I have never experienced the 15th month. Tell me, what is it like?
Little endian is somewhat better than US style, because at least it can be easily reversed and sorted. And it is the logical opposite of big endian, whereas the the US system is the "logical" result of madness.
Of course, big endian is still by far the best, as "year first" dates are always 4 digits, and the construct YYYY/DD/MM does not occur (except maybe as a bad joke), so there is no ambiguity at all.
Big endian also allows for the easiest correct sorting - you can treat the date as one big number (instead of 3 smaller ones) and the biggest number is the most recent (or farthest in the future) and the smallest is the oldest. Still breaks on AD/BC, of course, but you can't have everything.
4 digit years coming first remove ambiguity in the ISO standard (since no one uses YYYY/DD/MM). The delimiter could be anything, and it wouldn't matter.
Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce.
"Pray do," he said, leaning back.
"We got a bit carried away," said Moist. "We were a bit too creative in our thinking. We encouraged mongooses to breed in the posting boxes to keep down the snakes . .."
Lord Vetinari said nothing.
"Er . . . which, admittedly, we introduced into the letter boxes to reduce the numbers of toads . .."
Lord Vetinari repeated himself.
"Er . . . which, it's true, staff put in the posting boxes to keep down the snails . . . "
Lord Vetinari remained unvocal.
"Er . . . These, I must in fairness point out, got into the boxes of their own accord, in order to eat the glue on the stamps," said Moist, aware that he was beginning to burble.
I don't know about better, but Parrot is different from the jvm and clr, in that it is register-based, rather than stack-based. And of course Parrot is Open Source. The clr is not and jvm was not at the time parrot was started.
I would argue that "feel" in the sense of human nerves saying "this way is down" is irrelevant, given that we are talking about a satellite, and the satellite most certainly "feels" the effects of gravity by staying in orbit.
>When he wrote "Unsafe At Any Speed" people were still getting impaled by their steering wheels which didn't collapse and crumple out of the drivers way.
>Now, if you think about it, in any satellite, the amount of gravity you would feel is zero...or at least, very very close to zero, as you are orbiting inertially.
There is plenty of gravity, if there wasn't, the sat would be flying off into deep space.
What does 2000 years ago have to do with anything?
And carbon dating is not useful for things older than about 60,000 years. For older things other types of radiometric dating are used, as are other methods, such as identifying an objects position in the geologic column.
Even aside from the "possibility" of multi-million year errors in dating, Homo and Australopithecus fossils (indeed, all primate fossils) are found in layers far above the last layers containing dinosaur remains.
>So after shoving a freaking DATABASE into Firefox 2,
yes, a db that is under a quarter of a MB. It is vastly superior (with regards to interoperability, speed, flexibility, and scaling) to the poorly documented, brain-damaged Mork history format they where using, and it much more powerful and useful than flat html file that was used for bookmarks.
>they're now adding a freaking VIDEO playback feature?!
Yes. The web is a different place than it was even 5 years ago. Video is the norm, and once the video tag takes off, this will be very valuable to most users. Those that may not need or want video are probably smart enough to find a different browser that is more suitable to their needs.
>On the upside, it's nice to see Firefox is finally supporting JSON.
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>it could be *any* month within that year
I have never experienced the 15th month. Tell me, what is it like?
Little endian is somewhat better than US style, because at least it can be easily reversed and sorted. And it is the logical opposite of big endian, whereas the the US system is the "logical" result of madness.
Of course, big endian is still by far the best, as "year first" dates are always 4 digits, and the construct YYYY/DD/MM does not occur (except maybe as a bad joke), so there is no ambiguity at all.
Big endian also allows for the easiest correct sorting - you can treat the date as one big number (instead of 3 smaller ones) and the biggest number is the most recent (or farthest in the future) and the smallest is the oldest. Still breaks on AD/BC, of course, but you can't have everything.
DD/MM/YYYY is better because it is logical. I can accept big-endian or little-endian, but "middle-endian"? Come on!
