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[Frumple]

It's real bloody hard to tell.

That said, it looks like probably? One of the guidelines notes that insurance apps must both be free and not have in-app purchases, so strictly speaking the app itself wouldn't be making money and straight up could not have a by app or up front store cost involved. There's apparently various ways for non-profit stuff to get on the store, too, and since they transitioned into allowing donations in-app at some point, presumably beforehand the non-profits were either offering a service of some sort or having to address the app being a monetary drain for their budget.

Without being able to kick the apple site and/or google into being more explicit, I'd probably wager the answer is yes, so long as you can still cover whatever fees are involved with hosting an app on the store to begin with. It's fairly impressively unlikely apple would give much of a damn whether the app was draining your wallet so long as you were filling theirs.

[EnigmaticHat]

Thanks, that's what I wanted to know.  Too bad they aren't more explicit.

From what I understand there isn't really a fee for hosting apps so much as apple charges $100 a year for a developer account to be able to upload in the first place.

[Parsely]

The sprinting mechanic in Gear of War is called a roadie run. Why the fuck is it called that?

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

The mechanic came to prominence in the original Gears of War. The name of the move is derived from the roadies who carry equipment at musical concerts; the shaking of the camera is meant to resemble the view from behind-the-scenes videos when the subject being filmed suddenly takes off and the camera shakes as the roadie carrying it starts running himself to keep up.

link that I found with a 15-second Google search

[EnigmaticHat]

That's the point of this thread tho...

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

...I feel like this thread should be more than 'the LMGTFY thread'.

[TD1]

So, without context, I got Let My Girlfriend Touch Feathery Yaks.

[Rolan7]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lmgtfy
(Not that I mind simple questions, I'm just a smartass)

[Tawa]

I find this thread most useful when it's something I can't google, either because it's too obscure or I don't know how I'd word the search query.

[Parsely]

The mechanic came to prominence in the original Gears of War. The name of the move is derived from the roadies who carry equipment at musical concerts; the shaking of the camera is meant to resemble the view from behind-the-scenes videos when the subject being filmed suddenly takes off and the camera shakes as the roadie carrying it starts running himself to keep up.

link that I found with a 15-second Google search

...I feel like this thread should be more than 'the LMGTFY thread'.

I get where you're coming from but if the only reason you're going to respond is so you can tell me how easily you found the answer and not because you just wanted to be helpful, then kindly don't respond to my questions anymore.

[Hanslanda]

Ultrasound pest repellents, are they effective or worth it? Also does the ultrasound bother bearded dragons?

[Maximum Spin]

Ultrasound pest repellents, are they effective or worth it?

No.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

The mechanic came to prominence in the original Gears of War. The name of the move is derived from the roadies who carry equipment at musical concerts; the shaking of the camera is meant to resemble the view from behind-the-scenes videos when the subject being filmed suddenly takes off and the camera shakes as the roadie carrying it starts running himself to keep up.

link that I found with a 15-second Google search

...I feel like this thread should be more than 'the LMGTFY thread'.

I get where you're coming from but if the only reason you're going to respond is so you can tell me how easily you found the answer and not because you just wanted to be helpful, then kindly don't respond to my questions anymore.

Spoiler: ignore this (click to show/hide)

Eh, I see what you're saying (why interact with people that annoy you?), but: a. I didn't respond only so that I can gripe about lazy non-Googlers (please don't assume malice), and b. I'm fine with Googling for people, I'm just a bit annoyed that people ask Bay12 first and Google second, and I feel like I get to gripe for nine words if I took the effort of Googling things for you. If you don't want people to be annoyed at your trivial questions, then stop asking them, 'kay? less bitterness/passive-aggressiveness is a goal of mine

I don't think I'm going to complain about this every time somebody does a trivial search. It doesn't seem like my hill to die on. But my few seconds of complaining were IMO justified. (This thread does have a purpose beyond LMGTFY, and if we want to preserve that, people should be allowed to criticize trivial questions. I criticize criticism of my criticism on the meta-level.)

So sure, I won't gripe about this anymore (unless I see the trivial questions as a prevalent problem and not the occasional annoyance).

Too Convoluted and Incoherent; Didn't Read: I'm not going to complain about this anymore, and I don't think this is an actual problem, but I still feel the need to write two paragraphs defending my right to gripe.

NEVER MIND

I should not have griped at you; if I was annoyed enough to gripe I should have just left the question alone. I'm sorry for being unnecessarily grumpy and I'm not planning on grumping at people for their laziness anymore. (it neither breaks my arm nor picks my pocket)

[Tawa]

Recently, my father has taken up bread-making. A technique he's picked up is mixing in "water roux", a sort of paste used to make the bread moister, which he refers to as "tangzhong". He claims it was invented in Japan in the early 2000s.

This does not sound right to me, on two accounts:

- "Tangzhong", to my understanding, is not a Japanese word. The closest you can get would be something like "tanguzongu". Even Chinese loanwords get either vowels or an "n" on the end.
- It's basically water and flour mixed together in a different ratio than the bread, which is then mixed in. There is no way something that simple is less than 20 years old.

I searched for it, but all I could find were bloggers more concerned about the preparation and eating of the bread than its origin and forum posts parroting third-hand knowledge, which could never agree on an origin--some said Japan, some said Taiwan, I think I saw a Korea claim or two. The most reliable-sounding thing I found was a New York Times article claiming it was "traditionally used in China," which sounds about right; the article is a recipe for a Japanese bread apparently from the 20th century, but I still can't find a rough date for the roux itself. Does anyone know where this stuff was invented and when?

[wierd]

I call rubbish on it.  Here is why.

1) Bread starter == Flour and water that has been allowed to grow wild yeasts.  It is as old as bread itself.  It will have the same consistency as this "water roux" he speaks of.
2) Adding moisture to bread dough to control dough consistency (usually in 1tsp at a time increments, due to how sensitive to moisture content bread dough is) is as old as the process of making bread itself. You can find dark age recipes for bread that have such instructions for alterations as needed.
3) CONSIDERABLE experimentation with bread manufacture occurred in dark age europe, especially in France, in the 1400s. See the evolution of Brioche, for instance.