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Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Lego

slashdoter writes: "What could be better than combining Lego and Monty Python and the search for the holy grail? Well recording it and putting it online of course. Follow the link and smile." Quicktime or Windows Media. Scary. Needs to be much longer. :)

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  1. Katy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I love calculus!

    1. Re:Katy! by Frank+White · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      props 2 all da homie gangbangerz

      Gonna blast, squeeze first, ask questions last, that's how most of these so-called gangstas pass.
      --

      Custer's Revenge: The greatest video

  2. Re:First Post by fenix+down · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'll take the rapists for 20.

  3. nothing in particular by Omega+Prime · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    posticus nearus beginingus

    --
    "We deal in lead" - Roland of Gilead
  4. Buck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    n/t

  5. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey bartender over here
    Two more shots
    And two more beers
    Sir turn up the TV sound
    The war has started on the ground
    Just love those laser guided bombs
    They're really great
    For righting wrongs
    You hit the target
    And win the game
    From bars 3,000 miles away
    3,000 miles away
    We play the game
    With the bravery of being out of range
    We zap and maim
    With the bravery of being out of range
    We strafe the train
    With the bravery of being out of range
    We gain terrain
    With the bravery of being out of range
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    We play the game
    With the bravery of being out of range

  6. Roger Waters is a genius. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's scary how relevant Amused to Death is even today.

  7. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thank you, Roger Waters.

    Now, it's time to unlease the Dogs of War.

  8. What's even scarier.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Neither format is Linux compatible and yet it was posted on Slashdot!

    1. Re:What's even scarier.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Linux is my cock you scum sucking homophobe likig shitface cock knob dick eating shitface bastard!!

      and you can't accessorize

      2 minutes how the fuck am I supposed to troll?

  9. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Dogs of war, and men of hate, with no cause we don't discriminate..." Berk. Somebody needs to take Mr. Gilmour and his "Pink Floyd" bastardization out back and shoot them.

  10. Some porn for ya by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Early on in our friendship, Andrea had a bad falling out with some of her closest friends. Friends she had had since childhood. After a particularly bad day at school, we were talking and she mentioned something her father had told her. He had said that if a person has one or two really good friends in their life, they were a lucky person. This really depressed her. She took it that she might never find a close friend who she could trust. I made a vow before God that night that I would be one of those friends to her, that I would not betray her, and that even if she didn't necessarily want me, I would be there for her. This was THE biggest mistake of my life.

    As Andrea withdrew herself further from me, I was obligated both by my vow, and my love for her to continue to be her friend, no matter the cost to our friendship. I watched in agony as she went through trial after trial, refusing to let me help or even listen. She avoided me, she ignored me, she came close to even lying to me (which is something she never does). I went through this hellish experience for several months. I thought it would get better. It did not. It only got worse. Now, I have very few virtues, but one of the ones that I do lay claim to is I am a man (or boy, if you must) or my word. I do not lie and I try my absolute best to keep my promises. I was tied to her by a vow, I could not leave her alone. I had to stay with her, unwanted baggage, and continue to accept whatever punishment she wished to inflict upon me.

    Then, an apparent way out appeared. Andrea met a guy named Michael. Now, I did not find out about this immediately. In fact, it took some piecing together of facts to figure this out. First, I called Andrea Saturday to see if she wanted to do something with a mutual friend and myself. She said she had plans. Fine, I mean, it's not like she was obligated to do anything with me but I was curious. I asked her what she was doing. She said she was doing something with a friend. It was obvious she didn't want to name this friend, so a let it drop. Later that day while I raked the yard with a friend of mine, a car I didn't know drove by and honked at us. We figured it was Andrea and her friend and went back to raking. The next day at school, Andrea came up to me (a rarity in, and of itself) and said she had seen me and my friend raking. I then mentioned we heard the car and figured it was her. I made the mistake of asking who she had been with, she suddenly turned around and walked away without a word. Apparently I was supposed to be blind, deaf, and stupid. I let the matter die.

    Later, I overheard some of her friends talking about Michael, this new guy she had met. She had gone to the prom with him (he went to a different school), I also overheard that that was who she had been with when the mysterious car had honked. I figured it was a taboo subject for me so I didn't ask. I knew I wouldn't get anywhere and would probably just anger her more (why I don't know). Anyway, it was about this time I got news from my father that he had received a good job offer from a company in Raleigh, NC. I was reluctant to go. NH was the first place I'd ever felt like I belonged. Andrea was in NH. I couldn't abandon her. I voted against leaving. My father asked for a reason, and he wanted a logical reason involving cold, hard facts, NOT feelings and a promise. I stalled. My father gave me a period of time to decide and give him a reason. The night before I had to give him my answer, our high school choir was performing their last concert of the year. Andrea and I were both in the choir. During the concert I was racked with indecision. I got through the performance and was going to talk it over with my good friend Josh. As we sat in my car and discussed it, Andrea came over with Michael to introduce him to me. We were introduced, and he seemed like a nice guy, even through my intense jealousy. I decided that he would be capable hands to leave Andrea in. After driving home the long way and thinking it over, I cast my vote to leave NH.

