No, there are people who are actually serious about a method of naming in which a system consisting of GNU utilities running on the Linux kernel is called "GNU/Linux". I am not one of them, but I get very annoyed when someone makes a feeble attempt to parody that, apparently without actually understanding it first.
These GNU/Whatever jokes are always lame, and they never make any sense. You could certainly refer to a system as "KDE/GNU" to say that KDE is running on a GNU system (which may itself be running on Linux, Hurd, or some other kernel).
I suppose that clever satire is more work than just making some stupid unthinking GNU/joke. Hahahahahaha! I put "GNU/" in front of a word! I'm so funny and cool!
He referred to fundamentalists as "fundies". They are synonymous, but "fundies" carries derogatory connotations. Which, considering their ridiculous beliefs and adverse effects on society, is warranted.
If you recommend Mercedes Lackey, you might want to take a look at one of her big influences: James Schmitz. He wrote a bunch of very nice stories; I was almost named after one of his characters. And for some reason most of his protagonists are female.
If you're using Firefox for porn, you should check out some of the resources at the Pornzilla project. Also I highly recommend this modified linked images bookmarklet, because it's so useful and the original from Pornzilla has all the visual appeal of bleached oatmeal.
But adding "beta" to the name explicitly says "use at your own risk", rather than having the marketing people say that it's the most stable thing ever and burying the disclaimers in the license. It's more honest.
While I agree with you, I'd like to point out that it's possible to run across porn sites accidentally. For example, if you go to picbook.com, will it be the web site for a book about programming the PIC18F450 microcontroller or will it be a porn site? If you type it in thinking it's probably the former, you're doing a blind jump. There are many similar situations.
Of course, these problems are generally solved by using a little thing called the back button....
What horrendously old computer are you using that is incapable of running emacs properly? Emacs is very resource-light compared to most programs these days.
Damn it, indent your post! Lisp syntax sucks without indentation. (In fact, many experienced lispers argue that Lisp is an indentation-based language; it just has those parens in there for other reasons).
Since 3D graphics hardware already accelerates all the trig and affine matrix transformation stuff to an obscene degree, I doubt that this will catch on in 3D graphics any time soon.
Okay, here's a problem for you: you have a right triangle in which one angle is 22.8 degrees. The hypotenuse has a length of 10. Find the length of the side opposite the angle.
Using the equation you gave, Opposite = Hypotenuse*Sine = 10*sin(22.8 degrees). You can't just do division here; instead, you need to calculate a sine. This requires you to sum up an infinite series to calculate it exactly. This is because sine is a transcendental function: a function which cannot be expressed using a finite number of elementary operations (like +, -, *,/). These functions "transcend" algebra because they can't be expressed in terms of it.
There are many people who use trig in the real world all the time. How is a student in high school supposed to be able to make the final decision that they will or won't be one of these people?
A lot of the point of learning math is keeping your options for the future open.
The plant will use the KLT-40S pressurized water reactor, which the US DOE considers a proven and safe design. It has numerous inherent safety features, any one of which is sufficient to prevent a Chernobyl-style meltdown.
One of the nicest features of the KLT-40S design is that it has burnable moderator poison in the fuel rods, so any increase in core temperature beyond a certain point will result in lowered power output, thus making a meltdown impossible.
Also, from the article:
Among other things, fingerprint and iris identification technologies will be used. The plant will also be protected against possible subversive attempts by terrorist divers. Much thought has been given to protecting the plant from external factors. For example, if an airliner, even one as big as a Boeing, were to fall on the plant, there is no way it would destroy the reactor.
It sounds like they've given a lot of thought to security, as well as constructing a solid containment structure. To put that in perspective, if Chernobyl had been built with a containment structure, it would have been no worse than Three Mile Island.
I have a bunch of them memorized, and that sounded like an Appeal to Consequences fallacy. A prime example, too: so silly that it could be used in a textbook as a medium-subtle example.
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No, there are people who are actually serious about a method of naming in which a system consisting of GNU utilities running on the Linux kernel is called "GNU/Linux". I am not one of them, but I get very annoyed when someone makes a feeble attempt to parody that, apparently without actually understanding it first.
I don't understand why you suddenly got the urge to lie. Or are you honestly that misinformed?
I suppose that clever satire is more work than just making some stupid unthinking GNU/joke. Hahahahahaha! I put "GNU/" in front of a word! I'm so funny and cool!
You can't use the non-gui version of emacs? Why not? If you know the keybindings, emacs should be perfectly usable on the console.
Someone made a primitive emacs-style editor OS using Movitz. Porting GNU Emacs would be a lot harder, of course.
He referred to fundamentalists as "fundies". They are synonymous, but "fundies" carries derogatory connotations. Which, considering their ridiculous beliefs and adverse effects on society, is warranted.
If you recommend Mercedes Lackey, you might want to take a look at one of her big influences: James Schmitz. He wrote a bunch of very nice stories; I was almost named after one of his characters. And for some reason most of his protagonists are female.
If you're using Firefox for porn, you should check out some of the resources at the Pornzilla project. Also I highly recommend this modified linked images bookmarklet, because it's so useful and the original from Pornzilla has all the visual appeal of bleached oatmeal.
But adding "beta" to the name explicitly says "use at your own risk", rather than having the marketing people say that it's the most stable thing ever and burying the disclaimers in the license. It's more honest.
Or those of us who program on very resource-constrained systems, like low-end microcontrollers.
Of course, these problems are generally solved by using a little thing called the back button....
What horrendously old computer are you using that is incapable of running emacs properly? Emacs is very resource-light compared to most programs these days.
Damn it, indent your post! Lisp syntax sucks without indentation. (In fact, many experienced lispers argue that Lisp is an indentation-based language; it just has those parens in there for other reasons).
Just use p = mv, where p and v are 3-dimensional vectors.
Anything in the spam folder is automatically deleted after a certain amount of time.
Since 3D graphics hardware already accelerates all the trig and affine matrix transformation stuff to an obscene degree, I doubt that this will catch on in 3D graphics any time soon.
Using the equation you gave, Opposite = Hypotenuse*Sine = 10*sin(22.8 degrees). You can't just do division here; instead, you need to calculate a sine. This requires you to sum up an infinite series to calculate it exactly. This is because sine is a transcendental function: a function which cannot be expressed using a finite number of elementary operations (like +, -, *, /). These functions "transcend" algebra because they can't be expressed in terms of it.
While there is a language called C-- (mainly as a compiler backend), I think it was supposed to be C followed by an em dash.
A lot of the point of learning math is keeping your options for the future open.
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Or you could just get the authors of popular weblog software on board.
They're a modification of a reactor which has had a solid safety record on Russian ice breakers.
One of the nicest features of the KLT-40S design is that it has burnable moderator poison in the fuel rods, so any increase in core temperature beyond a certain point will result in lowered power output, thus making a meltdown impossible.
Also, from the article:
It sounds like they've given a lot of thought to security, as well as constructing a solid containment structure. To put that in perspective, if Chernobyl had been built with a containment structure, it would have been no worse than Three Mile Island.
I have a bunch of them memorized, and that sounded like an Appeal to Consequences fallacy. A prime example, too: so silly that it could be used in a textbook as a medium-subtle example.