I was going to be all witty and say that you'd get no points as "douche" is a foreign word. Unfortunately, it's been in the English language since the 17th Century, so congratulations! 12 points to you!
I'm curious why you chose Teeline. Was it just an opportunity that occurred, or did you find it better than
It's very much a UK thing I'm told.
The main reason I learnt it is because it is so damn easy to. You learn the alphabet and away you go (albeit very slowly at first!)
Gregg and Pitman require you to effectively learn a new way of spelling (granted it's phonetic but it's still a hurdle to overcome.) That, and I didn't see a need to go above 100 wpm in my situation, so I just plumped for the easiest option (I'm lazy like that.)
Just as a point of [mis]information, the world record shorthand dictation is in Pitman and is 350 words per minute: Wikipedia article
Yes, I know it's a dying art, but he put speeds up for the Palm Graffiti didn't he?!
I'm currently learning Teeline shorthand which I'm told gets speeds of around 120 words per minutes if you know what you're doing. Pitman on the other hand can reach a paper burning 300 words per minute, although you trade your sanity in for learning that.
Would completely change the results and put pen and paper up top.
I'm not sure it makes any real difference, isn't an EXT3/boot partition is read as EXT2 on booting and then almost all of the rest of the time it's not written too?
EXT3 takes up more space on the disk because of its metadata store.
1) Too bad you will have to leave your device in the path of that directional beam.
Why does it have to be a directional beam? It can be anything from a beam to a pretty decent cone.
2) If you're in your own house, is this supremely more useful than charging from the wall?
Absolutely! It means I can charge outside people's houses. I don't even need to get their WEP key! Only problem is I'd need to break into their houses to put a parabolic dish behind their router.
The inverse square law and dBm being a logarithmic unit can all go to hell.
What makes you think it's got to be an inverse square law? An inverse square law would apply to something emitted radially, but in the case of a charger, it need not be.
You'll never reach 0 if you get paid a part of your current negative net worth, only approach it with infinite speeding tickets.
Maybe so, if money were continuous, but in the case of speeding tickets, you're stuck with discrete units of $0.01. Whether you hit $0 or not is a matter of rounding:)
Sorry to nitpick your nitpicking, but the earth only has a 24 hour revolution period when you ignore the fact the earth is revolving around the Sun. When a casual alien looks at the earth, it takes about 23h 56m to do a 360 revolution:)
How about they have a guard follow you around watching your every move at close range, listening in on your every conversation, making notes of everything you touch, everything you buy and so on. That's ok too? How about random searches of your bags? After all, you might have stolen something and you're on their private property.
That's absolutely fine. I had something similar to that happen to me in a supermarket (a security guy following me around for no reason other than the color of my shoelaces.)
No problem at all. I just walked out. I'm not obliged to be there.
Not sure how well a monopole would fit with my view of the world.
Sure, the equations would be symmetrical, but since the field is not necessarily continuous, you could get energy for nothing (imagine that monopole following the field lines around a current carrying wire, getting faster and faster because of the infinite potential in the wire.)
But then again, I don't know any covarient e-mag, so there might be a gap in my knowledge.
how professional are the janitors? How about maintenance workers that are on-site tmie to time. Maybe I'm alone here, but where I work, the maintenance workers and cleaners kinda have the keys to all the rooms anyway to do their jobs (like emptying the bins etc.)
I can't believe this is modded lower than its parent (which was pretty obvious flamebait.) How on Earth could you complain about a service that is optional and one that has its terms and conditions laid out in plain view?
They typically work in fields such as computer programming, Web development, engineering or audio and visual services and are armed with a technical knowledge that the average person lacks ..and lack social skills and good taste which others are armed with.
You can apply a known force to the mass and see how much it accelerates. To measure an object's mass, you could find a (admittedly elusive) frictionless table, attach two springs either side of the object to be measured , of equal and known spring constant, and let it undergo simple harmonic motion, measure its periodicity and deduce the mass involved. If the apparatus is oscillating parallel to the surface of the earth, it will be unaffected by gravity, thus circumventing the problem of unknown gravitational fields.
Yep, I expected this would provoke the inevitable attacks on religious people by that predictable band of/.ers who apparently never think about anything else.
Why is this guy marked a troll? He's absolutely right! Religion had absolutely no mention in the original post. Saying "blah blah indoctrination blah blah ignorant blah blah truculent" may be right, but why is it getting an airing here?
I think you are the exception rather than the rule. Seems like you bought the first generation Sony Ericsson phone as well since it's about 5 years old, as did I. I'm still happily running a T610 although it's not really as good as it once was.
Also you say you used your phone 1 hour a day. Does that mean you talk for 1 hour and immediately turn the phone off, have it on standby for 1 hour a day, or (more likely) you leave it on and talk for 1 hour a day. If the latter is the case then there is a constant drain on the batteries which (I think) would be more severe than on the ipod.
Anyway, my 3rd generation iPod had its battery replaced not too long ago. Wasn't too difficult for me to do. However, if the iPhone has its battery soldered, I'm left with no choice but to send it back (almost certainly to Apple) to get it replaced, which is a monopoly by my reckoning.
Just for interest, T68i batteries (I am assuming you own that) are selling for ~$5 on ebay.
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Do they have the word "douche" in the OED?
I was going to be all witty and say that you'd get no points as "douche" is a foreign word. Unfortunately, it's been in the English language since the 17th Century, so congratulations! 12 points to you!
So has Monty Python, and it's probably still in the top 10 references on slashdot...
No it isn't
What Millennium are we talking about here? Its now 2010, 9 years after the start of the new Millennium.
