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rcurl
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response 244 of 563:
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Jan 27 22:10 UTC 2006 |
How is the date of the Chinese New-Years-Day determined?
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richard
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response 245 of 563:
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Jan 28 00:59 UTC 2006 |
re #244 I asked that question to google. google is your friend:
"The date of the Chinese New Year is determined by the Chinese
calendar. Chinese New Year starts on the first day of the new year
containing a new moon (some sources even include New Year's Eve) and
ends on the Lantern Festival fourteen days later. This occurs around
the time of the full moon as each lunation is about 29.53 days in
duration. In the Gregorian calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on
different dates each year, on a date between January 21 and February
21."
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rcurl
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response 246 of 563:
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Jan 28 07:05 UTC 2006 |
As stated, this seems circular. Do I presume that the "first day of the new
year" refers to a Gregorian new year? If so, this is not an independent
definition of the Chinese New Year. It seems strange to me that the Chinese
calendar would be forced to be synchronized to the Gregoria New Year.
Or is the "first day of the new year" is the date following the Winter
Solstice on which a new moon occurs? That would make sense (then why don't
they say so?).
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aruba
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response 247 of 563:
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Jan 30 04:06 UTC 2006 |
It can't be what you said, Rane, because then it would be possible for the
new year to begin in December.
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rcurl
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response 248 of 563:
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Jan 30 07:33 UTC 2006 |
You are right. There is an explanation at
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-chinese.html
but I haven't tried to understand it yet. I looked especially for the
calculation of the start of each new year, but that isn't stated explicitly
(as far as I could tell).
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twenex
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response 249 of 563:
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Jan 30 08:05 UTC 2006 |
Re: #245. You mean you asked that question OF google.
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aruba
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response 250 of 563:
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Jan 30 19:40 UTC 2006 |
Re #248 - That's an interesting site, Rane - thanks. Calculating the
calendar seems to be very complicated. It was also interesting that the
names of years repeat every 60 years, and that the names are described by
two cycles of length 12 and 10. There is a famous theorem in number theory
called the "Chinese Remainder Theorem", which generalizes the principle that
all the year-names will be used in 60 years. I wonder if that's why the
theorem is called that.
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fitz
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response 251 of 563:
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Jan 31 20:47 UTC 2006 |
I replaced the outside door lock and it only took one additional trip to the
hardware store. This door must have had a skeleton lock and then was fit
with some adaptor kit to span the huge cavern I found when I took off the
cylinder lock.
I had to use my hacksaw for the first time in years: I feel as if I
actually did something
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tod
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response 252 of 563:
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Jan 31 21:00 UTC 2006 |
YAY
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fitz
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response 253 of 563:
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Feb 1 13:20 UTC 2006 |
Hours later, I think I figured out why so much had been chisled away: The
ancient lock probably had one of those 2-button lock/unlock mechanisms beneath
the springbolt. Anyone still have one in their house?
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jiffer
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response 254 of 563:
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Feb 1 13:49 UTC 2006 |
Happiness is having a new-used car. It has air, no oil leaks, seats 7, and
a V6! Thank you Mom and Dad for the early graduation present. Anyone want to
buy a 97 Deathmobile,... err I mean Geo Metro... I have always called it hte
deathmobile, my name for car... I have to find a name for the mini van now.
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glenda
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response 255 of 563:
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Feb 1 17:24 UTC 2006 |
Re #253: Yes, we have one. It is both usefull and a pain. It is usefull
in that the door is locked even if one the kids can't find their keys such
that they can lock the door when they have to go to class. It can be a pain
if you go out to get the mail and either unthinkingly shut to door or a cat
leans against it and you don't have your keys on you and either no one else
is home or the only other person home is sleeping on the third floor and can't
hear the bell or your pounding. It is also a pain when one of the kids sets
it to unlock while sitting on the porch, waiting for a friend to arrive, takes
in groceries, or runs down to the party store for Mom and then forgets to
re-lock it thus leaving the door unlocked if leaving without keys (and
assuming it is locked) or going to bed for the night and forgetting to set
the dead-bolt or putting on the chain. Overall I prefer having it to not
having it.
