Modern-day shibboleths include "homicide bombers" or "the Democrat party" (phrases used only Republicans), or "big business / big health care / big pharma" or "multinational corporations", or "neocons" (which are phrases used almost exclusively by Democrats.)
What about us non-Americans who learn English from/. and repeat the phrases we hear? I am as likely to utter "homicide bomber" as I am likely to utter "big business". What does that make me? (other than stupid?)
Did you spend much time using Kontact or any of the PIM applications individually? I can't live without KMail or KOrganizer, and haven't heard much about them in the KDE 4.1 prerelease reviews I've read other than the fact that they are included.
I have had some trouble with Korganizer moving events. It could move them to different hours, but not different days. I thought that I filed a bug but I cannot find it. I'll search again for it...
Other than that, you are going to love the new Kmail (labels!) and Akregator.
Car manufacturers so the same thing with the gas gauge. the top half is more than the bottom half. If the gauge on my car is sitting at half, I'm down to 24 Litres out of a 60 Litre tank. Also, there's a gallon or two left when the needle is at E.
Cadillac invented this in 1984 when they rolled out the electronic gauges which were linear. Customers complained about bad mileage despite the car being thriftier than it's predecessor. Some research showed that they were going by *how*often* they were filling up, not by *how*much*. So they made the gauge logarithmic and allowed another unaccounted for gallon at the end for safety.
A buddy of mine used to wrap his electronics and papers in a condom (you can buy the ones for oral sex that come without grease/lubricant, apparently) any time we went out to sea. If it's just your cellphone in there, you can still make calls without even taking it out, it's absolutely great.
Works great for small cameras, too (Canon A series) and the rubber is stretched so thin over the lens that it doesn't affect the picture at all!
Oh, and now all I get is "Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity."
That's because the googlebot is crawling them as we speak.
What OS are you using? Can you provide a screenshot? I've never noticed this on Ubuntu or Kubuntu. In any case, the Mozilla bugzilla is here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi
It was arranged so that PG&E will never have to pay you money.
There is also a $5 "connection fee" each month, so your smallest possible annual bill will be about $50. I used to hit that with a 4kW array (minute-by-minute stats are available).
$5 * 12 = $60 Or does your electric company abide by a ten-month calendar?
Feynman played many jokes on colleagues. In one case he found the combination to a locked filing cabinet by trying the numbers a physicist would use (it proved to be 27-18-28 after the base of natural logarithms, e = 2.71828...), and found that the three filing cabinets where a colleague kept a set of atomic bomb research notes all had the same combination.
Our Lords and Masters have no understanding of what "privacy" means.
Funny, they feel the same way about you. "Those silly citizens have no idea what the word 'privacy' means anymore. Like it's something that we can't snoop into."
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Modern-day shibboleths include "homicide bombers" or "the Democrat party" (phrases used only Republicans), or "big business / big health care / big pharma" or "multinational corporations", or "neocons" (which are phrases used almost exclusively by Democrats.)
What about us non-Americans who learn English from /. and repeat the phrases we hear? I am as likely to utter "homicide bomber" as I am likely to utter "big business". What does that make me? (other than stupid?)
I think this link might explain it - I guess it was a little sensitive to the government: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100202031.html
Since that link is from late 2007, I don't think it is the relevant case.
Motorists are allowed on the road as long as they play nice with the vehicles that weigh two orders of magnitude more than them - and no longer.
There, fixed that for you.
I'm sorry you're an introvert.
Don't be sorry for us (you insensitive clod!)
Hey, I _am_ an insensitive clod, you introvert!
Gosh, I'm not sure, after all most PCs have about 2048 GB of memory as standard nowadays, so who knows?
So THAT'S why we need 64-bit operating systems, I see.
Did you spend much time using Kontact or any of the PIM applications individually? I can't live without KMail or KOrganizer, and haven't heard much about them in the KDE 4.1 prerelease reviews I've read other than the fact that they are included.
I have had some trouble with Korganizer moving events. It could move them to different hours, but not different days. I thought that I filed a bug but I cannot find it. I'll search again for it...
