there was this episode of futurama where President Nixons Head gave everyone a 300 dollar tax refund and fry used it to buy 100 cups of coffee. upon his 100th cup, a fire broke out because of a cigar) and as he finished the 100th cup, he started to move faster then the speed of light. he was moving so fast that he got everyone out of the building and extinguished the fire.... if I drank 100 cups of coffee, I think I'd go into hyper speed too
translate from german it says
"Mounting" is used for three things: "mounting" hourses. "Mounting" non-removable disks into the file systems, and now, "mounting" with the sex -- Christina Wedge"
while I was still in high school and not yet legally old enough to work, durring the summer my pop managed to get me a job through one of his buddies at the "lodge" at the local waste recycling plant. My job was quite simple this: to paint the sewers. I was convinced I had the worst job in the world. So, I'm down there with 3 other guys one day, we're slackin off as usual, drinkin on the job, after all who the hell is gonna check if we painted the sewers, right?. We decide to walk a bit forward (why, I don't know, we were kids) and then we saw HIM... the man with the worst job in the world... a man in a SCUBA diving outfit whose job it was to unclog the clogged drainpipes and gutter, as well as dive in the the waste disposal systems when they got too mucked up and find out what was clogging them up.... and I though that my job at the time stunk...
nice selection of games at the boot disk guys website http://dos.li5.org/
he makes my favorite boot disks too, the WORMdisk with addonpacks, sucker has saved my butt on the job a few times;)
it would be really nice if when you typed something up and added a BR tag, if slashcode would actually put in a line break... it would help a lot with formatting, and my posts wouldn't look as if they were written by a hyper 12 year old, they would look as if they were written by a hyper 21 year old;)
I usually put 2 writers and a DVD and DVDr in some systems I make, the ones using the larger cases obviously. Especially when I make for friends, as they are cheap enough now and I get em wholesale. The advantage being, that you can do direct copy to copy of CDs without making a image file, and the same thing with huge DVD files, also makes ripping DVD in DivX or VCD a lot faster and easier. Add NTI's virtual CD rom emulation proggie, and your golden;)
-Most of our imports, they come from other countrys Dubbya right before the stock market plummeted
-Is it hot enough out for you?... No, I like sweat to be rolling down the crack of my a like niagra Robin Williams
do you mean something like this?
http://www.franktrezza.com/bass
I'm new to building custom cases, I usually have my friend rob the tin knocker just change old AT cases to ATXs, it's cheaper then payin 20 bucks for a cheap case that breaks in a year cuz its all plastic and tin foil type metal... and has a shit 150w power supply...
take it easy
mod that up, I almost missed at since I read at a threshhold of 3 unless I'm really bored and wanna see things like my own posts from my other/. account;)
Mirror OneMirror Two
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I don't need the karma, but mod this up so people who read at a high threshhold like me can see it
the article: copy n pasted to save you the 30 secs
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Escher and Elliptic Curves
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· Score: 3, Informative
In a flight to the Netherlands, Dr. Hendrik Lenstra, a mathematician, was leafing through an airline magazine when a picture of a lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher caught his eye.
Titled "Print Gallery," it provides a glimpse through a row of arching windows into an art gallery, where a man is gazing at a picture on the wall. The picture depicts a row of Mediterranean-style buildings with turrets and balconies, fronting a quay on the island of Malta.
As the viewer's eye follows the line of buildings to the right, it begins to bulge outward and twist downward, until it sweeps around to include the art gallery itself. In the center of the dizzying whorl of buildings, ships and sky, is a large, circular patch that Escher left blank. His signature is scrawled across it.
As Dr. Lenstra studied the print he found his attention returning again and again to that central patch, puzzling over the reason Escher had not filled it in. "I wondered whether if you continue the lines inward, if there's a mathematical problem that cannot be solved," he said. "More generally, I also wondered what the structure is behind the picture: how would I, as a mathematician, make a picture like that?"
Most people, having thought this far, might have turned the page, content to leave the puzzle unsolved. But to Dr. Lenstra, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, solving mathematical puzzles is as natural as breathing. He has been known, when walking to a friend's house, to factor the street address into prime numbers in order to better fix it in his mind.
