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On 5/21/2010 3:00 AM, Invisible wrote:
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> Man, I had no idea card readers persisted so long!
>
What? You don't remember the whole US Election "hanging chad" debacle of
2000? Those were punch cards... :)
--
~Mike
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>> Man, I had no idea card readers persisted so long!
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> What? You don't remember the whole US Election "hanging chad" debacle of
> 2000? Those were punch cards... :)
...there was a US Election in 2000?
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On 5/21/2010 8:59 AM, Invisible wrote:
>>> Man, I had no idea card readers persisted so long!
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>> What? You don't remember the whole US Election "hanging chad" debacle
>> of 2000? Those were punch cards... :)
>
> ...there was a US Election in 2000?
There's one every 4 years ... the last one was in 2008.
--
~Mike
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>>> What? You don't remember the whole US Election "hanging chad" debacle
>>> of 2000? Those were punch cards... :)
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>> ...there was a US Election in 2000?
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> There's one every 4 years ... the last one was in 2008.
My point being that the rest of the world probably doesn't take as much
notice as the US itself does. ;-)
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On Fri, 21 May 2010 08:56:32 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>>> When your entire life has taught you that expending almost unbounded
>>> amounts of effort always produces no results, it becomes increasingly
>>> hard to find motivation...
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>> BTDTGTTS.
>
> I wonder if it's possible to use some kind of Markov-chain method to
> probabalistically determine what random initialisms mean?
http://tinyurl.com/24egq37
>> Taking control takes effort, and it is/can be a trial-and- error
>> process. Doesn't mean it's impossible.
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> Sure. If some things worked and some things didn't, I could handle that.
> But when *nothing* works, where do you go next?
Ask for advice from someone with more experience. And then follow that
advice. Iterate until success is achieved.
Jim
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On Fri, 21 May 2010 15:58:27 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>>>> What? You don't remember the whole US Election "hanging chad" debacle
>>>> of 2000? Those were punch cards... :)
>>>
>>> ...there was a US Election in 2000?
>>
>> There's one every 4 years ... the last one was in 2008.
>
> My point being that the rest of the world probably doesn't take as much
> notice as the US itself does. ;-)
Actually, a fair amount of the world does take notice, because the US is
seen by many to be the one remaining "superpower" and the presidential
election has a pretty significant effect on the rest of the world.
But Mike is wrong about there being an election every 4 years; there's an
election every 2 years, just the "big" ones are every 4 years.
Jim
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On Fri, 21 May 2010 08:59:36 +0200, scott wrote:
>>> 10e8
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>> Sounds more like 100 million to me, unless I can't count. ;-)
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> I think you (and I) can't count!
<g>
Jim
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On Fri, 21 May 2010 08:59:36 +0200, scott wrote:
>>> 10e8
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>> Sounds more like 100 million to me, unless I can't count. ;-)
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> I think you (and I) can't count!
Or indeed, looking at it now, 10e8 = 1e9. Duh. :-)
Jim
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On 05/20/10 18:12, Darren New wrote:
> Neeum Zawan wrote:
>> On 05/19/10 09:51, Darren New wrote:
>>> scott wrote:
>>>> separate words for 10e9 and 10e12, so there is no such confusion.
>>> And chinese uses steps of 10e5 or so, rather than 10e3. My wife always
>>
>> Wow. Another one. I wonder how long this has been going on without
>> people noticing.
>>
>> I recently bugged a guy at work for doing this.
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> Heh. It's rather confusing to *me* when she starts talking about "there
> was at first a hundred thousand people, then a thousand thousand
> people!" and similar convolutions. We don't have a word for ten thousand
> as such, or I'm sure it would get even more confusing instead of just a
> pause while the translation goes on.
Eh. I wasn't referring to the vagaries of the Chinese number system naming.
To give you a clue, 5e3 is not 125.
--
AD&D Famous last words: Me first. Me first!
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Neeum Zawan wrote:
> Eh. I wasn't referring to the vagaries of the Chinese number system naming.
Yeha, yeah, fine. You understood well enough to correct me, I'll notice.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
you literally shooting yourself in the foot.
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