That's why they've installed these "tiles" -- if a camera comes loose and hits them, NASA can reconstruct what went wrong by studying the impacts on the tiles. For some reason, though, NASA has rejected my proposal for an infinite regression of tile/camera layers, so that one can always figure out what went wrong. Some of the layers are arranged up to 35 miles away...
According to the OED, chomp is "Now a widespread variant of CHAMP", and was considered a dielectical form of "champ" except in the U.S. Now it's used much more often.
It's like finding a drawing of Michaelangelo's "The Adoration of the Magi", done in green crayon that was executed on a cave wall sometime in the paleolithic. Now that's impressive.
You know you're a geek when you think that the most impressive thing about that analogy is that cavement might have had green crayons.
Precision is also arbitrary up to the amount of time you want to spend on the thing. Which, for even "simple" functions with infinite Taylor expansions, or ones which can't be cleverly rearranged to save steps (which, in itself, if it is possible, may take a long time), may take a while. Slide rules are great, there's no doubt, but they only save time in very special cases, if you happen to have them with you.
Anyway, this sort of thing is very cool. I have not listened to much Beethoven (aside from bits and peices in movies and such), so something like this is an excellent opportunity. If anyone knows any places to legally download performances of other classics, please post them.
It's certainly not *free*, but if you're going to China anyway...
I went to China last summer. In all big cities one can get copies of DVDs (western movies, sometimes a few days before they're actually released to the theatres in the US, and eastern GungFu movies), but the qualities are usually not the greatest. Also, although buying stuff like this from street vendors is generally ignored by the authorities there (they're on major streets in, for example, Shanghai), we didn't want to take chances, and so we just browsed.
_However_, some legitimate places of business sell music CDs (and full quality ones) at cut-rate prices. I was able to pick up a complete set of Beethoven's piano sonatas recorded by Deutsche Gramophon, and just rebranded by some Chinese company, for about $8 US, at a grocery/clothing store. That's the sort of boxed set which would run anywhere from $60 to $150 in the US, depending on who performed them (these were Kempff; not my favorite interpreter of Beethoven, but I didn't pass up the deal).
Project Gutenberg eBooks are also free as in speech - mostly.
I do like the concept and availability of eBooks, and especially the P.G. sort. But guess what? If I want to read, either for pleasure or study, I'd much rather do it in print rather than online. And I'm not going to print out the eBooks. I just print out all of/. and have my secretary reply .
Kind of like how a bulldozer is much more powerful than a hammer, but totally unsuitable to banging a nail in a bit of wood. If you want something torn down or moved about, though...
I haven't tried World Wind, but I checked out some screenshots. The topo feature is cool, but look at, e.g., http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/graphics/screenshots/24.jpg. I know all about trying to fit 2D sheets to 3D surfaces, but that's ridiculous. The whole point of elevation contours is to connect points of equal elevation. Whoo!
My reaction to this was "Huh?" so I went and looke it up. Apparently, the Road Runner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_Runner_cartoon was a cartoon character introduced in 1949 by Chuck Jones of Warner Brothers fame, and was almost always coupled with a character named Wile E. Coyote, who was enamoured of his own genius, and tried, but almost always failed, to catch the Road Runner.
(I kid; I grew up watching these cartoons. But, damnit, if we're going to have Burma Shave links -- sad but simply a changing of the times that people don't know about Burma Shave -- we can at least have other "obscure" ones.)
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That's why they've installed these "tiles" -- if a camera comes loose and hits them, NASA can reconstruct what went wrong by studying the impacts on the tiles. For some reason, though, NASA has rejected my proposal for an infinite regression of tile/camera layers, so that one can always figure out what went wrong. Some of the layers are arranged up to 35 miles away...
But if it had coloured balls moving rapidly so it couldn't count them [...]
Can't... stop... laughing...
Besides the breaking apart of the container (a literal hack since he cut the thing), how is this "hacking"?
3. You can type in your password, but would you want to have to reach the iris scanner by bending over in front of the SysAdmin?
That would be the new BrownEye Scanner (TM) technology.
According to the OED, chomp is "Now a widespread variant of CHAMP", and was considered a dielectical form of "champ" except in the U.S. Now it's used much more often.
Try going to the OED. It's "pro tem". I *do* trust the Oxford English Dictionary.
Also, it's "a lot".