So Dr. Lenstra continued to mull over the mystery and, within a few days of his arrival, was able to answer the questions he had posed. Then, with students and colleagues in Leiden, he began a two-year side project, resulting in a precise mathematical version of the concept Escher seemed to be intuitively expressing in his picture.
Maurits Cornelis Escher, who died in 1972, had only a high school education in mathematics and little interest in its formalities. Still, he was fascinated by visual mathematical concepts and often featured them in his art.
One well-known print, for instance, shows a line of ants, crawling around a Moebius strip, a mathematical object with only one side. Another shows people marching around a circle of stairs that manage, through a trick of geometry, to always go up. The goal of his art, Escher once wrote in a letter, is not to create something beautiful, but to inspire wonder in his audience.
Seeking insight into Escher's creative process, Dr. Lenstra turned to "The Magic Mirror of M. C. Escher," a book written (under the pen name of Bruno Ernst) by Hans de Rijk, a friend of Escher's, who visited the artist as he created "Print Gallery."
Escher's goal, wrote Mr. de Rijk, was to create a cyclic bulge "having neither beginning nor end." To achieve this, Escher first created the desired distortion with a grid of crisscrossing lines, arranging them so that, moving clockwise around the center, they gradually spread farther apart. But the trick didn't quite work with straight lines, so he curved them.
Then, starting with an undistorted rendition of the quayside scene, he used this curved grid to distort the scene one tiny square at a time.
After examining the grid, Dr. Lenstra realized that carried to its logical extent, the process would have generated an image that continually repeats itself, a picture inside a picture and so on, like a set of nested Russian wooden dolls.
Thus, the logical extension of the undistorted picture Escher started with would have shown a man in an art gallery looking at print on the wall of a quayside scene containing a smaller copy of the art gallery with the man looking at a print on the wall, and so on. The logical extension of "Print Gallery," too, would repeat itself, but in a more complicated way. As the viewer zooms in, the picture bulges outward and twists around onto itself before it repeats.
Once Dr. Lenstra understood this basic structure, the task was clear: If he could find an exact mathematical formula for the repetitive pattern, he would have a recipe for making such a picture with the missing spot filled in.
Measuring with a ruler and protractor, he was able to estimate the bulging and twisting. But to compute the distortion exactly, he resorted to elliptic curves, the hot topic of mathematical research that was behind the proof of Fermat's last theorem.
Dr. Lenstra knew he could apply elliptic curve theory only after reading a crucial sentence in Mr. de Rijk's book. For esthetic reasons, Mr. de Rijk explains, Escher fashioned his grid in such a way that "the original small squares could better retain their square appearance." Otherwise, the distortion of the picture would become too extreme, smearing individual elements like windows and people to the point that they were no longer recognizable.
"At first, I followed many false leads, but that sentence was the key," Dr. Lenstra said. "After I read that, I knew exactly what was happening."
Escher was creating a distortion with a well-known mathematical property: if you look at small regions of the distorted picture, the angles between lines have been preserved. "Conformal maps," as such distortions are known, have been extensively studied by mathematicians.
In practice, they are used in Mercator projection maps, which spread the rounded surface of the earth onto a piece of paper in such a way that although land masses are enlarged near the poles, compass directions are preserved. Conformal principles are also used to map the surface of the human brain with all the folds flattened out.
Knowing that Escher's distortion followed this principle, Dr. Lenstra was able to use elliptic curves to convert his rough approximation of the distortion into an exact mathematical recipe. He then enlisted a Leiden colleague, Bart de Smit, to manage the project and several students to help him.
First, the mathematicians had to unravel Escher's distortion to obtain the picture he started with. A student, Joost Batenburg, wrote a computer program that took Escher's picture and grid as input and reversed Escher's tedious procedure.
Once the distortion was undone, the resulting picture was incomplete. Some of the blank patch in the center of "Print Gallery" translated into a blurred swath spiraling across the top of the picture. So, the researchers hired an artist to fill in the swath with buildings, pavement and water in the spirit of Escher.
