Sir, you have my sympathy. I was one of only three boys, in an 11 year span. The noise we used to make used to get on my nerves, let alone our parents'.
I noticed my Tivo has rubber grommets where the hard drive screws on to the bracket. My biggest concern with this would be the affect on heat dissipation. Three of the drives are packed tightly together in a cradle where airflow isn't very great, and I'm sure the cradle and case help with cooling. Anybody have any comments on this?
I'm using an SN41G2 as a server. It's not that noisy but it does seem to vibrate a lot. The DSL/wifi router sits on top of it and because of that it seems to rattle quite a bit.
Then put something soft, like a kind of mat, or rubber feet or even chewing gum between them. Or better and softer yet - your brain, you fuckwad.
Every single weather event is treated as "proof" that we are near cataclyism. Its a bad winter! Its a mild winter! Tsunami! All blamed on global warming.
It's not the single weather events; it's the fact that there are so many of them.
As to the tsunami I'm not aware of anyone, not even the worst examples of nutters you find here, who blamed that on global warning.
Metamods: Parent is not informative, it is a troll.
Here in the US, trucking companies use GPS and satcom to create greater efficiencies than would otherwise be possible. http://www.power-trak.com/ BTW, I have no involvement with trucking
If you did, you'd know that trucks don't run on rails, but trains do.
This is either a stupid question (which does not deserve the fine answer from david.given) or a troll. It is most definitely not insightful - metamods please take note.
Now all these people in large swaths of land who had never interacted with each other on friendly terms are supposed to govern with each other? How exactly do you see that working? Read a history book.
The Belgians seem to muddle through OK. So I suggest you go read a geography book.
Every one of your laundry list of things that people need, are either predicated on, or at the very least made much more efficient by: The efficient and timely flow of information. In other words, IT.
That might be true in a developed country, but it's nonesense in the third world. You don't need an e-procurement SRM ERP system to manage your purchasing & intstallation of water pipes when you can't afford water pipes in the first place, and even if you had them you couldn't get them to where they're needed, and even if you did you'd have to bribe the local bandit chief to let you install them.
The blind face two distinct but related problems: finding the destination, and getting there safely. A dog or cane is an excellent tool to get to the destination safely (in part because sighted people recognize them and give extra space), but they do nothing for the other problem.
There are clearly two functions required; why someone has taken that to mean that they must be combined in the same object, I don't know. But then this is slashdot, where a wifi vacuum cleaner or an internet fridge are good ideas.
"Rolling on the floor laughing" is a physical action.
Yes it is, Mr State-the-Obvious, but ROTFL relates to the action itself how? Oh that's right, it doesn't. It relates to the arbitrary linguistic units commonly used to describe said actions - spefically, in modern English. If it related directly to the action it would be the same in other languages e.g. German, not "KADBL" if memory serves well.
If you're talking to me face-to-face you shouldn't be saying "LOL", you should just be laughing.
And I probably would be.
In contrast, this:-) directly represents a physical action. No word is used as an intermediary. A Chinese baby sees the same meaning as a Harvard professor. Understand the difference now?
I've heard it done. I've also heard 'roffle' (an attempt at pronouncing ROTFL I guess). Bizarre, really, since those terms are attempts to turn physical real-life actions into a verbal-only form.
Huh? It's an acronym - Rolling On The Floor Laughing. First etters of the words. Nothing to do with representing physical actions, just words.
It seems that people are under the assumption that languages are static and don't change, but this is incorrect.
I for one am not under that misconception. However I disagree with many/.ers who argue that the fluidity of language means that making it up as you go along is acceptable. "It's" is not a posessive, and you can't loose your shoe if the laces are lose.
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Sir, you have my sympathy. I was one of only three boys, in an 11 year span. The noise we used to make used to get on my nerves, let alone our parents'.
For Pete's sake don't mod the parent informative. Decibels are already logarithmic, and so allow for this effect.
I kinda like it.
-1 Operated keyboard before engaging brain.
As to the tsunami I'm not aware of anyone, not even the worst examples of nutters you find here, who blamed that on global warning.
Metamods: Parent is not informative, it is a troll.
Layman's answer: tails. It's got to balance out eventually, right?
Pure mathematician: impossible to say, each throw is an independent event.
Applied mathematician: heads, it's a trick coin.
Looks like the Apple botty^H^H^H fanboys got some modpoints!
This is either a stupid question (which does not deserve the fine answer from david.given) or a troll. It is most definitely not insightful - metamods please take note.
When you gaze into the goatse, the goatse gazes into you.
Misinformative.
You might, if you haven't realised what currency exchange rates are. But I have. So the parent post is not informative. Metamods please take note.
In contrast, this :-) directly represents a physical action. No word is used as an intermediary. A Chinese baby sees the same meaning as a Harvard professor. Understand the difference now?