You have to learn a new syntax from Altavista. I know that I'm in the habit of putting everything in quotes with a + before it from using Altavista too much.
Anyway, here's how you search for "to be or not to be" on Google: "+to +be +or not +to +be"
If you + all the words, it ignores all the +'s. Luckily, 'not' isn't a stop-word, so you can un-plus that.
If you need to search for a phrase that's made entirely of stop-words, simply add an 'a' without a +. It'll be ignored and the rest of the search will work.
A bit confusing, but not nearly as confusing as the fact that Altavista will return pages where the words are nowhere near each other even if you put them in quotes. --
Bah. He lost to one computer, so what good would linking up a bunch of them do?
I actually think it'd be better to have a distributed chess project doing things like determining the best openings, and analyzing a bunch of different moves, with no human player involved. --
Tier 2.71828: Internet Annoyed - has a cable connection for most of the year, but spends the summer in a place which is very nice except for the fact that the only way to connect to the Internet is the phone lines, which can only handle 26400 bps. Moreover, there's only one ISP, which owns a single class C subnet, boots people randomly to make up for this fact, and has a mail server with 19/6 uptime, as opposed to 24/7.
Tier 4: Internet Comatose - connects to the Internet via 300 baud HF packet radio. Gets connection dropped by clouds and sunspots. Basically, what I made plans to do when the rumors came out that the aforementioned single ISP was going out of business. --
This interview is one of many things that has been made better by mistranslation.
For example, the Chinese syllables that Coca-Cola used at first, which sounded roughly like "Coca-Cola", literally meant "Bite the Wax Tadpole." Now THAT is an awesome name for a drink. IMO, instead of changing the Chinese name to "Liquid Happiness", they should have changed the English name to "Bite the Wax Tadpole."
There. They acknowledged that it wasn't news for nerds, and it was old news. Now you lamers who protest against a good article for one of those reasons don't have anything to say. Ha! --
I write my essays in HTML. That way I know some stupid wordprocessor isn't going to rearrange stuff and change the formatting where I don't want it to. If it needs to be double-spaced, indented, etc., I use a style sheet. --
KDE's browser is called Konqueror. The version in KDE 1.1.2 is actually pretty nice... except that it can't log in to Slashdot.
Now here's how far KDE/GNOME integration has come. I recently switched to GNOME, but I miss Konqueror. So I decided to see what happened if I ran kfm. The KDE icons appeared on my desktop alongside the GNOME ones! Clicking on the "home" icon started kfm flawlessly. --
First of all... Mandrake 6.1 already comes packaged with WINE. It's a neat version that uses KDE's widgets and acts like a normal KDE window whenever possible.
And get out of your ideal world. You said that "WINE doesn't emulate crashing"... I think that crashing is the one thing it's really good at. It's still alpha software, and it's not ready to take down Microsoft yet. --
There's a thing called "Internet Time" that originated from a weird idea for a Swatch watch. It ended up where it belonged, on computers, first with a buggy Windows program from Swatch and then as an option on KDE's Panel. I have the latter on all the time, and I'm getting quite used to it.
The unit of measurement that is used is the "beat", which is 1/1000th of a day. There's also centibeats, which are.864 seconds, but the KDE clock doesn't show them. @000 is defined as midnight in Switzerland.
Incidentally, the Internet Time right now is @069. --
I'm speaking as a Fahrenheit person who wishes he was a Celsius person...
As for the celsius scale, you do boil water, but that's beside the point. Most of your daily life (weather) with the celsius scale is dealing with the thirty degrees above and below zero.
As opposed to the degrees from 0 to 100. So tell me, what's wrong with that, besides the fact that it's different from what you're used to?
I actually think Celsius temperatures are more intuitive for weather. Look at this:
-30 Really damn cold -20 Quite cold -10 Cold 0 Freezing point of water (an adjective isn't necessary, because one can point out whether it's "below 0" or "above 0") 10 Brisk 20 Room temperature 30 Hot 40 Really hot
A change of 10 degrees Celsius is pretty much the amount it takes for someone to change the adjective they're using to describe the weather.
There are two problems with this: One, you have to deal with negative temperature values in normal situations (instead of extreme situations) So? At least the change happens at a point where there's an important distinction there anyway. You don't add or multiply temperatures or anything like that, so negative temperatures wouldn't even tax people's math skills.
and two, each degree of celsius is 5/9 of a degree Fahrenheit. This means to get the same amount of accuracy, you're throwing decimals around. It's unnecessary.