4 digit years coming first remove ambiguity in the ISO standard (since no one uses YYYY/DD/MM). The delimiter could be anything, and it wouldn't matter.
I was thinking of maybe one or two per month
You might get it from Bill Gates' mosquitoes
>although occasionally it catches a few legitimate messages, too
really? I have seen only half a dozen to a dozen false positives in years of use, usually mailing list messages or automated account confirmations.
my gmail is down to a bit under 900 a month now. Its peak was back late last summer, with more like 1400/month.
although I did recently see a small outbreak of a few dozen spams (mostly "you won the British lottery") that actually made it to my inbox.
ISO FTW
DD/MM/YYYY is better than MM/DD/YYYY, but still not as good as YYYY/MM/DD
Zoidberg: No! My home! It burned down! How did this happen?
Hermes: That's a very good question.
Bender: So that's where I left my cigar.
Hermes: That just raises further questions!
"Look, I can explain," he said.
Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce.
"Pray do," he said, leaning back.
"We got a bit carried away," said Moist. "We were a bit too creative in our thinking. We encouraged mongooses to breed in the posting boxes to keep down the snakes . . ."
Lord Vetinari said nothing.
"Er . . . which, admittedly, we introduced into the letter boxes to reduce the numbers of toads . . ."
Lord Vetinari repeated himself.
"Er . . . which, it's true, staff put in the posting boxes to keep down the snails . . . "
Lord Vetinari remained unvocal.
"Er . . . These, I must in fairness point out, got into the boxes of their own accord, in order to eat the glue on the stamps," said Moist, aware that he was beginning to burble.
microscopic algae is a type of phytoplankton...
Hopefully next up: Google moon base
I don't know about better, but Parrot is different from the jvm and clr, in that it is register-based, rather than stack-based. And of course Parrot is Open Source. The clr is not and jvm was not at the time parrot was started.
try this:
http://lwn.net/Articles/324196/
I would argue that "feel" in the sense of human nerves saying "this way is down" is irrelevant, given that we are talking about a satellite, and the satellite most certainly "feels" the effects of gravity by staying in orbit.
>In a 70's Fordzilla, you can slam the breaks and crank the wheel, yet the vehicle continues in a straight line.
My first car was a '72 LTD, and I vouch for this.
Even my 95 Tercel does this
>When he wrote "Unsafe At Any Speed" people were still getting impaled by their steering wheels which didn't collapse and crumple out of the drivers way.
At first I read that as "Safe At Any Speed", and got really confused.
>Now, if you think about it, in any satellite, the amount of gravity you would feel is zero...or at least, very very close to zero, as you are orbiting inertially.
There is plenty of gravity, if there wasn't, the sat would be flying off into deep space.
What does 2000 years ago have to do with anything?
And carbon dating is not useful for things older than about 60,000 years. For older things other types of radiometric dating are used, as are other methods, such as identifying an objects position in the geologic column.
Even aside from the "possibility" of multi-million year errors in dating, Homo and Australopithecus fossils (indeed, all primate fossils) are found in layers far above the last layers containing dinosaur remains.
>So after shoving a freaking DATABASE into Firefox 2,
yes, a db that is under a quarter of a MB. It is vastly superior (with regards to interoperability, speed, flexibility, and scaling) to the poorly documented, brain-damaged Mork history format they where using, and it much more powerful and useful than flat html file that was used for bookmarks.
>they're now adding a freaking VIDEO playback feature?!
Yes. The web is a different place than it was even 5 years ago. Video is the norm, and once the video tag takes off, this will be very valuable to most users. Those that may not need or want video are probably smart enough to find a different browser that is more suitable to their needs.
>On the upside, it's nice to see Firefox is finally supporting JSON.
JSON has been supported in FF since 3.0. FF 3.1 drops JSON.jsm for native JSON. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JSON
loadry?
load-ry?
loa-dry?
lo-adry?
I don't get it.
>Security Update for CAPICOM" is my long lost brother
So you are an AI?
no. apt is years older than aptitude.