Fuck this place fuckin' SUCKS now--even the editors obviously think it sucks, posting duplicate stories, full of retarded, undue editorialization, idiotic comments moderated to +5 insightful. That fuckin seals it -- I quit. I vow to never read again.
Ah-hah! You lie. I've seen all sorts of your posts since you said that, you crafty A.C.
Not necessarily. You could look at it as the more we learn about the world the less God is required to intervene constantly -- he is even more powerful (closer to being omnipotent) because he can set things up and they work out exactly as he'd planned without meddling all the time.
Crap. Just when we prove that God doesn't exist, he'll become infinitely powerful? No wonder the Kansans are confused!
Breasts are far too wonderful to have been _created_.
Ouch. Having spent several weeks in China a year ago, I'd say that those who DO drive, do so in conditions much, much more strenuous than anything in the States. Although the traffic laws aren't enforced at all (the only thing we saw people fined for was not wearing seat belts, whereas traffic lights are just pretty decorations on the streets), the fact that people DO get around, and have very few accidents (that I saw), speaks volumes about the abilities of many of the drivers.
The Chinese I've met here in the US aren't (or weren't) good drivers, but the ones in Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, etc., are VERY good.
The only sound conclusion, unfortunately, is that Zonk stumbled upon a well constructed sentence purely by accident. Like a blind pig, Zonk too much occasionally, by pure dumb luck, find a truffle. Whether Zonk distinguishes himself from the pig by noticing the truffle and learning from it is something about which we can only speculate.
Usually, I find humor and a little hope for the future of written English when grammatical errors are gently pointed out. I was almost -- but not quite -- satisfied with this napalming of a post about Zonk's skills. That is, until I got to the last paragraph.
Not only did you leave out a necessary hyphen between 'well' and 'constructed', but your second sentence is a perfect example of what the post rails against in the first place. In addition, the last sentence leaves the reader wondering whether Zonk should be learning from the pig or the truffle; besides its obvious shortcomings, the metaphor is strained to the breaking point, merely because pigs don't find truffles by dumb luck.
The most egregious error the post makes, though (and this is true of a vast number of "grammar nazi" posts -- and I'll be damned if I capitalize "nazi", as you might object), is to forget that the whole purpose of language is to communicate ideas. Being pretty and adhering to obscure rules is only secondary. The parent post blunders by presenting these rules in terms which will turn away readers. Reading should be fun; writing should be fun. Good readers and writers notice mistakes almost instincively, and fix them. One does not become a good reader or writer by adhering blindly to grammar rules, nor to reading diatribes about them. One becomes a good reader by reading. Your post was a shining example of why people are not interested in grammatical rules in the first place.
Yes, I'm quite aware of thermodynamic arguments. As you say, though, a major difficulty is conducting heat away from the hot portions. You could have a huge amount of room-temperature water flowing by the chip, and cool it quite effectively. However, this requires, well, a huge flow rate, which necessitates noisy pumps, etc. Besides which, you get to deal with heat flux rates, which (to a good approximation) are simply proportional to the temperature differences between the hot portions and the cold portions. Why not increase the heat flux by cooling the coolant? Then you don't need such ridiculous flow rates. And the nicest coolant around right now is the liquid nitrogen.
If you can come up with a clever way of removing heat from a chip quickly without making its surroundings much cooler, I'm sure we'd all be happy to hear it.
Don't think I'd put it as loosing heat - it is moving heat from a hot place to a cold place. Thermodynamics requires that the entropy increase, not that the enegy is lost.
It can be shown (Callen's book does a fine job) that minimizing the free energy of a system will also maximize its entropy, under all conditions. You're free to think about it either way.
[...] ground troops will find it hard to spot even at very close range.
[...] our research department is currently engaged in the testing of a 100-mile C3 for the Turtle. The thrust of this research is towards the development of an Extended-Range Turtle II. While this does result in a shorter tooth-to-tail ratio, we feel it could significantly enhance the battlefield capabilities of Turtle installations.
3. Installation Cost
The Terrapin Turtle is designed for installation at no cost by children and elementary school teachers. We feel that military installation cost should be under $10,000/unit.
4. Annual Cost of expendable supplies and spares per unit. Ball-point Pen refills $0.59(one spare included)
In the rugged terrain of the battlefield, under rigorous load conditions, it may be necessary to occasinally replace the Turtle Tires. Due to fluctuations in the world rubber market, quotation of exact prices is not possible.
Slashdot Mirror
Did the same for me, but after the restart Slashdot's live bookmark wouldn't load...
Yeah, that's called a "feature".
Fuck this place fuckin' SUCKS now--even the editors obviously think it sucks, posting duplicate stories, full of retarded, undue editorialization, idiotic comments moderated to +5 insightful. That fuckin seals it -- I quit. I vow to never read again.
Ah-hah! You lie. I've seen all sorts of your posts since you said that, you crafty A.C.
Not necessarily. You could look at it as the more we learn about the world the less God is required to intervene constantly -- he is even more powerful (closer to being omnipotent) because he can set things up and they work out exactly as he'd planned without meddling all the time.
