Well, there's the Cleartype Tuner control panel (a powertoy for XP, built into Vista and 7) you could try. But take your own screenshots and compare them against others' for best results.
I think they're still getting back into their groove. The first few Season 6 episodes were them parsing their backlog of pop culture events that had occurred while they were away, and as they run out of edgy things to try, they'll go back to what people love them for. It's like a mid life crisis except with unexpected resurrection thrown in for good luck.
Take a screenshot and file a bug. Some alarmingly alert person will come along and mark it as a duplicate of some other bug, and then you'll have your answer. They switched to using DirectDraw for rendering fonts in FF4, which means you're at least partially at the mercy of your graphics card.
634.340751 mol of featuritons per major release. If we assume each featuriton has a mass of 1 430.12212 daltons, then each major release includes a ton (907.18474 kg) of new features.
In the fifties, when these experiments was set in motion, it had just recently been proven that DNA was the mechanism by which cells passed on their programming to their offspring. Prior to that, the common belief was that proteins did all the work, and that DNA was just a structural fibre like cellulose. Today, we're strongly of the opinion that not only was protein less relevant to early life, but probably completely irrelevant, as we've determined that RNA can perform the role of both DNA (information storage) and proteins (enzymes and structure). Evidence suggests that it once performed both of these roles exclusively, and that DNA and proteins evolved because they were tools better-suited to certain tasks.
THEREFORE: the availability of amino acids isn't relevant to the origin of life; only that they're around later for higher life forms to evolve. We really need to worry about the availability of ribonucleotides. The idea that we need to worry about the availability of amino acids only comes later.
Remember how Sun built up its patent portfolio? Engineers would try to write the most inane shit in a contest to see what they could slip past the USPTO's radar. It was all in good nature... at the time. I suspect the Google Doodles patent must have come from something similar. It's obvious that if Google ever tried to litigate someone with it, the judge would spend most of his or her time laughing. If Google could patent "patenting irrelevant crap to test the USPTO's ability to detect said crap," they would probably try.
Sure. Any complete work of propaganda needs its glory moments. Importantly, though, the causes of those genocides can't be recalled exactly, they've been whitewashed into glory—heck, the parties listed may not even be responsible.
Perhaps, but it was still indirectly precipitated by the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions, which were Internet-triggered. It's followup, and it could still have results down the road.
There are a couple of theories. One, it gives hope to people in other nations with horribly incompetent governments, and two, the Libyan revolution is the third in a series partially instigated by Facebook users, which speaks to the burgeoning power of the internet in affecting world politics.
Totally agree. In order for MS to stop sucking, they'd have to get rid of the extremely toxic in-fighting that kills everything they make that has the potential to be cool. They need to dump all of their managers and executives and start over—problem is, those managers and executives are the only people who can make that choice.
You're being the bad kind of pedant—the kind that insists on a specific definition of a word despite multiple meanings being in the dictionary. Furthermore, your beef is with the original article, not that comment. Pick your fights better.
But that stretches the analogy to the point where it doesn't apply. As much as I'm pretty sure I'm on your side, you're strawmanning, dude. The GP was talking about drug dealer referrers, not merely people who knew who drug dealers were. And obviously IsoHunt doesn't know about torrents in order to keep away from them!
I guess you've never heard of Carbon, Rosetta, or the Mac 68K emulator? (Although admittedly that last one is non-Jobsy.) Apple has quite a history of subsystem ghettos.
<sarcasm>What this really means is that we can expect web apps to be phased out in two to three years.</sarcasm>
I like how it "lets customers [...] pay a monthly fee to stream music" instead of "lets customers [...] stream music, for a monthly fee". Yeah, MS, I want to pay a monthly fee! You're brilliant guys!
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It's explained in there. The area of a circle formula actually has a 1/2 in it because it's based on the area of a triangle. We just don't see it because it gets cancelled out by 2*pi. It's plausible that someone designed the math around this equation, since it's the most obvious and common use of pi in basic geometry, but that doesn't make it any less wrong from a global perspective: out of all the times any mathematician has ever written pi, it has more frequently had a 2 in front of it than not.
The truly boggling thing about people who believe in Atlantis is that they believe in Atlantis. Even Wikipedia doesn't. (Or, at least, whatever corrupt bureaucrat obsessively controls that article.) Seriously, Slashdot, this is the kind of crap we're told we should expect from the "History" Channel, not our favourite hyperbolic tech news site!
By "foreign," you realise you mean "Canadian and Australian," right? "The worldwide production of uranium in 2009 amounted to 50,572 tonnes, of which 27.3% was mined in Kazakhstan. Other important uranium mining countries are Canada (20.1%), Australia (15.7%), Namibia (9.1%), Russia (7.0%), and Niger (6.4%)."
What we know puts pretty difficult-to-envision expectations on the game, true—Hall was hoping for his full-blown first episode to fit on a floppy, when the finished and much less ambitious demo was a solid 5 megs. But most of the plot was going to be through text messages (like in Catacombs 3-D, the first 3D game made by Carmack/Carmack/Hall/Romero) and cutscenes; and an appropriately advanced cutscene engine was included in RotT a year later (but barely utilized). It would have been possible technically, but not with the resources id Software had at the time, and they would probably have been beaten in the market by early BUILD games like TekWar and Witchhaven (in fact, it's possible that Duke Nukem 3D would have been on the market, too, albeit as a very different game—a direct sequel to Duke Nukem 2.)
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Well, there's the Cleartype Tuner control panel (a powertoy for XP, built into Vista and 7) you could try. But take your own screenshots and compare them against others' for best results.
