Actually the reason Fahrenheit has such "odd" numbers, is that the two points you chose have no baring on how it was scaled.
As I understand it (and there are numerous ides on how it was done), 0 was chosen as the freezing point of salt water (as in what you find in the local ocea). That's fine and all.
The oddity comes from where he set 100 to be. The natural temperature of a healthy horses blood.
Now, that's as natural a set of points as night and grass.
If he had chosen two points on the same items temperature scale, then it'd be a lot simpler. He didn't, so it's not.
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
Danish article Rough translation (being a native speaker:)
Fogh denies that Gates have threatened him
The prime minister denies that Microsoft should have threatened to close Navision and move 800 employees to the US.
Prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Liberals) denies that the founder of the worlds larges software company, Bill Gates, supposedly threatened him with closing Navision in Denmark and move the approximately 800 developers behind Denmarks biggest software success to the US. - He hasn't done that in any meeting with me. I can in no way confirm that description, not at all. It is not even something we discussed. No, Anders Fogh Rasmussen tells Ritzau.
The prime ministers denial comes after Børsen tuesday could report about Bill Gates' threat, which was supposed to have been made at a meeting in november with Anders Fogh Rasmussen along with the minister of the economy and business Bendt Bendtsen (Conservatives) and the minister of science Helge Sander (Liberals).
Anyone who's been employed for 8 years or longer has spent more time under another (Democratic) administration than the current one.
Really? Hrmm. Let's have a look at the last 50 years and do a tally for kicks. All names and dates from here
G. W. Bush, 2001 - now, 4 years, R (4 - 0) B. Clinton, 1993 - 2001, 8 years, D (4 - 8) G. Bush, 1989 - 1993, 4 years, R (12 - 8) R. Regan, 1981 - 1989, 8 years, R (20 - 8) J. Carter, 1977 - 1981, 4 years, D (20 - 12) G. Ford, 1973 - 1977, 4 years, R (24 - 12) R. Nixon, 1969 - 1974, 4 years, R (28 - 12) L. Johnson, 1963 - 1969, 6 years, D (28 - 18) J. Kennedy, 1961 - 1963, 2 years, D (28 - 20) D. Eisenhower, 1953 - 1961, 8 years, R (36 - 20)
So, for the last 56 years, 36 of those have been under a Republican president. Doesn't really add up with your statement. Hell, we could have stopped at 16 years and it would have been a draw.
Not saying which is better or worse. Simply that your bold statement is flat out wrong.
My former boss had another way of looking at it, after I talked him through some of the stuff I had done to optimize a program.
"If it takes someone other than you more time to figure out what you're doing, than a user will save in a day - then it's not worth doing. Because something will break, and you might not be around to pick up the pieces."
And I have come to think that he's right. I have on occation made some fairly ingeneous code optimizations, which took me way too long to figure out when I looked at it six months later. I knew that what I'd done was smart, really smart. I knew that on that portion of the program I'd shaved something like 15% off the run time (some weird ass calculations). Just wasn't sure what the hell it was, that I was actually doing.
Sure, it ran faster than what I changed it to, but what I ended up revising it into would probably take me five minutes to figure out as opposed to more than an eight hour work day. The new version is about 5% slower than what I had earlier, which means about 2 minutes on a regular run through.
Yes, that's bloat compared to what I can do, but I don't really care.
That's not socialist, you ignorant fuck (pardon the swearing)!
That is called Authoritarian - look it up.
It's amazing that people in the US in particular buy into lame ass conceptions - like liberal being the bane of the US, even though the founding fathers were VERY liberal.
Because client-side embedded Java applets are a drastically impractical, inconvenient, bloated and slow way to do trivial tasks like this.
Actually that's not true. That almost noone can apparently do it, doesn't mean that it's Javas fault.
I have managed to cram all the tools needed to control HVAC and building lights, including graphing options, into an applet weighing in at 108,000 bytes. It did more, way more, than most applets I have seen for something as simple as navigating on webpages, and it did it in a whole lot less space, and to boot, it loaded faster. The update speed on the app was a bit slow (one update every two second), but that was due to the hardware the applet was served from (also why it couldn't be larger than 108,000 bytes). Changing it from an applet to a stand-alone application required me to change a single line of code, making it very easy to do testing like that - the only difference between the two? Not having to point my browser at the hardware in question.
