Posts by EnderX

Cars have a useful purpose, guns do not.

You don't consider the ability to defend yourself against an attacker to be a useful, valid purpose?

Note: The main historical reason for keeping weapons away from a people or people group was to ensure they could never rise above their 'betters'. It wasn't just applied to guns; consider that a peasant found with a sword was likely to face severe punishment, if not death, in most of medieval europe.

Those who hold power, or those wishing to do so, will do their absolute best to ensure that others, those outside the 'in' group, will be unable to defend themselves when the time comes. It's written all over history.

Information Technology, usually.

In reference to WaltP's little 'history of computing' entry:

Some of the stuff I've seen about earlyish Microsoft development indicates an interesting name for one of their products...a name (and product; haven't checked it for myself yet) that, if true, marks the beginning of a great Microsoft tradition that continues to this day.

Supposedly, one of the early M$ operating systems was known as QDOS. The name is theoretically an acronym, standing for 'Quick & Dirty Operating System'.

Anybody else know more about this little tidbit of history?

One reason it's mentioned is because it's a home-grown product. In other words, it's derived from corn (grown in the US), and processed in the US.

Also, since when have politicians accurately passed laws that made sense? :icon_wink:

Well, there was some big hoo-hah a while back about a set of ten special laws to prevent the government from utterly taking over every aspect of life, but these days it doesn't seem like more than one or two of those are actually acknowledged any more...

I thought the group might get a kick out of this.

Last week, an older couple at my church approached the pastor after evening services, and said they had a prayer request they wanted him to pray for. Apparently, a woman they know is looking for a computer in order to work from home. I have/had a spare box that I haven't been using for a while, so I popped out the hd (wanted to save the files for future use) and went to the local area repair shop to purchase a replacement. I had the box with me, and the guy behind the counter took it, rather than simply allowing me to purchase a drive; I'm guessing they've dealt with too many 'users' in the past, although I hope I can prove myself on that count eventually. This happened Saturday afternoon; I was told I could come pick the box up on Tuesday. They intended to put in a used, reformatted drive running XP.

I got there yesterday for the pickup, and had the manager come over to speak with me. His first words were something like "I've never seen anything like this before in all my years here."

When installing XP, there comes a point when you're supposed to input the Micro$oft installation key numbers. On this box, said numbers were emblazoned on an official Micro$oft sticker pasted to the side of the case. The case was originally running WinXP, so you'd think to get …

By the way...anyone want to buy a bridge????

Depends. What's the selling price, what's the location, and does it come with its own troll or do I have to provide that?

very cool stuff. that one was in a hoax email for a long time

I don't think I've ever gotten a copy of that particular hoax before; most of my 'hoax-like' ones seem to be 419 scammers these days. Got a copy of the email on hand?

But anyways... I learned something interesting today.
I will probably look completely absurd, but I found out that Marilyn Monroe had an affair with JFK? I never knew that! And she was also married to Arthur Miller, the author of 'The Crucible.'

I never new it either, but that's not too surprising. JFK seemed to have a lot of 'on the side' relationships going on. I can't remember the woman's name, but apparently one of JFK's 'paramours' was also sleeping with Sam Giancana at the same time; Giancana is reputed to have told her he was responsible for putting 'your boyfriend' in the White House.

You (the US) joined a bit late though; you missed the early fun.

That's okay, FDR was busily scheming ways to get in for some time before that.

Almond

I found this little list on another forum while searching for some info earlier today. It doesn't have the info I needed, but I thought at least some of the inhabitants of Daniweb might get a kick out of it. Note: I've only worked with a few of these languages myself; I can't verify all of them, although I'm sure there are those here who can.

TASK: Shoot yourself in the foot.

C: You shoot yourself in the foot.

C++: You accidentally create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical assistance is impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying,"That's me, over there."

FORTRAN: You shoot yourself in each toe until you run out of toes, then you read in the next foot and repeat. If you run out of bullets, you continue with the attempts to shoot yourself anyway because you have no exception-handling capability.