Starting with this completed picture, Dr. de Smit and Mr. Batenburg then used their computer program in a different way, to apply Dr. Lenstra's formula for generating the distortion.
Finally, they achieved their goal: a completed, idealized version of Escher's "Print Gallery."
In the center of the mathematician's version, the mysterious blank patch is filled with another, smaller copy of the distorted quayside scene, turned almost upside-down. Within that is a still smaller copy of the scene, and so on, with the remaining infinity of tiny copies disappearing into the center.
Since Escher's distortion was not perfectly conformal, the mathematician's rendition differs slightly from his in other ways as well. Away from the center, for example, the lines of some of the buildings curve the opposite way.
The researchers also used their program to create variations on Escher's idea: one in which the center bulges in the opposite direction, and even an animated version that corkscrews outward as the viewer seemingly falls into the center. After a recent talk Dr. Lenstra gave at Berkeley, the audience remained seated for several minutes, mesmerized by the spiraling scene.
While Dr. Lenstra has solved the mystery of the blank patch and more, one question remains. Did Escher know what belonged in the center and choose not to represent it, or did he leave it blank because he didn't know what to put there?
As a man of science, Dr. Lenstra said he found it impossible to put himself inside Escher's mind. "I find it most useful to identify Escher with nature," he said, "and myself with a physicist that tries to model nature."
Mr. de Rijk, now in his 70's, said he believed Escher knew his picture could continue toward the center, but did not understand precisely what should go there. "He would be astonished to experience that his print was still much more interesting than was his intention," Mr. de Rijk said. He added that while he knew of another effort to fill in Escher's picture, it was not based on an understanding of the mathematics behind it.
"He was always interested when somebody used his prints as a base for further study and applications," Mr. de Rijk said. "When they were too mathematical, he didn't understand them, but he was always proud when mathematicians did something with his work."
you can DL that movie right now on many of the file sharing networks, such as Direct Connect (best shot) gneutella, edonkey2000, even kazaa..... wait a week to see a movie u can see tomorrow:) hey, Im still gonna go see it at the theater and all, even though I already have it. The centropy screener is really good quality too, almost DVD like even:). Only one thing stands in your way.....
I appologuise for my horrible spelling before someone else comments on it.... Im tired its 6AM, I've been up all night....and I just finished off the caffine sampler pack from thinkgeek.. leave me alone
now, I know 90 percent of the people who read slashdot can do this on their own, most are probably already doing it. Block the stupid ads, I mean there are a hundred ways to do it, you can use software like certain firewalls and configure them to block ads. You could do a google on the Ad Blocking Hosts File, which is what I use and it blocks 90 percent of all ads on the net for me, works nice... just put it in the right folder, hell edit it for your self and add the slashdot ad servers if you just wanna block those..... its not hard and that solution works cross platform:)
anyhow, Im probably just missing the point again... but hey, is their ever really a point to anything on slashdot?
As a volunteer fireman, yesterday I spent on a standby at my firehouse both watching the news and hearing it over my handheld police scanner. Now, I heard that the van by the GW Bridge, which supposedly contained "bombs", did in fact contain Chemical Weapons. I myself heard a Haz-Mat (Hazardous Materials) team dispatched to the location of the van, and then radio silence on two key frequencies for quite a while. Keep in mind that if it had been a bomb, the bomb squad would have been dispatched. In addition, over the buff pagers I heard that it was suspected to contain chemical weapons, from another buff who heard the police originally who pulled over the van. I confirmed this with a friend of my family who works in the DA's office who said the government does not wish this to be made public as of yet. Also, I can find no sites on the web reporting this. Although once the state of panic has dissipated, I'm sure the government will let us know more on this. God Bless and I hope all of you are okay; my heart goes out to those still buried and those who lost their lives.
Slashdot Mirror
I wanna shake his hand, and hire him for my network security company.
