The Thread Of Randomness

[vear]

This definition makes pump-inflated balloons sooo soulless!

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'Humidity' in terms of weather confuses me. It is currently approximately 97% humidity here in Holmfirth.

Surely 100% humidity would indicate you're in the middle of a flood, or are swimming in the sea?

[XeryusTC]

High humidities usually just means that it is raining/has just rained and that the device they use to measure it is wet.

[JGR]

'Humidity' in terms of weather confuses me. It is currently approximately 97% humidity here in Holmfirth.

Surely 100% humidity would indicate you're in the middle of a flood, or are swimming in the sea?

Humidity when expressed as a percentage refers (keeping things simple) to the vapour concentration relative to its saturation value at the current temperature/pressure. It's not an absolute concentration.

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Not as exciting as i had hoped

[Ameecher]

Indeed humidity is incredibly variable. Read about dew points and the like, can be a confusing concept at first.

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Well its currently 97% humidity here, and under 1 mph of wind. Sticky and not a bit of breeze to help cool down with, going to have to sleep wit an open window tonight, i think...

[Zakos]

Perhaps an open window isn't the best idea...

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Perhaps an open window isn't the best idea...

I do it quite often, had it open for weeks on end 24/7 during the summer. It's a nice bonus of living in the semi-rural countryside, nothing to worry relating to crime, just... lots of really big spiders coming in from the woodlands opposite...

[Zakos]

I can leave mine open safely as well, but it's on the second story

[vear]

I've never understood why most of the world suffers from arachnophobia

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I've never understood why most of the world suffers from arachnophobia

They don't bother me personally, or perhaps i've just grown insensitive to them from living here for so long now.

[orudge]

Perhaps an open window isn't the best idea...

I do it quite often, had it open for weeks on end 24/7 during the summer. It's a nice bonus of living in the semi-rural countryside, nothing to worry relating to crime, just... lots of really big spiders coming in from the woodlands opposite...

I used to have my window open pretty much all the time, even in the winter.

In Minnesota, I sometimes even had my window open in the winter there (when it would often be -20 degrees C or colder), although part of the reason for that was because I had no control over the heating in my apartment (it was centrally controlled) and it was often much hotter than I would have preferred it to be.

[Drury]

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

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New boris bus, literally new, on its first official run in service, aaaaand. It's crashed! straight into traffic, oops?



Gave me a bit of a giggle and a "that drivers getting a P45 soon", if you're interested in the story, it's here.

[Louie Armstrong]

New boris bus, literally new, on its first official run in service, aaaaand. It's crashed! straight into traffic, oops?



Gave me a bit of a giggle and a "that drivers getting a P45 soon", if you're interested in the story, it's here.

Not necessarily, when I was a van driver for M&S I crashed a couple of times, nothing major mind you, and some of my colleagues crashed, but we never lost out jobs over it. If you drive for a living or have people working for you who drive for a living you have to accept you may have accidents occuring, thats why we all have insurance!

[Louie Armstrong]

Also off to Canada in the morning

[Chrill]

I just watched the series finale of Dexter. No comment.

[Drury]

Following SteamOS (opensource linux distro for games) announcement from Monday, Steam Machines.

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/

Special console-PC's for SteamOS made by many different manufacturers, including Valve themselves. I'm not sure what's the difference between this and a normal PC but I'm excited nonetheless.

[vear]

First Android, now this. It's interesting to see Linux hitting more and more end-users the way nobody in FLOSS communities expected a decade ago.