Maybe a very small number of people would, but people exposed to smoke are like multiple orders of magnitude more likely to get lung or throat cancer right?
Only if you consider something like 40x to be "multiple orders of magnitude".
So? Should all the coffee & tea sold in the US be served lukewarm as a result? Many of use like hot coffee. Without using boiling water, you lose a lot of flavour.
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And frankly, has this woman had coffee before? Has she made coffee at home? She must have known that coffee is hot. She has no one to blame but herself.
Have you ever had really good coffee? Using boiling water destroys flavor. Try having coffee made in a french press and compare it to the stuff brewed in a machine.
The ideal temperature for coffee is ~165F, so like a kit of people she probably expected her coffee to be ~165F. McDonalds served their coffee at ~200F, and after repeated complaints (and a few incidents) relating to how it could seriously injure people at that temperature, didn't change anything. I would say that "Hey our coffee is about 40 degrees hotter then everyone elses" would be atleast worth a mention somewhere.
IIRC during one of the DS9 episodes shortly after the Defiant appeared they referred to it as an "Escort" ship. If I recall my Star Trek terminology correctly would make it more like a destroyer then a PT-boat, in that it is designed to protect large vulnerable ships from small nimble ones.
Somehow I have a bit of trouble believing this. How hard would it be for a large company like Telewest to send it's subsribers a CD with anti-virus/adware removal tools on it? Or an email with such software in it? Or even call users and tell them they have an issue?
You're first two suggestions would likely expose Telewest to possible litigation. I can imagine users blaming Telewest if the software they were sent managed to screw up their computer in a way that resulted in data lost.
You're third suggestion is likely to take some time given that it is an issue with thousands people.
The corrected version is: Ra = (rho/2) * Aj * (Cd0 V + Cd1 V^2 + Cd2 V^2). The square Cf dominates at highway speeds for cars, while the cubic Cf usually only matters if you're supersonic.
There is no cubic term in the formula you gave. Just a linear and two squared terms.
Did you mean to write
Ra = (rho/2) * Aj * (Cd0 V + Cd1 V^2 + Cd2 V^3) ?
Definitely reminds me of "Abort/Retry/Fail" error message of so long ago. The first time you ever see the message, you hit "retry" a few times hoping it will work. Eventually, the computer teaches you to never try "retry" because it only puts up the error message again.
I often found that the retry option was often very useful. In particular if I had a disk that was on its way out I often found it could take a lot of attempts before the computer would be able to read all the data off of the disk. Now, I don't know about you, but often the annoyance was worth getting the data off of my disk.
The first incorrect thing in the/. post is that this is somehow standard definition. It's not, 540 lines is more than 480.
Televisions are not computer monitors.
The NTSC video standard has 525 lines.
The PAL and SECAM video standards have 625 lines.
So where does 480 linrd come from?
Granted a train takes longer, but this is offset by the fact you can work or relax effectively on a train. Seriously, I'd rather take a train than first class air travel any day.
It's also offset by the fact that there is a lot less waiting involved in a train trip. You don't have to deal with security like at the airports, and you don't have as big of a problem with luggage. In addition train station are generally located in the middle of cities, while airports are generally located on the outskirts of cities, so it may be esier to get where your going once you arrive if you take a train.
Even at 18, a good number of people aren't "all grown up" yet - that is, they will make unwise decisions - but you have to draw the line somewhere, and if you are old enough to vote, you are old enough to control your own body.
I remember that the thing that landed on the moon was called the L.E.M. (lunar excursion model), and the news reports at the time distinguished between the command module (the capsule that eventually splashed down into the ocean) and the service module, which had the engines, fuel, and whatnot to propel and reorient the command module. Maybe they called them LM and CSM and told the public something else.
I remember hearing that someone thought "excursion" sounded a little stupid, so they ended up officially droping it from the name after it had already been used in public.
Housebricks come in atleast nine sizes that I'm aware of.
Utility: 3.625 x 3.625 x 11.625
Economy: 3.625 x 3.625 x 8
Standard: 3.625 x 2.25 x 8
Modular: 3.625 x 2.25 x 7.625
Jumbo: 3.625 x 2.75 x 8
King: 3.625 x 2.75 x 9.625
Roman: 3.625 x 1.625 x 11.625
Norman: 3.625 x 2.25 x 11.625
Jumbo Norman: 3.625 x 2.75 x 11.625
Firefox is playing silly buggers behind your back. When www.jobs doesn't answer (try ping), Firefox adds.com and tries again. www.jobs.com is owned by Monster. Firefox should update the URL you typed in to let you know that it fixed it for you. (Can't remember what IE does.)
I'm not sure what IE does, but every now and then when I can't connect to www.slashdot.org it tries to take me to www.www.slashdot.org.com or www.www.slashdot.org.net .
From what I understand the idea behind the US Navy system is almost the exact opposite of the idea behind the USAF "missile shield". The sheild is supposed to prevent somewhere (e.g. the USA) from beind damaged by a missile launched from almost anywhere. The US Navy system is supposed to stop a few places (e.g. North Korea) from launching attacks regardless of where they were headed. I'm not sure I would call the US Navy system a "sheild" at all.
