I love the two-tone design of the 2500 DM, especially on the beige variant but the two-tone green looks great as well. I wish though that the buttons were not all grey but followed the overall design of the device.
A big plus however that the buttons are double-shot moulded thick ABS and not some cheap pad-printed crap like on low-end phones -- or with no legends at all like some company that used to make good computers.
The vast majority of CO2 emissions from cement manufacture is not from the energy used to heat the kiln but as a produce of the chemical process itself when limestone (calcium carbonate) is decarbonated into lime (calcium oxide).
This means that it is not enough just to change into using clean energy for heating the kiln. Luckily, cement could be produced CO2-free using a heated electrolysis process but the process if very new and untested and it would require that the a huge chunk of the cement factory would have to be rebuilt. The world can not wait 20 years for clean cement.
I can only see one reason why Japan should possibly extract and burn methane ice:
Methane ice should be extracted only if it meant that the methane would be released into the atmosphere faster if it was not extracted. The process must also not leak excess amounts of methane.
In other words, the total carbon-equivalent emission of the system must be equal or better than doing nothing at all.
You don't round to display in a calculator in the first place. What you get in the calculator display should reflect the true value in the accumulator.
Also, if sqrt(4.0) does not produce exactly 2.0 then there is something wrong with that code. 4.0 and 2.0 are powers of two, so there should not be any rounding when using IEEE floating point math.
Reminds me of gmail.com's login form which has a similar bug.
If you type username and then Return, the Return does not immediately switch focus to the password field - it only starts an animation and passes focus to the password field when the animation is done. So, if you type your password too fast, the first few characters will not end up in the password field (or not at all, if your password is short).
Bugs the hell out of me. The older login form did not have this bug.
Being in control of my computer is the main reason why I am mainly a Linux user.
You could build a long-lasting PC from components but you would first have to do a bit of looking for info, and then read up about them... but there is a whole lot of cruft out there. The PC builder enthusiast community is now largely made up of gamers that just want high performance and run it hard for a short time before they upgrade.
It is a rumoured graphics user interface shell that is supposed to be better at scaling between different devices. From what I have been able to decipher from rumours, it would be similar to adaptive web design but for Windows' shell.
People deep in a conversation on a cell phone can also be quite distracted - and cause accidents.
I was once almost hit by a taxi cab at a zebra crossing because the cab driver was yapping away on his cell phone. I saw him using the phone because I was trying to get eye contact with him, expecting him to stop at the crossing as is the law when there are people out on the crossing. I had to jump.
The issue is not about credit cards - but about debit cards. A debit card does not imply credit. You can have a debit card linked to your bank account without being eligible for credit. But yes, people often say "credit card" when they refer to any kind of payment card in general.
Many countries have never had the manual slip system -- they have only ever used electronic transactions. Some cards are even chip-and-pin only, where the only type of card transaction available is a secure payment.
Shops will still have price labels, if not on the goods themselves then at least on the shelves. Electronic shelf labels with LCD's or e-paper run on batteries - not the grid - and battery lifetime is on the scale of five to ten years.
But everything is relative. There have been a bunch of sequels or reboots to classic movies from the '80s and '90s recently, of which Harrison Ford has starred in two. I would say that, what sets Blade Runner 2049 apart the most from the others is that it does not insult its audience, which is primarily the fans of the original movie.
Too bad that it took this long for Hollywood to finally realise that if you are going to reinvigorate an old franchise - and to successfully play on nostalgia to sell it - you will have to respect the original.
They are infamous. If you do only a simple duckduckgo search, you will quickly find a dozen stories from the Entertainment industry about how "D" screwed people over.
Only the other day, I saw this: https://youtu.be/_pd6yO-jBRo Quentin Tarantino's 70mm "The Hateful Eight" had been pushed out from the 70mm "Cinerama Dome" theatre because The Mouse wanted to show Star Wars there a couple weeks longer.
