Stop right there! Intuition often breaks down at infinity and the infinitesimal, i.e. Achilles and the tortoise, Zeno's paradox.
That's why we need things like limits, calculus etc.
True enough. But since the definition of a circle depends on a comparison of distances, and you can't measure infinite distances, I can't even think of a legitimate way to define a "circle of infinite radius." Perhaps you can have an arc whose curvature reaches an infinite minimum.
Not to mention circles, by their nature, enclose a finite area, with an "inside" and "outside." How could an infinite circle do that?
I don't believe so - I've heard of lines being considered as "infinite circles" before, but for each point on a line to be part of a circle, they would all have to be equidistant from the center, since that's the definition of a circle. Intuitively (meaning without doing any proofs), it seems to me that no matter how far you move the center away from the colinear points, they will never be exactly the same distance from the center.
Harrison Ford himself made it clear that he hated the voice-overs, that he intentionally did it so bad because he was hoping the studio execs would just throw it out on account of its shittiness.
Do you have a source for that? I've always heard that Ford denied the rumor that he did it it poorly on purpose.
Since these replicants can plunge their hands into liquid nitrogen without harm, and apparently have an assortment of other enhanced physical capabilities, there must be some much easier tests than emotional response.
[sticks worker's hand into a beaker of liquid nitrogen]
"Oh, I guess you're human after all! Okay, you can go back to work now... Sorry about the hand, but you should still be able to carry out the trash with your good one.":)
this has hands down got to be one of the worst movies of all time..it is long, it is pointless and it is very very boring does anyone even care about blade runner? i doubt it
Maybe you find it boring, but it is FAR from pointless. That's why people still love it after all this time. Personally I love it because Ridley Scott puts so much detail on the screen, always giving you something interesting to look at while simultaneously giving you time to think about what's going on in the movie. It's not all slam-bang action. This is the kind of movie that's only boring if you try to watch it passively. Put some effort into watching it and it's far more rewarding.
I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven, I told Bill that if Sandra is going to listen to her headphones while she's filing then I should be able to listen to the radio while I'm collating so I don't see why I should have to turn down the radio because I enjoy listening at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven...
[with infuriating calmness]
Yeahhhh. Milton, I'm just going to have to... go ahead and take that radio. Okay? Good.
> Now replace electric screwdiver with IDE, woodworker with hacker, and hand-powered screwdriver with seperate text-editor and compiler.
We replaced our woodworker with a hacker when building our house, and you should see the bloated kludgey monstrosity we live in.
We only have IT people over because no other visitors can grok the place!
> What all you people fail to realize is - that a copy of the GPL is NOT enough > if you use GPL code together with your code you have to release the source code ---------^^^
Gonna have to ask you to be more specific here. If you're not linking, it's not a problem.
Also, since it appears DOSBox is under the GPL and not the LGPL, this WOULD require the source code of these games (as well as graphics, audio and any other components distributed along with DOSBox) to be publicly released. (That whole "viral" thing people talk about)
No, it would only require them to provide the source for their modified DOSBox.
The GPL is clear that using a Free program to execute or operate on proprietary data leaves the data under its original ownership and licensing.
Manager: "I called this meeting so I could tell you the division's goals for next year." Alice: "That's a good idea, because we're all so dumb that we couldn't possibly read this in e-mail." Manager: "Goal one: improve communication." Alice: "I can't; I'm too dumb!"
Tiger shipped with PHP4 installed, and there is basically one guy, Mark Linyage, who is packaging a PHP5 installer for Tiger.
Unfortunately, he refuses to support older versions of Mac OS, and for various reasons I'm still working with Panther on my laptop and some of our servers, so I have been struggling mightily to get PHP5 to compile and install.
I wish Apple would provide some support for these 'freebies' they include with the OS, but their attitude seems to be "if we didn't invent it, it's not our problem.":-/
> I've thought about it. Here's an outline I came up with
I've had thoughts along the same lines, but as a classic Mac user, I found it extremely liberating to have NO directory hierarchy imposed at all. Granted, the original Mac was a single-user machine, but it did popularize the idea of a user "workspace" that was extremely flexible.
As long as you left the "System Folder" alone, you could put anything pretty much anywhere you wanted. The Desktop Folder and Desktop Database were hidden, and the Trash was fixed at the root level, but the interface made those details irrelevant.
What's more, because you never had to type in directory names while navigating the filesystem, you were free to use spaces and slashes in the file and directory names. This was a giant leap forward for comprehension and user-friendliness.
Unfortunately, Mac OS X is a step backward in some ways, because you aren't free to move things around. If you move or rename the "Applications" folder, for example, you run into problems. Mac OS X expects certain things to stay in certain places.
