For what it's worth, an injection of cash will get you most of those features (or an illegal BT downloaded keygen, not that I recommend it). VMWare Workstation gives you DirectX, copy-paste, normal-looking taskbar entries (complete with icons and names), good mouse integration, etc. I used it many times so I could do my homework in actual Word (in a Win2k8 VM (it's free if you're a student)) while programming on Linux (rebooting sucks). The only thing that doesn't work is drag-and-drop between Windows and Linux apps, although they're probably working on that.
While you may have a point with the eye alignment, I still have to second the GP. I currently use three monitors (Radeon HD5770 ftw), one 4:3 19" and two 16:9 23"ers, one in portrait and one in landscape. The portrait is far superior for website reading. The main problem with landscape reading on a widescreen monitor is the width of the lines. Your head actually has to move sideways. And you're always scrolling. With a portrait widescreen, you rarely scroll and the lines are short enough for efficient reading. To combat the effects of having to sit far back to use all three monitors, I use 120dpi instead of 96dpi. World of difference.
I don't think you're right about that in this case. I love the doctrine of first sale, but this isn't covered. To buy the academic edition (student, teacher, whatever it's called nowadays) you have to certify that you're a student and agree to a non-transferable license for non-commercial use only. Or at least you did when I bought it.
You know, as an up-and-coming lawyer (not one yet, but will be), I find this "kill-the-lawyers" sentiment annoying, to say the least. The problem lies with the legislature, the people who write the laws, not the lawyers who use them or the judges who interpret them. Legislators are largely NOT lawyers, and of the few who are lawyers, most have never practiced. Usually the laws aren't even written by the legislators but by other people, often lobbyists (who are usually former legislators). You'll notice that almost none of the people involved in making these laws are experienced lawyers. They have no idea how to read them (and usually haven't). They don't understand how the laws they pass will interact with others. They don't know how to think through the laws to understand the consequences of their actions. It's horrible, but it's not the lawyers' faults. The lawyers are just doing their jobs - advocating for their clients. It's their clients that are assholes and legislators that are idiots.
No, no no. Wind is constant at the altitudes these turbines are at. Seriously. Test it for yourself one day, and climb a one hundred foot pole when there's no wind at ground level. I assure you that not only will there be wind at the top of that pole, but that it'll be more than enough to turn a turbine (you only need like 6-12 mph).
You must speak a different language than the rest of us. A handwritten copy would most certainly qualify as "reprinting". Remember that the spirit (intent) of the law is often as important as the actual wording. Take the word "vending" in that excerpt. At first you may think that only copyright holders could sell their own works (or at least control the sale thereof) and that second-hand sales would be prohibited. But you'd be wrong. The doctrine of first sale had existed in commonlaw for many, many years before then and would have colored this law to refer only to the first sale of the work to wholesalers.
Same story here on my grandparents' PC. They got the HaxDoor virus (nasty little devil), and it made the computer randomly issue stop errors, until one day it wouldn't boot at all (more stop errors). A quick boot into Knoppix to save their pics to a portable HD, and a reinstall of XP later, and they were good to go. (In the future, remember that very few current viruses wipe or corrupt a hard drive, and it's damn near impossible to infect media files (there've been a few viruses that can do that, but all the ones I've ever heard of are detected by recent AV/Anti-Malware software). Knoppix can generally access a non-bootable HD to move things to a portable before a reinstall. Just don't copy any executables, DLL's or other such nonsense, scan with Malwarebytes and AVG or Avast and you'll be fine).
Exactly. In fact, I rather enjoy nicotine gum, and buy it occasionally just for the enjoyment. (I'm being serious.) Although nowadays I do tend to use snus instead, as it's cheaper and tastes better.
Yes, generally. It has no known LD50 (ie, a dosage where 50% of people who take that dose die), and has never killed anyone by overdose (same as with pot). It has very few long term effects. The only studies which state opinions opposing what I just said have been thoroughly debunked by science. LSD is mostly illegal because some people don't like it when other people have fun.
