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blackhole89
Posted on 12-20-08 09:10 AM, in Best math problem ever Link | Quote | ID: 97208


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Did you read the problem?

Do you have a basic concept of maths?

Could you at least be bothered to use Wikipedia before making bad replies?

(though I concede my sentence structure was somewhat confusing in places - for instance, the "immediate" in the first sentence should by relocated before the "see" and augmented with a -ly)

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Posted on 12-20-08 10:05 AM, in And so Begins my Journey to China Link | Quote | ID: 97212


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Canton, eh?

Tell the commies I said hi.

(How are things there at the moment, anyway?)

(Also, why should connecting to a "North-American site", disregarding even that the board is, in fact, hosted in Germany, be any issue in Asia? You remind me of that "you are surfing long distance" bash.org quote)

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Posted on 12-21-08 03:02 AM, in You know what would be cool for a custom sprite Link | Quote | ID: 97244


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Don't act like the board is a chat room.

I dare say this is even worse than an explicit request.

Canned.

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Posted on 12-22-08 12:11 PM, in Starcraft II Link | Quote | ID: 97326


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Although I have never played Starcraft, I must say this game is one of the few examples where seeing a trailer triggered a "wow, this looks totally sweet" reaction coupled with an actual desire of obtaining it as opposed to plain acknowledgement of technical aspects as was the case for me with, for instance, Crysis.

Depending on whether or not I have any machine that can remotely run it, I might actually consider getting it when it's out (unless my pirate instinct takes over, which it ultimately probably will) - but then, three games? That's the first time I hear something like that. Will they be combineable into one if you got multiple or remain properly standalone?
(Yeah, I'm far less upset about the money-making scheme aspect of it than I would be if I honestly expected my pirate instinct not to take over.)

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Posted on 12-22-08 06:14 PM, in aL69's doodles Link | Quote | ID: 97329


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Actually not half bad.

The mecha is quite nicely done, which probably is related directly to the more "organic" elements of the first image seeming somewhat too flatly shaded and slightly disproportional.

Shouldn't you be paying attention in class, anyway?

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Posted on 12-22-08 11:16 PM, in Imageboard Software Link | Quote | ID: 97353


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I wrote a very basic, single-forum 6KB imageboard in PHP ages ago (no idea if I still have the source for that) and, at one point in time, installed and set up a Wakaba board. It wasn't exactly out-of-the-box, but I got it to run after some meddling.

Then, there is Futaba, the script 2chan runs on - it has the advantage of being PHP rather than Perl, but I didn't try it out yet. Apart from that, there seem to be some others like the one Krautchan runs, but I never quite got around to check that out.

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Posted on 12-22-08 11:42 PM, in Little Kids Suck Link | Quote | ID: 97357


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I blame this on a not-so-recent-anymore long-standing psychiatrical tradition of infusing parents with the idea that their children might grow up with self esteem problems (read: reflect over their actions) or, worse, one of those mysterious disorders called a childhood trauma if they are denied their will too much (which, for the blessed with less of a brain parents, translates to "ever" for simplicity's sake), together with scare stories of child abuse and what-not.

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Posted on 12-23-08 01:47 AM, in Little Kids Suck Link | Quote | ID: 97370


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Posted by Xeruss
Oh, that and people need to not be afraid to hit their kids when they misbehave. I was spanked as a child and guess what? You don't do the same wrong thing twice that way. Anyone who tries to argue that the child is then kept quiet only by intimidation rather than respect, I'll agree with that statement, however let me add - intimidation is a good substitute when you're too ignorant to respect.

And even with the far-fetched assumption that all parents are actually deserving of and/or evoking any kind of respect, respect is a concept beyond most five year olds to understand. While I certainly am not supportive of the old "beat the children into submission" education - at least until all other possible approaches at turning them into at least fulfilling a minimal standard of bearability members of society have failed - I can't see how the undeserved convenience of a kid can be justified at the price of the undeserved inconvenience of strangers.

Yeah, and then what? It's obvious you don't know what it feels like to be stuck with a strict as hell parent, don't you.

