I've always found Firefox to be slow with dialup. In the past I've compared Firefox to Seamonkey and found Seamonkey close to twice as fast loading slashdot with both having slashdot in the cache. The newest trunk dailies (3.6.x) do seem better. Anyways I'd suggest checking out Seamonkey for your dialup customers, especially v2 (now at 2.0b2pre and quite stable) which uses the same rendering engine as Firefox 3.5.
You should sniff for the Gecko version rather then Firefox. I run Seamonkey (Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3pre) Gecko/20090802 SeaMonkey/2.0b2pre) which uses the same browser code as Firefox. I hate it when a site doesn't display or use features because I'm not running Firefox or tells me to update to Firefox.
Interesting and I'd say a much better way to measure pollution then ppm.
Do they also measure on a dynometer and is it at a constant speed/load or various speeds/loads? Here for my old truck it is measured at a constant speed/load. Newer vehicles with a variable speed/load.
How are you measuring the pollution? Around here it is measured in ppm so one large engine might have smaller numbers but still emit many times the exhaust of a much smaller engine. Generally the better the mileage, the less stuff comes out of the exhaust. 50 ppm of a litre of air is still better then 25 ppm of 5 litres of air.
From what I understand the problem with going west to get to China was the distance. Columbus was mistaken about the size of the world and most people knew better. Sailing 15000+ miles was just not practicable at the time and Columbus just lucked out that he ran into land. Difference with space exploration is we have a very good view of where we're going and anyone arguing for funding to go to Mars based on it being closer then reality will not get funding.
Actually being way out in the sticks has probably been an advantage for life developing as well as it has here. Much of the galaxy is actually inhospitable to life due to large amounts of radiation and even crowding where the odds of a star passing close enough to perturb the Earths orbit is higher. All those really bright areas on your wallpaper are areas of star formation with attending large amounts of radiation. The core is similar. I've read that we are lucky that the Sun has a pretty circular orbit around the galaxy unlike most that are much more elliptical. If this is true, it is another reason for a shortage of civilizations.
I think Hoyle is wrong. It is generally agreed that the Earth has at least a billion years left before the Sun gets too hot. Oil and coal formed about 250 million years ago so that leaves plenty of time for new stocks of fuel to form. Similarly high grade ores can be formed through volcanism, formed along with new land due to tectonic forces eg new seabed and continents formed. Globs of metal precipitating from ocean water and precipitating from ground water percolating through the ground. The time scales are pretty long but in a few hundreds of millions of years the Earth will regenerate. In the same time scale life could re-evolve from pretty simple to quite complex again.
Per pound, it seems much worse. Per kwh of developed electricity it seems much better. My point to the grandparent was that there are hazards to using nuclear which he didn't consider, not that we shouldn't use it. Though I think it is more of a short term solution while hopefully we come up with something better. Short term in this case could easily still be a life time though.
I should of added to my comment that the saving grace of nuclear is that uranium is so power dense that the hazards of mining uranium are pretty well acceptable. Really I was replying to the gp idea that nuclear is basically hazard free. Too many people don't even consider that mining uranium is hazardous.
I think you are leaving out the hazards of mining the uranium, which is probably the most dangerous part of nuclear power production. While nuclear is still probably the best short term option the number of deaths that could probably be attributed to uranium mining is possibly higher then deaths from atomic bombs. It is really hard to quantify the number of deaths from uranium mining as they often happen later and it is always hard to say where the cancer originated. An overview of the problems, http://www.wise-uranium.org/uwai.html obligatory wiki link, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining#Health_risks_of_uranium_mining
This raises the question of whether headers are copyrightable. I've heard arguments both ways with the more common one being that they are just a description of how the code operates and non-creative, much like a phone book. Unluckily this is a question that even individual judges might answer differently.
What if you want to use the code with something like wine? Or reactos? Both of which are not (I believe) licensed by Microsoft. At that I do have an implementation of the Microsoft API's here that are cross licensed (supplied by IBM)
Actually from what I understand, getting ejected from the galaxy would probably be the best outcome. There is also a chance of the Sun being put into an orbit that takes it through uninhabitable parts of the galaxy such as the core. Also when the collision happens it will trigger a very large spurt of star formation leading to more supernova and just large amounts of radiation from large new stars. Not to mention the chance of a close encounter with another star disrupting the orbits of the planets in the solar system.
Actually there is a lot of variation on the length of a generation depending on type of tree. Looking out my window I see Alders that live for perhaps 40 years, Willows that probably live for less being very fast growing and getting rot pretty easily. Popular that is also very fast growing and probably lives for perhaps 50 years as well as Hemlocks and Cedars (Arborvitae) that can live for Hundreds or even thousands of years. I have no idea about the tree in the article, but it is not unreasonable that it's generation length is similar or even shorter then Humans. Especially since most trees start reproducing before 20 years old.
