And speaking of all that, go to Sourceforge and sign up for my new project called Pr0n-O-Matic.
Not a joke! It's an image downloader that will use JPEG Sheriff CRC files to automatically download and build pr0n collections. I'm writing it in Python.
Right now there's just a mailing list set up. More things to follow.
>Creating.health would set a precenende for
>hundreds and hunderds of toplevel domains.
This is a little known fact, but there is only *one* top level domain in existence. Since every address has that single top level domain, it's implicit and we don't have to type it. *.com, *.org, *.net, and the upcoming *.health are actually subdomains of that one toplevel domain that exists. You can't actually type the toplevel domain on addresses because all the routers have been optimized to reject address with the redundant toplevel information. But, just for the record the official toplevel domain that is implicit in every internet address is.biff. The person who invented the naming heirarchy had a dog named Biff, and now Biff is implicitly immortalized in every internet address name in the world.
You can write a game in any language. If you're thinking of a graphical game, sure, you can write one of those too.
Example: check out Python's binding to the Qt library. Python will bind to other things too, like OpenGL. The main deal will be the speed. If you don't need it, Python's great. Otherwise use a compiled language.
A Python compiler written in Python? It could use a GCC backend to compile C code emitted by the Python compiler.
The stage 1 compiler would be a simple distribution of Python source files, and it would be run with the regular CPython installation. That would be used to compile itself into a binary Python compiler.
Why not? Develop Python programs with CPython. When you're done, compile it for speed.
There's an answering machine opposite me
that's part of my primitive ancestry
that used up cassette tapes
to play us funny songs for free
though I respect that a lot
I'd be fired if that were my job
after swearing at all the
countless screaming telemarketers
OK, I understand. My supposition is that we do *not* understand this stuff, and computer power is what is holding us back.
I think we'll have computer intelligence before we even come close to understanding intelligence. That's because our first intelligent computers will be products of brute force: simulate all possible brains and ask all of them to flash the screen if they understand us. The ones that flash the screen are possibly intelligent.
You can improve the rendering of the hair on your newscaster by picking any color other than bright green. Optimize the little things first before you try more sophisticated hair rendering algorithms.
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The problem with that is hardly anyone would get elected at that point. Make the vote required to be 70%. I don't know of too many presidential elections that would be won in that case. You'd just be setting up every single election to be decided by a vote in the House.
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Pretend that Yugoslavia has to pick a new voting method:
Yugoslavia is split into Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia. These three areas have different political beliefs. There are more Serbs than either Croats or Bosnians put together.
Situation 1: Popular vote. Most votes wins. All a candidate has to do is run on the platform "Vote for me and we'll kill all the Croats and Bosnians." The Serbs like this, so they vote for the genocidal candidate. The Serbs are a majority, so the Bosnians and Croats won't be able to swing the election.
Situation 2: Electoral college. Serbia has 11 electors, and Bosnia and Croatia both have 5 electors apiece. A candidate must have 16 electoral votes to win. In this situation the genocidal candidate easily wins the majority of the vote. All the Serbs love him, so he gets 11 electoral votes. However, neither Bosnia nor Croatia like the genocidal candidate, so he cannot hope to win the election. This fact makes the candidates *much* more moderate in character, and because of that the governments are more boring, but also much more stable. Any candidate that hopes to win the election must win on the basis of a broad appeal rather than simple pandering to the majority.
I'm not worried about that. My Celery 300A system will be in service until 2002. The motherboard only supports CPU's up to 550 MHZ. When I bought the thing the fastest Celery processor was 433 MHZ.
I have no high hopes that I will be able to put a 2 GHZ processor in that board, so I guess that it was an evolutionary dead end.
I have never upgraded the processor on any of my computers without switching the motherboard as well. I just run them too long for that. I typically run a computer for at least 4 years, and my current machine will go for 5 years.
My next machine will be 1000 times faster than the 386SX that I used from 1990 to 1994, so I expect that it will serve me even longer.
All that is required is for a heads up to be sent to the admin: "Hey Mr. Admin, I'm going to run a mailing list for about 500 people. Just want to let you know what all that traffic is. Thanks."
Good question. I was going to ask that. I think one complaint is enough. The investigation after will show the mail history, and if the same message is sent out to more than X number of people where X is fairly low, KERPOW! No account.
I have a 3c509 card and my Win95 machine will not recognize it. I've installed the driver bunches of times, but the control panel thinks there's no network card installed and refuses to give me configuration screens.
If this was Linux I'd just fix up a new kernel or maybe just a module.
It's OK anyway. Win95 is what I use for trivial, unimportant, moronic things, like games. Linux uses the 3c509 with no problems and that's where I do my work anyway.
My point is that you could wish for an easier setup, but computers will *always* find a way to bite you. The solution to this problem is pass a law that only one single network card and no others is legal to use. Then, make everything work with that single model of card. But, that probably won't happen.
Turn the hearts of our children dark? George Bush is *definitely* not up on the technology. Hearts are made of meat, and the way to keep meat looking nice and red in the butcher shop display case is to add a small amount of sulfites to it. Duh.
The internet doesn't cause it. Exposure to oxygen causes hearts of children, cows, and pigs dark.
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Hell, I just figured out that Torinity is a chick!
Just make damn sure that when you debug you mount a scratch monkey
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And speaking of all that, go to Sourceforge and sign up for my new project called Pr0n-O-Matic.
Not a joke! It's an image downloader that will use JPEG Sheriff CRC files to automatically download and build pr0n collections. I'm writing it in Python.
Right now there's just a mailing list set up. More things to follow.
>Creating .health would set a precenende for
.biff. The person who invented the naming heirarchy had a dog named Biff, and now Biff is implicitly immortalized in every internet address name in the world.
