Cardinal_Sin

I'm fine with paying with AE since I'll probably play it as well, but that's not the point. I want my CC info off that xbox and off the account, use MS point cards or something in the future. Already had my CC info stolen once so the less places it's at, the less I have to worry about. Well, at least i get the 0.01% cashback or whatever garbage deal is on my card. Doesn't compare to free Air Miles though.

Hm chang messaged me the same thing, figured I should check here to see what the deal was just in case. While I'm pretty raged about it, Ray can have SF: Anal Eruption as a gift. And if Alexey is playing it too then i can at least know i'm not the only one raging. I thought I had removed my CC info, but I realized I only removed it from TupacShakuras after they repeat-billed me with stealth auto-renewals which I'm still pretty annoyed about. Anyways remove my CC info from your account, I'm hella pissed at MS and I don't want them getting ahold of any more of my personal info. I'll even tell you how: www.xbox.com > My Xbox > Accounts > Manage Payment options. You won't even have to talk to annoying XBL tech support people on the phone like i did.

Uncharted "the best" will destroy all the infidels http://kotaku.com/5815660/unearthed-the-saudi+made-uncharted-knockoff-is-available-for-everything-but-the-360

Christ a 25 dollar venue fee? Into a glorified Netcafe? I guess getting 3 goddamn sponsors isn't enough to cut down on the cost of plugging in a couple of monitors and PS3's. Gotta be kidding me. I barely even wanna play the game these days. I'm iffy about this one.

http://consumerist.com/2011/06/food-blogger-jailed-for-salty-restaurant-review.html oh those taiwanese

Honestly I don't think the riot was as bad as people made it out to be. It was pretty much localized to a few streets and we aren't talking about millions of dollars of damage, it was a few cars, a few dumb fights and some broken windows (one idiot tried to kick in the windows at scotiabank and failed at doing so). I didn't feel like I really feared for my safety even when the crowds started running. That having been said, for the relative level of violence and destruction that ended up occurring I think the police and security did a piss poor job. Half of georgia had NO cops on it, and they were deploying tear gas as a containment measure at the very end of the roads instead of sending people in to break up the fights, which had the effect of boxing in a wide (and meaningless) perimeter of innocent bystanders. At no time did i feel the cops actually wanted to get involved in suppressing the destruction. Most of what you saw on TV (cops administering beatings etc.) was really the exception. I was standing there and thugs were kicking and breaking shit while the police just stood there trying to do their best impression of a NATO peacemaker. On other roads there was absolutely no police presence while people threw garbage cans at the stores. Like wtf? The standards of security in Canada really baffle me. Security people are absolutely willing to taser confused immigrants, punch students and beat harmless dirty hippies with riot shields at G20, but they are not willing to confront people setting things on fire in the street here in Vancouver. It's like they're only willing to throw around their weight when they know the target is not actually a threat.

Trine lesson 1: never be the knight goddamn buri. I can guarantee shuma on point will be much worse though.

haha robocop WHO IS THIS GUY WOLVERINE?

Shouldn't the fire spread to your opponent too? I assumed in most white RPG's that kind of status effect is modelled to be contagious. In other news, http://www.npr.org/2011/05/31/136721965/al-qaidas-paper-trail-a-treasure-trove-for-u-s?ft=1&f=1001 The kind of benefits package you would kill for (quite literally). How do these terrorists stay hungry?

Yo shit noel brown looks like the black guy from predator (not carl weathers)

know this my brothers Qur'an 8:2 "The only believers are those who feel fear and terror when Allah is mentioned." bring dat g-had beat back

let the flames of rapture claim the unjust insha'llah srO

they spelled jabroni wrong I open my IM after three days and the first message that pops up "teach me how to be good with wesker"

final score: 35-1

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bibuxton/buxtoncollection/default.aspx Most of this stuff is silly/quirky vintage tech designs but some of the e-reader stuff is pretty cool - embedded media within print magazines (and not just trading card holograms). edit: no HRAPs under joysticks, but there is a terrible mad catz product in there.

I was reading over changelog for FE and it seems the biggest thing was to make almost every standing C have bigger vertical hitboxes for hitting crouchers. While it is annoying that all of the low tier chars had horrible standing C's, I always thought that almost all of them could just use standing D or crouch C instead (albeit with much lower horizontal range). WIth the new changes, everyone can do RUN STOP FIERCE now. Alternatively, STEP STOP FIERCE becomes a pretty powerful throw OS now too, for basically everyone in the cast.

