I grant that Davy omitted the second i, but people like regularity - especially in regular structures like the Periodic Table. The extra letter has been added, so far as it has, by popular demand,
Try finding video editing software which can edit (not commandline like ffmpeg, I'm talking gui After Effects style) a Theora file.
I've never used After Effects so I'm not sure what features it has. However, if you want a GUI editor which can handle theora files, then try LiVES. It's rather better (in features & interface) than avidemux or kdenlive, neither of which can handle theora. It's cross-platform OSS for BSD-Linux-Mac-Windows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiVEShttp://lives.sourceforge.net/
You're assuming that the circumference of a circle will always have an irrational length. Not so. There's no reason you couldn't have a circle with a circumference of exactly one meter. Of course, to do so it would have to have a radius of irrational length, but you can't have everything
But according to the bible, both the diameter and the circumference of a circle can even be integers! If the diameter is 10 then the circumference is 30 (not 31 or 31 and a bit as godless mathematicians would have you believe). Clearly, pi must be 3.0, so those guys with their trillions of digits got it wrong in the second digit.
1 Kings 7:23 blurts out: "He made the sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it."
Also note that pi is irrational so its decimal expansion is infinite in all bases.
Well, that's true for all integer bases, but not for all bases. Pi has a finite decimal expansion in some non-integer bases. For example:
pi is exactly 10 in base pi
pi is exactly 11 in base pi-1
pi is exactly 100 in base sqrt(pi)
Many years ago, before electronic calculators, I spent hours in high school math classes converting numbers to base pi (or base e or base phi, etc.) by hand. I was one of the first to finish in-class assignments, which left me with lots of time to kill. For example, e is approximately 2.20212010021 in base pi, and pi is approximately 10.101002020002 in base e.
As a Canadian I can guarantee to you that nobody born here calls it 'aluminium.'
True enough. When I lived in Ontario, only those who were originally from the UK called it "aluminium", but that's quite a few in Ontario. The native Canucks called it "aluminum", like their US neighbours (ooh, a word with a UK-style "u"). However, in BC the "aluminium" form was encountered a bit more often - I suspect it may have been a deliberate affectation, however, to emphasize (ooh, a US-style "-ize" ending) their non-US-ness.
Personally, I think the US vs UK dichotomy on spelling and idiom is overblown, especially in Canada. We regularly use both spelling/idiom styles, but try not to mix them in the same sentence, and never in ways that would confuse (e.g. "want some chips?"). Our kids are fluent in English, and can use both US and UK styles, but are aware of the differences.
Yeah I mean that translation was difficult. It's the same version they sell in Canada.
Having lived for years in the US (several states), UK, and Canada (Ontario & BC), I can assure you that Canadian English is as close to American as to British, but is distinct from both. Yes, Canucks spell colour with a "u" and so forth, but they also use the US "-ize" ending instead of the Brit "-ise" ending on many words, leading to particularly Canadian forms such as "colourize". In vocabulary, Canucks use US words such as "crosswalk", "sidewalk", and "apartment", rather than the Brit equivalents, and adopt the US meaning for "chips". As in the US but not the UK, words in Canadian are as likely to be imported from Italian as from French (e.g. "zucchini" rather than "courgette"). However, Canucks appear to be split or undecided on the vexed question of whether to use "aluminum" or "aluminium".
FWIW, I am not originally from the US or the UK or Canada.
Name them according to the botnets that they are members of, and use whatever unique identifier the botnet assigns. This may involve a wait of a day or two before they are enlisted in a botnet, but the bonus is that some machines will acquire several names before long. This scheme really only works for Windows boxes, so you'll have to extend the naming policy to ban Linux and suchlike from your workplace (thus ensuring Microsoft's approval for the naming policy).
Thanks for clearing up what that symbol was...I wasn't sure if it was a pound or a franc symbol.
£ can denote the Lebanese Lire or the Syrian Lire.
$ can denote the Nicaraguan Cordoba or the Tongan Pa'anga.
I can't casually convert between these currencies.
