How about a non-terminating, non repeating decimal expansion of a number? Pi? sqrt(2)? The square root of 2, in particular, has been shown to be an irrational number. This means that it cannot be written as the form m/n, where m and n are integers.
This means that it can't be repeating (0.454545... = 45/99) and it can't terminate (0.3453 = 3453/10000). This was proved back in pythagorean times (second yellow box as you scroll down the page).
Note that most square roots, cube roots, 4th roots, etc are going to be irrational. Is that a big enough choice of random OTPs for you? Say only a tiny fraction of numbers are irrational. A tiny fraction of an Aleph-one infinite numbers is still infinite. (See degrees of infinity, about halfway down the page).
I dunno about all that. I always thought that Heinlein's women were nothing more than a geek's wet dream. They were all beautiful, intelligent nymphomaniacs. Oh, and given to homosexual tendancies too.
Of course, his male characters weren't that believable either. Handsome, intelligent satyrs, who couldn't help but please a woman. Oh, and given to homosexual tendancies too.
Hmm...
Of course, that's not to say I didn't enjoy reading his work. Hell, I still do.
While at university, my roommates and I had a variation of this rule as well. "Can you remember when it hit the floor? Yes? Okay, eat it."
I contest that eating non-lethal doses of contaminants has increased my resistance to them. I tell myself that that's why my mum let me eat dirt as a kid.
It's probably to ease the checkers, so they don't have to check the link content, just the URL
I dunno if this will ease the checkers at all. They'll still have to check all the content on the.kids.us sites, and any parent worth a damn is going to have a firewall that blocks everything except.kids.us sites. If they don't, what's to stop a child from surfing the full net? (unless, of course, some shmoe makes a browser that won't let you type in urls, and the home page is always in the.kids domain).
I'm doing this simply to piss you off, and to parade around the fact that I could write out this whole saga faster than you could write a pathetic little "first post"!
But not, apparently, faster than someone could write "Woo" and "1st Post"...
Why does everyone seem to think that these sites won't be able to link to sites outside of.kids? What is gained by that?
In my opinion, all you have to do is check that the content of all of these sites is kid-safe. That's going to require periodic human checks anyway. However, there's nothing to stop them from putting up links to non-kids sites, like this one.
The real bonus of the.kids domain is it allows for easy filtering at the user-level. A firewall that blocks all domains outside of.kids. You can click on that goatse.cx link all you like, but the firewall will stop you from seeing, well, what none of us really want to see.
That way, if you have an adult surfing, they can actually follow links to relevant.com/.net/.org/.whatever sites that they want to see, and the.kids TLD will have the chance to be useful to us older folks as well.
One cubic centimetre is one millilitre, no matter which way you cut the cake. Litres are a measure of volume, as are cm^3. It's just a different and more convenient name.
As for water, 1cm^3 is one gram of mass at 4 degrees celsius. 4 degrees is used because it is the temperature at which water is densest. And mass is always the same, no matter what acceleration due to gravity is.
Apart from that, things look pretty good. It may also be worth noting that 100C is the temperature at which water boils, and the second milestone (odd word to use in a metric conversation) in the celsius scale, with 100 (arbitrary) divisions between freezing and boiling.
I'm amused by the fahrenheit system. Not only is it a bitch to spell, 0F is the temperature at which a saturated brine solution freezes, and 100F was supposed to be human body temperature, but I guess the guy was running a fever at the time or something:)
Well, not exactly. You see, transistor lengths are now on the order of 0.1um. However, they also mention that the wires are 0.1um thick. Note that the wires on any silicon process often have to be wider than the polysilicon gates, so there is a size improvement here.
However, with no information other than the pics on the website...
They have two wires coming together in a junction, which they claim performs a logic operation (probably an OR, but I'm just guessing). In a CMOS process, this would take no less than four transistors, and here it takes a wire junction. This looks like it could be the biggest space saver of the technology.
Somewhere hidden in the Trillian menus (I found it so long ago I forgot where it was) is the option to turn on conversation logging. Considering the standard conspiracy-theory crowd that normally frequents slashdot (no offense intended, of course;) I would think that having this feature off as a default would be seen as a plus.
PS - I just spent the thirty seconds it took to find the options: Preferences -> Message History.
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I'm sure you've seen the hole in this proof before, but when you factor out the (a - a), you're actually dividing both sides of the equation by zero, which is a big no-no, and will actually lead to an undefined solution.
If you want to divide equations by common factors to simplify them, you first need to stipulate that the common factors are not zero. That's pretty hard to do if the common factor is (a - a).
Same site, states that the first practical pen was invented in 1884, and the first us patent on a pen was 1809. If you want to go back 200 years, it's tail feathers ripped off of unsuspecting birds forever, baby!
Dude, if your nuts really do look like that, you may want to get checked out for scrotal masses. While most are benign, there can be some really nasty ones that lead to infertility or even the necessity of testicleotomies.
"People Take Up Most of the Planet, U.S. Study Says"
Well, humans do take up most of the United States, and as we all know Americans don't know about the rest of the world. Linking these two facts together, of course the US study is going to conclude that people take up most of the planet.
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"Land Bridge" sounds much cooler than "isthmus." It's also a bit easier to pronounce.
Nope. It was Hollywood Upstairs Medical Academy.
I kept reading. I like a good joke :)
and have a bunch of people on slashdot forward you their spam. Hey, everyone, let's help this guy out.
totally Picard.
How about a non-terminating, non repeating decimal expansion of a number? Pi? sqrt(2)? The square root of 2, in particular, has been shown to be an irrational number. This means that it cannot be written as the form m/n, where m and n are integers.
This means that it can't be repeating (0.454545... = 45/99) and it can't terminate (0.3453 = 3453/10000). This was proved back in pythagorean times (second yellow box as you scroll down the page).
Note that most square roots, cube roots, 4th roots, etc are going to be irrational. Is that a big enough choice of random OTPs for you? Say only a tiny fraction of numbers are irrational. A tiny fraction of an Aleph-one infinite numbers is still infinite. (See degrees of infinity, about halfway down the page).
I dunno about all that. I always thought that Heinlein's women were nothing more than a geek's wet dream. They were all beautiful, intelligent nymphomaniacs. Oh, and given to homosexual tendancies too.
Of course, his male characters weren't that believable either. Handsome, intelligent satyrs, who couldn't help but please a woman. Oh, and given to homosexual tendancies too.
Hmm...
Of course, that's not to say I didn't enjoy reading his work. Hell, I still do.
While at university, my roommates and I had a variation of this rule as well. "Can you remember when it hit the floor? Yes? Okay, eat it."
I contest that eating non-lethal doses of contaminants has increased my resistance to them. I tell myself that that's why my mum let me eat dirt as a kid.
Actually, I thought of the Tleilaxu, and their Axlotl tanks (spelling is probably atrocious).
That's right. Without guns, there's no stopping the undead or aliens from taking us over.
As for me, I'll just vote for a third party candidate.
Probably because we read the article
.kids.us sites, and any parent worth a damn is going to have a firewall that blocks everything except .kids.us sites. If they don't, what's to stop a child from surfing the full net? (unless, of course, some shmoe makes a browser that won't let you type in urls, and the home page is always in the .kids domain).
Touche. I am humbled.
It's probably to ease the checkers, so they don't have to check the link content, just the URL
I dunno if this will ease the checkers at all. They'll still have to check all the content on the
I'm doing this simply to piss you off, and to parade around the fact that I could write out this whole saga faster than you could write a pathetic little "first post"!
But not, apparently, faster than someone could write "Woo" and "1st Post"...
Why does everyone seem to think that these sites won't be able to link to sites outside of .kids? What is gained by that?
.kids domain is it allows for easy filtering at the user-level. A firewall that blocks all domains outside of .kids. You can click on that goatse.cx link all you like, but the firewall will stop you from seeing, well, what none of us really want to see.
.com/.net/.org/.whatever sites that they want to see, and the .kids TLD will have the chance to be useful to us older folks as well.
In my opinion, all you have to do is check that the content of all of these sites is kid-safe. That's going to require periodic human checks anyway. However, there's nothing to stop them from putting up links to non-kids sites, like this one.
The real bonus of the
That way, if you have an adult surfing, they can actually follow links to relevant
A schooner is a sailboat, stupid!
Have you tried focusing beyond the screen? That's the trick they tell you to use for those damn magic eye books.
Of course, I'm officially stereoblind. Like 2% of the population, I'll never be able to see the schooner.
One cubic centimetre is one millilitre, no matter which way you cut the cake. Litres are a measure of volume, as are cm^3. It's just a different and more convenient name.
:)
As for water, 1cm^3 is one gram of mass at 4 degrees celsius. 4 degrees is used because it is the temperature at which water is densest. And mass is always the same, no matter what acceleration due to gravity is.
Apart from that, things look pretty good. It may also be worth noting that 100C is the temperature at which water boils, and the second milestone (odd word to use in a metric conversation) in the celsius scale, with 100 (arbitrary) divisions between freezing and boiling.
I'm amused by the fahrenheit system. Not only is it a bitch to spell, 0F is the temperature at which a saturated brine solution freezes, and 100F was supposed to be human body temperature, but I guess the guy was running a fever at the time or something
Well, not exactly. You see, transistor lengths are now on the order of 0.1um. However, they also mention that the wires are 0.1um thick. Note that the wires on any silicon process often have to be wider than the polysilicon gates, so there is a size improvement here.
However, with no information other than the pics on the website...
They have two wires coming together in a junction, which they claim performs a logic operation (probably an OR, but I'm just guessing). In a CMOS process, this would take no less than four transistors, and here it takes a wire junction. This looks like it could be the biggest space saver of the technology.
Would that be with or without the scars?
Jeez, and I thought his comment was funny...
/. seriously, and become justifiably outraged when obviously tongue-in-cheek comments are made.
Guess I should take everything that is said on
how gay are you?
Somewhere hidden in the Trillian menus (I found it so long ago I forgot where it was) is the option to turn on conversation logging. Considering the standard conspiracy-theory crowd that normally frequents slashdot (no offense intended, of course ;) I would think that having this feature off as a default would be seen as a plus.
PS - I just spent the thirty seconds it took to find the options: Preferences -> Message History.
I'm sure you've seen the hole in this proof before, but when you factor out the (a - a), you're actually dividing both sides of the equation by zero, which is a big no-no, and will actually lead to an undefined solution.
If you want to divide equations by common factors to simplify them, you first need to stipulate that the common factors are not zero. That's pretty hard to do if the common factor is (a - a).
Same site, states that the first practical pen was invented in 1884, and the first us patent on a pen was 1809. If you want to go back 200 years, it's tail feathers ripped off of unsuspecting birds forever, baby!
Dude, if your nuts really do look like that, you may want to get checked out for scrotal masses. While most are benign, there can be some really nasty ones that lead to infertility or even the necessity of testicleotomies.
"People Take Up Most of the Planet, U.S. Study Says"
Well, humans do take up most of the United States, and as we all know Americans don't know about the rest of the world. Linking these two facts together, of course the US study is going to conclude that people take up most of the planet.
(/ducks)