The Moose Factory (virtual Bar & Grill)

[vidioman 21]

I'm almost there... so close to 10,000 posts! Wouldnt it be just like me to have the post saying Im close to 10,000 posts actually being my 10,000th post?

[The Terminator 0]

School Sucks, I want to drop out. I <3 Nihlisim

anyways, theres a Stockyard Stoics show this saturday at C-Squat i want to go to, but i cant find anyone to go with, wich sucks, i guess ill go by myself.

[vidioman 21]

LOOKIES!!!

I'm hopping to break the 1000posts mark at Skyscraperpage by the end of the day as well. At midnight I'll have an update of my posts across all boards posted in my 10000th post thread.

[defcon pilot 0]

@vid: Good for you. I see you've reached your 10000th post goal here.

@The_Terminator: There is nothing wrong with school. Just the teachers. And the boring-ness of our textbooks.

@MsD: We don't just have to be kids, you know.

@Leech10: *The lead warship's underbelly opens up, exposing a magazine of antimatter missiles. It aims one at a SD-1, and fires.*

*The gunboat pilots, unwilling to sacrifice dignity, turn backward and head into the oncoming wave of fighters. They commit suicide by exploding their ships, in hopes that some of the Myonian fighters will be taken with them.

*One of the warships aims directly for the northern polar ice cap of the planet, then fires a small, metallic orb at the pole at high speed. The orb impacts on the ice, and explodes, sending a massive siesmic wave through the ice. The ice melts under the pressure exerted by the waves, and the ice cap turns to slush. Then, a huge wave rises up from where the ice cap formerly was, spreading across the planet. The tidal wave crashes over the continents of the planet, destroying forests, wiping out animal species, etc. A large portion of the wave heads for the dark zuke base.*

That's one device I'll be using in my CJ: A sonic charge! Yay, sci-fi!

@N_O_Body: Yep. Have to agree with you there. Damned "pop culture" is ruining our society.

[sloppet 3]

hmm... I'm hungry, I think I'll go and get some sandwiches for breakfest! *mmm*

[simmax 0]

Sandwiches for breakfast? Seems unusual to me... @vid : 10,000 posts? According to your stats, this makes for 12.7 posts a day! You must have spent half of your life on Simtropolis in the las 2 years...but there are worse places!

[defcon pilot 0]

Oh, he has. And he's not afraid to admit it, either! Right, vid?

[vidioman 21]

Actually, I've spend a good half of the past 2 years sleeping and sulking. But Simtropolis is probably in second place. I've been on the computer for 10 hours so far. I need to get a life.

(If someone says 'yes you do' or anything similar to that, I'm decapitating another teddy bear. I mean it.)

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

@Leech10: Oops: s/arnour/armor/. Arenak is a glassy clathrate found on the planet Osnome which, when an electrical current is passed through it, catalyzed by sodium chloride, turns into a vary hard, transparent substance. Inoson is a similar substance, except more dense, and found on the planet Norlamin. If you haven't read Dr. Smith's history of space exploration in four volumes starting with "The Skylark of Space", you won't have encountered these substances.

@MsD: Your example has inspired me to reinstall Visual Studio 2003 and SQL Server 2000. It was quite a fight with the revised SQL Desktop Engine as it wants a "strong" password on the SA account, no foolin. I am going to try to learn some things about ASP.NET. I never really had time to fool with this before. I also had to install IIS to get this to install. It is amazing how much junk Microsoft foists on you when all you want to do is a little development. BTW, I am 68. You are almost young enough to be my daughter. Don't worry about picking on me, I have a zuke armor suit.

@TT: What kind of vacuum backs this sucking school? Perhaps it is in your own skull? Why do you find that school sucks? No challenge? Teachers who want you to do things their way? Whazza matta, boy?

@DP: You may agree, facetiously, but I have heard the same chant now for three generations. Everyone always says that the modern stuff is killing civilization, but we are still here. Are you applying to leave the now generation and join us old folks?

@simmax: Sandwiches for breakfast depends on your point of view. What do you think of a couple of waffles with jam between? Isn't that a sandwich?

@vid: If you are thinking of decapitating teddy bears, why not start with Edwardus Ursus from Winne ille Pooh? If you are feeling depressed again, go back on your meds.

[simmax 0]

Yes...it could be a sandwich.
 But I'd rather have a croissant! (102% fat, 108% sugar, and 300% pleasure!)

[vidioman 21]

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Originally posted by: simmax

Yes...it could be a sandwich.

But I'd rather have a croissant! (102% fat, 108% sugar, and 300% pleasure!)quote>

Autosystem serves large French brioche, softened butter on the side. Sorry, we don't put sugar in our croissants, but I think you will like this.

@vid: You mean you aren't on any for all that depression?

[vidioman 21]

They say I don't have depression. I say I hide it well but they have their doubts. Maybe they're scientologists? I usually get by by knowing it could be worse. I'm still alive, right?

