Is there a variation in the Earth's average temperature over the same time that happens to be in sync?
Not in any one place. The Earth has enough heat sinks to prevent these small differences from making a difference.
That said, _seasonal_ temperature differences may in fact change the rate of nuclear decay. As chemical reactions are generally very dependent upon temperature, I am surprised that I have never heard of the possibility of nuclear decay being dependent as well having ever been studied.
There is one, either in planning or possible already on the shelf. They really are not powerful enough for the work that I do, but if a ~8" monitor and slow single core processor don't bother you then go through arstechnica |/. | digg archives and I'm sure you'll find it.
Have you looked at the Dell Axim x50v? I have one, and you can connect a bluetooth keyboard to it. I am not sure about the mouse, but there is little need for that anyway. There is a full-fledged office suit available for it, for about 50 Euros or so, I think it is called Textmaker or something like that. Opera is also available for a decent web browsing experience.
Now we just need something feasible to replace the damn fans to get the first true consumer notebook with no moving parts.
There are ion-cooling techniques which require no moving parts to get the air flowing, but even better than that are the Atom-style processors which can be designed to not need active cooling. I wait for the day that my passively cooled, SSD laptop arrives.
and unfortunate i do graphic design, so i use programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXpress, etc. on a daily basis, and I also need to make sure that the client's site renders properly in IE (which is arguably the most frustrating part of my job). but i probably should give Ubuntu a try as a secondary OS.
Write to Abode and let them know that you are interested in using their products on Linux. If we don't speak up and let them know what we want, how can we expect them to code it?
I don't find MSO 2007 to be bloated at all from the user's standpoint. Quite the opposite, I find the Ribbon streamline the workflow considerably, while providing more legible icons and most screen real estate for the document. The code may be bloated, but disk space is cheap. I don't know how heavy it is on RAM because I've only ever used it on the university machines, and I don't know what the hardware is.
MS Vista is bloated beyond all hope. Hell, we considered XP SP2 to be bloated before that pig which is Vista came about.
While I don't doubt your belief in the validity of your expressed preference, I question its sanity. What you don't explain is why you have let yourself become locked-in to the expensive inferior product, and why you are avoiding having soverignity over your own data and control of your own machine through not using the zero cost open superior product.
I perceive it as being locked in to the expensive, superior product. And I reign sovereignty over my machine because I do avoid MS's control-freak operating system. However, I still believe in the best tool for the job, and MSO 2007 is a terrific tool. I still love Open Office, and use it regularly, and I praise the developers of that program. Open Office 2.4 is leaps and bounds beyond MSO = 2003. However, MSO 2007 really is better.
Like you, I prefer (and use) Linux. I would not install an MS operating system at all. However, at the application level I use the best tool for the job.
For those of you who have never been lucky enough to witness the "pink page" we display to banned users, here's the text of the template we generate it with. I confess I'd never before thought about how offensive that might be to psychics.
That's not offensive to psychics, rather, it praises the work that they do and you admit that you can't do the work that they do. It says that you are good, but psychics are better than good.
And while I do not dispute the validity of your statement, I would rather be locked into a superior product by file format than be locked into an inferior product by ideology. At least file formats can be reverse engineered.
Like hell. There's a very common saying, and it's pretty damn true: "BSD users use BSD because they love Unix. Linux users use Linux because they hate Windows."
Go look at Ubuntu Forums or Linux Questions or any of the other community sites; it's a huge whack of Microsoft hate (often leading them to convince themselves that what they're using is better than it actually is, but hey, that's part of the open-source gig these days).
I will admit that the MS refugees are a large, vocal part of the Linux community. You can usually identify them because they post "Linux suxorz because it doesn't worx like winders". But you will find the informative, knowledgeable posts on the forums you mention outnumber them by far, and those are from people who use Linux because Linux suits their needs best.
You want MS to provide a linux version so that you can either state your intent to never install it, or so that you can sh*t on it? I'm sure they'll get right on that...
That's short sighted.
I would try IE8 if it ran on my platform of choice, which happens to be Kubuntu. If IE won't run on it, I won't try it. IE8 might be the best browser since Amaya, but if it won't run on my system, I won't try it.
Not all Linux users hate Microsoft or are FOSS zealots. Most of us just love Linux. We are open to trying MS products, and when MS creates a better product than Linux||Firefox then we will use it. I only wish that MS Office 2007 would run on Linux, I would pay for it and use it in a heartbeat. But I am not about to use MS's bloated, insecure operating system to get it.
Because it doesn't play YouTube flash videos. The iPhone/iPod touch accesses YouTube's videos files encoded in H.264, without a flash player wrapped around it.
Websites can (and should) detect Safari and use the HTML5 media tags to play their videos (in MPEG-4/H.264), too.
As the maintainer of a small family website that hosts flash videos ( http://dotancohen.com/ ) where can I find info about creating and hosting h264? The site is only intended for the family (though it is public and everyone is invited) and everyone is running Firefox. I understand that Firefox 3.1 will also support h264.
I don't get it. Any vertical list of positive integers on/. should include ??? and Profit! What gives?
You made up for it by not calling it a list, but rather a "vertical list of positive integers". And yes, I will use that description as soon as possible in public.
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Also, keep in mind that fingers do get larger during the normal course of life, so you will need to resize it anyway at some point in the future.
Why resize the engagement ring? In marriage there are three rings:
Engagement Ring
Wedding Ring
Suffering
Is there a variation in the Earth's average temperature over the same time that happens to be in sync?
Not in any one place. The Earth has enough heat sinks to prevent these small differences from making a difference.
That said, _seasonal_ temperature differences may in fact change the rate of nuclear decay. As chemical reactions are generally very dependent upon temperature, I am surprised that I have never heard of the possibility of nuclear decay being dependent as well having ever been studied.
