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  1. Re:Planting the Flag in the New World by Original+Replica · · Score: 1 · on NOAA Requires License For Photos of the Earth

    Or keep it a secret until it's large enough to declare and defend it's independence. Here's a rough idea of probable minimum size: Liechtenstein is 62 sq miles with a population of 29,000.

  2. Re:ad libum by statemachine · · Score: 1 · on Folders vs. Tags For Shared Email Accounts?

    That conflicts with my source, who wrote a cake recipe.

  3. Re:Roman Numerals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on FFXII News Coming At Square Enix Event

    I'm sorry that you didn't pay attention during your elementary school math classes, but you could fix that problem in a few minutes if you bothered to search Google.

  4. Re:Talk about jumping version numbers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Live Picture of the Next Xbox

    P has no value in roman numerals, however since XP is windows 5.0 that's just fine because it makes it windows 5P. which one could argue stood for windows 'five point oh' in roman, as there is no 0 in roman numerals.

  5. Re:I thought you couldn't trademark a number by DogsBollocks · · Score: 1 · on New Intel Trademark Filed

    I agree with you that X=10 however,

    According to http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/numbers.html/

    Typing VIIV into the conversion box = 10.

    Makes sense to me, 6+4=10
    But you are almost correct that it could be 7+5=12
    (you had 13, but I see your point)

    Help, now I'm confused....

  6. Re:Pentium 8?? by OverlordQ · · Score: 1, Redundant · on New Intel Trademark Filed

    Erm no? VIII is 8, VIIV makes absolutely no sense as a Roman Numeral.

    I - 1
    II - 2
    III - 3
    IV - 4
    V - 5
    VI - 6
    VII - 7
    VIII - 8
    IX - 9
    X - 10

    see here

  7. Re:What does 'different mathmetics' mean? by dutky · · Score: 1 · on The Golden Ratio
    sllim wrote
    On a side note, here is a question that I have never known the answer to. Why do countries that have such dissimilar languages (the US and China or Russia for example) all use the same roman numeral numbers?
    First you meant to ask "Why does everyone use arabic numbers even though the languages are different?" Roman numbers are rarely used anymore, and certainly not for anything that matters (not if you want to do any kind of arithmetic with the numbers, at least). The prevailing use of arabic numerals, however, is a bit complicated. Some of it may be due to western colonialism in modern times (forcing the colonies to use european systems), but that's not all there is to it.

    I would point out that some cultures still have their own numeral systems, but if you've read the first wikipedia reference, above, you will see why that would be pointless.

  8. Re:XI by Klugheitsucher · · Score: 3, Informative · on Apple to Announce new Mac OS X version in June

    For those of you still struggling with Roman Numerals... It even has a Roman Numeral Converter

  9. Re:The reason for this is... by PhreakOfTime · · Score: 1 · on When Personalization Runs Amuck

    people anthroporphise the personalizations

    Dude, thats not even a word. Im sure you like George Bush alot, but isnt this going a little to far? Heres a hint, when your spelling of a word is only used by some oddball spiritual web site , and the correct spelling is in websters dictionary, you are practicing GW speech. Come on, how about using some strategery in your /. posts

    Antropomorphize

  10. Re:some humor..... by dgroskind · · Score: 1 · on Knuth: All Questions Answered

    But people sometimes fail to realize how different they were from us.

    If the United States would assume the place of Imperial Rome in the modern world, it might find the Roman virtues a better guide than the standards of consumerism and self-indulgence that popular culture offers.

    I would particularly commend the public virtues of Patience, Courage, and Clemency and the private virtues of Dignity, Prudence and Duty. These would pass for traditional American virtues today and Americans might do well to be more like Romans than less.