A circle is the only shape that has an equal minimum and maximum cross-section ( 1 to 1 ratio).
Note true.... draw an equilateral triangle, now take your compas, put the pointy bit on any corner and the pencil bit on any other, draw a curve from that corner to the free corner. Repeat with the pointy bit on the other two corners. Now erase the straign lines - voila!
Voila? Didn't you just create a circle by doing that?
I've been real happy with my mp3 cd player. It plays CDs full of mp3s. It's still relatively small (maybe a bit bigger than an iPod), but I can dynamically change how much music I have with me by simply burning/bringing a couple more CDs.
Browser support for displaying PNG is not complete, but it absolutely attrocious for printing large PNGs. I have PNGs that are larger than a single page, and have not been able to find a single browser than prints them correctly.
When I tell IE to use a seperate program to handle PNGs, I can get it to work, but that is it.
I've only tried Netscape (windows & linux), Mozilla, IE, and Konqueror.
I don't know if this is being done on purpose, but I've been finding myself accidently stopping my FF in the middle of a commercial because I've mistaken a commercial for the show I'm watching. When you are going by at 60x it is hard to tell sometimes if the commercials are over. One way that this has occured is that I have been stopped by advertisments for the show I'm watching. If you see the main characters of the show, or something that looks like the setting of your show. It's hard to tell at 60x that it is actually a commercial for your show. In addition I have sometimes been fooled by commercials that simply have a similiar setting to the show I am watching.
I would not be suprised if advertisers were able to add enough background to commercials so that at 60x they look enough like the show to fool a significant portion of the population (5%-20%). The viewers who are caught by this might even pay more attention to these advertisments than viewers without FF capability.
Other than the U.S. most other first world countries have had terrible economnic conditions in the recent past (Japan, most of Europe). Often times this is attributed to their more socialist government. I wonder if their closer proximity to cheap labor has been a larger factor, and if this is true, if this predicts the future of the U.S. economy as physical distances become less important.
I saw somewhere (can't remember now, although probably on the extended DVD set), that the problem was that the orcs at the back could not see the enemy. They changed it so that the orcs relied on sound instead of sight, and in that manner they could identify the location of the conflict even if it was out of sight.
This illustrates well a problem with all of our terrorism legislation. Terrorism is not well defined. Sure this example seems funny, but what if the government is persuaded that using kazaa is terrorism. Or in a few years running a non-DRM operating system. In any case without a clear unambigous definition of terrorism, any law with the word terrorism in it is open for abuse.
Cambell's soup is made the same way. I took an AI class on Expert Systems back in the day, and they told us a story about the Cambell's soup factory. It seemed that at one point there was essentially one guy there who knew how to work the huge oven that cooked the soup. To hot or too much time in the oven and the soup cans came out charred. Not hot enough, or not enough time in the oven, and the soup was not done enough. Anyway, this guy eventually had to retire and was replaced by an expert system.
This is common hacker jargon. If you've never seen it before, you should relay check out the jargon file here is one reference.
And this is what it says:
baroque
adj.
[common] Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the connotations of elephantine or monstrosity but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself. "Metafont even has features to introduce random variations to its letterform output. Now that is baroque!" See also rococo.
My dad's advice in this area has always served me well. Basically find a pet name that you like "babe, honey, dear, sweet ass, etc." Then make sure you always call your current date that. This works on multiple levels. You don't have to worry about remembering their name, and you don't have to worry about calling them by the name of a past or concurrent girlfriend.
That's right there will always be duke nukem forever to look forward to.
It reminds me of a superman comic I read as a kid. He was going to some intergalactic circus, and they sold this food at the concession stand that had a great aroma, but was only for smelling, and not for eating. That's what Duke Nukem Forever is.
Slashdot Mirror
A circle is the only shape that has an equal minimum and maximum cross-section ( 1 to 1 ratio).
.... draw an equilateral triangle, now take your compas, put the pointy bit on any corner and the pencil bit on any other, draw a curve from that corner to the free corner. Repeat with the pointy bit on the other two corners. Now erase the straign lines - voila!
Note true
Voila? Didn't you just create a circle by doing that?
Funny, but the DMCA can't be used to subpoena anything.
Right?
I didn't know gloria was sick!
