Useless facts!

[Richard K Niner]

Fact: Counting Sort is still faster than Quicksort.<br>Fact: Quicksort is slightly faster than Mergesort.<br>Fact: Mergesort is faster than both Insertion and Selection sort.<br>Fact: Insertiona and Selection sort are faster than Bubble sort.<br>Fact: Bubble sort can be written in 5 lines in C/C++

[Gizensha]

FACT: Stephen Gallagher is still awsome at writing Sciency thrillers<br><br>FACT: Patrick Stewart is still a great actor<br><br>FACT: Eleventh Hour is probably the best ITV drama in years.

[Rooster]

Fact - If you add the word "hunt" after the word "fact", it sounds rather rude.<br><br>Fact - Only british people will understand that.

[Gizensha]

FACT: Not all British people will understand that<br>FACT: But then, I never was good at phonetic puzzles

[Steve the Pocket]

FACT: High definition TV in the U.S. uses the same video format as QuickTime files. DVD, meanwhile, uses MPEG-4.<br><br>FACT: "Sesame Street" was originally planned to have an all-human cast.<br><br>FACT: Oscar the Grouch, now well-known by his pine green hue, was originally <span style='color:#FF8000'>orange</span>.

[Richard K Niner]

FACT: The Quicktime format does <b>not</b> use a specific encoding. It is a stream container.<br>FACT: Some Quicktime files use MPEG-4.<br>FACT: Other stream containers include Ogg (which is used for Vorbis, FLAC, Speex, and Theora) and AVI (The Windows equivalent to Quicktime).

[Rooster]

Fact - Richard knows too much about tech stuff <!--emo&:wag:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... ailwag.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tailwag.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Steve the Pocket]

Oh. Well, then, someone must be full of baloney. Anywho, another one...<br><br>FACT: S-O-S. does not actually stand for anything (at least, officially) and came into use for being easy to remember.<br><br>FACT: It replaced an older code C-Q-D, which also does not stand for anything but is a combination of the code for "general interest transmission" and "D" for "distress."

[Rooster]

Fact - The letters "SOS" were used because it was simple to tap. Even people not trained to use a telegraph machine were able to keep up the three dots, three dashes, three dots rhythm.

[Gizensha]

FACT: Morse code via phone does not work.<br><br>FACT: DoND is good television but a nasty game<br><br>FACT: The British version of DoND just lost all semblence of predictability with reguards to banker offers<br><br>FACT: Several people are really annoyed by this.

[Tom Flapwell]

Fact: "OK" was first used by the military to stand, such as it were, for "all clear."<br><br>Fact: "Hello" was first used over the telephone, not so much as a greeting as to check whether the other person could hear you.

[Bocaj Claw]

Fact: eBayddiction is a real problem threatening our generation

[GamemasterAnthony]

FACT: The Blues Brothers, despite being fictional characters created by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd for SNL, actually managed to get a number one hit with their rendition of "Soul Man".<br><br>They weren't the only ones to this, though. The Monkees scored number one with "Daydream Believer" and The Heights with "How Do You Talk to an Angel" despite the fact both bands were made up for television.

[Richard K Niner]

FACT: Laying a guilt trip on someone is, in fact, shaming them.<br>Fact: Guilt and shame are not the same thing.

[Muninn]

<!--QuoteBegin-GamemasterAnthony+Jan 22 2006, 04:33 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (GamemasterAnthony @ Jan 22 2006, 04:33 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> They weren't the only ones to this, though. The Monkees scored number one with "Daydream Believer" and The Heights with "How Do You Talk to an Angel" despite the fact both bands were made up for television. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Fact - Although the Monkees were manufactured for television to be popular with young people, they gradually asserted more control over their music, which was their focal point. Even from the start they were opposed to session musicians taking their places and only agreed because the studio wouldn't let the members who didn't already know an instrument take time to learn one so they could release them as soon as possible. As soon as they got some lessons and learned basic techniques they started featuring their own playing and own songs more and more frequently. If I remember right only their first two albums have other musicians playing for them and the second album only has it in a few songs (again at the insistance of the company). Mike Nesmith especially would go on to write some good songs during and after the Monkees.