It was not the Greeks, however, who put it all together. According to this interesting article it was the Indians and perhaps the Chinese who concocted the place value system.
The Arabs of course are the ones who maintained this knowledge throughout the death of the Roman Empire and brought the place value system to Europe.
my dog certainly demonstrates a form of awareness whenever there's zero food in its dish!
I agree that zero is not so exciting as a "none" identifier. It's much more interesting as an abstract concept when used in the place value system, though.
The Romans, lacking zero could only express large numbers by inventing new magnitudes, which sucks.
The Greeks did create a zero and used it as a "none" identifier at first. The exciting part is when it enabled infinitely large magnitudes by using a set number of magnitudes (1-9) and changing their meaning with position. The introduction of 0 allows this ordering by position.
Pretty cool stuff!
Just great, assuming you have an infinite supply of free ice water
Hate to be a buzz kill, but I really take issue with using clean tap water as a resource for no more than its specific heat and the fact that it happens to be cool. And then dumping that tap water on the ground? That water is not free; your public services dam it, filter it, treat it and pipe it to you, sans cryptosporidium you know.
This is an unconscionable waste of resources. I'd be so impressed if you found a way to store the warm water to boil your pasta or at least wash your laundry.
The original idea of cable TV in the US (for those of you old enough to remember) was that you paid each month, but had NO COMMERCIALS.
When can I start paying spyware companies to *not* infect my computer? That would seem a rather Russian type of solution to this problem.
http://discoverymining.com/ does this; you send them a server or server(s); they spider everything and make the data available to the legal team, and the lawyers click on what they want exported in their HUGE box of papers or CDs or whatever.
That's a good point. It could also be pointed out that, of the two links provided, I missed the English language one entirely. So, I guess I didn't really read TFP either. Whoops.
You're describing the L2 orbit, which would be dumb. The L1 (ascending the other way, toward earth) could put items in a tricky sort of unstable place, but it would be a much shorter (and even less gravitic) trip.
The MS Office XML Schemas are about as non-descriptive as is possible with XML.
Are you kidding? Have you looked at the Excel format?
Document->
Worksheet->
Table->
Row->
Column->
Cell->
Data
I think it's pretty nice.
And honestly, no matter how great XML is for describing documents, it's among the most awkward formats I've ever seen for describing arbitrary data structures...
The article really makes the guy sound like an idiot, saying that he's never used a single OS other than Slackware in the past 10 years, but that he's simultaneously an authority on how Linux compares with modern Windows? Would you trust his opinion on non Slackware distibutions even?
So, I stick with Yahoo - especially since they added the ability to login using SSL. Can you believe for years you had to login with your password in plaintext!! And even now the "Standard" login is plaintext - you have to click on "Secure" mode to make sure nobody gets your login and password.
Umm, you're a moron. I log into gmail with
https://gmail.google.com
. What's so "inability to login using SSL" about that?
I don't use any other webmail, so I can't speak for their services. So although a service could disallow it, Gmail does not.
Maybe not the smartest place to have put my life savings?
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In a thrift store in Idaho a few years back, I also found a mechanical game called "TV Tennis" (there are many pong-like games called by the same name)
This one had a boom with a weight on the rear end and a little incandescent bulb at the front end, and it swung around against a frosted plastic screen. A totally weak motor in the back moved it from side to side, and physical paddles would bump it up and down as it went.
When you scored against your opponent, it would ding a bell -- and advance your score, if you were lucky.
There are Mini-ITX motherboards at Fry's (a US West Coast electronics chain) that have a fanless Cyrix 600Mhz processor soldered on.
I've got mine in a simple little case that looks about like a 1990 cable TV terminal adaptor: Casetronic 2699R that has a few teensy (2"?) cooling fans and an external low-wattage power supply.
...and just an ordinary hard disk drive that's pretty quiet.
Actually, I kind of like to hear the disk say "chachunk" when an email come^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H spam gets filtered.