I think Mac OS X's use of long descriptive names (such as "Library") is a step forward for Unix, but because of backward compatibility, you still need/etc,/usr/,/bin, etc. and Apple decided to simply hide this from the user. A/UX was a little more true to its Unix roots, and let you see all that. Nevertheless, all this stuff is (and should be) visible to the user only when they need to get to it.
>> PPS: It's really Aussie, Ozzie refers to an ostrich with a hand up it's ass. > WTF?! Is this some strange sexual preference of Australians that I haven't heard about?
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> And yet we still do not know how they pronounced them because they wrote down their language > they did not speak it into a dictaphone. Et cetera is pronounced as the English-speaking world has decided, > not Latin pronunciation guessers.
A lot of that pronunciation knowledge comes from how Latin works were translated into Greek. They used kappa to represent 'C' in transliterated Latin words.
> You no doubt agreed to some kind of terms of service when you signed up for your internet service, > somewhere in most such agreements is some kind of provision that prevents you from reselling > the internet connection or undercutting them by providing the same service for free to anyone who > happens to be nearby.
Yes, I checked my TOS and it disallows me from providing commercial access to the network (i.e. reselling it), but otherwise I am evidently free to open it.
Seems to me, though, if they allow you to share your connection, there's an awful big gray area around that permission. Is my neighbor a stranger? They couldn't tell me. Are neighbors who live in my building part of my "household"? Again, I think they'd have a hard time drawing a legal line determining whom I can share with, once they've told me that I can share the connection.
> The "victim" of this so-called "crime" was knowingly allowing others to freely use his internet connection, probably in direct contravention of the contract with his ISP.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most broadband providers specifically give you instructions on how to share your connection? I have Cox Cable and their support pages tell me I can share the uplink over a wireless network.
Granted, they probably assume I'm only going to share it with members of my household, but if we're paying for the bandwidth, how can they dictate whether we share it with friends, neighbors, pets or strangers?
Correction: Quicktime is not Jpeg, but uses similar technology. As far as I know, Quicktime and Jpeg generally use about 30 frames a second.
I don't know if you're talking about "Motion JPEG" or MPEG, but both of those and Quicktime can have variable frame rates.
Quicktime can use multiple codecs as well, including Motion JPEG, so you really can't tell anything about the movie's frame rate, resolution, color depth etc. just by the fact that it's a Quicktime movie file - it's just a container format for different types of tracks. Any given track may use a codec that is similar to JPEG or very different, it's up to the author.
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True enough. But since the definition of a circle depends on a comparison of distances, and you can't measure infinite distances, I can't even think of a legitimate way to define a "circle of infinite radius." Perhaps you can have an arc whose curvature reaches an infinite minimum.
Not to mention circles, by their nature, enclose a finite area, with an "inside" and "outside." How could an infinite circle do that?
But it's only half as big as a circle of infinite diameter, natch.
I don't believe so - I've heard of lines being considered as "infinite circles" before, but for each point on a line to be part of a circle, they would all have to be equidistant from the center, since that's the definition of a circle. Intuitively (meaning without doing any proofs), it seems to me that no matter how far you move the center away from the colinear points, they will never be exactly the same distance from the center.
Well, there is one condition - the third point can't be on a line that intersects the other two points.
Do you have a source for that? I've always heard that Ford denied the rumor that he did it it poorly on purpose.
IMDB (admittedly not the most reliable source) reports it that way: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/trivia
[sticks worker's hand into a beaker of liquid nitrogen]
"Oh, I guess you're human after all! Okay, you can go back to work now... Sorry about the hand, but you should still be able to carry out the trash with your good one." :)
Maybe you find it boring, but it is FAR from pointless. That's why people still love it after all this time. Personally I love it because Ridley Scott puts so much detail on the screen, always giving you something interesting to look at while simultaneously giving you time to think about what's going on in the movie. It's not all slam-bang action. This is the kind of movie that's only boring if you try to watch it passively. Put some effort into watching it and it's far more rewarding.
[with infuriating calmness] ... go ahead and take that radio. Okay? Good.
Yeahhhh. Milton, I'm just going to have to
Warning: do not taunt *Internet2.
> Now replace electric screwdiver with IDE, woodworker with hacker, and hand-powered screwdriver with seperate text-editor and compiler. We replaced our woodworker with a hacker when building our house, and you should see the bloated kludgey monstrosity we live in. We only have IT people over because no other visitors can grok the place!
if (bytes > (3 * HD_DVD_CAPACITY))
{
collect_bucks(5);
}
else
{
add(IF_STATEMENT);
bytes += sizeof(IF_STATEMENT);
}
Gonna have to ask you to be more specific here. If you're not linking, it's not a problem.
