I'm the first to have pointless information. :wink:
I'm the second to have pointless information
my best score on minesweeper is the same as tsueg's
I'm third! In a different color!
Swallowing an ice cube whole HURTS :scared: :huh2:
I'm the fourth. Following suit, This time, in size 14!
A message has been posted on all topics on this sub-forum today, I feel proud to be a Moderator of such a prosperous (sub)forum
NOTE: The glow function doesn't appear to work, why is this? :huh:
I'm fifth! :P
Because you're using FF, glow works in IE.
No...can't resist...I'M SIXTH!
I can type the word lolipop in less than one second.
I AM THE SEVENTH 2 POST! And my shadow is awesome! :laugh:
I watched and finished Friends Season 9 DVD in one day!
EDIT: You can only see it in IE.
Number Eight 4 teh w1n!
Anyway, I'm waiting for the damn WoW Server because it crashed.
I got Akira DVDs.
This is the 0x0ath post in this thread. (http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR00568/)
PoSt # Pi
Playing games at school is awsome. The computers are so slow that everything's easy. :devil:
Dozen-th Post
There isn't much going on at the moment, I wonder why...
I'm doomed! The 13th post!
Multimedia Fusion 2.0 is out, meaning better game developments for me! Now I need $119 to purchase it!
Now for Something Completely Different.
About my sig... I was reading the random story thread and came across a certain passage in it. My imagination, at the sight of it, decided to send my brain and probably my common sense as well on what it called an 'expenses-paid trip to Cuba'. It hasn't tcome back yet and I'm starting to get worried. :tongue:
My piece of information-That line was accidentally quoted from a movie Timballisto made for his German class-
"und jetzt etwas ganz anders"
EDIT: fifteenth post!
This is the 3rd times 5th post.
I am trying to build an airplane. It's not working so well so far...I need a few lithium cells :p.
^Lithium cells come in all shapes and sizes, make sure you get the right one.
sq root(44) post
I'm bored. So very bored...
The "My Music" folder on my PC is 18.2 GB, contains 32,000+ songs, and occupies 13% of my hard drive. Freaky stuff.
At the current time, the three artists I have the most music by are:
Puffy - Approx 1200MB
Malice Mizer - Approx 700MB
Dir en grey - Approx 580MB
My biggest artist's folder is Lemon Demon, weighing in at 900MB. And I only have one of 5 CD's, plus a number of freely-available tracks. And OGG conversions, and wavs, and so on...
*hiss* Get out of here, Jerkrise! I've seen right through the name change! *punches 'Lemming' in the face*
SoMeThInGtH pOsT!
The cure to all of life's problems is to place 3" by 3" squares of bologna on your forehead and place a paper bag over your face, and then you must sing "I WISH I WISH I WAS A FISH!!!".
Canadian chimps signature is funny, although I don't know why.
This is the 23d post for this thread.
yesterday's high temperature was 111F (43.8C). Today's is 106F (41.1C).... GLOBAL WARMING SUCKS!!
EDIT: Actually today was 110F (43.3C)... and there was a slight power outage.
Yowch.
Finally, after attempting to get my parents to order them many times over the last few months, all 3 Lemon Demon (http://www.lemondemon.com) CD's are finally on the way!
Twice the Yowch, he's an outdoor lemming :tongue:
Timballisto got his lithium cells
In 1453, the 100 years war ended
52 post :party:
-Constanitinople also became Istanbul. :XD:
Who here has heard of 'They might be Giants'? It's a band. Most of their songs make less sense than a couch falling from the sky, breaking open to reveal 1,000,000,000,000 Euros.
You know, Lemon Demon is inspired by TMBG.
Really? Cool.
Hm, my dad saw some lithium batteries, but they weren't the right ones. I bought them anyway. I need those ones that look like cylinders that come in packs. The other ones didn't work (duh).
I played tennis today.
It's my birthday!
Quote from: Mr. Ksoft on July 10, 2006, 04:19:48 AM
The "My Music" folder on my PC is 18.2 GB, contains 32,000+ songs, and occupies 13% of my hard drive.̆ Freaky stuff.
Only 13%???? Geez! That's a ton of space!
