My school uses a customized version of firefox. No idea if it has this behavior or not, but it is supposedly easier to manage: FrontMotion firefox http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/fmfirefox.htm
Well, if solar electricity is generated and transmitted to 400 miles away where it is then used in 1000 blenders, toasters, etc, the heat effect of that sunlight is now displaced. The effect of moving the sun's heat energy from places which currently receive it the most (best candidates for solar panels) to other regions, the effects is evening out the delivery of the sun's energy, thus effecting weather patterns and ecosystems in many ways.
economies of scale. LOTS AND LOTS of small, lightweight letter's, postcards, bills, etc. can fit on a plane, truck, mail car, etc. if 200 letters can fit in a 1ft by 1 ft box (likely many, many more), then that 1ft by 1ft box got $100 dollars in stamps. it typically costs about what, $10 to ship something this size & weight (can be dense) via FedEx at retail?
Humans understand where things are in space, and when things are in time.
I remember from years ago (win98 days i think), a program that would make your desktop a 3D box room and your files where icons that you could move around the room and move in the z axis. you could rotate your view around the room, and have other kinds of objects in the room. Thus, you could put all your text files in one corner, jpegs in another, etc.
Why not just un-encumber h.264? If it is so extremely valuable to the world as a whole, and so superior, then the government should just buy the damn thing and release it.
Or simply invalidate the patents behind it. Call it Eminent Domain or something. I mean, I know it would suck to lose your patents, but I'm sure whoever created it has recouped their expenses and even profited by now, since it's so damned important.
I found a GREAT way around those bastards that publish James Stewart's "Calculus". I had bought the 5e edition for calc I&II . Now the sixth is out, just in time for calc III.
Well, as far as I can tell, the blue graphs are now red, and the red graphs are now blue. Also, the questions at the end of every chapter (the HW problems) are all different.
My solution:
1) go to the university library, where they have one copy that you can use to do HW with, but cannot check out.
2) Take it to the scanner, spend an hour making PDF's of the problems for each chapter.
3) [PROFIT!!!] Save hours of time over the course of the semester b/c I did not have to spend $400 dollars on a damn text book, and did not have to walk back and forth to the library
haha, ya know what else sucks? In my township, every time they freshly pave a road, some dipshit goes "OH SHIT we forgot to put X there". Then the dig up part of the road, and make a nice fresh, uneven patch. WTF?
Simple solution for you (what I do at college): Use PDF for what it was designed for. A presentation format. If the intended audience needs to see it as you intended it, and need not edit it, just export as PDF. Or send in the native ODF. If they can't accept a file in one of these ISO formats, then they have serious problems. Be the example of how not to be a slave to MS.
a couple people will slurp up the Jobs flavored Kool-Aid and justify spending significant amounts of money to be locked into a completely proprietary hardware/software "solution".
I work for a university dorm-network helpdesk. Sunday and Monday were freshmen summer check-in days (computers must have Ethernet MAC registered before internet works). Roughly half of the new students had Apple Macs, which came as a surprise to many of us, as this was not nearly the case in years past. (Mostly PC's)
I will say that Macs cause FAR less connection troubleshoots. However, all it takes is one idiot to plug in a router backwards to cause a whole floor to go down as everyone, even the Macs, begin talking to the rogue DHCP server. (argh)
The last Linux distro I downloaded weighed in at 4,3 Gb
Installed size? Or disk size? Because many distros include hundreds (thousands?) of software packages that are not part of the default install. Often, software types that MS would get into deep trouble for bundling with windows.
In the case of SI it is the distance light travels in some amount of time.
Actually, it was the length between two marks on a platinum-iridium bar, which was designed to represent 1â10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the north pole through Paris. (wikipedia).
I think the problem is simple. Open h264 and aac. The internet was opened up for the benefit of civilized society. These codecs have had a good few years to make money, and our government is the one "securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries" in order to benefit society.
Seems fair to me that if one such 'discovery' would benefit the 'sciences and useful arts' (or society as a whole) in a much more dramatic way by being 'opened' after a time, then the government should be able to do that (obviously with limits, or under overwhelming need).
OR, just make patent and copyright terms reasonable again.
