Flammable and Inflammable are both equally old and of slightly different origins. (See dictionary.com or something.) Although it is true that as a rule flammable is used because inflammable can sound like unflammable, this is only when something's flammable you typically want to warn people very clearly.
No, the misquote has always been 640k, because that's the base amount of RAM accesable in DOS. 64k is as random as attributing, "512k of ram is enough for anybody!" to him.
Interestingly, it's manufactured by a pharmaceutical company. I assume its name comes not from bull testicles, but from Taurine, which is a synthetically formed amino acid.
See [[Red Bull]]
Yes, it's a useful comment. Have extra blank pages for reasons of bad planning, and make sure people know it's nothing to worry about.
The thing which makes this "funny" (in that obscene geek sense) is that, of course, the page isn't blank. It has "this page intentionally left blank" on it.
Ignoring the fact that it is a stupid tradition (waste money on her to prove that you love her), you could still buy an insanely large fake diamond for about the same price as a real diamond, if your fiance is of that mindset.
Diamonds used to be properly rare. Around the time De Beers came around, huge amounts of diamonds became accessable which would have lowered the price signifigantly if De Beers hadn't prevented that. Aluminum used to be rather pricey too.
1) No, different humans have different levels of error.
2) It's not a single human, but a network of humans. Different networks deal with errors differently. And the Open Source method is very different from the Microserf method.
3) But yeah, there's going to be error in both OSes, especially as error is an inherently random thing. (Two equally flawed programmers will not always create an equal amount of bugs, and two differently flawed programmers can sometimes create an equal amount of bugs.)
And h is equal to c only on special occasions (where the theoretical maximum heat efficency is zero, which is a stupid occasion.) So changing units does matter.
==METASIG: "This topic has been brought to you by High School Algebra!"
It's a common transformation of English to convert an adjective to a noun. Depends on the word, I guess, but I don't think it's much worse than verbing.
Although MSN does take featured sites from their collection of sponsors happily, they apparently also take other things into account. (MSN websites and "popular websites.") And, of course, it takes a little bit of effort to discover that, which means that the average user will not realize that "Featured Sites" are very often sponsored.
I'm sure there are plenty of schizophrenic homeless people out there. And paranoia is one of the symptoms of schizophrenia. And the government wants to track people who go into shelters.
Gee, lets think about this for a moment. Do you think maybe the schizophrenics might just... think that the government is out to get them?
Of course, their paranoia's going to be a problem no matter what you do, but this seems to be begging for it.
Oh, it's just a sort of a stupid off-the-cuff joke, which in retrospect doesn't go well with your post very well.
But I suppose that at some point shortly after the Communist Manifesto was written, that that statement could be considered correct. Thusly, people could in theory have said that same thing about Communism.
Uhh... just pretend I never posted that. You made a kind of valid point, and lets leave it at that.
There's a difference between Cancelled and having the final episode. "Cancelled" means that no more episodes will be made. However cartoons are not made live. (It's a terrible strain on the animators' wrists.) And networks typically have motivation to air finished episodes which they've already paid for.
Case in point, there are still episodes of Invader Zim which have yet to be aired. Clerks was basically cancelled before the show even got on the air, as far as I know.
Anyway, I don't think Futurama was never formally "cancelled". I think how it happened was that Fox merely let their contract with Futurama run out naturally.
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Well, obviously how the girl tried to deal with it and if she managed to get the Squid Deity pressed with rape charges.
Flammable and Inflammable are both equally old and of slightly different origins. (See dictionary.com or something.) Although it is true that as a rule flammable is used because inflammable can sound like unflammable, this is only when something's flammable you typically want to warn people very clearly.
Otherwise, you seem mostly on point.
And I've always considered it a phoentic mutation of the phrase: "It's always it the last place you'd look." Which is much less stupid.
No, the misquote has always been 640k, because that's the base amount of RAM accesable in DOS. 64k is as random as attributing, "512k of ram is enough for anybody!" to him.
Some do. But 24 hours is an inherently attractive number for marketing.
Interestingly, it's manufactured by a pharmaceutical company. I assume its name comes not from bull testicles, but from Taurine, which is a synthetically formed amino acid. See [[Red Bull]]
I think you mean 2053.
Yes, it's a useful comment. Have extra blank pages for reasons of bad planning, and make sure people know it's nothing to worry about.
