| 00:02.21 | ChipX86 | this spec excites me :) |
| 00:02.22 | purple_cow | hehe |
| 00:02.28 | purple_cow | scanline: when ya coming home? |
| 00:02.42 | scanline | purple_cow: got a physics test at 7:30, so it will be a while |
| 00:02.48 | scanline | hmm, or not.. I forgot my calculator |
| 00:02.54 | scanline | guess I'll be swinging by to get that |
| 00:03.03 | scanline | after I finish my pop tarts and mountain dew |
| 00:03.27 | purple_cow | so probably no time for an earlier safeway visit |
| 00:03.27 | scanline | so today was my day to review presentations from other senior projects right |
| 00:03.40 | scanline | and one of them is the group doing the Java 3d engine |
| 00:03.57 | scanline | so they're going on about all the light mapping and vertex program assisted grass and stuff they'll do |
| 00:04.19 | scanline | then their cloud algorithm is the one from around 1994 that pybzengine's is roughly based on :) |
| 00:04.39 | purple_cow | hah |
| 00:04.44 | scanline | I'm going to be emailing them some screenshots of pybzflag and links to siggraph papers ;) |
| 00:04.49 | purple_cow | rofl |
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| 00:05.05 | purple_cow | orchid: more brian eno stuff on navi if you wanna grab |
| 00:05.25 | orchid | oh cool thanks! |
| 00:07.25 | scanline | their approach to grass was cute... a bunch of grass-tuft-sprites splatted down at random angles, with animated vertices |
| 00:07.31 | scanline | absolute murder on fill rate, but it looked nice |
| 00:07.47 | scanline | well, in the demo they shoed |
| 00:07.50 | scanline | er, showed |
| 00:07.55 | scanline | I don't think they have any actual code yet |
| 00:08.55 | ChipX86 | hah, a picture was just sent to that thread showing a bunch of happy, shiny, washed cars (due to rain) and a very happy rainbow above |
| 00:09.29 | darth_mall | scanline: heh |
| 00:10.02 | scanline | physics would be so much nicer if they never used numbers |
| 00:10.10 | scanline | actually, that'd be true of just about everything |
| 00:10.13 | scanline | especially statistics |
| 00:10.31 | purple_cow | uhhuh |
| 00:10.44 | scanline | CU needs a "Symbolic calculus-based physics" class, to replace this goop |
| 00:11.08 | scanline | you'd get an F if you used any numbers other than 0, 1, pi, e, and such |
| 00:11.34 | scanline | er, probably wouldn't even need e |
| 00:11.38 | scanline | might not even need zero :P |
| 00:12.10 | scanline | such a crappy class |
| 00:14.19 | nullpuppy | hmm.. is there an easy way to add multiple buddies to an account in gaim at once? |
| 00:15.25 | ChipX86 | nope |
| 00:16.18 | nullpuppy | k |
| 00:16.30 | ChipX86 | it's doable via a plugin |
| 00:25.46 | purple_cow | welp |
| 00:25.46 | purple_cow | since it looks like we're not hitting safeway until later, i'm gonna make food |
| 00:31.26 | scanline | oh no, food! |
| 00:32.23 | ChipX86 | food poings the soul |
| 00:34.21 | scanline | exactly |
| 00:37.51 | scanline | this is such bologna |
| 00:38.19 | scanline | they're having us use this incredibly stupid approximation to air resistance that doesn't account for air pressure, turbulence, or anything |
| 00:44.41 | purple_cow | scanline: thats because you can't solve the real one in closed form |
| 00:54.29 | kergoth | ugh |
| 00:54.34 | kergoth | you know, its pretty annoying being known as the resident crosscompilation expert |
| 00:54.37 | kergoth | "i cant get xyz app to build!" |
| 00:55.41 | purple_cow | mmm morcheeba |
| 00:56.17 | file | tee he he |
| 00:56.23 | file | just did a billing update on the gateways and lost no calls |
| 00:57.41 | purple_cow | see, this is why i'm not switching to voip |
