Binary vs. Hex thinking & general rambling

[freespirit]

There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary, and those who don't.

There are also the higher order animals that use HEX

[Cyberdog]

There are also the higher order animals that use HEX

Like what? Two spiders?

[freespirit]

Like what? Two spiders?

No those with some savvy. 1,0 is your Basic animal , HEX is the Alpha thinker , not taken in by the" it's all yor owm fault for not following the myths " rubbish . Who would write in 1,0 when there is hex ?

[RubberKat]

TV does have its uses. I am a confessed football fanatic and I am in heaven right now. The season just started last Thursday.

I'm speaking of American football for all the international folks.

Seems a little odd to call it football, as feet seem to be hardly used... Should be just called "Mass Bundle Ball" or suchlike...

Football = Soccer
American Football = "Mass Bundle Ball"

I like my new name for it, I think we should change it permanently... The NFL will now be the NMBBL... hehehehehe...

And why is the baseball World Series called that? It's only the US and Canada (and maybe mexico?) that takes part.

[bodysuit]

Like what? Two spiders?

So one spider would be octal?

[Electrojim]

. . . .
Football = Soccer
American Football = "Mass Bundle Ball"

Australian football = "Footbrawl"

[meghan-bhrendt]

My favorite resolution to arguments like this is to display the binary check sum of the universe (42) in octal with ones fingers!

[jin]

Reminds me of this:
You know you've been hacking too long when you go to balance your checkbook and discover that you're doing it in octal.

[Gord]

Small question, not worth starting a new thread for, so excuse me for butting in here ....

Exactly WHAT is a Yahoo Slurp Spider? Check 'who's online' and after the members, there's a whole raft of these wierd slobbering arachnids. Simple answers appreciated!

Gord.

[Cyberdog]

It's the web indexing program from Yahoo. As they 'crawl' the 'web', they were named spiders by the sort of geeks like me with underdeveloped sense of humour.

The idea is that once the spider has crawled all pages on the site, the search engine will be able to help you find what you want.

Well that's the theory - there are a lot of complaints about Yahoo from webmasters that the spider puts a heavy load on their site, and still they don't get listed on Yahoo.