Posts by GrimJack

Salad, broccoli, and a cobbler made from Wisconsin rhubarb - can't decide between huffing the propellant or adding whipped cream to the cobbler. Looking forward to a R and C later in the evening.

(Wow, no flesh tonight!)

before we get too deep into this, look here - I think there is a better version around - give me a moment......
This might be a better place to start - or maybe here

Welcome Ahmed from Egypt. English is a funny language - the title you used for this post would more likely be used to advertise porn rather than express elation at joining a geek-oriented forum.

Yeah! The whole 'suicide' thing was the result of one of those 'Disney-style' movies about animal behavior. It was completely setup and scripted.

I suggest Boole's original paper; most of my computer-oriented friends go crazy for the copy I have.

monday is the most popular day for suicide.

i will never think i hate mondays again...

I was hoping to find something interesting but "For recent years of the study, suicides occurred most frequently on Monday for both males and females and for most age groups. Variation by month followed no consistent pattern by gender, age, years of the study, or combinations of these factors. Contrary to popular belief, suicide occurrence did not vary by lunar phase."

So I dug a little deeper but only came up with Among males the most common day of death for drug-related poisoning deaths with a verdict of drug abuse/dependence was Saturday

Then I got side-tracked A new study suggests that converting a five-day work week into a four-day one would result in higher job satisfaction and lower levels of work-family conflict.

But I digress

In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity and the tears can't flow the normal way.

I think you mean "in free fall, tears can't flow the normal way" as there is no place in space that has no gravity (sorry for the picking that nit - I know some of you were thinking it).

ehhay, ehhay

One of 'interesting' searches suggested by one of my heroes (Isaac Asimov) was that, if there was a god/God, he would hide a message to us in PI.

Odd facts:
The Guinness-recognized record for remembered digits of π is 67,890 digits, held by Lu Chao, a 24-year-old graduate student from China. It took him 24 hours and 4 minutes to recite to the 67,890th decimal place of π without an error.

The Feynman point, a sequence of six 9s that appears at the 762nd through 767th decimal places of PI (Feynman wanted to memorize up through the 767th place and end with "999999 and so").

The sequence 9876543210 occurs beginning at digits 21981157633, 29832636867, 39232573648, 42140457481, and 43065796214.

The distribution of digits in 1/PI is roughly as randomly distributed as the digits of PI.

Generally, when talking about calculating PI, people are actually calculating PI - 3.

ArcResolution

Find the prime

but I digress.

Here is the trick to seeing those - put a piece of glass in front of the image and look through the image at your reflection - ie focus your eyes about 18 inches behind the image. This is how I finally got DW to see the image.

One of the methods I know have been used is to generate a pseudo-random # then move the decimal a pseudo-random # of places to the right and go to that location of the calculation of pi (see here if you want the first 100 billion digits of π).

Most of the successful methods that I have heard of use variations of this (rng seed is generated by choosing from the list, etc). As far as I know, the next digit of pi is the most random number available; of course, once you have a list - is it random any more?

There was a verbal version I learned in my youth called alfa-talk where you insert an 'lf' after each vowel followed by the vowel repeated

ie, can you talk alfa talk would become calfan youlfou talfalk alfalfa talfalk (and you did not want to translate "you walk like a duck")

It was surprisingly easy to learn and understand and confused the helfell out of anyone listening - but you need a 'speaker' of the code to learn to speak the code. I learned it at the relatively old age of 21.

When I first saw the thread, I actually thought you were asking about 'strange attractors' - sigh!

Oh! I thought you meant our 'Naruto' and assumed you were THAT guy.

Never mind.

I have many 'Maslow moments'; they are unique, individual and can be shared:
Laying on my back on Mt. Rainier looking at the sky;
Sitting with a friend on a log on the shore of the Pacific Ocean drinking a glass of whiskey;
as a boy, sitting on the running-board of a truck out of the wind (I have no explanation for the feeling of the moment but it has stuck with me for 50 years).

