But as for equinoxes and solstices, they're mostly stable, varying by date only between two neighboring days. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox.
And the proposed revision to the calendar would change that. From TFA:
Hanke and Henry deal with those extra “pieces” of days by dropping leap years entirely in favor of an extra week added at the end of December every five or six years.
So the date on which a solstice or equinox occurs would move over a range of up to six calendar dates over the course of one calendar cycle of 6 years. Most calendar years would be exactly 364 days long, with one that's 371 days long every 5 or 6 years (on average, every 5.635 years).
It's really weird that I haven't used it -- or even seen a single person using it -- I don't know anybody who does has a Windows Phone, which is surprising given I'm a.Net programmer, and most of my friends are too. I have no intention of buying a £500 Lumia 800 just to try it out. Maybe it's more popular in the states.
I've seen the 16GB Lumia 800 phones, but only in the stores. Actually, I played around with one at a store which pushes Nokia stuff, but it was probably misconfigured or badly configured (network problems and no sample songs or videos). In the same store, I also played with the similarly-priced 64GB Nokia N9, which has a slower processor but slightly more pixels and much more memory and runs a sort-of MeeGo instead of WP7. I'm waiting until the 64GB Galaxy Nexus is available in Europe before making a purchase decision, but at present, the N9 is way ahead of the Lumia crap, so it will likely be between the N9 and the Galaxy Nexus (an unknown quantity).
I have been pondering for a long while on whether America is a Fatherland or an Motherland...
You insensitive clod! America is and must be a Parent-Land, utterly free of sexist gender-laden stereotypes.
Oh, wait, that "Parent-Land" term might be construed as ageist or anti-youth. Uh, America is and must be an Infantile Parent-Land! Now that's more like it.
This quote sums up all you need to know about religion: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." – Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger).
This quote sums up all you need to know about religion:
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." – Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger).
Back then, the religions he spoke of were different to today's, the cultures of the people were different to today's, and the nature of education was different to today's, but nothing has changed. Not even the hypocrisy of the rulers/politicians.
BTW, regarding your extraordinarily generous assessment of statesmen:
"Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen." – Bob Edwards.
The library of Alexander was mostly destroyed by Julius Caesar, and while it was partially rebuilt it slowly grew smaller and smaller over time as the Roman Empire broke down and Alexandria ceased to be the greatest city of the world.
Actually, scholarly opinion is divided, so don't take it as established fact. The available evidence is ambiguous and rarely first-hand or unbiased, so it's likely to remain controversial.
The fire set by Caesar's troops among the Egyptian navy vessels spread onshore, but only into the port of Alexandria. Many thousands of "books" were burned in the port as a result, but most of them were commercial ledgers and suchlike. The Great Library was not in the port, and likely was relatively unscathed by this fire.
A better case can be made that the Library was destroyed during Emperor Aurelian's conflict with Queen Zenobia, which actually did devastate the requisite part of the city. Of course, being a repository of flammable materials (papyri) with lighting by candles and oil lamps, occasional fires at the Library probably reduced their holdings from time to time.
The Warner Bros lawyers are poring over every Louis Vuitton advertisement and product, desperately looking for something to neutralize the issue. Even a stain which is vaguely in the shape of Wile E Coyote would do.
... 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - - - this is four times the weight of Queen Elizabeth.
My gawd, the poor woman !! I now understand why she so sparingly appears in public. Being so overweight must be horrible.
The queen, she came to call on us
She wanted to see all of us
I'm glad she didn't fall on us
She's 57,558,600 stone...
Apologies to the late George Hodnett.
Yet it's sad that the author could assume we all knew what a space ball was, but had to provide directions to help us locate a country that is larger than Texas. If only Mel Brooks had been a geography teacher.
No need to mention the Morons From Outer Space, then.
If the machine is going to meter pudding based on the metrics of the would-be buyer, then it should base its decision on the relative size of belly or bum to height (or some similar fat/slender axis), not on the size of the head.
Of course, it would be better if the machine did not attempt to make any such decisions, as there are probably enough cases where the decision would be wrong (small adult, etc.). Lawsuits ahoy!
You know, once upon a time, the United States had a Department of War. It's job was to ensure that our country was always at war with some other country. We ditched it in favor of a Department of Defense. I am having trouble telling the difference now.
