russians have a way of using/100 money for their missions. so 20 bil for the russian space agency is like 200 bil for nasa. serious. (sorry for the flamebait, i'm not saying nasa is worse or better, its just how the nasa and rus SA compare economically)
the ^= operator didnt work correctly in msvs6 for ints... i tended to use the x^=y^=x^=y; trick alot to swap x and y and was really annoyed when it did weird stuff
i think this was inbetween two patches. it was there and then it went away after an update and i havent heard from it since (thankfully):)
maybe this will convince all of those people that spend 90% of their lives playing MMORPG's (like my former roommate) that they ARE NOT REALLY gaining a "blue glowing cofeemaking XL flying folding shield of the dragon" for completing a 200-hour quest that makes em run across Everon 60 times
(yes i was Addicted. but then i discovered the Delete button and EverCrack was no more)
WOOT! perhaps some of those programmers will come back from the Dark Side of EverCrack.
...now to figure out how to get people off SlashCrack... (ya ya. flame is good.)
this is a _hypothesis_. don't expect back in the future III - type cars even if this hypothesis proves true. the gravitational radiation here is on a tiny scale (even the existance of such a radiation isn't confirmed).
even if it works, the possible applications within the next decade would be extremely limited - nanotech, etc.
(i am semi-speaking out of a certain part of my body here, though i've read some stuff after this was mentioned in sci american this month. please correct me if i'm wrong:) )
step 0 - rocks and wood
step 1 - huge multi-ton arrays of vacuum tubes
step 2 - metal things that are cool
step 3 - desktop pc
step 4 - Apple Cube
step 5 - Microsoft X-Box (yes, it is pretty much a pc!)
step 6 - Cement Block pc (and hey, you can use it instead of those low-tech 0-transistor bricks!)
(note: use pentium 4 processors to increase weight)
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-a friend of mine playing a game on his TI86 during yet another semi-boring APCS lecture
except for the people in africa that are eating as little as ever and plus dying by millions of aids and molaria
russians have a way of using /100 money for their missions. so 20 bil for the russian space agency is like 200 bil for nasa. serious. (sorry for the flamebait, i'm not saying nasa is worse or better, its just how the nasa and rus SA compare economically)
in case anyone is wondering, this is POVRay code... i think.
(dont have POVray installed right now, can someone tell me what this looks like?)
hey, where's x10.com??? :)
you know that silly game you waste 90% of your cubicle life playing?
:)
1. start a game (that is, start the timer)
2. win-d (minimize all)
3. unminimize - voila! the timer stops! but you can keep playing
(doesnt work if window has been minimized beforehand)
the ^= operator didnt work correctly in msvs6 for ints... i tended to use the x^=y^=x^=y; trick alot to swap x and y and was really annoyed when it did weird stuff
:)
i think this was inbetween two patches. it was there and then it went away after an update and i havent heard from it since (thankfully)
maybe this will convince all of those people that spend 90% of their lives playing MMORPG's (like my former roommate) that they ARE NOT REALLY gaining a "blue glowing cofeemaking XL flying folding shield of the dragon" for completing a 200-hour quest that makes em run across Everon 60 times
(yes i was Addicted. but then i discovered the Delete button and EverCrack was no more)
WOOT! perhaps some of those programmers will come back from the Dark Side of EverCrack.
...now to figure out how to get people off SlashCrack...
(ya ya. flame is good.)
this is a _hypothesis_. don't expect back in the future III - type cars even if this hypothesis proves true. the gravitational radiation here is on a tiny scale (even the existance of such a radiation isn't confirmed).
:) )
even if it works, the possible applications within the next decade would be extremely limited - nanotech, etc.
(i am semi-speaking out of a certain part of my body here, though i've read some stuff after this was mentioned in sci american this month. please correct me if i'm wrong
i wonder if they will make a E# when they run out of "black sharps". and then they'll realize that it's exactly the same as plain F :)
The evolution of the modern pc:
step 0 - rocks and wood
step 1 - huge multi-ton arrays of vacuum tubes
step 2 - metal things that are cool
step 3 - desktop pc
step 4 - Apple Cube
step 5 - Microsoft X-Box (yes, it is pretty much a pc!)
step 6 - Cement Block pc (and hey, you can use it instead of those low-tech 0-transistor bricks!)
(note: use pentium 4 processors to increase weight)
How come no one has mentioned LaTeX? It's free, expandable, ported to _many_ platforms, and the list goes on and on.
:)
The down-side of LaTeX is that it is not a WYSIWYG editor, but the Linux / Unix community should not mind that part of it too much
Check out http://www.latex-project.org for more details. I highly recommend the MikTeX win32 implementation (http://www.miktex.org).