Naturally I couldn’t let this bit of maths go. I’ve made an overly complicated spreadsheet that generates correctly formatted wall planners. Initially I was happy that this nonsense happens every 4 years and will do for the useful period of the wall planner generator. Then I drank too much coffee and added the correction anyway. Assuming cell A1 contains the year of interest, this formula gives the number of days in February:
=IF(MOD(A1,4)=0,IF(MOD(A1,100)=0,IF(MOD(A1,1000)=0,29,28),29),28)
Hopefully no time soon, but almost certainly before 2100, when the next leap year doesn't happen. If due to lots of exercise, few pizzas and a whole bunch of luck we do survive that long, then we'll all be too dotty to know what day it is anyway. Glad this is sorted. All we have to know is that it happens every 4 years and will do for the entire rest of ever, so long as we care. Lets get coding and hardwire in a leap year to make the 2100 bug!
Today I wanted a phase locked loop chip from Farnell. Could I get onto the site to look it up? No... Seems the world wants a router that's had it's wings clipped and a DVI port nailed to the top.
Remember though, you're drinking and smoking for 2. And where drink's concerned, the little fella's basically swimming around in neat rum.
(taking the assumption that you are a pirate and mostly drink rum of course)
I've just got home late, am reading slashdot and have a beer. This post could have been written for me...
However, I would prefer - "Scientists find the coffee increases heart rate, eliminating the need for exercise."
I'm going to plant one of these. In addition, I'll put all the wires I've ripped out of the house, during a rewiring session, into the compost bin. Later in the year, I can spread the electrical compost around the base of the solar power tree and it will grow and grow. Soon I'll need a different blade on the chainsaw to control the thing!
Being a HV engineer, I know the mess that oil can make. It's not fun, especially if you're sent in to fix something!
Imagine in a datacentre full of air - to swap something in the middle you - have a coffee - wonder over - replace the thing - have another coffee.
In one filled with oil, you - look at the floor in dissmay - shut the whole centre down - drain all the oil (into a tank the same size as the data centre) - vent the atmosphere for several hours - put on protective gear - wade about in whats left of the oil - replace the thing - climb out - have 4 showers and still smell of oil - fill the centre back up with oil and finally turn it back on.
Basically, with air you get coffee twice. With oil, you get no coffee. Not good, not good at all!
Meh, this is nothing. A mere 75W! You should see a 200kA lightning strike from 5m away. Roughly 20MW of actual light output. These guys do it every day - www.culham.com
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Naturally I couldn’t let this bit of maths go. I’ve made an overly complicated spreadsheet that generates correctly formatted wall planners. Initially I was happy that this nonsense happens every 4 years and will do for the useful period of the wall planner generator. Then I drank too much coffee and added the correction anyway. Assuming cell A1 contains the year of interest, this formula gives the number of days in February: =IF(MOD(A1,4)=0,IF(MOD(A1,100)=0,IF(MOD(A1,1000)=0,29,28),29),28)
Thanks buddy. You point things out well.
Bahh, rushed the spelling, but got the 1st post:O)
We're off to see the sponge bob, the spunge bob of the deep...
Hopefully no time soon, but almost certainly before 2100, when the next leap year doesn't happen. If due to lots of exercise, few pizzas and a whole bunch of luck we do survive that long, then we'll all be too dotty to know what day it is anyway. Glad this is sorted. All we have to know is that it happens every 4 years and will do for the entire rest of ever, so long as we care. Lets get coding and hardwire in a leap year to make the 2100 bug!
So, if I start a nuclear programme and then stop, someone will give me a quarter of a million tonnes of cake..? This could be worth a go!
I retract this comment, it's an HDMI port and it looks like they used solder.
Today I wanted a phase locked loop chip from Farnell. Could I get onto the site to look it up? No... Seems the world wants a router that's had it's wings clipped and a DVI port nailed to the top.
Remember though, you're drinking and smoking for 2. And where drink's concerned, the little fella's basically swimming around in neat rum. (taking the assumption that you are a pirate and mostly drink rum of course)
I've just got home late, am reading slashdot and have a beer. This post could have been written for me... However, I would prefer - "Scientists find the coffee increases heart rate, eliminating the need for exercise."
You clearly don't live in Wales. We have neither sun nore drout...
Woo! Diet tiles:O) I should buy mum some for Christmas!
I'm going to plant one of these. In addition, I'll put all the wires I've ripped out of the house, during a rewiring session, into the compost bin. Later in the year, I can spread the electrical compost around the base of the solar power tree and it will grow and grow. Soon I'll need a different blade on the chainsaw to control the thing!
Being a HV engineer, I know the mess that oil can make. It's not fun, especially if you're sent in to fix something! Imagine in a datacentre full of air - to swap something in the middle you - have a coffee - wonder over - replace the thing - have another coffee. In one filled with oil, you - look at the floor in dissmay - shut the whole centre down - drain all the oil (into a tank the same size as the data centre) - vent the atmosphere for several hours - put on protective gear - wade about in whats left of the oil - replace the thing - climb out - have 4 showers and still smell of oil - fill the centre back up with oil and finally turn it back on. Basically, with air you get coffee twice. With oil, you get no coffee. Not good, not good at all!
Meh, this is nothing. A mere 75W! You should see a 200kA lightning strike from 5m away. Roughly 20MW of actual light output. These guys do it every day - www.culham.com
And slowly it collapses into a black hole...