Wow, I drink at least as many cups of Coca-Cola and/or Mountain Dew, I should be in great shape!... Oh, right, all the high fructose corn syrup. Damn it. I'd switch to diet, but it tastes so horrible...
If by "version 2," you mean the 6x86L/PR166, that was my first Pentium-oid (i.e., not 486) CPU! Initially, I was quite pleased by it. Of course, as I started dabbling with 3d graphics (ok, ok, Quake), I quickly found the CPU's major shortcoming: really poor FPU performance. Anyway, I wanted to say that I had no trouble with its stability. No "flaking," no urges to beat it with a bat. Well, no stability-related urges to beat it with a bat... Good times, good times.
Al Gore. He's so lifelike he's fooled millions of people...
OK, if, like so many smug conservatives have told me, I am no longer allowed to complain about Bush stealing the 2000 election, then I suggest that Al Gore robot jokes are similarly off-limits from here on out. Be a uniter, not a divider, right?
Who's to say they aren't? Archaea are simple single-celled organisms that are likely the predecessors to bacteria and eukaryotic organisms (e.g., you and me), and many of them thrive in these sorts of "extreme" environments. After all, Earth's climate, atmosphere, etc. haven't always been as ideal to us as they are now. Having said that though, if they eventually find life on Pluto. . . whoa.
...seismometers recorded a violent event in Antarctica that packed a punch of several thousand tons of TNT... The small size of strangelets means the blast is only big enough to have a very localised effect and humans are unlikely to be harmed.
Oh.... okayyyyy... Huh. It's a very small incredibly powerful explosion, I guess. Must be like how there is a very low chance of a person being hit by lightning, but getting hit by lightning would still suck!
What's the big deal, just use all the bandwidth that I'm not getting! And everybody else with 56k modems... Boy, I can't wait for my ISP to support v.92, ZDNet says that that will make my modem fast as DSL!:)
Remember the episode where a planet whose population are mostly sterile kidnap all of the Enterprise's kids (including Wesley Crusher)? I always suspected that the contest winner was one of the other kids. BTW, I wouldn't have modded the original question as offtopic, Krelboyne. I've always wanted to know the answer to that question!
I don't see why everyone is so hypercritical of this guys expensive adventure in high-definition TV -- in fact, I hope he has still more problems and ends up spending still more money -- it may just pull us out of this economic downturn! In fact, here is a much better business model than 99% of most dotcoms had: sell a never-ending series of incredibly expensive HDgadgets to Thomas H. Maugh II!
Wow, the RIAA has really got us now. First they get Napster to conform to their demands (re: shut down until they will reopen and we can pay them $20 a month to download tracks that we can only listen to on our computers three times. Or something like that...) and now this. Huh, I wonder what their excuses will be when revenues in 2001 fail to shoot up incredibly. Oh wait, "trying economic times." Nuts.
Life on earth has four different nucleotide bases in DNA/RNA, meaning that we have _two_ different base pairs (C-G and T-A, or U-A in RNA). So I guess that the goofy movie aliens actually have twenty different bases and ten base pairs? Hmm, I kinda wanted to see this movie, but all the reviews have said that it's either so-so or incredibly awful. Guess I'll wait for the video...
Apples and oranges, I know, but just imagine the possible implications for the gaming scene... Obsessives arguing over whether the human eye can tell the difference between 32,000 and 100,000 frames per second, full-screen anti-aliasing still causing a big performance hit -- down to 10,000 fps, the Voodoo7 criticized for only reaching 20,000 fps, the mind reels. Uh, sorry.
This might not be the most popular opinion here, but would I pay $4.95 a month for Napster?... Yeah! Well, probably.* While I'm not shedding any tears over Lars' and Dr. Dre's alleged lack of funds, I'm not wild about other more deserving artists getting screwed by their labels even further since Napster's "costing them millions of dollars in revenue" or somesuch. OK, so maybe I don't understand the record industry, and maybe this won't improve things that much for artists, but looking at it selfishly: would I rather pay ~$18.99 once or twice a month for CDs with only a few songs I like, or pay $4.95 for a big music buffet with everything I like? You can't (or shouldn't?) get something for nothing...
* Unless the fee causes people to switch to Gnutella or whatever, and Napster loses critical mass, leaving me with just Britney Spears and N'Sync songs to download. Which also seems like a plausible course of events...
"Michigan Tech." = Michigan Technological Institute = MTU.
Unless there's some new university that was just started. They're just not founding as many universities nowadays as they used to, you know?
Not knowing where the/. crew is, I humbly ask, "which MIT?" The Massachusetts Institute of Tech, or Michigan?
OK, so the bacteria could survive a few days in outer space (barely?). So, I suppose it follows that they could also survive for thousands to millions of years in outer space, which seems to be a more realistic time frame? Admittedly, testing that hypothesis is next to impossible, but forgive me if I don't take this as proof that life originated on Mars or something. (And what's the deal with everyone wanting to prove _that_? Earth not good enough for you?)
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It's OK, the engine had a snorkel!