Pascal: The compiler won't let you shoot yourself in the foot, no matter how much you need to.

Ada: After correctly packing your foot, you attempt to concurrently load the gun, pull the trigger, scream, and shoot yourself in the foot. When you try, however, you discover you can't because your foot is of the wrong type.

COBOL: Using a COLT 45 HANDGUN, AIM gun at LEG.FOOT, THEN place ARM.HAND.FINGER on HANDGUN.TRIGGER and SQUEEZE. THEN return HANDGUN to HOLSTER. …

What's the point in stopping polluting?
If the whole of the UK stopped polluting all together for a year ~ what we should have polluted, China would have polluted in around 2 weeks!

Is that above and beyond their normal pollution count?

I'm having trouble verifying this (wikipedia's silent on it at the moment), but I'm fairly sure from what I've read elsewhere that the Shoah/Holocaust was at least partially responsible for the acknowledgement of the nation of Israel. And you'll notice that the most prominent Holocaust deniers also deny that Israel has any legitimacy...I'm fairly sure the two are therefore linked.

leaky

mute

This was sent to me today...

NO GAS...On May 15th 2007In April 1997, there was a 'gas out' conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.

On May 15th 2007, all internet users are to not go to a gas station in protest of high gas prices. Gas is now over $3.00 a gallon in most places.

There are 73,000,000+ American members currently on the internet network, and the average car takes about 30 to 50 dollars to fill up.

If all users did not go to the pump on the 15th, it would take$2,292,000,000.00 (that's almost 3 BILLION) out of the oil companies pockets for just one day, so please do not go to the gas station on May 15th and lets try to put a dent in the Middle Eastern oil industry for at least one day.

Making this an absolutely worthless gesture, as that one day would be made up either just before or just after. You really want to make a point? Start carpooling, grab a bike, take a bus. Remove more than just one day's worth of funding, otherwise they'll not care.

And wasn't this particular e-message already debunked somewhere else on site? I vaguely remember jwenting posting something about it...

? kumquat?

Banana...so, kumquat.

I'm sure I would have noticed. I live on the thing and it being destroyed with me on it would certainly have been quite apparent.
Flying off into outer space in between a cloud of debris with no space suit isn't something you forget for the rest of your life.

How are we defining 'world destroyed' anyway? Massive genocide, specieside for H. Sapiens, total elimination of all life, or the literal 'planet no longer there' option? As jwenting put it, only that last one technically counts...

Kumquat.
That was not.

according to very accurate tests ~ the earth is way older than that
they are sooooooo wrong

Would these happen to be the various forms of radioisotope dating systems? If so, they're not necessarily accurate; we don't know for certain whether or not the proportion of the radioisotopes to baseline isotopes has always remained a constant; we don't know whether or not the sample was originally 'contaminated' with one or more of the decay products, etc.

conservative estimates range from 10 to 25 million dead, not counting the million or so German POWs that never made it out of Siberia.

I can't remember the name offhand, but this reminds me of something I read about a while back. Apparently, a number of Russians took up German uniforms in order to fight against Stalin; after they were captured, they surrendered to the Americans, and I think British, on the grounds that they wouldn't be sent back. So, naturally, the American government drugged them and sent them back so the president could continue on all buddy-buddy with 'Uncle Joe'.

Naturally, of course, the captives were killed upon returning to Russia.

O-kay...
I tried the test, gave my answers, and it doesn't seem to have recorded them; I got a 'score' of 0, with every question ending in something like 'your answer was ' but no actual choice. How'd you get a numeric result?

I was thinking more in terms of number of hours available between time of marriage and time of death.

