossible for a decent republican assassin to get anywhere near the WTC. Since everyone working there was an evil liberal commie anyway, Bush decided to take out the twin towers, crippling Clinton's organization, and saving America. Unfortunately, Clinton escaped the carnage as he was telecommuting to the meeting.
I woman bound hand and foot and dangling from the ceiling with a garden hose shoved into her vagina is not in her "natural state." Much of the imagery found on the internet is so freakish that even hardline perverts such as myself blanch a little at the sight of it. I appreciate having the option to filter out some of it. Of course, "option" is key, I don't want it filtered without my consent, and I don't think that just because I don't wanna see it means no one else should be able to find it, should they choose.
I think it's worth noting that porn in general, and online porn specifically, makes a *lot* of money. And it's been available online, for free, over p2p, on webpages, in your email, Usenet, every way you can imagine to give away porn, it's being given away. And porn is intellectual property too. Somehow all this free porn floating around has never ever affected the porn industry's bottom line, except to increase their income. In many cases, you have to go out of your way not to get free porn from the internet, yet people still make money selling it. This is how it could be for (mainstream)movies and music, too. The industry just doesn't want to admit it.
I started with AIM, and when I signed up with AOL, I made very sure that using my AIM name for my account would not prevent me from going back to my no-AOL, freem AIM name status. And when I cancelled my account(a harrowing ordeal), I again received the assurance that I would be able to keep my free AIM name therafter. And lo and behold, I did. But as far as I can tell, you cannot "downgrade" your s/n if you originally started as a paying customer...I'm not sure why, and it seems kind of evil. I do wonder what the conditions of screennames being deleted/reused are. Could I register an AIM name with the same name as a cancelled account? Or are those s/ns kept reserved, in case the customer comes back? If they are released back into the wild, how soon?
To me, the problem is that so many people in the U.S. consider Fox to be "the news." They honest to god think that it is "fair and balanced" reporting. And they don't expect it to come with a slant, or any hint of sensationalism.
Speaking of "kids play with it," a friend of mine, in a drunken fight, picked up his Xbox and used it to beat an offending drunkard into submission. Magically, the hard drive survived the savage encounter. In fact, the machine still works fine to this day, despite living in some of the most hostile conditions in which I've ever seen a computer placed.
I'm not straw-manning here, I try to be objective on this issue. But, the point your making falls down before casual logic. If you think it's wrong to prevent a human from existing, then by extension, choosing not to engage in intercourse should be made illegal. In fact, opting not to engage in intercourse at every available opportunity would certainly prevent humans from existing, and must therefore be wrong. So all those pro-life people need to get with the baby-making, right?
And on the matter of being incensed when CNN aired the pro-choice march. You should probably question why people exercising their right to public demonstration and free speech makes you angry. And I'm relatively certain that the thing they were doing for their daughters was giving them the option not to become mothers at age 15 when they get trashed at a high school party and get knocked up by a football player.
I can see this either way, but your particular examples aren't the strongest arguments I've seen from that side of it.
Did you know that the round fired by an AK-47 is pretty much a rifle length.38? So the only significant way that an AK is worse is if your selector switch is set to auto and you've got a really steady hand.
There are differences, though. A.38 is likely to fire a more blunted round, with a full-lead projectile, and will molt(break and spread, causing more damage) when it strikes your body. The AK-47 is commonly loaded with metal-jacketed rounds, which penetrate further, but don't break down and spread on impact. So the logical conclusion is that you might be a lot better off shooting your foot with an AK.
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I think that the biggest threat to the free press in the United States today comes from the owners of media conglomerates, not the government.
I think that the media conglomerates are the government...Ok maybe not that bad, but they have enough money to tell the government what to do, and reasonably expect it to be done.
I'm not sure how it's news, as it should generally be anticipated to occur naturally in gas giants, as mentioned in the article. There is a scant possibility that the phenomenon has not been observed before, or perhaps only observed in a very specific subset of conditions, which would lead to questions as to whether our understanding of the nature of gas giants is really valid. The whole thing should really only be of interest to academics interested in this specific detail of thermodynamics. I don't see any practical reason why a lay person should care. Anyway, for a little more info on this, you can read http://www-sccm.stanford.edu/Students/witting/kh.h tml and if you find anything new and exciting, there's a very small wikipedia stub that could use expanding.
