We think Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is great, and beats other forms of online communication like AIM, MSN, and Yahoo without a doubt. We have compiled this list to illustrate why:
Some years ago scientists at CALTECH (California Institute of Technology in Pasadena) discovered that humans possess a tiny, shiny crystal of magnetite in the ethmoid bone, located between your eyes, just behind the nose...
The world\'s first teraflop computer has been decommissioned by the U.S. government despite still being among the world\'s 500 fastest supercomputers. Although young in age, the historic supercomputer -- based at the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., and known as ASCI Red -- is very old by supercomputer standards.\\r
With the thousands of commands available for the command line user, how can you remember them all? The answer is, you don\'t. The real power of the computer is its ability to do the work for you. To get it to do that, we use the power of the shell to automate things. We write scripts.
A short sci-fi film directed by Stephen O\'Regan based on a short story by Terry Bisson. This is the way I envision our interaction with extra-terrestrials going as well.