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Well ya never know! I was planning to pop up there to Scotland for one of my lessons ! I know you're joking, no probs. It was my first lesson today. Gears are no prob for me. But making the steering wheel thread through my hands, my hands just naturally turn with the wheel... but hey, it's my first lesson! And reached 50mph on a big road first lesson! That's me trying to show off, bring on the Ferrari owners!!

Hi all, just to say I know I haven't been online a lot recently. But then again it seems to have been quieter recently anyway. But don't worry, I still remember you! Not much time, going away on holiday, training/playing for my clan in Halo League matches, work, web design/production, graphics design/production and I've started driving lessons! See you all around, in the virtual sense!

So is that the same as saying a*b if 'a' and 'b' some number? Or a.b if 'a' and 'b' are vectors? By saying [math]x\circ p[/math] you are saying x multiplied by p? And is it the circle, as opposed to a [math]\times[/math] or [math].[/math] because they're matricies?

Yes Vista will be a lot worst. I've always had a legal OS, and probably always will, so I have nothing to hide in that respect. However I will not instal Vista because it's so stupid. All the "extras" and "security" and crap. I might have to dual boot so I can play Halo 2 on it, but you gotta be joking if you think I'm gonna pay $$$ for an OS just to play a game. Either I have to crack Halo 2 to play on XP (or some Linux) or, well, I might have to enter the world of illegal-OSs. I could not play that game, but I like Halo (the original) very much.

Right, I'll go buy a wireless mouse for my Halo CD ! Wireless mice have the advantage of being wireless. If this is useful for you then you'd know it. I can move my mouse/keyboard off my desk to make more room. I can scrolls down a page from across the room or whilst stretching with the mouse in my hand. Plus it's so much nicer than having a cable stretching across the desk and pulling against the mouse each time you move it long distances. Many mouses come with a charger base. So you just leave the mouse on the base over-night and it's fine. You might want to check out the power situation, before you buy. If it takes batteries then the mouse does go through them. Although each set of 2 AA batteries should last a few months each. Is your "normal" mouse a laser one? Or a tracker ball? The laser ones are more accurate and you don't need to worry about the ball becoming sticky/dirty.

Demosthenes: what exactly will you be using this for? Other than iTunes and Visual Studio? As dak said, desktops are much better value for money. Can you get a desktop? And how much are you willing to spend? Quality for $500 is a lot different to quality for $2000. i_a: what is wrong with Dell? They're expensive, but you're paying for name/quality. Although I suppose quality, now-a-days, can be found elsewhere such as Acer.

I agree Pangloss. But there is a difference between "reading between the lines" and "seeing what people are getting/hinting at". So for example if I talked extensively about terrorist group Hezbollah and the pathetic Lebanese government who have failed to stop those terrorists and how good it is that the Israeli army is dealing with the terrorist situation you would see that I'm getting/hinting at the fact that I'm pro-Israeli. No where did I even mention that I'm pro anything. In fact in most of these threads no one says "I'm pro-____". It just becomes apparent. The link's title is "You're all targets, Israel tells Lebanese in South". He follows that article by saying "that sounds like state terrorism". He is saying that what Israel is doing sounds like state terrorism. How is that any different from calling Israel a terrorist state? I haven't read most of this thread, and not all of budullewraagh posts. But if by doing so mooeypoo and Bettina conclude that budullewraagh is calling Israel a terrorist state, and he does seem it from, for example, the above quote, then I think it's a fair conclusion. Maybe it's not an "elevated debate", but in all debates what someone says is dissected and analysed carefully. This is what mooeypoo/Bettina have done. It's not rocket science to go from "sounds like state terrorism" to "is state terrorism" (ie. Israel is a terrorist state) especailly when, over several posts, you can see that, whilst he won't say it directly, that is how he feels.

Ah, it was Heisenberg. I remember reading how scientists could not think of anything with non-commutive properties but Heisenberg, who had just come out of university, immediately thought of matrices, having recently studied them. Something like that anyway! ajb: what does the 'o', as in [math]x\circ p - p \circ x[/math], mean?

And you can always ask here, get us to explain it in simpler terms. If you already have then sorry, I've been away for a bit, I'll see the thread soon!

I think Pangloss is right, but it does look pretty cool. It's good effects and very clever. Nice find.

Yep. It was the non-commutive nature that was discovered first, it was only afterwards that scientists realised this meant matrices were required.

OK. If you format that computer (mentioned in the quote) and instal windows then it should work ie. let you activate it. I don't know why you can't. And why will it stop working in 30 days?

I think it was the bit where he said "F*****g Jews" and blamed them for all the wars, then again, I think watching your (Severian) avatar bounce up and down is more interesting. Some people hate Jews, some hate Christians, some hate Muslims and some hate all religions. Everyone has a view, why do people care so much?

Looks pretty good. The way he grouped similar images on that screen, with a big one in the middle and then loads more smaller ones around the outside (not the 3D, but when he was browsing similar images), that looks very much like a type of image search designed by an Imperial College London student, I had a whole lecture on it. It is a search engine which displays the most relevant links largest and in the center, with less relevant results displayed smaller and spiralling around the outside. The further from the center, the less relevant. And rather than using keywords it actually deduces information from looking at the pixels. It can differentiate a blue door from a red one. The sea from the sky. It recognises sunsets, deserts, oceans, trees, grass and flowers etc. just from the pixels. It's a very clever system.

what?! I don't get it. You wanted it to update, so you could play... I read somewhere that this Windows Genuine Advance things classes 1 in 5 (20%) of legal copies as illegal. Sounds useless program to me. My Grandpa's legal version was classified as "illegal". I fixed it yesterday. I didn't bother with updating because it wanted to get a Genuine download and I didn't have time. I suspect I would have to download that. Then use the javascript posted in the previous post to get updates. And then re-removed the crap Genuine tool. Anyway, I'm confused as to what you've done and if you still have a problem or not...

