I'm talking about when you make the jam. Do you have any idea how difficult it would be to make any kind of food bug free? That's why the FDA allows trace amounts of bug parts in all your food.
Bugs in software are like bugs in strawberry jam - You can eliminate most of them with a reasonable amount of effort, but if you want to try and eliminate all of them, it's going to be ridiculously expensive. So you get rid of the big ones and worry about the ones that slip through on a case-by-case basis.
We only started even having to use area codes for local numbers about two months ago.
I too live in Northern Virginia (703), and I have no idea what you're talking about - I moved here in June, and the entire time i've been here, 10-digit dialing has been enforced.
First a quick note - i live in 10-digit dialing land, and it's not so bad.
However, i don't see why it was necessary - as far as i can tell, it would have been better in every way just to expand area codes to four digits.
It would solve the 212 / 646 problem - in Manhattan, there's an overlay of 212 and 646. Businesses -hate- getting stuck with a 646 number, because 212 is supposedly more prestigous. But all they would have had to do is take ever number of the form 212-XXX-YYYY and change it to 2120-XXX-YYYY, and give 2121 through 2129 numbers to all new subscribers.
People could keep seven digit dialing.
I haven't done the math, but i'm pretty sure that four-digit ACs allow for more phone numbers than the current system, even if we had stuck with the "area codes have a 0 or 1 in the middle, and the first three digits of phone numbers will never look like an area code" system.
It would be easier to memorize area codes, and be able to look at a phone number and know where it is. If i see a 617 number, i know it's a Massachutsetts. With 4 digit ACs, i would see a 617x number and know it's Mass. But when i see some overlaid area code that doesn't at all resemble 617, i'm not going to have any idea where it's from.
Can anyone think of any reason the telcos didn't take this approach?
(BTW, cheap plug, since i'm pretty confident this will get moderated up: Check out the project linked to by my sig. It's pretty phat.)
See what i mean? I post a stupid joke, and it gets marked "Funny"... I try to have an honest and interesting discussion with some other readers, and we all get marked "Offtopic"
The whole point of Slashdot is that it's a community, and sometimes that community finds something interesting to talk to that doesn't quite fit under the topic of the story. But when we can't start up such a discussion, thanks to "Offtopic" moderations, we resort to stupid jokes.
And now, so this post doesn't get sent down to -1, Offtopic, here's a stupid joke:
(apologies to Monty Python)
Every vote is sacred
Every vote is great
If a vote is wasted
Gore gets quite irate
You're absolutely right. When i use my normal sense of humor on Slashdot, it gets ignored. But when i'm less-than-subtle and shoot for the lowest common denominator, my posts get marked way way up.
I don't care much about karma, but i do want to promote the link in my sig, so call it karma whoring if you will, but apparantly -somebody- must have found my post funny. They get their laughs, my project gets attention.
I certainly would prefer a Slashdot moderation group with a better sense of humor, but in the meantime, i'm not going to fight the system. I'm going to play the system and get attention for my crappy little software project.
While the so-called "official" count shows only 14 Netscape users, there are reports that dozens of senior citizens who had intended to download Netscape accidentally voted for Pat Buchanan.
Is it me, or does Gnutella's Challenge sound like one of the games available on the WOPR in WarGames? I think it was between Falkan's Maze and Global Thermonuclear War. --
AOL's main campus is located in Dulles. (Look for Aol Way on your favorite map site) That's far from Nowheresville. AOL, UUNet, and PSINet are all headquartered there. According to Wired, more than 50% of all Internet traffic flows through at least one of their systems. Network Solutions is headquarted there. So is MCI Worldcom. There's certainly a housing crunch - i looked at about 40 different apartment complexes, and only about six or seven had a known vacancy coming up, and the earliest was more than a month away - in an apartment that had yet to be built. But i don't know what you're talking about with traffic at 11 PM. That's ridiculous. The only time i see traffic is at lunch. --
So i guess the law that says important antitrust cases can go straight to the Supreme Court is useless, since if they didn't accept this case, i can't imagine one they would. What more did they want? --
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Happy lunching!
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Oh come on... 16 gigabytes ought to be enough for everybody.
