The earth orbits the sun. Imagine there is an axis through the centre of the sun around which the earth is orbiting the sun.
The earth also rotates. The axis of rotation of the earth does not point in the same direction as the axis of the orbit. This is why we say that the earth is tilted.
The tilt keeps pointing in the same direction throughout the year, ignoring the fact that it wobbles.
This means that in summer, the axis in your hemisphere will be pointing towards the sun. The sun will be high in the sky and the energy from the sun will fall directly onto the land so there is more energy per unit area and is hotter.
In winter, the axis in your hemisphere will be pointing away from the sun. The sun will be low in the sky and the rays will strike the earth at an angle and so have less energy per unit area and is so colder.
The seasons vary between these extremes.
It also explains why Australia has summer when the UK has winter as they are on opposite sides of the globe.
As an example of how the angle of the rays striking the earth varies the energy, shine a torch at a piece of paper from straight on. The torch gives out a particular amount of light and energy. Now tilt the paper - the circle of light will elongate into an oval of greater area than the original circle. The torch is still giving out the same amount of energy, it is just spread over a greater area. This means that each particle of the paper must be getting less energy.
I hope that all makes sense!
Now, on top of the tilt, there is a wobble. This is just a change to the tilt. If the tilt increases due to the wobble, the seasons will become more extreme (that is, the difference between summer and winter will increase). If the tilt decreases then the difference between winter and summer will also decrease. If there was no tilt, we would have no seasons.
Have you tried LyX? It's essentially a GUI front end to TeX. You don't need to know TeX. It may not solve your issues with versatility (I still struggle with picture placement sometimes), but other than that it is very good.
I mostly prefer the way it works for what I do. I guess a large part of that is the fact that I'm so used to it that any change is a pain.
I can't really tell much difference over startup times or responsivity (this is on Windows with the quick start enabled), I think the firefox interface is messier - too much candy. I prefer the way I have moz set up with text only buttons and as few of them as possible.
The real gripe for me is the search bar. Why have a whole seperate bar? I realise that it can be removed and then you can use the url bar for searching, but this only appears to work if you type an invalid url or it cannot resolve a host to your search term. What if (for some bizarre reason), I wanted to search for "localhost"? In moz, you just type, press up and then enter. Easy.
One last thing (that I can't comment on personally), but quite often there seem to be comments on slashdot discussing the problems with firefox. This is a skewed sample of course as I'm sure more people use firefox than mozilla so more are going to comment on firefox, but still. There is the infamous firefox/slashdot rendering bug (is that fixed yet?). It's never affected me. Likewise the story there was the other day on the stability of firefox. Obviously it's hard for me to say anything other than subjectively, but moz crashes infrequently enough that it is a big suprise for me if it does.
Well I already use Mozilla the browser, so I already have the mail client (ie. the integrated one) as part of the suite. I use the calendar extension that you link to as well.
I completely agree. I really don't get on with firefox. Besides, I use the browser, mail client and the calendar so getting the suite would make sense even if it wasn't better.
I would be mortified if they did stop supporting the suite.
> Hopefully, our dedication in testing would > convince them that seamonkey is just as > important as Firefox.
Presuming you are using Mozilla (I don't use Firefox, but I guess it should work the same), find the file searchplugins/google.src in your mozilla directory.
After the line starting
You may also want to change the updateCheckDays value as well as it looks as though it will overwrite your modified google.src file (although I'm not sure about this).
This modifies the default google search behaviour that you get when you type in the URL bar, press up then return.
Me neither. You can remove the FF search bar and use the URL bar, but not like in Mozilla. I believe decides whether the URL is valid and then searches or not depending on that. It is not as nice (or obvious) as the way Mozilla does it.
> > since there's no hurry just put in in your bootloader and > > wait till next reboot to load it....
> I do that too. But once in a while something goes wrong and since > it was ages since I updated the kernel and put it in like a grub > timebomb, I've forgotten that I did it. Fun and games.
I do the same, but always make sure that I have at least one kernel available that I know works. This was if your new kernel goes wrong you can always get back to your system easily.
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The earth orbits the sun. Imagine there is an axis through the centre of the sun around which the earth is orbiting the sun.
The earth also rotates. The axis of rotation of the earth does not point in the same direction as the axis of the orbit. This is why we say that the earth is tilted.
The tilt keeps pointing in the same direction throughout the year, ignoring the fact that it wobbles.
This means that in summer, the axis in your hemisphere will be pointing towards the sun. The sun will be high in the sky and the energy from the sun will fall directly onto the land so there is more energy per unit area and is hotter.
In winter, the axis in your hemisphere will be pointing away from the sun. The sun will be low in the sky and the rays will strike the earth at an angle and so have less energy per unit area and is so colder.
The seasons vary between these extremes.
It also explains why Australia has summer when the UK has winter as they are on opposite sides of the globe.
As an example of how the angle of the rays striking the earth varies the energy, shine a torch at a piece of paper from straight on. The torch gives out a particular amount of light and energy. Now tilt the paper - the circle of light will elongate into an oval of greater area than the original circle. The torch is still giving out the same amount of energy, it is just spread over a greater area. This means that each particle of the paper must be getting less energy.
I hope that all makes sense!
Now, on top of the tilt, there is a wobble. This is just a change to the tilt. If the tilt increases due to the wobble, the seasons will become more extreme (that is, the difference between summer and winter will increase). If the tilt decreases then the difference between winter and summer will also decrease. If there was no tilt, we would have no seasons.
Cheers,
Roger
Have you tried LyX? It's essentially a GUI front end to TeX. You don't need to know TeX. It may not solve your issues with versatility (I still struggle with picture placement sometimes), but other than that it is very good.
