xkcd

Turtle_

16 sometimes unfortunately

. Every time someone says "relevant xkcd" it's the same as this comic.

Turtle_

10 1000 0111

Turtle_

My favorite is "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain."

Turtle_

Do you want to Digg it? If you tweet it I will definitely retweet. It seems so far that you are the first one to build the Aquarium... The OP isn't the first, although more implementations are interesting! (http://jhamrick.mit.edu/2010/04/11/sipbs-cpw/) (http://velociraptoronzebra.blogspot.com/2010...

Turtle_

My computer monitor is displaying really odd behavior. When I turn it on, it displays a splash image as usual, then starts displaying what it should. After a few seconds though, the screen goes completely black. If I don't have the computer connected then it displays the splash screen, shows a "...

Turtle_

You do need javascript to login. I'll read the HTTP spec, then get back in a few days if I need anymore help. Thanks.

Turtle_

My friend is in IB HL Computer Science, and for one of the IB requirements he needs to make some sort of application. Our school uses this website, Edline, to post student grades. My friend's program is going to take the grade data from the website, then display it additional useful ways. I told him...

Turtle_

Another 15 today for 1216.

Turtle_

439 + 15 = 454

Turtle_

Oh, I should bring up my favorite Babbage quote. Charles Babbage, you may recall, was the one who came up with a rather ingenious 19th century calculating machine based entirely on gears . On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliment], – "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the m...

Turtle_

I've been thinking about getting a second monitor and now is a great time with lots of things on sale. Right now I have an acer H213H , which I had considered getting another of, but there seems to be better deals right now. I looked at newegg and three that seemed like good deals are: Hanns·G HH-24...

Turtle_

From the article you just referenced: However, unlike the Strassen algorithm, it is not used in practice because it only provides an advantage for matrices so large that they cannot be processed by modern hardware (Robinson 2005). Although this algorithm is asymptotically the fastest, the asymptotic...

Turtle_

One game like this is bastet. It's tetris, except the game analyzes the field and tries to give you the most useless piece for the current situation.

Turtle_

Yo mama so fat I had to integrate her by parts. The Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics postulates that the universe splits to accommodate every possible series of events. This mean that there are infinitely many universes where your mom and I are getting it on right now. Yo momma so fat...

Turtle_

No actual desktop right now because I'm making some changes, but it's still kind-of interesting. I have sooo much stuff on my desktop.

Spoiler:

Turtle_

In one of my classes we were discussing how to make posters to inform people about AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress, I think it's a NCLB thing; basically how well the school is doing on standardized tests) so another teacher was in the class talking about it. Our teacher interrupted her to say "He...

Turtle_

I'm working on a program for my high school's open house for eighth graders. The idea is that the person would type in a word, the program will get the first image result (with strict safe search) and display it on the screen, and finally the student can draw on it with the mouse. There are two prob...

Turtle_

Why did I say yes when you (school newspaper staff) asked if you could "make up a quote"? How could I possibly have thought that was a good idea? How did I forget that most of the newspaper staff appears to be incompetent? How did I forget that you're not exactly the brightest bulb around?...

Turtle_

Using similar searches to the Google trends comic ( http://www.xkcd.com/522/ ): "2010 presidential election" is most popular in New Jersey, Florida, and New York (also note they started before the comic was made ) There enough searches for "Lincoln fan fiction" to get results, bu...

Turtle_

Is there any way I could try to fix this? Dismantle it and check the soldering on the wire where it is attached to the speaker. One might be loose; if so, resolder it. If that looks good, do a resistance test on both of the wires (left and right). If one is significantly higher than the other, it's...

Turtle_

I have a headset that was working fine yesterday but isn't working today. The speaker for the left ear is working fine, but for the right one to work you have to fiddle with the cord a bit. This might be due to accidentally rolling over the cable or something. Is there any way I could try to fix this?

