I think it matters on what you call "running lights". I certainly don't enjoy during the daytime, on a divided highway (aka "dual carriageway" in the UK) having someone with their headlights on behind me. Especially in Texas, where the normal weather is cloudless and sunny, and the sun's reflection off of curved rear windshield glass is like looking at a laser that automatically tracks your eye. But mostly, it's hard not to see any vehicle on the road, proper "running lights" are barely visible pipsqueaks, and they may even make it harder to notice important lights like brake lights and turn signals.
I'm already getting annoyed with those Audis (I think) and their "halo" of bright white LEDs around the headlight in my rear view mirror. It's not quite as bright a headlight or rear window glare, but it's bright enough to make me want to look away from it. That's the real problem with too many bright lights. If your goal is to "be seen", then don't blind the other driver enough to make them look away from you.
I also don't really like a bright motorcycle headlight in my rear view mirror when stopped at an intersection (we haven't been invaded by roundabouts here), but it's SOP for motorcycle use, and motorcycles are sufficiently rare that I don't really mind.
I think it would be a good idea to try cats on the Vomit Comet first. That way they're not stuck with them for three months if cats and space just don't mix.
For what it's worth, there were fourplanes, not two, and other buildings were severely damaged, but not destroyed. (Though I think some were damaged sufficiently that they had to be torn down.)
They can fly 747's with only two weeks of flight training.
For a definition of "fly" that does not include take-off or landing.
I am far more concerned about the proliferation of endless pages that are designed only to echo content to gain page rank for some pointless website I have little interest in, or to garner the display of as many ads as possible
This is what I thought "junkweb" meant when I read the title, before I read TFS.
FWIW, the reason re-entry from orbit produces so much heat is that you have to get rid of the horizontal orbital velocity. You could probably retro rocket thrust to get rid of the orbital velocity if you took up enough fuel, but that would be a luxury for anything launched from Earth into orbit on a rocket. This guy is going up in a balloon, so there is no horizontal velocity involved beyond Earth's rotation.
instead of giving them a 17 inch retina display Air
You do realize that they reason they dropped the regular 17" MBP was probably because they couldn't get a "retina" display in that size at a reasonable price? And you expect them to make an Air version that size? (Hey, at least it gave me a reason to upgrade while I could still get a new MBP that runs 10.6.8!)
Just look at how 12 years later that XP still gets the latest games and most of the latest versions of applications.
Not for much longer. Microsoft has already removed support for XP from the current version of Visual Studio, just like how they removed W2K support from VS2008. Sure, you can still compile for W2K with VS2005, but for those who want to be completely legal about it, just try buying VS2005 licenses now. The only reason Firefox still works on XP is because they got VS2005 back in the day for their build system, and they've already had problems (with the linker being 32-bit only) because it is now unsupported.
Um, nope. Wire goes into bottom of lock, top of lock has black rectangle where card goes. Or do you go to hotels where you use the card key to open the door from the inside?
I remember when the X servers all wanted to probe your fucking monitor to come up with the OCD perfect scan configuration (which never worked on my random monitor), instead of just letting you pick from a list of VESA standard rates (and making the probe an advanced option). So I just stuck with Slackware in text mode and went back to MacOS as my GUI. It was a great day when OS X Public Beta came out. Even though I blame it for killing my Pismo's battery (it didn't turn everything off at sleep), it was like night and day. It ran a *nix and best of all it didn't sit there for 9 seconds after wake-up trying to reconnect to the network like Open Transport did. (Thank you Steve, for the "lifetimes saved" argument!)
And now I've recently upgraded to one of the last of the 17" MacBook Pros (the last until they can get a Retina screen that big), and downgraded it to 10.6.8 which runs all my old PPC apps, instead of the Vista-ey mess that is Lion. (The only thing I liked about Lion was that you could resize windows from all four edges.) And now Mountain Lion sounds like a Win8-ey mess.
The competition was $6-$10 AN HOUR at the time. (Extra charges for 2400 baud service may apply.) Then again, Prodigy was the crappiest of the services (aside from not being text-only), and was originally based on a "we'll push everything out to the city nodes" Videotex-ish model where you only consumed what they fed you. They resisted providing what people really wanted, which was to talk to each other via e-mail and message boards. At one point they limited people to 30 messages a month, and 25 cents per additional message, then later they made it an hourly charge to use them.
I hate ads that move, make sounds, escape from their frame, or otherwise go out of their way to make a nuisance of themselves. This usually means Flash. Convienently, AdBlock makes it easier to block flash ads because there's a nice "Block" tab you can click on, instead of having to right-click a menu. I will also do this to those sites that start an auto-play video, which usually has a pre-roll ad for the video that I didn't want to watch anyhow. Those double-underline pop-up ads took more work to get rid of, but I blocked the javascript for the last one of those a long time ago.
