It's also wrong. Humans are not round pegs going down into the hole. The least amount of metal needed for a cover would be the exact shape of the minimal hole needed for a human + equipment to climb down. A round hole is probably not that shape, and is thus rather wasteful in that respect.
(Sorry for letting my trans-Microsoftic level of creativity and critical thinking out.)
> Also, even if the cover was shaped as an > equilateral triangle, it would have to be wider > at the top than the bottom, which would prevent > it from falling in.
The same applies for a circular one. There is a presumed small lip the cover rests on, all the way around.
An equilateral triangle would not only fall in, but would possess the disagreeable quality of bonking the head of an opening-nearing climber, not with a heavy round edge, but with a heavy pointy one.
(An equilateral triangle of side length 1 had a height from one point to the middle of the opposing side of 3/4. (1^^2 = (1/2)^^2 + height^^2) Clearly if you shove it through the hole that way, it will fit in without having to ride against an edge.)
I concur. However, most of you nerds are lacking in true creativity and critical thinking.
The correct answer on how to move Mount Fuji is to have an encounter of intimacy with your favorite starlette at the base of it, said intimacy increasing until the mountain moves for you.
No thanks, Microsoft, don't want the job, unless you make a nice offer.
> Given Microsoft's track record with security > problems, buggy code--such as infinite > registration, and the famous blue screen of > death, it's probbably not a good idea to ask > Microsoft type questions with Software > Engineering candidates because something isn't > working.
Some goofball at work made a similar statement just the other day. To which I respond:
When slamming a corporation because of its hiring and engineering practices, one would do better than to pick the most wildly successful business enterprise of all time and say, "don't try to be just like them!"
Anybody giving such advice should be immediately fired, as should the person who hired them.
Doc Ock! Now there's a guy who should be tearing the head off Thor. Yet, because of poor imagination, he's has an ETT (Eternal Tough Time) with Spiderman.
He's a genius, he's got a set of metal arms that should be well in excess of Iron Man's strength, what's the problem? Poor imaginative writing.
> Since Spider-Man is arguably Marvel's hottest property
Spider Man, X-Men. Little men lifting little weights. Give me a good old Fantastic Four or Hulk story any day. (Actually, haven't bought one in years. Picked up one at bookstore last week. No fights. Very little of main chars. Did same a few months ago. Sorry, and Marvel wonders why no one buys comics anymore? FF might get away with this for a little bit, but The Hulk?!?!? Month after month of little fighting?)
> Spidey lost his parents, his uncle, his first > love, his best friend, his baby, and his own > identity with the clone stuff...
Yeah, but with his super strength and speed, he can jerk off at about 4000 Hz and his body is tough enough to take it. Don't cry for me, Argentina, know what I'm sayin'?
Or Shrinking "I've the tastes of a man" Violet & another heroine from the short lived reboot of Legion of Superheroes (30th century DC, they were 30-somethings) about 10 years ago. (After some suit decided failure, they restored original continuity by "discovering" the teenage members in stasis and the 30-somethings turned out to be clones. Or something. At that point, stopped reading it. Most outrageous slap in the face since Marvel decided Galactus & friends "let" the Beyonder kick their asses.)
Then there was the classic X-Men issue where a group of cyborg bad guys had the dirtiest scene ever, by far, in any mainstream comic book. These bad guys had various levels of cyborghood, from a hand or leg or something, up to a complete body with only the head being biological. The evil leader takes off the head of the guy who's only a head (head continues to live and talk, it's quite modular!) He then places it at hip level and hints at some kind of punishment. Let's not go there. Head has look of horror.
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Live in farm country, no high speed available other than satellite. Go to Computer City to get Satellite Internet Dish DirectTV/PC combo.
Spend $450 for TV/Satellite 1-way Internet combo dish. This includes "free" installation, which later turns out to be a fradulent claim. Note: TV-only dish was $70 at the time. I print out at the store a $50 Computer City rebate (note: not DirecTV rebate) for sending in with UPC, etc. when I get home, which I do.
So I buy the satellite dish with high speed 1-way (high speed download thru satellite, slow upload through phone line.) Installer cannot align dish properly for computer (TV alignment is fine). Installer forgets equipment to test for Internet alignment. Internet install package doesn't install, so can't test that way, either.
Installer charges $115 for "free" installation. See, it appears he had to travel from East Lansing all the way to Ann Arbor to install it, a trip of 90 miles. "Free" installation is only 50 miles or less or something. Hence fraud in the claims by Computer City.
Even though I have Win 98, second edition (which is the minimum OS on the installer), the AOL installer (7.0.something) chokes, and it crashes and tries to install two copies of the USB Satellite Receiver adapter and two copies of the TCP/IP->USB Satellite Receiver. Several phone conversations have no clue. One tells me Hughs (maker of the system) will contact me, which they never do.
