Funny blog post
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> A UK magazine recently held a competition, inviting its readers submit new > high fundamental scientific theories on ANY (Any means...ANY) subject. > > Winner (Subject: Perpetual Motion) > ---------------------------------- > When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is > dropped, it always lands buttered side down. Therefore, if a slice of > toast is strapped to a cat`s back, buttered side up, and the animal is > then dropped, the two opposing forces will cause it to hover, spinning > inches above the ground. If enough toast-laden felines were used, they > could form the basis of a high-speed monorail system. from http://geekswithblogs.net/tariq/archive/2004/03/29/3481.aspx?Pending=true[^]
I always think that the idea of a compiler that compiles another compiler or itself is rather incestuous in a binary way. - Colin Davies My .Net Blog
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> A UK magazine recently held a competition, inviting its readers submit new > high fundamental scientific theories on ANY (Any means...ANY) subject. > > Winner (Subject: Perpetual Motion) > ---------------------------------- > When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is > dropped, it always lands buttered side down. Therefore, if a slice of > toast is strapped to a cat`s back, buttered side up, and the animal is > then dropped, the two opposing forces will cause it to hover, spinning > inches above the ground. If enough toast-laden felines were used, they > could form the basis of a high-speed monorail system. from http://geekswithblogs.net/tariq/archive/2004/03/29/3481.aspx?Pending=true[^]
I always think that the idea of a compiler that compiles another compiler or itself is rather incestuous in a binary way. - Colin Davies My .Net Blog
Wouldn't it be more humane to just strap two of the same object together... ...namely cats? What did toast ever do to you? ;P
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> A UK magazine recently held a competition, inviting its readers submit new > high fundamental scientific theories on ANY (Any means...ANY) subject. > > Winner (Subject: Perpetual Motion) > ---------------------------------- > When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is > dropped, it always lands buttered side down. Therefore, if a slice of > toast is strapped to a cat`s back, buttered side up, and the animal is > then dropped, the two opposing forces will cause it to hover, spinning > inches above the ground. If enough toast-laden felines were used, they > could form the basis of a high-speed monorail system. from http://geekswithblogs.net/tariq/archive/2004/03/29/3481.aspx?Pending=true[^]
I always think that the idea of a compiler that compiles another compiler or itself is rather incestuous in a binary way. - Colin Davies My .Net Blog
That's as old as the internet... (still funny though :-D) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
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That's as old as the internet... (still funny though :-D) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
I've heard it when I had 12 (and now, I have 32!) But it's still good and recycling is a good thing... Perl combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski
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> A UK magazine recently held a competition, inviting its readers submit new > high fundamental scientific theories on ANY (Any means...ANY) subject. > > Winner (Subject: Perpetual Motion) > ---------------------------------- > When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is > dropped, it always lands buttered side down. Therefore, if a slice of > toast is strapped to a cat`s back, buttered side up, and the animal is > then dropped, the two opposing forces will cause it to hover, spinning > inches above the ground. If enough toast-laden felines were used, they > could form the basis of a high-speed monorail system. from http://geekswithblogs.net/tariq/archive/2004/03/29/3481.aspx?Pending=true[^]
I always think that the idea of a compiler that compiles another compiler or itself is rather incestuous in a binary way. - Colin Davies My .Net Blog
:laugh: More info on the theory. http://members.aol.com/moggycat/purrpetual.htm[^] BW CP Member Homepages
"Miraculous you call it babe? You ain't seen nothing yet.
They got Pepsi in the Andes. They got McDonalds in Tibet" -
I've heard it when I had 12 (and now, I have 32!) But it's still good and recycling is a good thing... Perl combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski
12 cats?
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12 cats?
:-D años, i think BW CP Member Homepages
"Miraculous you call it babe? You ain't seen nothing yet.
They got Pepsi in the Andes. They got McDonalds in Tibet" -
12 cats?
MS le Roux wrote: 12 cats? Oh, the language differences: in English, you "are" 32 years old; in Portuguese you "have" 32 years. Perl combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski
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> A UK magazine recently held a competition, inviting its readers submit new > high fundamental scientific theories on ANY (Any means...ANY) subject. > > Winner (Subject: Perpetual Motion) > ---------------------------------- > When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is > dropped, it always lands buttered side down. Therefore, if a slice of > toast is strapped to a cat`s back, buttered side up, and the animal is > then dropped, the two opposing forces will cause it to hover, spinning > inches above the ground. If enough toast-laden felines were used, they > could form the basis of a high-speed monorail system. from http://geekswithblogs.net/tariq/archive/2004/03/29/3481.aspx?Pending=true[^]
I always think that the idea of a compiler that compiles another compiler or itself is rather incestuous in a binary way. - Colin Davies My .Net Blog
Ig Nobel prize for Physics awarded in 1996 (http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig1996[^]) to Robert Matthews of Aston University, England, "for his studies of Murphy's Law, and especially for demonstrating that toast often falls on the buttered side." Scarily, also my (and Ian Darling's) alma mater, although we were CS students rather than Physics. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder