Who would sell a Dreamcast at a *yard sale.* 0_0 Did he make a whole bunch of money, at least?
Don't recall, I was pretty young at the time.
And then we got an Xbox and my stepdad made the hilariously poor decision to introduce his 2nd grader stepson to the then-new Halo, and the rest is history.
I used to play video games a lot, but I never owned a Dreamcast. I was a Nintendo kid.
I know people who like Wolfmother so I think it is allowed.
You know, imaginary numbers can seem a little counter-intuitive, but they're really not all that complicated. I don't think the terms "complex number" and "imaginary number" help; they make them sound scarier than they are. If you visualize the real number line as the x-axis of a Cartesian plane, and the imaginary number line as the y-axis, imaginary numbers become pretty straightforward. In order to multiply a number by -1, you flip it onto the opposite side of the zero on the x-axis. In other words, you multiply by 180 degrees.
To multiply by the imaginary unit, so represented, you instead rotate it by 90 degrees. So 1*i=i. Obviously, i^2 (edit: stupid non-functional superscript) is -1. -1 multiplied by i is -i, as you'd expect, and -i multiplied by i takes you back to 1.
And a complex number is just an imaginary number added to or subtracted from a real number, and takes the form (a ± bi). The only thing especially difficult about them is that I'm not aware of any particularly easy or intuitive way to find the square root of a number, which is necessary if you want to figure out how big a complex number is (you have to use Pythagoras' theorem for that). But with a calculator, they're not so bad.
You know, imaginary numbers can seem a little counter-intuitive, but they're really not all that complicated. I don't think the terms "complex number" and "imaginary number" help; they make them sound scarier than they are. If you visualize the real number line as the x-axis of a Cartesian plane, and the imaginary number line as the y-axis, imaginary numbers become pretty straightforward. In order to multiply a number by -1, you flip it onto the opposite side of the zero on the x-axis. In other words, you multiply by 180 degrees.
To multiply by the imaginary unit, so represented, you instead rotate it by 90 degrees. So 1*i=i. Obviously, i^2 (edit: stupid non-functional superscript) is -1. -1 multiplied by i is -i, as you'd expect, and -i multiplied by i takes you back to 1.
And a complex number is just an imaginary number added to or subtracted from a real number, and takes the form (a ± bi). The only thing especially difficult about them is that I'm not aware of any particularly easy or intuitive way to find the square root of a number, which is necessary if you want to figure out how big a complex number is (you have to use Pythagoras' theorem for that). But with a calculator, they're not so bad.
I appreciate your attempts to explain, but this is really all quite Greek to me.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I really am quite bad at math. Most of "the fundamentals" were either never taught to me or taught to me very poorly. I can't even divide without a calculator.
I really am quite bad at math. Most of "the fundamentals" were either never taught to me or taught to me very poorly. I can't even divide without a calculator.
I am not particularly wonderful at maths, either. I can divide, but I'm not particularly quick at solving problems in my head. Most of this stuff comes with practice, though. Also, I meant to say "rotate by 180 degrees", not "multiply by 180 degrees". Sorry if that added to the confusion.
I assumed that most people learned Pythagoras and Cartesian coordinates in high school, but if you didn't learn all of those or didn't go into enough detail in them I can see how what I wrote would look like gobbledegook. It might help to have a graph in front of you.
It might also help to know a little of the history of the concept; the entire point in imaginary numbers is to have something that when multiplied by itself equals a negative. Obviously, neither imaginary numbers nor negative numbers are things you encounter in nature, but they're convenient abstractions that you can do maths with same as with any other number.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I think my OCD-like thoughts are getting worse.
I feel terrible every time I have to resize a window, because I have no way of guaranteeing that the width of the window (in pixels) would be a multiple of 100 or a power of 2, and THOSE ARE THE ONLY PURE SIZES, DAMMIT
I feel terrible every time I have to resize a window, because I have no way of guaranteeing that the width of the window (in pixels) would be a multiple of 100 or a power of 2, and THOSE ARE THE ONLY PURE SIZES, DAMMIT
You should probably consider looking into medication, or at least some kind of treatment.
tomsrtbt (pronounced: Tom's Root Boot) is a very small Linux distribution. It is short for "Tom's floppy which has a root filesystem and is also bootable."
Latvia-born and London-based designer, artist and engineer Julijonas Urbonas has proposed a true suicide machine in the form of a rollercoaster. His ‘Euthanasia Coaster’, a plan created in 2010, is engineered to humanely take the life of a human being, with elegance and euphoria. In other words, this roller coaster is especially designed to gently kill people when they take a ride. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness, and, eventually, death. Explains Urbonas:
Thanks to the marriage of the advanced cross-disciplinary research in space medicine, mechanical engineering, material technologies and, of course, gravity, the fatal journey is made pleasing, elegant and meaningful. Celebrating the limits of the human body but also the liberation from the horizontal life, this kinetic sculpture is in fact the ultimate roller coaster: John Allen, former president of the famed Philadelphia Toboggan Company, once said that ‘the ultimate roller coaster is built when you send out twenty-four people and they all come back dead. This could be done, you know’.
The Euthanasia Coaster’s highest point is at 500 meters and the total track length is 7,544 meters. The maximum speed of the coaster is 100 meters/seconds. A ride only takes 3 minutes and 20 seconds before it’s over. Death will be caused by ‘celebral hypoxia’, a lack of oxygen supply to the brain. Additional effects are grey-out (a loss of color vision), tunnel vision (a loss of peripheral vision), black-out (a complete loss of vision), and, last but not least, G-LOC (g-force induced loss of consciousness).
How do we handle death in the early 21st century? An ambitious team lead by Ingo Niermann is making plans for the building of a giant mass grave for mankind: a 578 meters high (!) pyramid in Eastern Germany with space for body rests of 100 million people. The website of this amazing project explains: “The Great Pyramid grows brick by brick from rock-solid concrete stones set to outlast the coming millennia. These stones will either contain an urn with the ashes of a deceased or hold capsules containing remembrances.” All stones have the same size and are positioned at random. They can be custom designed. The huge structure which is planned near the town of Dessau is meant for everyone to reserve a place in. Getting placed in the pyramid costs about 700 euros, which is a very reasonable price. You can already reserve a stone at the Great Pyramid website. You might think this is another, much too big, utopian idea. It’s not. But people are serious, really serious. The German government already supports The Great Pyramid financially and architectural competitions have already taken place. Big names like Rem Koolhaas and Miuccia Prada were part of the jury. According to some articles, building could start this year.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Hey, CA, sorry that the IRC party didn't go so well.
Even more so than usual, I really am not thinking straight tonight. I know I should go to bed, but I don't want to because I don't want to be stuck thinking about what's bugging me while I'm trying to fall asleep.
(on last.fm, last page) I like it, but apparently a lot of people don't.
That always happens with websites whenever something about the interface changes, I've noticed. It's kind of annoying when people complain about that kind of stuff to me; it's the developer's choice to evolve the website and it might be hard to "get" at first but in good time it'll be clear, as I've seen for the most part.
Facebook tends to get flak for that too, and I find that especially weird-- the "old Facebook" was the "new Facebook" literally two months ago, so what's the point in complaining?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I still don't have Timeline~
That said, I agree with what you're saying. It seems like every time a website redesigns people come out of the woodwork to bitch about it.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Good news for your email inbox: You'll be seeing less spam in it now, thanks to a global takedown effort that knocked one of the world's biggest spammers offline this week."About 50% of the worldwide spam is gone," says FireEye senior scientist Atif Mushtaq, who participated in the demolition.
The dramatic decrease is the result of a coordinated attack by security firms and Internet service providers around the globe that took down a network of infected computers known as "the Grum botnet." Grum, one of the world's most prolific spammers, generated around 18 billion emails a day, by FireEye's estimates.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
These Intuos 5 tablets from Wacom seem to be quite the thing. I need to send my other two Wacoms in for repair, too. The wireless capability would make it so I don't run into the problems that are making me turn in my Intuos 3 and Intuos 4 for repair.
Skrillex, a known emosexual, was born Sonny Moore. He rose to fame with the satanic Rock ‘n roll band “From First To Last” (a band name that celebrates falling from God’s grace) and soon parlayed that success into something much more blasphemous; something that incorporates elements of Warhol-era rampant homosexuality and perversion, electronic “music” and lesbian-influenced haircuts. It is rumored that 1 in 3 women are raped at a Skrillex concert and forced to abort their children soon after. Over 100% of homosexual gays listen to, or have listened to Skrillex in their life — mostly while participating in door-to-door recruitment for sex orgies or attempting to molest children in one of the patented “Rape Vans” used by the gay homo community. In addition, Skrillex has launched a grotesque fashion trend, where upon weak-minded woman destroy their hallowed vessels of child birthing by SHAVING the side of their head — the same thing responsible for the downfall of Samson is being ENCOURAGED by this gnome-ish pervert. Skrillex will stop at nothing to get every teen in America hooked on dubstep and “ecstasy” (a potent street drug responsible for terrorism).
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is this a band one is allowed to like at all
Never realised how short it was.
Huh.
^Be an Enderman instead.
Don't recall, I was pretty young at the time.
And then we got an Xbox and my stepdad made the hilariously poor decision to introduce his 2nd grader stepson to the then-new Halo, and the rest is history.
(*Shrug*)
I know people who like Wolfmother so I think it is allowed.
You know, imaginary numbers can seem a little counter-intuitive, but they're really not all that complicated. I don't think the terms "complex number" and "imaginary number" help; they make them sound scarier than they are. If you visualize the real number line as the x-axis of a Cartesian plane, and the imaginary number line as the y-axis, imaginary numbers become pretty straightforward. In order to multiply a number by -1, you flip it onto the opposite side of the zero on the x-axis. In other words, you multiply by 180 degrees.
To multiply by the imaginary unit, so represented, you instead rotate it by 90 degrees. So 1*i=i. Obviously, i^2 (edit: stupid non-functional superscript) is -1. -1 multiplied by i is -i, as you'd expect, and -i multiplied by i takes you back to 1.