I suspect it is nothing compared to the twaddle on twitter.
Depends on who you follow try SciAm's current recommendations: science writer carlzimmer, evolutionary biologist Jonathan Eisen phylogenomics, theoretical physicist seanmcarroll, science writer RebeccaSkloot, NASA astronaut Mike Massimino Astro_Mike, or astronomer Phil Plait BadAstronomer
Actually, I visit Phil Plait's sites regularly, and really like his material (http://www.badastronomy.com/index.html and http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy).
His tweets are a different matter entirely - twaddle, and inescapably so due to the limitations of tweeting (what a pathetic term). You can find his twaddle at http://twitter.com/BadAstronomer. I encourage you to contemplate how poor a communication medium twitter really is, when it reduces someone with the aptitude and knowledge of Phil Plait to producing twaddle.
Now contemplate how intensely boring/stupid/inane the twaddle of a less gifted twitterer must be. Collectively, it's electronic flatulence - an outpouring of brainfarts.
Only 98% of Twitter updates are "pointless babble,"
I find this hard to believe. Pointless babble must exceed 100%, as many twitters manage to concentrate extreme stupidity into such short bursts. Stupidity so dense it collapses into a black hole of primordial stupidity - detectable but unintelligible.
Twitter's demographics as of June 2009 were... 99.5% of such short attention spans that Facebook might as well be War and Peace.
Only 99.5%? Another gross underestimate. That "report" must have been written by shills exaggerating the intellectual side of twitter.
Or the collected opinions of twits, er twitterers, twats, or whatever. It's a self-selected group, whose collective opinions are no more representative of the general public (or voters or any other subset of the general public) than, say, the opinions of slashdotters. And although there is much drivel on slashdot, I suspect it is nothing compared to the twaddle on twitter.
Such as "how to explain where babies come from, without mentioning sex or genitalia..." to their school-age kids (not toddlers).
Someone I know actually wanted this information. A parent, yes, but not clearly qualified for the job. Idiocracy, here we come!
I'm also in Finland, and not a heavy user. I pay for four cellphones (me, wife, 2 kids), and our combined bill is rarely more than 5euro per month. Recently, my older daughter spent a week in England and called home/friends/whatever every day, the bill came to a total of 12 euro that month. That's with roaming fees and international calls as well as our usual domestic calls & SMS.
You folks in the USA seem to be getting reamed.
If the search term includes "mole" as well as "58.44", the first few pages of google results are almost all for stoichiometry of NaCl. Nuff said, Google works.
Under Scottish Law, a jury can retuen verdicts of "Guilty", "Not guilty", or "Not proven guilty". That third option might be a useful addition to the legal system in the USA. Basically, it means that the accused cannot be judged innocent or guilty on the evidence presented...
Samna/Lotus Ami Pro used a text-based markup language for documents. It predated Word for Windows (aka Microsoft Word).
How about Ventura Publisher 1.0 which worked on a PC-XT in the mid 1980s, or v1.1 which needed a PC-AT with 1MB RAM in the late 1980s? Ventura was bought and destroyed by Corel in the 1990s (they had a remarkable skill for ruining products).
Ventura Publisher ran in DOS with the GEM GUI, and was full WYSIWYG handling long documents with graphics, equations, tables, and so forth. The document was entirely in text files and used text markup to specify formatting of text, specify which graphic files to use and how to position them. The style definitions were themselves in text, the page layout was defined using text, and so on. When a small change was needed in a hurry, I often used a text editor to make style changes, text modifications, or switch a graphic file (since firing up Ventura on an XT and loading a 400-page publication could take a while). Ventura, however, did not bundle everything into one file, but sensibly kept style and layout definitions separate from document content.
RL01 and RL02 disk packs from DEC had these shock sensors built-in in the early 1980's. The sensor was clearly visible, near the handle for inserting the pack into a drive. If the disk pack got a hard shock, the red ink was spread out.
Of course, DEC did not link any warranty to these things, as far as I recall. They were provided so users would get a warning before inserting a potentially damaged pack into an expensive drive.