Maybe the US mostly won its wars back then when they were waged against other nations and to defend the rights of US citizens. Today it looks different: both the War on Terror and the War on Drugs look like wars waged to a considerable extent against the rights of US citizens. No wonder they're not going well.
It's a good thing phone carriers don't limit your data consumption....
oh wait..
Yes, it is a good thing. We get unlimited 3G data for an increment of 3euro/month on the basic cellphone service per phone. It's only a 384kbps data service, but it can be used non-stop without incurring any extra fees. For the three cellphones I pay for (me and two kids), the combined bill rarely reaches 20euro/month, including taxes and all calls.
Oh wait... you weren't actually being facetious, were you?
The "home" page at our home web server is 9.5kB, including some Javascript, but it will load about 80kB of Logos from various FOSS sites (Gimp, Scribus, Inkscape, SciLab, etc.). Most of the index pages in different areas are also rather less than 10kB in size, but some of them link to pages containing albums of photos and videos. The entire site contains 15.6 GB of files which can be served up, mostly in these albums.
Not really. It only has crap default settings. Deactivate Nepomuk, for instance, and you'll see memory usage plummet. I'm using KDE 4.6 and it uses only ~380Mb at startup. Even running Firefox and GIMP I rarely use 1Gb of RAM. KDE is very good when properly tuned, insufferable if not.
And I'm posting this from an eight-year-old laptop with a 1.6GHz Centrino and 1GB RAM. It has LXDE to which Compiz and Emerald and a few bits of xfce4 were added as a slight perversion of Lubuntu. About 130MB in use after starting, which leaves plenty for running applications.
Right now, it's running Chromium (several tabs) + Geeqie (large NFS directory of images) + Gimp (14Mpix image loaded) + Inkscape (making some construction plans) + OpenOffice Writer (20 page document including a few bitmap graphics), and only 558MB are in use. However, there are occasions when the swap partition gets used - if I'm editing a large document in OpenOffice and several large images are open simultaneously in Gimp.
It's perfect, since Gingrich never was a conservative, he is quite liberal or progressive or corrupt, take your pick.
I'd say "corrupt and hypocritical" is the right answer.
He's been in politics for decades. This invariably results in corruption, hypocrisy, and the instincts of a weasel. Usually, they get rich, also.
"This domain has been reserved from registration."
Perhaps the registrar has an aversion to lawsuits. It might be educational to try various $NameOfPublicFigure.xxx domains.
I'd have to agree. If you go to Walmart.com, you expect it to be Walmart's site. Same with Microsoft.com, Sears.com or Chrysler.com. If a site is against it, you'd expect something more like walmartsucks.com or antiwalmart.com. It'd be sort of like finding some kind of trademark loophole where you could build a store, put Walmart's logo out front but then have the inside be expressly anti-walmart. If nothing else, it's deceptive.
Is there a different person of the same name (Newt Gingrich) in the Democratic party? I've no idea how likely that is, but it would then make the registration of the domain less of a dirty trick. It could still be rather deceptive, of course, depending how it was used.
What next? Is the legal system going to require people to change their names if someone else considers it offensive?
If it's unlawful, yes. You already cannot give or take any name you want. This is especially true for companies. Your company name cannot contain anything illegal or what promotes something illegal.
Well the surname "Cockburn" sounds both offensive and could be taken as an instruction to commit an illegal act.
Not to mention what names from other cultures may sound like. Examples: Pedo, Dikshit (variants include Dikshitar), Phuc, and Kunti.
Indeed; there would be no escape from work-related calls, for instance. One reason I don't volunteer my personal phone for work purposes is because I ignore the work phone outside work hours (except by prior agreement such as a conference call with people in the US or Asia). I leave my personal phone on, and don't get any work-related calls on it.
What next - "Gee, *I* would like a new chainsaw, so I think I'll buy one for my wife/girlfriend/significant other"...
By your logic, my wife has been dropping hints for years that she'd like some power tools. At least, she keeps buying power tools for me for birthday, Christmas, Fathers' day, etc.
If you've installed Tomato Firmware into your router you get an even larger pool of dyndns services to choose from.
Alas, my router is not among those supported by Tomato or OpenWRT or anything other than its proprietary firmware. I did investigate these options, of course.
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But as for equinoxes and solstices, they're mostly stable, varying by date only between two neighboring days. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox.
And the proposed revision to the calendar would change that. From TFA:
Hanke and Henry deal with those extra “pieces” of days by dropping leap years entirely in favor of an extra week added at the end of December every five or six years.
