Lower your standards and surrender your mod points. We will add your tautological and non-tautological statements to our own. Your lack of culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is erotic.
The customary system has much more convenient units than the metric system...
The rigidity of the metric system leads to absurd units... a cup is like 253 mL, 1/3 of a liter is 333 mL, etc...
The units may seem trivial, but really make intuitive sense. a foot is roughly the length of a man's forearm. customary units are designed to be divided or cut into fractional parts. people think in terms of "one-half" or "two-thirds" not.33 or.4
I don't think many people are dumb enough to have trouble converting fractions to decimal, i.e., 1/3 L = 0.333L = 333mL. And the coversino from cups to mL is irrelevant because all conversions between different systems of measurement come up with weird numbers like that and if we were all using metric it wouldn't matter anyway.
Try converting a cubic yard into gallons in the conventional system... it's a pain in the ass. There are no easy to remember equivalents for converting from cubic distance units to volume units in that system. But in metric it's extremely easy because 1ml = 1cm^3 and all the unit conversions are base-10 (so you don't have to memorize a whole lot of bizarre and unsystematic ones like 1 mile = 352 rods, 1 rod = 3 yard = 9 feet = 108 in
If the terrorists had the facilities to enrich plutonium, they might just as well mine their own uranium ore and enrich that instead of going to the trouble of sending in a lot of commandos to attempt to steal some plutonium.
This is a great idea, but thanks to the morons in washington, reprocessing spent nuclear fuel to recover useful fuel like plutonium has been illegal in the U.S. since the 1970's because they're paranoid that reprocesses plutonium could fall into the wrong hands and result in nuclear proliferation. So instead, instead of reprocessing the waste and thereby getting many times more energy out of the same amount of mined uranium, they store all that stuff underground. Personally, I think if we recycled the damn stuff it would be less likely to fall into the hands of terrorists because there wouldn't be so much nuclear waste crap everywhere. Which do you think is going to be more heavily guarded: a buried nuclear waste dump or a plutonium reprocessing facility. The U.S. law against reprocessing is idiotic and terribly wasteful.
Yeah, that's what I hate about the imperial system: too many superfluous and pointless units, all having different conversions to the next larger unit. It's a lot more complicated and less efficient to work with than metric.
Ex: ton = 2200lbs, lb=16oz, oz=42grains?
Volume-- hogshead = 55 gal gal=4qt=8pt=16cup cup=16fl.oz fl.oz=4?Tbsp Tbsp=3tsp and I can't even remember how the hell you convert cubic inches to fluid ounces, if there is even an integer conversion, which I doubt. There's no systematic approach to it. All the units and conversions are arbitrary and trivial.
A parody is all in good fun. If local news outlets were decieved, they should blame themselves for being morons by not even looking at the bloody URL, to say nothing of getting confirmation from other sources. Seriously. Do they just search on google and report the first interesting thing that they find if the site looks semi-official? These are the kind of morons who would parrot an Onion article as if it were real news. There's a huge difference between parody and character assasination, and using registered trademarks or copyrighted material for parody or criticism purposes is PERFECTLY LEGAL without permission, hell, even if the "owner" of the material explicitly forbids you to use it.
Bringing the legal smackdown on this site for "libel" and "copyright infringment" is not only absurd, but simply fascist. This is an affront to free speech, which includes the right to criticize and parody anything you damn well please.
Carbon nanotubes?
Like fullerenes, except they're long cylenders instead of spherical. And they conduct electricity quite well.
Yeah but how long till M$ sues them into oblivion?
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If ReactOS ever becomes even remotely popular, or maybe even before it is even released, Microsoft will sue it into oblivion for unauthorized use of their APIs which are supposedly their "Intellectual Property". I wouldn't expect anything else from microsoft except to protect their monopoly by bringing the legal smackdown on anyone who wants to develop a fully interoperable OS without paying them royalties.
Well, in my Antec SLK3700 case, there's constantly a 5mph breeze blowing past the hard drives, with just one 120mm back fan plus the power supply and some good vents in front.
If your case doesn't get enough ventilation because the vents aren't big enough, make them bigger:). No reason to add to the noise with a front fan.