Uh, no. A fifth is 18 shots (a pint of liquor is 250 mL vs 750 mL for a fifth (yes, I know is seems wrong, but the names for those sized bottles no longer match their volumes, not even in the US)). Therefore a pint, being exactly one third of a fifth, is 6 shots. I define a shot as 42 mL, which is strikingly close to the US government's definition of 44 mL (1.5 fl oz).
And don't start claiming that is shot is some other size like 1 fl oz or 30 mL or some bullshit. It's slightly less than 1.5 fl oz, dammit. In fact, there MUST be 18 shots in a fifth. That way I can finish my bottle of whisky just as I start the 18th hole. (And now you know why there are 18 holes in a full round of golf.)
OK, first, you definitely never really studied that case very closely. If you had, then you'd know that the McDonald's employee also screwed up the lid somehow and handed her the coffee in a haphazard manner, causing the spill to happen during the cup hand-off. When she got a small amount of hot coffee on her, she panicked, dropped the whole cup and burned the crap out of her cooter. Furthermore, there was documented evidence that numerous customers at that particular location had complained that the coffee was too hot for a period of several weeks prior to the incident. So it's not just a case of moronitude, like the popular press would have you believe.
Also, you don't really know that much about commercial coffee, or drip coffeemakers. Commercial drip coffeemakers have a standard brewing temperature of 160 degF. Since the Bunn company makes the most popular commercial coffeemakers and Bunn is the company that set the affore-mentioned temperature standard, 160 degree water is now called "Bunn Water" in many restaurant settings. Also, in restaurants, a much finer grind of coffee is used than the stuff you buy for your house. It's called high-efficiency coffee. This fineness of grind allows for a high-strength, high-flavor pot of coffee from a smaller amount of coffee than is normal, and allows it to brewed at temperatures as low as 140 degF. This is just like how cheap teabags (which use a very fine, powdery grade of tea called tea fannings) can be brewed with Bunn water but the same type of tea made from whole-leaf would require boiling water.
First, did you actually read the article you linked to? It clearly states that they don't believe that we have an extra calcium sensing taste bud, but that our existing taste buds detect calcium as bitter, and therefore people who are sensitive to bitter (and don't like it) tend not to eat enough calcium as a result.
Second, there are probably a whole bunch of tastes we can detect that we don't list as having special taste buds. Picante* comes up high on the list (and is an important consideration in many cuisines). Umami was a taste that many didn't list until just a few years ago but was always a consideration in Asian cuisine (as is picante). Anyone with half a brain could have told you that humans can detect fat content in food by taste. Just go and try the fat free equivalent of a naturally fatty food. It'll taste like ass, precisely because you're not sensing the fat content. They can try to substitute things in to overcome this limitation like extra sugars or textures that mimic the mouthfeel of fat, but they aren't the same as actual fat.
* (This is the Spanish word for the hot kind of spicy. In English this is sometimes called piquant (from French), but that word can also mean spicy in a more general sense (think Christmas spice), and so I like the Spanish word instead. Hot is also a bad word for picante since it can also refer to temperature, and when talking about food, we need to differentiate somehow.)
Generally, no. Denatured alcohol (that is, ethanol not for human consumption) is usually denatured with benzene. Still dangerous, but at least it doesn't taste exactly the same as ethanol.
You can use a piece of crap computer running pfSense as a router. You can still use your wireless "router" for wireless purposes (just hook it up to your network through one of the switch ports instead of the WAN port and turn off DHCP.). pfSense can do filtering, firewalling, MAC-based auth, etc. out of box, and can be set up fairly easily to do website rewriting (I think by using a squid proxy creatively, IIRC).
I find it kind of bizarre that in a discussion about the origins of and standard usage of units, you used a non-standard unit for fuel-economy. Well, sort of. Generally, fuel-economies less than 1 mpg aren't reported in mpg, but instead in gallons/mile, which would make 40 rod/hogshead = 504 gallons/mile. Holy shit would that be bad.
