Yes, they even have a strange rap subculture over there, kind of like gangsta rappers in the US. Here's a youtube music video of one of the more popular songs. The name of the song, yahoozee, is the name the Nigerians give to rich scammers. Oddly, the yahoozee seem to buy only American after they steal American money (hell, the entire song is in (very bad) English; they even stole our language.).
Uh, no. Significant figures is a phrase from science used as a measure of precision, not magnitude. As as an example:.001 has the same magnitude as 1.000e-3, but the latter is much more precise. Specifically, the former is precise to the thousandth, whereas the latter is precise to the millionth. Expressed using sigfigs (the accepted shorthand for significant figures), the former has one sigfig, the latter has four sigfigs.
Not true. An executive order carries the force of law. The penalties can be severe. The President can have a person violating an executive order arrested and jailed on charges of contempt of the executive or under charges under any applicable federal law, or he can have them fired, their pay docked, etc.
The only caveat for the President is that executive orders must serve one of two purposes to be valid: 1. It may set, revoke and/or clarify the rules and procedures of any federal agency (they are all under the executive branch, except Congress and the Courts, which executive orders can't apply to.) OR 2. It may clarify the enforcement of an existing law.
Back to this case. This is clearly within his powers. He is setting employment regulations for federal agents. This is his job. This is the equivalent of the CEO of Microsoft saying that his company can only hire safe drivers for its truckers and that the rest of his employees can't use the work-laptops for non-work purposes. The only real difference is that the president can go a little further and say no cell phones (personal or work) while driving any car (personal or government). Not really a huge difference, and not without precedent in the corporate world (anti-moonlighting clauses, etc.).
Dude, seriously? You do realize that getting a court to issue an injunction requires first filing suit. That's why the first sentence of the wikipedia article calls an injunction a remedy at equity. It's something that a court of equity can issue as part of a judgment to make the parties whole again.
According to TFA (I know, I know, we aren't supposed to do that, but I only skimmed it! I swear!!), this isn't particularly useful in itself, but the new techniques they had to develop to solve it are important. Specifically, they had to figure out news ways of multiplying numbers, since the numbers they wanted to multiply were larger than their hardware's main memory (OK, OK, a number that's trillions of bits long seems a bit far fetched to me too, but that's what TFA said.)
Uh, No. That's not how nuclear weapons work. There isn't enough material in the largest of nuclear bombs to destroy even the smallest of hamlets without a nuclear reaction, let alone sterilize the entirety of the US. Furthermore, a mechanical explosion won't cause the fissible material to come together in the right direction nor will it collapse fast enough to result in a nuclear detonation. A coal powerplant puts out more radioactive material every week than is contained in a nuclear bomb.
Just so you know, in most non-US English-speaking countries, abbreviations that end with the last letter of the world don't get a period after them. Examples:
Mr vs Dr
versus:
Mich. Univ. Rev.
In the US, we just got lazy and started using periods everywhere.
People always think that the only reason to legalize cannibus is pot. It's not. It's not even the best reason. It barely makes the top ten, and even then, only because it's the most effective anti-nauseant (anti-emetic for pedants) known to modern science. Hemp fiber could replace wood pulp for use in paper tomorrow for a tenth our current cost. It could replace synthetic fibers in textiles and increase the strength, durability, comfort, threadfastness and affordability of the clothing and cloth products that it goes into. As a byproduct of the hemp fiber industry, hemp oil could replace synthetic lubricants at a fraction of the current cost in industrial applications.
Proper crop rotation with hemp and other cash crops can virtually eliminate the need for artificial fertilizers. The list just keeps going on and on. And all you prohibitionists can think about is getting stoned.
While I half-agree with the rest of your post, your 911 point was non-sense. Federal law bars cellphone manufacturers from preventing 911 dialing in any way. That's why you can always dial 911 on any cellphone whether its activated or not, whether the screen's locked or not, no matter what. Remote bricking someone's phone with RIM's tools won't stop you from using 911.
The irony in this whole casual vs hardcore debate is that the casual gamers think the hardcore gamers are just as stupid and unimportant and the hardcore gamers think the casual ones.
