Interesting to see Merkin also now mentions that it's used as a pejorative in the UK. I've seen a couple of comedians use it in their gags (Rory Bremner comes to mind), but haven't come across any day-to-day usage as such.
No, I used eugenics because of your mention of "son/daughter of two other recognized geniuses". I'm insinuating plagiarism and/or foul play rather than genetic or environmental advantage.
Well, I'm not talking about eugenics... hence my use of the quotes around the word guided. I am not insinuating that this is what has happened here with Andraka, but it's definitely a possibility that the parents of kids in science fairs provide a lot of assistance beyond moral support and a suitable environment.
.. from what I have seen of these fairs where kids invent/discover things seemingly beyond their mental, physical or financial means, they are inevitably "guided" by parents who are professionals. In the case of Andraka, his mother appears to be an anaesthetist at a hospital and his father might be an engineer...
oh, dear. Nice straw man dude. In many ways, you have just clinched the matter for us due to the confusion between pound-mass and pound-force. All the more reason for this shit to just go away.
Where am I using the UK as the standard? They are just as ridiculous with their units as the US. I want a metric system to be used as the standard everywhere.
I see that I've been marked as a troll by all the american mods:D I for one could not envisage the scale of the machine thanks to the units used.
.. I wish America (and all other non-conformists) would get with the metric standard. Did anyone else sigh at the following statement?
What sets the Fifty apart is its extraordinary scale. Its 14 major structural components, cast in ductile iron, weigh as much as 250 tons each; those yard-thick steel bolts are also 78 feet long; all told, the machine weighs 16 million pounds, and when activated its eight main hydraulic cylinders deliver up to 50,000 tons of compressive force.
According to WP, there are different "tons" out there. The terse "ton" or "tonne" should mean 1000kg everywhere. When used in terms of poundage, the appropriate terms are apparently "short ton" (US, 2000 lb) and "long ton" (UK, 2240 lb).
It makes it all the more annoying when people steeped in science and logic continue to pander to these archaic systems instead of phasing them out:S
In this information age where data-mining, credit/reputation ratings, etc. are the norm, why do people who are aware of its draconian privacy aspects, potential for misuse and the time sink that it is, continue to use FB? This is a serious 87 billion dollar question.
LMAO! Yes, I recall that scene now:D Roshi gets up to other hijinks as well. That said, I suspect that the american version of the manga is probably edited; I'm pretty sure that young Goku's wiener was air-brushed out in the US anime.
There's also manga for younger children such as Doraemon. If the kid enjoys Spider-Man, then he will surely enjoy Dragon Ball (the manga).
While I'm not sure how well Yotsuba&! will go down with the 3 year old (as it is about the antics of a 5 year old), but it'll make for hilarious reading for the parent (and everybody else). Highly recommended:)
Most of the software that people use nowadays work within a browser. Setting aside Google Docs, Libreoffice is virtually identical to Office for the rudimentary tasks that most people require it for. Many apps such as Picasa run very well under Wine. It really isn't that much of a problem any more. There are of course many niche apps that might not run, but that is the case with Macs / Windows as well.
It still is Ubuntu. The benefits of Mint over Ubuntu are more or less cosmetic. Ubuntu's benefits over Debian are a little more substantial than that. But *ubuntu, Mint, Debian are in many ways the same distro. The fact that there are 5-odd distros to choose from is not a problem IMO. It's choice and choice is good. It's only the remaining 95 that can be confusing when taken into consideration.
Sorry, my point should have read "Power users WHO are happy with Windows/Macs..."; IOW, people who are comfortable with an OS recommend that OS to others. Then there's also fanboism:S
SlashBO - an in-depth analysis of the relationship between progressive anosmia and the intelligence quotients of the subjects quarantined within GeekNet.
Selective amnesia's the story Believed foretold but who'd suspect The business intelligence Two words combined that can't make sense Dave Mustaine (+ poetic licence)
So, Silicene has just been observed for the first time under a scanning tunnel microscope, has had its properties only theoretically proposed, and is hoped to be "as miraculous as Graphene". Nevertheless, the author of the article already believes that it will beat Graphene to the market? Sheesh! Are all headlines nowadays conjured up by a dedicated company full of marketing types?
