Right, like the guy with the negatronic brain isn’t going to be evil. Come on!
Right, like the guy with the negatronic brain isn’t going to be evil. Come on!
There’s a running gag in archaeology that variations on “ritual purposes” actually means “I have no idea what this was for”.
That said, there has historically been a connection between certain divination practices and games of chance, so this could easily be both.
Shit in, shit out. That’s AI.
“On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
—Charles Babbage, on his analytical engine, 1864
Finally, a worthy sequel to 5nowdog5.
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
I used to use a system that was perfectly happy to let you use a semicolon when setting the password, but then login would fail if you did.
It wouldn’t even change the difficulty, really. You’d just wind up multiplying or dividing by 9/10 instead of 9/5.
There’s a bristlecone pine tree in the White Mountains of California that is nearly 5000 years old.
Gah, you’re right. I had it that way at first, but then glanced down a list to check my count and they listed 2002’s Harem Adventures as a separate game even though it’s just the Java phone port of the original.
I’d just like to point out, for the record, that that isn’t the original trilogy. Sands of Time is the fifth Prince of Persia game.
Hell, there were still mammoths around when the pyramids at Giza were built.
Pygmy mammoths, on an island in northern Siberia, but still.
The thing that is absolute is a predicate of the form “if [axioms] then [theorems]”.
And the fun thing about if statements is that they can be true even when the premise is false.
You say that as though he isn’t one of them.
A Cray would be my guess. Possibly even a CDC 7600 running at a whopping 36 MHz if they were really on the bleeding edge (it came out that same year).
Every model is wrong. Some are useful.
Since this is for the benefit of non Spanish speakers, I feel the need to point out that the word “abogato” is a portmanteau of “abogado” (lawyer) and “gato” (cat).
Indeed, friend citizen. Would you like some Bouncy Bubble Beverage?
Not even land borders. It’s missing France-Brazil, UK-Spain, and France-Netherlands at the very least.
The iron content in beaver teeth is concentrated at the front surface so that they are self-sharpening as they wear down.
“3.6 violinists. Not great, not terrible.”