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961.
by qbrass 11y ago
mint-search-addon tacks their referral code to searches you make using it.
962.
by qbrass 11y ago
They're just called fruitcake in the US. The tradition goes: Anyone who has never taken a taste of one before, takes a taste, then throw the cake out, and never try eating one again. If a cake has lasted the year without anyone taking
963.
by qbrass 11y ago
It should work for Intel's VT-d, but you're out of luck if you use AMD.
964.
by qbrass 11y ago
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/plural.el ("emacs" "emacsen")
965.
by qbrass 11y ago
The guy in the room can memorize all of the rules and the ledgers and give you the same responses the room did, and if you asked him in his native language if he knew Chinese, he'd honestly tell you no. He could have an entire conversa
966.
by qbrass 11y ago
With cars it gets interesting because someone will repair the old parts, and build a new car out of them. Then you have 20 of the original 8 cars made.
967.
by qbrass 11y ago
Pretty sure it's a later development of the same story. The first time was just the guy trying to clear his reputation.
968.
by qbrass 11y ago
If you watch old westerns, the doors on a saloon (the bar) swing outward from the center as someone walked through them. The name was originally given to cars that have normal opening front doors and suicide rear doors which would have a si
969.
by qbrass 11y ago
>also this parallel pattern-matching idea doesn't explain sentences that when parsed carefully are clearly ungrammatical: Your confidence threshold of the meaning of the sentence was reached, so you didn't wait for the rest of
970.
by qbrass 11y ago
It's a patent for the shape of the guitar, not electric guitars themselves.
971.
by qbrass 11y ago
The dog watch that keeps time at 7x normal speed.
972.
by qbrass 11y ago
It also skips over the part where they failed to kick the British out of Canada.
973.
by qbrass 11y ago
They're meant to reduce the impact on influential people who would oppose cell-towers in certain places. The company that invented the towers also make fake lighthouse and windmill cell towers.
974.
by qbrass 11y ago
I'm waiting for a nested X11 server.
975.
by qbrass 11y ago
I can tell that they're different, but the differences are really subtle in large groups of them. Numbered left to right, top to bottom. 2,4,6,7,9 look close enough that I probably wouldn't be able to guess which one it was if I o
976.
by qbrass 11y ago
Suspend on lid close actually does (or should) work on that laptop. It's just not enabled by default because suspend doesn't work on everything. Adding: hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=s3 to /etc/sysctl.conf should enabl
977.
by qbrass 11y ago
Animals eat things you won't and turn them into things you will eat.
978.
by qbrass 11y ago
If the wings were stiff, the forces that would normally deflect the wings would be transferred into the cabin.
979.
by qbrass 11y ago
Most people will re-roll if they get a name they don't like.
980.
by qbrass 11y ago
Sure you remember the ads, but did you buy an Isuzu?
981.
by qbrass 11y ago
The problem is that at high enough concentrations, a single breath is all it takes. Did you remember to purge your mask before taking a breath when you put it back on?
982.
by qbrass 11y ago
Enterprise was set before Starfleet existed, where nobody knew what they were really doing. The idea was for the crew to make the mistakes that set the precedent for future Starfleet's regulations.
983.
by qbrass 11y ago
They'd have been better off selling it as a Buick to justify the $40k price tag, but people who want a status symbol can buy the Cadillac ELR.
984.
by qbrass 11y ago
The images aren't part of the software, and shouldn't have been licensed with it. Separate code/assets/associated content, and license them accordingly.
985.
by qbrass 11y ago
>2) The brakes in all of these vehicles are many times more powerful than the engine. Pressing the brakes would have stopped the vehicles, even if the engine were attempting to accelerate full throttle. The brakes in 2004 and newer model
986.
by qbrass 11y ago
1972 marked the change from Gross HP to Net HP ratings. Before the change, they would test the engines with no accessory drive, not even a water pump, use headers instead of a full exhaust, and adjust the carburetor/ignition to provide
987.
by qbrass 11y ago
A roomba is an automaton, but not an android. Automaton refers to acting on it's own. Android literally means humanlike. Electronics have no bearing on either.
988.
by qbrass 11y ago
They're claiming some form of light causes hair to break apart.
989.
by qbrass 11y ago
N02 not N20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_dioxide
990.
by qbrass 11y ago
http://www.hotrod.com/how-to/engine/pon-0509-1973-emissions-... Here's an example from the 70's

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