Salesman: Well I can't _give_ you the car, Krusty, but I _can_ let you have this little number for practically nothing: only $38,000. [bullets hit the car] Homer: [suspicious] Hey, what are all these holes? Salesman: [quickly] These are speed holes. They make the car go faster. Homer: Oh, yeah. Speed holes! [bullets riddle the car and smash the windshield] Salesman: You want my advice? I think you should buy this car.
If it takes a whole lifetime to record, it will take a whole lifetime to watch, and you wouldn't be able to start watching until you were old enough to understand what was happening anyway. He'd better hope he dies very young so that people have enough time to see the whole thing.
God only records with a crummy black and white CCD. It would be useless but for the fact that he has a copy of the same software used in CSI et al to zoom in to infinite levels or see around objects.
Water doesn't take the shortest path, it just takes the most downhill one. If it took the shortest path then a lot of rivers would be a lot straighter...
Why call it the "Y2.038K" bug? Why not just say "Y2038"? Think of the millions of electrons that will be wasted by those extra two characters! If everybody just cut down on their electron usage, we could eliminate global warming! OTOH, if the asteroid comes and Bruce Willis is unavailable, global warming won't be such an issue.
I played with the settings a bit...now when I set the camera to have inertia and momentum, the earth keeps bouncing left to right (regardless of compass orientation). By that I mean it turns left to right, back from right to left a little bit, then from left to right again all the way around...it takes 16 bounces and about 8 seconds to go around the world and I'm getting dizzy:-S
One of clippy's little animations involved him doing something with his eyes...I think he leaned forward and the eyes suddenly got bigger. For some reason, that would freak me out and I would have to look away from the screen. Sometimes I actually jumped a little when I saw that happen.
Three have screwed me around and ripped me off too....I've spent so many hours on the phone to them due to problems with my handsets and stuff. I was living in Canberra at the time, and the lady at the Indian call centre just couldn't grasp the concept that Sydney was a 3 hour drive away and I couldn't just hop in the car and head over to one of their service centres there. The phone was broken and covered by warranty, and they told me I had to take the handset in to a service centre myself, and that I couldn't even send it by courier (at my expense). So I flew to Melbourne and handed in the phone. Then got told I could've sent it by courier. Then the service centre told me I had to go to a 3 store to get a "loan phone" while mine was being fixed. So I went to the 3 store. They told me I had to get the loan phone from the service centre! Then they called the service centre and told me that there were no available phones there anyway.
Wow, sorry for going off topic, but I had to let it all out! One day I'll type up all my notes from the phone calls I have made and post them on the web somewhere, it's interesting reading:-S
The best solution would be for the US to simply pull out, and let all the remaining factions fight amongst themselves. They can all keep killing each other until only one faction has any people left, then the remaining survivors will live in peace and harmony. Of course, if you are one of those people who is against mass undignified slaughter, you will probably argue against this approach, but hopefully common sense will prevail!:-P
The theory that I believe is that the Australian Aborigines migrated from India. You'll notice that the South Indians are very distinct from the North Indians...Southern Indians have much darker skin and their language, Tamil, is vastly different to Hindi. Northern Indians tend to be a light brown and some are almost "white". My understanding/belief is that the Dravidians were occupying India, and slowly migrated across South-East Asia and into Australia. Meanwhile a bunch of people from the Middle-East wandered over to North India (speaking a variant of the Proto-Indo-European Language which later became Sanksrit) and pushed the Dravidians down further South.
Australia has driving licenses standardised across all of our states, and it seems to work just fine. Of course, the only personal information stored on them is your name, address, photo, DOB and whether or not you need to wear glasses to drive...after all, it is designed as a driving license not an ID card (although it is used and accepted as ID). I don't get why you would include a person's weight on a driving license - it seems pointless given that weight can change so easily.
Removing the one and two cent coins worked out really well for one of Melbourne's newspapers. The Herald-Sun cost 90c, until the government introduced a 10% GST....then the newspaper went up to 99c. Of course, everyone had to pay $1, not 99c. The newspaper claims to have 1.5 million readers daily, so over the course of one year (it is a weekday newspaper) it adds up to $3.9 million above the sale price! It was like that for quite a while before they updated the price to $1.00 (my understanding is that one of the rules of the introduction of GST were that the non-GST portion of the price of a product was not allowed to increase under the guise of "GST", so for example a $4.30 product, which would become $4.73, could not be then priced as $5.00 because of GST)
Smart organisations in the US will capitalise on this....one cent is not much for an individual so most people won't care, but the large organisations will make bucketloads.