Turtle_

Red Rover 2WWW Enchantment During each opponents beginning of combat step, if that player controls one or more creatures you must say "Red rover, red rover, send ~ right over" where ~ is a creature they control. This creature must attack this turn even if it has defender or can't attack, a...

Turtle_

I don't see why AP scores can't be online like SAT scores

. They're both run by the same people.

Turtle_

She was last seen 42 years before the article was published and was 42 when she died. This can be no coincidence.

Anyway, this story seems really dubious, although I suppose it could be true.

Turtle_

I did something similar one time. I was trying to remember whether the full law of sines said that sinA / a = R or a / sinA = R, so I tried an example and got sinA / a seemed like R. The real answer was a / sinA = 2R :( Dimensional analysis is your friend. I still would have missed the most importa...

Turtle_

On a physics exam, a friend of mine couldn't remember whether a particular equation had "squared" or "times two" in it, so he decided to pick a number and try it both ways and see which one looked right. Unfortunately, he realized later, the number he picked was 2. 2^2 = 2*2 I d...

Turtle_

It's like cancelling the sixes in 16/64. Or the nines in 19/95 or any other similar things. The alt text is a good idea too, I think I've done it before.

Turtle_

SlyReaper wrote:I'm not sure I understand. What does your teacher have to do with you applying for an internship?

The company don't usually hire high school students, but the school has some connections there.

Turtle_

A while ago I asked a teacher about my school about applying for an awesome internship, but she said it would be awhile before we needed to talk about it again. The next time I heard about it was hearing from two of my friends that they had gotten jobs there; and the teacher had forgotten about me ...

Turtle_

Some of the stuff generated by the spambots can be really quite impressive. It can take a minute to figure out that it was automatically generated, if it happens to have randomly created something that kinda makes sense and is vaguely on-topic. The auto-post and link magically appearing in signatur...

Turtle_

A while ago I asked a teacher about my school about applying for an awesome internship, but she said it would be awhile before we needed to talk about it again. The next time I heard about it was hearing from two of my friends that they had gotten jobs there; and the teacher had forgotten about me a...

Turtle_

Our normal teacher, on metal displacement. So you have a swimming pool, and Cu 2+ is swimming around, nice and slowly. But suddenly Na comes along and wants a swim. And Cu 2+ is scared of Na, because Na is a faster swimmer. So Na jumps in and starts swimming around. And Cu 2+ is scared, and jumps o...

Turtle_

scarley1 wrote:Add insult to injury, they get 10 weeks off a year with full pay!!

No, teachers get 10 weeks off a year with no pay. At least that's how it is where I live, but I suspect it's like that most places, if not everywhere.

Turtle_

I don't think I've broken anything yet, I'm only in high school though. I do have a story of other people breaking something though. In my school the ceilings are made out of a bunch of tiles which are made out of some type of foam or something. Some students were screwing around, aimed a faucet at ...

Turtle_

I don't think that there is an xkcd comic like that. It's probably from somewhere else.

Turtle_

I would put a collection of smaller ovens, as we clearly wouldn't need them anymore. Also a pizza.

Turtle_

This is unrelated to security, but pretty funny. There used to be a copy of halo in one of the shared folders on the school's network. Our teacher didn't really care if people played, as long as it didn't interfere with work.

Turtle_

I think at my school the IB HL Physics and AP Physics C are the same class, so I think the two are pretty similar. Also, some of the IB kids take AP exams, such as English Language, World History, and Spanish; I'm not really sure what this says about the classes though.

Turtle_

For a long time, at least since before I was at the school, everyone's password was MMDDYYSS where MMDDYY is your birth year and SS is the first two letters of your street name. It was easy to remember, which is good for people who only need to use the computers once every few months (which is most ...

Turtle_

My friend: Hey can I borrow a pencil.
Me: Sure. (gives him a pencil)
Him: (Snaps it in half, then gives it back) Thanks.

Student: How do you type Roman numerals?

Student: (Says some stuff)
Teacher: I'm sure you would know Quizmaster
Student: Hey, at least you know I didn't cheat

Search found 199 matches