Thermite. Just pile your iron filings and aluminium powder (remember, kids: 3 parts of iron to 1 part of aluminium) on top of the safe, drop a bit of burning magnesium on it, and stand back.
They're effectively identical, so yes, I would say the guy is still selling the software, just under a different name.
Of course, it's debatable whether you'd actually get anything from this guy if you were silly enough to send him money... anybody who's willing to fake a credit card to register his domain is not on my list of places to send my card details to.
His two-sided die starts as a sphere which then has sections formed by two parallel planes equidistant from the center of the sphere removed. In the extreme case, yes, it would be a plane one molecule thick. Think of a piece of paper that has the number 1 written on one side, and 2 on the other. That's his d2.
The d3 is slightly trickier - it starts as a sphere which has three sections described by three planes equidistant from the center of the sphere. If we name the planes A, B and C, and extend them beyond the bounds of the sphere, they would intersect in such a way that AB, BC and CA were all parallel. In addition, the sections of the sphere described by these planes would all be of the same mass and form, and lines drawn from the center of each plane to the center of the sphere would exist on a common plane and be at angles of 120 degrees with their neighbouring lines.
Unfortunately, throwing this die would generally not produce a result, as it would tend to settle on one of the two remaining curved surfaces.
You'd be right if we were talking about point charges on a spherical surface, but we're not;)
Since, in your followup, you eliminated the simplest case of a 1d1, take your theoretical machine and produce a 1d5. Once you've done that, divide it into five sections of equal mass and form, each one containing a single face. (Hint: You can't.)
When your machine produces the die, it removes mass from the sphere to form the five planes. Plot a line from each face to the center of the original sphere. If the angles between each line are not equal, your solid is unbalanced and at least one face will have a higher probability of appearing on a roll than the others.
The main problem is not reproducing the desired number of planes intersecting a sphere to create the die - the problem is that except for most numbers of planes, it's impossible to create a balanced object, leading to differing probabilities for different planes.
When installing Vine Linux (a Japanese variant of RH) onto a box that was to be netbooted, I couldn't bother to set up a netboot install server, so I did it the manual way - convert the absolutely required packages to tarballs using rpm2tgz, untar them into the area of the NFS server that I was planning to use for netbooting the client, and when I got it to the point where the client would netboot, I went back and did a rpm -i on each of the manually-installed packages from the client side. Worked fine.
Just because you've never tried to do something doesn't mean it's impossible.
My old work day: 9am-12pm (weekdays), 7am-6pm (Saturdays/Sundays) Total: (20 days x 15 hours) + (8 days x 11 hours) = 388 hours/month Paid hours/month: 20 days x 8 hours = 160 hours Unpaid overtime: 388 - 160 = 228 hours
My old one was at a publishing company, and if you've ever talked to anyone who works at a medium-to-large publisher, you know what I'm talking about. My current job is in IT as a consultant, so I get to see what the clients' working hours are like without necessarily having to work that many hours myself. (That said, I've still done 280 hours this month...)
I saw it a couple of weeks ago at Roppongi Hills; however, I hadn't read the book (I've read others by DWJ, but not that one), so obviously I didn't notice the changes Miyazaki made.
It seemed like a fun ride, but I agree that it wasn't up the level of most of his other movies. In particular, it seemed to lose steam (no pun intended) for a little while in the latter half of the movie.
There's actually a more far-reaching explanation of Spirited Away that I've seen on some Japanese sites - the bathhouse run by Yubaba represents capitalism/industrialist society, whereas her sister Zenibaba represents integration with nature/socialism. Unfortunately Miyazakiapparently didn't have enough time in the movie to fully explore the contrast between the two viewpoints, but it's interesting to rewatch it with this in mind.
ObOnTopic: I saw Howl's Moving Castle the other day, and while it's not up to the standard of his best work, it's still a fun ride.
...by that time the entire nation of Japan will have mutated into miniature Godzillas, so you can send those mutant Valley Girls over here to fight them.
Hell, I'd pay good money to see a steelcage team tag deathmatch between a couple of Valley Girls and a bunch of Shibuya kogals.
Yeah, I work for a software company, and while they've mostly heard of Yahoo Messenger or whatever, I haven't met anybody else who has heard of IRC, let alone used it.
It's only ten years away. I'd be surprised if any more than 5% of Slashdot's current readership were dead by that time, barring any massive shifts in global climate, collisions with large extraterrestrial bodies, deadly plagues of bioengineered viruses, supervolcano eruptions, the collapse of the Canary Islands...
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Thermite. Just pile your iron filings and aluminium powder (remember, kids: 3 parts of iron to 1 part of aluminium) on top of the safe, drop a bit of burning magnesium on it, and stand back.
Hahaha ;) Good one... how long until your first "Informative" moderation, I wonder?
New navigation systems in Japan can quickly tell drivers which roads have traffic jams.
$ gcc -o nav nav.c
$
Is there a traffic jam on this road?
Yes.
$
And I'm not joking...
Mgrennan? Is that you?!
Real English - it's not just for English people!
Oops... looks like I got those links round the wrong way ;)
Take a look at the product pages...
The real developer.
