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Exactly. Not to mention the "me too"s.
Then there's the notion that something like 1 in 3 PCs has spyware or is otherwise 0wn3d, and the potential for spam from friends I've already whitelisted goes through the roof. Just sounds like spam with a familiar face.
You're thinking of the Ia-432 IIRC. The very definition of "Never build anything simply, when it can be made Complex And Wonderful".
Yes, the 68000 kicked the 8086's ass.
Yup, the Z8000 kicked the 68000's ass. (Yeah, I remember the MMU)
Right, the NS16032 kicked the Z8000's ass. (OK, so they never made any)
And, yeah, the Alpha left them all in the dust.
But none of us could resist that 8-bit, multiplexed-bus, single-accumulator redheaded-stepchild-of-the-4004-instruction-set sex-godess known as the 8088. Reserve a big chunk of address space for BASIC in ROM, and you've got history in the making.
The question should have been something along the lines of "If you could buy a G5 system for x86 money, would you be OK with switching to a REAL OS at the same time?"
I'm reasonably sure I'll get modded "troll" for speaking the truth in public.
Only Microsoft could steal a language and do away with enforced Checked Exceptions (making try blocks optional) because it was "too confusing" to bother to check for errors.
This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact your program vendor.
Indeed, I recall my father and his friends going berserk over the notion that "the government wants your picture in advance of you doing anything wrong". All this loss of privacy and civil liberties proves is that you're the person who legally obtained this license, not that you're really who you say you are.
Since it's a binary system, we'll assume that the two are cosmologically the same age, meaning that whatever generation they are, we're looking at roughly the same elemental mixture at birth (ignition), which we should be able to get from the dwarf's (vampire's) stellar spectra.
I'll further posit that as the vamp star went through the nova phase, between 30 and 50 percent of the expelled mass would have been absorbed by the donor star (they're that close), but this would have been mostly composed of the lighter elements.
However, remember that as the vamp absorbs matter (mass), it's gravitational attraction increases. I'm thinking of a running siphon where the end points are moving downward synchronously.
I'm still wondering what made the process stop. Why does an avalanche not continue until all the snow on the mountainside is gone? Sand/sand dunes? What was the bubble that broke the siphon? What's the lowest energy point? Why?
So, anyways, I'm still puzzeled and fascinated by this discovery. I hope we find out more about it.
OK, the donor "star" no longer has enough mass to maintain fusion, but it's still a big compressed ball of (mostly) hydrogen and helium, held together by gravity. The white dwarf "vampire" star is still sitting right there.
So what caused the process to stop? Why isn't the vampire still sucking on the donor?
Maybe it is, and we can't see it, (even though I suspect we'd see something as the matter was gravitationally accelerated into the vamp star.
Or maybe the two are farther apart than they used to be, even though this doesn't make much sense for a binary star.
This article enunciates many of the things I've been thinking for a long time now. The only item they missed is the sheer terror that I have about how this administration would behave if it were not concerned with re-election. It eloquently states what's really wrong with what this administration is doing, an posits (as have I) that Kerry might make an acceptble president, given the undeniable fact that this current president has got to go.
I was (I thought rather obviously) talking about the appeal of multi-player video games. I wasn't saying that "fun" required others, only that "play" requires others - and I think I'll stick with that. Playing with my dog is "play", but playing (interacting) against an AI is a "fun" diversion - not "play" in the real "seven-years-old-runing-and-laughing" sense of the word.
And yes, if no-one else will play with me, I can always play with myself.
> My biggest disappointment with this part of the book is that it implicitly seems to assume that all games in the future will be multiplayer, as they're the focus of all the examples.
That's why they call it play. Remember playing cowboys and indians, or hide-and seek? How about adult paintball?
Play is inherently with other people.
"Playing" against the machine (solitaire, chess, solo FPS, whatever) is just a diversion, it's not really "fun" if it isn't shared.
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I guess we'll have to put up with this inconvenience until they come up with the implanted-at-birth direct neural interface.
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Then there's the notion that something like 1 in 3 PCs has spyware or is otherwise 0wn3d, and the potential for spam from friends I've already whitelisted goes through the roof. Just sounds like spam with a familiar face.