And if I get a malware ad (very rare, but I got one yesterday from a NY Post article!), I will go out of my way to nuke and pave any.js shown in AdBlock that isn't clearly from the main site.
The fatigue argument goes all the way back to light pens in the early '80s. If it was so good to use a vertical (or vertical-ish) touchscreen at a desk, we'd have all been using light pens instead of a mouse.
FWIW, back in the day I thought a drafting table style PC would be a good form factor. The closest we have is those monster iMacs, but they're vertical. I'd still rather use a laptop in a comfy couch.
It also appears that each carbon attaches to three other carbons. So that would mean that one of those three bonds would either need to be a double bond, or to bond with the next layer. I was able to look at it and see at least one way that double bonds would work out. It seems to be a regular pattern of rings of 5 and 7 carbons. We've already seen pseudo-crystals with 5-fold symmetry, why not something like this? IANAC, but it looks like a bunch of layers of that would be pretty tough in at least one direction.
Why the hell should I care? This sounds like little more than Markov-chain new-agey management drivel.
This is News for Nerds, not news for "a qualitative analysis into a market and its direction, maturity and participants, thus possibly enabling a company to be a stronger competitor for that market".
Or instead of name-calling and "just sayin'" stuff you heard third-hand, you could read what he actually said.
tl;dr: he never said the character (created in 1992!) was made about Romney, just that the Obama camp was planning to make the connection as part of their "anything but the economy" strategy. (And from what I've been hearing about the movie, they would really have to stretch to make that comparison. Question: is Bruce Wayne a 1%'er?)
That's why you have the right to bear arms in Canada. Grizzly or brown, your choice. Kodiak is reserved for the Alaskans, though. And you can have Polar too, but you have to swim for it.
That's right, use both hands when pulling the trigger.
Seriously, all gun control does is keep guns away from the victims. The criminals don't give a fuck about it being illegal, and they'll find a way to get guns.
A crowded, dark movie theater, during an action scene is pretty much the second worst place you could possibly attempt a defensive shooting.
Also, he got in by kicking in an emergency exit door (so nobody could get him from behind), in a movie theater, where the seats are bolted down and are immobile obstacles to crowd movement. Strategically, he started out on high ground. Only a concealed carry shooter would have had a chance of getting him quickly, and that's if the heads of the crowd don't get in the way.
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Sorry, your fucking retarded editor is in another castle!
I'm already getting annoyed with those Audis (I think) and their "halo" of bright white LEDs around the headlight in my rear view mirror. It's not quite as bright a headlight or rear window glare, but it's bright enough to make me want to look away from it. That's the real problem with too many bright lights. If your goal is to "be seen", then don't blind the other driver enough to make them look away from you.
I also don't really like a bright motorcycle headlight in my rear view mirror when stopped at an intersection (we haven't been invaded by roundabouts here), but it's SOP for motorcycle use, and motorcycles are sufficiently rare that I don't really mind.
I think it would be a good idea to try cats on the Vomit Comet first. That way they're not stuck with them for three months if cats and space just don't mix.
That's like saying the best way not to die in a car accident is to swim to work.
Fixed. For Amsterdam and Venice, anyhow.
For what it's worth, there were four planes, not two, and other buildings were severely damaged, but not destroyed. (Though I think some were damaged sufficiently that they had to be torn down.)
They can fly 747's with only two weeks of flight training.
For a definition of "fly" that does not include take-off or landing.
I'll have you know, I did not read TFA!
(tune of "I Shot the Sheriff")
I read the summary...
But I did not read the article...
I am far more concerned about the proliferation of endless pages that are designed only to echo content to gain page rank for some pointless website I have little interest in, or to garner the display of as many ads as possible
This is what I thought "junkweb" meant when I read the title, before I read TFS.
U MAD BRO?
FWIW, the reason re-entry from orbit produces so much heat is that you have to get rid of the horizontal orbital velocity. You could probably retro rocket thrust to get rid of the orbital velocity if you took up enough fuel, but that would be a luxury for anything launched from Earth into orbit on a rocket. This guy is going up in a balloon, so there is no horizontal velocity involved beyond Earth's rotation.
instead of giving them a 17 inch retina display Air
You do realize that they reason they dropped the regular 17" MBP was probably because they couldn't get a "retina" display in that size at a reasonable price? And you expect them to make an Air version that size? (Hey, at least it gave me a reason to upgrade while I could still get a new MBP that runs 10.6.8!)
Just look at how 12 years later that XP still gets the latest games and most of the latest versions of applications.
Not for much longer. Microsoft has already removed support for XP from the current version of Visual Studio, just like how they removed W2K support from VS2008. Sure, you can still compile for W2K with VS2005, but for those who want to be completely legal about it, just try buying VS2005 licenses now. The only reason Firefox still works on XP is because they got VS2005 back in the day for their build system, and they've already had problems (with the linker being 32-bit only) because it is now unsupported.
