thatera's Space http://thatera.posterous.com Most recent posts at thatera's Space posterous.com Sat, 09 Feb 2013 08:47:00 -0800 Start quest, try to design good-looking character. Then, 5 hours in, discover this. http://thatera.posterous.com/start-quest-try-to-design-good-looking-charac http://thatera.posterous.com/start-quest-try-to-design-good-looking-charac

Start quest, try to design good-looking character. Then, 5 hours in, discover this.

 

Looks like severe mandibular hypoplasia. Have fun with a bilateral sagittal split osteotomy from your local Oblivion oral surgeon.

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Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:21:00 -0800 This is Luna, she showed up at my door during a blizzard in the middle of winter, hungry and cold. http://thatera.posterous.com/this-is-luna-she-showed-up-at-my-door-during http://thatera.posterous.com/this-is-luna-she-showed-up-at-my-door-during

This is Luna, she showed up at my door during a blizzard in the middle of winter, hungry and cold.

 

Does OP have any idea what breed of cat this is? My cat, now quite old, is nearly identical and Ive not been able to figure the breed out. Even down the colouring. (Obviously my cat is a crossed breed, otherwise Id know what the breed was. Itd just be good to actually know.)

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Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:03:00 -0800 I work in a restaurant. This is our Christopher Walk-In http://thatera.posterous.com/i-work-in-a-restaurant-this-is-our-christophe http://thatera.posterous.com/i-work-in-a-restaurant-this-is-our-christophe

I work in a restaurant. This is our Christopher Walk-In

 

Oh man Ive been waiting for a chance to tell this story. My freshman year there was this weird asian kid who would come and hang out in my room all the time. One day he comes in, looks at my desk, which had some normal shit on it (pizza box, alarm clock, books, etc.) and then says "Oh did you guys get a new walken?" which of course, was not an actual thing to my or any of my friends respective knowledges. After a few seconds of silence, I said "What?" and then the asian kid got really confused, said "what?" and then left the room. Never got an explanation for that one.

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Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:30:00 -0800 Slow-Motion Lightning http://thatera.posterous.com/slow-motion-lightning http://thatera.posterous.com/slow-motion-lightning

Slow-Motion Lightning

 

If I had to guess, Id say pretty damn fast. This is lightning at 2000fps, so for this, Id say probably closer to 5000.

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Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:08:00 -0800 Found this on the door of an awesome math prof at my university http://thatera.posterous.com/found-this-on-the-door-of-an-awesome-math-pro http://thatera.posterous.com/found-this-on-the-door-of-an-awesome-math-pro

Found this on the door of an awesome math prof at my university

 

"hyperreals"

The hyperreal number are a so-called "extension" of the real numbers which means that they contain all the real numbers and some neat extra numbers. You have probably encountered hyperreal numbers in calculus - for example infinity and minus infinity.

"infinitesimals"

The second important type of hyperreal numbers are the infinitesimal numbers - or numbers that are closer to zero than any real number and yet not exactly zero. If youve done some integrals then youllved (English grammar, mathematician style) the pleasure to meat "dx", an infinitely small change in some variable x. That is an infinitesimal.

"standard part"

As Ive said, the hyperreals are "essentially" just the reals with some extra numbers. The standard part of any hyperreal is simply the real number that is closest to it - or you could say that it extracts its real component. For example: The standard part of any infinitesimal is zero because they are extremely close to the real number zero. Similarly, the standard part of something like "5 + dx" would be 5 since that is the real number that its closest to.

Why is this useful?

Essentially it is useful because it allows you to formulate calculus and many things that build upon it without any limits and fuzzy mathematics only by using the standard part function. This is especially handy when you are directly manipulating the infinitesimals which is bogus mathematics in the "ordinary" formulation of calculus but perfectly valid in the hyperreal formulation.

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Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:57:00 -0800 I am addicted to adult kickball. So me and some friends made this video http://thatera.posterous.com/i-am-addicted-to-adult-kickball-so-me-and-som http://thatera.posterous.com/i-am-addicted-to-adult-kickball-so-me-and-som

Great video, my city actually has three leagues, two private leagues and a city league. the private leagues use the small balls, as opposed to the big balls that WAKA uses, the city league uses WAKA balls and is not really competitive, the balls are too big in my opinion. The private league on the other hand has about 30 teams and our own stadium for our "game of the week" which is the last game we play during the week, its really nice under the lights and it seats about 850 and is full for every "game of the week" We have a end of season tourney and a charity tourney every year. I have included some pics. We always love when a WAKA team comes and plays us, we do one game with our ball and one game with their ball series..... So Come on Down!!!!! stadium outfield Seventh inning singing outfield panorama Panorama from the stand Backside of stadium tl;dr Lawrence Fucking Kansas loves kickball

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Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:46:00 -0800 The 1970s Phreaking Subculture That Gave Us Steve Jobs - Before Jobs and Steve Wozniak invented Apple, they hacked phones. Slate.com http://thatera.posterous.com/the-1970s-phreaking-subculture-that-gave-us-s http://thatera.posterous.com/the-1970s-phreaking-subculture-that-gave-us-s

