I assume you ment "The Algebraist", Banks hasn't written any book called "The Alchemist" AFAIK. But I agree that it's an amazing book, especially the ending that totally blew my mind.
Reading this made me suddenly want to run some 400km west and hug the entire norwegian goverment. I just hope our goverment here in Sweden does something similar soon.
I swear that this is one of the most difficult games ever made. It seems strange since it's a game about cute monkeys rolling around in translucent balls and therefor you'd think it's meant for children. But once you've finnished the first 10 or so levels it get absolutely crazy.
The most annoying thing is that it has that good olde "just one more time" factor that makes it so hard to put it down when you die for the umpteenth time.
The installer worked fine for me. But when it was finnished I had to spend many many hours trying to install sound card drivers, NVidia driver, get the scroll wheel on my mouse working, get a higher resolution than 800x600, etc.
The problem with Firefox is that it is nearly impossible to pronounce. At least for me who has Swedish as a first language. Firebird was OK and had a really cool sound to it, but whenever I try to say Firefox my tounge just about ties a knot on it self.
I thought both "The river of souls" and "Thirdspace" worked very well. They were more like very long episodes than stand alone films, but they were dang good episodes.
Simple explaination why this works
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The series of number, in your example 2,4,6,10... can be described recursivly as:
f_0 = 2
f_1 = 4
f_n = f_(n-1)+f_(n-2)
If we assume that f_(n+1)/f_n will indeed become closer and closer to a given value, then we get the equation:
f_(n+1)/f_n = f_n/f_(n-1)
But the left hand side can of course be rewritten to 1 + f_(n-1)/f_n (just use the recursive definition above)
If we set x = f_n/f_(n-1) we get the equation: 1 + 1/x = x with the roots Phi and -1/Phi.
The Golden ratio and the fibonacci numbers
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There is a really great page that explains the relation between the Golden ratio and the Fibonacci numbers here
The fibonacci number is the series 1,1,2,3,5,8... where every number is the sum of the two numbers before it. What does this have to do with the golden ratio? Everything! Just check it out, you'll be amazed.
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Huh? Erlang is a programming language, not a database.
I assume you ment "The Algebraist", Banks hasn't written any book called "The Alchemist" AFAIK. But I agree that it's an amazing book, especially the ending that totally blew my mind.
It is if you're living in Europe. (At least in sweden, I've never seen yogurt without live bacteria anywhere over here)
Because not all of us share the same tastes as you and we actually find it funny?
The first time I ever heard about them was on a slashdot story maybe two months ago and my reaction was similar.
In short it seems like they are really ugly cellphones that you can send email with.
Reading this made me suddenly want to run some 400km west and hug the entire norwegian goverment. I just hope our goverment here in Sweden does something similar soon.
How about "Weapon of mass distraction"?
The most annoying thing is that it has that good olde "just one more time" factor that makes it so hard to put it down when you die for the umpteenth time.
I have a quite ancient P2-450MHz with 256Mb of RAM and it takes around three seconds to load here.
The installer worked fine for me. But when it was finnished I had to spend many many hours trying to install sound card drivers, NVidia driver, get the scroll wheel on my mouse working, get a higher resolution than 800x600, etc.
No, I'm not trolling at all.
Unless I say the word really slow I'll miss either the 'f' or the 'x' in the word.
BTW I just got up and asked everybody living in my corridor what they thought, 6 out of 8 thought it was too hard to pronounce.
Firefly!
You can't take the sky from me.
The problem with Firefox is that it is nearly impossible to pronounce. At least for me who has Swedish as a first language. Firebird was OK and had a really cool sound to it, but whenever I try to say Firefox my tounge just about ties a knot on it self.
You guys are so behind, phoenix changed name to Firebird and then Firefox a looong time ago.
I for one welcome our new Sedna overlord.
In Soviet Russia, Sedna discovers you!
1) Discover Planet
2) ????
3) Profit!
Etc, etc, etc...
I thought both "The river of souls" and "Thirdspace" worked very well. They were more like very long episodes than stand alone films, but they were dang good episodes.
This post will be modded down in 5...4...3...
The series of number, in your example 2,4,6,10... can be described recursivly as:
f_0 = 2
f_1 = 4
f_n = f_(n-1)+f_(n-2)
If we assume that f_(n+1)/f_n will indeed become closer and closer to a given value, then we get the equation:
f_(n+1)/f_n = f_n/f_(n-1)
But the left hand side can of course be rewritten to 1 + f_(n-1)/f_n (just use the recursive definition above)
If we set x = f_n/f_(n-1) we get the equation: 1 + 1/x = x with the roots Phi and -1/Phi.
There is a really great page that explains the relation between the Golden ratio and the Fibonacci numbers here
The fibonacci number is the series 1,1,2,3,5,8... where every number is the sum of the two numbers before it. What does this have to do with the golden ratio? Everything! Just check it out, you'll be amazed.
Here in Sweden everybody I know who uses IM runs ICQ. Really. I still havn't met a singel person here who uses AIM, and only one who runs MSN.
Tank: What do you need? Neo: Broomsticks. Lots of 'em.
Here is an idea. Let just keep reloading their homepage again and again and again.. Slashdotting on steriods baby!
I won't buy it unless it plays ogg!
It happend to me in KDE yesterday.