If someone wanted open source toilet paper, they could begin to design it with a genetic algorithm. THE downside: your backside would have many unpleasant experiences during the process.
One further example is Star Control II whose source code was released by the developers. The result is known today as The Ur-Quan Masters. And, of course, Wikipedia has a whole category for formerly proprietary software...
I'm personally using PDL in the context of environmental noise measurements; I get long series of numbers and need to sum (and handle them in other ways) efficiently. Why, then, PDL and not numPy or something else? It stems from the fact that I had used Perl for scripting and text handling earlier. Also, I wasn't required to use something else. So laziness is a rather strong reason. Perhaps I was also a lost cause (that's perhaps a wrong phrase?) because I had started with Perl already.
I'm a firm believer in "use a tool suitable for the purpose", so I use R for statistical things. I shudder at all the things Excel, a prime example of a tool exploitable for multiple purposes, is used by my co-workers...
I think our democracy is uncannily like the Athenian one: we have a few thousands who decide and hundreds of thousands of sla^H^H^Hcitizens who do the work (and vote).
Oh, okay. I thought that commenter was talking about an actual picture from 1883. The picture in the article is in deed comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 in 2006.
Yeah, it missed, but the interpretation of the picture isn't certain. So there may have or may have not been a clusterfuck comet close by. A comment on the article says it's easy to fail when using that wet colloidal method, producing "ghost images".
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If someone wanted open source toilet paper, they could begin to design it with a genetic algorithm. THE downside: your backside would have many unpleasant experiences during the process.
Obxkcd.
One further example is Star Control II whose source code was released by the developers. The result is known today as The Ur-Quan Masters. And, of course, Wikipedia has a whole category for formerly proprietary software...
I, for one, welcome our new flatworm genes carrying overlords.
I wonder if its name happens to be Shady Pines.
There's a small PDL user map and use cases are also listed there.
That's basically my case. I had picked up a *little* bit of Perl. Then it's been downhill from that!
with the TMTOWTDI of Perl!
with the fluidity of Perl!
with the my's and sigils of Perl!
Then again, Perl is an acquired taste even for me.
Obviously, I forgot to include a link to the the actual PDL site. Sorry about that.
I'm personally using PDL in the context of environmental noise measurements; I get long series of numbers and need to sum (and handle them in other ways) efficiently. Why, then, PDL and not numPy or something else? It stems from the fact that I had used Perl for scripting and text handling earlier. Also, I wasn't required to use something else. So laziness is a rather strong reason. Perhaps I was also a lost cause (that's perhaps a wrong phrase?) because I had started with Perl already.
I'm a firm believer in "use a tool suitable for the purpose", so I use R for statistical things. I shudder at all the things Excel, a prime example of a tool exploitable for multiple purposes, is used by my co-workers...
"Pipa" is word in dialectal Finnish meaning 'toque/beanie'. Doesn't seem very relevant...
I think our democracy is uncannily like the Athenian one: we have a few thousands who decide and hundreds of thousands of sla^H^H^Hcitizens who do the work (and vote).
Yeah, that's my solution: never clean the keyboard. Well, ok, I perhaps rattle it upside down once a year.
ANGSTSCHWEISS ('sweat of fear') is slightly better, it has eight consonant letters in row.
Try Georgian or Czech for more consonant goodness! StrÄ prst skrz krk! (There's a c with caron, for the UTF-8-unable slashdot.)
Perhaps there was more to Trolltech than just Norwegian background.
Oh, okay. I thought that commenter was talking about an actual picture from 1883. The picture in the article is in deed comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 in 2006.
Yeah, it missed, but the interpretation of the picture isn't certain. So there may have or may have not been a clusterfuck comet close by. A comment on the article says it's easy to fail when using that wet colloidal method, producing "ghost images".
At least they're thinking about children.
(That came out in a wrong way, I admit.)
The Capitoline Wolf wouldn't be safe then with at least eight teats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:She-wolf_suckles_Romulus_and_Remus.jpg
I thought 640 was enough for everybody, so it might very well be infinity.
A classic sequence:
unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes, fsck, fsck, fsck, umount, sleep
I Can't Believe It's Not Unmentionable Programming Language, can you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can't_Believe_It's_Not_Butter!
I wonder if the system will run on a Perl one-liner.
I've been raising up my hands, drive another nail in
Got enough guilt to start my own religion..
- Tori Amos, Crucify
Perhaps even 30-minute lag would turn out to be too optimistic.
"Elbereth" is mentioned in the Guidebook. That's the long document you might want to read.
http://nethack.org/v343/Guidebook.html
There might be some dogs, though!