The 1970s Phreaking Subculture That Gave Us Steve Jobs - Before Jobs and Steve Wozniak invented Apple, they hacked phones. Slate.com

 

Wear on the components? What are you smoking today? They cant guarantee ANY wear on the components, if you play 3D games all day long it puts a lot more stress than using a rooted/jailbroken file manager app. The only real factor of wear on electronics is heat, and that is produced by plenty of App Store apps (games, video, etc). The only other thing is memory writes, as Flash memory can only take so much read/write cycles before it cant be written anymore reliably, but again, you dont have to have custom jailbroken software to write the memory to death when you could use anything from the App Store that works the memory (copy files back and forth from iTunes even, whatever does the trick). The main issue with warranty is having to do customer support on a phone that may not be running software that they can reproduce the issues on. If customer is running $uP3R 1337 AW3S03M R0M from some script kiddy developer on a forum somewhere, Apple has no way to guarantee the problem is actually being caused by Apple software and dont want to pay the extra support costs to try to diagnose issues with non-Apple software that hasnt been properly tested. They also dont want to pay support costs for bricked phones due to ROM flashing or low-level OS modding gone wrong, as a bad ROM flash can leave your phone in a useless, non-booting state. This is a perfectly legitimate reason to not approve warranty repair or replacement, as it is the customers fault that the device isnt working. That said, in general software does not break hardware. A custom ROM should void your software warranty (i.e. "I bricked my phone") but should NOT void your

hardware

warranty (i.e."The display has a big green vertical line down the middle" or "The headphone jack is loose"). These are hardware issues that can happen regardless of what software (if any at all) is on the device. Hardware wear and tear is mostly caused by external factors (jamming the headphones plug in and out too hard, mashing the buttons too hard, dropping the phone and damaging the display, cracking the glass, etc). This policy holds for most manufacturers, who will do warranty replacements or repairs for hardware issues not related to a software problem regardless of whether or not you had a custom ROM/jailbreak/root on your device. Apple Im not too sure. This is not a legitimate reason to void the warranty for software issues, as the software is not part of the problem nor the solution.

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Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:15:00 -0800 Fort Steele, British Columbia http://thatera.posterous.com/fort-steele-british-columbia http://thatera.posterous.com/fort-steele-british-columbia

Fort Steele, British Columbia

 

About half of the town burned down around the turn of the century. Its in a really dry area, so youd have a grassfire hazard if you didnt ensure it was watered properly in summer. Youre not even allowed to smoke inside the town. On the other hand, there is a lot of stuff there that you dont see, including the functioning farm that produces root vegetables, stables filled with Clydesdales that are used to plow said farm, the old fort itself, and a works yard that helps maintain an old steam engine (the one from Shanghai Noon) that runs on a few kilometers of track on the outskirts of town. What youre actually seeing in this photo is a fraction of the residential area. Most of what is left are commercial buildings because the area that burnt down, which would have been to the right of the photo, was where people actually lived. Basically what Im saying is that the manicured lawns at the front of this image are about 1/20th of actual town.

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Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:34:00 -0800 I wish to join this dance party. http://thatera.posterous.com/i-wish-to-join-this-dance-party http://thatera.posterous.com/i-wish-to-join-this-dance-party

I wish to join this dance party.

Youre right heres the video:

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Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:32:00 -0800 Watch As Food Travels Through This Glass Mantis. http://thatera.posterous.com/watch-as-food-travels-through-this-glass-mant http://thatera.posterous.com/watch-as-food-travels-through-this-glass-mant

Praying Mantis are one of the scariest creatures on this planet to me. Nothing would freak me out more than a giant sized mantis.

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Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:41:00 -0800 My friends playing their weekly Age of empires II game http://thatera.posterous.com/my-friends-playing-their-weekly-age-of-empire http://thatera.posterous.com/my-friends-playing-their-weekly-age-of-empire

My friends playing their weekly Age of empires II game

Its a hardware defect. I have the same problem with my Dell XPS 15 (L502x). Something about shoddily applied thermal paste. If you opt to not get it fixed, your heatsink is probably going to die (as did mine), and then youll need to get the entire motherboard replaced (although youd still have to anyway because of how the laptop is built). Even then, it will start having problems again after a month or so because Dell doesnt learn from its mistakes... Does yours have a Nvidia GT540M? Apparently only the models with that specific video card have the crashing problem (the sound "screeches" after crashing, right?). Protip: Smell your fan. Mine worked for about a month after I initially purchased it (July 2011) before it started crashing while playing games. I ignored that. In January 2012 the fan started making weird noises, and speeding up/slowing down over and over again. Dell said that was normal. The fan also smelled like burning plastic. Then one day when I turned it on, the system no longer recognized the video card and as such I couldnt play ANY games. After a week Dell acknowledged it was a hardware issue and had me send it in. They replaced the entire motherboard, as the video card, heatsink, and fan were all dead. A month after I got it back, the crashing started again. I dont know how much longer the laptop will last now, as I am not on warranty, but I built a much superior desktop in December so I honestly dont care anymore... On an unrelated note, I havent been using this laptop all that much, and suddenly the left-click button on the trackpad doesnt work anymore. I havent even been using the damned thing.

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