I can do a pretty good bart, and I work cheap :)
eat my shorts man!
there was this episode of futurama where President Nixons Head gave everyone a 300 dollar tax refund and fry used it to buy 100 cups of coffee. upon his 100th cup, a fire broke out because of a cigar) and as he finished the 100th cup, he started to move faster then the speed of light. he was moving so fast that he got everyone out of the building and extinguished the fire.... if I drank 100 cups of coffee, I think I'd go into hyper speed too
oh bitch bitch bitch, quit whining
translate from german it says "Mounting" is used for three things: "mounting" hourses. "Mounting" non-removable disks into the file systems, and now, "mounting" with the sex -- Christina Wedge"
while I was still in high school and not yet legally old enough to work, durring the summer my pop managed to get me a job through one of his buddies at the "lodge" at the local waste recycling plant. My job was quite simple this: to paint the sewers. I was convinced I had the worst job in the world. So, I'm down there with 3 other guys one day, we're slackin off as usual, drinkin on the job, after all who the hell is gonna check if we painted the sewers, right?. We decide to walk a bit forward (why, I don't know, we were kids) and then we saw HIM... the man with the worst job in the world... a man in a SCUBA diving outfit whose job it was to unclog the clogged drainpipes and gutter, as well as dive in the the waste disposal systems when they got too mucked up and find out what was clogging them up.... and I though that my job at the time stunk...
Why would they hike up the cost of linux beer? mmmmmm open source goodness ...... (j\k)
nice selection of games at the boot disk guys website http://dos.li5.org/ he makes my favorite boot disks too, the WORMdisk with addonpacks, sucker has saved my butt on the job a few times ;)
it would be really nice if when you typed something up and added a BR tag, if slashcode would actually put in a line break... it would help a lot with formatting, and my posts wouldn't look as if they were written by a hyper 12 year old, they would look as if they were written by a hyper 21 year old ;)
I usually put 2 writers and a DVD and DVDr in some systems I make, the ones using the larger cases obviously. Especially when I make for friends, as they are cheap enough now and I get em wholesale. The advantage being, that you can do direct copy to copy of CDs without making a image file, and the same thing with huge DVD files, also makes ripping DVD in DivX or VCD a lot faster and easier. Add NTI's virtual CD rom emulation proggie, and your golden ;)
-Most of our imports, they come from other countrys
Dubbya right before the stock market plummeted -Is it hot enough out for you?... No, I like sweat to be rolling down the crack of my a like niagra
Robin Williams
do you mean something like this? http://www.franktrezza.com/bass I'm new to building custom cases, I usually have my friend rob the tin knocker just change old AT cases to ATXs, it's cheaper then payin 20 bucks for a cheap case that breaks in a year cuz its all plastic and tin foil type metal... and has a shit 150w power supply... take it easy
mod that up, I almost missed at since I read at a threshhold of 3 unless I'm really bored and wanna see things like my own posts from my other /. account ;)
Mirror One Mirror Two _ I don't need the karma, but mod this up so people who read at a high threshhold like me can see it
In a flight to the Netherlands, Dr. Hendrik Lenstra, a mathematician, was leafing through an airline magazine when a picture of a lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher caught his eye. Titled "Print Gallery," it provides a glimpse through a row of arching windows into an art gallery, where a man is gazing at a picture on the wall. The picture depicts a row of Mediterranean-style buildings with turrets and balconies, fronting a quay on the island of Malta. As the viewer's eye follows the line of buildings to the right, it begins to bulge outward and twist downward, until it sweeps around to include the art gallery itself. In the center of the dizzying whorl of buildings, ships and sky, is a large, circular patch that Escher left blank. His signature is scrawled across it. As Dr. Lenstra studied the print he found his attention returning again and again to that central patch, puzzling over the reason Escher had not filled it in. "I wondered whether if you continue the lines inward, if there's a mathematical problem that cannot be solved," he said. "More generally, I also wondered what the structure is behind the picture: how would I, as a mathematician, make a picture like that?" Most people, having thought this far, might have turned the page, content to leave the puzzle unsolved. But to Dr. Lenstra, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, solving mathematical puzzles is as natural as breathing. He has been known, when walking to a friend's house, to factor the street address into prime numbers in order to better fix it in his mind. So Dr. Lenstra continued to mull over the mystery and, within a few days of his arrival, was able to answer the questions he had posed. Then, with