Other than that, you are going to love the new Kmail (labels!) and Akregator.
Hopefully they've gotten rid of that freakin' kidney shaped thing in the upper right corner. Talk about a useless static "feature". ugh!
Do you mean Aaron's Annoy Me Box?
(apologies to Aaron, whom I respect very much)
Here is a picture of the recommended minimum system requirements for Vista:
http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/markrussinovich/WindowsLiveWriter/PushingtheLimitsofWindowsPhysicalMemory_878B/image_4.png
Does Vista really need 2048 GB of memory or is the MB scale supposed to read KB (Which would mean 2 GB of memory)?
I've noticed this discrepancy on my Jeep as well. Out of curiosity, do you have a citation for this?
I read it in Motor Trend or Car&Driver a few years back.
what's the English word for using a meme incorrectly?
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I wih there was a mod that says "stupid, slashdot joke".
There is. It's called "Funny".
You can set your preferences to lower your funny threshold, by the way.
Car manufacturers so the same thing with the gas gauge. the top half is more than the bottom half. If the gauge on my car is sitting at half, I'm down to 24 Litres out of a 60 Litre tank. Also, there's a gallon or two left when the needle is at E.
Cadillac invented this in 1984 when they rolled out the electronic gauges which were linear. Customers complained about bad mileage despite the car being thriftier than it's predecessor. Some research showed that they were going by *how*often* they were filling up, not by *how*much*. So they made the gauge logarithmic and allowed another unaccounted for gallon at the end for safety.
A buddy of mine used to wrap his electronics and papers in a condom (you can buy the ones for oral sex that come without grease/lubricant, apparently) any time we went out to sea. If it's just your cellphone in there, you can still make calls without even taking it out, it's absolutely great.
Works great for small cameras, too (Canon A series) and the rubber is stretched so thin over the lens that it doesn't affect the picture at all!
I once dropped my phone in a bowl of soup, and the phone told me I had plugged an unrecognized peripheral into the headphone jack.
You really should consider getting the green peas Nokia certified.
I for one would love to have options to Google.
http://www.google.com/preferences
Oh, and now all I get is "Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity."
That's because the googlebot is crawling them as we speak.
What OS are you using? Can you provide a screenshot? I've never noticed this on Ubuntu or Kubuntu. In any case, the Mozilla bugzilla is here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi
It was arranged so that PG&E will never have to pay you money.
There is also a $5 "connection fee" each month, so your smallest possible annual bill will be about $50. I used to hit that with a 4kW array (minute-by-minute stats are available).
$5 * 12 = $60
Or does your electric company abide by a ten-month calendar?
It's a poorly written and shite article, but the box off to the side says:
One of two newly discovered exoplanets is nearly the size of Earth...
So, assuming they're talking about the same one, it should be roughly 5 times our gravity.
Size usually refers to mass, not to diameter, when discussing cosmic bodies.
Would he have reported the loss of his virginity?
No, the Chinese media would have misreported it and made it into a sex scandal.
"Gordon Brown aide loses blackberry"
will be translated in Engrish as
"Gordon blown, has aids, loses cherry".
At least the bright ones. From wikipedia:
Feynman played many jokes on colleagues. In one case he found the combination to a locked filing cabinet by trying the numbers a physicist would use (it proved to be 27-18-28 after the base of natural logarithms, e = 2.71828...), and found that the three filing cabinets where a colleague kept a set of atomic bomb research notes all had the same combination.
I'm glad to be wrong, for your sake. Links to pics build Karma, so I'm told :)
My country doesn't have the attractive women, frankly. I'm Canadian.
There, fixed that for you.
Our Lords and Masters have no understanding of what "privacy" means.
Funny, they feel the same way about you. "Those silly citizens have no idea what the word 'privacy' means anymore. Like it's something that we can't snoop into."
What they're doing is an admission of guilt to anyone with three brain cells.
Not a problem when their jurisdiction is composed of citizens with an average of 2.71828 brain cells.