And the Greek text says "Hde h sophia estin; ho echn noun psphisat ton arithmon tou thriou, arithmos gar anthrpou estin; kai ho arithmos autou hexakosioi hexkonta hex."
But in my mind binary vs 'decimal' is pretty much the same.
Then you are misinformed.
I think we're talking about binary/fixed point VS floating point arithmetic.
Floating point is fine, just as long as it's decimal floating point, not binary floating point. I think IBM's Decimal Arithmetic FAQ might help you understand this better. You can represent any decimal number exactly in decimal floating point, so it is in fact better than fixed point, which can represent a smaller set of numbers limited by the precision you set in advance.
Now you might notice that the FAQ was created by Mike Cowlishaw, the inventor of REXX. He is the expert in the industry on decimal floating point arithmetic precisely because of his experience with REXX (and now with BigDecimal in Java). When the Python developers wanted to add decimal floating point to the language, he's who they turned to.
Decimal floating point is frequently a "best practice," but you just don't know it yet. Educate yourself.
If you think using binary arithmetic is a "best practice" then I hope you don't write any code for use in financial applications, where it can really screw things up.
To get there using Southwest you'd have to do a ground transfer in DFW or IAH to an airport served by Southwest (DAL and HOU). Amarillo International (!) Airport is also served by American Eagle and Continental Express, so that would be easiest.
Me too. I'd rather have a real Windows key though. In my opinion, the only wart in what is otherwise the best notebook keyboard available. They should move Fn over and turn it into a WinKey. And yes, I use my WinKey on my Linux box all the time.
This Congress just started, and these things do take time, you know. A better metric would be to look at the last Congress, and their 498 public laws. Not to mention private laws, resolutions and confirmations.
But, those votes are not for laws.
Actually, most of the votes are related to legislation or rulemaking. It does take a lot of votes before a bill turns into a law. Didn't you ever see those old Schoolhouse Rock cartoons?
This isn't the obnoxious advertising clause you're looking for. There is similar verbiage in the GPL saying that the copyright notice and license notice have to be kept.
Here, I'll correct you. Bill Gates has not been made a life peer. That would make him a baron, not a knight. And there is such a thing as an honorary knighthood, which is given to non-Commonwealth citizens.
You tell someone to take something with a grain of salt because otherwise it would be unpalatable. More salt might be needed if it just cannot be swallowed without. See, for example, the examples given in the Oxford English Dictionary:
1908 Athenæum 1 Aug. 118/1 Our reasons for not accepting the author's pictures of early Ireland without many grains of salt. 1948 F. R. COWELL Cicero & Roman Republic xvi. 243 A more critical spirit slowly developed, so that Cicero and his friends took more than the proverbial pinch of salt before swallowing everything written by these earlier authors. 1965 M. SHADBOLT Among Cinders xxvi. 258, I take what he says with a half-pound of salt, after his review of that play.
But far be it from me to give a Slashdot staffer any credit for correct use of the English language.
My driver's license contains a lot more information about me than my credit card, such as my home address, date of birth, driver's license number, and sundry medical information (which drugs I'm allergic to, living will information, whether)
You'll forgive me if I don't think a random store clerk should get access to any of that information. With that information and the numbers off the card they can then execute a card-not-present transaction with a mail order firm. Whereas when they check the card only, they are unlikely to be able to do anything without taking the card out of my presence.
I think you misunderstood. Gate agents generally do not require ID anywhere now. Your ID is supposed to be checked by an airline contractor as you enter the line for the security checkpoint.
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And the Greek text says "Hde h sophia estin; ho echn noun psphisat ton arithmon tou thriou, arithmos gar anthrpou estin; kai ho arithmos autou hexakosioi hexkonta hex."
That means six hundred sixty-six.
The link says the story might be apocryphal, but David Korn confirmed it right here on /.
poets (e.g. Shakespeare, Goethe) generally define acceptable language.
That's a pretty ludicrous assertion. Especially the idea of e.e. cummings determining the English language.
I use the compute farm the AC refers to and I can confirm that the vast majority of it consists of x86 blades.
But in my mind binary vs 'decimal' is pretty much the same.
Then you are misinformed.
I think we're talking about binary/fixed point VS floating point arithmetic.
Floating point is fine, just as long as it's decimal floating point, not binary floating point. I think IBM's Decimal Arithmetic FAQ might help you understand this better. You can represent any decimal number exactly in decimal floating point, so it is in fact better than fixed point, which can represent a smaller set of numbers limited by the precision you set in advance.
Now you might notice that the FAQ was created by Mike Cowlishaw, the inventor of REXX. He is the expert in the industry on decimal floating point arithmetic precisely because of his experience with REXX (and now with BigDecimal in Java). When the Python developers wanted to add decimal floating point to the language, he's who they turned to.
Decimal floating point is frequently a "best practice," but you just don't know it yet. Educate yourself.
If you think using binary arithmetic is a "best practice" then I hope you don't write any code for use in financial applications, where it can really screw things up.
Try five hundred BILLION dollars.
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The article is quite worthless
This is why I never RTFA.
To get there using Southwest you'd have to do a ground transfer in DFW or IAH to an airport served by Southwest (DAL and HOU). Amarillo International (!) Airport is also served by American Eagle and Continental Express, so that would be easiest.
Am I the only one that noticed that the natural acronym for Intel Pentium Extreme Edition is "I PEE?"
Me too. I'd rather have a real Windows key though. In my opinion, the only wart in what is otherwise the best notebook keyboard available. They should move Fn over and turn it into a WinKey. And yes, I use my WinKey on my Linux box all the time.
You have any data on which you base that assertion?
Based upon my experiences, within universities, ONLY in CS departments Matlab is NOT (yet ?) the de facto standard
Almost no serious bioinformatics work is done with Matlab. Yes there is some, but it is far from the de facto standard.
I totally agree. AOL!
Seems to be working fine, so far.
Not me. But I do frequently get pauses when I put in a CD :(
Not to mention graphic design and layout. A published article is so much easier to read than a preprint.
Actually, most of the votes are related to legislation or rulemaking. It does take a lot of votes before a bill turns into a law. Didn't you ever see those old Schoolhouse Rock cartoons?
This isn't the obnoxious advertising clause you're looking for. There is similar verbiage in the GPL saying that the copyright notice and license notice have to be kept.
No problem. :) Wikipedia has beaucoup information on the British honors and title systems, if you care.
Here, I'll correct you. Bill Gates has not been made a life peer. That would make him a baron, not a knight. And there is such a thing as an honorary knighthood, which is given to non-Commonwealth citizens.
But far be it from me to give a Slashdot staffer any credit for correct use of the English language.
My driver's license contains a lot more information about me than my credit card, such as my home address, date of birth, driver's license number, and sundry medical information (which drugs I'm allergic to, living will information, whether)
You'll forgive me if I don't think a random store clerk should get access to any of that information. With that information and the numbers off the card they can then execute a card-not-present transaction with a mail order firm. Whereas when they check the card only, they are unlikely to be able to do anything without taking the card out of my presence.
I think you misunderstood. Gate agents generally do not require ID anywhere now. Your ID is supposed to be checked by an airline contractor as you enter the line for the security checkpoint.
Precisely, why bother having to show additional ID?