So the date on which a solstice or equinox occurs would move over a range of up to six calendar dates over the course of one calendar cycle of 6 years. Most calendar years would be exactly 364 days long, with one that's 371 days long every 5 or 6 years (on average, every 5.635 years).
It's really weird that I haven't used it -- or even seen a single person using it -- I don't know anybody who does has a Windows Phone, which is surprising given I'm a .Net programmer, and most of my friends are too. I have no intention of buying a £500 Lumia 800 just to try it out. Maybe it's more popular in the states.
I've seen the 16GB Lumia 800 phones, but only in the stores. Actually, I played around with one at a store which pushes Nokia stuff, but it was probably misconfigured or badly configured (network problems and no sample songs or videos). In the same store, I also played with the similarly-priced 64GB Nokia N9, which has a slower processor but slightly more pixels and much more memory and runs a sort-of MeeGo instead of WP7. I'm waiting until the 64GB Galaxy Nexus is available in Europe before making a purchase decision, but at present, the N9 is way ahead of the Lumia crap, so it will likely be between the N9 and the Galaxy Nexus (an unknown quantity).
I have been pondering for a long while on whether America is a Fatherland or an Motherland...
You insensitive clod! America is and must be a Parent-Land, utterly free of sexist gender-laden stereotypes.
Oh, wait, that "Parent-Land" term might be construed as ageist or anti-youth. Uh, America is and must be an Infantile Parent-Land! Now that's more like it.
That quotation is spurious.
Disputed is not the same as spurious.
This quote sums up all you need to know about religion:
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." – Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger).
Back then, the religions he spoke of were different to today's, the cultures of the people were different to today's, and the nature of education was different to today's, but nothing has changed. Not even the hypocrisy of the rulers/politicians.
BTW, regarding your extraordinarily generous assessment of statesmen:
"Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen." – Bob Edwards.
The library of Alexander was mostly destroyed by Julius Caesar, and while it was partially rebuilt it slowly grew smaller and smaller over time as the Roman Empire broke down and Alexandria ceased to be the greatest city of the world.
Actually, scholarly opinion is divided, so don't take it as established fact. The available evidence is ambiguous and rarely first-hand or unbiased, so it's likely to remain controversial.
The fire set by Caesar's troops among the Egyptian navy vessels spread onshore, but only into the port of Alexandria. Many thousands of "books" were burned in the port as a result, but most of them were commercial ledgers and suchlike. The Great Library was not in the port, and likely was relatively unscathed by this fire.
A better case can be made that the Library was destroyed during Emperor Aurelian's conflict with Queen Zenobia, which actually did devastate the requisite part of the city. Of course, being a repository of flammable materials (papyri) with lighting by candles and oil lamps, occasional fires at the Library probably reduced their holdings from time to time.
The Warner Bros lawyers are poring over every Louis Vuitton advertisement and product, desperately looking for something to neutralize the issue. Even a stain which is vaguely in the shape of Wile E Coyote would do.
My gawd, the poor woman !! I now understand why she so sparingly appears in public. Being so overweight must be horrible.
The queen, she came to call on us
She wanted to see all of us
I'm glad she didn't fall on us
She's 57,558,600 stone...
Apologies to the late George Hodnett.
If Santa was moving so fast, how come NORAD can track him, and post videos of him at major cities...
Yet it's sad that the author could assume we all knew what a space ball was, but had to provide directions to help us locate a country that is larger than Texas. If only Mel Brooks had been a geography teacher.
No need to mention the Morons From Outer Space, then.
Which is why the GPL is bad for businesses: Why would you want to spend resources catering to non-customers?
Asking your question here is no more than a rhetorical ploy, and a rather poor choice of one at that.
Ask instead one of the businesses which uses or relies on Linux in its products, such as many NAS vendors. Here's one example.
If the machine is going to meter pudding based on the metrics of the would-be buyer, then it should base its decision on the relative size of belly or bum to height (or some similar fat/slender axis), not on the size of the head.
Of course, it would be better if the machine did not attempt to make any such decisions, as there are probably enough cases where the decision would be wrong (small adult, etc.). Lawsuits ahoy!
You know, once upon a time, the United States had a Department of War. It's job was to ensure that our country was always at war with some other country. We ditched it in favor of a Department of Defense. I am having trouble telling the difference now.
