They say that 75% of people connect using non-browser apps, but does that mean that 75% don't use web browsers? I'm not at all sure that that's the case. Poll stories are notorius for shifting the answer away from the question.
One of the worst examples was a poll that was done in BC in 1994 when there was a big fight over logging issues, and the environment movement was getting a lot of support.
There was a poll done, that asked if people thought that environmentalists were responsible for the sorry state of the logging industry, and most people said "no". The front page headline was:
British Columbians find Enviros Irresponsible
The correction the next day was a little article on page 2.
I get the same symptoms if I get too much chocolate, and then eat it over a long period of time. After a while, I get addicted, and not having chocolate for a while causes me to get massive headaches.
Quitting was easy for me, because I associated the headaches with consuming the substance, not abstaining from it (and that's actually accurate). After a day, or two of abstinance, the headaches go away, but the trick is, you have to continue to abstain for a couple of months after that to get the whole chemical soup our of your system.
As for the caffi-centric society, just start something different. I got myself a nice big glass jug. It's great for mixing (non-caffinated) juices of all sorts in. Sometimes I'll have instant juice. Sometimes I'll have frozen juice (you do have a fridge at work, don't you?)
A $1 can of frozen orange juice will give you about a litre (quart) of fluids... A much better buy than a cup of coffee, and a good deal healthier.
When we go to a bar/restaurant I'll have decaf tea, or ginger-ale/sprite/7-up. Root beer is nice, as long as it's not Barq's (which is artifically caffinated), and most restaurants have some sort of juice.
Just remember that you don't have to choose like a sheep. People generally respect the fact that you're willing to choose something a bit different (as long as you don't preach about your choice).... Even if they razz you about it, they still respect it. Usually they're just curious about your choice.
I just can't believe that there is not a sufficient market to support such a restaurant chain.
The other half of "build it and they will come" is "come and they will build it".
It's like the difference between Linux and Windows... If people are satisfied enough with mediocrity, and don't agitate for quality, then why bet your life savings on the quality solution? Every time you go to McDonalds, you vote with your dollars. If you (and your friends, workmates, clients) start arranging things so that you can have your 20 minute lunch at the mom&pop stores in your region, then they might just be willing to invest $20,000 in the renovations to make a drive-through possible.
Instead of trying to blame people who eat at McDonalds, why don't you blame the "healthy" restaurants who won't meet consumer demand for drive throughs and quick "to-go" meals?
I don't (usually) drive, and the last time I tried, McDonalds refused to serve me riding a bike, so if you want to talk your local *good* food redtaurant to put in a drive through, I'd suggest two things:
!) Buy your food from them more often (so that they have the money to build one, and
2) while you're there, lobby them for a drive-through.
If you know you're in a rush, you can also just call up your favorite restaurant, let them know what you want, and when you'll be there to eat it. They can time the meal for you, then you'll have fine food with (roughly) no wait. That's the kind of service that McDonalds will probably never provide. It's something that you'll probabably only get from a mom+pop type operation.
You ever try to find a drive-through at an organic restaurant when you are running late for work or only have 20 minutes to grab lunch?
That pretty much says it... The fact that you've only scheduled yourself for a 20Min lunch says something... It's not like you can't put some real time for lunch into your schedule... It's just not a priority for you. There are all sorts of ways to arrange things, including paying someone in your community to make a (real) bagged lunch for you that probably has way more nutritional value than 3 or 4 McDonalds lunches (and probably better taste, too). At that point, you don't even have to line up for your gruel^W food.
If you read a number in little-endian style (from LSB to MSB), then as you read each digit, you know both it's value and it's order of magnitude. No need to back up.
If all you want is a gestimate, then you just count digits until you get close enough to the end to care about the details.
I.E. Instead of saying $345M, you'd say $M543.
What's really important is that it's an M and not a B(G) or K. That relates to the number of digits that would have been ahead of the number if it were not for the multiplier.
To wrap your mind around it, you first have to let go of the old (big-endian) way of doing things, and consider how you would have thought if you had been brought up in a little-endian world to begin with.