- Nick
No, it would only require them to provide the source for their modified DOSBox.
The GPL is clear that using a Free program to execute or operate on proprietary data leaves the data under its original ownership and licensing.
- Nick
That would be the "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act," or "NAMBLA"..?
Manager: "I called this meeting so I could tell you the division's goals for next year."
Alice: "That's a good idea, because we're all so dumb that we couldn't possibly read this in e-mail."
Manager: "Goal one: improve communication."
Alice: "I can't; I'm too dumb!"
Tiger shipped with PHP4 installed, and there is basically one guy, Mark Linyage, who is packaging a PHP5 installer for Tiger.
:-/
Unfortunately, he refuses to support older versions of Mac OS, and for various reasons I'm still working with Panther on my laptop and some of our servers, so I have been struggling mightily to get PHP5 to compile and install.
I wish Apple would provide some support for these 'freebies' they include with the OS, but their attitude seems to be "if we didn't invent it, it's not our problem."
- Nick
> I've thought about it. Here's an outline I came up with
/etc, /usr/, /bin, etc. and Apple decided to simply hide this from the user. A/UX was a little more true to its Unix roots, and let you see all that. Nevertheless, all this stuff is (and should be) visible to the user only when they need to get to it.
I've had thoughts along the same lines, but as a classic Mac user, I found it extremely liberating to have NO directory hierarchy imposed at all. Granted, the original Mac was a single-user machine, but it did popularize the idea of a user "workspace" that was extremely flexible.
As long as you left the "System Folder" alone, you could put anything pretty much anywhere you wanted. The Desktop Folder and Desktop Database were hidden, and the Trash was fixed at the root level, but the interface made those details irrelevant.
What's more, because you never had to type in directory names while navigating the filesystem, you were free to use spaces and slashes in the file and directory names. This was a giant leap forward for comprehension and user-friendliness.
Unfortunately, Mac OS X is a step backward in some ways, because you aren't free to move things around. If you move or rename the "Applications" folder, for example, you run into problems. Mac OS X expects certain things to stay in certain places.
I think Mac OS X's use of long descriptive names (such as "Library") is a step forward for Unix, but because of backward compatibility, you still need
>> PPS: It's really Aussie, Ozzie refers to an ostrich with a hand up it's ass.
> WTF?! Is this some strange sexual preference of Australians that I haven't heard about?
Should be 'Ossie' actually!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossie_Ostrich
- MFN
> And yet we still do not know how they pronounced them because they wrote down their language
> they did not speak it into a dictaphone. Et cetera is pronounced as the English-speaking world has decided,
> not Latin pronunciation guessers.
A lot of that pronunciation knowledge comes from how Latin works were translated into Greek. They used kappa to represent 'C' in transliterated Latin words.
- MFN
Why has nobody yet made the obligatory claim that this invention is not really nanotechnology?
Looks to me like another "nanoscale material sold as nanotech" hypefest. Anybody know anything about their manufacturing process??
And that's different from America's leaders exactly how?
> You no doubt agreed to some kind of terms of service when you signed up for your internet service,
> somewhere in most such agreements is some kind of provision that prevents you from reselling
> the internet connection or undercutting them by providing the same service for free to anyone who
> happens to be nearby.
Yes, I checked my TOS and it disallows me from providing commercial access to the network (i.e. reselling it), but otherwise I am evidently free to open it.
Seems to me, though, if they allow you to share your connection, there's an awful big gray area around that permission. Is my neighbor a stranger? They couldn't tell me. Are neighbors who live in my building part of my "household"? Again, I think they'd have a hard time drawing a legal line determining whom I can share with, once they've told me that I can share the connection.
- MFN
> The "victim" of this so-called "crime" was knowingly allowing others to freely use his internet connection, probably in direct contravention of the contract with his ISP.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most broadband providers specifically give you instructions on how to share your connection? I have Cox Cable and their support pages tell me I can share the uplink over a wireless network.
Granted, they probably assume I'm only going to share it with members of my household, but if we're paying for the bandwidth, how can they dictate whether we share it with friends, neighbors, pets or strangers?
- MFN
I don't know if you're talking about "Motion JPEG" or MPEG, but both of those and Quicktime can have variable frame rates.
Quicktime can use multiple codecs as well, including Motion JPEG, so you really can't tell anything about the movie's frame rate, resolution, color depth etc. just by the fact that it's a Quicktime movie file - it's just a container format for different types of tracks. Any given track may use a codec that is similar to JPEG or very different, it's up to the author.
Just FYI!
- MFN
They already did that; it's called 'Amway' or something... ;)