A single 120mm fan, or two 80mm fans in the back, in addition to the power supply fans, are enough to provide plenty of air circulation and keep everything well below temperature tolerances, unless your case's front ventilation passages suck. I don't understand why the heck people try and put 5 or 6 loud fans in their case to drop the operating temperatures from 34 degrees to 30 degrees when the damn things were made to operate up to and above 50 degrees.
PS: For those who can't grasp the obvious, yes, I'm talking celcius here. The Imperial system should be abolished because it's so damn inefficient to work with. But that's another rant for another day.
Microsoft's entire purpose in creating.NET was to make everything use a proprietary standard that would only work well with their software, and thereby help enforce their browser and OS monopoly.
...Unless they lower prices to something reasonable that reflects the fact that they only have to pay for royalties and bandwidth, and not packaging, profits of useless intermediaries, and retail stores' profits.
But right now all the Video-On-Demand services that I know (including cable PPV), charge about the same amount as it would cost to BUY the VHS tape of the movie at wal-mart. That's ridiculous. Having a copy to keep, or watching it once on PPV for the same price... Hmm, that's a tough one.
Seriously, security through ignorance is about as futile as security through obscurity. If High Schools want to water down their chemistry classes in a vain attempt to keep people from learning how to make bombs, I pity them. It's not going to stop a kid who wants to blow up the school from doing so, because the information is everywhere and the materials are common household products. They should just go ahead and teach the kids some cool chemistry with cool demonstrations like methane bubbles, nitrocellulose, thermite, Sugar+KNO3, Zinc+NH4NO3+NH4Cl+H20, etc., all of which I got to do in my AP chem class.:)
Plus you can save a lot of money on fireworks around the 4th by making your own;). Go grab a 20-lb bag of ammonium nitrate, some zinc powder, and then some colorings:
NaCl (table salt) - orange
KCl (salt substitute, road salt) - purple
CaCl2 (road salt) - orange
Copper - blue
plus paints are a good source of exotic transition metals, if you can figure out what exactly they contain.
What sets a 'Software Engineer' apart from the rest of the crowd?"
Programmers have to be a hell of a lot more precise. When anarchitect screws up and the floor is 0.1 degrees from being level, no biggie. When a progremmer makes a similar-scale mistake, say hello to a remote root exploit or two.
What's next straight from your favorite FPS? Who has an estimate on how long it will take for the Army to outfit its troops with anti-personnel rocket launchers?"
American soldiers in Vietnam had grenade launchers that were primarily used for anti-personell purposes. It's been done, a long time ago.
Yonder lies the promise land, O dearly beloved, AMD, Intel, Windows XP! Uncle Steve has kept you captive long enough with his illusions and delusions!
Read "the writing on the wall" and like "where is the beef"? Go to Motorola's web site you will find no beef! If it causes you worry just accept it! peruse the Apple web sites, no beef, just dreams and wishful thinking!
Where is the proof of a G5, in reality it does not exit!
In the world of Intel, AMD, WINDOWS progress is a fast pace fact of life you have what is called tangible, Apple you have dreams and wishful thinking, and there is also bitterness and pc envy! PC s ridiculed and scoffed at by the mac community, now becoming a source of envy!
Beloved be no longer captive to delusions of the most modern, fastest supercomputers ever invented, but at least capitalize off of Apple's demise with some options trading! Turn those sour Apples into a hefty wad of cash! Do a little research. That hundred million bushels of sour rotting Apples can make you a fortune and real goose that lays the golden egg! Do some research on options trading, get your accounts open and rake in those bucks! Thank you AAPL for becoming a penny stock!!!
Maybe you didn't quite understand the original analogy. Updating regularly is the equivalent of wearing your seatbelt. If you don't update for 6 months, you're a dumbass with no right to complain. Similarly, if you don't wear your seatbelt and you get in a crash and go flying through the windshield, it's your own stupid fault.
Your re-engineered analogy is inapplicable to the situation at hand.
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Lower your standards and surrender your mod points. We will add your tautological and non-tautological statements to our own. Your lack of culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is erotic.
I don't know about you, but I can kind of *see* the individual frames in a movie. 24fps is the absolute bare minimum.