(on the other hand, I was an inquisitive little snot in elementary school... I started to wonder: If we have to do (almost) all of our work from right to left, then why aren't they just written the other way round so that we could do our work 'forwards'.?)
The environmentalists aren't really calling for the turbine farm to be closed... they're really usingthe threat of (non)renewal to force them to take action.
Like many companies, it's only a threat to their continued income that will cause actions that profit the environment and even the community but not the bottom line.
I would be happy to know if there is even one technology, originally designated for police/government use only, that has not been (mis)used or seriously threatened to be misused by criminals and/or terrorists.
The closest to being on that list is nukes, but the US governments claims that there are serious threats of WMD use, cut it off of the list.
#2 is probably a non issue as several successful black actors can demonstrate.
It's still an issue. There are surprisingly few cases of black actors in roles that didn't specifically call for a black character. Wil Smit's role isn I Robot is one such counter-example, and you notice that there sre some people having a hard time with it.
It may be because he's black, or it may be because he's known as a comedian. Unfortunately, it's rather hard to separate the two issues in a situation like this.
First is not necessarily best. As Jesus said, "The meek shal inherit the earth.", and "The last shal be first". Perhaps this means that he was little-endian too!.
On the more serious side: If you start little-endian, then by the time you get to the hindmost, you understand both it's relative size, and it's order of magnitude. both pieces of information are necessary to know how big a number really is, and being little-endian would allow you to reach a conclusion on both of those piedces of information at the same time.
I've experienced a couple of situations
where not noticing how many digits were in a number led me to incorrect conclusions about my data.
To understand how big a number is, you have to know about how many digits there are in it. The biggest difference between $233421 and $1924219 is the number of digits. By the time you get to the 1, you need to know just how big of a 1 it really is, thus you either have to start from the little end and count as you read, or you have to go back once you get there.
The "200 six packs" phrase is a good example. Maybe he should say "two hundred and zero six packs" for clarity?
If trying to be pedantically unambiguous, I'd probably semantically separate the two stanza by saying 'Two hundred of these six packs'.
Then again, I know I'm wierd, so I don't bother to hide it.
Read 19: nine-teen. In English, the range from 13 to 19 is big-endian.
That would be Little-Endian. Endian-ness specifies which end you start with,. Intel X86s are little-endian, while Motorola (680X0) is Big-Endian (as is english, other than in the teens).
The naming convention is taken from
"Gulliver's Travels", where one of the societies was suffering a schism between those who chose to break their eggs starting at the little end (little-endian) and those who started at the big end (big-endian).
(bit of trivia: Issac Asimov did an 'Annotated Gulliver's Travels'. He considered it to be one of the earliest examples of English science fiction).
I don't quite understand what you mean with "natural" and "first" since for a person writing or reading a language right to left the rightmost part of a word (or number) naturally comes first.
Try adding the following numbers by hand:
92937545168
88484564556
===========
Then try multiplying them, or even subtracting them. The only 'simple' operation that we do from left to right is division, and division is clearly an inverse operation. Even then, many of the interim operations occur right to left.
It's in that respect, that the 'natural' order for numbers would be 'little-endian' (least significant digits first).
Farsi, like most middle-east languages, appears to be written right-to-left -- the same as our numbers are --
When the original algebra texts from Persia were translated, the translator kept the right to Left form of the numbers (little-endian). This is the reason for the big-endian / little-endian dicotomy in modern day computers -- we've been writing our numbers backwards for the last thousand years!
Maybe if the article's summary here on/. told us what the heck a wikipedia is, we'd be more inclined to donate.
Wikipedia is to Brittania Encyclopedias what Linux is to Microsoft.
It ia an open-source enclyclopedia. Any user can contribute to it, and many have. Contributors range from interested amateurs to field specialists. Public response tends to weed out (or replace) the most atrocious contributions and encourage the best. In the last 3 years or so, they claim to have gotten about 170,000 entries. If you think that something is missing, then you can always add (or edit) an entry yourself.
