No, it screams that they've already done the work to make their printed menu. Just posting that file as is or size-reduced is the simplest option with the least amount of work.
So what you're saying is that they should rework their entire business to make it easier for their web site. Nevermind the fact that they have these menus printed and that's the primary concern. The printed work is already done in a PDF export and they're either posting that as-is or running it through an optimizer to reduce the file size.
Even if it's primarily tabular work, you are dealing with a physical page. One entry or deletion from the menu will affect the positioning of everything else if you want the finished page to look "filled in" and proportionally laid out. That's a more artistic than technical concern and much easier with the likes of Adobe Illustrator than a Perl script.
The amount of damage done to a road is exponential based on vehicle weight. Gas taxes might cover the wear and tear of cars. They do not cover the abuse of 18-wheeled beasts.
Taxing corporations is an alternative to taxing low-income wage earners higher.
A flat tax wouldn't change a thing if there are no domestic profits and the money that would be profit is paid to an overseas shell company. We wouldn't need to pass convoluted tax laws if companies weren't coming up with even more convoluted ways of bypassing them.
I'd argue that's not really having access to the computer except for re-purposing its hardware. If the boot/data drive is encrypted, you've gained nothing. A lot of smartphones are encrypted by default when a screen locker is enabled. With Windows, CTRL+ALT+DEL plus a secure password is probably enough to keep you out of an encrypted computer in the short term. In Linux, you could probably bypass an X11 lock screen without much trouble without losing access to the decrypted contents.
Give that up as a scientific impossibility for now, since we can't simulate every atom of the universe including any butterfly effect you can think of.
The storm was there, the water was there (or was going to be). It's only a matter of exactly the storm path and how much comes out and how fast.
Better to have early warning about a possibility because your only alternative is to have nothing.
It's a state-level law in the US. And despite the minimum age being 21 in every state, a majority of states have exemptions for parents and children in a private setting. Only 11 states allow it with parental consent in public places.
All news outlets and "meteorologists" just parrot NWS forecasts.
That's simply false. At least most television stations in a moderately sized market have a fully qualified meteorologist who isn't afraid to contradict the NWS (and have a more accurate local forecast due to their focus).
Most weather prediction is based on gathered data crunched through various mathematical models, two of which are the GFS and the NAM. Yes, the NWS runs the GFS computer and recently put it through a huge upgrade. But that's because it takes a couple hundred teraflops to be able to run that every 4 hours. The human interpretation of that computer model is going to be vastly different, since not all weather modeling agrees - because they don't account for every possible variable. This is where the experienced meteorologist comes in.
Very often, the NWS is extremely conservative because they can't explain in great detail for every tiny region. A local meteorologist can explain why a situation may or may not happen and the reason why it's not certain. I live just East of the Mississippi and know almost nothing about meteorology. But I do follow an online forum run by a local tv meteorologist and have learned that even a few days out, the computer models don't have enough data to make a prediction for my area because the storm hasn't even made landfall in California yet. Then, it gets more accurate as it passes the Rockies. By then, the storm is 24-40 hours away and that's the most warning you get about uncertain events. And even then, they simply don't have an accurate enough simulation to determine the exact specifics.
Perfect accuracy isn't what's important. It's knowing what the worst case scenario is, and how likely it is you need to be prepared for it. It's better to be prepared and have nothing happen than to not be prepared when the worst happens. And it gets better all the time.
you're going to want a couple of low-end laptops of a make and model known for reliability
It's called an off-site, distributed backup (of hardware). But you don't pay up front for that - buy the hardware secondhand when you need it. I think they call it eBay right now. It may not be cheaper, but you don't have to store as much. If you can find hardware to read an 8" floppy drive today without trouble, I don't see why you think you need to hoard the hardware to prepare for some sort of apocalyptic event. If you're going to do that, why stop there? What if we move from our current voltage or to DC power in our homes? You'll need a 100W solar panel. But what if the sun is no more? You're going to need a portable nuclear reactor just in case.
And if you expect flash storage to hold electrons in place for 20 years, you are expecting a lot.
I would consider a diamond to fit the definition of a stone. The molecular structure is a trade secret and isn't even revealed in the patent. What do you expect? Plenty of molecules have properties of its constituent elements. Why would glassy carbon be inaccurate (even if obtuse)?
If you look at how they're made, if you can read it after writing then you're good for a long time. If you can't read it after writing, the media is defective and the warranty makes perfect sense.
Legacy IE aside (and accidentally triggered quirks mode), there's not much to do to support another browser engine - not from the coding side or the design side.
1997 returned your call. This is almost, but not quite 1997's browser. It's based on Mozilla Application Suite, which in turn is based on Netscape 6. That's from 2000. It's a complete rewrite of Netscape Communicator (1997) so it's not technically a '97 browser.
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No, it screams that they've already done the work to make their printed menu. Just posting that file as is or size-reduced is the simplest option with the least amount of work.
So what you're saying is that they should rework their entire business to make it easier for their web site. Nevermind the fact that they have these menus printed and that's the primary concern. The printed work is already done in a PDF export and they're either posting that as-is or running it through an optimizer to reduce the file size.
Even if it's primarily tabular work, you are dealing with a physical page. One entry or deletion from the menu will affect the positioning of everything else if you want the finished page to look "filled in" and proportionally laid out. That's a more artistic than technical concern and much easier with the likes of Adobe Illustrator than a Perl script.
