In this case there is a reason for it. You see, if your profession is astronomy in Norway, it is customary to replace all the O's in your name with Ø so they look like planets with orbits.
The second "law" is really just statistics though (law of large numbers anyone?), and as with most statistics people are still arguing about what it really means.
I believe you, but I don't matter! If you do have evidence that the current thinking is wrong, though, I encourage you to contact a local university geneticist who might be able to bring your cats' situation to light of the community. He would be a better judge of the situation than I. You might have some valuable genetic evidence purring around the house!
Interestingly, the feature works fine for things that aren't boobs or dongs, because boobs need circles and dongs need straight lines. It fails on normal geometric shapes, but works great on more abstract drawings.
And how often do we check the condition of the car? Do you need to go in monthly to validate the good condition of your tires? What about when the 16 year old son of the race car driver takes the car out? Does he get the +20kph license plate? Or does he have to unscrew it and put his on?
I think the logistics of the whole thing make it a rediculous undertaking for marginal benefit (is there even a benefit?)
Cars get yearly inspections as it is already. Tires are generally good for a few years.
How is the situation handled when it is a human piloting the car instead of the computer? Does he get out and change the plate? How about instead of changing the whole plate, the driver puts a coloured stripe next to the plate before starting on his way. There are other benefits to that as well.
Cars get a yearly inspection as it is where I live. The tag could be part of the inspection. Perhaps the whole tag need not be replaced, just a wide stripe down one side of it.
I am not bored because it is slow. I am trying to get _off_ the road as quickly as possible. That means either compressing the distance between my starting and ending points, or increasing the speed. Additionally, this plan has the side effect of giving tangible, real-world benefit to safe drivers (increased speed). That will give the aforementioned 18 year old a reason to stop racking up the infractions.
If coloured license plates could be used to ID drivers and their abilities, how about a system for allowing differing speeds based on: 1) Car type 2) Car condition 3) Driver experience
I think that most would agree that a 2012 model BMW driven by a professional racecar driver with 20 years' experience and no traffic infractions could be driven safely 20 KPH faster than a 1982 Peugeot with bald tires driven by a 18 year old who already has two infractions.
I did not invent this, I heard it proposed years ago. But I think that now with automated vehicles being distinguished from human drivers, that the time is ripe and the technology is here to implement it.
Just to let anyone following along know, both these RFEs have been implemented, 24 hours after posting them. LibreOffice really does care about user feedback, please do not equate the old OpenOffice.org development mess with LO!
Like you, I have had bugs linger in OOo for years. LO seems to get them done, though. I often see my LO bugs being resolved, whereas in OOo I would be surprised whenever one would get attention.
I only have a Linux box to test, but send the documents to me anyway. My Gmail username is the same as my/. username. If you can get a hold of a PDF output from MS Word so that we can compare how the document is supposed to look, that would be great.
Of course, now we can expect to hear from all the naysayers who will predictably continue to declare LibreOffice a perpetual failure because they have some weird edge case of an MS Office document that didn't import perfectly...
And if you do have such a document, then please get in contact with me so that we can file a bug and get it fixed: http://dotancohen.com/eng/message.php
The.docx support is good enough that I am writing a book in collaboration with MS Office users, including change tracking and comments, and they don't know that I'm using LibreOffice 3.4. If you find any bugs in.docx compatibility, you can contact me here and we will file bugs: http://dotancohen.com/eng/message.php
Great, a major LO upgrade. That means I download it, install it, and see how many minutes it takes me before I hit a large enough Office compatibility snag that makes me delete it and swear off giving it another shot.
Instead of swearing it off, get in touch with me and we will file bugs. Sure, it might take a year or three until they are fixed, but most of them _do_ get fixed in LibreOffice. I would say that the last year in LO has closed more of my bugs than the past five years of OpenOffice.org, including one very critical bug that has been open for almost _ten_years_: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=5556
You can contact me here, please have a file that demonstrates the issue handy or clear reproduction instructions: http://dotancohen.com/eng/message.php
Just spend 5 minutes looking for the "about" page on cinnamon.
Failed to find it.
Did you see the first post on that blog (really, a blog and not a website)? It tells you exactly what cinnamon is, its origin, even an etymology: http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=1
Don't bother reading it, though, most of the information looks lifted from the Wikipedia article about the _spice_!
Apollo used to burn off the remaining RCS fuel shortly before landing, so it's not an unknown practice.
The Dragon will use the same OMS rockets during decent to slow and control itself. The Soyuz just has one big explosion before landing, the Dragon will be purging for some time. Therefore, the Dragon cannot just "burn off" the remaining hydrazine.
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In this case there is a reason for it. You see, if your profession is astronomy in Norway, it is customary to replace all the O's in your name with Ø so they look like planets with orbits.
I think that this guy bit my sister once.
The second "law" is really just statistics though (law of large numbers anyone?), and as with most statistics people are still arguing about what it really means.
StackExchange now has a physics section, and this issue was very recently addressed:
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/21028/second-law-of-thermodynamics-why-is-it-only-almost-always-true-that-entropy-i
Follow up comment, see an explanation that I found right here on /. of all places:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=51538&cid=5137772
Attached to this story:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/03/01/22/0534237/cloned-cat-not-a-carbon-copy
I believe you, but I don't matter! If you do have evidence that the current thinking is wrong, though, I encourage you to contact a local university geneticist who might be able to bring your cats' situation to light of the community. He would be a better judge of the situation than I. You might have some valuable genetic evidence purring around the house!
it seems obvious to me that the genes that make humans red-headed are the same as the ones that make cats orange
Cat colours are due to variations in the womb, not genetic. That is why cloned cats generally do not look like their gene donors.
