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Guys, sigh, don't tell me how to work. I'm too old to reconsider my habits :).

Here is the use case (not actual me): https://www.shutterstock.com/v...

With its giant plugs no AC adapter is too big to fit nicely in UK sockets...

Not quite - I have one adapter that is so large that it obscures two UK sockets

With its giant plugs no AC adapter is too big to fit nicely in UK sockets...

Focusing on individual trees is the hard way to approach the problem. If you think about the ecosystem as a whole then it is pretty obvious that mature forests are carbon neutral. Sure there is new growth but that is offset by dead old growth decomposing. The biomass of the ecosystem remains about the same.

That is NOT true.

Process of decomposing is FAR FAR slower than the process of growing.
Walk through a forest sometimes. You'll find dead branches decades old. Meanwhile, a tree will regenerate such a branch within years.

Similarly, you'll find several layers of dead leaves one on top of the other on the ground - with new leaves on the trees.
And that's WITH various forest critters munching on said leaves.

Meanwhile, them "individual trees" and their individual branches and root systems ADD UP rather quickly.
And while it varies between the species, tree's grow rates keep increasing for hundreds of years before even starting to tapper off.

Hint: If the biomass remained the same, those old, wide, multi-centennial trees wouldn't exist.

c does not sound like sh in Turksih, its like ch.

Latin has 5 vowel symbols, but many languages have more, including English. You either put up with ambiguity or you use diacritics, or both.
Ataturk did it to break ties with Persia and Iran and focus towards the west. And as statues in front of many schools show him teaching children the alphabet himself, https://www.shutterstock.com/i..., a big focus was in literacy.

Turkish is a vowel-heavy language with 8 native vowels and a few pulled in in Arabic loan words, but the Arabic script only partially represents vowels a,i, o by doubling the meaning of glottal stop, y and w, or using diacritics.

switching to Latin made sense for Turkish.

Importantly Ataturk allowed on transition time like the Qazaqs are thinking. it had to be done within months, under pain of fines.
Medical words in Turkish are mostly Arabic, Maritime are Greek, early 20th century words are French, many modern words are English, computer and tech words are mostly Turkish - becuase that was also a great success of the Turkish language project, to creatively generate new Turkish words. bilgisayar=knowledgecounter=computer.

c does not sound like sh in Turksih, its like ch.

Latin has 5 vowel symbols, but many languages have more, including English. You either put up with ambiguity or you use diacritics, or both.
Ataturk did it to break ties with Persia and Iran and focus towards the west. And as statues in front of many schools show him teaching children the alphabet himself, https://www.shutterstock.com/i..., a big focus was in literacy.

Turkish is a vowel-heavy language with 8 native vowels and a few pulled in in Arabic loan words, but the Arabic script only partially represents vowels a,i, o by doubling the meaning of glottal stop, y and w, or using diacritics.

switching to Latin made sense for Turkish.

Importantly Ataturk allowed on transition time like the Qazaqs are thinking. it had to be done within months, under pain of fines.
Medical words in Turkish are mostly Arabic, Maritime are Greek, early 20th century words are French, many modern words are English, computer and tech words are mostly Turkish - becuase that was also a great success of the Turkish language project, to creatively generate new Turkish words. bilgisayar=knowledgecounter=computer.

c sounds like dzh; ç sounds like ch

c does not sound like sh in Turksih, its like ch.

Latin has 5 vowel symbols, but many languages have more, including English. You either put up with ambiguity or you use diacritics, or both.
Ataturk did it to break ties with Persia and Iran and focus towards the west. And as statues in front of many schools show him teaching children the alphabet himself, https://www.shutterstock.com/i..., a big focus was in literacy.

Turkish is a vowel-heavy language with 8 native vowels and a few pulled in in Arabic loan words, but the Arabic script only partially represents vowels a,i, o by doubling the meaning of glottal stop, y and w, or using diacritics.

switching to Latin made sense for Turkish.

Importantly Ataturk allowed on transition time like the Qazaqs are thinking. it had to be done within months, under pain of fines.
Medical words in Turkish are mostly Arabic, Maritime are Greek, early 20th century words are French, many modern words are English, computer and tech words are mostly Turkish - becuase that was also a great success of the Turkish language project, to creatively generate new Turkish words. bilgisayar=knowledgecounter=computer.

c does not sound like sh in Turksih, its like ch.

