...to learn the languages of countries that I might actually want to visit because they aren't yet censor-happy dictatorships / overflowing with toxic pollution / not biased against female children / not known for selling toxic crap overseas. I'd love to visit Japan, but you could not pay me to visit China any more than you could pay me to visit North Korea.
I have nothing against the Chinese people, but they allowed their government to get out of control, and their government cares more about keeping outside ideas out of its populace than improving health and safety and living conditions, and now their country probably un-redeemable.
I'm a bit OCD, and I subscribe to over 100 RSS feeds to get all my news. My biggest complaint is that it's hard to filter out the irrelevant articles from the interesting ones, because most sites only have one feed and I can't filter by tags:(
I believe in God, and I enjoyed the book, but the bit about God hiding messages in Pi was ridiculous.
If a simple function can calculate arbitrary digits of a mathematical constant, then no message deliberately hidden within that constant could be more complex than the function itself.
Also, I can see how God could manipulate a physical constant if He wanted to, but surely not a mathematical one!
if we found an exoplanet, with earthlike environment that... would have interesting philosophical implications I honestly can't think of any implications, if the planet is merely habitable. It wouldn't invalidate any religion I'm aware of.
Now if we found signs of life, even mundane life, we'd never hear the end of it. But it wouldn't affect me in the least because my religion already teaches that there are uncountable worlds similar to Earth (I'm LDS).
"This device is tiny and fits into the ear and measures movements inside the ear due to changes in facial expression and then uses that as input triggers.
I don't advocate gambling, but a device disguised as a pair of hearing aids that incremented a count with a left eye blink and decremented a count with a right eye blink could be used for card counting.
I used to get pains in my finger joints from typing too much. Switching to a Microsoft Natural keyboard helped, but did not alleviate the pains I was getting. Then I did some research and reasoned that switching from Qwerty to Dvorak layout might help me. Ten days later, I was completely switched. My finger pains completely stopped. I haven't looked back.
I don't care about the subjective speed or typo difference between Qwerty and Dvorak. Dvorak's logical arrangement of keys cuts down finger travel, and that is easily quantifiable.
I used to have an MP3 file of the "Hitachi meow", but can't find it now. It may have been a normal sound as opposed to one indicative of an impending drive failure, though.
Slashdot Mirror
ASCIIMathML can help if you're just generating HTML.
"Our fiber-optic cables are so good, they deliver the signal nanoseconds before it's transmitted!"
Yet Another Recursive Repository?
I agree it's an Underwater Found Object.
...to learn the languages of countries that I might actually want to visit because they aren't yet censor-happy dictatorships / overflowing with toxic pollution / not biased against female children / not known for selling toxic crap overseas. I'd love to visit Japan, but you could not pay me to visit China any more than you could pay me to visit North Korea.
I have nothing against the Chinese people, but they allowed their government to get out of control, and their government cares more about keeping outside ideas out of its populace than improving health and safety and living conditions, and now their country probably un-redeemable.
"Catch a falling star, put it in your pocket..."
Falling into a gravity well pocket in space-time...
Everyone knows that to make an anti-laser, you just have to switch the polarity!
One would expect the water in a nuclear reactor to be continuously recycled; using it to provide the city with water doesn't make any sense at all.
coming soon to a theater near you.
I'm a bit OCD, and I subscribe to over 100 RSS feeds to get all my news. My biggest complaint is that it's hard to filter out the irrelevant articles from the interesting ones, because most sites only have one feed and I can't filter by tags :(
Replace all the other street signs in the US with all-caps. All-caps signage is slower to read, but they can be read without squinting.
Somehow I don't think the idea will go over well, though...
You must be new here.
Someone failed geography.
1. North America
2. South America
3. Africa
4. Europe
5. Asia
6. Australia
7. Antarctica
When did the HST become a manned satellite?
It's simpler to summarize it this way:
Use *fewer* for integers.
Use *less* for real numbers.
I believe in God, and I enjoyed the book, but the bit about God hiding messages in Pi was ridiculous.
If a simple function can calculate arbitrary digits of a mathematical constant, then no message deliberately hidden within that constant could be more complex than the function itself.
Also, I can see how God could manipulate a physical constant if He wanted to, but surely not a mathematical one!
And clip your keys to a belt loop on your pants.
The sad thing is, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the MythBusters abused Buster to test this.
if we found an exoplanet, with earthlike environment that ... would have interesting philosophical implications
I honestly can't think of any implications, if the planet is merely habitable. It wouldn't invalidate any religion I'm aware of.
Now if we found signs of life, even mundane life, we'd never hear the end of it. But it wouldn't affect me in the least because my religion already teaches that there are uncountable worlds similar to Earth (I'm LDS).
1 = 0b1
I think 1 = 1bN, N >= 1. Sorry. No Obi-wan.
de-sertification?
"This device is tiny and fits into the ear and measures movements inside the ear due to changes in facial expression and then uses that as input triggers.
I don't advocate gambling, but a device disguised as a pair of hearing aids that incremented a count with a left eye blink and decremented a count with a right eye blink could be used for card counting.
I used to get pains in my finger joints from typing too much. Switching to a Microsoft Natural keyboard helped, but did not alleviate the pains I was getting. Then I did some research and reasoned that switching from Qwerty to Dvorak layout might help me. Ten days later, I was completely switched. My finger pains completely stopped. I haven't looked back.
I don't care about the subjective speed or typo difference between Qwerty and Dvorak. Dvorak's logical arrangement of keys cuts down finger travel, and that is easily quantifiable.
But JK Rowling would probably sue them.
I used to have an MP3 file of the "Hitachi meow", but can't find it now. It may have been a normal sound as opposed to one indicative of an impending drive failure, though.