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by Kerey
Sun 30 Oct, 2005 5:51 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: TI Community Frappr!
Replies: 47
Views: 26268

leofox wrote:I've heard that more ppl speak Spanish in the US than English.
In some communities, yes, but in general, no. English is by far the most widely used language. (See CIA factbook for numbers)
by Kerey
Sun 30 Oct, 2005 1:34 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: TI Community Frappr!
Replies: 47
Views: 26268

English is our official language Nope. Only for some states, some of which have Spanish or other languages as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_in_the_United_States http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html (CIA factbook notes official languages next to the languages, for...
by Kerey
Sat 29 Oct, 2005 8:37 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: TI Community Frappr!
Replies: 47
Views: 26268

Did you guys know there was a time that dutch would almost be the world language... they had "elections" of which language to use in the USA, and 49% or something like that said it should be dutch... so english won on a close call :) The US doesn't even have an official language. Where di...
by Kerey
Wed 26 Oct, 2005 8:16 pm
Forum: General TI Discussion
Topic: Calculator Programming Convention?
Replies: 130
Views: 82831

He doesn't even do "press release style" articles correctly. You are supposed to put the "company" information ("headed by ... ", which is irrelevant to the article) at the end. If you are going to take yourself so seriously, at least get it right... A few suggestions f...
by Kerey
Sun 16 Oct, 2005 8:00 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Nazis in my city...
Replies: 39
Views: 14222

I think there's about 5 people on this board who live in or are from Ohio.

I doubt the rioters actually care. They are most likely just criminals who are taking advantage of the situation.
by Kerey
Sun 16 Oct, 2005 2:16 am
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Topic: Nazis in my city...
Replies: 39
Views: 14222

Ironically, anti-Nazi demonstrators started a riot even though the march was cancelled.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051016/ap_ ... nazi_march
by Kerey
Sun 16 Oct, 2005 1:57 am
Forum: General TI Discussion
Topic: Calculator Romantics
Replies: 18
Views: 14869

Awww.... isn't that cute!

I tend to avoid anything calculator related when talking to girls. Most nerdy girls scare me.
by Kerey
Sun 16 Oct, 2005 12:16 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: help cure speech disabilities
Replies: 24
Views: 12502

Doesn't your school have a speech therapist? I don't have a disability, but I tend to not inflect my voice enough, especially when giving formal presentations.
by Kerey
Wed 12 Oct, 2005 7:57 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Nazis in my city...
Replies: 39
Views: 14222

@kerey: Yes it would be illeagle, it falls under discrimination. Its why you can't be fired for being a republican in a mostly democrat store. I said it as a question rather than openly stating it. Personaly I think it would be funny for them to be fired. Not all forms of discrimination are illegal...
by Kerey
Mon 10 Oct, 2005 12:39 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Nazis in my city...
Replies: 39
Views: 14222

Uhh, actually it wasn't. :o Seriously, it was about the North opressing the south, mostly by not buying southern US products and getting them overseas, thereby wrecking the southern economy. I don't know how accurate this is, but I do know there were large tariffs protecting New England manufacturi...
by Kerey
Sun 09 Oct, 2005 2:48 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Religion... rightness... morality....
Replies: 160
Views: 51593

Spengo wrote:Cool. But...why does this go here? :?
I had just gotten back from a lecture by Stephen Wolfram where he talked about using cellular automata to understand the universe.
by Kerey
Sat 08 Oct, 2005 11:35 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Religion... rightness... morality....
Replies: 160
Views: 51593

It's all because of Rule 30!
by Kerey
Sat 24 Sep, 2005 6:58 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: The Blog Exchange...
Replies: 9
Views: 4218

blueskies wrote:i tried opening (port forwarding?) port 80 to my comp, then changing it to other ports (8080, 1234...) and changing the settings in apache to match. it didn't work. I'm sure it's just some setting I missed.
Hmm.. I dunno. Maybe your isp blocks all incoming ports. Typing is hard..........
by Kerey
Fri 23 Sep, 2005 6:51 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: The Blog Exchange...
Replies: 9
Views: 4218

it's in my sig. :) http://juansuave.com I actually need to update my site a little (both content and backend stuff). I was trying to set up and old computer as a webserver yesterday. Everything went well except that no one outside my network could access it. That's kind of a problem. :) Any hints? ...
by Kerey
Thu 22 Sep, 2005 9:58 pm
Forum: General TI Discussion
Topic: Trigonometry without sine/cosine
Replies: 22
Views: 24746

If the CPU can calculate trig itself, then you should have no real need for a LUT (unless the instruction was very ineffecient). Of course, using maths to favour a LUT was what gave us the ATi DOOM3 shader tweak. ;) So LUTs are not always the best. Ok, I guess one assembly instruction might be a ta...