Not everyone drinks British beer. Actually, almost no one but the British do, except on a dare, Guinness excepted from the exception.
And watering down beer definitely ruins it.
No argument, except for some American beers where watering them to the point that you cannot taste them is preferable to being able to taste them (my hometown Iron City, frex). This is not limited to American beer, just that I know them better.
BTW, at the time, CQD was the preferred distress signal, except among ships in the German Empire. The fact that sending a 9 code signal sort of like SOS is easier to do (especially when excited or panicky) or to recognize than sending three letters chosen because CQ is a pun on French and the D stood for Distress (as opposed to landline CQ, which was just a message for everyone) still took some time to sink in (yes, it IS blindingly obvious in retrospect, unless you are an experienced Morse Code operator, much like the Wordstar codes were once simple when everyone already knew them).
Obviously, the 9 code character called SOS is also much easier for the auto-alarm to recognize than CQD would be, especially with inter-letter spacing included.
Yet we're subjected to a lot more media about the Titanic than WWI.... I mean whats 30 million plus dead compared to Titanic: The Love Story.
Wait until the 100th anniversary of WWI rolls around before complaining. Since this is a USA-based site, except lots of flack from the British about the USA not joining in (the Europeans killing themselves for reasons almost Irish in their stupidity, from the US PoV) until 1917, the Americans about hearing about the war years before it started (for the US, and why nothing about the pursuit of Pancho Villa?), and the Germans about how they did NOT start the war, verdamnt it. Heaven knows what the Russians will complain about (everything, I expect, including whether the whole USSR thing was a mistake or whether Gorby was:-) .
Hopefully the complaints will not be here, of course (yeah, that'll happen).
After that, much GPS technology was developed for non-military uses to prevent such a bad navigation error.
Declassified, not developed. Also, GPS would not help if the pilot miss-entered the waypoints, as is quite likely. Or did it deliberately, if you believe the conspiracy theories.
Whalers lost thousands of miles from any landfall were able to navigate to South America decades before. IIRC, Captain Bligh had a lifeboat about the same size as the ones on the Titanic, even earlier, and made his way home. You do not need your lifeboat to be picked up at sea, that just makes it easier. OTOH, there was almost no chance for the passengers left swimming, unless lucky enough to be fished out of the water by one of the lifeboats.
Doggy bags, dude. They're not just for dogs, anymore (ignoring that they never were).
I regularly buy MORE Chinese food for "dinner" so that I have a full lunch for the next day, rather than just enough to act as an appetizer for the full-sized lunch that I would otherwise then eat (who makes *half* a ham on rye sandwich?).
BTW, buying movie theater soda -- you're too late to be worrying about portion size, you will go broke, first. And you will miss too much of the movie when you run to the restrooms, mid-movie.
No, because someone could say that the amino acids in clouds were created by God or The Gods (as opposed to created by laws and initial conditions created by the patron God Of Biochemistry), or alternately point out that the concentration in galactic clouds are too low, and that the amino acids would probably break up in the heat of initial planetary formation, ignoring any planetoid strikes like supposedly produced the Moon.
Miller-Urey produces biochemicals at whatever level one needs (about the level of chicken soup, supposedly), whenever you need, until life starts playing games with atmospheric chemistry.
Also, high concentrations. The level of biochemicals in the pre-biotic seas were supposedly about the same as in a bowl of chicken soup. Imagine a billion bowls of sterilized chicken soup sitting around for 100 million years or two. Things will happen.
Most hydrogen, helium, and lithium were created in the Big Bang. After lithium there is a problem making beryllium (I think because it breaks down too easily at the temperatures and densities when atomic nuclei became stable) and so all of that and heavier nuclei were produced in stars. Heavier than iron is only created during a supernova, and I expect that a lot of isotopes lighter than iron were created then, as well. Since the Sun is a Population II star, that would actually be several successive supernovae.
Of course, what our star is producing in its fusion is almost immaterial, until to swells up to red giant phase and starts out-gassing heavily. And we will be gone, by then.
Yet another way for the government to get work done for nothing. They pay a trifle and get hordes of people working. Who sponsors the work of all those who do not win this lottery?
FOSS companies? Who pays programmers for improved Linux software (as opposed to paying programmers to try to improve it, in hopes that they get improvements where the company needs it, versus a new entry in/usr/games)?
But in terms of Patents, am I wrong that a patent can be renewed multiple times with minor changes to extend the protection of a patent?
Incorrect, rather than totally wrong. That is, a new patent can be issued to anyone making changes to a previously patented invention (how minor is left as an exercise for the new inventor, his examiner, and the courts). The changed patent cannot affect the term of the original patent, however. If the new patent is sufficiently better than the old one, no one would use the original design, but that does not mean that they *couldn't*.
