fairychild

can you imagine how the world would look like if no organism had ever died in the earth's entire history?

wouldnt it get a bit annoying if waterdrops are precipitating?

welcome to the wonderful world of programming! 1.) see 3 2.) i'd say yes it's easier than c++ imo 3.) java is platform independant. meaning the same code runs everywhere. c++ is not. but that has its price: java is way slower than c. when you compile an exe you link platform-dependant material into it so with some tools its possible to create exes but you will lose independance - what java is actually famous for. 4.) not difficult - java is very similar to c++ and to many other higher languages. 5.) wow.. now i can finally boast on this board ) ok: c++, java, php, sql, delphi, pascal, matlab, html/javascript, perl - and some other but these are the ones i know well. what i like most is php since the possibility to program webpages far beyond html is just awesome. sql is nice too of course, crawling in databases is fun and i also used to like delphi because you are able to program simple applications reeeally fast. my favourite for general purposes is C++ though.. raw and clean but remember: programming is like hell and heaven. you go NUTS when u dont find an error for 2 weeks, but live in blissfull heaven when everything finally works perfect.

because the result would be wrong otherwise? or multiply with 15 as already mentioned

i think 6*8 looks to be the most difficult in there.. btw there is an easy way to calculate the square of a number ending with '5'. 145²: 14*14+14 = 210 (first digits) 25 (last digits, always the same) so: 21025 once i won a bet to calculate 1455² in my head within 10 minutes.. and won about 1 €

i dont really see the challenge in using paper and pencil?

you guys should see "american history of marijuana", it's some movie i found across the net. great docu about how weird and - excuse my french - idiotic politics can be..

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6745422/

yes, but rather the extention by Klein, who claims the 5th dimension not to be independent. generally, as i have posted in another thread, i wouldnt say the reality we perceive is the absolute level. we're just bounded into a small place, squeezed into a system where we exist. there might be other forms of reality (and energy) which we cannot see (yet).

an additional axis to the three we already know - and use to determine the location of an object

isnt it possible to go into a 4th space dimension and reach a 3d-location faster? theoretically

some of them are double (and more) star systems. so these variantions are normal

...and everything within the event horizon to an observer outside. though, there is the hawkings radiation..

oh i see.. an editor would be "edit.com" - in the windows\command folder i think. there are also a bunch of other goodies that might come in handy, such as the format tool. a DOS version of scandisk.exe must be somewhere in the win-dir also. you can search for a file on the whole disc with "c:>\dir filename /s" edit: i dunno if nibbles.exe is still there in win98 but if yes, you MUST have it

5614: my friend, look, using the world's largest computer power for finding a way how to kill humans most effectively is SICK. this is beyond darwin, this is beyond evolution, nature and any ethnic and moral legitimation. check this out: http://www.thocp.net/hardware/nec_ess.htm i dont know in detail what they are doing with their machine but at least they try to PREVENT people from dying.

command.com msdos.sys io.sys i think thats all - not sure though autoexec.bat and config.sys are expendable

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991157 curious, isnt it

thats a very conservative and ignorant opinion.. just because you cant handle them ("personal experience") doesnt mean they are ALL automaticly bad ... does this mean you never eat? you don't breathe? ... are you a robot?

hmmm looks like my dictionary betrayed me then.. dont u guys have these 40 days of "fasting" (the no meat diet) on easter? what it is called? edit: because this was meant to be a time of cleaning mind & body in order to think better and stuff.. also, ongoing prophets travelled into isolated desserts fasting (i'm not sure now which kind of it though) and having all kinds of hallucinations .. maybe thats how jesus and friends were invented.. back to the topic