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I'm glad you don't just do the "Here's your Christmas AND Birthday present!" like I used to get. On the plus side, everyone has a good time on my birthday, New Years Eve.
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I'm working on a site now and this is a must have.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Replace the scroll bar with "Left" and "Right" buttons that don't autorepeat.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Now why didn't I think of that?
Oh wait I don't work for uSoft.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Hmm. No, I'm serious: hmm. Have the user hum, sample the microphone sound input, divvy the frequency range from 80 to 3,400 Hz into 1010-1 intervals, and voila! Easy-peasy.
Best of all, this approach doesn't use any screen real estate.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Oh, man. Where's the "like" button?
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I was going to suggest this[^], but then I realised I was doing it wrong and corrected to this[^]
If you recognise this number, you're probably as old as me.
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I just defined a new measurement unit for digital data: Lb
That is Lunabytes - an insane number of bytes.
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Use it for you wind-up wristwatch - makes lunatics.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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It could also stand for a Ludicrous number of bytes.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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That breaks the association to Terabytes - often mis-spelled as Terrabytes.
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You have something against Earth Bytes? It's a great cereal. High in fiber.
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Member 7989122 wrote: I just defined a new measurement unit for digital data: Lb
Don't forget ub for Uselessbytes of data.
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You're a few centuries too late - "lb" as a unit has already been taken[^].
It will probably be a while before we need anything above the Yottabyte[^]. Maybe we could use "GoB" (Googol[^] bytes), or even "GrB" (Graham's number[^] bytes)?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Classic and apropos...still makes me laugh...though, here I think they would need to add IBM Project Contradictor to the mix
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Good one. Yes, they would
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Speaking of Silverlight...
Was Macromedia just a Flash in the pan?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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It barely had the spark of a bright idea. Yet, whatever video, we still may end up installing these things.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: whatever video, we still may end up installing these things
I am withu on that!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Searching for some old notes, I came across an old printout from my student days: One of my fellow students, Jon E. Strømme, jotted down this list of references in 1979 or 1980, free to use wherever it might fit . It still makes me chukle, almost 40 years later. Published here with the explicit permission from Jon:
Pascal, Blaise : On the feasibility of computing machines.
Lejeune fils, Paris 685. 300 p.
Babbage, Charles : Analytical machines of today and tomorrow.
Oxford, London 1885. 400 p.
Zuse, Konrad : Digital analytical machines, Bomben und Granaten.
Springer Verlag, Berlin 1943. 500 p.
Backus, C. C. & al : FORmula TRANsgression language.
Wliley, New York 1957. 385 p.
Dreyfus, H. : What computers cannot do. 1st ed.
Harper and Row, Chicago 1974. 430 p.
Dreyfus, H. : What computers cannot do. 2nd ed.
Harper and Row, Chicago 1979. 225 p.
Dreyfus, H. : What computers cannot do. 3rd ed.
Harper and Row, Chicago 1984. 17 p.
MULTIVAC & al : What humans cannot do.
ARPA Network 1992. 26000 bytes.
MULTIVAC & al : What humans cannot do, and why they shouldn't.
COMPUTERS EXCLUSIVE 2005. 126 GB.
MULTIVAC III : Humans – myth or historical fact?
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Cool stuff! I must find the first two. I always thought it was FORmula TRANslation. Even Wikipedia agrees with me. But I guess yours was the very first acronym...
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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