Example: SFB Morse patents the original click-click telegraph (as opposed to the Napoleonic War era flag telegraph), and separately patents the original (multiple lengths of dash) Morse code. Before the original patent ran out, anyone, not just Morse, could patent a new telegraph code (say the single length dash version that became the standard). They might have to pay a license to SFB Morse if the examiner decided that it was sufficiently derivative of the original, but only until the original coding scheme left its patent period. After the original Morse code patent expired, anyone could use/sell/etc. the old version without license fee, if anyone would pay for the more complicated scheme.
Likewise, someone could patent using a buzzer or whatnot to replace the original clicker, and would have to pay a license to Morse's company (Western Union?) to sell buzzer telegraphs until the clicker patent expired. Someone DID patent an automated repeater for the telegraph, but the telegraph was out of patent by the time that Edison (and probably others) did. Anyone wanting to manufacture the automated repeater would have to license it from Edison or his assigns, until that patent expired. A patented improvement on the repeater would not affect when the original repeater patent expired, although it might be a waste of effort to make the old design after the new design appeared, due to the superiority of the new design.
Nearest Micro Center store is 5 hours away. Still, that is twice as good as Fry's, which is about 10 hours away, in Indianapolis. And I do not live in the middle of no-where, either.
Reread the parent. Amazon's Next-Day Shipping costs much more than USPS; USPS is cheap but ridiculously slow.
Buying from Amazon is great if you are willing to pay for decent shipping, or if you are willing to wait. When you want fast and cheap, you get off of the hyperbola of the possible, unless you have a physical store, nearby.
Every store is different, and you might have lucked out. When Circuit City died, everyone on slashdot told the usual horror stories about their local store, and I could not understand where all the crappy experiences came from because my local store was great. Now, the only competition Best Buy has is online, or Fry's if you are willing to drive the 12 hour drive to the nearest store from my home:-) . As a result, they, too, are falling victim to the Glengarry GlenRoss Syndrome.
Austria and Serbia did NOT go to war over the founding of the Federal Reserve of the United States of America. Neither did the Japanese Empire invade China, or the Third Reich remilitarize the Rhineland, take over Czechoslovakia, and invade Poland, France, Norway, and/or the USSR due to Fed policies.
If the EU institutes a 2 child/couple policy, there will be demonstrations against forcing women to be brood mares. Right now, the birth rate there is well below replacement. The white and Asian portions of the US population have about the same rate as Europe.
In short, if you think that this is a problem, it will be self-correcting, or else you will be self-correcting as those groups not replacing themselves die off and leave the world to those that do.
And there has never been a time in history when people had to change their primary fuel source on the global scale, when the previous best option was becoming scarce. But let this not upset your cozy, self-assured, technologically optimistic worldview.
Wood/charcoal to coal?
Probably dung to wood, as well, but that would have been during the settlement of Europe from the Eurasian steppes at the end of the last Ice Age, and so we lack any historical record.
I'm a nerd. This interests me. Therefore this is news for nerds. Get off your high horse.
So, what do you think of Tiger's chances in the first round The Masters?
Or just because some nerd finds it interesting doesn't make it News For Nerds. Hell, I expect their are some who follow NASCAR, but even how Jeff Gordon is doing doesn't belong here.
> (Middle English was fully developed by 1400 and Robin Hood is set in the mid to late 1400s)
I thought that Robin was associated with Henry II, Richard I, and John during his regency. Given that Runnymede was 1215, that would put Robin in the 1180s and 1190s. In that period, he would be speaking the creole that developed between Old English and Old Danish, which was probably basically Middle English with Frenchisms not yet absorbed.
The 1400s is during the Hundred Years War, and the Great Plague that caused 1/2 of all existing English boroughs to be abandoned, and probably killed well more than half the population. The royals that would have become associated with Hood would be Edward III, Edward Prince of Wales, John of Gaunt, Richard II and his guardians, and maybe Henry IV.
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You said "good" whiskey. Ice goes in crap whiskeys. No one orders a Laphroag on the rocks except to get a rise out of someone else.
Good beer should taste good at room temperature.
Not everyone drinks British beer. Actually, almost no one but the British do, except on a dare, Guinness excepted from the exception.
And watering down beer definitely ruins it.
No argument, except for some American beers where watering them to the point that you cannot taste them is preferable to being able to taste them (my hometown Iron City, frex). This is not limited to American beer, just that I know them better.
