The US is fully converted to metric where it matters: science and soft drinks.
Our 20 ounce bottles and 12 ounce cans beg to differ. The metric equivalent is on the container, but they clearly aren't designed as such. 0.59 litre bottles and 0.35 litre cans are 'odd' amounts.
That would sure make the weather a lot more fun to watch. Just imagine Al Roker saying in the middle of the summer "And the high today is going to be Mother-Fucking God-Damn hot!"
Sadly the weather would end up censored and we'd never know what the hell to wear!
In true nerd fashion it is indeed my favorite song that Eric Idle ever wrote. It is amazing how he was able to capture our utter insignificance in 24 lines, all while rhyming and ending with a punchline.
If you had followed the link provided by datapharmer in a sibling post you would have seen that the exploit in question was "only tested on windows 2000 and 2003"[sic]. Your post makes reference to server 2008. There is a chance you are both correct.
Your Dad was right, in an ignorant sort of way. On the face of things, replacing brake pads is certainly cheaper than replacing a dropped transmission. Dig deeper though and you find that engine braking (done properly) causes little to no wear on the transmission. You can run a car till the odometer rolls over without replacing a transmission (if properly maintained of course), but you'll go through at least three sets of brake pads in that time, if not four or five. So the end result is that brake pads cost more, provided you're driving your vehicle properly. Engine braking is much gentler on your car's parts than 'standard' braking, uses less fuel than the idling in neutral approach, and increases control of your vehicle. The latter part is especially handy in parts of the world with rough winter weather. Slam on the brakes on a slippery road and you might skid out of control, but drop your car into a lower gear (even on automatics, I wish people would learn that) and you can safely slow your car quickly. Just a few taps of the brakes along the way to help out and you're good. Topics like this really need to be part of driver's ED and driving tests in the US. Not enough people know this shit.
They may actually be timed to allow you hit a chain of green lights. The trouble is that if you hit one red light, then the time you (and every moron in front of you not paying attention) spend accelerating to the speed limit is time lost on catching that next green light. This is what requires you to drive faster than the speed limit. I will however admit that some municipalities have their traffic systems so poorly programmed that you can catch one green light, doing the speed limit, maintain the speed limit, and still not catch the next green. Those are the cities with civil engineers that need killed. Well, I'm of the opinion that all civil engineers need killed anyway. Any group of people as seemingly retarded as they are shouldn't be allowed to exist with the rest of us. At the very least the ones down in Florida. Whoever thought mile long medians and requiring U-Turns to get practically anywhere certainly needs removed from existence.
Once your RAM runs out of space it has store those extra electrons somewhere, so the first place it looks is the battery. Store enough electrons there and the thing starts to bulge. Seriously, this CS 101 stuff.
Amazon found that a 100ms delay decreased sales by 1%, Google also found similar results where an artificial increase in page loading time decrease the number of searches users performed. So it appears that users DO care, at least at an unconscious level.
In other news, a new study shows that eating slower on your lunch break leads to you eating less food. Story at 11.
As for the Amazon bit, the longer a person has to mull over their decision to actually buy what they added to their cart, the more likely they are to not order. Like the car salesman that tells you he has another buyer interested to get you to buy faster. The longer you think it over the less likely it is he closes the deal.
So no, the users don't care. If a person has actually made their mind up on buying something, 100ms isn't going to affect that. If anything they would favor the slower load as it might help them curb impulsive spending. You hear far more people saying 'I'm spending too much money!' than you do saying 'I can't spend my money fast enough!' Google users aren't going to give a toss if they 'run out of time' and complete fewer searches. 99% of the time the least important searches are going to be performed last, and the user isn't going sweat over not completing those searches. Anyone on a tight enough of a schedule to have all of their searches be of equal importance that must be completed or bad things happen probably isn't going to be using google in the first place. The only people helped by browsers being faster than they are now are the people trying to sell you something. It doesn't help the user at all.
I don't know what the hell you, all my sibling posters, and my sibling's children posters are doing with Firefox. Trying to run Folding@Home from within some sort of browser shell/VM? I have Firefox running 24/7/365 with a minimum of two tabs open, and upwards of 10-12 at any given time, many with flash or video content and high memory overhead. I've yet to see the thing break 600MB of usage in the last two years. Before that, sure, it was attrocious and would nom up over 2 gigs of RAM. Maybe you all need to stop bitching about the fast dev cycle and upgrade.
If we somehow develop a nuclear reactor that fits in a suitcase and somehow generates an immense gravitational field sufficient to cause the problems you describe, then we wouldn't be putting the thing on the moon. We'd call it a warp drive and use it to bend space-time for faster than light travel. Of course once we have faster than light travel, who gives a toss about exploring the moon?