I was never big and strong, but I went to school in a little country town. The high school had 400 kids, but nobody really went around beating each other up. I recall that I did get into one physical "fight"...there were three kids ganging up on me against a wall...I don't think they were going to hurt me, but they pushed me a little too far so I punched the "leader" in the face and ran away as fast as I could:-P I made his cheek swell up a bit, but nothing spectacular, and it didn't stop anyone from bullying me:-S
"Real" bullying is all mental. Physical abuse is only a small part of it. Bullies like to make other people feel inferior because it in turn makes them feel superior, and if they can do that without the bother of beating someone then in my experience they will. I was bullied badly in school, yet I was very rarely involved in any physical confrontations.
Microsoft is such a big company, you would think that they would have been able to solve this by now. Why couldn't they have, for example, had two or three different teams working on a patch, and then choosing the best solution? They could even offer a nice reward to the winning team as an incentive.
But if your sexual attraction to children is strong enough that you are willing to pay for kiddie porn, then you are not likely going to reproduce anyway.
When talking about the universe expanding, people seem to only refer to the distances between galaxies increasing. But surely if the universe is expanding, it should be expanding on every level (ie macro and micro).
So imagine if you have a piece of glass. Are the atoms in that piece of glass under a tiny but constant outward pressure? A pressure which is actually inertia (because if the atom were to stay "at rest" it would move away from the other atoms as the universe expanded)? Could this also be carried down to the subatomic level, ie are quarks fighting the Universe Expansion Force (sounds like a bunch of comic book heroes:-P) to stick together?
If the answer to the above question is yes, then what happens if the universe begins to collapse in on itself? The Universe Expansion Force would be negated, so the strength of the attraction between quarks would increase (as would the strength of the attraction between electrons and nuclei etc). Would this cause the utter and complete destruction of all matter many billions of years before the big crunch? Or is the Universe Expansion Force too tiny to have any measureable impact?
Why are people criticising the article as if it is serious...it's obviously a joke. The run-on sentences, the crazy associations (bruised knee!) etc...it's funny! I suppose every person has a different sense of humour (I know people who think that "Little Britain" is funny!) but I'm surprised that people mistook it for a real article.
I continue to use windows because I have never really used anything else. I only actually bought my own computer a couple of years ago because I always had access to one at school or university so couldn't really justify the expense. Now I'm running a laptop with an almost full 20gb hard drive, and whilst I would like to have a go at installing and playing about with linux, I'm not keen enough that I want to buy a larger hard disk to do so (I'd rather spend the money on some sort of musical instrument:-P).
Although I am basically a lifetime windows user, I am not a windows fanboy. Even without something to compare it against, I am aware that it has many problems and limitations (although I did study a bit of UI design in uni, so that helped). So whilst I do have a choice as to which OS I use, I am comfortable to continue to use windows because I am familiar with its foibles and have learned to adapt to them.
PS: I did once try using the only mac available at my university. I don't know what type it was, but it was orange. I hated it, there were all kinds of problems. For example, one time I couldn't remove my cd (dragging the cd icon to the trash didn't work, and I'm sure I found an eject icon in a context menu somewhere that also didn't work). I thought I'd lost the cd but found out from someone that if you restart the mac the cd comes out. The only way to get cds out of the stupid machine was by restarting it! What's wrong with an eject button next to the drive? Hello! Usability! I later found out that it was just a problem with the mac being badly set up by the techs who probably knew no more about macs than I did, but it put me off them for life. Oh, and I hate the one-button mouse. I also hate 3, 5, 7 and 27 button mice. Two buttons and a scroll-wheel will do just fine thanks!
Back when I was a lad my buddies and I would shoot each other in the face with shotguns, then pour kerosene in the wounds and set it on fire, and we had to walk dickety-six miles uphill in the snow to do it.
