Cap'n Refsmmat

And if you have terabytes of government data, do you really want to spend the time to copy/paste it all? OpenOffice documents are actually several files zipped together. Rename the file to file.zip and open it with a decompressor program. The same is true for Office 2007 documents.

And whatever error message the teacher's compiler gives.

One that wants its future employees to fit through the front door?

Oh, that link. That one doesn't count.

It may have been the stiffness of the jug that made you perceive it to be heavier (it happens). Try weighing it properly if it happens again, and perhaps take pictures.

Right.

If you have hundreds of terabytes of data, like the article describes, it's not that easy. And this is a government agency, too, so inefficiency is at work.

A lot of the time it's a lot harder than that. Suppose you have government records stored in Word files and you can't use Office. How do you retrieve that many files? It would be a monumental effort to apply the correct formatting to hundreds of documents, and if things like "Track Changes" have been done, it would be even harder. Picking a format you know you'll be able to read fifty years from now, even if it takes writing a piece of software for your shiny new quantum computers, is a lot nicer. Store files in the OpenDocument format and even if all of the OpenOffice and OASIS people are dead and the software long-gone, you'll be able to dig up a copy of the standard and write a program to extract all of the text.

[hide]R[/hide] Word tricks.

I'll check with blike.

The larger the atom, the less stable it becomes, and the more likely it is to break apart. You could have an atom with 2000 protons, but it would last only a millisecond or two (if you can figure out how to put the protons together in the first place).

I see. But you have to admit, the concept that there is no objective reality at all is rather fun to think about. Thanks for the explanation.

We kind of forgot about TFN, WiSci and OD all at once. edit: links removed.

Sure it's heavier? Try weighing it properly. I doubt it would have gained weight in a sealed container.

I could re-install MediaWiki somewhere if blike points the domain in the right place. Not too much work, really. If you think you'll use it, I'll set it back up. I'll poke blike sometime to change the DNS settings.

Cuba is, erm, 39th. Behind the US.

Hah! Now we can beat Wikipedia's notability guidelines for sure!

I will admit that it, err, needed some work. We're still pondering whether or not to try again.

We might be, but the next question is, "What's wrong with playing God?"

When blike canceled the old hosting, we kind of forgot that TFN was still on it. I don't think there were backups, either. I can check with blike though. Oops.

The bang (and the sniper) would have been constructed by your mind anyway, so it's irrelevant.

Why bother with what might be outside of our senses when what we experience is all through our senses? e.g. if it turns out that the world is actually 400 degrees and ablaze, it doesn't really matter, because we'll never know and it won't hurt us.

That's not possible in vBulletin.

First find the volume of the acid before you do it. Then, you can work out that volume of acid * concentration = volume of base * concentration So the acid's concentration is volume of base * base's concentration Volume of acid

And what does that have to do with its status as "open source" software? The trouble is that a third-party developer can't fully support the format because only Microsoft knows the algorithm behind word-wrapping in Word 6. It's only superficially "open."