PhD-Comics 2005-04-30

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get perpendicular

Hitachi Global Storage is going to cram more bits onto your harddrive by making the bits stand perpendicular. Turn on the volume.

useless options

There are 66 useful settings that affect case sensitivity, plus 10 settings that are nearly useless, with the remaining 116 settings being either redundant or useless. (from the g77 documentation)

Programming...

Kernelnewbies' Docs Section provides you with very informative and funny reading about programming the Linux kernel. Read it NOW!

Just call me Chestnut Whiskers

So according to http://www.hanzismatter.com/ my nickname might be transcribed to 栗須 which are the kanji for Chestnut Whiskers. Well, I think it could be worse...

Michael’s Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena

Very much recommended: Michael’s Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena contains a big number of surprising optical illusions and also tries to explain them.

No more oxygen...

According to Heise Newsticker, telephone provider O₂ is trying to sue Weinmann GmbH, maker of mecidal oxygen supplies.

I am of course sure, that common-sense-impaired lawyers will find a perfectly logical explanantion why some corporation can own the symbol for a Chemical Element, especially as they use it for some abstract phone service while the other corporation uses it to name exactly what it describes since two hundred years: oxygen!

I think I will go ahead and start registering trademarks for hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, ... ununoctium, and their various isotopes.

Democracy could be so easy.

Ok, democracy is cool stuff, but it's so hard. You have to invade other countries to spread it, and when people have democracy they stop caring after some time. But it could be soooo easy! Just use DemExp. Freshmeat tells us: demexp is a client/server system for direct democracies

Kill Sweety

No more annoying ringtones! Just Kill Sweety!: (note: as of 16.3.05, it seems to be dead)

Some literature....

Charlotte Roche and Heinz Strunk are performing a dramatic reading: Penisinjuries caused by masturbation with vacuum cleaners! Which actually was a PhD-Thesis of Dr. med T. M. Alschibaja, and yes, I checked that at the TU-Muenchen-Library, you can get the details here. You can read a german critique of that performance at the Westdeutsche Zeitung and you can buy tickets for the event in Erlangen.

l33t: A parent's primer to computer slang

Microsoft proudly presents: A parent's primer to computer slang, a.k.a. leet-speak :-). Enjoy.

I saw the movie which could cry very much

Nice t-shirt found on engrish.com:

Phd-Comic, 13. Feb. 2005:

I'm already hungry.

Consequences

As we are right now in a critical phase of our project, it is essential that everybody in this project is contacting me before doing something in the test area. If this will not happen in the future, I will have to think about consequences.

I'm scared.

Great John

So you have a way too large bottom? http://greatjohn.com/

The size of the average person has increased dramatically over the last century. Most toilets made today are manufactured from designs dating back to the early 1900´s. In the past, the pleadings of big and tall people went unanswered. For this reason GJTC engineers, medical doctors and artists took to the task of creating a NEW GENERATION of products satisfying the needs of today’s customers. Our goal was to create the most comfortable and safe toilet for Large-Size people in the market. The other challenge was to make a toilet that could also be used by any size person. The final result was the creation of a "SIZE FRIENDLY TOILET".

Amazing.

root-Function of the day: TH2::FitSlicesY

Today's ROOT function of the day is:
void FitSlicesY(TF1 *f1, Int_t binmin, Int_t binmax, Int_t cut, Option_t *option)
Project slices along Y in case of a 2-D histogram, then fit each slice with function f1 and make a histogram for each fit parameter Only bins along X between binmin and binmax are considered. if f1=0, a gaussian is assumed

Go to bildblog.de!

If you know some poor misguided sould whose only source for information is the german Bild "newspaper", please direct them to http://www.bildblog.de/ where the stories behind many of the badly researched, misleading and plainly wrong headlines of that shoddy "newspaper" are told.

bureaucracy

Hat to do some bureaucratic work concerning sofware licenses today. I never thought you can fuck up the process of lawfully using software that bad. One more reasons to only use free software!

For restrooms go back toward your behind!

See the Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness.

Playing the game of kings

Remembering Battle Chess on your amiga? The pieces would fight each other when being captured. That was quite remarkable on a 8 MHz 68000 with 512 kByte of memory, it came on one 720 kByte floppy disk. Of course such a barbarian variation of Chess needs a complement, like Love Chess. Note that it needs a 1 GHz P4, 256 MB RAM, a DirectX8 compatible graphics card and 50 MB on your harddisk. (seen on memepool)