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AgentZero · #11 March 8th, 2007, 07:07 AM

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 · #12 March 8th, 2007, 08:57 AM

I just finished watching the Prestige, what a great movie.

If your really bored, I highly recommend it. That and Equilibrium.

Tim_Ward · #13 March 8th, 2007, 12:23 PM

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Arkcon said:

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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 · #14 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 · #15 March 9th, 2007, 12:10 AM

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 · #16 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 · #17 March 9th, 2007, 04:18 AM

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capnq said:

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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.

That's hilarious.