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non-destructive record play back
nex
09:19h
of course you can read the audio from a vinyl record with an optical scanner. ... Link
gillion
nex
15:07h
okay, so we should end the confusion between the chuquet and the pelletier system by using tetrillion, pentillion, hexillion, heptillion, octillion, nonillion (ennillion?), decillion, hendecillion (undecillion?), dodecillion, tridecillion (triskaidecillion?), tetradecillion (tetrakaidecillion?), pendecillion, hexadecillion, heptadecillion, octodecillion, enneadecillion, ..., hecatocillion, ..., chilillion. and we would wisely refer to 109 as gillion, in order to avoid the trillion which has already caused enough confusion. but how should we call 103 and 106 then? monillion and dillion/dyillion? certainly not, people could confuse the monillion with the million. at the other hand, using million instead of dillion is also quite confusing, isn't it? ... Link
800 delay
nex
09:03h
when all the senior programmers at atari were busy creating the 800 OS, they hired a coder called bill to modify a BASIC compiler he had for another system to be used on the 800. but instead of doing any work, bill spent all his time on a silly little disk utiliy called DOS, which he made for some big company. after the atari project stalled for over a year, they fired bill. ... Link
nex
14:02h
i respect women who wear shoes in which they cannot run in much the same way as i respect men who boost their bicepses with drugs that make them impotent. ... Link
nex
10:07h
among the imbecile, the simple-minded is king. ... Link
we don't need no dvd-ram / usb drive / iPod
nex
23:56h
sneaker-net is for wimps. ... Link
nex
23:59h
no. ... Link
slow management
nex
12:00h
he works in a factory factory, in the smokestack production line. as there are no chimneys needed in the current project (they build another factory factory), storage is becoming stinted, but next week they'll get more from the warehouse warehouse. ... Link |
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