>hundreds and hunderds of toplevel domains.
This is a little known fact, but there is only *one* top level domain in existence. Since every address has that single top level domain, it's implicit and we don't have to type it. *.com, *.org, *.net, and the upcoming *.health are actually subdomains of that one toplevel domain that exists. You can't actually type the toplevel domain on addresses because all the routers have been optimized to reject address with the redundant toplevel information. But, just for the record the official toplevel domain that is implicit in every internet address is
Believe it or not!
Get a laptop and put that emulater Mame on it. It does lots of systems.
You can write a game in any language. If you're thinking of a graphical game, sure, you can write one of those too.
Example: check out Python's binding to the Qt library. Python will bind to other things too, like OpenGL. The main deal will be the speed. If you don't need it, Python's great. Otherwise use a compiled language.
A Python compiler written in Python? It could use a GCC backend to compile C code emitted by the Python compiler.
The stage 1 compiler would be a simple distribution of Python source files, and it would be run with the regular CPython installation. That would be used to compile itself into a binary Python compiler.
Why not? Develop Python programs with CPython. When you're done, compile it for speed.
There's an answering machine opposite me
that's part of my primitive ancestry
that used up cassette tapes
to play us funny songs for free
though I respect that a lot
I'd be fired if that were my job
after swearing at all the
countless screaming telemarketers
OK, I understand. My supposition is that we do *not* understand this stuff, and computer power is what is holding us back.
I think we'll have computer intelligence before we even come close to understanding intelligence. That's because our first intelligent computers will be products of brute force: simulate all possible brains and ask all of them to flash the screen if they understand us. The ones that flash the screen are possibly intelligent.
You way underestimate how big infinity is.
With infinite computer resources, we simply simulate all possible combinations of 10E80 atoms in the universe.
One of those universes will exactly match the one we live in, including some smart guy claiming that computers cannot support intelligence.
You can improve the rendering of the hair on your newscaster by picking any color other than bright green. Optimize the little things first before you try more sophisticated hair rendering algorithms.
The problem with that is hardly anyone would get elected at that point. Make the vote required to be 70%. I don't know of too many presidential elections that would be won in that case. You'd just be setting up every single election to be decided by a vote in the House.
Pretend that Yugoslavia has to pick a new voting method:
Yugoslavia is split into Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia. These three areas have different political beliefs. There are more Serbs than either Croats or Bosnians put together.
Situation 1: Popular vote. Most votes wins. All a candidate has to do is run on the platform "Vote for me and we'll kill all the Croats and Bosnians." The Serbs like this, so they vote for the genocidal candidate. The Serbs are a majority, so the Bosnians and Croats won't be able to swing the election.
Situation 2: Electoral college. Serbia has 11 electors, and Bosnia and Croatia both have 5 electors apiece. A candidate must have 16 electoral votes to win. In this situation the genocidal candidate easily wins the majority of the vote. All the Serbs love him, so he gets 11 electoral votes. However, neither Bosnia nor Croatia like the genocidal candidate, so he cannot hope to win the election. This fact makes the candidates *much* more moderate in character, and because of that the governments are more boring, but also much more stable. Any candidate that hopes to win the election must win on the basis of a broad appeal rather than simple pandering to the majority.
Troll?
You moderators are idiots. This is *funny*.
Hint for the clueless - this post is flamebait.
Is Microsoft going to release a new version of their French tickler?
I'm not worried about that. My Celery 300A system will be in service until 2002. The motherboard only supports CPU's up to 550 MHZ. When I bought the thing the fastest Celery processor was 433 MHZ.
I have no high hopes that I will be able to put a 2 GHZ processor in that board, so I guess that it was an evolutionary dead end.
I have never upgraded the processor on any of my computers without switching the motherboard as well. I just run them too long for that. I typically run a computer for at least 4 years, and my current machine will go for 5 years.
My next machine will be 1000 times faster than the 386SX that I used from 1990 to 1994, so I expect that it will serve me even longer.
All that is required is for a heads up to be sent to the admin: "Hey Mr. Admin, I'm going to run a mailing list for about 500 people. Just want to let you know what all that traffic is. Thanks."
Troll? Who modded me troll?
It's a joke, god dammit.
Fuck. We need a class called Moderation for Dummies.
Free Point on the exam: this post is an example of flamebait.
Who modded me troll? It's a fucking joke!
HINT: This one should be flamebait. I should teach a class called Moderation for Dummies. Sheesh.
Good question. I was going to ask that. I think one complaint is enough. The investigation after will show the mail history, and if the same message is sent out to more than X number of people where X is fairly low, KERPOW! No account.
You've been listening to that bitch Dr. Laura too much.
I've got unlimited registers too... I call them RAM.
"Piano lessons"
So is that what the kids are calling it these days?
I have a 3c509 card and my Win95 machine will not recognize it. I've installed the driver bunches of times, but the control panel thinks there's no network card installed and refuses to give me configuration screens.
If this was Linux I'd just fix up a new kernel or maybe just a module.
It's OK anyway. Win95 is what I use for trivial, unimportant, moronic things, like games. Linux uses the 3c509 with no problems and that's where I do my work anyway.
My point is that you could wish for an easier setup, but computers will *always* find a way to bite you. The solution to this problem is pass a law that only one single network card and no others is legal to use. Then, make everything work with that single model of card. But, that probably won't happen.
Turn the hearts of our children dark? George Bush is *definitely* not up on the technology. Hearts are made of meat, and the way to keep meat looking nice and red in the butcher shop display case is to add a small amount of sulfites to it. Duh.
The internet doesn't cause it. Exposure to oxygen causes hearts of children, cows, and pigs dark.