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freeskiers
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12/7/2009

Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure (DS) [Google It]
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (DS) [Google It]
Wii Nerf Switch Shot with Red Reveal (Wii) [Google It]
Yoga (Wii) [Google It]

12/8/2009

Avatar (PSP) [Google It]
Bookworm (DS) [Google It]
Chronicles of Mystery: The Tree of Life (PC) [Google It]
Dirt 2 (PC) [Google It]
Puzzler World (DS) [Google It]
SIlent Hll: Shattered Memories (Wii) [Google It]
Salon Superstar (DS) [Google It]
The Saboteur (360, PS3, PC) [Google It]

I recently found out I've got a friend who created an old university password out of left-hand only keys so as not to have to remove the right hand from the mouse.... That's a lazy geek!

Now, a good password should be memorable and hard to crack. We, being the geeky gals that we are, probably have all sorts of clever tricks and references to help us remember our complex passwords. A favorite phone number in hex? Shakespeare quotes in l33tsp34k? I'm sure it's all been done.

So, who here thinks UUDDLRLRbaS would be a good password? And who could forget the "it's Klingon/future Chinese/Ewok for friend" classics? Let's have at it, girls! What were some of your geeky passwords of yore?

Disclaimer: This should go without saying, but don't post any passwords you're still using! Common sense and basic internet aptitude demand you change your password regularly and that it be a secret.

So I'm jonesing to play some old school NES cartridgey goodness but my NES died a couple of weeks ago. I've google-fu'd and can't seem to find an NES clone with a light zapper that works with a flat screen tv. Has anyone heard of a clone that has an hdtv lcd/flatscreen compat zapper?

Oh, and Ebay and Craig's list aren't and option. I'd love another NES but I've had so many die over the years and better conditioned systems seem to be going for collector's prices.

My current understanding of the Riesz representation theorem is that it is useful since it tells you what all bounded linear functionals on Lp look like. They look like the integral of fg where g is some function in Lq. So, I was trying to think of an example of a bounded linear functional on an Lp space (1 <= p < infinity) that didn't look like the integral of fg where g is some function in Lq, and then find it's "riesz representation" --

I had a hard time thinking of a bounded linear functional, mostly because I'm still unsteady about the concept of "bounded" in this context. But I'm pretty sure that for f(x) in L2, T(f(x)) = f(1) would be a bounded linear functional on L2. T(af(x)+bh(x)) = af(1)+bh(1)= T(af(x)) +T(bh(x)), so it is linear. Now is it bounded? That is where I'm stuck.

||T|| = sup |f(1)|/||f||2

I don't know what to make of the numerator. It's smaller than the denominator? So ||T|| <= 1 and it is bounded (?) That means there must be a function g in L2 (I choose L2 since conjugate indicies are confusing otherwise) with T(f(x)) = integral [fg]. OK. What is g? That is where I'm stuck again.

I just want to see this theory "in action" or maybe I have misunderstood its purpose.

Hello all!

I've got some auctions up on eBay for nine DS games and a couple pieces of video game merchandise. ( Click for Mario, Professor Layton, Phoenix Wright, and more! )

Is anyone else taking Demon's Souls way too personally? Like, "Okay I've seriously died about fifteen times in an hour, I'm going to fuck you with a rake when I finally make it?"

PS: Don't get this game if you're a controller tosser.

I have a Biochemistry final next week, and today I was planning to study enzyme kinetics. So I changed my FB status to:

-is spending the evening with two guys-Michaelis and Menten :/

to which my husband responded:

-They'd better not be giving you k1[S][ES]!!!

ETA: I just learned Menten was actually a woman. That's what I get for not reading the textbook :)

So for reasons that would take too long to explain, I'd like to make a bunch of single words into eps files. I found a pretty decent way to do this with LaTeXiT for the Mac, which will even let me do XeTeX so I can use the font I want. However, it seems like this is the kind of thing there is probably a pre-existing macro or package for, somewhere. It would really be cute if I could wrap some text in a command and get Xe/LaTeX to think it's an eps, so I could do something like \includegraphics{\MagicEpsThing{some text}}. Does this exist? Thanks in advance!

I need a function that maps the real numbers to pairs of real numbers (one to one mapping):

R-> R*R

The cardinality of the sets is the same (according to wikipedia), so such a mapping should exist. Does anyone know a way to do this mapping?


EDIT: I'm looking for one-to-one AND onto
EDIT: Hah, found the right terminology: I'm looking for a "Bijection"

Can anyone point me to a more rigorous NA textbook (that covers all the essentials: interpolation, forward/backwards/central differences, finite differences, solutions to linear/nonlinear systems, approximation theory, etc.)?

I currently have Burden's, but its exercises are horribly basic and mostly involve using the algorithm provided. I'm kind of wanting things involving more proofs, showing where problems can occur (like in stability, computational time, etc.), you know, more "interesting" things.

And of course something that actually proves the various theorems/postulates in it (or at least what it can). Just something more rigorous and complete.

It can be aimed at either undergrads or grads, I'm not too picky on difficulty.

**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

Hey everybody. I'm conducting research about gaming genres and how graphics effect the experiences of games, and I have created this questionnaire to gather some answers.
Please fill the questionnaire in with at least some detail, it will help me immensly with my research :)

The questionnaire is behind this cut, thanks in advance :)

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Hello all,

I'm trying to show that H^1([0,1]) is a proper, dense subset of L^2([0,1]).

First of all, I want to find some L^2 function that is not in H^1, but I really don't know many L^2 functions off the top of my head, and finding one not in H^1 has proved even more challenging.

And I genuinely have no idea how to show H^1 is dense in L^2. I mean, I know that if I can show the orthogonal complement of H^1 is {0}, then that'll do it.....but I need some help getting started.


Thanks!

I went to a guest lecture the other day and I was very pleased that I was able to follow... oh... almost half of it! At any rate, he was talking about (among other things) how to select a random matrix with determinant 1. (so a random member of SL(N, Z))

He said there were two ways of doing this.

1. "the number theory way" picking it "out of a hat"

2. using a generating set and random walks on a graph (where did the graph come from??) to make "words" with the generating set and then these words are going to form a random matrix.

I could not understand the 2nd way-- has anyone heard of this? Why was he using a graph? making a random graph and choosing a "random walk" seems like making one problem in to another for no real reason and the whole process was lost on me. Anyone know what this is about?

anyone can suggest me good horror/survival horror kind of games
excluding silent hill, and re
for psx/ps2 or pc
thanks 8D

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