| 00:57.49 | file | :) |
| 00:58.08 | file | what, don't like having someone like me in charge of the servers that your calls run through? :) |
| 00:58.26 | purple_cow | no, i don't like the QoS ;) |
| 00:58.29 | ChipX86 | kergoth: I want to cross-compile an old C64 game I liked to the Apple II. Can you help with that? |
| 00:58.30 | file | ah |
| 00:58.57 | purple_cow | you're frequently talking about dropped calls |
| 00:59.02 | purple_cow | which is unacceptable ;) |
| 01:00.11 | file | no I'm not :) |
| 01:00.14 | file | haven't lost a call tonight |
| 01:00.21 | file | may have misplaced one... but oh well |
| 01:13.16 | darth_mall | hi lurgy |
| 01:13.19 | darth_mall | you silly monkee |
| 01:13.25 | file | this customer is weird, he sets his caller ids to the numbers he is dialing |
| 01:13.43 | lurgy | yay monkee |
| 01:13.59 | darth_mall | yup... and lurgy too |
| 01:16.00 | kergoth | "Total Amount Due: $2.83" |
| 01:16.13 | kergoth | "make check or money order payable to texas instruments. do not send cash |
| 01:16.13 | kergoth | " |
| 01:16.14 | kergoth | pfft |
| 01:16.43 | nullpuppy | haha |
| 01:23.56 | lurgy | sigfigs are for the weak |
| 01:24.16 | lurgy | real men just put down 683 digits of pure significant power |
| 01:25.52 | darth_mall | lol |
| 01:27.19 | purple_cow | lurgy: looks like that's what i have to do |
| 01:27.27 | purple_cow | since culling digits makes it get the wrong answer |
| 01:27.35 | purple_cow | hahahahaha, that's a wild graph =) |
| 01:28.18 | lurgy | hehe |
| 01:31.50 | purple_cow | <PROTECTED> |
| 01:31.50 | purple_cow | I don't regret a thing |
| 01:31.50 | purple_cow | The things I do just make me laugh and make me wanna drink |
| 01:31.50 | purple_cow | I'd like to meet a mad man who makes it all seem sane |
| 01:31.50 | purple_cow | To work out all these troubles and what there is to gain |
| 01:34.22 | lurgy | mm, beagle sure is a fickle beast |
| 01:34.30 | lurgy | http://electoral-vote.com/ <- yay! |
| 01:36.44 | purple_cow | lurgy: woo! |
| 01:36.47 | darth_mall | grrr |
| 01:37.13 | purple_cow | lurgy: they were talking to a FL senator the other night on NPR |
| 01:37.20 | lurgy | mmhmm? |
| 01:37.28 | darth_mall | there's still far too much red on that map |
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| 01:37.43 | lurgy | it's a big area of red, but fortunately not very densely populated for the most par |
| 01:37.44 | lurgy | t |
| 01:37.49 | purple_cow | he was saying that the worries the democrats had about things like no-paper-trail on electronic voting machines wouldn't really matter, since he was pretty sure bush was going to win by a few % |
| 01:38.00 | lurgy | heh |
| 01:38.08 | purple_cow | (in FL) |
| 01:38.54 | darth_mall | purple_cow: when you did the first problem did they both yield the same equation or did they look different? |
| 01:38.55 | purple_cow | looks like kerry's lead is a bit stronger |
| 01:39.00 | purple_cow | darth_mall: same eqn |
| 01:39.02 | purple_cow | has to be |
| 01:39.11 | kergoth | <PROTECTED> |
| 01:39.12 | kergoth | gah |
| 01:39.21 | darth_mall | wtf am I doing wrong |
| 01:39.31 | darth_mall | purple_cow: 5x**2 - 4x -1 ? |
| 01:39.35 | purple_cow | yep |
| 01:39.40 | lurgy | his comment is heartening.. in states where there is not a statistical tie (i.e., one candidate is beating the other by at least 5%), kerry has 228 votes to bush's 183 |
| 01:40.00 | lurgy | ew lagrange |
| 01:40.15 | purple_cow | lurgy: lagrange polynomials, not transformations |
| 01:40.29 | purple_cow | he's got his name attached to at least 3 completely unrelated math thingies |
| 01:40.52 | lurgy | do those 3 include lagrange points? |