But he may never, over my dead body, have adult on adult, consensual sex!
Sweet. Necrophilia, too?
a memorize your powers of two question
.001, .01, .1, 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, ....
Ooh! I know that one!
Yeah, but it's still silent! Unless you're some strange mutant person. In that case, get earplugs.
If microsoft left xp disks at street corners unattended complete with legal cororate serial numbers would they be surprised if people were using them?
*I* would be surprised if people used them, but, then again, I read slashdot.
It's like finding a drawing of Michaelangelo's "The Adoration of the Magi", done in green crayon that was executed on a cave wall sometime in the paleolithic. Now that's impressive.
You know you're a geek when you think that the most impressive thing about that analogy is that cavement might have had green crayons.
Precision is also arbitrary up to the amount of time you want to spend on the thing. Which, for even "simple" functions with infinite Taylor expansions, or ones which can't be cleverly rearranged to save steps (which, in itself, if it is possible, may take a long time), may take a while. Slide rules are great, there's no doubt, but they only save time in very special cases, if you happen to have them with you.
Anyone who's ever spent any time programming has discovered something pretty similar.
The law's actually almost exactly like what a programmer would create:
1.0: Ten commandments. Look they're pretty obvious people. How the hell can you get them wrong. [...]
Holy... You didn't start at zero?!?
"This apparently gave males both the time and the means to evolve a counterattack--converting some of the workers into males."
Huh. Around here, we hang up posters of nekkid queen ants. Oooooh, those unarticulated segements! Kind of makes you want to pupate, doesn't it?
Anyway, this sort of thing is very cool. I have not listened to much Beethoven (aside from bits and peices in movies and such), so something like this is an excellent opportunity. If anyone knows any places to legally download performances of other classics, please post them.
It's certainly not *free*, but if you're going to China anyway...
I went to China last summer. In all big cities one can get copies of DVDs (western movies, sometimes a few days before they're actually released to the theatres in the US, and eastern GungFu movies), but the qualities are usually not the greatest. Also, although buying stuff like this from street vendors is generally ignored by the authorities there (they're on major streets in, for example, Shanghai), we didn't want to take chances, and so we just browsed.
_However_, some legitimate places of business sell music CDs (and full quality ones) at cut-rate prices. I was able to pick up a complete set of Beethoven's piano sonatas recorded by Deutsche Gramophon, and just rebranded by some Chinese company, for about $8 US, at a grocery/clothing store. That's the sort of boxed set which would run anywhere from $60 to $150 in the US, depending on who performed them (these were Kempff; not my favorite interpreter of Beethoven, but I didn't pass up the deal).
Project Gutenberg eBooks are free as in beer.
/. and have my secretary reply .
Project Gutenberg eBooks are also free as in speech - mostly.
I do like the concept and availability of eBooks, and especially the P.G. sort. But guess what? If I want to read, either for pleasure or study, I'd much rather do it in print rather than online. And I'm not going to print out the eBooks. I just print out all of
http://www.robotcombat.com/video_oldglory_hi.html
IMHO, 'casual gamer' and 'MMOG' should never be mentioned in the same sentence.
Heh.
Smells fishy to me.
...hot chicks telling me they have to hear me say "passport".
Kind of like how a bulldozer is much more powerful than a hammer, but totally unsuitable to banging a nail in a bit of wood. If you want something torn down or moved about, though...
Is that you, Mr. Stephenson?
I haven't tried World Wind, but I checked out some screenshots. The topo feature is cool, but look at, e.g., http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/graphics/screenshots /24.jpg. I know all about trying to fit 2D sheets to 3D surfaces, but that's ridiculous. The whole point of elevation contours is to connect points of equal elevation. Whoo!
Please be gentle with me... this is my first post
You're new here, aren't you?
Oh, wait...
My reaction to this was "Huh?" so I went and looke it up. Apparently, the Road Runner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_Runner_cartoon was a cartoon character introduced in 1949 by Chuck Jones of Warner Brothers fame, and was almost always coupled with a character named Wile E. Coyote, who was enamoured of his own genius, and tried, but almost always failed, to catch the Road Runner.
(I kid; I grew up watching these cartoons. But, damnit, if we're going to have Burma Shave links -- sad but simply a changing of the times that people don't know about Burma Shave -- we can at least have other "obscure" ones.)
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