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by nagrom 16y ago
You know, if you're going to play on stereotypes, you could actually amuse us with a real joke.
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by nagrom 16y ago
If you want to upset the guard and if your ego can handle it, flirt with the security. As he pats you down, a little grunt and a roll of the shoulders as if involuntary. If you can manage it, a big smile and a wink when he finishes it so th
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by nagrom 16y ago
One anecdote to counter yours: when I came into Glasgow about 6 years ago, I had a few bottles of vodka with me - you're only allowed one. I asked a member of staff about it and he just said don't do it again, and waved me through. On the o
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by nagrom 16y ago
Yes and no. Making football games inaccessible to the masses would lead to revolt faster than making life difficult for people who fly. To a large extent, people who fly regularly are rather self-disciplined and have invested a lot of money
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by nagrom 16y ago
In the UK we are getting more PhD candidates than there were 10-20 years ago because the stipend that a student is paid is actually a living wage. It used to be that the PhD stipend covered the university fee only, and that to continue as a
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by nagrom 16y ago
It strikes me as a competitor to the iPad more than the Kindle. I already have an iPad, so I am not so interested in this, but I think it's a radical decision to move away from e-Ink. This strikes me as B&N giving up and admitting that
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B&N Release a Colour Nook(barnesandnoble.com)
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by nagrom 16y ago
I generally just put the laptop to sleep by closing the lid. Macs are generally quite happy about that - the superb power management is one of the major selling points.
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by nagrom 16y ago
I run VB, FF, thunderbird, adium, MS Office and also have 4GB, with no rebooting problems. It maybe Netbeans; I have no experience with it.
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by nagrom 16y ago
I don't understand why boot-up time is an issue for a laptop. I cannot remember the last time I rebooted my MBP; the only time it gets switched off is when I have to install security updates which is pretty rare. Using an Air as your main d
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by nagrom 16y ago
Using ff 3.6.10 on a mac, I always get the (-) marker next to the silhouette without any names associated there. However, there are people attached to the project when I click on the project itself...that's why I was confused - I expected t
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by nagrom 16y ago
Lovely app - very pretty. As someone who writes only mathematical code, I cannot imagine the effort I would have to put in to get something so shiny! I started with a few projects and I have a couple of feature requests: show the latest sta
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by nagrom 16y ago
I think that you must register as being present at an institution, but I am not sure how strongly they check that information. Maybe they take your subs off if you are caught lying, but what are the chances of being caught?
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by nagrom 16y ago
It's got no data quality checks, so you need to use it with caution, but something like http://arxiv.org/list/hep-ex/recent is a really nice tool for High Energy Physics (you can see quite a few of the first results from the LHC there, fo
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by nagrom 16y ago
Spires ( http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/ ) is a difficult search box to use. Everyone I know uses the "Easy Search" option on that page. It's just my hunch, but if you need to have a non-default "easy" option for searching, you're prob
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by nagrom 16y ago
arXiv is not just for crackpot physics. A lot of the papers on arXiv are there to allow wide access to science research that would otherwise not be possible with the prohibitive cost of journal subscriptions. I know several fantastic phys
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by nagrom 16y ago
Cool. My problem has been finding a room for two months with an internet connection - often there's a minimum period. It's not so bad if you like living with people, but if you live alone... The idea about the net cafe is a nice one though
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by nagrom 16y ago
This is great advice. I've done something similar and found that after about 2 months you can get a flavour of what life in that country would be like. It's a fantastic thing to do, and it will completely change your perspective on life in
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by nagrom 16y ago
Given the maturity of the software, there's no reason not just to run a virtualbox on Mac OS X with Ubuntu inside it. It's a hell of a lot easier than messing around with the partitions on your hard drive and worrying about hardware support
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by nagrom 16y ago
You don't need a special reading device. If you download Kindle for Mac OS, you can read the book on that application. But if you want to read eBooks, you should get 'some special reading device' for the same reason that you should get a st
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by nagrom 16y ago
I just returned from two months living in a different country, where English is not the native language and any English-language book costs an extra 50%. I can take all my books and buy new ones on my iPad just fine. Now I got home and my h
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by nagrom 16y ago
Wow, what you're saying here is that you have failed at saving for your retirement if you don't have $1m in semi-liquid funds. Really? I guess that fewer than 10% of the population will ever be in that position. Your definition of failure s
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by nagrom 16y ago
In my experience, STEM students are interested in solving problems. They are simply uninterested in learning bout problems which they cannot solve. Many of the `life in general' subjects you speak about are problems that cannot be solved...
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by nagrom 16y ago
You are complaining that they used your article as a source for theirs - but that's not really plagiarism. "Steal from one person, that's plagiarism. Steal from many, that's research" I don't think that you're going to gain anything by kick
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by nagrom 16y ago
I absolutely agree with you that it is cultural influence - that's my point! There is no specific relation between gender and colour, it is entirely culturally-induced. Parents may say that they have raised their child gender-neutral, but t
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by nagrom 16y ago
Those stories may be correct, but they are inevitably misguided. The blue-for-boys and pink-for-girls convention seems to be a 20thC invention: http://histclo.com/gender/color.html
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by nagrom 16y ago
> Probably. You wanted me to to provide details? How about you lead by example? Or are you not paying attention? There are numerous studies showing that a lack of parental attention is a leading indicator to a poor quality of life in ad
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by nagrom 16y ago
You do pay for that labour, but a ready supply keeps the cost down. You've ignored the other benefits too. You may be able to get children for less - but can you get the same quality of children? Would the children be as well-rounded, would
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by nagrom 16y ago
Your tone is negative. You seem to believe that making parental leave a positive economic choice is a bad thing for those with no children. Do those people benefit in some way from the children that the parents have (pensions, steady supply
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by nagrom 16y ago
Strikes me that the only difference between the way that you and I dress is that I wear a jacket ;-) (I can't stand ties). I wear the jacket because the silhouette is flattering, and there are all those handy pockets. Why should such a simp

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