Wouldn't this manner of external battery be incredibly wasteful? Assuming the laptop does not have a way of detecting that it is an external battery and not a power adapter, then I would assume it would attempt to re-charge the internal battery. This would be very wasteful from a battery-life point of view, as charging a battery is not extremely efficient, and obviously, you would rather that energy be used to power the laptop. Or is an Apple computer smart enough not to charge the battery?
Amarok 1.4.10 all the way, the new Amarok bites. What the hell where they thinking, anyway? 1.4.10 is far better, IMHO than winamp-style, can use (needs to use?) a mysql backend (large collection is WAAY slow on sqlite), and keeps the concept of a "now playing" list.
And if you can't manage that? Well, that's nobody's fault but your own...
The poor, obviously, aren't valuable members of society because they wouldn't be poor if they were.
ugh, I hate "The American Dream". It is statistically extremely unlikely to go from rags to riches. It is a pipe dream. While, yes, it is true that working harder is often correlated with earning more, but that is not always the case. There simply aren't enough high-paying jobs or good opportunities to take advantage of for everyone. Some people are going to be poor by no fault of there own other than the time and place of their existence. Being born as a "have" and not a "have not" provides VERY unequal opportunities in this country (US). From education, to social standing, to financial opportunities such as starting a business for yourself.
Health care is a very tricky thing to decide who gets access to what, and what is "fair". And no one likes being told their job that they spend years studying for should be shared with everyone for little recompense.
There's a huge gap between "they ought to" hurt someone and "I'm going to" hurt someone.
Wow, do I wish more people realized this. I was suspended in Highschool for this EXACT same thing. I "Threatened" another student who had been picking on me by saying I ought to kick his ass. When I pointed out to the vice principal that the choice of the words "ought to" was intentional because it implied I was not going to, she claimed there was no difference.
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in that an ape's feces don't exactly move much at all.
I'd like to see you say that after an ape has just flung a steaming turd at you! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg2AezJo8aQ&feature=related
You mean, a kind of Universal Serial Bus?
My school uses a customized version of firefox. No idea if it has this behavior or not, but it is supposedly easier to manage: FrontMotion firefox http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/fmfirefox.htm
(Mimicking Average College Chick) But why would I want my facebook unavailable to everyone every time I close my MacBook?
Well, if solar electricity is generated and transmitted to 400 miles away where it is then used in 1000 blenders, toasters, etc, the heat effect of that sunlight is now displaced. The effect of moving the sun's heat energy from places which currently receive it the most (best candidates for solar panels) to other regions, the effects is evening out the delivery of the sun's energy, thus effecting weather patterns and ecosystems in many ways.
economies of scale. LOTS AND LOTS of small, lightweight letter's, postcards, bills, etc. can fit on a plane, truck, mail car, etc. if 200 letters can fit in a 1ft by 1 ft box (likely many, many more), then that 1ft by 1ft box got $100 dollars in stamps. it typically costs about what, $10 to ship something this size & weight (can be dense) via FedEx at retail?
and it's a multicycle ALU! :P
Humans understand where things are in space, and when things are in time.
I remember from years ago (win98 days i think), a program that would make your desktop a 3D box room and your files where icons that you could move around the room and move in the z axis. you could rotate your view around the room, and have other kinds of objects in the room. Thus, you could put all your text files in one corner, jpegs in another, etc.
It was gimmicky, but interesting.
You've just re-invented symbolic links! (with ones that might auto-update for access time, and be easier to administer)
Sounds like a secretary who needed either training or replacement.
whats the problem with that interface? It's very simple, and takes up very little space.
Why not just un-encumber h.264? If it is so extremely valuable to the world as a whole, and so superior, then the government should just buy the damn thing and release it.
Or simply invalidate the patents behind it. Call it Eminent Domain or something. I mean, I know it would suck to lose your patents, but I'm sure whoever created it has recouped their expenses and even profited by now, since it's so damned important.
I found a GREAT way around those bastards that publish James Stewart's "Calculus". I had bought the 5e edition for calc I&II . Now the sixth is out, just in time for calc III.
Well, as far as I can tell, the blue graphs are now red, and the red graphs are now blue. Also, the questions at the end of every chapter (the HW problems) are all different.
My solution:
1) go to the university library, where they have one copy that you can use to do HW with, but cannot check out.
2) Take it to the scanner, spend an hour making PDF's of the problems for each chapter.
