Aspies For Freedom

I'm not really sure what the T-1000, I'm guessing some kind of transformer. You're probably thinking about maya or flash 8... I can get you these programs once my servers up. Just keep in touch. corruptxen@gmail.com

Wow, a banned member posted something that could be hijacked in to be useful! I've always wonder how the transparency tool works on MS paint.

T-1000 was the villain in the second Terminator movie btw.

I wish I knew more about the central processing unit of a computer.  Sure, some massive combination of relays and switches too small for the naked eye to see.  But how did the UNIVAC do that on a scale visible to the naked eye?  I understand the integrated circuit and computer chip simply miniaturizes what the UNIVAC did.

I think I kind of understood looking at one URL.

I am sure that the keyboard is a shortcut of sending 8 bit ASCII codes to the CPU (A is 65, B is 66, 97 is a, 98 is b)
and any number can be expressed by one or more zeros or ones like this

0 = 0 (0 * 1)
1 = 1 (1 * 1)
10 = 2 (because 0 * 1 + 1 * 2)
11 = 3 (because 1 * 1 + 1 * 2)
100 = (because 0 * 1 + 0 * 2 + 1 * 4)

so you see the higher the number gets, the more 1 and 0 you use, and the last 1 or 0 always represents 1 or 0, the next to last always represents 2 or 0, the nextmost 4 or 0, and all the way ad infinitum

eight bits
0    0 or 1
0    0 or 2
0    0 or 4
0    0 or 8
0    0 or 16
0    0 or 32
0    0 or 64
0    0 or 128

Well...not quite.  The "vacuum tubes" in this case are of the electronic sort (valves).  Most of the UNIVAC tubes were common 25L6 tetrodes.

Google.

I'm a programmer so I generally understand how computer programs and computer type devices work.  Not search engines, how they can take any search string and find dozens of web pages which contain that instantly in a fraction of a second is beyond me.  I do know they cache/index websites locally, but that's only part of the question.

Actually, my NT son is currently into trying to understand how plasma TV's work.... that and building a 3D hologram machine similar to what is shown on the show Bones in the basement.  Mom

Cool.  Best of luck to him.  I didn't know Bones had a 3D hologram machine (I've only seen one episode), but I have for many years been wanting to build a 3D hologram machine similar to the ones in Star Wars.  But I gotta say, understanding plasma is a good place to start.

Like that old radio Carl had in Men of Honor, which Billie Sunday broke and repaired, A Son Never Forgets

I would like to know...

If you are sat in a time machine and you travel back in time, lets say 1 second, do you end up sitting on your own lap?

no you'd end up on top of your past self time michine... in your time michine if yiou stayed in one spot.. just as there leaving.

*draws breathe*
*stops*
*looks puzzled*

:| and...just how the heck did you think of that one?

I thought for a while about this one.  Suppose you can magically transport just your body to any point in time.  If you are still and you go back one second, then you would have two bodies occupying the same space at the same time.  Then one of two things would happen.  

1. If the two of you can occupy the same space but maintain individual control of your bodies, then you would occupy the same space for only one second before the past-you comes to the point where she transports herself back one second.  Then the current you continues with her life.

2. If the two of you can occupy the same space but NOT maintain individual control of your bodies, then you would be fused together for the rest of your lives, assuming one or both of you could continue living.  The tiny changes in your body's state, coming together from two different times, would surly spell disaster as blood vessels and neural pathways would get criss-crossed and everything would get mixed up.  On the cellular scale, you would end up with cells that have no DNA, cells that have two sets of DNA, and cells that have horribly mangled DNA.

So if you're gonna transport yourself back just one second, you better do it while running... or at least in a Delorean with a flux capacitor and time circuits moving at 88 mph.

Oh, and don't forget the extra plutonium.  
Then go to 2015 and tack on a Mr. Fusion and hovertires.
Bring back a hoverboard and a sports almanac too.  

That's all given me some more to think about.

I also had another thought which has been praying on my mind for many years after watching a program about geology and rock formations.

It was a long time ago and my memory of it is a bit worped now, but the main gist was that there was a particular formation which suggested that the rock moved in a liquid motion and it produced a curved consertina wave where it was being pushed through plate techtonics. This got me thinking, at what point on the viscosity scale does something become a solid, if it is the viscosity scale.

N.B. please forgive spelling.