Did you have to program in the snow? Uphill? Both ways?
Well, I had to walk to school in the snow, but it was flat, and programming was easy -- my first computer was a slide rule. Those things are uber-easy to program!
I think I first visited/. in 1997. That was the year I started my Springfield Fragfest Quake site. But when servers melted, nobody say they were fragfested. But it was pretty popular just the same, I'll never forget 1999 when my then-12 year old daughter came home from school and said "Dad, did you know you were famous?" It seems all her friends were fans of my site, and didn't believe I was her dad! She was really happy when one of the artists at EA who'd worked on her favorite game, Jazz Jackrabbit, emailed a drawing of herself as a rabbit.
Thankfully, taco didn't get bored of his site until this year, unlike me. I think I let my old domain lapse in 2004.
I guess I'll have to buy a tshirt. I think they should give the first 99999 to those of us with five or lower digit IDs!
there are plenty of test monkeys and humans around to be testing your nuclear fallout on.
They used those test monkeys and test humans. Actually I was one of those test humans -- one of their Nevada tests carried fallout over Missouri and Illinois, and it happened to snow heavily that night. Ever see thundersnow? If you ever see lightning during a snowstorm, somebody probably set off a nuke. Anyway, we got two feet pf snow and parents were cautioned to not let their kids play in it because it was radioactuve.
Yeah, right, like you're going to keep kids from playing in the snow. Later they collected our baby teeth to measure strontium 90.
As to the monkeys, I'm pretty sure there were apes and monkey on the Bikini Islands that we blew up over and over.
I see you missed the story when the probe launched? I submitted that one, which was posted. The headline was "Marooned off Vesta" and I mentioned at the end of the summary that it was a nod to my favorite author.
Wrong. We have tree ring data going back thousands of years, and ice core data going back millions.
We know air traffic has an immediate affect on weather
Yeah? And how do we know that?
Had CO levels not been elevated by our actions, plant life would soon die - it's been decreasing for millions of years
All plant life would die? I'm afraid you've left out a few variables in your calculations.
Coal is essentially compressed biomass. Burning it will put it back in the biosphere where it was historically. (not true of oil).
Yes, it's biomass, but it's biomass millions of years old. We are releasing carbon that nature itself sequestered. And for the record, you're wrong about oil, as well -- it, too, is biomass.
The prehistoric record shows significant vegetation (rainforest?) at higher latitudes - like Montana.
Montana isn't where it was then, and mountains grow and flatten over those time scales.
There is evidence that the northwest passage has been clear at some points in the last 1000 years.
Citation?
Alarmist articles bring eyeballs and ad-click revenue.
We never had half as many acres burn as happened this year. No heavy rain where I'm at, in fact it's the worst drought in half a century. This was Illinois' hotest July on record. This has been a mild hurricane season -- but man, there sure were a lot of tornados down south this year.
the Native Americans learned long ago you have to set small fires so that large ones can be avoided.
No. They set fires to catch game; they set teh fires for a cheap meal.
illegal to do controlled burns in forests in most places
That's because it's easier to set the whole damned state on fire with a "controlled" burn than it is to control a burn.
BTW and OT, I see you refuse to use standard conventions, like starting sentences with a capital. You must be a Microsoft fan, following your own "standards" like they do. Here's a hint, son: it doesn't make you look cool, it makes you look incredibly stupid. Of course, it doesn't nake you look as stupid as the comment itself did.
Most American beer is pilsner rather than lager. Even if the bottle's brown and the label says lager, the recipes are for pilsner beer.
Actually, I've drank beer from all over the world (ever had Japanes beer?) and there are only a few I don't like. Miller Lite is #1 on the "eew" list. I prefer Bass, but they don't sell it in many places, D'Arcy's has another Irish brand that is almost as good. But D'Arcy's is always packed and it takes an hour to get a seat (not because of the beer, because of the food).
True in some ways... Except when you are using standard "green" energy sources for power generation. Bad things happen when the wind stops blowing or a cloud drifts by. Even on the best day, you can only count on about 20% availability of capacity from wind or solar, which means you have 80% reserve capacity available from fossil fuels not being used.
A sunny day is usually not a windy day, a rainy day is. The hydroelectric works 24/7/365, as does tidal and geothermal. Generate the rest with nukes.
Doesn't anyone have problem with the full source code being available?
Why would the source being open be a problem? If I'm running something blindly off the internet, I want to know what it's doing. I take it you're not a fan of open source software? If the source is closed, how can you trust the code? I'll take open source over closed any day.
Your comment reminded me of a joke the preacher told during his sermon last Sunday. A doctor, a lawyer, and a preacher are out deer hunting. A big nine point buck comes into view and all three fire, and the buck goes down.
The lawyer says "But how can we tell whose shot hit the mark?" The doctor says, "well, let me examine the deer."
The doctor looks the deer over and says "the preacher shot this buck." The lawyer replies "really? How can you tell?"
The doator says "because the shot went in one ear and out the other!"