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tod
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response 256 of 563:
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Feb 2 19:30 UTC 2006 |
IHB I just learned that a former coworker has taken a job directly across the
street on the same floor and now we can play charades.
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nharmon
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response 257 of 563:
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Feb 2 19:32 UTC 2006 |
LOL
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marcvh
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response 258 of 563:
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Feb 2 19:33 UTC 2006 |
Be sure to get laser pointers so you can get each other's attention.
It kind of ruins the effect if you have to phone him to tell him to look
at you.
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tod
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response 259 of 563:
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Feb 2 20:08 UTC 2006 |
Figuring out which floor he was on was funny because I was describing people
on different floors: "Is there a chick in a pink angora sweater in the SW
corner?" "Is there a fat guy with a red tie and feet on his desk?" "Do you
have a conference room with IKEA shelfing?" and after enough of that
"Ok, I see you. You ARE the fat guy with the red tie!"
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edina
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response 260 of 563:
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Feb 2 21:10 UTC 2006 |
hahahahah!
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jadecat
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response 261 of 563:
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Feb 3 16:53 UTC 2006 |
IHB- It's Friday, I won a free vacation day at the staff meeting today,
AND I got a new-to-me laptop for $50 from work's garage sale (Compaq
Armada, P3 900 mhz with 512MB RAM. Not the newest or spiffiest- but
better than the desktop I currently have. Did I mention the only $50
part? :) ) Oh and it came with a carry bag and separate mouse.
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keesan
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response 262 of 563:
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Feb 3 17:40 UTC 2006 |
Wow! My very best computer is about 100MHz, kindly given to us by a grexer,
with 24MB RAM, and about 1GB hard drive. Overkill for our purposes, of
course. We also have a broken Armada, which is 500MHz and sometimes powers
on (you have to put in the dead battery) and sometimes boots and has no hard
drive, from another kind grexer. And a 133MHz with no floppy drive, from a
grexer who gave up fixing the monitor hinge (Jim fixed it). I am happy
grexers are so generous with their unused equipment.
I am also happy we finally got Opera working in an older linux with newer
libraries, 35MB includes two other browsers and Kermit. Opera is memory
intensive so needs 32MB RAM. We even got it to boot straight to X with an
rxvt and a little menu in the rxvt title, for our memory-challenged
84-year-old friend, who can now type l for links, o for opera, d for dial,
r to reboot and power off. My new upstairs neighbor also wants a computer.
We are never making any more Windows computer . My landlord wanted WORD and
EXCEL. Jim has DOS WORKS. 'I hate Windows'. Unfortunately you need it to
upgrade some 1997 X2 modems to V90. In exchange for the 35MB computer we got
a Lucent linmodem.
We also have, from a kind grexer, an overclocked-from-600 MHz 750MHz board.
The 900s should start showing up in a year or three. We are still making
people 166's (cpu upgraded from 133).
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kingjon
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response 263 of 563:
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Feb 3 18:34 UTC 2006 |
Is the 100MHz in the first line of #262 supposed to have another zero?
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nharmon
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response 264 of 563:
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Feb 3 18:35 UTC 2006 |
Heh. Nope.
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keesan
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response 265 of 563:
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Feb 3 18:57 UTC 2006 |
100.0MHz? We mostly use the color 486 laptop because I had already set it
up with linux and got X working with its odd video card. Jim wants to put
linux on his pentium laptop soon. We have an 8MB PCMCIA memory card to
upgrade the 24MB 100.0 MHz laptop with, and a 10Mbit ethernet card so we can
plug into friends' DSL modems and transfer files to their computer via upload
and download if they have a Mac.
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jadecat
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response 266 of 563:
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Feb 3 19:10 UTC 2006 |
Well, this particular laptop was one that the engineers here used to
use- they have since gotten better ones. Still for me this is an upgrade...
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edina
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response 267 of 563:
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Feb 3 20:47 UTC 2006 |
IHB it's Friday. After I get through tomorrow afternoon, the weekend is my
own.
I'm also happy because I'm in charge of picking up our trial team every day
and it has meant listening to great conversation.
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tod
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response 268 of 563:
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Feb 3 20:50 UTC 2006 |
IHB Grex staff is too arrogant to tell us what happened
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