In a world where a single Word document can take up 700Kb (ie, half a floppy disk)
BS! a 32 page.doc I recently worked on, laden with multi-page tables imported from excel, weighs in at 233KB. A ~850 word 2-page document I just threw together is ~32KB - 6KB zipped - which is the size I usually see for.docs. If you're counting, a 1.44mb floppy can hold about 46 uncompressed.docs of that size. Not to mention the fact that I regularly zip 50 or so largish.xls files and transport them around on a floppy, with room to spare.
The point being, floppies are perfectly suited for sneakernetworking text/spreadsheet files.
what insight! India truly is known as a bastion of free commerce and governmental non-intervention. whereveryoulook, the License-Raj is a shining example of what capitalism should be.
Just curious, but why do you like Firefox better than Mozilla?
Different strokes for different folks, as they say. I like Mozilla because the interface and the program feel more mature, and I'm more familiar with the menu layout. Also, I rarely use chat but when I do mozilla saves me from installing another program. I've use firefox a fair bit, and it felt too lightweight, and too much like IE, for my taste.
Both programs are essentially the same underneath; it really boils down to a question of taste.
Anybody at any time could keep a log of anything. The parent poster's beef, and my own, is that bloggers put their log on the web and expect other people to care about it.
I wonder, do you step out of the woodwork and whine whenever a company offshores jobs?
Here's a free clue: people can't quit their jobs until they find a job to replace it. Ever heard of Wage Slavery?. And, like so many slashbots are fond of pointing out, jobs are hard to find. So unless they plan on fighting management, the poor schmucks who work at EA are forced to tough it out until they find a better job.
All of this is not to mention the fact that the workers are entirely within their rights to complain about, and attempt to improve, bad working conditions. If you simply abandoned every company that treated you badly, the cause of the problem - poorly managed comapnies - would never go away. It's in the interest of the workers to improve their situation, both in terms of their own job and in terms of the industry as a whole.
Even assuming your defeatest attitude is right, the workers are correct to exercise their rights. What's the point of having a job if it destroys your health and personal life? Not to mention the fact that the illegal and immoral practices the workers are just now fighting against result in (according to yesterday's article by an EA employee's spouse) 50% turnover, meaning the average worker has a 50-50 chance of leaving the company anyway. In short: the current conditions arn't tenable; ridding the US of such labour practices, either by offshoring or improvement, is necessary.
Peace doesn't come from treaties. It comes from the realization that war itself is almost never worth fighting.
It works the other way as well: treaties often come from the realization (usually after a horrible war) that war itself is not worth fighting. The problem is that we forget the lessons of past wars, and the consensus that made the treaty possible dissapears. And another generation gives war a try.
This article gives its own theories on the 2^32 limit google appears to have hit. According to the author, google indexes each document with an unsigned long, giving a limit of 2^32-1 pages in the index.
If michael would just strip the last sentence of each of Piquepaille's articles (when he invariably puts the link to his own weblog), it would be alright by me. Unless that happens, Piquepaille should be banned from submitting articles.
Where I said "The paradox to me, is that this means the Big Bang can be conceptualized as a the outer edge of a sphere that surrounds us. You can, with the telescope, image in any direction in all three dimensions, and your limit wrt distance in any of those directions is the big bang. So the big bang is the edge."
I should have just said "You can conceptualize the universe as a sphere, with the Earth (or Hubble) as the center, and the Big Bang as the outer edge. No matter what direction you travel in, the most distant point is always the big bang."
I was thinking about these photos, and came upon was seems to me to be a paradox. OK, so the Hubble takes this ultra-deep image of a point in space. This is said to be an image of the universe X billion years ago, and Y billion years after the big bang. All well and good.
Now, so far as I know, intersteller distances are measured by the light year; Alpha Centuri is ~4 light years away, etc.
I extrapolate from this that this ultra-deep and ultra-old image of the universe is both the _oldest_ and the _most distant_ image yet taken.
The problem is this: You can point the hubble in any direction, and get an equally old image. Further, if you take a deep enough image, you can (theoretically) take an image of the Big Bang itself (or X million years after it, whatever).
The paradox to me, is that this means the Big Bang can be conceptualized as a the outer edge of a sphere that surrounds us. You can, with the telescope, image in any direction in all three dimensions, and your limit wrt distance in any of those directions is the big bang. So the big bang is the edge.