Wha? Considering that you're apparently describing weather, you believe that people can actually feel a difference of one degree Fahrenheit? I doubt it. And if it's science, Celsius already has obvious advantages, and you'd probably be using decimals anyway.
And you still haven't eliminated the fact that to get to the really important (scientific) constant, absolute zero, you have to deal with an additional ~273.15 degrees. You've got to go even farther with Fahrenheit. Or would you prefer that we used Kelvin, so all our familiar temperatures are between 253 and 313? I didn't think so.
You can't win, so resign yourself to using one universal but often innappropriate scale for everything, or use lots of appropriate but often incompatible scales on an individual basis. For most science, the former is a better bet. For most daily activities, the latter is a better bet.
But so far, you've failed to explain why Celsius is inappropriate for weather, except that you don't like it.
From what I've heard, the real reason for the Fahrenheit's 0 being where it is has nothing to do with salted ice. The guy (I assume his name was Fahrenheit) who invented the system didn't like negative numbers, so he defined 0 degrees as "colder than it usually is in Denmark". Maybe after that he went and found some way to define "colder than it usually is in Denmark" and salted ice did the trick.
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You forget that people are going to be deciding what to put into the machine.
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Yes, but geeks are going to be the ones who actually program the machine. Unless they're traitors to their own kind, they'll know what to do.
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Disadvantage of FCPGA: the name is extremely silly.
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Liar.
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I know a guy who scored 1600 on the Math section of the SAT.
Wow. Getting 1600 points out of a possible 800 really is impressive.
(BTW, I don't quite believe the talk-show part anyway. 1600 in total, or especially 800 in a subject, isn't that rare.)
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You have to learn a new syntax from Altavista. I know that I'm in the habit of putting everything in quotes with a + before it from using Altavista too much.
Anyway, here's how you search for "to be or not to be" on Google:
"+to +be +or not +to +be"
If you + all the words, it ignores all the +'s. Luckily, 'not' isn't a stop-word, so you can un-plus that.
If you need to search for a phrase that's made entirely of stop-words, simply add an 'a' without a +. It'll be ignored and the rest of the search will work.
A bit confusing, but not nearly as confusing as the fact that Altavista will return pages where the words are nowhere near each other even if you put them in quotes.
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Bah. He lost to one computer, so what good would linking up a bunch of them do?
I actually think it'd be better to have a distributed chess project doing things like determining the best openings, and analyzing a bunch of different moves, with no human player involved.
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Low end hardware? Bangs per buck? Hit/cost ratio?
This is the Queen of England we're talking about. I don't think she worries about those things.
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Tier 2.71828: Internet Annoyed - has a cable connection for most of the year, but spends the summer in a place which is very nice except for the fact that the only way to connect to the Internet is the phone lines, which can only handle 26400 bps. Moreover, there's only one ISP, which owns a single class C subnet, boots people randomly to make up for this fact, and has a mail server with 19/6 uptime, as opposed to 24/7.
Tier 4: Internet Comatose - connects to the Internet via 300 baud HF packet radio. Gets connection dropped by clouds and sunspots. Basically, what I made plans to do when the rumors came out that the aforementioned single ISP was going out of business.
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Yeah, but that's assuming that someone would rather have the domain hqlvmmgxkesartfjqksfgdqaxzewfwzp.com than just an IP address.
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Interesting. It seems that the story we are currently posting to is also marked by www.snopes.com as untrue.
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This interview is one of many things that has been made better by mistranslation.
For example, the Chinese syllables that Coca-Cola used at first, which sounded roughly like "Coca-Cola", literally meant "Bite the Wax Tadpole." Now THAT is an awesome name for a drink. IMO, instead of changing the Chinese name to "Liquid Happiness", they should have changed the English name to "Bite the Wax Tadpole."
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There. They acknowledged that it wasn't news for nerds, and it was old news.
Now you lamers who protest against a good article for one of those reasons don't have anything to say. Ha!
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Wait a second. If you got to beat the crap out of Bill Gates, wouldn't it be a good day?
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Turnips? WHERE? Quick, get them away from me!
(PurpleBob runs screaming across the Internet until he is safely 19 links away.)
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I write my essays in HTML. That way I know some stupid wordprocessor isn't going to rearrange stuff and change the formatting where I don't want it to.
