Dave

Some people are very desperate, and they'll do anything to get their families out of poverty. Plus a lot of the al Qaeda guys aren't suicide bombers anyway. However, trying to take bin Laden out is a bit of a futile effort in my opinion. Even if they do get him, another 37 leaders will pop up out of nowhere.

I just don't see the point of running linux without xfree. It just makes it easier to use, it doesn't detract from the actual power of the OS. Oh well, live and learn I guess.

Have to disagree. When you want a quick program with a UI, you don't mess around creating UI's and stuff in Java for 30 minutes, you knock up a quick interface in VB, put a bit of code in and you're done.

True, but it does have this immense comedy value about it. Everyone's cheering, we can all get into space... *crunch* Guess that's a no-no then

Most of my posts were probably on the calculus thread yesterday, which pushed it up quite a lot. I don't know how many I posted in total, but it was quite a few.

No problem, just hope that it's the correct interpretation of the question.

True, I suppose. But they still lied Plus the multiple times they've blown up caravans is quite amusing.

Damn Top Gear, they lied.

From what I can see, you don't even have to work out the volume of the thing, so I'm not quite sure why they gave you the height. Basically, you make a chord that is 25cm away from the radius. Then draw a line from the centre of the circle to each point where the chord meets the circle - forming an isoceles triangle, since both of these lengths are radii. Then if you draw a line down the middle, you know this line will be 25cm long (because the chord is 25cm away from the centre of the circle) and you know the hypoteneuse. By Pythagarous you should be able to work out half the length of the chord and hence the area of the chord. I'll draw a diagram if you can't get it

Yes, I can just imagine them building this huge elevator, and then one of the military's spy satellites colliding with it and falling over.

You could just check your join date next to your posts.

rofl, nice one

Cheers, would be appreciated.

I would go and have a look at the car before buying anything; although you're covered if you buy it on eBay, and the guy's lied about there being no rust etc.

Tis the British way.

Obviously the functions 2x and 6-x are differentiable. However, when you get the point x = 2, you have a 'jump' in the function. The easiest way to see that it's not differentiable is to take the limit of both your functions and then show that they're not equal - or just to say that the limit at x=2 does not exist.

Quite; he just doesn't seem to have the concentration to last an entire match. Henman should blatently have won that match after the 3rd set, but he threw it away (as usual).

Nope; at relativistic speeds you use the relativistic doppler effect, and for relative speeds there's a whole set of equations to stop the speed exceeding c.

Yeah, I was glad I was semi-drunk at the time and didn't really care all too much

At least it shows that the site is becoming more active.

So, after quite some time, Iraq has finally been handed back over to the Iraqis to govern. However, it strikes me that the security situation there is completely out of control. My question is: what effect will the instability of Iraq have on the world over the next 10 years?

Well server time is GMT (I think), so that would make sense.

If you want a moderately harder challenge, then try finding the gradient of a function at any point using the method. I'll be posting a complete proof fairly soon, so you can easily check your answer. Stick to xn functions though and make sure you're comfortable in applying them. It'll do you well should you take your maths further.

My suggestion is to think of a common function you've been given and apply the method to it. xn are the easier ones to use with first principles, but I might try and come up with something else that's a little more interesting. However, unless you like limits you can't solve (yet), don't try trig functions

I have to say it goes against everything I've ever been taught, so I'm in opposition. Not quite sure where he got that one from.