  11. Re:Sick of Lego by Caine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Congratulations to a well-performed troll.

  12. Species by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Moslem or Christian Mullah or Pope
    Preacher or poet who was it wrote
    Give any one species too much rope
    And they'll fuck it up.

  13. Re:Sick of Lego by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Maybe it was supposed to be a joke?

  14. Surfin' USA! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm pickin' up good vibrations
    She's givin' me excitations

  15. STOP MODDING UP TROLLS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Enough said. Go check the previous comments of this poster before handing out "Insightful" moderations like $3 crack.

  16. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am burning for you
    Yes, you know it's true!

  17. Re:Sick of Lego by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When gender is ambiguous, it is not sexist to choose one and go with it. The author of this comment clearly intended "Mr. Wisdom" to be interpreted as a sarcastic jab at the original poster. As such, artistic licence takes prcedence over politically-correctness.

  18. Re:Anal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    There's only one proper reply to this crap.

    Where's the ascii goatse.cx guy when he's needed?

  19. Now this? by vex24 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    First sketch-book style quake, and now Monty Python legos?
    I had to reload to make sure I wasn't reading a /. page from last May! ;)

    --

    People shape laws. Not the other way around.

  20. Re:Sick of Lego by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yeah i fucked one and I had to gnaw my arm off to get away from her hairy ass

  21. Re:Sick of Lego by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Q. Why do women have breasts?
    A. So men know who to pay the lower saleries to.

  22. Re:Sick of Lego by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You mean "whom to pay the lower salaries to", dipshit.

  23. YHBT. YHL. HAND. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    RoTfLmAo. LoLoLoLoL. ^_^ plz die thx

  24. Oh yeah? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, if you love calculus so much, what is the integral of ((x^5)*exp(x^2)) with respect to x? Huh?

    1. Re:Oh yeah? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      1/2*x^4*exp(x^2)-x^2*exp(x^2)+exp(x^2)

  25. Re:Sick of Lego by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Perdida?!?!?!

    Fuck, when will The Glorious Meept! and OOG be back?

  26. Re:Sick of Lego by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How the hell is this modded insightful? This is clearly flamebait!!

  27. Not bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Though you need to be more careful with your parenthesis: (1/2)*(x^4*exp(x^2)-x^2*exp(x^2)+exp(x^2)). Also, don't forget your arbitrary constant of integration!


    Anyway, /. needs more math geeks, good to see somebody who knows what's important in life (mathematics) posting here.

    1. Re:Not bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      And what's the integral of exp(-x^2) with respect to x?

    2. Re:Not bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Actually I find partial differential equations more interesting than basic calculus.

      Dxx(f) = - a * Dtt(f)

    3. Re:Not bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Easily calculated within the complex plane and residues.

      -1/2*I*sqrt(pi)*erf(Ix);

      where sqrt(I) = -1 and erf() is the standard error function.

    4. Re:Not bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Try a real man's wave equation:

      Dxx(f)-(1/|x|^2)*f=-Dt(f)
      or with appropriate constants: -h^2/(8*pi^2*m)Dxx(f)+V(x)f=-i*h/(2*pi)Dt(f)
      V(r)=-e^2/(4*pi*eps0*r^2) [e=1.6E-19 coulomb]
      where x is a general coordinate (in 3-d, Dxx is then equivalent to del^2)

      For even more fun, try it for 2 functions, f1 and f2 with the coupling term e^2/(4*pi*eps0*(x1-x2)^2) tossed into V(x). I'd like to see your exact solution to that one.

    5. Re:Not bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      It's a linear partial differential equation so just separate the variables:

      f(x,t)=u(x)T(t)

      and collect the differentiation operator and V(x) into a one operator:

      H = a*Dxx + V(x)

      where the constant a contains the stuff in front of Dxx.

      Operate on both sides on the f(x,t). The left side yields:

      Hf(x) = Ef(x)

      and the right side:

      ih/(2*pi)Dt(T(f)) = E*T(t)

      The first equation is a standard second order eigenvalue differential equation with a set of solutions u(x)_n and eigenvalues E_n.

      The operator T has the solution:

      T(t) = exp(-i*2*pi*E_n*t/h)

      Thus,

      We have a set of solutions for each state n:

      f_n(x,t) = u_n(x)*exp(-i*2*pi*E_n*t/h)

      and the general solution is a sum:

      f(x,t) = SUM(Cn*f_n(x,t))

    6. Re:Not bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      But you did't solve anything... I wanna see Laguerre polynomials dammit! :)

    7. Re:Not bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      As I say to my students: look'em up from the table like everybody else does.

      I really liked functional analysis because it taught you to solve some very nasty stuff without actually writing out the explicit solution. ;-)

    8. Re:Not bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Where do you teach?

    9. Re:Not bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Good point. I'd hate to see the explicit solution written out in ASCII, too. I'd guess 2 or 3 lines for the any of the excited eigenstates with nonzero .