BTW, the RL01 was a giant 5MB removable disk, while the RL02 was 10MB.
Why should we try to create an artificial brain in the computing lab when it would be much easier to do it in the genetic engineering lab?
Obviously the computing boffins can produce nothing better than a moron, even with their best technology and decades of development. Unfortunately, even after a few billion years of development, we're mostly stuck with morons or worse from the genetic approach as well.
Works fine on my Ubuntu 9.04 box at home (2.66GHz core 2 quad, ATI 4850 dual head, blah blah). All of the installed browsers seem to render it smoothly, even though they are not necessarily the newest versions. Here are their cpu usage figures:
15% Opera 9.64
14% Firefox 3.0.13
14% Epiphany 2.26.1
So each needed a bit over half a core on a 2.66GHz quad core. In all cases, xorg cpu usage was in low single digits.
Interestingly, the cpu usage differed between Opera and Firefox on my Windows XP work PC (2.8GHz core 2 duo, blah blah), which I posted elsewhere:
30% Opera 9.64
50% Firefox 3.5.1
So Opera needed a bit over half a core at 2.8GHz, while Firefox needed a whole core. Of course, this Firefox is a newer version than the one I run at home...
My system is a laptop with 2.8GHz core 2 duo, and dual WUXGA, running XP pro SP3.
Using Opera 9.64, it pushed the cpu to about 30% (i.e. Opera used about half of one core).
Using Firefox 3.5.1, it pushed the cpu to over 50% (i.e. Firefox used all of one core).
Both appeared to be smooth enough. So there's a browser dependency in the cpu load.
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I grant that Davy omitted the second i, but people like regularity - especially in regular structures like the Periodic Table. The extra letter has been added, so far as it has, by popular demand,
But not for Molybdenum or Tantalum, curiously...
I think that "open" doesn't always mean "open" in the same sense that we'd all like it to.
For example, MS Windows is the most open OS there has ever been! It opens its legs and every orifice it has when connecting to internet...
Try finding video editing software which can edit (not commandline like ffmpeg, I'm talking gui After Effects style) a Theora file.
I've never used After Effects so I'm not sure what features it has. However, if you want a GUI editor which can handle theora files, then try LiVES. It's rather better (in features & interface) than avidemux or kdenlive, neither of which can handle theora. It's cross-platform OSS for BSD-Linux-Mac-Windows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiVES http://lives.sourceforge.net/
You're assuming that the circumference of a circle will always have an irrational length. Not so. There's no reason you couldn't have a circle with a circumference of exactly one meter. Of course, to do so it would have to have a radius of irrational length, but you can't have everything
But according to the bible, both the diameter and the circumference of a circle can even be integers! If the diameter is 10 then the circumference is 30 (not 31 or 31 and a bit as godless mathematicians would have you believe). Clearly, pi must be 3.0, so those guys with their trillions of digits got it wrong in the second digit.
1 Kings 7:23 blurts out: "He made the sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it."
Also note that pi is irrational so its decimal expansion is infinite in all bases.
Well, that's true for all integer bases, but not for all bases. Pi has a finite decimal expansion in some non-integer bases. For example:
pi is exactly 10 in base pi
pi is exactly 11 in base pi-1
pi is exactly 100 in base sqrt(pi)
Many years ago, before electronic calculators, I spent hours in high school math classes converting numbers to base pi (or base e or base phi, etc.) by hand. I was one of the first to finish in-class assignments, which left me with lots of time to kill. For example, e is approximately 2.20212010021 in base pi, and pi is approximately 10.101002020002 in base e.
As a Canadian I can guarantee to you that nobody born here calls it 'aluminium.'
True enough. When I lived in Ontario, only those who were originally from the UK called it "aluminium", but that's quite a few in Ontario. The native Canucks called it "aluminum", like their US neighbours (ooh, a word with a UK-style "u"). However, in BC the "aluminium" form was encountered a bit more often - I suspect it may have been a deliberate affectation, however, to emphasize (ooh, a US-style "-ize" ending) their non-US-ness.
