I learnt algebra/algebra-type concepts in year 6 (11 years old) as one of 4 kids bumped up into an "advanced" year 7 math class. It was the best class I've even taken - we were set a chapter and worked at our own pace, and basically taught ourselves (or hands up for a one on one explanation from the teacher). We were using an (American) Grade 8 textbook. When they cancelled the class the next year I was devastated. I got my dad to buy the book and I went through the whole thing over the summer. I hit year 8 and got frustrated because the topics in that book we did not end up covering until year 10!
Hadn't meant to suggest you did, but wanted to clarify that fact in my post. I am definitely venting frustration at how unlocked iPhones can still have features controlled by the carriers which is bullocks!:(
Being able to buy an unlocked iPhone makes no difference for tethering - it is a restriction your network can apply regardless of where your iPhone comes from. And the fact is some disallow it. The US exclusive deal with AT&T has thereby shafted many people outside the US!
You can't tether on Virgin Mobile in Australia if you are pre-paid. You HAVE to go post-paid - you don't have to sign a contract but you must choose one of their post-paid voice+data plans (which can be a lot more expensive month-month than pre-paid.
It's an arbitrary restriction that is only possible because Apple has enabled the carriers to decide if the phone will do tethering, regardless of the software on the phone (carrier unlocked makes no difference).
I believe that an unlocked phone should be able to do whatever it wants with the data coming in - if I want to share my 3G connection the carrier should only concern themselves with the fact that I am paying for the data they are sending to my SIM.
I wondered the same thing./. really should strive for unambiguous and technical language, even when paraphrasing from TFA (no no don't laugh, that wasn't meant to be funny..)
I assumed it was 50% improvement on the current efficiency. So if an engine is currently 13% efficient (of some theoretical maximum), the new one would be 13*1.5 = 19.5% efficient.
Or are they claiming 50% efficiency of the theoretical maximum?
Mebbe I should RTFA, but I haven't had my second coffee yet.
Yeah, it's a goddamn sorry day all right. One day out of the year taken out to say you're sorry for things you didn't to, apologizing to people who didn't have it done to them, but some generations ago. What the hell is the point of that?
Parent is a bit of a troll but I guess some people do feel that way.
The difference is that the Australian government IS apologising to people to whom these things DID happen. It wasn't "generations ago" it is still in LIVING memory, and the effects have drastically changed the fate of many many people, including descendants of the people on whom racist policies were inflicted. There are still Aboriginal people alive who were taken from their families. And their kids remain affected because of what their parents went through, where they now live, who their families are now, the lost touch with their biological families, etc.
Liquid helium is pretty unique as a coolant - it boils at 3-4 K, and is needed to cool the core in superconducting magnets. Everything else has a much higher boiling temperature (quickly scanned off of wikip) - 20 K (hydrogen) 77 K (nitrogen) or 90 K (oxygen, paramagnetic - no good for superconducting magnets anyway).
It's also pretty standard to measure well below 20 K - down to mK in some experiments - and you can't do this without sucking hard on LHe. I'm not an expert but I use LHe a lot and I don't know of any alternative. Already the price of (very) high purity He gas has gone up - we're not able to do as many experiments as we would like. As much He as possible is recovered and re-liquified but you always lose some to atmosphere when doing transfers, and so have to buy more (as well as pay for the liquification).
Would our lives be different without all this content? Yes. Worse? Not necessarily. Maybe we'd spend more time talking to each other, and gardening, or something. I can think of worse outcomes than the collapse of the 'entertainment' money machine.
Yeah because all the users of the site would totally stick around if they were no longer getting all the content for free. *rolls eyes*
UM HELLO? remember allofmp3? Yeah they charged for downloading and they were extremely popular!! They had the price right - a few cents for a song. That way, backup be dammed, you can just download the song again (paying again) because it's feasible - at a party and want a song you have at home but really want to play now? Just buy it again!!
And they WERE following the law, just using a loophole which was perfectly legit til the US put the hard word on.