If it needs to be double-spaced, indented, etc., I use a style sheet.
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Who the heck keeps moderating up the posts that say "This is old news"? How is that "informative"?
Some of us haven't been here as long as you have, Mr. Coward, and find the site interesting.
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KDE's browser is called Konqueror. The version in KDE 1.1.2 is actually pretty nice... except that it can't log in to Slashdot.
Now here's how far KDE/GNOME integration has come. I recently switched to GNOME, but I miss Konqueror. So I decided to see what happened if I ran kfm. The KDE icons appeared on my desktop alongside the GNOME ones! Clicking on the "home" icon started kfm flawlessly.
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My friend threw an Apple II out his second-story window, put it back together, and everything still worked. Can Microsoft do that? :)
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It's no wonder the Australian site was so secure - any data that looked remotely harmful would be immediately censored out of existence.
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First of all... Mandrake 6.1 already comes packaged with WINE. It's a neat version that uses KDE's widgets and acts like a normal KDE window whenever possible.
And get out of your ideal world. You said that "WINE doesn't emulate crashing"... I think that crashing is the one thing it's really good at. It's still alpha software, and it's not ready to take down Microsoft yet.
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Cool! I should get that, it'll be a far cry from KTron, which regularly commits suicide on the Expert level.
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There's a thing called "Internet Time" that originated from a weird idea for a Swatch watch. It ended up where it belonged, on computers, first with a buggy Windows program from Swatch and then as an option on KDE's Panel. I have the latter on all the time, and I'm getting quite used to it.
.864 seconds, but the KDE clock doesn't show them. @000 is defined as midnight in Switzerland.
The unit of measurement that is used is the "beat", which is 1/1000th of a day. There's also centibeats, which are
Incidentally, the Internet Time right now is @069.
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I'm speaking as a Fahrenheit person who wishes he was a Celsius person...
As for the celsius scale, you do boil water, but that's beside the point. Most of your daily life (weather) with the celsius scale is dealing with the thirty degrees above and below zero.
As opposed to the degrees from 0 to 100. So tell me, what's wrong with that, besides the fact that it's different from what you're used to?
I actually think Celsius temperatures are more intuitive for weather. Look at this:
-30 Really damn cold
-20 Quite cold
-10 Cold
0 Freezing point of water
(an adjective isn't necessary, because one can point out whether it's "below 0" or "above 0")
10 Brisk
20 Room temperature
30 Hot
40 Really hot
A change of 10 degrees Celsius is pretty much the amount it takes for someone to change the adjective they're using to describe the weather.
There are two problems with this: One, you have to deal with negative temperature values in normal situations (instead of extreme situations)
So? At least the change happens at a point where there's an important distinction there anyway. You don't add or multiply temperatures or anything like that, so negative temperatures wouldn't even tax people's math skills.
and two, each degree of celsius is 5/9 of a degree Fahrenheit. This means to get the same amount of accuracy, you're throwing decimals around. It's unnecessary.
Wha? Considering that you're apparently describing weather, you believe that people can actually feel a difference of one degree Fahrenheit? I doubt it. And if it's science, Celsius already has obvious advantages, and you'd probably be using decimals anyway.
And you still haven't eliminated the fact that to get to the really important (scientific) constant, absolute zero, you have to deal with an additional ~273.15 degrees.
You've got to go even farther with Fahrenheit.
Or would you prefer that we used Kelvin, so all our familiar temperatures are between 253 and 313? I didn't think so.
You can't win, so resign yourself to using one universal but often innappropriate scale for everything, or use lots of appropriate but often incompatible scales on an individual basis. For most science, the former is a better bet. For most daily activities, the latter is a better bet.
But so far, you've failed to explain why Celsius is inappropriate for weather, except that you don't like it.
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From what I've heard, the real reason for the Fahrenheit's 0 being where it is has nothing to do with salted ice. The guy (I assume his name was Fahrenheit) who invented the system didn't like negative numbers, so he defined 0 degrees as "colder than it usually is in Denmark". Maybe after that he went and found some way to define "colder than it usually is in Denmark" and salted ice did the trick.
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My opinion is that one would have a much better time trying to write for obscure hardware under Linux than Windows.
Right on. For example, Linux is the only OS where you can use a homemade cable (or the TI-Graph Link) to FTP to a TI calculator.
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