Since I'm not far enough away from your age yet to completely have lost sight of your perspective, I'll just quote Mark Twain and leave the rest up to your interpretation - "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. "

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Posted on 12-23-08 02:45 AM, in Little Kids Suck Link | Quote | ID: 97381


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pieguy1732, the problem is that there are plenty of situations observable in everyday life where kids are being a massive annoyance to everyone not wearing 10 layers of pink goggles (think the typical fusses in the supermarket queue) and it's either clear parents could keep their kids under control if they only wanted or there is no reason for them not to just leave said kids at home if it can be expected they only will be annoying everyone. Honestly, such events seemed to be on the decline here in the past year, but then, this is Europe and not the country that is the earth's capital of bad parenting so I kind of expect it to be many more times frequent in your area.

On the other hand, yeah, the whole "lock all kids up", especially with the emphasis on "all", is going way too far.

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Posted on 12-23-08 03:12 AM, in Need help with multiple things. (CaveStory hacking) Link | Quote | ID: 97383


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Posted by ZarroTsu
Switching to hex came as theory from playing SRB2; as it uses hexadecimal after the 99th map number. ( 99, A0, A1 ... A9, B0 ...)


And Ironically, it did accept CREDIT100. I hadn't tried it before, having guessed it either wouldn't work, was limited to only 8-symbol lengths, or would instead accept it as CREDIT10; completely neglecting the additional 0.


Well, that's one problem down; but that was hardly the major problem.

Does it use hexadecimal or just not carry over from the second digit anymore, instead continuing on the alphabet from that point (i.e. F0,F1,...,F8,F9,G0,G1,...)? (SMW's clock, for instance, works kind of like that, and it's generally a well-found quirks in games that represent hardware-stored numbers in tilemaps)

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Posted on 12-25-08 02:54 PM, in Merry Christmas, everyone! Link | Quote | ID: 97537


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Thanks, and the same to you.

I have received one (1) book.
I have given one (1) book to others.

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Posted on 12-27-08 06:15 AM, in +Search. Link | Quote | ID: 97642


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It's never been made public because
(1) it is kind of heavy in terms of DB load and we haven't gathered any data on how it would perform in an everyday scenario yet
(2) it never was completed, as you might notice if you try using the beyond-the-bare-basics functions; in fact, I only fixed the basic thread search to display the threads properly just now as I saw this thread



In unrelated news, can you do something about your layout? I'd say it's rather bad.

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Posted on 12-30-08 12:20 AM, in Dividing by Zero Link | Quote | ID: 97812


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Posted by boingboingsplat
Going with what you said, dividing by zero can be any number between 0 and infinity. So, it's undefined.

I can't see how any definition of division would allow a number divided by zero to be, say, 5 without contradictions.

In the real numbers we work with every day, division by zero actually -is- left undefined as a sacrifice towards a cleaner and more consistent definition of various operations, unlike many people who want to boast with their knowledge of "advanced mathematical concepts" assume (and I'd consider myself guilty of it... back in my elementary school days ) - however, there are some approaches to introducing it, each still yielding a whole new set of undefined expressions.


As for that BBC article...
"Imagine you're landing on an aeroplane and the automatic pilot's working," he suggests. "If it divides by zero and the computer stops working - you're in big trouble. If your heart pacemaker divides by zero, you're dead."

I stopped reading around that point.

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Posted on 12-30-08 09:33 AM, in Dividing by Zero Link | Quote | ID: 97841


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Posted by Komaru
Wait a second. Dividing is the same as multiplying by the reriprocal of the denominator, right? So the denom. of 5/0 is 0; recip. is 0/1.
Resulting in 5/0=5*(0/1)
But 0/1 is 0,
so 5/0=5*(0)=0

Am I doing something wrong here?
You are aware that the reciprocal is 1/x, not x/1, right? x/1 is just x again.

Posted by RT-55J
@ Komaru: That's merely a proof by contradiction.
Please, stop making little children cry.

And by that, I mean the little children who, unlike you, actually know maths.