Just look at some of the Nobel prizes in physics the last twenty years: * Blue LED, and by extension white LEDs and low-energy LED bulbs. (2014) * Graphene (2010) * CCD (2009) * Fibre-optics for communication (2009) * Semiconductor-based integrated circuits (2000) * Laser cooling (1997)
And chemistry: * Nanotechnology (2016) * Conductive polymers (2000)
All of those are more or less hugely important technologies... that I as a non-physicist can have at least a fleeting grasp of what it is all about, so there may be something that I missed. Many of the other prizes have gone to more fundamental science -- that may be used for some important technology in the future -- or to astrophysics or with applications mostly in medicine.
It has not gone away. Most brand new motherboards in mATX and ATX form factor do have headers for a parallel port and also a serial port. You would just need to get brackets for them to get sockets out the back - just like you had to do with AT motherboards back in the day.
I live in an apartment block where there are many elderly and a few wheelchair-bound. We got a new elevator installed recently where the doors have been configured to take a noticeable long time to close unless you press the "close doors" button.
I suppose that all the manufacturer's elevators get the button on the stock control panel but that not all are configured in ways that make it stand out.
Yeah, but the use has shifted. It used to stand for everything around a user and a product: from how you learn about it, how you buy it, how it is packaged, how you install it, how you use it, how you upgrade it, how you get support for it and how you get rid of it.
These days, people use it to mean "user interface design": Just one part of the whole.
What usually happens when one species is diminished is that another species takes its place. So, we may not get fewer parasites, only fewer species of parasites.
Overall, when the Earth gets warmer, species from places that were warmer are likely to become more common in places that used to be colder, but now are not. That's not just parasites, but all types of insects, plants, animals and diseases.
I run Mate which is a clone of the more sensible GNOME 2. Mate is based on the GTK+ user interface toolkit.
Unfortunately, development of the GTK+ toolkit was also taken over by the same idiots that "develop" GNOME 3. They have done things such as breaking the API on minor version number revisions, and added requirements to those of GNOME 3. They changed the tried and true behaviour of scrollbars and sliders to not paging when you click in the trough and which stops if you move the knob too slowly. They removed the way that submenus stay open longer if you move the mouse pointer towards it. Text has smooth - but delayed - scrolling that can't be sped up to instantaneous. I thought about writing a theme engine that patched the behaviour (which I did in the GTK+ 1.2 days) but they "deprecated" theme engines, so now I would have to fork the entire toolkit if I want to fix it.
The mandatory legal warranty in the EU covers only "pre-existing defects". If a component is rated from the beginning to expire less than then the full warranty period does not cover that component.
So it may be possible for Apple to legal-wrangle themselves out of the full two-year period, but I think that reasonably, the only thing they could do it for would be battery life... or the OLED screen of the iPhone X.
At least the search in address bar is configurable. Personally I prefer Chrome's approach but I think that Firefox should make the old separate search bar be the default.
If Firefox wants to position itself as an alternative to Chrome, it should try to be an alternative to Chrome and that means that it would have to be different, it has to be its own thing. Otherwise Chrome Users will just see it as a copy - an inferior copy - to Chrome and they will go back to the "real thing".
Google chose to unify the search and address bar so as to make word or misspelled URL lead to a Google search. But that is not always what the user intended. If Mozilla wants to provide a search as a backup, they should put a pre-filled search form in the "Server not found" message page so that a search could be done from there with a single click.
Not everyone maximises their browser windows. The extended screen real estate can be put to better use.
I am used to running two windows side by side on 1920 wide screens, and three windows on 34" 21:9, same PPI. One window per task, thus having tabs sorted by task and not in one clump.
Where do you get your legitimate copy of Windows installation disks? Any normal person would not buy a new clean set from Microsoft but instead use the disks he got with the machine - the Lenovo disks that would have the malware.
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Also, don't let Damon Lindelof near it either.
That depends on who your friends are ...
I love the two-tone design of the 2500 DM, especially on the beige variant but the two-tone green looks great as well.