[Cut to shot of the engine's snorkel.]
That was the best part of the whole movie for me.
Wow, I drink at least as many cups of Coca-Cola and/or Mountain Dew, I should be in great shape! ...
Oh, right, all the high fructose corn syrup. Damn it. I'd switch to diet, but it tastes so horrible...
Nice, but a real stretch of the definition of "prediction."
"Could this type of language be used in the future to ease natural language processing pains?" Man, I hope not!
Wow, I didn't know that Paul McCartney was a 64 user! Cool!
If by "version 2," you mean the 6x86L/PR166, that was my first Pentium-oid (i.e., not 486) CPU! Initially, I was quite pleased by it. Of course, as I started dabbling with 3d graphics (ok, ok, Quake), I quickly found the CPU's major shortcoming: really poor FPU performance. Anyway, I wanted to say that I had no trouble with its stability. No "flaking," no urges to beat it with a bat. Well, no stability-related urges to beat it with a bat... Good times, good times.
Wow, shades of "Galaxy Quest!" Could the set have actually functioned as a working starship? No wonder they want to bring it back! :)
I think that we can all be in agreeance on this.
Or as dinner. . .
Who's to say they aren't? Archaea are simple single-celled organisms that are likely the predecessors to bacteria and eukaryotic organisms (e.g., you and me), and many of them thrive in these sorts of "extreme" environments. After all, Earth's climate, atmosphere, etc. haven't always been as ideal to us as they are now. Having said that though, if they eventually find life on Pluto. . . whoa.
This sounds way cool, let's check it out!
...
OK, here it is -- AIIIIIGGHHHH! (Heart stops)
Moral: The Aphex Twin is a scary guy.
Well... yeah! Except maybe that 10GB hard drive is a bit on the small side... ;)
What's the big deal, just use all the bandwidth that I'm not getting! And everybody else with 56k modems... Boy, I can't wait for my ISP to support v.92, ZDNet says that that will make my modem fast as DSL! :)
Remember the episode where a planet whose population are mostly sterile kidnap all of the Enterprise's kids (including Wesley Crusher)? I always suspected that the contest winner was one of the other kids. BTW, I wouldn't have modded the original question as offtopic, Krelboyne. I've always wanted to know the answer to that question!
I don't see why everyone is so hypercritical of this guys expensive adventure in high-definition TV -- in fact, I hope he has still more problems and ends up spending still more money -- it may just pull us out of this economic downturn! In fact, here is a much better business model than 99% of most dotcoms had: sell a never-ending series of incredibly expensive HDgadgets to Thomas H. Maugh II!
Wow, the RIAA has really got us now. First they get Napster to conform to their demands (re: shut down until they will reopen and we can pay them $20 a month to download tracks that we can only listen to on our computers three times. Or something like that...) and now this. Huh, I wonder what their excuses will be when revenues in 2001 fail to shoot up incredibly. Oh wait, "trying economic times." Nuts.
Life on earth has four different nucleotide bases in DNA/RNA, meaning that we have _two_ different base pairs (C-G and T-A, or U-A in RNA). So I guess that the goofy movie aliens actually have twenty different bases and ten base pairs? Hmm, I kinda wanted to see this movie, but all the reviews have said that it's either so-so or incredibly awful. Guess I'll wait for the video...
[Running out of house in Kalamazoo, MI]
We've been mentioned on Slashdot!
(Sorry, obscure Monty Python ref. I'm from Kazoo, and we take any thrill we can.)
Apples and oranges, I know, but just imagine the possible implications for the gaming scene... Obsessives arguing over whether the human eye can tell the difference between 32,000 and 100,000 frames per second, full-screen anti-aliasing still causing a big performance hit -- down to 10,000 fps, the Voodoo7 criticized for only reaching 20,000 fps, the mind reels. Uh, sorry.
This might not be the most popular opinion here, but would I pay $4.95 a month for Napster? ... Yeah! Well, probably.* While I'm not shedding any tears over Lars' and Dr. Dre's alleged lack of funds, I'm not wild about other more deserving artists getting screwed by their labels even further since Napster's "costing them millions of dollars in revenue" or somesuch. OK, so maybe I don't understand the record industry, and maybe this won't improve things that much for artists, but looking at it selfishly: would I rather pay ~$18.99 once or twice a month for CDs with only a few songs I like, or pay $4.95 for a big music buffet with everything I like? You can't (or shouldn't?) get something for nothing...
* Unless the fee causes people to switch to Gnutella or whatever, and Napster loses critical mass, leaving me with just Britney Spears and N'Sync songs to download. Which also seems like a plausible course of events...
Well, duh.
OK, so the bacteria could survive a few days in outer space (barely?). So, I suppose it follows that they could also survive for thousands to millions of years in outer space, which seems to be a more realistic time frame? Admittedly, testing that hypothesis is next to impossible, but forgive me if I don't take this as proof that life originated on Mars or something. (And what's the deal with everyone wanting to prove _that_? Earth not good enough for you?)