I thought about looking them up, but since it did sound like a legit organization, I didn't (probably should have; it's just so ridiculous that it's hard to believe it was a real paper )Diziet Sma wrote:...you could always ask them about the article..
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Those who can, do; those who can't, simulate.
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Hmm... Which would do a better job at driving physicists crazy? Travel
faster than light, or a floating-point boolean value?
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Ahhh.. an old favourite..
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A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots stationed
on the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider a marvelous new
game. Noting that the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the
pilots search out a beach where the birds are gathered and fly slowly
along it at the water's edge. Perhaps ten thousand penguins turn their
heads in unison watching the planes go by, and when the pilots turn
around and fly back, the birds turn their heads in the opposite
direction, like spectators at a slow-motion tennis match. Then, the
paper reports "The pilots fly out to sea and directly to the penguin
colony and overfly it. Heads go up, up, up, and ten thousand penguins
fall over gently onto their backs.
-- Audobon Society Magazine
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Well known myth. The penguins don't fall over. They have however increased their population in the mine field areas as the whalers can't get to them to use as fuel to render down the whale fat. No trees on the Falklands.Diziet Sma wrote:Ahhh.. an old favourite..
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A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots stationed on the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider a marvelous new game. Noting that the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the pilots search out a beach where the birds are gathered and fly slowly along it at the water's edge. Perhaps ten thousand penguins turn their heads in unison watching the planes go by, and when the pilots turn around and fly back, the birds turn their heads in the opposite direction, like spectators at a slow-motion tennis match. Then, the paper reports "The pilots fly out to sea and directly to the penguin colony and overfly it. Heads go up, up, up, and ten thousand penguins fall over gently onto their backs. -- Audobon Society Magazine
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Still... a funny anecdote nonetheless!Tricky wrote:Well known myth. The penguins don't fall over. They have however increased their population in the mine field areas as the whalers can't get to them to use as fuel to render down the whale fat. No trees on the Falklands.
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Hmph! I thought I had archived a fortune program I developed on the Amiga in the late '80s. Must be on the original HDD, wherever that is.
Anyway, here's one I like.
Anyway, here's one I like.
An optimist believes we live in the best world possible;
a pessimist fears this is true.
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An optimist believes we live in the best world possible; a pessimist fears this is true.
I wish I had gotten more experience than I wound up getting on those Amigas - they were cool . So what ever happened to that machine? It sounds like it got lost in the sands o' time.... .Tricky wrote:Hmph! I thought I had archived a fortune program I developed on the Amiga in the late '80s. Must be on the original HDD, wherever that is.
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It's still going.. despite ups, downs, halts and starts, it's still alive, as the AmigaONE X1000, running AmigaOS 4.1.5.CommRLock78 wrote:I wish I had gotten more experience than I wound up getting on those Amigas - they were cool . So what ever happened to that machine? It sounds like it got lost in the sands o' time.... .
Can be purchased at: http://www.amigakit.com/x1000 although the current production run has already been sold out. A new run is expected by the end of the year or so..
Current specs, as of July 2012:
AmigaONE X1000 Latest Specifications:
- PA Semi Dual-core PA6T-1682M, nominal 2.0GHz (1.8GHz standard) PowerISA™ v2.04+ CPU
- "Xena" 500MHz XMOS XS1-L2 124
- ATI Radeon Evergreen or Northern Isles graphics card (option)
- 2GB or 4GB RAM (option)
- 1TB Hard drive
- 22x DVD combo drive
- Boing Ball case
- Boing Ball keyboard and mouse (option)
- 7.1 channel HD audio
- 4x DDR2 RAM slots
- 10x USB 2.0
- 1x Gigabit Ethernet
- 2x PCIe x16 slots (1x16 or 2x8)
- 2x PCIe x1 slots
- 1x Xorro slot
- 2x PCI legacy slots
- 2x RS232
- 4x SATA 2 connectors
- 1x IDE connector
- JTAG connector
- 1x Compact Flash
For some of the history, see also Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOne
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I've seen these; in fact I toyed with the idea of getting one when I got a new computer earlier this year, but I was a little turned off at the lack of exact price quotes (and machines ). I was actually wondering what happened to Tricky's computer, but it was a nice reminder that Amiga is still kickin' it .Diziet Sma wrote:It's still going.. despite ups, downs, halts and starts, it's still alive, as the AmigaONE X1000, running AmigaOS 4.1.5.CommRLock78 wrote:I wish I had gotten more experience than I wound up getting on those Amigas - they were cool . So what ever happened to that machine? It sounds like it got lost in the sands o' time.... .
Can be purchased at: http://www.amigakit.com/x1000 although the current production run has already been sold out. A new run is expected by the end of the year or so..
Interestingly, that's the exact family of cards I just got for the new computer. Click he for a pic of the HD5450Diziet Sma wrote:Current specs, as of July 2012:
AmigaONE X1000 Latest Specifications:
[*]ATI Radeon Evergreen ... graphics card (option)
Edit: pic from this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_%28GPU_family%29
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Another from Husse that popped up just now:
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For all OXP'ers...
Maybe...Given sufficient time, what you put off doing today will get done by itself.
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That prospect is about as hopeful as this one:Tricky wrote:For all OXP'ers...Maybe...Given sufficient time, what you put off doing today will get done by itself.
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