I don't pretend to know where Nerdcore orginated, it was a joke. Even if MC Hawking didn't invent Nerdcore, he (it?) has got some good tracks.
Entropy
Trash Talk
Harm me with harmony.
Doomsday, drop a load on 'em.
Verse 1
Entropy, how can I explain it? I'll take it frame by frame it,
to have you all jumping, shouting saying it.
Let's just say that it's a measure of disorder,
in a system that is closed, like with a border.
It's sorta, like a, well a measurement of randomness,
proposed in 1850 by a German, but wait I digress.
"What the fuck is entropy?", I here the people still exclaiming,
it seems I gotta start the explaining.
You ever drop an egg and on the floor you see it break?
You go and get a mop so you can clean up your mistake.
But did you ever stop to ponder why we know it's true,
if you drop a broken egg you will not get an egg that's new.
That's entropy or E-N-T-R-O to the P to the Y,
the reason why the sun will one day all burn out and die.
Order from disorder is a scientific rarity,
allow me to explain it with a little bit more clarity.
Did I say rarity? I meant impossibility,
at least in a closed system there will always be more entropy.
That's entropy and I hope that you're all down with it,
if you are here's your membership.
Chorus
You down with entropy?
Yeah, you know me! (x3)
Who's down with entropy?
Every last homey!
Verse 2
Defining entropy as disorder's not complete,
'cause disorder as a definition doesn't cover heat.
So my first definition I would now like to withdraw,
and offer one that fits thermodynamics second law.
First we need to understand that entropy is energy,
energy that can't be used to state it more specifically.
In a closed system entropy always goes up,
that's the second law, now you know what's up.
You can't win, you can't break even, you can't leave the game,
'cause entropy will take it all 'though it seems a shame.
The second law, as we now know, is quite clear to state,
that entropy must increase and not dissipate.
Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun,
so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!
That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about,
you're now down with a discount.
I have a mini powering a 1680x1050 20" widescreen panel. There's a noticeable "smoothness" improvement when if I hook up the mini to a smaller LCD or CRT.
Considering that the smallest monitor that apple sells is a 20" widescreen, they should equip all their machines that are more than capable of powering them.
I have a hard time taking the Itanium serious for two reasons:
1. I have heard there are thirty-six megs of cache on one version of the chip
2. When the original Itanium was released all those years ago, its hardware x86 emulation was so terrible that Intel wrote a software emulator that was faster than the hardware solution.
Don't get me wrong, the first isn't a bad thing(I just find it a tad rediculous), and the second no longer applies. More seriously I think that its completely incompatible instruction set combined with high cost keep it from more widespread adoption. Even if the supercoputer people are getting all hot and bothered about it, that still leaves a few fractions of a precent below one hundred of the world's population that the chip has to do something for.
Microsoft is serious about security, unless it involves a potentially lucrative business deal. I seriously hope this is some gross oversight on a Microsoft staff member's part, and not some willful attempt to try and keep claria software on people's computers.
I could only imagine the horror if video game compaies were allowed to patent gameplay mechanisms.
Wouldn't it be great if atari had been able apply for a patent on moving things on screen, or if Nintendo had got a patent on jumping in video games?
In a nutshell, crime in the UK was on a fairly steady decline until the proponents of victim disarmament started to get their way in the 1930s. It all really hit the fan in the late 1990s, when the gun ban precipitated a sharp rise in gun crime.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that the United States has one of the highest violent crime rates in the world. So what if the UKs crime rate went up, it would still put it well behind the United States.
I hope they either provide a way to connect old PS2 controllers
If you look at the people giving demonstrations during the sony press conference, they all use the playstation 2 dualshock controller. This would lead me to believe the ps3 will support some kind of backwards compatiblity for them.
You could design a hybrid battery--part traditional power storage, part nuclear generation. As the traditional battery is drained, the nuclear battery charges it; best of all, when you're not using the laptop, it charges by default. You wouldn't need a nuclear battery big enough to run the whole laptop--just big enough to stretch that five hour standard battery to a ten-hour battery, with the added bonus of automatic, cordless recharging when the system isn't in use...
Lithium batteries require about as much voltage to charge as they give off during operation. If the radioactive battery can't deliver enough power to power the laptop, it won't be able to deliver enough power to charge the battery.
While this is a Windows problem, it can result in a misconception that could end up being applied to other platforms. If people are used to using administrator privileges because of programs requiring them, they might think that they'll have to do the same on Linux and other systems. Avoiding Microsoft's mistakes is one thing. Undoing its influence is another.
Chalk this up to whatever you want, but when I set up my first linux system I was irritated at the notion that I should run as anything less than a super-user. This was coming from 15ish years of running windows exclusively, so the idea that I should not have all the power at by beck and call seemed absurd (oh the indescretion of my youth).
Omnipotent godlike powers make the system user lazy, and it's very easy to get entrenched in the kind of thinking that being an admin at all times brings with with it. That being said, I was glad to read that windows is adopting a more UNIX-like permisisons model for longhorn. Now it will just be a matter of convincing software developers and average joes that this is the right way of doing things.
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I don't pretend to know where Nerdcore orginated, it was a joke. Even if MC Hawking didn't invent Nerdcore, he (it?) has got some good tracks.
