User: Uncle Jimmy

Re:Well ... what is it?

On: A Much Bigger Piece Of Pi

Err... your description of IEEE754 is correct, but it doesn't help when trying to store pi, because pi isn't a very large number, it just has an infinite number of digits after the decimal point. IEEE754 can store around 7 decimal places if i remember correctly, nowhere near 1.24 trillion.

Of course if you were trying to represent 1.24 trillion, IEEE754 would be the way to go...

Re:Typical Slashdot Storage Story

On: 87GB On DVD-Sized Media

Argh.

SI Units:
kilo-, k, 10^3
mega-, M, 10^6
giga-, G, 10^9 ...

Then one day someone invented:
kilo-, K, 1024 (note the capital K)
which is generally only ever used when talking about bytes.

CS students are dropouts too...

On: CS vs CIS

From Computer Systems Engineering (what I am doing, of course).

But then again, I never wanted to be a programmer anyway...

I like the 00 day thing...

On: 13 Month Calendar?

I mean, I usually miss out on that day anyway, and it seems to be no great loss.

Re:x86 mainframe?

On: Layers Upon Layers: Plex86 Runs Windows95

You can run NT4 off the side of an AS/400...

Re:small screen

On: Custom Handheld Atari 2600

At least the graphics don't look as blocky as on a 68cm TV, so that could be an advantage. Besides, it looks cool.

Now, if only my River Raid cartridge wasn't half dead....

There is a use for this

On: Cantametrix Plans To Track All MP3s On The Web

Let's say it can only match perfect rips (ok, of course it will have some sort of tolerance, but anyway), then this would be useful to weed out bad copies. How many times have you downloaded an mp3 to find that it has been encoded really bad, or worse still recorded off the radio, complete with back-announcements? Very, very annoying, because they never manage to announce the next song right.