You think I read the article? Ha! I blame the submitter for thinking that a skyscraper floor can be 10 feet tall. Floors in modern non-residential buildings are usually 15+feet tall, because they include far more than the normally visible space.
Are these people so repressed that even the suggestion of a "naughty word" is enough to get them complaining ?
I think it's more the specific "naughty word", or rather, not the word itself, but the whole request that is being made. "Please $*%# my Dad" sounds awfully bad since the expletive has to be a verb, and there's one that stands out (unless it's a request to God to damn their dad's soul). So it's probably the potential content of the show that they're objecting to: A different family every week, and the kids are trying to get their dad laid.
when you're looking for something specific in a textbook you're most likely going to flip through looking for a picture, diagram, or a certain page layout. You may even remember approximately how far in from the front or back of the book the section is you're looking for (ie. you may remember it's about half an inch or one finger's thickness from the back of the book). None of these visual cues would work as well with an ebook reader, and as Roesner said, would be a lot slower.
you could search for it.
Not always. I love my paper versions of old AD&D material. I got some rtf and MS helpfile versions of some AD&D material with a Core Rules CD a long while back. It was neat to search for specific text until I realized my spacial memory is stronger than my textual: I couldn't remember what certain things were called "Tome of Infinite Magic? Libram of Unending Magic? Oh well, I know it's in the misc magic items section..." I know which section of the book I'm in just by the pictures. I bet you could give a text-redacted version to any D&D nerd and they'd tell you what chart is on what page, but they might not remember what the exact words are to search for them, or what page numbers they are.
I've never seen 10 foot floors, because that would mean they're actually 9-foot floors, and they usually have to have a drop ceiling for cabling and pipes, so now you're down to 8 or seven feet (which is really short for anyone 6+feet). Of course, maintenance usually likes to crawl around up there so that's at least 4 feet for the drop ceiling, so now you have 5 feet for the regular office spaces. I usually see floors that are 15+feet tall.
Too many people measure "floor" by "carpet to drop-ceiling" They should get in a stairwell and judge "floor" by "door to door", and they'll see that floors are much taller than they think.
"It seems we need to make the next Kindle large, with at least 20-50 flexible sheets of e-ink "paper", and a highlighter/pen wand that allows for easy e-ink marking. Soon we'll have the perfect format. Ten years after that, we'll lock it into a one-ebook to one-kindle setup so that we sell more kindles. Who wouldn't spend $400 per novel?"
((10 feet plus 5 foot drop ceiling space plus foot of actual floor plus an extra foot for good measure) times 23 divided by three) divided by 100 equals ~1.303333333 football fields
I realize it's not officially against (most employers') policy to be friends with a coworker (to *date* coworkers, of course, is almost universally frowned upon, but mere friendships are usually tolerated), but it's still not a good idea.
HR (well, actually the Legal dept) frowns on office dating, but management loves having subordinates getting married to each other. It's so much harder to leave a company if you have to leave your other half behind or have to leave in pairs.
You can't be fired for things you said on your Facebook page if your page is set to private and nobody from work can read it.
Until Facebook pulls a Darth Vader and alters privacy settings like they've done multiple times already. I believe status updates and wall posts are next on the chopping block.
...but I believe in Duct Tape.
As long as your backup and tertiary machines have different kludges keeping them running, there's no problem...
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They did NOT keep us watching for 6 years by teasing about whether or not Kate would ever kiss Jack and admit she loved him.
That's exactly how they kept us watching for 6 years. More importantly, it was how they kept _everybody_ watching for 6 years, including the non-science nerds. If it was 6 years of a bad sci-fi documentary about an unusual Island, then our girlfriends would have quit watching and made us watch something else. Hell, I would have quit watching because it sounds boring. Sci-Fi is always about the people, not the tech or the science, otherwise it's just a technical document. I always got glazed eyes whenever I described the smoke monster as a nanite cloud or went into the details of the timeline during the time travel seasons; the majority of the viewers were watching for Jack and Kate.
No no no. It's real small. Ya ya ya.
