I saw an article on the latest MacBook Air with the Retina display, after a teardown they gave it their lowest possible rating for repairability. Practically everything was glued in place. Seeing the summary above, obviously it won't be EPEAT-friendly either.
Seems to me boats have been around for years, and likewise docks. Okay, they used to use tar or similar to seal them, but it must have worked. I mean, Columbus did make it across the Atlantic, and he wasn't even the first.
Used KDE for years. (12 years now). It was the default with Mandrake 7.0 in July of 2000 (KDE 2.x, forget the exact version), though Gnome (with sawfish as the window manager) was also available. So was some version of Enlightenment, fluxbox, and some version of AfterStep. Oh, and XFCE. Started with KDE, have tried all those and several more but just keep going back to KDE.
KDE and Gnome are actually decently complete, the others have less in regard to major programs or simply accessories that they work with. Not that I use KOffice (who does?), but that's why I don't use E or Fluxbox or XFCE as my default. (Though honestly, XFCE is probably next most complete.) Gnome? Never liked it.
Initially? The first two English colonies were not religious, though of course the first one disappeared. The Pilgrims in 1620 were the first religious colony. While Maryland and Pennsylvania were also religious, the Catholics currently accept evolution (I'm not sure about the Quakers).
I definitely qualify as conservative, but as a Catholic myself I see no place for literal Biblical creationism in the classroom.
George W. Bush was elected governor of Texas for one reason only: he promised to pass the concealed carry law that "Queen Anne" Richards had vetoed. And he did.
Oh, there's more competition now than there was 5 years ago. Now the telcos are offering video (such as AT&T's "U-Verse"). If you want to get away from cable, nothing to it.
But no, metered usage will force people to turn off Flash, block animations, and maybe even use compression like Opera's Turbo feature, or Amazon's Silk browser. Youtube loses, MMORGs lose, Facebook and Twitter lose.
Amazing how the trolls don't even see it. There are those of us with legitimate questions, yet all we ever see is "the science is well-settled". Sorry, that isn't an answer. As long as you consider everyone who doesn't accept that on blind faith as a "denier", there is no science.
(Yes, Heartland Institute could be called deniers, or payed shills. But as long as you group everyone who doesn't agree with you into one big "deniers" group you're a troll too.)
Sorry to predate all of you, but I started with an RCA VIP - no BASIC, 2K of RAM, hex keypad and 64x32 (pixel, not character) video. Later I did get a T/S 2068 (the US version of the Spectrum, with some additional sound hardware).
Honestly, negative mass is still open to debate. I saw an article on it some time ago as a theoretical thing... it could exist, but we certainly haven't seen anything with negative mass in our corner of the universe. Then again, anything with negative mass would be repelled by normal matter and hence would have left the area of our galaxy long ago.
Division is division, regardless of the base used. The issue is that in base 10 (aka decimal numbers), division by 2 and 5 always comes out to a finite decimal; in binary numbers only division by 2 comes out to a finite decimal. Dividing by any primes other than 2 and 5 (and numbers involving those primes) will require rounding in both bases (and they may not necessarily round the same way). That is, unless you're only dividing by combinations of 2 and 5, there really is no preferred base.
The main problem with a QBASIC "single" (a 32-bit float) is the extremely limited precision of that type, and not so much how rounding is done. Most calculators these days can handle 8-12 digits, you have to use 64-bit floats (a QBASIC "double") to get anything like that from your program.
Back in the blizzard of 1978 we were without power for less than a day. When the power came back, we lost phone service for about 4 days. No idea why really. Fortunately we did have a CB radio.
Thirty years ago, we had a friend who had programmed his COSMAC VIP (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSMAC_VIP...) to accept Morse code for I/O. He was a blind ham radio operator, hence Morse was easy for him to use. Actually, never did find out how he got the program in there in the first place... but in any case, there's a simple input method which only requires one hand (even only 1 finger) and which people have used at 55 wpm and higher.
I once saw (in the local office superstore) a palmtop with a 2048x768 resolution. Yeah, the screen might have been about 3 in.x 8 in. if you were lucky, that works out to 256 dpi or more. At the time I thought it was one of the dumbest things I'd ever seen.
Okay, it could be nice to not be able to see the dots in high resolution photos. On the other hand, I wouldn't want to have to pay for downloading all those high resolution photos on most data plans. And if you're just upscaling low resolution, what's the point?
I have a Casio CG-10 graphing calculator which has a 320x240 resolution display, and several other graphing calculators with the standard 160x120 display (varies slightly, but all pretty close to that). Graphs on the CG-10 are much nicer since it is harder to see them as a bunch of dots... so I'm not going to say the same idea on a tablet is stupid. I'm just not sure who can afford a data plan suitable for that resolution (if such a plan exists).