The scum-sucking con artist.
They're effectively identical, so yes, I would say the guy is still selling the software, just under a different name.
Of course, it's debatable whether you'd actually get anything from this guy if you were silly enough to send him money... anybody who's willing to fake a credit card to register his domain is not on my list of places to send my card details to.
Oh for God's sake. Go back and read it again - the point is, the surface is NOT SPHERICAL. You're removing mass from certain points on the sphere.
Please read my reply again, since it's apparent you didn't the first time round. I'm not talking about whether or not the die has only flat faces.
His two-sided die starts as a sphere which then has sections formed by two parallel planes equidistant from the center of the sphere removed.
In the extreme case, yes, it would be a plane one molecule thick. Think of a piece of paper that has the number 1 written on one side, and 2 on the other. That's his d2.
The d3 is slightly trickier - it starts as a sphere which has three sections described by three planes equidistant from the center of the sphere. If we name the planes A, B and C, and extend them beyond the bounds of the sphere, they would intersect in such a way that AB, BC and CA were all parallel. In addition, the sections of the sphere described by these planes would all be of the same mass and form, and lines drawn from the center of each plane to the center of the sphere would exist on a common plane and be at angles of 120 degrees with their neighbouring lines.
Unfortunately, throwing this die would generally not produce a result, as it would tend to settle on one of the two remaining curved surfaces.
You'd be right if we were talking about point charges on a spherical surface, but we're not ;)
Since, in your followup, you eliminated the simplest case of a 1d1, take your theoretical machine and produce a 1d5. Once you've done that, divide it into five sections of equal mass and form, each one containing a single face. (Hint: You can't.)
When your machine produces the die, it removes mass from the sphere to form the five planes. Plot a line from each face to the center of the original sphere. If the angles between each line are not equal, your solid is unbalanced and at least one face will have a higher probability of appearing on a roll than the others.
"...except for certain numbers of planes..."
Dammit.
The main problem is not reproducing the desired number of planes intersecting a sphere to create the die - the problem is that except for most numbers of planes, it's impossible to create a balanced object, leading to differing probabilities for different planes.
I have, actually.
When installing Vine Linux (a Japanese variant of RH) onto a box that was to be netbooted, I couldn't bother to set up a netboot install server, so I did it the manual way - convert the absolutely required packages to tarballs using rpm2tgz, untar them into the area of the NFS server that I was planning to use for netbooting the client, and when I got it to the point where the client would netboot, I went back and did a rpm -i on each of the manually-installed packages from the client side. Worked fine.
Just because you've never tried to do something doesn't mean it's impossible.
Dunno how you think I messed up my math...
My old work day: 9am-12pm (weekdays), 7am-6pm (Saturdays/Sundays)
Total: (20 days x 15 hours) + (8 days x 11 hours) = 388 hours/month
Paid hours/month: 20 days x 8 hours = 160 hours
Unpaid overtime: 388 - 160 = 228 hours
My old one was at a publishing company, and if you've ever talked to anyone who works at a medium-to-large publisher, you know what I'm talking about.
My current job is in IT as a consultant, so I get to see what the clients' working hours are like without necessarily having to work that many hours myself. (That said, I've still done 280 hours this month...)
Only in USA is slavery still allowed.
Hardly... in my old company here in Japan, at peak I worked more than 200 hours of unpaid *overtime* in a month.
I saw it a couple of weeks ago at Roppongi Hills; however, I hadn't read the book (I've read others by DWJ, but not that one), so obviously I didn't notice the changes Miyazaki made.
It seemed like a fun ride, but I agree that it wasn't up the level of most of his other movies. In particular, it seemed to lose steam (no pun intended) for a little while in the latter half of the movie.
There's actually a more far-reaching explanation of Spirited Away that I've seen on some Japanese sites - the bathhouse run by Yubaba represents capitalism/industrialist society, whereas her sister Zenibaba represents integration with nature/socialism.
Unfortunately Miyazakiapparently didn't have enough time in the movie to fully explore the contrast between the two viewpoints, but it's interesting to rewatch it with this in mind.
ObOnTopic: I saw Howl's Moving Castle the other day, and while it's not up to the standard of his best work, it's still a fun ride.
If CT was fired for every spelling mistake, he'd personally be responsible for approximately 85% of the unemployed statistics.
...by that time the entire nation of Japan will have mutated into miniature Godzillas, so you can send those mutant Valley Girls over here to fight them.
Hell, I'd pay good money to see a steelcage team tag deathmatch between a couple of Valley Girls and a bunch of Shibuya kogals.
Forget journalistic ethics - in 2014, we'll be lucky to get legible sentences.
Yeah, I work for a software company, and while they've mostly heard of Yahoo Messenger or whatever, I haven't met anybody else who has heard of IRC, let alone used it.
..."I was a Munchkin for the Mob."
It's only ten years away. I'd be surprised if any more than 5% of Slashdot's current readership were dead by that time, barring any massive shifts in global climate, collisions with large extraterrestrial bodies, deadly plagues of bioengineered viruses, supervolcano eruptions, the collapse of the Canary Islands...
OK, he wins, half of us will be dead by then.