Maybe I like women who aren't threatened by my knowing what I want...
It is exactly this attitude that the fine article addresses. By demanding that the woman concede to that huge demand (don't be threatened by $something) right at the first message, you are automatically pushing away a large portion of women many of which may be able to concede to that demand later.
The aggressive, self-confident girl of XKCD is _not_ looking for love online.
The ISS docking rings are very complex, they have almost nothing in common with earlier US or Russian designs. The reason is the vast weight disparity between the STS orbiter and the ISS itself: the center of gravity is not near the ring so the ring must bear a torque load while the orbiter (or anything else) is docked. Sometimes you will see them "soft" dock off-target and let the torque of Earth's gravity bend the two components (ISS and orbiter) into alignment before hard dock. There was never the need (and thus never the physical capacity) to do this when docking two spacecraft of similar sizes.
I wasn't referring to ISS interceptablility, but I'm pretty sure that the answer is no is regards to docking almost certainly. They would need a mockup of existing docking rings to engineer and test their own.
They had a lot of bad luck lately. Losing at least three launches this year. I hope they get back on track soon. Who else could transport new people up and down to the ISS. Freight can be done by ESA's ATV, but human space flight is right now Russia only.
At least it's in metric. I guess that they know the whole world will be looking at that page, except the Americans who are scared when numbers interfere with their news.
And, yes, there have been plenty of impacts from space debris. One was so massive that observers on Earth recorded that the moon appeared to have horns.
I've never heard of that. What event was this? When?
They don't even have toilets. A family introduced to modern Russian society from one such village all died due to disease within ten years, one girl survives until today.
By the way, the original theory is that six degrees is the _maximum_ distance between any two living humans, not the average.
If so, that's trivial to disprove. There are about 100 uncontacted tribes of humans in the world. Choose one. Find the shortest path to yourself. There is no path.
Fair enough. Limited to humans in any particular cloud of contact, the stated theory is that the longest distance is six jumps.
There also exist small communities in rural Russia who don't yet know that the October Revolution has ended, by the way.
Why we give lazy, careless, dangerous people continued access to dangerous hunks of speeding metal that can repeatedly put the rest of the public in significant danger is fucking beyond me.
They buy petrol. Suspending their licenses means less petrol sold.
The fact that they cause _your_ healthcare to be more expensive in only a secondary benefit.
What if a species not quite that advanced built such a shell around their own world?
Sure it's possible, but why the hell would they ever do that? Planets don't give off energy that you want to harvest.
Jupiter gives off more energy than it receives. I think that Neptune might, too. Furthermore, the sphere would still absorb all the energy below the visible spectrum (IR, i.e. heat).
One flaw is how to best simulate their sun for grass/animals.
Maybe that is the problem that they were trying to solve: their sun may have evolved to produce more visible light than what they needed, but they still needed the thermal energy. So they paint the sphere black to absorb the heat but not the visible light.
I'm curious why they don't seem to list the resolution of that 18.6" screen anywhere... And why "photo viewing through Facebook"? That's a rather odd feature to list.
Because people don't want a computer, or a browser, or Linux or Windows. They want to view photos on Facebook. This gets right to the point.
Libre Office vs OpenOffice doesn't really matter at this point in time either, as the differences are tiny, and the file format is standard anyway. Long term there'll probably be a clear winner. I'm betting for Libre Office because that's what Ubuntu is shipping right now, and Oracle is a hulking behemoth.
Oracle no longer owns Open Office. It's in the Apache Foundation's hands now.
I'm also not using the new KDEPIM, though I really should get in there and file bugs already. Make sure to file them or let me know if you do find any: http://dotancohen.com/eng/message.php
Kmail does have the ability to edit the From field. Those two bugs are for:
1) Store "From" address for particular contact in Address book. This means that if you have a catchall email address at tzanger.com, then when you open a new message to dotan@gmail.com Kmail would automatically use "dotan@tzanger.com" (or something else that you've chosen) as your From address. Likewise, when you write to ety@yahoo.com Kmail would automatically use "ety@tzanger.com" (or something else that you've chosen) as your From address.
2) Kmail would automatically use the To address of incoming mail as the From address of replies. So if you sign up to SomeSite.com with the email address "somesite@tzanger.com" and click reply to the mail they sent you, your From address would automatically be "somesite@tzanger.com".
The Thunderbird extension that I linked to does this automatically in Thunderbird. It's terrific, I cannot imagine using a catchall address without it.
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Maybe I like women who aren't threatened by my knowing what I want...
It is exactly this attitude that the fine article addresses. By demanding that the woman concede to that huge demand (don't be threatened by $something) right at the first message, you are automatically pushing away a large portion of women many of which may be able to concede to that demand later.
The aggressive, self-confident girl of XKCD is _not_ looking for love online.
The KDE feature isn't really a queue, though the GUI does present all the file transfers in the same (i) popup. I am a happy KDE user!
The ISS docking rings are very complex, they have almost nothing in common with earlier US or Russian designs. The reason is the vast weight disparity between the STS orbiter and the ISS itself: the center of gravity is not near the ring so the ring must bear a torque load while the orbiter (or anything else) is docked. Sometimes you will see them "soft" dock off-target and let the torque of Earth's gravity bend the two components (ISS and orbiter) into alignment before hard dock. There was never the need (and thus never the physical capacity) to do this when docking two spacecraft of similar sizes.
