I didn't quite get this - is it a thing about combination characters and accents, or about Unicode not being complete?

All I know is that beef == 48879. Oh, and 3735928559 if you kill it.

Appropriate variants of the 1984 ad.

Remember that their customers are not the people who search but rather, the people who advertise to the people who search. If the Chinese advert market isn't making them money, they probably don't care so much about the people searching there.

I note that among other failures noted in the introduction, the study does not include a sample fed on 'unaltered' corn plus an added dose of the proteins the different corns are supposed to be modified to produce.

I was under the impression that in many cases, this actually made the reaction *worse* each time.

And it never really worked very well, if I recall.

Um, I've seen quite a few reports of bits of evidence that together strongly suggest that the election was rigged. For example, try this: BBC News: Where did all the votes come from?

If the overwhelming majority of Iranians (like the overwhelming majority of Poles) truly support democracy, human rights, and peace with Israel, then a liberal Western democracy will arise -- without any violence.

So that brutal violence in the protests following the election was what exactly?

Using this case as an example: If you use an integer variable for your tick, it's never rounded. Whenever you use it to calculate a time, then you can multiply it by 0.1 to get a much more accurate number than one obtained with the cumulative error of adding on a rounded floating point 0.1 to a rounded floating point sum every tick.

A straight line is just a special case of curve.

... And then you *learn* and don't puke up the next time. Allowing users to lock modes would mean that a lot of people would never find out what's interesting and new about the system. You might end up with a horrible mess once, but then you can look at what you did wrong.

This is why we have terms like 'space opera' - for stories that aren't *about* the science. You could just as easily set the base frame for stories like Star Wars and Babylon 5 anywhere, but they just happen to be in a setting where space travel and building in space is manageable tech. These stories are much more about people and what they do than about the consequences of technological advance or societal change over time.

And perhaps more importantly, is the entire effect countered by wearing tinted glasses?

Sometimes working here feels like banging rocks together. I'm a knapper.