They're already a year behind and getting even further behind in the hardware sector. And MacOs sucks anyway.
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The customary system has much more convenient units than the metric system... The rigidity of the metric system leads to absurd units... a cup is like 253 mL, 1/3 of a liter is 333 mL, etc... The units may seem trivial, but really make intuitive sense. a foot is roughly the length of a man's forearm. customary units are designed to be divided or cut into fractional parts. people think in terms of "one-half" or "two-thirds" not .33 or .4
I don't think many people are dumb enough to have trouble converting fractions to decimal, i.e., 1/3 L = 0.333L = 333mL. And the coversino from cups to mL is irrelevant because all conversions between different systems of measurement come up with weird numbers like that and if we were all using metric it wouldn't matter anyway.
Try converting a cubic yard into gallons in the conventional system... it's a pain in the ass. There are no easy to remember equivalents for converting from cubic distance units to volume units in that system. But in metric it's extremely easy because 1ml = 1cm^3 and all the unit conversions are base-10 (so you don't have to memorize a whole lot of bizarre and unsystematic ones like 1 mile = 352 rods, 1 rod = 3 yard = 9 feet = 108 in
If the terrorists had the facilities to enrich plutonium, they might just as well mine their own uranium ore and enrich that instead of going to the trouble of sending in a lot of commandos to attempt to steal some plutonium.
This is a great idea, but thanks to the morons in washington, reprocessing spent nuclear fuel to recover useful fuel like plutonium has been illegal in the U.S. since the 1970's because they're paranoid that reprocesses plutonium could fall into the wrong hands and result in nuclear proliferation. So instead, instead of reprocessing the waste and thereby getting many times more energy out of the same amount of mined uranium, they store all that stuff underground. Personally, I think if we recycled the damn stuff it would be less likely to fall into the hands of terrorists because there wouldn't be so much nuclear waste crap everywhere. Which do you think is going to be more heavily guarded: a buried nuclear waste dump or a plutonium reprocessing facility. The U.S. law against reprocessing is idiotic and terribly wasteful.
Yeah, that's what I hate about the imperial system: too many superfluous and pointless units, all having different conversions to the next larger unit. It's a lot more complicated and less efficient to work with than metric. Ex: ton = 2200lbs, lb=16oz, oz=42grains? Volume-- hogshead = 55 gal gal=4qt=8pt=16cup cup=16fl.oz fl.oz=4?Tbsp Tbsp=3tsp and I can't even remember how the hell you convert cubic inches to fluid ounces, if there is even an integer conversion, which I doubt. There's no systematic approach to it. All the units and conversions are arbitrary and trivial.
A parody is all in good fun. If local news outlets were decieved, they should blame themselves for being morons by not even looking at the bloody URL, to say nothing of getting confirmation from other sources. Seriously. Do they just search on google and report the first interesting thing that they find if the site looks semi-official? These are the kind of morons who would parrot an Onion article as if it were real news. There's a huge difference between parody and character assasination, and using registered trademarks or copyrighted material for parody or criticism purposes is PERFECTLY LEGAL without permission, hell, even if the "owner" of the material explicitly forbids you to use it.
Bringing the legal smackdown on this site for "libel" and "copyright infringment" is not only absurd, but simply fascist. This is an affront to free speech, which includes the right to criticize and parody anything you damn well please.
Carbon nanotubes? Like fullerenes, except they're long cylenders instead of spherical. And they conduct electricity quite well.
If ReactOS ever becomes even remotely popular, or maybe even before it is even released, Microsoft will sue it into oblivion for unauthorized use of their APIs which are supposedly their "Intellectual Property". I wouldn't expect anything else from microsoft except to protect their monopoly by bringing the legal smackdown on anyone who wants to develop a fully interoperable OS without paying them royalties.
Well, in my Antec SLK3700 case, there's constantly a 5mph breeze blowing past the hard drives, with just one 120mm back fan plus the power supply and some good vents in front. If your case doesn't get enough ventilation because the vents aren't big enough, make them bigger :). No reason to add to the noise with a front fan.