So don't think that micropayments AREN'T a viable business option - they are!!
so making MONEY from setting up a business distributing copies of XP you altered intentionally and distribute to millions gets your 3 1/2 years but downloading a few songs for personal use gets you whacked with millions in damages which will cripple your life?
don't Verizon or someone have a box that has a small GSM network that routes your mobile calls over the internet when you're at home? (I only recall hearing about it, not living in the US I didn't pay that much attention)...
I just don't understand where this government's sentiment comes from!! I live in a country that is full of people who are easy going, enjoy life, and who are generally quite non-idealistic - we do not tend to have the passion for politics and causes and pep-talks that seems to drive a lot of US-centric life. And yet the government takes these crazy stands that are SO against the Australian way of living!!
you've described the voting system correctly in all but name - it is NOT first past the post. It IS preferential. First-past-the-post describes the one vote, winner takes all (without having the win the majority) system that is employed in the US.
Agreed! Post the link to the guy who actually wrote about this thoughtfully, and who, you know, GOT THE ACTUAL EMAIL from Schiller. His name is John Gruber and he writes Daring Fireball. And maybe mention him in the summary ??~?~!?
That's what I'm thinking... though like many other cases (iPod, sunnies, camera etc), a nicely designed, easy to use passport case or wallet is functional on more than one level, and can be worth the price, esp if you are in the market for a new one to start with! I have a passport case I paid around $20 for anyway (it holds more than a passport) and I could add some foil to that - but if I didn't have one, or didn't feel the one I have met my needs I'd look at one with the foil built in!
Poutine is (roughly) french fries covered in gravy- served in the French areas of Canada.
with cheese curds!! poutine is all about the cheese curds man!! no cheese curds and it's just chips & gravy - blerg!! (and they serve it all over Canada, though its origin is in the French parts)
apparently in NYC you can get poutine under the guise of "disco fries"
As a fellow Aussie, I'd agree.. we're used to seeing a good, maintained, distinction between news and editorials. Well, except for news.com.au !!!
I think Fox News has its place, clearly people love to watch it, I personally can't stand it but I'm all for freedom of opinion. I really think though that the "news" moniker should be held to a high and defined standard (you'll never get rid of all bias or editing but leave speculation out of it) and everything else can say whatever they want but can't call themselves news per se.
Frankly I hate both the ribbon and the standard menu + toolbars of old Word/OO etc. I've really taken to the OS X Inspector way of editing - in Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Plot etc. Like photoshop I suppose. It's not perfect but it is so much more logical and compact without being limiting!! I've noticed in the latest Pages they've taken to having more of a toolbar which I think is pretty poor and uncharacteristics of Apple's usual firm stance on not copying other more familiar interfaces (eg tree-navigation in the finder).
I think the Inspector could be improved by having the option to lock it to the left or right of the screen (it does get in the way sometimes, though I like that it CAN be floated around) and also to let it absorb the extra windows like the font selection (CMD-t) and special character selection, etc. Or at least that they could easily be docked to the inspector. The OS X menu bar works well to support the inspector because it doesn't move.
Ideally why NOT make the OO interface "skinnable" so that each menu item is some sort of function that could be easily referenced by those who wish to write a ribbon OR menu OR inspector-type interface? I'm not really that knowledgeable with GUI programming but it could at least be an end goal.
The learning curve to systems like LaTeX is very steep, but you have a tremendous amount of control over the formatting and layout.
Yes... but also no.
The point of LaTeX is you don't have to control the formatting - the typesetting engine does that and worries about all the intricacies for you. You just type your document, using chapters, sections, references, etc, and LaTeX will lay it out for you.
You can choose to use a different style if someone has prepared all the formatting in a style file for you, but you just apply it to your (properly marked-up) plain text. Kind of how basic HTML/CSS (should) work..
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That's interesting...