Holy shit, you've got naked girls in your subway? What city do you live in, I'm moving.
I've been real happy with my mp3 cd player. It plays CDs full of mp3s. It's still relatively small (maybe a bit bigger than an iPod), but I can dynamically change how much music I have with me by simply burning/bringing a couple more CDs.
And discussions like these are why day after day I come back to slashdot.
You just can't find this sort of stuff on the rest of the internet.
That describes me and many of my friends. You should do we did, and buy a gaming console.
Browser support for displaying PNG is not complete, but it absolutely attrocious for printing large PNGs. I have PNGs that are larger than a single page, and have not been able to find a single browser than prints them correctly.
When I tell IE to use a seperate program to handle PNGs, I can get it to work, but that is it.
I've only tried Netscape (windows & linux), Mozilla, IE, and Konqueror.
I don't think Mr. Mature reads slashdot.
Great idea! You first.
One of the reasons why I bought some TIVO stock last weekend.
I don't know if this is being done on purpose, but I've been finding myself accidently stopping my FF in the middle of a commercial because I've mistaken a commercial for the show I'm watching. When you are going by at 60x it is hard to tell sometimes if the commercials are over. One way that this has occured is that I have been stopped by advertisments for the show I'm watching. If you see the main characters of the show, or something that looks like the setting of your show. It's hard to tell at 60x that it is actually a commercial for your show. In addition I have sometimes been fooled by commercials that simply have a similiar setting to the show I am watching.
I would not be suprised if advertisers were able to add enough background to commercials so that at 60x they look enough like the show to fool a significant portion of the population (5%-20%). The viewers who are caught by this might even pay more attention to these advertisments than viewers without FF capability.
Other than the U.S. most other first world countries have had terrible economnic conditions in the recent past (Japan, most of Europe). Often times this is attributed to their more socialist government. I wonder if their closer proximity to cheap labor has been a larger factor, and if this is true, if this predicts the future of the U.S. economy as physical distances become less important.
I saw somewhere (can't remember now, although probably on the extended DVD set), that the problem was that the orcs at the back could not see the enemy. They changed it so that the orcs relied on sound instead of sight, and in that manner they could identify the location of the conflict even if it was out of sight.
This illustrates well a problem with all of our terrorism legislation. Terrorism is not well defined. Sure this example seems funny, but what if the government is persuaded that using kazaa is terrorism. Or in a few years running a non-DRM operating system. In any case without a clear unambigous definition of terrorism, any law with the word terrorism in it is open for abuse.
and bash is of course, the bourne again shell. A revision of the Bourne shell, named after Mr. Bourne.
Are you trying to blame this on Clinton?
Gawd, I hope that does not qualify as "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters."
Buffy has consistently been the most topical and best written show on TV for the last 4+ years.
Hello? Westwing? I'm sure Buffy's great, but I don't see how you can make this blanket assumption.
This is actually not that shocking, considering, Scooby-Doo
was the 12th most successful movie of 2002, and made over 150 Million domestic gross.
Cambell's soup is made the same way. I took an AI class on Expert Systems back in the day, and they told us a story about the Cambell's soup factory. It seemed that at one point there was essentially one guy there who knew how to work the huge oven that cooked the soup. To hot or too much time in the oven and the soup cans came out charred. Not hot enough, or not enough time in the oven, and the soup was not done enough. Anyway, this guy eventually had to retire and was replaced by an expert system.
This is common hacker jargon. If you've never seen it before, you should relay check out the jargon file here
is one reference.
And this is what it says:
baroque
adj.
[common] Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the connotations of elephantine or monstrosity but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself. "Metafont even has features to introduce random variations to its letterform output. Now that is baroque!" See also rococo.
I've tried them both, and the $20 bottle of wine really is better.
My dad's advice in this area has always served me well. Basically find a pet name that you like "babe, honey, dear, sweet ass, etc." Then make sure you always call your current date that. This works on multiple levels. You don't have to worry about remembering their name, and you don't have to worry about calling them by the name of a past or concurrent girlfriend.
That's right there will always be duke nukem forever to look forward to.
It reminds me of a superman comic I read as a kid. He was going to some intergalactic circus, and they sold this food at the concession stand that had a great aroma, but was only for smelling, and not for eating. That's what Duke Nukem Forever is.