This reminded me of something I saw on Faszbook the other day (safe for work).

Even though you can't tell the difference between 300 and 600 dpi black text on white paper, you sure as hell can tell the difference between 85 lpi (laser printer halftones) and 175 lpi (glossy magazine halftones). And you cannot pull off said 175 lpi (even 150 lpi) with less than 1200 dpi, 2400 dpi being recommended. The 600 dpi printer just isn't exact enough.

In all honesty, the concept of amateur sports was originally introduced to keep out the working class. Amateur sports were to be performed by gentlemen of leisure, i.e. people with no training, thus without an advantage. Being a working joe was considered being a professional, because they got paid to train, sometimes paid to play (to compensate for having to skip work) and had an unfair advantage of being in shape. I don't know how that idea solidifies friendship and peace between nations, or within nations, come to think of it.

Some banks need it for smartcard based authentication. (Do not ask me why.) Also, me like this nice chromatic guitar tuner at www.seventhstring.com.

Is there anything inherent to batteries that requires you to be able to change them without tools? Don't be such an arse. You need a tool to change your car battery. You need a tool to change your desktop computer's PSU. The new MB battery can be larger without that mechanism and last longer (and it is, and does) and quite frankly the one time one needs to perform such an operation in the computer's lifetime one can take the five minutes and make use use his/her opposable thumbs and that Philips-00 screwdriver.

So instead of turning our clocks forward, we would have to adjust to a completely new set of rules (8/12 shops?) without any of the benefits, i.e. we would still have to wake up an hour earlier upon the start of the period and would still be a bit woozy and accident-prone? Am I not getting anything? This is the very same idea, only instead of clocks you would be turning everything else. Nothing gained. Might as well turn clocks, it's easier and nowadays mostly done automatically anyway.

The "Death Magnetic" wiki page states that according to the mastering engineer, the mixes had already been brickwalled before they were delivered to him, so he had little say in it. Blame Rick Rubin and Lars Ulrich.

Older versions of Office can read and write docx, xlsx etc just fine. Head to microsoft.com/downloads and fetch the free Office Compatibility Pack. Done and done. Docx for me has time and again proven more robust than doc, which is why I've started to use it more or less exclusively. I'd use odt, but nobody else does, and I must work with others, so tough luck.

Socrates knew damn well what he was drinking. Copious amounts of beer, that's what. And he was great.

They actually knew something was coming. Geological records show that there have been great tsunamis every 800 to 1000 years in the area for at least the last 3000 years. The last one had struck 1100 years previously, so one was imminent in all likelihood. They just did not know how massive it was going to be, for they had made their measurements based on some other, lesser tsunamis from the 1960s. All the seawalls were up to 6 metres high, but the eventual tsunami was up to 20 metres high.