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Comment Re:Help me out here a little... (Score 3, Interesting) 533

The properly handle the problem Tesla Motors needs to start producing home batteries and not just batteries for cars. This will help them and help us. It would be logical for Tesla Motors to come up with a complete kit ready to be installed, panels,batteries, inverters and obviously a direct socket to plug in a electric vehicle for power in either direction.

Comment Re:Render farm? (Score 1) 150

Rule of games, the better the graphics the worse the game play, the better the graphics the buggier the product upon release, cut scenes are often claimed to be part of the game. So the game engine produces the cut scenes at maximum capability on a very high powered machine over with minutes of processing to create seconds of imaging ie really, really shitty frame rates. The empty hype of modern corporate marketing. I'll wait until a year after release and let everyone else deal with B$.

Comment Re:Stupid (Score 3, Interesting) 591

The two problems with the method, which is incidentally why it was not brought up, it is a very accessible means of suicide and that state is now promoting it and of course an effective murder method, again which the state is now advertising. Quite the blunder, just so it can keep killing people.

Comment Re:Look, he's been consistent (Score 1) 12

He has been exactly what everyone who paid any attention expected.

So then you were either expecting him to be more conservative than Reagan, or not paying attention. Which was it?

I will admit that while I was not optimistic enough to expect a great heroic liberal leap forward from his administration, I was not expecting a great conservative fall backwards, either. If he did something during his campaign to clue us in to his intent to turn Reaganomics up to 12 (after seeing his predecessor fail at 11), I missed that.

Comment Re:It's that twat with the upside down head again. (Score 2) 157

The article isn't defining the sequence, per se; it's listing elements in the sequence calculated solely from the initial complex number.

You can't do it from one complex number.

If what you said was true then why does every implementation - and I've written at least two[1] - use two complex variables? And why is there such a thing as a Julia set, the difference being whether it's n (should be z anyway) or c that represents the point on the Argand diagram you're going to colour?

http://www.fractaldesign.net/F...

Whatever the clickbaiting hipster twat tried to say, Penrose explained it 27 million times more clearly. I read that bit of tENM just today, as it happens.

[1] Sinclair basic, MS Pascal for Dos.

Crime

Oklahoma Says It Will Now Use Nitrogen Gas As Its Backup Method of Execution 591

schwit1 writes Yesterday, Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin signed into law a bill that approves the use of nitrogen gas for executions in the state. The method, which would effectively asphyxiate death row inmates by forcing them to breathe pure nitrogen through a gas mask, is meant to be the primary alternative to lethal injection, the Washington Post reports.

Fallin and other supporters of the procedure say it's pain-free and effective, noting that the nitrogen would render inmates unconscious within ten seconds and kill them in minutes. It's also cheap: state representatives say the method only requires a nitrogen tank and a gas mask, but financial analysts say its impossible to give precise figures, the Post reports.

Oklahoma's primary execution method is still lethal injection, but the state's procedure is currently under review by the Supreme Court. Earlier this week, Tennessee suspended executions statewide following challenges to its own lethal injection protocol.

Comment Re:Unless (Score 1) 301

You either replied to the wrong post or you aren't looking hard enough. Here's my nomination: http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...

You could also search for any posts containing "Anti Social" or "UK Libel". It's amazing how many people are qualified to practice law in countries they couldn't point to on a map, and sometimes can't even spell the name of.

Math

Mandelbrot Zooms Now Surpass the Scale of the Observable Universe 157

StartsWithABang writes You're used to real numbers: that is, numbers that can be expressed as a decimal, even if it's an arbitrarily long, non-repeating decimal. There are also complex numbers, which are numbers that have a real part and also an imaginary part. The imaginary part is just like the real part, but is also multiplied by i, or the square root of -1. It's a simple definition: the Mandelbrot set consists of every possible complex number, n, where the sequence n, n^2 + n, (n^2 + n)^2 + n, etc.—where each new term is the prior term, squared, plus n—does not go to either positive or negative infinity. The scale of zoom visualizations now goes well past the limits of the observable Universe, with no signs of loss of complexity at all.

Comment Re:posting from 1986? (Score 1) 293

MD is MiniDisk, right? True, they were smaller but the quality was a bit poo, IIRC. But they could record, at a time when CD burners were doublepluscrazy dollarpounds.

Size isn't really an issue in a car though. I drove Route 66 in a U-Haul van with my Panasonic player - bought a quarter of the way in when my fucking awful Sony did the decent thing and died - sitting in the auxiliary storage module. That's a crate on the passenger seat held in place by the seatbelt.

Them was the days, aye...

Comment Re:Unless (Score 1) 301

anyone calling you a 'murder'[sic] would be at risk of suit a defamation suit from your estate [...] the normal protections afforded to an unconvinced[sic] individual

Ask yourself about Jimmy Savile & Cyril Smith (and J Edgar Hoover). Never heard of them? Well that must be why. Nobody dare mention them.

What are these student loans you want help with? Were they for a J.D. at Columbia Pacific University?

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