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Really dipshit?

Where do you see any attribution there you dumb faggot?

Really dipshit?

Where do you see any attribution there you dumb faggot?

"I miss TeX on my iPhone."

So, donwload a picture of your guy, and save it to the iphone.

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:HB_dKdvH5jP9wM:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/93/207891426_773fe934b5.jpg

Yeah, my sister had one too, and it broke constantly. To their credit, Worlds of Wonder would fix or replace it each time, but we had to ship it back to them so often that my sister and I knew the brown UPS van only as "The Teddy Ruxpin Truck" for a long, long time.

That was her problem, though. I got one of Teddy's friends, the fobs, which were basically puppets and rarely broke.

At my college there was a large engineering design course as part of the graduation requirements. The individual projects that teams of 1-4 students took on were solicited from and sponsored by actual companies.

One project the year I took this course sought to develop a way to harness the power of people typing. The company sponsoring the project wanted to patent the hell out of the technology and use it to run a laptop computer indefinitely. That was all well and good until someone spent five minutes doing back-of-the-envelope calculations and realized that, even with 100% harnessing and conversion efficiency, you'd be luck to harness one watt of power - and that was with someone typing 75 words per minute. This might have been enough to power a bluetooth keyboard, but definitely not even the most power-efficient laptop in the world.

So after that little debacle, the project team launched an entirely new avenue: a handcrank generator that would attach to a standard-issue military flashlight. The idea was to use the flashlight as part of the crank, being already there, fairly rugged, and with a right-angle bend in it. With next to no design effort, their first prototype could be cranked to produce about 30 W of electricity for a decent amount of time, depending on who was cranking it.

This worked well enough as a design project, and the team's final design was fairly impressive. But as a possible product it was dead-on-arrival.

Of course you can. As an example I've changed my signature to your portrait.
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Locke2005 == Macaulay Culkin?

I've used onelook.com for a while, which is another aggregator that (for now) seems to have more links than Google Dictionary does.

But Google Dictionary isn't just an aggregator, they provide their own pronunciations for some words (a really important feature IMHO), and a list of synonyms for some words.

I actually hope that onelook links to Google Dictionary, as strange as an aggregator-linking-to-aggregator might be.

My guess is that Google has been working on computational linguistics for such a long time (stemming has been important for search for a while, and Google lately has started throwing in synonyms to the search results) that it's natural for Google to start exposing some of their internal dataset to the world more directly.

The angular diameter or apparent size of an object as seen from a given position is the âoevisual diameterâ of the object measured as an angle.

What's hard to understand about that?

It even said: It's the apparent size.

In other words, the angular size is how big something looks if you disregard how far away it is.

For instance, here is a picture of a bird silhouetted against the moon. The bird is close to the viewer (appearing large) and the moon very far away (appearing small). Although we know it's huge, the moon looks like it's nearly the same size as the bird. Their visual diameters are nearly the same.

Here's another picture of a bird silhouetted against the moon. In this one, the bird is quite far away (though nowhere near as far away as the moon), and looks small in comparison. The moon is about the same size (visual diameter) as it was in the last picture, but the visual diameter of the bird is much smaller.

The angular diameter or apparent size of an object as seen from a given position is the âoevisual diameterâ of the object measured as an angle.

What's hard to understand about that?

It even said: It's the apparent size.

In other words, the angular size is how big something looks if you disregard how far away it is.

For instance, here is a picture of a bird silhouetted against the moon. The bird is close to the viewer (appearing large) and the moon very far away (appearing small). Although we know it's huge, the moon looks like it's nearly the same size as the bird. Their visual diameters are nearly the same.

Here's another picture of a bird silhouetted against the moon. In this one, the bird is quite far away (though nowhere near as far away as the moon), and looks small in comparison. The moon is about the same size (visual diameter) as it was in the last picture, but the visual diameter of the bird is much smaller.

Agreed. I am responsible for approx 950 employees's IT equipment; this includes printers. For 98% of our users, we purchase refurbished HP LaserJet 5n. I am sure nearly everyone has seen them; here is a photo to remind you. These are the old B/W workhorse laser printers that go and go. We can get about 10,000 pages per toner cartridge, and replacement cartridges are approx $38. Works beautifully when connected via ethernet. There is great driver support (uses PCL5). We use stock drivers which are included for everything from Windows 98-Windows 7, Debian, FreeBSD, and Citrix (strickly speaking, this isn't a different OS, but most printer drivers are a PITA to get working correctly and fast within the citrix environment.)

And, if you are interested, we order our refurbished units for under $200 each shipped from Global Printer Services.

Note: I have no affiliation with global printer other than being a satisfied customer. Also, just FYI: They are a smaller business, and as such, treat their customers very well. I deal with enough junk from the likes of AT&T^H^H^H^H "telcos" that it is nice to not have to hassle to get a printer or parts on order when needed.