True. However, it is the one off machined mechanical parts that caught my eye. Although in theory I could make the parts myself, I lack the tools, materials, and experience to do the job properly. I can see where it would be helpful to be able to order whatever is needed off of the internet. Meccano can only go so far.
Jeepers! How much effort does it take to lean over and pull your own beer out of the fridge. I mean, it's right beside the La-Z-Boy, isn't it? Everybody has their beer fridge beside their favorite TV chair, don't they?
The Y2K problem wasn't about "old mainframes from the 60's". It was about a meme that people have, a meme that programmers didn't know, or didn't care that they had, and that you still have. Years are FOUR digits long, not two, as the meme claims. What you meant to say is "old mainframes from the 1960's". The Y2K problem was not a hardware problem, it was/is a psychological problem.
Bad news for your CRT monitors, I'm afraid. You'll have to go and get yourself a brand-spanking new LCD monitor, and high definition plasma screen TV. You can tell your S.O. that you had to, the Earth's magnetic field is shifting.
Mixed is where problems set in. You should go all the way. Then you wouldn't care what 42C was in F, 20C was shorts weather and you wouldn't need a jacket unless it was raining. I don't know your strength, or that of the child, but there's no way a wading bird is going to lift your box. 1.8m is, in fact, more or less six feet, and you shouldn't be asking women their weight any more than you should be asking them their age. If they are comfortable with their body shape, you should be comfortable with it as well.
I used to do that, although I was always a tad nervous about it, so I quit. One day, one of my friends caught a pellet in his cheek, just below the goggles, and wound up in the hospital. I felt sorry for him, but I was really glad I had quit. Paintball is a lot more fun.
Lot's of laser light is generated from non-coherent sources. Flash lamps are a common means of exciting the lasing medium. What makes the light from a laser coherent is the fact that the mirrors form a resonant cavity.
It's more than just the decimalness of the system. Practically every measurement in the imperial system involves multiple units: 5'9", 7lbs 9 oz. Why the measurement of length has close to a dozen different units: inch, foot, yard, fathom, furlong, rod, chain, mile, and league. Weight is similar: ounce, pound, stone, ton (both short and long). Volume: teaspoon, tablespoon, pint, cup, quart, cubic inch, cubic foot, gallon, firkin, hogshead. Those are just off the top of my head. I'm sure there are lots more. Granted not all of these are in common use. However, the point is that the imperial system is a muddled mish-mash of units, and like I said earlier, practically every measurement involves multiple units.
Metric has only one unit for length: the metre. one for mass: the gram, one for volume: the litre.
The ironic thing is that if metric had been adopted by the States back in the 1800's, those same people who are now vigourously defending the imperial system, would be vigourously defending the metric system.
Well, I can't make sense of this either. However, the theory goes something like this:
1 - DVD contains encrypted data.
2 - You need a decryption algorithm to extract the data.
3 - The algorithm is owned by a third party.
4 - They make a profit.
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The key phrase is "with no ratings". EBay buyers and sellers *are* rated.
Obviously the animal to use for data storage is the elephant.
True. However, it is the one off machined mechanical parts that caught my eye. Although in theory I could make the parts myself, I lack the tools, materials, and experience to do the job properly. I can see where it would be helpful to be able to order whatever is needed off of the internet. Meccano can only go so far.
...One giant letdown for mankind.
Jeepers! How much effort does it take to lean over and pull your own beer out of the fridge. I mean, it's right beside the La-Z-Boy, isn't it? Everybody has their beer fridge beside their favorite TV chair, don't they?
When did Boston cecede from the union?
I didn't know Elmer Fudd was narrating interactive fiction these days.
Sure! Summers in Cancun, and winters in Winnipeg.
Why is that? It is a question.
I thought a buffer was someone who programmed in the nude.
A tag line I saw once: "KARAOKE is Japanese for 'tone deaf'"
The Y2K problem wasn't about "old mainframes from the 60's". It was about a meme that people have, a meme that programmers didn't know, or didn't care that they had, and that you still have. Years are FOUR digits long, not two, as the meme claims. What you meant to say is "old mainframes from the 1960's". The Y2K problem was not a hardware problem, it was/is a psychological problem.
Bad news for your CRT monitors, I'm afraid. You'll have to go and get yourself a brand-spanking new LCD monitor, and high definition plasma screen TV. You can tell your S.O. that you had to, the Earth's magnetic field is shifting.
It's probably the other way around. The magma flow is changing, therefore the magnetic field is changing.
It may not be funny, but it sure is awefully darn cute.
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Don't attribute something to malice that can easily be explained by stupidity. After all, it *is* the government.
Mixed is where problems set in. You should go all the way. Then you wouldn't care what 42C was in F, 20C was shorts weather and you wouldn't need a jacket unless it was raining. I don't know your strength, or that of the child, but there's no way a wading bird is going to lift your box. 1.8m is, in fact, more or less six feet, and you shouldn't be asking women their weight any more than you should be asking them their age. If they are comfortable with their body shape, you should be comfortable with it as well.
Most biblical prophecy was written to the people living at the time it was written, not to us, living some 2000-4000 years after it was written.
I agree, to a certain extent. Unfortunately it's a little late in the game to redesign the metric system. [sigh]
I used to do that, although I was always a tad nervous about it, so I quit. One day, one of my friends caught a pellet in his cheek, just below the goggles, and wound up in the hospital. I felt sorry for him, but I was really glad I had quit. Paintball is a lot more fun.
Lot's of laser light is generated from non-coherent sources. Flash lamps are a common means of exciting the lasing medium. What makes the light from a laser coherent is the fact that the mirrors form a resonant cavity.
It's more than just the decimalness of the system. Practically every measurement in the imperial system involves multiple units: 5'9", 7lbs 9 oz. Why the measurement of length has close to a dozen different units: inch, foot, yard, fathom, furlong, rod, chain, mile, and league. Weight is similar: ounce, pound, stone, ton (both short and long). Volume: teaspoon, tablespoon, pint, cup, quart, cubic inch, cubic foot, gallon, firkin, hogshead. Those are just off the top of my head. I'm sure there are lots more. Granted not all of these are in common use. However, the point is that the imperial system is a muddled mish-mash of units, and like I said earlier, practically every measurement involves multiple units.
Metric has only one unit for length: the metre. one for mass: the gram, one for volume: the litre.
The ironic thing is that if metric had been adopted by the States back in the 1800's, those same people who are now vigourously defending the imperial system, would be vigourously defending the metric system.
Well, I can't make sense of this either. However, the theory goes something like this:
1 - DVD contains encrypted data.
2 - You need a decryption algorithm to extract the data.
3 - The algorithm is owned by a third party.
4 - They make a profit.
So, if we buy the DVD, buy the hardware, and buy the libraries, we can legally run mplayer/xine?