IANAP but there may be a logical explanation in layman's terms. If there is no wind, the vehicle is stationary and its propeller is rotating, it will accelerate for a little while before the propeller slows down to zero and the vehicle gets stopped by friction and drag. Now consider what happens when the vehicle is stationary but the wind blows from behind. It will make the propeller rotate and also push the vehicle forward. Just the wind will be sufficient to push it up to the speed of the wind. When this happens, the speed of the wind relative to the vehicle is zero (as if there were no wind) and the propeller is rotating, just like in the first scenario. So, as long as wheel friction and internal friction are small enough, the vehicle will accelerate to go faster than the wind.
K... I just cut the cord off a lamp... somerone talk me through this O.O
You need to make sure that you're using a DC, not an AC lamp... TFA said that the direction of the current matters! If it's a DC lamp, make sure you've cut the cord past the rectifier. Then locate the ground and positive wires. Stick the positive in your left eye, making sure not to damage the eyeball, you need to carefully squeeze it in between the eyeball and the eyelid. Might need some good lubricant there. Then stick the ground similarly in your right eye. The eyes the easiest way to reach the brain, seeing as they're just an extension of the organ. With me so far? Great! If you're still alive, try to focus on multiplying big numbers. If either of your eyes pops out due to the effort, make sure to hold the wire terminal in to prevent it from disconnecting. Once you smell burning tissue, it means your result is ready! Now call an ambulance IMMEDIATELY and don't forget to write down your result, your family might need it as proof for the life insurance company that your death wasn't suicide, in fact it was a scientific endeavour. Good luck!
No. Under GPL if I add something useful and extend the program, I have to also post those changes under GPL. I may not want to do that. BSD gives me the freedom to do as I wish. BSD is far more free than GPL.
This is not true. Assuming you're distributing the derivative work, it is sufficient that your changes are under a GPL-compatible license (this includes BSD, for example). The combined work will then be under the GPL, but as long as you mark your changes and state their license clearly, they can be taken out and used separately with any other code that is BSD-compatible. However, it must be possible to unambiguously separate them from the GPL code. As an example, you can embed libpng (under a BSD-like license) inside a GPL program, distribute the whole under the GPL, but if another person takes just the libpng code from your program, it will still be BSD-like.
I find non-determinism to be stranger. In a deterministic world, you can always ask what caused anything that you observe. In a non-deterministic world, you observe something, and apparently it happened without a cause, it could have just as well been one of several other outcomes. If you accept non-determinism, it's not free will that results, it's that your will is governed by random chance and not by cause and effect.
Then why don't you just erase his achievements when you detect cheating, instead of banning him, which also effectively robs him of the money he paid to play the game? I can't see the ban as justified.
I don't think anyone is having doubts as to what kind of cheating the player was punished for. Single. Player. Right? So I just don't see how anyone could see this as a plus. I mean, who hasn't used some sort of memory hack at one point or another to affect a single player game? I know I used it in Diablo 2 back in the day. I can feel for the poor fellow and I get the impression that it could be just about anyone who gets denied the possibility to play the game he legally purchased. It's a good argument -- if that doesn't drive any player away from a game then I don't know what does.
You're wrong. sqrt is a function. Hence, by definition, for any element of the domain, it maps it to exactly one element of the codomain. Therefore sqrt(1) = 1 and sqrt(1) != -1. It doesn't matter if you write 1 as "1", "i^4" or "(-1)^2", it's still 1.
The mistake in grandparent's reasoning doesn't even require imaginary numbers, negative numbers are sufficient. If j is real and j < 0, then sqrt(j^2) = -j.
The incentive is that dealers will now have governmental protection. If anything goes wrong, just go to the police or go to court and sue the other party. Currently the dealers don't have any such legal avenue.
It's entirely possible to go to space without reaching escape velocity. You will get there as long as you're moving up and your thrust is greater or equal to the force of gravity. Escape velocity only concerns something moving up without any thrust at all. Of course, we can't build anything that will maintain thrust equal to the force of gravity for long enough, but if we could, we could go to space... at a snail's pace!
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IANAP but there may be a logical explanation in layman's terms. If there is no wind, the vehicle is stationary and its propeller is rotating, it will accelerate for a little while before the propeller slows down to zero and the vehicle gets stopped by friction and drag. Now consider what happens when the vehicle is stationary but the wind blows from behind. It will make the propeller rotate and also push the vehicle forward. Just the wind will be sufficient to push it up to the speed of the wind. When this happens, the speed of the wind relative to the vehicle is zero (as if there were no wind) and the propeller is rotating, just like in the first scenario. So, as long as wheel friction and internal friction are small enough, the vehicle will accelerate to go faster than the wind.
