Numbers are values, not processes. The operations we as humans or computers perform to approximate or determine the values are processes, but the numbers themselves are not.
You acknowledge that "you can never get to the end of an infinite number", then make your case against the proof based on getting to the end and placing a zero there. That is FAIL.
I think probably all of these have been listed already, and boardgamegeek.com is a good place to go. I'll just a couple more votes for a few of my favorites:
* Puerto Rico * San Juan (kinda a faster paced, simpler, less direct-competition version of Puerto Rico) * Carcassonne * Chinatown (not in print in US; had to get this imported) * Bohnanza
I'm sure you'll get enough responses on whether LCDs or CRTs are safer. Personally, my eyes are already shot to hell, so I don't care so much about that.
What I do care about, in my situation, is relative different. I have a new laptop with a vga out hooked up to a CRT monitor, and I extended the desktop to the CRT. (Makes for nice debugging/coding on one screen while reading docs/running app on the other.)
The problem is the difference between the two. My LCD is so much sharper than the CRT; not that the CRT is bad... it's actually still in great condition given its age. But the way the eyes focus on LCDs vs CRTs is different, and to look back and forth between the two gets tiring very quickly.
Add to that, my 20" CRT is something like 60+ pounds and causing my cheapo-glue-and-sawdust desk to bow a little... I finally decided to give the CRT to my younger brother and get myself a nice 20" LCD (the recently announced Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW), so hopefully the stress looking back and forth between the two monitors will be minimized.
This recipe prints the immortal words "Hello world!", in a basically brute force way. It also makes a lot of food for one person.
Ingredients. 72 g haricot beans 101 eggs 108 g lard 111 cups oil 32 zucchinis 119 ml water 114 g red salmon 100 g dijon mustard 33 potatoes
Method. Put potatoes into the mixing bowl. Put dijon mustard into the mixing bowl. Put lard into the mixing bowl. Put red salmon into the mixing bowl. Put oil into the mixing bowl. Put water into the mixing bowl. Put zucchinis into the mixing bowl. Put oil into the mixing bowl. Put lard into the mixing bowl. Put lard into the mixing bowl. Put eggs into the mixing bowl. Put haricot beans into the mixing bowl. Liquefy contents of the mixing bowl. Pour contents of the mixing bowl into the baking dish.
Bruce: Is your name not Bruce? Michael: No, it's Michael. Bruce: That's going to cause a little confusion. Bruce: Mind if we call you "Bruce" to keep it clear? Bruce: Gentlemen, I think we better start the faculty meeting. Before we start, though, I'd like to ask the padre for a prayer. Bruce: Oh Lord, we beseech Thee, Amen!! All: Amen! Bruce: Crack tube!
Hell, the whole gaming industry is making gigantic mistakes left and right. Less and less original and decent stuff is getting published, while more and more licensed schlock is being shoved down our throats. (Not that all licensed titles are crap, but how many can you name that were decent? No, The Matrix game was crap.)
It's all about the money, now, not about the game. I'm playing fewer video games now and playing more quality strategy board games. And I'm not talking simply about Monopoly and Risk, but very good games like Puerto Rico, Bohnanza, Carcasonne, Settlers of Catan, and others.
I do some of the more "common" things (such as piano playing, particularly ragtime music), but I suppose the less-common thing I spend a lot of time on is doing stained glass.
Mostly the stuff I've done are things for birthday and Christmas gifts -- it beats crappy mall wandering! I've made all sorts of stuff from simple little hanging window decorations, to planters, small windows, mirrors, lamps and lanterns....
It requires a fair amount of patience, but it's a very peaceful and relaxing hobby.
Most of my stuff so far, I've done from existing patterns, but I'm starting to do some original stuff.
Yup, some of the German board games are great! I'll be getting Puerto Rico myself fairly soon.
Others I've played and enjoyed (some certainly more than others): Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, Torres, Euphrates & Tigris, Munchkin, Fist of Dragonstones, Ra.....
My username on Boardgamegeek is 'mattmoss', so you can check out my collection for yourself.
Game Theory (GT) is a mathematical field all about choices: given a set of knowledge, build a set of choices that will lead to the greatest expected outcome.
GT can be applied to games, since games generally consist of a set of choices. But the term is more often heard in economic circles: stock market, insurance calculations, portfolio planning... But don't limit it to that either. GT can be applied to most any sort of competition, such as competition for food sources between predator species, or trying to find the shortest/quickest way through the lines at a supermarket.
