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G-strings and beeping. So many euphemisms.
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"Curved spaces are nowhere locally Euclidean."The sphere is definitely locally Euclidean: puncture a sphere and you can flatten it to form a subset of the plane.An example of a nowhere locally...
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re: Space Mountain as if the lights were on, and other Disneyland/World secrets
I've been through space mountain at Disneyworld with the lights on. Â I thought it was creepier than with the lights off.We'd been waiting in line for like 40 minutes when the ride broke down. Â Cast...
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@CharlesDepending on what you mean by "locally Euclidean", a sphere may or may not be locally Euclidean.Specifically, if you include "zero curvature" in your definition of Euclidean, a sphere's surface...
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re: Inadvertently creating dress-like-Steve day
I'm more of a C-string man myself, though it makes searching for documentation on the CString class (or just plain old C strings) a bit awkward.
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I'm sure a Windows guy would be wearing an LPCSTR, or an LPWSTR to be trendy. (LPTSTR would probably be more the metrosexual look.)
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@MauritsI was using what I thought was a fairly definition for a topological manifold. If you're working with Riemann manifolds (which impose more structure) then I guess the notion is different;...
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@Jim: This is a common practice in heavily secured military locations - no 'tag alongs', swipe your own card/ID/fingerprint
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@CharlesYup. A topologist would say that a there is a homomorphism between (T^2 = (S1)^2) \ {0, 0} and R^2, and that there was a homomorphism between any sufficiently small neighborhood in T^2 and the...
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@PavelS. Mabye a region of infinite (aka 1#J) curvature could never appear to be flat? Or any surface who's 'x' component goes like A/(x-B) where 'x' goes to 'B'? I've also heard wild tales of what...
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Makes sense for both company security and security of employees... I suppose.Anyway, back to the story, I think it is more likely Steve was stalking Raymond ;-)
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In the case of Japan, "Gパン"("G-pants" means jeans) instead of G-string.
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I know you pre-record a lot of this stuff, but didn't Sinofsky depart Microsoft permanently last year some time? So you can relax in that department, anyway.
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Er, I mean that there's a homomorphism between a punctured *sphere* and R2, not a punctured torus.
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re: Space Mountain as if the lights were on, and other Disneyland/World secrets
I have no idea what sort of ride that is but presumably you could get a similar effect by closing your eyes tight as soon as you're "seated" and then opening them when you enter the dark area, no?
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@stoneyowl: And there is also a guard at the entrance, who checks that the person entered is the one who owns the beeped card. He also sort things out with guest passes and cases when an emploeyer...
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I had to google Steve Sinofsky to see who the heck Raymond was talking about.
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re: What are the dire consequences of not selecting objects out of my DC?
So I wasn't hallucinating, there really is a deferred deletion mechanism for objects selected into a device context! I've been wondering about this for years as I've seen production code that deletes...
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Bonus chatter: Objects are now garbage collected in the case of left behind in the DC. This is topologically equivalent to deleting a file when a handle is open on Unix systems. Unfortunately the...
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Wow, "optimistic prediction of the future", I like that one!
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