Got my ZX-81 when I was about 8 years old.. Had it hooked up to my parents' TV in the living room. I still remember a brief moment where I looked at it and knew that I would be a programmer.
I know this is a liiiittle bit offtopic, but here's a story about how the little guy (or little country) can still reach a huge company like Google and get them to change something.
> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:04:02 +0100 > Hi, > > I wanted to post a question to Google Answers, > but my VISA credit card was not accepted, > because its expiry date is 09/12 and you only > allow up to 2009, not 2012. > > How do I solve this problem? I live in Denmark. > I use the same card to shop on the internet all > the time. > > Kind regards,
Hello Jakob,
Unfortunately, because the expiration date is not listed on our billing page, we must ask that you use a different credit card.
Sincerely,
The Google Answers Team
> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:00:27 +0100 > > Dear Google Answers Team, > > That is the only credit card I have. This is > very unfortunate, but since others have solved > the problem, I'm sure that so could you? > > Regards, Jakob
Hello Jakob,
Thank you for your reply. We will extend our expiration date options. The billing page should update in 24-48 hours.
Same in Danish. Combined nouns are concatenated. Lots and lots of Danes seperate these nouns, partly (I'm sure) because spell checkers can't know all the words as you can form an almost infinite amount of nouns this way.
The multiplication is just simple scaling, but arriving at 280 cm mena I can quickly decide that it won't fit into my room (or whatever) since 2.8 metres is too tall..
15 feet times 40.. that's 600 feet. Is that an intuitive value for lengths?
The point I'm trying to make is that it's very easy to divide and multiply with powers of ten.
As some people mention, both systems are good for different uses.
I do feel that the "metric is base 10 because there are 10 fingers on a hand" explanation is wrong. Metric units are base 10 because we all write numerical values in base 10!
Example: I have some boxes I'm stacking on top of each other, each 14 cm in height. I've got 20 of those, that's 280cm, or 2.8 meters. So easy.
My car is 15 feet long (or whatever). If you put 40 cars after each other, how long would that row of cars be?
I'm metric, and I've been that all my life since I'm Danish, but I can appreciate how difficult it must be for people converting. Lots of resistance. Of course it will take a few generations before the conversion is all complete. And yes, more planes will crash, etc. but that's not the metric system at fault!
It's about half-half. At least here in Denmark. I wear mine on my right hand, other people claim it should be the left "because it's closer to the heart".. oh well..
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Granted that this was not a break in BK itself the event is still alarming. > It makes me wonder if there is some way we can start using GPG signatures > with BK itself so that you can get proof-positive that a CSET annotated > as from davem really is from the David Miller we know and trust.
A few things do make the current system _fairly_ secure. One of them is that if somebody were to actually access the BK trees directly, that would be noticed immediately: when I push to the places I export from, the push itself would fail due to having an unexpected changeset in the target that I don't have on my local tree. So I'd notice that kind of stuff immediately.
And that's likely to be true of all other BK users too: the public trees are just replicas of the trees people actually _work_ on, so if the public tree has something unexpected, trying to update them just won't work. You just can't push to a tree that isn't a subset of what you already have.
So any BK corruption would have to come from the private trees, not the public ones. Which tend to be better secured, exactly because they are private (ie they don't have things like cvspserver etc public servers). I suspect most of us have firewalls that just don't accept any incoming connections - I know I do.
I think it's telling that it was the CVS tree and not the BK tree that somebody tried to corrupt.
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Got my ZX-81 when I was about 8 years old.. Had it hooked up to my parents' TV in the living room. I still remember a brief moment where I looked at it and knew that I would be a programmer.
Sudoku on my Treo650 works well for me when I need to pass the time..
Well, this is obviously an outrage and all.
I know this is a liiiittle bit offtopic, but here's a story about how the little guy (or little country) can still reach a huge company like Google and get them to change something.
> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:04:02 +0100
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to post a question to Google Answers,
> but my VISA credit card was not accepted,
> because its expiry date is 09/12 and you only
> allow up to 2009, not 2012.
>
> How do I solve this problem? I live in Denmark.
> I use the same card to shop on the internet all
> the time.
>
> Kind regards,
Hello Jakob,
Unfortunately, because the expiration date is not listed on our billing page, we must ask that you use a different credit card.
Sincerely,
The Google Answers Team
> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:00:27 +0100
>
> Dear Google Answers Team,
>
> That is the only credit card I have. This is
> very unfortunate, but since others have solved
> the problem, I'm sure that so could you?