In areas of strong contention (e.g. the Middle east, politics, environmantal, etc), I can expect that the wiki record for associated entries may reflects this contention (and might, of itself, be worth investigating). The other 99% of the time, I think you can expect the entries to range from an uncontested reasonable to excelent.
I'm only a beginner, so I'm sure someone else can add more info.
I know from my limited Animal Channel education, only female elephants form herds. Like a hideous sexual stereotype, the rowdy male elephant is banished from the female-led, loving, communal herd at a young age [. . . . . ..] So, I don't see how fightin' ketones are going to keep the herds of female elephants from ravaging fields......
If Elephant females were hot and horny all he time, they wouldn't be bannishing the males, to begin with would they?
Humans are unusual in the mammalian world in that females are able to (under appropriate conditions) have (and enjoy) sex pretty much any time of the year/month (a trait we share with rabbits). Most other female mammals have short periods during which they are in heat. Add to this the Elephant pregnancy term of about 2 years followed by god-only-knows-how-many years of rearing the young before you're ready for another session, and you're looking at something like Spock's 7-year itch in "Amok Time".
I understand that when a human female is not ready for sex, it can be downright painful. I'm presuming the same for an unready pachyderm.
For all practical purposes, you can consider the average female state to be something like an elephantine version of both PMS and a headache. Now consider a herd of these heading north and suddenly realizing that there is a huge, unshaved, male ahead of you who is sooo horny that you can smell it from here.
All of a sudden, West might seem like a good idea.....
It's kind of sad that they puchased Cobalt for $2 billion, not too long ago, and now they're discontinuing the Cobalt line. That's $2 billion down the drain.
An anon coward pointed out that it was $2B in dot.com stock that is now worth $150M.bust. Furthermore, what Sun got was Cobalt's market -- the ability to walk SUN salespeople into the offices of every company that ever bought a Coboalt, and up-sell them sun-blades and *86 boxes that are roughly aimed at the same market as the cobalts were.
They also got Cobalt's cheap-box production facilities/technology that are now probably being used to build their SunBlades.
All in all, not a bad buy for a bunch of overpriced stock, if you ask me.
Note: Although this would make the repair charge more expensive than the entire incremental charges for the beagle-2 mission, it would still be the cheapest way to fund for a manned mars mission.
Unfortunately, I'm betting that they didn't contract for an extended warranty for this thing. This was done on the cheap, you know.
On tehhe sunny side Venus has about 400 degrees centigrade ground temperature... Mars has on the sunny side about - 20 degrees centigrade, sometimes higher.
Yeah... and if you start having electronics problems on Venus, you can just grab a cup of solder from that river, over there, and use it to make repairs.....
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One of the worst examples was a poll that was done in BC in 1994 when there was a big fight over logging issues, and the environment movement was getting a lot of support.
There was a poll done, that asked if people thought that environmentalists were responsible for the sorry state of the logging industry, and most people said "no". The front page headline was:
British Columbians find Enviros Irresponsible
The correction the next day was a little article on page 2.
Quitting was easy for me, because I associated the headaches with consuming the substance, not abstaining from it (and that's actually accurate). After a day, or two of abstinance, the headaches go away, but the trick is, you have to continue to abstain for a couple of months after that to get the whole chemical soup our of your system.
As for the caffi-centric society, just start something different. I got myself a nice big glass jug. It's great for mixing (non-caffinated) juices of all sorts in. Sometimes I'll have instant juice. Sometimes I'll have frozen juice (you do have a fridge at work, don't you?)
A $1 can of frozen orange juice will give you about a litre (quart) of fluids... A much better buy than a cup of coffee, and a good deal healthier.
When we go to a bar/restaurant I'll have decaf tea, or ginger-ale/sprite/7-up. Root beer is nice, as long as it's not Barq's (which is artifically caffinated), and most restaurants have some sort of juice.
