Nope, she has an American name because she created a fake stage persona and kept her given, legal name private and isolated from her stage persona.
To sign up for IMDbPro, she had to give them her legal name (it was on her credit card), and now she's claiming they went out and did public records searches to find her birthdate.
According to The Korea Herald, her IMDb profile has been available since 2003, she was "unknown" at that time, and she subscribed to IMDbPro in 2008, "shortly after" which her DOB was posted on her IMDb public profile. And she apparently thinks they discovered it by doing public record searches using the CC information she provided when she signed up. I have no idea how she thinks her CC information would be useful to someone searching for her age, though.
Nope, according to the AP story, she's tried to apply for "40-year-old" roles and been turned away for looking too young. Now she's afraid that she won't be able to apply for "under-40" roles anymore either.
Plaintiff has experienced rejection in the industry for each ‘40-year-old’ role for which she has interviewed because she does not and cannot physically portray the role of a 40-year-old woman
With the older demos, the train would tip over if the track tipped. In fact, it stayed in exactly the same orientation to the track no matter what, so if you flipped the track upside-down the train would be hovering upside-down too. That's not exactly ideal.
This demo, OTOH, showed that they could set any orientation they wanted between the puck and the track it rode on, and change it at will. Maybe your track has slanted sideways and you don't want the train tilting at that angle?
Now if they can come up with a better way to change its angle that doesn't involve "stop the train, get out, and push"... ideally, you'd want the train to stay upright, even if the track under it tilted, and do so automatically as soon as it detected a change in angle.
Without knowing how many accidents typically occur in a week
Um, IIRC the accident rates in the UAE, per vehicle, per mile, are something like the highest in the world. I can't find that statistic, but I did find that in 2009, in the city of Dubai alone there were almost 9.8 accidents PER DAY, about 6.29% of which were fatality crashes. And in 2008 it was substantially worse (10% more accidents, 23% more fatalities).
And it also has this delightfully encouraging bit of advice:
The death toll on Dubai roads is one of the highest in the world per head of population, no doubt this is exacerbated by the prevalence of powerful expensive cars and opportunities to drive them fast. It doesn't help that 80% or more of Dubai is expatriate with a wide range of nationalities represented - anyone who has travelled out of their home country will immediately notice that driving standards and habits vary the world over. Assume that every bad habit you've ever seen is imported into Dubai and you'll get the idea.
Nobody calculates pi by dividing a circle's circumference by its diameter. There's no way to measure them accurately enough, and besides which, at least one of the numbers must be irrational (in other words, you can't measure it accurately - it's just as infinite as pi is).
Because pi is intrinsically related to circles, it is also intrinsically related to all of the trigonometric functions. For instance, off the top of my head I recall that 4*arctan(1) = pi. That's not an approximation or an estimate; it must be exactly pi because of how the trig function is related to circles.
According to Wikipedia, the arctan function can be calculated as an infinite summation: arctan z = z - z^3/3 + z^5/5 - z^7/7 +... i.e., the summation from n = 0 to infinity of (-1)^n * z^(2n+1) / (2n + 1)
Computing 4*arctan(1) in that manner for the first 5000 terms yields about 3.1413926535917... (it keeps going - as it's a rational approximation of pi, it has to start repeating somewhere, although I don't see where that is - my program only used 200 decimal places in computing it). Obviously, it's a very inefficient way of computing pi, but I obviously wasn't going for efficiency. There are better methods of calculating pi which give you significant digits much more quickly, so if you're interested in more efficient ways of computing pi, my non-troll reply is that I'm sure Google could help you...
More likely he was simply amused by the notion of mathematicians thinking they'd found a message from God in the randomness of pi, much like I'm amused by people who think they see Jesus in potato chips or coffee stains.
The fact that a number is infinite and non-repeating does not imply it contains every possible series of digits. It could, for example, contain no 1s at all and still be infinite and non-repeating.
If you memorize up to the first zero in pi, you can navigate the circumference of the universe in a perfect circle and when you get to the end of the circle (based on the digits of pi you memorized) you'll be off by less than the width of a human hair.
I'd ask if that's inclusive or non-inclusive... but that would probably be splitting hairs.
wow, and you basically make it sound like PRIVACY is a bad thing.
Got something to hide? You must be EVIL!
Privacy != put it public on the web
If you put something public on the web, it's liable to be noticed. People are liable to complain. And at that point, it's no longer "private".