Both in the literal and metaphorical sense. It would be neat if Apple were building up hype by pretending its yet another iPhone product while really presenting something completely different like Apple Solar Computing Caps with displays under the rim, or Apple iTunes for Linux. Or publicly announcing that Apple and Adobe have made up after a trip to the Bahamas and some intense couples counseling, and Flash will now be mandated in mobile Safari, not just an option.
the authors said many times in public, at comicon, during interviews that there WOULD be scientific explainations, that it would add up.
Jack, upon observation "Dad's coffin is empty again; I remember a different life; wait, there's Dad, alive!", created a hypothesis "I'm Dead", tested his hypothesis "Dad, am I dead, are we all dead?", and repeated the experiment by entering the sanctuary and experiencing more. Seems people in the afterlife can scientifically study the afterlife. Ta Da! The writers never said their science wouldn't involve things outside observers can't measure, did they?;D
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Thought for sure that in the last episode they would find Gilligan.
I don't know about you, but with that golden glow, smoke monster, and the Time Travel, I was sure it was going to be an Orb from "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr." down there.
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But it took them all to die on their own time before they all met back up in the sideways.
Except for Desmond, who did his "Mental Timetravel" trick and actually traveled _past_ his own lifetime into his afterlife.
So Ben had not yet been at peace with his actions to enter the church. It's all very Catholic at it's core. Now if you were looking for what the island was or were it came from, that, I'm afraid is going to be another story. Or you could use your imagination.
And acceptance of Mystery is another strong religious theme. Essentially, there are things outside our control; understanding them takes less precedence than understanding each other. To anyone so wrapped up in the gnawing hunger of knowing what the Island was, I offer Rose's comforting words: "It's okay, you can let go now."
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The whole point of leaving the Island as a mystery is to point out how unimportant the Island is. The show was about the main characters. The Island was a place, or at best, a series of events drawing the main characters together. Do we know the mysterious lives of all the background characters? No. Why should we care more about an inanimate object (no matter how cool)?
Seriously... Great idea in theory. In practice, how many times have you sat waiting for a light and suddenly had to move NOW? Either for an ambulance, or some moron going too fast and turning far too widely, or a tractor trailer at a tight intersection that would otherwise have rolled its back tires over your hood, or even suddenly having to run the light to avoid getting rear-ended by someone coming up behind you completely oblivious to the light?
In 20 years of driving, only the emergency vehicle one. I've never had any of those other situations. That's not to say they don't happen, but I am left wondering why you imagine they are common occurrences that happen to everyone.
I've had to move out of the way of many emergency vehicles, and two have been stuck behind people behind me because I couldn't move because others ahead of me wouldn't move (they heard the siren and just stopped). Luckily the oncoming traffic pulled over both times and they got through. I've had a tractor trailer back up 10 feet into the front of my car, thankfully stopping after only crunching in my front grill. I've seen a tractor trailer almost run someone over as in GP's example. Thankfully both noticed; the trucker stopped in time, and the guy in the turn lane waiting to turn left was able to back up quickly. It wasn't a tight intersection either. I doubt anyone could do anything about "crazy guy behind them who doesn't stop" other than see it in the rearview and say a two word (eight letter) prayer. But in that case, IBM's light system would actually help, slowing the guy and cutting his engine. I assume these are common enough because they've happened to me while at a standstill within the last twenty years. It's hard to say it's because of the way I drive when I'm not moving...
I never got any of this newfangled philotic physics. Half of it nobody understands anyway.
No, everyone understands and doesn't understand quantum philotics at the same time, until they are tested. It averages out to half of the population, though.
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So simple, but so few people know that if you set "connections" to "friends only", they're still Public.
You think I read the article? Ha! I blame the submitter for thinking that a skyscraper floor can be 10 feet tall. Floors in modern non-residential buildings are usually 15+feet tall, because they include far more than the normally visible space.
Ah, Nevermind, I just re-read the title of the show. "$#!% my Dad says" is far more tame.
Are these people so repressed that even the suggestion of a "naughty word" is enough to get them complaining ?