3) [PROFIT!!!] Save hours of time over the course of the semester b/c I did not have to spend $400 dollars on a damn text book, and did not have to walk back and forth to the library
haha, ya know what else sucks? In my township, every time they freshly pave a road, some dipshit goes "OH SHIT we forgot to put X there". Then the dig up part of the road, and make a nice fresh, uneven patch. WTF?
Simple solution for you (what I do at college): Use PDF for what it was designed for. A presentation format. If the intended audience needs to see it as you intended it, and need not edit it, just export as PDF. Or send in the native ODF. If they can't accept a file in one of these ISO formats, then they have serious problems. Be the example of how not to be a slave to MS.
a couple people will slurp up the Jobs flavored Kool-Aid and justify spending significant amounts of money to be locked into a completely proprietary hardware/software "solution".
I work for a university dorm-network helpdesk. Sunday and Monday were freshmen summer check-in days (computers must have Ethernet MAC registered before internet works). Roughly half of the new students had Apple Macs, which came as a surprise to many of us, as this was not nearly the case in years past. (Mostly PC's)
I will say that Macs cause FAR less connection troubleshoots. However, all it takes is one idiot to plug in a router backwards to cause a whole floor to go down as everyone, even the Macs, begin talking to the rogue DHCP server. (argh)
The last Linux distro I downloaded weighed in at 4,3 Gb
Installed size? Or disk size? Because many distros include hundreds (thousands?) of software packages that are not part of the default install.
Often, software types that MS would get into deep trouble for bundling with windows.
Tools->Options (or Edit->Preferences)
Then choose the content pane, and disable JS, images, w/e you like.
In the case of SI it is the distance light travels in some amount of time.
Actually, it was the length between two marks on a platinum-iridium bar, which was designed to represent 1â10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the north pole through Paris. (wikipedia).
disclaimer: I agree with the RAM usage idea, ram is relatively cheap now.
;)
But.. Where the hell do you get your RAM / BURGERS?
2 McDoubles, fries and a drink cost about $5. Where the hell do you get a gig of ram that cheap? 512MB or ram is about 10 bucks on newegg.
I think the problem is simple. Open h264 and aac. The internet was opened up for the benefit of civilized society. These codecs have had a good few years to make money, and our government is the one "securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries" in order to benefit society.
Seems fair to me that if one such 'discovery' would benefit the 'sciences and useful arts' (or society as a whole) in a much more dramatic way by being 'opened' after a time, then the government should be able to do that (obviously with limits, or under overwhelming need).
OR, just make patent and copyright terms reasonable again.
Wouldn't this manner of external battery be incredibly wasteful? Assuming the laptop does not have a way of detecting that it is an external battery and not a power adapter, then I would assume it would attempt to re-charge the internal battery. This would be very wasteful from a battery-life point of view, as charging a battery is not extremely efficient, and obviously, you would rather that energy be used to power the laptop. Or is an Apple computer smart enough not to charge the battery?
Amarok 1.4.10 all the way, the new Amarok bites. What the hell where they thinking, anyway? 1.4.10 is far better, IMHO than winamp-style, can use (needs to use?) a mysql backend (large collection is WAAY slow on sqlite), and keeps the concept of a "now playing" list.
And if you can't manage that? Well, that's nobody's fault but your own...
The poor, obviously, aren't valuable members of society because they wouldn't be poor if they were.
ugh, I hate "The American Dream". It is statistically extremely unlikely to go from rags to riches. It is a pipe dream. While, yes, it is true that working harder is often correlated with earning more, but that is not always the case. There simply aren't enough high-paying jobs or good opportunities to take advantage of for everyone. Some people are going to be poor by no fault of there own other than the time and place of their existence. Being born as a "have" and not a "have not" provides VERY unequal opportunities in this country (US). From education, to social standing, to financial opportunities such as starting a business for yourself.
Health care is a very tricky thing to decide who gets access to what, and what is "fair". And no one likes being told their job that they spend years studying for should be shared with everyone for little recompense.
There's a huge gap between "they ought to" hurt someone and "I'm going to" hurt someone.
Wow, do I wish more people realized this. I was suspended in Highschool for this EXACT same thing. I "Threatened" another student who had been picking on me by saying I ought to kick his ass. When I pointed out to the vice principal that the choice of the words "ought to" was intentional because it implied I was not going to, she claimed there was no difference.