I see what you mean. You seem to suffer from The Curse of Competence:
http://dilbert.com/strip/2008-...

I actually independently came up with the 10% figure today as well, and mentioned to my project manager that unless he wants to invest real money chasing the long tail of data, he was going to have 10% of the records with bogus values in some fields. I will certainly adopt the rest of your quote!

Here you lost me. Why were you even in this business if you didn't love the challenge? Don't take other peoples' bad data personally. Take it as an opportunity.

It contains inaccuracies and is a clear troll. The poster knows enough terminology to sound smart, and deliberately twists it.

Oh, and the username begins with the word "Troll". Whoever went on to moderate that post as "Insightful" (as it now stands) does not understand cosmology, and additionally does not know how to identify an obvious troll.

The fine article suggests that it does in fact affect orbit. Truth be told, it is the first time that I hear this, and _perhaps_ it is the case for gaseous worlds, for which slowing down the rotation is not as straightforward as for rocky worlds.

I've asked on space.SE, your input and comments are welcome on that discussion:
http://space.stackexchange.com...

The tidal forces bend and stretch the planet. This results in friction and ultimately, heat.

As soon as you hear the word "heat", you should immediately start looking for places to drain the energy from. In this case, it is orbital velocity that is shed, which brings the planet in closer to the star.

I'm not sure that I trust this "open source" code from, of all places the US Army, available on Github. Does anyone have a compiled binary for Kubuntu that I could try?

I might do that once the replacement mouse arrives and I see that it works. In any case, 60 days have passed so I cannot leave feedback.

To be fair, I'm a big ebay buyer. Recently I ordered two computer mice for my daughters:
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Real-Fi...

When they didn't arrive after two months, I contacted the seller and he sent to more. When one of _those_ didn't work he sent a _fifth_ mouse! This was two days before the claims for the unreceived mice was to expire in my favour (i.e. a full refund). I contacted Ebay and requested them not to close the issue in two days, as I was still waiting for the replacement mouse. Within five minutes (not two days) the issue was closed in my favour and I got an automatic refund that I neither wanted nor deserved. The poor seller sent _five_ mice and didn't get any of his money. He probably thinks that I'm a scammer as well, when the issue is that Ebay didn't even read my mail asking them to extend his deadline.

If there was any good way that I could contact the seller off-ebay and send him the $25 for the mice, I would.

Agreed 100%. I've got it running on a rooted Barnes And Noble Nook e-book reader. Opera Mobile Classic is the only half-way decent browser that will run on it, and it works fine.

$ du -sh *

You can add that to a context menu item. At least in Linux (KDE), it is easy to add. I don't have a Windows machine around, but they say that Windows is easy to use.

In fact you are feeding the trolls. The original post that you replied to even had the word "troll" in the username.

I am an extremely happy Evoluent customer. The mouse is absolutely terrific, very comfortable and actually _more_ intuitive than a flat mouse once you get used to it. With the exception of my graphics designer, every single person in the office fell in love with my vertical mouse when I let them try it for a few days.

However, nobody is willing to pay $100 for the mouse, just like they are not willing to pay $70 for a mechanical keyboard. I think that people see cheap mice and keyboards for $10, so they feel cheated when they spend much more than that on peripheral equipment. The truth is that I'm a sucker as well. Even though I have an Evoluent at work I still use a flat mouse at home as the price of a second Evoluent is hard to justify to myself when I hardly use the mouse at all (Vimperator, Linux).

Damn the price, trust me, you want that mouse though. The discrete middle-mouse button is only the icing on the cake. Almost _everything_ on that mouse is absolutely terrific.

I suspect that the format might fit a certain popular film niche, in which seeing the actor's body hairs is in fact considered a desirable feature.

The problem with that solution is that now I've got _two_ instances of Windows to secure and maintain. Twice the RAM, two licences for Kasperski, twice the updates, twice the exposure to threats.

So how do I configure my graphics designer's Windows box to look like a VM so that the malware won't run?