Dragon Master

I decided I want to learn another language, and originally I though Spanish. Partly because it's such a popular language, partly because I live in California right now and there's a large Hispanic population. I also know Classical Latin which I thought would help. The problem is I'm a native English speaker and can't roll my R's for anything.

My next alternative is German, but I feel like I won't be able to draw off my Latin experience as much or use it as often, but I know it much closer matches to English.

I wrote this expression to try to calculate the probability of rolling a 5 with 4 dice:

P(roll 3 ones) * P(roll 1 two) = (4 3)*(1/6)^3*(5/6) * (4 1)*(1/6)*(5/6)^3 = 0.00595

But I also know that there are 4 possible combinations which could make 5, so when I double-check this answer with brute force I get:

4/6^4 = 0.00309

I must be doing something wrong with one or the other, but I can't figure out which.

I recently moved to college in central California and it's hot as heck right now. Our dorms don't have AC and we're forbidden from having our own. Does anyone know of any other way to keep a room cool?

I currently open my window at night, when it's cool with the fan pulling air in; then I close it during the day, but still my room gets up to somewhere around 78-80*F.

I am trying to download some mp3's which I bought off amazon. Amazon says I can download up to 22 songs at a time (because I run Linux), but every time I select 22 items and click download, only six come up. After a little research, I found that Chrome only allows up to 6 connections to a web site at a time.

Is there any way I can raise that limit for Amazon only? Or alternatively, make it download the six, and then start on the next six?

I'm currently working on a program that would simulate a tabletop Dungeons and Dragons game over the internet, and I hoped to publish it when I'm done. My only concern is that I don't want to violate copyright. I know that Wizards of the Coast published D&D under the open game license, which lets me copy some elements of the game, but I heard somewhere that I can't actually copy the game mechanics. But on the other hand, Pathfinder basically duplicated D&D and certainly hasn't had any legal trouble, so how much can I actually use under the OGL?

It seems logical to me that somewhere in BufferedImage or in a utility class there would be an object or method specifically designated to leading images, but everywhere I go I find people just use ImageIcon. Why is that? Is there no other method? That seems like a bit of an oversight for what is otherwise a language that handles GUIs very well.

I decided near the beginning of the summer I wanted to make an MP3 player as one of my summer projects. I accumulated some experience with various components and I feel I'm ready to start. I ordered my parts put there's a small problem. (Pun not intended) The ic I'm using to read the MP3 files is incredibly small, about a cm wide. I honestly am at a loss how I'm supposed to do anything with it other than solder it to a circuit board, but even then, I don't want to do that until I test it.

I've looked for some ic holders, but I can't find one it will fit in.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could work with this very small ic?

It's a little weird to try to explain simply: basically, I have a bunch of rows in a database, and each of them will be identified with some combination of the types A, B, C, D, and/or E. For example, something could just be A, or it could be AB, or ACD, or BD, etc. I need a way to store whatever combination of properties might come up and be able to search for a specific one, for example, find all the B's in the database, and put everything with B in it's combination.

One idea I had was to make A = 1, B = 2, C = 4, D = 8, and E = 16. Then add them up so each combination had a different number, but then I don't know how I'd search through that.

To try to reword it, basically, I was to have a device that runs off rechargeable batteries, but can charge without remove the batteries. How can I do that?

I have recently gotten into electronics and I need a servo for one of my projects. The problem is, all of the servos at my local shop measure torque in kg.cm (Kilogram-Centimeter I think). I've always understood to be measured in Nm (Newton-Meters). Can anyone clarify this, and maybe help me with the conversion?

The listed torque is 1.5kg.cm

I've been experimenting with electronics lately, and I have a really simple circuit set up.

In a solderless breadboard, I've hooked up a battery pack with 2 D-Batteries in it, the negative end to A1, and the positive to D10.

Then I put a 100ohm resistor connecting A2 to D2. Since the battery pack gives 3.1 volts, I approximated a current of 31mAmps.

I put my multimeter to both sides of the resistor and got a reading of 3.1volts, but when I set it to measure amps, I get nothing.

I thought maybe the resistance was too high and a current couldn't get across, or something, so I added a parallel 100ohm resistor, but still nothing.

Does anyone know what might be wrong here?

Basically, I have a div that I need to be 85% of the height when the screen height is smaller than the screen width, or 85% of the width when the screen width is smaller than the screen height.

Right now I have this JS function in my web site:

function squareResize(percent)

{

var min = percent * Math.min(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight);

$("#myDiv").height(min);

$("#myDiv").width(min);

}

I know I really shouldn't be doing this in JavaScript, but does anyone know how I could get something similar in CSS?

I'm the kind of person who likes to make things, especially higher up on the more complex/useful scale (But not so much that if I can't do it then I have an actual problem). I decided an MP3 player might be fun for the summer, plus I'm getting a bit more into music and it would be preferable to buying a pre-made one.

Does anyone know what materials/skills might be required for this? I would like it to be accessible via USB as a storage device, and able to plug headphones (and maybe speakers) in to play the music.

I'm a Java programmer, but I know a bit of C++, and am very well versed in Linux if any of that makes a difference.

I meet this girl in our school's recycling club (Basically, we help sort through the bins) and we talked a bit so we know each other. I want to ask her out and I got two tickets to see this show at a theater in a few days and I was going to ask her out there today. But, it turns out, the meeting was moved up a few days and no one told me so I never got the chance. Today was the last final so I won't get to see her again until January. I don't have her phone number or anything, but I found her on Facebook. Would that be an acceptable way to ask her out since I'm out of options or did I just miss my chance?

I'm reluctant to call it a cook book because that has the implication of a recipe book. I'm more looking for something that can help explain how cooking works, what does what and so on.

Like, I know that eggs help make food more fluffy (for lack of a better word), sugar more sweet, butter sweetens but also more sticky, and so on.

I have the jar and put it in a layout package in my project but when I try to import it, it doesn't work. How do I set it up to use table layout?

Note: I use Eclipse Juno, JDK 7u6

I'm having trouble finding and example of a major improvement on the central processing unit since the 4004. Can anyone provide some examples?

I used to play www.travian.com and I really liked it, but it was too slow and required you to monitor it very regularly. Additionally, I like games like Civ IV, but I'm looking for something more continuous. I've tried Runescape before and liked it at first, but then, as I got higher levels it just got repetitive. I tried Minecraft a bit, but I found that surviving just got way too easy and I got board very fast, due to my affinity towards games where you have to work to live. Also, I will probably want it to either be online or have an online mode.

I have a Linux machine, but I also have a Windows partition. Also, I much prefer a one time payment, but I might be willing to subscribe if I like it enough (although it's not likely).

I have this problem on my quiz tomorrow (the teacher gave it out in advance) and I have no clue how to solve it:

e^(2x)-1

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tan(x)

What is the limit as x approaches 0?

I changed tan into sin/cos so i now have:

cos(x)e^(2x)-1

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sin(x)

And since cos of 0 is 1:

e^(2*0)-1

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sin(0)

This is where I'm thrown off. Anything to the power of zero is 1, so the numerator is zero. Shouldn't that mean the the limit is zero? When I put it into my calculator, I get 2 so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.