BTW, at the time, CQD was the preferred distress signal, except among ships in the German Empire. The fact that sending a 9 code signal sort of like SOS is easier to do (especially when excited or panicky) or to recognize than sending three letters chosen because CQ is a pun on French and the D stood for Distress (as opposed to landline CQ, which was just a message for everyone) still took some time to sink in (yes, it IS blindingly obvious in retrospect, unless you are an experienced Morse Code operator, much like the Wordstar codes were once simple when everyone already knew them).
Obviously, the 9 code character called SOS is also much easier for the auto-alarm to recognize than CQD would be, especially with inter-letter spacing included.
Yet we're subjected to a lot more media about the Titanic than WWI.... I mean whats 30 million plus dead compared to Titanic: The Love Story.
Wait until the 100th anniversary of WWI rolls around before complaining. Since this is a USA-based site, except lots of flack from the British about the USA not joining in (the Europeans killing themselves for reasons almost Irish in their stupidity, from the US PoV) until 1917, the Americans about hearing about the war years before it started (for the US, and why nothing about the pursuit of Pancho Villa?), and the Germans about how they did NOT start the war, verdamnt it. Heaven knows what the Russians will complain about (everything, I expect, including whether the whole USSR thing was a mistake or whether Gorby was :-) .
Hopefully the complaints will not be here, of course (yeah, that'll happen).
After that, much GPS technology was developed for non-military uses to prevent such a bad navigation error.
Declassified, not developed. Also, GPS would not help if the pilot miss-entered the waypoints, as is quite likely. Or did it deliberately, if you believe the conspiracy theories.
Whalers lost thousands of miles from any landfall were able to navigate to South America decades before. IIRC, Captain Bligh had a lifeboat about the same size as the ones on the Titanic, even earlier, and made his way home. You do not need your lifeboat to be picked up at sea, that just makes it easier. OTOH, there was almost no chance for the passengers left swimming, unless lucky enough to be fished out of the water by one of the lifeboats.
Home DVD with 5.1 sound, I take it?
Doggy bags, dude. They're not just for dogs, anymore (ignoring that they never were).
I regularly buy MORE Chinese food for "dinner" so that I have a full lunch for the next day, rather than just enough to act as an appetizer for the full-sized lunch that I would otherwise then eat (who makes *half* a ham on rye sandwich?).
BTW, buying movie theater soda -- you're too late to be worrying about portion size, you will go broke, first. And you will miss too much of the movie when you run to the restrooms, mid-movie.
No, because someone could say that the amino acids in clouds were created by God or The Gods (as opposed to created by laws and initial conditions created by the patron God Of Biochemistry), or alternately point out that the concentration in galactic clouds are too low, and that the amino acids would probably break up in the heat of initial planetary formation, ignoring any planetoid strikes like supposedly produced the Moon.
Miller-Urey produces biochemicals at whatever level one needs (about the level of chicken soup, supposedly), whenever you need, until life starts playing games with atmospheric chemistry.
Also, high concentrations. The level of biochemicals in the pre-biotic seas were supposedly about the same as in a bowl of chicken soup. Imagine a billion bowls of sterilized chicken soup sitting around for 100 million years or two. Things will happen.
Most hydrogen, helium, and lithium were created in the Big Bang. After lithium there is a problem making beryllium (I think because it breaks down too easily at the temperatures and densities when atomic nuclei became stable) and so all of that and heavier nuclei were produced in stars. Heavier than iron is only created during a supernova, and I expect that a lot of isotopes lighter than iron were created then, as well. Since the Sun is a Population II star, that would actually be several successive supernovae.
Of course, what our star is producing in its fusion is almost immaterial, until to swells up to red giant phase and starts out-gassing heavily. And we will be gone, by then.
So THIS explains why the only birds to survive the K-T Event were (drum roll) ducks. Or at least duck-like. Look it up.
And he runs it in the debugger, and miracles are changing the variables while running in single-step mode. Yeah, that works.
Bishop Berkeley 1, Atheists 0.
By someone's scoring, at least.
You seem to be missing the point, so it probably is not obvious. One does not buy the phone and then buy service. (That would be obvious.)
False, as I know one person who did just that. Of course, he later said that he would never bother doing that again, but that is beside the point.
Most people buy the subsidized phones, rather than unlocked phones on Amazon or elsewhere, but most is not all.
Yet another way for the government to get work done for nothing. They pay a trifle and get hordes of people working. Who sponsors the work of all those who do not win this lottery?
FOSS companies? Who pays programmers for improved Linux software (as opposed to paying programmers to try to improve it, in hopes that they get improvements where the company needs it, versus a new entry in /usr/games)?
