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Life Advice / Re: Transcription program
« on: October 25, 2010, 03:16:34 pm »
Mallocs should know stuff about things. I think, isn't he the guy that transcribes DFTalk?
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General Discussion / Re: Mathematics Help Thread
« on: October 24, 2010, 05:23:04 pm »I still don't see it, and it's late. I'll ask some people in class tomorrow, I'm sure someone got it right. Thanks for the help you two.Indeed it does, though, it doesn't help much with the solution.
Sure it does... it solves the entire problem for us, because we end up with a whole bunch of congruent right triangles.
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General Discussion / Re: Mathematics Help Thread
« on: October 24, 2010, 03:25:03 pm »
Indeed it does, though, it doesn't help much with the solution.
e, I'll write it down. I have a points ABCD which create a kite. Points E, F,G, and H, divide AB, BC, CD and DA in half respectively. I need to prove that EFGH is a rectangle.
e, I'll write it down. I have a points ABCD which create a kite. Points E, F,G, and H, divide AB, BC, CD and DA in half respectively. I need to prove that EFGH is a rectangle.
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General Discussion / Re: Mathematics Help Thread
« on: October 24, 2010, 03:16:58 pm »
Forgive the interruption. I've been given a geometry problem that I can't seem to solve. I need to prove that if you connect the middles of a quadrilateral segments you get a rectangle. I also know that the diagonals of said quadrilateral are perpendicular to each other (90 degrees).
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
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General Discussion / Re: Bay12's Desktops
« on: October 24, 2010, 12:58:49 pm »
What's that dock thing on top? Also, HP make games?
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General Discussion / Re: Catasplosion prevented!
« on: October 24, 2010, 11:59:57 am »
Wait, she hid one and killed the rest?
That is fucked up.
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General Discussion / Re: Linux
« on: October 24, 2010, 10:18:38 am »
Indeed, it's kinda like LFS, which is also something I have to try. Favorite is part is definitely the boot speed. I used a modular kernel (One that supports all hardware) for two weeks before compiling my own. The beast boots in maybe ten seconds (it takes a while to decompress an lzma archive :-P), I thought it was broken at first.
Before installing Gentoo the terminal used to scare me stiff. I didn't rm (del, to be exact) files because I was afraid I was removing the wrong stuff, and navigating was confusing. After spending a day using the terminal only, it becomes much easier to use.
Before installing Gentoo the terminal used to scare me stiff. I didn't rm (del, to be exact) files because I was afraid I was removing the wrong stuff, and navigating was confusing. After spending a day using the terminal only, it becomes much easier to use.
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General Discussion / Re: Linux
« on: October 24, 2010, 08:49:17 am »
Gave Gentoo a shot sometime in July, it's incredible. Gentoo is very much like Arch, only the package manager compiles everything from source. It also features no installer at all. You do everything from installing the precompiled system, to building your kernel (Yes, custom, barebone kernels are awesome). The package manager is also great, it takes a while for newer packages to get accepted onto the tree, but there tons and tons of stuff. It even allows you to download apt-get, dpkg, packman, and yum.
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General Discussion / Re: Bay12's Desktops
« on: October 24, 2010, 07:41:17 am »
But the taller one doesn't look like she's trying to kill anyone.
e, Chromium doesn't seem to like me very much.
like the wallpaper looks like a nebula/fractal hybridI found it deviant art, they have some pretty good stuff in the various wallpaper sections (Along with some hentai-ish stuff of course :-P).
just what from gnome are you using?Metacity manages the windows, and like I said, I have a gnome panel hidden on top (I think I can replace it with pypanel or something). I've also got gvfs, which, along with libimobiledevice, allows me to mount my iPod on the desktop. I also use various tools from gnome, the terminal, nautilus, etc (They're configurable through a registry like interface, which is pretty cool if you ask me). Nautilus is also extremely extensible.
e, Chromium doesn't seem to like me very much.
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General Discussion / Re: Mathematics Help Thread
« on: October 23, 2010, 06:42:25 pm »
Oh I see it now, I had trouble putting 2ax and 5x together. Thanks. It also is slightly more complex than just dividing everything by 2a+5, because you can't just go about dividing things by zero. It needs to be solved for when a = 2.5 (giving 0 = 2.5) and for when a = everything else (x =5-a/2a+5).
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
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General Discussion / Re: Mathematics Help Thread
« on: October 23, 2010, 06:26:02 pm »
Moved from a different thread:
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we've been doing equations with variables I believe are called 'parameters' in English in class. The idea is that you have a variable that is to be treated like a normal number (so you get "x = 7 - a" as an answer, 'x' being the variable you need to solve, and 'a' being the parameter).
Anyway, I'm having trouble simplifying these equations. I have something like this "a(2x + 1) = 5(1 - x)", which I needs be simplified into something like "(a - something)x = something + a". Can someone please give a brief explanation on how to do this?
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Life Advice / Re: Math Help
« on: October 23, 2010, 06:24:03 pm »
Oh, I'm sorry. I haven't been active for a good two weeks. Moving.
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General Discussion / Re: Bay12's Desktops
« on: October 23, 2010, 06:21:28 pm »Incredible isn't it? I felt the same way when I moved over to Gentoo. Linux does not only look nicer than Windows (Seriously, find me an os that looks better than that Openbox screenie and I will worship you forever), I find that it runs runs faster too.rocking openbox+tint2+xcompmgr+feh, dmenu (not pictured, but very nice), wicd, pidgin...Spoiler: urxvt + transparency = very cool (click to show/hide)
imagemagick's import didn't get urxvt at all
i'm really loving the linux synaptics driver: i can emulate some 2-finger gestures (tapping and scrolling) even though my hardware doesn't support multi-touch! <3 i've only had it for a coupe days and i'm already spoiled
Anyway, spent the weekend prettying up my desktop:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
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Life Advice / Math Help
« on: October 23, 2010, 06:10:45 pm »
I'm sure I'm not the only struggling with math from time to time, and I know there are tons of brilliant chaps out here, so I thought, why not start a math thread? If you there's something you have trouble understanding, ask it here. I'll try to contribute (as much as I can, I'm just a highschool student after all), and hopefully others will too.
Anyway I'll start it off some simple highschool math, we've been doing equations with variables I believe are called 'parameters' in English. The idea is that you have a variable that is to be treated like a normal number (so you get "x = 7 - a" as an answer, 'x' being the variable you need to solve, and 'a' being the parameter).
Anyway, I'm having trouble simplifying these equations. I have something like this "a(2x + 1) = 5(1 - x)", which I needs be simplified into something like "(a - something)x = something + a". Can someone please give a brief explanation on how to do this?
Anyway I'll start it off some simple highschool math, we've been doing equations with variables I believe are called 'parameters' in English. The idea is that you have a variable that is to be treated like a normal number (so you get "x = 7 - a" as an answer, 'x' being the variable you need to solve, and 'a' being the parameter).
Anyway, I'm having trouble simplifying these equations. I have something like this "a(2x + 1) = 5(1 - x)", which I needs be simplified into something like "(a - something)x = something + a". Can someone please give a brief explanation on how to do this?
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General Discussion / Re: ctrl+v thread
« on: October 18, 2010, 03:14:23 pm »
What the hell is that?