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You forgot to mention something even more arbitrary, the decimal system. 3.1415926535 really has no significance in the universe. Neither does 11.00100100001111110110 (binary) nor 3.243F6A8885A308D31319 (hexadecimal) The equation pi = c/d is what is true and real (and irrational - but I digress.)
"The SI unit of luminous flux, equal to the amount of light emitted per second in a unit solid angle of one steradian from a uniform source of one candela."
A small AA battery maglite has 15.2 lumens average, so it's brighter than a small flashlight... if that floats your boat, er lights your night.
Typewriters by design have monospaced fonts, plain old text, [e.g. Courier, Monaco], that is every glyph is of a fixed-width, as every block of "type" occupies the same amount of space. The advent of modern computers brought variable-width fonts, which allow the kerning to change: an 'i' is narrow and 'w' is wide. The evolutionary change in default typefaces meant that most people write & publish with variable width fonts (and left & right justification), making the two spaces after a period superfluous, as a period lies closer to the previous character. A space is still a character in the computing world, sometimes more [%20] -- whereas in the press/ink world, it is a freebie and for readability two monospaces are better than one.
It is strange how people don't understand money. Money is nothing more than a representation of wealth, it is not wealth itself. All forms of wealth on this planet are merely placeholders for work, which is a product of energy and distance (or energy and time, in the humanistic non-scientific term). In a nutshell it equals real, measurable value to humans. If we didn't tacitly agree on whatever currency we held onto as this representation, then the currency ceases to be meaningful. Ergo money is not wealth. Energy/Work represented by such currency *is* wealth.
Get rid of currency and people have no problem going back to what money represents. That's why there'll always be bartering, as people use their own work / energy as relative currency to another's. As an aside, the reason gold was originally the first most valuable and widely used 'currency' everywhere is because it is, in an of itself, a very useful material. It has heft, which humans like, it is colorful (lustre) and aesthetically pleasing, it does not rust or break down, it is easily made into many things, and it is scarce. So you could make a case for gold being intrinsically valuable, but currently "money" (paper and electronic numbers in a bank's database) have no value at all. Coins are the vestigial holdout, and seem to be nearly extinct in the U.S. anyway. People don't bother to pick up a dropped quarter on the ground anymore! So much for the Almight Dollar...
Bzzzt. ILM did the secretary painting her nails and they shot some miniatures, too. I didn't blanket my statement with "they did the effects", I wrote, "worked on", which is 100% correct.
And to think, ILM worked on every one of those movies, except for Aliens... and they're still the best. The fact they went so many years recently without an Oscar is utter bullshit.
This is the worst thought out and lamest analogy and I've ever read on/.
You're touching people's belongings, obviously leaving residue of your skin, and oils, that DO DAMAGE to the whatever they touch and you're smoking? More damage. You're stealing electricity to watch somebody else's TV? And you're perverted? And trespassing - do you have mud on your shoes? Perhaps you stink as well? Did you leave a big crap in the toilet? Pathetic at every step.
Thanks for playing and winning this round of "How to not convince *ANYONE* of your point with the lamest analogy EVER".
I suppose that's why you're a coward. Maybe a/. needs another checkbox, "Post as Anonymous Dumbshit".
Interesting analogy, but I think it's a bit off. Text editors "create" text -- which all of them will see. There really isn't variation in the grand scheme of things. The differences are the keystrokes & interface that people like one way or another. On the other hand, a web browser is a content viewer, and the web is forever changing what we can and will see & hear. Text really isn't changing is it? Web "Compatibility" & standards of experience across platforms is the debate.
No. Read the Wiki article. It should explain it. It has nothing to do with sounds. The spelling has *always* been the same in the United States. The current *right* answer is that both are correct (internationally). In the US, for non-scientists, only Aluminum (a-LOO-min-num) is correct, any other pronunciation is from a foreign source, or an affection from an anglophile. Capice?
We didn't change the pronunication, we spell it the way it sounds, besides Humphry Davy wanted it to be named Aluminum. He discovered it. He was from Great Britain. Some jackass contributor from the British "Quarterly Review" decided to have its own agenda in 1812. See for yourself : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum#Spelling. As of 1993 both spellings and pronunciation are acceptable internationally.
It runs perfectly on Windows with PxPerl, once you fix the 'pr int' error on line 25. I think your Perl has the evil bit set to "on". You may want to check that.
The sellers may fade away, but the objects will remain -- perhaps long after anything as treasured as the net or discs/disks and ROMs. Don't get me wrong, I use the net everyday and even wrote about Google as a best search engine in 1998 when most people didn't know about it. But there are a few things that need to be stated.