Just control the descent until you're going fast enough to drill the spike into the ground but slow enough so that the structure remains intact.
You know I think I saw that in a movie once. The spike even ejected the themal transfer medium by itself once it was inside. It seemed like a rather efficient system.
I've seen lemons and potatoes used as batteries for clocks. Why don't we just set up some groves and farms on the moon/mars and use those instead. Now that's imaginative!
They're lawyers, they don't know how to do that. They probably should have asked the unpaid intern or the receptionist, but there aren't any billable hours in that.
You're right, lawyers never lie. And especially not to get paid.
USB is certainly more widely used than it used to be, but I think you can still find plenty of instances of proprietary connectors. To my memory USB is more widely used in the smartphone arena, while older style candybar/clamshell phones still have the proprietary connectors. I'm not certain though, I don't exactly keep up with cell phone technology, so you could be right. I believe my general point still stands though, USB paired with inductive charging seems the most logical approach.
That's the sort of 'funny' hypocrisy that is the US government. They are all too happy to make laws that burden and inconvenience the entire population based on the actions of one individual. However when it comes to seizing evidence they refrain from inconveniencing a large number of people by seizing ISP equipment, and think nothing of inconveniencing a single citizen by seizing theirs.
Unless you look at it for what it actually is. Corporate favoritism. Corporations are handed more rights than citizens anymore, and that is why they'll take Joe Blow's Tor exit node but leave an ISP alone. Joe Blow didn't contribute millions in bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H campaign contributions like the ISPs did. Welcome the new America, where the only entities with rights are those with the money to buy them.
Sort of. It's more like that criminal being chopped up into tiny pieces, making his way to the bank sequentially, and then being reassembled when he got there. You as a homeowner couldn't even be expected to know he was a crimal, all you saw were lots of tiny boxes crossing your lawn.
Yeah but the video was so grainy that they couldn't tell if it was the knife or the candlestick so the butler got aquitted anyway. Guess they should have invested in better cameras first...
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The US is fully converted to metric where it matters: science and soft drinks.
Our 20 ounce bottles and 12 ounce cans beg to differ. The metric equivalent is on the container, but they clearly aren't designed as such. 0.59 litre bottles and 0.35 litre cans are 'odd' amounts.
That would sure make the weather a lot more fun to watch. Just imagine Al Roker saying in the middle of the summer "And the high today is going to be Mother-Fucking God-Damn hot!"
Sadly the weather would end up censored and we'd never know what the hell to wear!
In other words the probe is heading almost straight towards the Sun.
No it's heading towards Jupiter. They just used the flash. Duh.
It's actually Hugh Grant himself. His birth-name was Hugh Stickinthemud. He went with Grant for his stage-name though. Not that it fooled anyone.
In true nerd fashion it is indeed my favorite song that Eric Idle ever wrote. It is amazing how he was able to capture our utter insignificance in 24 lines, all while rhyming and ending with a punchline.
Aw shit, I'm gushing aren't I?
If you had followed the link provided by datapharmer in a sibling post you would have seen that the exploit in question was "only tested on windows 2000 and 2003"[sic]. Your post makes reference to server 2008. There is a chance you are both correct.
Your Dad was right, in an ignorant sort of way. On the face of things, replacing brake pads is certainly cheaper than replacing a dropped transmission. Dig deeper though and you find that engine braking (done properly) causes little to no wear on the transmission. You can run a car till the odometer rolls over without replacing a transmission (if properly maintained of course), but you'll go through at least three sets of brake pads in that time, if not four or five. So the end result is that brake pads cost more, provided you're driving your vehicle properly. Engine braking is much gentler on your car's parts than 'standard' braking, uses less fuel than the idling in neutral approach, and increases control of your vehicle. The latter part is especially handy in parts of the world with rough winter weather. Slam on the brakes on a slippery road and you might skid out of control, but drop your car into a lower gear (even on automatics, I wish people would learn that) and you can safely slow your car quickly. Just a few taps of the brakes along the way to help out and you're good. Topics like this really need to be part of driver's ED and driving tests in the US. Not enough people know this shit.
They may actually be timed to allow you hit a chain of green lights. The trouble is that if you hit one red light, then the time you (and every moron in front of you not paying attention) spend accelerating to the speed limit is time lost on catching that next green light. This is what requires you to drive faster than the speed limit. I will however admit that some municipalities have their traffic systems so poorly programmed that you can catch one green light, doing the speed limit, maintain the speed limit, and still not catch the next green. Those are the cities with civil engineers that need killed. Well, I'm of the opinion that all civil engineers need killed anyway. Any group of people as seemingly retarded as they are shouldn't be allowed to exist with the rest of us. At the very least the ones down in Florida. Whoever thought mile long medians and requiring U-Turns to get practically anywhere certainly needs removed from existence.