I wish though that the buttons were not all grey but followed the overall design of the device.
A big plus however that the buttons are double-shot moulded thick ABS and not some cheap pad-printed crap like on low-end phones -- or with no legends at all like some company that used to make good computers.
The vast majority of CO2 emissions from cement manufacture is not from the energy used to heat the kiln but as a produce of the chemical process itself when limestone (calcium carbonate) is decarbonated into lime (calcium oxide).
This means that it is not enough just to change into using clean energy for heating the kiln.
Luckily, cement could be produced CO2-free using a heated electrolysis process but the process if very new and untested and it would require that the a huge chunk of the cement factory would have to be rebuilt. The world can not wait 20 years for clean cement.
I can only see one reason why Japan should possibly extract and burn methane ice:
Methane ice should be extracted only if it meant that the methane would be released into the atmosphere faster if it was not extracted. The process must also not leak excess amounts of methane.
In other words, the total carbon-equivalent emission of the system must be equal or better than doing nothing at all.
You don't round to display in a calculator in the first place. What you get in the calculator display should reflect the true value in the accumulator.
Also, if sqrt(4.0) does not produce exactly 2.0 then there is something wrong with that code. 4.0 and 2.0 are powers of two, so there should not be any rounding when using IEEE floating point math.
Reminds me of gmail.com's login form which has a similar bug.
If you type username and then Return, the Return does not immediately switch focus to the password field - it only starts an animation and passes focus to the password field when the animation is done.
So, if you type your password too fast, the first few characters will not end up in the password field (or not at all, if your password is short).
Bugs the hell out of me. The older login form did not have this bug.
Being in control of my computer is the main reason why I am mainly a Linux user.
You could build a long-lasting PC from components but you would first have to do a bit of looking for info, and then read up about them ... but there is a whole lot of cruft out there. The PC builder enthusiast community is now largely made up of gamers that just want high performance and run it hard for a short time before they upgrade.
You mean Composable Shell?
It is a rumoured graphics user interface shell that is supposed to be better at scaling between different devices. From what I have been able to decipher from rumours, it would be similar to adaptive web design but for Windows' shell.
People deep in a conversation on a cell phone can also be quite distracted - and cause accidents.
I was once almost hit by a taxi cab at a zebra crossing because the cab driver was yapping away on his cell phone. I saw him using the phone because I was trying to get eye contact with him, expecting him to stop at the crossing as is the law when there are people out on the crossing. I had to jump.
The issue is not about credit cards - but about debit cards.
A debit card does not imply credit. You can have a debit card linked to your bank account without being eligible for credit.
But yes, people often say "credit card" when they refer to any kind of payment card in general.
Many countries have never had the manual slip system -- they have only ever used electronic transactions. Some cards are even chip-and-pin only, where the only type of card transaction available is a secure payment.
Shops will still have price labels, if not on the goods themselves then at least on the shelves.
Electronic shelf labels with LCD's or e-paper run on batteries - not the grid - and battery lifetime is on the scale of five to ten years.
It wasn't bad, and it has its moments.
But everything is relative. There have been a bunch of sequels or reboots to classic movies from the '80s and '90s recently, of which Harrison Ford has starred in two.
I would say that, what sets Blade Runner 2049 apart the most from the others is that it does not insult its audience, which is primarily the fans of the original movie.
Too bad that it took this long for Hollywood to finally realise that if you are going to reinvigorate an old franchise - and to successfully play on nostalgia to sell it - you will have to respect the original.
They are infamous. If you do only a simple duckduckgo search, you will quickly find a dozen stories from the Entertainment industry about how "D" screwed people over.
Only the other day, I saw this: https://youtu.be/_pd6yO-jBRo
Quentin Tarantino's 70mm "The Hateful Eight" had been pushed out from the 70mm "Cinerama Dome" theatre because The Mouse wanted to show Star Wars there a couple weeks longer.