Funny enough capitalism has done exactly the opposite, using genocide to remove the non-greedy from the gene pool. How many lives were taken by America's official policy of genocide will never be known as there were no census's at the time but may well of numbered in the 10's of millions as well and would have if there had been enough people to kill.
I don't really go to bars anymore, but living in the bible belt out in the valley where we have the highest murder rate in Canada there has been lots of articles in the local papers. This is what I see lacking. No mention of privacy policies and no mention of purging the records in a reasonable time. Once again an idea that is great in theory but in practice who knows.
The bar is only a semi-private area. With that liquor license and being open to the public the bar loses certain rights, like refusing service for no good reason. If the bar owner doesn't like it he should never have applied for the license and opened his doors to the public.
Actually for scenario #1, there was a famous case back in the 50's IIRC where a guy picked up a minor in a bar. Believed that she was of age, she was in a bar at a time when the drinking age was 21. Got caught fucking her and charged with statutory rape. The judge was very apologetic as he sentenced the poor guy to 5 years but the law was the law. Anyways after this they changed the law so that believing the girl was of age was a valid defence. Of course I wouldn't be too surprised if the law had been changed again recently, got to think of the children you know.
This is about Canada, the bars are not keeping these records to prove they checked that underage drinkers ID. They're keeping it in case you piss off a bouncer, maybe hit on their girl friend, maybe get rowdy. Then sharing it with all the other bars to make sure you can't drink anywhere. In theory not a bad idea. In practice... especially if they keep all these records indefinitely and perhaps sell them.
We're talking about Canada, not the States. Here I believe that as long as the bar showed due diligence in checking ID they are not responsible for under age drinking. And yes the liquor control board does test bars to make sure they do show due diligence and they will lose their licence if they don't.
We don't have felons in Canada, at that I think the rest of the world has left behind that relic of feudalism. We also think that there is a downside to people having private information taken and even have a thing in our charter of rights about unreasonable searches which includes bars and gas stations trolling for information which they share.
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I've always found Firefox to be slow with dialup. In the past I've compared Firefox to Seamonkey and found Seamonkey close to twice as fast loading slashdot with both having slashdot in the cache. The newest trunk dailies (3.6.x) do seem better.
Anyways I'd suggest checking out Seamonkey for your dialup customers, especially v2 (now at 2.0b2pre and quite stable) which uses the same rendering engine as Firefox 3.5.
You should sniff for the Gecko version rather then Firefox. I run Seamonkey (Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3pre) Gecko/20090802 SeaMonkey/2.0b2pre) which uses the same browser code as Firefox.
I hate it when a site doesn't display or use features because I'm not running Firefox or tells me to update to Firefox.
No, it just means it wasn't detrimental. Like green eyes, not useful but not detrimental so no pressure to remove them from the gene pool.
Interesting and I'd say a much better way to measure pollution then ppm.
Do they also measure on a dynometer and is it at a constant speed/load or various speeds/loads?
Here for my old truck it is measured at a constant speed/load. Newer vehicles with a variable speed/load.
Don't you mean that having to fill up 50% less will help with making those car payments and increased insurance costs?
How are you measuring the pollution? Around here it is measured in ppm so one large engine might have smaller numbers but still emit many times the exhaust of a much smaller engine.
Generally the better the mileage, the less stuff comes out of the exhaust. 50 ppm of a litre of air is still better then 25 ppm of 5 litres of air.
From what I understand the problem with going west to get to China was the distance. Columbus was mistaken about the size of the world and most people knew better. Sailing 15000+ miles was just not practicable at the time and Columbus just lucked out that he ran into land.
Difference with space exploration is we have a very good view of where we're going and anyone arguing for funding to go to Mars based on it being closer then reality will not get funding.
Actually being way out in the sticks has probably been an advantage for life developing as well as it has here. Much of the galaxy is actually inhospitable to life due to large amounts of radiation and even crowding where the odds of a star passing close enough to perturb the Earths orbit is higher.
All those really bright areas on your wallpaper are areas of star formation with attending large amounts of radiation. The core is similar.
I've read that we are lucky that the Sun has a pretty circular orbit around the galaxy unlike most that are much more elliptical.
If this is true, it is another reason for a shortage of civilizations.
I think Hoyle is wrong. It is generally agreed that the Earth has at least a billion years left before the Sun gets too hot. Oil and coal formed about 250 million years ago so that leaves plenty of time for new stocks of fuel to form.
Similarly high grade ores can be formed through volcanism, formed along with new land due to tectonic forces eg new seabed and continents formed. Globs of metal precipitating from ocean water and precipitating from ground water percolating through the ground.