I try not to limit myself to 'just one' and certainly do not try to compare them.

The only reason many people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory."
-- Paul Dontee

He was lost in thought - fortunately, he did not have far to travel
-- Goon Show (and various)

That salmonella contaminated pb was pretty low-quality stuff and was only used in 'cooking' like pb cookies, pb candies and never got into actual jars of pb. Most food contaminants are a 'bonus'

we eat from one to two pounds of insects each year, and without knowing it.

- I am not sure how well-researched the site is so it is up to you to dis/believe.

Let us not forget mho (now called a

The only thing worse than not getting what you want is getting what you want.
-- Oscar Wilde

Crunchy - store-brand.

We always like Adams because the oil did rise to the top so we would flip the jar -- it was supposed to be more natural but we got lazy and now buy generic pb - someone once said "you can eat peanut butter with a fork but why??" My response is that all my spoons are dirty so I only have forks left.

Thanks, the links were much help - fortunately, we traveled most of the way to WI on the weekend so we missed much of the roadwork.

I managed to get most of the Wisconsin - ate a lot of cheese, worked a farm, hit a deer (totaled my car), drank a lot of beer, and went to a fish-fry.

I think I will come back later for the brandy experience.

Until a scientist proves that life can be derived from sterile [insert element(s) here], a higher power is the only explanation. Of course after the jump start of life, evolution would have had to take over.

I don't think that Adam had the time to name over 1.5 million different species. Evolution is just another one of the Lord's great creations.

Well, that has already happened so we can leave out the higher power now. Experiments in the lab have produced amino acids from basic chemicals; amino acids are the basis for proteins and proteins are the basis for life - what more do you want?

We are not arguing for or against whether or not your, uh, 'god' created evolution; we are arguing Creationism vs Evolution.

>>I was asked some interesting validation questions like:
>>Creamy or Crunchy? I answered crunchy (you have to be pretty deep American to even understand the question).

What does that mean by-the-way ? :)

Ah, not a peanut butter lover, eh? Peanut Butter in the US comes in 2 varieties Crunchy or Creamy. I prefer crunchy, my partner prefers creamy but I will eat creamy if my crunchy is gone but she will not.

Well actually I'm busy trying to save my mariage atthe moment so avoidance is not the issue.

Sorry to hear this; good luck.

Now funny you should mention the newspaper, Lets do a deal since your so hung up on the equidistant lettering code.

You are the one hung up on it - you even brought it up

You get one page of your local paper and produce me more than a handfull of meaningfull equally spaced either vertical horizontal or diagonal letters and I'll show you a page of hebrew scripture that not only has dozens of meaningfull sentances but some that will blow you away because they relate to events that have already taken place..

this is the very thing we want - show us! Are you using translated Hebrew scripture? Which version of Hebrew are you using (massoretic verse cantillation versus ??)

Not only that but I will show you mathmatical properties of some parts of the english translated (aramaic) new testament that are so precise that they are outside of the ability of a normal human with a computer to concieve.

I remember the Wally Shawn role in The princess Bride and his constant use of the word 'inconceivable'

And as soon as my information arrives I will also post it up in regards to the ten dimensions.

How is it that you are waiting for something to arrive? You started this thread with 'absolute' knowledge of this precious thingy, but have nothing to offer in …

The peer reviews I was refering to were the ones reqiured to get into the 'American scientist journal

Well, no dippity doo doo - those just happen to the very peer reviews to which I was referring.

Back to MY point - if you have nothing to offer, why did you post here? If you can't take the time to name the Rabbi or link to any article that might even offer a whiff of support for your thesis, why did you post here?

The scene in Ghostbusters where Venkman sees Slimer for the first time and "drops his jaw", his cigarette sticks to his lower lip and dangles. This was a complete accident during filming, but turned out to be awesome anyway, so they kept it. That scene for me is one of the most memorable things I've ever seen in a movie, and it was never intended to be there!

Oh, gawd yes! I have had my ciggie stick to my lips in the cold and lost skin removing it.