Just look at some of the Nobel prizes in physics the last twenty years:
* Blue LED, and by extension white LEDs and low-energy LED bulbs. (2014)
* Graphene (2010)
* CCD (2009)
* Fibre-optics for communication (2009)
* Semiconductor-based integrated circuits (2000)
* Laser cooling (1997)
And chemistry:
* Nanotechnology (2016)
* Conductive polymers (2000)
All of those are more or less hugely important technologies ... that I as a non-physicist can have at least a fleeting grasp of what it is all about, so there may be something that I missed.
Many of the other prizes have gone to more fundamental science -- that may be used for some important technology in the future --
or to astrophysics or with applications mostly in medicine.
It has not gone away. Most brand new motherboards in mATX and ATX form factor do have headers for a parallel port and also a serial port.
You would just need to get brackets for them to get sockets out the back - just like you had to do with AT motherboards back in the day.
I live in an apartment block where there are many elderly and a few wheelchair-bound. We got a new elevator installed recently where the doors have been configured to take a noticeable long time to close unless you press the "close doors" button.
I suppose that all the manufacturer's elevators get the button on the stock control panel but that not all are configured in ways that make it stand out.
Yeah, but the use has shifted. It used to stand for everything around a user and a product: from how you learn about it, how you buy it, how it is packaged, how you install it, how you use it, how you upgrade it, how you get support for it and how you get rid of it.
These days, people use it to mean "user interface design": Just one part of the whole.
The only thing that is tweakable is left-click for paging in scrollbars.
The other things are not.
What usually happens when one species is diminished is that another species takes its place.
So, we may not get fewer parasites, only fewer species of parasites.
Overall, when the Earth gets warmer, species from places that were warmer are likely to become more common in places that used to be colder, but now are not. That's not just parasites, but all types of insects, plants, animals and diseases.
I run Mate which is a clone of the more sensible GNOME 2. Mate is based on the GTK+ user interface toolkit.
Unfortunately, development of the GTK+ toolkit was also taken over by the same idiots that "develop" GNOME 3.
They have done things such as breaking the API on minor version number revisions, and added requirements to those of GNOME 3.
They changed the tried and true behaviour of scrollbars and sliders to not paging when you click in the trough and which stops if you move the knob too slowly.
They removed the way that submenus stay open longer if you move the mouse pointer towards it.
Text has smooth - but delayed - scrolling that can't be sped up to instantaneous.
I thought about writing a theme engine that patched the behaviour (which I did in the GTK+ 1.2 days) but they "deprecated" theme engines, so now I would have to fork the entire toolkit if I want to fix it.
The mandatory legal warranty in the EU covers only "pre-existing defects".
If a component is rated from the beginning to expire less than then the full warranty period does not cover that component.
So it may be possible for Apple to legal-wrangle themselves out of the full two-year period, but I think that reasonably, the only thing they could do it for would be battery life ... or the OLED screen of the iPhone X.
At least the search in address bar is configurable. Personally I prefer Chrome's approach but I think that Firefox should make the old separate search bar be the default.
If Firefox wants to position itself as an alternative to Chrome, it should try to be an alternative to Chrome and that means that it would have to be different, it has to be its own thing.
Otherwise Chrome Users will just see it as a copy - an inferior copy - to Chrome and they will go back to the "real thing".
Google chose to unify the search and address bar so as to make word or misspelled URL lead to a Google search. But that is not always what the user intended.
If Mozilla wants to provide a search as a backup, they should put a pre-filled search form in the "Server not found" message page so that a search could be done from there with a single click.
Not everyone maximises their browser windows. The extended screen real estate can be put to better use.
I am used to running two windows side by side on 1920 wide screens, and three windows on 34" 21:9, same PPI.
One window per task, thus having tabs sorted by task and not in one clump.
Where do you get your legitimate copy of Windows installation disks?
Any normal person would not buy a new clean set from Microsoft but instead use the disks he got with the machine - the Lenovo disks that would have the malware.