• wibble (unregistered) in reply to kmactane

    You may be surprised that in the UK we don't exclusivley use the metric or imperial system. We use whatever is more convienient and suitable for its purpose.

    Road markings are in imperial, while fuel is generally measued in metric.

     So meh.

  • sf (unregistered)
    Alex Papadimoulis:

    And I thought Chicago was the Windy City. At least Adrian Ritchie and all the other folks from Guernsey shouldn't have any trouble flying a kite ... with an 80,000 ton weight attached to it ...

    [image]

     

    To the system's credit, I like how it tries to pick the right image based on the value of the data.  I wish the system had an image of flesh being torn form the body.  That would be cool. [Hehe, you said flesh, hehe]

  • (cs) in reply to Renan renan_s2
    Anonymous:
    Alex Papadimoulis:

    Something is wrong here, at least for me. Why does the combo box say "Multiple monitors" and the visual representation of the monitor setting shows only 1 monitor?

    I believe this is because the "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor" is not yet checked.  If it were, it would show up next to [ 1 ] and you could drag them around to indicate their physical layout.  Until you extend your desktop onto the monitor, it won't show up on that diagram.
     

  • (cs) in reply to Pingmaster
    Anonymous:

    Not necessarily, to be a category infinity hurricane, one would naturally have to assume an infine wind speed.  Since the wind speed is a finite value, one would have to have a finite numerical classification.  as there is a new classification every approx 20 mph in wind speed, i would suggest a class 4,211 hurricane, though anything above 155 mph is still only considered a class 5.

    I'm thinking Category NaN, yes?

  • (cs) in reply to Pingmaster
    Anonymous:

    Not necessarily, to be a category infinity hurricane, one would naturally have to assume an infine wind speed.  Since the wind speed is a finite value, one would have to have a finite numerical classification.  as there is a new classification every approx 20 mph in wind speed, i would suggest a class 4,211 hurricane, though anything above 155 mph is still only considered a class 5.

    I'm thinking Category NaN, yes?

  • Gary (unregistered)

    I guess the new year brings greater sized holes in the ozone above Windsor, CA.....  WTF!!!

    WTF?

  • Erk (unregistered)

    Just a thought: isn't the navigation arrows in the weather forecast upside down?  I mean here in Sweden we like to think of North as upwards and South as downwards...

     /E
     

  • Iwan (unregistered) in reply to Erk
    Anonymous:

    Just a thought: isn't the navigation arrows in the weather forecast upside down?  I mean here in Sweden we like to think of North as upwards and South as downwards...

     /E
     

    Nope. Wind direction is reported by the direction from which it originates. So SW wind comes in from south west and blows towards the north east, hence the arrow pointing at the upper right corner.

    Source: wikipedia
     

  • Foobar (unregistered) in reply to redtetrahedron

    A really good (and presumably expensive) one certainly good. Fonts can have hints to manipulate kerning between particular pairs of glyphs, and also contain ligatured glyphs where a, ususally more ornate, glyph is substituted for a series of glyphs...say two ts seperated by glyphs that are short might be rendered with a single line crossing the ts.


  • Paulie (unregistered) in reply to wibble
    Anonymous:

    You may be surprised that in the UK we don't exclusivley use the metric or imperial system. We use whatever is more convienient and suitable for its purpose.

    Road markings are in imperial, while fuel is generally measued in metric.

     So meh.

     You're right, I am surprised.  So, you express vehicle efficiency as miles per liter (or litre)?

  • mark (unregistered)

    the one about Iraq is probably accurate. Iraqi Citizens living in the US were allowed to vote for the interim leadership. There were only a handful of places in the US where you could vote. Detroit was one of them.

  • tferrer (unregistered) in reply to Scott B.

    How do you like them apples?

  • MarMor (unregistered) in reply to mkb
    mkb:
    Anonymous:
    Actually, there is a kids book called 'Wicked Words' (It's a Horrible Histories special) and it's quite possible that it has a sequel (i.e. 'More Wicked Words') which may partially explain how that particular book got labelled as childrens (it doesn't explain how someone managed to use that information to put it in that category without actually looking at the book). [...] 

    No, obviously the title is used as primary key. And why not? Nothing could possibly go wrong.

    Captcha: clueless (who, me?)



