e isn't popular because it isn't a normal number. If you look at it in binary, the 1's and 0's form a pattern, as I've noted in other comments. I'm not sure, but I believe this pattern could show up in a more obfuscated way in base 10. The whole reason we look for digits of pi is that we don't know what they're going to be, while it took me about 30 seconds to determine that the quadrillionth binary digit of e is 1. (Nothing unexpected. The number of 1's in e approaches 100% as you take more decimal places.) -- Obfuscated e-mail addresses won't stop sadistic 12-year-old ACs.
e is not normal - there's not much encoded in e. Ever wondered about that strange quasi-pattern at the beginning of e in base 10? It's an artifact from the real pattern that shows up in bases that are a power of 2. e in binary is this:
10.10110111011110111110111111011111110111111110. .. -- Obfuscated e-mail addresses won't stop sadistic 12-year-old ACs.
e in binary
10.10110111011110111110111111011111110111111110...
and e is quite definitely irrational. However, Pi is what's called a "normal" number, and that means that it acts fairly random. Not completely, though - I believe it's been proven that there can't be 43 of the same digit in a row in pi. That lack of a pattern could be considered a pattern. -- Obfuscated e-mail addresses won't stop sadistic 12-year-old ACs.
They must be making some great insights into Brownian motion - I've never heard of anybody achieving an improbability of 1:8 with one of those things! Next thing you know, lightning will strike Pennsylvania TWICE! -- Obfuscated e-mail addresses won't stop sadistic 12-year-old ACs.
I'd be happy to recieve e-mail from you, unless of course it's blatant spam. Then I'd be happy to laugh at YOU while you get sued.
BTW, I do not run suespammers.org. I just use it, and participate in the mailing list, because it means I can post my e-mail address in plaintext (and so can you) and I DON'T GET SPAMMED. The spammers with half a clue don't send to suespammers.org addresses, and those without get half a clue after the first time.
Tom Geller is the guy who runs it, and I think it IS a good thing. I fail to see where you got the impression that it was a charitable thing that takes money from poor Africans (as the overused argument goes) - he *makes money* from this.
Tom gives those addresses TONS of exposure. I got this e-mail address specifically so that pathetic sadists like you couldn't get off on screwing with my e-mail anymore. Your AC post on Slashdot will have no effect whatsoever. -- Obfuscated e-mail addresses won't stop sadistic 12-year-old ACs.
Hey, I think you missed something. This thread is supposed to be to lighten up about the election. -- Obfuscated e-mail addresses won't stop sadistic 12-year-old ACs.
Agreed. This is the most fascinating race I've w seen in my life. Less than a week to go, and the outcomes for both the Presidency and Congress are still in doubt.
So you think it's al close enough that planting subliminal messages will decide the outcome?:)
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That's the point - this argument was used seriously by Bush. If you can consider anything he says "serious". -- Obfuscated e-mail addresses won't stop sadistic 12-year-old ACs.
That copyright symbol there worried me, until I realized you're one of those people who ends up with copyright symbols instead of periods.
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Holy cow. Did I manage to introduce the word "borken" into the geek vernacular, or did that come from somewhere else? -- Obfuscated e-mail addresses won't stop sadistic 12-year-old ACs.
Esperanto has culture-specific idiosyncracies all over the place. Not only that, but it seems that the ease of learning it is all that Esperanto has going for it. If you want to learn something that could hypothetically be a "global language" (let's face it, there aren't a significant number of people who speak any constructed language), and that offers something new that other languages don't, check out Lojban.
Lojban doesn't focus on being easy for certain people (as someone else said, people who know English and one romance language) to learn - it instead focuses on making it possible to express ideas without them being constrained by the language. Other design features are audio-visual isomorphism (if you hear something in Lojban, you know exactly how it would be written) and that the grammar is never ambiguous, and thus can be parsed by a computer. (Not to say that the computer understands it - AI isn't nearly far enough along for that to work in any human language.) -- Obfuscated e-mail addresses won't stop sadistic 12-year-old ACs.
Actually, I took a political quiz somewhere (I don't remember the site) and that's EXACTLY how it ranked them for me. Browne and Nader have similar positions on personal freedoms, though their economics are pretty much diametrically opposed. My economic views didn't really line up with anyone, so that category didn't have much of an effect. -- Obfuscated e-mail addresses won't stop sadistic 12-year-old ACs.
Um... "FreePaint" and "Photo4Free" sound mind-bogglingly stupid. They sound, respectively, like the name of one of those misguided open source projects that posted version 0.0.0 to Freshmeat and never got off the ground, and the name of a piece of Visual Basic shareware written by a teenager. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Incidentally, I believe that the GIMP was the program that started the whole trend of G* programs, so you can hardly blame it for that.
I think you're right that only geeks are going to buy the book, though. But the vast majority of the people using the GIMP are geeks in the first place. The title appeals to geeks, so it's doing a good job focusing on its target market. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
I think the idea is to vote someone competent in as President (Gore) and then elect a bunch of Republicans to Congress because Congress makes the laws, not the President. -- Obfuscated e-mail addresses won't stop sadistic 12-year-old ACs.
The whole idea is that cats have lots of air resistance. They can survive hitting the ground from their terminal velocity. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Bad analogy. Most cats can survive a fall from any height, provided they have enough space to turn around and land on their feet (as they are known for doing). So a 1000' cliff would result in a cat that was probably not dead.
