they should not be able to fly if the current laws of psychics were correct
Indeed, I have yet to come across a true psychic who will permit a bee to fly.
That's because I am fucking hansom and sexy:)
You're having intimate relations with a Horse and cab?
Please consider spelling things correctly when you debate more academic issues. It makes it difficult for people to agree with your arguments when there're missing or clanged letters all over the place.
So, twitter is a bit like IRC. Is there a web interface to an IRC server that works in a similar way to twitter? It seems a bit silly to re-invent a protocol that's like IRC, but with fewer characters per message.
Sucrose is rapidly processed in the stomach and small intestine
And acetic acid (vinegar) is rapidly processed pretty much everywhere in the body. It is used to produce Acetyl Coenzyme A, which then goes on to produce carbon dioxide and water.
I don't understand why pointing out that a compound is rapidly broken down into other chemicals demonstrates that it is equivalent to those other chemicals.
Would randomly scattering individuals into separate rooms work? Most exams I've taken sort by last name, so it's fairly predictable which people you'll be lumped with. Here's my suggestion:
Keep the exams open book — please dispense with this need for memorisation of every detail, rather than a more general understanding of how things fit together
Multiple rooms (say 3) for each exam
Random assignment of individuals to rooms (but post a reasonable time before the exam)
Multiple exams over the course of the year
[Probably the most controversial] final result based on lowest exam mark (or a function of the lowest mark)
Hopefully, for someone to game that, they'd have to make friends with a large proportion of the class. And with that amount of effort in making social connections, you might as well give them the marks anyway.
Or, alternatively, here's something that increases marker effort, but would be much more effective to prevent this:
Give each person slightly different questions
The "easy" implementation of this would be to randomly select from a small bank of questions (say 3-4) for each provided question. You wouldn't be able to photocopy exams for distribution, because each exam would be different, but it shouldn't increase the marker's effort by too much.
Correct, Thanks. And I thought I got the handle on all the "than vs. then" issue.
Blame it on my programmer's eyes. When I see a 'then', I have a hunt around for an 'if' (or at least a preceding event), and get confused when one does not exist.
electricity has to come from somewhere. Currently the preferred way is to burn fossil fuel... Electric cars currently do not remove the requirement to burn oil.
Electric cars remove the requirement to burn oil, and replace it with a preference to burn oil. As you have implied, oil is not needed to generate electricity.
When it takes more energy to extract, refine and transport the oil than what you get out of it, then that barrel of oil won't get extracted - no matter what the oil price is.
Not quite. While this is true if it takes more oil to extract the oil than what you get out of it, there may come some time in the future where oil becomes more valuable than its energy content.
because stupid (i.e. unfit to survive) people will be mangled by 100% preventable diseases
I hate to tell you this, but vaccination helps the people who get vaccinated as well, just to a lesser degree. Vaccines are not 100% effective in 100% of the population, and they don't have 0% side effects (however, on the plus side, diseases do not have a 100% transmission rate, even for unvaccinated people).
Vaccines (in a situation where most people are vaccinated) reduce the transmission rate for most of the population, reducing the likelihood that anyone will be exposed to a disease (even vaccinated people).
I'm glad to see that someone else has a similar itch as me with regard to this phrase. While it is explained in a reply to you that it might be appropriate in this case, it's up there with "an historic" as one of the things news reporters seem to say without thinking about it.
Cooking for engineers has quite nicely displayed recipes, and there's a post about classifying baking in terms of wet/dry, butter, and egg content here.
you order european cola, you get cola, you order australian cola, you get fanta. Now you'll order cola, and get cola.
I think it's probably closer to this:
You order European Coke, you get Coke [Coca cola] You order American Coke, you get Pepsi [Pepsi cola] You order Canadian Coke, you get OpenCola [For all those FOSS zealots out there]
Now you order Coke, you get Coca cola
Fanta and Cola are a bit too different from each other that people who aren't particularly good with flavours would actually notice.
Steghide is older, but seems to support more file formats, and multiple encryption algorithms.
Or maybe not... both websites seem to have fairly old "most recent versions" (i.e. >6 years). However, they still appear to be compiling on Debian systems (as there are packages for both), so I figure someone out there is at least updating them to compile on recent systems.
Slashdot Mirror
I was under the impression that it took off like a bird
It does take off like a bird; it takes off like a very big bird. There are a couple of interesting sentences in that:
Albatrosses in calm seas are forced to rest on the ocean's surface until the wind picks up again.
When taking off, albatrosses need to take a run up to allow enough air to move under the wing to provide lift.
they should not be able to fly if the current laws of psychics were correct
Indeed, I have yet to come across a true psychic who will permit a bee to fly.
That's because I am fucking hansom and sexy :)
You're having intimate relations with a Horse and cab?
