My understanding was the background cosmic radiation is the energy emitted from the big bang, diluted by the expansion of the universe. I don't think dark matter fits in there at all.
Sometimes the side job is fun enough that it's not too painful trying to squeeze it in. Writing that novel, making that movie, coding that game/project. If you want to do it some time, and you don't get to do it at work or in your sleep, then evenings and weekends are where it's at.
Alternately sometimes the allure of money is enough to make it worthwhile, even if the work isn't quite fun. Dot-com startups, for instance. There you're sacrificing time for potential payoff (and/or the education you get along the way).
It's still not easy, but there's plenty of valid reasons for making that choice.
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Pleonasm. Nice. I found that in a dictionary once, and only remembered it because it's a humorously redundant word for "redundant." Never seen anyone else use it.
Are you arguing that "he and his daughter was" is the proper choice here, rather than "he and his daughter were"? I don't think you're right about that. You can take out the daughter to determine which pronoun to use for the guy, but the verb has to agree with the plural noun.
Yeah, I agree with you that would be handy. In about twenty years, when they get voice recognition to work well enough. I asked my phone the above question just now, and it turned that into "when is profound's announcements?" Currently I have to speak slower, louder, and with more effort than it takes to type.
Pretty simple. Even more simple would be for every screw in existence to simply be manufactured with both the plus and extended wings for the minus, so that you can use either screwdriver on them, eventually removing the need to make the distinction. Except for hex, of course.
The best part of this is most of the other dinosaurs built on that model (giant size, four legs, elephant midsection, long neck and tail) have unpronounceable names. At least I can say brontosaurus. Diplodocus is second best, and thirty years later I'm still not sure about that one.
but the horse-shoes survived (and are not crabs), then outlived the great reptiles and continued right into present day - where they now hold the record as the animal that has directly saved more human lives than any other.
How do they save human lives? I must have missed that headline.
Nice rundown, particularly of the aquatic history, which I don't know as well as the land-based history. I was recently at the Houston natural history museum and saw a couple of the giant turtle skeletons. Those things were enormous! I think the kids were most impressed with them, maybe because they're already familiar with modern turtles and could appreciate the difference in size.
Is this new, or from a few weeks ago? The date on TFA is from today but the description of the bug is nearly identical to stuff that hit the news stands about a month ago, even down to some identical wording. I can't tell if I need to make sure I get patched ASAP, or if this is something that's already been covered with earlier updates.
You say that because you don't think they'll do a Cheddar 2: The Meltening, in which that delicious sandwich that you think was finally eaten in the first movie, solving world hunger, actually has a back-story involving other sandwiches from another planet. The intergalactic sandwiches grow impatient waiting for the universal signal of sandwich-eatery and jump through a space portal, resetting world hunger on earth, making everyone go through the whole thing a second time.
Don't even ask about the third movie, where a prehistoric ice sandwich is thawed and the ultimate solution needs to be re-enacted yet again.
I don't know what I count as. I only willingly watch maybe a couple of movies per week, so 3-5 hours. However, the kids usually watch a little around dinner time, and the wife has it on almost constantly from 7-11 p.m. I try to ignore it, but if I'm in the room I'll find myself staring at it some and struggling to get other things done. Call me a TV hostage, I guess?
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My understanding was the background cosmic radiation is the energy emitted from the big bang, diluted by the expansion of the universe. I don't think dark matter fits in there at all.
Watts out of Kalamazoo = wazoo?
Hi, I'd like to demo my new computer game, HyperboleCraft.
Which I really don't get, because the Quarter Pounder with Cheese is much tastier.
Sometimes the side job is fun enough that it's not too painful trying to squeeze it in. Writing that novel, making that movie, coding that game/project. If you want to do it some time, and you don't get to do it at work or in your sleep, then evenings and weekends are where it's at.
Alternately sometimes the allure of money is enough to make it worthwhile, even if the work isn't quite fun. Dot-com startups, for instance. There you're sacrificing time for potential payoff (and/or the education you get along the way).
It's still not easy, but there's plenty of valid reasons for making that choice.
(Please stop moding this guy down, even though an AC, he is right)
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Does dark matter have anything to do with string theory? I thought those were more or less independent ideas.
"New plastic lien as him New plastic Liam has a new plastic ..." says my text-to-speech interpreter.
I think Evolutionion is my new band name.
Pleonasm. Nice. I found that in a dictionary once, and only remembered it because it's a humorously redundant word for "redundant." Never seen anyone else use it.
Are you arguing that "he and his daughter was" is the proper choice here, rather than "he and his daughter were"? I don't think you're right about that. You can take out the daughter to determine which pronoun to use for the guy, but the verb has to agree with the plural noun.
Voice control ... What is 12 lbs in ounces?
Yeah, I agree with you that would be handy. In about twenty years, when they get voice recognition to work well enough. I asked my phone the above question just now, and it turned that into "when is profound's announcements?" Currently I have to speak slower, louder, and with more effort than it takes to type.
This is in part due to the gasoline, which has a different mixture in winter months than summer.
Pretty simple. Even more simple would be for every screw in existence to simply be manufactured with both the plus and extended wings for the minus, so that you can use either screwdriver on them, eventually removing the need to make the distinction. Except for hex, of course.
If you don't like caramel or peanuts, neither of those is better, they're worse. Literally != subjectively.
No, but at two minutes per slide, they have a four-hour presentation for you to watch.
First Marshmallow, or second Marshmallow?
I like nougat. I don't know that I'd eat it entirely on its own, but Three Musketeers is one of my favorite candy bars, and nougat is part of that.
I like key lime pie better, though.
The best part of this is most of the other dinosaurs built on that model (giant size, four legs, elephant midsection, long neck and tail) have unpronounceable names. At least I can say brontosaurus. Diplodocus is second best, and thirty years later I'm still not sure about that one.
but the horse-shoes survived (and are not crabs), then outlived the great reptiles and continued right into present day - where they now hold the record as the animal that has directly saved more human lives than any other.
How do they save human lives? I must have missed that headline.
Nice rundown, particularly of the aquatic history, which I don't know as well as the land-based history. I was recently at the Houston natural history museum and saw a couple of the giant turtle skeletons. Those things were enormous! I think the kids were most impressed with them, maybe because they're already familiar with modern turtles and could appreciate the difference in size.
but after its downloaded, it pops up a box asking for a credit card, and if you refuse, it soft-bricks your computer...
If you refuse, it just checks all cached web sites for any credit card details and runs it automatically, "for your convenience".
Is this new, or from a few weeks ago? The date on TFA is from today but the description of the bug is nearly identical to stuff that hit the news stands about a month ago, even down to some identical wording. I can't tell if I need to make sure I get patched ASAP, or if this is something that's already been covered with earlier updates.
Okay, I'll teach you how to run through time at 100 metric seconds per metric hour. That better?
You say that because you don't think they'll do a Cheddar 2: The Meltening, in which that delicious sandwich that you think was finally eaten in the first movie, solving world hunger, actually has a back-story involving other sandwiches from another planet. The intergalactic sandwiches grow impatient waiting for the universal signal of sandwich-eatery and jump through a space portal, resetting world hunger on earth, making everyone go through the whole thing a second time.
Don't even ask about the third movie, where a prehistoric ice sandwich is thawed and the ultimate solution needs to be re-enacted yet again.
I don't know what I count as. I only willingly watch maybe a couple of movies per week, so 3-5 hours. However, the kids usually watch a little around dinner time, and the wife has it on almost constantly from 7-11 p.m. I try to ignore it, but if I'm in the room I'll find myself staring at it some and struggling to get other things done. Call me a TV hostage, I guess?