As a programmer, I delve in head first, and try various combinations to merge the two versions of the install, deleting one, then the other, trying to see which ones had which correct half of the installation. After several days, finally get a combo that works.
Dish, not properly aligned for Satellite, I have to adjust myself, which is very difficult. Success.
I have to push the dish with a pole from time to time because it is sensitively aligned. Installer never comes back out in spite of his promise and several calls, which he tells me he will do when he is "in the neighborhood", which he is from time to time for other installs.
After a number of months, my computer goes haywire, so I have to reinstall Win 98 second edition. This time, no matter what I try, I cannot get the AOL install to work properly. The double install of the adapter and the TCP/IP->adapter occur again, but no combination (including the one that worked previously) of merging and deleting works. The USB light on the satellite modem keeps blinking, meaning no USB network lock. This is strange since the AOL install triggers a hardware detection that successfully detects the device. Then AOL install crashes and it refuses to go any further. I cannot use AOL 8.0 because that doesn't work with satellite internet, yet I only have AOL as an option for satellite internet. The last and final release of AOL 7.0.x is the one I use, and it crashes on satellite install.
After a month, I get a letter from Computer City saying I missed something or other when sending in the rebate. NO $50 FOR YOU! I double check the stuff I sent in, having made a photocopy of it for just this reason, and I have properly sent in everything.
So, to sum up, I got about 8 months of flakey service and heartache out of a $400 system that actually cost me $400 + $50 (NO REBATE 4U!) + $115 ("free" installation) = $565.
A TV-only dish was $70, giving me an overpayment of $495. Given I also paid about $50/mo for the AOL satellite service, that comes to $50/mo + ($495 / 8 = $62) = $110/month average bill for that 8 month period for flakey high speed service.
Needless to say, after three damned months without the service, I cancelled it. AOL graciously gave me 2 free months of "BYOA" access to compensate, a $23 value! (or $20 or $28, I can never be sure.)
If anyone knows what could be going wrong (yes, AOL's crashing installer is inexcusable) then please let me know. I have no soul and would crawl back, but they just don't want my money that badly, I guess.
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
> Science has only become revered and far > reaching in secular societies....until the Buddhist has a heart attack and flies to the west for open heart surgery (Japan will do), or cancer treatment, or Computerized Axial Tomography, or Positron Emission Tomography, or Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or Lasik.
Let's not forget the relatively poor job he did on our bodies and minds, either. Heart attacks, cancer, sickness in general, he came so close, then refused to polish off a perfect body.
These issues, like heart attacks, would be a tremendous financial legal liability had a corporation designed our bodies. I guess being perfect means you get to do a sloppy job.
And physical pain, what's up with that?
And what's up with putting us in a universe where we can harm each other? What "good" god would ever do such a thing. Such a god is not "good" in any meaningful sense of the word.
Anyway, here's what you do: You go to the parallel Earths (the ones that deviated from ours no more than 30 years ago or so) and find all the Sandra Bullocks and JLo's who never got rich and famous in Hollywood. Then you give 'em 6 figures to come here and make pr0n.
Sorry, was a Mac-o-phile back then. Marathon sucked. It was so slow paced, and there wasn't enough ammo, even if you were careful. Guns take more shots to kill the enemy than a bone the enemy throws at you. Sheesh.
Good, because I got Max Payne for PS2 and playing it with those controllers was like trying to build a ship in a bottle. Give me my own Thresh variant on the keyboard and a mouse anyday. E, S, F, and space, one direction for each finger so you don't waste time moving fingers from key to key to change direction.
Worse, "bullet time" was almost unworkable too, not to mention the lack of a save ability so I had to re-do and re-do and re-do big chunks of the game just to get past a hard part.
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It's also wrong. Humans are not round pegs going down into the hole. The least amount of metal needed for a cover would be the exact shape of the minimal hole needed for a human + equipment to climb down. A round hole is probably not that shape, and is thus rather wasteful in that respect.
(Sorry for letting my trans-Microsoftic level of creativity and critical thinking out.)
> Sorry, this only applies to n gons with straight sides.
Perhaps you mean it only applies to convex n-gons with straight sides (and some, but not all, concave ones.)
> Also, even if the cover was shaped as an
> equilateral triangle, it would have to be wider
> at the top than the bottom, which would prevent
> it from falling in.
The same applies for a circular one. There is a presumed small lip the cover rests on, all the way around.
An equilateral triangle would not only fall in, but would possess the disagreeable quality of bonking the head of an opening-nearing climber, not with a heavy round edge, but with a heavy pointy one.
