See, I would fly out of Providence or Manchester, but I don't have a car and the Blue line doesn't run past Wonderland, so I'm sort of SOL.
But, $8 for WiFi is a bit much. I bought a sandwich at Legal's Test Kitchen in Terminal A (the only places to eat there were Dunkin Donuts and Legal's... I really hope they've opened up more by now. I'm looking forward to having that Wendy's there), and it cost me $8, and it was a crappy sandwich too, and after that I still thought $8 for WiFi was a rip off.
The definition of a second hasn't been linked to the Earth's orbit since 1967, so why should we keep on pretending it still is?
We're not. We're insisting that the definition of a year is linked to the Earth's orbit. The leap second is merely a tool to ensure that. The definition of the second itself is irrelevant to the point.
Ever noticed how the business world works off 13 periods a year?
No. My business works off a 12-month fiscal calendar, where the first month of each quarter is 5 weeks, every other month is 4 weeks, and every 6-7 years there is a leap week (so Fiscal Week 53 belongs to December).
This might be because my business cares more about people, who operate off a calendar, than the moon, which we let do whatever the hell it wants.
Besides, 13 periods a year doesn't break down nicely into quarters, which is really what the business world works off.
What would be easier to do than Morse Code would be to arrange the alphabet in descending order of frequency -- e, t, a, o, n, r, i, s, h, etc, and assign binary enumeration to them, 'e' would be 1, 't' would be '10', a would be '11', etc.
Then the code would be easy to memorize and recreate in case one forgot it.
It's not so easy to recreate that code, because that would require memorizing the 26 letters in the appropriate order.
Even worse, the order of frequency for letters varies by language, and there isn't necessarily one correct ordering for any given language; the order depends on who you ask and how it was determined. Letter frequency in SMS shorthand is almost certainly different than for unabbreviated language (I would expect that vowels would be significantly less common).
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We need 16 GB of RAM on 16 EV67's to run Firefox.
Damn memory leaks.
Ah, you haven't decided?
OK, that explains why the number changed from 15 to 10 without warning.
It's a great idea!
Now I can lay on the futon next to the server and watch the blinken lights...
all...
afternoon...
zzzz
I've added martini's pictures to the lot. ... DK!
Crimson brags about its class B address -- MIT has a class A!
Furthermore, most dorms at MIT each have their own class B all to themselves.
Mind you, it would probably need much more glue than it would ever need
Um...
What? Phone viruses?
Damn, we shouldn't have sent all those telephone cleaners off in the B ark!
I understand that there was a well-done documentary about this subject made a few years ago. You should check it out.
And while cats smell a bit, they're easier to keep in the apartment and away from the landlord's notice than WiFi.
Clearly you have never owned a cat. It is not easier to do anything with a cat than it is to do that thing with anything else.
See, I would fly out of Providence or Manchester, but I don't have a car and the Blue line doesn't run past Wonderland, so I'm sort of SOL.
... I really hope they've opened up more by now. I'm looking forward to having that Wendy's there), and it cost me $8, and it was a crappy sandwich too, and after that I still thought $8 for WiFi was a rip off.
But, $8 for WiFi is a bit much. I bought a sandwich at Legal's Test Kitchen in Terminal A (the only places to eat there were Dunkin Donuts and Legal's
The real problem isn't whether or not he said it, but that a lot of people believe it's true because nobody cares to refute it.
1. Current != power. Power = I^2 R, or any equivalent formula.
Such as Knowledge = Power?
The definition of a second hasn't been linked to the Earth's orbit since 1967, so why should we keep on pretending it still is?
We're not. We're insisting that the definition of a year is linked to the Earth's orbit. The leap second is merely a tool to ensure that. The definition of the second itself is irrelevant to the point.
Ever noticed how the business world works off 13 periods a year?
No. My business works off a 12-month fiscal calendar, where the first month of each quarter is 5 weeks, every other month is 4 weeks, and every 6-7 years there is a leap week (so Fiscal Week 53 belongs to December).
This might be because my business cares more about people, who operate off a calendar, than the moon, which we let do whatever the hell it wants.
Besides, 13 periods a year doesn't break down nicely into quarters, which is really what the business world works off.
Or pick up a disease from the phone! Don't forget that most pulbic fones are covered in feces.
Well, they wouldn't be if we hadn't sent all those telephone sanitizers off in that damned ark!
Or perhaps, just like the rest of the world, the terrorists have written off Canada as a negligible sustainable loss.
... Right?)
(Kidding, kidding!
and for those who may think the parent is nuts: http://www.worldjumpday.org/
Linking to the site doesn't change the fact that your parent poster is nuts.
Damn! Foiled again by conservation of momentum!
Lagrange points are a waste of time. They're unstable, meaning the smallet bit of motion sends them crashing to the nearest mass.
L4 and L5 are stable. L1, L2 and L3 are unstable.
Loaner machine. My school had a pool of freshly-reimaged loaners on hand. They got passed from student to student faster than herpes.
I'm more afraid that a Gator will eat my homework. And then regurgitate it to some guy in Malaysia.
Some day you will buy a new computer, and at that point, resistance is futile. You will be upgraded.
What would be easier to do than Morse Code would be to arrange the alphabet in descending order of frequency -- e, t, a, o, n, r, i, s, h, etc, and assign binary enumeration to them, 'e' would be 1, 't' would be '10', a would be '11', etc.
Then the code would be easy to memorize and recreate in case one forgot it.
It's not so easy to recreate that code, because that would require memorizing the 26 letters in the appropriate order.
Even worse, the order of frequency for letters varies by language, and there isn't necessarily one correct ordering for any given language; the order depends on who you ask and how it was determined. Letter frequency in SMS shorthand is almost certainly different than for unabbreviated language (I would expect that vowels would be significantly less common).
Exactly how fast do these pigeons travel?
I need to know so that I can anticipate their arrival and delete them as soon as they get here.
I figure if it's important, they'll send a messenger swallow.
Most of Google's magic is really data mining the semantic data from the Internet.
Great, so when the Googlebot takes over the world it's going to do it using the grammar it learned from a bunch of 12-year-olds.
Just great.