Books don't boot, books don't crash and they still work when the lights go out. I can find information in them faster and more reliably than Google. When I look in an index in an encyclopedia, the page I am referred is 100% guaranteed to be there (caching aside.) Showing people how to use computers and software is my living, but I collect reference works as my hobby. I have a dozens of 100 year old books and a few over 200 years old. Yes, they are 'out of date' -- but all information asserts itself in the moment of its promulgation, and most all of it will pass. As stated earlier in the thread, Information is actually always in flux, in any age people have their beliefs of knowledge and in time the collective knowledge-base looks back and laughs. And as another poster said, information about some historical events can be highlighted in one decade vs. the next. Anybody who loves words should see what is contained in dictionaries before the medical-chemical-industrial-complex of post WWII supplanted so many great words and definitions with 'science'. (I love science, but not at the offing of language and culture.)
There will always be a wonderful need for great gobs of information at your fingertips via the Internet, but if you care for a book, it will last centuries. I don't know of too many things that people have created that has the usefulness and durability of books. They may waste a bit of space, but they are nice to look at and hold in your hands too.
Oh yeah one more thing, anybody who wants to bring up the 'save a tree' argument, should be appalled at what the internet and computers has done to the use of paper. People print out 340 page.pdf documents at work all the time and they may read just one or two pages later. It's disgusting really. I keep all harvested information from the net as soft copy, and I print the least of anyone in our company, yet probably read the most.
PS: If anybody is chucking out a 9th Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, I'm looking to buy.;-)
Regarding the Foreign Film Award: from http://www.oscars.org/75academyawards/rules/rule14.html ----------------------- Rule Fourteen Special Rules for The Best Foreign Film Award
I. Definition A foreign language film is defined, for Academy Award purposes, as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States of America with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.
That comment is like talking about a children's book by Dr. Seuss entitled, The Dog and the Hat. George Lucas & Steven Spielberg make these movies together, and the story is usually George's. But , whatever... I'm not here to judge, only... remember there's a difference between a dog and a cat.
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You forgot to mention something even more arbitrary, the decimal system. 3.1415926535 really has no significance in the universe.
Neither does 11.00100100001111110110 (binary) nor 3.243F6A8885A308D31319 (hexadecimal)
The equation pi = c/d is what is true and real (and irrational - but I digress.)
It's lumens:
"The SI unit of luminous flux, equal to the amount of light emitted per second in a unit solid angle of one steradian from a uniform source of one candela."
A small AA battery maglite has 15.2 lumens average, so it's brighter than a small flashlight... if that floats your boat, er lights your night.
Typewriters by design have monospaced fonts, plain old text, [e.g. Courier, Monaco], that is every glyph is of a fixed-width, as every block of "type" occupies the same amount of space. The advent of modern computers brought variable-width fonts, which allow the kerning to change: an 'i' is narrow and 'w' is wide. The evolutionary change in default typefaces meant that most people write & publish with variable width fonts (and left & right justification), making the two spaces after a period superfluous, as a period lies closer to the previous character. A space is still a character in the computing world, sometimes more [%20] -- whereas in the press/ink world, it is a freebie and for readability two monospaces are better than one.
I concur -- doesn't anybody know what 64K is? --- I guess they didn't program Apple ][ computers back in the day...
It is strange how people don't understand money. Money is nothing more than a representation of wealth, it is not wealth itself. All forms of wealth on this planet are merely placeholders for work, which is a product of energy and distance (or energy and time, in the humanistic non-scientific term). In a nutshell it equals real, measurable value to humans. If we didn't tacitly agree on whatever currency we held onto as this representation, then the currency ceases to be meaningful. Ergo money is not wealth. Energy/Work represented by such currency *is* wealth.
Get rid of currency and people have no problem going back to what money represents. That's why there'll always be bartering, as people use their own work / energy as relative currency to another's. As an aside, the reason gold was originally the first most valuable and widely used 'currency' everywhere is because it is, in an of itself, a very useful material. It has heft, which humans like, it is colorful (lustre) and aesthetically pleasing, it does not rust or break down, it is easily made into many things, and it is scarce. So you could make a case for gold being intrinsically valuable, but currently "money" (paper and electronic numbers in a bank's database) have no value at all. Coins are the vestigial holdout, and seem to be nearly extinct in the U.S. anyway. People don't bother to pick up a dropped quarter on the ground anymore! So much for the Almight Dollar...
Which is just slightly less egregious than the pedant who doesn't know how to punctuate a sentence that ends with an ellipsis.
