That may explain why I didn't see it when I went out to a pretty much dark spot last Friday (no street lights, no buildings, just a highway road and water bodies all around). I was looking for the Geminids, thought I saw some dust-like flashes. The sky was not completely clear, after all. I did get the Pleiades on my camera, no green blob near it though. Maybe because the 1/3 moon was too overwhelming. I will have to try and identify other stars or star groups on that photo now.
Even though rainfall could certainly partly tackle the ever-hotter weather, might it not be better to look underground? Qanats didn't hurt Iran in the long term.
That's true. The Dutch fuel tax is one of the highest in Europe. But the electorate is not going to like that.
Also, The Netherlands are a small country. When the fuel prices were at their highest, gas stations near the border suffered because everyone was crossing the border to gas up. And since they were there anyway, they combined that with shopping. Net result: Dutch economy suffers.
It's an useless motion. It has already been rejected by the Home Secretary as unrealistic, so now the wording is being changed to "intention" rather than an outright ban. It's also unrealistic because The Netherlands are part of the EU, which means any cars sold in the member states are legal. Therefore a ban would have to be done EU-wide, which will never work because of the car lobby and the bureaucracy in Brussels.
You know what really makes American football slow? The commercial breaks. Between drives, timeouts, quarters and kickoffs there are almost always 2 minutes of commercial time. I live in Europe, so I have to record the late games. That enables me to skip all those breaks with a few button presses every 10 minutes or so.
The four downs encourages a running game because it's a safe play and you can normally get a couple of yards so it's a quick running play followed by a time out to reset the ball and then almost 40 seconds to start the next play.
Not quite. The clock only gets stopped when a player runs out of bounds, otherwise it keeps running, plus the 40-second play clock starts immediately. There are a few other situations where the clock gets stopped, but that has nothing to do with the kind of play you are executing.
I've watched a few Super Bowls and it's terrible how long they take to play. Especially the last couple of minutes. The four downs allows teams to throw the ball away to stop the clock. It seems like the last two minutes of a game can take a half hour to play with the time outs and other ways to manipulate the clock. None of it is illegal but it makes for an extremely boring game.
Again, not quite. They don't "throw the ball away to stop the clock". That would get them nowhere. Time gets stopped when the pass is incomplete or the ball carrier runs out of bounds. It is true though that the last 2 minutes can take up 30 minutes. That's because both teams try to save the timeouts for precisely those last 2 minutes. If a team has no timeouts left or wants to save one, the quarterback can throw the ball into the ground right behind his center ("spiking") to stop the clock as well. Assessing penalties stop the clock temporarily, too.
This news is not surprising to me, although in my case it seems to go both ways. I've run races with a BibTag while tracking it on my phone and so far, it either comes up short or makes me a faster runner than the official time registration.
I also map out routes beforehand sometimes and I always try to make the mapped route a little longer so I know the GPS will go the distance. Not 20%, though.
This post is complete bullshit and ignores all the complications that come with nuclear power. First, the materials needed are expensive and procedures handling them are complex. Second, the payload would be significantly heavier, costing millions extra to lift it off Earth. Third, the mission was never intended to be long-term, so why stick a nuclear device on it?
My first thought was this too. At least the character doesn't necessarily have to age and when she doesn't turn up or late at a concert, you can always blame Windows.
Well, in theory, any story would get flagged false. Religious stories get flagged false by atheists, atheist stories get flagged false by religious people, science-debunked stories get flagged false by science-savvy people, science stories get flagged false by religious people, etc.
The only thing remaining may be about cats and dogs. I get my news somewhere else anyway;-)
I liked gedit because it's simple and has themes, so you can change the background and syntax highlighting (I want a dark background.) Fortunately at work I still have gedit 3.4.2, but one day at home after an upgrade gedit's UI became horrible. Hell, even Control-N was fucked up. I don't want a new file in a new window, I want a new file in a new tab, dammit!
Damn, where are my mod points? Maybe Slashdot should start rounding off instead of waiting to give me until I have exactly 5,000 mod points. Or was it 5.000?