I wasn't referring to ISS interceptablility, but I'm pretty sure that the answer is no is regards to docking almost certainly. They would need a mockup of existing docking rings to engineer and test their own.
They had a lot of bad luck lately. Losing at least three launches this year. I hope they get back on track soon. Who else could transport new people up and down to the ISS. Freight can be done by ESA's ATV, but human space flight is right now Russia only.
And China.
I think that Gnome 2 did that. I use KDE and filed a feature request for it.
At least it's in metric. I guess that they know the whole world will be looking at that page, except the Americans who are scared when numbers interfere with their news.
Why don't you comment on this Open Office bug requesting VIM key bindings:
https://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89663
Here is the relevant Open Office bug:
"Option for default copy/paste to work with unformatted text "
https://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103327
Please comment on that bug.
Thanks. That is an amazing story, and an appropriately-named crater for such!
And, yes, there have been plenty of impacts from space debris. One was so massive that observers on Earth recorded that the moon appeared to have horns.
I've never heard of that. What event was this? When?
They don't even have toilets. A family introduced to modern Russian society from one such village all died due to disease within ten years, one girl survives until today.
If so, that's trivial to disprove. There are about 100 uncontacted tribes of humans in the world. Choose one. Find the shortest path to yourself. There is no path.
Fair enough. Limited to humans in any particular cloud of contact, the stated theory is that the longest distance is six jumps.
There also exist small communities in rural Russia who don't yet know that the October Revolution has ended, by the way.
Why we give lazy, careless, dangerous people continued access to dangerous hunks of speeding metal that can repeatedly put the rest of the public in significant danger is fucking beyond me.
They buy petrol. Suspending their licenses means less petrol sold.
The fact that they cause _your_ healthcare to be more expensive in only a secondary benefit.
This has been done before. There used to be a site called Six Degrees, which was a social network that showed your contacts at various distances.
Which was swallowed by Orkut. Which was swallowed by Google.
By the way, the original theory is that six degrees is the _maximum_ distance between any two living humans, not the average.
Your sig is quite appropriate!
What if a species not quite that advanced built such a shell around their own world?
Sure it's possible, but why the hell would they ever do that? Planets don't give off energy that you want to harvest.
Jupiter gives off more energy than it receives. I think that Neptune might, too. Furthermore, the sphere would still absorb all the energy below the visible spectrum (IR, i.e. heat).
One flaw is how to best simulate their sun for grass/animals.
Maybe that is the problem that they were trying to solve: their sun may have evolved to produce more visible light than what they needed, but they still needed the thermal energy. So they paint the sphere black to absorb the heat but not the visible light.
What more could you want? But seriously, folks...
I'm curious why they don't seem to list the resolution of that 18.6" screen anywhere... And why "photo viewing through Facebook"? That's a rather odd feature to list.
Because people don't want a computer, or a browser, or Linux or Windows. They want to view photos on Facebook. This gets right to the point.
So long as it's a "hi-Phone" and clearly not an "iPhone," I don't see what your problem is, or why this is a story.
As for the "lying, theiving, completely dishonest Chinese" nobody is forcing Apple to put their manufacturing there.
Are you telling me that this is not an iPhone clone:
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=10810707081
(Yes, that it is the hiPhone 5)
Libre Office vs OpenOffice doesn't really matter at this point in time either, as the differences are tiny, and the file format is standard anyway. Long term there'll probably be a clear winner. I'm betting for Libre Office because that's what Ubuntu is shipping right now, and Oracle is a hulking behemoth.
Oracle no longer owns Open Office. It's in the Apache Foundation's hands now.
I'm also not using the new KDEPIM, though I really should get in there and file bugs already. Make sure to file them or let me know if you do find any:
http://dotancohen.com/eng/message.php
Enjoy!
Kmail does have the ability to edit the From field. Those two bugs are for:
1) Store "From" address for particular contact in Address book. This means that if you have a catchall email address at tzanger.com, then when you open a new message to dotan@gmail.com Kmail would automatically use "dotan@tzanger.com" (or something else that you've chosen) as your From address. Likewise, when you write to ety@yahoo.com Kmail would automatically use "ety@tzanger.com" (or something else that you've chosen) as your From address.
2) Kmail would automatically use the To address of incoming mail as the From address of replies. So if you sign up to SomeSite.com with the email address "somesite@tzanger.com" and click reply to the mail they sent you, your From address would automatically be "somesite@tzanger.com".
The Thunderbird extension that I linked to does this automatically in Thunderbird. It's terrific, I cannot imagine using a catchall address without it.
Thanks. If this is related, then please comment on it (it looks Cisco related):
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264189
I looked at 54 VPN bugs and that looked the closest, so if that's not the bug then please file a new one. Thanks!
I agree with most of your sentiments, and I think that you will find this Thunderbird extension great for editing the From line of your emails automatically:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/virtual-identity/
I've been trying to get this functionality in Kmail for years:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72926
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159251
Please comment in support of those two bugs. Thanks!