Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Bauglir]

Curves can cross TWICE. Shit. This ruins everything!

[Graknorke]

Curves can cross TWICE. Shit. This ruins everything!

Context?

[Putnam]

Curves can cross TWICE. Shit. This ruins everything!

Context?

I think something like this

[Draignean]

Tension and compression are very different things.

I need to kill someone. And outlaw truss systems.

[Bauglir]

Curves can cross TWICE. Shit. This ruins everything!

Context?

I think something like this

Yes, I had a neat idea for checking to see if two curves crossed that turns out to have relied on them not doing so an even number of times, because I'm bad at thinking things through. Would've been way more efficient than the method it looks like I'm going to have to employ (and also learn how to employ in the first place, because using scipy to find roots is both math and programming that I don't know how to do in this case).

EDIT: Let it never be said that I am a clever man, basically.

[Fniff]

I snapped off a minijack tip inside my Mac. Can't get it out, and can't listen to music. MINIJAAAAACK.

[Baffler]

Rust...

Just Rust. My brother and I got raided, and were each killed at least 6 times trying to retake our house. I eventually managed to lock them inside, and they ran off when I opened the door about 15 minutes later. With all my guns, ammo, and most of my food. They were sitting on my food stocks, so they probably would've lasted longer than me anyway. I'm not even mad that they raided us, just that they stuck around for so damn long to rack up more kills.

[Lightningfalcon]

So, because I'm taking part in a cyber defence competition we get access to microsoft dreamspark, a program where educational institutes and other organazations pay microsoft some kind of fee so that their students get free (to them) microsoft products.  I finally decided to take advantage of this, and "Brought" a copy of windows 7 for my new computer. 
So, to cover the first part of my rage
Things he/she doesn't mention-
The download manager not ever starting a download for twenty minutes, and just staying at zero percent.   
The download manager getting to some random percent downloaded, and then stopping. 
The download manager getting to some random percent downloaded and then giving you an error about corrupted files.
The download manager downloading the whole file after many, many tries, and then telling you the file is corrupted.
The download manager (At this point I just looked at the download manager and it has somehow went form 93% done to 67%.   I'm honestly not surprised).
The download manager getting to some random percent downloaded, and then telling you that the port is blocked.
Finally getting an ISO downloaded, set up, and somehow corrupted.  (This is based on the error code a BSOD is giving me, and how three quarters of the people who have that error code mention "I got this ISO from dreamsparks").
Yes, I know it's free.  But what am I going to do?  Pay over a hundred dollars to get something I already own?   

[lemon10]

Pirate it?
I assume that they gave you the serial number when you "bought" it, so you can just download the pirate copy and put the real serial number into it.

I don't think that there is any ethical problems with pirating something you already own, and it seems that it will be far less of a pain in the ass that way.

[Lightningfalcon]

Pirate it?
I assume that they gave you the serial number when you "bought" it, so you can just download the pirate copy and put the real serial number into it.

I don't think that there is any ethical problems with pirating something you already own, and it seems that it will be far less of a pain in the ass that way.

I think that part of the problem might be the specific .iso they provide, so I went ahead and ordered a copy of win7 professional, and I'm downloading that right now.   If that doesn't work my uncle actually has a bunch of boot disc and is coming over for a visit next week, so I'll have him bring one.   

[Kadzar]

Wait, you can still buy copies of Windows 7? Then why do I keep hearing stories about people buying Windows 8?

[Dutchling]

Because Windows 8 is not the nightmare people describe it as?

[GiglameshDespair]

Windows 8 is alright, to be honest, though i've spent all of 20 seconds in the tiles thing. The rest has been in the desktop and it's been solid in that aspect. Fast enough for my purposes.

[Iceblaster]

Windows 8 is alright, to be honest, though I've spent all of 20 seconds in the tiles thing. The rest has been in the desktop and it's been solid in that aspect. Fast enough for my purposes.

Yeah, after having spent a few months with it, I don't see any problem either.

[Lightningfalcon]

It was something wrong with the .iso file that was provided for win7 standard.   Installing professional worked perfectly.
That is, it worked perfectly until I realized I had the "Write over existing data" box checked when installing ubuntu.   So that's why I'm not in the happy thread right now.   At least now I know both operating systems do workk, and it's just a matter of getting them to not murder each other over hard drive space.