A number of different factors influence your choices. How much information do I know? How much information does my opponent(s) know? Do they know I know what they know? Can I influence my opponent's choices such that we both get a better outcome? All these things will change my strategy.
I have a Palm Tungsten T with Bluetooth. There are several small Bluetooth-based headsets (or, if I'm in a less tech-minded mood, plugin headphones into the T|T and use the builtin mic).
The phone I want is stripped down to very little... A small black box that has Bluetooth and perhaps a numeric keypad for quick dialing if the Palm is not at hand (where it should always be). I don't really want to know I'm carrying it.
Or even an SD card that I shove into the Palm T|T. Then the "phone" doesn't need to provide its own power or Bluetooth; it leeches from and funnels through the Palm.
Yup, got one a few months ago. Got it through godaddy.com and while it's more expensive than other domains, it wasn't that expensive. I haven't started using the web addr yet, but I currently do use the email forwarding (setup through godaddy) for more and more personal mail.
I got it strictly for personal use, because it's easy for friends and family to remember, and I assumed it to be stable. Bad assumption; hopefully it will work out.
Ignoring issues of comparing Apples to oranges...
I expect the multi-processor PowerMac was chosen because there aren't any single-proc that go much over 1GHz, while the P4 is at 3GHz. I also understand the author was using current machines and so did not go with an older 1GHz P# (which would probably have included other older components).
Can anyone with knowledge on Apple's multiprocessor tech and the software in question comment on whether said software would have effectively used both processors, if at all?
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Let's try it this way.
1/9 = 0.111... as you have said. This can be easily demonstrated with long division.
2/9 = 0.222... Again, easily demonstrated with long division.
And we continue...
3/9 = 0.333...
4/9 = 0.444...
5/9 = 0.555...
6/9 = 0.666...
7/9 = 0.777...
8/9 = 0.888...
And now...
9/9 = 0.999...
Numbers are values, not processes. The operations we as humans or computers perform to approximate or determine the values are processes, but the numbers themselves are not.
You acknowledge that "you can never get to the end of an infinite number", then make your case against the proof based on getting to the end and placing a zero there. That is FAIL.
You fail at recognizing the difference between 0.999 and 0.999...
You fail at subtraction.
1 - .111... is not equal to .999...
Try this: .1 = .9 .11 = .89 .111 = .889 .111... = .888...
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Just... one... more... turn... ! arghstupidillfixyouandyourdamncannons
More things to dump into the landfills...
Can someone *please* put Microsoft out of our misery?
I like rolling over cats.
Wake me when the Halo MMORPG is ready to go.
I think probably all of these have been listed already, and boardgamegeek.com is a good place to go. I'll just a couple more votes for a few of my favorites:
* Puerto Rico
* San Juan (kinda a faster paced, simpler, less direct-competition version of Puerto Rico)
* Carcassonne
* Chinatown (not in print in US; had to get this imported)
* Bohnanza
Unknown source? Try St Ignatius of Loyola.
What I do care about, in my situation, is relative different. I have a new laptop with a vga out hooked up to a CRT monitor, and I extended the desktop to the CRT. (Makes for nice debugging/coding on one screen while reading docs/running app on the other.)
The problem is the difference between the two. My LCD is so much sharper than the CRT; not that the CRT is bad... it's actually still in great condition given its age. But the way the eyes focus on LCDs vs CRTs is different, and to look back and forth between the two gets tiring very quickly.
Add to that, my 20" CRT is something like 60+ pounds and causing my cheapo-glue-and-sawdust desk to bow a little... I finally decided to give the CRT to my younger brother and get myself a nice 20" LCD (the recently announced Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW), so hopefully the stress looking back and forth between the two monitors will be minimized.
Why not give http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/chef.html a try?
Hello World Souffle.
This recipe prints the immortal words "Hello world!", in a basically brute force way. It also makes a lot of food for one person.
Ingredients.
72 g haricot beans
101 eggs
108 g lard
111 cups oil
32 zucchinis
119 ml water
114 g red salmon
100 g dijon mustard
33 potatoes
Method.
Put potatoes into the mixing bowl. Put dijon mustard into the mixing bowl. Put lard into the mixing bowl. Put red salmon into the mixing bowl. Put oil into the mixing bowl. Put water into the mixing bowl. Put zucchinis into the mixing bowl. Put oil into the mixing bowl. Put lard into the mixing bowl. Put lard into the mixing bowl. Put eggs into the mixing bowl. Put haricot beans into the mixing bowl. Liquefy contents of the mixing bowl. Pour contents of the mixing bowl into the baking dish.
