Yes, but most geeks have more self-esteem than to marry a mail-order bride from Russia (do they have mail-order husbands for the geekettes?), despite the advertisements on Slashdot. Yes, that's right, I'm measuring one of the smallest quantities in the universe: the self-esteem of a geek.
You're talking information theory, he's talking simple math. Yes, you could represent it as (2^n)-1, and so represent it as
2^32,582,657-1, which can be represented in 8-bit ascii by around 15 bytes; but the actual binary representation of the number you'd get if you ran
(x = 0; x < 32582657; x++){System.out.print(1);}
and got that
111 [....] 111
would be roughly 33 megabits.
For Brian Recall: if you remember that 10^3 = 1000 and 2^10 = 1024, you can just multiple the base-10 log of the number by 10/3 and get a *very rough* estimate of the binary log of the number; Timothy Brownawell's 3.3219 is a more precise figure for the ratio that my 10/3 represents. The binary log is equal to the number of bits in the number.
Anyway, it's around 10^9,808,358, and is exactly 2^32,582,657-1, so it's exactly 4072833 MB (32,582,656 is divisible by 8 but 32,582,657 is not)
Look, everyone else is filing software patents. File your patent now. If you can then convince your company to license your work for free, great. If all software patents finally get nullified, even better. But while your competitors are availing themselves of the stupidity of current patent law, it's vitally important that you do so, too.
Really, we KNOW there's oil there? Oh, and do you know what the "purely political reasons" are why oil companies have been forbidden to drill off our seashores and in a wildlife refuge? Ask Saint Joe.
He fought in the Spanish Civil War, and saw what the Communist Party was pulling in Barcelona; and because he was a leftist (yes, Orwell was a leftist, but on the libertarian/anarchist side of the libertarian/authoritarian axis), he was very aware of what the British socialists were doing. So he didn't need to live in the Soviet Union to know what Communism was like.
Sorry, I didn't think it was that snarky / contentious, and sorry if my answer seemed snarky in reply. By "more sympathetic" I just meant "hell, yes, I'm being a pretentious pain in the ass, but in this case, I'm proud of it!"
Yes, I know the context from Sallust, but am discarding it quite willfully. So yes, to loosely paraphrase your comment in a more sympathetic vein, a decontextualized Latin tag can be a powerful thing.
Etymologically, the word "atom" should mean "the smallest thing possible, than which nothing is smaller," as the Greek word (from a- + tmesis) means "uncuttable." Ever since we split the atom (an oxymoron if I ever heard one), we should have changed the name. But we didn't. Why? Because terminology works that way. Same thing with "universe."
Yes, it's Massachusetts; see sibling posting. And I used England in this case quite deliberately, as my source only gave a date for abolition in England, and I couldn't be sure that the abolition applied to all of the UK at that date. Believe me, I know very well the difference between the UK and England (and that the differences have changed over the centuries, too).
My state abolished slavery in 1783. Sure, the rest of the US took until 1865, but they're behind on everything. A few years after England, but before the British Colonies.
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Except lawyers *usually* can be counted on to turn on other lawyers and devour them, just like sharks in a feeding frenzy.
no one gives a shit, you dumb bitch.
Hans, they let you have the computer so you could work on file systems, not post on Slashdot.
Yes, but most geeks have more self-esteem than to marry a mail-order bride from Russia (do they have mail-order husbands for the geekettes?), despite the advertisements on Slashdot. Yes, that's right, I'm measuring one of the smallest quantities in the universe: the self-esteem of a geek.
Correction: the prime I used is the 44th, which is a known prime, not the new possible 45th, which is not given in the article.
You're talking information theory, he's talking simple math. Yes, you could represent it as (2^n)-1, and so represent it as 2^32,582,657-1, which can be represented in 8-bit ascii by around 15 bytes; but the actual binary representation of the number you'd get if you ran
(x = 0; x < 32582657; x++){System.out.print(1);}
and got that
111 [....] 111
would be roughly 33 megabits.
For Brian Recall: if you remember that 10^3 = 1000 and 2^10 = 1024, you can just multiple the base-10 log of the number by 10/3 and get a *very rough* estimate of the binary log of the number; Timothy Brownawell's 3.3219 is a more precise figure for the ratio that my 10/3 represents. The binary log is equal to the number of bits in the number.
Anyway, it's around 10^9,808,358, and is exactly 2^32,582,657-1, so it's exactly 4072833 MB (32,582,656 is divisible by 8 but 32,582,657 is not)
Look, everyone else is filing software patents. File your patent now. If you can then convince your company to license your work for free, great. If all software patents finally get nullified, even better. But while your competitors are availing themselves of the stupidity of current patent law, it's vitally important that you do so, too.
As in cellular automata. This is not just some complete nobody.
Really, we KNOW there's oil there? Oh, and do you know what the "purely political reasons" are why oil companies have been forbidden to drill off our seashores and in a wildlife refuge? Ask Saint Joe.
"My God, It's full of ADS!"
Killing patents doesn't force anyone to release their code.
Also, now that I've played with the "beta" a little I want to see the graphs for Finnegans Wake.
My GOD ... it's a Mandelbrot set!!!
He fought in the Spanish Civil War, and saw what the Communist Party was pulling in Barcelona; and because he was a leftist (yes, Orwell was a leftist, but on the libertarian/anarchist side of the libertarian/authoritarian axis), he was very aware of what the British socialists were doing. So he didn't need to live in the Soviet Union to know what Communism was like.
Have you EVER heard of a library? The journals are free to read; you just have to pay if you want it delivered to your doorstep or web browser.
Um, no, that's more like saying that Windows Mobile is Windows.
If the definition some of us preferred had been adopted, a certain Italian would have gotten his planet back, too.
Sorry, I didn't think it was that snarky / contentious, and sorry if my answer seemed snarky in reply. By "more sympathetic" I just meant "hell, yes, I'm being a pretentious pain in the ass, but in this case, I'm proud of it!"
One more important thing to take into account: are both cars using the same method to measure mileage?
In case you really are a philology nazi, yes, I know I should have used the indicative "temno."
Yes, I know the context from Sallust, but am discarding it quite willfully. So yes, to loosely paraphrase your comment in a more sympathetic vein, a decontextualized Latin tag can be a powerful thing.
Because they're afraid they'll be crushed to a fine pulp when they get hit by a big honking SUV.
Etymologically, the word "atom" should mean "the smallest thing possible, than which nothing is smaller," as the Greek word (from a- + tmesis) means "uncuttable." Ever since we split the atom (an oxymoron if I ever heard one), we should have changed the name. But we didn't. Why? Because terminology works that way. Same thing with "universe."
Yes, it's Massachusetts; see sibling posting. And I used England in this case quite deliberately, as my source only gave a date for abolition in England, and I couldn't be sure that the abolition applied to all of the UK at that date. Believe me, I know very well the difference between the UK and England (and that the differences have changed over the centuries, too).
My state abolished slavery in 1783. Sure, the rest of the US took until 1865, but they're behind on everything. A few years after England, but before the British Colonies.
So if you like "motion picture by pastiche," this will be your movie.
Maybe so, but I'd still say that lines of communication are O(2^n). Just because Barry Boehm doesn't see it that way isn't a good counterargument.