Thirdly: What I was stating was an old joke that may be considered semi-popular amongst applied mathematicians. I wasn't stating it as some kind of fact, which the final line about 9 being the exception that proved the rule, should have given away.
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Thirdly: What I was stating was an old joke that may be considered semi-popular amongst applied mathematicians. I wasn't stating it as some kind of fact, which the final line about 9 being the exception that proved the rule, should have given away.
Another thing about English number names
Tens - Unique
Hundreds - Unique
Thousands - Unique
Ten Thousands - Combination of ten and Thousand
Hundred Thousand - Combination of Hundred and thousand
Million - Unique
Billion - Unique
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Why doesn't all the power's of 10 have unique names ? Who decided that ten thousand and hundred thousand should be combinations of previous unique names ?
Also, Time Is BS! Why is Time in different bases ? 1000 miliseconds in a second, 60 seconds in a minute 60 miutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day and inconsistent amount of days in months. It would be much easier if they just stuck to base 10.
So 10 hours in a day, 10 days in a week and 10 days in a month, 10 months in a year. Yeah I can see that happening.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlindSniper
And apparently the idiots that invented "Time" screwed up, so to make up for it, they invented "Daylight Savings Time," which happens twice a year by exceeding one hour one day, and going back an hour another day. This is still confusing to many people, and is the reason why so many people become late for work. Total complete BS.
People using the excuse of daylight time to show up late for work is total BS.
You know whats total BS!
How people drive on the highway. Think about it. Typically the average major highway is 70 mph for the speed limit. Me personally, I tend to only drive 5 over the speed limit to avoid getting pulled over. But to people who drive out there, it's not enough. So what do they do? No not 80. They drive 85-95 mph. And I'm not just talking a few drivers you see on the road, it's pretty much nearly everybody. Stereotypically it's the people who have large SUV's and 4x4 trucks, but it's the cars too! Why risk getting pulled over? I just drove from Kissimmee all the way to Miami today which is a 4 hour drive, driving on I95, and practically every person out there was speeding. But do speed limits matter? According to an article I ran into, the only person it really matters to are the police and insurance company's. Read this! But still, why risk getting pulled over? Noone seems to ever wanna follow the speed limit laws anymore. If you do the speed limit, you get tailgated by some A-hole in his gigantic 4x4 truck who's trying to force you to speed or move out of the way, then he passes you and honks his horn as he does so and ends up going 20 mph more than you even if you were to do 5 over. What's ironic and stereotypical is that people who drive tiny pickup trucks tend to do 5 under the speed limit out on the highway. Practically everyone of em! I'm the BS man. and I say that's BS.
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Originally Posted by Jacob Roman
That's all because of where you live. I spent almost five years in Key Largo, so I know what I'm talking about when I say: South Florida is a whole different planet, especially when it comes to driving.
Someone needs to take a relook at the speeding laws and decide if it's worth having them at all. The best way to discourage people from speeding is bad roads. If the roads are broken down, nobody's going to speed.
The second favorite is make cars that don't go over a certain speed limit. This one, you would think is more logical, yet manufacturers want consumers to go faster and faster.
We're working on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by abhijit
It isn't the manufacturers wanting consumers to go faster, it is an expectation that the consumers want that. The manufacturers may well be right. In the US, power and size have been the largest selling factors for decades. This may change as gas prices rise.Quote:
The second favorite is make cars that don't go over a certain speed limit. This one, you would think is more logical, yet manufacturers want consumers to go faster and faster.
I see evidence all around me and I am convinced.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
The manufactures are in cahoots with the oil industry. If everyone drove a little slower, they would less gas. Also speed is addictive. There's a certain rush one experiences when the speedometer touches the 101 mph mark. The manufacturer's know this and are feeding our addiction while helping the oil industry at the same time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
[not serious]
Drive at a comfortable speed where you can talk on your cellphone, drink coffee and eat a burger while driving your car. :eek:
[/not serious]
I used to have an old '82 Honda Civic. I put a boat on it and found that it wouldn't top 60MPH on flat ground. Not ever. On hills, without the boat, I'd often be down below 40 MPH. However, the gas mileage was pretty awesome. These days, you can't get a US car with that little power, and you can barely get one with that great gas mileage.