Entropy
Trash Talk
Harm me with harmony.
Doomsday, drop a load on 'em.
Verse 1
Entropy, how can I explain it? I'll take it frame by frame it,
to have you all jumping, shouting saying it.
Let's just say that it's a measure of disorder,
in a system that is closed, like with a border.
It's sorta, like a, well a measurement of randomness,
proposed in 1850 by a German, but wait I digress.
"What the fuck is entropy?", I here the people still exclaiming,
it seems I gotta start the explaining.
You ever drop an egg and on the floor you see it break?
You go and get a mop so you can clean up your mistake.
But did you ever stop to ponder why we know it's true,
if you drop a broken egg you will not get an egg that's new.
That's entropy or E-N-T-R-O to the P to the Y,
the reason why the sun will one day all burn out and die.
Order from disorder is a scientific rarity,
allow me to explain it with a little bit more clarity.
Did I say rarity? I meant impossibility,
at least in a closed system there will always be more entropy.
That's entropy and I hope that you're all down with it,
if you are here's your membership.
Chorus
You down with entropy?
Yeah, you know me! (x3)
Who's down with entropy?
Every last homey!
Verse 2
Defining entropy as disorder's not complete,
'cause disorder as a definition doesn't cover heat.
So my first definition I would now like to withdraw,
and offer one that fits thermodynamics second law.
First we need to understand that entropy is energy,
energy that can't be used to state it more specifically.
In a closed system entropy always goes up,
that's the second law, now you know what's up.
You can't win, you can't break even, you can't leave the game,
'cause entropy will take it all 'though it seems a shame.
The second law, as we now know, is quite clear to state,
that entropy must increase and not dissipate.
Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun,
so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!
That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about,
you're now down with a discount.
Chorus
Trash Talk
Hit it!
Doomsday, kick it in!
I have a mini powering a 1680x1050 20" widescreen panel. There's a noticeable "smoothness" improvement when if I hook up the mini to a smaller LCD or CRT.
Considering that the smallest monitor that apple sells is a 20" widescreen, they should equip all their machines that are more than capable of powering them.
Who would have thought that MC Hawking could have spawned an entire genre?
What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet... except if you called it stenchblossom.
Somehow that simpsons line seems oddly appropriate right now. A vista is also a good place to commit suicide from.
This is heresy! Anime never gets distributed over BitTorrent!
I have a hard time taking the Itanium serious for two reasons:
1. I have heard there are thirty-six megs of cache on one version of the chip
2. When the original Itanium was released all those years ago, its hardware x86 emulation was so terrible that Intel wrote a software emulator that was faster than the hardware solution.
Don't get me wrong, the first isn't a bad thing(I just find it a tad rediculous), and the second no longer applies. More seriously I think that its completely incompatible instruction set combined with high cost keep it from more widespread adoption. Even if the supercoputer people are getting all hot and bothered about it, that still leaves a few fractions of a precent below one hundred of the world's population that the chip has to do something for.
Microsoft is serious about security, unless it involves a potentially lucrative business deal. I seriously hope this is some gross oversight on a Microsoft staff member's part, and not some willful attempt to try and keep claria software on people's computers.
Finally, the efficiency of javascript, the user friendliness of unix, and the uncompromising speed of a web based application all in one package.
I could only imagine the horror if video game compaies were allowed to patent gameplay mechanisms. Wouldn't it be great if atari had been able apply for a patent on moving things on screen, or if Nintendo had got a patent on jumping in video games?
You seem to be ignoring the fact that the United States has one of the highest violent crime rates in the world. So what if the UKs crime rate went up, it would still put it well behind the United States.
I hope they either provide a way to connect old PS2 controllers
If you look at the people giving demonstrations during the sony press conference, they all use the playstation 2 dualshock controller. This would lead me to believe the ps3 will support some kind of backwards compatiblity for them.
You could design a hybrid battery--part traditional power storage, part nuclear generation. As the traditional battery is drained, the nuclear battery charges it; best of all, when you're not using the laptop, it charges by default. You wouldn't need a nuclear battery big enough to run the whole laptop--just big enough to stretch that five hour standard battery to a ten-hour battery, with the added bonus of automatic, cordless recharging when the system isn't in use...
Lithium batteries require about as much voltage to charge as they give off during operation. If the radioactive battery can't deliver enough power to power the laptop, it won't be able to deliver enough power to charge the battery.
While this is a Windows problem, it can result in a misconception that could end up being applied to other platforms. If people are used to using administrator privileges because of programs requiring them, they might think that they'll have to do the same on Linux and other systems. Avoiding Microsoft's mistakes is one thing. Undoing its influence is another.
Chalk this up to whatever you want, but when I set up my first linux system I was irritated at the notion that I should run as anything less than a super-user. This was coming from 15ish years of running windows exclusively, so the idea that I should not have all the power at by beck and call seemed absurd (oh the indescretion of my youth).
Omnipotent godlike powers make the system user lazy, and it's very easy to get entrenched in the kind of thinking that being an admin at all times brings with with it. That being said, I was glad to read that windows is adopting a more UNIX-like permisisons model for longhorn. Now it will just be a matter of convincing software developers and average joes that this is the right way of doing things.