The US dropped Fat Man and Little Boy on Japan because it was determined (I do not know how accurately) that the projected bloodprice (X# Japanese dead)[$bpAlpha] of doing so was less than the projected bloodprice (Y# Japanese dead + Z# Allied dead)[$bpDelta] of attempting an invasion. If the original projections were correct, and $bpDelta > $bpAlpha, I'd say the decision was made for a good reason: To save those lives that fall into the range between the two.

posy

gaunt

"Recent supernova?!?!?" It happened some 240 million years ago! :icon_twisted:

That's freakin' kool!!!

Light Rays: "Sorry we're late, we got here as fast as we could!"

Offhand, I'd say the fire, stone, and bile would be worse. The obscure code and exception are, theoretically, solvable. The other isn't.

<sarcasm>How about this? In the future, if anyone's being sarcastic, we simply place <sarcasm/> tags around it? Reasonable?</sarcasm>

haha, good one. But the United States is the most powerful country. Who's going to do anything about it. The USA thinks they have the authority to tell others they aren't responsible with WMD's but there's no one to check their responsibilty, especially considering they are the only country to use them (twice!).

I know I'm late in replying, but this one I'm not going to let slip by.

The United States of America is the only nation to have used Nuclear Weapons, which were used in battle. Key word here: Nuclear. Weapons of Mass Destruction are not limited to merely nuclear format, and other countries have used WMDs of their own, both in battle and for 'internal' reasons. Again, the United States is not the only nation to have used WMDs, and I would appreciate it if you wouldn't keep trying to denigrate the nation by claiming we are.

I had heard about something like that.

But he was married to his mistress wasn't he?

I can't quote it as fact, but I've heard and read little tidbits to that effect. From what I've seen, apparently Hitler and Eva Braun did marry at some point during the last day of his life...wonder if the marriage was ever consummated?

If you're bringing up trying to reduce/end poverty, sk8, the quickest way to bring people out of the poverty belt would be to lower taxes across the board.

*Waits for gasps of shock to end*

Think about it for a second. The 'rich folk' you were just hounding are the ones who own the businesses, right? Well, think about it this way: When they're getting hit with heavy taxes, they'll put their money somewhere that taxes can't get to it. This means less is going into the jobs that the 'desperate working class' hold, and some of those jobs are likely to disappear. In addition, the higher taxes at lower income levels mean that even those who do still hold jobs are going to have to fork over (it ain't giving if your only other option is prison) a sizeable portion of their income that they'd have been able to keep for themselves otherwise. Which side favors lower taxes, sk8, Left or Right?

While we're at it, let's run the engine with sunspots! Accelerate using negative gravity! Reroute power from the deflectors! Spiderwalk along lines of magnetism, for extra efficiency!

You do realize that if you reroute power 'from' the deflectors, you're getting rid of the only shielding you've likely got short of the ship's own frame and any physical armor attached to it? If you're attempting high speeds, that could be nasty...

Nixon may have appointed him, but only because he wasn't given any other options.

On October 10, 1973, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned. According to The New York Times, "Nixon sought advice from senior Congressional leaders about a replacement. The advice was unanimous. 'We gave Nixon no choice but Ford,' House Speaker Carl Albert recalled later".

Although I'm a bit confused. We're supposedly still living under the 1947 presidential succession act, but it looks like the 25th amendment (the one Ford was appointed under) overrides that...so why is the 1947 still on the books in that case? And why does it appear we're still following it at times?

exceed

Heh, mental image off of this-

Judge: Baliff, swear in the witness.
*Swearing in*
Judge: Sir, for the court records, please state your full name.
-2 minutes later-
Stenographer: Let the records show that Mr. 'Ooh-eh Ahkahak' has taken the stand. Let the records show that his Honor has charged Mr. Ahkahahk with contempt of court for the flinging of the stand chair across the room. Let the records show that Mr. Ahkahak has been charged with unpremeditated assault by the court baliff, who was hit by the chair. Let the records show that the court session has now been adjourned.

Problem seems to be solved: It appears that the binary library files that came with the source code may contain what I need. I discovered that if I remove the .c file from the original compile, which worked, it still compiles, but removing the associated.h file causes a fatal error. So I'm now betting that all I really need is the .h, and the appropriate .libs. Thanks for the assistance, though.