I learnt algebra/algebra-type concepts in year 6 (11 years old) as one of 4 kids bumped up into an "advanced" year 7 math class. It was the best class I've even taken - we were set a chapter and worked at our own pace, and basically taught ourselves (or hands up for a one on one explanation from the teacher). We were using an (American) Grade 8 textbook. When they cancelled the class the next year I was devastated. I got my dad to buy the book and I went through the whole thing over the summer. I hit year 8 and got frustrated because the topics in that book we did not end up covering until year 10!
Hadn't meant to suggest you did, but wanted to clarify that fact in my post. I am definitely venting frustration at how unlocked iPhones can still have features controlled by the carriers which is bullocks! :(
Being able to buy an unlocked iPhone makes no difference for tethering - it is a restriction your network can apply regardless of where your iPhone comes from. And the fact is some disallow it. The US exclusive deal with AT&T has thereby shafted many people outside the US!
You can't tether on Virgin Mobile in Australia if you are pre-paid. You HAVE to go post-paid - you don't have to sign a contract but you must choose one of their post-paid voice+data plans (which can be a lot more expensive month-month than pre-paid.
It's an arbitrary restriction that is only possible because Apple has enabled the carriers to decide if the phone will do tethering, regardless of the software on the phone (carrier unlocked makes no difference).
I believe that an unlocked phone should be able to do whatever it wants with the data coming in - if I want to share my 3G connection the carrier should only concern themselves with the fact that I am paying for the data they are sending to my SIM.
the "radio" button on Grooveshark does pretty well to take one song you like and find similar music :)
I wondered the same thing. /. really should strive for unambiguous and technical language, even when paraphrasing from TFA (no no don't laugh, that wasn't meant to be funny..)
I assumed it was 50% improvement on the current efficiency. So if an engine is currently 13% efficient (of some theoretical maximum), the new one would be 13*1.5 = 19.5% efficient.
Or are they claiming 50% efficiency of the theoretical maximum?
Mebbe I should RTFA, but I haven't had my second coffee yet.
No, Australia is both the continent and the country.
Yeah, it's a goddamn sorry day all right. One day out of the year taken out to say you're sorry for things you didn't to, apologizing to people who didn't have it done to them, but some generations ago. What the hell is the point of that?
Parent is a bit of a troll but I guess some people do feel that way.
The difference is that the Australian government IS apologising to people to whom these things DID happen. It wasn't "generations ago" it is still in LIVING memory, and the effects have drastically changed the fate of many many people, including descendants of the people on whom racist policies were inflicted. There are still Aboriginal people alive who were taken from their families. And their kids remain affected because of what their parents went through, where they now live, who their families are now, the lost touch with their biological families, etc.
Liquid helium is pretty unique as a coolant - it boils at 3-4 K, and is needed to cool the core in superconducting magnets. Everything else has a much higher boiling temperature (quickly scanned off of wikip) - 20 K (hydrogen) 77 K (nitrogen) or 90 K (oxygen, paramagnetic - no good for superconducting magnets anyway).
It's also pretty standard to measure well below 20 K - down to mK in some experiments - and you can't do this without sucking hard on LHe. I'm not an expert but I use LHe a lot and I don't know of any alternative. Already the price of (very) high purity He gas has gone up - we're not able to do as many experiments as we would like. As much He as possible is recovered and re-liquified but you always lose some to atmosphere when doing transfers, and so have to buy more (as well as pay for the liquification).
I agree.
Would our lives be different without all this content? Yes. Worse? Not necessarily. Maybe we'd spend more time talking to each other, and gardening, or something. I can think of worse outcomes than the collapse of the 'entertainment' money machine.
Yeah because all the users of the site would totally stick around if they were no longer getting all the content for free. *rolls eyes*
UM HELLO? remember allofmp3? Yeah they charged for downloading and they were extremely popular!! They had the price right - a few cents for a song. That way, backup be dammed, you can just download the song again (paying again) because it's feasible - at a party and want a song you have at home but really want to play now? Just buy it again!!
And they WERE following the law, just using a loophole which was perfectly legit til the US put the hard word on.