The idea of a black hole existed in the 1960s. IIRC the German astronomer Karl Schwarzschild developed the concept of the black hole durring World War I. There were other names for it, and AFAIK none of those names was "black star".
Names that I am aware of include:
Dark Star
Frozen Star (Soviet Union)
Spherical Singularity (Schwarzschilds name)
Collapsed Star
Actually "Tomorrow is Yesterday" mentions a "black star" not a "black hole". "Tommorow is Yeserday" was first aired in Jan 1967 and AFAIK produced in 1966. As previously mentioned, John Wheeler coined "black hole" in late 1967. So it predates the existance of the term "black hole" by a small but important amount.
Well, when I signed up for roadrunner at home I discoverd the following. If you wanted TV and internet you could then sign up for a package you could get a deal that was basically the cost of getting 'basic' (~14 channels) cable. So the cost of cable TV is in the roadrunne package there, they just isn't bothering to providing the service.
It's going to take a lot of time to encrypt data. People might realize that something is up the first time they try to access a file that has been encrypted, or when booting thier computer suddenly takes hours.
Wasn't the GM EV1 recalled at the end of its 3 year lease program and discontinued? Something to do with practical, cost effective battery technology not materializing?
I thought the EV1 was "recalled" because no one was making parts, and GM decided that it might not be a good idea for people to be driving around in cars that couldn't get things like brake repairs done.
I do always laugh when I see the rusted-out '85 Honda Civic with the brand new shiny 20" rims and chrome exhaust tips. "You just spent $2500 on mods, and a Civic is the best you can do?"
If you looked I would expect you would find chrome is the cheapest choice for exhaust tips, and the cheapest good choice for rims.
For exhaust tips my own experience has been that chrome is by far the cheapest way to go. I mean, its like a $12 part, not exactly soemthing that is going to break the bank. The only other common material for this that I am familiar with is Stainless Steel which would be significantly more expensive.
For rims chrome is probably going to be cheaper then getting OEM or aluminum alloy rims, and they are going to be a hell of a lot cheaper then something like Mag. I'm sure if you looked you could get some really cheap non-OEM steel rims, but they are too heavy then they are going to screw up something small like a Civic.
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Maybe a very small number of people would, but people exposed to smoke are like multiple orders of magnitude more likely to get lung or throat cancer right?
Only if you consider something like 40x to be "multiple orders of magnitude".
Why not for FPS games? I have no problem using my Logitech optical trackball for FPS games.
So? Should all the coffee & tea sold in the US be served lukewarm as a result? Many of use like hot coffee. Without using boiling water, you lose a lot of flavour.
[...]
And frankly, has this woman had coffee before? Has she made coffee at home? She must have known that coffee is hot. She has no one to blame but herself.
Have you ever had really good coffee? Using boiling water destroys flavor. Try having coffee made in a french press and compare it to the stuff brewed in a machine.
The ideal temperature for coffee is ~165F, so like a kit of people she probably expected her coffee to be ~165F. McDonalds served their coffee at ~200F, and after repeated complaints (and a few incidents) relating to how it could seriously injure people at that temperature, didn't change anything. I would say that "Hey our coffee is about 40 degrees hotter then everyone elses" would be atleast worth a mention somewhere.
It's DivX all over again!
DIVX =/= DivX
You're artile went throught the trouble of making the distinction.
DivX = video codec
DIVX = psudo-rental video disk
IIRC during one of the DS9 episodes shortly after the Defiant appeared they referred to it as an "Escort" ship. If I recall my Star Trek terminology correctly would make it more like a destroyer then a PT-boat, in that it is designed to protect large vulnerable ships from small nimble ones.
Somehow I have a bit of trouble believing this. How hard would it be for a large company like Telewest to send it's subsribers a CD with anti-virus/adware removal tools on it? Or an email with such software in it? Or even call users and tell them they have an issue?
You're first two suggestions would likely expose Telewest to possible litigation. I can imagine users blaming Telewest if the software they were sent managed to screw up their computer in a way that resulted in data lost.
You're third suggestion is likely to take some time given that it is an issue with thousands people.
The corrected version is: Ra = (rho/2) * Aj * (Cd0 V + Cd1 V^2 + Cd2 V^2). The square Cf dominates at highway speeds for cars, while the cubic Cf usually only matters if you're supersonic.
There is no cubic term in the formula you gave. Just a linear and two squared terms.
Did you mean to write Ra = (rho/2) * Aj * (Cd0 V + Cd1 V^2 + Cd2 V^3) ?
Definitely reminds me of "Abort/Retry/Fail" error message of so long ago. The first time you ever see the message, you hit "retry" a few times hoping it will work. Eventually, the computer teaches you to never try "retry" because it only puts up the error message again.
I often found that the retry option was often very useful. In particular if I had a disk that was on its way out I often found it could take a lot of attempts before the computer would be able to read all the data off of the disk. Now, I don't know about you, but often the annoyance was worth getting the data off of my disk.
The first incorrect thing in the /. post is that this is somehow standard definition. It's not, 540 lines is more than 480.
Televisions are not computer monitors.