[Lyhoko Leaci 770]

*The CS-1s fire their main missiles at the warships, as well as the many guns along their sides, while hundreds of plasma shots fill the area from the fighters*

*The zukes get in the thing they built in their underground secret lair and begin to activate it.*

Did you know you just hit the Earth?

Where are Osnome and Norlamin at?

[justanothersim86 83]

I think I pinpointed what disorder I have. APD (Avoident personality disorder). Its like mixing shyness with depression.

But I'll likely stay away from pills and anti-depressents. I know people who have been on them, and it ended with negative results. Usually making things a lot worse. Its impossible that the pill will work for everyone. There are too many factors to be dealt with which vary from person to person. Enviromental conditions are an example which can't be solved with meds.

But, whatever.

[vidioman 21]

Let's pray to Lord Xenu that they'll go away!!!!!!!! D

[defcon pilot 0]

Yes, let's!

Pills are only temporary means of relief. They never help to solve the actual problem that's causing your depression. They're just like painkillers, except that the side effects can be a bit worse.

@N_O_Body: The "now generation", if you ask me, is more of a "dark ages" generation. We're going backward. 'Round here, people are ignorant, arrogant, and belligerent. They're also perverts. I'm not saying that we should all join the old folks, just that we should cut down on our "pop culture" intake. We're still here, yes, but at the rate we're going, I expect we won't last too much longer.

@Leech10: SPOILER: That's what will happen later on in my CJ. I think. I might change my idea at any time. But even so...

Actually, I got the idea from the novel Ice Hunt by James Rollins. Ever heard of it? It's a pretty good read.

*The wave of destruction washes over the planet as the Confederate cruisers prepare to leave. Unfortunately for them, as the ships turn around, warheads strike their engines and disable them. This does not stop them, however: They unleash their full arsenals on the Myonian battleships and fire a barrage of antimatter weapons at them.*

*The Confederate fighters swarm the battleships, then put their shields and engines to full power. They fly directly into the engine exhaust nozzles of the ships, and use their shields to keep them alive before they enter the reactor chambers and attempt a suicide mission to blow up the ships.*

[brancra 1,197]

vid: oh, cute, yet another Tom Cruise joke. And to think I was born in the same place he was.

justanothersim: Can't blame you for avoiding pills. I don't even like to touch aspirin. I had an uncle who overdosed, so that drives me to avoid medications when I can.

N_O_Body: Wit tells me I could make a great joke involving your age and computer technology, but Tact tells me I'd be rude to say it. So I'll respect my elders this time around.

So, MsD, where did you used to be a truck operator? Or, what places have you been to over the years?

[defcon pilot 0]

Who knows? The East Coast, maybe?

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

@vid: You and John Carter, eh? His motto was "I still live" whenever the was in a fix. For example, in the pit of plenty, you were supposed to starve to death, while looking at delicious banquets through the impervious, transparent walls.

@Leech10: Osnome and Norlamin are in the "Green" system which is a system of 15 stars that bear a lot of copper in their spectra so that the light is greenish. This is in another galaxy. For co-ordinates, you'd need an object compass focused on them. Or you could even get out the old space operas and read them.

@defcon pilot Well, lad, I am glad to see you being repulsed by the current "pop cult"ure. If you look at the way people acted in the 1920's you'll see why I have my motto on my signature. You'll also see what I think of youth in general.

@brancra My age and computer technology? Hell, I have been around for most of computer technology, so I doubt you could say anything I haven't heard. Ever seen a computer that would melt after an external power failure? Ever seen a deck of 80-column cards? ... spread all over a floor or down a flight of stairs? Ah, it was fun in the old days.

@MsD Going to try to make it to Vancouver in 2010?

[hym 358]

Originally posted by: N_O_Body

@brancra My age and computer technology? Hell, I have been around for most of computer technology, so I doubt you could say anything I haven't heard. Ever seen a computer that would melt after an external power failure? Ever seen a deck of 80-column cards? ... spread all over a floor or down a flight of stairs? Ah, it was fun in the old days.quote>

I heard from a guy that if you took the heatsink off an Athlon while it was under full load, the CPU would burst into flames.

[defcon pilot 0]

@N_O_Body: So am I. And I see what you mean. Heh heh. Quite an accurate description: "Pop cult"ure. You know, that's probably the way it was all planned out.

So... You've been around for most of tech history, eh? Got any more stories for us? Those samples of yours are fairly funny.

I should visit the "Green" system sometime! Not that I particularly care for systems with bright green light (frankly, I find them irritating [from my experiences in the game Freelancer]), but hey, why not? I mean, it still makes for nice scenery!