Yes, we are in agreement! I think that you could easily replicate the pattern using two different lasers. If you did use two lasers it would basically be the "animation" I showed using frames, except there would be on rotating clockwise and another anti-clockwise. I think from measuring the speed you could say: "if there is one laser then it is rotating at _____". Yes. Another easy example that jumped to mind is imagine there is one laser dot. This could be comprised of one laser pointing at a screen. Now imagine you turn on a second laser, pointing at the exact same spot. You would still observe one dot, but it would come from two lasers. But maybe that is different, seeing as all the lasers are pointing at the same point. So it is kind of cheating, as it were, but it is still a one dot to many laser configurations scenario. I can't see the point/significance of saying this though...

Ah yeah, my diagram was wrong, hence my calculations were too. Sorry, thanks for pointing it out!

The logic is not obviously flawed. The idea is fundementally flawed. Another example from the same movie, a car was going underwated and there people in it were going to drown, I can't remember the exact circumstances but basically there was a male adult and a young child. The robot only had time to save one. Despite the adult saying "save the child" the robot saved him (the adult) because it had calculated that the adult had a higher probability of surviving and it was therefore more logical to save him. However many humans would have saved the child, just because it was a child.

Very nice animation and I agree with what it shows, although as CPL pointed out, it was not what I had in mind. I can't do an animation, but here are some frames of what I was thinking. The red beam represents the laser beam, or I suppose you could say that the top of the red line represents a photon and the rest of the line its path from the laser unit. As you can see the laser starts off with a dot on the ceiling and is perpendicular to the ceiling. Then as the laser is rotated clockwise (it will stop before 90 degrees) a beam is produced that will have one dot on the ceiling. I suppose it is very much like only one half of your diagram. (the thick black line seperates frames) It's just a quick thing I did in 2secs on Paint, but I hope it portrays what I mean!

I agree. Has anyone seen the film I Robot? In it the robots see humans as a safety hazard to themselves. Humans kill each other, attack, steal, fight wars, litter and graffiti so the AI robots decide that it will force all humans to stay in their homes so they cannot do damage to their own world/civilisation. It is a logical step. Humans hurt each other and their world therefore stop them, this can only be achieved by stopping human interactions with each other and their world. ie. blockade them in their homes. In the film the robot leader says "my logic is undeniable". I think you all see why, although it is logical, it is not really a good idea. And that's the point, between humans and pure logic. Logic has an input or a scenario (humans kill each other). Then a middle stage (this is a bad thing). Then a conclusion (stop humans coming into contact with each other to stop killings). There is no room for "is this a good idea?" or "what are the consequences" or "is this what the people want?", that is why pure logic will not work. Also another reason why it will not work: alternatively to blockading people in their homes you could also police the street. A human could sum up the advantages and disadvantages of each, whereas logic would see the police as humans who cannot be trusted and therefore it is not a good idea.

Yep, do what dak said. Port scan to see if there are any blacklisted ports and disable firewalls (incl. router firewall) just to see if it is them causing the problem. Although seeing as you said 1 in 4 times you connect and 1/8 you can download if one of the above is the case then it must be a faulty system, if a firewall is blocking you or a port blacklisted you should never be able to access it! And I've already said try changing the incoming port. In Limewire: Tools Options Advanced (click the +) Firewall Config Here you've got the "Listen port:" box as well as the Router Configuration part, you probably want "Use UPnP" selected. You can now change the "Listen port" to something different, something which might not be blocked. Try using port 56144. BitTorrent recommends a port from the 49152 - 65534 range. Also remember to forward the ports to yourself, that is the new port you are changing to.

There are many manual fixes (and one of these sites has a download which does it automatically): http://blog.mypapit.net/2006/05/windows-genuine-advantage-tattoo-cracks.html http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/technology-and-science/microsoft-genuine-advantage-cracked.asp http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/04/26/disable-and-remove-windows-genuine-advantage-notifications-nag-screen/ [edit] ahh, one sec, you said it can't update. Those links above are for something slightly different. They are for if there's a little popup box which says "This is not genuine..." erm, I know how to fix your problem, gimme a sec to find it... [edit2] OK, here it is (it was on one of those sites above): Basically what you do is start to run the update. When you get that screen which says "Custom" or "Express" go to the address bar and replace all of the current address with: javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all');void(alert('WGA Check disabled.\n\nContinue…')) that's all one line and should all go into the address box. Press enter. A little confirmation box will pop up and then you can chose Custom or Express.

Some ISP have blacklisted certain ports. If this is a prob then just follow my #4 (the long one) and it tells you how to change the port. In Azures: Tools Options Connection Then change the value in the Incoming TCP listen port box I find with Azures I have to forward ports on my router to get any decent download. Whereas with Limewire it just works fine. Oh, and btw, did any of the stuff I suggested in that long post I made work?