Diamonds are generally best friends, not dating material.
No, dogs are best friends around here. What women read /.?
There is one, either in planning or possible already on the shelf. They really are not powerful enough for the work that I do, but if a ~8" monitor and slow single core processor don't bother you then go through arstechnica | /. | digg archives and I'm sure you'll find it.
Have you looked at the Dell Axim x50v? I have one, and you can connect a bluetooth keyboard to it. I am not sure about the mouse, but there is little need for that anyway. There is a full-fledged office suit available for it, for about 50 Euros or so, I think it is called Textmaker or something like that. Opera is also available for a decent web browsing experience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moleskine
Now we just need something feasible to replace the damn fans to get the first true consumer notebook with no moving parts.
There are ion-cooling techniques which require no moving parts to get the air flowing, but even better than that are the Atom-style processors which can be designed to not need active cooling. I wait for the day that my passively cooled, SSD laptop arrives.
My MacBook Air doesn't have a DVD player, you insensitive clod!
I am a clod, you insensitive fruitcake!
I'm trying to figure out what all the fuss is about but I can't find this WGA thing. Does anyone know what repository it's in?
http://www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org/
and unfortunate i do graphic design, so i use programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXpress, etc. on a daily basis, and I also need to make sure that the client's site renders properly in IE (which is arguably the most frustrating part of my job). but i probably should give Ubuntu a try as a secondary OS.
Write to Abode and let them know that you are interested in using their products on Linux. If we don't speak up and let them know what we want, how can we expect them to code it?
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/contact.html
I don't find MSO 2007 to be bloated at all from the user's standpoint. Quite the opposite, I find the Ribbon streamline the workflow considerably, while providing more legible icons and most screen real estate for the document. The code may be bloated, but disk space is cheap. I don't know how heavy it is on RAM because I've only ever used it on the university machines, and I don't know what the hardware is.
MS Vista is bloated beyond all hope. Hell, we considered XP SP2 to be bloated before that pig which is Vista came about.
While I don't doubt your belief in the validity of your expressed preference, I question its sanity. What you don't explain is why you have let yourself become locked-in to the expensive inferior product, and why you are avoiding having soverignity over your own data and control of your own machine through not using the zero cost open superior product.
I perceive it as being locked in to the expensive, superior product. And I reign sovereignty over my machine because I do avoid MS's control-freak operating system. However, I still believe in the best tool for the job, and MSO 2007 is a terrific tool. I still love Open Office, and use it regularly, and I praise the developers of that program. Open Office 2.4 is leaps and bounds beyond MSO = 2003. However, MSO 2007 really is better.
Like you, I prefer (and use) Linux. I would not install an MS operating system at all. However, at the application level I use the best tool for the job.
For those of you who have never been lucky enough to witness the "pink page" we display to banned users, here's the text of the template we generate it with. I confess I'd never before thought about how offensive that might be to psychics.
That's not offensive to psychics, rather, it praises the work that they do and you admit that you can't do the work that they do. It says that you are good, but psychics are better than good.
You sure seem concerned. Write to them, or at least talk to them if you are in their department.
Lock in. PWND.
MSO2007SP1 supports odf.
And while I do not dispute the validity of your statement, I would rather be locked into a superior product by file format than be locked into an inferior product by ideology. At least file formats can be reverse engineered.
While I do see your point you don't represent a sizeable enough market of linux users, probally 1 in 100 ?
Don't exaggerate. No less than 1 in 98, I'm sure.
Like hell. There's a very common saying, and it's pretty damn true: "BSD users use BSD because they love Unix. Linux users use Linux because they hate Windows."
Go look at Ubuntu Forums or Linux Questions or any of the other community sites; it's a huge whack of Microsoft hate (often leading them to convince themselves that what they're using is better than it actually is, but hey, that's part of the open-source gig these days).
I will admit that the MS refugees are a large, vocal part of the Linux community. You can usually identify them because they post "Linux suxorz because it doesn't worx like winders". But you will find the informative, knowledgeable posts on the forums you mention outnumber them by far, and those are from people who use Linux because Linux suits their needs best.
Did you write to your IT department and tell them that?
You want MS to provide a linux version so that you can either state your intent to never install it, or so that you can sh*t on it? I'm sure they'll get right on that...
That's short sighted.
I would try IE8 if it ran on my platform of choice, which happens to be Kubuntu. If IE won't run on it, I won't try it. IE8 might be the best browser since Amaya, but if it won't run on my system, I won't try it.
Not all Linux users hate Microsoft or are FOSS zealots. Most of us just love Linux. We are open to trying MS products, and when MS creates a better product than Linux||Firefox then we will use it. I only wish that MS Office 2007 would run on Linux, I would pay for it and use it in a heartbeat. But I am not about to use MS's bloated, insecure operating system to get it.
How do you 'work around the algorithms'? If you can teach me to search more effectively, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks, Yvan. I'll go through that and see what I can come up with.
I hope the mods find your post and reward you for it.
Because it doesn't play YouTube flash videos. The iPhone/iPod touch accesses YouTube's videos files encoded in H.264, without a flash player wrapped around it.
Websites can (and should) detect Safari and use the HTML5 media tags to play their videos (in MPEG-4/H.264), too.
As the maintainer of a small family website that hosts flash videos ( http://dotancohen.com/ ) where can I find info about creating and hosting h264? The site is only intended for the family (though it is public and everyone is invited) and everyone is running Firefox. I understand that Firefox 3.1 will also support h264.
I don't get it. Any vertical list of positive integers on /. should include ??? and Profit! What gives?
You made up for it by not calling it a list, but rather a "vertical list of positive integers". And yes, I will use that description as soon as possible in public.
I have a French keyboard, you insensitive clod!
I am a clod, you insensitive Frenchman!