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    Any mathermaticians in the house? What exactly is the Raki series?

    "The matrix mapping is chosen using a geometric progression called the 'Raki' series formatted as of the form x(n)=p(x(n-1) + 1) called the 'Raki' series. The exact form of the Raki series manifests itself as a chaotic progression of orbits around an origin, roughly shown below in 'Figure...
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    POLL: Im giving you the CHANCE to send me ANYWHERE in the world! Seriously....

    << The Netherlands = beautiful, safe, clean, fun country. My stay there was awesome. >> hrm, you must not have been in amsterdam then. safe? clean? hahahah. fun, yes. i have kind of mixed feelings about amsterdam. it was a whole lot of fun, but at the same time the hell fires in the...
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    Explain Real Time OS's to me

    << That's what RTLinux is, it's not just a simple scheduler and locking patch like the preempt patch or low-latency ones being considered for the main kernel. >> and just to drag this out even farther, rtlinux simply runs linux as the idle process. in all other respects it is a completely...
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    Not so Bad Deal.. 24x CDR 80min 700MB 50Pk, $9.50

    it might be worth noting that this is for a 50x spindle, not a single cdr :)
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    how does ps2 recognize cdrs?

    yeah, i stand corrected. apparently the bad block/sector stuff is just a neverending rumor. sorry about that...
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    ~~Bypassing Hardware firewall~~

    << hahah the prob is i seems to can`t find any port that is open >> um... if your firewall doesn't allow outgoing connections on ANY ports how are you reading this? setup the bouncer on 80 and you should be set.
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    new programming challenge

    this is off topic, but i was at barnes & noble about a month ago and picked up a book some of you may enjoy. it's called Games and Decisions by R. Duncan Luce and Howard Raiffa. it's an overview of game theory that is aimed at non-mathematicians. (as a warning, you do need to be fairly...
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    how does ps2 recognize cdrs?

    actually there's more to the ps1 copy protection than that. otherwise something like clonecd would prolly be able to copy them. their solution (which i consider to be almost as clever as the gamecube's protection of simply making cdrs not fit) is to write some number of sectors as all 0s...
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    ~~Bypassing Hardware firewall~~

    just pick a port that works w/ the firewall and setup a bouncer on a computer outside of the firewall
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    HOTTER THAN HEIDI KLUM!!!!! Viewsonic VA800 18" LCD $499 (after MIR & PM/Blue)

    << C'mon people, get real. Do you think Amex will PM it? I really hope you fraudulent asses either get stuck with a $900 monitor or get slapped with a 15% restocking fee. >> see now they will spend 5 hours on the phone with whoever sold it to them demanding that they take back an opened lcd...