| 01:41.02 | lurgy | (..in gravitational fields) |
| 01:41.08 | purple_cow | probably |
| 01:41.25 | lurgy | hmm, in grav fields is probably related to the transformation |
| 01:41.29 | purple_cow | prolific bastard |
| 01:41.47 | lurgy | indeed |
| 01:42.08 | purple_cow | probably not quite so much as ersatz, but very few are |
| 01:42.27 | lurgy | huh, the scheme for distributing electoral votes seems pretty similar to the one for distributing new armies on new turns in risk |
| 01:42.35 | purple_cow | hahahahaha |
| 01:42.38 | lurgy | every state has at least 3 |
| 01:42.40 | lurgy | even wyoming |
| 01:42.54 | darth_mall | there |
| 01:43.03 | darth_mall | that was a really retarded arithmetic mistake |
| 01:43.55 | darth_mall | lurgy: way to improve my opinions of our system of gov't ;) |
| 01:44.05 | darth_mall | "wow... this system is very similar to a war game" |
| 01:44.34 | lurgy | hehe |
| 01:45.58 | darth_mall | purple_cow: what'd you put for 1.c)? |
| 01:46.38 | darth_mall | lurgy: you at home? |
| 01:46.43 | purple_cow | darth_mall: i left the polynomial unmultiplied out in 1.b), then multiplied it out and said "there's only one d(n-1) polynomial for n points" |
| 01:47.08 | darth_mall | mk |
| 01:47.26 | lurgy | darth_mall: i don't think it's an enormously great system of government ;-) our government is on the somewhat inefficient side at representing the interests of its citizens, but except for the little kinks i can't think of an enormously less bad system of government |
| 01:47.29 | purple_cow | dunno if she'll like it or not, but i don't care |
| 01:47.45 | darth_mall | lurgy: that doesn't answer my question ;) |
| 01:47.54 | lurgy | darth_mall: and yes i am at home |
| 01:48.03 | darth_mall | we should watch some Critic shortly |
| 01:48.06 | pagefault | I think leo is drunk |
| 01:48.10 | lurgy | hmm |
| 01:48.12 | lurgy | darth_mall: maybe |
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| 01:52.02 | lurgy | yarf |
| 01:52.19 | darth_mall | heh |
| 01:52.25 | lurgy | mm lunches |
| 01:52.26 | kergoth | oh, food, right... hmm. |
| 01:53.34 | kergoth | so popeyes offers a cajun turkey you can buy for thanksgiving. |
| 01:53.35 | kergoth | weird. |
| 01:54.03 | lurgy | mmm turkey |
| 01:59.16 | purple_cow | http://www.electoral-vote.com/info/graph.html <-- that's kinda cool |
| 01:59.54 | lurgy | hmm, yeah |
| 02:03.41 | darth_mall | lurgy: so what say ye to Critic? |
| 02:06.11 | darth_mall | lurgy: heel! |
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| 02:07.11 | darth_mall | baaaaaaaaaaaaad lurgy |
| 02:07.27 | lurgy | darth_mall: okay |
| 02:07.31 | lurgy | darth_mall: once my dinner is ready |
| 02:10.16 | nullpuppy | kergoth: i think it rammstein might finally almost be done |
| 02:10.21 | kergoth | hah |
| 02:10.22 | kergoth | jeeze |
| 02:10.30 | kergoth | this cable is 1.2mbps upstream. |
| 02:10.33 | kergoth | damn neighbors |
| 02:10.38 | nullpuppy | 76% done on 3, and i think thats the last one |
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| 02:21.56 | nullpuppy | nope, its not done |
| 02:25.57 | nullpuppy | kergoth: 9 hrs to copy 91mb :) |
| 02:26.09 | kergoth | thats insane |
| 02:26.21 | nullpuppy | yeah, but, its done :) |
| 02:26.25 | kergoth | good |
| 02:26.48 | ChipX86 | yay home |
| 02:26.49 | scanline | purple_cow: what bugs me about that air resistance equation is that they don't even give you the simple one along with some approximations of the constant and the air density.. they just say "this is the equation for air resistance!" |
| 02:27.11 | scanline | it's like if they told you "pi is exactly 22/7!" |
| 02:29.22 | nullpuppy | mmmm, rammstein |