The time scales are pretty long but in a few hundreds of millions of years the Earth will regenerate.
In the same time scale life could re-evolve from pretty simple to quite complex again.
Per pound, it seems much worse. Per kwh of developed electricity it seems much better.
My point to the grandparent was that there are hazards to using nuclear which he didn't consider, not that we shouldn't use it. Though I think it is more of a short term solution while hopefully we come up with something better.
Short term in this case could easily still be a life time though.
I should of added to my comment that the saving grace of nuclear is that uranium is so power dense that the hazards of mining uranium are pretty well acceptable.
Really I was replying to the gp idea that nuclear is basically hazard free. Too many people don't even consider that mining uranium is hazardous.
I think you are leaving out the hazards of mining the uranium, which is probably the most dangerous part of nuclear power production. While nuclear is still probably the best short term option the number of deaths that could probably be attributed to uranium mining is possibly higher then deaths from atomic bombs. It is really hard to quantify the number of deaths from uranium mining as they often happen later and it is always hard to say where the cancer originated.
An overview of the problems, http://www.wise-uranium.org/uwai.html obligatory wiki link, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining#Health_risks_of_uranium_mining
This raises the question of whether headers are copyrightable. I've heard arguments both ways with the more common one being that they are just a description of how the code operates and non-creative, much like a phone book.
Unluckily this is a question that even individual judges might answer differently.
What if you want to use the code with something like wine? Or reactos? Both of which are not (I believe) licensed by Microsoft. At that I do have an implementation of the Microsoft API's here that are cross licensed (supplied by IBM)
According to this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_(HTML_element)#Intellectual_property_over_canvas once canvas becomes a W3C recommendation it is licensed for HTML usage.
Actually from what I understand, getting ejected from the galaxy would probably be the best outcome.
There is also a chance of the Sun being put into an orbit that takes it through uninhabitable parts of the galaxy such as the core. Also when the collision happens it will trigger a very large spurt of star formation leading to more supernova and just large amounts of radiation from large new stars. Not to mention the chance of a close encounter with another star disrupting the orbits of the planets in the solar system.
Also they went up in Canada about the same time. At least mine did.
Actually there is a lot of variation on the length of a generation depending on type of tree. Looking out my window I see Alders that live for perhaps 40 years, Willows that probably live for less being very fast growing and getting rot pretty easily. Popular that is also very fast growing and probably lives for perhaps 50 years as well as Hemlocks and Cedars (Arborvitae) that can live for Hundreds or even thousands of years.
I have no idea about the tree in the article, but it is not unreasonable that it's generation length is similar or even shorter then Humans. Especially since most trees start reproducing before 20 years old.
Funny enough capitalism has done exactly the opposite, using genocide to remove the non-greedy from the gene pool. How many lives were taken by America's official policy of genocide will never be known as there were no census's at the time but may well of numbered in the 10's of millions as well and would have if there had been enough people to kill.
I don't really go to bars anymore, but living in the bible belt out in the valley where we have the highest murder rate in Canada there has been lots of articles in the local papers. This is what I see lacking. No mention of privacy policies and no mention of purging the records in a reasonable time.
Once again an idea that is great in theory but in practice who knows.
The bar is only a semi-private area. With that liquor license and being open to the public the bar loses certain rights, like refusing service for no good reason.
If the bar owner doesn't like it he should never have applied for the license and opened his doors to the public.
Actually for scenario #1, there was a famous case back in the 50's IIRC where a guy picked up a minor in a bar. Believed that she was of age, she was in a bar at a time when the drinking age was 21. Got caught fucking her and charged with statutory rape. The judge was very apologetic as he sentenced the poor guy to 5 years but the law was the law.
Anyways after this they changed the law so that believing the girl was of age was a valid defence.
Of course I wouldn't be too surprised if the law had been changed again recently, got to think of the children you know.
This is about Canada, the bars are not keeping these records to prove they checked that underage drinkers ID. They're keeping it in case you piss off a bouncer, maybe hit on their girl friend, maybe get rowdy. Then sharing it with all the other bars to make sure you can't drink anywhere.
In theory not a bad idea. In practice... especially if they keep all these records indefinitely and perhaps sell them.
We're talking about Canada, not the States. Here I believe that as long as the bar showed due diligence in checking ID they are not responsible for under age drinking. And yes the liquor control board does test bars to make sure they do show due diligence and they will lose their licence if they don't.
We don't have felons in Canada, at that I think the rest of the world has left behind that relic of feudalism.
We also think that there is a downside to people having private information taken and even have a thing in our charter of rights about unreasonable searches which includes bars and gas stations trolling for information which they share.