I live close to the ghetto, and guess what? More white people live there than black people. It has nothing to do with race or ethnicity and everything to do with income. There's a class war, and the rich want to make everyone think it's a race war, that the poor are all black and hispanic criminals. It just isn't so. White food stamp recipients outnumber black food stamp recipients three to one.
I'm not talking about bits, I'm talking about sound amplification. You can hook an input to a tube's cathode, a speaker to its anode, a power source to its heater, and it will amplify the input. You need at least two transistors to do that.
Why is it we work harder, longer, have more health issues and make less money in constant dollars than our moms and dads did?
Because some of us were stupid enough to vote Republican, the party of the rich and connected. The rich are doing VERY well. When I was young, a CEO made roughly 20-15 times what the lowest paid employee made, now he makes 400 times as much, thanks to the decline of the unions and government policies.
As I understand it, high amplitude low frequencies would purposefully be filtered out for vinyl as they cause the needle to jump out of the track.
That's what the RIAA crossover is for (it's well explained in wikipedia). Rather than filtering low frequencies out, they are attenuated on record, and amplified on playback, which brings the bass back to the original volume and leaves it with a flat response.
Second of all, none of my computer science books have computers in them
Do your math books have numbers and mathematic symbols in them? If not, then they were exactly like an art history book without pictures.
An art book need not be about looking at art, it's about critique of art and discussion of the art.
It's an art history book. A critique of a work is useless unless you've at lest seen a representation of the work being discussed. An art book that teaches drawing (not the one under discussion) would need examples of techniques, just as a physical engineering book would need pictures and representations of structures.
I do agree that a programming, comp-si, math, or general history book needs no illustrations, but different fields have different teaching requirements. An art history book most certainly need illustrations, justa as a math book needs formulas.
Agreed, if you rewrote it it would indeed be ill. Can't you fucking kids follow conventions for the sake of clear communications, or are you doing like Microsoft does and making up your own "standards"? Not capitalizing the "I" wasnt the only thing about the way you wrote your comment that made you look like a retarded ten year old.
Get your GED, kid, so you don't come across as such a moron.
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Lets you see develop windows applications without buying a 400$+ windows PC, or even Linux applications without a machine that runs Linux.
You can get machines that run Linux out of a dumpster. Take an old P4 and throw Mandrake or Debian on it and you're good to go.
Did you have to program in the snow? Uphill? Both ways?
Well, I had to walk to school in the snow, but it was flat, and programming was easy -- my first computer was a slide rule. Those things are uber-easy to program!
I think I first visited /. in 1997. That was the year I started my Springfield Fragfest Quake site. But when servers melted, nobody say they were fragfested. But it was pretty popular just the same, I'll never forget 1999 when my then-12 year old daughter came home from school and said "Dad, did you know you were famous?" It seems all her friends were fans of my site, and didn't believe I was her dad! She was really happy when one of the artists at EA who'd worked on her favorite game, Jazz Jackrabbit, emailed a drawing of herself as a rabbit.
Thankfully, taco didn't get bored of his site until this year, unlike me. I think I let my old domain lapse in 2004.
I guess I'll have to buy a tshirt. I think they should give the first 99999 to those of us with five or lower digit IDs!
there are plenty of test monkeys and humans around to be testing your nuclear fallout on.
They used those test monkeys and test humans. Actually I was one of those test humans -- one of their Nevada tests carried fallout over Missouri and Illinois, and it happened to snow heavily that night. Ever see thundersnow? If you ever see lightning during a snowstorm, somebody probably set off a nuke. Anyway, we got two feet pf snow and parents were cautioned to not let their kids play in it because it was radioactuve.
Yeah, right, like you're going to keep kids from playing in the snow. Later they collected our baby teeth to measure strontium 90.
As to the monkeys, I'm pretty sure there were apes and monkey on the Bikini Islands that we blew up over and over.
That's next year. This year it's its Eth birthday. Or its 1111th birthday if you like binary.
I see you missed the story when the probe launched? I submitted that one, which was posted. The headline was "Marooned off Vesta" and I mentioned at the end of the summary that it was a nod to my favorite author.
We don't really have data over a very long time.
Wrong. We have tree ring data going back thousands of years, and ice core data going back millions.
We know air traffic has an immediate affect on weather
Yeah? And how do we know that?
Had CO levels not been elevated by our actions, plant life would soon die - it's been decreasing for millions of years
All plant life would die? I'm afraid you've left out a few variables in your calculations.
Coal is essentially compressed biomass. Burning it will put it back in the biosphere where it was historically. (not true of oil).
Yes, it's biomass, but it's biomass millions of years old. We are releasing carbon that nature itself sequestered. And for the record, you're wrong about oil, as well -- it, too, is biomass.
The prehistoric record shows significant vegetation (rainforest?) at higher latitudes - like Montana.
Montana isn't where it was then, and mountains grow and flatten over those time scales.
There is evidence that the northwest passage has been clear at some points in the last 1000 years.
Citation?
Alarmist articles bring eyeballs and ad-click revenue.
Well, you got one thing right.
I'm nearly certain that "repairibility" is patented.