Posted by Bukkarooo
Hell, infinity is just a word we use for all numbers that are larger than 0.
what

Posted by Bukkarooo
It's more a set of numbers.
what

Posted by Bukkarooo
oo is an element of the set of real numbers
It isn't.

Posted by Bukkarooo
Because, in division, we take the largest number, if we divide by zero, zero can go in any number of times. once, twice, 57 times, 5k times, 1,345 times, etc. It can go in 983423407*10^100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times. In all of those examples, zero can go into the number, it just doesn't change it, as zero is nothing. There is no cap on numbers, so following that zero can go into a number without changing it as many times as youwant, there is no cap on that, either. The answer would have to be infinity.
No, and infinite times zero still is zero. You are implying that has some nonzero value... or, even worse, as it would be a direct consequence of your assumption, all nonzero values.

Why is it that people are so keen in discussing things they don't even make a serious effort to get a basic understanding of?

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Posted on 12-30-08 10:29 PM, in Introduce yourself here! Don't clog up General Chat... Link | Quote | ID: 97872


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Posted by Elementalpowerstar
[RhrtoricalQuestion]What kind of bacteria did we find in Board2's water?[/RhetoricalQuestion]

[RhetoricalAnswer]The highly infective and fatal to cerebral function SPATULA5N1 strain.[/RhetoricalAnswer]

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Posted on 12-31-08 03:33 AM, in Knytt stories, a free platformer Link | Quote | ID: 97886


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Been there, done that. Still a nice game, but for the sake of preventing redundancy, I'll set this up the bomb...

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Posted on 12-31-08 03:30 PM, in When We're Old Geezers Link | Quote | ID: 97907


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I don't think the internet is going to die out that soon, just like we still have the postal system, the phone network, television, hell, even teletext. Of course, what it is like might severely change, so would much of the technical basis - but even the most modern desktop computer architectures still building on x86 gives you a fairly good idea of how clingy a high-investition technical society is to old assets, making the utmost thing possible a smooth transition into a somewhat different structure. Of course, one thing that might happen is a political "pirates"/"criminals"/"pedophiles"/"terrorists"/"slanderers" scare that results in communication as a whole being capped to a degree sufficient to make the internet in its present form cease to exist... We'll probably have our own portion of "wartime ramblings" about the wild days of essentially living outside the law to share.

Who knows, maybe there will be serious literature about blogging from high-altitude balloons. Think Western fiction.

As for board2... as a hoster, the two possible outcomes I see (and I don't want to sound pessimistic as much as imply that I consider this the natural path for all things to take earlier or later...) is that it either eventually depopulates to a degree that I shut it down, or I reach the point where I think I got on with my life myself and think it is time to hand hosting down to somebody with more of a connection to things. More hops of hosting transition might ensue, as well as splits watering down the whole thing... by the time we are retired, it will either have met the first consequence or have transformed into something none of us recognize anymore. (By continuation, this board has been around for 8 years now, if not longer... even in my five years, I dare say it has changed almost beyond recognition, and you could probably count the people still around here from back when I joined with your ten fingers in unary)

As for the oldest people here... as far as those I'm aware of go, that'd be Kawa, Ailure, KP9000, MathOnNapkins, NSNick... basically the 22+ guard. I've gone from probably being one of the kids everyone facepalmed over to being one of those facepalming over the kids myself...

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Posted on 12-31-08 03:32 PM, in Dividing by Zero Link | Quote | ID: 97908


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Just because some kind of metaphor helps you visualize a mathematical concept, you shouldn't assume that it is equivalent to it... much less so try to question the concept because of something not lining up in the "common-sense" metaphor.

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Posted on 01-01-09 02:40 AM, in Happy new year! Link | Quote | ID: 97949


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Happy new year... Europeans and everyone to the right of us, for now, I suppose.

This year's resolutions, too, seem to be two times 1280x1024 and a 1280x800 for me.

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Posted on 01-02-09 05:51 PM, in Now SMWC is DEAD!!! Link | Quote | ID: 98058


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/facepalm

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