I really don't want to scare you, but right now - when you were posting this as an Anonymous Coward - your computer was broadcasting an IP address! They know who you are.
Until you produce a recording of the above compositions, the only space required to store them is the algorithm you've described above, which fits into the eminently finite space of one Slashdot post.
Even if we accept that computers can produce an infinite number of pieces of released music, the number already in existence at any moment in time is finite. The number of items of proper, human-created music that someone would conceivably want to listen to is still finite, and smaller.
Therefore, a sufficiently-large storage medium can hold all the music created and available at a given point in time.
I don't like Vuitton's ordure-brown, self-promoting, ugly products as much as the next free thinker, but who's the real idiot? The person who sells the overpriced bag, or the person who buys it?
Much as I'd love to be able to sell a bag that costs more than my computer, I can't help but think of those who buy such products as easily-led fools.
I've arbitrarily given one point for a dupe, and three points for a "tripe". I used a slightly more sophisticated Google query this time in order to remove some of the duplicates in their results!
As you can see, timothy is the king of dupe posts in terms of raw output. However, michael has the highest dupe average, managing to post nearly as many dupes as timothy despite posting less that 1/4 the number of articles. In fact, nearly one in ten of michael's posts are dupes.
None of the editors has anything to be proud of, with the exception of Cliff, who appears to be the only editor actually to read Slashdot!
PS - I apologise for the underscores I had to use to combat Slashcode.
Despite his best efforts, CmdrTaco is still languishing in third place, the same as back in June 2004.
This was determined by the following scientific query in Google: site:slashdot.org article.pl type "posted by editor" Where type is dupe or tripe, for each editor name.
I met a group of engineers on the overnight train from Beijing to Shanghai who were setting up a test of a prototype in-train wireless network (802.11b) service in the restaurant car. Seing my notebook, they asked me to join in on the test. The system used multiple mobile connections (GSM and CDMA).
One of them was using a small PocketPC device with wireless and Skype quite extensively as a mobile phone, and reported that it worked reasonably well. He even managed to use it over the prototype train network.
You think that "&c." is "teh 1337 sp34k"? I fear that you are dreadfully misinformed. Perhaps you should draw yourself away from the computer screen for a while and dive into some older printed books.
There, you'll find that "&c." has a proud history as an alternative spelling for "etc." It's little-used these days, but still retains an understated elegance; it marks out the user as a gentleman (or, indeed, lady) of refinement and learning.
On the other hand, three profanities in a short message identify its author beyond reasonable doubt as an uncouth yahoo.
Incidentally, whilst we are discussing orthographic travesties, might I respectfully ask that you employ the shift key when starting a sentence? Thank you.
RAID (the kind that is actually redundant) is good protection against hardware errors. However, it is not a backup in and of itself, and therefore cannot protect against:
No I am not. Which part of "it also works nicely in Firefox on a fat connection" made you think that? May I suggest that you get a grown-up to read and explain it to you?
But thank you anyway for proving a causal link between ignorance, functional illiteracy, and homophobia.
It's the moribund Slashcode's output that is broken rather than Firefox itself.
However, you can change your preferences so that Slashdot displays "light" markup. It says that it is intended for limited browsers and/or slow connections, but it also works nicely in Firefox on a fat connection. Give it a try.
This is the option you want: [x] Light (reduce the complexity of Slashdot's HTML for AvantGo, Lynx, or slow connections)
Give me a replacement for Exchange that... works
seemlessly with Outlook...
Well, I'll agree that Outlook is unseemly, but I think that the word you were looking for was seamlessly.
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WIN doesn't pay slashot anything at all, ever, i and others on engadget write and edit articles, and submit them, most of what i submit doesn't get approved here, some of the text even gets editted.
Apple don't own the "AirPort" trademark in Japan; it's owned by another company, IO-DATA. Apple's wireless hardware is therefore marketed as the "AirMac" range.
In fact, the very laptop on which I am typing this is an iBook with a Japanese-issue Air(Mac|Port) card. The US model gets 11 channels, the EU 13, and the Japanese version can utilise all 14. Not too bad!
Of course the characters aren't there. The DPRK abolished the use of hanja (=kanji).
However, my (South!) Korean dictionary has the hanja next to the entry for dogil. These hanja can be read in Japanese as doitsu (although only by older people as simplified kanji are now used, and few younger people know the old forms).
Oh, and you're wrong, by the way. First, it is doitsu, notdouitsu.
Second, doitsu can indeed be writted in kanji in Japanese.
Finally, although both doitsu and dokukoku (dokkoku in common pronunciation) can be used in kanji in Japanese, the former is much more common (check using Google: 16,000 doitsu vs 4,800 dokkoku, searching on the kanji plus site:.jp).
I know this is./, but I do know what I'm talking about!
The same Chinese characters are pronounced "doitsu" in Japanese (close to "Deutsch"). I'm sure there's a connection, although whether it comes from the Japanese or directly from Chinese, I don't know.
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It's a perfectly cromulent word.
I really don't want to scare you, but right now - when you were posting this as an Anonymous Coward - your computer was broadcasting an IP address! They know who you are.
Until you produce a recording of the above compositions, the only space required to store them is the algorithm you've described above, which fits into the eminently finite space of one Slashdot post.
Even if we accept that computers can produce an infinite number of pieces of released music, the number already in existence at any moment in time is finite. The number of items of proper, human-created music that someone would conceivably want to listen to is still finite, and smaller.
Therefore, a sufficiently-large storage medium can hold all the music created and available at a given point in time.
I don't like Vuitton's ordure-brown, self-promoting, ugly products as much as the next free thinker, but who's the real idiot? The person who sells the overpriced bag, or the person who buys it?