    No, it's not that obvious. The bookseller likely has a big list of all the books they own, and a license to a data feed full of all kinds of book-related data that's not otherwise available. (like Muze, or AMG, or IMDB, or numerous other media services) In order to figure out which product numbers in their catalog match which rows in their data feed, they may employ some algorithm which checks for matching ISBNs, and matching authors and titles lacking ISBNs. If either data feed is incomplete, you get weird things like this.

    It was an (admittedly weak) joke...

    Would anyone really use book titles as PK? I hope not.

  • 8bitwizard (unregistered) in reply to Foobar

    It certainly must be a really good (and presumably expensive) font if it can suddenly change from cursive to block letters like that.

     

    capcha: error 

  • thSoft (unregistered) in reply to quotequad

    Anonymous:
    Strangely, if you search for "Kathy Milde" you do actually get something.

    Actually, if you search for an integer value, the search can be succesful (e.g. 42). Some integers give the same Kathy Milde error, though.

  • M (unregistered) in reply to Paulie
    Paulie:
    Anonymous:
    You may be surprised that in the UK we don't exclusivley use the metric or imperial system. We use whatever is more convienient and suitable for its purpose.Road markings are in imperial, while fuel is generally measued in metric. So meh.
     You're right, I am surprised.  So, you express vehicle efficiency as miles per liter (or litre)?

    I don't know about Britain, but "litres per 100km" is a common unit of fuel economy in the rest of Europe.

    Expressing it in m^2 (volume/length) would be so much cooler :)

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to M
    M:
    Paulie:
    Anonymous:
    You may be surprised that in the UK we don't exclusivley use the metric or imperial system. We use whatever is more convienient and suitable for its purpose.Road markings are in imperial, while fuel is generally measued in metric. So meh.
     You're right, I am surprised.  So, you express vehicle efficiency as miles per liter (or litre)?

    I don't know about Britain, but "litres per 100km" is a common unit of fuel economy in the rest of Europe.

    Expressing it in m^2 (volume/length) would be so much cooler :)

    Nope, we use miles per gallon - but it's an imperial gallon which is different to your USian ones... I don't know anyone who can understand what consumption in litres per 100km really means without a paper and pencil.

    And yes, you do pay for fuel by the litre.

  • annoynimous (unregistered) in reply to ssprencel
    ssprencel:
    Alex Papadimoulis:
    And I thought Chicago was the Windy City. At least Adrian Ritchie and all the other folks from Guernsey shouldn't have any trouble flying a kite ... with an 80,000 ton weight attached to it ...
    You could hold the kite down with one of these transistors from The -693926 Days of Christmas.

    And looking at dimensions of those triods, i should say that (-1)x(-1)-sized display was pretty sure made of them as its pixels!

    CAPTCHA: wtf, sure it was not daily captcha

  • Matt (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    I don't know anyone who can understand what consumption in litres per 100km really means without a paper and pencil.

    You must live in the ghetto then. It's how many litres of fuel your car needs to travel 100km. Rocket science, I know.

  • standgale (unregistered)

    really, the wtf is those apples. They're freaky. Who thought they were a good idea to put out in public? Freaky apples.

  • steak_hoagie (unregistered)

    That Australian Dept. of Health site is really way too much fun. Sure, putting just "of" in the search box (nothing else) is enough to conjure up Kathy Milde, but the search results for "and", "not" and "or" could be considered profoundly enjoyable by some.

  • (cs) in reply to Gary
    Gary:
    I guess the new year brings greater sized holes in the ozone above Windsor, CA.....  WTF!!!
    Huh? What do holes in the ozone have to do with temperature? Maybe if you'd highlighted an especially low temperature, I might have suspected polar stratospheric clouds, but I really don't see how you'd connect 140F with ozone.
  • Terion (unregistered)

    I know that -1,-1 pixel error. I recently experienced it on my dad's old IBM laptop running Windows XP. Boot + Login had been stretched to take 25 minutes. After fixing it all, it was back to normal speed for a 2.8 GHz Pentium IV. The error was caused by Windows somehow refusing the drivers. Uninstalling the correct drivers turned out to be the solution...

    The laptop still runs things weird though, since some OS files were permanently scarred, resulting in, among others, the inability to run any anti-virus software. Since the thing will be used only in a lab, to view the microscope trough the camera, it won't be connected to the net anyway.

    My dad still refuses to let me install a lightweight Linux distribution on the thing.

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