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!
