Comment Re:World News brought to you by a /. poll (Score 1) 292
whats the world series?
Some kind of sporting event where only a single country enters.
When did Canada and the US become one country?
'World series' is a silly name.
Agreed.
whats the world series?
Some kind of sporting event where only a single country enters.
When did Canada and the US become one country?
'World series' is a silly name.
Agreed.
How many more lines are left on the list?
We've got past the "it's not warming at all" stage.
So next up is "it may be warming, but it's not us" then "ok, it's us, but we can't/shouldn't do anything about it" and eventually "it was us but it's too late." What comes after that?
How do we make money off of it? That's what most conservatives have been thinking for quite a while now. Consider the prices of agricultural land as an indicator.
And what many liberals have already been making money off of for some time now. Consider carbon credits. Scumbags will always find a way to cash in on a crisis no matter which side of the aisle they are on, or between.
This can't be a coincidence. If you convert 147 to hex you get 93. You can then subtract the 50 (the number of strips on the American flag) from 93 (decimal) and you have 43. Then subtract 20 (This number is represented in Hebrew by the letter caph, in form of opened hand, to seize and hold.) and you get 23! See, the Illuminati are real!
My understanding is that Hogel is just a Voxel with additional information - specifically, information about how it should appear from different viewing angles. For example, making a building "hide" behind another building, rather than being fully translucent, would require Hogels, not just Voxels.
Voxels are also used in 3D medical imaging such as CT and MRI. There's more than spacial location attached to those. Information is encoded to allow for programs to know what type of material was imaged. This allows the user to remove skeletal structures from the image. By doing this you can change (on the fly) if a structure is transparent, translucent, or opaque. I'm not sure I see how this is different.
"4D" is 3D with certain immersive effects, such as moving seats, a spray of water to simulate being splashed, something in the chair that simulates something touching you from behind, etc. One that I've seen has a rubber hose that they shoot out between your feet to simulate a snake crawling under you.
Length, Width, Depth, Time... Moving seats/water spray/"a rubber hose that they shoot out between your feet to simulate a snake crawling under you."
I guess I am getting old when, "a rubber hose that they shoot out between your feet to simulate a snake crawling under you" counts as a dimension on a "nerd" website.
Now get your motherfucking rubber-hose-snakes-dimension off my motherfucking lawn!
If you memorize up to the first zero in pi, you can navigate the circumference of the universe in a perfect circle and when you get to the end of the circle (based on the digits of pi you memorized) you'll be off by less than the width of a human hair.
To put numbers on that.
pi ~= 3.14159265358979323846264338327950
The first zero in pi appears 33 digits in. Memorising digits up to this first zero gives an error of less than 10^(-32). The radius of the known universe is 4.6 * 10^10, light years, and since a light year is close to 10^16m, the radius r is about 4.6 x 10^26m
Now, the circumerence is 2 pi r, so the error will be of the order of 2 r 10^-32. With r=4.6x10^26, this gives an error of 9.2 x 10^-6 m or essentially around 10^-5m or 10 micrometers. The width of a human hair is about 100 micrometers, so no, there is no real practical purpose to calculating digits beyond this point.
Not true. Back in school I used to win free beer by betting people that I could recite Pi to 50 digits.
It's a shame about what has become of the tea party. However I fear the same is happening to OWS by the left wing. Personally I'd like to see it blow up in both of the wing nuts faces and see the tea party and OWS find common ground.
...That's the real story here.
yeah, I just reposted your post as mine. whaddaya gonna do, sue me?
Nope. You're more than welcome to do so. Please feel free to re-post it as much as you wish. You may want to check my spelling though as you probably care more about type-Os than I do.
while others are merely vulgar incompetents who can't spell moron.
Neither is really true, is it?
Yes, both are true. I'm merely a fucking vulgar incompetent proof reader that is prone to making type-Os...
...And IP lawyers are fucking morons that should all be fed to sharks.
...That's the real story here.
I'm going to have to go with input device, my Logitech Trackman wheel. I bought its predecessor originally for $100 back in the early 90's and have made sure I have one on every computer I use since.
But every time I upgrade some component it seems like a great thing. Going from monochrome to color monitors was fantastic. Then from a 15" to a 21" to dual 21" monitors was great. I like the extra screen real-estate and desk space with my current dual 24" flat panels, but I still think the dual Eizo CRT's looked better.
Going from a crappy VGA to a Matrox Millennium was a phenomenal improvement for 2D. Adding a Voodoo FX card took Quake and Hexen to a whole new level. Obviously every new card since has been a step up, but nothing as extreme as what those two cards were.
Having a system running on 4 Megs of RAM and going to 16 and then 32 megs was insanely noticeable. But these days unless you have a seriously under built machine, RAM doesn't have quite the same impact.
I noticed a big difference between my old 5400 HD and the Micropolis 7,200 RPM SCSI drives I upgraded to. Also a difference in decibels. When I went from 15,000 RPM SCSI to SSD, I noticed a difference, but not the golly gee wiz I was expecting.
I've had gigabit copper in my house for over a decade, so my memory has kind of faded about the jump from 10 to 100 to gig. But I never tried moving 5 GB files around on those very often either.
What about print quality and speed going from dot matrix and daisy wheel printers to modern laser printers. It's funny how we've long surpassed "photo realistic" ink jet printing. That seemed to be the big marketing buzz in the mid to late 90's. Scanner speeds have gotten dramatically better too.
Probably my second favorite upgrade is between dial-up and broad band internet. Frankly that dwarfs just about everything else.
Wow, T.Rex was a bit of a fatty.
On the off chance you ever meet one, I'd advise you keep that to yourself.
Just to compare to modern carnivores, I think the biggest is the kodiak bear, and it's about ONE ton.
Actually kodiak bears are tied with the polar bear and both are estimated to have a max. peak weight of 1500 lbs. for males. Still, it's pretty damn small compared to 9 tons.
and keep thinking there is a difference between people with a "D" or an "R"
There is a difference, just not one you've noticed. I'm no fan of the Democrat party, but this whole "they're both the same!!!!" is disingenuous at best, signs of incipient retardation at worst.
They both seem to be more interested in accumulating more power for themselves than doing what's right for the country. Granted they both have different ways of doing it. But they seem to be equally idiotic and are looking for the same outcome for themselves.
Just look at the Tea Party and the Wall Street protesters.To paraphrase Nancy Pelosi: The Teabaggers were corporate funded brown-shirt Nazi racists, similar to the violent groups of the 60's and 70's. The Wall street people are just a great grass roots group of patriots. If you ask a republican you will get just about the complete opposite description of each of those groups.
In all honesty the republicans are starting to look slightly (very slightly) less insane at the moment. However when you have two groups that are full-on bat-shit crazy, I'm not too sure how much that slight difference really matters. I've rarely voted for either of the major two parties, and I don't think I voted for anyone who currently holds a federal office.
The bush administration was way worst.
Way worst [sic] than what? Oh, never mind. Go put on your Guy Fawkes mask back on and keep thinking there is a difference between people with a "D" or an "R" next to their name. Citizen protections have, at times, been much worse prior to Bush. (Un)fortunately "We the People" used to be much more naive in the past and believed everything our gov't told us.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