Actually, I am open to any possibility. I just choose to go with my heart rather than my mind. On the other hand though, you seem to know everything, maybe you created life on earth and are just too shy to say anything.

No, maybe we learn from the history of science. Science is not w/o heart - is relegion w/o mind?

VI works on everything, twomers. It's omnipotent.

The editor of the Beast: VI VI VI (I never get tired of that joke but hardly anyone has heard of VI (dang noobs).

This is probably too old to reply to but I'll give it a shot. Try Dioplayer.
I use it and although it's basic, It works great.

Never too old! Thanks, Looks good - I am far from home right now so I will try it later in the month.

Empty space inside nucleus - hmm, interesting concept! This would be where 'weak' nuclear forces operate; where the location of any of the wavicles is undefined? If the probability exists that any particular location 'within' the nucleus contains the nucleus, can it really be said to be empty? Can it be said to be full? Probably, yes (pun intended).

I'm not interested in the movie (or the wiki ) version of events.
What they have omitted to mention is that the eqiudistant lettering system was published in the american scientist, Only after being subjected to no less than three (yes that's right x3) peer reviews.

Normal procedure is for 1, they dont want there to be anything in this anymore than you do.

I will present the findings of the 6 century rabi soon, as at this moment I am quite busy and this is after all, only a tongue and cheek light forum.

No, they did not leave out the peer reviews - they covered that pretty fully.

You are too busy? You do not have a link? You do not even offer the name of the Rabi? This is a light forum but we do not suffer fools gladly (well, not exactly true, I am still here but you get my drift). Why did you even bother to post here?

If carbon would be all bound in solid insoluble rock, there wouldn't be any life.

There would not be any carbon-based life - maybe it would be silica-based.

Aretha Franklin comes to mind also

The only perfectly empty space I know of, is in the cranium of certain politicians. Yes, in that space many scientific laws malfunction.

Is every thing political for you? Is it all an excuse to insult?

When I was mugged on the subway in Paris, I lost my passport. Getting the replacement was a breeze because I had photocopied the original - in the interview, I was asked some interesting validation questions like:
Creamy or Crunchy? I answered crunchy (you have to be pretty deep American to even understand the question).
A couple questions about Popsicles and fudgesicles. The coup de grace question was "who are your senators" - I could not remember but I knew their nickname "mom in sneakers" and "skeletor" - Patty Murray, and Slade Gordon - that was good for a laugh.

What are you smoking? I want some; sounds better than some of the acid I did in the 70s. If you have something to show us, do so - so far you have just been blowing smoke. Which 6th cent. rabbi said what about how many dimensions? That equidistant only really works when you 'after the fact' choose the spacing. I think this 'stuff' was circulating quite a whild ago - look here

A quick look tells me it should be a pretty smooth trip; I made a similar trip from MT to NC while LE was schlepping our furniture from Tucson to Raleigh. MT had no speed limit at that time so i discovered that once my car hit 127 mph - I was no longer young and stupid so I slowed down. I made most of the trip hovering around 90. No idea when the next update will be.

A healthy adult has over 1000 different bacteria colony types living in and on their body.

MRSA has been found in the US bird population - it does not kill them, they are just carriers.
The H1N1 flu virus has not gone away just because you do not hear much about it anymore. This is the worst time of year for flues in that it is warm and dry and the flu prefers cold and moist. Come fall, there could be a serious pandemic (do not have a flu party to try and get infected so you will be immune).

We (LE, Morgan, and I) are taking I90 East to WI - is there a website/blog/twitter that watches things like construction or natural disasters to warn about delays?

We took Morgan on a short trip to a friends house to see how she handles trips - went okay. I have been coming home lately, and just sitting back in the car with door open and she now considers the car just another 'room'; I have even fed her in it so she has been kind of acclimated to the car. Should be a lot of fun - hah.

hey pray for me too.

i got a whole list of stuff i'd like to get by June.

thanks

(heh,heh) Wow, maybe we should start a prayer circle so we can all get the stuff we want by June (me first, I want a job).