The NTSC video standard has 525 lines.
The PAL and SECAM video standards have 625 lines.
So where does 480 linrd come from?
Granted a train takes longer, but this is offset by the fact you can work or relax effectively on a train. Seriously, I'd rather take a train than first class air travel any day.
It's also offset by the fact that there is a lot less waiting involved in a train trip. You don't have to deal with security like at the airports, and you don't have as big of a problem with luggage. In addition train station are generally located in the middle of cities, while airports are generally located on the outskirts of cities, so it may be esier to get where your going once you arrive if you take a train.
That story is on bash.org
http://www.bash.org/?244321
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/ 13/1741210&tid=198&tid=137
Sure looks like a dupe to me.
Even at 18, a good number of people aren't "all grown up" yet - that is, they will make unwise decisions - but you have to draw the line somewhere, and if you are old enough to vote, you are old enough to control your own body.
But not old enough to go buy a beer. Go figure.
I remember that the thing that landed on the moon was called the L.E.M. (lunar excursion model), and the news reports at the time distinguished between the command module (the capsule that eventually splashed down into the ocean) and the service module, which had the engines, fuel, and whatnot to propel and reorient the command module. Maybe they called them LM and CSM and told the public something else.
I remember hearing that someone thought "excursion" sounded a little stupid, so they ended up officially droping it from the name after it had already been used in public.
Housebricks come in atleast nine sizes that I'm aware of.
Utility: 3.625 x 3.625 x 11.625
Economy: 3.625 x 3.625 x 8
Standard: 3.625 x 2.25 x 8
Modular: 3.625 x 2.25 x 7.625
Jumbo: 3.625 x 2.75 x 8
King: 3.625 x 2.75 x 9.625
Roman: 3.625 x 1.625 x 11.625
Norman: 3.625 x 2.25 x 11.625
Jumbo Norman: 3.625 x 2.75 x 11.625
Firefox is playing silly buggers behind your back. When www.jobs doesn't answer (try ping), Firefox adds .com and tries again. www.jobs.com is owned by Monster. Firefox should update the URL you typed in to let you know that it fixed it for you. (Can't remember what IE does.)
I'm not sure what IE does, but every now and then when I can't connect to www.slashdot.org it tries to take me to www.www.slashdot.org.com or www.www.slashdot.org.net .
I worked retail on-and-off for several years and I never saw a $2 bill.
Infact, I don't think I would have a clue what one looked like if I hadn't visited US Bureau of Engraving and Printing as a kid.
In my experience the prices on things like jeans and shoes is a lot cheaper in Northern NY then it is in Southern Quebec.
From what I understand the idea behind the US Navy system is almost the exact opposite of the idea behind the USAF "missile shield". The sheild is supposed to prevent somewhere (e.g. the USA) from beind damaged by a missile launched from almost anywhere. The US Navy system is supposed to stop a few places (e.g. North Korea) from launching attacks regardless of where they were headed. I'm not sure I would call the US Navy system a "sheild" at all.
The idea of a black hole existed in the 1960s. IIRC the German astronomer Karl Schwarzschild developed the concept of the black hole durring World War I. There were other names for it, and AFAIK none of those names was "black star".
Names that I am aware of include:
Dark Star
Frozen Star (Soviet Union)
Spherical Singularity (Schwarzschilds name)
Collapsed Star
Actually "Tomorrow is Yesterday" mentions a "black star" not a "black hole". "Tommorow is Yeserday" was first aired in Jan 1967 and AFAIK produced in 1966. As previously mentioned, John Wheeler coined "black hole" in late 1967. So it predates the existance of the term "black hole" by a small but important amount.
Well, when I signed up for roadrunner at home I discoverd the following. If you wanted TV and internet you could then sign up for a package you could get a deal that was basically the cost of getting 'basic' (~14 channels) cable. So the cost of cable TV is in the roadrunne package there, they just isn't bothering to providing the service.
It's going to take a lot of time to encrypt data. People might realize that something is up the first time they try to access a file that has been encrypted, or when booting thier computer suddenly takes hours.
Wasn't the GM EV1 recalled at the end of its 3 year lease program and discontinued? Something to do with practical, cost effective battery technology not materializing?
I thought the EV1 was "recalled" because no one was making parts, and GM decided that it might not be a good idea for people to be driving around in cars that couldn't get things like brake repairs done.
I do always laugh when I see the rusted-out '85 Honda Civic with the brand new shiny 20" rims and chrome exhaust tips. "You just spent $2500 on mods, and a Civic is the best you can do?"
If you looked I would expect you would find chrome is the cheapest choice for exhaust tips, and the cheapest good choice for rims.
For exhaust tips my own experience has been that chrome is by far the cheapest way to go. I mean, its like a $12 part, not exactly soemthing that is going to break the bank. The only other common material for this that I am familiar with is Stainless Steel which would be significantly more expensive.
For rims chrome is probably going to be cheaper then getting OEM or aluminum alloy rims, and they are going to be a hell of a lot cheaper then something like Mag. I'm sure if you looked you could get some really cheap non-OEM steel rims, but they are too heavy then they are going to screw up something small like a Civic.