The thing which makes this "funny" (in that obscene geek sense) is that, of course, the page isn't blank. It has "this page intentionally left blank" on it.
Ignoring the fact that it is a stupid tradition (waste money on her to prove that you love her), you could still buy an insanely large fake diamond for about the same price as a real diamond, if your fiance is of that mindset.
Diamonds used to be properly rare. Around the time De Beers came around, huge amounts of diamonds became accessable which would have lowered the price signifigantly if De Beers hadn't prevented that. Aluminum used to be rather pricey too.
They are, but only because people suck at telling them. At any rate, his joke wasn't really a SOVIET RUSSIA joke, but rather a Meta-Soviet joke.
As much as people like to say it, the collective mind of Slashdot is capable of having multifaceted ideas.
1) No, different humans have different levels of error.
2) It's not a single human, but a network of humans. Different networks deal with errors differently. And the Open Source method is very different from the Microserf method.
3) But yeah, there's going to be error in both OSes, especially as error is an inherently random thing. (Two equally flawed programmers will not always create an equal amount of bugs, and two differently flawed programmers can sometimes create an equal amount of bugs.)
To prove algebraically, let h = hot temp in kelvin, and c = cool temp in kelvin, and let e = theoretical maximum efficiency.
(h - c)/h = e
Now, (h - 273) is the hot temp converted into Celcius, and (c - 273) is the cold temp doing the same.
If units don't matter then...
(h - c)/h = ((h - 273) - (c - 273)) / (h - 273)
should be true for all real h and c. (Well, positive reals. You can't have negative Kelvin.) But...
((h - 273) - (c - 273)) / (h - 273) = (h - c)/(h - 273)
So if those two are equal then...
(h-c)/h = (h - c)/(h - 273)
(h-c)h = (h - c)(h - 273)
h^2 - ch = h^2 - ch - 273h + 273c
0 = -273h + 273c
273h = 273c
h = c
And h is equal to c only on special occasions (where the theoretical maximum heat efficency is zero, which is a stupid occasion.) So changing units does matter.
==METASIG: "This topic has been brought to you by High School Algebra!"
It's a common transformation of English to convert an adjective to a noun. Depends on the word, I guess, but I don't think it's much worse than verbing.
Not really. I'm very certian that that toy was explicitally created for the sole purpose of saying the f-word.
Although MSN does take featured sites from their collection of sponsors happily, they apparently also take other things into account. (MSN websites and "popular websites.") And, of course, it takes a little bit of effort to discover that, which means that the average user will not realize that "Featured Sites" are very often sponsored.
Just because something is a logical fallacy doesn't mean it's not something else. For example, many slippery slopes exist in real life.
I'm sure there are plenty of schizophrenic homeless people out there. And paranoia is one of the symptoms of schizophrenia. And the government wants to track people who go into shelters.
Gee, lets think about this for a moment. Do you think maybe the schizophrenics might just... think that the government is out to get them?
Of course, their paranoia's going to be a problem no matter what you do, but this seems to be begging for it.
Unmanned spaceships are great for a lot of things, but they suck at space colonization.
But poor people can still reproduce. In fact, they tend to reproduce slightly more, since they can't always have the best birth control system.
No, I think the best way to interpret the phrase is that the software is free, but you are not.
Oh, it's just a sort of a stupid off-the-cuff joke, which in retrospect doesn't go well with your post very well.
But I suppose that at some point shortly after the Communist Manifesto was written, that that statement could be considered correct. Thusly, people could in theory have said that same thing about Communism.
Uhh... just pretend I never posted that. You made a kind of valid point, and lets leave it at that.
That's what they used to say about Communism.
THAT'S NOT IRONY, THAT'S JUST GOOD PLANNING!
(Yes, I saw the Futurama episode.)
That is, that was probably the point.
There's a difference between Cancelled and having the final episode. "Cancelled" means that no more episodes will be made. However cartoons are not made live. (It's a terrible strain on the animators' wrists.) And networks typically have motivation to air finished episodes which they've already paid for.
Case in point, there are still episodes of Invader Zim which have yet to be aired. Clerks was basically cancelled before the show even got on the air, as far as I know.
Anyway, I don't think Futurama was never formally "cancelled". I think how it happened was that Fox merely let their contract with Futurama run out naturally.