No stable sort in Explorer!
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One of the things that's always just really bugged me is that when you sort files in an explorer window by name, type, size, etc, it never does a stable sort. It tries to be helpful by, if you sort by type, listing all files of the same type in order by filename, but that's not what I freaking want!
Try to find, say, the largest txt file in a directory. Well, I'll just sort by size, then by type, right? WRONG! WTF is wrong with a stable sort?
A related thing is that it's impossible to sort by extension. It's pretty common for all image files to have the same "Type" (e.g., "Irfanview"), which makes it a real pain in the ass if you've just done a conversion and want to select JUST.jpg files, because sorting them by type mixes all image files together, and sorts them by filename.
I think a real useful program could just crawl through all your file associtaions and make it so.foo files are just called "FOO" files. That would also solve the problem of having to look under "W" for mp3s, asfs, and rars, etc, which should be under, oh, I don't know, maybe M, A, and R?!?
What (as I understand it) is hard is to find a quick way of determining the next prime number greater than n without bothering to test all the numbers in between.
Each one takes O(log(n)^12)* to check, but you'd only need to check log(n) numbers on average anyway, which isn't a big deal.
*With AKS. Assuming the Extended Riemann Hypothesis, you can primality test deterministicly in O(log(n)^4).
>> For the reflection operator, -1 is the eigenvalue >> for any eigenvector.
> Uh yeah, whatever. Asshole.
Yeah, we'll just ignore the smeggin' nontrivial space of bleedin' fixed points bloody lying in the sodding plane of ruddy reflection with bloomin' eigenvalue 1.
Well, if they are generally lower skilled, doesn't that justify the lesser price?
Overall, that's about 19% less. But "holding all other characteristics equal, it turns out female avatars sell for about 10 per cent less than male avatars."
So the average $281 female avator would sell for $312 if it were male with the same skills; the additional $34 is because females are "generally lower skilled."
Holophonics is based on the hypotheses that we do not perceive sound in a passive manner, with sound waves impacting our eardrums and our brain computing characteristics and location from the frequency, intensity, and arrival time at each ear. Instead, the technology is based on the premise that the human ear generates its own Rreference tone which interferes with incoming sounds to create the necessary spatial information for analysis by the brain. It is the interference between external sounds and the reference tone that provides the brain with spatial information. If external sounds are tape-recorded with synthesized reference sounds, the brain provides its own second reference beam. Like a laser beam shining through a hologram, it decodes, reproducing the original ambient conditions.
Origami math is cool... (check out the galleries!) hyperbolic paraboloids are actually pretty easy and fun to make (and they drive the ladies wild;).
The Five Intersecting Tetrahedra are neat too but can get really hard when you're putting in the last couple.
And there's plently of theoretical stuff; for example, you can axiomitize origami, and trisect angles and double cubes and stuff.
Some people have even made origami/combinatorial geometry courses.
The State Department figures that around 2,500 Americans are arrested every year in Foreign nations. I haven't found a single documented case of someone of Arabic descent being held without them also being charged with a legitimate crime (usually immigration violations). I disagree with bringing in Arabs for questioning, which has been done without evidence linking them to crimes.
I agree wrinkledshirt is probably trolling, but please see this article.
But if the developer forces all links to open in a new window, how do I (who doesn't want a new window) make it not open in a new window? I can't -- the developer has overridden that option
Not strictly true:
In Internet Explorer, dragging a link to the title bar, status bar, or address bar opens it in the same window, regardless of the value of the TARGET tag.
In Mozilla, you just have to drag it out of the window and back in, and then release.
Still annoying, but better than right click, copy shortcut, click on address bar, paste, enter.
Of course, if they're using javascript:popup or some such, you'd have to actually go and view the source.
Bart and Lisa, meanwhile, are watching the Krusty the Klown Show. it's
time for an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon: "Burning Down the Mouse". Lisa
says she's heard about it already: "This is the one where Scratchy
finally gets Itchy!" Bart is suitably impressed.
Itchy is tied to a stake, and he looks glum. Scratchy rubs his hands in
delight, then reaches for a crate next to him. He puts sticks of
dynamite under the mouse's eyelids and in his ears. He fashions a
Lincolnian hat and beard out of plastic explosive and slaps them rudely
on Itchy, attaching grenades to his ears as crude parodies of earrings.
Itchy stares up in horror as a shadow looms over his face: Scratchy is
turning a wheel, adjusting the angle of two atomic bombs so that their
sharpened tips point directly at Itchy's eyes. Crates of TNT are
stacked around the atomic bombs. Lighting the fuses on all the
dynamite, he hails a taxi, and leaves.