Actually that fork was in the (late) 2.x days. EGCS became gcc 2.95, when the reconciliation occurred. Also, IIRC, EGCS was originally called PGCC (for Pentium GCC).
The reason you crave those foods over our refined foods is that your body detected that that form of sugar/starch also contained more vitamins and was tastier.
This semester's accounting book was like that already for me. The book itself came unbound (just a pile of sheets with holes for a three-ring binder), and had a two-semester subscription to the online version of the textbook. The problem is that the subscription by itself was only $20 less than the book and you had to have it to do the homework. After the next semester, I'll be stuck with a worthless pile of paper (not even as good as a worthless textbook.)
The plural of mother-in-law IS mothers-in-law. Hence the plural of deus ex machina is di ex machina (deus is irregular when plural (and in the singular vocative). Furthermore, if deus were regular, its plural nominative would be dei.). (That is, the plural of god-from-machine is gods-from-machine.).
Of course, if you really insist on the Latin being correct, then in his sentence it should be dis ex machina, since prepositions take the ablative tense in Latin. In reality, that's retarded. I'll go with di ex machina as being the proper plural when used in English, and deuses ex machina when you never took Latin.
Oh, I almost forgot. Your other forms are also incorrect. In order: deus ex machina deus ex machinis di ex machina di ex machinis
Vending machine detectors are usually just magnets (at least in the US). Very few countries make their coins with enough iron, nickel, or cobalt to be magnetic, so a magnet can pick out most slugs (the usual form of counterfeiting used on vending machines). I know; I own vending machines.
Also, it's OT, but your sig annoys the crap out of me. I use whom correctly all the time, "intensive purposes" is retarded. Begging the question, though, seems to have actually changed meanings over the years, so, being a descriptivist, I'll give you that one.
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For what it's worth, an injection of cash will get you most of those features (or an illegal BT downloaded keygen, not that I recommend it). VMWare Workstation gives you DirectX, copy-paste, normal-looking taskbar entries (complete with icons and names), good mouse integration, etc. I used it many times so I could do my homework in actual Word (in a Win2k8 VM (it's free if you're a student)) while programming on Linux (rebooting sucks). The only thing that doesn't work is drag-and-drop between Windows and Linux apps, although they're probably working on that.
While you may have a point with the eye alignment, I still have to second the GP. I currently use three monitors (Radeon HD5770 ftw), one 4:3 19" and two 16:9 23"ers, one in portrait and one in landscape. The portrait is far superior for website reading. The main problem with landscape reading on a widescreen monitor is the width of the lines. Your head actually has to move sideways. And you're always scrolling. With a portrait widescreen, you rarely scroll and the lines are short enough for efficient reading. To combat the effects of having to sit far back to use all three monitors, I use 120dpi instead of 96dpi. World of difference.
I don't think you're right about that in this case. I love the doctrine of first sale, but this isn't covered. To buy the academic edition (student, teacher, whatever it's called nowadays) you have to certify that you're a student and agree to a non-transferable license for non-commercial use only. Or at least you did when I bought it.
You know, as an up-and-coming lawyer (not one yet, but will be), I find this "kill-the-lawyers" sentiment annoying, to say the least. The problem lies with the legislature, the people who write the laws, not the lawyers who use them or the judges who interpret them. Legislators are largely NOT lawyers, and of the few who are lawyers, most have never practiced. Usually the laws aren't even written by the legislators but by other people, often lobbyists (who are usually former legislators). You'll notice that almost none of the people involved in making these laws are experienced lawyers. They have no idea how to read them (and usually haven't). They don't understand how the laws they pass will interact with others. They don't know how to think through the laws to understand the consequences of their actions. It's horrible, but it's not the lawyers' faults. The lawyers are just doing their jobs - advocating for their clients. It's their clients that are assholes and legislators that are idiots.