[vidioman 21]

N_O_Body |@vid: You and John Carter, eh? His motto was "I still live" whenever the was in a fix. For example, in the pit of plenty, you were supposed to starve to death, while looking at delicious banquets through the impervious, transparent walls.quote>

Actually, I was quoting Pearl Jam's song 'Alive'. Not really one of my favourites but it has a good message, I guess. can't say the same for the rest of the trilogy, though. It would make a good movie..

[defcon pilot 0]

How 'bout the Pearl Jam release of "World Wide Suicide"?

[vidioman 21]

Bit to 'war is bad and people die-y' for me but it's a'ight.

Not their best work, though. I'm sure the new album will be better.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

@hym: Quite right. One of the hardware geek sites I have been on actually showed a movie of that. It doesn't fail until it is destroyed. Pentiums are protected in that they simply slow down and eventually halt.

@defcon pilot Well, if you put your hands on a copy of the Skylark of Space, the green system is actually in the first volume. It is all postulated on using a transuanic element to excite copper into an Einsteinian energy release in a controlled manner. If you don't hold your mouth right, you have a planet buster.

@vid: I beg to be excused from the link. If you want to persue the adventures of Captain Carter, the book is A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Probably out of your reach unless you have a very good library or old book store.

Adventures in the Prehistory of Computers

1. One machine I used had a printer that used a long tube of mercury metal to hold its print buffer. The data was kept in waves in the mercury.
2. A printer I used had balanced thyratron sets to control the hammers for the drum. Thyratrons were expensive tubes, even then.
3. The memory speed of a lot of the early computers was in the milli-second and micro-second range.
4. A big memory was 32K words. Words were anything from 12 to 36 bits.
5. Bytes didn't exist. Most machines used a 6-bit BCD code and had decimal adders

[Firebird 40]

Quite right. One of the hardware geek sites I have been on actually showed a movie of that. It doesn't fail until it is destroyed. Pentiums are protected in that they simply slow down and eventually halt.quote>

Could you direct me to that video?

[simmax 0]

Originally posted by: N_O_Body

Originally posted by: simmax Yes...it could be a sandwich. But I'd rather have a croissant! (102% fat, 108% sugar, and 300% pleasure!)quote>

Autosystem serves large French brioche, softened butter on the side. Sorry, we don't put sugar in our croissants, but I think you will like this.quote>

I love this! And the sugar was a mistake...

[Voar Tok 4]

Originally posted by: N_O_Body

@hym: Quite right. One of the hardware geek sites I have been on actually showed a movie of that. It doesn't fail until it is destroyed. Pentiums are protected in that they simply slow down and eventually halt. @defcon pilot Well, if you put your hands on a copy of the Skylark of Space, the green system is actually in the first volume. It is all postulated on using a transuanic element to excite copper into an Einsteinian energy release in a controlled manner. If you don't hold your mouth right, you have a planet buster. @vid: I beg to be excused from the link. If you want to persue the adventures of Captain Carter, the book is A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Probably out of your reach unless you have a very good library or old book store. Adventures in the Prehistory of Computers

1. One machine I used had a printer that used a long tube of mercury metal to hold its print buffer. The data was kept in waves in the mercury.
2. A printer I used had balanced thyratron sets to control the hammers for the drum. Thyratrons were expensive tubes, even then.
3. The memory speed of a lot of the early computers was in the milli-second and micro-second range.
4. A big memory was 32K words. Words were anything from 12 to 36 bits.
5. Bytes didn't exist. Most machines used a 6-bit BCD code and had decimal adders

quote>

I don't remember when the byte didn't exist, but I remember using an old AT&T computer.  And yeah, back then machines that had 32KB of memory were considered to be cutting edge.

MsD: First off, congrats on being willing to show your age.  Time-tripping is the same as sort of going back in time (or reliving the past in a some-what physical manner).  Basically, trying to do things like you did several years ago.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

@fire_bird: Welcome to the Moose Factory. I am sorry, but the site that video was on has closed. It was over a year ago. The video was actually prepared by one of the hardware guys for the site.

@simmax: Oops. I take that back. There is a small amount of sugar in a croissant, but it is used up by the yeast when the dough rises. Did you want something to drink with that brioche? A capuccino perhaps, or hot chocolate?

@Voar Tok: Actually, the first machine I ever programmed (an NCR 310) had 4K 12-bit words. Not even an assembler. You toggled the program into the console, then dumped it on paper tape with a loader in front of it. My wife's first machine was a Bendix G20 with 32K 32-bit words running a set of reactor simulations at Chalk River Nuclear Research Station for Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. In those terms a 32KB machine would have had 8K words. BTW, the word-length of a machine these days can be considered the number of bits in the general registers. In an Athlon-64 this makes it a 64-bit or 8 Byte word. Considering the requirements for the order code, that means quite a lot of bandwidth of addressing which depends on the hardware's virtual memory scheme. The amount of memory that can be addressed is limited only by the number of bits in the segmentation and paging controls. How much of it is physical depends on the addressability of the memory controllers.