Indeed, I'm setting the maximum valid value as specified in the documentation to determine the actual date/time. If you add 1 to that number it returns an Invalid Date exception. I didn't need to loop/test because for once I had actually read the manual! :-D
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The world will actually end at 1am on Saturday the 13th of September in the year 275760, according to the Javascript documentation.. http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-15.9.1.1[^] Quick test...
var endOfTheWorld = new Date();
endOfTheWorld.setTime(8640000000000000);
document.write(endOfTheWorld);
"Sat Sep 13 275760 01:00:00 GMT+0100 (GMT Daylight Time)" :-D
...and the other 25% are wrong.
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Looks like the best phone around at the moment. I had to give up waiting for one and went for the Samsung Galaxy S, the first time I've had something other than an HTC, very much enjoying my first Android based phone though.
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I have been using HTC phones based on Windows Mobile for several years and generally had good experiences. I am about to get myself a new phone and have been looking into the differences between the imminent Windows Mobile 7 (a complete overhaul of WM so effectively a 1.0 release) and Android 2.2 (a stable and open OS which now boasts widespread adoption), my conclusion is that Android is slightly ahead of the game at this moment in time so I will go for an Android phone next and keep an eye on how further iterations of Windows Mobile look. I intend on getting the HTC Desire HD which has the 4.3 screen and pretty much the best hardware specs around. I wouldn't bother with the HTC HD2 now, it is a great phone but runs Windows Mobile 6.5 which is about to be superseded. Both Android and WM will handle RDP fine with 3rd party tools so that should not sway the decision. I would go with either the HTC Desire HD with Android or wait for WM7 to be released next month which will run on something like the rumoured HTC HD7 which seems to have a similar spec.
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assume life -= .5 But don't spend too much time putting that estimate together, I have a funny feeling that this will never quite reach the top of the priority list!!!
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viaducting wrote:
interesting debate
one way to kill (or half kill!) a few minutes.. better!?
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Indeed half-dead is not really tangible, just a turn of phrase. Though it does prompt interesting debate as people interpret it differently and apply different logic. Your conclusion for example allows for recovery whereas others don't.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
"glass twice as big as it needs to be"
hah, I like that and might just steal it and pass it off as my own!!
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So an elastic limit of up to 50% and you would recover from the first scaring resulting in 0.5? A limit of over 50% and you would be down to 0.25?
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Interesting that yourself and OriginalGriff both agree that life is a binary state but based on that your conclusions are opposed, dead v's alive.
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So regardless of this happening twice.. you suggest that if you are scared half to death just once then you are in fact dead?
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The presumption of recovery is a big one but I like the state of being argument, allot of this is in the initial interpretation. Yours is a third argument though as my colleague is in the "you're dead" camp!
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Can you help settle a debate between myself and a colleague? Given the wording in the title, how do you interprit it, what is your conclusion and how do you reach it? I won't reveal my arguement yet so as to maintain impartiality. EDIT: Well the first few replies back up my answer of 25% alive, looks like it will be free coffee for me if no-one can disprove this?!
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That was about the best game of the competition so far!
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I told the doctor I'd broken my arm in several places.. ..he told me not to go to those places.
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"There's an app for that" ! http://jaxov.com/2010/04/writepad-handwriting-recognition-app-for-ipad/[^]
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There is a potentially tricky qualifier to get through first though!
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I'm using Palringo, originally I used their windows mobile client as it connects to all the major chat services, more recently I've been using the desktop client too having ditched msn, it does everything I need it to and has a clean, unobtrusive interface, well worth checking out. http://www.palringo.com/[^]
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Theresa Green
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