The scanner is a HandHeld Products Dolphin 7200, and they've discontinued the line. No support anywhere as far as I can tell.

EDIT: FOrget that; I just (finally) took a good long look at the actual opening comments in the file itself and it was apparently written for the 'Fujitsu BHT-5000', so you're most likely correct.

If I am somehow in error posting this, I apologize. However, I would hope that this is the best place to ask this question. I am dealing with a MSVC Compiler, version 1.52, on a system running Windows 98. I am using these rather antiquated pieces of equipment for a reason.

I have been requested to maintain a set of 5+ year old C code, designed to be ported over to a small hand-held barcode scanner after being compiled. According to the person who previously compiled the program, a 16-bit compiler is required for the ported code itself, and he also stated that the compiler he used didn't like to play nicely with Windows XP.

The original source project I received will, in fact, compile with no errors (although it has numerous warnings regarding unsized arrays). However, in trying to learn more about the code I am working with, I set up a program that attempted a few simple time functions, and included a .c and .h pair of time-related files from the original project, where the .c file included the line

#include <bht.h>

Even though the original project compiled without any errors, attempting to compile my test project doing nothing but including the two files from the test project causes a fatal error "can't find bht.h" when compiling.

I have searched Google for the term "bht.h". The vast body of returned results were apparently chemistry equations. I have searched on "bht.h C header", with no …

sk8ndestroy14:

Please detail these impeachable offenses. I know of nothing that Bush or Cheney have done that qualifies as such, unless you're counting 'Being a president with political beliefs opposing the current congress' as an impeachable offense. (After all, that's pretty much how President Johnson got impeached...)

I'm not so sure that Hitler was 'Anti-Communist' as that he was 'Pro-Hitler'. I vaguely recall (will attempt to find specific sources) reading that Hitler's agents were the ones that got the German Communist Party 'riled up' (that is, encouraged them to take action) in the first place. Hitler then stepped in and used their actions, and his own retaliation, as a springboard to further power/authority. Again, I'll try to track down and post the source on this.

Actually it was called the National Socialist German Workers' Party later known as the Nazi Party.

I bow to superior statementing. I don't think the full name changes my point any, though.

To me the most interesting part of U.S. history is a collection of the beginning of all the wars. The things I'm about to say are only ideas of mine and I don't want to offend anyone. They also aren't proven, they are just some of my ideas.

The American government has always relied heavily on public support to enter into wars. In the Spanish American war the U.S.S. Maine mysteriously blew up in the Havana Harbor. This is what set off the American public and got us into the war (possibly set up by the government).

An interesting side note I read on that once: Supposedly, Spain declared war on the United States. Then, when the Congress at the time announced an official declaration of war against Spain, they supposedly backdated the declaration to a few days before the date of the Spanish declaration.

In World War One the Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat and I place all blame on the United States government. Germany declared unrestricted submarine warfare. In other words Germany said to every nation, "We can't afford any more help for the English, if we see one vessel we'll sink it." Knowing full well what would happen, the American government allowed a civilian ship to go into those waters. What did they think would happen? Later it was proven (and likely at the time) that goods and equipment were being shipped to England aboard this ship. This event turned public opinion from isolationism …

Do some people really consider Musolini and Hitler communists? That just isn't right at all. Their number one enemy would be communists. Before Hitler ever mentioned Jews in Mein Kampf he demonstrated his hatred for Marxism and socialism (communism is an extreme form of socialsim).

Then why was the political unit (party? movement?) Hitler lead known as the "National Socialists"?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18498435/?GT1=9951

Please discuss.

you dont have to make a huge set anyway, use the same small one, just change the scenery a bit, after all its all sand and rocks, how hard would that be?