Government? In this country, government doesn't know who cell users are per se. And if you have a prepay (no contract) phone, your carrier might not either... which is why drug dealers (supposedly anyway) prefer prepay phones.
As far as the original story, I'm sure they're pushing it more along the lines of emergency services and/or civil protection orders ("We can prove from your cell phone data that yes you were on her property" sort of thing) as real-time location is pretty useless when it takes cops too long to get to the scene.
You would be emulating a different CPU (and perhaps other hardware too) on a processor with a slower clock cycle... you might get speeds equivalent to a P6 or thereabouts. If you're lucky.
Opera does. Of course, it will allow you to continue to the page anyway should you choose to, but at least it told you (on by default) that the integrity of the cert could not be verified.
Truth is, I took so many tests in school I got to the point where I could outsmart the test. There was one contest I participated in where I knew none of the material (I hadn't taken the course yet, but no one else at the school wanted to represent the school so I took the test anyway) and came in fourth out of participants at that testing center. Okay, maybe only a couple of hundred people took that test at that location, but I think that's pretty good. In fact, I did better on that test than I did the one in my real subject area...
No, you can't fake essay questions or orals or stuff like that - but those actually require people to grade them, not computers (as in, too expensive).
Assuming average density the same as Earth, take a cure root of 4.5 to determine the approximate radius (compared to Earth). Then gravity is M/r^2 which (since we assumed M = r^3) simplifies to r.
Digging out the calculator, 1.651G.
(Jupiter is substantially less dense than Earth, that's why it doesn't work for Jupiter.)
I recall a warning I saw last year about giving infants water instead of formula - especially purified water. They referred to it as water poisoning (which would seem to me a misleading term, but I don't get to choose these things).
So it is a valid consideration for those who never eat food...
With even Microsoft's emphasis on online apps these days, it shouldn't matter what processor a system has. They made their bed, I guess they can lie in it.
As far as emulators, everyone recalls the PC emulators available for the PPC Macs. They did work, but the system they were emulating was slow by standards of the time. You could in principle emulate any processor on any other processor - but would it be worthwhile?
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With the use of "bugs", "daffy" and "FUDD" (as in Elmer, not "FUD") in the same sentence, how could it be otherwise?
I thought the summary said "earliest"? We have bones that predate that quite substantially ...
I saw an article on the latest MacBook Air with the Retina display, after a teardown they gave it their lowest possible rating for repairability. Practically everything was glued in place. Seeing the summary above, obviously it won't be EPEAT-friendly either.
Did Apple really have a choice, then?
Here I figured it was the song ABACAB by Genesis
Seems to me boats have been around for years, and likewise docks. Okay, they used to use tar or similar to seal them, but it must have worked. I mean, Columbus did make it across the Atlantic, and he wasn't even the first.
Used KDE for years. (12 years now). It was the default with Mandrake 7.0 in July of 2000 (KDE 2.x, forget the exact version), though Gnome (with sawfish as the window manager) was also available. So was some version of Enlightenment, fluxbox, and some version of AfterStep. Oh, and XFCE. Started with KDE, have tried all those and several more but just keep going back to KDE.
KDE and Gnome are actually decently complete, the others have less in regard to major programs or simply accessories that they work with. Not that I use KOffice (who does?), but that's why I don't use E or Fluxbox or XFCE as my default. (Though honestly, XFCE is probably next most complete.) Gnome? Never liked it.
Initially? The first two English colonies were not religious, though of course the first one disappeared. The Pilgrims in 1620 were the first religious colony. While Maryland and Pennsylvania were also religious, the Catholics currently accept evolution (I'm not sure about the Quakers).
I definitely qualify as conservative, but as a Catholic myself I see no place for literal Biblical creationism in the classroom.
George W. Bush was elected governor of Texas for one reason only: he promised to pass the concealed carry law that "Queen Anne" Richards had vetoed. And he did.
Oh, there's more competition now than there was 5 years ago. Now the telcos are offering video (such as AT&T's "U-Verse"). If you want to get away from cable, nothing to it.
But no, metered usage will force people to turn off Flash, block animations, and maybe even use compression like Opera's Turbo feature, or Amazon's Silk browser. Youtube loses, MMORGs lose, Facebook and Twitter lose.
In other words, they don't agree with you.
Amazing how the trolls don't even see it. There are those of us with legitimate questions, yet all we ever see is "the science is well-settled". Sorry, that isn't an answer. As long as you consider everyone who doesn't accept that on blind faith as a "denier", there is no science.
(Yes, Heartland Institute could be called deniers, or payed shills. But as long as you group everyone who doesn't agree with you into one big "deniers" group you're a troll too.)