Please consider spelling things correctly when you debate more academic issues. It makes it difficult for people to agree with your arguments when there're missing or clanged letters all over the place.
So, twitter is a bit like IRC. Is there a web interface to an IRC server that works in a similar way to twitter? It seems a bit silly to re-invent a protocol that's like IRC, but with fewer characters per message.
Sucrose is rapidly processed in the stomach and small intestine
And acetic acid (vinegar) is rapidly processed pretty much everywhere in the body. It is used to produce Acetyl Coenzyme A, which then goes on to produce carbon dioxide and water.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_metabolism#Acetic_acid_to_acetyl-CoA
I don't understand why pointing out that a compound is rapidly broken down into other chemicals demonstrates that it is equivalent to those other chemicals.
could you please tell me what the "R" in "DRM" stands for?
Restrictions, according to RMS (the Rights Management System).
Carbon dioxide is a major component of vinegar.
Advent? But it's not December yet!
Would randomly scattering individuals into separate rooms work? Most exams I've taken sort by last name, so it's fairly predictable which people you'll be lumped with. Here's my suggestion:
Hopefully, for someone to game that, they'd have to make friends with a large proportion of the class. And with that amount of effort in making social connections, you might as well give them the marks anyway.
Or, alternatively, here's something that increases marker effort, but would be much more effective to prevent this:
The "easy" implementation of this would be to randomly select from a small bank of questions (say 3-4) for each provided question. You wouldn't be able to photocopy exams for distribution, because each exam would be different, but it shouldn't increase the marker's effort by too much.
I think most people would consider the manufacture of babies to be an industry where child labour is uncommon.
It's nice to see people using wisdom to bite into the stem cell issue.
This fire tornado thing reminds me of toothpick plasma. Not the same thing, but seems to be about as neat.
Correct, Thanks. And I thought I got the handle on all the "than vs. then" issue.
Blame it on my programmer's eyes. When I see a 'then', I have a hunt around for an 'if' (or at least a preceding event), and get confused when one does not exist.
electricity has to come from somewhere. Currently the preferred way is to burn fossil fuel...
Electric cars currently do not remove the requirement to burn oil.
Electric cars remove the requirement to burn oil, and replace it with a preference to burn oil. As you have implied, oil is not needed to generate electricity.
When it takes more energy to extract, refine and transport the oil than what you get out of it, then that barrel of oil won't get extracted - no matter what the oil price is.
Not quite. While this is true if it takes more oil to extract the oil than what you get out of it, there may come some time in the future where oil becomes more valuable than its energy content.
because stupid (i.e. unfit to survive) people will be mangled by 100% preventable diseases
I hate to tell you this, but vaccination helps the people who get vaccinated as well, just to a lesser degree. Vaccines are not 100% effective in 100% of the population, and they don't have 0% side effects (however, on the plus side, diseases do not have a 100% transmission rate, even for unvaccinated people).
Vaccines (in a situation where most people are vaccinated) reduce the transmission rate for most of the population, reducing the likelihood that anyone will be exposed to a disease (even vaccinated people).
I think you meant herd immunity [wikipedia.org] in the last sentence, but other than that I agree with you completely.
FTFY
It's more a store fighting shoplifting by tracking down people they think might be shoplifters and setting fire to their cars.
Or attacking them with a crowbar (I couldn't find the uncensored version on the tube).
I'm glad to see that someone else has a similar itch as me with regard to this phrase. While it is explained in a reply to you that it might be appropriate in this case, it's up there with "an historic" as one of the things news reporters seem to say without thinking about it.
Cooking for engineers has quite nicely displayed recipes, and there's a post about classifying baking in terms of wet/dry, butter, and egg content here.
My current annoyance with python:
// the following code delivers cake to the subject
// the above comment explains the joke
== changelog ==
* removed redundant comments
you order european cola, you get cola, you order australian cola, you get fanta. Now you'll order cola, and get cola.
I think it's probably closer to this:
You order European Coke, you get Coke [Coca cola]
You order American Coke, you get Pepsi [Pepsi cola]
You order Canadian Coke, you get OpenCola [For all those FOSS zealots out there]
Now you order Coke, you get Coca cola
Fanta and Cola are a bit too different from each other that people who aren't particularly good with flavours would actually notice.
That's impressive: too old for you, and you have an ID below 100,000. Does anyone have any estimate of when particular IDs were first used?
Oh lets just throw everything on it and see what sticks.
I don't know if you tried to be funny or not but I think that this is a pretty good idea.
I think that was the general idea of Darwin et al., as seen on Ascension island.
Steghide is older, but seems to support more file formats, and multiple encryption algorithms.
Or maybe not... both websites seem to have fairly old "most recent versions" (i.e. >6 years). However, they still appear to be compiling on Debian systems (as there are packages for both), so I figure someone out there is at least updating them to compile on recent systems.