We used to play BRE, over the modem of course. Some people had call waiting (the one that beeps at you if someone calls when you're already on the phone). Unfortunately this would cause the modem to hang up. So it became part of the strategy to try to anticipate if someone else was getting their turns in before you. You would then call them, causing their connection to drop. You'd then dial in and try to play your turns before them (it's already been noted above that BRE was particularly sensitive to this in terms of gaining advantage). It became all a bit too much (definitely favoured those who didn't have call-waiting enabled!)
Now try this...
I don't have a cure for cancer (all of it), but I could do if I expend a huge amount of my own time and effort.
Since I know that as soon as all my time and effort is put in, I will receive zero compensation (apart from bragging rights, which I can't eat), I decide not to bother.
Net result, 'Pharma' doesn't exist. Yeah, good plan!
...is that passenger jets have been unmanned for years now. You board the plan, you glance left and maybe you see the pilot sitting up there. That's to make you feel comfortable. He's just a lowely paid actor and he gets off the plane before it takes off. Maybe you hear the captain make the odd announcement during the flight, that's just a recording. Happy flying...
I don't agree. If you give Brin's money to all those starving africans, they buy food, multiply and there are suddenly 100x as many of them as there were before, but they don't really have that much money each. You have just greatly reduced the average wealth of us all. On the other hand, if you let them starve to death, you reduce the population at the low end of the wealth scale, so you immediately have a great increase in average wealth. Now, what exactly are you in favor of?
Hmmm... you're right, having thrown out the ordering requirement, this approach would make the task somewhat easier.
Actually you probably wouldn't make it to the end, without the variation in digits, you'd likely be locked up in an insane asylum somewhere around the 10,000th time you repeated the word 'zero'...
I agree. Perhaps it is a testament to the greatness of Hibernate that the article poster/editors did not deem it necessary to mention what Hibernate actually is. I'd have probably made the same assumption (ie. that people would already know)...
Not saying that's a good assumption, just noting that in some sense it reflects well on what is truly an outstanding example of open source software.
Yep... Now if that's not a conspiracy I don't know what is.
INTEL EXEC: Hey guys our new processor runs 3x as fast as the old one.
MICROSOFT EXEC: Cool no problem, the bloat in our next OS will eat that for breakfast.
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Why do you give a shit that he gives a shit that I give a shit that he gives a.... oh never mind.
Don't use facebook. Problem solved.
This might work and it might not... all I know is the proof will be in the pudding.
What would Feynman say!?
http://xkcd.com/305/
Patent should have been rejected. It's to amuse the human. The cat is definitely not amused.
We used to play BRE, over the modem of course. Some people had call waiting (the one that beeps at you if someone calls when you're already on the phone). Unfortunately this would cause the modem to hang up. So it became part of the strategy to try to anticipate if someone else was getting their turns in before you. You would then call them, causing their connection to drop. You'd then dial in and try to play your turns before them (it's already been noted above that BRE was particularly sensitive to this in terms of gaining advantage). It became all a bit too much (definitely favoured those who didn't have call-waiting enabled!)
> I encountered the extremely entertaining concept of following the long chain of DNS-related RFCs
Get out more.
Now try this... I don't have a cure for cancer (all of it), but I could do if I expend a huge amount of my own time and effort. Since I know that as soon as all my time and effort is put in, I will receive zero compensation (apart from bragging rights, which I can't eat), I decide not to bother. Net result, 'Pharma' doesn't exist. Yeah, good plan!
Even better, change the letter too. I'm waiting for B4B: Beer 4 Beer.
mmmm... Beer.
...is that passenger jets have been unmanned for years now. You board the plan, you glance left and maybe you see the pilot sitting up there. That's to make you feel comfortable. He's just a lowely paid actor and he gets off the plane before it takes off. Maybe you hear the captain make the odd announcement during the flight, that's just a recording. Happy flying...
I don't agree. If you give Brin's money to all those starving africans, they buy food, multiply and there are suddenly 100x as many of them as there were before, but they don't really have that much money each. You have just greatly reduced the average wealth of us all. On the other hand, if you let them starve to death, you reduce the population at the low end of the wealth scale, so you immediately have a great increase in average wealth. Now, what exactly are you in favor of?
Easy, real-estate in the middle of the sea off the coast of a third-world nation is cheaper than that in a major city...
Actually you probably wouldn't make it to the end, without the variation in digits, you'd likely be locked up in an insane asylum somewhere around the 10,000th time you repeated the word 'zero'...
But yes, I stand corrected :)
Even though the order would be different, the digits themselves would have to be exacly the same ones as those in the first 100k of pi.
Good luck keeping track of that!!!
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Now I can blink my bling
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Yeah I think so. Kinda like on Spaceballs when he gives the order to accelerate to Ludicrous speed. Damn near rips the skin off his face.
From TFA:
"Cell-based products will be used in devices ranging from digital televisions to home servers to supercomputers, they said."
Sweet, I've always wanted my TV to double as a supercomputer. Maybe then it can tell me if the weather guy is yanking my chain.
Let me guess... a free copy of The Gimp! :)
Personally I'd be embarrassed to be named on this patent.
Not saying that's a good assumption, just noting that in some sense it reflects well on what is truly an outstanding example of open source software.
INTEL EXEC: Hey guys our new processor runs 3x as fast as the old one.
MICROSOFT EXEC: Cool no problem, the bloat in our next OS will eat that for breakfast.