Every time you have someone enter or leave, you've got to start over at removing the vacuum. In order to do what you're suggesting, they'd have to either be capable of repeatedly removing the atmosphere from your 'smaller' set (which would still have to be large enough for them to walk around in for quite some distance). Either that, or they'd have to have not just the 'actornauts' in space suits (remember, no oxygen in a vacuum) but also the entire 'stage crew' as well, and I doubt those suits hold enough air for massive sets of 'let's reposition the entire scenery' anywhere but an open zone, where the scenery can be changed simply by going from point Alef to point Bet. The moon qualifies as an open zone. A stage studio of any sort I can think of does not.

Fascism and Communism are so very different, I think most people would agree (contrary to what someone said earlier), although they are both usually dictatorial and the like. I have to disagree when you say they are both totalitarian.

Cite evidence for your point of view, please.

Actually

IQ=(mentalAge/physicalAge)*100

You don't really "come up" with it. IQ is a valid way to measure the worth a person quickly.
As are standardized tests.

If you break down all information into bits, there is clearly a "wrong way" and a "right way". In an ideal society
the "perfect" person would just be cloned over and over again to make up the whole society and brought up in exactly the same environment. In this way, war nor conflict would exist.

Only in the sense of measuring a specific variant of worth. For example, an IQ test geared towards logical thought would probably give a poor score to someone who thinks in terms of intuitive jumps, no matter what other talents they may have, or even what their jumps might lead to. Your perfect society would stagnate; any sources of innovation will be cut off, unless innovation is part of your 'perfect person', and even then, that will lead to differences...and since they now differ from the 'perfect' exemplar, they must by definition be 'imperfect'.

You aren't categorizing the person. You are categorizing a bit of information that happens to be associated with that person.

And you'll never have a perfectly logic-driven society; humankind deals in emotions as well. The only way you'd be able to get what you want would be to somehow kill off the capacity for any kind of emotion in every human being you controlled, and that just isn't going to happen. Not if you want them to be able to serve as functioning members of the society instead of chemically-driven drones.

Okay? Then prove this to be false...

The major point which has helped convince me that the moon landing was faked was the fact that when the control room asked a question to the astronauts, the replies were instant with no delays. This seems strange as even with technology in the 1990's there is a delay from satellite links from the UK to the US. There is about a 0.7 second delay from London to California so how is it possible for instant replies from the Moon ?
There is also evidence that when people go into space that their voice goes tense although the astronauts voices have been analyzed and found to be normal, and 7/10 people said it sounded like someone reading from a script.

When Houston is talking to the module you should not be able to hear the responses at least when the module is landing and the infamous "eagle has landed" quote, this is due to the noise that should have been created by the rocket motor which generates several hundred thousand pounds of thrust 20 ft below the astronauts. The noise would have completely drowned
the vocals out.

A few quick questions regarding the noise:

1. Would that supposed noise be generated inside the cockpit, or outside the cockpit?

2. What makes you so certain they were using every single psi of thrust when they were landing?

And one regarding what you refer to as a instant replies: I …

And one question I've always wanted to know, How could the flag flutter when there's no wind on the moon?

The. Flag. Didn't. Flutter.

1. When the astronauts are actually setting the flag, it appears to be waving. The effect is caused by common physics - The flag is attached to a horizontal bar coming off of the vertical flagpole. The entire top of the flag is connected to this bar. Thus, when moving the pole, the top of the flag will begin to move as the bar moves. The bottom of the flag will not immediately move (inertia) but will eventually begin to do so, causing the motion to run across the flag.

2. The photos of the standing flag, astronauts not touching it, appears to be wavering in a breeze. There is a simple reason for this: On the Apollo 11 flight, the boom arm (horizontal bar) wasn't working properly, and they couldn't get it extended the full distance. Therefore, like a curtain that's been partially opened, the material of the flag is sort of folded in on itself. The astronauts liked the effect that the Apollo 11 flag shots had, so they intentionally duplicated it in later flights. If the arm had been working properly on the Apollo 11 flight, this particular 'hoax proof' would have never existed.