Re:Oh, well, that explains everything...
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Turbo Pascal and Delphi were popular because 20 or so years ago universities taught Pascal to their computer science students. About the time Delphi came out, things moved on and they began teaching C++ which pretty much killed Delphi off.
This is indeed a happy day. Not only a truly interesting story in the "Dark Flow" thread, but this reply.
I read the summary and though "well, that sounds fair, 10.5% isn't a *huge* amount and it leaves the not-for-profits alone".
Without this reply pointing out that this will be 10.5% of what even a non-for-profit has to bring in to cover the costs the injustice in this is hidden.
The parent is the sort of post made for "insightful" mods.
The universe is thought to have formed about 13.7 billion years ago. So even if light started travelling toward us immediately after the Big Bang, the farthest it could ever get is 13.7 billion light-years in distance. There may be parts of the universe that are farther away
Now my head really hurts!
I get the whole 13.7 bn years means that light can only have travelled 13.7 bn light-years and thus that's as far as we can see, but I don't see how the universe can have a radius larger that 13.7 bn light-years.
Is the location of the big bang the centre of the universe? If so, then I suppose that if these bodies causing the dark flow are "on the other side" of the centre, further away than (13.7 bn LY - (centre to us)) then we can't see them...
But then the article says "beyond this bubble". I'm just not bright enough for this, but it is a fascinating subject.
There are times when violating a law is a requirement for a variety of reasons.... In *my* state you are ENTITLED to drive as fast as you would like if you are an elected representative and are not on time for the assembly....
There is a time and place to allow people to violate the law.
Agreed, but that is not one of them!
I'd be deeply suspicious of any law that sets out lesser standards for "an elected representative", higher standards on the other hand...
Im curious as to how sites that discuss UFO and/or paranormal phenomena will be rated.
How about religion: Christianity, Islam, Scientology?
How about acupuncture or homeopathy?
Or to be really contentious how about OS feature debates?
We're talking about a grey area that has little to no concrete evidence for or against. How do you judge truth in this sites except by personal opinion?
it can safely be concluded that they are weightless.
Not quite... scientists have postulated the existence of the Pedant's boson which would give them mass (as opposed to weight).
They plan to build the Large Grammar Collider which will fire a stream of apostrophes at near light speed and create scores of sub-punctuation particles, one of which may prove to be the elusive Pedant's boson .
Interesting, the Wikipedia page mentions a few companies:
The cloud computing "revolution" is being driven by companies like Amazon, Google, Salesforce and Yahoo! as well as traditional vendors including Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel and Microsoft[9] and adopted by individuals through large enterprises including General Electric, L'Oréal, Procter & Gamble and Valeo
One of the biggest prizes it granted was $50,000 for aircraft safety to the lone returning competitor, the Slovenian-built Pipistrel known as Virus. The plane, which was the big winner at the 2007 event, had added such precautions as a cabin integrated with Kevlar and an installed ballistic parachute system, or a deployable rocket that would launch a parachute 100 feet above the plane in the event of an emergency
But in answer to your question (again from TFA!):
The Pipistrel, for example, used a carbon-fiber propeller on its aircraft this year to reduce its noise by at least 10 percent, but that shift cut the plane's fuel-efficiency by as much as 50 percent.
It never ceases to amaze me that any sites get slashdotted considering how obvious it is that very few posters ever RTFA, let alone the previous comments to a story...
In this case I guess it's all the/. Apple fanboyz keeping the site down. It's a conspiracy, you mark my words.
Of course it's a single fee for Belgium and The Netherlands. Belgium is a province of The Netherlands
No it's not.
Belgium is autonomous. It's a Kingdom and a parliamentary democracy.
You may be thinking of Benelux which is a trading agreement between Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, but Belgium certainly isn't a province of the Netherlands.
Falcon 1 flight 3 was lost during the attempted separation of the second stage. The previous attempts were stymied by a fuel leak (flight 1) and a loss of control following second stage separation (flight 2).
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Turbo Pascal and Delphi were popular because 20 or so years ago universities taught Pascal to their computer science students. About the time Delphi came out, things moved on and they began teaching C++ which pretty much killed Delphi off.
That and MS's development tools got much better.
I hope posters would occasionally RTFA or one of the 15 (out of 39) posts on this page that mention that they did replace it.
Disappointment all round.
Thanks, I think that does kind of help...
My head still hurts though!
This is indeed a happy day. Not only a truly interesting story in the "Dark Flow" thread, but this reply.
I read the summary and though "well, that sounds fair, 10.5% isn't a *huge* amount and it leaves the not-for-profits alone".
Without this reply pointing out that this will be 10.5% of what even a non-for-profit has to bring in to cover the costs the injustice in this is hidden.
The parent is the sort of post made for "insightful" mods.
Now my head really hurts!
I get the whole 13.7 bn years means that light can only have travelled 13.7 bn light-years and thus that's as far as we can see, but I don't see how the universe can have a radius larger that 13.7 bn light-years.
Is the location of the big bang the centre of the universe? If so, then I suppose that if these bodies causing the dark flow are "on the other side" of the centre, further away than (13.7 bn LY - (centre to us)) then we can't see them...
But then the article says "beyond this bubble". I'm just not bright enough for this, but it is a fascinating subject.
Especially as they were
This really is an utter crock.
Agreed, but that is not one of them!
I'd be deeply suspicious of any law that sets out lesser standards for "an elected representative", higher standards on the other hand...
How about religion: Christianity, Islam, Scientology?
How about acupuncture or homeopathy?
Or to be really contentious how about OS feature debates?
Quite!
Not quite... scientists have postulated the existence of the Pedant's boson which would give them mass (as opposed to weight).
They plan to build the Large Grammar Collider which will fire a stream of apostrophes at near light speed and create scores of sub-punctuation particles, one of which may prove to be the elusive Pedant's boson .
UK supply is actually 230V +/- 10% in line with the rest of the EU.
(OK, actually it's 230V +10% -6% but we're getting a bit technical now...)
Does that also apply to "United"?
Could be, from TFA:
If he ain't a superhero I'd like to know who is!
Interesting, the Wikipedia page mentions a few companies:
No Dell...
Well, the Guardian's cartoonist Martin Rowson has managed to get away with it in a cartoon attacking China's human rights record.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/cartoon/2008/jul/30/china.human.rights/
I would imagine that pretty much every UK quality paper has published something similar over the past week or so.
The Pipistrel won $250,000 from NASA last year http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9758741-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20/
And in TFA:
But in answer to your question (again from TFA!):
Not compared to Pedant Manbearpig.
Check again, I think you'll find it actually takes less than two.
It never ceases to amaze me that any sites get slashdotted considering how obvious it is that very few posters ever RTFA, let alone the previous comments to a story...
In this case I guess it's all the /. Apple fanboyz keeping the site down. It's a conspiracy, you mark my words.
Sod that!
I am still waiting for Google Earth to fully encompass the natural disasters offered in games like Sim City.
Go Godzilla!
Or that the sun went down. There's just no way to tell.
Ah, OK, whoosh! and all that.
Long live Albert II.
No it's not.
Belgium is autonomous. It's a Kingdom and a parliamentary democracy.
You may be thinking of Benelux which is a trading agreement between Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, but Belgium certainly isn't a province of the Netherlands.
But then *every* story would be -1 Troll
Ooh, what does that remind me of..?
Third according to TFA...