Now, this seems absurd to me, so I obviously got something wrong somewhere. Does anyone know what I got wrong?
Those photos were absolutly fantastic! Bravo. How long did it take to climb to the top of the mountain in this photo? Myself, I've climbed the volcano Masaya and another volcano on the island of Omatepe in Nicaragua; the one at Omatepe was almost 2km high, and that took me almost 2 hours to climb. The other one, at Masaya, was easier to climb; we were in a truck most of the way. but the last 100m were on foot, and I was quite scared at the summet. But, like you say, the vista is wonderful. At the summet of Masaya, I could see the capital of the country, Managaua, which is more than 50km away.
An attempt at French, for the hell of it:
Ces photos la sont absolument fantastique! Bravo. Combien d'heurs es qu'il a pris pour marchez au sommet de le montagne dans le photo ici?
Mois-meme, j'ai escaledez le volcan Masaya est une autre volcan sur l'isle Omatepe dans Nicaragua; l'un a Omatepe etait presque 2km d'hauteur, est il m'a pris presque deux heurs pour l'escaledez. L'autre, a Masaya, etait plus facil de escaladez; j'etait dans un camion, sauf que les dernier cent metre etait sur pied (j'etait assez efferayez au sommet)! Come vous avez dit, le vista est merveilleux. Au sommet de Masaya, je pouvait voir le capital du pays, Managua, plus de 50km distant.
It's not like some engineers sat around drinking sake and thinking about how best to party down for the 4th anniverery of a product launch. It's more like some executives sat around drinking sake, thinking about how to milk a little more from an aging cash cow. Bah humbug!
OT, but does anyone know a general rule to solve the equation n^n = x? For example, if n^n = 3125, how would you solve for n? (in this case, n=5)
For the rest of us, there will be an on-line public competition hosted through the Valladolid site and run by the University of Waterloo. The next one is on the 19th (3 days away!), free, and everyone can register. Stock up on doritos and join in the fun!
I knew a guy who was staying at a house with a guard goose. The goose didn't like him and chased him whenever he was in the yard, trying to bit him. It only relented when he hit it quite hard on the head; after that, it still squaked at him. He was terrified of the thing.
unions are simply formal organizations which represent the interest of workes wrt management. they recognize that all workers have a common interest, and work towards that common interest. this is why unionized shops have better pay, benefits, job security etc. than non-unionized shops.
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And Civ I still runs on through classic! Try http://mac.the-underdogs.org/ for a copy.
How does it work? That's some seriously obfuscated code!
$ gcc warning.c warning.c:1:2: warning: #warning Error: Too many errors. $ ./a.out
Hello, world.
Perhaps
main()
{
printf("Error: Too many errors.\n");
}
?
BS! a 32 page .doc I recently worked on, laden with multi-page tables imported from excel, weighs in at 233KB. A ~850 word 2-page document I just threw together is ~32KB - 6KB zipped - which is the size I usually see for .docs. If you're counting, a 1.44mb floppy can hold about 46 uncompressed .docs of that size. Not to mention the fact that I regularly zip 50 or so largish .xls files and transport them around on a floppy, with room to spare.
The point being, floppies are perfectly suited for sneakernetworking text/spreadsheet files.
One definition on a geocities page is usually a hint that the word was misspelled. Try Longevity instead.
what insight! India truly is known as a bastion of free commerce and governmental non-intervention. wherever you look, the License-Raj is a shining example of what capitalism should be.
Le fin du monde. Et Canada est comme.. "ques-qui ce passe, eh?"
Mon ortographie est probablement mauvaise, mais tout-le-meme c'est proche.
Just curious, but why do you like Firefox better than Mozilla?
Different strokes for different folks, as they say. I like Mozilla because the interface and the program feel more mature, and I'm more familiar with the menu layout. Also, I rarely use chat but when I do mozilla saves me from installing another program. I've use firefox a fair bit, and it felt too lightweight, and too much like IE, for my taste.
Both programs are essentially the same underneath; it really boils down to a question of taste.
Anybody at any time could keep a log of anything. The parent poster's beef, and my own, is that bloggers put their log on the web and expect other people to care about it.