Much as I'd love to be able to sell a bag that costs more than my computer, I can't help but think of those who buy such products as easily-led fools.
As you can see, timothy is the king of dupe posts in terms of raw output. However, michael has the highest dupe average, managing to post nearly as many dupes as timothy despite posting less that 1/4 the number of articles. In fact, nearly one in ten of michael's posts are dupes.
None of the editors has anything to be proud of, with the exception of Cliff, who appears to be the only editor actually to read Slashdot!
PS - I apologise for the underscores I had to use to combat Slashcode.
With a little Google scripting, I've acquired the latest Slashdot Editor Duplicate Post League Table:
Name - Dupes/Tripes
timothy - 176/38
michael - 128/43
CmdrTaco - 110/17
Hemos - 33/20
CowboyNeal - 46/0
pudge - 7/0
Despite his best efforts, CmdrTaco is still languishing in third place, the same as back in June 2004.
This was determined by the following scientific query in Google:
site:slashdot.org article.pl type "posted by editor"
Where type is dupe or tripe, for each editor name.
I met a group of engineers on the overnight train from Beijing to Shanghai who were setting up a test of a prototype in-train wireless network (802.11b) service in the restaurant car. Seing my notebook, they asked me to join in on the test. The system used multiple mobile connections (GSM and CDMA).
One of them was using a small PocketPC device with wireless and Skype quite extensively as a mobile phone, and reported that it worked reasonably well. He even managed to use it over the prototype train network.
British Telecom has existed as a separate privatised entity since 1981, and styled itself as just BT since 1991.
BT's debut album was released in 1995.
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group was formally announced in 1999.
BitTorrent was introduced to the world in 2002.
There are plenty of good reasons to knock BT the telecom company - I'm a bitter former customer! - but the name isn't one of them.
Yes. I do. (Hint: read Larry Niven.)
You think that "&c." is "teh 1337 sp34k"? I fear that you are dreadfully misinformed. Perhaps you should draw yourself away from the computer screen for a while and dive into some older printed books.
There, you'll find that "&c." has a proud history as an alternative spelling for "etc." It's little-used these days, but still retains an understated elegance; it marks out the user as a gentleman (or, indeed, lady) of refinement and learning.
On the other hand, three profanities in a short message identify its author beyond reasonable doubt as an uncouth yahoo.
Incidentally, whilst we are discussing orthographic travesties, might I respectfully ask that you employ the shift key when starting a sentence? Thank you.
RAID (the kind that is actually redundant) is good protection against hardware errors. However, it is not a backup in and of itself, and therefore cannot protect against:
...according to this article:
MS PR wigs are denying it, naturally...
No I am not. Which part of "it also works nicely in Firefox on a fat connection" made you think that? May I suggest that you get a grown-up to read and explain it to you?
But thank you anyway for proving a causal link between ignorance, functional illiteracy, and homophobia.
It's the moribund Slashcode's output that is broken rather than Firefox itself.
However, you can change your preferences so that Slashdot displays "light" markup. It says that it is intended for limited browsers and/or slow connections, but it also works nicely in Firefox on a fat connection. Give it a try.
This is the option you want:
[x] Light (reduce the complexity of Slashdot's HTML for AvantGo, Lynx, or slow connections)
77 is horrible if you're wearing a T-Shirt, a dress-shirt, and a tie.
In that case, why not skip the T-shirt?
(Disclaimer: Fahrenheit temperatures are meaningless to me, so I have no idea whether 77 is hot, cold or reasonable)
Well, I'll agree that Outlook is unseemly, but I think that the word you were looking for was seamlessly.
I'm not surprised it gets edited!
Apple don't own the "AirPort" trademark in Japan; it's owned by another company, IO-DATA. Apple's wireless hardware is therefore marketed as the "AirMac" range.
In fact, the very laptop on which I am typing this is an iBook with a Japanese-issue Air(Mac|Port) card. The US model gets 11 channels, the EU 13, and the Japanese version can utilise all 14. Not too bad!
bugmenot.com has a login for you. Once logged in, the site works properly.
Of course the characters aren't there. The DPRK abolished the use of hanja (=kanji).
./, but I do know what I'm talking about!
However, my (South!) Korean dictionary has the hanja next to the entry for dogil. These hanja can be read in Japanese as doitsu (although only by older people as simplified kanji are now used, and few younger people know the old forms).
Oh, and you're wrong, by the way. First, it is doitsu, not douitsu.
Second, doitsu can indeed be writted in kanji in Japanese.
Finally, although both doitsu and dokukoku (dokkoku in common pronunciation) can be used in kanji in Japanese, the former is much more common (check using Google: 16,000 doitsu vs 4,800 dokkoku, searching on the kanji plus site:.jp).
I know this is
The same Chinese characters are pronounced "doitsu" in Japanese (close to "Deutsch"). I'm sure there's a connection, although whether it comes from the Japanese or directly from Chinese, I don't know.
You bought it in Japan, then?
Apparently, "AirPort" as a trademark for wireless networking was already in use by IO DATA, so Apple had to use a different name.
On the plus side, all 14 channels are allowed in Japan (13 in Europe, 11 in US/Canada, 4 in France), so my AirMac card in my iBook will work anywhere.
Duplicate posts by editor, according to a quick unscientific search on Google (site:slashdot.org dupe "posted by $name"):
timothy - 114
michael - 104
CmdrTaco - 80
Hemos - 32
CowboyNeal - 22
pudge - 12
That was excellent; even funnier than your first one. I'd mod you up if I had the points.
I'm still singing "No BSD is in our code-tree" in my head.
This reminds me of Japanese kanji - and anyone who's studied Japanese will know what I mean.
It's far easier to learn to read a word in kanji than to write it down accurately.
This sounds like a similar phenomenon.