students and colleagues in Leiden, he began a two-year side project, resulting in a precise mathematical version of the concept Escher seemed to be intuitively expressing in his picture. Maurits Cornelis Escher, who died in 1972, had only a high school education in mathematics and little interest in its formalities. Still, he was fascinated by visual mathematical concepts and often featured them in his art. One well-known print, for instance, shows a line of ants, crawling around a Moebius strip, a mathematical object with only one side. Another shows people marching around a circle of stairs that manage, through a trick of geometry, to always go up. The goal of his art, Escher once wrote in a letter, is not to create something beautiful, but to inspire wonder in his audience. Seeking insight into Escher's creative process, Dr. Lenstra turned to "The Magic Mirror of M. C. Escher," a book written (under the pen name of Bruno Ernst) by Hans de Rijk, a friend of Escher's, who visited the artist as he created "Print Gallery." Escher's goal, wrote Mr. de Rijk, was to create a cyclic bulge "having neither beginning nor end." To achieve this, Escher first created the desired distortion with a grid of crisscrossing lines, arranging them so that, moving clockwise around the center, they gradually spread farther apart. But the trick didn't quite work with straight lines, so he curved them. Then, starting with an undistorted rendition of the quayside scene, he used this curved grid to distort the scene one tiny square at a time. After examining the grid, Dr. Lenstra realized that carried to its logical extent, the process would have generated an image that continually repeats itself, a picture inside a picture and so on, like a set of nested Russian wooden dolls. Thus, the logical extension of the undistorted picture Escher started with would have shown a man in an art gallery looking at print on the wall of a quayside scene containing a smaller copy of the art gallery with the man looking at a print on the wall, and so on. The logical extension of "Print Gallery," too, would repeat itself, but in a more complicated way. As the viewer zooms in, the picture bulges outward and twists around onto itself before it repeats. Once Dr. Lenstra understood this basic structure, the task was clear: If he could find an exact mathematical formula for the repetitive pattern, he would have a recipe for making such a picture with the missing spot filled in. Measuring with a ruler and protractor, he was able to estimate the bulging and twisting. But to compute the distortion exactly, he resorted to elliptic curves, the hot topic of mathematical research that was behind the proof of Fermat's last theorem. Dr. Lenstra knew he could apply elliptic curve theory only after reading a crucial sentence in Mr. de Rijk's book. For esthetic reasons, Mr. de Rijk explains, Escher fashioned his grid in such a way that "the original small squares could better retain their square appearance." Otherwise, the distortion of the picture would become too extreme, smearing individual elements like windows and people to the point that they were no longer recognizable. "At first, I followed many false leads, but that sentence was the key," Dr. Lenstra said. "After I read that, I knew exactly what was happening." Escher was creating a distortion with a well-known mathematical property: if you look at small regions of the distorted picture, the angles between lines have been preserved. "Conformal maps," as such distortions are known, have been extensively studied by mathematicians. In practice, they are used in Mercator projection maps, which spread the rounded surface of the earth onto a piece of paper in such a way that although land masses are enlarged near the poles, compass directions are preserved. Conformal principles are also used to map the surface of the human brain with all the folds flattened out. Knowing that Escher's distortion followed this principle, Dr. Lenstra was able to use elliptic curves to convert his rough approximation of the distortion into an exact mathematical recipe. He then enlisted a Leiden colleague, Bart de Smit, to manage the project and several students to help him. First, the mathematicians had to unravel Escher's distortion to obtain the picture he started with. A student, Joost Batenburg, wrote a computer program that took Escher's picture and grid as input and reversed Escher's tedious procedure. Once the distortion was undone, the resulting picture was incomplete. Some of the blank patch in the center of "Print Gallery" translated into a blurred swath spiraling across the top of the picture. So, the researchers hired an artist to fill in the swath with buildings, pavement and water in the spirit of Escher. Starting with this completed picture, Dr. de Smit and Mr. Batenburg then used their computer program in a different way, to apply Dr. Lenstra's formula for generating the distortion. Finally, they achieved their goal: a completed, idealized version of Escher's "Print Gallery." In the center of the mathematician's version, the mysterious blank patch is filled with another, smaller copy of the distorted quayside scene, turned