Comment Re:Wong. (Score 2) 540
kids have been getting exponentially dumber every year...
Especially in maths, it would appear.
Comment Re:The UK Government Are Massively Out Of Touch (Score 1, Interesting) 191
I don't see why his being an alleged criminal means they aren't allowed to simply listen to him.
Do they put their fingers in their ears when they're presiding over a trial?
Actually, that might explain a few things...
Comment It even rhymes (Score 4, Funny) 61
Electrolytes low? Get Brawndo!
Comment It has been a tremendous week for Star Wars fans. (Score 4, Funny) 150
It has been a tremendous week for Star Wars fans.
One got a job and one got laid?
Not the same one, obviously. Let's not step into the realms of fantasy.
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.
Comment Re: So (Score 2) 229
I think you should have included "I heard that" , "this TV show I watched said" or "so they say" "somewhere in your post.
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.
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 It's that twat with the upside down head again. (Score 3, Informative) 157
It's not n^2 + n, it's n^2 + c.
That's to say, the number you multiply by itself isn't the same as the number you add.
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.
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?
Star Wars Battlefront Game Trailer Is So Realistic It Looks Like Movie Footage 150
MojoKid writes It has been a tremendous week for Star Wars fans. First we got to see Han Solo and Chewbacca make an emotional reappearance in the newest Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer (the second official trailer Disney has put out). Now, Electronic Arts is treating us to a visual smorgasbord of cinema-quality footage showing the forthcoming Star Wars Battlefront game. Battlefront will support to up 40 players divided between the Rebel Alliance and Galactic Empire, all shooting it out and playing with some of the coolest Star Wars vehicles and weapons around. We're talking jetpacks, AT-AT war machines, AT-STs, TIE Fighters, X-wings, and more. Though the trailer allegedly shows actually "game engine footage," it's questionable whether or not it's actual gameplay or just pre-rendered cut scenes from the game engine. Either way, it's still pretty impressive.
Comment Re:posting from 1986? (Score 1) 293
Have you got one of those adaptors so you can play a CD walkman via the cassette player?
I have, somewhere. I thought they were the best thing ever when they came out.
Comment Oblig (Score 1) 276
I'd like it to have an integrated init system. Or the other way round. Whichever you prefer, Herr Poettering - you're the boss.
