Gizmodo: "... the Goblin is around 185 miles (300 kilometers) in diameter.... Its mean distance from the Sun is about 80 astronomical units.... But it actually gets even farther away than that.... it never gets any closer than about 65 AU—its perihelion point.... but its aphelion, the point at which it’s the farthest from the Sun, is a whopping 2,300 AU."
Obviously it isn't possible for all three of those numbers to be correct. Gizmodo got it wrong. From the Carnegie press release: "... 2015 TG387 was discovered about 80 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun...." Current distance, not mean distance.
Apparently some reporter can't even copy and paste right.
Oh, and just a note to every person who uses English, including some who commented on this story: "then" != "than".
No? Huh? It was experts who told us that Iraq had WMD and those presented a clear and present danger to us. They also said that Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda were going to team up against us.
You seem to be assuming that there is only one group of experts, who all agree. That's... "idiotic" is the first word that comes to mind.
Coincidentally, the governor of Missouri and his staff have been accused of violating the state's open-records law by using a message app that automatically deletes messages, but the state Attorney General says it doesn't appear that any laws were violated. One argument is that the law can't require them to make their records available, because there aren't any records. Any more.
They give an example involving 15 drives whereby two failures in 100 days gives a daily failure rate of 2%. (Two percent of what?)
Good question. If two failures in 15 drives in 100 days = 2%, what would be the failure rate if two drives out of, say, 150 drives failed in 100 days? What if three drives failed in 101 days?
You know what made us "civilized"? What allowed us to become what we are today? Cooking
Cooking long preceded what's usually defined as the beginning of civilization. As I understand the current thinking, cooking made possible the development of larger brains, beginning around two million years ago.
Civilization is more associated with the change from hunter-gatherer societies to agriculture, which brought a whole basket of problems: more population density, more disease, social stratification, centralized government, worse nutrition, and even smaller brains (judging by cranial capacity). "This reduction in brain size however does not mean that modern humans are less intelligent. Human brains have evolved to work more efficiently and utilize less energy." Yes, I'm sure that's true. Humans 20,000 years ago didn't even have IQ tests! How smart could they be?
I, too, noticed that. I think what they mean is that there were "40 writers and editors producing articles", plus other staff doing other things, like producing videos. Ten of the writers and editors were eliminated; the remaining 30 were combined with the other staff into a "revamped newsroom of 63". It's poorly written, showing that text, while better than video in some ways, also can have problems.
Most people seem to have trouble translating the vague and nebulous thoughts in their minds into language that's actually comprehensible to other people who don't share the same set of knowledge and assumptions.
they also have an adapter in the box to plug in your old-style headphones
Neat! A dongle! I love dongles, those in-line boxes on the cable NEVER get in the way, sway back and forth or snag on things.
Unlike, say, headphone cords.
And of course they also have Bluetooth, which works beautifully without plugging anything in at all.
Yeah, I love that lossy Bluetooth audio compression on top of the already existing lossy MP3 compression. It just makes the music sound that much cooler.
You don't have to use MP3; iPhones can store and play back uncompressed audio. Still, you won't get high quality without an external DAC, which is yet another thing to get in the way. Listening to a portable device using Sennheisers is probably a waste of good headphones anyway. (I use Shure headphones, but I recognize the absurdity.)
I don't know much about fashion or clothing terminology, but I suspect the difference is that I'm not wearing jogging shorts: I wear what I think are called "cargo shorts", with a belt. They end just above my knees, and I guess they're tight enough to prevent anything from swinging wildly. I probably got them from "Vermont's Barre Army-Navy store".
Things falling out reminds me of President Johnson ordering pants. He wanted pockets deep enough so his pocket knife and what-not didn't fall out when he sat down. I'd go to a store; the President of the United States just called the owner of Haggar.
Have you ever tried jogging with a Samsung Note in your pocket?
No, but I run four miles a day with an iPhone 6 Plus. I don't notice it, though I can't stand to carry a jangling key-ring with five keys on it. To each their own.
I bought an iPod nano because it has a radio. For that purpose, it's an overpriced piece of crap, but I use it anyway. The most glaring problem is the lack of a way to lock the controls, so the volume and radio station may fluctuate unpredictably.
"How about give us more space on the planes... ?" Blame capitalism and efficient markets. If people buy airplane tickets by choosing the cheapest prices, the airlines will provide the cheapest prices. If that means standing-room only, you're getting exactly what you paid for.
It's a plague, but it's also a choice. "... Pirates 5 and Baywatch respectively earning 32% and 19% Rotten." Assuming there are two possible ratings, this implies that 100% - 19% = 81% gave Baywatch a Fresh rating.
"... 70% of Baywatch viewers on Rotten Tomatoes said they liked it." Sounds like the proportion of "critics" who liked it is higher than the proportion of the general population who liked it. So what's the problem?
Yes, that was painful. I would have written, "Because HBO is a cable channel, the FCC has little jurisdiction over its content."
That gem was then followed by a more-common grammatical error, pronouns with unclear antecedents: "That doesn't stop people from complaining to them about them...." Evidently, "people" are complaining to somebody about themselves. "That doesn't stop people from complaining to the FCC about HBO's content...."
I prefer to avoid dangling my participle, or my modifiers, in public.
"... 10 different photosensitive polymers...." I would call those ten variants of one material. If it could print, say, aluminum, glass, and plastic, that would be three materials. I'm sure it's very nice, though.
Good job, actually doing the research. That's why "Nationwide, left turns trigger a quarter of all pedestrian crashes" is meaningless without more context.
To be fair, the ONE TRILLION DOLLARS is estimated total program cost, including maintenance, for the whole 55-year lifetime of the program. "Only" about $400 billion is budgeted for acquiring the aircraft. I don't know how much has been spent so far. On the other hand, the estimate may turn out to be low. Ironically, one of the initial goals of the F-35 was to be cheaper than the F-22.
