GrimJack

If you are a liberal try wonkette dot com; for conservatives try sodahead dot com

When I have lived to age 147 and still have money left, I will have lived long and prospered.

A [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRSK4k3D-50"]drop of water at 2000 frames per second[/URL] dances to infinity (er, at least for average amounts of infinity they get smaller and smaller)

I just bought 2 new games - EYE, which I recently started playing and am enjoying a great deal and the latest Deus Ex, which is the first game I paid full price for in years. I pre-ordered it months ago and then forgot about it. I generally only play …

[QUOTE=reactivated;1638531]And do not ignore the user base. The more users, the longer it takes to 'die.' Anybody who does ignore those geeks^H^H^H^H^H users will always wonder "How come they still use [C++, Visual Basic 6, TECO, Assembler, FORTRAN, COBOL,<insert your fave here>] at that place ?" Legacy code = job …

[QUOTE]The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell whether they are being watched, thereby conveying what one architect has …

I long for the days when the VAX was king; I coded DCL but before that I coded COBOL and BASIC - I even tried my hand at JCL (actually, like most people, I just hacked someone else's working code so it would do what I wanted). I am in …

You have snuck up on Gödel's incompleteness theorem as applied to the 'Liar's Paradox' - The liar paradox is the sentence "This sentence is false." An analysis of the liar sentence shows that it cannot be true (for then, as it asserts, it is false), nor can it be false …

The beauty of HalfLife gets my vote. I can replay it and it gets my heart pumping. I have not played BioShock but it seems dark. Currently I am playing E.Y.E. that I d.l.ed from steam; it is a pretty good shooter but it is DARK, I mean they had …

I am glad someone earlier mentioned France in the 60s - the French right was blowing up anyone who even showed the slightest approval of a Free Algeria. There was so much terrorist bombing going on that the created the word 'plastique' to mean 'to blow up with plastic explosives'. …

Currently my dual-core is running 2 different instances - Lattice project and uFluids, the other 2 waiting for their turn are Rosetta and SpinHenge. (at least on this machine anyway.)

I got mine at age 16 - 47 years ago. Had it taken away 3 times before I turned 18 and have had no moving violations on my record since - I got caught speeding, running red lights etc but always got off with some fast talk.

This is just society adjusting to a different kind of flash mob - it will wind itself down when the dolts get their asses in a sling when they brag on facebook. Even now the 'powers that be' are tracking the e-bay sales, perusing the youtube bragging, and of course …

What an interesting topic and it does not seem to have degraded into a flamewar yet - yay! I have been against the death penalty for a long time but I have had to question that stance. Ted Bundy made me believe in the death penalty. He killed women; he …

[QUOTE=Nick Evan;1632413]Oh yeah, the "earthquake". I've read some thing about that :) [attach]2211[/attach][/QUOTE] I loved that pic! Thanks for sharing

[QUOTE=iamthwee;1611195]Most of these so called shooters release [I]some[/I] extremist bit of propaganda to go along with their act of violence. I guess it gives them a twisted way to justify what they've done. But if you look closely... most of the reasons are just plain old baloney. 'The reason I …

Mine has to be 2001 Space Odyssey - monkey-boy smashing skull, free-fall stewardess, "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.", "my god it is full of stars" sigh. I must have seen it 200 times at least 50 high on acid and most of the others high on …

Well, I just learned the little niggley things that have been bother me over the years - forgetfulness, poor attention, restlessness, procrastination, yadda, yadda, are actually symptoms of ADD. What a relief! <Oooh, look a pretty piece of tin foil >

My UPS has a USB connection to my system; I can make firmware updates to the UPS; this leads me to believe that a software keylogger could be inserted.

One of the system folks left the company under suspicious circumstances so we did a massive search for files he touched and found one called time_bomb. I 'typed' it to see what was in it and the screen locked up - total heart failure until I realized the file was …

US and NATO countries were the first world, communism/Soviet Union was the second world, and the non-aligned countries were the third world. The first and second worlds would fight over the third worlds.

I drink bourbon and coke, normally - when I drink beer I go for something like Arrogant Bastard or just about and IPA with an IBU above 70.

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Did you output the simulation results to a file? ([I]Oops! I meandered down the wrong path - I read that as tspace so I wandered through some interesting IBM stuff, some odd mathematical transforms and a British covert surveillance system.[/I]) Looks like tspice outputs to .pdf files - couldn't you …

I remember trying to send an email in 1984 - the address was 25+ characters long, case sensitive and pretty meaningless. -- Never got that first email send; my first was not until 1988 I think

The headline was unsupported by the what was in the article - I would propose that the headline is proof that headline writers are stupid. [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/community-center/geeks-lounge/threads/351657/1494689#post1494689"]See[/URL]

I suggest donating them to your local school. You can also try bartering them at a local pc rebuild shop - they might offer 'some' money off on a product you purchase from them.