almost upside-down. Within that is a still smaller copy of the scene, and so on, with the remaining infinity of tiny copies disappearing into the center. Since Escher's distortion was not perfectly conformal, the mathematician's rendition differs slightly from his in other ways as well. Away from the center, for example, the lines of some of the buildings curve the opposite way. The researchers also used their program to create variations on Escher's idea: one in which the center bulges in the opposite direction, and even an animated version that corkscrews outward as the viewer seemingly falls into the center. After a recent talk Dr. Lenstra gave at Berkeley, the audience remained seated for several minutes, mesmerized by the spiraling scene. While Dr. Lenstra has solved the mystery of the blank patch and more, one question remains. Did Escher know what belonged in the center and choose not to represent it, or did he leave it blank because he didn't know what to put there? As a man of science, Dr. Lenstra said he found it impossible to put himself inside Escher's mind. "I find it most useful to identify Escher with nature," he said, "and myself with a physicist that tries to model nature." Mr. de Rijk, now in his 70's, said he believed Escher knew his picture could continue toward the center, but did not understand precisely what should go there. "He would be astonished to experience that his print was still much more interesting than was his intention," Mr. de Rijk said. He added that while he knew of another effort to fill in Escher's picture, it was not based on an understanding of the mathematics behind it. "He was always interested when somebody used his prints as a base for further study and applications," Mr. de Rijk said. "When they were too mathematical, he didn't understand them, but he was always proud when mathematicians did something with his work."
you can DL that movie right now on many of the file sharing networks, such as Direct Connect (best shot) gneutella, edonkey2000, even kazaa..... wait a week to see a movie u can see tomorrow :) hey, Im still gonna go see it at the theater and all, even though I already have it. The centropy screener is really good quality too, almost DVD like even :). Only one thing stands in your way.....
got broadband?
edit hosts file add 127.0.0.1 x10.com your set :)
I appologuise for my horrible spelling before someone else comments on it.... Im tired its 6AM, I've been up all night....and I just finished off the caffine sampler pack from thinkgeek.. leave me alone
now, I know 90 percent of the people who read slashdot can do this on their own, most are probably already doing it. Block the stupid ads, I mean there are a hundred ways to do it, you can use software like certain firewalls and configure them to block ads. You could do a google on the Ad Blocking Hosts File, which is what I use and it blocks 90 percent of all ads on the net for me, works nice... just put it in the right folder, hell edit it for your self and add the slashdot ad servers if you just wanna block those..... its not hard and that solution works cross platform :)
anyhow, Im probably just missing the point again... but hey, is their ever really a point to anything on slashdot?
Will it still be as easy to install a mod chip :)
the link to main page works right, but in that page all the Realmedia links don't work.... oh wait... no surprise, they're hosted on AOL :)
if Paypay got DDoS'ed by all the nice slashdot readers who have the ability to do that :)
What will happen when the french government is overturned again like it is every 10 or so years.....
This has already been ripped (probably with line-in and a CD player). Found and DLed the mp3 just to see if it was already ripped.
.sig's
Doesn't matter much anyway, considering the "king of pop" hasn't been popular for over 10 years.
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.sig's, we don't need no stinkin
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Suddenly the movie "BIG" comes to mind :)
.sig here
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Chemical Weapons
As a volunteer fireman, yesterday I spent on a standby at my firehouse both watching the news and hearing it over my handheld police scanner. Now, I heard that the van by the GW Bridge, which supposedly contained "bombs", did in fact contain Chemical Weapons. I myself heard a Haz-Mat (Hazardous Materials) team dispatched to the location of the van, and then radio silence on two key frequencies for quite a while. Keep in mind that if it had been a bomb, the bomb squad would have been dispatched. In addition, over the buff pagers I heard that it was suspected to contain chemical weapons, from another buff who heard the police originally who pulled over the van. I confirmed this with a friend of my family who works in the DA's office who said the government does not wish this to be made public as of yet. Also, I can find no sites on the web reporting this. Although once the state of panic has dissipated, I'm sure the government will let us know more on this. God Bless and I hope all of you are okay; my heart goes out to those still buried and those who lost their lives.