That isn't an advantage to living in Britain. I live in America and I could do the same thing: wait until 3 months after the game's released to decide on whether or not to buy it. I too have plenty of American friends who will have tried it by then.
Who says there is a smallest positive one? There's no smallest positive rational number, either, yet positive rational numbers exist... in math terms, the set is not well-ordered under the usual inequality.
Well, actually, solar sails don't work in just a bee-line method... they travel in orbits around suns, using different angles of photons hitting the sail to keep in orbit.
To move into a farther away orbit, they just tilt the sails more towards the sun. To move closer, they just tilt the sails away and let gravity take over for a bit. A way to travel large distances would be to just remain in a very close orbit with the sun, gaining speed, and then suddenly tilt the sail at the desired angle to propel the craft in the right direction.
After reaching another star, the speed will be very fast, and it can be slowed down by just tilting the sail towards the other star and entering into its orbit, perhaps.
I remember watching something about a team of egyptologists succeeding in raising a huge obelisk by means of sand displacement. The obelisk was laid down (not erect) on a large countainer of sand , then the people started digging the sand outfrom a door in the bottom of the container. The obelisk fell as they moved the sand out, and it fell as predicted at an angle right into a pre-made groove on the obelisk base. After the obelisk was secured in the groove, it was easy to just push it upright.;-)
Grooves like that have been seen on the bases of obelisks, so evidence seems to point to this theory being correct.
If I'm not mistaken, one computer chess program might play very well against computers, and another might do very well against humans, so the winner of the computer duel might not be the best suited for the job against what's-his-name.
Well, I was doing this hat problem for more users than three, and I came across something interesting....
The whole gist of this puzzle is to find out if there is a number of hats, red or blue, that is more prominent in random simultaneous flipping than others. To get this, you have to add up the number of red and blue hats in each entry of the possible combinations. For example, with 3 people:
total number of combinations that have 0 r's:
1
total number of combinations that have 1 r:
3
total number of combinations that have 2 r's:
3
total number of combinations that have 3 r's:
1
See anything familiar? Try the same with 4 people, you should get 1-4-6-4-1. And for 5, you should get 1-5-10-10-5-1. Fibonacci's sequence! It shows up so often in so many places...
I know we also have to deal with the blue hats in this hat problem, but the Fibonacci sequence directly relates to it, and can help for finding the best way to choose when there are, say, 20 people.:)
You seem to be confusing microwaves with waves in water, or something like that.
The "wave" in a microwave is just that the energy of the wave plotted against time makes a wave. It doesn't move through space as a wave.
8-fold compression by only storing the difference between words... could someone tell me how this is possible? Now, I know some amazing compression things have been done (.the.product) but this is just text.. I don't understand.
I think that caffeine does different things for different people. While for you it may make you more stressed and depressed, for others it may help.
Now that I've said my bit about caffeine, I'll return to the topic. When I'm in a programmer's block, I go out for a walk and try to think of anything but programming. I come back with a clear head, and am ready to get back to work.
I think that all of these companies merging is a bad sign. It will only serve to create one giant corporation controlling everything. Forget about a little monopoly like Micro- soft's, a new one could own all of the market for everything! It seems like AOL is more than willing for this to happen, considering all of the recent merges that they've done. The loyal members of the/. community must band together and stop them!
-You can read it while doing something when you're not near a computer, i.e.: in bed, in a car, on a plane, in the waiting room of a dentist... -Some people hate having to look at computer screens to read. Printed text is much nicer. -It is much easier to flip pages (in my opinion) than to scroll and read. -It's easier to get to the index of a printed book than an online book most times.
Hello. I was wondering if you saw the popularity of C++ coming. Did you think it would be such a success, or did you figure people would think it's just a pathetic attempt to make C better? (not that it is). Thanks.
I'll stick with the ramen noodles, thanks. Personally, I don't like burritos, although I like Dilbert. My favorite is the eunuchs/unix cartoon, but I digress. Ramen noodles are great because they're inexpensive, and they taste good both cooked and uncooked. Mmmm... shrimp ramen noodles... er, excuse me. Stick with the cartoons, Scott Adams.
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That isn't an advantage to living in Britain. I live in America and I could do the same thing: wait until 3 months after the game's released to decide on whether or not to buy it. I too have plenty of American friends who will have tried it by then.
Nitpick: the error term equivalent to the riemann hypothesis is pi(x) = Li(x) + O(ln(x)sqrt(x)), not O(sqrt(x/ln(x))), as you seem to be claiming.
Wow, the first literal karma whore.
Who says there is a smallest positive one?
There's no smallest positive rational number, either, yet positive rational numbers exist... in math terms, the set is not well-ordered under the usual inequality.