And a complex number is just an imaginary number added to or subtracted from a real number, and takes the form (a ± bi).
The only thing especially difficult about them is that I'm not aware of any particularly easy or intuitive way to find the square root of a number, which is necessary if you want to figure out how big a complex number is (you have to use Pythagoras' theorem for that). But with a calculator, they're not so bad.
I appreciate your attempts to explain, but this is really all quite Greek to me.
I didn't do that on purpose actually.
I really am quite bad at math. Most of "the fundamentals" were either never taught to me or taught to me very poorly. I can't even divide without a calculator.
Kirby music, no question you're allowed to like that.
Listening to the Boards of Canada's Geogaddi
what a weird album. Is good though.
I assumed that most people learned Pythagoras and Cartesian coordinates in high school, but if you didn't learn all of those or didn't go into enough detail in them I can see how what I wrote would look like gobbledegook. It might help to have a graph in front of you.
It might also help to know a little of the history of the concept; the entire point in imaginary numbers is to have something that when multiplied by itself equals a negative. Obviously, neither imaginary numbers nor negative numbers are things you encounter in nature, but they're convenient abstractions that you can do maths with same as with any other number.
(I imagine we might get taught slightly different terminology this side of the Atlantic.)
It's been a very long time since I was last on last.fm
to put into perspective how long, my username on there is still "El The Daze".
You should probably consider looking into medication, or at least some kind of treatment.
i go away for a week
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Latvia-born and London-based designer, artist and engineer Julijonas Urbonas has proposed a true suicide machine in the form of a rollercoaster. His ‘Euthanasia Coaster’,
a plan created in 2010, is engineered to humanely take the life of a
human being, with elegance and euphoria. In other words, this roller
coaster is especially designed to gently kill people when they take a
ride. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of
intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from
euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness,
and, eventually, death. Explains Urbonas: The Euthanasia Coaster’s highest point is at 500 meters and the total
track length is 7,544 meters. The maximum speed of the coaster is 100
meters/seconds. A ride only takes 3 minutes and 20 seconds before it’s
over. Death will be caused by ‘celebral hypoxia’, a lack of oxygen
supply to the brain. Additional effects are grey-out (a loss of color
vision), tunnel vision (a loss of peripheral vision), black-out (a
complete loss of vision), and, last but not least, G-LOC (g-force
induced loss of consciousness).
lead by Ingo Niermann is making plans for the building of a giant mass
grave for mankind: a 578 meters high (!) pyramid in Eastern Germany with
space for body rests of 100 million people. The website
of this amazing project explains: “The Great Pyramid grows brick by
brick from rock-solid concrete stones set to outlast the coming
millennia. These stones will either contain an urn with the ashes of a
deceased or hold capsules containing remembrances.”
All stones have the same size and are positioned at random. They can
be custom designed. The huge structure which is planned near the town of
Dessau is meant for everyone to reserve a place in. Getting placed in
the pyramid costs about 700 euros, which is a very reasonable price. You
can already reserve a stone at the Great Pyramid website.
You might think this is another, much too big, utopian idea. It’s not.
But people are serious, really serious. The German government already
supports The Great Pyramid financially and architectural competitions
have already taken place. Big names like Rem Koolhaas and Miuccia Prada
were part of the jury. According to some articles, building could start
this year.
Huh.
Well that is a thing.
Facebook tends to get flak for that too, and I find that especially weird-- the "old Facebook" was the "new Facebook" literally two months ago, so what's the point in complaining?
/lolsoapbox
I mean, I know how to use it, and I reblog and post stuff from time to time, but (*Shrug*)
seeing less spam in it now, thanks to a global takedown effort that
knocked one of the world's biggest spammers offline this week."About 50% of the worldwide spam is gone," says FireEye senior scientist Atif Mushtaq, who participated in the demolition.
The dramatic decrease is the result of a coordinated attack by security
firms and Internet service providers around the globe that took down a
network of infected computers known as "the Grum botnet." Grum, one of
the world's most prolific spammers, generated around 18 billion emails a
day, by FireEye's estimates.
the satanic Rock ‘n roll band “From First To Last” (a band name that
celebrates falling from God’s grace) and soon parlayed that success into
something much more blasphemous; something that incorporates elements
of Warhol-era rampant homosexuality and perversion, electronic “music”
and lesbian-influenced haircuts. It is rumored that 1 in 3 women are
raped at a Skrillex concert and forced to abort their children soon
after. Over 100% of homosexual gays listen to, or have listened to
Skrillex in their life — mostly while participating in door-to-door
recruitment for sex orgies or attempting to molest children in one of
the patented “Rape Vans” used by the gay homo community. In addition,
Skrillex has launched a grotesque fashion trend, where upon weak-minded
woman destroy their hallowed vessels of child birthing by SHAVING the
side of their head — the same thing responsible for the downfall of
Samson is being ENCOURAGED by this gnome-ish pervert. Skrillex will stop
at nothing to get every teen in America hooked on dubstep and “ecstasy”
(a potent street drug responsible for terrorism).