Slowly, the fuse burns down. Itchy tries in vain to escape, his legs
struggling. Bart and Lisa watch, transfixed. "My purpose in life is to
witness this moment," says Bart, grasping Lisa's hand. We see a close-
up of Itchy's sweaty face as the inevitable draws inexorably closer.
The fuse burns all the way down, and --
Suddenly the TV screen goes blank. Bart and Lisa scream, horrified.
One of the nerds rises from behind the TV, holding a plug in each hand.
"We need the outlet for our rock tumbler," he explains. "Plug it in,
Plug it in!" the two cry frantically. "What, the rock tumbler or the
TV?" "The TV, the TV!" The nerd makes it so.
But it is too late. A mushroom cloud is all that's left on the TV, with
"THE END" written in red superimposed on it. The children in Krusty's
audience cheer wildly. "Wow!" exclaims Krusty, "They'll never let us
show that again, not in a million years!" Bart and Lisa are aghast.
Unfortunately, I can't tell you what I think of it.
Uh oh, by telling you I use it you might assume that I think it's great, so let me tell you right now that may or may not be the case.
Prayer Works
This year, researchers at Columbia University announced their rather startling finding that women in a fertility clinic were almost twice as likely to get pregnant when, unknown to them, total strangers were praying for their success.
Has anybody heard about this study? I find this one rather hard to believe.
From Eric's commentary: In addition to its "instant win," CRC will be paid annually for books they don't sell, according to a formula that both sides have accepted--although we continue to believe that any past or future failure to achieve projected sales is far more plausibly attributed to CRC's abysmal marketing efforts than to any abuse of the web site by people who want to have and hold snapshots of its contents. But in this life we do what we have to do--and what we are willing to do.
Continuing to purchase from CRC would be unthinkable, but as I read this, it appears that a boycott of CRC would actually result in Eric and friends just having to pay CRC more.
So either way CRC wins.
One of our exercises at Physics Camp was, given a laser, a diffraction grating (to find the wavelength of the laser), and a ruler, determine the width of your hair.
So yeah, that'll work.
Re:New laws saying this is "life behind bars" offe
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Brian West Update
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No, you are wrong.
It applies to "protected computers"
From 18 USC 1030(e):
(2) the term ''protected computer'' means a computer -
(A) exclusively for the use of a financial institution or the United States Government, or, in the case of a computer not exclusively for such use, used by or for a financial institution or the United States Government and the conduct constituting the offense affects that use by or for the financial institution or the Government; or
(B) which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or communication;
One computer expert illustrates the rapid advancement of personal computing by estimating that if the automobile business had developed like the computer business, a Rolls-Royce would now cost $2.75 and run three million miles on a gallon of gas.
It would also crash every day!
Ha ha ha ha ha . ..
Okay, I'm done.
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One of the things that's always just really bugged me is that when you sort files in an explorer window by name, type, size, etc, it never does a stable sort. It tries to be helpful by, if you sort by type, listing all files of the same type in order by filename, but that's not what I freaking want!
.jpg files, because sorting them by type mixes all image files together, and sorts them by filename.
.foo files are just called "FOO" files. That would also solve the problem of having to look under "W" for mp3s, asfs, and rars, etc, which should be under, oh, I don't know, maybe M, A, and R?!?
Try to find, say, the largest txt file in a directory. Well, I'll just sort by size, then by type, right? WRONG! WTF is wrong with a stable sort?
A related thing is that it's impossible to sort by extension. It's pretty common for all image files to have the same "Type" (e.g., "Irfanview"), which makes it a real pain in the ass if you've just done a conversion and want to select JUST
I think a real useful program could just crawl through all your file associtaions and make it so
Each one takes O(log(n)^12)* to check, but you'd only need to check log(n) numbers on average anyway, which isn't a big deal.
*With AKS. Assuming the Extended Riemann Hypothesis, you can primality test deterministicly in O(log(n)^4).
>> For the reflection operator, -1 is the eigenvalue
>> for any eigenvector.
> Uh yeah, whatever. Asshole.
Yeah, we'll just ignore the smeggin' nontrivial space of bleedin' fixed points bloody lying in the sodding plane of ruddy reflection with bloomin' eigenvalue 1.
Twit.
-Eigenray
So the average $281 female avator would sell for $312 if it were male with the same skills; the additional $34 is because females are "generally lower skilled."
...mium is the 60th element.
Abe : Hah! The way people act around here, you'd think the streets were paved with gold.
Jasper: They are.
As if to prove Jasper's point, a car tries unsuccessfully to brake, but the shiny street surface is too slippery.
Listen to them with headphones to get the full effect.
It says,
Origami math is cool... (check out the galleries!) ;).
hyperbolic paraboloids are actually pretty easy and fun to make (and they drive the ladies wild
The Five Intersecting Tetrahedra are neat too but can get really hard when you're putting in the last couple.
