...And so have 10 more posts following yours! OMG! Can you see what you have done??
You misspelled Bieber and now there is "Bieber" and "Beiber", you created a Bieber-fork.
Don't fork the Bieber!
It's so easy to remember: Just think of beaver and translate it into German.
Slowly over time, being a technical person has became from a socially award activity to something more socially acceptable, and well recognized.
We need stories like this to increase or "Anality" towards the general public, because we just can't go along being socially accepted.
Some of it is needed however. Too much "anality" and you become a dweeb again, too little and you lose your expert status.
The public expectssome level of nitpickery, anal irrelevance, incomprehensible babble, and irrelevant findings for you to continue your status as egghead.
No, they really do get hotter. Really. No matter what Physics 101 told you, they do get hotter. Black cars get hotter than white ones. Really. Black garbage bags get hotter than white ones. Really. Just try it. It is a quite easy experiment. Requires two bags and a thermometer. And for the winter argument: Check the heat loss of a black and a white thermos bottle. Not much difference.
It is quite astonishing how some physics can help you to un-learn things to the point where easily verifiable (or falsifiable) common knowledge is suddenly un-known. You're only right if you treat the roof as a black body radiation source. And to be able to do that, it would have to be about 6000K hotter. For common temperatures and earth-like atmosphere the more significant heat transport mechanism is convection rather than the ability of the roof to radiate heat off in the far infrared. Add a radiation source that is several thousand K above ambient (=sun) and efficiency gains through higher reflectivity win easily over any negligible emissivity differences.
If your dentist is subjecting you to excruciating pain, I suggest you find a different dentist. Most dental procedures are completely pain-free these days.
There is this dentist who uses a manual drill while inhaling nitrous oxide himself and laughing uncontrollably. -But then again, there is also this nice portrayal of a dentist in the Marathon Man
Laser cutters are soooo amaaaazing. All the cool kids have laser cutters now.
With a laser cutter you can burn patterns out of plywood and assemble them. If you have a laser cutter you can even do advanced things like box joints.
If you don't have a laser cutter and want to put your arduino in a plywood box, you have to order the cut plywood from a place that has a laser cutter.
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You actually misspelled Justin Bieber's name!
You misspelled Bieber and now there is "Bieber" and "Beiber", you created a Bieber-fork.
Don't fork the Bieber!
It's so easy to remember: Just think of beaver and translate it into German.
Beaver fever!
3d representations for whole cities -- ever thought how many corners there are that need to be rounded?
Of course Apple needs more time. But in the end, your city will look much better.
Those who would give up Buckyball magnets to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Buckyball magnets nor Safety
Once Buckyballs are illegal, only cows will be allowed to swallow magnets.
bring it down to their level. It's common sense.
Which reader?
The average reader? an interested reader? a reader willing to engage his/her brain? or the majority of readers?
Yes! The majority of readers! Majority good. Masses makes advertising money. Jargon bad. Long sentences bad. Writing for 3yos good.
.. but still uses losers.
That's nothing compared to the experience I had with MyCleanPC.
- which was designed by either the US or Israel to destroy Iranian centrifuges.
Question is, will the US intelligence forces know the difference between irony and terrorist supporter - or just raid your house anyway?
But maybe MyCleanPC could run under Wine. (ducks)
Slowly over time, being a technical person has became from a socially award activity to something more socially acceptable, and well recognized. We need stories like this to increase or "Anality" towards the general public, because we just can't go along being socially accepted.
Some of it is needed however. Too much "anality" and you become a dweeb again, too little and you lose your expert status.
The public expects some level of nitpickery, anal irrelevance, incomprehensible babble, and irrelevant findings for you to continue your status as egghead.
That url has 19 trackers and loads a new page for each individual image. Deplorable.
And only one of these trackers has to get through, for the Empire to find your home planet.
What heat wave?
Seriously, South Carolina has always been hot and humid, even in winter. This past Saturday (it was 105 degrees) we spent all day outside.
Easy for you to say. Doesn't have South Carolina a law that forbids summers to be hotter than average?
Crazy unless you live on a hillside and you look down on a bunch of white roofs. It can actually be painful.
You mean like this?
Crazy, how people still like to go there, and even prefer it over a baking hot grey American downtown.
It's a common misnomer that black gets hotter.
No, they really do get hotter. Really. No matter what Physics 101 told you, they do get hotter. Black cars get hotter than white ones. Really. Black garbage bags get hotter than white ones. Really. Just try it. It is a quite easy experiment. Requires two bags and a thermometer. And for the winter argument: Check the heat loss of a black and a white thermos bottle. Not much difference.
It is quite astonishing how some physics can help you to un-learn things to the point where easily verifiable (or falsifiable) common knowledge is suddenly un-known. You're only right if you treat the roof as a black body radiation source. And to be able to do that, it would have to be about 6000K hotter. For common temperatures and earth-like atmosphere the more significant heat transport mechanism is convection rather than the ability of the roof to radiate heat off in the far infrared. Add a radiation source that is several thousand K above ambient (=sun) and efficiency gains through higher reflectivity win easily over any negligible emissivity differences.
The only thing missing from your post is something about wooden shoes and windmills. Thanks for the generalization, again.
This, and that war-driving has to be done on a bicycle.
Unless you know how the digital is encoded/modulated/carried, all you're going to hear is random noise.
Is that really true? Maybe if it's all encrypted with no headers.
Sure, but decoding that stream would still be a violation of the Digital Milkyway Copyright Act, punishable by destruction of your home planet.
If your dentist is subjecting you to excruciating pain, I suggest you find a different dentist. Most dental procedures are completely pain-free these days.
There is this dentist who uses a manual drill while inhaling nitrous oxide himself and laughing uncontrollably.
-But then again, there is also this nice portrayal of a dentist in the Marathon Man
Scanners belong in doctors' offices, not airports.
This will surely help OB-GYNs to practice their love with women all across this country
Yeah, no archaeologist does that. Nice straw-man, though.
Straw-man ?
They believed in Voodoo?
Did you know that all blue man are descended from a single individual who lived only 10,000 years ago ?
That's why we call them the blue man group.
Unfortunately, there is still a lot of prejudice against them
Then the dinosaurs died in a flood.
Why? Were they witches?
Eh, nooo. Witches float.
Laser cutters are soooo amaaaazing. All the cool kids have laser cutters now.
With a laser cutter you can burn patterns out of plywood and assemble them. If you have a laser cutter you can even do advanced things like box joints.
If you don't have a laser cutter and want to put your arduino in a plywood box, you have to order the cut plywood from a place that has a laser cutter.
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The natural progression:
Not really. They are playing it more like this:
1. There is no such thing as global warming!
2. Something is happening, but it is a good thing. (i.e. CO2 is life)
3. Global warming is happening, but it is a good thing (i.e. Warming helps plants grow and therefor our food supply.)
4. Global warming is happening, but it's no big deal
- and we're working on cool technology that will solve all the problems [and make us rich] (sequestering, artificial trees,..)
5. Our company has always been at the forefront in the fight against global warming.
They had to have a meeting about it and that nice conference room with the coffee bar wasn't available till the second half of 2012.
You must be young. Too many of us ripped our cd's to ogg, only to find that no sub-$100 mp3 player seems to play them.
Re-furb sansa $25 + rockbox
At least it says "U.S. Students Struggle With Reasoning Skills" not "U.S. Students Gave Up On Reasoning"