Yes, he's going to charge everyone 50 cents to breathe, right after he donates 80% of his money to charity.
How much have you ever donated to charity? $10? $100? I'd really like to know.
Yes, neglect the corruption in the government where politicians get rich off lucrative contracts. Bill Gates is an evil man who must be stopped, right? Never mind that all these other people in our government don't do shit for other people like Gates does. You don't like his operating system? Don't buy it. You don't like the man? At least acknowledge the good he has done and realize that in the end, he has been a benefit to humanity. You think he has a secret dictatorship? Screw you.
But that's not how trademarks work. Look at United Healthcare vs. United Airlines. Two different businesses with the same name. They're different, so it's legal. The same is true of products -- "Windows Vista Operating System" is different from "Tele Vista network." To argue that people will be confused -- or even that it is possible to copyright the word "vista" alone out of context, is absurd. I assure you if the TV station were called Debian or Ubuntu you would not have made that argument.
Oh, that's right. I forgot. Normal people want to use Linux. That would make the difference right there; nobody will buy it since it's not open source.
If you've taken numerical methods, you should know this is a limitation of MARC 32, since floating point numbers are represented by (in single precision), a sign bit, an 8-bit exponent of 2, and a 24-bit mantissa (the first bit of the mantissa is an implied 1, thus only 23 bits of storage are necessary). So the precision of a single-precision number is +/- (2^(24 + exponent)).
As others have stated this is rediculous without context. There's no radix point, so one can assume that 4 and 1200 are exact figures rather than measurements. There are no units either, so this supports this further (though they could be ratios).
Moreover, even if they were measurements, (4 +/-.5) * (1200 +/- 50) = (4800 +/- 632.4555), not your result of (5000 +/- 500). Significant figures have always been stupid compared to propagation of error anyway.
I agree 100%... at Kentucky, a CS degree is essentially a dumbed-down CoE degree, with less math and a few extra EE classes at the cost of a few CS electives. And I don't intend to be mean, but I've found that the engineers tend to have more interesting personalities than the CS guys. A CS degree will get you working in a cubicle almost for sure from what I understand.
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And this, ladies and gentleman, is why all Linux users are perceived as elitist, arrogant bastards.
I use GBPVR under XP, and I am extremely satisfied with Yapi2xml, which uses Yahoo TV's API to get listings and outputs them as XMLTV. http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/YApi2XM L
I'm sure a bit of the $200 comes from early fabrication costs and some comes from business knowledge. Still, $100 store credit is nice publicity.
Yes, he's going to charge everyone 50 cents to breathe, right after he donates 80% of his money to charity.
How much have you ever donated to charity? $10? $100? I'd really like to know.
Yes, neglect the corruption in the government where politicians get rich off lucrative contracts. Bill Gates is an evil man who must be stopped, right? Never mind that all these other people in our government don't do shit for other people like Gates does. You don't like his operating system? Don't buy it. You don't like the man? At least acknowledge the good he has done and realize that in the end, he has been a benefit to humanity. You think he has a secret dictatorship? Screw you.
Yes, the $499 iPhone will help kill IE as a standard. Just like the $599 PS3 killed HD-DVD and made Blu-Ray the standard, right?
Then they can develop the EPR radar to detect the Gnosis, and use the Hilbert Effect to phase them into our plane of existence!
But that's not how trademarks work. Look at United Healthcare vs. United Airlines. Two different businesses with the same name. They're different, so it's legal. The same is true of products -- "Windows Vista Operating System" is different from "Tele Vista network." To argue that people will be confused -- or even that it is possible to copyright the word "vista" alone out of context, is absurd. I assure you if the TV station were called Debian or Ubuntu you would not have made that argument.
Absolutely absurd. I took Calculus 3 as a junior in high school and my index and ring fingers are practically the same size.
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Make fun of Microsoft!
Oh, that's right. I forgot. Normal people want to use Linux. That would make the difference right there; nobody will buy it since it's not open source.
Microsoft is working with Jeff Han's company, Perceptive Pixel. They're not stealing.
Sounds like somebody's mad he didn't think of it first.
It does cost less than a good cell phone!
I have a hard time believing that the 1% or so of paranoid people inflate web estimates by 150%.
Really, guys. One april fool's story is funny. Ten is not.
Wow, I didn't see that joke coming at all.
If you've taken numerical methods, you should know this is a limitation of MARC 32, since floating point numbers are represented by (in single precision), a sign bit, an 8-bit exponent of 2, and a 24-bit mantissa (the first bit of the mantissa is an implied 1, thus only 23 bits of storage are necessary). So the precision of a single-precision number is +/- (2^(24 + exponent)).
As others have stated this is rediculous without context. There's no radix point, so one can assume that 4 and 1200 are exact figures rather than measurements. There are no units either, so this supports this further (though they could be ratios).
.5) * (1200 +/- 50) = (4800 +/- 632.4555), not your result of (5000 +/- 500). Significant figures have always been stupid compared to propagation of error anyway.
Moreover, even if they were measurements, (4 +/-
Nikolai makes my favorite type of puzzles, Nurikabe. Hopefully those will pick up in the US too.
Agreed... I've tried many portals before I settled with Netvibes about 2 months ago.
Seconded... Trauma center is an awesome game!
512 MB?!? Just how are they supposed to play Unreal Tournament?
or PS3 users just don't realize they're getting ripped off -Only spent $250 on his console
I agree 100%... at Kentucky, a CS degree is essentially a dumbed-down CoE degree, with less math and a few extra EE classes at the cost of a few CS electives. And I don't intend to be mean, but I've found that the engineers tend to have more interesting personalities than the CS guys. A CS degree will get you working in a cubicle almost for sure from what I understand.
Who cares? Star Trek TNG and Firefly are both better than Star Wars. Not that the original trilogy wasn't awesome.