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Yes, most state lotteries "go toward education". However, the trend seems to be that an equal amount of budget money then goes somewhere else besides education. After all, the lottery already takes care of it, right? -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
I'm curious. This one statement comes up so often (usually misquoted, too - you went one step further by putting the incorrect word in all caps)... is this the worst thing that Gore-bashers have as ammunition? -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
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e isn't popular because it isn't a normal number. If you look at it in binary, the 1's and 0's form a pattern, as I've noted in other comments. I'm not sure, but I believe this pattern could show up in a more obfuscated way in base 10. The whole reason we look for digits of pi is that we don't know what they're going to be, while it took me about 30 seconds to determine that the quadrillionth binary digit of e is 1. (Nothing unexpected. The number of 1's in e approaches 100% as you take more decimal places.)
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Uh, right. We live in 3 dimensions. We've got circles. I think I just proved you wrong.
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As with most of these inane 42 facts: yes.
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e is not normal - there's not much encoded in e. Ever wondered about that strange quasi-pattern at the beginning of e in base 10? It's an artifact from the real pattern that shows up in bases that are a power of 2. e in binary is this:. ..
10.10110111011110111110111111011111110111111110
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e in binary.
10.10110111011110111110111111011111110111111110..
and e is quite definitely irrational. However, Pi is what's called a "normal" number, and that means that it acts fairly random. Not completely, though - I believe it's been proven that there can't be 43 of the same digit in a row in pi. That lack of a pattern could be considered a pattern.
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They must be making some great insights into Brownian motion - I've never heard of anybody achieving an improbability of 1:8 with one of those things! Next thing you know, lightning will strike Pennsylvania TWICE!
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I'd be happy to recieve e-mail from you, unless of course it's blatant spam. Then I'd be happy to laugh at YOU while you get sued.
BTW, I do not run suespammers.org. I just use it, and participate in the mailing list, because it means I can post my e-mail address in plaintext (and so can you) and I DON'T GET SPAMMED. The spammers with half a clue don't send to suespammers.org addresses, and those without get half a clue after the first time.
Tom Geller is the guy who runs it, and I think it IS a good thing. I fail to see where you got the impression that it was a charitable thing that takes money from poor Africans (as the overused argument goes) - he *makes money* from this.
Tom gives those addresses TONS of exposure. I got this e-mail address specifically so that pathetic sadists like you couldn't get off on screwing with my e-mail anymore. Your AC post on Slashdot will have no effect whatsoever.
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Hey, I think you missed something. This thread is supposed to be to lighten up about the election.
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So you think it's al close enough that planting subliminal messages will decide the outcome? :)
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That's the point - this argument was used seriously by Bush. If you can consider anything he says "serious".
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We should have expected this - after all, there ain't no such thing as a free launch.
(/me ducks)
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That copyright symbol there worried me, until I realized you're one of those people who ends up with copyright symbols instead of periods.
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Holy cow. Did I manage to introduce the word "borken" into the geek vernacular, or did that come from somewhere else?
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Lojban doesn't focus on being easy for certain people (as someone else said, people who know English and one romance language) to learn - it instead focuses on making it possible to express ideas without them being constrained by the language. Other design features are audio-visual isomorphism (if you hear something in Lojban, you know exactly how it would be written) and that the grammar is never ambiguous, and thus can be parsed by a computer. (Not to say that the computer understands it - AI isn't nearly far enough along for that to work in any human language.)
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Actually, I took a political quiz somewhere (I don't remember the site) and that's EXACTLY how it ranked them for me. Browne and Nader have similar positions on personal freedoms, though their economics are pretty much diametrically opposed. My economic views didn't really line up with anyone, so that category didn't have much of an effect.
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Yes.
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Um... "FreePaint" and "Photo4Free" sound mind-bogglingly stupid. They sound, respectively, like the name of one of those misguided open source projects that posted version 0.0.0 to Freshmeat and never got off the ground, and the name of a piece of Visual Basic shareware written by a teenager. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Incidentally, I believe that the GIMP was the program that started the whole trend of G* programs, so you can hardly blame it for that.
I think you're right that only geeks are going to buy the book, though. But the vast majority of the people using the GIMP are geeks in the first place. The title appeals to geeks, so it's doing a good job focusing on its target market.
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I don't know if this applies to tigers.
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I think the idea is to vote someone competent in as President (Gore) and then elect a bunch of Republicans to Congress because Congress makes the laws, not the President.
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The whole idea is that cats have lots of air resistance. They can survive hitting the ground from their terminal velocity.
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Bad analogy. Most cats can survive a fall from any height, provided they have enough space to turn around and land on their feet (as they are known for doing). So a 1000' cliff would result in a cat that was probably not dead.
(Score:-1,Offtopic)
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Don't mix your metaphors before they hatch.
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Yes, most state lotteries "go toward education". However, the trend seems to be that an equal amount of budget money then goes somewhere else besides education. After all, the lottery already takes care of it, right?
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I'm curious. This one statement comes up so often (usually misquoted, too - you went one step further by putting the incorrect word in all caps)... is this the worst thing that Gore-bashers have as ammunition?
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Don't forget Compose-;-e, if you've got X set up with a Compose key.
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