The cars on the market are not the range of what people would want, they are narrowly designed for what a certain slice of the demographic want.
YOU KNOW WHATS BS!!!
Ads on the Internet...Part 2 I hate em as you already know. But there's a reason I'm bringing this back. It's because I'm sick and tired of ads all over the Internet! They're like mosquitos. Go away you stupid ads! Me personally, I love watching YouTube. It was Ok to have an ad on the top right corner, and it was bad enough having it before a video, as well as during as banners, but they really did it in by having ads on the left side and the right side of every single video window covering the text of the video info as well as part of the comments and video suggestions! At least on Mozilla it does this. Not sure bout IE or Chrome. But thats BS! They got too many ads as it is! Next thing you know they'll be called AdTube, cause thats all it is are ads!!! But then I ran into the solution to this problem which not only affects YouTube, but all sites. It's a browser addon called AdBlock Plus, for Mozilla Firefox. It only takes but a few seconds, literally, to download. And you don't need to reset your browser. Then the problem is solved. No more ad banners. No more ads in your browser period. No more annoying pop ups. No ad message before VBForums. No ads before, during, and/or even after your video. Etc., etc., etc. You now have ad free internet. And your sites load faster as a result. Now I don't wanna seem hypocritical and say that this is an ad in itself, but let me tell ya. If this is considered an ad, then it's an ad worth reading. Especially if you want to have ad free internet. I'm sure there's something for IE and Chrome, or even whatever browser the Mac uses. I'm the BS man, and I say Ads are BS!
McDonald is a Scottish name and is pronounced "MuckDonald".Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacob Roman
MacDonald is a different Scottish name and is pronounced "MackDonald".
So who pays for the content with no ads? I'm not thrilled about them, either, but the whole internet revenue model amazes me. We get a whole lot for zero dollars simply because there are ads. Take them all away and things would change. Some changes would be good, but most would not. Google gets ALL of their revenue from advertising. If Google went away, we'd all be worse off. So, we have to put up with something for this to work.
Ads really only benefit the web master. If the user just wants to watch a small clip, he doesn't need to be bombarded with ads. Thats as ridiculous as Blue Rays and DVDs preventing you from skipping 10 minutes of ads and trailers whenever you try watching a movie. You don't want ads, you just want to watch your movie!
I think the category of Web site that seems to suffer the most from advertising overload is the "news" arena.
The "magazine" type sites are really bad, but "newspaper" sites seem to be even worse. There is so much junk and so little content per page, they do their damnedest to stretch a 400-word article over as many ad-laden continuation pages as possible, the advertisers are allowed to use any annoying (and heavy to download) technology they please, etc.
The result is unusable.
Many magazines have "gone online" and provide content only in proprietary e-reader formats that are also so full of ads you want to puke. But you can save that for the articles themselves, the bulk of which (even editorials) have turned into nothing but product ads themselves.
I actually like the movie previews. I've found loads of good movies that way which I would never normally hear about. In fact, I would guess that some 70% of the movies I have seen via Netflix have been added to the list because I saw a preview in a different movie.
Yeah but the point is, you bought a movie, and are forced to watch the previews over anf over and over everytime you play it. You keep spamming the menu button only to find you are prohibited to. At least back when VHS was the norm, nothing prohibited you to fast forward. After seeing the ad for the umteenth time, it gets agrivating. Nothing to do but drink a beer till the movie starts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Bought? What's that?!?!?!?
I can certainly see how THAT would be annoying. The one and only movie I own has no previews, so I had no idea that there were previews on purchased movies.