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It was not the Greeks, however, who put it all together. According to this interesting article it was the Indians and perhaps the Chinese who concocted the place value system.
The Arabs of course are the ones who maintained this knowledge throughout the death of the Roman Empire and brought the place value system to Europe.
I agree that zero is not so exciting as a "none" identifier. It's much more interesting as an abstract concept when used in the place value system, though.
The Romans, lacking zero could only express large numbers by inventing new magnitudes, which sucks.
The Greeks did create a zero and used it as a "none" identifier at first. The exciting part is when it enabled infinitely large magnitudes by using a set number of magnitudes (1-9) and changing their meaning with position. The introduction of 0 allows this ordering by position.
Pretty cool stuff!
8600 Kelvin has to be more of a coffee plasma. I'm sure that would change the taste considerably. Probably for the worse.
Why am I not surprised that it's featured on a Russian site?
Hate to be a buzz kill, but I really take issue with using clean tap water as a resource for no more than its specific heat and the fact that it happens to be cool. And then dumping that tap water on the ground? That water is not free; your public services dam it, filter it, treat it and pipe it to you, sans cryptosporidium you know.
This is an unconscionable waste of resources. I'd be so impressed if you found a way to store the warm water to boil your pasta or at least wash your laundry.
The original idea of cable TV in the US (for those of you old enough to remember) was that you paid each month, but had NO COMMERCIALS. When can I start paying spyware companies to *not* infect my computer? That would seem a rather Russian type of solution to this problem.
http://discoverymining.com/ does this; you send them a server or server(s); they spider everything and make the data available to the legal team, and the lawyers click on what they want exported in their HUGE box of papers or CDs or whatever.
That's a good point. It could also be pointed out that, of the two links provided, I missed the English language one entirely. So, I guess I didn't really read TFP either. Whoops.
Well, the only article link is in Chinese. Which begs the question now: is Slashdot just a bunch of white guys?
*Ahem*, Craig is not an idiot or a spammer. He's active in the EFF. Perhaps you try reading his blog.
You're describing the L2 orbit, which would be dumb. The L1 (ascending the other way, toward earth) could put items in a tricky sort of unstable place, but it would be a much shorter (and even less gravitic) trip.
Umm, the Newton OS?
And that is no excuse, either!
The article really makes the guy sound like an idiot, saying that he's never used a single OS other than Slackware in the past 10 years, but that he's simultaneously an authority on how Linux compares with modern Windows? Would you trust his opinion on non Slackware distibutions even?
One thing I can say is: maybe this will FINALLY improve Solaris a little bit.
I'm afraid it may be Google, Being Evil(tm).
I don't use any other webmail, so I can't speak for their services. So although a service could disallow it, Gmail does not.
Umm, yeah. Compresses pictures of clouds just great. Oh, and ferns, too.
I, for one, welcome our new Open Source Software overlords.
Maybe not the smartest place to have put my life savings?
In a thrift store in Idaho a few years back, I also found a mechanical game called "TV Tennis" (there are many pong-like games called by the same name)
This one had a boom with a weight on the rear end and a little incandescent bulb at the front end, and it swung around against a frosted plastic screen. A totally weak motor in the back moved it from side to side, and physical paddles would bump it up and down as it went.
When you scored against your opponent, it would ding a bell -- and advance your score, if you were lucky.
There are Mini-ITX motherboards at Fry's (a US West Coast electronics chain) that have a fanless Cyrix 600Mhz processor soldered on.
...and just an ordinary hard disk drive that's pretty quiet.
I've got mine in a simple little case that looks about like a 1990 cable TV terminal adaptor: Casetronic 2699R that has a few teensy (2"?) cooling fans and an external low-wattage power supply.
Actually, I kind of like to hear the disk say "chachunk" when an email come^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H spam gets filtered.
http://freecache.org/http://alphagrip.com/features .html
http://www.verylowsodium.com/fun.php#sign
This was done long ago on http://www.verylowsodium.com