Yeah, you are definitely right. The instrumentals in the end are fucking amazing.
I'm just so tired of people idolizing Closer and ignoring the rest of the album.
"The Hand that Feeds" marks NIN going to mainly a metal act. NIN is now very pedestrian, boring beyond compare. Take for example, Pretty Hate Machine. An amazing synth-pop album mixed with small doses of metal(Head Like a Hole) and maybe even rap(Down in It). Then, Broken. Metal done right, not done in a With Teeth way. Then take The Downward Spiral, my personal favorite album of all time. Nothing about this album is pedestrian. No one had heard this kind of thing before. Although "Closer" is the most popular song, I daresay that's the worst song on the album-the entire album tells such a story of loss, depression, suicide, and eventually hope that you could never forget it no longer how hard you tried. Then, The Fragile. That marks NIN getting shitty. Still pretty good, but getting shitty.
Oh well. I need a new idol.
Never-any code, wanted or unwanted, running on your computer makes it perform worse. Even if the virus isn't really a memory hog, it's still making your computer perform a little worse, so it's not benign and harmless.
A von Neumann machine is any device that is capable of creating an exact copy of itself given nothing but the necessary raw materials. Create one of these that subsists almost entirely on iron, magnesium, aluminium and silicon, the major elements found in Earth's mantle and core. It doesn't matter how big it is as long as it can reproduce itself exactly in any period of time. Release it into the ground under the Earth's crust and allow it to fend for itself. Watch and wait as it creates a second von Neumann machine, then they create two more, then they create four more. As the population of machines doubles repeatedly, the planet Earth will, terrifyingly soon, be entirely eaten up and turned into a swarm of potentially sextillions of machines. Technically your objective would now be complete - no more Earth - but if you want to be thorough then you can command your VNMs to hurl themselves, along with any remaining trace elements, into the Sun. This hurling would have to be achieved using rocket propulsion of some sort, so be sure to include this in your design.
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Earth's final resting place: the bodies of the VNMs themselves, then a small lump of iron sinking into the Sun.
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Comments: randombit suggests that nanobots, as opposed to macroscopic VNMs, are the way to go. They consume raw materials and build new nanobots and/or nanoassemblers. "I suppose a giant killer robot that built more copies would work to, but doing it at the molecular level seems easer." Good thinking, randombit!
Of course, there's no reason why your VNM needn't be the size of the Moon or so. Obviously, if you have the technology to take a body the size of the Moon apart and make a machine out of it, you have the technology to take the Earth apart and leave it in pieces, but there are a lot of sizes between microscopic and Moon-sized - car-sized, house-sized, city-sized, continent-sized and everything in between. Basically the lesson learned here is not to be too narrow-minded: if it is truly a von Neumann Machine, size doesn't matter.
Public schools are in an absolutely horrible state today. Students have too much choice-some kids I know have 3 electives a day, and some choose not to do any of those and lounge around sleeping in study hall. That's simply insane. Comp. sci should be a required course, and maybe something like comparative religions coul be required as well-kids could use some tolerance.
I'm glad I'm in a private school...
Fuck my karma-What the fuck are they doing? This happened in two thousand-fucking-two. 3 years ago. What the hell? The Slashdot editors are fucking retarded. Why don't we make a retro.slashdot.org for shit that happened years ago?
Dude, I know this is sort of stupid, but I totally friggin' agree. I hated that book. I couldn't even get to the halfway point. It's just so self-assured of it's own cleverness that it's infuriating.
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Yeah, you are definitely right. The instrumentals in the end are fucking amazing. I'm just so tired of people idolizing Closer and ignoring the rest of the album.
"The Hand that Feeds" marks NIN going to mainly a metal act. NIN is now very pedestrian, boring beyond compare. Take for example, Pretty Hate Machine. An amazing synth-pop album mixed with small doses of metal(Head Like a Hole) and maybe even rap(Down in It). Then, Broken. Metal done right, not done in a With Teeth way. Then take The Downward Spiral, my personal favorite album of all time. Nothing about this album is pedestrian. No one had heard this kind of thing before. Although "Closer" is the most popular song, I daresay that's the worst song on the album-the entire album tells such a story of loss, depression, suicide, and eventually hope that you could never forget it no longer how hard you tried. Then, The Fragile. That marks NIN getting shitty. Still pretty good, but getting shitty. Oh well. I need a new idol.