I suppose this is feeding the trolls, but I'll bite...
The reason they called your on-board raid fake-raid, is because it is. It's just average, everyday run-of-the-mill software raid with a bios-based setup program and special Windows-only drivers. That's your real problem right there. The drivers are windows-only. Now, of course, Linux will use your on-board mirrored Windows partitions just fine (and, with a bit of coaxing, you might even get the mirroring part to work.). And Linux has it's own software raid that's just as good as your on-board "raid" (because it's practically the same thing). It comes with every modern distribution and works on every modern kernel.
If you really want dual-boot raid with Windows, bust out a higher-end version of Windows that can do actual Windows software raid, with the dynamic disks and all. Linux supports dynamic disks without any real fuss, mirroring, striping, raid-5 and everything else. Windows versions include Vista Ultimate, and any version with 2k in it.
While that's perfectly logical and well-reasoned it flies in the face of actual real-world studies. Science now knows (for certain, using statistics and actual data) that drinking diet soda versus regular soda has no positive impact whatsoever on obesity rates. Source In fact, that article actually claims that diet soda drinkers are MORE likely than their regular soda drinking counterparts to be obese.
Now, as the article points out, correlation isn't causation, but the taste of diet soda combined with no proof of its efficacy as a weight reducing substance means that I'll certainly never consider drinking it.
A faster way to do a full disk backup would have been to boot into a Linux live cd (I'm damn sure there are some that can boot on a Mac), and use the command line.
Something like this to backup (for speed): dd if=/dev/sdx | lzop >/path/to/network/backup.file.lzop (for size): dd if[/dev/sdx | 7za a -si -so >/path/to/network/backup.file.7z
For verify (if it finishes blank, you're good): dd if=/path/to/network/backup.file.lzop | lzop -d | cmp/dev/sdx -OR- (depends on what you chose to backup with) dd if=/path/to/network/backup.file.7z | 7za x -si -so | cmp/dev/sdx
For restore: dd if=/path/to/network/backup.file.lzop | lzop -d >/dev/sdx -OR- (depends on what you chose to backup with) dd if=/path/to/network/backup.file.7z | 7za x -si -so | dd of=/dev/sdx
For parity (to check for validity and restore validity later) (replace xxx with desired parity size (in percent of image size)): cd/path/to/network; par2 c -rxxx backup.file.par2 backup.file.lzop -OR- (depends on what you chose to backup with) cd/path/to/network; par2 c -rxxx backup.file.par2 backup.file.7z
For parity verification and restoration: cd/path/to/network; par2 r backup.file.par2
(Feel free to replace lzop with gzip or bzip2 (although the switches may be slightly different))
What's the proper pressure through your car's PVC valve? Your mechanic probably knows.
No he doesn't. He looks it up in a manual, if for some unknown reason he would need to check it. More likely, he'll do a few tests that rule out other parts and then replace it if it's bad.
How long do you cook a 2" thick steak on a 675F flat grill to get it medium rare? I bet some high school kid in your town can tell you from his job at a restaurant.
The answer is, "HOLY FUCKING SHIT! GET A FIRE EXTENGUISHER!" There's no way in hell you'd have a flattop grill at 675F. With flattop grills, the use of oil to keep product from sticking is mandatory. Even the highest high-temp oil will smoke at 500F. Other oils will smoke at about 400F-450F (including beef fat). As such, flattops are generally kept between 350F and 425F. (I've seen a few people go to 450F but that's usually the grills max temp, and it requires a lot of dilligence to keep shit from scorching.)
Anyway, at a more reasonable temp of 425F, a two inch steak will take like forever. No one cooks two inch steaks on a flattop grill. You'd blacken the piss out if it before the center hit room temperature. Instead, you sear them on a flame-broiler and finish them in the oven. It'd still take forever though. Probably two minutes a side on the broiler and ten minutes in a 450F convection oven.
What's the best type of broom for cleaning up a spill of damp gerbil food? Is it nylon, polyester, horsehair, palmyra, PVC, or straw?
Corn.
What's a typical range of muzzle velocity of a Remington.223 rifle?