I don't know why people are even considering the 95 out of 100 distros that can simply be written off for any number of reasons. There are only a handful of players of worth when it comes to a reliable, user-friendly desktop for average use. These are in no particular order:
The above list can be trimmed down even further if you merge all the Debian derivatives. Everything else >/dev/null.
If I consider average users to be Mom and Pop types who are basically simply after a browser, spreadsheet and Picasa, I always install Kubuntu. The only hardware issues I face nowadays tend to be related to the webcam and printer. Those are usually solved pretty quickly.
IMO, the reasons why Desktop Linux has not yet taken off are:
-Bundling -Power users are happy with Windows/Macs and its the power users who advise the average users. -Work culture; people stick to known poisons.
So, exposing yourself in public puts you on the sex offenders list? Since when? What degree of exposure are we talking about? How are "flashing" and "mooning" treated?:S
"In a process called ‘reflashing,’ the Mercedes system can turn on the car operating system (CU), download the new application, then cut itself off."
So the car is regularly polling a server and can switch itself on? That sounds decidedly unsettling.
Could somebody elaborate on the diagnostic capabilities of these cars? Do they alert you if your brakes are inefficient or if your tyres are wearing out? I'm too poor to afford one to know:(
I believe that the preferences page is/was buggy as I used to have the same issue until I visiting it again and re-saved.
You can also access the same preferences page by clicking on the "gear" icon above the comment subject field. However, saving any changes will force a page refreshing and consequently result in a loss of any data in the comment textarea. Very friendly.
What we always want is fresh, interesting news coupled with better editing. You might be incorporating new features, but you're falling behind on these core requirements. I don't know whether I switched off some button somewhere. But I'm happy that I'm seeing far fewer book reviews (and I use the word review quite wrongly) nowadays.
I'd like to see a time-based analysis on the use of exclamation marks in article titles (such as this one). I reckon that it'll be indicative and illuminating:|
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Ah, yes. Actually, I've heard the term "antiseptic" used relatively more often than plain "septic" :D It always brings a smile to my face :)
Interesting to see Merkin also now mentions that it's used as a pejorative in the UK. I've seen a couple of comedians use it in their gags (Rory Bremner comes to mind), but haven't come across any day-to-day usage as such.
No, I used eugenics because of your mention of "son/daughter of two other recognized geniuses". I'm insinuating plagiarism and/or foul play rather than genetic or environmental advantage.
As long as we agree :)
Well, I'm not talking about eugenics ... hence my use of the quotes around the word guided. I am not insinuating that this is what has happened here with Andraka, but it's definitely a possibility that the parents of kids in science fairs provide a lot of assistance beyond moral support and a suitable environment.
.. from what I have seen of these fairs where kids invent/discover things seemingly beyond their mental, physical or financial means, they are inevitably "guided" by parents who are professionals. In the case of Andraka, his mother appears to be an anaesthetist at a hospital and his father might be an engineer ...
It's nevertheless a commendable result.
oh, dear. Nice straw man dude. In many ways, you have just clinched the matter for us due to the confusion between pound-mass and pound-force. All the more reason for this shit to just go away.
Oh, I don't mind using Newtons either.
Where am I using the UK as the standard? They are just as ridiculous with their units as the US. I want a metric system to be used as the standard everywhere.
I see that I've been marked as a troll by all the american mods :D I for one could not envisage the scale of the machine thanks to the units used.
.. I wish America (and all other non-conformists) would get with the metric standard. Did anyone else sigh at the following statement?
According to WP, there are different "tons" out there. The terse "ton" or "tonne" should mean 1000kg everywhere. When used in terms of poundage, the appropriate terms are apparently "short ton" (US, 2000 lb) and "long ton" (UK, 2240 lb).
It makes it all the more annoying when people steeped in science and logic continue to pander to these archaic systems instead of phasing them out :S
In this information age where data-mining, credit/reputation ratings, etc. are the norm, why do people who are aware of its draconian privacy aspects, potential for misuse and the time sink that it is, continue to use FB? This is a serious 87 billion dollar question.
