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Not accurate at all. -- Brian
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14/16. I got 15/16 the last time somebody posted this. I'm losing my edge. -- Brian
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How do you do that many jumps in 24 hours? Low static lines from helicopters or something? -- Brian
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Tugboat! -- Brian
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Just about 1:25 for me. That's less than two posts per day since I signed up. This Illinois fall/winter/spring have been keeping the jump numbers down since I started in August. -- Brian
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Hitting the ground and walking away seems to be a common theme. My only skydiving dream so far involved me going in. I waved and pulled at the normal altitude. I felt the pilot chute launch and catch air, but nothing happened. Looked over my shoulder, saw the PC in tow, put my hands on the handles, looked down to make sure I had them, and saw the ground right there. Bounced before I could react. Got up and walked back to the hangar. The total time from my wave to the ground was maybe 5 seconds. -- Brian
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You need to put in a backslash to escape the third period. Otherwise it will reject on 'name="somethingvxd"' and so on, which might not be desired. -- Brian
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What? You don't have the built in ability to understand regular expressions? It means find a line of text that begins with any number of characters (including none), followed by 'name="', followed by 0 or more of any character or characters, followed by a period (actually, the regex has a little flaw; it will match any character, not just a period. Put "\" in front of the third period and it will behave correctly), followed by any of those groups of letters, followed by a quote character at the end of the line. -- Brian
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Ice hockey. Toronto beat the Islanders. -- Brian
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Why shouldn't women have drivers licenses? There's no road between the kitchen and the bedroom. I'm gonna go into hiding for a while now. -- Brian
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To avoid colliding, at the end of the jump everybody turns away from each other and does something called tracking. This is a bit of an oversimplification, but basically you just put your arms to your side and point your toes. This gives you enough horizontal speed to move away from each other and be in your own airspace when you pull. Check out this video: ftp://ftp.skydivingmovies.com/RW/DZcom10-wayRecord.wmv It shows a whole 10-way from beginning to end. -- Brian
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Hehe. -- Brian
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Uh-oh. Talk like that isn't tolerated on these forums
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0:0:0. Weather sucked and the DZ wasn't answering the phone this morning. Last day of the semester is Wednesday and the rumor has it that the DZ goes fulltime on the 1st, so we may head out during the week. -- Brian
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When I was on the rope (not long ago), we would hang for for the first two jumps, the practice ripcord pulls, and 5 and 10 second delays. Once we were on the 15 second delays we did poised exits (one foot on the step) for a few jumps, then went to diving. I've heard of other dropzones doing poised exits from jump one, though. -- Brian
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If you can get ahold of your server logs it would help a lot. Also, if you are running the formmail script from Matt's Script Archive, stop right now and use the same script from here: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml Matt may have the most popular scripts on the Internet but they are horribly written and often have security holes. He also doesn't 'use strict' and run in taint mode (a cardinal sin when writing CGIs with Perl). The NMS site I linked to has drop-in replacements done by people who know what they are doing. Anyway, if you want to send me the appropriate few lines of the logs or a link to the page, drop me a PM and I'll look at it. -- Brian
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It would also be a huge ethical dilemma. Would erasing the files that make up the AI be the same as euthanising a child? Would it have the same rights as a child? -- Brian
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They've been saying "within 20 years" ever since Turing proposed the test back in the 50/60s. The closest they've managed to get was occasionaly fooling the human in limited tests, where the human has to keep the conversation in certain areas. The simple fact is that while specialized artificial intelligence (expert systems, voice recognition, etc.) has come a long way since the 50s, even a child level generalized artifical intelligence is unlikely within our lifetimes. -- Brian
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Boob. Get it? "boob tube!" Ha! I kill me! I should probably go to sleep now. -- Brian
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I would advise you to never, ever see Black Dog. Not only is it a Patrick Swayze film, but he spends most of it behind the wheel of an 18 wheeler. Obligatory Simpsons quote: "We should go back to drivin' the way our daddies did." "Drunk?" -- Brian
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I'm not sure about Terminal Velocity, but in that really bad Snipes movie the bad guys would land on the roof of a highrise, break in and do their thing, then put the rigs back on a ground-launch the canopies over the side and into the back of a waiting truck. -- Brian
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Replying to myself now. Dividing the 101010 into two 3 bit chunks, 101 and 010, we find that the meaning of life in octal is 52. Interesting. Divide into 4 bit chunks and we get 10 and 1010, which means that the meaning of life in hex is 2A. It's 222 in base 4. 1A in base 32. I'm stark raving mad. -- Brian
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101010. And I did that in my head. God I need a life. -- Brian
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Do it in octal! Do it in octal! -- Brian
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Animal torture games, eh? Check out the stuff at Mohsye (click "games" up at the top). I personal like CatVac and Frisbee Dog. Monkey Diving is also good. Beware the pop-up ads. -- Brian