So don't think that micropayments AREN'T a viable business option - they are!!
so making MONEY from setting up a business distributing copies of XP you altered intentionally and distribute to millions gets your 3 1/2 years but downloading a few songs for personal use gets you whacked with millions in damages which will cripple your life?
don't Verizon or someone have a box that has a small GSM network that routes your mobile calls over the internet when you're at home? (I only recall hearing about it, not living in the US I didn't pay that much attention)...
I just don't understand where this government's sentiment comes from!! I live in a country that is full of people who are easy going, enjoy life, and who are generally quite non-idealistic - we do not tend to have the passion for politics and causes and pep-talks that seems to drive a lot of US-centric life. And yet the government takes these crazy stands that are SO against the Australian way of living!!
you've described the voting system correctly in all but name - it is NOT first past the post. It IS preferential. First-past-the-post describes the one vote, winner takes all (without having the win the majority) system that is employed in the US.
so really they are suggesting that google implement a dictionary for numbers? that would be kind cool actually.
Agreed! Post the link to the guy who actually wrote about this thoughtfully, and who, you know, GOT THE ACTUAL EMAIL from Schiller. His name is John Gruber and he writes Daring Fireball. And maybe mention him in the summary ??~?~!?
That's what I'm thinking... though like many other cases (iPod, sunnies, camera etc), a nicely designed, easy to use passport case or wallet is functional on more than one level, and can be worth the price, esp if you are in the market for a new one to start with! I have a passport case I paid around $20 for anyway (it holds more than a passport) and I could add some foil to that - but if I didn't have one, or didn't feel the one I have met my needs I'd look at one with the foil built in!
or you could just use some Al foil... in all seriousness does that work? it should, so does it?
Poutine is (roughly) french fries covered in gravy- served in the French areas of Canada.
with cheese curds!! poutine is all about the cheese curds man!! no cheese curds and it's just chips & gravy - blerg!! (and they serve it all over Canada, though its origin is in the French parts)
apparently in NYC you can get poutine under the guise of "disco fries"
As a fellow Aussie, I'd agree.. we're used to seeing a good, maintained, distinction between news and editorials. Well, except for news.com.au !!!
I think Fox News has its place, clearly people love to watch it, I personally can't stand it but I'm all for freedom of opinion. I really think though that the "news" moniker should be held to a high and defined standard (you'll never get rid of all bias or editing but leave speculation out of it) and everything else can say whatever they want but can't call themselves news per se.
agreed - in a more general anything that gets people reading less TRASHY news sources, right-wing or no!!
well I thought it said vegetarians - they are different, for sure...
Frankly I hate both the ribbon and the standard menu + toolbars of old Word/OO etc. I've really taken to the OS X Inspector way of editing - in Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Plot etc. Like photoshop I suppose. It's not perfect but it is so much more logical and compact without being limiting!! I've noticed in the latest Pages they've taken to having more of a toolbar which I think is pretty poor and uncharacteristics of Apple's usual firm stance on not copying other more familiar interfaces (eg tree-navigation in the finder).
I think the Inspector could be improved by having the option to lock it to the left or right of the screen (it does get in the way sometimes, though I like that it CAN be floated around) and also to let it absorb the extra windows like the font selection (CMD-t) and special character selection, etc. Or at least that they could easily be docked to the inspector. The OS X menu bar works well to support the inspector because it doesn't move.
Ideally why NOT make the OO interface "skinnable" so that each menu item is some sort of function that could be easily referenced by those who wish to write a ribbon OR menu OR inspector-type interface? I'm not really that knowledgeable with GUI programming but it could at least be an end goal.
The learning curve to systems like LaTeX is very steep, but you have a tremendous amount of control over the formatting and layout.
Yes... but also no.
The point of LaTeX is you don't have to control the formatting - the typesetting engine does that and worries about all the intricacies for you. You just type your document, using chapters, sections, references, etc, and LaTeX will lay it out for you.
You can choose to use a different style if someone has prepared all the formatting in a style file for you, but you just apply it to your (properly marked-up) plain text. Kind of how basic HTML/CSS (should) work..