Yes, the 68000 kicked the 8086's ass.
Yup, the Z8000 kicked the 68000's ass. (Yeah, I remember the MMU)
Right, the NS16032 kicked the Z8000's ass. (OK, so they never made any)
And, yeah, the Alpha left them all in the dust.
But none of us could resist that 8-bit, multiplexed-bus, single-accumulator redheaded-stepchild-of-the-4004-instruction-set sex-godess known as the 8088.
Reserve a big chunk of address space for BASIC in ROM, and you've got history in the making.
OK, mod me "troll" - but I'm not wrong .
would you be OK with switching to a REAL OS at the same time?"
I'm reasonably sure I'll get modded "troll" for speaking the truth in public.
Maybe if we made bacteria that was better at making methane.
I never did understand the need/desire for varargs in Java. Isn't that what polymorphism is for?
This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact your program vendor.
Is actually an inverse corollary of the Schroedinger's cat equations:
"Anything that can go wrong, already has, but you won't observe it until the most critical time."
Indeed, I recall my father and his friends going berserk over the notion that "the government wants your picture in advance of you doing anything wrong".
All this loss of privacy and civil liberties proves is that you're the person who legally obtained this license, not that you're really who you say you are.
Isn't the first thing the Gestapo always said was "show us your papers"?
That wasn't offtopic, it was insightful. Turn up your subtleometer.
In Soviet Russia, Induce Act...
Oh. Wait.
Looks like that GCOS web server is having a little trouble just now.
Why are these dinosaurs (Kodak, Honeywell, SCO) feeding on the mammals, instead of either eating each other, or just dying off as they're destined to?
Who's next? Fairchild Camera?
OMG! OMG! OMFG! I left an open paren on this! I'm __SO__ embarressed! Bad spelling is forgivable, but a syntax error! gulp.
Since it's a binary system, we'll assume that the two are cosmologically the same age, meaning that whatever generation they are, we're looking at roughly the same elemental mixture at birth (ignition), which we should be able to get from the dwarf's (vampire's) stellar spectra.
I'll further posit that as the vamp star went through the nova phase, between 30 and 50 percent of the expelled mass would have been absorbed by the donor star (they're that close), but this would have been mostly composed of the lighter elements.
However, remember that as the vamp absorbs matter (mass), it's gravitational attraction increases. I'm thinking of a running siphon where the end points are moving downward synchronously.
I'm still wondering what made the process stop. Why does an avalanche not continue until all the snow on the mountainside is gone? Sand/sand dunes? What was the bubble that broke the siphon? What's the lowest energy point? Why?
So, anyways, I'm still puzzeled and fascinated by this discovery. I hope we find out more about it.
So what caused the process to stop? Why isn't the vampire still sucking on the donor?
Maybe it is, and we can't see it, (even though I suspect we'd see something as the matter was gravitationally accelerated into the vamp star.
Or maybe the two are farther apart than they used to be, even though this doesn't make much sense for a binary star.
Either way, I'm puzzled.
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This article enunciates many of the things I've been thinking for a long time now. The only item they missed is the sheer terror that I have about how this administration would behave if it were not concerned with re-election. It eloquently states what's really wrong with what this administration is doing, an posits (as have I) that Kerry might make an acceptble president, given the undeniable fact that this current president has got to go.
Why wasn't putting the transmission in neutral an option?
I wasn't saying that "fun" required others, only that "play" requires others - and I think I'll stick with that.
Playing with my dog is "play", but playing (interacting) against an AI is a "fun" diversion - not "play" in the real "seven-years-old-runing-and-laughing" sense of the word.
And yes, if no-one else will play with me, I can always play with myself.
That's why they call it play. Remember playing cowboys and indians, or hide-and seek? How about adult paintball?
Play is inherently with other people.
"Playing" against the machine (solitaire, chess, solo FPS, whatever) is just a diversion, it's not really "fun" if it isn't shared.
If Judge Jackson had kept his mouth shut just a little longer, we'd be living in a considerably different world today.
Right. Those Java checked exceptions are so "confusing".