Jeez - Ron Paul is right up there with Palin, bachman and santorum for crazy: [LIST] [*]he also thinks the "War on Christmas" is real, and that the separation of church and state is a myth. He believes the founding fathers wanted to discriminate on behalf of certain religions, and …

I see that 20.5 inch screens are down to about $120.00 - what should I look for when buying? I will be using it for gaming.

Do you turn it? Compost should be a mixture of green, brown, and some dirt - like grass, leaves etc. Turning is usually done with tool designed to go into the pile and expand when you pull it out, bringing stuff up from below. Kitchen scraps are okay but you …

[QUOTE=Azmah;1571188] Fact: there is more proof that Jesus existed than Alexander the Great - yet people believe in Alexander more. [/QUOTE] Actually there is no proof that jesus christ was a historical figure. The only stories we have about him were written 50 or more years after his death. Only …

For some reason, I bought a set of throwing knives while I was in a knife store - now I am trying to learn to throw knives (actually, throwing them is easy - getting them to stick pointy end first is the test).

Oh! I thought you meant our 'Naruto' and assumed you were THAT guy. Never mind.

I love Friday the 13th - I get everyone's good luck. Today was the end of my first full week of work in about 2 months - been sick with one thing or another at least a couple hours every week for almost 14 weeks. I am still trying to …

This just in - they found Osama's body Ding Dong [URL="http://gawker.com/#!5797528/breaking-is-osama-bin-laden-dead"]the witch is dead[/URL]

[QUOTE=Reverend Jim;1504581]Pick up a copy of SpinRite (I keep recommending this software but I do not get anything for my recommendation) <...>. In some cases SpinRite can map out bad sectors and even recover data from those bad sectors.[/QUOTE] This is what I was going to recommend when I saw …

Here is a RL Fallout Vault from 8th to 7th centuries BCE in Turkey; later taken over by early Xtians around 500 - 1,000 CE. One of the cities could hold up to 35,000 people plus food storage, live animal storage, and wine making equipment. This city is [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu_Underground_City"]Derinkuyu[/URL] and …

[QUOTE=jwenting;1528745]Clinton used to be the 2nd worst (after Carter), but now with Obama he's climbed to 3rd worst... Such charts are only as good as the people making them. Get the right person (or rather, the leftist person) and you get a chart showing Obama is the best ever and …

I miss picking up the phone and asking the operator to connect me to <insert friend's name here>. I often knew who the operator was. I miss dialing 'information' and asking the operator:[INDENT]which poker hand is higher or How do I cook such and such?[/INDENT]

[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/community-center/geeks-lounge/threads/310369"]Yes[/URL] - I used it for a while then I discovered the 'Pale Moon' version of FireFox. I may go back because I forget why I gave it up.

When I was growing up we played a game called 'cougar' - it was similar to hide and seek. One person was the cougar and would get a 100 count head start then the rest of would go looking. The game always started after sundown and would last for the …

It gives me an excuse to sit in a coffee shop and read for hours

1) Gamma rays - which is kind of of a cop-out as gamma rays are photons with energy greater than 2 * 10^-14 joules (100 keV), SuperNova produce gamma ray bursts of approximately 10^54 ergs. Sorry for skipping around all the different energy units but it is too late and …

[QUOTE=ZZucker;536302]Might be possible if Dick runs for president and Bush runs for the vice.[/QUOTE] fortunately, bush can't run for veep - one of the requirements is that they are eligible to run for president (ie can't be foreign born, too young, or have served 2 terms) Work on my favorite …

I know that I first created an account, got my question answered and went away. Later, I had another question so i came back, got it answered, looked around and found a question I could answer. Finally, I fell into the Geek's Lounge and never managed to escape.

For me, I learn a great deal in the research; plus, I have ADD so I learn even more from the tangents.

I am not sure if this is the right location but I just noticed my favorite web-comic site is looking for someone interested in writing Android aps. [URL="http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/android-developer-request"]Check it out [/URL]

Scrum seems like a pretty narrow field - better you should hit up wikipedia and see what they say about [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28development%29"]scrum[/URL] and work from that

[QUOTE=frogboy77;1498425]Does any species adapt better than us? We have colonised almost every part of the planet, every enviroment from tundra to desert.[/QUOTE] Well, you should google extremophiles - there are species that exist on the surface of molten lava, in vents at the bottom of the ocean, in streams of …

Currently, I am playing [URL="http://olympia.v-labs.be/g3/node/79"]Olympia g3[/URL] - I have been in since turn 3. There are currently 214 players and more fodder er, players joining every turn.