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I was watching Good Will Hunting last night. I didn't realize this guy was real.

Reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Major_League_Baseball.svg

My bad, I thought it was new.

Oh, for some reason I'd never heard of it until this update. My mistake.

I've made the switch and haven't looked back. Anything I needed from Linux, I've found in OS X somewhere.

I just downloaded this. I really like the new design, especially the new album view feature.

The most interesting update to me is iTunes Match: http://www.apple.com/itunes/itunes-match/

Yeah, I couldn't find it either. I'm still setting up Genius, so it may have been rolled into that.

It often means no formal education and less experience.

And now Drive is back up. Essays saved!

Gmail and YouTube are working for me, but Google Drive is still dead.

It's a matter of personal preference. A seemingly endless expanse of text seems daunting. I like the idea of pages, they break down the text into more manageable pieces.

Out of curiosity, where did you go?

You may be able to tap the repeater units.

Looks like some sort of proxy. Routing through the UK is an option so BBC iPlayer will allow you to stream the Olympics.

That's odd. I've been to these places and have never smelled anything unusual.

I think what jmreid is trying to say is that Subtle Sans doesn't have lower case characters.

I believe you are correct. The article describes the foam as "buoyant" which is synonymous with low density.

I don't think the suggestion is that the working day everywhere should start at X:00. The idea is that 4:00 in California is 4:00 in Britain and 4:00 in China. When the day starts would vary from place to place; perhaps 1:00 somewhere and 12:00 somewhere else. The point is to eliminate the confusion caused by timezones, especially those like Nepal's which are 15 minutes off other time zones for no good reason.

I suspect that means they only allow US Citizens into the facility that houses the servers.

This comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/i6pfi/new_alloy_can...

Which says that the efficiency could reach 30% with some work. I assume that %30 is not a typo.

I may have been too optimistic. But 30% is still quite a bit.

Modern gasoline engines have an average efficiency of 20%. Say you put 100J into one. 20J of useful work will be produced, and 80J of heat. Now if 30% of that heat were captured, that's another 24J of useful work. In effect, we've doubled the engine's efficiency from 20% to 44%. That's pretty dramatic.

This looks like it has the possibility to dramatically increase the efficiency of motors and engines.

Also, if they could capture the heat coming out of a nuclear reactor, they could both avoid meltdowns and not require proximity to a large body of water.

Edit: Disregard this. I don't know thermodynamics as well as I thought I did.

There's no generic "News" company. This TLD would be too contested for ICANN to give it to anyone.

On the other hand, ICANN can make it a TLD in the likes of .com or .net, or maybe they'll see NewsCorp as a legitimate claim.

> Wayne Sutton confuses lack of interest in conducting srs bzns as racial prejudice/racism

I don't think he's implying that at all. At the end, Sutton just notes that there were few minorities. He never explicitly makes the connection that the kids were actively discriminated against because of their race.

It seems like an easy way to make a few extra dollars. I'd like to try it, but my validation email hasn't come through yet.

Edit: Well, the email came through and I tried nagging someone (who I believe is the OP). It seems that there aren't many nag requests on the site, meaning there's a supply problem.

  in North America, ‘5#’ means ‘five pounds in weight’

I've never heard this. Is this common in other parts of the US? Canada?