Quote from: Timballisto on July 29, 2006, 07:37:11 PM
Quote from: Mr. Ksoft on July 10, 2006, 04:19:48 AM
The "My Music" folder on my PC is 18.2 GB, contains 32,000+ songs, and occupies 13% of my hard drive. Freaky stuff.
Only 13%???? Geez! That's a ton of space!
Yeah... where did you get a 140GB hard drive?
Divide that 140 by 14, then subtract 6. This is how many gigs my computer has. :XD:
It also 4 megs of video RAM...again, :XD:
-The reason I still have it, a dell can't play lemmings on it and keep the sound, :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:<-These guys don't work
140GB? It's a 250.
Whatever the case, where'd you get it from?
The drive or the music?
Drive: Came with computer. (HP Pavilion somethingorother)
Music: Uhhh... *wink*
My brother woke up at 3:10PM today.
EDIT: Then he went back to sleep.
Someone I know usually goes to bed at about 6:00 AM... :XD:
he needs to get more sleep.
Quote from: tseug on August 07, 2006, 10:11:55 PM
My brother woke up at 3:10PM today.
I did that once.
Pointless => I waited in a queue for about 45 minutes to buy a Wii game earlier. The queue spiralled around one of those long shelves about three times.
I usually wake up around 2:00 or 3:00 PM. Of course, I usually go to sleep around 4:00 or 5:00 AM...
I'm currently viewing this page on my Wii. Since I finally got the wi-fi working...
I have just acquired a craving for beef jerky, of the lemon-peppered variety. I am clueless as to why.
We're working on recursive programs in programming. I fail to see the point of it because most of the programs we've been doing (Tower of Hanoi, Pascal's Triangle) take FOREVER to run after you cross a certain point (8 with Pascal's triangle, for Hanoi...who knows and who cares? It's a dumb game anyway). Oh yeah. Also started making this random WCIII map. It's pretty cool...I think ;) .
Oh? What's your WC3 map like? If you need anyone to test, let me know.
About recursive programming:
It's silly that they teach you about these algorithms that are worthless, with "exponential time complexity", or O(2^n) time complexity.
But! Recursive programming is not worthless and doesn't always lead to algorithms with exponential time complexity. They do have many natural applications, like maze traversals, certain fast sorting algorithms, and plenty of others. It's perhaps a shame you were exposed to bad examples, although I think that would be a good time to introduce the concept of complexity and how there are problems that computers can't solve.
For the Tower's of Hanoi, that problem is known to take a ridiculous amount of time for a large number of discs. However, I'm a bit skeptical about Pascal's triangle choking after just 8 lines... maybe there was something else going on there.
Quote from: Shvegait on February 20, 2007, 08:20:42 PMAbout recursive programming:
It's silly that they teach you about these algorithms that are worthless, with "exponential time complexity", or O(2^n) time complexity.
But! Recursive programming is not worthless and doesn't always lead to algorithms with exponential time complexity.
In fact, they have nothing to do w/ each other. You can create algorithms in exponential time complexity and beyond w/o recursion, and conversely, you can create recursive algorithms that takes far less than exponential time (eg. one popular programming exercise w/ implementing factorials would result in a linear-time algorithm).
Recursion is simply an approach in creating an algorithm that works in the first place, the key approach being "divide and conquer".
QuoteIt's perhaps a shame you were exposed to bad examples
Actually, I think they are excellent examples. Tower of hanoi by design takes at least 2^n - 1 steps (or something close to that; I don't remember exactly) to carry out so the time complexity is a moot point. It's simply an example of a problem that is very well-suited to being solved recursively.
Pascal triangle works well because its mathematical formula can be expressed in a recursive manner. A naive implementation using recursion is of course not very fast, but mainly because the naive approach would keep recalculating the same stuff over and over in the process. I don't know how advance your programming class will go, but there are techniques such as memoization (not a misspelling), where you cache intermediate results that had already been calculated, which can turn your O(2^n) recursive algorithm into a recursive algorithm that only runs in O(n^2).
I suppose they might not be the most "fun" examples, but then again, you're in a programming class, what can I say...... ::) :P
I had no idea you could use a Wii for that... What else can it do? These new systems seem like, put simply, really good gaming computers. Is that the case? :huh:
Wii's, Xbox 360's, PS4 (or whichever one they're at now) all confuse me, and due to that, I stick with the N64 and the SNES.