And there's plently of theoretical stuff; for example, you can axiomitize origami, and trisect angles and double cubes and stuff.
Some people have even made origami/combinatorial geometry courses.
Don't forget the alcohol.
I agree wrinkledshirt is probably trolling, but please see this article.
Not strictly true:
In Internet Explorer, dragging a link to the title bar, status bar, or address bar opens it in the same window, regardless of the value of the TARGET tag.
In Mozilla, you just have to drag it out of the window and back in, and then release.
Still annoying, but better than right click, copy shortcut, click on address bar, paste, enter.
Of course, if they're using javascript:popup or some such, you'd have to actually go and view the source.
Bart and Lisa, meanwhile, are watching the Krusty the Klown Show. it's time for an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon: "Burning Down the Mouse". Lisa says she's heard about it already: "This is the one where Scratchy finally gets Itchy!" Bart is suitably impressed.
Itchy is tied to a stake, and he looks glum. Scratchy rubs his hands in delight, then reaches for a crate next to him. He puts sticks of dynamite under the mouse's eyelids and in his ears. He fashions a Lincolnian hat and beard out of plastic explosive and slaps them rudely on Itchy, attaching grenades to his ears as crude parodies of earrings. Itchy stares up in horror as a shadow looms over his face: Scratchy is turning a wheel, adjusting the angle of two atomic bombs so that their sharpened tips point directly at Itchy's eyes. Crates of TNT are stacked around the atomic bombs. Lighting the fuses on all the dynamite, he hails a taxi, and leaves.
Slowly, the fuse burns down. Itchy tries in vain to escape, his legs struggling. Bart and Lisa watch, transfixed. "My purpose in life is to witness this moment," says Bart, grasping Lisa's hand. We see a close- up of Itchy's sweaty face as the inevitable draws inexorably closer. The fuse burns all the way down, and --
Suddenly the TV screen goes blank. Bart and Lisa scream, horrified. One of the nerds rises from behind the TV, holding a plug in each hand. "We need the outlet for our rock tumbler," he explains. "Plug it in, Plug it in!" the two cry frantically. "What, the rock tumbler or the TV?" "The TV, the TV!" The nerd makes it so.
But it is too late. A mushroom cloud is all that's left on the TV, with "THE END" written in red superimposed on it. The children in Krusty's audience cheer wildly. "Wow!" exclaims Krusty, "They'll never let us show that again, not in a million years!" Bart and Lisa are aghast.
Find out who's alive and who's dead
Unfortunately, I can't tell you what I think of it.
Uh oh, by telling you I use it you might assume that I think it's great, so let me tell you right now that may or may not be the case.
All right, I'm going up to my boss right now and demand that he keep paying my family until 70 years after I die!
Is that what you're saying?
...cause then the Fluorinert turns into mustard gas
CNN has an article with more information.
Yeah, but the ones in the article are magnetic at room temperature.
I still like Finding the Speed of Light with Marshmallows
This is fucking ridiculix!
This year, researchers at Columbia University announced their rather startling finding that women in a fertility clinic were almost twice as likely to get pregnant when, unknown to them, total strangers were praying for their success.
Has anybody heard about this study? I find this one rather hard to believe.
In addition to its "instant win," CRC will be paid annually for books they don't sell, according to a formula that both sides have accepted--although we continue to believe that any past or future failure to achieve projected sales is far more plausibly attributed to CRC's abysmal marketing efforts than to any abuse of the web site by people who want to have and hold snapshots of its contents. But in this life we do what we have to do--and what we are willing to do.
Continuing to purchase from CRC would be unthinkable, but as I read this, it appears that a boycott of CRC would actually result in Eric and friends just having to pay CRC more.
So either way CRC wins.
One of our exercises at Physics Camp was, given a laser, a diffraction grating (to find the wavelength of the laser), and a ruler, determine the width of your hair.
So yeah, that'll work.
No, you are wrong.
It applies to "protected computers"
From 18 USC 1030(e):
(2) the term ''protected computer'' means a computer -
(A) exclusively for the use of a financial institution or the United States Government, or, in the case of a computer not exclusively for such use, used by or for a financial institution or the United States Government and the conduct constituting the offense affects that use by or for the financial institution or the Government; or
(B) which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or communication;
That's basically any computer on the internet.
Did that boy say "haven't done that bath"?
No, he said "haven't done that math".
It sounded like "bath"
I've had a cold.
Oh, so you would hear m's as b's?
Yes.
I understand.
One computer expert illustrates the rapid advancement of personal computing by estimating that if the automobile business had developed like the computer business, a Rolls-Royce would now cost $2.75 and run three million miles on a gallon of gas.
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It would also crash every day!
Ha ha ha ha ha . .
Okay, I'm done.