A single 120mm fan, or two 80mm fans in the back, in addition to the power supply fans, are enough to provide plenty of air circulation and keep everything well below temperature tolerances, unless your case's front ventilation passages suck. I don't understand why the heck people try and put 5 or 6 loud fans in their case to drop the operating temperatures from 34 degrees to 30 degrees when the damn things were made to operate up to and above 50 degrees.
PS: For those who can't grasp the obvious, yes, I'm talking celcius here. The Imperial system should be abolished because it's so damn inefficient to work with. But that's another rant for another day.
Microsoft's entire purpose in creating .NET was to make everything use a proprietary standard that would only work well with their software, and thereby help enforce their browser and OS monopoly.
...Unless they lower prices to something reasonable that reflects the fact that they only have to pay for royalties and bandwidth, and not packaging, profits of useless intermediaries, and retail stores' profits. But right now all the Video-On-Demand services that I know (including cable PPV), charge about the same amount as it would cost to BUY the VHS tape of the movie at wal-mart. That's ridiculous. Having a copy to keep, or watching it once on PPV for the same price... Hmm, that's a tough one.
I found a cool article about extracting useful fuel from waste products via catalytic conversion. That sort of thing could generate energy in addition to saving materials and landfill space.
http://www.apple.com
Seriously, security through ignorance is about as futile as security through obscurity. If High Schools want to water down their chemistry classes in a vain attempt to keep people from learning how to make bombs, I pity them. It's not going to stop a kid who wants to blow up the school from doing so, because the information is everywhere and the materials are common household products. They should just go ahead and teach the kids some cool chemistry with cool demonstrations like methane bubbles, nitrocellulose, thermite, Sugar+KNO3, Zinc+NH4NO3+NH4Cl+H20, etc., all of which I got to do in my AP chem class. :)
Plus you can save a lot of money on fireworks around the 4th by making your own ;). Go grab a 20-lb bag of ammonium nitrate, some zinc powder, and then some colorings:
NaCl (table salt) - orange KCl (salt substitute, road salt) - purple CaCl2 (road salt) - orange Copper - blue
plus paints are a good source of exotic transition metals, if you can figure out what exactly they contain.
What sets a 'Software Engineer' apart from the rest of the crowd?"
Programmers have to be a hell of a lot more precise. When anarchitect screws up and the floor is 0.1 degrees from being level, no biggie. When a progremmer makes a similar-scale mistake, say hello to a remote root exploit or two.
Software Engineering: Anything that has to do with designing or refining systems for utilizing computers
What's next straight from your favorite FPS? Who has an estimate on how long it will take for the Army to outfit its troops with anti-personnel rocket launchers?"
American soldiers in Vietnam had grenade launchers that were primarily used for anti-personell purposes. It's been done, a long time ago.
Yonder lies the promise land, O dearly beloved, AMD, Intel, Windows XP! Uncle Steve has kept you captive long enough with his illusions and delusions!
Read "the writing on the wall" and like "where is the beef"? Go to Motorola's web site you will find no beef! If it causes you worry just accept it! peruse the Apple web sites, no beef, just dreams and wishful thinking!
Where is the proof of a G5, in reality it does not exit!
In the world of Intel, AMD, WINDOWS progress is a fast pace fact of life you have what is called tangible, Apple you have dreams and wishful thinking, and there is also bitterness and pc envy! PC s ridiculed and scoffed at by the mac community, now becoming a source of envy!
Beloved be no longer captive to delusions of the most modern, fastest supercomputers ever invented, but at least capitalize off of Apple's demise with some options trading! Turn those sour Apples into a hefty wad of cash! Do a little research. That hundred million bushels of sour rotting Apples can make you a fortune and real goose that lays the golden egg! Do some research on options trading, get your accounts open and rake in those bucks! Thank you AAPL for becoming a penny stock!!!
20MB is only a 1 hour download on a 56k connection, assuming average speed around 5.3KB/s
Maybe you didn't quite understand the original analogy. Updating regularly is the equivalent of wearing your seatbelt. If you don't update for 6 months, you're a dumbass with no right to complain. Similarly, if you don't wear your seatbelt and you get in a crash and go flying through the windshield, it's your own stupid fault.
Your re-engineered analogy is inapplicable to the situation at hand.