NeatNit wrote:Wow, was absolutely EVERYONE connected to wolf.uplinkcorp.net instead of ice.uplinkcorp.net?

Well, technically, everyone bar you. Presumably everyone connects to irc.uplinkcorp.net (which is wolf).

xander wrote:http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1016

xander

I understood nothing past the seventh word of the abstract, but congratulations nonetheless.

NeatNit wrote:Are you trying to use HTTPS? Well... don't.

But my password!

I am terribly unoriginal, and they should have been prepared.

xander wrote:What the fuck is with British keyboards? The keys are in the wrong places! Stupid \ where shift should be! STAB! STAB! STABBITY STAB STAB STAB!

xander

I have this difficulty with Apple keyboards.
Don't you love the huge return key?

xander wrote:what does a liter of milk cost in the UK?

Two pints of semi-skimmed milk cost 89p for me yesterday.

2 Imperial pints = 1.13652 litres
100 pence = £1

I can't figure out whether the fact that a U.S. federal government shutdown is possible is a great idea, or a particularly stupid one. It's certainly unique.

NeatNit wrote:Hmm, can anyone find a link to one of our older quote-pyramids? I wonder what happened to those.

Seriously though, that's a cheap limit. We need, like, 6.

Here's one. It seems to render properly. Unfortunately [size=0] seems to be gone forever. :(

Colytic wrote:NB: it took me a long time to find an URL that wasn't genuine.

You cheated with the .uk domain, though.

I finally got around to finishing Little Inferno yesterday (six months post-release). It's a game everyone should probably at least think about giving it a go, and is available on Win/Mac/Linux (and I think, iOS and the Wii U). It's made by the chaps behind World of Goo. It also has a pretty cool so...

Can someone explain rainbow tables real fast? I've tried reading the wikipedia article like 10 times but I just have no clue what it's yapping on about... Hashes take time to compute, in an attempt to make it difficult to brute-force a large number of them. A rainbow table is a big long list of pre...

Jackdapantyrip wrote:http://www.oculusvr.com/blog/john-carmack-joins-oculus-as-cto/

A good reason for Iv to move to Dallas..

Why do you insist on telling IV what they should do?

xander wrote:Also, how the hell did you find that quote? How far back is it?

xander

First page of the thread.

Chris has, in the past, expressed a desire to move forward, not sideways. Sequels are a sideways move. They lack creativity and innovation, and don't represent what IV seeks to be (assuming that my understanding of past statements is on the money). I believe that the phrase is "IV don't do seq...