notpete
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Should there be some more brackets?
ie ( lim( 1 + 1/2n ) )^2 == lim (( 1+ 1/2n)^2n)
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I am sorry you Nvidia buffs
Who? Me? I've got a 9500Pro
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Come to my parents, DA - you won't go hungry. We're still eatng the stuff on the 25th and 26th of January. Turkey con carne, sweet and sour turkey, turkey au vin ... I shudder to think what's on the menu this year.
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Maybe I'm just getting old, but all I want for Christmas is ..
- Yes, that's all I want for Christmas. A little peace, and not too much turkey.
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I must apologise, I didn't see the DMW bit. I must admit, I'm feeling a bit out of touch; I didn't even know there was a DMW. The other posters know what's at, though
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Sort of; they might want money more than before, but not necessarily want more money than before. Sorry, Matt, to clarify: what I was referring to above was that when you're stuck living on government handouts you won't wait around for a job earning more money than you were on before (I took a paycut to get a new job). At some point, you need to pay for rent and food, and government handouts don't always stretch that far. Most jobs will.
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Or maybe the Geforce FX 5950 Ultra? I'll bet a jam doughnut it's OpenGL performance beats ATIs, even if DX performance doesn't.
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Let's see... In a nutshell, the acquisition of knowledge, friends and power (over my life; I'm not going in for politics )
Hmm. Reading that, I'm starting to think I've lost my way somewhat - I'm just in it for the money nowadays
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Oh, yes, 100 posts. Probably about 10 times as many posts as I've ever made on all other forums combined. Admittedly most of them were rambling technical posts over in the programming department, but I don't care.
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Same as almost anyone my age, I guess: need to pay rent and bills, buy food. Need to travel regularly ensures I'll not do the easiest possible job for minimum wage.
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Wow, a whole load of symbolism : I admit I've never watched it closely enough, or known enough background (eg the Bible) to recognise most of these references.
How much of this symbolism do you think is deliberate (placed by the Wachowski brothers) or inferred (decided by the fans)? Some of it seems open to interpretation, for example : "Mobil Ave". Maybe here the reference was to the gas/oil company (the population's reliance upon oil industry?), and not an anagram. Another interesting point is the number of symbolic references in the second and third films, compared to the first. Did the Wachowski brothers realise that they had a 'cult' film, and did this deliberately? Was the symbolism planned before the success of the first film?
Neat thread.
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whos rich?
notpete
Aye, it's me - thanks, FG. Thank you all for the comments; nice to know our work is appreciated.
Since I'm here, I'll just echo Wijit's comments a bit. Any screenshots we release are always just a snapshot of what the development team are doing at any point; and so they're usually out-of-date more-or-less as soon as we've released them. They don't really show any developments in other, non-graphics related areas, either: rest assured progress is being made on all fronts at the minute. Engine-wise, Jan (aka janwas) and Poya (um, aka Poya) deserve the credit for getting the engine to the point it's at now. I'm just here adding the bells-and-whistles and user interface bits.
But keep an eye out for new screenshots; I'll prod Wijit into putting fresh screenshots up as the engine progresses
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Here's one I like:
a(0) = 0
a(1) = 1
a(2) = 2
a(3) = 3
a(4) = 4
a(5) = 5
a(6) = 6
a(10) = 604810
Oops, forgot about this. Too busy writing alpha-map code
.svede: Sort of on the write lines with a(10) = 10!/3! + 10 = 604810, but it's time for a solution.
Solution: a(x) = x + x(x-1)(x-2)(x-3)(x-4)(x-5)(x-6)
This was unnecessarily evil; my apologies. It's interesting in the sense that the function displays completely different behaviour over different ranges; monotonically increasing between x=0 and x=6, increasing factorially (I think) at x=7 and over. I've started wondering if there's some practical application for this kind of construct in programming languages that don't support 'if' statements (for implementing functions that behave differently over different ranges). Rather code painful to write, I suspect, although that's probably true of writing any code in a language without 'if's.
I first heard of this function back in university; a professor wrote "0,1,2,3,4,5,6 ..." on the blackboard and asked for the next number in the sequence. No hints; everyone failed. There was probably an important point he was trying to make that I didn't grasp. Something along the lines of "Assume Nothing", perhaps. I wasn't convinced: this just seemed like maths for the sake of it. I dropped out of university shortly after learning this; even with hindsight, I'm still not sure whether to be glad that I did. Obviously, I've missed my chance to learn more nuggets of information like this, and I never will learn the proof that, mathematically speaking, there's only 17 kinds of wallpaper. Shame.
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Depends on circumstance. If it's something that's doomed to failure, I'm very much a follower : I see no point in taking grief for someone else's bad idea. On the other side, if it's something destined to succeed, I'll try and fasttrack into a position of leadership to help it along the way
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Um, well, yes. Anyone 61-99 isn't accounted for, and there are some members that age. Also, some people appear in multiple age groups. For example, if someone is 21 they could be 18-21 or 21-25.
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Interestingly enough, To Kill a Mockingbird is actually in the Top 21 of the BBCs The Big Read, a quest to find the nation's best loved book. Never read it myself, though.
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24. Man, I feel old being at the top of your age ranking.
Indeed. 28.
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Pretty much anything that comes from Prince Philip's mouth. For example: "Do you know they now do eating dogs for anorexics?", said to a blind woman with a guide dog. Perhaps not so much stupid as grossly insensitive.
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How about "levels" of membership? Obviously here we have forums dedicated to staff only, but I'm thinking of a scheme operating at a more general level. Forumers that post more regularly get access to a higher level forum than most; so you won't lose anonymonity at higher levels - because fewer people post at higher level forums, you'll recognise the names of those that do post. As the forum grows, the number of levels of forums increase - effectively forming a pyramid of forums, with only the most frequent posters having access to the top most forums.
Having said all that, I'm not a major forum user; this could easily have a lot of drawbacks.
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watch out with adaware if you're using kazaa, it will also remove all the spyware that comes with it, so kazaa won't work anymore. Better use Kazaa Lite instead.
Aye, ditched Kazaa in favor of Kazaa Lite a while ago. Never occurred to me using it would stop other programs working, though. I used to use GoZilla, which I think is driven by spyware : switch to Download Accelerator, which isn't, as far as I know.
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Visual Studio 6, Windows Media Player.
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Won't Ad-Aware get rid of this stuff? Think there's a link to it in the "Free Stuff" bit of the Computer Desk.
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Where's Prolog? You've forgotten Prolog! Give me my Prolog NOW!
lol. C++.
Ah, the great forgotten languages: I feel pains of nostalgia just thinking about Smalltalk. No, sorry, got that wrong: I feel nostalgic just thinking about the pain of Smalltalk.C++ again, now.
Mathematical Proof
in Hall of Intellectuals
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Hmm ..
lim(1 + 1/(2n)) = 1, as 1/(2n)->0 as n->infinity.
1^x = 1 for all (real) x.
so (lim(1 + 1/(2n))^n)^2 = (1^n)^2 = 1
and lim(1+ 1/(2n))^(2n) = 1^(2n) = 1
Right? I'm still thinking brackets need shuffling
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