You've got mail.
You've is a contraction for You have.
Have got is perfectly acceptable.
exponents really are hard math.... what's 2^15 again, dumbass?
Actually, the creator told me that AtheOS was supposed to be "Athena", but that was apparently taken.
Well, actually, solar sails don't work in just a bee-line method... they travel in orbits around suns, using different angles of photons hitting the sail to keep in orbit.
To move into a farther away orbit, they just tilt the sails more towards the sun. To move closer, they just tilt the sails away and let gravity take over for a bit. A way to travel large distances would be to just remain in a very close orbit with the sun, gaining speed, and then suddenly tilt the sail at the desired angle to propel the craft in the right direction.
After reaching another star, the speed will be very fast, and it can be slowed down by just tilting the sail towards the other star and entering into its orbit, perhaps.
I remember watching something about a team of egyptologists succeeding in raising a huge obelisk by means of sand displacement. The obelisk was laid down (not erect) on a large countainer of sand , then the people started digging the sand outfrom a door in the bottom of the container. The obelisk fell as they moved the sand out, and it fell as predicted at an angle right into a pre-made groove on the obelisk base. After the obelisk was secured in the groove, it was easy to just push it upright. ;-)
Grooves like that have been seen on the bases of obelisks, so evidence seems to point to this theory being correct.
If I'm not mistaken, one computer chess program might play very well against computers, and another might do very well against humans, so the winner of the computer duel might not be the best suited for the job against what's-his-name.
Well, I was doing this hat problem for more users than three, and I came across something interesting....
:)
The whole gist of this puzzle is to find out if there is a number of hats, red or blue, that is more prominent in random simultaneous flipping than others. To get this, you have to add up the number of red and blue hats in each entry of the possible combinations. For example, with 3 people:
rrr -- 3 r's
rrb -- 2 r's
rbr -- 2
rbb -- 1
brr -- 2
brb -- 1
bbr -- 1
bbb -- 0
total number of combinations that have 0 r's:
1
total number of combinations that have 1 r:
3
total number of combinations that have 2 r's:
3
total number of combinations that have 3 r's:
1
See anything familiar? Try the same with 4 people, you should get 1-4-6-4-1. And for 5, you should get 1-5-10-10-5-1. Fibonacci's sequence! It shows up so often in so many places...
I know we also have to deal with the blue hats in this hat problem, but the Fibonacci sequence directly relates to it, and can help for finding the best way to choose when there are, say, 20 people.
Well, the letter did mention the subject matter being offensive to the client, so it was a personalized letter. Nice idea, though.
You seem to be confusing microwaves with waves in water, or something like that. The "wave" in a microwave is just that the energy of the wave plotted against time makes a wave. It doesn't move through space as a wave.
8-fold compression by only storing the difference between words... could someone tell me how this is possible? Now, I know some amazing compression things have been done (.the .product) but this is just text.. I don't understand.
What if I just put the URL on the page, without linking?
What if I link to a page that has a link to the illegal site on it?
How far will it go?
the plural of bus is buses.
I think that caffeine does different things for different people. While for you it may make you more stressed and depressed, for others it may help.
Now that I've said my bit about caffeine, I'll return to the topic. When I'm in a programmer's block, I go out for a walk and try to think of anything but programming. I come back with a clear head, and am ready to get back to work.
[Apple will be the first company to bundle an optical mouse with all its desktop systems.
Nope. Sun was selling optical mice with the SparcStations LONG ago.]
Mac will be the first to sell it with all of their desktop systems. Sun didn't sell it wilth ALL of theirs, only some.
I think that all of these companies merging /. community must
is a bad sign. It will only serve to create
one giant corporation controlling everything. Forget about a little monopoly like Micro-
soft's, a new one could own all of the market
for everything! It seems like AOL is more
than willing for this to happen, considering
all of the recent merges that they've done.
The loyal members of the
band together and stop them!
-You can read it while doing something when you're not near a computer, i.e.: in bed, in a car, on a plane, in the waiting room of a dentist... -Some people hate having to look at computer screens to read. Printed text is much nicer. -It is much easier to flip pages (in my opinion) than to scroll and read. -It's easier to get to the index of a printed book than an online book most times.
Hello. I was wondering if you saw the popularity of C++ coming. Did you think it would be such a success, or did you figure people would think it's just a pathetic attempt to make C better? (not that it is). Thanks.
I'll stick with the ramen noodles, thanks. Personally, I don't like burritos, although I like Dilbert. My favorite is the eunuchs/unix cartoon, but I digress. Ramen noodles are great because they're inexpensive, and they taste good both cooked and uncooked. Mmmm... shrimp ramen noodles... er, excuse me. Stick with the cartoons, Scott Adams.