Why dont we just skipp falling back one autum instead of springing forward two hours in the spring. It would make more sense as it always makes me tired in the mornings when we change the clocke in the spring and two hours seams like a nightmare come Monday morning when the whols country has jetlag.
That's why they use BCD or some other type of decimal encoding. Spreadsheets can be a problem, though. I remember (back in the early days of PCs) trying to explain to a financial analyst that there wasn't a bug in his spreadsheet when the cross checks on his calculations where coming up with a (very small) inequality.
I would guess that they store currency in the smallest unit possible (cnets in USA pence in UK) so £100 is stored as 10000 pence and then put the decimal point in dor display purposes only. Far eaiser to do calculations with than BCD.
Have you ever seen the programming example of how binary computers are not very good at representing decimal fractions? I dont know if it is still as simple to prove but on a bbc micro you could do this (my bbc bsic is very rusty)
10 a = 0
20 for i = 0 to i = 10
30 a = a + 0.1
40 print a
50 next a
and you would get something like
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1.000000001
This is because it is impossible to represent 0.1 in binary
I hope banks use pence in all there calculations not pounds (cents and dollars for americans).
Back when I was a kid we had these definitions:
Micro computer: 8 bit computer
Mini Computer: 16 bit computer
Mainframe: 32 bit computer
Super Computer: 64 bit computer.
Nobody talked about PC apert from IBM PC (or IBM PC-compatible) which has now been shortened to PC.
However wouldent the Mac adds be funny if it was Mac verses PC when PC stands for Police Constable? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Constable
And oddly, I also know a number of people who are generally right-handed, but left-handed when it comes to sports/athletics.
I guess this is something to do with them actually being more left handed than right handed and there is less preduice against left handedness in sport than in the rest of the world.
How many right handed people would be left handed if the world was generally left handed?
I guess that only 10% if not 5% of people are naturally right handed as well and 80% are somewhere in between. As we live in a right handed world 90% of the people who are neither left or right handed learn to be right handed from there parents who learned to be right handed from there parents. Hopfully in 2 or 3 generations time we will have the majority of people able to use either hand.
No it's just that it looks much better when everyone is looking at an interactive wall and doing things on it than some small fiddley padd. The look at this served to move the plot on like many people working on an application with a wall for a display device. How booring would it have been to watch someone working on a PADD.
This is one more thing that will need to be uninstalled on a new system when removing 50 or so packages, disableing most of the unnessary cron jobs and services. Not to mention the instalation of all the packages that need to be installed but can not be put in the default instalation because of the RIAA.
Surley the best solution to this is no security at all and just use a very low power signal. How far should it need to go between the tyre and a fixed point on a car (a few cm at the most I think). Would it even be possible for the sensor to be connected to the cars computer via a cable and just eliminate the wireless security hole.
Then they just need to have the reciever ignore any signal with values outside the valid range.
You already almost have this in America. With cruse control, automatic gearboxes and all the other gadgets inside your cars all that is left for the driver to do is steer (once every 100 miles or so). I would much prefere to drive my manual small car in England down twisty roads where I actually have to drive.
I still prefere the origional Civalisation. Civ II just had too many prety visuals. Could they release Civ V with SVGA for me please I want to play on my old 386SX with 2MB of ram again.
They might have re-mortgaged sometime since for a number of reasons. To build an extension, buy a second house for a child, or could have had other debts that were paid of by remotrgaging
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Why dont we just skipp falling back one autum instead of springing forward two hours in the spring. It would make more sense as it always makes me tired in the mornings when we change the clocke in the spring and two hours seams like a nightmare come Monday morning when the whols country has jetlag.
rip your dvds let me know how fast the storage goes then.
OK Just ripped all my DVDs and they take up 0GB. I do not want to re-watch anything enough for it to be worth buying.
That's why they use BCD or some other type of decimal encoding. Spreadsheets can be a problem, though. I remember (back in the early days of PCs) trying to explain to a financial analyst that there wasn't a bug in his spreadsheet when the cross checks on his calculations where coming up with a (very small) inequality.
I would guess that they store currency in the smallest unit possible (cnets in USA pence in UK) so £100 is stored as 10000 pence and then put the decimal point in dor display purposes only. Far eaiser to do calculations with than BCD.
Have you ever seen the programming example of how binary computers are not very good at representing decimal fractions? I dont know if it is still as simple to prove but on a bbc micro you could do this (my bbc bsic is very rusty) 10 a = 0 20 for i = 0 to i = 10 30 a = a + 0.1 40 print a 50 next a and you would get something like 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.000000001 This is because it is impossible to represent 0.1 in binary I hope banks use pence in all there calculations not pounds (cents and dollars for americans).
Back when I was a kid we had these definitions: Micro computer: 8 bit computer Mini Computer: 16 bit computer Mainframe: 32 bit computer Super Computer: 64 bit computer. Nobody talked about PC apert from IBM PC (or IBM PC-compatible) which has now been shortened to PC. However wouldent the Mac adds be funny if it was Mac verses PC when PC stands for Police Constable? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Constable
And oddly, I also know a number of people who are generally right-handed, but left-handed when it comes to sports/athletics.
I guess this is something to do with them actually being more left handed than right handed and there is less preduice against left handedness in sport than in the rest of the world. How many right handed people would be left handed if the world was generally left handed?
I guess that only 10% if not 5% of people are naturally right handed as well and 80% are somewhere in between. As we live in a right handed world 90% of the people who are neither left or right handed learn to be right handed from there parents who learned to be right handed from there parents. Hopfully in 2 or 3 generations time we will have the majority of people able to use either hand.
So there are two important aprts of the internet with birthdays very close together. I wonder if Debian or IE will last the longest?
No it's just that it looks much better when everyone is looking at an interactive wall and doing things on it than some small fiddley padd. The look at this served to move the plot on like many people working on an application with a wall for a display device. How booring would it have been to watch someone working on a PADD.
Along with the unnessary server software on a desktop or the unnessary X on a server.
This is one more thing that will need to be uninstalled on a new system when removing 50 or so packages, disableing most of the unnessary cron jobs and services. Not to mention the instalation of all the packages that need to be installed but can not be put in the default instalation because of the RIAA.
Surley the best solution to this is no security at all and just use a very low power signal. How far should it need to go between the tyre and a fixed point on a car (a few cm at the most I think). Would it even be possible for the sensor to be connected to the cars computer via a cable and just eliminate the wireless security hole. Then they just need to have the reciever ignore any signal with values outside the valid range.
The last 10 to 15 years will flash by very quickly. When was AmigaOS last updated.
You already almost have this in America. With cruse control, automatic gearboxes and all the other gadgets inside your cars all that is left for the driver to do is steer (once every 100 miles or so). I would much prefere to drive my manual small car in England down twisty roads where I actually have to drive.
I still prefere the origional Civalisation. Civ II just had too many prety visuals. Could they release Civ V with SVGA for me please I want to play on my old 386SX with 2MB of ram again.
They might have re-mortgaged sometime since for a number of reasons. To build an extension, buy a second house for a child, or could have had other debts that were paid of by remotrgaging
Along with the classin Linux game Xbill (named after you know who)
Could this be something to do with the informous DRM to prevent prople Coping PS3 games to other PS3s? Probabily not but then this is sony.