Good to see the "condescending twat" brigade is as fast as ever to leap on anyone who dares to grace Slashdot with their presence despite not knowing the Sacred Texts.
The UK has laws that make it very easy to punish people for making defamatory, abusive, and/or libelous statements, without any need to prove how much actual damage they caused, if any.
The US has free speech.
You make it sound like the latter is the polar opposite of the former. Can someone in the US make any defamatory, abusive, and/or libelous statement they want?
Or is it actually not black and white on either side of the Atlantic?
That was part of the joke, along with the overly-significant digits. The * at the end is so I could refer back to it and prove that I'm not a complete* idiot:)
Because it's optically deceptive when talking about absolute numbers. Going from 30 to 35MPG is a 5MPG increase. Going from 10 to 15MPG is also a 5MPG increase. In the first case, your fuel bill will drop by 14%. In the second, by 33%. So, a 5MPG improvement in fuel economy means very different things depending on your starting position.
How is that any more deceptive than using g/100m? You'll still experience different percentage changes in your bill when you measure in g/100m, depending on your starting point.
(I'll admit to some uncertainty here just so I don't look like a complete idiot when you point out where I've gone wrong, but I don't think I have at the moment)
Going from 3 g/100m to 2 g/100m is a 1 g/100m decrease. Going from 7 g/100m to 6 g/100m is also a 1 g/100m increase. In the first case, your fuel bill will drop by 33%. In the second, it'll drop by 14%. It'll be the same absolute decrease in both cases (which it wouldn't be in the MPG case), but who looks at that when considering deals?
I think the whole MPG/GPM thing has been blown out of proportion just for the sake of someone showing how right they are.
But then, we should be using gallons-per-mile instead of miles-per-gallon, too.
A car that does 50MPG is twice as efficient as one that does 25MPG. What's so hard about comparing numbers in MPG? It sounds like me like someone's got a case of the "technically correct"s.
You hope you've got more important things to worry about. But when your router catches fire in the middle of the night before you were due to change your will...
install the Program, we may collect information about your device and applications and use it for purposes such as determining or improving compatibility,
use voice input features like speech-to-text, we may collect voice information and use it for purposes such as improving speech processing,
open a file, we may collect information about the file, the application used to open the file, and how long it takes any use it for purposes such as improving performance, or
enter text, we may collect typed characters and use them for purposes such as improving autocomplete and spellcheck features.
Disclaimer: I generally agree that octopi/pods, whatever, are intelligent. But:
"Octopus intelligence is well documented: they have been known to open jars, guard their unhatched eggs for months or even years, and demonstrate personalities. Most famously, they can blast a cloud of ink to throw off predators, but even more impressive is the masterfully complex camouflage
Out of all of those examples, I can only see one that's definitely a sign of real intelligence (opening jars). The rest all sound more like at least partly instinctual behaviours.
Guarding unhatched eggs for years certainly sounds less intelligent than stashing them away somewhere you've determined to be safe, and going back out to octopus parties.
Slashdot Mirror
I was being ironic.
Because we're not all fat and sweaty like definitely every American.
It needs a slight rewrite, but imagine the headline being read by Daffy Duck:
Antiperspirants Perhaps Partly Partake in Prolonging Particulate Pollution
he likes analog meters
I thought they were called "yards."
I ought to tan your hide, cos that was terrible.
Stop going off on tangents.
Good to see the "condescending twat" brigade is as fast as ever to leap on anyone who dares to grace Slashdot with their presence despite not knowing the Sacred Texts.
Cock.
The UK has laws that make it very easy to punish people for making defamatory, abusive, and/or libelous statements, without any need to prove how much actual damage they caused, if any.
The US has free speech.
You make it sound like the latter is the polar opposite of the former. Can someone in the US make any defamatory, abusive, and/or libelous statement they want?
Or is it actually not black and white on either side of the Atlantic?
Why the Trolls Will Always Win
They don't.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-2...
And sometimes they really don't.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-2...
That was part of the joke, along with the overly-significant digits. The * at the end is so I could refer back to it and prove that I'm not a complete* idiot :)
*I haven't got an appendix**, for one thing.
**I have really. That was another joke.
Also for UK readers: 2500 square miles is 4023.35 square kilometres*.
automated shelves
How's them work, then?
Yeah, let's just write some code and assume it works as it intended. What could possibly go wrong?
Of course, just because it is challenged, doesn't mean it is science.
Then that means... I'm science!
Wait a minute... did Douglas Adams get a writing credit for the final episode of (rot13 spoiler alert) Onggyrfgne Tnynpgvpn?
Because it's optically deceptive when talking about absolute numbers. Going from 30 to 35MPG is a 5MPG increase. Going from 10 to 15MPG is also a 5MPG increase. In the first case, your fuel bill will drop by 14%. In the second, by 33%. So, a 5MPG improvement in fuel economy means very different things depending on your starting position.
How is that any more deceptive than using g/100m? You'll still experience different percentage changes in your bill when you measure in g/100m, depending on your starting point.
(I'll admit to some uncertainty here just so I don't look like a complete idiot when you point out where I've gone wrong, but I don't think I have at the moment)
Going from 3 g/100m to 2 g/100m is a 1 g/100m decrease. Going from 7 g/100m to 6 g/100m is also a 1 g/100m increase. In the first case, your fuel bill will drop by 33%. In the second, it'll drop by 14%. It'll be the same absolute decrease in both cases (which it wouldn't be in the MPG case), but who looks at that when considering deals?
I think the whole MPG/GPM thing has been blown out of proportion just for the sake of someone showing how right they are.
But then, we should be using gallons-per-mile instead of miles-per-gallon, too.
A car that does 50MPG is twice as efficient as one that does 25MPG. What's so hard about comparing numbers in MPG? It sounds like me like someone's got a case of the "technically correct"s.
It's even funnier now you've explained it all in intricate detail.
Technological progress continues apace.
You hope you've got more important things to worry about. But when your router catches fire in the middle of the night before you were due to change your will...
Send Your Own Radiosonde 90,000 Feet Into the Sky
You heard the headline. Get cracking!
I expect some very interesting photography would result.
Can you elaborate? I lack the knowledge to know what might be interesting about it.
Yellow. The color of the sun. Obviously.
If that's true, why is it obvious? It's not like we need to be especially sensitive to the colour of the sun. It's pretty hard to miss.
But the temperature on Mars is rising too! We are sooooooooooooooo screwed!
Relax. Temperature may be rising but sea levels are remarkably stable.
http://windows.microsoft.com/e...
For example, when you:
install the Program, we may collect information about your device and applications and use it for purposes such as determining or improving compatibility,
use voice input features like speech-to-text, we may collect voice information and use it for purposes such as improving speech processing,
open a file, we may collect information about the file, the application used to open the file, and how long it takes any use it for purposes such as improving performance, or
enter text, we may collect typed characters and use them for purposes such as improving autocomplete and spellcheck features.
Disclaimer: I generally agree that octopi/pods, whatever, are intelligent. But:
"Octopus intelligence is well documented: they have been known to open jars, guard their unhatched eggs for months or even years, and demonstrate personalities. Most famously, they can blast a cloud of ink to throw off predators, but even more impressive is the masterfully complex camouflage
Out of all of those examples, I can only see one that's definitely a sign of real intelligence (opening jars). The rest all sound more like at least partly instinctual behaviours.
Guarding unhatched eggs for years certainly sounds less intelligent than stashing them away somewhere you've determined to be safe, and going back out to octopus parties.