Latin has 5 vowel symbols, but many languages have more, including English. You either put up with ambiguity or you use diacritics, or both.
Ataturk did it to break ties with Persia and Iran and focus towards the west. And as statues in front of many schools show him teaching children the alphabet himself, https://www.shutterstock.com/i..., a big focus was in literacy.

Turkish is a vowel-heavy language with 8 native vowels and a few pulled in in Arabic loan words, but the Arabic script only partially represents vowels a,i, o by doubling the meaning of glottal stop, y and w, or using diacritics.

switching to Latin made sense for Turkish.

Importantly Ataturk allowed on transition time like the Qazaqs are thinking. it had to be done within months, under pain of fines.
Medical words in Turkish are mostly Arabic, Maritime are Greek, early 20th century words are French, many modern words are English, computer and tech words are mostly Turkish - becuase that was also a great success of the Turkish language project, to creatively generate new Turkish words. bilgisayar=knowledgecounter=computer.

c sounds like dzh; ç sounds like ch

c does not sound like sh in Turksih, its like ch.
Latin has 5 vowel symbols, but many languages have more, including English. You either put up with ambiguity or you use diacritics, or both. Ataturk did it to break ties with Persia and Iran and focus towards the west. And as statues in front of many schools show him teaching children the alphabet himself, https://www.shutterstock.com/i..., a big focus was in literacy.
Turkish is a vowel-heavy language with 8 native vowels and a few pulled in in Arabic loan words, but the Arabic script only partially represents vowels a,i, o by doubling the meaning of glottal stop, y and w, or using diacritics.
switching to Latin made sense for Turkish.
Importantly Ataturk allowed on transition time like the Qazaqs are thinking. it had to be done within months, under pain of fines. Medical words in Turkish are mostly Arabic, Maritime are Greek, early 20th century words are French, many modern words are English, computer and tech words are mostly Turkish - becuase that was also a great success of the Turkish language project, to creatively generate new Turkish words. bilgisayar=knowledgecounter=computer.

When I was a kid, we didn't have laptops to kill time during boring lectures. We had to draw pictures of cars and stuff in our notebooks so the teacher would think we were taking notes.

I have already designed a network security device to do exactly that:

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/BMF9B...

Plus a version that offers double the security:

https://thumb7.shutterstock.co...

Where can I get my check?

Well, John Galt sells power he generates, you don't like the price don't buy it from him. I am sure others would be happy to sell you the power they generate at lower prices.

Yep, of course it will probably cost you thousands of dollars to have them run a line from their power plant, since GaltCo certainly won't allow competitors to use their power lines. Sure, the power poles will look like this and be less safe but you're free now so you don't care about all the extra cost and risk.

What other trains but electric are in widespread use in your area?

Most trains in the US are diesel. Here trains are usually reserved for long-haul freight, so tracks tend to be lightly used and/or out in the middle of nowhere, neither of which are really conducive to installing the infrastructure to power electric trains. Instead, the trains bring their electricity along with them, in the form of diesel generators.

You will see purely electric trains in the US, but they're typically for uses where they can stick to a small number of tracks within a particular urban area. (e.g. commuter rail).

... whether emoji are consistently interpreted ...

What does the condom emoji mean:

I'm covered
I want one
I'm ready to fuck you?

Did anyone really use weiner + shell emojis as a pictorial definition of condom, before this emoji arrived?

Is there a emoji dictionary like this? In the emoji language, will condoms have feelings?

Even the emoji statement promoting the condom emoji is ambiguous. Being an American promotion, the circled fingers probably means 'OK' but in other countries, it will mean gay sex. Which is a happy coincidence because the homosexual community receives many PSAs regarding condoms.

According to this survey, all men avoid condoms, so condom emojis may be worse than useless. Also, why does this pictorial put love before sex? That's not the normal sequence of events.

... whether emoji are consistently interpreted ...

What does the condom emoji mean:

I'm covered
I want one
I'm ready to fuck you?

Did anyone really use weiner + shell emojis as a pictorial definition of condom, before this emoji arrived?

Is there a emoji dictionary like this? In the emoji language, will condoms have feelings?

Even the emoji statement promoting the condom emoji is ambiguous. Being an American promotion, the circled fingers probably means 'OK' but in other countries, it will mean gay sex. Which is a happy coincidence because the homosexual community receives many PSAs regarding condoms.

According to this survey, all men avoid condoms, so condom emojis may be worse than useless. Also, why does this pictorial put love before sex? That's not the normal sequence of events.

