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AgentZero March 8th, 2007 07:07 AM

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I was thinking I'd probably end up staying up until threeve, but I waylaid the sandman on his way to the neighbours and liberated his sweet sweet magical dust! Mwah!

Atrocities March 8th, 2007 08:57 AM

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I just finished watching the Prestige, what a great movie. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif If your really bored, I highly recommend it. That and Equilibrium.

Tim_Ward March 8th, 2007 12:23 PM

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Quote:

Arkcon said:
Quote:

Tim_Ward said:
"Why the blazes didn't we utilise the abandoned Martian War Machines to retain Empire? I demand immediate resignations."

I wondered where that was from (I know, I could have just asked), so I just entered the whole thing into a Google search.

http://theweekly.co.uk/brain/letters...ditor_archive/

capnq March 8th, 2007 09:27 PM

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Arkcon said: I wondered where that was from (I know, I could have just asked), so I just entered the whole thing into a Google search.

Here's something that came up -- {FTW?}


That is a statistical analysis of how many times each word appears in a large body of English language texts.

I worked with a similar database at my last job, working for a professor researching computer recognition of speech.

Arkcon March 9th, 2007 12:10 AM

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capnq said:
That is a statistical analysis of how many times each word appears in a large body of English language texts.

I worked with a similar database at my last job, working for a professor researching computer recognition of speech.


Yeah but ... why post it on the web, and why is Google indexing it? Yeah, I know, ... Why not? and Because are options. Still weird 'tho.

Check out this Fark link (remember, Fark webpage has naughty adverts): {The world generated 161 exabytes of digital information last year. That's 161 billion gigabytes}

Scroll down for an interesting breakdown of examples of really big numbers, we once had a thread on this subject here on Shrapnel.

AgentZero March 9th, 2007 03:38 AM

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Arkcon said:

Check out this Fark link (remember, Fark webpage has naughty adverts): {The world generated 161 exabytes of digital information last year. That's 161 billion gigabytes}


First of all, I was quite disapointed to find a distinct lack of naughty adverts. Second of all, that a lot of bytes! Though I found it kinda funny when one of the sciency guys said that if we kept all our data, we wouldn't have room for it all. Just struck me as one of those, 'well, duh!' moments.

narf poit chez BOOM March 9th, 2007 04:18 AM

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Quote:

capnq said:
Quote:

Arkcon said: I wondered where that was from (I know, I could have just asked), so I just entered the whole thing into a Google search.

Here's something that came up -- {FTW?}


That is a statistical analysis of how many times each word appears in a large body of English language texts.

I worked with a similar database at my last job, working for a professor researching computer recognition of speech.

That's hilarious.


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