Where's the Open Data?

blamanj asks: "There's a lot of open-source code around, and generally, it's quite easy to find. Finding open source data, on the other hand, can be quite a pain. Why isn't there a common reponsitory for public domain data sets? I'm thinking of things like lists of world cities, dictionaries of stemmed words, population data, etc., etc."

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Do what you want, as long as you get the right answer.

Exactly. This is getting boring. The last point I'd like to make is that it took me all of 15 mins to get used to RPN. And for a final example:

( (2+4)^(4+(2^5)/(2*10^3)) )/(4^ (4!))

Alg - 35 keystrokes plus lots of chances to screw up with brackets

vs (e = enter)

2e4+ (6 on stack)
2e5^(6, 2^5 on stack)
2E3e/ (6, ((2^5) /2000) on stack)
4+ ^ (6^204 on stack)
4e4!^ (6^204, 4, 4! on stack)
^ (6^204, 4^4! on stack)
/

(answer on stack)

22 keys used. I found that no harder to do then algerbraic - and I bet if you had to do that bu hand use use a similair process. It looks cryptic as hell written down like this, but I bet if you spent 15 mins playing with the HP emulator

to each his own...

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[Lavos]

Yeah, *THIS* post might be offtopic, but the above wasn't. That's the first post that I'd ever had moderated down, and this will likely be the second.

"Hmmmm, he mentioned MS in a fashion not suited to bashing, he must be moderated down." I bash MS quite often, but I will give them credit when it's due.

Why don't you reply so we can have a little discussion instead of hiding behind anonymity? Oh, never mind, I forgot that this is slashdot.