Crap. Just when we prove that God doesn't exist, he'll become infinitely powerful? No wonder the Kansans are confused!
Breasts are far too wonderful to have been _created_.
...noodly appendages.
Ouch. Having spent several weeks in China a year ago, I'd say that those who DO drive, do so in conditions much, much more strenuous than anything in the States. Although the traffic laws aren't enforced at all (the only thing we saw people fined for was not wearing seat belts, whereas traffic lights are just pretty decorations on the streets), the fact that people DO get around, and have very few accidents (that I saw), speaks volumes about the abilities of many of the drivers.
The Chinese I've met here in the US aren't (or weren't) good drivers, but the ones in Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, etc., are VERY good.
Duh.
Oh, and then the oral sex.
The only sound conclusion, unfortunately, is that Zonk stumbled upon a well constructed sentence purely by accident. Like a blind pig, Zonk too much occasionally, by pure dumb luck, find a truffle. Whether Zonk distinguishes himself from the pig by noticing the truffle and learning from it is something about which we can only speculate.
Usually, I find humor and a little hope for the future of written English when grammatical errors are gently pointed out. I was almost -- but not quite -- satisfied with this napalming of a post about Zonk's skills. That is, until I got to the last paragraph.
Not only did you leave out a necessary hyphen between 'well' and 'constructed', but your second sentence is a perfect example of what the post rails against in the first place. In addition, the last sentence leaves the reader wondering whether Zonk should be learning from the pig or the truffle; besides its obvious shortcomings, the metaphor is strained to the breaking point, merely because pigs don't find truffles by dumb luck.
The most egregious error the post makes, though (and this is true of a vast number of "grammar nazi" posts -- and I'll be damned if I capitalize "nazi", as you might object), is to forget that the whole purpose of language is to communicate ideas. Being pretty and adhering to obscure rules is only secondary. The parent post blunders by presenting these rules in terms which will turn away readers. Reading should be fun; writing should be fun. Good readers and writers notice mistakes almost instincively, and fix them. One does not become a good reader or writer by adhering blindly to grammar rules, nor to reading diatribes about them. One becomes a good reader by reading. Your post was a shining example of why people are not interested in grammatical rules in the first place.
... our new sex-toy/exercise-ball-thingies-built-for-two-ladie s mascot!
Simply, because I like the format - written news on my Palm.
That's where I put my grocery lists. Only lowercase "p" on palm.
That just doesn't sound right. Oh, well.
Why would I pay for yesterday's news?
Yeah! And on some special websites, you can read the same news several days in a row! Sometimes after months!
....brainnnzzzz.....
Microsoft has decided to fight zombie-launched spam in their own way.
Boom! Head shot!
Yes, I'm quite aware of thermodynamic arguments. As you say, though, a major difficulty is conducting heat away from the hot portions. You could have a huge amount of room-temperature water flowing by the chip, and cool it quite effectively. However, this requires, well, a huge flow rate, which necessitates noisy pumps, etc. Besides which, you get to deal with heat flux rates, which (to a good approximation) are simply proportional to the temperature differences between the hot portions and the cold portions. Why not increase the heat flux by cooling the coolant? Then you don't need such ridiculous flow rates. And the nicest coolant around right now is the liquid nitrogen.
If you can come up with a clever way of removing heat from a chip quickly without making its surroundings much cooler, I'm sure we'd all be happy to hear it.
Don't think I'd put it as loosing heat - it is moving heat from a hot place to a cold place. Thermodynamics requires that the entropy increase, not that the enegy is lost.
It can be shown (Callen's book does a fine job) that minimizing the free energy of a system will also maximize its entropy, under all conditions. You're free to think about it either way.
Cheers. That was awesome
...stand on a trireme.
Everyone line up with the shiny bits to welcome Bill! Now... aim....
...makes the -- aw, fuckit.
... doorknob.
Now I can go up to all those people who called me that and say, well, something. I dunno.... Ooh! Shiny!
Camry is front wheel drive.
The autonomous ones go backwards.
Please note that this isn't interesting unless you work in, as, the FA says, a severely memory constrained system.
Yeah, but my brain -- Ooh! Shiny!
[...] ground troops will find it hard to spot even at very close range.
[...] our research department is currently engaged in the testing of a 100-mile C3 for the Turtle. The thrust of this research is towards the development of an Extended-Range Turtle II. While this does result in a shorter tooth-to-tail ratio, we feel it could significantly enhance the battlefield capabilities of Turtle installations.
3. Installation Cost
The Terrapin Turtle is designed for installation at no cost by children and elementary school teachers. We feel that military installation cost should be under $10,000/unit.
4. Annual Cost of expendable supplies and spares per unit.
Ball-point Pen refills $0.59(one spare included)
In the rugged terrain of the battlefield, under rigorous load conditions, it may be necessary to occasinally replace the Turtle Tires. Due to fluctuations in the world rubber market, quotation of exact prices is not possible.
I love it.
... as long as there are couches for the anti-sniper robots to go hide under when they run out of juice and get lost looking for their docking units.
The only way we are going to prove creationism is to be tactful about it
and reason from the bible.
And therein, I suspect, is a problem with your method.