Comment Re:first shot (Score 1) 396
Only bass trombones (the 'F trigger', and sometimes a 'D' trigger too.)
Only bass trombones (the 'F trigger', and sometimes a 'D' trigger too.)
I like you
An historic X would be correct (the adjective starts with a vowel). So would an eulogy (y is really a vowel, in this case).
In both cases, I disagree, because it's just dumb. But that's the rule
Betteridge's law says the answer to this question is, 'no'.
My mistake -- the indefinite article.
Sorry, wrong. The 'correct' grammar as taught to me in school was to use the definite article 'a' when the noun referred to starts with a consonant, and 'an' when the noun starts with a vowel. Critically, this rule *regards 'H' as a vowel*, leading to the correct usages:
An hero
An hotel
An hovel
Personally I think it's dumb to regard H as a vowel in this context, but that's what I was taught.
Draconian Restrictive Monopoly, more like.
I would think not. Bitcoin mining isn't cost-effective on FPGAs any more.
I think you missed the tongue-in-cheek here.
The plastic bag used to be known as South Africa's 'National Flower'. Since the law was passed, circa 2008 IIRC, the level of plastic litter has plummeted. This works.
Oh yeah the law is that stores are obliged to charge for plastic bags. The price is something like R0.20 -- ~2 cents US / ~1.5 pence
Nope, it's 1 000 000 / 999 900 == 0.999 900, which, when expressed as a percentage is 99.99%.
Yup. In South Africa and Zimbabwe, obesity is a growing problem, and not related to income. It's probably related to the fact that people around here eat lots of maize meal.
- Nuke it -- not ideal, as we'll probably lose a few satellites, however the smaller pieces won't cause nearly so much damage. Most of the fragments will burn up in the atmosphere. Many will miss the earth entirely.
- Send a probe out to it when it's still far away. Position the probe close to the asteroid for a long time (months) -- the pull of gravity exerted by the probe will nudge the asteroid off its collision course.
- Wrap it in a giant piece of plastic, and mount some engines on it, so we can capture it into a nearby orbit. That much mass *in orbit* would be immensely valuable, even if it's just rock. (this one is probably unworkable due to the sheer quantity of fuel that would be required)
A manned mission is laughable, and only fit for the movies.
Monty Python: Search for the Holy Grail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2R3FvS4xr4
What is the airspeed velocity of a swallow?
I like the current design, thank you very much, although Unicode support and support for editing posts would be appreciated. Oh, and it'd be nice if the front page didn't spontaneously reload while I'm reading a summary.
I think what we have seen in the nearly 1000 comments above is that people don't like or want the new site, and that it'd be a bad idea to change it. When slashdot moved over to the current 2.0 design, there was a lot of moaning but not nearly as much as the rabid hate the 3.0 design is generating; personally I liked the 2.0 design when it was introduced.
HOLY MACRO!