K... I just cut the cord off a lamp... somerone talk me through this O.O
You need to make sure that you're using a DC, not an AC lamp... TFA said that the direction of the current matters! If it's a DC lamp, make sure you've cut the cord past the rectifier. Then locate the ground and positive wires. Stick the positive in your left eye, making sure not to damage the eyeball, you need to carefully squeeze it in between the eyeball and the eyelid. Might need some good lubricant there. Then stick the ground similarly in your right eye. The eyes the easiest way to reach the brain, seeing as they're just an extension of the organ. With me so far? Great! If you're still alive, try to focus on multiplying big numbers. If either of your eyes pops out due to the effort, make sure to hold the wire terminal in to prevent it from disconnecting. Once you smell burning tissue, it means your result is ready! Now call an ambulance IMMEDIATELY and don't forget to write down your result, your family might need it as proof for the life insurance company that your death wasn't suicide, in fact it was a scientific endeavour. Good luck!
It wasn't useless! What, didn't you get the mental image of a cat chasing a llama on a string while running all over your mem, too?
1. freedom to get the source to any gpl-covered binary
2. freedom to bitch about not being able to do anything you want with other people's code
No. Under GPL if I add something useful and extend the program, I have to also post those changes under GPL. I may not want to do that. BSD gives me the freedom to do as I wish. BSD is far more free than GPL.
This is not true. Assuming you're distributing the derivative work, it is sufficient that your changes are under a GPL-compatible license (this includes BSD, for example). The combined work will then be under the GPL, but as long as you mark your changes and state their license clearly, they can be taken out and used separately with any other code that is BSD-compatible. However, it must be possible to unambiguously separate them from the GPL code. As an example, you can embed libpng (under a BSD-like license) inside a GPL program, distribute the whole under the GPL, but if another person takes just the libpng code from your program, it will still be BSD-like.
My god, I can't believe you managed to get like ten whoosh-worthy comments, and got modded Funny too. My hat off to you, Troll King!
Because the people in control of mp4 are pricks.
I find non-determinism to be stranger. In a deterministic world, you can always ask what caused anything that you observe. In a non-deterministic world, you observe something, and apparently it happened without a cause, it could have just as well been one of several other outcomes. If you accept non-determinism, it's not free will that results, it's that your will is governed by random chance and not by cause and effect.
Then why don't you just erase his achievements when you detect cheating, instead of banning him, which also effectively robs him of the money he paid to play the game? I can't see the ban as justified.
I don't think anyone is having doubts as to what kind of cheating the player was punished for. Single. Player. Right? So I just don't see how anyone could see this as a plus. I mean, who hasn't used some sort of memory hack at one point or another to affect a single player game? I know I used it in Diablo 2 back in the day. I can feel for the poor fellow and I get the impression that it could be just about anyone who gets denied the possibility to play the game he legally purchased. It's a good argument -- if that doesn't drive any player away from a game then I don't know what does.
Yes, and don't forget the previously ever-present CowboyNeal poll option. A knife in the heart of the very foundations.
That's meaningless unless you also say what your DPI and eye-screen distance is.
You're wrong. sqrt is a function. Hence, by definition, for any element of the domain, it maps it to exactly one element of the codomain. Therefore sqrt(1) = 1 and sqrt(1) != -1. It doesn't matter if you write 1 as "1", "i^4" or "(-1)^2", it's still 1.
The mistake in grandparent's reasoning doesn't even require imaginary numbers, negative numbers are sufficient. If j is real and j < 0, then sqrt(j^2) = -j.
circular logic is easy as pi
A teenage mutant ninja traitor conspiracy!
The incentive is that dealers will now have governmental protection. If anything goes wrong, just go to the police or go to court and sue the other party. Currently the dealers don't have any such legal avenue.
But was the man manly?
Are they really demanded by the people, or by the screen manufacturers' marketing departments?
In short, stop buying displays with low resolutions and start using a magnifying glass.
There, fixed that for ya.
I'm guessing that your "short screen" panel has square pixels, and if so, it is in fact 16:10, not 16:9.
It's entirely possible to go to space without reaching escape velocity. You will get there as long as you're moving up and your thrust is greater or equal to the force of gravity. Escape velocity only concerns something moving up without any thrust at all. Of course, we can't build anything that will maintain thrust equal to the force of gravity for long enough, but if we could, we could go to space... at a snail's pace!
It's a trick, what the C really stands for is CCCP!
oblig. xkcd
Can language exist without thought?
Can thought exist without language?
Doesn't sound like something to be discussed whilst sober.
I'd give you the link, but I haven't found the audio equivalent of goatse yet.