No, no no. Wind is constant at the altitudes these turbines are at. Seriously. Test it for yourself one day, and climb a one hundred foot pole when there's no wind at ground level. I assure you that not only will there be wind at the top of that pole, but that it'll be more than enough to turn a turbine (you only need like 6-12 mph).
You must speak a different language than the rest of us. A handwritten copy would most certainly qualify as "reprinting". Remember that the spirit (intent) of the law is often as important as the actual wording. Take the word "vending" in that excerpt. At first you may think that only copyright holders could sell their own works (or at least control the sale thereof) and that second-hand sales would be prohibited. But you'd be wrong. The doctrine of first sale had existed in commonlaw for many, many years before then and would have colored this law to refer only to the first sale of the work to wholesalers.
Same story here on my grandparents' PC. They got the HaxDoor virus (nasty little devil), and it made the computer randomly issue stop errors, until one day it wouldn't boot at all (more stop errors). A quick boot into Knoppix to save their pics to a portable HD, and a reinstall of XP later, and they were good to go. (In the future, remember that very few current viruses wipe or corrupt a hard drive, and it's damn near impossible to infect media files (there've been a few viruses that can do that, but all the ones I've ever heard of are detected by recent AV/Anti-Malware software). Knoppix can generally access a non-bootable HD to move things to a portable before a reinstall. Just don't copy any executables, DLL's or other such nonsense, scan with Malwarebytes and AVG or Avast and you'll be fine).
Exactly. In fact, I rather enjoy nicotine gum, and buy it occasionally just for the enjoyment. (I'm being serious.) Although nowadays I do tend to use snus instead, as it's cheaper and tastes better.
Yes, generally. It has no known LD50 (ie, a dosage where 50% of people who take that dose die), and has never killed anyone by overdose (same as with pot). It has very few long term effects. The only studies which state opinions opposing what I just said have been thoroughly debunked by science. LSD is mostly illegal because some people don't like it when other people have fun.
Uh, no. A fifth is 18 shots (a pint of liquor is 250 mL vs 750 mL for a fifth (yes, I know is seems wrong, but the names for those sized bottles no longer match their volumes, not even in the US)). Therefore a pint, being exactly one third of a fifth, is 6 shots. I define a shot as 42 mL, which is strikingly close to the US government's definition of 44 mL (1.5 fl oz).
And don't start claiming that is shot is some other size like 1 fl oz or 30 mL or some bullshit. It's slightly less than 1.5 fl oz, dammit. In fact, there MUST be 18 shots in a fifth. That way I can finish my bottle of whisky just as I start the 18th hole. (And now you know why there are 18 holes in a full round of golf.)
OK, first, you definitely never really studied that case very closely. If you had, then you'd know that the McDonald's employee also screwed up the lid somehow and handed her the coffee in a haphazard manner, causing the spill to happen during the cup hand-off. When she got a small amount of hot coffee on her, she panicked, dropped the whole cup and burned the crap out of her cooter. Furthermore, there was documented evidence that numerous customers at that particular location had complained that the coffee was too hot for a period of several weeks prior to the incident. So it's not just a case of moronitude, like the popular press would have you believe.
Also, you don't really know that much about commercial coffee, or drip coffeemakers. Commercial drip coffeemakers have a standard brewing temperature of 160 degF. Since the Bunn company makes the most popular commercial coffeemakers and Bunn is the company that set the affore-mentioned temperature standard, 160 degree water is now called "Bunn Water" in many restaurant settings. Also, in restaurants, a much finer grind of coffee is used than the stuff you buy for your house. It's called high-efficiency coffee. This fineness of grind allows for a high-strength, high-flavor pot of coffee from a smaller amount of coffee than is normal, and allows it to brewed at temperatures as low as 140 degF. This is just like how cheap teabags (which use a very fine, powdery grade of tea called tea fannings) can be brewed with Bunn water but the same type of tea made from whole-leaf would require boiling water.
First, did you actually read the article you linked to? It clearly states that they don't believe that we have an extra calcium sensing taste bud, but that our existing taste buds detect calcium as bitter, and therefore people who are sensitive to bitter (and don't like it) tend not to eat enough calcium as a result.
