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  1. Re:I'm very happy about this on Return of the King Wins Four Golden Globes · · Score: 0

    Yeah probably! I kinda wondered what Bill Murray whispered in Scarlett Johansson's ear near the end - the ending was not laid out for the audience like most movies.

  2. Move along on Toyota Offers Automatic Parallel Parking Option · · Score: 1

    Discussions of parallel parking algorithms is as old as parallel parking itself. Many universities and companies around the world have attempted simulated car models that will parallel park automatically.

    A more useful feature on the car would be wheels that can rotate 90 degrees using a separate gear. The driver can simply line the car up alongside the parking spot and slide in without turning the steering wheel at all.

  3. Wonder if on Hitchhiker's Guide Film Reports · · Score: 1

    they will use Radiohead's songs from 'OK Computer' (e.g - Paranoid Android, Subterranean Homesick Alien) in the soundtrack.
    I can see Yorke's voice in Paranoid Android fitting pretty well in some scenes.

  4. Re:Sequel on Hitchhiker's Guide Film Reports · · Score: 1

    No, the fifth one, "Mostly Harmless" was the book that gave a "whole new meaning to the word trilogy".

  5. Re:Lakh? on Bangalore Beats Silicon Valley · · Score: 5, Informative

    One entry found for lakh.

    Main Entry: lakh
    Pronunciation: 'lak, 'lak
    Function: noun
    Etymology: Hindi lAkh
    Date: 1599
    1 : one hundred thousand
    2 : a great number
    - lakh adjective

  6. FP! on Police and Lawyers Love E-ZPass · · Score: 1

    FP!!!

  7. Can someone accurately define a "code monkey" ? on Are Programmers Engineers? · · Score: 1

    Is a code monkey someone who writes any sort of code whatsoever ? If I write assembly language code for embedded platforms because my cross-compiler cannot optimize to the extent I want it to, am I a code monkey ? If I design and implement a G.711 (A/Mu Law) or a GSM speech codec on a Motorola Onyx DSP, am I a code monkey ? If I write a Unix software application to update a table based on real-time data received from an ADC, however I decide later to modify it so that it each table element has its own thread processing it independently of other threads, am I still a code monkey ? The above examples require me to code, however they also require an fair amount of knowledge of the target processor, operating system, or compiler, very often all three. Not all code monkeys are engineers, not all engineers are code monkeys,and sometimes, they are either the same or interchangeable.

  8. Cooley and Tukey ? on Top Ten Software Innovators? · · Score: 1

    How about James Cooley and/or John Tukey - the inventors of the FFT algorithm (Fast Fourier Transform) ? Invention of this algorithm is widely thought of as a watershed event in signal processing, reducing processing time by a thousand percent or more.

  9. Re:Cheap wish for sturdiness on Whisper Heard From Pioneer 10 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Temperature is simply the presence or absence of infra-red radiation! What we perceive as heat is actually an electromagnetic wave oscillating at the infra-red frequency! As long as such radiation emitted from distant objects strikes the probe, it will have a temperature.

  10. Here's a true randomness algorithm on More Random Randomness · · Score: 1

    Make the randomizer a function of time of day! The output will vary depending on _when_ the rand() function is called, and can never truly be the same at any other time!!! What's wrong with this method ?