Saw Divergent on the plane earlier this year. Basically a Harry Potter clone, with a nonsensical plot. Fortunately I watched the movie on a red-eye flight, or it would have been a bigger waste of my time.
I've watched the first 16 episodes or so of season 1 of Arrow on Netflix. It may have been renewed twice and has good ratings, but I find the series subpar.
Most of the show consist of horrible dialogues and close-ups of Stephen Amell's muscles.
The only time I can bear watching that show is when Willa Holland (eyecandy) or John Barrowman (a real actor) are on-screen.
You don't have to buy an "OV-chipkaart" (public transport chip card) to get anywhere by train. If you use the train only incidentally, you can buy a paper ticket with a chip on it. You have to check in and out with it, but for the rest it's the same limited functionality.
The chipcard has been met with criticism since its inception, though. Aside from the usual privacy concerns, it's poorly implemented. You have to check in and out between different transport companies, for example. And of course the companies rake in the money because the tariffs are, in practice, higher than the traditional way. And a lot of people forget to check out, so they pay the full deposit (20 euro for the train) because the companies make it hard to get the money back.
I'm looking forward to using my ATM card with a NFC chip on it for train travel. That way I don't have to top up or have unused, unreachable money on my card. It's not very anonymous, but the current anonymous card isn't 100% anon either if you top it up with an ATM card or credit card, anyway.
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Go away. Don't pollute our beautiful skies like that.
That may explain why I didn't see it when I went out to a pretty much dark spot last Friday (no street lights, no buildings, just a highway road and water bodies all around). I was looking for the Geminids, thought I saw some dust-like flashes. The sky was not completely clear, after all. I did get the Pleiades on my camera, no green blob near it though. Maybe because the 1/3 moon was too overwhelming. I will have to try and identify other stars or star groups on that photo now.
I had never thought about why #! is called "shebang" but now I know, plus Wikipedia enlightened me further.
Even though rainfall could certainly partly tackle the ever-hotter weather, might it not be better to look underground? Qanats didn't hurt Iran in the long term.
Dr. House, is that you?
That's true. The Dutch fuel tax is one of the highest in Europe. But the electorate is not going to like that.
Also, The Netherlands are a small country. When the fuel prices were at their highest, gas stations near the border suffered because everyone was crossing the border to gas up. And since they were there anyway, they combined that with shopping. Net result: Dutch economy suffers.
It's an useless motion. It has already been rejected by the Home Secretary as unrealistic, so now the wording is being changed to "intention" rather than an outright ban. It's also unrealistic because The Netherlands are part of the EU, which means any cars sold in the member states are legal. Therefore a ban would have to be done EU-wide, which will never work because of the car lobby and the bureaucracy in Brussels.
Why is this even approved as a submit? If I had seen this on Firehose, I would have modded it spam.
American football is so slow.
You know what really makes American football slow? The commercial breaks. Between drives, timeouts, quarters and kickoffs there are almost always 2 minutes of commercial time. I live in Europe, so I have to record the late games. That enables me to skip all those breaks with a few button presses every 10 minutes or so.
The four downs encourages a running game because it's a safe play and you can normally get a couple of yards so it's a quick running play followed by a time out to reset the ball and then almost 40 seconds to start the next play.
Not quite. The clock only gets stopped when a player runs out of bounds, otherwise it keeps running, plus the 40-second play clock starts immediately. There are a few other situations where the clock gets stopped, but that has nothing to do with the kind of play you are executing.
I've watched a few Super Bowls and it's terrible how long they take to play. Especially the last couple of minutes. The four downs allows teams to throw the ball away to stop the clock. It seems like the last two minutes of a game can take a half hour to play with the time outs and other ways to manipulate the clock. None of it is illegal but it makes for an extremely boring game.