Serves 1.
...like me that just thinks SETI is a waste of time and money? Anyone else who believes that there are no aliens?
Bruce: Is your name not Bruce?
Michael: No, it's Michael.
Bruce: That's going to cause a little confusion.
Bruce: Mind if we call you "Bruce" to keep it clear?
Bruce: Gentlemen, I think we better start the faculty meeting. Before we start, though, I'd like to ask the padre for a prayer.
Bruce: Oh Lord, we beseech Thee, Amen!!
All: Amen!
Bruce: Crack tube!
Hell, the whole gaming industry is making gigantic mistakes left and right. Less and less original and decent stuff is getting published, while more and more licensed schlock is being shoved down our throats. (Not that all licensed titles are crap, but how many can you name that were decent? No, The Matrix game was crap.)
It's all about the money, now, not about the game. I'm playing fewer video games now and playing more quality strategy board games. And I'm not talking simply about Monopoly and Risk, but very good games like Puerto Rico, Bohnanza, Carcasonne, Settlers of Catan, and others.
Zoe is an interesting take on email, by doing "for email... what Google did for the web". It acts as email server/client/search engine all in one.
I think it still needs some work, but it looks promising.
Check it out here: http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj/binprefixes.html
This lesson was brough to you today by the letters S, I and it's metric dammit!
I do some of the more "common" things (such as piano playing, particularly ragtime music), but I suppose the less-common thing I spend a lot of time on is doing stained glass.
Mostly the stuff I've done are things for birthday and Christmas gifts -- it beats crappy mall wandering! I've made all sorts of stuff from simple little hanging window decorations, to planters, small windows, mirrors, lamps and lanterns....
It requires a fair amount of patience, but it's a very peaceful and relaxing hobby.
Most of my stuff so far, I've done from existing patterns, but I'm starting to do some original stuff.
Yup, some of the German board games are great! I'll be getting Puerto Rico myself fairly soon.
Others I've played and enjoyed (some certainly more than others): Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, Torres, Euphrates & Tigris, Munchkin, Fist of Dragonstones, Ra.....
My username on Boardgamegeek is 'mattmoss', so you can check out my collection for yourself.
Game Theory (GT) is a mathematical field all about choices: given a set of knowledge, build a set of choices that will lead to the greatest expected outcome.
GT can be applied to games, since games generally consist of a set of choices. But the term is more often heard in economic circles: stock market, insurance calculations, portfolio planning... But don't limit it to that either. GT can be applied to most any sort of competition, such as competition for food sources between predator species, or trying to find the shortest/quickest way through the lines at a supermarket.
A number of different factors influence your choices. How much information do I know? How much information does my opponent(s) know? Do they know I know what they know? Can I influence my opponent's choices such that we both get a better outcome? All these things will change my strategy.
http://www.cs.geneseo.edu/math-thinking/
I have a Palm Tungsten T with Bluetooth. There are several small Bluetooth-based headsets (or, if I'm in a less tech-minded mood, plugin headphones into the T|T and use the builtin mic).
The phone I want is stripped down to very little... A small black box that has Bluetooth and perhaps a numeric keypad for quick dialing if the Palm is not at hand (where it should always be). I don't really want to know I'm carrying it.
Or even an SD card that I shove into the Palm T|T. Then the "phone" doesn't need to provide its own power or Bluetooth; it leeches from and funnels through the Palm.
Gimme gimme gimme...
Yup, got one a few months ago. Got it through godaddy.com and while it's more expensive than other domains, it wasn't that expensive. I haven't started using the web addr yet, but I currently do use the email forwarding (setup through godaddy) for more and more personal mail.
I got it strictly for personal use, because it's easy for friends and family to remember, and I assumed it to be stable. Bad assumption; hopefully it will work out.
Ignoring issues of comparing Apples to oranges... I expect the multi-processor PowerMac was chosen because there aren't any single-proc that go much over 1GHz, while the P4 is at 3GHz. I also understand the author was using current machines and so did not go with an older 1GHz P# (which would probably have included other older components). Can anyone with knowledge on Apple's multiprocessor tech and the software in question comment on whether said software would have effectively used both processors, if at all?