Depends on bullet weight. Probably somewhere between 2000 and 3000 ft/s.
How do you write a 32-bit adder in 6502 assembly language?
You don't. An adder is a peice of hardware.
Whats the technical flood stage of the Mississippi river at St. Louis, MO's official measuring point?
Zero. Flood stage is always at the zero mark on the measuring device at a river.
What's the third note of the melody in Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries?
F# Alright, I didn't know that one off the top of my head, but I could have figured it out with a CD of a performance of the Ring and a piano.
The first thing I always think of when I think about Forever War is the ridiculous number of gay orgies (before the mods go hogwild, read the book). The love story part, the fantastic battles and crazy methods of space travel all fade to the wayside. I wonder what that says about me.
Sort of. The written Torah is just first five books of the Old Testament. The oral Torah (also called the Talmud) is not shared by either Christianity or Islam, and is arguably more important. It gives you the guidelines for interpretation and understanding of the written Torah. In fact, nowadays, the most important part of the Torah is really the more recent commentaries on the Talmud. They give you actual understanding.
Without the Talmud (and the more recent commentaries for guidance), you would end up with ridiculous, literal interpretations of the Pentateuch (the Christian word for the written Torah) that fundamentalist Christians walk around spouting. (The Earth is 6000 years old my ass.)
Yes, but in the US nobody even knows about Fujitsu Siemens. Hell, I wasn't even aware that they made laptops. Furthermore, the brand name would just turn people off. I mean, it sounds like a camera just got done bukkakeing on somebody.
No. Those hormone problems are a gross misinterpretation of a study involving extracted phytoestrogens and rats. For you to have those same problems from soy, you would need to get all of your calories from soymilk two or three times over.
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It's 1.6 million, according their current stats. That's down a bit from their actual peak, which was over 4 million about three years ago, IIRC.
Yes, they even have a strange rap subculture over there, kind of like gangsta rappers in the US. Here's a youtube music video of one of the more popular songs. The name of the song, yahoozee, is the name the Nigerians give to rich scammers. Oddly, the yahoozee seem to buy only American after they steal American money (hell, the entire song is in (very bad) English; they even stole our language.).
Uh, no. Significant figures is a phrase from science used as a measure of precision, not magnitude. As as an example: .001 has the same magnitude as 1.000e-3, but the latter is much more precise. Specifically, the former is precise to the thousandth, whereas the latter is precise to the millionth. Expressed using sigfigs (the accepted shorthand for significant figures), the former has one sigfig, the latter has four sigfigs.
"They" was used here as a gender-neutral singular pronoun. It's weird but, yes, "they" can be singular.
Dude, go back school. 0.000001 only has one sigfig. 1.000000 has 7. 0.000001000000 has seven also.
Not true. An executive order carries the force of law. The penalties can be severe. The President can have a person violating an executive order arrested and jailed on charges of contempt of the executive or under charges under any applicable federal law, or he can have them fired, their pay docked, etc.
The only caveat for the President is that executive orders must serve one of two purposes to be valid: 1. It may set, revoke and/or clarify the rules and procedures of any federal agency (they are all under the executive branch, except Congress and the Courts, which executive orders can't apply to.) OR 2. It may clarify the enforcement of an existing law.
Back to this case. This is clearly within his powers. He is setting employment regulations for federal agents. This is his job. This is the equivalent of the CEO of Microsoft saying that his company can only hire safe drivers for its truckers and that the rest of his employees can't use the work-laptops for non-work purposes. The only real difference is that the president can go a little further and say no cell phones (personal or work) while driving any car (personal or government). Not really a huge difference, and not without precedent in the corporate world (anti-moonlighting clauses, etc.).
Dude, seriously? You do realize that getting a court to issue an injunction requires first filing suit. That's why the first sentence of the wikipedia article calls an injunction a remedy at equity. It's something that a court of equity can issue as part of a judgment to make the parties whole again.
According to TFA (I know, I know, we aren't supposed to do that, but I only skimmed it! I swear!!), this isn't particularly useful in itself, but the new techniques they had to develop to solve it are important. Specifically, they had to figure out news ways of multiplying numbers, since the numbers they wanted to multiply were larger than their hardware's main memory (OK, OK, a number that's trillions of bits long seems a bit far fetched to me too, but that's what TFA said.)