Bzzzt. ILM did the secretary painting her nails and they shot some miniatures, too. I didn't blanket my statement with "they did the effects", I wrote, "worked on", which is 100% correct.
And to think, ILM worked on every one of those movies, except for Aliens... and they're still the best. The fact they went so many years recently without an Oscar is utter bullshit.
This is the worst thought out and lamest analogy and I've ever read on /.
/. needs another checkbox, "Post as Anonymous Dumbshit".
You're touching people's belongings, obviously leaving residue of your skin, and oils, that DO DAMAGE to the whatever they touch and you're smoking? More damage. You're stealing electricity to watch somebody else's TV? And you're perverted? And trespassing - do you have mud on your shoes? Perhaps you stink as well? Did you leave a big crap in the toilet? Pathetic at every step.
Thanks for playing and winning this round of "How to not convince *ANYONE* of your point with the lamest analogy EVER".
I suppose that's why you're a coward. Maybe a
Interesting analogy, but I think it's a bit off. Text editors "create" text -- which all of them will see. There really isn't variation in the grand scheme of things. The differences are the keystrokes & interface that people like one way or another. On the other hand, a web browser is a content viewer, and the web is forever changing what we can and will see & hear. Text really isn't changing is it? Web "Compatibility" & standards of experience across platforms is the debate.
No. Read the Wiki article. It should explain it. It has nothing to do with sounds. The spelling has *always* been the same in the United States. The current *right* answer is that both are correct (internationally). In the US, for non-scientists, only Aluminum (a-LOO-min-num) is correct, any other pronunciation is from a foreign source, or an affection from an anglophile. Capice?
We didn't change the pronunication, we spell it the way it sounds, besides Humphry Davy wanted it to be named Aluminum. He discovered it. He was from Great Britain. Some jackass contributor from the British "Quarterly Review" decided to have its own agenda in 1812. See for yourself : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum#Spelling. As of 1993 both spellings and pronunciation are acceptable internationally.
It runs perfectly on Windows with PxPerl, once you fix the 'pr int' error on line 25.
I think your Perl has the evil bit set to "on". You may want to check that.
HP owns both 15 & 16.x.x.x - according to whois
N.B. Latin is dead
It is built on top of a garage. 1600 car garage. Brand new. Lucas always hides the cars on his properties.
wheras "slashdot is the devil" only returns around three results. Clearly the Internet is based on fact...
The sellers may fade away, but the objects will remain -- perhaps long after anything as treasured as the net or discs/disks and ROMs. Don't get me wrong, I use the net everyday and even wrote about Google as a best search engine in 1998 when most people didn't know about it. But there are a few things that need to be stated.
.pdf documents at work all the time and they may read just one or two pages later. It's disgusting really. I keep all harvested information from the net as soft copy, and I print the least of anyone in our company, yet probably read the most.
;-)
Books don't boot, books don't crash and they still work when the lights go out. I can find information in them faster and more reliably than Google. When I look in an index in an encyclopedia, the page I am referred is 100% guaranteed to be there (caching aside.) Showing people how to use computers and software is my living, but I collect reference works as my hobby. I have a dozens of 100 year old books and a few over 200 years old. Yes, they are 'out of date' -- but all information asserts itself in the moment of its promulgation, and most all of it will pass. As stated earlier in the thread, Information is actually always in flux, in any age people have their beliefs of knowledge and in time the collective knowledge-base looks back and laughs. And as another poster said, information about some historical events can be highlighted in one decade vs. the next. Anybody who loves words should see what is contained in dictionaries before the medical-chemical-industrial-complex of post WWII supplanted so many great words and definitions with 'science'. (I love science, but not at the offing of language and culture.)
There will always be a wonderful need for great gobs of information at your fingertips via the Internet, but if you care for a book, it will last centuries. I don't know of too many things that people have created that has the usefulness and durability of books. They may waste a bit of space, but they are nice to look at and hold in your hands too.
Oh yeah one more thing, anybody who wants to bring up the 'save a tree' argument, should be appalled at what the internet and computers has done to the use of paper. People print out 340 page
PS: If anybody is chucking out a 9th Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, I'm looking to buy.
Regarding the Foreign Film Award:4 .html
from http://www.oscars.org/75academyawards/rules/rule1
-----------------------
Rule Fourteen
Special Rules for The Best Foreign Film Award
I. Definition
A foreign language film is defined, for Academy Award purposes, as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States of America with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.
That comment is like talking about a children's book by Dr. Seuss entitled, The Dog and the Hat. George Lucas & Steven Spielberg make these movies together, and the story is usually George's. But , whatever... I'm not here to judge, only... remember there's a difference between a dog and a cat.