Just in case that wasn't a joke:
http://www.claymath.org/millennium/
The challenge was set in 2000
Law Enforcement: If You're a Gun Owner, You Have to Be Responsible
Or what? Someone will shake their finger at you?
Err, no. Or you could lose a child.
Don't forget to use brilliant colors that are harsh on the eyes!
Yes, let's make it blue just to make it stand out more.
And to ice the cake, maybe we should have it so the only way to get rid of the message is a reboot.
I think I may be on to something here.
I'm curious why you chose Teeline. Was it just an opportunity that occurred, or did you find it better than
It's very much a UK thing I'm told.
The main reason I learnt it is because it is so damn easy to. You learn the alphabet and away you go (albeit very slowly at first!)
Gregg and Pitman require you to effectively learn a new way of spelling (granted it's phonetic but it's still a hurdle to overcome.) That, and I didn't see a need to go above 100 wpm in my situation, so I just plumped for the easiest option (I'm lazy like that.)
Just as a point of [mis]information, the world record shorthand dictation is in Pitman and is 350 words per minute: Wikipedia article
Yes, I know it's a dying art, but he put speeds up for the Palm Graffiti didn't he?!
I'm currently learning Teeline shorthand which I'm told gets speeds of around 120 words per minutes if you know what you're doing. Pitman on the other hand can reach a paper burning 300 words per minute, although you trade your sanity in for learning that.
Would completely change the results and put pen and paper up top.
I'm not sure it makes any real difference, isn't an EXT3 /boot partition is read as EXT2 on booting and then almost all of the rest of the time it's not written too?
EXT3 takes up more space on the disk because of its metadata store.
1) Too bad you will have to leave your device in the path of that directional beam.
Why does it have to be a directional beam? It can be anything from a beam to a pretty decent cone.
2) If you're in your own house, is this supremely more useful than charging from the wall?
Absolutely! It means I can charge outside people's houses. I don't even need to get their WEP key! Only problem is I'd need to break into their houses to put a parabolic dish behind their router.
It's meant to scavenge from 2.4GHz WiFi, which emits radially, and therefor follows the inverse square law.
Luckily for me I have a parabolic dish behind all my wifi base stations ;)
The inverse square law and dBm being a logarithmic unit can all go to hell.
What makes you think it's got to be an inverse square law? An inverse square law would apply to something emitted radially, but in the case of a charger, it need not be.
You'll never reach 0 if you get paid a part of your current negative net worth, only approach it with infinite speeding tickets.
Maybe so, if money were continuous, but in the case of speeding tickets, you're stuck with discrete units of $0.01. Whether you hit $0 or not is a matter of rounding :)
Sorry to nitpick your nitpicking, but the earth only has a 24 hour revolution period when you ignore the fact the earth is revolving around the Sun. When a casual alien looks at the earth, it takes about 23h 56m to do a 360 revolution :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_time
Hypothetically, it's like when your girlfriends brakes up with you
Goodness, the car analogies just won't stop!
I took a quick look at the article and I have no idea what this tool is supposed to do.
Well now you can look at the source code and it will all become clear!
How about they have a guard follow you around watching your every move at close range, listening in on your every conversation, making notes of everything you touch, everything you buy and so on. That's ok too? How about random searches of your bags? After all, you might have stolen something and you're on their private property.
That's absolutely fine. I had something similar to that happen to me in a supermarket (a security guy following me around for no reason other than the color of my shoelaces.)
No problem at all. I just walked out. I'm not obliged to be there.
When users are happy to type "sudo rm ...", it doesn't really matter how impervious the system is.
I get "rm: cannot remove `...': No such file or directory"
However, I'm just trying "sudo rm ../." though and it s
Not sure how well a monopole would fit with my view of the world.
Sure, the equations would be symmetrical, but since the field is not necessarily continuous, you could get energy for nothing (imagine that monopole following the field lines around a current carrying wire, getting faster and faster because of the infinite potential in the wire.)
But then again, I don't know any covarient e-mag, so there might be a gap in my knowledge.
I can't believe this is modded lower than its parent (which was pretty obvious flamebait.) How on Earth could you complain about a service that is optional and one that has its terms and conditions laid out in plain view?
What's this doing as 3 insightful? Mod him up. The first point is absolutely spot on.
Any attacks on the second point may be valid, but then I reckon that's only because people criticizing it want to ignore the first one.
Don't care if I go down in flames for this. I can sleep well tonight :)
To measure an object's mass, you could find a (admittedly elusive) frictionless table, attach two springs either side of the object to be measured , of equal and known spring constant, and let it undergo simple harmonic motion, measure its periodicity and deduce the mass involved. If the apparatus is oscillating parallel to the surface of the earth, it will be unaffected by gravity, thus circumventing the problem of unknown gravitational fields.
Why is this guy marked a troll? He's absolutely right! Religion had absolutely no mention in the original post. Saying "blah blah indoctrination blah blah ignorant blah blah truculent" may be right, but why is it getting an airing here?
I think you are the exception rather than the rule. Seems like you bought the first generation Sony Ericsson phone as well since it's about 5 years old, as did I. I'm still happily running a T610 although it's not really as good as it once was. Also you say you used your phone 1 hour a day. Does that mean you talk for 1 hour and immediately turn the phone off, have it on standby for 1 hour a day, or (more likely) you leave it on and talk for 1 hour a day. If the latter is the case then there is a constant drain on the batteries which (I think) would be more severe than on the ipod. Anyway, my 3rd generation iPod had its battery replaced not too long ago. Wasn't too difficult for me to do. However, if the iPhone has its battery soldered, I'm left with no choice but to send it back (almost certainly to Apple) to get it replaced, which is a monopoly by my reckoning. Just for interest, T68i batteries (I am assuming you own that) are selling for ~$5 on ebay.