The $10k ethernet cable
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i think it's the result of a transporter accident involving a Ferengi and Ferra
Filed under: I was going to make a Farrah Fawcett joke but google suggested that guy and... well the joke was funnier this way
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What, no ?
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That one leads to Eastern Europe Politics.
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So you can't rely on the Reliant?
The damn car was used in the Mr. Bean sketches as something Mr. Bean looked down on to or rather, drive over with his mini.
Plus it's a British car! Those only score marginally better then Italian ones and only leaving the East European/Russian cars behind.
Filled under: :car:
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It's a bit early for XXX-rated car porn, isn't it?
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I hope roads in Italy are better than in Poland, because I wouldn't want to destroy the bumpers on first bump in the road.
For reference, a typical Polish road looks like this:
http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/e3/a1/d0/z13672931Q,Dziurawa-droga-na-odcinku-Buk---Stolec.jpg
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For reference, a typical Polish road looks like this:
http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/e3/a1/d0/z13672931Q,Dziurawa-droga-na-odcinku-Buk---Stolec.jpg
Fill in just one pothole (badly), and it would be a typical British side road…Hell, even our motorways have potholes!
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If it weren't for the trees I'd think you took this photo was taken in front of my building...
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I trained watching Red Dwarf without subtitles. Once I understood Lister I was fine with most English accents
Try Rab C. Nesbit
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With the "c" that sounds neither like k nor s - it's hard to explain in terms of English because this sound doesn't exist in English language whatsoever.
That's because the sound is really a combination of two sounds, t and s ( t̪͡s̪ ). I can't think of an English word that has it, but in foreign words like “tsetse fly” or “tsar” it is transcribed as “ts”.
Is that the "I've got something caught in my throat" sound?
I am sure there is a language that uses that sound, but it is not Polish.
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Fill in just one pothole (badly), and it would be a typical British side road…
Half of those potholes were filled in last year. Road workers are even better at job security than programmers.Hell, even our motorways have potholes!
We don't only because most of our motorways were built in 2012.
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That's because the sound is really a combination of two sounds, t and s ( t̪͡s̪ ). I can't think of an English word that has it, but in foreign words like “tsetse fly” or “tsar” it is transcribed as “ts”.
Except it's a single sound, just transcribed in IPA to something that looks like two separate letters for convenience of English speakers. Also, царь is transcribed both as "tsar" and "czar", neither being perfect match.
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It's a single sound, but it is a combination of those two. The tongue starts in the same position as for t and ends in the same position as for s. IPA does not use ligatures where it is not substantiated by the way the sound is created.
Yes, i've seen ‘царь’ transcribed as both ‘tsar’ and ‘czar’, but the former is the canonical transcription and a reasonably close approximation while the later seems totally wrong, because ‘cz’ is normally used for transcribing ‘Ч’ and read t͡ʃ.
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FTFY
Thanks, I was on mobile so
I couldn't use the emoticon lookup, and the auto suggest wasn't workingDiscourse happened.
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Well, I was always bad at phonetics. Point taken.
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Back on topic:
Apparently, the cheap consumer-grade Netgear Ethernet switch did nothing to degrade the performance of the incredibly expensive cables, either—so major props to Netgear for producing audiophile-approved Ethernet switches without even realizing it.
(I can only imagine the improvements that an audiophile reviewer would hear if they were to replace their Netgear switch with, say, a $250,000 Cisco datacenter-class switch. I mean, if you’re willing to pay $10,000 for just your cables, shouldn’t you be spending just as much on your switch?)And thus a new market for Cisco has opened itself ...
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Japanese has the same sound: tsu (つ) vs su (す).
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Pretty much every language in the world (I know of) has this sound. Except English.
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Spanish only seems to have it in loanwords. I don't know much French, but it doesn't appear to either.
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...impying that "funny Slashdot memes" is a valid construction.
I'm a funny slashdot meme you insensitive clod!
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[quote=Wikipedia]
Some users will also refer to seemingly innocent remarks by correcting them and adding "you insensitive clod!" to the statement – a reference to a February 14, 1986, Calvin & Hobbes cartoon.[58]
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while the later seems totally right, because it demonstrates the etymology of the word: Cæsar
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etymology of the word: Cæsar
I am not sure where you got the æ, Latin did not have the letter.
And the reading was most likely hard (like it would be in Italian), that is with ‘k’.
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And the reading was most likely hard (like it would be in Italian), that is with ‘k’.
... hence, Kaiser.
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Sony wants in on this deal now:
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Fuck it, I'm launching a line of audiophile mice: because the mouse you use to click the button with matters!
What? They'll buy anything with "audiophile" written on it, apparently.
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i'll not do you in to the better business bureau for one half of a percent of the gross
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Fuck it, I'm launching a line of audiophile mice: because the mouse you use to click the button with matters!
My guitar amplifier somehow audibly picks up my mouse movements and clicks if it's on and I'm sitting at my PC.
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Fuck it, I'm launching a line of audiophile mice: because the mouse you use to click the button with matters!
@accalia said:i'll not do you in to the better business bureau for one half of a percent of the gross
Does this mean I've missed out on being part of the deal? Damn traffic
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Then one or the other doesn't meet CE regulations for EMC.
Of course, if you're a USian then the EMC regulations are basically shrug.
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I don't know what CE or EMC mean, but the amplifier is British. (Old tube-driven Marshall from the late 1970's.)
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Ah, so from before electro-magnetic compatibility was a thing.
Also, slightly jealous.
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Is there such a thing as a fast one?
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Well, if you throw it off a high enough cliff...
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Of course, it occurs that the right thing to do is actually to just attach a caravan to the Corsa. Then you'll get a rabid Jeremy Clarkson to appear from nowhere and destroy the whole ensemble at no extra cost to you.