The amount of damage done to a road is exponential based on vehicle weight. Gas taxes might cover the wear and tear of cars. They do not cover the abuse of 18-wheeled beasts.
Taxing corporations is an alternative to taxing low-income wage earners higher.
A flat tax wouldn't change a thing if there are no domestic profits and the money that would be profit is paid to an overseas shell company. We wouldn't need to pass convoluted tax laws if companies weren't coming up with even more convoluted ways of bypassing them.
You mean a big ball of wibbly-wobbly... timey-wimey... stuff? Even the light sci-fi tends to be a couple steps ahead of physics.
Time to run this against the 7.2 version of Truecrypt.
Great idea. Now you can have either a keyboard OR power. I have an OTG cable. It's useless for anything but a quick use.
I'd argue that's not really having access to the computer except for re-purposing its hardware. If the boot/data drive is encrypted, you've gained nothing. A lot of smartphones are encrypted by default when a screen locker is enabled. With Windows, CTRL+ALT+DEL plus a secure password is probably enough to keep you out of an encrypted computer in the short term. In Linux, you could probably bypass an X11 lock screen without much trouble without losing access to the decrypted contents.
If you consider micro-HDMI output and bluetooth keyboard support a "desktop" then I guess nobody will stop you.
XFree86 is a port of X(11). The protocol it uses has also taken the same name.
The forecasters have more information than the public knows what to do with.
This. A hundred times.
Dealing with short time scales makes it exponentially more accurate. That still doesn't mean it's perfectly accurate.
Give that up as a scientific impossibility for now, since we can't simulate every atom of the universe including any butterfly effect you can think of.
The storm was there, the water was there (or was going to be). It's only a matter of exactly the storm path and how much comes out and how fast.
Better to have early warning about a possibility because your only alternative is to have nothing.
It's a state-level law in the US. And despite the minimum age being 21 in every state, a majority of states have exemptions for parents and children in a private setting. Only 11 states allow it with parental consent in public places.
http://blogs.findlaw.com/law_a...
The tl;dr version is that a 0.2 inch layer of water falling from the sky can equal anywhere from 1 inch to 20 inches of snow on the ground.
All news outlets and "meteorologists" just parrot NWS forecasts.
That's simply false. At least most television stations in a moderately sized market have a fully qualified meteorologist who isn't afraid to contradict the NWS (and have a more accurate local forecast due to their focus).
Most weather prediction is based on gathered data crunched through various mathematical models, two of which are the GFS and the NAM. Yes, the NWS runs the GFS computer and recently put it through a huge upgrade. But that's because it takes a couple hundred teraflops to be able to run that every 4 hours. The human interpretation of that computer model is going to be vastly different, since not all weather modeling agrees - because they don't account for every possible variable. This is where the experienced meteorologist comes in.
Very often, the NWS is extremely conservative because they can't explain in great detail for every tiny region. A local meteorologist can explain why a situation may or may not happen and the reason why it's not certain. I live just East of the Mississippi and know almost nothing about meteorology. But I do follow an online forum run by a local tv meteorologist and have learned that even a few days out, the computer models don't have enough data to make a prediction for my area because the storm hasn't even made landfall in California yet. Then, it gets more accurate as it passes the Rockies. By then, the storm is 24-40 hours away and that's the most warning you get about uncertain events. And even then, they simply don't have an accurate enough simulation to determine the exact specifics.
Perfect accuracy isn't what's important. It's knowing what the worst case scenario is, and how likely it is you need to be prepared for it. It's better to be prepared and have nothing happen than to not be prepared when the worst happens. And it gets better all the time.
you're going to want a couple of low-end laptops of a make and model known for reliability
It's called an off-site, distributed backup (of hardware). But you don't pay up front for that - buy the hardware secondhand when you need it. I think they call it eBay right now. It may not be cheaper, but you don't have to store as much. If you can find hardware to read an 8" floppy drive today without trouble, I don't see why you think you need to hoard the hardware to prepare for some sort of apocalyptic event. If you're going to do that, why stop there? What if we move from our current voltage or to DC power in our homes? You'll need a 100W solar panel. But what if the sun is no more? You're going to need a portable nuclear reactor just in case.
And if you expect flash storage to hold electrons in place for 20 years, you are expecting a lot.
Relativistic effects of being the singularity.
That protects ONLY against drive failure or human error. It does nothing for fire, flood, power surges, etc... That is not a backup.
Survival, yes. Convenient retrieval, no. That's what's wrong with the cloud.
I would consider a diamond to fit the definition of a stone. The molecular structure is a trade secret and isn't even revealed in the patent. What do you expect? Plenty of molecules have properties of its constituent elements. Why would glassy carbon be inaccurate (even if obtuse)?
If you look at how they're made, if you can read it after writing then you're good for a long time. If you can't read it after writing, the media is defective and the warranty makes perfect sense.
Probably still cheaper than a fire safe and is also safe from fires (unless tree gets struck by lightning).
Legacy IE aside (and accidentally triggered quirks mode), there's not much to do to support another browser engine - not from the coding side or the design side.
1997 returned your call. This is almost, but not quite 1997's browser. It's based on Mozilla Application Suite, which in turn is based on Netscape 6. That's from 2000. It's a complete rewrite of Netscape Communicator (1997) so it's not technically a '97 browser.