I think it's more the specific "naughty word", or rather, not the word itself, but the whole request that is being made. "Please $*%# my Dad" sounds awfully bad since the expletive has to be a verb, and there's one that stands out (unless it's a request to God to damn their dad's soul). So it's probably the potential content of the show that they're objecting to: A different family every week, and the kids are trying to get their dad laid.
when you're looking for something specific in a textbook you're most likely going to flip through looking for a picture, diagram, or a certain page layout. You may even remember approximately how far in from the front or back of the book the section is you're looking for (ie. you may remember it's about half an inch or one finger's thickness from the back of the book). None of these visual cues would work as well with an ebook reader, and as Roesner said, would be a lot slower.
you could search for it.
Not always. I love my paper versions of old AD&D material. I got some rtf and MS helpfile versions of some AD&D material with a Core Rules CD a long while back. It was neat to search for specific text until I realized my spacial memory is stronger than my textual: I couldn't remember what certain things were called "Tome of Infinite Magic? Libram of Unending Magic? Oh well, I know it's in the misc magic items section..." I know which section of the book I'm in just by the pictures. I bet you could give a text-redacted version to any D&D nerd and they'd tell you what chart is on what page, but they might not remember what the exact words are to search for them, or what page numbers they are.
I've never seen 10 foot floors, because that would mean they're actually 9-foot floors, and they usually have to have a drop ceiling for cabling and pipes, so now you're down to 8 or seven feet (which is really short for anyone 6+feet). Of course, maintenance usually likes to crawl around up there so that's at least 4 feet for the drop ceiling, so now you have 5 feet for the regular office spaces. I usually see floors that are 15+feet tall.
Too many people measure "floor" by "carpet to drop-ceiling" They should get in a stairwell and judge "floor" by "door to door", and they'll see that floors are much taller than they think.
"It seems we need to make the next Kindle large, with at least 20-50 flexible sheets of e-ink "paper", and a highlighter/pen wand that allows for easy e-ink marking. Soon we'll have the perfect format. Ten years after that, we'll lock it into a one-ebook to one-kindle setup so that we sell more kindles. Who wouldn't spend $400 per novel?"
American football or Metric football?
As these were British units of measurement, it was clearly describing the field size for the game not played in Great Britain.
as long as a 23-floor skyscraper is tall
How many football field lenghts would that be?
((10 feet plus 5 foot drop ceiling space plus foot of actual floor plus an extra foot for good measure) times 23 divided by three) divided by 100 equals ~1.303333333 football fields
I realize it's not officially against (most employers') policy to be friends with a coworker (to *date* coworkers, of course, is almost universally frowned upon, but mere friendships are usually tolerated), but it's still not a good idea.
HR (well, actually the Legal dept) frowns on office dating, but management loves having subordinates getting married to each other. It's so much harder to leave a company if you have to leave your other half behind or have to leave in pairs.
You can't be fired for things you said on your Facebook page if your page is set to private and nobody from work can read it.
Until Facebook pulls a Darth Vader and alters privacy settings like they've done multiple times already. I believe status updates and wall posts are next on the chopping block.
...but I believe in Duct Tape.
As long as your backup and tertiary machines have different kludges keeping them running, there's no problem...
They did NOT keep us watching for 6 years by teasing about whether or not Kate would ever kiss Jack and admit she loved him.
That's exactly how they kept us watching for 6 years. More importantly, it was how they kept _everybody_ watching for 6 years, including the non-science nerds. If it was 6 years of a bad sci-fi documentary about an unusual Island, then our girlfriends would have quit watching and made us watch something else. Hell, I would have quit watching because it sounds boring. Sci-Fi is always about the people, not the tech or the science, otherwise it's just a technical document. I always got glazed eyes whenever I described the smoke monster as a nanite cloud or went into the details of the timeline during the time travel seasons; the majority of the viewers were watching for Jack and Kate.
No no no. It's real small. Ya ya ya.
Both in the literal and metaphorical sense. It would be neat if Apple were building up hype by pretending its yet another iPhone product while really presenting something completely different like Apple Solar Computing Caps with displays under the rim, or Apple iTunes for Linux. Or publicly announcing that Apple and Adobe have made up after a trip to the Bahamas and some intense couples counseling, and Flash will now be mandated in mobile Safari, not just an option.
