Toucan

10^9 used to be a milliard in British English but is no longer used. It is now referred to as a billion.

10^12 used to be a billion in British English but is now referred to as a trillion.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ explains it all quite nicely.

I've seen it done like that before, using a browser extension to add a header and then mod_rewrite to apply a special set of rules if that exists.

The risk of accepting on 0 confirmations is probably lower than that of accepting fake currency or the cost of processing a credit card.

I was given something very similar to this as a kid: http://www.amazon.com/Elenco-MX-907-200-Electronic-Project/d... (in fact, I think it was that, 20 years ago!)

It didn't teach me anything about electronics, I was too young to really grasp what I was doing. It taught me that with sufficient knowledge you can make something out of individually useless bits of electronics.

You're right to be more demanding of your undergrad quant class but this might be just the thing to get your 8 year old niece/nephew interested in science.

You avoid paying Capital Gains tax.

It's absolutely cheaper to buy devices outright here.

Example of Three's One Plan for a 32GB 5s (£):

  24 mo contract
  Device        99
  Plan          46
  24 mo total = 1203
  
  12 month contract + BYOD
  Device        629
  Plan          15
  24 mo total = 989

It doesn't look like squarespace offer an affiliate programme right now, but it seems they did and this is sensible if they'll ever want to again.

http://www.gov.hk/en/about/govdirectory/govstructure.htm

"The Legislative Council is the law-making body of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It comprises 70 members, with 35 elected directly by geographical constituencies and 35 elected by functional, occupation-based constituencies. Apart from its law-making function, the Legislative Council debates issues of public interest, examines and approves budgets, receives and debates the Chief Executive's policy addresses, and endorses the appointment and removal of the judges of the Court of Final Appeal and the Chief Judge of the High Court."

So their legislature is 50% industry experts. The Executive Council can be made up of experts as well, but it doesn't have to be.

Take education as an example. The Secretary for Education is a businessman, however there is an educator in the legislature, the Voluntary Chief Executive (Development), Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union.

If you need to slow down quickly enough that you're not just letting the car coast in the gear you were driving in then using the brakes to bleed some speed off isn't going to be less fuel efficient than down-shifting to a gear that will stop you in time. The engine is engaged for almost exactly the same period of time.

For what it's worth, it does makes complete sense to leave the car in gear while braking and not to change to neutral.

Engine braking wears transmission components which are considerably more fragile and expensive than replacing brakes. Engine braking only stops you using the driven wheels, brake discs apply to all wheels.

The advantage of finishing on a high is it often lets the conversation continue so that your subject can ask for clarification if they need it.

We have different bacon to Americans.

I know there are only so many names, but in this case both flocks are social apps, tracking updated photos between friends.

I wonder if Zynga (the owners of flock.com now) will have anything to say about this, though I find it hard to imagine it hasn't already been discussed.

I'd recommend it if you enjoyed reading this, it often carries features of a similar calibre.

An old joke at that: http://whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/index.php

In order to see who was convinced, you'd need those polled to have given their opinion before the debate and after, to calculate any change in opinion.