No, Apple has the patent on "repairability" which is why the summary was forced to misspell it.
i mean we never had any fires before this year
We never had half as many acres burn as happened this year. No heavy rain where I'm at, in fact it's the worst drought in half a century. This was Illinois' hotest July on record. This has been a mild hurricane season -- but man, there sure were a lot of tornados down south this year.
the Native Americans learned long ago you have to set small fires so that large ones can be avoided.
No. They set fires to catch game; they set teh fires for a cheap meal.
illegal to do controlled burns in forests in most places
That's because it's easier to set the whole damned state on fire with a "controlled" burn than it is to control a burn.
BTW and OT, I see you refuse to use standard conventions, like starting sentences with a capital. You must be a Microsoft fan, following your own "standards" like they do. Here's a hint, son: it doesn't make you look cool, it makes you look incredibly stupid. Of course, it doesn't nake you look as stupid as the comment itself did.
Most American beer is pilsner rather than lager. Even if the bottle's brown and the label says lager, the recipes are for pilsner beer.
Actually, I've drank beer from all over the world (ever had Japanes beer?) and there are only a few I don't like. Miller Lite is #1 on the "eew" list. I prefer Bass, but they don't sell it in many places, D'Arcy's has another Irish brand that is almost as good. But D'Arcy's is always packed and it takes an hour to get a seat (not because of the beer, because of the food).
Someone will always want the <blink> tag.
I don't want the <blink> tag, but I do wonder why they deprecated the <font> tag.
True in some ways... Except when you are using standard "green" energy sources for power generation. Bad things happen when the wind stops blowing or a cloud drifts by. Even on the best day, you can only count on about 20% availability of capacity from wind or solar, which means you have 80% reserve capacity available from fossil fuels not being used.
A sunny day is usually not a windy day, a rainy day is. The hydroelectric works 24/7/365, as does tidal and geothermal. Generate the rest with nukes.
Doesn't anyone have problem with the full source code being available?
Why would the source being open be a problem? If I'm running something blindly off the internet, I want to know what it's doing. I take it you're not a fan of open source software? If the source is closed, how can you trust the code? I'll take open source over closed any day.
And there's another Republican trait: inability to take a joke (even though it was a pretty lame one).
What's the difference between a job and a wife?
After three years the job still sucks.
Your comment reminded me of a joke the preacher told during his sermon last Sunday. A doctor, a lawyer, and a preacher are out deer hunting. A big nine point buck comes into view and all three fire, and the buck goes down.
The lawyer says "But how can we tell whose shot hit the mark?" The doctor says, "well, let me examine the deer."
The doctor looks the deer over and says "the preacher shot this buck." The lawyer replies "really? How can you tell?"
The doator says "because the shot went in one ear and out the other!"
I live close to the ghetto, and guess what? More white people live there than black people. It has nothing to do with race or ethnicity and everything to do with income. There's a class war, and the rich want to make everyone think it's a race war, that the poor are all black and hispanic criminals. It just isn't so. White food stamp recipients outnumber black food stamp recipients three to one.
I'm not talking about bits, I'm talking about sound amplification. You can hook an input to a tube's cathode, a speaker to its anode, a power source to its heater, and it will amplify the input. You need at least two transistors to do that.
Now, who in their right mind uses Access for DB's anyway?
People whose employers insist on it. I hate it! I miss real programming languages.
Why is it we work harder, longer, have more health issues and make less money in constant dollars than our moms and dads did?
Because some of us were stupid enough to vote Republican, the party of the rich and connected. The rich are doing VERY well. When I was young, a CEO made roughly 20-15 times what the lowest paid employee made, now he makes 400 times as much, thanks to the decline of the unions and government policies.
As I understand it, high amplitude low frequencies would purposefully be filtered out for vinyl as they cause the needle to jump out of the track.
That's what the RIAA crossover is for (it's well explained in wikipedia). Rather than filtering low frequencies out, they are attenuated on record, and amplified on playback, which brings the bass back to the original volume and leaves it with a flat response.
Crap, should have looked it up, I was thinking middle C was 440.
Second of all, none of my computer science books have computers in them
Do your math books have numbers and mathematic symbols in them? If not, then they were exactly like an art history book without pictures.
An art book need not be about looking at art, it's about critique of art and discussion of the art.
It's an art history book. A critique of a work is useless unless you've at lest seen a representation of the work being discussed. An art book that teaches drawing (not the one under discussion) would need examples of techniques, just as a physical engineering book would need pictures and representations of structures.
I do agree that a programming, comp-si, math, or general history book needs no illustrations, but different fields have different teaching requirements. An art history book most certainly need illustrations, justa as a math book needs formulas.
ill re-write that for ya
Agreed, if you rewrote it it would indeed be ill. Can't you fucking kids follow conventions for the sake of clear communications, or are you doing like Microsoft does and making up your own "standards"? Not capitalizing the "I" wasnt the only thing about the way you wrote your comment that made you look like a retarded ten year old.
Get your GED, kid, so you don't come across as such a moron.
Measure twice, cut once!
That's the old, craftsmanship way. These days, especially with software, it's measure with a micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with an axe.