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I dispute the following: "To be perfectly random each number should appear the same number of times..." Random means there no way to predict the next event and not equal distribution. For instance, a...
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Apparently now it's home owner's insurance going through the roof.
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We bought a Kirby from a door to door salesman. At the time I needed a new sweeper. Paid $900.00 and the guy showed us everything it could do, for about four to five hours. Sounded great. However, to...
View ArticleComment: Donald George Olson died at 72
Shawn, this was a moving and heartfelt tribute to your Dad and your Mom as well. They were great friends and I loved seeing the pictures you posted and the stories you shared.. Best always, Marci
View ArticleComment: Unicode Data with PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1
Thanks a lot ! I almost went mad making everything work, but it turned out that I just needed to write: SET NAMES 'utf8';
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I noticed these bugs clinging to my screen door out back. the only problem I have is we have no grapevines around. Where would they be coming from. we do have tomato plants but nothing else. How do we...
View ArticleComment: Quick Parent Link MAXScript
I recently updated this script to include "Quick Parent Selection" that will make a hierarchy chain from the current selection based on the order of the selected objects.
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Found one of these crossing my back yard when my Golden Retriever stopped to sniff at it. Glad to find your website and discover I saw my first hickory horned devil. I measured this one at 5 inches...
View ArticleComment: PHP Traits for Implementing Interfaces
Great article. Just what I was looking for. I was thinking of how best to implement this exact topic with traits in my own php framework. You've explained it well. Thanks. I'm interested to know how...
View ArticleComment: Saying Goodbye to Dad
Shawn, I'm sorry to hear about your Father. Been there, done that, as you know. 10 years next month. Where has the time gone. In going over my Basket...of cards, e-mail address, etc. I found your web...
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Hi Shawn, I work with game engines and serious games, and I've been putting a lot of effort to develop a way to automate the optimization of HighPoly (for baking afterwards) and I though about an...
View ArticleComment: Sprite Tools
This tool was updated today to add alpha channel support in the bitmaps as well as integration with the new <a href="http://dev.wallworm.com/topic/64/detailer.html">Detailer Plugin</a>.
View ArticleComment: Infinity, for the Mind and Body
The "walking across the room" problem you describe is called Zeno's Dichotomy paradox. It can be solved a few ways. One is that the size and time to travel become infinitesimal, as Jeremy told you so...
View ArticleComment: 2013 in Review
Wow. It is hard to believe that your father has been gone a year. It doesn't seem possible to me. I do miss him greatly. Realizing how much I miss him and how much of him I have missed has brought...
View ArticleComment: Boycott Adobe
Another example of the general movement. Skype premium used to be an annual service rental of $50. Today I logged in to see about renewing it again. The same service is now $9.99 per month. That's...
View ArticleComment: MisCon 25
We have tales to share, you and I, with the world! Seldom does an opportunity come along like this ... I have a pocket recorder with HOURS AND HOURS of conversation on my round-trip with him, but...
View ArticleComment: Altering CSS Class Attributes with JavaScript
For all dynamism in style sheets, there is a new kid on the block - JS3. JavaScript Style Sheet - Instead of putting programming in CSS, it puts CSS in a programming language. Have a look, the issue...
View ArticleComment: Overly Dark Render Problem in 3DS Max 2009
Wow thank you!! this really helped!
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