IIRC the hit sounds were different for the 95 versions in UM so that probably carried over. How does Terry sit in lowest tier? that's surprising to me. He was like the most braindead battery in the game. Daimon being so mediocre is kinda disappointing. I love how putting Step makes brian go from dead last to top ... but that doesn't make sense to me, I thought they removed dash overheads from the game?

^^it's actually not that rare for provincial politics to skew the opposite way. It implicitly creates the balance that voters are looking for. PC's were running the show for god knows how long in Ontario even when liberals were in power; it's always been more about practicality and pragmatism out east at least. Even the most hard-line right wingers sell out at the drop of a hat, just as the centrist liberals have. NDP will probably have no choice but to move to more mainstream platforms if they want to maintain current support numbers. Also you could argue that it's even more of a two-party system right now given how polarizing the NDP v Conservative platforms are. The Conservatives, if they continue their way of running things will probably go all out in the attack and leave no room for parliamentary co-operation. It's scary to think that right-wingers are in power with so much influence but at the same time i suppose things will actually get done.

straight from abc live stream "it was the drones that drove him out of the mountain" post patch notes: osama nerfed to 0 health

wtf Bin Laden is dead SENTINEL BOMB ASSIST NEVER FORGET

yesss persuadertron

marvel making you all bloody? london drugs has a new sales promotion for all you stream monsters out there

yeah shit was hype, good to see you again derek. Thanks for the stick, it ended up not dropping any inputs. Ray with the multiple yomi layers taking down samson's phoenix in team finals was hilarious. Recap: Ray plays bitch runaway with Hulk against 5 meter phoenix in last 20 seconds. Opponent activates xfactor in response to regain health lead (probably about 2/3 health gained back). Ray continues to turtle until about 3 seconds when he lands a gamma crush that does JUST enough damage to clinch the match without turning her into DP. Actually I dunno about the grapple. None of the followups are hyper-cancellable so maybe even on block that move isn't hyper-cancellable anyways. but yeah I definitely don't have the tournament composure that Ray and a lot of the others at the tourney had. After teams I was pretty much a wreck but shit was hype. You had to be there to see it.

that was how we rocked it in the t-dot when MuchMusic was coming off of its token canadian black music high and letting just any random person who sounded remotely R&B get on the airwaves Perhaps unsurprisingly muchmusic stopped caring about black people when Master T retired.

The Master theorem lets you figure out the runtime Big-O of a given algorithm that is recursive in nature, without having to figure out the strictly closed form of the algorithm's runtime. Here's a long-winded breakdown. For example, let's say you're sorting N items in a list. A lot of sorts will break the big list into two lists, and sort those two smaller lists by breaking them into two further lists first, etc. etc. This is an example of a recursive sort. That means that the time it takes to sort N items is (roughly) equivalent to the time it takes to sort two smaller lists of (N/2) items (since you break the list into two recursively). Therefore, if T(n) is the function that calculates how long it takes to sort N items, then T(n) = 2 * (T(n/2)) + some extra work combining the smaller lists Generally, recursive algos are divide-and-conquer; they break the problem into a number of smaller problems and re-calculate everything at the end. Intuitively then, these recursive algos can be expressed in recursive (open?) form as T(n) = A * T(n/B) + C Where B represents the number of smaller sub-problems (dividing by B), and A and C are the "extra work" that goes on on the side. Note that in the above equation, there is a T(x) term on both sides of the equation. This is a recursive way of expressing the equation, meaning that its definition is essentially self-referential. Just by looking at it, you can't get a clear big-O because it's not clear how much runtime the self-referential T(n/B) term on the right takes. Expressing T(n) in a non-self-referential form is known as finding the "closed" form of the formula. For example, consider recursion in the formula T(n) = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 .. + n Its recursive form is T(n) = T(n-1) + n [in other words, add N to the sum of the first N-1 terms in the sequence] But its closed form (without a T(x) on the right) is T(n) = n(n+1)/2 Note that calculating the recursive form's Big-O isn't clear at all, but if you look at the closed form, the Big-O is obviously n^2. Now if you could put any recursive function into a closed form like that you could pretty easily determine its Big-O. But a lot of recursive functions aren't easily expressible in closed form, so it's hard to calculate their Big-O. So look again at T(n) = A * T(n/B) + C What the master theorem tells you is that if you can express a recursive formula like the above formula, then you can calculate the Big-O without needing to get the closed form. The Master Theorem has a couple of specific cases, such as the logarithm / n^2 case you mentioned above. This means that the n/B, C and A terms all have to be expressed in the proper format (such as the C term having an N^2, and the final big-O answer being expressed in terms of a log of the other terms).