Interesting... I always wondered why Alexander was so famous, given that he died at 26(?) and his empire broke up soon after. Of course there had to be more to it (trade routes and dissemination of culture).
Now that'd be interesting to know how these storms work on a two planet year cycle as our monsoons and other weather phenomenon seem to primarily operate on single planet year cycles.
A Saturn year is 29.46 Earth years, so one Saturn year ago, Earth may not have been in a good position for us to observe the storms. Maybe.
Wow, I just fulfulled my ultimate 12 year-old's fantasy and played it. I can see how you could bump your 16k expansion pack. It was a bit terrifying seeing it approach and knowing that your next keystroke only had a one in three chance of doing anything (but that could just have been my emulator).
Being 11 at time I could only dream of having a ZX81, let alone its 16K expansion. In a magazine I got there was an ad for a 3D maze game, where a tyrannosaurus rex would run at you in full 3D. Did anyone play this? Were you terrified?;-)
Another downside for older gamers is that the 'costs' of spending lots of time on games are higher--e.g., it can interfere with work (and income), can cause serious marital problems, and so on. I know a man in his early 30s whose marriage is undergoing severe stress largely because of his obsession with HalfLife 2. In my own case, I have from time to time simply thrown away games because I felt I was wasting too much time playing them and not enough time on other projects (books, etc.).
Yes, since I got engaged, there somehow seems to be less time when I'm comfortable playing WoW. I'm working a bit more to save for the wedding and honeymoon and I need the sleep more. It's a shame (for my dwarf warrior), but it's all part of being more responsible I suppose.
But wouldn't it be nice if a character could be gay-friendly without it being an issue. In WoW, gender is not an issue (male night-elves can even shadowmeld these days), neither is religion, as paladins and warlocks are equally valid, despite deriving their power from very different sources. Women's rights and freedom of religion have been fought over by the progressives and conservatives for hundreds of years until we have the situation we have now.
In an ideal World of Warcraft, on the few occasions that sexual orientation were relevant:/flirt "Haha mister, I know I'm a fine looking lady, but I'm afraid you're barking up the wrong tree:-) "...no one would bat an eyelid.
Yes, if the dark matter is concentrated (by gravity) in the middle of galaxies it may not lose its energy as quickly as the cosmological background radiation.
I have one character on a roleplaying server. I made her a female dwarf so she would stand out from the crowd. She joined a dwarf-only guild which has been a lot of fun, more than any of my other characters. In the past few weeks she has come to the realisation that she prefers girls to boys. She hasn't told anyone yet, but may do so when she's a bit drunk at a guild function and one of the dwarvish lads starts to flirt with her.
What I will find interesting (hopefully) is her search for other lesbian characters in a not very (it would appear) gay-friendly environment, much as the older gay men I know made their way in the 60s and 70s. Gay and lesbian people I know in RL frequently lament that the boy or girl they like is straight, and WoW I imagine will give her endeavours a higher degree of difficulty. If she meets the right person, perhaps she would get married. The RP will hopefully allow a straight boy like me to experience life from another viewpoint. Occasional discrimination I would expect to be part of the journey, but overzealous GMs would not be very realistic in RP.
I've never considered the sexual orientation of any of my non-RP characters, as they're just me with a different look.
I really like Google, their philosophy, and their ethics.
Yes, its original philosophies seem to have survived the company's huge expansion mostly intact. Which means we should be able to trust Google at least in the short-mid term future.
Red, green and blue are bands in the whole spectrum of visible light. Perhaps the most a sensor could be asked to do theoretically would be to store the wavelength of every visible light photon that hit it (quantum uncertainty notwithstanding). This image would be very difficult to portray at its full quality, but approximations would still look very good.
[Semaphore] required operators and towers every 30 km (20 mi), and could only accommodate about two words per minute. This was useful to governments, but too expensive for most commercial uses other than commodity price information. Electric telegraphs were to reduce the cost of sending a message thirty-fold compared to semaphore.
Is is also considered that Guglielmo Marconi sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895. By 1899 he did it across the English Channel and in 1902 he radiotelegraphed the letter "S" across the Atlantic Ocean from England to Newfoundland.
