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I think it's more fun NOT to include meaning into the generation rules... People's minds are pretty good in ascribing it on random data. Just take care for the rhytm and rhyming.

The people that assaulted me were all average sized. I didn't had the opurtunity to evaluate their IQ though.

I live in Sofia - the capital of Bulgaria and have never been assaulted here. In smaller towns, however, it has happened to me. It's a quite unpleasant thing to experience. In two out of the three cases, I have not been able to react adequately, which was the worst of it. The feeling that someone did something against your will, and you did nothing to prevent it is really frustrating and can drive you mad. But I doubt that tendency to be a bully is a function of muscle mass and IQ. I think that there are much more complicated social variables that lead people into such actions.

Most of them just care for the diploma and have no desire for learning... The students' representitive body - The Student Council are far too busy to organize parties and go on vacations with university money, so it's a sad situation. Nobody thinks that the status quo can be changed, nobody tries... The university is paid by the government per student, so their only interest is in having more and more students.

In my university, the quality of the education has been dropping steadily for 20 years and now there are so much ridiculous subjects - outdated, unrelated to the specialty - for example - our lector in Materials Science has been reading the same lectures as before I was born... I mean, yeah - most of the basic data in this particular subject has not changed ever since (we are talking about iron/carbon alloys, different methods of metalurgic treatment), but the fact that he is unwilling to change anything, the fact that he dislikes modern information technology (I quote "You young people think you can find anything in the Internet"), and on top of that - his exam is passed by basicly repeating encyclopedic facts and mimicking the exact same pretty pictures that he is drawing in lectures... Well, I don't have any motivation in wasting my time for that. And when I see half of my collegues cheating, what kind of moral reasoning will keep me from doing that myself?

Well, tin-lead soldering alloys are evaporeted into pretty usual looking white smoke. Or maybe the smoke is tin/lead oxide...

The question, however, is could we measure it with technology, or is it perceptible only by our counciousness itself...

Wow, looks nice. What kind of projectiles do you fire with? And what kind of distance have you achieved?

I thought capacitors work only in AC circuits. Aren't they supposed to block DC current?

It sounds like a cool scenario for a sci-fi movie.

Lol, that really got me hooked up. I will download it right away!

From addforums.com I don't know if ADHD is a disorder or not, but giving highly addictive stimulant drugs to 14 year old is poor therapy in any case...

Punishing people for what they might do, does not seem to be just in any way.

Zero-point energy extraction! Lol More seriously, i voted for solar - with concentrating solar-thermal plants, the efficiency is already quite good. Renewable, clean energy - independent from localized resources. What's not to like?

I saw very ingenious "real" random number generator implementation in example code for IAR startup kit (microcontroller used for testing and evaluation purposes). It was done by applying MD5 hash algorithm to the unfiltered value of the analog sensor (which is constantly changing due to electronic noise) - remarkably simple and efficient. Also, some cryptographic software requires the user to make "random" mouse movements, to generate "real" random sequences.

@bascule Speaking abstractly - of course. For example - there are compilers under Windows for almost any invented language, but that's not the case for Fujitsu or NEC microcontrollers. It's true, that C is archaic in terms of ease of programming and LOC, but unsafe practices can and are forbidden to use in commercial applications (for example dynamic memory allocation is not used, neither is pointer arithmetic) and there are additional QA mechanisms to ensure reliability and safety - Unit Testing, Code reviews, Integration tests, Validation, Customer validation. The design of the software framework to be used is of great importance too... I was only stating that it's hard to find an actual working, non-experimental compiler for anything other than C for embedded systems. @foodchain What do you mean by maximizing? Performance? Virtual JM is not particularly known for good performance, and by using it on a microcontroller with limited resources... However, to make the Java machine functional, you must have not only small bootstart program, but entire OS with drivers, basic task scheduling, etc. - this also takes CPU and memory. So in the end - i think it may be possible to build such a device, but if you wish to use the versatility and portability of Java, you have to trade for it the performance of native code programs.

Two obstacles - performance and reliability, which by themselves do not come so much from the characteristics of the programming language used, rather by its current use in embedded systems. So you actually have one path to follow - C. It has been proven reliable (in terms of compiler-to-assembly-code robustness over different processor architectures) and is the language of choice behind most commercial embedded solutions.

Why not? If you plot the volt-ampere characteristic of a diode in a x,y diagram, you are essentially doing the same.

There are various charms and magic items, that give +Int, i am surprised you never found one. Seriously, i don't think studying is the most atomic action related to increasing intelligence. IMO, experience is (here the analogy with RPG games again ). Reading and practicing in some area, gives you some kind of experience - some kind of re-programming of your neural pathways, that gives a better solution to a given problem. Of course, we humans, sometimes tend to oversimplify matters, and use abstraction a little bit too much. Don't forget intelligence is not some objectively measurable characteristic, rather than a subjective one, defined and attributed to various individuals and entities, by human minds.

Well, i can stick a Viagra pill in my stomach and get two day hard-on, but that hardly seems to bring the conclusion that sexual activity is stomach-based.

Pharmacy, cosmetics, bio-fuel industry... ?

Actually if i remember correctly, if the black hole is spinning fast enough, the singularity can strech to a disk (still with zero height and hence - zero volume).

What do you mean by "density of the black hole", i thought the black hole is a part of the space time which is so warped by gravity that nothing escapes, with all of its matter collapsed in a singularity with no volume. So how can it have density?

At least in the field of computers, latest tech is not always best tech. Military grade software must be most importantly reliable, GUI and excess computational power are not needed.

The process is called "breakdown". The cappacitor becomes conductive for small amount of time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor#Breakdown_voltage