BTW, if you want big. Go with Honeycomb.
the authors said many times in public, at comicon, during interviews that there WOULD be scientific explainations, that it would add up.
Jack, upon observation "Dad's coffin is empty again; I remember a different life; wait, there's Dad, alive!", created a hypothesis "I'm Dead", tested his hypothesis "Dad, am I dead, are we all dead?", and repeated the experiment by entering the sanctuary and experiencing more. Seems people in the afterlife can scientifically study the afterlife. Ta Da! The writers never said their science wouldn't involve things outside observers can't measure, did they? ;D
Thought for sure that in the last episode they would find Gilligan.
I don't know about you, but with that golden glow, smoke monster, and the Time Travel, I was sure it was going to be an Orb from "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr." down there.
But it took them all to die on their own time before they all met back up in the sideways.
Except for Desmond, who did his "Mental Timetravel" trick and actually traveled _past_ his own lifetime into his afterlife.
So Ben had not yet been at peace with his actions to enter the church. It's all very Catholic at it's core. Now if you were looking for what the island was or were it came from, that, I'm afraid is going to be another story. Or you could use your imagination.
And acceptance of Mystery is another strong religious theme. Essentially, there are things outside our control; understanding them takes less precedence than understanding each other. To anyone so wrapped up in the gnawing hunger of knowing what the Island was, I offer Rose's comforting words: "It's okay, you can let go now."
The whole point of leaving the Island as a mystery is to point out how unimportant the Island is. The show was about the main characters. The Island was a place, or at best, a series of events drawing the main characters together. Do we know the mysterious lives of all the background characters? No. Why should we care more about an inanimate object (no matter how cool)?
"Take your ACTA and shove it. And bow lower next time you visit. Lick the dirt!"
Seriously... Great idea in theory. In practice, how many times have you sat waiting for a light and suddenly had to move NOW? Either for an ambulance, or some moron going too fast and turning far too widely, or a tractor trailer at a tight intersection that would otherwise have rolled its back tires over your hood, or even suddenly having to run the light to avoid getting rear-ended by someone coming up behind you completely oblivious to the light?
In 20 years of driving, only the emergency vehicle one. I've never had any of those other situations. That's not to say they don't happen, but I am left wondering why you imagine they are common occurrences that happen to everyone.
I've had to move out of the way of many emergency vehicles, and two have been stuck behind people behind me because I couldn't move because others ahead of me wouldn't move (they heard the siren and just stopped). Luckily the oncoming traffic pulled over both times and they got through. I've had a tractor trailer back up 10 feet into the front of my car, thankfully stopping after only crunching in my front grill. I've seen a tractor trailer almost run someone over as in GP's example. Thankfully both noticed; the trucker stopped in time, and the guy in the turn lane waiting to turn left was able to back up quickly. It wasn't a tight intersection either. I doubt anyone could do anything about "crazy guy behind them who doesn't stop" other than see it in the rearview and say a two word (eight letter) prayer. But in that case, IBM's light system would actually help, slowing the guy and cutting his engine. I assume these are common enough because they've happened to me while at a standstill within the last twenty years. It's hard to say it's because of the way I drive when I'm not moving...
Clinton managed to balance the budget by cutting the fat.
Huh? He's been lampooned for his chubby-chasing.
Many signature dishes come out at the perfect temperature
No they don't. Get over yourselves.
It's the whole idea behind the McDLT.
> California is all over this already. They're pushing to ban all textbooks using Texas' information.
Citation please.
Don't read /. too often any more? California Moves To Block Texas' Textbook Changes
I never got any of this newfangled philotic physics. Half of it nobody understands anyway.
No, everyone understands and doesn't understand quantum philotics at the same time, until they are tested. It averages out to half of the population, though.
Can someone clue me in to why isohunt was hosting movies/music in the first place?
Because they're they favorite food of isos, and isohunt was luring them in for the kill.