There is good documentation included as well.
http://www.ly.org/
Cheers,
Roger
I'm not a moonbat, but I certainly think that Linux would benefit from dtrace which is in solaris 10.
New and very very exciting. It is a tool for admins and will also be very useful for developers.
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/dtrace/
Cheers,
Roger
There's nothing wrong with my window manager. I wasn't the original poster, I was just pointing out that there are reasons for multiple windows.
Cheers,
Roger
Never, hopefully. I'm happy for everybody who like FF, really. I just don't like it myself.
Cheers,
Roger
> > TB/FF don't have a window menu, making it slower to navigate between multiple windows.
> What's wrong with tabs?
What's wrong with both? I have multiple windows open with multiple tabs in each. Each window is a particular context.
Don't try to force the way you work onto other people.
Cheers,
Roger
But they are pretty different products from a users point of view, even if you just consider the browser.
I do use Mozilla mail and the calendar, but even if I didn't I still don't like Firefox!
Cheers,
Roger
Let's hope the funny moderation was because he got it wrong, not because the moderator thought he was right...
Absolutely. We had a Sun guy come and give us a demo of Solaris 10. I can't wait to play with dtrace, it looks absolutely amazing.
I wonder whether Linux will ever get something like it. We can hope! :)
Cheers,
Roger
I don't know whether I'm the only person who feels this way.
You aren't. Apps that can be skinned? Who cares. Make apps that can be configured to be minimalist!
Slashdot does this with it's light mode. Yum.
Cheers,
Roger
Indeed and it is this weirdness that makes life possible.
Cheers,
Roger
> I am a painterly rendering researcher
t tp://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/
Do you have any fun results of your research online? I really enjoyed playing with the work on
http://mrl.nyu.edu/projects/image-analogies/
h
and am always on the look out for more interesting things like that.
Cheers,
Roger
Well I guess I was trolling a bit myself... :)
:)
I mostly prefer the way it works for what I do. I guess a large part of that is the fact that I'm so used to it that any change is a pain.
I can't really tell much difference over startup times or responsivity (this is on Windows with the quick start enabled), I think the firefox interface is messier - too much candy. I prefer the way I have moz set up with text only buttons and as few of them as possible.
The real gripe for me is the search bar. Why have a whole seperate bar? I realise that it can be removed and then you can use the url bar for searching, but this only appears to work if you type an invalid url or it cannot resolve a host to your search term. What if (for some bizarre reason), I wanted to search for "localhost"? In moz, you just type, press up and then enter. Easy.
One last thing (that I can't comment on personally), but quite often there seem to be comments on slashdot discussing the problems with firefox. This is a skewed sample of course as I'm sure more people use firefox than mozilla so more are going to comment on firefox, but still. There is the infamous firefox/slashdot rendering bug (is that fixed yet?). It's never affected me. Likewise the story there was the other day on the stability of firefox. Obviously it's hard for me to say anything other than subjectively, but moz crashes infrequently enough that it is a big suprise for me if it does.
Er, I think that's it
Cheers,
Roger
Well I already use Mozilla the browser, so I already have the mail client (ie. the integrated one) as part of the suite. I use the calendar extension that you link to as well.
It's all good.
Cheers,
Roger
I completely agree. I really don't get on with firefox. Besides, I use the browser, mail client and the calendar so getting the suite would make sense even if it wasn't better.
I would be mortified if they did stop supporting the suite.
> Hopefully, our dedication in testing would
> convince them that seamonkey is just as
> important as Firefox.
Hopefully so.
Cheers,
Roger
I don't know whether he still is a "lone coder", (it looks like it) but Paul Nolan writes/wrote photogenics by himself afaik.
http://www.idruna.com/
Supposed to be a very good graphics package (for linux as well!)
Cheers,
Roger
Presuming you are using Mozilla (I don't use Firefox, but I guess it should work the same), find the file searchplugins/google.src in your mozilla directory.
After the line starting
You may also want to change the updateCheckDays value as well as it looks as though it will overwrite your modified google.src file (although I'm not sure about this).
This modifies the default google search behaviour that you get when you type in the URL bar, press up then return.
Cheers,
Roger
Good plan. We could do we some more people on the team.
Just because the linked page talks about the google toolbar doesn't mean you can't use Linux and support us as well.
Cheers,
Roger
All you wannabies :)
I play on my parents' +2 every time I visit them. My dad plays on it every day, give or take.
The only reason it is around is for a nice little puzzle game called Peking.
Uptime would be about 10 years if they didn't turn it off when they go on holiday.
Having read some of the other comments, I fear I may be in danger of losing an afternoon to playing Chaos. Ah well.
Cheers,
Roger
> Human Genome on eBay
Already got mine thanks.
Roger
Me neither. You can remove the FF search bar and use the URL bar, but not like in Mozilla. I believe decides whether the URL is valid and then searches or not depending on that. It is not as nice (or obvious) as the way Mozilla does it.
Cheers,
Roger
But handling it sufficiently well that you don't crash would be a good thing?
Cheers,
Roger
> > since there's no hurry just put in in your bootloader and
> > wait till next reboot to load it....
> I do that too. But once in a while something goes wrong and since
> it was ages since I updated the kernel and put it in like a grub
> timebomb, I've forgotten that I did it. Fun and games.
I do the same, but always make sure that I have at least one kernel available that I know works. This was if your new kernel goes wrong you can always get back to your system easily.
Cheers,
Roger
As a Brit, I'm somewhat disappointed that the writeup meant the other "pound".
The ONLY 125 pound storage device that will hold up to 67.2 TB!
I don't really need 67.2TB of storage, but at £125 I would certainly have considered it. £1.86 per TB is not a bad price (US$3.33)
Cheers,
RogerDo a search on MEMS.
Roger