Second, there are probably a whole bunch of tastes we can detect that we don't list as having special taste buds. Picante* comes up high on the list (and is an important consideration in many cuisines). Umami was a taste that many didn't list until just a few years ago but was always a consideration in Asian cuisine (as is picante). Anyone with half a brain could have told you that humans can detect fat content in food by taste. Just go and try the fat free equivalent of a naturally fatty food. It'll taste like ass, precisely because you're not sensing the fat content. They can try to substitute things in to overcome this limitation like extra sugars or textures that mimic the mouthfeel of fat, but they aren't the same as actual fat.
* (This is the Spanish word for the hot kind of spicy. In English this is sometimes called piquant (from French), but that word can also mean spicy in a more general sense (think Christmas spice), and so I like the Spanish word instead. Hot is also a bad word for picante since it can also refer to temperature, and when talking about food, we need to differentiate somehow.)
Multiply that $319M by 12 months and the numbers make a bit more sense.
Generally, no. Denatured alcohol (that is, ethanol not for human consumption) is usually denatured with benzene. Still dangerous, but at least it doesn't taste exactly the same as ethanol.
You can use a piece of crap computer running pfSense as a router. You can still use your wireless "router" for wireless purposes (just hook it up to your network through one of the switch ports instead of the WAN port and turn off DHCP.). pfSense can do filtering, firewalling, MAC-based auth, etc. out of box, and can be set up fairly easily to do website rewriting (I think by using a squid proxy creatively, IIRC).
I find it kind of bizarre that in a discussion about the origins of and standard usage of units, you used a non-standard unit for fuel-economy. Well, sort of. Generally, fuel-economies less than 1 mpg aren't reported in mpg, but instead in gallons/mile, which would make 40 rod/hogshead = 504 gallons/mile. Holy shit would that be bad.
No, he's a black dude who raps about burgers.
64-bit? 32-bit drivers won't work with 64-bit Windows and vice versa.
Actually that fork was in the (late) 2.x days. EGCS became gcc 2.95, when the reconciliation occurred. Also, IIRC, EGCS was originally called PGCC (for Pentium GCC).
It's great and insightful comments like this that make me wish comment ratings went to eleven (also, I like parentheses (really, I do (really :)))).
beans, grains = sugar/starch
The reason you crave those foods over our refined foods is that your body detected that that form of sugar/starch also contained more vitamins and was tastier.
This semester's accounting book was like that already for me. The book itself came unbound (just a pile of sheets with holes for a three-ring binder), and had a two-semester subscription to the online version of the textbook. The problem is that the subscription by itself was only $20 less than the book and you had to have it to do the homework. After the next semester, I'll be stuck with a worthless pile of paper (not even as good as a worthless textbook.)
No, deus is irregular when plural (and the vocative); look it up.
The plural of mother-in-law IS mothers-in-law. Hence the plural of deus ex machina is di ex machina (deus is irregular when plural (and in the singular vocative). Furthermore, if deus were regular, its plural nominative would be dei.). (That is, the plural of god-from-machine is gods-from-machine.).
Of course, if you really insist on the Latin being correct, then in his sentence it should be dis ex machina, since prepositions take the ablative tense in Latin. In reality, that's retarded. I'll go with di ex machina as being the proper plural when used in English, and deuses ex machina when you never took Latin.
Oh, I almost forgot. Your other forms are also incorrect. In order:
deus ex machina
deus ex machinis
di ex machina
di ex machinis
Vending machine detectors are usually just magnets (at least in the US). Very few countries make their coins with enough iron, nickel, or cobalt to be magnetic, so a magnet can pick out most slugs (the usual form of counterfeiting used on vending machines). I know; I own vending machines.
Also, it's OT, but your sig annoys the crap out of me. I use whom correctly all the time, "intensive purposes" is retarded. Begging the question, though, seems to have actually changed meanings over the years, so, being a descriptivist, I'll give you that one.