In response to complaints about all these mysterious acronyms, EdX will host a second MOOC to explain MLB to those who have a background in R and SQL but not MLB. Topics covered include ERA, RBI, OBP, IP, and BB. See this page for a full list of course topics.

It also contains a chemical that is toxic to birds, dogs, and cats. Do you really think you should be drinking that...?

"Uummm, seaweed...."

Maybe you and the GP are both right. It looks like they think spending money on architecture will yield more bang-for-the-buck of performance at the moment than yet another geometry shrink. You'd think they would have played all the architectural games possible by now. Bu now that everybody already has more cores than they can use, maybe more can be done at the architecture level to make better use of the same number of cores. (Just a guess.)

Not to mention dihydrogen monoxide - which is still used in large quantities in many residential and commercial settings, despite its many dangers.

Funny that you should mention that. Many years ago, before I discovered Python, I used Perl as my primary scripting language. I eventually discovered that I found it hard to read even my own code in Perl. So I applied the same solution I already used to the only other language I knew where I had the same problem: assembly.

I had learned over the years that in order to make assembly readable, you need to comment (nearly) every line. I started doing that with Perl, and voila!, problem solved.

Then I discovered Python. I soon transliterated all of my favorite Perl scripts into Python. Fortunately, the two languages are fairly similar at a semantic level, just not at a syntactic level. So transliteration was pretty easy. I was amazed to discover that even though Perl was famous for being compact (though perhaps not the way I wrote it - no one-liners allowed), my Python scripts ended up having both fewer lines and fewer bytes than their Perl equivalents. Just getting rid of braces does a lot to reduce line count - which seems obvious in retrospect.

Oh, and I also removed nearly all of the comments. That significantly reduced the byte count. And I could read my own code again!

It was so difficult for me that I decided to convert to dentistry instead. Which reminds me: what do you call a doctor who flunks out of medical school? - A dentist.

Likewise, if he isn't really committed enough to the domain to do all that then he doesn't much need it anyway - except for sentimental reasons and/or bragging rights. Personally, if I had a domain that was of so little use to me as his, which was attracting a lot of interest, I'd just sell it to the highest bidder and be done with all the headaches.

I actually have the converse case: I have multiple domains which aren't extremely short (7 letters or more), but were bought over 10 years ago, so they're shorter than any uncommitted meaningful domains that you could buy today. Three have a lot of content and the others just have a little content. I've never been approached by anyone to buy or take any of them.

However, I did receive an offer the other day for someone to sell me one that's somewhat similar to my most valuable domain. He says he's had it for 10 years, and it's still a parked domain. There isn't any reason for me to buy it because a relatively long domain name only has value when it's associated with a website which provides useful content. Just imagine how valuable "google.com" would be if had never been anything but a parked domain. An empty 6-letter domain would be worth something at this point, but not much.

Another story that would get a lot of traction would be if someone got killed by a tiny green cartoon character with two antennae and a single eye. That would play into the 'evil plankton' narrative.

Yes - I believe it's somewhere between Dodge City and the Sierra Madre.

You can extend the useful life of the Brother cartridges by resetting its "flag gear" as shown here.. Resetting flag gears is an essential skill for anyone who buys a Brother laser printer with the hope that the per-page printing cost will be low. Like many printer makers, the thing starts refusing to print when the cartridge has a long way to go. Luckily, the folks at Brother have engineered a way around that problem for us.

Unfortunately, the teaser cartridges that come with the printer are missing some small parts that are required for reset. Those can be bought as part of a toner refill kit, though I ended up buying new cartridges before I knew that.

I've had good luck with the toner refill product you linked. Here's a corresponding link to the caps. I always end up damaging those in the process of removing them, so I always replace them with new ones.

See http://bbc.in/1LA1Zn2 for details.

Good points. I tried your examples for fun and found that the ones such as "what is the national animal of Scotland" that resulted in a simple factual answer did not contain any ads. I've also done a number of searches in the past that resulted in an informative blurb that was extracted by Wikipedia, which didn't provide any ads, IIRC. I don't know if that's true in every such case, but it might be well be. If so, such results serve the user but don't produce any revenue for Google, except indirectly via continued customer satisfaction. Unless one deems such results to be some form of predatory pricing (the preceding link is itself another such example), it's hard to argue that they're anti-competitive.

I was thinking more of SourceForge itself, though it happens to be a Dice property. Previously, I used to trust it as a source of binaries that I might download and run. Currently, I don't. I may trust it again one day, but it will take a while.