Maybe the US mostly won its wars back then when they were waged against other nations and to defend the rights of US citizens. Today it looks different: both the War on Terror and the War on Drugs look like wars waged to a considerable extent against the rights of US citizens. No wonder they're not going well.
but all this guy is missing is pom poms and a miniskirt..
He didn't upload that photo.
PCLinuxOS has KDE as its standard, although versions with LXDE, E17, etc. are also available.
It's a good thing phone carriers don't limit your data consumption....
oh wait..
Yes, it is a good thing. We get unlimited 3G data for an increment of 3euro/month on the basic cellphone service per phone. It's only a 384kbps data service, but it can be used non-stop without incurring any extra fees. For the three cellphones I pay for (me and two kids), the combined bill rarely reaches 20euro/month, including taxes and all calls.
Oh wait... you weren't actually being facetious, were you?
The "home" page at our home web server is 9.5kB, including some Javascript, but it will load about 80kB of Logos from various FOSS sites (Gimp, Scribus, Inkscape, SciLab, etc.). Most of the index pages in different areas are also rather less than 10kB in size, but some of them link to pages containing albums of photos and videos. The entire site contains 15.6 GB of files which can be served up, mostly in these albums.
Not really. It only has crap default settings. Deactivate Nepomuk, for instance, and you'll see memory usage plummet. I'm using KDE 4.6 and it uses only ~380Mb at startup. Even running Firefox and GIMP I rarely use 1Gb of RAM. KDE is very good when properly tuned, insufferable if not.
And I'm posting this from an eight-year-old laptop with a 1.6GHz Centrino and 1GB RAM. It has LXDE to which Compiz and Emerald and a few bits of xfce4 were added as a slight perversion of Lubuntu. About 130MB in use after starting, which leaves plenty for running applications.
Right now, it's running Chromium (several tabs) + Geeqie (large NFS directory of images) + Gimp (14Mpix image loaded) + Inkscape (making some construction plans) + OpenOffice Writer (20 page document including a few bitmap graphics), and only 558MB are in use. However, there are occasions when the swap partition gets used - if I'm editing a large document in OpenOffice and several large images are open simultaneously in Gimp.
It's perfect, since Gingrich never was a conservative, he is quite liberal or progressive or corrupt, take your pick.
I'd say "corrupt and hypocritical" is the right answer.
He's been in politics for decades. This invariably results in corruption, hypocrisy, and the instincts of a weasel. Usually, they get rich, also.
who controls newtgingrich.xxx?
"This domain has been reserved from registration."
Perhaps the registrar has an aversion to lawsuits. It might be educational to try various $NameOfPublicFigure.xxx domains.
I'd have to agree. If you go to Walmart.com, you expect it to be Walmart's site. Same with Microsoft.com, Sears.com or Chrysler.com. If a site is against it, you'd expect something more like walmartsucks.com or antiwalmart.com. It'd be sort of like finding some kind of trademark loophole where you could build a store, put Walmart's logo out front but then have the inside be expressly anti-walmart. If nothing else, it's deceptive.
Is there a different person of the same name (Newt Gingrich) in the Democratic party? I've no idea how likely that is, but it would then make the registration of the domain less of a dirty trick. It could still be rather deceptive, of course, depending how it was used.
What next? Is the legal system going to require people to change their names if someone else considers it offensive?
If it's unlawful, yes. You already cannot give or take any name you want. This is especially true for companies. Your company name cannot contain anything illegal or what promotes something illegal.
Well the surname "Cockburn" sounds both offensive and could be taken as an instruction to commit an illegal act.
Not to mention what names from other cultures may sound like. Examples: Pedo, Dikshit (variants include Dikshitar), Phuc, and Kunti.
This will not end well.
Indeed; there would be no escape from work-related calls, for instance. One reason I don't volunteer my personal phone for work purposes is because I ignore the work phone outside work hours (except by prior agreement such as a conference call with people in the US or Asia). I leave my personal phone on, and don't get any work-related calls on it.
What next - "Gee, *I* would like a new chainsaw, so I think I'll buy one for my wife/girlfriend/significant other" ...
By your logic, my wife has been dropping hints for years that she'd like some power tools. At least, she keeps buying power tools for me for birthday, Christmas, Fathers' day, etc.
If you've installed Tomato Firmware into your router you get an even larger pool of dyndns services to choose from.
Alas, my router is not among those supported by Tomato or OpenWRT or anything other than its proprietary firmware. I did investigate these options, of course.