Dell might do AMD's mom too.
The Indian outsource workers fight back after everyone mocking them on Slashdot! Watch out, next they might steal your job...oh, wait.
Jack Napier-Pornstar Seto Kaiba-Yugi-Oh Character Yuffie Kisaragi-FF7 Character I thought that was clever, the rest was lame.
Maybe a low-end Alienware PC and a pack of gum...
Sweet, I'm gonna put my face on the guy from http://monstersofcock.com/.
Never-any code, wanted or unwanted, running on your computer makes it perform worse. Even if the virus isn't really a memory hog, it's still making your computer perform a little worse, so it's not benign and harmless.
It seems like it's complete now, really. There's nothing else. Maybe a short company history...
A von Neumann machine is any device that is capable of creating an exact copy of itself given nothing but the necessary raw materials. Create one of these that subsists almost entirely on iron, magnesium, aluminium and silicon, the major elements found in Earth's mantle and core. It doesn't matter how big it is as long as it can reproduce itself exactly in any period of time. Release it into the ground under the Earth's crust and allow it to fend for itself. Watch and wait as it creates a second von Neumann machine, then they create two more, then they create four more. As the population of machines doubles repeatedly, the planet Earth will, terrifyingly soon, be entirely eaten up and turned into a swarm of potentially sextillions of machines. Technically your objective would now be complete - no more Earth - but if you want to be thorough then you can command your VNMs to hurl themselves, along with any remaining trace elements, into the Sun. This hurling would have to be achieved using rocket propulsion of some sort, so be sure to include this in your design. * Earth's final resting place: the bodies of the VNMs themselves, then a small lump of iron sinking into the Sun. * Comments: randombit suggests that nanobots, as opposed to macroscopic VNMs, are the way to go. They consume raw materials and build new nanobots and/or nanoassemblers. "I suppose a giant killer robot that built more copies would work to, but doing it at the molecular level seems easer." Good thinking, randombit! Of course, there's no reason why your VNM needn't be the size of the Moon or so. Obviously, if you have the technology to take a body the size of the Moon apart and make a machine out of it, you have the technology to take the Earth apart and leave it in pieces, but there are a lot of sizes between microscopic and Moon-sized - car-sized, house-sized, city-sized, continent-sized and everything in between. Basically the lesson learned here is not to be too narrow-minded: if it is truly a von Neumann Machine, size doesn't matter.
Nah, just a cosplayer.
Public schools are in an absolutely horrible state today. Students have too much choice-some kids I know have 3 electives a day, and some choose not to do any of those and lounge around sleeping in study hall. That's simply insane. Comp. sci should be a required course, and maybe something like comparative religions coul be required as well-kids could use some tolerance. I'm glad I'm in a private school...
Fuck my karma-What the fuck are they doing? This happened in two thousand-fucking-two. 3 years ago. What the hell? The Slashdot editors are fucking retarded. Why don't we make a retro.slashdot.org for shit that happened years ago?
"Uh huh.. Uh huh.. Yeah.. It's in the window this time."
Dude, fuck the sandwhiches. I always get a bread bowl full of chicken soup and a diet Jones' root beer. And it's like 5 bucks. Panera is awesome.
Uh, yeah, those are great, but can you post some of the "erotica" ones now?
If everything's a beta, what the hell is the point of calling something a beta? Redundancy of use makes it useless.
"On The Loose"? They're being prosecuted yet somehow they're... on the loose? Stupid Slashdot.
Hey, do you mean the lusty robots?
But what's 200 pounds in dollars? Not every Slashdotter is from England you know...
No, no, cult's the right word.
What if he was going to pirate Windows? Your Apple fanboy attitude sickens me.
But I am facing sniper fire-my Counter-Strike works.
Dude, I know this is sort of stupid, but I totally friggin' agree. I hated that book. I couldn't even get to the halfway point. It's just so self-assured of it's own cleverness that it's infuriating.
Why do I never see usage stats for Mozilla on Slashdot? Is it seldom-used compared to Firefox?