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POPSIs she worth marrying? Or at least keeping around for a bit? The author (not me) asserts that he's tried this with 3 girls with long-term potential ... "Girl #1 : Reached over and turned them off .. several times because I kept turning them on ... she never said a word. This girl ending up being psychotic and tried to kill me ... without saying a word." "Girl #2: Kept asking why I was doing it ... proceeded to tell me I was stupid ... began to yell at me ... then told me that she hated that part about me ... I never spoke to her again" "Girl #3: Just sat there like nothing was wrong. Finally I felt stupid and turned them off myself. Then I felt embarrassed. This girl I'd marry ... but she thinks I'm crazy."
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POPSU.S. Medical Students Taught Too Litlle About Wartime Ethics "The abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo have galvanized much of the world against the U.S. Those abuses, in part abetted by physicians, will likely go down as one of our country's most egregious ethical lapses," lead author Dr. J. Wesley Boyd said in a prepared statement.
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POPSStone head mystery leaves area vexed "It appeared last Monday in the early hours of the morning," said Fiona Gould, the owner of the Forresters Arms Hotel in the village of Kilburn, North Yorkshire. "I love it. We've nicknamed it Forest Lump. We've put him on the end of the bar and he gets a pat on the head before everyone goes to the races."
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POPSNew peer-to-peer mobile system holds potential for free calls TerraNet founder Anders Carlius said that the idea came when he was on safari in Tanzania in 2002, and found that he could not ring friends riding in another jeep only a few meters away. "I started thinking, 'Couldn't we get phone-to-phone without needing any other equipment, and actually have real voice communication, like a telephone call, between units?'" He admits there are problems with having enough available frequencies.
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POPSHow a statistical formula ((M-1)(S+1)/S) won the war "The basic idea was that the highest serial number among the captured tanks could be used to calculate the overall total. The German tanks were numbered as follows: 1, 2, 3 ... N, where N was the desired total number of tanks produced. Imagine that they had captured five tanks, with serial numbers 20, 31, 43, 78 and 92. They now had a sample of five, with a maximum serial number of 92. Call the sample size S and the maximum serial number M. After some experimentation with other series, the statisticians reckoned that a good estimator of the number of tanks would probably be provided by the simple equation (M-1)(S+1)/S. In the example given, this translates to (92-1)(5+1)/5, which is equal to 109.2. Therefore the estimate of tanks produced at that time would be 109."
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POPSThe Myth that Image DPI Is Relevant To Web Images The source site, emdpi.com, seems to be a great site for clearing up common misconceptions about basic graphics terminology and definitions. For example, it also mentions that the "em" is -not- "a square the size of the letter M" (I'd seen that one before), and explains that in Windows, an inch as defined by Microsoft might not be an actual physical inch - and why.
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POPSEnough already with the megapixels "So what's the take-home message? Well, if you're shopping for an ordinary digicam, bear in mind that money spent on higher resolution may actually be buying you less than nothing. A lower resolution camera can actually be a better product in every respect. Of course, the camera companies just can't sell lower res cameras any more because every manufacturer knows it's hard to sell a five or six megapixel camera when your competitor's shiny new 8MP model's on the shelf for not much more money. Consumers don't know much about lens specs or autofocus speed, but they can do basic megapixel arithmetic real good."
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POPSWar Is ... I've just discovered PicturesOfWalls.com, a user-submitted gallery of spotted graffiti, and this was the most attention-catching one I've seen so far. Undecided about whether to flag this as Mature. Any public consensus either way?
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POPSJust in case no one's told you yet today Had to snip out a few phrases and setences to get the gist of it to fit within the character limit, unfortunately. I can only hope that my edits here didn't change the tone of my friend's writing.
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POPS"Henna Pecked": Beware black henna tattoos. (snopes.com) "Pure henna is green but dries to a dark brown or orange hue. Black henna is a PPD-boosted synthetic version of the real thing. Para-phenylenediamine (PPD) is used in these concoctions to darken designs and thereby produce dramatic black patterns. Black henna can make delicate skin erupt into blistering redness that sometimes leads to permanent scarring. The reaction can also spread, causing grotesque full-body swelling, itching, and skin sloughing."
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POPSreCAPTCHA - Digitizing Books One Word at a Time "But if a computer can't read such a CAPTCHA, how does the system know the correct answer to the puzzle? Here's how: Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct."
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POPSAt the All-You-Can-Eat Buffet, Don't Ask -- Observe "Instead of asking consumers what features they wanted in a digital camera, the study should have presented them with a few digital camera prototypes and then observed how they were used. Consumers' success or failure interacting with the prototypes tells us more than a thousand surveys, questionnaires, or focus groups ever could." "Wouldn't it be liberating to be able to make design decisions based on the way your customers actually use your , rather than the way they tell you they use it? Or the way you think they use it?"
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