How is that possible? Because I knew what the hell I was doing with Java. Most people who use applets on their websites don't know what the fuck they do with Java. Most people who make those fancy applets, don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Not saying that java applets are the way to do what's being discussed here - I don't think they are, as it'd be a pain to link directly to products etc. - my beef is with the "applets are impractical, inconvenient, bloated and slow" argument. It's just not true, if you know what you're doing. HTML is "bloated" as well, if you don't know what you're doing, and hence use Word to write your documents in, and then save them as HTML... that'll bloat a "Hello World" document way too much. Because you don't know what you're doing.
They say it will cost 1 billion dollars - that's only 4 dollars per citizen in the US. If you can get ten million people to donate 100 dollars, you're set.
Yes, because memory prices didn't drop at all until 2001, right? I can certainly remember paying a dollar per byte when I bought my first 128 MB RAM stick back in 1995...
No. Wait. Memory has been plenty cheap to use four digits to store the current year in since before 1990. Maybe that's why some of us find it idiotic that you had applications (modern applications written after 1990) running on comodity PCs, that only use two digits.
It would be interesting if infantry combat operations took place on American soil what the civilian component to combat resistance would be.
Thrown in jail with no legal rights, no vistation rights and no option of being told what exactly they did; they would be kept on an island far from their home, perhaps one could use of the Pacific Islands in the middle of onewhere.
This gives you only one choice between left and right wing.
No, what the US has is right wing and right wing. At least by European standards.
Your two parties are both to the right of the middle of politics here. Far to the right. What we call conservatives, you would lable bleeding heart left wing liberals. Which is ironic as our Liberal parties, that are on the right wing of our political spectrum.
Hell, you've manage to take a nation, that is founded on the belief of "Life, Liberty and pursuit of Happiness" and made Liberal a swear word! Hell, I've been accused of being a, I kid you not, liberal commie bastard by Americans which is sort of like calling water dry, as communism is an authoritarian style of government, which is the oposite of liberal.
But then again we find it rather interesting (read scary) that your supposedly independent media have decided to take a pro-government stance no matter who the incumbant is, doesn't seem to want to take on any kind of leading role in the pursuit of truth or even fair coverage (*cough*presidential debates*cough*) and don't find it problematic to lable anyone critical of what is done by the government as an "anti patriotic hater of freedom".
Hell, in the "paragon" of freedom, the BASTION of democracy (even though you're actually a republic, but then again, most of you couldn't explain the true difference between representative democracy and a republic if your life depended on it anyway) more people want to decide who gets to win American Idol to become the next lame plastic pop-star than who get's to sit on the biggest army not to mention the biggest nuclear stockpile in the world. And yet you have the audacity to call the rest of us freedom hating people who only want to bring back the good old days of kings and queens, so we get back to preventing you guys from spredding democracy in the world (which is funny, since you don't want democracy at home)...
<sarcasm> But what do I know... it's not like I live in your country, and I know that I shouldn't care. It's not as if this election will have any direct influence on my world... </sarcasm>
I'm not expected to know 100% about my car. But if I avoid doing safety basic precautions (replacing tires when they are bald) and get into trouble (sliding into another car on a rainy night) then a good lawyer is going to rightfully pin part of the blame on me.
And when you install brand new winter tires from Goodyear on your car, and the tires turn out to go completely bald when exposed to water and/or temperatures below 32F/0C, which they mention in 0.1 pt letters on the sales receipt where they also disclaim any responsibility for any damages that may be caused by you using said tires (in the same 0.1 pt type face of course) - then what?
Instead of showing ID to stop terrorists, how about pilots have guns and just shoot anyone who jumps up on a plane waiving a bomb/knife/gun/whatever shouting "Allah Akbar!"
So, if I were to jump up on a plane waiving a bomb/knife/gun/whatever shouting "Kys mig i røven i forbandede amerikanske røvhuller!", then they shouldn't be shooting me?
