TIL: Today I Learned

[Tee Kay]

I think that's more of an excuse to rant at the current Australian government.

Nothing wrong with that anyway, this bullship must be exposed.

 

[Kaitzilla]

Link to video.

 

[James Stuart]

I think that's more of an excuse to rant at the current Australian government.

Nothing wrong with that anyway, this bullship must be exposed.

TIL: Andrew Bolt wants Scott Morrison in charge of the LNP. He was practically fellating him. So there are worse things than Tony Abbott, PM. Bishop or Turnbull may well challenge next week.

 

[Tee Kay]

TIL: Andrew Bolt wants Scott Morrison in charge of the LNP. He was practically fellating him. So there are worse things than Tony Abbott, PM.

Scott Morrison as PM, Barnaby Joyce as Treasurer, Cory Bernardi in Education, Eric Abetz in Health.

And may well we say God save the Queen because nothing will save the Commonwealth.

 

[James Stuart]

Scott Morrison as PM, Barnaby Joyce as Treasurer, Cory Bernardi in Education, Eric Abetz in Health.

And may well we say God save the Queen because nothing will save the Commonwealth.

I think Abetz should have both the Health and Immigration portfolios. Give the Nazi both the things he can use to kill minorities. Throw in Police while you're on the job.

 

[Kyriakos]

Well, tanks are sort of like armoured tractors with guns.

Warhammer 40K.

 

[PhroX]

Early post-WWI German tanks were designated as "large tractors" to avoid raising suspicion.

New Zealander tanks were tractors....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Semple_tank

 

[bhsup]

TIL South Korean pop music changed Youtube forever. You all know the apocryphal quote attributed to Bill Gates about 640K memory... well this one is real!

"We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views) but that was before we met Psy," says YouTube in a statement.

Who, what, why: Why was Psy nearly too much for YouTube?

The catchy Korean pop video catapulted the artist Psy and his signature dance moves to fame in 2012 and two years later, Gangnam Style is still the video most watched on YouTube.

At the time of writing, it has had 2,155,653,764 views - which is actually a bit of a problem, as YouTube's view counter could not count beyond 2,147,483,647.

"We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views) but that was before we met Psy," says YouTube in a statement.

...

YouTube had not thought it was possible for a video to get more hits than could be stored in a 32-bit number. But the Gangnam Style video crept closer and closer to the limit.

If it had crossed it then, like an odometer clocking the miles on a car, the counter would simply have gone back to the beginning.

This would not necessarily have even been zero as some 32-bit integers are used to count negative numbers. The next number it showed could have been several million below zero.

YouTube averted this by upgrading to a 64-bit integer and because computers are programmed to count up by the power of two, the new limit is 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, or more than nine quintillion.

They don't think even Gangnam style could break that one.

The original may not, but I have faith that the parody based on my main man Mittens will. Someday!

 

[James Stuart]

TIL South Korean pop music changed Youtube forever. You all know the apocryphal quote attributed to Bill Gates about 640K memory... well this one is real!

"We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views) but that was before we met Psy," says YouTube in a statement.

Who, what, why: Why was Psy nearly too much for YouTube?



The original may not, but I have faith that the parody based on my main man Mittens will. Someday!

All that for a bizarre song in a foreign language? I never got that.

 

[Takhisis]

Hey, I know 'Mericans don't speak English properly, but that's no reason to call their jargon a foreign langauge.

 

[James Stuart]

Hey, I know 'Mericans don't speak English properly, but that's no reason to call their jargon a foreign langauge.

Oh yeah? Then explain to me what the hell "grits" is meant to be. And why they insult one another by calling each other donkeys? How "slobberknocker" is in any way a real word?

 

[bhsup]

Grits are just ground up corn made into a hot breakfast cereal. You got your oatmeal, cream of wheat, and grits.

 

[Takhisis]

Technically, it is a foreign language, now that I think of it. They do insist on not praying towards Westminster five times a day.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Grits are just ground up corn made into a hot breakfast cereal. You got your oatmeal, cream of wheat, and grits.

Not just ground up corn. It has to be nixtamalized too. It is ground up hominy.

 

[Phrossack]

Oh yeah? Then explain to me what the hell "grits" is meant to be. And why they insult one another by calling each other donkeys? How "slobberknocker" is in any way a real word?

Is that an Australian I see poking fun at American differences in English?

 

[Takhisis]

He's part of the Dominions, so his is not a foreign language.

 

[bhsup]

What? They don't even say beer. Apparently they say Fosters, Australian for beer.

 

[Takhisis]

Different language but not foreign language. You USians will end up speaking Spanish before long. *evil cackle*
*gets a grip*
I do remember that they had some girls in bikinis in their ads, so it's reasonable to suppose that their minds might be addled when discussing beer.

 

[Zack]

Different language but not foreign language. You USians will end up speaking Spanish before long. *evil cackle*
*gets a grip*
I do remember that they had some girls in bikinis in their ads, so it's reasonable to suppose that their minds might be addled when discussing beer.

There are plenty of beer commercials in the US with girls in bikinis.

 

[Takhisis]

But 100% of all Aussie beer ads I've seen had girls in bikinis. The same does not apply to US beer ads.