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I'll allow you to jump to your own conclusions.
A software program called Avida allows researchers to track the birth, life, and death of generation after generation of the digital organisms by scanning columns of numbers that pour down a computer screen like waterfalls.
Am I the only one who noticed that this program seems to be exactly like the matrix? I mean, is this some kind of joke? They intentionally designed a life simulating program to display output in the form of endlessly scrolling columns of data. I can't imagine how that format is more useful than something more standard. Why not output the data into an indexed database? Why not have a visual form that displays real time stats on the digital organisms? I can't see any reason for doing it this way other than "ooh, we want it to be like the matrix, won't that be super cool?"
Dunno what your mail client is, but is it not viable to filter all mail from (bsdlisterv domain) into a BSD folder or some such? and then not have your spam filter hit them? I mean, I do that in thunderbird for the couple mailing lists I'm on.
Hey, the people watching "Who's your Daddy?" have no damned business even beginning to consider these things, so leave the morons alone and let the nerds handle it.
This is a known issue in Firefox, has to do with the not so graceful way that it renders malformed code. But since IE renders it properly, and everyone knows that designing IE-only is ok, it won't be changed. I'm not certain if the Firefox team will feel compelled to alter their program in order to render bad code more like IE does. Try this however, hold CTRL and then scroll your mouse wheel up and then back down. That will make two adjustments to the size of text on the page, and will fix the problem. (If you don't have a mousewheel, use the + and - keys.)
My mouse, keyboard, and monitor are the primary means by which I "interface" with my machine. So my computer's user interface is 3d, as all of these objects have length, width, and height.
I'm gonna call bullshit on this one, and point to a couple sources to back me up, unlike the parent. Prescott Bush did not have any direct affiliation with the Nazi Party, nor was he a known supporter thereof. He was neither tried nor convicted, although a single share of stock that he held in the UBC was seized by the government. He was even reimbursed the value of his stock by the government following the seizure.
See http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030214.html
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush for verification of my counterclaim.
The thing that bothers me about benchmarking software is this: At some point, someone compiled that software. In most cases, you could track down who produced which benchmarks, but identifying the machine the final product was compiled on, the architecture used, compile flags, and so forth is a different matter. So you have benchmarks, but you have no verifiable means of determining if they're biased towards any particular processor/architecture.
This is wonderful, I work for Dell, doing technical support. There's a guy here named Kevin, and he jerks people around to no end...you know us too well.
But at least he's consistent. No flip-flopping allowed.
Bush did plan the Sept 11 attack, and he did it for the good of the American people. We're all just too in the dark to know about it. You see, Bill Clinton did have peopel whacked in Arkansas, and in fact, he can have just about anyone whacked at anytime anywhere. He's the leader of an international liberal crime syndiate, you see. Anyway, our fearless leader, GW, became aware of a mass meeting of all of Clinton's top lieutenants. They were gathering together to plot the impending "liberal coup" that was to permanently destroy capitalism and turn everyone into a bunch of hippies on welfare. This meeting was to take place on Sept 11, 2001, at the world trade center. Now, as you may or may not know, all of lower Manhattan is swarming with Clinton's shock troops, so it's practically impossible for a decent republican assassin to get anywhere near the WTC. Since everyone working there was an evil liberal commie anyway, Bush decided to take out the twin towers, crippling Clinton's organization, and saving America. Unfortunately, Clinton escaped the carnage as he was telecommuting to the meeting.
I woman bound hand and foot and dangling from the ceiling with a garden hose shoved into her vagina is not in her "natural state." Much of the imagery found on the internet is so freakish that even hardline perverts such as myself blanch a little at the sight of it. I appreciate having the option to filter out some of it. Of course, "option" is key, I don't want it filtered without my consent, and I don't think that just because I don't wanna see it means no one else should be able to find it, should they choose.