What's with the whole "only muslim arabs are terrorists" agenda? Suddenly the IRA, RAF or ETA aren't terrorists, because they aren't muslim but rather christians? What about Timothy McVeigh? He was a christian, but he wasn't a terrorist?
What I'm trying to say is "please take your narrowminded ideas about religion and shove them as far up your ass as possible - with any luck, you'll manage to break your neck in the process, and the rest of us won't have to listen to your biased idiocy".
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Since everything in this galaxy is effectively doing broadcasting anyway, why would you waste your money on using a switched network?
Actually the reason Fahrenheit has such "odd" numbers, is that the two points you chose have no baring on how it was scaled.
As I understand it (and there are numerous ides on how it was done), 0 was chosen as the freezing point of salt water (as in what you find in the local ocea). That's fine and all.
The oddity comes from where he set 100 to be. The natural temperature of a healthy horses blood.
Now, that's as natural a set of points as night and grass.
If he had chosen two points on the same items temperature scale, then it'd be a lot simpler. He didn't, so it's not.
Limit: One per customer.
You mean some people charge you to P?
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
--George Carlin
Danish article :)
Rough translation (being a native speaker
Fogh denies that Gates have threatened him
The prime minister denies that Microsoft should have threatened to close Navision and move 800 employees to the US.
Prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Liberals) denies that the founder of the worlds larges software company, Bill Gates, supposedly threatened him with closing Navision in Denmark and move the approximately 800 developers behind Denmarks biggest software success to the US.
- He hasn't done that in any meeting with me. I can in no way confirm that description, not at all. It is not even something we discussed. No, Anders Fogh Rasmussen tells Ritzau.
The prime ministers denial comes after Børsen tuesday could report about Bill Gates' threat, which was supposed to have been made at a meeting in november with Anders Fogh Rasmussen along with the minister of the economy and business Bendt Bendtsen (Conservatives) and the minister of science Helge Sander (Liberals).
My password is a 79 character alphanumerical combination of numbers and words.
...
Of course it's rather hard to tell people what the password really is
G. W. Bush, 2001 - now, 4 years, R (4 - 0)
B. Clinton, 1993 - 2001, 8 years, D (4 - 8)
G. Bush, 1989 - 1993, 4 years, R (12 - 8)
R. Regan, 1981 - 1989, 8 years, R (20 - 8)
J. Carter, 1977 - 1981, 4 years, D (20 - 12)
G. Ford, 1973 - 1977, 4 years, R (24 - 12)
R. Nixon, 1969 - 1974, 4 years, R (28 - 12)
L. Johnson, 1963 - 1969, 6 years, D (28 - 18)
J. Kennedy, 1961 - 1963, 2 years, D (28 - 20)
D. Eisenhower, 1953 - 1961, 8 years, R (36 - 20)
So, for the last 56 years, 36 of those have been under a Republican president. Doesn't really add up with your statement. Hell, we could have stopped at 16 years and it would have been a draw.
Not saying which is better or worse. Simply that your bold statement is flat out wrong.
That's one way of looking at it.
My former boss had another way of looking at it, after I talked him through some of the stuff I had done to optimize a program.
"If it takes someone other than you more time to figure out what you're doing, than a user will save in a day - then it's not worth doing. Because something will break, and you might not be around to pick up the pieces."
And I have come to think that he's right. I have on occation made some fairly ingeneous code optimizations, which took me way too long to figure out when I looked at it six months later. I knew that what I'd done was smart, really smart. I knew that on that portion of the program I'd shaved something like 15% off the run time (some weird ass calculations). Just wasn't sure what the hell it was, that I was actually doing.
Sure, it ran faster than what I changed it to, but what I ended up revising it into would probably take me five minutes to figure out as opposed to more than an eight hour work day. The new version is about 5% slower than what I had earlier, which means about 2 minutes on a regular run through.
Yes, that's bloat compared to what I can do, but I don't really care.
That's not socialist, you ignorant fuck (pardon the swearing)!
That is called Authoritarian - look it up.
It's amazing that people in the US in particular buy into lame ass conceptions - like liberal being the bane of the US, even though the founding fathers were VERY liberal.
