"Then why is Apple sponsoring studies like this one, which give the implication it might be?"
Yes, let's spend a few millions of taxpayer money and let the scientists buy a couple of thousand Apple watches themselves just for the fun of doing a test.
A nerd was invited to compete in the Trigonometry Mathletic Competition... he said: "Sine me up!"
Catholics fail trigonometry because they're afraid of sin Irish people fail trigonometry because they can't tan. Everyone else fails trigonometry just cos.
My girlfriend has a trigonometry fetish. Every time we talk, she gets off on a tangent.
My teacher frowned at me when I handed in my trigonometry test paper. I don't think that's a good sine
Nobody wants to deflect an asteroid with another one. That would be stupid. Instead of getting 10000 tons on our head in 1 piece it would just come down in several.
Landing a drive on the sucker is easier, if it far enough out there.
We have shazaa et al to determine which song plays, so the software knows exactly which sound comes next, minutes in the future, so it should be a piece of cake to create such headphones.
Also for barkeepers, diskjockeys, people who hate xmas-music, the gym and so on.
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"It is a nearly-universal business practice: if you are ordering a product or service online, they will require a phone number."
Buy a dozen empty prepaid cards from eBay for a buck or 2, then you own the number you never answer to, so no fraud.
"Then why is Apple sponsoring studies like this one, which give the implication it might be?"
Yes, let's spend a few millions of taxpayer money and let the scientists buy a couple of thousand Apple watches themselves just for the fun of doing a test.
"I didn't realize hydrogen was made out of sunlight."
You got it backwards, sunlight is made of hydrogen.
How about unveiling the corruption first?
"to pony up enough cash to get me on the Stanford Water Polo team..."
Indeed, as we saw, you can get in there even if you can't swim.
A nerd was invited to compete in the Trigonometry Mathletic Competition...
he said:
"Sine me up!"
Catholics fail trigonometry because they're afraid of sin
Irish people fail trigonometry because they can't tan.
Everyone else fails trigonometry just cos.
My girlfriend has a trigonometry fetish.
Every time we talk, she gets off on a tangent.
My teacher frowned at me when I handed in my trigonometry test paper.
I don't think that's a good sine
"Suggesting that a sad, extremely vocal minority of idiots on the internet don't actually matter in the slightest."
We know, but we still hate it.
You can also send it with flag signals, smoke signals and torches, it's data!
...who the .5 one will be.
Think of it as evolution in action.
In Europe public pools have been forced to install these years ago.
Making a gadget wireless that is never moved from its location for years until it gets thrown away.
" The house was so well insulated that he wasn't able to use his kitchen oven, since the room temperature became too high."
If he was Finnish, he could have used it as a sauna.
BTW, I had a Scandinavian girlfriend once, not sure exactly which nationality, but during sex she always yelled: I'm not Finnish!
"That's China, where they _really_ cut corners! The Swiss don't cut corners! "
Exactly! They even make their cheese with holes to make them lighter. This concrete is done the same way.
"Brick walls from literally Roman times are still standing in my city."
That's just because these walls have bricks only on the outside, inside they are all roman concrete, which is much better than ours.
"Stop Trying to Make Fetch Happen!"
Fetchez la vache!
Nobody wants to deflect an asteroid with another one. That would be stupid. Instead of getting 10000 tons on our head in 1 piece it would just come down in several.
Landing a drive on the sucker is easier, if it far enough out there.
...so the 'tributes' will be along the lines "I'm glad the fucker is dead' or 'good riddance!'
Look at us, we already have.
"nuclear plants are the least affected by bad weather"
Unless the river they get their cooling water from is frozen in winter or in summer if it is too low or already too hot.
6 billion people can't read it, it's in Chinese.
"This is true of every. single. article. you link that is also paywalled."
He works in the subscription department of the Financial Times, it's an ad.
"between 18 to 50 centimeters"
Wow, those depth sensors must have cost a fortune.
I'm married to such a bot.
We have shazaa et al to determine which song plays, so the software knows exactly which sound comes next, minutes in the future, so it should be a piece of cake to create such headphones.
Also for barkeepers, diskjockeys, people who hate xmas-music, the gym and so on.