Could they make it work for the 5% of sketches that aren't boobs or dongs?
This feature already exists in Digikam, from KDE:
http://digikam.org/
Interestingly, the feature works fine for things that aren't boobs or dongs, because boobs need circles and dongs need straight lines. It fails on normal geometric shapes, but works great on more abstract drawings.
How about letting the "rewarded" drivers into privileged traffic, such as HOV lanes?
I agree with your entire post, geekoid. There are too many unskilled drivers on the road.
Last time I checked, there was somebody sitting at the front driving, and it was therefore not _driverless_.
Driverless in the sense "I don't have to drive it, I can do something else". That is the benefit of the autonomous vehicle, no?
And how often do we check the condition of the car? Do you need to go in monthly to validate the good condition of your tires? What about when the 16 year old son of the race car driver takes the car out? Does he get the +20kph license plate? Or does he have to unscrew it and put his on?
I think the logistics of the whole thing make it a rediculous undertaking for marginal benefit (is there even a benefit?)
Cars get yearly inspections as it is already. Tires are generally good for a few years.
How is the situation handled when it is a human piloting the car instead of the computer? Does he get out and change the plate? How about instead of changing the whole plate, the driver puts a coloured stripe next to the plate before starting on his way. There are other benefits to that as well.
Cars get a yearly inspection as it is where I live. The tag could be part of the inspection. Perhaps the whole tag need not be replaced, just a wide stripe down one side of it.
I am not bored because it is slow. I am trying to get _off_ the road as quickly as possible. That means either compressing the distance between my starting and ending points, or increasing the speed. Additionally, this plan has the side effect of giving tangible, real-world benefit to safe drivers (increased speed). That will give the aforementioned 18 year old a reason to stop racking up the infractions.
If the rest of the states follow suit in the next few years, we may actually be able to purchase driverless vehicles in our lifetime.
For most trips, you can rent them. You don't even need to pay insurance.
It is called a bus.
If coloured license plates could be used to ID drivers and their abilities, how about a system for allowing differing speeds based on:
1) Car type
2) Car condition
3) Driver experience
I think that most would agree that a 2012 model BMW driven by a professional racecar driver with 20 years' experience and no traffic infractions could be driven safely 20 KPH faster than a 1982 Peugeot with bald tires driven by a 18 year old who already has two infractions.
I did not invent this, I heard it proposed years ago. But I think that now with automated vehicles being distinguished from human drivers, that the time is ripe and the technology is here to implement it.
Just to let anyone following along know, both these RFEs have been implemented, 24 hours after posting them. LibreOffice really does care about user feedback, please do not equate the old OpenOffice.org development mess with LO!
Like you, I have had bugs linger in OOo for years. LO seems to get them done, though. I often see my LO bugs being resolved, whereas in OOo I would be surprised whenever one would get attention.
Open bugs with that feedback.
Done! Please subscribe to the bugs and leave comments so it is not just me saying "this would be nice".
Remember last background colour
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46069
Copy cell above
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46070
Thanks Eric, but you put me in too good of company! Marc and Eike actually hack on the code, I just try to file and triage good bugs.
I only have a Linux box to test, but send the documents to me anyway. My Gmail username is the same as my /. username. If you can get a hold of a PDF output from MS Word so that we can compare how the document is supposed to look, that would be great.
Thanks!
Of course, now we can expect to hear from all the naysayers who will predictably continue to declare LibreOffice a perpetual failure because they have some weird edge case of an MS Office document that didn't import perfectly...
And if you do have such a document, then please get in contact with me so that we can file a bug and get it fixed:
http://dotancohen.com/eng/message.php
The .docx support is good enough that I am writing a book in collaboration with MS Office users, including change tracking and comments, and they don't know that I'm using LibreOffice 3.4. If you find any bugs in .docx compatibility, you can contact me here and we will file bugs:
http://dotancohen.com/eng/message.php
Thanks.
Great, a major LO upgrade. That means I download it, install it, and see how many minutes it takes me before I hit a large enough Office compatibility snag that makes me delete it and swear off giving it another shot.
Instead of swearing it off, get in touch with me and we will file bugs. Sure, it might take a year or three until they are fixed, but most of them _do_ get fixed in LibreOffice. I would say that the last year in LO has closed more of my bugs than the past five years of OpenOffice.org, including one very critical bug that has been open for almost _ten_years_:
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=5556
Fixed in LO six months after filing:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37978
You can contact me here, please have a file that demonstrates the issue handy or clear reproduction instructions:
http://dotancohen.com/eng/message.php
Thanks.
Just spend 5 minutes looking for the "about" page on cinnamon.
Failed to find it.
Did you see the first post on that blog (really, a blog and not a website)? It tells you exactly what cinnamon is, its origin, even an etymology:
http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=1
Don't bother reading it, though, most of the information looks lifted from the Wikipedia article about the _spice_!
It seems the hilarious and unusual part of this is that Microsoft apparently until now didn't even have one.
Posted an hour before your post, and highly rated at that time:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2667465&cid=39015509
Apollo used to burn off the remaining RCS fuel shortly before landing, so it's not an unknown practice.
The Dragon will use the same OMS rockets during decent to slow and control itself. The Soyuz just has one big explosion before landing, the Dragon will be purging for some time. Therefore, the Dragon cannot just "burn off" the remaining hydrazine.