The numbers we all use (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) are known as ” arabic ” numbers to distinguish them from the ” Roman Numerals ” (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, etc). Actually the arabs popularized these numbers but they were originally used by the early phoenician traders to count and keep track of their trading accounts.
Have you ever thought why…….. 1 means “one”, and 2 means “two”? The roman numerals are easy to understand but what was the logic behind the phoenician numbers?
It’s all about angles !
It’s the number of angles. If one writes the numbers down (see below) on a piece of paper in their older forms, one quickly sees why. I have marked the angles with “o”s.
1 has one angle.
2 has two angles.
3 has three angles.
etc…and “O” has no angles.
Looks like some people are realy Woot addicted. Why else would someone have number plates ‘WOOTOFF!’ ? I’m also curious to find out how mutch does these cost?
This guy here on woot.com forum both an external hard drive from buy.com and received the products packed in a Woot box. Could this be true or is just a joke?
Didn’t you ever asked yourself what’s the greatest natural number?
Well, I have! And I’ve found it and also found the formula that demonstrates it. I will present you the mathematic deduction of what the greatest natural number is. Regardless this problem has been questioned for years, you need no advanced mathematical knoledge to understand it, just grade 2 equations.
Let’s start:
We will note with ’X’ the greatest natural number then follow some mathematical deductions to find it.
‘X’ being the greatest natural number it’s bigger then all numbers and also should be bigger or equals X2, so let’s use this:
X>=X2 => X-X2>=0 => X(1-X)>=0;
Interesting result, we know that X it’s a natural number so X is greater than 0. So the expression (1-x) must be greater than 0 or else X(1-X)>0 wouldn’t be true.
So,
1-X>=0 => 1>=X
We have the situation where X can only be 0 or 1 and since X it’s the greatest natural number, and 1>0 it is 1.
Just human voice, no instrumests… It will allways remind me of last summer vacation :).
They are called Loituma and the song’s name is Ievan Polkka. Last year I searched for this song for a long time until a coleague of mine told me who they are.
Bellow the video is the english translation of the lyrics.
The sound of a polka drifted from my neighbor’s
and set my feet a-tapping oh!
Ieva’s mother had her eye on her daughter but
Ieva she managed to fool her, you know.
‘Cause who’s going to listen to mother saying no
when we’re all busy dancing to and fro!
Ieva was smiling, the fiddle it was wailing
as people crowded round to wish her luck.
Everyone was hot but it didn’t seem to bother
the handsome young man, the dashing buck.
‘Cause who’s going to mind a drop of sweat
when he’s all busy dancing to and fro!
Ieva’s mother she shut herself away
in her own quiet room to hum a hymn.
Leaving our hero to have a spot of fun
in a neighbor’s house when the lights are dim.
‘Cause what does it matter what the old folks say
when you’re all busy dancing to and fro!
When the music stopped then the real fun began
and that’s when the laddie fooled around.
When he took her home, when the dancing was over
her mother angrily waiting they found.
But I said to her, Ieva, now don’t you weep
and we’ll soon be dancing to and fro!
I said to her mother now stop that noise
or I won’t be responsible for what I do.
If you go quietly and stay in your room
you won’t get hurt while your daughter I woo.
‘Cause this fine laddie is a wild sort of guy
when he’s all busy dancing to and fro!
One thing I tell you is you won’t trap me,
no, you won’t find me an easy catch.
Travel to the east and travel to the west but
Ieva and I are going to make a match.
‘Cause this fine laddie ain’t the bashful sort
when he’s all busy dancing to and fro
Woot.com was a great idea, no one can disagree with that. Everybody likes Woot and everybody wants a site like Woot. Don’t you? I know would, and I imagine it’s not that difficult to run it either. Just pack some products, write a few words a day and the rest is done by itself.
A google search about ‘woot clone’ releaves some interesting results. I found that it will cost you about $500 to build a website just like woot.com. Cheap, huh? After that you only have to find chinese provider to get your products, market the site with a few newsletters and you’re in business! Get yourself a cup of wine and celebrate, or better yet make your own wine woot. I would recommend some Wine from Romania or Croatia, if you know what I mean ;).
You don’t have to answer custommer’s emails, phones or forum posts. Woot doesn’t! Why would you? Why bother with that when everybody is in a such hurry to buy from you?
I know why, and that’s because Woot like websites will launch everyday from now on, and when you will be able to choose products from 1000 websites like Woot, you will choose from 1000 products / day.
OMG! I missed the woot bag of crap while writing this post. I better intall & reinstall ( to be sure ) the woot tracker , woot checker, woot coupon finder. Or not?
Woot off!
Legend:
- woot tracker: is tracking woots
- woot checker: is checking woots
This helps me alot when I’m transfering large files and I don’t want to do it from my laptop because I’m forced to wait until the transfer ends. So I just initiate the transfer from my local server that is running LINUX.
If the internet connection failes and the file transfer is broken I use RSYNC command to resume the transfer from the point where the connection failed. Here is an example of how to use RSYNC for that:
–partial : keep partially transferred files. This allows us to resume the transfer. –progress: show progress during transfer. This is prety self explanatory, you can use it only if you want. –rsh=ssh: This is for tunneling RSYNK through SSH to have a secure communication between the 2 machines.