-From what I heard of it, Recursive programming sounds pointless, but I guess i'll have to trust you on this.
http://xplemmings.ytmnd.com (http://xplemmings.ytmnd.com)
I made a Lemmings XP YTMND in boredom. Yay!?
Hahaha :thumbsup:
I apologise, but...
omfglolbwahaha
I'm the I-don't know-whath person to have pointless information. 8)
I just ate Corned Beef hash and White Castle burgers, all with garlic on them.
Good advice: Eat garlic then attempt to kiss the person you love. It's a real aphrodisiac. :tongue:
Quote from: Chmera on April 22, 2007, 08:01:47 AM
Good advice: Eat garlic then attempt to kiss the person you love. It's a real aphrodisiac. :tongue:
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: Chmera on April 22, 2007, 08:01:47 AM
Good advice: Eat garlic then attempt to kiss the person you love. It's a real aphrodisiac. :tongue:
Hm... interesting. I'd try it but the person I love doesn't know I love them so it would catch them rather by surprise and would be a bit awkward. (or possibly a really bad move on my part. Damned if I know.)
I'd say it'd be a rather bad move. If you try it, good luck and I hope this person has a very good sense of humour...
I wasn't intending to try at all.
Ah. Just wondering.
Sorry if this is offending to 0xdeadbeef.
I think the name, "0xdeadbeef" is funny. Just imagine...
Indeed...
Ox > Dead > Beef
YAY
EDIT: Ox + Dead = Beef?
>>
Quote from: Wikipedia0xDEADBEEF ("dead beef") is used by IBM RS/6000 systems and Mac OS on 32-bit PowerPC processors as a magic debug value. On Sun Microsystems' Solaris, marks freed kernel memory
Also, I say it like this:
O-x-dead-beef, Not ox-dead-beef.
Apologies, for I know nothing. :mikehuh2:
(EDIT: Second top o' the page today? Most strange.)
It's my birthday today! :laugh:
Happy birthday, DL!
:bday:
You're older than me :shocked: ... well, by a few months anyway :P
Hehe! Thanks :party:
You're lots older than me. =P
Aircraft carriers are usually somewhat larger than dinghies, extensive research has shown.
In the nineties, the US government allocated about half a million dollars for 'pickle research'
Funding has since been cut off.
Canada makes up 6.67 percent of the Earth's land area
...And America takes up far too much.
... And Alaska is a whole third of its land mass. (I don't know the exact figure though)
Russia used to be alot bigger. It's still big.
A group of bears is called a "sloth."
And sloths are so slow that moss and mold grow on them... Giving them the appearance of having green fur. :winktounge:
I hope this topic isn't getting too old...
I have even more pointless information.
Coca Cola was NOT originally green, that's just a myth.
American Airlines saved $40,000 by removing just ONE olive from every salad served in 1st class in somewhere around 1989.
And lastly...
I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition...
Quote from: A wise man
"Meddle not in the affairs of Decepticons, for you are highly flammable and easily squished."
Once, I asked a kid on the bus why Earth existed.
The answer he gave me is so icky that I'd get banned if I posted it (I would think).
Approximately 8% of pencils are not sharpened. How's THAT for pointless information?
INFORMATION ABOUT AUSTRIA-HUNGARY:
FINANCIAL STATS
Debt
Besides the debts of each state of the Dual Monarchy, there is a general debt, which is borne jointly by Austria and Hungary. The following table gives in millions sterling the amount of the general debt for the years 1875-1905: -
1875. 1885. 1895. 1900. 1905.
232.41 231.02 229.67 226.81 224.31
The foreign trade of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy is shown in the following table: -
Year. Imports. Exports.
1900 ÷0,666,000 ø0,916,000
1901 68,833,000 78,841,000
1902 71,666,000 79,708,000
1903 78,200,000 88,600,000
1904 85,200,000 86,200,000
1905 89,430,000 93,500,000
ARMY STRENGTH
The strength of the Austro-Hungarian army on a peace footing was as follows in 1905: -
Officers. Men. Horses. Guns.
Infantry -
Common Army 10,801 187,604 1,152 ..
Austrian Landwehr 1,883 23,905 174 ..