Bungie dosen't do release dates, they put software out 'when it's done'. Feb. 9th has got to be something else, if it's anything
Here's a free clue: people can't quit their jobs until they find a job to replace it. Ever heard of Wage Slavery?. And, like so many slashbots are fond of pointing out, jobs are hard to find. So unless they plan on fighting management, the poor schmucks who work at EA are forced to tough it out until they find a better job.
All of this is not to mention the fact that the workers are entirely within their rights to complain about, and attempt to improve, bad working conditions. If you simply abandoned every company that treated you badly, the cause of the problem - poorly managed comapnies - would never go away. It's in the interest of the workers to improve their situation, both in terms of their own job and in terms of the industry as a whole.
Even assuming your defeatest attitude is right, the workers are correct to exercise their rights. What's the point of having a job if it destroys your health and personal life? Not to mention the fact that the illegal and immoral practices the workers are just now fighting against result in (according to yesterday's article by an EA employee's spouse) 50% turnover, meaning the average worker has a 50-50 chance of leaving the company anyway. In short: the current conditions arn't tenable; ridding the US of such labour practices, either by offshoring or improvement, is necessary.
It works the other way as well: treaties often come from the realization (usually after a horrible war) that war itself is not worth fighting. The problem is that we forget the lessons of past wars, and the consensus that made the treaty possible dissapears. And another generation gives war a try.
This article gives its own theories on the 2^32 limit google appears to have hit. According to the author, google indexes each document with an unsigned long, giving a limit of 2^32-1 pages in the index.
If michael would just strip the last sentence of each of Piquepaille's articles (when he invariably puts the link to his own weblog), it would be alright by me. Unless that happens, Piquepaille should be banned from submitting articles.
FAIR is a place to start looking, especaially their article "The 'Oh Really?' Factor: Bill O'Reilly Spins Facts and Statistics".
Is it a magical mushroom?
I should have just said "You can conceptualize the universe as a sphere, with the Earth (or Hubble) as the center, and the Big Bang as the outer edge. No matter what direction you travel in, the most distant point is always the big bang."
(This stuff confuses me)
Now, so far as I know, intersteller distances are measured by the light year; Alpha Centuri is ~4 light years away, etc.
I extrapolate from this that this ultra-deep and ultra-old image of the universe is both the _oldest_ and the _most distant_ image yet taken.
The problem is this: You can point the hubble in any direction, and get an equally old image. Further, if you take a deep enough image, you can (theoretically) take an image of the Big Bang itself (or X million years after it, whatever).
The paradox to me, is that this means the Big Bang can be conceptualized as a the outer edge of a sphere that surrounds us. You can, with the telescope, image in any direction in all three dimensions, and your limit wrt distance in any of those directions is the big bang. So the big bang is the edge.
Now, this seems absurd to me, so I obviously got something wrong somewhere. Does anyone know what I got wrong?
An attempt at French, for the hell of it:
Ces photos la sont absolument fantastique! Bravo. Combien d'heurs es qu'il a pris pour marchez au sommet de le montagne dans le photo ici?
Mois-meme, j'ai escaledez le volcan Masaya est une autre volcan sur l'isle Omatepe dans Nicaragua; l'un a Omatepe etait presque 2km d'hauteur, est il m'a pris presque deux heurs pour l'escaledez. L'autre, a Masaya, etait plus facil de escaladez; j'etait dans un camion, sauf que les dernier cent metre etait sur pied (j'etait assez efferayez au sommet)! Come vous avez dit, le vista est merveilleux. Au sommet de Masaya, je pouvait voir le capital du pays, Managua, plus de 50km distant.
OT, but does anyone know a general rule to solve the equation n^n = x? For example, if n^n = 3125, how would you solve for n? (in this case, n=5)
For the rest of us, there will be an on-line public competition hosted through the Valladolid site and run by the University of Waterloo. The next one is on the 19th (3 days away!), free, and everyone can register. Stock up on doritos and join in the fun!
I knew a guy who was staying at a house with a guard goose. The goose didn't like him and chased him whenever he was in the yard, trying to bit him. It only relented when he hit it quite hard on the head; after that, it still squaked at him. He was terrified of the thing.
unions are simply formal organizations which represent the interest of workes wrt management. they recognize that all workers have a common interest, and work towards that common interest. this is why unionized shops have better pay, benefits, job security etc. than non-unionized shops.
you'll be the first to go, nazi fucker