They would have tested them on Linux too but Tom couldn't figure out how to install it.
Once your RAM runs out of space it has store those extra electrons somewhere, so the first place it looks is the battery. Store enough electrons there and the thing starts to bulge. Seriously, this CS 101 stuff.
Amazon found that a 100ms delay decreased sales by 1%, Google also found similar results where an artificial increase in page loading time decrease the number of searches users performed. So it appears that users DO care, at least at an unconscious level.
In other news, a new study shows that eating slower on your lunch break leads to you eating less food. Story at 11.
As for the Amazon bit, the longer a person has to mull over their decision to actually buy what they added to their cart, the more likely they are to not order. Like the car salesman that tells you he has another buyer interested to get you to buy faster. The longer you think it over the less likely it is he closes the deal.
So no, the users don't care. If a person has actually made their mind up on buying something, 100ms isn't going to affect that. If anything they would favor the slower load as it might help them curb impulsive spending. You hear far more people saying 'I'm spending too much money!' than you do saying 'I can't spend my money fast enough!' Google users aren't going to give a toss if they 'run out of time' and complete fewer searches. 99% of the time the least important searches are going to be performed last, and the user isn't going sweat over not completing those searches. Anyone on a tight enough of a schedule to have all of their searches be of equal importance that must be completed or bad things happen probably isn't going to be using google in the first place. The only people helped by browsers being faster than they are now are the people trying to sell you something. It doesn't help the user at all.
I don't know what the hell you, all my sibling posters, and my sibling's children posters are doing with Firefox. Trying to run Folding@Home from within some sort of browser shell/VM? I have Firefox running 24/7/365 with a minimum of two tabs open, and upwards of 10-12 at any given time, many with flash or video content and high memory overhead. I've yet to see the thing break 600MB of usage in the last two years. Before that, sure, it was attrocious and would nom up over 2 gigs of RAM. Maybe you all need to stop bitching about the fast dev cycle and upgrade.
If we somehow develop a nuclear reactor that fits in a suitcase and somehow generates an immense gravitational field sufficient to cause the problems you describe, then we wouldn't be putting the thing on the moon. We'd call it a warp drive and use it to bend space-time for faster than light travel. Of course once we have faster than light travel, who gives a toss about exploring the moon?
I was going to post a witty Starcraft reference, but how are we going to *safely* extract and enrich (or ship in a rocket) uranium in outer space?
Have one of your Ghosts target paint the moon. Duh.
Just control the descent until you're going fast enough to drill the spike into the ground but slow enough so that the structure remains intact.
You know I think I saw that in a movie once. The spike even ejected the themal transfer medium by itself once it was inside. It seemed like a rather efficient system.
I've seen lemons and potatoes used as batteries for clocks. Why don't we just set up some groves and farms on the moon/mars and use those instead. Now that's imaginative!
You put a very evil grin on my face this Friday afternoon. Thank you. :-)
They're lawyers, they don't know how to do that. They probably should have asked the unpaid intern or the receptionist, but there aren't any billable hours in that.
You're right, lawyers never lie. And especially not to get paid.
I'm under the impression lawyers actually require some level of charisma to win over a jury irrespective of the facts.
Wait, you're telling me you can make a real doll's tits however large you like? Nevermind.
USB is certainly more widely used than it used to be, but I think you can still find plenty of instances of proprietary connectors. To my memory USB is more widely used in the smartphone arena, while older style candybar/clamshell phones still have the proprietary connectors. I'm not certain though, I don't exactly keep up with cell phone technology, so you could be right. I believe my general point still stands though, USB paired with inductive charging seems the most logical approach.
That's the sort of 'funny' hypocrisy that is the US government. They are all too happy to make laws that burden and inconvenience the entire population based on the actions of one individual. However when it comes to seizing evidence they refrain from inconveniencing a large number of people by seizing ISP equipment, and think nothing of inconveniencing a single citizen by seizing theirs.
Unless you look at it for what it actually is. Corporate favoritism. Corporations are handed more rights than citizens anymore, and that is why they'll take Joe Blow's Tor exit node but leave an ISP alone. Joe Blow didn't contribute millions in bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H campaign contributions like the ISPs did. Welcome the new America, where the only entities with rights are those with the money to buy them.
Sort of. It's more like that criminal being chopped up into tiny pieces, making his way to the bank sequentially, and then being reassembled when he got there. You as a homeowner couldn't even be expected to know he was a crimal, all you saw were lots of tiny boxes crossing your lawn.
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We should all be glad it's not Apple that's building this then!
Yeah but the video was so grainy that they couldn't tell if it was the knife or the candlestick so the butler got aquitted anyway. Guess they should have invested in better cameras first...