Personally, I think the US vs UK dichotomy on spelling and idiom is overblown, especially in Canada. We regularly use both spelling/idiom styles, but try not to mix them in the same sentence, and never in ways that would confuse (e.g. "want some chips?"). Our kids are fluent in English, and can use both US and UK styles, but are aware of the differences.
Yeah I mean that translation was difficult. It's the same version they sell in Canada.
Having lived for years in the US (several states), UK, and Canada (Ontario & BC), I can assure you that Canadian English is as close to American as to British, but is distinct from both. Yes, Canucks spell colour with a "u" and so forth, but they also use the US "-ize" ending instead of the Brit "-ise" ending on many words, leading to particularly Canadian forms such as "colourize". In vocabulary, Canucks use US words such as "crosswalk", "sidewalk", and "apartment", rather than the Brit equivalents, and adopt the US meaning for "chips". As in the US but not the UK, words in Canadian are as likely to be imported from Italian as from French (e.g. "zucchini" rather than "courgette"). However, Canucks appear to be split or undecided on the vexed question of whether to use "aluminum" or "aluminium".
FWIW, I am not originally from the US or the UK or Canada.
Name them according to the botnets that they are members of, and use whatever unique identifier the botnet assigns. This may involve a wait of a day or two before they are enlisted in a botnet, but the bonus is that some machines will acquire several names before long. This scheme really only works for Windows boxes, so you'll have to extend the naming policy to ban Linux and suchlike from your workplace (thus ensuring Microsoft's approval for the naming policy).
Thanks for clearing up what that symbol was...I wasn't sure if it was a pound or a franc symbol.
£ can denote the Lebanese Lire or the Syrian Lire.
$ can denote the Nicaraguan Cordoba or the Tongan Pa'anga.
I can't casually convert between these currencies.
The Life Guards are one of the regiments in the Household Cavalry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Guards_(British_Army)
Now why are they digging holes like civilian labourers?
I suspect it is nothing compared to the twaddle on twitter.
Depends on who you follow try SciAm's current recommendations: science writer carlzimmer, evolutionary biologist Jonathan Eisen phylogenomics, theoretical physicist seanmcarroll, science writer RebeccaSkloot, NASA astronaut Mike Massimino Astro_Mike, or astronomer Phil Plait BadAstronomer
Actually, I visit Phil Plait's sites regularly, and really like his material (http://www.badastronomy.com/index.html and http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy).
His tweets are a different matter entirely - twaddle, and inescapably so due to the limitations of tweeting (what a pathetic term). You can find his twaddle at http://twitter.com/BadAstronomer. I encourage you to contemplate how poor a communication medium twitter really is, when it reduces someone with the aptitude and knowledge of Phil Plait to producing twaddle.
Now contemplate how intensely boring/stupid/inane the twaddle of a less gifted twitterer must be. Collectively, it's electronic flatulence - an outpouring of brainfarts.
Only 98% of Twitter updates are "pointless babble,"
I find this hard to believe. Pointless babble must exceed 100%, as many twitters manage to concentrate extreme stupidity into such short bursts. Stupidity so dense it collapses into a black hole of primordial stupidity - detectable but unintelligible.
Twitter's demographics as of June 2009 were ... 99.5% of such short attention spans that Facebook might as well be War and Peace.
Only 99.5%? Another gross underestimate. That "report" must have been written by shills exaggerating the intellectual side of twitter.
Or the collected opinions of twits, er twitterers, twats, or whatever. It's a self-selected group, whose collective opinions are no more representative of the general public (or voters or any other subset of the general public) than, say, the opinions of slashdotters. And although there is much drivel on slashdot, I suspect it is nothing compared to the twaddle on twitter.
Such as "how to explain where babies come from, without mentioning sex or genitalia..." to their school-age kids (not toddlers).
Someone I know actually wanted this information. A parent, yes, but not clearly qualified for the job. Idiocracy, here we come!