Hungarian Honveds 2,258 21,149 262 ..
Cavalry -
Common Army 1,890 45,486 40,740 ..
Austrian Landwehr 170 1,861 1,282 ..
Hungarian Honveds 390 4,170 3,510 ..
Field Artillery 1,630 27,612 14,520 1,048
Fortress Artillery 408 7,722 131 ..
Technical troops (Pioneers, and
Railway and Telegraph Regiment)
^~588 9,935 19 ..
Transport Service 461 4,312 3,097 ..
Sanitary Service 85 3,062 .. ..
Total 20,564 336,818 64,887 1,048
Belonging to the
Common Army 15,863 285,733 59,659 1,048
Austrian Landwehr 2,053 25,766 1,456 ..
Hungarian Honveds 2,648 25,319 3,772 ..
AGRICULTURAL STATS
According to the agricultural census of 1895, the main varieties of land are distributed as follows:
Hungary Proper. Croatia-Slavonia.
By area in acres -
Arable land 29,714,382 13,370,540
Gardens 928,053 136,354
Meadows 7,075,888 1,099,451
Vineyards 482,801 65,475
Pastures 9,042,267 1,465,930
Forests 18,464,396 3,734,094
Marshes 199,685 7,921
By percentage of the total area -
Arable land 42.81% 32.26%
Gardens 1.34% 1.31%
Meadows 10.19% 10.52%
Vineyards 0.69% 0.63%
Pastures 13.03% 14.03%
Forests 26.60% 35.74%
Marshes 0.28% 0.08%
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION STATS
Iron- Iron ore, 1,876,000 tons; pig iron, 463,000 tons~Hungary; this next statistic is from 1903, Austria: iron ore, 2,586,000 tons; pig iron, 1,482,000 tons
~In all about 1,945,000 tons produced.
Coal - in 1900 it was 32,500,000 tons out of Austria; 6,600,000 tons out of Hungary
~In all about 39,100,000 tons produced.
Petroleum is found in Galicia
copper is extracted in Tirol
Zinc is only to be mined in Bohemia
Important Manufactured Products: Fire arms, files, wire, nails, tin plate scythes, sickles, steel pens, needles, rails, iron furniture, drains, and kitchen utensils.
-These are made primarily in Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Upper and Lower Austria, Styria and Carinthia- these places all contain ҥxtensive iron-worksҬ
The most important place of derivation and of destination for the Austro-Hungarian trade is the German empire with about 40% of the imports, and about 60% of the exports. Next in importance comes Great Britain, afterwards India, Italy, the United States of America, Russia, France, Switzerland, Rumania, the Balkan states and South America in about the order named. The principal articles of import are cotton and cotton goods, wool and woollen goods, silk and silk goods, coffee, tobacco and metals. The principal articles of export are wood, sugar, cattle, glass and glassware, iron and ironware, eggs, cereals, millinery, fancy goods, earthenware and pottery, and leather goods.
The following tables give the foreign trade of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy as regards raw material and manufactured goods: -
Imports.
Articles. Value in Millions Sterling.
1900. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904.
Raw material (including
articles of food; raw
material for agriculture
and industry; and mining
and smelting products. 41.5 40.5 41.8 45.9 51.9
Semi-manufactured goods 9.6 9.6 10.3 10.6 10.8
Manufactured goods 19.5 18.7 19.5 21.6 22.5
Exports.
Articles. Value in Millions Sterling.
1900. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904
Raw material (as above) 34.1 34.1 35.9 39 35.3
Semi-manufactured goods 12.6 11.1 11.1 12.4 12.6
Manufactured goods. 34.2 33.3 32.8 37.2 38.3
POPULATION STATS
Total Population ~ 45.2 Million
0.2% of the population was employed in metalworking, while 2.6% of the total population was in the army.
The following table gives the numbers of different nationalities, as determined by the languages spoken by them in 1900: -
Germans 9,171,614
Czechs and Slovaks 5,955,397
Poles 4,252,483
Ruthenians 3,381,570
Slovenes 1,192,780
Italians and Ladini 727,102
Servians and Croats 711,380
Rumanians 230,963
Magyars 9,516
A yoctosecond is the smallest unit of time. Know anything that can measure in THAT?