But in terms of Patents, am I wrong that a patent can be renewed multiple times with minor changes to extend the protection of a patent?
Incorrect, rather than totally wrong. That is, a new patent can be issued to anyone making changes to a previously patented invention (how minor is left as an exercise for the new inventor, his examiner, and the courts). The changed patent cannot affect the term of the original patent, however. If the new patent is sufficiently better than the old one, no one would use the original design, but that does not mean that they *couldn't*.
Example: SFB Morse patents the original click-click telegraph (as opposed to the Napoleonic War era flag telegraph), and separately patents the original (multiple lengths of dash) Morse code. Before the original patent ran out, anyone, not just Morse, could patent a new telegraph code (say the single length dash version that became the standard). They might have to pay a license to SFB Morse if the examiner decided that it was sufficiently derivative of the original, but only until the original coding scheme left its patent period. After the original Morse code patent expired, anyone could use/sell/etc. the old version without license fee, if anyone would pay for the more complicated scheme.
Likewise, someone could patent using a buzzer or whatnot to replace the original clicker, and would have to pay a license to Morse's company (Western Union?) to sell buzzer telegraphs until the clicker patent expired. Someone DID patent an automated repeater for the telegraph, but the telegraph was out of patent by the time that Edison (and probably others) did. Anyone wanting to manufacture the automated repeater would have to license it from Edison or his assigns, until that patent expired. A patented improvement on the repeater would not affect when the original repeater patent expired, although it might be a waste of effort to make the old design after the new design appeared, due to the superiority of the new design.
Nearest Micro Center store is 5 hours away. Still, that is twice as good as Fry's, which is about 10 hours away, in Indianapolis. And I do not live in the middle of no-where, either.
I also know people who have worked at Best Buy in the past who admitted it is official company policy to lie to customers.
And of course you can back that up somehow. Otherwise you're committing libel.
You are forgetting that the people that he knows could be committing libel, instead. Parent's testimony is but hearsay.
Reread the parent. Amazon's Next-Day Shipping costs much more than USPS; USPS is cheap but ridiculously slow.
Buying from Amazon is great if you are willing to pay for decent shipping, or if you are willing to wait. When you want fast and cheap, you get off of the hyperbola of the possible, unless you have a physical store, nearby.
Every store is different, and you might have lucked out. When Circuit City died, everyone on slashdot told the usual horror stories about their local store, and I could not understand where all the crappy experiences came from because my local store was great. Now, the only competition Best Buy has is online, or Fry's if you are willing to drive the 12 hour drive to the nearest store from my home :-) . As a result, they, too, are falling victim to the Glengarry GlenRoss Syndrome.
Austria and Serbia did NOT go to war over the founding of the Federal Reserve of the United States of America. Neither did the Japanese Empire invade China, or the Third Reich remilitarize the Rhineland, take over Czechoslovakia, and invade Poland, France, Norway, and/or the USSR due to Fed policies.
If the EU institutes a 2 child/couple policy, there will be demonstrations against forcing women to be brood mares. Right now, the birth rate there is well below replacement. The white and Asian portions of the US population have about the same rate as Europe.
In short, if you think that this is a problem, it will be self-correcting, or else you will be self-correcting as those groups not replacing themselves die off and leave the world to those that do.
And there has never been a time in history when people had to change their primary fuel source on the global scale, when the previous best option was becoming scarce. But let this not upset your cozy, self-assured, technologically optimistic worldview.
Wood/charcoal to coal?
Probably dung to wood, as well, but that would have been during the settlement of Europe from the Eurasian steppes at the end of the last Ice Age, and so we lack any historical record.
I'm a nerd. This interests me. Therefore this is news for nerds. Get off your high horse.
So, what do you think of Tiger's chances in the first round The Masters?
Or just because some nerd finds it interesting doesn't make it News For Nerds. Hell, I expect their are some who follow NASCAR, but even how Jeff Gordon is doing doesn't belong here.
> (Middle English was fully developed by 1400 and Robin Hood is set in the mid to late 1400s)
I thought that Robin was associated with Henry II, Richard I, and John during his regency. Given that Runnymede was 1215, that would put Robin in the 1180s and 1190s. In that period, he would be speaking the creole that developed between Old English and Old Danish, which was probably basically Middle English with Frenchisms not yet absorbed.
The 1400s is during the Hundred Years War, and the Great Plague that caused 1/2 of all existing English boroughs to be abandoned, and probably killed well more than half the population. The royals that would have become associated with Hood would be Edward III, Edward Prince of Wales, John of Gaunt, Richard II and his guardians, and maybe Henry IV.