Getting FreeSBIE to crash my laptop is quite easy - just use startx, once you're at the prompt. Or boot the default option.
I have managed to cram all the tools needed to control HVAC and building lights, including graphing options, into an applet weighing in at 108,000 bytes. It did more, way more, than most applets I have seen for something as simple as navigating on webpages, and it did it in a whole lot less space, and to boot, it loaded faster. The update speed on the app was a bit slow (one update every two second), but that was due to the hardware the applet was served from (also why it couldn't be larger than 108,000 bytes). Changing it from an applet to a stand-alone application required me to change a single line of code, making it very easy to do testing like that - the only difference between the two? Not having to point my browser at the hardware in question.
How is that possible? Because I knew what the hell I was doing with Java. Most people who use applets on their websites don't know what the fuck they do with Java. Most people who make those fancy applets, don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Not saying that java applets are the way to do what's being discussed here - I don't think they are, as it'd be a pain to link directly to products etc. - my beef is with the "applets are impractical, inconvenient, bloated and slow" argument. It's just not true, if you know what you're doing. HTML is "bloated" as well, if you don't know what you're doing, and hence use Word to write your documents in, and then save them as HTML
Kidding? Why?
They say it will cost 1 billion dollars - that's only 4 dollars per citizen in the US. If you can get ten million people to donate 100 dollars, you're set.
Picture from the blurb
This picture shows him without the leaf. Not sure where the leaf came from, but it does seem to be edited in.
Yes, because memory prices didn't drop at all until 2001, right? I can certainly remember paying a dollar per byte when I bought my first 128 MB RAM stick back in 1995 ...
No. Wait. Memory has been plenty cheap to use four digits to store the current year in since before 1990. Maybe that's why some of us find it idiotic that you had applications (modern applications written after 1990) running on comodity PCs, that only use two digits.
It is also my 52nd birthday ... I knew I shouldn't have asked for fireworks ...
Your two parties are both to the right of the middle of politics here. Far to the right. What we call conservatives, you would lable bleeding heart left wing liberals. Which is ironic as our Liberal parties, that are on the right wing of our political spectrum.
Hell, you've manage to take a nation, that is founded on the belief of "Life, Liberty and pursuit of Happiness" and made Liberal a swear word! Hell, I've been accused of being a, I kid you not, liberal commie bastard by Americans which is sort of like calling water dry, as communism is an authoritarian style of government, which is the oposite of liberal.
But then again we find it rather interesting (read scary) that your supposedly independent media have decided to take a pro-government stance no matter who the incumbant is, doesn't seem to want to take on any kind of leading role in the pursuit of truth or even fair coverage (*cough*presidential debates*cough*) and don't find it problematic to lable anyone critical of what is done by the government as an "anti patriotic hater of freedom".
Hell, in the "paragon" of freedom, the BASTION of democracy (even though you're actually a republic, but then again, most of you couldn't explain the true difference between representative democracy and a republic if your life depended on it anyway) more people want to decide who gets to win American Idol to become the next lame plastic pop-star than who get's to sit on the biggest army not to mention the biggest nuclear stockpile in the world. And yet you have the audacity to call the rest of us freedom hating people who only want to bring back the good old days of kings and queens, so we get back to preventing you guys from spredding democracy in the world (which is funny, since you don't want democracy at home)
<sarcasm>
But what do I know
</sarcasm>
I certainly hope they decrease it.
And with the slowdown of spam due to hurricane Ivan hitting Florida:
No one expects the hispanic intermission.
(I hate explaining jokes)
I've been doing too much preposition logic lately, because I saw that as
;-)
!(NFS read-only & shared root is enough+LTSP+Thin clients) OR please read the article
I hate college
What's with the whole "only muslim arabs are terrorists" agenda? Suddenly the IRA, RAF or ETA aren't terrorists, because they aren't muslim but rather christians? What about Timothy McVeigh? He was a christian, but he wasn't a terrorist?
What I'm trying to say is "please take your narrowminded ideas about religion and shove them as far up your ass as possible - with any luck, you'll manage to break your neck in the process, and the rest of us won't have to listen to your biased idiocy".