I think it's worth noting that porn in general, and online porn specifically, makes a *lot* of money. And it's been available online, for free, over p2p, on webpages, in your email, Usenet, every way you can imagine to give away porn, it's being given away. And porn is intellectual property too. Somehow all this free porn floating around has never ever affected the porn industry's bottom line, except to increase their income. In many cases, you have to go out of your way not to get free porn from the internet, yet people still make money selling it. This is how it could be for (mainstream)movies and music, too. The industry just doesn't want to admit it.
I started with AIM, and when I signed up with AOL, I made very sure that using my AIM name for my account would not prevent me from going back to my no-AOL, freem AIM name status. And when I cancelled my account(a harrowing ordeal), I again received the assurance that I would be able to keep my free AIM name therafter. And lo and behold, I did. But as far as I can tell, you cannot "downgrade" your s/n if you originally started as a paying customer...I'm not sure why, and it seems kind of evil. I do wonder what the conditions of screennames being deleted/reused are. Could I register an AIM name with the same name as a cancelled account? Or are those s/ns kept reserved, in case the customer comes back? If they are released back into the wild, how soon?
1+1 does equal 3, for very large values of one.
To me, the problem is that so many people in the U.S. consider Fox to be "the news." They honest to god think that it is "fair and balanced" reporting. And they don't expect it to come with a slant, or any hint of sensationalism.
Speaking of "kids play with it," a friend of mine, in a drunken fight, picked up his Xbox and used it to beat an offending drunkard into submission. Magically, the hard drive survived the savage encounter. In fact, the machine still works fine to this day, despite living in some of the most hostile conditions in which I've ever seen a computer placed.
effectively prevented a human from existing
I'm not straw-manning here, I try to be objective on this issue. But, the point your making falls down before casual logic. If you think it's wrong to prevent a human from existing, then by extension, choosing not to engage in intercourse should be made illegal. In fact, opting not to engage in intercourse at every available opportunity would certainly prevent humans from existing, and must therefore be wrong. So all those pro-life people need to get with the baby-making, right?
And on the matter of being incensed when CNN aired the pro-choice march. You should probably question why people exercising their right to public demonstration and free speech makes you angry. And I'm relatively certain that the thing they were doing for their daughters was giving them the option not to become mothers at age 15 when they get trashed at a high school party and get knocked up by a football player.
I can see this either way, but your particular examples aren't the strongest arguments I've seen from that side of it.
Did you know that the round fired by an AK-47 is pretty much a rifle length .38? So the only significant way that an AK is worse is if your selector switch is set to auto and you've got a really steady hand.
.38 is likely to fire a more blunted round, with a full-lead projectile, and will molt(break and spread, causing more damage) when it strikes your body. The AK-47 is commonly loaded with metal-jacketed rounds, which penetrate further, but don't break down and spread on impact. So the logical conclusion is that you might be a lot better off shooting your foot with an AK.
There are differences, though. A
I think that the biggest threat to the free press in the United States today comes from the owners of media conglomerates, not the government.
I think that the media conglomerates are the government...Ok maybe not that bad, but they have enough money to tell the government what to do, and reasonably expect it to be done.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/2 0/2013233&tid=126&tid=137&tid=185&tid= 14
I'm not sure how it's news, as it should generally be anticipated to occur naturally in gas giants, as mentioned in the article. There is a scant possibility that the phenomenon has not been observed before, or perhaps only observed in a very specific subset of conditions, which would lead to questions as to whether our understanding of the nature of gas giants is really valid.h tml and if you find anything new and exciting, there's a very small wikipedia stub that could use expanding.
The whole thing should really only be of interest to academics interested in this specific detail of thermodynamics. I don't see any practical reason why a lay person should care. Anyway, for a little more info on this, you can read http://www-sccm.stanford.edu/Students/witting/kh.
Give me Tron over anything based on a desktop OS any day of the week.
"What the hell is this?"
"Its a Peace symbol sir."
"What does your helmet say?"
"Born to kill sir."
"What the hell is going on?"
"I guess I was just trying to point out the duality of mankind."