LMAO! Yes, I recall that scene now :D Roshi gets up to other hijinks as well. That said, I suspect that the american version of the manga is probably edited; I'm pretty sure that young Goku's wiener was air-brushed out in the US anime.
There's also manga for younger children such as Doraemon. If the kid enjoys Spider-Man, then he will surely enjoy Dragon Ball (the manga).
While I'm not sure how well Yotsuba&! will go down with the 3 year old (as it is about the antics of a 5 year old), but it'll make for hilarious reading for the parent (and everybody else). Highly recommended :)
"LOL, Skype killed us." is what I see when I visit the site. IP ban?
Most of the software that people use nowadays work within a browser. Setting aside Google Docs, Libreoffice is virtually identical to Office for the rudimentary tasks that most people require it for. Many apps such as Picasa run very well under Wine. It really isn't that much of a problem any more. There are of course many niche apps that might not run, but that is the case with Macs / Windows as well.
It still is Ubuntu. The benefits of Mint over Ubuntu are more or less cosmetic. Ubuntu's benefits over Debian are a little more substantial than that. But *ubuntu, Mint, Debian are in many ways the same distro. The fact that there are 5-odd distros to choose from is not a problem IMO. It's choice and choice is good. It's only the remaining 95 that can be confusing when taken into consideration.
Sorry, my point should have read "Power users WHO are happy with Windows/Macs ..."; IOW, people who are comfortable with an OS recommend that OS to others. Then there's also fanboism :S
SlashBO - an in-depth analysis of the relationship between progressive anosmia and the intelligence quotients of the subjects quarantined within GeekNet.
Selective amnesia's the story
Believed foretold but who'd suspect
The business intelligence
Two words combined that can't make sense
Dave Mustaine (+ poetic licence)
So, Silicene has just been observed for the first time under a scanning tunnel microscope, has had its properties only theoretically proposed, and is hoped to be "as miraculous as Graphene". Nevertheless, the author of the article already believes that it will beat Graphene to the market? Sheesh! Are all headlines nowadays conjured up by a dedicated company full of marketing types?
I don't know why people are even considering the 95 out of 100 distros that can simply be written off for any number of reasons. There are only a handful of players of worth when it comes to a reliable, user-friendly desktop for average use. These are in no particular order:
-Ubuntu
-Kubuntu
-Mint
-Fedora
-Debian
-SuSE
-Arch
The above list can be trimmed down even further if you merge all the Debian derivatives. Everything else > /dev/null.
If I consider average users to be Mom and Pop types who are basically simply after a browser, spreadsheet and Picasa, I always install Kubuntu. The only hardware issues I face nowadays tend to be related to the webcam and printer. Those are usually solved pretty quickly.
IMO, the reasons why Desktop Linux has not yet taken off are:
-Bundling
-Power users are happy with Windows/Macs and its the power users who advise the average users.
-Work culture; people stick to known poisons.
So, exposing yourself in public puts you on the sex offenders list? Since when? What degree of exposure are we talking about? How are "flashing" and "mooning" treated? :S
Seconded. A little ironic that "komonews" thought it important to censor Brennon's bottom.
Or as in some cases, you need a court date because you are dead.
"In a process called ‘reflashing,’ the Mercedes system can turn on the car operating system (CU), download the new application, then cut itself off."
So the car is regularly polling a server and can switch itself on? That sounds decidedly unsettling.
Could somebody elaborate on the diagnostic capabilities of these cars? Do they alert you if your brakes are inefficient or if your tyres are wearing out? I'm too poor to afford one to know :(
Cheers.
I believe that the preferences page is/was buggy as I used to have the same issue until I visiting it again and re-saved.
You can also access the same preferences page by clicking on the "gear" icon above the comment subject field. However, saving any changes will force a page refreshing and consequently result in a loss of any data in the comment textarea. Very friendly.
What we always want is fresh, interesting news coupled with better editing. You might be incorporating new features, but you're falling behind on these core requirements. I don't know whether I switched off some button somewhere. But I'm happy that I'm seeing far fewer book reviews (and I use the word review quite wrongly) nowadays.
I'd like to see a time-based analysis on the use of exclamation marks in article titles (such as this one). I reckon that it'll be indicative and illuminating :|