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If it takes a whole lifetime to record, it will take a whole lifetime to watch, and you wouldn't be able to start watching until you were old enough to understand what was happening anyway. He'd better hope he dies very young so that people have enough time to see the whole thing.
God only records with a crummy black and white CCD. It would be useless but for the fact that he has a copy of the same software used in CSI et al to zoom in to infinite levels or see around objects.
Water doesn't take the shortest path, it just takes the most downhill one. If it took the shortest path then a lot of rivers would be a lot straighter...
Did you know that if all the cigarette smokers in the world were laid end-to-end, 2/3 of them would drown?
Why call it the "Y2.038K" bug? Why not just say "Y2038"? Think of the millions of electrons that will be wasted by those extra two characters! If everybody just cut down on their electron usage, we could eliminate global warming! OTOH, if the asteroid comes and Bruce Willis is unavailable, global warming won't be such an issue.
I played with the settings a bit...now when I set the camera to have inertia and momentum, the earth keeps bouncing left to right (regardless of compass orientation). By that I mean it turns left to right, back from right to left a little bit, then from left to right again all the way around...it takes 16 bounces and about 8 seconds to go around the world and I'm getting dizzy :-S
One of clippy's little animations involved him doing something with his eyes...I think he leaned forward and the eyes suddenly got bigger. For some reason, that would freak me out and I would have to look away from the screen. Sometimes I actually jumped a little when I saw that happen.
Three have screwed me around and ripped me off too....I've spent so many hours on the phone to them due to problems with my handsets and stuff. I was living in Canberra at the time, and the lady at the Indian call centre just couldn't grasp the concept that Sydney was a 3 hour drive away and I couldn't just hop in the car and head over to one of their service centres there. The phone was broken and covered by warranty, and they told me I had to take the handset in to a service centre myself, and that I couldn't even send it by courier (at my expense). So I flew to Melbourne and handed in the phone. Then got told I could've sent it by courier. Then the service centre told me I had to go to a 3 store to get a "loan phone" while mine was being fixed. So I went to the 3 store. They told me I had to get the loan phone from the service centre! Then they called the service centre and told me that there were no available phones there anyway.
:-S
Wow, sorry for going off topic, but I had to let it all out! One day I'll type up all my notes from the phone calls I have made and post them on the web somewhere, it's interesting reading
The best solution would be for the US to simply pull out, and let all the remaining factions fight amongst themselves. They can all keep killing each other until only one faction has any people left, then the remaining survivors will live in peace and harmony. Of course, if you are one of those people who is against mass undignified slaughter, you will probably argue against this approach, but hopefully common sense will prevail! :-P
The theory that I believe is that the Australian Aborigines migrated from India. You'll notice that the South Indians are very distinct from the North Indians...Southern Indians have much darker skin and their language, Tamil, is vastly different to Hindi. Northern Indians tend to be a light brown and some are almost "white". My understanding/belief is that the Dravidians were occupying India, and slowly migrated across South-East Asia and into Australia. Meanwhile a bunch of people from the Middle-East wandered over to North India (speaking a variant of the Proto-Indo-European Language which later became Sanksrit) and pushed the Dravidians down further South.
P=NP is easy to solve. When P=0 or N=1, then P=NP. Also if P<0 and N=i. Otherwise P<>NP.
Maybe I should get a job as a mathemagician:
"But 7 goes into 28 four times!"
"Err...this is a magic 7!"
Australia has driving licenses standardised across all of our states, and it seems to work just fine. Of course, the only personal information stored on them is your name, address, photo, DOB and whether or not you need to wear glasses to drive...after all, it is designed as a driving license not an ID card (although it is used and accepted as ID). I don't get why you would include a person's weight on a driving license - it seems pointless given that weight can change so easily.
Or how about Rocky VII: Adrian's revenge?
Removing the one and two cent coins worked out really well for one of Melbourne's newspapers. The Herald-Sun cost 90c, until the government introduced a 10% GST....then the newspaper went up to 99c. Of course, everyone had to pay $1, not 99c. The newspaper claims to have 1.5 million readers daily, so over the course of one year (it is a weekday newspaper) it adds up to $3.9 million above the sale price! It was like that for quite a while before they updated the price to $1.00 (my understanding is that one of the rules of the introduction of GST were that the non-GST portion of the price of a product was not allowed to increase under the guise of "GST", so for example a $4.30 product, which would become $4.73, could not be then priced as $5.00 because of GST)
Smart organisations in the US will capitalise on this....one cent is not much for an individual so most people won't care, but the large organisations will make bucketloads.