>
> Regards, Jakob
Hello Jakob,
Thank you for your reply. We will extend our expiration date options. The
billing page should update in 24-48 hours.
Sincerely,
The Google Answers Team
So still: HURRAY FOR GOOGLE!!!
If we're to surf the web properly with these things, won't we need more than 320x240?
I'm looking at one of these:
HP iPAQ 4700
Look at the nice third photo. It lacks the phone of course, os it's not good enough.
Anyone know if running SkypeOut with one of these is a good idea?
Right... that's the one! thanks!
Wait, that was "Who wants to be a millionaire"...
I think some fellas from England tried it once. How did they do it? I believe they got caught.
With this extra demand, will it lead to a faster curve towards even cheaper hard disks with even more space on them?
:-)
Time to invest in Seagate?
Memory access vs. disk access I mean?
Back when P90s were the norm, was RAM access about as fast as disk access is today?
Never mind.. first coffie, then type..
sorry
Isn't it just a matter of increasing bandwith?
Anyone know if they're happy with Linux in Munich?
just signed up for one, but it says I have a 6MB quota.. :-(
oh well..
It's being done with pianos:
See this New Scientist article
Curious.. is this what's called a hostile takeover?
Same in Danish. Combined nouns are concatenated. Lots and lots of Danes seperate these nouns, partly (I'm sure) because spell checkers can't know all the words as you can form an almost infinite amount of nouns this way.
The multiplication is just simple scaling, but arriving at 280 cm mena I can quickly decide that it won't fit into my room (or whatever) since 2.8 metres is too tall..
:)
15 feet times 40.. that's 600 feet. Is that an intuitive value for lengths?
The point I'm trying to make is that it's very easy to divide and multiply with powers of ten.
Duh. Thanks for listening
As some people mention, both systems are good for different uses.
I do feel that the "metric is base 10 because there are 10 fingers on a hand" explanation is wrong. Metric units are base 10 because we all write numerical values in base 10!
Example: I have some boxes I'm stacking on top of each other, each 14 cm in height. I've got 20 of those, that's 280cm, or 2.8 meters. So easy.
My car is 15 feet long (or whatever). If you put 40 cars after each other, how long would that row of cars be?
I'm metric, and I've been that all my life since I'm Danish, but I can appreciate how difficult it must be for people converting. Lots of resistance. Of course it will take a few generations before the conversion is all complete. And yes, more planes will crash, etc. but that's not the metric system at fault!
I searched for "shakespeare".
Take a look at the categories it determines..
Awesome!
I wore my engagement ring on my left hand, and my wedding right on the right..
:-)
Tja, sadan gor vi her i Kobenhavn nogle gange.
Following a few links from your second link, we find pictures of beautiful people (most of them):
http://www.fest.se/matte-ekonomi/inspark.html
http://www.fest.se/matte-ekonomi/mikdugga2.html
Hurray for us Scandinavians!
It's about half-half. At least here in Denmark. I wear mine on my right hand, other people claim it should be the left "because it's closer to the heart".. oh well..
Actually Linus has an opinion:
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> Granted that this was not a break in BK itself the event is still alarming.
> It makes me wonder if there is some way we can start using GPG signatures
> with BK itself so that you can get proof-positive that a CSET annotated
> as from davem really is from the David Miller we know and trust.
A few things do make the current system _fairly_ secure. One of them is
that if somebody were to actually access the BK trees directly, that would
be noticed immediately: when I push to the places I export from, the push
itself would fail due to having an unexpected changeset in the target that
I don't have on my local tree. So I'd notice that kind of stuff
immediately.
And that's likely to be true of all other BK users too: the public trees
are just replicas of the trees people actually _work_ on, so if the public
tree has something unexpected, trying to update them just won't work. You
just can't push to a tree that isn't a subset of what you already have.
So any BK corruption would have to come from the private trees, not the
public ones. Which tend to be better secured, exactly because they are
private (ie they don't have things like cvspserver etc public servers). I
suspect most of us have firewalls that just don't accept any incoming
connections - I know I do.
I think it's telling that it was the CVS tree and not the BK tree that
somebody tried to corrupt.
Linus
I agree. Can't believe people are still using IE.
First thing I usually do when I have to work on a new machine for a while is to download and install FireBird.
There's also a crash bug with form completion. Hope that's fixed with 0.7.
Riiiight, thanks. Sorry for my inaccuracies..