And you forgot Colonel Sandurz, his cunning alter-ego.

The EPA has a page on the very subject, claiming that green roofs not only help with cooling, but also heating, since they act as insulators. They also reduce pollutants in the air and combat the heat island effect present in many large cities. I am not aware of many negatives for them, aside from the maintenance required for the more elaborate ones.

And vice-versa! Being a native French speaker, there are many common English mistakes that I just cannot see myself making, such as their/they're (leur/ils sont). Since the two words have completely different spellings in French, mixing them up is almost impossible, even though I've stopped translating words in my head long ago.

Immersion learning is by far the best way to learn quickly and effectively. It's often used successfully to learn particularly different languages, such as Japanese or one of the many dialects and languages spoken in China. You're better off going there and learning by being forced to speak and think in the language almost 24/7.

There is such a thing as FP32 compute workload. In fact, graphics research is largely concerned about this, since the goal is often to eventually release the research to the mass market, who're going to be using consumer cards.

Oh yes! A fool and his money are soon parted. The guy may not even be wrong, but quite frankly if Apple sells so many watches each year all it tells me is that there's an awful lot of suckers on the watch market. Still, I don't think Apple has the same prestige as Swiss watch brands, and perhaps far more importantly your Swiss watch won't become outdated within a year, with all support for it probably ceasing within five at most.

Pebble are already working on this with their "smartbands" which act as quick-swap accessories for their new Time, though whether it'll catch on is another matter.

It's selling in spite of its shoddy engine written in Java, yes. Now, Java itself was sort of a boon, since it's fairly easy to reverse engineer JVM bytecode back into Java, which spawned a gigantic modding community, but the engine itself is pretty bloody bad.

Temperature doesn't exist at the atomic level. It's a measurement of how much movement there is in a set of atoms. At zero Kelvin, there is theoretically no movement whatsoever. In a gas, atoms are moving in all directions and colliding with the container walls all the time (that's pressure), which changes their velocity and direction. They can also collide with one another, but that's much less frequent, comparatively speaking, since gases tend to have very low density.

Now, since the parent was talking about a cloud of "heating gas", it means the gas is being heated in some way. This can happen through a number of different ways, but most of those ways will only act upon a small subset of the full gas being considered. Thus, at any given time, the probably of a random sample of atoms in a heating gas to be of a significantly different speed (that which you call temperature) than the rest of the gas is actually measurably higher than zero, with how high depending on how much heat is being applied and in which manner.

I'm always amused that every single time anything is ever shown wrong when talking about weather models (not even climate models!), we have at least one person posting something like this.

Go grab qBittorrent instead. Free, open-source, not owned by the Bittorrent corporation.

Android 4.1, no-name dual-core CPU, just 1GB of RAM... doesn't seem comparable to the Shield in any shape or form.

You mean, aside from Dota 2, Team Fortress 2, CS:GO, League of Legends, Hearthstone, Starcraft 2 and the myriad of other PC exclusives which smashed all sorts of records. The PC isn't the red-headed stepchild of AAA, it's just that AAA has forced itself into a rut of catastrophically large marketing and art costs all while forgetting to ever renew themselves, which means the only way to be profitable is to sell a large amount of copies right on release, then sell DLC and season passes and "elite" passes and other crap like that. This is somewhat easier to do on consoles, not because of their install base (which is comparatively small), but because of their demographics: lots of teenagers (who are very easily swayed by targeted advertizing and who generally don't pay the bills) and adult males who use games as stress relief or mindless distractions (and thus don't particularly look at quality or competition, just at what's on the ads).

This is like saying that movies which aren't action-packed stupid blockbusters like Transformers are the "red-headed stepchild of Hollywood".

Replace Lenovo with IBM and you might have a point, but Lenovo's brand reputation has taken a nosedive. They've introduced a bunch of new lines mostly comprised of cheap, expendable and unreliable laptops. The ThinkPad line is still okay (though warranty coverage isn't what it used to be), but it's not what Lenovo's marketing is even focused on, largely because they think they have their business market captive (which is likely extremely foolish).

Yeah, and the top-level comments are missing a left margin and have a misaligned right marging versus the top block. Post and "Load All Comments" are the wrong color, etc.

I think it's a damn sight better than Beta ever was, it just needs a few more tweaks here and there.