CyberBunker's policy appears to be "don't worry about people reporting you for doing anything, because regardless of that we'll still do our very best to pretend not to notice if you're doing anything you shouldn't be."
My major annoyance with facebook was the lack of 'circles' so that I can post about my happy hour exploits without dealing with my mother, bitch about my girlfriend without my girlfriend seeing, or just post general geek stuff for my geek friends without bothering my friend's mom's daughter that I've never met, but insists that we be friends on facebook. Now that facebook has implemented 'Lists', I have used it more, but I think Google's implementation is better.
You've basically always been able to do that on Facebook. Lists aren't new. It was just that hardly anyone used them. The "Limited Profile" list (now replaced with a "Restricted" list) has been around as long as I can remember.
Why's he wasting time generating long random numbers if he's non-randomly checking and combining them?
Sounds like an awfully inefficient algorithm. If the monkeys produced 1 binary bit instead of 9 bytes at a time they could recreate the works of Shakespeare in approximately 2 tries.
You meant, water can't increase beyond its boiling point until it's converted to steam. Its boiling point depends on pressure. At sea level it's 100C. At the top of a high mountain, it's significantly less. In a pressurized chamber, it can be significantly higher.
And even then you'd be wrong. Water can be superheated. Know why you're not supposed to microwave pure water in a very smooth container? If it superheats without boiling, the slightest disruption can cause a large amount of it to flash to steam... not something you want happening when you try to take it out of the microwave. If you want another example of water being superheated, there's a video on YouTube of an ice cube being heated red-hot by inductive heating.
What do you bet someone sold him the secret to fusion for a rock-bottom low price? Of course, all it needed was someone with enough resources to get it started.
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Nope, she has an American name because she created a fake stage persona and kept her given, legal name private and isolated from her stage persona.
To sign up for IMDbPro, she had to give them her legal name (it was on her credit card), and now she's claiming they went out and did public records searches to find her birthdate.
Here's the document.
That just proves his point even better.
According to The Korea Herald, her IMDb profile has been available since 2003, she was "unknown" at that time, and she subscribed to IMDbPro in 2008, "shortly after" which her DOB was posted on her IMDb public profile. And she apparently thinks they discovered it by doing public record searches using the CC information she provided when she signed up. I have no idea how she thinks her CC information would be useful to someone searching for her age, though.
Nope, according to the AP story, she's tried to apply for "40-year-old" roles and been turned away for looking too young. Now she's afraid that she won't be able to apply for "under-40" roles anymore either.
Plaintiff has experienced rejection in the industry for each ‘40-year-old’ role for which she has interviewed because she does not and cannot physically portray the role of a 40-year-old woman
With the older demos, the train would tip over if the track tipped. In fact, it stayed in exactly the same orientation to the track no matter what, so if you flipped the track upside-down the train would be hovering upside-down too. That's not exactly ideal.
This demo, OTOH, showed that they could set any orientation they wanted between the puck and the track it rode on, and change it at will. Maybe your track has slanted sideways and you don't want the train tilting at that angle?
Now if they can come up with a better way to change its angle that doesn't involve "stop the train, get out, and push"... ideally, you'd want the train to stay upright, even if the track under it tilted, and do so automatically as soon as it detected a change in angle.
Without knowing how many accidents typically occur in a week
Um, IIRC the accident rates in the UAE, per vehicle, per mile, are something like the highest in the world. I can't find that statistic, but I did find that in 2009, in the city of Dubai alone there were almost 9.8 accidents PER DAY, about 6.29% of which were fatality crashes. And in 2008 it was substantially worse (10% more accidents, 23% more fatalities).
And it also has this delightfully encouraging bit of advice:
The death toll on Dubai roads is one of the highest in the world per head of population, no doubt this is exacerbated by the prevalence of powerful expensive cars and opportunities to drive them fast. It doesn't help that 80% or more of Dubai is expatriate with a wide range of nationalities represented - anyone who has travelled out of their home country will immediately notice that driving standards and habits vary the world over. Assume that every bad habit you've ever seen is imported into Dubai and you'll get the idea.
Nobody calculates pi by dividing a circle's circumference by its diameter. There's no way to measure them accurately enough, and besides which, at least one of the numbers must be irrational (in other words, you can't measure it accurately - it's just as infinite as pi is).