I'm also in Finland, and not a heavy user. I pay for four cellphones (me, wife, 2 kids), and our combined bill is rarely more than 5euro per month. Recently, my older daughter spent a week in England and called home/friends/whatever every day, the bill came to a total of 12 euro that month. That's with roaming fees and international calls as well as our usual domestic calls & SMS.
You folks in the USA seem to be getting reamed.
If the search term includes "mole" as well as "58.44", the first few pages of google results are almost all for stoichiometry of NaCl. Nuff said, Google works.
Maybe Bing learns from previous searches.
...by google!
Under Scottish Law, a jury can retuen verdicts of "Guilty", "Not guilty", or "Not proven guilty". That third option might be a useful addition to the legal system in the USA. Basically, it means that the accused cannot be judged innocent or guilty on the evidence presented...
Admittedly, I'm sock-gnome-agnostic. Show me the evidence!
You need proof? Where do you think all that belly-button lint comes from? It's what the gnomes turn the socks into!
Moreover, he said that it won't be only the newspaper sites that adopt this change; foxnews.com, he said, will also start charging for content.
Adios, morons...
Samna/Lotus Ami Pro used a text-based markup language for documents. It predated Word for Windows (aka Microsoft Word).
How about Ventura Publisher 1.0 which worked on a PC-XT in the mid 1980s, or v1.1 which needed a PC-AT with 1MB RAM in the late 1980s? Ventura was bought and destroyed by Corel in the 1990s (they had a remarkable skill for ruining products).
Ventura Publisher ran in DOS with the GEM GUI, and was full WYSIWYG handling long documents with graphics, equations, tables, and so forth. The document was entirely in text files and used text markup to specify formatting of text, specify which graphic files to use and how to position them. The style definitions were themselves in text, the page layout was defined using text, and so on. When a small change was needed in a hurry, I often used a text editor to make style changes, text modifications, or switch a graphic file (since firing up Ventura on an XT and loading a 400-page publication could take a while). Ventura, however, did not bundle everything into one file, but sensibly kept style and layout definitions separate from document content.
RL01 and RL02 disk packs from DEC had these shock sensors built-in in the early 1980's. The sensor was clearly visible, near the handle for inserting the pack into a drive. If the disk pack got a hard shock, the red ink was spread out.
Of course, DEC did not link any warranty to these things, as far as I recall. They were provided so users would get a warning before inserting a potentially damaged pack into an expensive drive.
BTW, the RL01 was a giant 5MB removable disk, while the RL02 was 10MB.
Why should we try to create an artificial brain in the computing lab when it would be much easier to do it in the genetic engineering lab?
Obviously the computing boffins can produce nothing better than a moron, even with their best technology and decades of development. Unfortunately, even after a few billion years of development, we're mostly stuck with morons or worse from the genetic approach as well.
Works fine on my Ubuntu 9.04 box at home (2.66GHz core 2 quad, ATI 4850 dual head, blah blah). All of the installed browsers seem to render it smoothly, even though they are not necessarily the newest versions. Here are their cpu usage figures:
15% Opera 9.64
14% Firefox 3.0.13
14% Epiphany 2.26.1
So each needed a bit over half a core on a 2.66GHz quad core. In all cases, xorg cpu usage was in low single digits.
Interestingly, the cpu usage differed between Opera and Firefox on my Windows XP work PC (2.8GHz core 2 duo, blah blah), which I posted elsewhere:
30% Opera 9.64
50% Firefox 3.5.1
So Opera needed a bit over half a core at 2.8GHz, while Firefox needed a whole core. Of course, this Firefox is a newer version than the one I run at home...
My system is a laptop with 2.8GHz core 2 duo, and dual WUXGA, running XP pro SP3.
Using Opera 9.64, it pushed the cpu to about 30% (i.e. Opera used about half of one core).
Using Firefox 3.5.1, it pushed the cpu to over 50% (i.e. Firefox used all of one core).
Both appeared to be smooth enough. So there's a browser dependency in the cpu load.