Actually, now that I think of it, I don;t think this was here yesterday. I was probably just posted on the wrong day. Some people must be seeing it at the top, I would expect, since the trolls found it so fast.
Also, what is the minimun time between posts for 'normal' people. I have bad karma because I accidentally posted the same link as someone else two years ago, right when I joined, and nobody has moderated me since, and I have to wait for like 10 min or more between posts.
How the fuck is that insightful. Replace terrorists with criminals and mabye, but as it is, it's just xenophobia. 'Overseas' is not crawling with terrorists looking for freedom loving americans to suicide bomb.
the characters who wrote in and were described by the Bible would not consider religious faith to be "belief without evidence." Rather they wrote what they considered to be personal evidence
"Belief based on ignorance" would then be more appropriate.
Another good is example is the approximate inverse square root algorithm wikipedia link which uses non-obvious aspects of floating point representaion to rapidly calculate 1/sqrt(x). The function is short and simple, but without explanation, how many people would immediately know how it works ?
float invSqrt(float x)
{
float xhalf = 0.5f*x;
int i = *(int *)
i = 0x5f3759df - (i >> 1);
x = *(float *)
x = x * (1.5f - xhalf * x * x);
return x;
}
"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea.
They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall
mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by
small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is
clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you."
Since the patent was awarded two years ago and there has been no company news since then (never mind the fact that nobody has touched their website design), I get the feeling that it hasn't worked out for them as well as they thought it would.
Make a 'home license' for products like Office, etc. that costs $30, and keep the corporate licensing the same. In this way, people would be more apt to pay a few $ for the software instead of pirating, but no revenue would be lost from corporate sales. MS would be bound to make more money than they are now (I don't know a single non-corporate entity that has payed for Office)
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Actually, now that I think of it, I don;t think this was here yesterday. I was probably just posted on the wrong day. Some people must be seeing it at the top, I would expect, since the trolls found it so fast. Also, what is the minimun time between posts for 'normal' people. I have bad karma because I accidentally posted the same link as someone else two years ago, right when I joined, and nobody has moderated me since, and I have to wait for like 10 min or more between posts.
It seems like posting just became possible about 3 minutes ago (6:31 EST), based on your comment and three trolls being the only ones here.
How the fuck is that insightful. Replace terrorists with criminals and mabye, but as it is, it's just xenophobia. 'Overseas' is not crawling with terrorists looking for freedom loving americans to suicide bomb.
Another good is example is the approximate inverse square root algorithm wikipedia link which uses non-obvious aspects of floating point representaion to rapidly calculate 1/sqrt(x). The function is short and simple, but without explanation, how many people would immediately know how it works ?
float invSqrt(float x)
{
float xhalf = 0.5f*x;
int i = *(int *)
i = 0x5f3759df - (i >> 1);
x = *(float *)
x = x * (1.5f - xhalf * x * x);
return x;
}
"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you."
Since the patent was awarded two years ago and there has been no company news since then (never mind the fact that nobody has touched their website design), I get the feeling that it hasn't worked out for them as well as they thought it would.
Make a 'home license' for products like Office, etc. that costs $30, and keep the corporate licensing the same. In this way, people would be more apt to pay a few $ for the software instead of pirating, but no revenue would be lost from corporate sales. MS would be bound to make more money than they are now (I don't know a single non-corporate entity that has payed for Office)
Compare the map with the world coal fire distribution: http://www.gi.alaska.edu/~prakash/coalfires/global _distribution.html
http://www.sics.se/~adam/uip/
Does anyone have a list of the components used in the RetroZone NES Kit ?