Formal or informal, what there should not be is confusion. Take the date 12/8/10 for example. Is it in 2012, or 2010? August, or December? I am in Canada, and I see Y/M/D, M/D/Y, and D/M/Y formatted dates on receipts all the time. Is printing a three character month and a four digit year really all that hard?
If you want to use pi, then you should be using the angle subtended by the length of the diameter, not the radius, as the basis of your angle measurements. Be consistent.
Yes, and no. If the engines ran for 4-5 hours and they flew in a straight line, then you can rule out anything inside the 4 hour circle. It will be in the ring between 5 hours out, and 4 hours out.
How exactly does one squawk a radio failure? It's like that WKRP episode when terrorists blew up the transmitter. Bailey Quarters says [on the phone] "Now how can we announce that we are off the air when we are off the air?"
The only way they'll always be in contact with land is to forbid the planes from taking off in the first place. Just have them travel along the autobahns, the interstates, and freeways of the world.
But if the phone is only looking at the first eight characters of the passcode, then not only will B3t45uck5 work, so will B3t45uck1, B3t45uck2, B3t45uck3, and B3t45uck5N0t@a11.
SupportDesk(SD): Okay, click on Start.
Customer(C):Um... I don't see Start. Where is it?
SD: It's usually in the bottom left corner. What do you have there?
C: I've got a clock.
SD: Um... Okay, what's in the top left corner?
C: it's sort of a multi-colored circle
SD: Okay, click that and then click System
C:I don't see System
SD:What about a Utilities?
C: No. There's nothing but icons.
SD: I see. Is there a gear icon?
C: No
SD:What about tools, like a wrench or screwdriver?
C: No. I've gone one that looks like a car with the hood open, one that has pulleys and a belt, and another that has colored squares and slider controls. It looks like the transporter console on Star Trek.
SD: If you move the mouse pointer over the icons but don't click does a description pop up?
C: Yes
SD: I want you to check the description pop-up of each of those icons. Do any of them say System?
C: I've got two. The candle icon says System Settings, and the kitten icon with the red forbidden circle, you know, like on no smoking signs? Well that icon says System configuration.
SD: [aside]It's going to be a long night...[/aside]
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Formal or informal, what there should not be is confusion. Take the date 12/8/10 for example. Is it in 2012, or 2010? August, or December? I am in Canada, and I see Y/M/D, M/D/Y, and D/M/Y formatted dates on receipts all the time. Is printing a three character month and a four digit year really all that hard?
Pi isn't fundamental. It is Tau/2.
In the rest of the world, we have the Pi month. XX/3/14. Take that, ameridudes! Unfortunately, only every 1000 years
In the rest of the world, XX would be the year: Y/M/D
Month-Day-Year format is irrational. Year-Month-Day, or Day-Month-Year is what you want, with Year-Month-Day being preferred.
The reason why radians are what they are is because then the length of the arc (of a unit circle) that subtends the angle R is exactly R.
Yes, and how many radians are there in a circle? Tau.
And any other ratio (especially tau!) doesn't satisfy the Eulerian identity, so can't be nearly so beautiful.
e^i*tau=1 seems a lot more beautiful than e^i*pi=-1 to me. It gets rid of that ugly minus one.
15? Did you miss the whole Y2K catastrophe? Next year will be 2015, not 15.
July 22nd IS PI day in Europe, approximately.
So if I am approximately in Europe, I can celebrate?
If you want to use pi, then you should be using the angle subtended by the length of the diameter, not the radius, as the basis of your angle measurements. Be consistent.
If they start poisoning search with for-profit results Google will be quickly reminded that they are not the only search engine in town.
And other search engines (that matter) are?
Just google for search engine.
The straighter the line the bigger the circle....
Yes, and no. If the engines ran for 4-5 hours and they flew in a straight line, then you can rule out anything inside the 4 hour circle. It will be in the ring between 5 hours out, and 4 hours out.
I half suspect that when they find the plane, it'll be sticking through a high profile building somewhere.
I wonder if I can make a solar powered UV flashing light to scare away animals?
A couple UV LED's and a 555 timer. Hell, you might be able to mod one of those solar-powered outdoor lights.
Or just use a bug zapper. Of course, that might kill off the pollenators as well.
they want everything to be the land of unicorns
Ah! So that's the plan! Replace coal with sweet smelling, long burning unicorn dung. Brilliant!
What are all the families that heat their homes with coal going to do?
Maybe use an alternative? Wood pellets, pressed fuel bricks, etc.
How exactly does one squawk a radio failure? It's like that WKRP episode when terrorists blew up the transmitter. Bailey Quarters says [on the phone] "Now how can we announce that we are off the air when we are off the air?"
The only way they'll always be in contact with land is to forbid the planes from taking off in the first place. Just have them travel along the autobahns, the interstates, and freeways of the world.
If Comcast is blocking that, then what's stopping them from blocking Hula, Netflix, PirateBay, or any of its competitors or detractors?
But if the phone is only looking at the first eight characters of the passcode, then not only will B3t45uck5 work, so will B3t45uck1, B3t45uck2, B3t45uck3, and B3t45uck5N0t@a11.
Choice is a good thing.
...until it comes time to provide support:
SupportDesk(SD): Okay, click on Start.
Customer(C):Um... I don't see Start. Where is it?
SD: It's usually in the bottom left corner. What do you have there?
C: I've got a clock.
SD: Um... Okay, what's in the top left corner?
C: it's sort of a multi-colored circle
SD: Okay, click that and then click System
C:I don't see System
SD:What about a Utilities?
C: No. There's nothing but icons.
SD: I see. Is there a gear icon?
C: No
SD:What about tools, like a wrench or screwdriver?
C: No. I've gone one that looks like a car with the hood open, one that has pulleys and a belt, and another that has colored squares and slider controls. It looks like the transporter console on Star Trek.
SD: If you move the mouse pointer over the icons but don't click does a description pop up?
C: Yes
SD: I want you to check the description pop-up of each of those icons. Do any of them say System? C: I've got two. The candle icon says System Settings, and the kitten icon with the red forbidden circle, you know, like on no smoking signs? Well that icon says System configuration.
SD: [aside]It's going to be a long night...[/aside]
Sometimes having conformity is a good thing.
I agree with you, but buy the time you decide to by the ported game, they're already obsolete.
If you've never played it because it was unavailable on your platform, then it's not obsolete. It's brand new.
Nice. Except when you leave the phone in the car while you go in to pay for the gas and grab a pack of gum.
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If you depend on media corporations to prompt you to take care of basic things in life, you really do have a severe problem with the way you live.
So... that's a "no" then.
How many of those characters are significant, though? 8? 12 maybe? It could be like dialing 1-800-got-hayfever. Anything after hayf is ignored.
Why do you think it was a pick pocket? Someone could have just shoved a gun in his face and said "Give me your phone".
Did you ever think that some of the Ask Slashdot topics exist to provoke discussion rather than to seek knowledge? Take this one for example. How many folks here have never thought about anti-theft software until now? I'm sure I'm not the only one.