Because pi is intrinsically related to circles, it is also intrinsically related to all of the trigonometric functions. For instance, off the top of my head I recall that 4*arctan(1) = pi. That's not an approximation or an estimate; it must be exactly pi because of how the trig function is related to circles.
According to Wikipedia, the arctan function can be calculated as an infinite summation: ...
arctan z = z - z^3/3 + z^5/5 - z^7/7 +
i.e., the summation from n = 0 to infinity of (-1)^n * z^(2n+1) / (2n + 1)
Computing 4*arctan(1) in that manner for the first 5000 terms yields about 3.1413926535917... (it keeps going - as it's a rational approximation of pi, it has to start repeating somewhere, although I don't see where that is - my program only used 200 decimal places in computing it). Obviously, it's a very inefficient way of computing pi, but I obviously wasn't going for efficiency. There are better methods of calculating pi which give you significant digits much more quickly, so if you're interested in more efficient ways of computing pi, my non-troll reply is that I'm sure Google could help you...
How much power is generated by the system?
Enough to power an artificial urinary sphincter.
What, too much information?
Personally, my first question was more along the lines of what the waste products are. TFA mentioned water as one by-product.
SAL pi, 1
Not just fat-soluble... capsaicin is also soluble in alcohol.
1 is 1 no matter what the base is. b^0 = 1
More likely he was simply amused by the notion of mathematicians thinking they'd found a message from God in the randomness of pi, much like I'm amused by people who think they see Jesus in potato chips or coffee stains.
The fact that a number is infinite and non-repeating does not imply it contains every possible series of digits. It could, for example, contain no 1s at all and still be infinite and non-repeating.
Why not base-pi/180 or even base-pi/200?
Pi is exactly 10, if your numbering system uses base pi.
FTFY.
If you memorize up to the first zero in pi, you can navigate the circumference of the universe in a perfect circle and when you get to the end of the circle (based on the digits of pi you memorized) you'll be off by less than the width of a human hair.
I'd ask if that's inclusive or non-inclusive... but that would probably be splitting hairs.
wow, and you basically make it sound like PRIVACY is a bad thing.
Got something to hide? You must be EVIL!
Privacy != put it public on the web
If you put something public on the web, it's liable to be noticed. People are liable to complain. And at that point, it's no longer "private".
CyberBunker's policy appears to be "don't worry about people reporting you for doing anything, because regardless of that we'll still do our very best to pretend not to notice if you're doing anything you shouldn't be."
My major annoyance with facebook was the lack of 'circles' so that I can post about my happy hour exploits without dealing with my mother, bitch about my girlfriend without my girlfriend seeing, or just post general geek stuff for my geek friends without bothering my friend's mom's daughter that I've never met, but insists that we be friends on facebook. Now that facebook has implemented 'Lists', I have used it more, but I think Google's implementation is better.
You've basically always been able to do that on Facebook. Lists aren't new. It was just that hardly anyone used them. The "Limited Profile" list (now replaced with a "Restricted" list) has been around as long as I can remember.
Why not just emit 1 binary bit and you finish in approximately 2 random guesses.
Why's he wasting time generating long random numbers if he's non-randomly checking and combining them?
Sounds like an awfully inefficient algorithm. If the monkeys produced 1 binary bit instead of 9 bytes at a time they could recreate the works of Shakespeare in approximately 2 tries.
You meant, water can't increase beyond its boiling point until it's converted to steam. Its boiling point depends on pressure. At sea level it's 100C. At the top of a high mountain, it's significantly less. In a pressurized chamber, it can be significantly higher.
And even then you'd be wrong. Water can be superheated. Know why you're not supposed to microwave pure water in a very smooth container? If it superheats without boiling, the slightest disruption can cause a large amount of it to flash to steam... not something you want happening when you try to take it out of the microwave. If you want another example of water being superheated, there's a video on YouTube of an ice cube being heated red-hot by inductive heating.
I'm pretty sure samzenpus was annoyed because Margie left out a space to make it fit on Twitter.
http://stwem.com/2011/06/16/what-does-mt-mean-on-twitter/
http://twitter.com/#!/AP/status/121732977523826689
Apple says the company's co-founder, Steve Jobs, has died. He was 56: http://apne.ws/lCbPzP -MS
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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has died at 56.
What do you bet someone sold him the secret to fusion for a rock-bottom low price? Of course, all it needed was someone with enough resources to get it started.
That's the first law of thermodynamics.