I was never big and strong, but I went to school in a little country town. The high school had 400 kids, but nobody really went around beating each other up. I recall that I did get into one physical "fight"...there were three kids ganging up on me against a wall...I don't think they were going to hurt me, but they pushed me a little too far so I punched the "leader" in the face and ran away as fast as I could :-P I made his cheek swell up a bit, but nothing spectacular, and it didn't stop anyone from bullying me :-S
Maybe they should try Acme Axle Grease instead! Beep beep!
"Real" bullying is all mental. Physical abuse is only a small part of it. Bullies like to make other people feel inferior because it in turn makes them feel superior, and if they can do that without the bother of beating someone then in my experience they will. I was bullied badly in school, yet I was very rarely involved in any physical confrontations.
Microsoft is such a big company, you would think that they would have been able to solve this by now. Why couldn't they have, for example, had two or three different teams working on a patch, and then choosing the best solution? They could even offer a nice reward to the winning team as an incentive.
But if your sexual attraction to children is strong enough that you are willing to pay for kiddie porn, then you are not likely going to reproduce anyway.
When talking about the universe expanding, people seem to only refer to the distances between galaxies increasing. But surely if the universe is expanding, it should be expanding on every level (ie macro and micro).
:-P) to stick together?
So imagine if you have a piece of glass. Are the atoms in that piece of glass under a tiny but constant outward pressure? A pressure which is actually inertia (because if the atom were to stay "at rest" it would move away from the other atoms as the universe expanded)? Could this also be carried down to the subatomic level, ie are quarks fighting the Universe Expansion Force (sounds like a bunch of comic book heroes
If the answer to the above question is yes, then what happens if the universe begins to collapse in on itself? The Universe Expansion Force would be negated, so the strength of the attraction between quarks would increase (as would the strength of the attraction between electrons and nuclei etc). Would this cause the utter and complete destruction of all matter many billions of years before the big crunch? Or is the Universe Expansion Force too tiny to have any measureable impact?
Why are people criticising the article as if it is serious...it's obviously a joke. The run-on sentences, the crazy associations (bruised knee!) etc...it's funny! I suppose every person has a different sense of humour (I know people who think that "Little Britain" is funny!) but I'm surprised that people mistook it for a real article.
I continue to use windows because I have never really used anything else. I only actually bought my own computer a couple of years ago because I always had access to one at school or university so couldn't really justify the expense. Now I'm running a laptop with an almost full 20gb hard drive, and whilst I would like to have a go at installing and playing about with linux, I'm not keen enough that I want to buy a larger hard disk to do so (I'd rather spend the money on some sort of musical instrument :-P).
Although I am basically a lifetime windows user, I am not a windows fanboy. Even without something to compare it against, I am aware that it has many problems and limitations (although I did study a bit of UI design in uni, so that helped). So whilst I do have a choice as to which OS I use, I am comfortable to continue to use windows because I am familiar with its foibles and have learned to adapt to them.
PS: I did once try using the only mac available at my university. I don't know what type it was, but it was orange. I hated it, there were all kinds of problems. For example, one time I couldn't remove my cd (dragging the cd icon to the trash didn't work, and I'm sure I found an eject icon in a context menu somewhere that also didn't work). I thought I'd lost the cd but found out from someone that if you restart the mac the cd comes out. The only way to get cds out of the stupid machine was by restarting it! What's wrong with an eject button next to the drive? Hello! Usability! I later found out that it was just a problem with the mac being badly set up by the techs who probably knew no more about macs than I did, but it put me off them for life. Oh, and I hate the one-button mouse. I also hate 3, 5, 7 and 27 button mice. Two buttons and a scroll-wheel will do just fine thanks!
Back when I was a lad my buddies and I would shoot each other in the face with shotguns, then pour kerosene in the wounds and set it on fire, and we had to walk dickety-six miles uphill in the snow to do it.