(An equilateral triangle of side length 1 had a height from one point to the middle of the opposing side of 3/4. (1^^2 = (1/2)^^2 + height^^2) Clearly if you shove it through the hole that way, it will fit in without having to ride against an edge.)
Actually, he couldn't. Even with a giant shovel, he wouldn't noticably dig faster than a small construction company.
Now a large hydrogen or teeny cobalt bomb (can't wait for the next hundred years, we ain't gonna make it) you could do a lot more a lot more quickly.
And who the fuck would want either if they had a robot?
Cool! My Jeri Lynn Ryan can transform into Janet Reno!
> Until you realize that Mount Fuji is a VOLCANO
Exactly. If time is no object, the easiest way to move it is just to wait.
I concur. However, most of you nerds are lacking in true creativity and critical thinking.
The correct answer on how to move Mount Fuji is to have an encounter of intimacy with your favorite starlette at the base of it, said intimacy increasing until the mountain moves for you.
No thanks, Microsoft, don't want the job, unless you make a nice offer.
> Given Microsoft's track record with security
> problems, buggy code--such as infinite
> registration, and the famous blue screen of
> death, it's probbably not a good idea to ask
> Microsoft type questions with Software
> Engineering candidates because something isn't
> working.
Some goofball at work made a similar statement just the other day. To which I respond:
When slamming a corporation because of its hiring and engineering practices, one would do better than to pick the most wildly successful business enterprise of all time and say, "don't try to be just like them!"
Anybody giving such advice should be immediately fired, as should the person who hired them.
Did I mention I had no soul?
"Doesn't do medicine". "Hates roads, C02 and all that"
Until he has a heart attack, then it's modern ambulance on road to the hospital to get a clotbuster and angioplasty.
Heaven help you should you have a kid and let the kid die rather than take them to the hospital. Into the jail with you!
Doc Ock! Now there's a guy who should be tearing the head off Thor. Yet, because of poor imagination, he's has an ETT (Eternal Tough Time) with Spiderman.
He's a genius, he's got a set of metal arms that should be well in excess of Iron Man's strength, what's the problem? Poor imaginative writing.
> Since Spider-Man is arguably Marvel's hottest property
Spider Man, X-Men. Little men lifting little weights. Give me a good old Fantastic Four or Hulk story any day. (Actually, haven't bought one in years. Picked up one at bookstore last week. No fights. Very little of main chars. Did same a few months ago. Sorry, and Marvel wonders why no one buys comics anymore? FF might get away with this for a little bit, but The Hulk?!?!? Month after month of little fighting?)
He said AMBIGOUSLY gay, fool.
> " Stan lee just has to "discover" a couple
> of "unpublished" comic strips that involve
> Spiderman being gay
Just wait until you see the hidden story about how The Hulk soddomizes Thor and Juggernaut. Now that'll blow the lid off Stan!
> Spidey lost his parents, his uncle, his first
> love, his best friend, his baby, and his own
> identity with the clone stuff...
Yeah, but with his super strength and speed, he can jerk off at about 4000 Hz and his body is tough enough to take it. Don't cry for me, Argentina, know what I'm sayin'?
Or Shrinking "I've the tastes of a man" Violet & another heroine from the short lived reboot of Legion of Superheroes (30th century DC, they were 30-somethings) about 10 years ago. (After some suit decided failure, they restored original continuity by "discovering" the teenage members in stasis and the 30-somethings turned out to be clones. Or something. At that point, stopped reading it. Most outrageous slap in the face since Marvel decided Galactus & friends "let" the Beyonder kick their asses.)
Then there was the classic X-Men issue where a group of cyborg bad guys had the dirtiest scene ever, by far, in any mainstream comic book. These bad guys had various levels of cyborghood, from a hand or leg or something, up to a complete body with only the head being biological. The evil leader takes off the head of the guy who's only a head (head continues to live and talk, it's quite modular!) He then places it at hip level and hints at some kind of punishment. Let's not go there. Head has look of horror.
Live in farm country, no high speed available other than satellite. Go to Computer City to get Satellite Internet Dish DirectTV/PC combo.
Spend $450 for TV/Satellite 1-way Internet combo dish. This includes "free" installation, which later turns out to be a fradulent claim. Note: TV-only dish was $70 at the time. I print out at the store a $50 Computer City rebate (note: not DirecTV rebate) for sending in with UPC, etc. when I get home, which I do.
So I buy the satellite dish with high speed 1-way (high speed download thru satellite, slow upload through phone line.) Installer cannot align dish properly for computer (TV alignment is fine). Installer forgets equipment to test for Internet alignment. Internet install package doesn't install, so can't test that way, either.
