Why aren't the people who arranged this study chewing out, not Google, but people who leave their computers on all night so they don't have to boot them up in the morning? Or if they do, why don't they publish findings about that?:confused:
Pull the other one! :rolleyes: Child genii aren't as common as some might think! You sure this wasn't some early April Fool's prank that the BBC made up???
For those of you who live at home, run this on your parents' computer fullscreen, blue background, white font. Then put the mouse over the block in the upper lefthand corner, and enjoy the show.:twisted:
This code will let you play Battleship against the computer (bad graphics, I know) for a while, upon which it quits without so much as an error message. Could an experienced coder look this over and tell me why? Thanks. Venomlash :?:
Why write a Hello World program? We all know how...Except noobs who need to {"read a book", "take a tutorial", "figure out which is the mouse and which is the keyboard"} before writing code.
:!: Daaaaaaaaang! That's pretty cool! But good thing it closes it too. I have a friend who twice had the power cut out while the CD tray was open, and he naturally stumbled into the open tray, ripping it out of the computer--both times!!! Bad luck, huh?
I am looking to buy a new PC, but have no idea what to get. I want a desktop that is suitable for both gaming and work, and preferably not a Dell. Does anyone have recommendations for me vis a vis make and/or model? Thank you.
Does anyone know a good way to get a bitmap (or other picture file format) and put it on the screen using OpenGL??? I mean, that kinda thing is hard enough in the sissy, user-friendly syntax of JAVA. Anyone?...anyone?...Bueller?
I'm not sure if this is still true, but when my dad went to the University of Illinois (in the '80s), either Champaign or Urbana had a law on their books requiring all monsters to be out of town by nightfall.
Ya know, fierykido, you're getting pretty ad hominem on me. Who are you, Rush Limbaugh??? (I don't actually think you are, pseudoscience doesn't seem to be how he rolls.) But if *you* were open-minded, you would be able to wrap that calculating mind of yours around the idea that you might have been duped by someone trying to start a cult.
<<Change of topic>>I suspect that the Chicago Bears, Blackhawks, and Bulls will all win their respective championships in 2012, and the Cubs will play the Sox in the World Series. (Yay! I'm a Chicagoan!!!)
Not only did Willy the Shake come up with coumpound nouns (like "bedroom" or "stovepipe"), he also coined the following terms: hush, puke, anchovy, bandit, manager, glow, alligator, mimic, useless, and jig (among many, many, others).
I agree with the above skeptics. Ya know, you talk a lot ("There's lots of evidence...) but you never seem to give one reference to anthing except that one site.
There is no such thing as a psychic. Telekinesis has never been reliably demonstrated (i.e., it's hooey in my opinion), and mind-reading is an illusion; human beings just have a remarkable ability to read subconscious cues in body language that betray a person's thoughts.
Speaking of viruses, some author or other has written a few zombie books (including World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War). In these books, there is a virus called Solanum that turns humans into zombies.
Solanum is the genus name of the domesticated potato (Solanum tuberosum).
In my town of Evanston (IL, not WY) it is illegal to go bowling. Also to skip in a bathing suit. And in Atlanta, GA, it is illegal to tie a giraffe (Giraffa camelopardis) to a telephone pole (Kahniu hirmeenou).
On average car alarms cause more public disturbances than prevent individual crimes.
No duh... President Garfield could read a letter in English and simultaneously write two copies in two other languages, one with each hand. Why can't our President today do that?
I am on the Math Team at my high school, and while doing some logarithm practice, my coach told me about one notoriously malevolent problem that had come up on a contest in the past, and which only one student in the league (which comprises tens of high schools, each with a team for each grade of ~7 people) had gotten correct. This student had known nothing about logarithms (the main focus of the problem), and his coach had given him only a few quick tips while on the bus to the contest site. These included the choice bit "when you multiply, you add". (log(b*a)=log(a)+log(b)) So ths student saw the problem and had no idea how to do it. So he took all the numbers in the question, added them up...and got the problem right!!!
May or may not be true, but the QWERTY keyboard came about because typewriter companies in the early 1800s wanted their salesmen to be able to type something quickly to show how efficient it was. They could rapidly type the word "typewriter" because all of the letters were placed in the top row on a QWERTY keyboard.
Just as did kdoiron, I heard that the QWERTY setup was billed as a preventer of jammed keys. This did in effect happen because it took typists a while to adjust from the old ABC configuration. By the time they were typing fast enough to cause jams, typewriter technology had improved to stop the darned things from jamming. Bonus: I am in possession of an old manual (non-electric) typewriter that my grampses gave me.
Yep, fun pranks. What is the funniest situation involving one of the two that you have personally been in? I'll start: I Rickrolled the fiendish principal of my middle school...at the school office and then at his home number. I used these two sites: http://www.prankdialer.com/rickroll.php and http://callprank.com/
Oookay, still not workin'. Now says "class driver not found" unstead of giving me the entire pathname. I actually am supposed to give it "driver", not "Soluna Invasion" as the class, so I found that bug. Do you think it's the whitespace in the pathname screwing it up?
The HTML file? No, the actual JAVA class file is in there. And the setup is basically how the AP book says should work, but in the book they don't have the full filepath, just the filename (i.e., no folder names and backslashes).
I am writing a applet-based mini-game. Whenever I open up the HTML document with Internet Explorer to test what I have so far, it just says "Java Applet Load failed".When I do the same with the AT&T browser, I get a blank web page with a big grey rectangle (or BGR) (which is NOT what I was looking for). Whenever I mouse over the aforesaid BGR, the message bar at the bottom tells me that the class file was not found, and I have a feeling it's in the syntax. Can anyone point out what is wrong with the following???
<html>
<head>
<title>Soluna Invasion!</title>
</head>
<body>
<applet code="C:\Documents and Settings\MyNameDeleted\My Documents\Programming\Soluna Invasion\SolunaInvasion\SolunaInvasion.class" width="750" height="500" alt="Artix thought this applet was undead and exorcised it. Try again.">
Artix thought this applet was undead and exorcised it. Try again.
Seriously, someone has got to explain to that Paladin what is undead and what is not!
You saw what happened on Frostval against Xanta Claus, right?
</applet>
</body>
</html>
(Yes, I'm making a mini-game to send to Artix Entertainment.)
Evolution...how about that classic example of those finches Darwin discovered??? And if an omniscient creator (whose name rhymes with Todd) *had* created everything, would He have allowed humans to progress enough to question His divine postulate??? EnderX, I respect your right to free speech, but this is about as dumb as the Scopes trial.
"Show me some evidence" indeed! Is there a SINGLE point of evidence against evolution???
And also, if you don't believe in evolution, you'll have a tough time working with those new "evolved" circuits that people are proposing (the best randomly generated circuits are mixed together to create very efficient circuits--it's all in R&D. Look in Scientific American for more information.)
The worst joke I can think of (which I made up myself): Q. What's green and has a talk show in the garden? A. Okra Winfrey!!! *snort* ...I crack myself up sometimes...but don't worry, this is not one of those times.
