Is it time for Random Thoughts - Part 4?

[thankz]

if I was a transistor id probably be a generic like a 2n3055.

a high power sanken in a to-big package is what I aspire to be

 

[lisab]

if I was a transistor id probably be a generic like a 2n3055.

a high power sanken in a to-big package is what I aspire to be

I must admit, "if I were a transistor" is a phrase I have never heard, nor even thought .

 

[dkotschessaa]

I must admit, "if I were a transistor" is a phrase I have never heard, nor even thought .

Me neither. I'd rather be a capacitor.

 

[Borek]

Resistor suits me best. Alternatively, any system with a large time constant. My Mom used to say I am so slow I even fall slower than others.

 

[Borg]

Me neither. I'd rather be a capacitor.

Resistor suits me best. Alternatively, any system with a large time constant. My Mom used to say I am so slow I even fall slower than others.

You two could form a band.

 

[dkotschessaa]

You two could form a band.

You just couldn't resist, could you...

 

[Borg]

You just couldn't resist, could you...

It was futile.

 

[dkotschessaa]

It was futile.

You have a capacity for understatement.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Thought:

Maybe the reason the U.S. isn't that interested in the world cup is that we're trying NOT to be a barbaric third world country?

Homophobic chants, people biting each other... no thanks.

 

[Borek]

Homophobic chants, people biting each other

You really want me to list Americans doing exactly that?

 

[dkotschessaa]

You really want me to list Americans doing exactly that?

Touche.

I'm not usually Mr. rah-rah America, mind you. It just seems that the whole spirit of this game is something humans should be moving away from, and here it is being celebrated.

But I am moving away from the required level of stochasticity for this thread, so I'll end it there.

 

[Psinter]

Do you like me?

Yes OR No

Analysis:
Yes = 1
No = 0
1 || 0 = 1 = Yes

So he/she likes you.

 

[DennisN]

Do you like me?

Yes OR No

Analysis:
Yes = 1
No = 0
1 || 0 = 1 = Yes

So he/she likes you.

 

[DennisN]

2B\vee\neg 2B =?
(To be, or not to be, that is the question)

 

[dkotschessaa]

2B\vee\neg 2B =?
(To be, or not to be, that is the question)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_(programming_language)

 

[DennisN]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_(programming_language) - corrected your link, a missing ")"

Very fun!

[Enter Juliet]
[Enter Romeo and Juliet]
[Exit Romeo]
[Exeunt Romeo and Juliet]
[Exeunt]

 

[Mandelbroth]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_(programming_language)

I'm having fun reading these codes.

 

[dkotschessaa]

I'm having fun reading these codes.

From the tutorial page:

By prefixing a noun with an adjective, you multiply it by two. Another adjective, and it is multiplied by two again, and so on. That way, you can easily construct any power of two or its negation. From there, it's easy to construct arbitrary integers using basic arithmetic, such as ``the sum of $X$ and $Y$'', where $X$ and $Y$ are themselves arbitrary integers.

For example, ``the difference between the square of the difference between my little pony and your big hairy hound and the cube of your sorry little codpiece''. Substituting the simple constants with numbers, we get ``the difference between the square of the difference between 2 and 4 and the cube of -4''. Now, since the difference between 2 and 4 is $2 - 4 = -2$, and the cube of $-4$ is $(-4)^3 =
-64$, this is equal to ``the difference between the square of $-2$ and $-64$''. The square of $-2$ is $(-2)^2 = 4$, and the difference of 4 and $-64$ is 60. Thus, ``the difference between the square of the difference between my little pony and your big hairy hound and the cube of your sorry little codpiece'' means 60.

 

[dkotschessaa]

OMG. Got a TAship. I actually didn't see it coming.

 

[OmCheeto]

I'm having fun reading these codes.

I cannot grasp the "Hello World" code.

But alas, methinks, that perchance, Windows 8, utilized SPL developer suite, version 3.

 

[Evo]

OMG. Got a TAship. I actually didn't see it coming.

Awesome!

 

[OmCheeto]

...Windows 8...

My first computer came with an 8 kilobyte, ROM burned operating system

and a chiclet keyboard, just like my new mac laptop.

Everyone laughed at the chiclets back then. Not sure why. I loved it.

I think people are funny.

 

[dlgoff]

"My leg hairs were singed. I could smell the burnt hair," he explained. "I looked across the driveway and I could see my boots over there. They were no longer on my feet, and one of them was smoking'. At that point I realized I had just been hit by lightning."

http://www.cbs46.com/story/25841471/man-survives-after-lightning-strike-blows-him-out-of-his-shoes

 

[dkotschessaa]

My first computer came with an 8 kilobyte, ROM burned operating system

and a chiclet keyboard, just like my new mac laptop.

Everyone laughed at the chiclets back then. Not sure why. I loved it.

I think people are funny.

My first computer. Cosby not included:

Actually I'm not even sure what that big thing is that the monitor is sitting on. Mine was just the keyboard/cpu hooked up an old television. I had no drives or storage. I programmed the game I wanted in and then played it. When I turned it off the program was lost.

-DaveK

 

[OmCheeto]

My first computer. Cosby not included:

Actually I'm not even sure what that big thing is that the monitor is sitting on. Mine was just the keyboard/cpu hooked up an old television. I had no drives or storage. I programmed the game I wanted in and then played it. When I turned it off the program was lost.

-DaveK

Good grief! You are old!

ps. Mine had a cassete deck memory storage unit, sold separately. The joke was, that it had a higher data transfer rate than the Commodore 64's disk drive.

No joke.

 

[thankz]

mine was a 286 with 1 meg of ram and a 40 meg hard drive, 5-1/4 floppy, a copy of dos 3.0 and gw basic. a Hercules monochrome vga card. I had to build it myself as a summer afterschool job and not only did I get to keep it but they paid me $600 dollars to do so.

 

[jim hardy]

My first computer. Cosby not included:

Actually I'm not even sure what that big thing is that the monitor is sitting on. Mine was just the keyboard/cpu hooked up an old television. I had no drives or storage. I programmed the game I wanted in and then played it. When I turned it off the program was lost.

-DaveK

Great machine, TI99/4 and 4a.
It was based on TI's industrial TMS9900 cpu chipset which had interesting architecture. You could define any memory location as program counter and the next (twenty? I forget exactly) memory locations became your stack , really handy for real time applications that context switch a lot.
My Canadian friends had a Candu nuclear plant simulator that ran on the 99/4a , using every last byte of memory.


The expansion box contained more memory, disk drive and I/O cards. There's a 99/4 following today - hobbyists are still souping them up.

To find out if computers are really radiation tolerant i took mine down to the Radiation Protection lab and gave it a thousand rads. Didn't phase it. I used it for an office computer thereafter until the company bought us PC's a few years later.

Ahhh nostalgia - thanks guys !

 

[edward]

MY fist computer was an IBM PC Jr. IBM had a closeout sale and I got it for $149 provided I pay $400 for an IBM dot matrix Pro printer. The printer sounded like a machine gun and when my neighbor, a Vietnam Vet, used it he started having flashbacks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PCjr#mediaviewer/File:Ibm_pcjr_with_display.jpg

 

[dkotschessaa]

Good grief! You are old!

ps. Mine had a cassete deck memory storage unit, sold separately. The joke was, that it had a higher data transfer rate than the Commodore 64's disk drive.

No joke.

YES. We eventually did get the tape. The five minute loop tapes. They were fun to listen to. "eeeechhhffchfffchffffchfffchfffchffff..."

 

[dlgoff]

Anyone every see one of these? An engineering coworker bought one of them when they first came out in '81.

image from http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html