Just a question: Why do you need a GPS to drive to a pool to which you have driven several times before?

I agree that there are several scenarios where people would want to have their GPS on for several hours a day, but that doesn't seem to be one of them. (And in fact, any scenario in which you are driving your car for several hours is better served by a car charger for your phone, regardless of the phone's brand).

Some power packs connect directly to the phone, no need for a cable. Some are integrated to a case, so in practice it's like a single device. (Yes, I know your friend doesn't like the extra thickness, but this is something that he would use in those rare occasions when he really needs the extra power, like when goes on a long hiking trip with his son.)

And yet you are willing to carry around "in your pocket" "as many rechargeable batteries as you need". Carrying and dealing with removable batteries is just as cumbersome as carrying and dealing with directly-connected power packs.

Wait... it really was a dream?

DAMMIT!!

Fucking Solitaire?

  That sounds like and intriguing game!

By the time the submission got published here the competition was already over. A South Korean team won.

I don't understand why supporters of the imperial system use this argument when it rarely holds for them. Yes, 12 inches in a foot and 5280 feet in a mile have that property. But 1760 yards in a mile doesn't, and neither does the 8 little divisions in an inch on a ruler (yeah, I know they are called eight-of-an-inch).

It doesn't hold for weights: 16 oz in a pound, 14 pounds in a stone, 32,000 pounds in a short (US) ton. None of those are divisible by 3.

It mostly doesn't hold for volumes: 4 quarts or 8 pints or 16 cups in a US gallon. 16 tablespoons in a cup. None of them are divisible by 3. Only when you introduce the teaspoon you get divisibility by 3.

And the other unit of volume used frequently, the cubic foot, doesn't play nicely with anyone, unlike the liter which is 1000 cm^3. So a 1 mL = 1 cm^3, 1 microLiter = 1 mm^3, 1000 liters = 1 m^3. (By the way, for water the most important substance for us, those volumes correspond to 1 kg, 1 g, 1 mg, and 1 metric ton respectively, showing the beauty of the metric system.)

I'll resist this with every ounce of my being.
I'll resist this with every gram of my being.
----- So, you're even less willing to accept whatever "this" is. Gram wins.

I won't give an inch on this issue.
I won't give a centimeter on this issue. (FTFY)
----- Again, you're even less willing to cede any terrain on "this issue". Centimeter wins.

They came at us with a shit ton of rockets and mortars!
They came at us with a shit ton of rockets and mortars!
----- Metric ton. Equal to 1000 kilograms.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
An gram of prevention is worth a kilo of cure.
----- Since gram < ounce and kilo > pound, again the saying gains strength in metric.

I will also continue to argue that, while the imperial system seems great for those who grew up with it, it's actually not as good for most things in day-to-day life when you look closer.

For example, measuring things in Fahrenheit seems to make sense, but the Celsius scale is just as good for measuring weather, as well as other practical applications. In Celsius, 0-100 degrees is exactly the range of temperatures in which water is liquid at normal pressure, which has all kinds of important applications both in your kitchen, and outside of it. And I know, it's not the range of comfortable temperature: that would be 0C to 30C (32 to 86 F); anything outside of that range is very uncomfortable although people frequently have no other option but to put up with it. In Fahrenheit, the range of liquid water translates into 32 to 212. That seems stupid and arbitrary by comparison. Also, if you measure only in 1 degree increments, Celsius degrees are equally good, since even supporters of the Fahrenheit scales acknowledge that they can't tell the difference between 69 degrees and 70 degrees anyway, and that's because humidity has a huge effect on our perception of temperature.

But similarly, the length of feet and yards are pretty irrelevant for measuring spaces. Being an average-sized Caucasian man, my foot is barely 10.5 inches long, for example. If I want to measure the size of a room, I can put one foot in front of the other and walk, counting my footstep, have an totally unacceptable error of 14%: I said the room was 16 ft long, and it's actually 14 ft. In the end, I have made a pretty bad approximation. And if I'm a woman, child, or even man of almost all other races, that error becomes much, much larger. Measuring a person's height in feet also gives a range with pretty useless resolution if you round: "she was between 5 and 6 feet, your Honor" (she's actually 5' 6"). With decimeters, a perfectly valid metric unit, the range of 5 to 7 feet becomes 15 to 21 giving you better resolution. Now the woman measures between 16 and 17 decimeters or, for you, 5' 3" and 5' 7", a much better approximation. (And converting back and forth between decimeters and meters or centimeters is beyond trivial).

I know some people won't quite get my point, or they'll say, "But imperial is so much easier because I don't need to learn it!" Really though, imperial only seems easier because you have not been exposed to it in everyday life. If you had been exposed to both as I have you would realize how ridiculous that is. On a day to day level, the perceived advantages of imperial are just a matter of familiarity, and being able to do the math in your head even for trivial things becomes a pleasure that can only be enjoyed if the math is simple.

It can also tell the difference between Capitol and capital, which is something many Slashdotters can't do.

Why was that comment modded "Funny"? It clearly should have been modded "Informative" or maybe "Insightful".

More or less.

I had absolutely no idea that the Swift runtime was written in C++11. Can someone please provide a link to this, since the parent is an AC?

You are right in that xylitol is extremely toxic to dogs, but the dosage you mention is way off. In this study, for example, they gave 1 or 4 grams of xylitol per kg of weight to 12 adult Pekingese dogs. Since adult Pekingeses weight around 4.5 kg, that means that six of the dogs in the study received around 18 grams of xylitol. (Six other dogs received the lower dose, and six more were controls who received distilled water; the abstract is misleading as it suggests that all 18 dogs received xylitol).

All of the dogs who got xylitol showed significant effects, in several cases very severe. But... none of them died.

The poor guy's full name is Felipe de Jesús Pérez García, which is usually shortened to Felipe Pérez. TFS butchered both by calling him Felipe del Jesús Peréz García and Felipe García.

There are three errors in TFS's version. First: Felipe de Jesús means Philip of Jesus. The incorrect version, Felipe del Jesús means Philip of the Jesus and sounds even more absurd in Spanish than it does in English.

Second: It's not Peréz, it's Pérez. That means that the main emphasis is on the first syllable, not on the last one (regardless of how Perez Hilton pronounces his made-up name). Again, in Spanish the wrong version sounds... horribly wrong.

Finally: The complete surname of the guy is Pérez García. He got Pérez from his dad, just like people usually do in English, and he passed it to his own kids. García is his mother's maiden name. If you are going to contract the name, you drop the maternal surname, never the paternal one.

Okay, but as you well said Judge James Rodney Gilstrap serves at the Marshall division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. But TFA clearly states, the case took place at the Tyler division, which is served by District Judges Leonard Davis and Michael H. Schneider, Sr., both of whom, along with Chief Judge Ron Clark were appointed by George H. W. Bush (not that who appointed a judge at that level has as much significance as it does for Supreme Court Justices).

Here's an idea - how about you do some, I dunno, decent research, before you spout veiled partisan politics.