Installer charges $115 for "free" installation. See, it appears he had to travel from East Lansing all the way to Ann Arbor to install it, a trip of 90 miles. "Free" installation is only 50 miles or less or something. Hence fraud in the claims by Computer City.
Even though I have Win 98, second edition (which is the minimum OS on the installer), the AOL installer (7.0.something) chokes, and it crashes and tries to install two copies of the USB Satellite Receiver adapter and two copies of the TCP/IP->USB Satellite Receiver. Several phone conversations have no clue. One tells me Hughs (maker of the system) will contact me, which they never do.
As a programmer, I delve in head first, and try various combinations to merge the two versions of the install, deleting one, then the other, trying to see which ones had which correct half of the installation. After several days, finally get a combo that works.
Dish, not properly aligned for Satellite, I have to adjust myself, which is very difficult. Success.
I have to push the dish with a pole from time to time because it is sensitively aligned. Installer never comes back out in spite of his promise and several calls, which he tells me he will do when he is "in the neighborhood", which he is from time to time for other installs.
After a number of months, my computer goes haywire, so I have to reinstall Win 98 second edition. This time, no matter what I try, I cannot get the AOL install to work properly. The double install of the adapter and the TCP/IP->adapter occur again, but no combination (including the one that worked previously) of merging and deleting works. The USB light on the satellite modem keeps blinking, meaning no USB network lock. This is strange since the AOL install triggers a hardware detection that successfully detects the device. Then AOL install crashes and it refuses to go any further. I cannot use AOL 8.0 because that doesn't work with satellite internet, yet I only have AOL as an option for satellite internet. The last and final release of AOL 7.0.x is the one I use, and it crashes on satellite install.
After a month, I get a letter from Computer City saying I missed something or other when sending in the rebate. NO $50 FOR YOU! I double check the stuff I sent in, having made a photocopy of it for just this reason, and I have properly sent in everything.
So, to sum up, I got about 8 months of flakey service and heartache out of a $400 system that actually cost me $400 + $50 (NO REBATE 4U!) + $115 ("free" installation) = $565.
A TV-only dish was $70, giving me an overpayment of $495. Given I also paid about $50/mo for the AOL satellite service, that comes to $50/mo + ($495 / 8 = $62) = $110/month average bill for that 8 month period for flakey high speed service.
Needless to say, after three damned months without the service, I cancelled it. AOL graciously gave me 2 free months of "BYOA" access to compensate, a $23 value! (or $20 or $28, I can never be sure.)
If anyone knows what could be going wrong (yes, AOL's crashing installer is inexcusable) then please let me know. I have no soul and would crawl back, but they just don't want my money that badly, I guess.
On the other hand, James Randi has well over a million dollars waiting for anyone who can prove anything like that.
It still sits gathering dust.
Care to offer anything that science cannot prove that actually exists? Anything at all?
It also doesn't explain why they kinda gave up on science and math, either.
It's the religion. The middle east is in a dark ages much like Europe was, and for much the same reason.
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
> Science has only become revered and far ...until the Buddhist has a heart attack and flies to the west for open heart surgery (Japan will do), or cancer treatment, or Computerized Axial Tomography, or Positron Emission Tomography, or Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or Lasik.
> reaching in secular societies.
Let's not forget the relatively poor job he did on our bodies and minds, either. Heart attacks, cancer, sickness in general, he came so close, then refused to polish off a perfect body.
These issues, like heart attacks, would be a tremendous financial legal liability had a corporation designed our bodies. I guess being perfect means you get to do a sloppy job.
And physical pain, what's up with that?
And what's up with putting us in a universe where we can harm each other? What "good" god would ever do such a thing. Such a god is not "good" in any meaningful sense of the word.
Not 10^1.42, but 10^(10^1.42), or about 10^26.
Anyway, here's what you do: You go to the parallel Earths (the ones that deviated from ours no more than 30 years ago or so) and find all the Sandra Bullocks and JLo's who never got rich and famous in Hollywood. Then you give 'em 6 figures to come here and make pr0n.
Sorry, was a Mac-o-phile back then. Marathon sucked. It was so slow paced, and there wasn't enough ammo, even if you were careful. Guns take more shots to kill the enemy than a bone the enemy throws at you. Sheesh.
Good, because I got Max Payne for PS2 and playing it with those controllers was like trying to build a ship in a bottle. Give me my own Thresh variant on the keyboard and a mouse anyday. E, S, F, and space, one direction for each finger so you don't waste time moving fingers from key to key to change direction.
Worse, "bullet time" was almost unworkable too, not to mention the lack of a save ability so I had to re-do and re-do and re-do big chunks of the game just to get past a hard part.