Uh, No. That's not how nuclear weapons work. There isn't enough material in the largest of nuclear bombs to destroy even the smallest of hamlets without a nuclear reaction, let alone sterilize the entirety of the US. Furthermore, a mechanical explosion won't cause the fissible material to come together in the right direction nor will it collapse fast enough to result in a nuclear detonation. A coal powerplant puts out more radioactive material every week than is contained in a nuclear bomb.
That's always an option in court. That's why the judge is there.
Just so you know, in most non-US English-speaking countries, abbreviations that end with the last letter of the world don't get a period after them. Examples:
Mr
vs
Dr
versus:
Mich.
Univ.
Rev.
In the US, we just got lazy and started using periods everywhere.
People always think that the only reason to legalize cannibus is pot. It's not. It's not even the best reason. It barely makes the top ten, and even then, only because it's the most effective anti-nauseant (anti-emetic for pedants) known to modern science. Hemp fiber could replace wood pulp for use in paper tomorrow for a tenth our current cost. It could replace synthetic fibers in textiles and increase the strength, durability, comfort, threadfastness and affordability of the clothing and cloth products that it goes into. As a byproduct of the hemp fiber industry, hemp oil could replace synthetic lubricants at a fraction of the current cost in industrial applications.
Proper crop rotation with hemp and other cash crops can virtually eliminate the need for artificial fertilizers. The list just keeps going on and on. And all you prohibitionists can think about is getting stoned.
While I half-agree with the rest of your post, your 911 point was non-sense. Federal law bars cellphone manufacturers from preventing 911 dialing in any way. That's why you can always dial 911 on any cellphone whether its activated or not, whether the screen's locked or not, no matter what. Remote bricking someone's phone with RIM's tools won't stop you from using 911.
The irony in this whole casual vs hardcore debate is that the casual gamers think the hardcore gamers are just as stupid and unimportant and the hardcore gamers think the casual ones.
I suppose this is feeding the trolls, but I'll bite...
The reason they called your on-board raid fake-raid, is because it is. It's just average, everyday run-of-the-mill software raid with a bios-based setup program and special Windows-only drivers. That's your real problem right there. The drivers are windows-only. Now, of course, Linux will use your on-board mirrored Windows partitions just fine (and, with a bit of coaxing, you might even get the mirroring part to work.). And Linux has it's own software raid that's just as good as your on-board "raid" (because it's practically the same thing). It comes with every modern distribution and works on every modern kernel.
If you really want dual-boot raid with Windows, bust out a higher-end version of Windows that can do actual Windows software raid, with the dynamic disks and all. Linux supports dynamic disks without any real fuss, mirroring, striping, raid-5 and everything else. Windows versions include Vista Ultimate, and any version with 2k in it.
While that's perfectly logical and well-reasoned it flies in the face of actual real-world studies. Science now knows (for certain, using statistics and actual data) that drinking diet soda versus regular soda has no positive impact whatsoever on obesity rates. Source In fact, that article actually claims that diet soda drinkers are MORE likely than their regular soda drinking counterparts to be obese.
Now, as the article points out, correlation isn't causation, but the taste of diet soda combined with no proof of its efficacy as a weight reducing substance means that I'll certainly never consider drinking it.
You can get experts-exchange for free by switching your user agent to GoogleBot's in Firefox (There's an extension for this.)
A faster way to do a full disk backup would have been to boot into a Linux live cd (I'm damn sure there are some that can boot on a Mac), and use the command line.