... whether emoji are consistently interpreted ...

What does the condom emoji mean:

I'm covered
I want one
I'm ready to fuck you?

Did anyone really use weiner + shell emojis as a pictorial definition of condom, before this emoji arrived?

Is there a emoji dictionary like this? In the emoji language, will condoms have feelings?

Even the emoji statement promoting the condom emoji is ambiguous. Being an American promotion, the circled fingers probably means 'OK' but in other countries, it will mean gay sex. Which is a happy coincidence because the homosexual community receives many PSAs regarding condoms.

According to this survey, all men avoid condoms, so condom emojis may be worse than useless. Also, why does this pictorial put love before sex? That's not the normal sequence of events.

I hate decyphering hieroglyphics. I propose that the unicode for "I have peanut allergies" should be the text string "I have peanut allergies."

That works well for 1-2 billion people and not so well for the remaining 5-6 billion. While we're working on that universal language, a few universal "hieroglyphics" are useful and there's no law against writing elevator next to the elevator sign. Like say these, these, these or these.

That said, allergens may be useful for store products but that's usually half the markings on a restaurant menu which typically can be stuff like vegetarian, vegan, hot, garlic and so on. And for many complete dishes many will contain lots of allergens, it's probably easier to use a negative marking like these. I don't quite see what existing use case these symbols are supposed to cover, yes it could be added to the ingredients list but you need to solve other issues like how do you prominently say no allergens and not unmarked?

I hate decyphering hieroglyphics. I propose that the unicode for "I have peanut allergies" should be the text string "I have peanut allergies."

That works well for 1-2 billion people and not so well for the remaining 5-6 billion. While we're working on that universal language, a few universal "hieroglyphics" are useful and there's no law against writing elevator next to the elevator sign. Like say these, these, these or these.

That said, allergens may be useful for store products but that's usually half the markings on a restaurant menu which typically can be stuff like vegetarian, vegan, hot, garlic and so on. And for many complete dishes many will contain lots of allergens, it's probably easier to use a negative marking like these. I don't quite see what existing use case these symbols are supposed to cover, yes it could be added to the ingredients list but you need to solve other issues like how do you prominently say no allergens and not unmarked?

So that's who cut me off! Explains the odd-looking counter-gesture.

Because, yeah, nothing is sexier than wearing something on your head with wires coming off it.

I know, right? When I first saw the girl in this photo I thought, I'd totally hook up with her. Then I saw that wire coming off of her headphones...

Well, that and my wife and that I'm probably older than her father. But that wire was definitely the deciding factor for me.

The mass difference between an entangled cat and a non entangled cat is the mass of the tread it got entangled in.
see these images

I guess the Netropolitan folks didn't actually know any rich people, so the image of rich folks on their site is a stock photo called:
"Businessman showing project on digital tablet with colleagues in private jet"

http://www.shutterstock.com/pi...

http://thumb7.shutterstock.com...

All the app developers want this for Christmas:

http://www.shutterstock.com/pi...

Why put a new business in California? I've been there on business a number of times, and I just don't see it.

The climate is nice enough, but boring. No decent seasons, but I suppose it counts as a plus for some folks.

On the minus side, the politics are leftist, leading to socialist-style government regulations that are downright hostile to business. The legal climate tends to lawyers looking to sue companies for trivial violations of those regulations, like people working through their lunch break.

On the personal front, holier-than-thou environmentalism is widespread, which is hard to take given that their state has huge monocultures, puts rice farms in the desert, and pumps water from Arizona to keep the lawns in LA green.

It's pretty much the last place I would want to live, and I imagine there are plenty of other techies who would agree...

It could but it usually doesn't.

What you see is a lot of judges writing, "This law is clearly unfair and was not intended to apply in this situation, but much as I hate to, I'm forced to follow the law, and sentence you to ten years in jail."

A law making it illegal to photograph the "intimate parts" of women and children in public. What could go wrong? http://www.shutterstock.com/pi...

Actually, in Massachusetts and a few other states, there were laws requiring photo processors to turn photos over to the police if they showed children in a state of undress that was defined very broadly.

There were many cases of parents, including professional photographers, who were turned in by their developing labs because they had taken nude photos of their children. One case involved a family camping trip in the woods.

Sometimes a professional photographer would take hundreds of candid photos of her children, and the prosecutors would take one photo, out of context, which showed a toddler with her legs open, and prosecute them for it.

