Don't be so dismissive. Knowing how many tanks the Germans had in total is related to knowing how many they can marshal in a particular region. Also, part of the allies' goal was to figure out how many tanks the Germans could manufacture. If that number was high, then the Germans could have bolstered an undersupplied and perceived-to-be-weak region.

To be back on track, the math involved is pretty straightforward. For those interested, the Wikipedia article has more information on the subject.

This is my biggest complaint with many Open Source "lusers" and it happens all the time. I often see bug reports which look like, "Please fix ABC or add new feature XYZ ASAP. It shouldn't be too hard to fix. This ticket is priority important because I need this feature yesterday." People seem to think that Open Source means that programmers will magically write the software they need for free.

No, you can do it, but don't call it green. It's like what Scott Adams said when he was building his "green" home:

It is for areas of the world where there aren't random creeks (if there were enough random creeks in Haiti, they would be sending water purification tablets and jugs or pots and tea kettles and telling everyone to boil their own water). This is a desalination system, so it can work off of seawater. Industrial scale reverse osmosis desalination plants do exist, showing that there are places where there isn't enough freshwater for the population even in good times.

The system you linked certainly does look impressive. However, it is billed as a water purification rather than a desalination system. Later in the page, it does say that it can handle saline water. Does that mean it can handle seawater, like a reverse osmosis system, or is it designed to work from a river and so its limit is brackish water?

Reverse osmosis works using permeable membranes - that isn't really the limiting factor since huge reverse osmosis plants exist in a number of places. The issue is that it takes a lot of energy to push water through one of these membranes, and solar probably isn't cutting it.

A clever shill will create a new user account when their old one is being filtered. They will not submit a review whose summary states, "Armed with this book, can a Business Analyst be used to write application logic? I don't believe so, and I'll tell you why."

For it to be a shill, yes.

If he was a shill, wouldn't this be a positive review?

There were two posts. The initial comment that got the FBI's attention was posted by the friend to an obscure blog. Later on, the owner of the vehicle then posted on reddit asking what the device was.

Then go to the library. I haven't needed Netflix nor Blockbuster for a good long time. My library is part of a rather large network of libraries. I can go to the library itself and browse available titles and I can also put a hold online for pretty much any movie I want. Yes, I have to wait a bit longer for recent releases compared to a pay service, but I'm patient and there are plenty of older good movies that have zero wait that you can watch in the interim. Now, if you live somewhere where there aren't any good libraries, well, I guess you are SOL. I've never had this problem, but I guess if you live in the boonies it affects you.

Tryna kill you in your sleep
So y'all need to
Hide your kids, hide your wife
Hide your kids, hide your wife
And hide your husband
Cuz they killin' errbody out here

Also http://www.rottenapples.info/.

1. The DC circuits would be in addition to AC circuits
2. DC motors do exist

No, that's not the entire point. Your point is that a "proper open tablet could pretty much wipe out netbooks." It's not a lack of openness that's holding back tablets, else the currently available x86-based tablets would have taken over and the iPad would not be successful where others have not been. What is holding back tablets is the price and lack of utility. Sure, openness will help out with these two things (as I mentioned in a previous post), but openness in the sense you are describing isn't really the issue.

Not myopic, realistic. And you're the one throwing the insults, so not sure who the jerk is. And while the entire world doesn't have to be mired in mediocrity, it seems to be quite content to do so. How many people hack their gadgets or buy things based upon customizability and control? Get real; price and ease of use are the main things consumers care about.