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Obviously it isn't possible for all three of those numbers to be correct. Gizmodo got it wrong. From the Carnegie press release: "... 2015 TG387 was discovered about 80 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun ...." Current distance, not mean distance.
Apparently some reporter can't even copy and paste right.
Oh, and just a note to every person who uses English, including some who commented on this story: "then" != "than".
"Drowned in a vat of whiskey ... Death, where is thy sting?" -- W. C. Fields
Fry: So you have to choose between life without sex and a hideous, gruesome death? Dr. Zoidberg: Yes. Fry: Tough call.
Good news, everyone! You can have both!
No? Huh? It was experts who told us that Iraq had WMD and those presented a clear and present danger to us. They also said that Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda were going to team up against us.
You seem to be assuming that there is only one group of experts, who all agree. That's ... "idiotic" is the first word that comes to mind.
There are four possibilities here:
5. There are multiple adversaries, all competing to convince people of their own versions of the truth.
Coincidentally, the governor of Missouri and his staff have been accused of violating the state's open-records law by using a message app that automatically deletes messages, but the state Attorney General says it doesn't appear that any laws were violated. One argument is that the law can't require them to make their records available, because there aren't any records. Any more.
They give an example involving 15 drives whereby two failures in 100 days gives a daily failure rate of 2%. (Two percent of what?)
Good question. If two failures in 15 drives in 100 days = 2%, what would be the failure rate if two drives out of, say, 150 drives failed in 100 days? What if three drives failed in 101 days?
You know what made us "civilized"? What allowed us to become what we are today? Cooking
Cooking long preceded what's usually defined as the beginning of civilization. As I understand the current thinking, cooking made possible the development of larger brains, beginning around two million years ago.
Civilization is more associated with the change from hunter-gatherer societies to agriculture, which brought a whole basket of problems: more population density, more disease, social stratification, centralized government, worse nutrition, and even smaller brains (judging by cranial capacity). "This reduction in brain size however does not mean that modern humans are less intelligent. Human brains have evolved to work more efficiently and utilize less energy." Yes, I'm sure that's true. Humans 20,000 years ago didn't even have IQ tests! How smart could they be?
Most people seem to have trouble translating the vague and nebulous thoughts in their minds into language that's actually comprehensible to other people who don't share the same set of knowledge and assumptions.
I'm way to late and nobody's going to see this ....
I saw it!
"This logic applies even moreso to people who do instructional material ....
"moreso" should be just "more".
they also have an adapter in the box to plug in your old-style headphones
Neat! A dongle! I love dongles, those in-line boxes on the cable NEVER get in the way, sway back and forth or snag on things.
Unlike, say, headphone cords.
And of course they also have Bluetooth, which works beautifully without plugging anything in at all.
Yeah, I love that lossy Bluetooth audio compression on top of the already existing lossy MP3 compression. It just makes the music sound that much cooler.
You don't have to use MP3; iPhones can store and play back uncompressed audio. Still, you won't get high quality without an external DAC, which is yet another thing to get in the way. Listening to a portable device using Sennheisers is probably a waste of good headphones anyway. (I use Shure headphones, but I recognize the absurdity.)
Things falling out reminds me of President Johnson ordering pants. He wanted pockets deep enough so his pocket knife and what-not didn't fall out when he sat down. I'd go to a store; the President of the United States just called the owner of Haggar.
Have you ever tried jogging with a Samsung Note in your pocket?
No, but I run four miles a day with an iPhone 6 Plus. I don't notice it, though I can't stand to carry a jangling key-ring with five keys on it. To each their own.
I bought an iPod nano because it has a radio. For that purpose, it's an overpriced piece of crap, but I use it anyway. The most glaring problem is the lack of a way to lock the controls, so the volume and radio station may fluctuate unpredictably.
"How about give us more space on the planes ... ?" Blame capitalism and efficient markets. If people buy airplane tickets by choosing the cheapest prices, the airlines will provide the cheapest prices. If that means standing-room only, you're getting exactly what you paid for.
In Soviet Russia, accountant fucks you ... no, wait, that's true everywhere.
" ... 70% of Baywatch viewers on Rotten Tomatoes said they liked it." Sounds like the proportion of "critics" who liked it is higher than the proportion of the general population who liked it. So what's the problem?
That gem was then followed by a more-common grammatical error, pronouns with unclear antecedents: "That doesn't stop people from complaining to them about them ...." Evidently, "people" are complaining to somebody about themselves. "That doesn't stop people from complaining to the FCC about HBO's content ...."
I prefer to avoid dangling my participle, or my modifiers, in public.
"Throw the baby out the window a cookie."
"... 10 different photosensitive polymers ...." I would call those ten variants of one material. If it could print, say, aluminum, glass, and plastic, that would be three materials. I'm sure it's very nice, though.
[On hearing that the president has been replaced by an impostor.]
Flint: An actor? As president?
Good job, actually doing the research. That's why "Nationwide, left turns trigger a quarter of all pedestrian crashes" is meaningless without more context.
Better nuke the whole site from orbit.
Denver, Colorado, also has some intersections like that.
It was also formerly the eighth planet from the sun, between 1979 and 1999.
To be fair, the ONE TRILLION DOLLARS is estimated total program cost, including maintenance, for the whole 55-year lifetime of the program. "Only" about $400 billion is budgeted for acquiring the aircraft. I don't know how much has been spent so far. On the other hand, the estimate may turn out to be low. Ironically, one of the initial goals of the F-35 was to be cheaper than the F-22.
Barratry: "the persistent incitement of litigation".