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I too live in Northern Virginia (703), and I have no idea what you're talking about - I moved here in June, and the entire time i've been here, 10-digit dialing has been enforced.
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However, i don't see why it was necessary - as far as i can tell, it would have been better in every way just to expand area codes to four digits.
- It would solve the 212 / 646 problem - in Manhattan, there's an overlay of 212 and 646. Businesses -hate- getting stuck with a 646 number, because 212 is supposedly more prestigous. But all they would have had to do is take ever number of the form 212-XXX-YYYY and change it to 2120-XXX-YYYY, and give 2121 through 2129 numbers to all new subscribers.
- People could keep seven digit dialing.
- I haven't done the math, but i'm pretty sure that four-digit ACs allow for more phone numbers than the current system, even if we had stuck with the "area codes have a 0 or 1 in the middle, and the first three digits of phone numbers will never look like an area code" system.
- It would be easier to memorize area codes, and be able to look at a phone number and know where it is. If i see a 617 number, i know it's a Massachutsetts. With 4 digit ACs, i would see a 617x number and know it's Mass. But when i see some overlaid area code that doesn't at all resemble 617, i'm not going to have any idea where it's from.
Can anyone think of any reason the telcos didn't take this approach?(BTW, cheap plug, since i'm pretty confident this will get moderated up: Check out the project linked to by my sig. It's pretty phat.)
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The whole point of Slashdot is that it's a community, and sometimes that community finds something interesting to talk to that doesn't quite fit under the topic of the story. But when we can't start up such a discussion, thanks to "Offtopic" moderations, we resort to stupid jokes.
And now, so this post doesn't get sent down to -1, Offtopic, here's a stupid joke:
(apologies to Monty Python)
Every vote is sacred
Every vote is great
If a vote is wasted
Gore gets quite irate
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Then, i had to be on two dates at the same time, and as i was rushing between them, i got stuck in an elevator with a pregnant woman. It was zany.
By the way, are you the same anonymous coward from the other two posts?
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I don't care much about karma, but i do want to promote the link in my sig, so call it karma whoring if you will, but apparantly -somebody- must have found my post funny. They get their laughs, my project gets attention.
I certainly would prefer a Slashdot moderation group with a better sense of humor, but in the meantime, i'm not going to fight the system. I'm going to play the system and get attention for my crappy little software project.
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"Son, when i was younger, i had an open-source project that i needed to advertise in my sig, and so i did some things i'm not too proud of..."
"Oh God, Dad! You were a karma whore?!!"
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Uranus immediately called for a hand recount.
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"You made a Turing machine out of cereal?"
"You made a Turing machine out of a popular magazine?"
"You made a Turing machine out of the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body?"
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Linus is forking!
Well, yes, that's where babies come from.
Oh, you said forking
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Is it me, or does Gnutella's Challenge sound like one of the games available on the WOPR in WarGames? I think it was between Falkan's Maze and Global Thermonuclear War.
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"WHO bid to regulate health sites"
"I don't know, who bid to regulate health sites?"
"Exactly."
"Oh, exactly bid to regulate health sites?"
"No, WHO bid to regulate health sites"
"Exactly."
"Now you've got it!"
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This wasn't Flamebait, it was Interesting.
Of course, i'm sure someone's going to mark this post as Flamebait now...
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Sorry to be a math nazi, but just for the record:
...with the winner having 40 thousand votes more than the second place (0.4% of 1 million votes)
40,000 / 1,000,000 = 0.04, or 4%, not 0.4%.
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AOL's main campus is located in Dulles. (Look for Aol Way on your favorite map site) That's far from Nowheresville. AOL, UUNet, and PSINet are all headquartered there. According to Wired, more than 50% of all Internet traffic flows through at least one of their systems. Network Solutions is headquarted there. So is MCI Worldcom. There's certainly a housing crunch - i looked at about 40 different apartment complexes, and only about six or seven had a known vacancy coming up, and the earliest was more than a month away - in an apartment that had yet to be built. But i don't know what you're talking about with traffic at 11 PM. That's ridiculous. The only time i see traffic is at lunch.
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So i guess the law that says important antitrust cases can go straight to the Supreme Court is useless, since if they didn't accept this case, i can't imagine one they would. What more did they want?
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Michael's code is here.
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