GOTD

Rajesh R Subramanian

Or you could just email him every time you need a GUID!

"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.

CPallini

Shameel wrote:

{FFC01FB9-F42E-4742-A786-01E6A19A9603}

Should be ILiquidNitrogen's one, I suppose.

Veni, vidi, vici.

Lost User

We have an OTD for everything, why not GUID?

Lost User

Keith Barrow wrote:

Not guaranteed universally unique.

Shouldn't it be enough if they're globally unique? (Unless of course, we learn about aliens who use them)

Lost User

Quite. A thought it was a good joke, although I see you have been reported for it. Reporting is replacing downvoting more and more, and very rarely is what gets reported either abuse or spam.

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Rage

Argonia wrote:

unique

It is not unique. It has a high probability of not already being used somewhere.

~RaGE();

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CBadger

CPallini wrote:

...4742-A...

Thats it! 42 is the answer to LIFE! Good job! :rolleyes:

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Super Lloyd

Hey, that's MY Guid! :mad:

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Ankur m

Mark_Wallace wrote:

it's not present on the machine I'm sitting at

And the probability of having one would be about 50% if every person on earth owns 600 million GUIDs. :rolleyes:

..Go Green..

Mark_Wallace

I think you may be missing a few factors in your equation. i.e. some GUIDs are somewhat more ubiquitous than others.

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vonb

Well, I had once a Swiss weather quote of the day.. Got downflagged pretty quickly..

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Ankur m

Mark_Wallace wrote:

i.e. some GUIDs are somewhat more ubiquitous than others.

Certainly. But that's a probability, which is always calculated based on some assumptions. And that figure was taken from Wikipedia - Globally unique identifier[^]. :)

..Go Green..

Keith Barrow

I read an actual discussion about this very thing elsewhere, believe it or not, which is what prompted my reply. Not guaranteed unique is always true both GUIDs and UUIDs BTW, though the chances of generating the same two IDs are vanishingly small for truly random sets. The UUID I supplied, is the same as the OP, meaning neither my nor his UID are unique, negating them as either Universally or Globally unique IDs.

PB 369,783 wrote:

I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]

Mike Hankey

Kirstie Alley's dress size?

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Lost User

Mike Hankey wrote:

dress size

Are you sure you're asking the right question?

H Brydon

No sweat ... By the time we get close to running out, we will have come up with GUIDv6.

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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson

I have always wondered how they tell when we have run out? do we get a big error message stating "sys error" no more GUIDs available (probably with a sound clip going "na na na")

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.