We've got a horse race

**laseranimal** · 10-09-2003, 08:23 PM

Pinner trails ONS by 5 posts for the overall lead!

**Castro's** · 10-09-2003, 09:28 PM

When he passes him will he win a Powdermag wife beater? If so, then he woudln't have to post on that website anymore, because really, who needs two beaters?

**Mountainman** · 10-09-2003, 09:33 PM

what will come first though? passing ONS or getting 4 g's at powmag?

**Owens Never Sleeps** · 10-09-2003, 09:36 PM

Originally posted by Mountainman
what will come first though? passing ONS or getting 4 g's at powmag?

Ahem - Passing 4 g's on powmag will come first because I can cheat. It's good to be the king...

**Mountainman** · 10-09-2003, 09:40 PM

lol, nice

**Castro's** · 10-09-2003, 09:48 PM

So ONS, can you work your magic and let me change my confirmed addict title. Hell, I'll even let you make up the title. (preferably, I AM FIDEL!)

**Plakespear** · 10-09-2003, 10:04 PM

And Pinner wins, with ONS being disqualified. I mean, come on, the commisaire beats Lance evry day in the tour, but since he's in a car, he doesn't count.

**Pinner** · 10-09-2003, 10:37 PM

Owens Never Sleeps
Registered: 10-04-2000
Posts: 65535

Pinner
Registered: 05-09-2002
Posts: 375

**truth** · 10-09-2003, 10:49 PM

Originally posted by Castro's
So ONS, can you work your magic and let me change my confirmed addict title. Hell, I'll even let you make up the title. (preferably, I AM FIDEL!)

Agreed...ONS, the tribe has spoken...you've been voted off the island.

**laseranimal** · 10-10-2003, 06:10 AM

Yeah I can't change my status either

could you make it say "is misunderstood"

**laseranimal** · 10-10-2003, 06:33 AM

65535 (10048.33 posts per day) holy crap thats a whole lotta posts ONS

**Castro's** · 10-10-2003, 08:32 AM

Originally posted by laseranimal
65535 (10048.33 posts per day) holy crap thats a whole lotta posts ONS

yeah, seriously ONS, get a life

**AntiSoCalSkier** · 10-10-2003, 11:10 AM

65536 = 2^16

So that means there's a hard limit to the post count (maybe stored as a "short"?). So, what happens when you go over that? Will it cycle around to -65535 or 0? Will there be a buffer overflow resulting in the board crashing? Or will it just sit there?

I'm thinking nothing will happen since the board hasn't crashed yet.

**Beaver** · 10-10-2003, 11:45 AM

I'm tied with Juan Valdez, This one will put me past him. Next mark is Truth, only 100 more posts 'till i pass him too.

**Buster Highmen** · 10-10-2003, 12:10 PM

Originally posted by AntiSoCalSkier
65536 = 2^16

So that means there's a hard limit to the post count (maybe stored as a "short"?). So, what happens when you go over that? Will it cycle around to -65535 or 0? Will there be a buffer overflow resulting in the board crashing? Or will it just sit there?

I'm thinking nothing will happen since the board hasn't crashed yet.

If it's an unsigned short it will cycle to zero, since the range is 0 to 65535.

If it's a signed short the range is -32767 to 32768.

Or if it's a bigger data type like a long or int64, he might have just entered 0xffff and left it at that.

**Ted Stryker** · 10-10-2003, 12:22 PM

Still, one guys gets PAID to post,
the other guy...........??

let's hope so.

**iceman** · 10-10-2003, 12:41 PM

How do you math whizzes know he didn't just pick the number out of a hat?

**Buster Highmen** · 10-10-2003, 12:56 PM

Originally posted by iceman
How do you math whizzes know he didn't just pick the number out of a hat?

Ice, there's 10 kinds of people, people who understand binary and people who don't.

**Buster Highmen** · 10-10-2003, 12:58 PM

There's also 0xa/5 kinds of people: those who understand hex and those who don't.

**iceman** · 10-10-2003, 01:01 PM

HAHAHAHA...um. what?

**Buster Highmen** · 10-10-2003, 01:03 PM

OK, there's different number bases. We honky/cracker types are used to base 10.

So we write
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 12 12 13 14 15 16 ...

But in base 2, we write
0
1
10
11
100
101
110
111

etc.

Now laugh. Yes, it is extreme geek.

**Buster Highmen** · 10-10-2003, 01:06 PM

Hex is base 16
So there we write
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
10 11 12 13 14...1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f

Usually prepended by 0x.

So 0xa/5 == 2

**IBISguru** · 10-10-2003, 01:18 PM

Originally posted by Buster Highmen
Hex is base 16
So there we write
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
10 11 12 13 14...1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f

Usually prepended by 0x.

So 0xa/5 == 2

Man you are bringing back some memories for me here. Now that I have a job, I never use this stuff. It was sweet to know it at one point though.

**Buster Highmen** · 10-10-2003, 01:53 PM

Originally posted by IBISguru
Man you are bringing back some memories for me here. Now that I have a job, I never use this stuff. It was sweet to know it at one point though.

All I want is a job that __doesn't__ use this stuff.