Just remember that you don't have to choose like a sheep. People generally respect the fact that you're willing to choose something a bit different (as long as you don't preach about your choice).... Even if they razz you about it, they still respect it. Usually they're just curious about your choice.
The other half of "build it and they will come" is "come and they will build it".
It's like the difference between Linux and Windows... If people are satisfied enough with mediocrity, and don't agitate for quality, then why bet your life savings on the quality solution? Every time you go to McDonalds, you vote with your dollars. If you (and your friends, workmates, clients) start arranging things so that you can have your 20 minute lunch at the mom&pop stores in your region, then they might just be willing to invest $20,000 in the renovations to make a drive-through possible.
I don't (usually) drive, and the last time I tried, McDonalds refused to serve me riding a bike, so if you want to talk your local *good* food redtaurant to put in a drive through, I'd suggest two things:
!) Buy your food from them more often (so that they have the money to build one, and
2) while you're there, lobby them for a drive-through.
If you know you're in a rush, you can also just call up your favorite restaurant, let them know what you want, and when you'll be there to eat it. They can time the meal for you, then you'll have fine food with (roughly) no wait. That's the kind of service that McDonalds will probably never provide. It's something that you'll probabably only get from a mom+pop type operation.
'If you want Hebrew, just buy Windows'
Israel's response was: 'If you don't support Hebrew, we won't buy Microsoft'.
That pretty much says it... The fact that you've only scheduled yourself for a 20Min lunch says something... It's not like you can't put some real time for lunch into your schedule... It's just not a priority for you. There are all sorts of ways to arrange things, including paying someone in your community to make a (real) bagged lunch for you that probably has way more nutritional value than 3 or 4 McDonalds lunches (and probably better taste, too). At that point, you don't even have to line up for your gruel^W food.
McDonalds is a known quantity.
So is a mad cow -- and your point is???
If all you want is a gestimate, then you just count digits until you get close enough to the end to care about the details.
I.E. Instead of saying $345M, you'd say $M543.
What's really important is that it's an M and not a B(G) or K. That relates to the number of digits that would have been ahead of the number if it were not for the multiplier.
To wrap your mind around it, you first have to let go of the old (big-endian) way of doing things, and consider how you would have thought if you had been brought up in a little-endian world to begin with.
(on the other hand, I was an inquisitive little snot in elementary school... I started to wonder: If we have to do (almost) all of our work from right to left, then why aren't they just written the other way round so that we could do our work 'forwards'.?)
Like many companies, it's only a threat to their continued income that will cause actions that profit the environment and even the community but not the bottom line.
It does make sense, though, given that he was already working 'down under'.
The closest to being on that list is nukes, but the US governments claims that there are serious threats of WMD use, cut it off of the list.
It's still an issue. There are surprisingly few cases of black actors in roles that didn't specifically call for a black character. Wil Smit's role isn I Robot is one such counter-example, and you notice that there sre some people having a hard time with it.
It may be because he's black, or it may be because he's known as a comedian. Unfortunately, it's rather hard to separate the two issues in a situation like this.
On the more serious side: If you start little-endian, then by the time you get to the hindmost, you understand both it's relative size, and it's order of magnitude. both pieces of information are necessary to know how big a number really is, and being little-endian would allow you to reach a conclusion on both of those piedces of information at the same time.
I've experienced a couple of situations where not noticing how many digits were in a number led me to incorrect conclusions about my data.
To understand how big a number is, you have to know about how many digits there are in it. The biggest difference between $233421 and $1924219 is the number of digits. By the time you get to the 1, you need to know just how big of a 1 it really is, thus you either have to start from the little end and count as you read, or you have to go back once you get there.
Then, of course, there's 1747+256...
1747+200=1947 ; 1947+50=1997 ; 1997+6=a much-shortened eraser.
Yes, you can add left to right much of the time, but it's the exceptions that (dis)prove a rule.
True, true.
There are, however, some people who might argue the converse.
If trying to be pedantically unambiguous, I'd probably semantically separate the two stanza by saying 'Two hundred of these six packs'.