      Operator methods definitely rock. A bit of trouble (at least my classmates thought so) to learn at first, but very elegant and powerful. Mad props to Heisenberg and Dirac on that one. :)

    10. Re:Not bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      D'oh! That was supposed to be "nonzero ." Damn similarity between expectation value brackets and HTML tags...

      Anyway, this is going into way too many levels of replies. Most of these comments are only 20 colums wide or so now. Feel like finding another thread to invade with math and physics geeks?

  28. Re:coincidence... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Then how do you, sir, explain Lycra?

  29. WRONG! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The parenthesis were right. It would be simpler to write:


    (1/2)*(x^4-2*x^2+2)*exp(x^2)

    1. Re:WRONG! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      1/2*x^4*exp(x^2)-x^2*exp(x^2)+exp(x^2)


      You had 1/2 multiplied by the first term only.

    2. Re:WRONG! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That's why I multiplied the other two terms by 2, so (1/2) would multiply all terms. I think it's simpler to multiply two terms by 2 than by exp(x^2)

  30. We know it's you, Katz! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    shit man, I'm gonna go whack off to that dangling cock scene from the life of Brian. It will be hard, but I will attempt to forget the WTC attack for 2.476 seconds.

    ...Women power! A vagina is more useful...

  31. It's NOT coincidence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I know from reliable sources that Linus Torvalds is gay

  32. And here's a tougher one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A large tank is partially filled with 100 gallons of fluid in which 10 pounds of salt is dissolved. Brine containing 1/2 pound of salt per gallon is pumped into the tank at a rate of 6 gal/min. The well-mixed solution is then pumped out at a slower rate of 4 gal/min. Find the number of pounds of salt in the tank after 30 minutes.


    (The answer is ~64.38 pounds). Have fun!

    1. Re:And here's a tougher one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Sheesh. Try something not copied verbatim from your first-semester differential equations homework. (BTW, What's with elementary d.e. texts and salt water?)

  33. Partial D.E.'s by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Many people consider D.E. to be a part of calculus.

  34. Re:Sick of Lego by selectspec · · Score: 1, Offtopic

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    --

    Someone you trust is one of us.

  35. Re:Vaginus. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    A vagina is more useful and prettier anyways.


    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As for usefulness, a penis is more practical in that it allows urination standing up.

  36. Lousy Slashdot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    These things wouldn't happen if slashdot would allow Maple or Mathematica formatting in the posts.

  37. What?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Umm...sqrt(I) DOES NOT =-1. I=sqrt(-1)

    1. Re:What?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      My bad.

      It's 1 am here...

  38. A question. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "For even more fun, try it for 2 functions, f1 and f2 with the coupling term e^2/(4*pi*eps0*(x1-x2)^2) tossed into V(x). I'd like to see your exact solution to that one."


    Interesting. I haven't had quantum mechanics yet. Is an exact (proper) solution to this possible, or is any solution going to be expressed as a series or inexact solution?

    1. Re:A question. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      There is an exact solution for two coupled particles and approximate solutions for more.

      A self-consistent numerical solution is the only realistic way to go with this equation.

    2. Re:A question. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What is a good quantum textbook?

    3. Re:A question. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      No exact solution to the second one exists.

      There IS a solution for a central field problem with two interacting bodies in a Coulomb field: hydrogen atom.

    4. Re:A question. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I recognized the schrodinger equation because I saw it in second semester physics w/ calculus (Halliday/Resnick/Walker). Yeah, /. needs more physics geeks. :)

  39. Ha ha. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, I remember first-semester diff. eq., and the textbook's inability to be creative with the linear rate problems. Saltwater, populations, more saltwater, more populations... Heh.

  40. nerds. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    get a life and learn how to program or something useful.

    1. Re:nerds. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      What?

      You mean stop doing mathematics and thus spoil a perfect Saturday evening?

  41. Bravo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    :-) More math posts!

  42. Re:freshman e&m homework by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Undergrad TA at Michigan State University. I don't have to teach anything, just grade homework.

  43. Complex numbers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why do you need complex numbers to integrate a real function? The answer is of course:

    int(exp(-x^2), x) = 1/2*sqrt(Pi)*erf(x)

  44. This is PRECIOUS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As if Holy Grail in Lego wasn't funny enough...I LOVE that someone has co-opted geek pride to get Slashdotters to do their calc homework.

  45. Linux Sucks by g_bit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I would just like to take this opportunity to say that linux really sucks hardcore for many reasons.

    This is for all the times I had to read m$ sucks when it had nothing to do with the article...

    So there.

  46. Re:Holy Grail DVD release in October by SubtleNuance · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    DVD release

    And at no extra charge: The LOSS OF YOUR FAIR USE RIGHTS*! Thats right you, the Consumer(TM) receive completely free the prospect of violating DMCA if you choose to make backup copies of your own fairly-purchased-product.

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