Comment Re:Their website isn't in Esperanto? (Score 1) 224
Esperanto? le mi varkiclaflo'i cu culno lo angila! You mean Lojban, I presume.
Esperanto? le mi varkiclaflo'i cu culno lo angila! You mean Lojban, I presume.
I don't think they're very concerned with easily-divisible numbers—4*7-day months and 13-month years!
13 months is a little annoying, yes; you have to split the months on week boundaries to make quarters. But we actually do have 13 lunar cycles in a year, so this naturally aligns the months with the real moon. And we keep 7 day weeks, which is a win both because we're used to our week, and because 7 days is a natural quarter-moon. And no more "30 days hath December..."
Thing is, a workable Earth calendar never is going to be evenly divisible by powers of 10, because it has to stay aligned with astronomical cycles which are subtly varying; even the Sun and Moon don't strictly align. So everything's going to be a bit of a juggle. Frankly, I think this is the best alternate calendar design I've seen in a long while.
The question you should be asking is why is streaming video so expensive that DVD (shipping little plastic discs around) is cheaper than sending bits over a wire?
Because it's the second stupidest deliberate misuse of computational capacity to artificially create digital scarcity since Bitcoins.
The correct way to distribute large files like movies online is to copy the bits as locally to the endpoints as possible, and cache them pervasively at all levels of the network. Nothing would need to be sent more than once down any given cable. It would be fast, cheap, make use of the Internet as it was designed to function, and give us near-unlimited bandwidth.
But that would mean that those bits don't become artificially scarce and can't be tracked and audited by the media companies for copy-protection purposes. So instead of copying, we stream them over and over and over again, generating terabytes of needless, duplicated data traffic, and creating huge bandwidth storms that suck all the capacity out of the Internet.
tldr: Video streaming is expensive because it was designed to be. It wasn't designed by or for you, and it doesn't benefit you.
They took out the the duel pain feature?!?!?! WTF.
Yeah, I hate it too when I score a counter-riposte to my opponent's flying parry and there's just a beep on the referee's scoreboard and no blood.
In fact, in addition to the 37 percent of respondents who fully agreed that U.S. regulators are suppressing access to natural cures, less than a third were willing to say they actively disagreed with the theory.
Marijuana is still illegal, right? I mean, it's it a conspiracy theory if I can point to the status and rules at issue?
We already should had sent a tripulated mission to Jupiter
o_O
By keeping his identity anonymous, he was protected against time travelers visiting him on the day he created the algorithm and having it stolen from him.
Well, now we know what John Titor was really looking for with his leet IBM 5100 mining rig.
Because if he dies and didn't leave an error
.... not even a kernel panic?
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer