IEEE double precision floating point gives you 52 bits of mantissa.
Mantissa bits eh?
----------------- The part of a floating point number which, when multiplied by its radix raised to the power of its exponent, gives its value. The mantissa may include the number's sign or this may be considered to be a separate part.
(1996-06-15)
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, 1993-2003 Denis Howe
Well, it's kind of complex. At the time, I intended to write 'corollary', and misspelled it, much to my chagrin. However, upon immediate reflection, I realized that rather than corollary, I had intended to convey a tangent, or divergence; a kindred idea, rather than a consequence.
"Consumers could very well see an increase in their Internet costs and they could see a slowdown in the transmission speed of their Internet communications."
But remember, the law would be for your protection and to serve the interestes of the people, as all laws must do.
"What's wrong with licence? From the OED, 2nd ed,: "
Please don't cite a reference you don't understand.
If I see one more person saying something is proper simply because it appears in the OED, I will track them down, put them in the Clockwork Orange chair, and make them look at the goatse.cx man for 24 hours straight.
Items are in the OED simply for historical reference. "Ain't" is in the OED. The OED says that 'they' has been used as a plural. These are NOT ENDORSEMENTS OF SAID USAGE. It simply says the words were used/used in this manner. The OED is not a GRAMMAR REFERENCE.
Think of it this way: The OED could be used as a rosetta stone by an alien race in 1000 years, to deceipher our written works. But if they read MLA's Essentials of MLA Style, they would find that 'they' is always plural, and using "ain't" makes you look stupid.
You can gripe and complain and mod me troll until the cows come home. The fact is I'm right. "Ain't" has been in use for eons but will never be proper grammar. Same with this cockamamie 'singular they' bullshit.
In informal contexts, I always use the singular "they".
There is no such thing as the singular 'they'. This is a commonly mistake; 'they' is always plural. When one is unsure of the gender of him of whom he speaks, he should use the masculine. He who can't handle it needs to work harder to deal, or find some real problems to solve in the world.
'They' must refer to more than one person, or you're wrong.
""In a letter [scroll down a bit] to Bruce Schneier's Cryptogram newsletter, Ton van der Putte tells of a recent invitation from the BBC to comment on the addition of fingerprint biometrics to the British ID card. Using a digital camera and UV lamp he was able to make dummy fingerprints that fooled the readers - and in less time and less cost than similar experiments 10 years ago. He says: '...now the average do-it-yourselfer is able to achieve perfect results and requires only limited means and skills.'"
Insecure biometrics will be easily broken, but nobody will know that, so they will be trusted explicitly.
Please check your nesting settings before replying about a post that refers to its parent. You'd see that the parent of my post was post 7216610, but since it was below your threshold, you didn't see it.
Slashdot Mirror
"She was never formally charged, but kept at Qincheng Prison for over a year."
Man... It will be a scary day indeed when things like that start happening on American soil...
IEEE double precision floating point gives you 52 bits of mantissa.
Mantissa bits eh?
-----------------
The part of a floating point number which, when multiplied by its radix raised to the power of its exponent, gives its value. The mantissa may include the number's sign or this may be considered to be a separate part.
(1996-06-15)
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, 1993-2003 Denis Howe
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Ya learn something new every day...
Primer from the CIA World Factbook:
- New Zealand Military branches
- New Zealand Army
- Royal New Zealand Navy
- Royal New Zealand Air Force
- Military manpower - military age
- 20 years of age (2003 est.)
- Military manpower - availability
- males age 15-49: 1,021,770 (2003 est.)
- Military manpower - fit for military service:
- males age 15-49: 859,505 (2003 est.)
- Military manpower - reaching military age annually
- males: 26,803 (2003 est.)
- Military expenditures - dollar figure
- $605.7 million (FY02)
- Military expenditures - percent of GDP
- 1% (FY02)
/partly because thinking of the NZ army is silly, and parly because I love nested <UL>'s"Before you talk out your butt and accuse others, check your facts."
...?
Maybe, before he talks out of his butt, he should cheek his facts?
Okay. It's 11pm. Goodnight.
Well, it's kind of complex. At the time, I intended to write 'corollary', and misspelled it, much to my chagrin. However, upon immediate reflection, I realized that rather than corollary, I had intended to convey a tangent, or divergence; a kindred idea, rather than a consequence.