Then again, I know I'm wierd, so I don't bother to hide it.
That would be Little-Endian. Endian-ness specifies which end you start with,. Intel X86s are little-endian, while Motorola (680X0) is Big-Endian (as is english, other than in the teens).
The naming convention is taken from "Gulliver's Travels", where one of the societies was suffering a schism between those who chose to break their eggs starting at the little end (little-endian) and those who started at the big end (big-endian).
(bit of trivia: Issac Asimov did an 'Annotated Gulliver's Travels'. He considered it to be one of the earliest examples of English science fiction).
Try adding the following numbers by hand:
92937545168
88484564556
===========
Then try multiplying them, or even subtracting them. The only 'simple' operation that we do from left to right is division, and division is clearly an inverse operation. Even then, many of the interim operations occur right to left.
It's in that respect, that the 'natural' order for numbers would be 'little-endian' (least significant digits first).
Farsi, like most middle-east languages, appears to be written right-to-left -- the same as our numbers are -- When the original algebra texts from Persia were translated, the translator kept the right to Left form of the numbers (little-endian). This is the reason for the big-endian / little-endian dicotomy in modern day computers -- we've been writing our numbers backwards for the last thousand years!
Wikipedia is to Brittania Encyclopedias what Linux is to Microsoft.
It ia an open-source enclyclopedia. Any user can contribute to it, and many have. Contributors range from interested amateurs to field specialists. Public response tends to weed out (or replace) the most atrocious contributions and encourage the best. In the last 3 years or so, they claim to have gotten about 170,000 entries. If you think that something is missing, then you can always add (or edit) an entry yourself.
In areas of strong contention (e.g. the Middle east, politics, environmantal, etc), I can expect that the wiki record for associated entries may reflects this contention (and might, of itself, be worth investigating). The other 99% of the time, I think you can expect the entries to range from an uncontested reasonable to excelent.
I'm only a beginner, so I'm sure someone else can add more info.
If Elephant females were hot and horny all he time, they wouldn't be bannishing the males, to begin with would they?
Humans are unusual in the mammalian world in that females are able to (under appropriate conditions) have (and enjoy) sex pretty much any time of the year/month (a trait we share with rabbits). Most other female mammals have short periods during which they are in heat. Add to this the Elephant pregnancy term of about 2 years followed by god-only-knows-how-many years of rearing the young before you're ready for another session, and you're looking at something like Spock's 7-year itch in "Amok Time".
I understand that when a human female is not ready for sex, it can be downright painful. I'm presuming the same for an unready pachyderm.
For all practical purposes, you can consider the average female state to be something like an elephantine version of both PMS and a headache. Now consider a herd of these heading north and suddenly realizing that there is a huge, unshaved, male ahead of you who is sooo horny that you can smell it from here.
All of a sudden, West might seem like a good idea.....
An anon coward pointed out that it was $2B in dot.com stock that is now worth $150M .bust. Furthermore, what Sun got was Cobalt's market -- the ability to walk SUN salespeople into the offices of every company that ever bought a Coboalt, and up-sell them sun-blades and *86 boxes that are roughly aimed at the same market as the cobalts were.
They also got Cobalt's cheap-box production facilities/technology that are now probably being used to build their SunBlades.
All in all, not a bad buy for a bunch of overpriced stock, if you ask me.
250 Million miles and only one try to get it right.... Although I envy the opportunity to make the attempt, I don't envy the need for near perfection.
Li-Ion Battery replacement : $99.00
Milage charge ( > 50 miles from nearest repair depot):
$.45/mi * 250,000,000mi: $112,500,000
total: $112,500,099 + VAT.
Note: Although this would make the repair charge more expensive than the entire incremental charges for the beagle-2 mission, it would still be the cheapest way to fund for a manned mars mission.
Unfortunately, I'm betting that they didn't contract for an extended warranty for this thing. This was done on the cheap, you know.
Yeah... and if you start having electronics problems on Venus, you can just grab a cup of solder from that river, over there, and use it to make repairs.....