And no, the prosecutors weren't reasonable. They insisted on plea bargains which would have made the parent a sexual predator. It can easily cost you $30,000 to hire a defense lawyer. People are forced to sell their homes.

So no, it's stupid to pass a law overnight without thinking it out first.

It's stupid to do anything without thinking. That's sort of the definition of stupid.

Excuse me. I'm working here at a just-went-public stock photography marketplace a block south of the NYSE. Don't knock the WHOLE sector. :P

I sure do hope they get this right. It would be a shame if it turned out they created a intergalactic message like this.

Are you sure you want to know?

It's common in south asia, allows the ..."fertiliser"... to be in a dry and usable form.

Where do you live that only rich people have fences or hedges?

A lot of places, including some in America don't have fences.

I played rugby as a kid and never stared at any mans butt. That's only Am Foot.

Only because you had your head squeezed between two of them!

Disco outfits and tinfoil hats back in style.

I can go one better.....

http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/53908/53908,1146178058,1/stock-photo-sliding-bolt-lock-1252110.jpg

If you cared enough about your art, you wouldn't give a shit if somebody else was able to enjoy it without paying you for it; the mere creation would be enough. Same with my poetry- if I could get people to copy it for free (and they most certainly HAVE) it's enough that my message gets out there.

I care about my art but I also care about feeding myself. That includes photography and writing. Yes, I used to write poems, as well as articles for magazines and I was working on a book. However I lost my ability to write when I had an accident. So while I can still photograph I haven't been able to write. And one of the things I had wanted to do was photojournalism.

However, the need to make money inhibits my ability to write poetry- the need to make a living off of it destroys the art.

See, you admit not being able to make money off writing "detroys the art", yet your position would make it even harder to make a living off of your creations. I've been thinking of signing up with some microstock websites that sale photographs such as iStock Photography, Shutterstock, and Big Stock Photo. If copyrights didn't exist, as soon as I were to upload any photo someone else would be able to sale them themself.

Likewise with all creation- if you can't bring it to market in 4 months, forget it, because the R&D will negatively impact the bottom line and some bean-counter will pull the project because it's not "making money".

Tech companies spend much more tyme on R&D than just 4 months. Look at Apple and the switch to Intels. Apple had Mac OSX running on Intels for years before they switched. Just this weekend, Saturday, there was a discussion on new dvd drives that were triple layed and another where a company had come up with a 1 terabyte hd. I seriously doubt it only took 4 months to develop them. As for an individual doing it, unless they were able to find a big company to buy them out, it could take a year or more to get the funding to build a factory never mind getting something out of the door. But it could take a year to find a buyer too.

I've seen far too many projects destroyed by capitalism and the stock market to believe that capitalism is capable of creating anything at all- any invention comes to market IN SPITE OF capitalism, not because of it.

It wasn't capitalism that destroyed these projects, it may of been bean counters or company executives, but it wasn't capitalism. It coud of been that those who killed a project didn't see it of any use, or that it would cost too much money to bring to market. At least capitalism allowed an attempt, unlike communism.

For instance, I'm a photographer. I have a lot of good samples of my work on my website, and people searching for a photographer in a particular market or of a particular style would do well to find my site.

Have you thought about using any of the small stock agencies? There's iStockphoot, Shutterstock.com, Big Stock Phot as well as others. The three above and others are royalty free and don't pay much, in an article in the current print edition of Popular Photography the highest paying pure photo only pays up to $1.00 though it may be only 25 cents. However if you have and buyers download hundreds a week then it can at least pay for itself if not be your only source of income. After reading the article I've thought about trying to join one myself though I'm not a pro, in part because I'm not. I have one problem in photography, as a professor I had once said, my composition needs to be worked on, but the more you shoot the better you get.

This could suggest the magnetic influence of another body (not withstanding the obvious lack of data issue). e.g. : this kinda thing

Now, when the user visits evil.org it requests that a cookie called slashdot_cred be set for the site ".org." It has 2 dots in it, so it's set as a valid cookie and then next time you hit /. you'll hand over some alternate credential from evil.org.

Opportunities for exploiting this seem very limited. The only one i can think of are store affiliate programs. I know that if you visit a link that i give you for shutterstock then they'll set a cookie with my id so that i'll get the referral credit if you sign up within 30 days.

I'm not sure what goes into that cookie, but i might be able to make my own .com fake it and get credit for any signups that happen.