This reminds me of the time (perhaps six years ago) that my friend got a great deal on airline tickets to Italy, so he and his wife and another friend decided to go on relatively short notice. My friend got a "Learn Italian in 10 days" cd, and would practice in his office.
The lady on the CD would say a phrase, and you were supposed to repeat it back, into the microphone, and it would grade you. My friend got phenomenal scores.
One day, I listened to what he was doing. The lady said, "La vostra madre è un criceto" (understand that I'm making this part up), and, in his best sing-song Italian stereotype voice, my friend said something outrageous like, "A bug just hit my windshield." All he would do is ape the intonation, and he'd get fabulous grades on it.
You're right, up to a point. But I think that most people here see it as a matter of principle. I, for one, didn't waste much money on partying w/ friends, etc. However, I balked at the outrageous book prices in college and grad. school, especially when I started to research things like highschool "bindings" on books, and how shoddily made many books are these days. Printing and binding costs simple aren't *that much*.
Most of my professors were very careful about which books they chose. The best invariably lectured predominantly from their own notes, and if they required books, they were usually inexpensive Dover editions. If they assigned problems from the books, they often made up multiple problem sets when they realized that some students wanted to use older editions of the same books with slightly different page numbers or problem numberings.
All this in an attempt to state that you do not know what good breasts look at
I suspect that should read as "what good breasts look like". Then again, good breasts generally look at things slightly wall-eyed, rather than straight ahead or cross-eyed.
Yeah, but that's just another way of saying that the original "helpful" way of looking at the quantity of energy has no useful meaning. I was trying to be a little more generous.
You're right within several orders of magnitude (sort of). The "ultra-high energy" cosmic rays have, perhaps, 50 - 200 J of energy. To raise a cup of water by _one_Kelvin_ takes nearly 1000 J. So we're off by a factor of 5 right there. To actually boil the water takes many, many times this amount of energy (raise its temperature by 100 K, and then pump enough energy in to actually effect the phase change, at least at STP). Even without taking into account the latent heat of the water, already we're off by 3 orders of magnitude. Water is curious stuff!
Worse yet, visiting any MySpace profile with copyrighted music would mean downloading that music, and could possibly get you in trouble. Worst-case scenarios, yes, but things like that need to be addressed. Aghh. You're right. Visiting MySpace really is as horrible as I've always suspected. Of course, I'm not so sure about the copyright stuff.
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This reminds me of the time (perhaps six years ago) that my friend got a great deal on airline tickets to Italy, so he and his wife and another friend decided to go on relatively short notice. My friend got a "Learn Italian in 10 days" cd, and would practice in his office.
The lady on the CD would say a phrase, and you were supposed to repeat it back, into the microphone, and it would grade you. My friend got phenomenal scores.
One day, I listened to what he was doing. The lady said, "La vostra madre è un criceto" (understand that I'm making this part up), and, in his best sing-song Italian stereotype voice, my friend said something outrageous like, "A bug just hit my windshield." All he would do is ape the intonation, and he'd get fabulous grades on it.
Feature freeze tends to stop the adding of magic ponys.
OMG! Ponies!
Rent a monestary. It's slow, but it'll add some value to your magazines.
Feynman's take was that light is *always* particles. He was unequivocal about that.
You're right, up to a point. But I think that most people here see it as a matter of principle. I, for one, didn't waste much money on partying w/ friends, etc. However, I balked at the outrageous book prices in college and grad. school, especially when I started to research things like highschool "bindings" on books, and how shoddily made many books are these days. Printing and binding costs simple aren't *that much*.
Most of my professors were very careful about which books they chose. The best invariably lectured predominantly from their own notes, and if they required books, they were usually inexpensive Dover editions. If they assigned problems from the books, they often made up multiple problem sets when they realized that some students wanted to use older editions of the same books with slightly different page numbers or problem numberings.
Sure. I do what I can for fellow geeks. Now, if only I could think of an analogy for how good breasts feel. Maybe like bags of sand.
All this in an attempt to state that you do not know what good breasts look at
I suspect that should read as "what good breasts look like". Then again, good breasts generally look at things slightly wall-eyed, rather than straight ahead or cross-eyed.
Perhaps it's due to the changing masses of ducks? I'm just sayin'...
Yeah, but that's just another way of saying that the original "helpful" way of looking at the quantity of energy has no useful meaning. I was trying to be a little more generous.
You're right within several orders of magnitude (sort of). The "ultra-high energy" cosmic rays have, perhaps, 50 - 200 J of energy. To raise a cup of water by _one_Kelvin_ takes nearly 1000 J. So we're off by a factor of 5 right there. To actually boil the water takes many, many times this amount of energy (raise its temperature by 100 K, and then pump enough energy in to actually effect the phase change, at least at STP). Even without taking into account the latent heat of the water, already we're off by 3 orders of magnitude. Water is curious stuff!
Perhaps she wasn't eaten by a grue nearly often enough.
At least some lotion, too.
Which language did you translate it into?
I know that's the only reason I would ever pirate software---chicks dig a nice new copy of Leisure Suit Larry.
At which point she laughs?
So if she's a squirter then you have an IED on your hands?
Yeah! Weren't those the days? There were an awful lot of "CmdrTaco wins Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Peace, and Chemistry" posts, though.
Yeah, no kidding. I'd be totally embarassed to be caught in the possession of any Star Trek material.
Now, to find some good goat pr0n...
This is slashdot. Take the education where you can get it!
Jebus. Creede> .
We native Durangoans think we're in southwest Colorado. South central is the San Luis Valley, or maybe Creed. You're not a dirty Alamosan, are you?
Heathen! It _should_ say "About Iceweasel". You Ubuntuers and your impure software practices!
Jeff Bezos? Is that you?
Perhaps. What's it go to?