I do find it strange that the newspapers in UK keep referring to her as a virgin :) Do they think she's the Virgin Mary or something?

We will know for sure when her image begins to appear on toast

first try vibrating the *thing* externally . shud you get back any reflections, then yes, the thing exists, otherwise not...

the case of a black hole... mmm... i don't know..

The only way we know that black holes exist is that they vibrate the things around them - matter 'falling' into BHs produce X-rays at the event horizon, BHs can behave as a 'gravity lens' focusing objects behind them, BHs produce gravity ripples in space-time when interacting with objects => neutron stars.

well human writes them , and they write them 98% for fun !
another 1% to show that they smart ( another type of physco ),
and another 1% for gain or profit.

Where did you get your stats? I do believe that the 98% you are talking about are scritp-kiddies and do not write virii - they are more an annoyance. Of the people who actually write the mal-ware, it would be difficult to know how they break down wrt for profit vs for destruction

I think discussing the virus source codes and virus writing is illeagal in United States.

discussing virus source codes is not illegal in the US - how the heck could anyone fight virii w/o talking about them?

However in my country it's oky. and Releasing a virus
is illeagal in 99% of countries include mine. so what about the daniweb ?

What about DaniWeb??
There are programs out there that will build you a virus; you fire it up and it asks questions and builds the virus/trojan to your specs. People who run them are sometimes known as 'script-kiddies' (from an earlier era when script-kiddies used someone else's program to hack passwords and such).

To the people who think that they can safely run bare-back through the internet - you are a member of the zombie army. Zombie recruiters scan IP addresses for open ports and for closed ports (if the recruiter finds a closed port, it …

Don't you just love Aia - he adds nothing to the conversation but spite and bile but only sees this in others.

When I have a message for a single person, I tell them - if they, then, want to complain about it in public; well, then I will publicize the message. I do not say one thing in public but something different in private.

Welcome! What you learn here about blogging and making money online might be exactly what you are looking for but just might be what need to find.

Wow GrimJack, you really like leaving passive-aggressive reps around. If other worldviews pain you so much, you should perhaps consider leaving Internet behind.

I gave you a bad rep and quoted "twit" - I do not consider that passive aggressive, that is me telling you what I think of this comment of yours

I was just asking that to point out how you're a hypocrite. Or do you distinguish between blind and unblind adherence to ideologies?

It doesn't matter if you do, because there are many ideologies that you blindly adhere to. Like the way you like your opinions more than other people's. That's an extremely egocentric thing to do. And you do it blindly.

This quote contains nothing; there was nothing I could say wrt that quote 0000000000000000000111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 <<oops, Morgan just had to add her opinion>>

You make an ad hominem attack, offer a false choice, discount any response, make unsupported accusations followed by another ad hominem attack, followed by another and closed with a final ad hominem attack. A truly grand achievement in public discourse.

I grant you that my reply to your post was not particularly friendly but at least it did not contain any errors in logic or argumentation. I did not want to call you a twit in public so I offered it as a personal note.

I think I am beginning to understand why Dani does not really like political discussions on DW.

One of the main problems with 'string theory' <<I think xkcd is the best {mumble,muble} comic on the internets>>is that it has not produced one single prediction that can be tested by experiment. One of the main components of scientific investigation is that it be falsifiable - that it make a prediction that can be tested and proved or disproved. The theory is quite pretty and I really like all the pretty graphics that people have come up with to explain what the theory is but... unless it can actually predict something (as opposed to explaining things we already know) it could become a dead end. Then all those 'string theorists' who have spent the last 20 years working with the theory could just be relegated to the dust bin of history along with 'phlogistan'.

>WRT your avatar.
Didn't got this one? My avatar is the Glider, emblem of Hackerdom as suggested by Eric S. Raymond.
Yes, it is taken from Game of Life

What don't you get? The glider is the basis of a lot of things in life and in life.