Something like this to backup (for speed): /path/to/network/backup.file.lzop /path/to/network/backup.file.7z
dd if=/dev/sdx | lzop >
(for size):
dd if[/dev/sdx | 7za a -si -so >
For verify (if it finishes blank, you're good): /dev/sdx /dev/sdx
dd if=/path/to/network/backup.file.lzop | lzop -d | cmp
-OR- (depends on what you chose to backup with)
dd if=/path/to/network/backup.file.7z | 7za x -si -so | cmp
For restore: /dev/sdx
dd if=/path/to/network/backup.file.lzop | lzop -d >
-OR- (depends on what you chose to backup with)
dd if=/path/to/network/backup.file.7z | 7za x -si -so | dd of=/dev/sdx
For parity (to check for validity and restore validity later) (replace xxx with desired parity size (in percent of image size)): /path/to/network; par2 c -rxxx backup.file.par2 backup.file.lzop /path/to/network; par2 c -rxxx backup.file.par2 backup.file.7z
cd
-OR- (depends on what you chose to backup with)
cd
For parity verification and restoration: /path/to/network; par2 r backup.file.par2
cd
(Feel free to replace lzop with gzip or bzip2 (although the switches may be slightly different))
What's the proper pressure through your car's PVC valve? Your mechanic probably knows.
No he doesn't. He looks it up in a manual, if for some unknown reason he would need to check it. More likely, he'll do a few tests that rule out other parts and then replace it if it's bad.
How long do you cook a 2" thick steak on a 675F flat grill to get it medium rare? I bet some high school kid in your town can tell you from his job at a restaurant.
The answer is, "HOLY FUCKING SHIT! GET A FIRE EXTENGUISHER!" There's no way in hell you'd have a flattop grill at 675F. With flattop grills, the use of oil to keep product from sticking is mandatory. Even the highest high-temp oil will smoke at 500F. Other oils will smoke at about 400F-450F (including beef fat). As such, flattops are generally kept between 350F and 425F. (I've seen a few people go to 450F but that's usually the grills max temp, and it requires a lot of dilligence to keep shit from scorching.)
Anyway, at a more reasonable temp of 425F, a two inch steak will take like forever. No one cooks two inch steaks on a flattop grill. You'd blacken the piss out if it before the center hit room temperature. Instead, you sear them on a flame-broiler and finish them in the oven. It'd still take forever though. Probably two minutes a side on the broiler and ten minutes in a 450F convection oven.
What's the best type of broom for cleaning up a spill of damp gerbil food? Is it nylon, polyester, horsehair, palmyra, PVC, or straw?
Corn.
What's a typical range of muzzle velocity of a Remington .223 rifle?
Depends on bullet weight. Probably somewhere between 2000 and 3000 ft/s.
How do you write a 32-bit adder in 6502 assembly language?
You don't. An adder is a peice of hardware.
Whats the technical flood stage of the Mississippi river at St. Louis, MO's official measuring point?
Zero. Flood stage is always at the zero mark on the measuring device at a river.
What's the third note of the melody in Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries?
F# Alright, I didn't know that one off the top of my head, but I could have figured it out with a CD of a performance of the Ring and a piano.
So there, I'm educated.
The first thing I always think of when I think about Forever War is the ridiculous number of gay orgies (before the mods go hogwild, read the book). The love story part, the fantastic battles and crazy methods of space travel all fade to the wayside. I wonder what that says about me.
Sort of. The written Torah is just first five books of the Old Testament. The oral Torah (also called the Talmud) is not shared by either Christianity or Islam, and is arguably more important. It gives you the guidelines for interpretation and understanding of the written Torah. In fact, nowadays, the most important part of the Torah is really the more recent commentaries on the Talmud. They give you actual understanding.
Without the Talmud (and the more recent commentaries for guidance), you would end up with ridiculous, literal interpretations of the Pentateuch (the Christian word for the written Torah) that fundamentalist Christians walk around spouting. (The Earth is 6000 years old my ass.)
I vote for post-gray-skull
I don't think you got the joke. Siemens is pronounced the same way as semen. That is jizz. Cum. Spooge. It was supposed to be punny.
(And, yes, in real life, that is the way it's pronounced. It's not like Simon's.)
Yes, but in the US nobody even knows about Fujitsu Siemens. Hell, I wasn't even aware that they made laptops. Furthermore, the brand name would just turn people off. I mean, it sounds like a camera just got done bukkakeing on somebody.
No. Those hormone problems are a gross misinterpretation of a study involving extracted phytoestrogens and rats. For you to have those same problems from soy, you would need to get all of your calories from soymilk two or three times over.