I'm fairly sure it's not meant to include the end zones in its usual usage. The whole point is that it's an easy way to visualize a nice, round number. (Although I did hear a nice conversion factor once, that the field plus one endzone is almost exactly 100 meters.)
I hereby proclaim the lacto-expiration the pseudo-unit of time. This fills an important gap in the pseudo-unit lineup, which includes the football field (length), the Library of Congress (data), and the Hiroshima bomb (energy).
This is why we're never joining the ICC. On the contrary, Congress passed a standing authorization to invade Belgium if necessary to free Americans on trial there. (I shit you not, Google it if you don't believe me.)
OTOH, if we were writing in Shakespearian English, we'd probably be much less inclined to complain--I've heard that we have three samples of Shakespeare's name in his own hand, and all three are spelt differently. Of course, orthography is just the beginning--even fixed parts of speech were a mostly foreign concept to Elizabethans, to whom verbing came perfectly naturally.
Actually, singular they has a usage history going back at least to Shakespeare; the "rule" making it only a plural pronoun has about as much validity as the split infinitive rule--i.e., it was made up by Latin-obssessed Victorian grammarians. See Wikipedia's "Singular they" article for more info.
The 18-month doubling period is only supposed to apply to CPUs. I've read somewhere that hard drives are supposed to have a 12-month period, and RAM 24-month. Further, I would dispute your "typical 1990 hard drive" number--I remember 20MB as much more common. Also, you neglect to take price into account--an ordinary EIDE 200GB drive is ~$80 (I just checked pricewatch), and I'm fairly sure even a 20MB cost significantly more than that in 1990.
There are several different types of Singularities postulated by the various SF authors who have been involved in popularizing the term over the last few decades. In Vinge's original Singularity, in Marooned in Realtime, the entire human race (minus a few people in stasis bubbles) simply vanished--uploaded, transcended, no one knew. In Stross' novels, the main marker is usually the awakening of a superhuman AI.
There's nothing legally or morally wrong with profiting off others' works. What do you think used bookstores do? And not every library is non-profit--membership libraries are fairly rare these days, but they still exist.
Interesting numbers. That implies, incidentally, that if the universe were squeezed into a sphere 100AU across, it would be on the order of 1000 times denser than diamond (based on the standard estimate of the universe as having ~10^70 particles).
FWIW, Saturnism is an offshoot of Velikovskyism. The EU connection seems to be that V'sky took an interest in EU theories late in life, as evinced in his short paper/speech "Cosmos Without Gravitation". It's something of a pity that the Kronia/Thunderbolts types have ended up being the most visible EU supporters on the net, as the rest of EU makes a good deal of sense.
a googolplex is 10^googol (if you wrote this down in its expanded form, the paper would not fit into the volume of the solar system)
In fact, you (probably) couldn't write a googolplex in straight decimal at all, even if you used subatomic particles for zeros, as current estimates suggest there are only about 10^70 particles in the universe.
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Anyone else see that and think "they're going to turn the company around 360 degrees"?
Yes, American. Wikipedia says 120 yards total, 100 for the field, 10 each for the end zones. Google units says 110 yards is 100.584 meters.
I'm fairly sure it's not meant to include the end zones in its usual usage. The whole point is that it's an easy way to visualize a nice, round number. (Although I did hear a nice conversion factor once, that the field plus one endzone is almost exactly 100 meters.)
No, that's a New York minute.
I hereby proclaim the lacto-expiration the pseudo-unit of time. This fills an important gap in the pseudo-unit lineup, which includes the football field (length), the Library of Congress (data), and the Hiroshima bomb (energy).
This is why we're never joining the ICC. On the contrary, Congress passed a standing authorization to invade Belgium if necessary to free Americans on trial there. (I shit you not, Google it if you don't believe me.)
Media that can be recorded and distributed can be recorded and distributed.
Sigged!
OTOH, if we were writing in Shakespearian English, we'd probably be much less inclined to complain--I've heard that we have three samples of Shakespeare's name in his own hand, and all three are spelt differently. Of course, orthography is just the beginning--even fixed parts of speech were a mostly foreign concept to Elizabethans, to whom verbing came perfectly naturally.
Actually, singular they has a usage history going back at least to Shakespeare; the "rule" making it only a plural pronoun has about as much validity as the split infinitive rule--i.e., it was made up by Latin-obssessed Victorian grammarians. See Wikipedia's "Singular they" article for more info.
What kind of geek doesn't know Latin?
Thanks, I'll have a look.
Can you post a link or some search terms or something? I'd like to see this when it comes out.
Impressive, that one's quite rare.
Congratulations, you've reinvented Palladium.
The 18-month doubling period is only supposed to apply to CPUs. I've read somewhere that hard drives are supposed to have a 12-month period, and RAM 24-month. Further, I would dispute your "typical 1990 hard drive" number--I remember 20MB as much more common. Also, you neglect to take price into account--an ordinary EIDE 200GB drive is ~$80 (I just checked pricewatch), and I'm fairly sure even a 20MB cost significantly more than that in 1990.
Speaking of games, Abuse (SDL Port, Bungie version) was apparently written mostly in LISP.
There are several different types of Singularities postulated by the various SF authors who have been involved in popularizing the term over the last few decades. In Vinge's original Singularity, in Marooned in Realtime, the entire human race (minus a few people in stasis bubbles) simply vanished--uploaded, transcended, no one knew. In Stross' novels, the main marker is usually the awakening of a superhuman AI.
Thx for the link. BTW, are you a wingless bird with hairy feathers?
Twain?
ITYM "still /.ed".
There's nothing legally or morally wrong with profiting off others' works. What do you think used bookstores do? And not every library is non-profit--membership libraries are fairly rare these days, but they still exist.
Interesting numbers. That implies, incidentally, that if the universe were squeezed into a sphere 100AU across, it would be on the order of 1000 times denser than diamond (based on the standard estimate of the universe as having ~10^70 particles).
FWIW, Saturnism is an offshoot of Velikovskyism. The EU connection seems to be that V'sky took an interest in EU theories late in life, as evinced in his short paper/speech "Cosmos Without Gravitation". It's something of a pity that the Kronia/Thunderbolts types have ended up being the most visible EU supporters on the net, as the rest of EU makes a good deal of sense.
Have you seen _The 13th Floor_?
In fact, you (probably) couldn't write a googolplex in straight decimal at all, even if you used subatomic particles for zeros, as current estimates suggest there are only about 10^70 particles in the universe.