The first wide-coverage telex network was implemented in Germany during the 1930s. The network was used to communicate within the government. At the then-blinding rate of 45.5 bits per second, up to 25 telex channels could share a single long-distance telephone channel, making telex the least expensive method of performing reliable long-distance communication.
In Germany alone, more than 400,000 telex lines remain in daily operation. Over most of the world, more than three million telex lines remain in use.
Telegrams were often used to confirm business dealings and, unlike e-mail, telegrams were commonly used to create binding legal documents for business dealings.
...perhaps because of this:
A major advantage of Telex was (is) that the receipt of the message by the recipient could be confirmed with a high degree of certainty by the "answerback". At the beginning of the message, the sender would transmit a WRU (who are you) code, and the recipient machine would automatically initiate a response which was usually encoded in a rotating drum with pegs, much like a music box. The position of the pegs sent an unambiguous identifying code to the sender, so the sender was sure that he was connected to to the correct recipient. The WRU code would also be sent at the end of the message, so a correct response would confirm that the connection had remained unbroken during the message transmission. This gave Telex a major advantage over other unreliable forms of communications such as telephone and fax.
With the amount of publicity that every minor vulnerability seems to get, there surely would be a lot of kudos in devising the first real, big, Mac virus. There must be quite a few people working on it, so far unsuccessfully.
If 'now' means 'by now' then it should probably be 'have learnt' in common English usage. If now is being used ideomatically as a filler eg. "Now... where was I", 'you learnt' is fine.
DSP was briefly mentioned in TFA. These days, most audio is recorded in 24 bits or more, but needs to be rounded to 16 bits to master on to CD. Simple truncation can cause harmonic sounds at low levels, so a high frequency (generally inaudible) noise is added to the signal. This is called dithering, and can make audible signals that would be truncated to zero. I've heard it happen. Even stranger is that the added noise peaks at 25-30dB louder than sound you can hear.
The numbers they give are 21% of online men saying they visit adult websites and 5% of women.
Assuming 10% of men are too dumb to find porn, that would mean that for every man admitting to visiting adult websites there are 3.3 men not admitting to it. A rate of honesty among women would mean 21% of women visit adult websites, +/- 16%
Last week while factorizing random 5 digit numbers with a calculator (very bored at work) I decided that if a number has two prime factors it can't have any other factors. Is this true, and is the mathematics behind it obvious or complicated?
If Filefront and the others are distributing the movie to whoever wants it, is there some legal distinction between this and file-sharing? It would save the distributors lots of bandwidth. Even Blizzard releases its patches in a distributed way now.
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Interesting... I always wondered why Alexander was so famous, given that he died at 26(?) and his empire broke up soon after. Of course there had to be more to it (trade routes and dissemination of culture).
A Saturn year is 29.46 Earth years, so one Saturn year ago, Earth may not have been in a good position for us to observe the storms. Maybe.
Oops, sorry about that. On my work browser (IE 5.1, MacOS 9,2) there's no preview button and the submit button is only four pixels high.
The plan is to build a fence across the Cobourg Peninsula, so that a 6km fence will isolate 2207 square kilometres from the cane toads. It's a pity about the other millions of square kilometres of relatively unspoiled bush up there.
Wow, I just fulfulled my ultimate 12 year-old's fantasy and played it. I can see how you could bump your 16k expansion pack. It was a bit terrifying seeing it approach and knowing that your next keystroke only had a one in three chance of doing anything (but that could just have been my emulator).
Being 11 at time I could only dream of having a ZX81, let alone its 16K expansion. In a magazine I got there was an ad for a 3D maze game, where a tyrannosaurus rex would run at you in full 3D. Did anyone play this? Were you terrified? ;-)
Yes, since I got engaged, there somehow seems to be less time when I'm comfortable playing WoW. I'm working a bit more to save for the wedding and honeymoon and I need the sleep more. It's a shame (for my dwarf warrior), but it's all part of being more responsible I suppose.
Flamebait but so true...