Sorry to predate all of you, but I started with an RCA VIP - no BASIC, 2K of RAM, hex keypad and 64x32 (pixel, not character) video. Later I did get a T/S 2068 (the US version of the Spectrum, with some additional sound hardware).
Honestly, negative mass is still open to debate. I saw an article on it some time ago as a theoretical thing ... it could exist, but we certainly haven't seen anything with negative mass in our corner of the universe. Then again, anything with negative mass would be repelled by normal matter and hence would have left the area of our galaxy long ago.
You mean, it wasn't famous long before the movies? Duh.
Division is division, regardless of the base used. The issue is that in base 10 (aka decimal numbers), division by 2 and 5 always comes out to a finite decimal; in binary numbers only division by 2 comes out to a finite decimal. Dividing by any primes other than 2 and 5 (and numbers involving those primes) will require rounding in both bases (and they may not necessarily round the same way). That is, unless you're only dividing by combinations of 2 and 5, there really is no preferred base.
The main problem with a QBASIC "single" (a 32-bit float) is the extremely limited precision of that type, and not so much how rounding is done. Most calculators these days can handle 8-12 digits, you have to use 64-bit floats (a QBASIC "double") to get anything like that from your program.
Back in the blizzard of 1978 we were without power for less than a day. When the power came back, we lost phone service for about 4 days. No idea why really. Fortunately we did have a CB radio.
Thirty years ago, we had a friend who had programmed his COSMAC VIP (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSMAC_VIP ...) to accept Morse code for I/O. He was a blind ham radio operator, hence Morse was easy for him to use. Actually, never did find out how he got the program in there in the first place ... but in any case, there's a simple input method which only requires one hand (even only 1 finger) and which people have used at 55 wpm and higher.
I don't know about you, but most wi-fi in this area is encrypted. If you're not at home, work, or some restaurants wi-fi isn't useful.
I once saw (in the local office superstore) a palmtop with a 2048x768 resolution. Yeah, the screen might have been about 3 in.x 8 in. if you were lucky, that works out to 256 dpi or more. At the time I thought it was one of the dumbest things I'd ever seen.
Okay, it could be nice to not be able to see the dots in high resolution photos. On the other hand, I wouldn't want to have to pay for downloading all those high resolution photos on most data plans. And if you're just upscaling low resolution, what's the point?
I have a Casio CG-10 graphing calculator which has a 320x240 resolution display, and several other graphing calculators with the standard 160x120 display (varies slightly, but all pretty close to that). Graphs on the CG-10 are much nicer since it is harder to see them as a bunch of dots ... so I'm not going to say the same idea on a tablet is stupid. I'm just not sure who can afford a data plan suitable for that resolution (if such a plan exists).
Government? In this country, government doesn't know who cell users are per se. And if you have a prepay (no contract) phone, your carrier might not either ... which is why drug dealers (supposedly anyway) prefer prepay phones.
As far as the original story, I'm sure they're pushing it more along the lines of emergency services and/or civil protection orders ("We can prove from your cell phone data that yes you were on her property" sort of thing) as real-time location is pretty useless when it takes cops too long to get to the scene.
You would be emulating a different CPU (and perhaps other hardware too) on a processor with a slower clock cycle ... you might get speeds equivalent to a P6 or thereabouts. If you're lucky.
Opera does. Of course, it will allow you to continue to the page anyway should you choose to, but at least it told you (on by default) that the integrity of the cert could not be verified.
Some of us don't need to cram ...
Truth is, I took so many tests in school I got to the point where I could outsmart the test. There was one contest I participated in where I knew none of the material (I hadn't taken the course yet, but no one else at the school wanted to represent the school so I took the test anyway) and came in fourth out of participants at that testing center. Okay, maybe only a couple of hundred people took that test at that location, but I think that's pretty good. In fact, I did better on that test than I did the one in my real subject area ...
No, you can't fake essay questions or orals or stuff like that - but those actually require people to grade them, not computers (as in, too expensive).
Assuming average density the same as Earth, take a cure root of 4.5 to determine the approximate radius (compared to Earth). Then gravity is M/r^2 which (since we assumed M = r^3) simplifies to r.
Digging out the calculator, 1.651G.
(Jupiter is substantially less dense than Earth, that's why it doesn't work for Jupiter.)
Exactly ...
I recall a warning I saw last year about giving infants water instead of formula - especially purified water. They referred to it as water poisoning (which would seem to me a misleading term, but I don't get to choose these things).
So it is a valid consideration for those who never eat food ...
With even Microsoft's emphasis on online apps these days, it shouldn't matter what processor a system has. They made their bed, I guess they can lie in it.
As far as emulators, everyone recalls the PC emulators available for the PPC Macs. They did work, but the system they were emulating was slow by standards of the time. You could in principle emulate any processor on any other processor - but would it be worthwhile?