This isnt just bout ads in DVDs, but all problems with em:http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VsdzaEVeFEE
I'm 100% with the BS man on this one. It drives me mad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacob Roman
Even worse, though, are the copyright theft clips. I've bought the disc legally, and yet every time I play it I get this two-minute long clip warning me of the perils of buying pirated discs. I'm tempted to buy pirated discs simply so that I don't have to sit and watch that clip each and every time.
Previews in movies? Ads?
I haven't been familiar with those since I learned how to rip the main movie from the disc. Now, all my movies (THAT I OWN) are on an external drive plugged into a Western Digital media player. I don't have to sit through a single ad, preview, or "warning" about how pirated movies make Jesus cry.
I'd like to bypass the task of purchasing dvd's all together. However, since the studios demand that digital movies from iTunes/Amazon/Google be infested with DRM, I am left to create my own digital copies for the time being.
You know whats BS... Beer prices at bars and clubs. $4-9 a bottle/draft. Enough said.
My brother is crazy when it comes to pirating. Hes got about 3000+ movies and counting on nearly 10 Terabyte harddrives, and that doesn't include shows in which he downloads every episode to. All this boy does is download movies. 900 of them are of the horror genre, and maybe a 1000 of em are in near Blue Ray quality in 720p. They haven't perfected 1080p in codecs for pirated movies, which is also BS, cause they lag a bit visually and tend to not sync with the sound as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blakk_Majik
Amen to that. https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/im...vM52i71GPNjE4wQuote:
Originally Posted by thebuffalo
Just to be clear, I own all the discs for the movies on my harddrive. Not really for any particular moral or ethical reason, but mainly because I like to create my own digital copies from the source (DVD, Blu-Ray). Same goes for CDs, although I have warmed up to purchasing digital music since they pretty much removed the crap DRM from the files.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacob Roman
This little sidebar has made me think. You know what's BS? DRM, especially the type that either A.) requires you to be constantly connected to the internet (usually applies to PC games) or B.) restricts the content to a specific device or group of devices (iTunes digital movies). So what you're saying is, if you ever take the authentication server(s) down or I decide I want to use a different device, my content is useless. Awesome.
Yeah, but it keeps out the riff-raff.Quote:
Originally Posted by thebuffalo
Pennys are especially useless in the United States seing how they are not legal currency.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacob Roman
Hope the makes cents to you :)
YOU KNOW WHATS BEEEEEEE ESSS!!!
Jews
You know why? Because I just realized in my Place Your Rants Here thread how disgustingly rich many of them are all around me in this neighborhood in Bay Harbor Islands of Miami. Nuff said. What is their secret?!!! To be a lawyer, a doctor, or an actor? And supposedly they get money from Israels government to help create businesses out here in the US, or anywhere else they live. Not that Im racist or anything against them. But they sure know ways of making a lot of money. Hell they get food stamps and welfare, while at the same time, drive a Ferrari. Dont believe me? Come to Bay Harbor Islands some time.
Somebody, somewhere, has started a file on you....:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacob Roman
Whadyamean, started?
I know my neighbors well enough to know what they drive, but I wouldn't even WANT to know them well enough to know whether they are on food stamps or welfare. If you are cross-correlating your neighbors income against their cars, are you really just a little old lady in disguise?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacob Roman
Trust me, I live in a rich town and work in a restaurant where they tend to brag about it.
British standard BS
You also live in south Florida. Having been there for five years myself, I don't trust ANYTHING that comes out of that place. It's the land of the surreal. The fake and the real are twisted so tightly together in the heat and humidity that the very land has spawned an alternate reality that is occasionally pastel and otherwise utterly insane.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacob Roman
Sounds like South Beach every night. Only they got more gay guys and drunkards than all of San Fransisco. I live on an island which is part of North Miami Beach. Its also a large jewish community along with Bal Harbor andQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Surfside.