Um, nope. Wire goes into bottom of lock, top of lock has black rectangle where card goes. Or do you go to hotels where you use the card key to open the door from the inside?
I remember when the X servers all wanted to probe your fucking monitor to come up with the OCD perfect scan configuration (which never worked on my random monitor), instead of just letting you pick from a list of VESA standard rates (and making the probe an advanced option). So I just stuck with Slackware in text mode and went back to MacOS as my GUI. It was a great day when OS X Public Beta came out. Even though I blame it for killing my Pismo's battery (it didn't turn everything off at sleep), it was like night and day. It ran a *nix and best of all it didn't sit there for 9 seconds after wake-up trying to reconnect to the network like Open Transport did. (Thank you Steve, for the "lifetimes saved" argument!)
And now I've recently upgraded to one of the last of the 17" MacBook Pros (the last until they can get a Retina screen that big), and downgraded it to 10.6.8 which runs all my old PPC apps, instead of the Vista-ey mess that is Lion. (The only thing I liked about Lion was that you could resize windows from all four edges.) And now Mountain Lion sounds like a Win8-ey mess.
I'm waiting for OS X Liger (bred for its skills in magic!)
The competition was $6-$10 AN HOUR at the time. (Extra charges for 2400 baud service may apply.) Then again, Prodigy was the crappiest of the services (aside from not being text-only), and was originally based on a "we'll push everything out to the city nodes" Videotex-ish model where you only consumed what they fed you. They resisted providing what people really wanted, which was to talk to each other via e-mail and message boards. At one point they limited people to 30 messages a month, and 25 cents per additional message, then later they made it an hourly charge to use them.
I hate ads that move, make sounds, escape from their frame, or otherwise go out of their way to make a nuisance of themselves. This usually means Flash. Convienently, AdBlock makes it easier to block flash ads because there's a nice "Block" tab you can click on, instead of having to right-click a menu. I will also do this to those sites that start an auto-play video, which usually has a pre-roll ad for the video that I didn't want to watch anyhow. Those double-underline pop-up ads took more work to get rid of, but I blocked the javascript for the last one of those a long time ago.
And if I get a malware ad (very rare, but I got one yesterday from a NY Post article!), I will go out of my way to nuke and pave any .js shown in AdBlock that isn't clearly from the main site.
The fatigue argument goes all the way back to light pens in the early '80s. If it was so good to use a vertical (or vertical-ish) touchscreen at a desk, we'd have all been using light pens instead of a mouse.
FWIW, back in the day I thought a drafting table style PC would be a good form factor. The closest we have is those monster iMacs, but they're vertical. I'd still rather use a laptop in a comfy couch.
It also appears that each carbon attaches to three other carbons. So that would mean that one of those three bonds would either need to be a double bond, or to bond with the next layer. I was able to look at it and see at least one way that double bonds would work out. It seems to be a regular pattern of rings of 5 and 7 carbons. We've already seen pseudo-crystals with 5-fold symmetry, why not something like this? IANAC, but it looks like a bunch of layers of that would be pretty tough in at least one direction.
And if that doesn't work, he can build a house and stay in it until sunrise.
Why the hell should I care? This sounds like little more than Markov-chain new-agey management drivel.
This is News for Nerds, not news for "a qualitative analysis into a market and its direction, maturity and participants, thus possibly enabling a company to be a stronger competitor for that market".
Or instead of name-calling and "just sayin'" stuff you heard third-hand, you could read what he actually said.
tl;dr: he never said the character (created in 1992!) was made about Romney, just that the Obama camp was planning to make the connection as part of their "anything but the economy" strategy. (And from what I've been hearing about the movie, they would really have to stretch to make that comparison. Question: is Bruce Wayne a 1%'er?)
Why do you think the gummint needs some crazy OWS type when they can do a much better job of false flagging on their own?
That's why you have the right to bear arms in Canada. Grizzly or brown, your choice. Kodiak is reserved for the Alaskans, though. And you can have Polar too, but you have to swim for it.
That's right, use both hands when pulling the trigger.
Seriously, all gun control does is keep guns away from the victims. The criminals don't give a fuck about it being illegal, and they'll find a way to get guns.
A crowded, dark movie theater, during an action scene is pretty much the second worst place you could possibly attempt a defensive shooting.
Also, he got in by kicking in an emergency exit door (so nobody could get him from behind), in a movie theater, where the seats are bolted down and are immobile obstacles to crowd movement. Strategically, he started out on high ground. Only a concealed carry shooter would have had a chance of getting him quickly, and that's if the heads of the crowd don't get in the way.