The ones digit of n! is 0, for any n greater than 5. Once you've multiplied 5 in there, all factorials larger than that are multiples of 10, so their ones digit is zero.
I think people who speak languages that don't use the Roman alphabet may end up simply learning to encode their languages in ASCII. The Germans already do this, with u-umlaut being encoded as "ue" and so forth.
Transliterating to Roman letters and using ASCII (especially since more people already speak English as a second language than any other in the world) may simply be simpler and faster.
We already grow plenty of food to feed everyone on the planet. The real problem is distribution.
People look at these genetically-engineered crops and think, "Whee, now Farmer Akumbo in Africa can grow enough to feed his whole village!"
They don't realize that Farmer Akumbo could already feed his whole village if he used modern fertilizers and a tractor and rotated his crops and generally modernized his farming techniques into the 1950s. Farmer Akumbo might be better at farming if his fields weren't full of General Fwalumbwebwe's land mines and his sons weren't drafted into the People's Guerrilla Revolutionary Army every spring.
The real market for these high-yield crops is Farmer Johnson in Missouri, who along with all his buddies in Missouri already grows so much that the prices for what he grows are pretty low. The only way he can stay in business is to try to grow more and more and more so he can sell enough crops to try to recoup his costs. The trouble is, Farmer Johnson is competing with Farmer Robinson and Farmer Jones and everyone else in Missouri, and there simply isn't enough market for their crops.
However, as soon as Farmer Johnson falls behind on his mortgage, we have all these TV news images of the evil banks coming and seizing the family farm from the noble upstanding farmer. The farmers call their congressmen and get them to set up price supports and farm subsidies -- so now Farmer Johnson gets money from the government to help him stay in business, and so does Farmer Robinson, and so does Farmer Jones, etc.
But eventually Farmer Johnson decides to chuck it and he sells his farmland to a developer, who puts up a housing development.
Farming is a business. People think the business model is simple, "Grow crops and sell them." The thing is, farming has a stranglehold on the Congress and on the popular imagination, and so people don't realize that there are simply more farmers than we need. If someone is starving in Missouri it's not because there's not enough food being grown in Missouri. People aren't starving in Africa because of Farmer Akumbo's lack of genetically-engineered crops, they're starving because General Fwalumbwe is spending his time fighting wars and robbing the treasury.
Who's getting rich? Monsanto. Farmer Johnson, when he sells his farmland to a real estate developer who'll put houses or a mall on it. General Fwalumbwe, of course.
Who's starving? Poor people in Africa, who could probably do pretty well for themselves if they could just get rid of General Fwalumbwe (easy) and replace him with a reasonable government (hard).
The people in Africa didn't have much chance of getting rid of General Fwalumbwe during the Cold War, because the U.S. probably supported him against the People's Guerilla Army. Maybe now that the Cold War is over, we'll stop supporting SOB's like that. Truman said once of someone like that, "He may be an S.O.B but he's _our_ S.O.B.
Some of that seems to be happening in Indonesia; Indonesia doesn't get a free ride any more just because they're not Commies.
If you are routinely spending more than 45/50 hours a week at your salaried position, all you need to do is document that fact, and tell your managers they need to hire another person. If your managers are good managers, they will. If your managers are not good at management, it's not your fault. And prioritize, prioritize, prioritize. Decide that a problem that affects 100 people is more important than a problem that affects 1 person, and let your management know this is how you decide what to work on.
Did anyone notice how there's a scene with Gates sitting in front of an IBM PC, with a C> prompt on it, and moving a highlight bar over some filenames, TWO SCENES BEFORE THEY GO TO IBM TO SELL THEM ON DOS, AND THREE SCENES BEFORE THEY BUY DOS FROM SEATLLE COMPUTER?
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The one I have is statically linked, and works fine.
You don't have to use it though, you can download via the browser.
I fed it the Declaration of Independence.
It said it was INAUTHENTIC with a 24.5 chance of being authentic text.
The ones digit of n! is 0, for any n greater than 5. Once you've multiplied 5 in there, all factorials larger than that are multiples of 10, so their ones digit is zero.
Transliterating to Roman letters and using ASCII (especially since more people already speak English as a second language than any other in the world) may simply be simpler and faster.
People look at these genetically-engineered crops and think, "Whee, now Farmer Akumbo in Africa can grow enough to feed his whole village!"
They don't realize that Farmer Akumbo could already feed his whole village if he used modern fertilizers and a tractor and rotated his crops and generally modernized his farming techniques into the 1950s. Farmer Akumbo might be better at farming if his fields weren't full of General Fwalumbwebwe's land mines and his sons weren't drafted into the People's Guerrilla Revolutionary Army every spring.
The real market for these high-yield crops is Farmer Johnson in Missouri, who along with all his buddies in Missouri already grows so much that the prices for what he grows are pretty low. The only way he can stay in business is to try to grow more and more and more so he can sell enough crops to try to recoup his costs. The trouble is, Farmer Johnson is competing with Farmer Robinson and Farmer Jones and everyone else in Missouri, and there simply isn't enough market for their crops.
However, as soon as Farmer Johnson falls behind on his mortgage, we have all these TV news images of the evil banks coming and seizing the family farm from the noble upstanding farmer. The farmers call their congressmen and get them to set up price supports and farm subsidies -- so now Farmer Johnson gets money from the government to help him stay in business, and so does Farmer Robinson, and so does Farmer Jones, etc.
But eventually Farmer Johnson decides to chuck it and he sells his farmland to a developer, who puts up a housing development.
Farming is a business. People think the business model is simple, "Grow crops and sell them." The thing is, farming has a stranglehold on the Congress and on the popular imagination, and so people don't realize that there are simply more farmers than we need. If someone is starving in Missouri it's not because there's not enough food being grown in Missouri. People aren't starving in Africa because of Farmer Akumbo's lack of genetically-engineered crops, they're starving because General Fwalumbwe is spending his time fighting wars and robbing the treasury.
Who's getting rich? Monsanto. Farmer Johnson, when he sells his farmland to a real estate developer who'll put houses or a mall on it. General Fwalumbwe, of course.
Who's starving? Poor people in Africa, who could probably do pretty well for themselves if they could just get rid of General Fwalumbwe (easy) and replace him with a reasonable government (hard).
The people in Africa didn't have much chance of getting rid of General Fwalumbwe during the Cold War, because the U.S. probably supported him against the People's Guerilla Army. Maybe now that the Cold War is over, we'll stop supporting SOB's like that. Truman said once of someone like that, "He may be an S.O.B but he's _our_ S.O.B.
Some of that seems to be happening in Indonesia; Indonesia doesn't get a free ride any more just because they're not Commies.
Monsanto has nothing to do with it.
Sybase and Oracle still use separate processes, but I think Informix uses threads.
If you are routinely spending more than 45/50 hours a week at your salaried position, all you need to do is document that fact, and tell your managers they need to hire another person. If your managers are good managers, they will. If your managers are not good at management, it's not your fault. And prioritize, prioritize, prioritize. Decide that a problem that affects 100 people is more important than a problem that affects 1 person, and let your management know this is how you decide what to work on.
Numbers 1, 3, and 4 were Gates, Allen, and Ballmer.
Did anyone notice how there's a scene with Gates sitting in front of an IBM PC, with a C> prompt on it, and moving a highlight bar over some filenames, TWO SCENES BEFORE THEY GO TO IBM TO SELL THEM ON DOS, AND THREE SCENES BEFORE THEY BUY DOS FROM SEATLLE COMPUTER?