Again, not quite. They don't "throw the ball away to stop the clock". That would get them nowhere. Time gets stopped when the pass is incomplete or the ball carrier runs out of bounds. It is true though that the last 2 minutes can take up 30 minutes. That's because both teams try to save the timeouts for precisely those last 2 minutes. If a team has no timeouts left or wants to save one, the quarterback can throw the ball into the ground right behind his center ("spiking") to stop the clock as well. Assessing penalties stop the clock temporarily, too.
This news is not surprising to me, although in my case it seems to go both ways. I've run races with a BibTag while tracking it on my phone and so far, it either comes up short or makes me a faster runner than the official time registration.
I also map out routes beforehand sometimes and I always try to make the mapped route a little longer so I know the GPS will go the distance. Not 20%, though.
Ha, MagnaRAM and QEMM. Those were the days... and apparently it's coming back in vogue.
This post is complete bullshit and ignores all the complications that come with nuclear power. First, the materials needed are expensive and procedures handling them are complex. Second, the payload would be significantly heavier, costing millions extra to lift it off Earth. Third, the mission was never intended to be long-term, so why stick a nuclear device on it?
My first thought was this too. At least the character doesn't necessarily have to age and when she doesn't turn up or late at a concert, you can always blame Windows.
have they even thought of that "caption option" might become a burden for other Netflix users?
Why would it be? It's not like you can't turn it off.
Comparing captions to wheelchair ramps is a stretch.
Too bad there's still no news on Philae. A flyby like this at the right spot would uncover where the damn lander is, right?
Yep. I am using it at work and home. Hopefully the update won't be as bad as Gedit's, which I use regularly too.
Well, in theory, any story would get flagged false. Religious stories get flagged false by atheists, atheist stories get flagged false by religious people, science-debunked stories get flagged false by science-savvy people, science stories get flagged false by religious people, etc.
The only thing remaining may be about cats and dogs. I get my news somewhere else anyway ;-)
Is there an alternative to gedit?
I liked gedit because it's simple and has themes, so you can change the background and syntax highlighting (I want a dark background.) Fortunately at work I still have gedit 3.4.2, but one day at home after an upgrade gedit's UI became horrible. Hell, even Control-N was fucked up. I don't want a new file in a new window, I want a new file in a new tab, dammit!
Damn, where are my mod points? Maybe Slashdot should start rounding off instead of waiting to give me until I have exactly 5,000 mod points. Or was it 5.000?
It's been said before, but I would like to ask: does a German caption and a DHL truck make you think "this is in Germany!" or something?
That said, what a dumb wreck. Changing lanes while trucks are obscuring the road ahead. A real good idea.
Yep, I am aware the sequels were only "co-written".
I don't like aborting stories though, so I kept reading.
Yup. I actually read the whole Rama Omnibus a while back. The first one was very interesting, the sequels were too much of a soap opera.
Saw Divergent on the plane earlier this year. Basically a Harry Potter clone, with a nonsensical plot. Fortunately I watched the movie on a red-eye flight, or it would have been a bigger waste of my time.
And yet a sequel is already in the works...
I've watched the first 16 episodes or so of season 1 of Arrow on Netflix. It may have been renewed twice and has good ratings, but I find the series subpar.
Most of the show consist of horrible dialogues and close-ups of Stephen Amell's muscles.
The only time I can bear watching that show is when Willa Holland (eyecandy) or John Barrowman (a real actor) are on-screen.
You don't have to buy an "OV-chipkaart" (public transport chip card) to get anywhere by train. If you use the train only incidentally, you can buy a paper ticket with a chip on it. You have to check in and out with it, but for the rest it's the same limited functionality.
The chipcard has been met with criticism since its inception, though. Aside from the usual privacy concerns, it's poorly implemented. You have to check in and out between different transport companies, for example. And of course the companies rake in the money because the tariffs are, in practice, higher than the traditional way. And a lot of people forget to check out, so they pay the full deposit (20 euro for the train) because the companies make it hard to get the money back.
I'm looking forward to using my ATM card with a NFC chip on it for train travel. That way I don't have to top up or have unused, unreachable money on my card. It's not very anonymous, but the current anonymous card isn't 100% anon either if you top it up with an ATM card or credit card, anyway.