For those who like Pulp Fiction: Dick Fiction
Just found this hilarious youtube video for those who like Pulp Fiction!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ehCwns7mGc
Absolutely hilarious!
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Just found this hilarious youtube video for those who like Pulp Fiction!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ehCwns7mGc
Absolutely hilarious!
Dr. James Anderson (BSc, PhD, MBCS, CITP, CSci – if you like those things) lectured us in Reading Uni last year in our module, 'Computer Science Roadmap' about his new system of numbers called 'transreal numbers' which he claimed 'solved a 1200 year old math problem: dividing by zero', and would stop computers from crashing due to division-by-zero errors and therefore save everyone's lives, and cause peace on Earth. We all met this lecture with extreme scepticism as he showed us on his slides how his new computing system has 'super-Turing' and made all existing mathematical algebra theory bogus. Download Dr. Andersons’ presentation on Transreal numbers and the perspex machine. He began his lectures by dedicating the lecture to a naval vessel, which was stranded at sea because of a 'division-by-zero error crashed its entire network of computers, causing its engines to stop.'. Granted, I couldn't see the reactions of anyone there as he presented these slides… as I was late to his lecture, and subsequently didn't record it on my portable digital recorder. Oops. Well none of us are perfect I guess. When I did enter and begin listening, he was presenting his 'proof' of how year 10 students can all divide by zero. The stages are as follows.
What does that proof even prove? We already know everything up to line 5; Calling any number that has been divided by zero 'nullity' is not new. It has been an IEEE standard for 20 years, incorporated into floating point numbers, as the (confusingly named) number NaN – Not a Number. All the Doc has done is rename it. He then proceeded in telling us that large corporations were giving his company 10 million pounds (he repeated this a
humorous amount of times), to research and build a 'perspex machine' which would be able to compute not only a divide by zero, but also compute in four dimensional 'perspex space'. This great new computer he claimed would be able to travel back in time and tell itself instructions to do things when it finds idle time, therefore filling it up and always being 100% efficient with CPU time. He also said to us that '… once you create a perspex program, you virtually grab hold of it and mould it, shape it and create different programs to suit your function in perspex space'. To say, i was extremely cheesed off at this point to be wasting my time listening to his fairy tale of a time-travelling computer system. Maybe he'll get the movie rights! "Back to the Future Part IV: Tales of the Magical Wizard and his fantabulous perspex machine". I think… put it a different way… I hope that by now you too find this grinding your gears.
The chair of the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), has recently accused the big M of trying to ‘hijack HTML’ and take the web away from open standards with the new XML-based declarative language XAML, which is only available with .NET 3.0 Framework, and therefore only Vista, XP and Server 03.
The website, www.xaml.net details most of the technical stuff, and writes the following requirements for the new ’standard’.
That doesn’t sound standard at all!
Well, I have finally got around to the ranting I promised over something like 2 weeks ago. The title of these rants will probably fall under the current one due to popular demand (not my own demand). Hopefully it will be the content that stirs the soul rather than the cheap rip-off of the comedy show Family Guy in the title.
This particular rant (and probably many others in the future) will be about religion and also about charity. Before people lose their rag however it is not some super controversial anti-charity post by a therefore obvious God hating, evil sub-human. Though if you do think like that I hope I will change the way your scary mind work. Am I aiming too high there?
Charity in a perfect world would not be needed, but in our world it looks like it always will be. Although charity could be seen as just helping a friend in need, I am talking more of the non-profit organizations working for the benefit of other fellow humans across the globe. Just donating to a charity is a simple and easy way to show you do care about those who are less fortunate than yourself and are making an effort to readdress this situation. Of course I shouldn’t have to remind anyone about this, nor should I need to remind anyone that using charity to boost others opinion of yourself is an abhorrent act of selfishness that spits in the face of a usually selfless act.
So this leads me quite nicely on to religious charities. (more…)
Firstly: I’m sorry that i’ve not been posting for a while, uni work has been bundled on me recently.
Secondly: Sincere apologies to anyone who today, and for the last few days have seen or visited a link to pornographic content which was maliciously placed on my website. Bloody script kiddies…
Hello Microplopers. In the next few days, i will be changing my website over to an American host.
Hopefully, if I do it right, it will incur little or no downtime, but we shall see.
EA have leaked a statement to the press about their new Sims game, Sims Stories.
The game will allow the player to take control of a romantic comedy, where the game has set and random story twists and comedic moments which are either pre-programmed into the game, such as cut-scenes, or as player driven events.
The new game will entice the player to keep playing, and possibly allow for synchronising different devices, ie. pc and laptop to have the same story, and continue your story on-the-go.
The new Sims game, as ever, will be open ended and based so that anyone can play it. Nevertheless, most of the player will be girls though.
No self-respecting man will command two people to fall in love, in some RomCom time-wasteathon! He would command them all to swim in a pool, only for ‘God’ to take away the steps out of the pool, only to watch them swim themselves to death! Mwhahaha!
Anyway, i digress. Expect the new ‘Desperate Housewives’ style Sims game in a few months.
Just installed a legit version of Vista Business that we get free from the uni, and it has already crashed…
I’ll report in a about 5 days on how the new OS is performing, it’s major faults, minor annoyances and nicest features; But for now, I’m battling getting sound drivers to work on an HD 7.1 card.
I shall be bringing highly opinionated rants to microplop. Which in my opinion is a rubbish name for a site. Expect mind bending, revolutionary writing that will make you slightly interested in things, such as:
I am not liable for any deaths from boredom. Enjoy.
The on-line Swedish torrent website, the Pirate Bay, have vowed to buy the prestigious country of Sealand,
about 3 nautical miles off the coast of Ipswich, England.
The island has a rich and interesting history, that I’m not going to go into, but basically ‘country’ is a tiny offshore island built in the second world war by the English. The family that live there were granted principality by the English courts some time ago, and now they are offering it for sale.
The pirate bay have taken great interest in this micronation, as it could hold the prospect of dodging lawyers and avoiding international intellectual property laws. Although no legal proceedings have been charged against The Pirate Bay, it is only a matter of time until the MPAA (Motion Picture Ass. of America) slaps them with a huge one.