But wouldn't it be nice if a character could be gay-friendly without it being an issue. In WoW, gender is not an issue (male night-elves can even shadowmeld these days), neither is religion, as paladins and warlocks are equally valid, despite deriving their power from very different sources. Women's rights and freedom of religion have been fought over by the progressives and conservatives for hundreds of years until we have the situation we have now.
/flirt :-) " ...no one would bat an eyelid.
In an ideal World of Warcraft, on the few occasions that sexual orientation were relevant:
"Haha mister, I know I'm a fine looking lady, but I'm afraid you're barking up the wrong tree
Yes, my leather belt of trouser support was purchased ten seasons ago, and while it has served me well, I feel the need to have it replaced.
Yes, if the dark matter is concentrated (by gravity) in the middle of galaxies it may not lose its energy as quickly as the cosmological background radiation.
I have one character on a roleplaying server. I made her a female dwarf so she would stand out from the crowd. She joined a dwarf-only guild which has been a lot of fun, more than any of my other characters. In the past few weeks she has come to the realisation that she prefers girls to boys. She hasn't told anyone yet, but may do so when she's a bit drunk at a guild function and one of the dwarvish lads starts to flirt with her.
What I will find interesting (hopefully) is her search for other lesbian characters in a not very (it would appear) gay-friendly environment, much as the older gay men I know made their way in the 60s and 70s. Gay and lesbian people I know in RL frequently lament that the boy or girl they like is straight, and WoW I imagine will give her endeavours a higher degree of difficulty. If she meets the right person, perhaps she would get married. The RP will hopefully allow a straight boy like me to experience life from another viewpoint. Occasional discrimination I would expect to be part of the journey, but overzealous GMs would not be very realistic in RP.
I've never considered the sexual orientation of any of my non-RP characters, as they're just me with a different look.
Yes, its original philosophies seem to have survived the company's huge expansion mostly intact. Which means we should be able to trust Google at least in the short-mid term future.
Red, green and blue are bands in the whole spectrum of visible light. Perhaps the most a sensor could be asked to do theoretically would be to store the wavelength of every visible light photon that hit it (quantum uncertainty notwithstanding). This image would be very difficult to portray at its full quality, but approximations would still look very good.
...from the the Wikipedia page on telegraphy:
...perhaps because of this:
With the amount of publicity that every minor vulnerability seems to get, there surely would be a lot of kudos in devising the first real, big, Mac virus. There must be quite a few people working on it, so far unsuccessfully.
Someone probably got scared watching Zoolander. But a frighteningly high proportion of the population probably is too stupid to pump their own gas.
If 'now' means 'by now' then it should probably be 'have learnt' in common English usage. If now is being used ideomatically as a filler eg. "Now... where was I", 'you learnt' is fine.
DSP was briefly mentioned in TFA. These days, most audio is recorded in 24 bits or more, but needs to be rounded to 16 bits to master on to CD. Simple truncation can cause harmonic sounds at low levels, so a high frequency (generally inaudible) noise is added to the signal. This is called dithering, and can make audible signals that would be truncated to zero. I've heard it happen. Even stranger is that the added noise peaks at 25-30dB louder than sound you can hear.
Assuming 10% of men are too dumb to find porn, that would mean that for every man admitting to visiting adult websites there are 3.3 men not admitting to it. A rate of honesty among women would mean 21% of women visit adult websites, +/- 16%
I was planning to buy The Sims 2 (the other mac game) but ended up levelling my pally instead.
Wow, this is an awesome site for those of us who want to know mathematical facts, even if we could never understand the proofs.
Oops, I meant if a number is the product of two primes is there a proof it has no other factors. Sorry, it's too late at night here
Last week while factorizing random 5 digit numbers with a calculator (very bored at work) I decided that if a number has two prime factors it can't have any other factors. Is this true, and is the mathematics behind it obvious or complicated?
If Filefront and the others are distributing the movie to whoever wants it, is there some legal distinction between this and file-sharing? It would save the distributors lots of bandwidth. Even Blizzard releases its patches in a distributed way now.