What's surprising to me is the fact that 24,000 gallons of water is approximately equivalent to the volume of two 21 foot diameter by 52 inch deep aboveground swimming pools (assuming that the pools are filled almost to the top of the skimmer and that they are properly "dished out" so that the center of the pool is 6 inches deeper than around the edges). When you stand next to a 21' pool, it doesn't seem to be terribly huge. I'm just amazed at the coverage that what seems like so little volume can be effective at covering wildfires that can cover such large areas (acres). Truly amazing, I say.
Great advice on speeding up BitTorrent, I was just about to post a question about it myself! Port forwarding rocks! My Download Rate jumped from about 25k/sec to well, it's at 75k/sec now and climbing! I love Knoppix!
The first thing I thought of when I saw "Sapphire" was "HOLY SHIT, that's what our dumbass DBA assigned as the..." wait, can I get fired for this? Anyway, I had to fix some stupid macro in Excel one day, and the first chunk of the macro was a connection string to our SQL Server machine. Right there, in plain text, for all to see, was the sa password.
but the whole 37% fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery thing jumped out at me, particularly the 37% part. Is it just me, or is 37 a very common percentage? For example, the other day I bought a pet-hair sticky-roller thingy that was advertised as "37% stickier", and a few days before that I saw a story on the news about how 37% more high school students this year are joining the military compared to last year. I don't recall other specific instances of 37%, but I do know that it seems to be one of the most common percentages that I do see/hear about. This all got me to thinking about how one day in our sociology class, our professor "read" the minds of all students in the class. The exercise involved us closing our eyes and picking a vegetable, a city, and a number between 1 and 10. Carrots, New York City, and 7 were the predictions our prof made - correctly "reading" about 3/4 of the students' minds. The really weird thing is, for those who didn't pick 7, the prof suggested that perhaps they had thought of 3, which picked up most of the rest of the class. The idea is that 3 and 7 are the most common "random" numbers people think of when picking between 1 and 10, so I was wondering, (OK, I was drunk, too) if there was some relationship between the common 3 and 7 and the 37%? What do you think?
Your post would have been modded funnier if you had implied that the government had already gotten you by cutting off your last senten!#$(*%#$^*[NO CARRIER]
Why would Intel be embarassed or whatever to "follow in AMD's footsteps"? I mean, sure Intel's bigger and badder than AMD, but can't you learn something from the little guy sometimes? Don't things like this happen all the time in the car industry with various technologies?
I'm going to be attending college this fall Egads, man! Why don't you hold off and ask this question again in July? You've got several months' worth of new features to wait for and hear feedback on before you need to purchase this thing for school. When do classes start, the last week of August? Order sometime in July, you'll probably get more for your money then (bigger harddrive, faster proc, maybe more ram, 802.11g instead of b, etc, etc). Good for you for planning ahead, but for things like this, you gotta hold off until it's almost time!
Thanks so much! Now we only need to worry about people bitching about trying to remember that info for 3 seconds whilst they go log in to nytimes.com and forget to remember to check the little box that says, "Remember my Member ID and password on this computer"....
I, for one, welcome our new South Korean embryonic stem cell cloning overlords.
Seriously, if there were multiple instances of me, we could all take turns going to work, it'd be just like when Calvin and Hobbes built a Duplicator and Calvin had enough replicas that each one needed to go to school just one day a week.....
hahaha, that reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer buys EVERY CONCEIVABLE device you can think of to plug into a cigarette lighter outlet, and he's driving along with his sno-cone maker, and he's watching a cooking show on TV, cooking along when he burns his tongue on a hushpuppie, realizes he's driving off the end of a dock, and instead of stepping on the brake, he sends an "SOS" fax.... that was funny!
The backdoor allows outsiders to connect to TCP port 3127 on your computer
1) release worm that attacks own website
2) gain sympathy from public
3) use backdoor to install Linux on infected boxen
4) sue the new Linux users
5) ???
6) Profit!!!
but my question is this: Do you think Apple is really charging Pepsi 99 cents per track, or do you think they got a volume discount? I would like to think that Pepsi got a smokin' deal on however many tracks they purchased to giveaway, meaning that the RIAA isn't making as much money off of the Pepsi tracks as it would if they were all independently purchased...
Slashdot Mirror
"googol" and "google.com" aren't even spelled the same! Gimme a break.
What's surprising to me is the fact that 24,000 gallons of water is approximately equivalent to the volume of two 21 foot diameter by 52 inch deep aboveground swimming pools (assuming that the pools are filled almost to the top of the skimmer and that they are properly "dished out" so that the center of the pool is 6 inches deeper than around the edges). When you stand next to a 21' pool, it doesn't seem to be terribly huge. I'm just amazed at the coverage that what seems like so little volume can be effective at covering wildfires that can cover such large areas (acres). Truly amazing, I say.
"PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?!?"
Great advice on speeding up BitTorrent, I was just about to post a question about it myself! Port forwarding rocks! My Download Rate jumped from about 25k/sec to well, it's at 75k/sec now and climbing! I love Knoppix!
"We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control"
The first thing I thought of when I saw "Sapphire" was "HOLY SHIT, that's what our dumbass DBA assigned as the..." wait, can I get fired for this? Anyway, I had to fix some stupid macro in Excel one day, and the first chunk of the macro was a connection string to our SQL Server machine. Right there, in plain text, for all to see, was the sa password.
but the whole 37% fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery thing jumped out at me, particularly the 37% part. Is it just me, or is 37 a very common percentage? For example, the other day I bought a pet-hair sticky-roller thingy that was advertised as "37% stickier", and a few days before that I saw a story on the news about how 37% more high school students this year are joining the military compared to last year. I don't recall other specific instances of 37%, but I do know that it seems to be one of the most common percentages that I do see/hear about.
This all got me to thinking about how one day in our sociology class, our professor "read" the minds of all students in the class. The exercise involved us closing our eyes and picking a vegetable, a city, and a number between 1 and 10. Carrots, New York City, and 7 were the predictions our prof made - correctly "reading" about 3/4 of the students' minds. The really weird thing is, for those who didn't pick 7, the prof suggested that perhaps they had thought of 3, which picked up most of the rest of the class. The idea is that 3 and 7 are the most common "random" numbers people think of when picking between 1 and 10, so I was wondering, (OK, I was drunk, too) if there was some relationship between the common 3 and 7 and the 37%? What do you think?
All your BASS are belong to us
Your post would have been modded funnier if you had implied that the government had already gotten you by cutting off your last senten!#$(*%#$^*[NO CARRIER]
Carpe puellam!
Why would Intel be embarassed or whatever to "follow in AMD's footsteps"? I mean, sure Intel's bigger and badder than AMD, but can't you learn something from the little guy sometimes? Don't things like this happen all the time in the car industry with various technologies?
I'm going to be attending college this fall
Egads, man! Why don't you hold off and ask this question again in July? You've got several months' worth of new features to wait for and hear feedback on before you need to purchase this thing for school. When do classes start, the last week of August? Order sometime in July, you'll probably get more for your money then (bigger harddrive, faster proc, maybe more ram, 802.11g instead of b, etc, etc). Good for you for planning ahead, but for things like this, you gotta hold off until it's almost time!
Oh, that's cool? Could I ask you another question? What's sarcasm?
You're new here, aren't you?
Thanks so much! Now we only need to worry about people bitching about trying to remember that info for 3 seconds whilst they go log in to nytimes.com and forget to remember to check the little box that says, "Remember my Member ID and password on this computer"....
I, for one, welcome our new South Korean embryonic stem cell cloning overlords.
Seriously, if there were multiple instances of me, we could all take turns going to work, it'd be just like when Calvin and Hobbes built a Duplicator and Calvin had enough replicas that each one needed to go to school just one day a week.....
I drive a Dodge Stratus!
hahaha, that reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer buys EVERY CONCEIVABLE device you can think of to plug into a cigarette lighter outlet, and he's driving along with his sno-cone maker, and he's watching a cooking show on TV, cooking along when he burns his tongue on a hushpuppie, realizes he's driving off the end of a dock, and instead of stepping on the brake, he sends an "SOS" fax.... that was funny!
it's "Can you ping me now?"
The backdoor allows outsiders to connect to TCP port 3127 on your computer
1) release worm that attacks own website
2) gain sympathy from public
3) use backdoor to install Linux on infected boxen
4) sue the new Linux users
5) ???
6) Profit!!!
but my question is this: Do you think Apple is really charging Pepsi 99 cents per track, or do you think they got a volume discount? I would like to think that Pepsi got a smokin' deal on however many tracks they purchased to giveaway, meaning that the RIAA isn't making as much money off of the Pepsi tracks as it would if they were all independently purchased...
He thought he'd break it into two parts cuz he's a karma whore.
how else are you going to catalog and store all your pr0n???
True, the avian carrier method is interesting, but I prefer this one:
RFC 1217
damn straight! my little brother and I used to dance and sing along with that shit when we were little kids... the yub yub song rocked hard!
There's gotta be a sex scene too...
I feel compelled to say something about Natalie Portman.... and... and... hot grits....