:)
But thanks for keeping me sharp.
"Consumers could very well see an increase in their Internet costs and they could see a slowdown in the transmission speed of their Internet communications."
But remember, the law would be for your protection and to serve the interestes of the people, as all laws must do.
"What's not to understand? The question at hand was the spelling of 'licence'."
And I posted a corrolary point.
Deal.
"What's wrong with licence? From the OED, 2nd ed,: "
Please don't cite a reference you don't understand.
If I see one more person saying something is proper simply because it appears in the OED, I will track them down, put them in the Clockwork Orange chair, and make them look at the goatse.cx man for 24 hours straight.
Items are in the OED simply for historical reference. "Ain't" is in the OED. The OED says that 'they' has been used as a plural. These are NOT ENDORSEMENTS OF SAID USAGE. It simply says the words were used/used in this manner. The OED is not a GRAMMAR REFERENCE.
Think of it this way: The OED could be used as a rosetta stone by an alien race in 1000 years, to deceipher our written works. But if they read MLA's Essentials of MLA Style, they would find that 'they' is always plural, and using "ain't" makes you look stupid.
You can gripe and complain and mod me troll until the cows come home. The fact is I'm right. "Ain't" has been in use for eons but will never be proper grammar. Same with this cockamamie 'singular they' bullshit.
Just deal. Fuckin' whiners.
In informal contexts, I always use the singular "they".
There is no such thing as the singular 'they'. This is a commonly mistake; 'they' is always plural. When one is unsure of the gender of him of whom he speaks, he should use the masculine. He who can't handle it needs to work harder to deal, or find some real problems to solve in the world.
'They' must refer to more than one person, or you're wrong.
You're experiencing something that others are not.
Therefore, those others are idiots that 'need to' not share their contrasting experiences.
You're a special kind of stupid. I bet your parents are proud.
Yeah. That's what I was talking about too. Looks fine.
Have you considered decaf?
I'll second the "it's your problem" posts. I'm running 1600x1200 in IE 6 and it looks fine.
[...] is suffixed to the noun to indicate the definate article.
Please translate definate to an English word. I don't speak Scandinavian. But I love you guys' couches.
" it might mean that your required to [...]"
It might mean my what?
"This can be a *big* problem for *nix/mac users which normally don't need or use AV software. "
I think a big problem is the PEOPLE who think they don't need AV software, regardless of the OS.
""In a letter [scroll down a bit] to Bruce Schneier's Cryptogram newsletter, Ton van der Putte tells of a recent invitation from the BBC to comment on the addition of fingerprint biometrics to the British ID card. Using a digital camera and UV lamp he was able to make dummy fingerprints that fooled the readers - and in less time and less cost than similar experiments 10 years ago. He says: '...now the average do-it-yourselfer is able to achieve perfect results and requires only limited means and skills.'"
Insecure biometrics will be easily broken, but nobody will know that, so they will be trusted explicitly.
"I didn't do this/go there/buy that."
"Sir, we have your fingerprint proof."
"But it wasn't me!"
"That's not possible sir."
Creepy.
"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? -- Clarence Darrow "
Is that funny/witty because it should be 'To whom are you going to speak it'?
"I'm sure I'd use mine on MC Chris"
I just clicked one one of the "listen" links.
I so fucking hope you were joking.
just...
I so fucking hope you were joking.
"Okay, but the DMCA is a United States law, not an Australian law.
OFFTOPIC!"
Please, sucka. If the world's advanced countries aren't all trying to model a law after the DMCA, you may have had a point.
Let me put it another way.
Your five five five prose
And your poor internet skills
Have made YOU the tard.
Okay, you idiots REALLY need to learn about the Parent Button. That's where you can find the post to which I was replying. Amazing technology, huh?!
I expect intelligent people here. Or should that be 'expected'?
Please check your nesting settings before replying about a post that refers to its parent. You'd see that the parent of my post was post 7216610, but since it was below your threshold, you didn't see it.
Five five five "haiku" ???
Is it the math, or English
that you never learned?
"currently lists more than 130.000 names. "
It's not often you see 3 significant figures when counting individuals...
And anyhow, if only 130 people have registered with the site, I don't think it's quite accurate...