I think they're still getting back into their groove. The first few Season 6 episodes were them parsing their backlog of pop culture events that had occurred while they were away, and as they run out of edgy things to try, they'll go back to what people love them for. It's like a mid life crisis except with unexpected resurrection thrown in for good luck.
Suing has a much higher priority than that at Apple.
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It would be measured in nanoseconds.
Take a screenshot and file a bug. Some alarmingly alert person will come along and mark it as a duplicate of some other bug, and then you'll have your answer. They switched to using DirectDraw for rendering fonts in FF4, which means you're at least partially at the mercy of your graphics card.
634.340751 mol of featuritons per major release. If we assume each featuriton has a mass of 1 430.12212 daltons, then each major release includes a ton (907.18474 kg) of new features.
In the fifties, when these experiments was set in motion, it had just recently been proven that DNA was the mechanism by which cells passed on their programming to their offspring. Prior to that, the common belief was that proteins did all the work, and that DNA was just a structural fibre like cellulose. Today, we're strongly of the opinion that not only was protein less relevant to early life, but probably completely irrelevant, as we've determined that RNA can perform the role of both DNA (information storage) and proteins (enzymes and structure). Evidence suggests that it once performed both of these roles exclusively, and that DNA and proteins evolved because they were tools better-suited to certain tasks.
THEREFORE: the availability of amino acids isn't relevant to the origin of life; only that they're around later for higher life forms to evolve. We really need to worry about the availability of ribonucleotides. The idea that we need to worry about the availability of amino acids only comes later.
The ponies aren't coming back. It's... it's time to let go. *sniff*
Remember how Sun built up its patent portfolio? Engineers would try to write the most inane shit in a contest to see what they could slip past the USPTO's radar. It was all in good nature... at the time. I suspect the Google Doodles patent must have come from something similar. It's obvious that if Google ever tried to litigate someone with it, the judge would spend most of his or her time laughing. If Google could patent "patenting irrelevant crap to test the USPTO's ability to detect said crap," they would probably try.
Ritchie, eat your crust!
Ignoring the wedding story from this/yesterday morning, the last Facebook article was on Wednesday. I think you're over-reacting.
Yeah, the Misspelleds are such a pain, always coming up with their own units like "meeter" and "fut". And they never bring anything to potlutches!
Sure. Any complete work of propaganda needs its glory moments. Importantly, though, the causes of those genocides can't be recalled exactly, they've been whitewashed into glory—heck, the parties listed may not even be responsible.
Perhaps, but it was still indirectly precipitated by the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions, which were Internet-triggered. It's followup, and it could still have results down the road.
There are a couple of theories. One, it gives hope to people in other nations with horribly incompetent governments, and two, the Libyan revolution is the third in a series partially instigated by Facebook users, which speaks to the burgeoning power of the internet in affecting world politics.
Totally agree. In order for MS to stop sucking, they'd have to get rid of the extremely toxic in-fighting that kills everything they make that has the potential to be cool. They need to dump all of their managers and executives and start over—problem is, those managers and executives are the only people who can make that choice.
You're being the bad kind of pedant—the kind that insists on a specific definition of a word despite multiple meanings being in the dictionary. Furthermore, your beef is with the original article, not that comment. Pick your fights better.
It's okay! They're just 1-2-3-4-5.
(1-2-3-4-5? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard of in my life! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage!)
But that stretches the analogy to the point where it doesn't apply. As much as I'm pretty sure I'm on your side, you're strawmanning, dude. The GP was talking about drug dealer referrers, not merely people who knew who drug dealers were. And obviously IsoHunt doesn't know about torrents in order to keep away from them!
I guess you've never heard of Carbon, Rosetta, or the Mac 68K emulator? (Although admittedly that last one is non-Jobsy.) Apple has quite a history of subsystem ghettos.
<sarcasm>What this really means is that we can expect web apps to be phased out in two to three years.</sarcasm>
I like how it "lets customers [...] pay a monthly fee to stream music" instead of "lets customers [...] stream music, for a monthly fee". Yeah, MS, I want to pay a monthly fee! You're brilliant guys!
It's explained in there. The area of a circle formula actually has a 1/2 in it because it's based on the area of a triangle. We just don't see it because it gets cancelled out by 2*pi. It's plausible that someone designed the math around this equation, since it's the most obvious and common use of pi in basic geometry, but that doesn't make it any less wrong from a global perspective: out of all the times any mathematician has ever written pi, it has more frequently had a 2 in front of it than not.
The truly boggling thing about people who believe in Atlantis is that they believe in Atlantis. Even Wikipedia doesn't. (Or, at least, whatever corrupt bureaucrat obsessively controls that article.) Seriously, Slashdot, this is the kind of crap we're told we should expect from the "History" Channel, not our favourite hyperbolic tech news site!
Not so! I am Canadian, and we have all the uranium we need. (Have fun worrying!)
By "foreign," you realise you mean "Canadian and Australian," right? "The worldwide production of uranium in 2009 amounted to 50,572 tonnes, of which 27.3% was mined in Kazakhstan. Other important uranium mining countries are Canada (20.1%), Australia (15.7%), Namibia (9.1%), Russia (7.0%), and Niger (6.4%)."
You may want to knock that worry off your list.
What we know puts pretty difficult-to-envision expectations on the game, true—Hall was hoping for his full-blown first episode to fit on a floppy, when the finished and much less ambitious demo was a solid 5 megs. But most of the plot was going to be through text messages (like in Catacombs 3-D, the first 3D game made by Carmack/Carmack/Hall/Romero) and cutscenes; and an appropriately advanced cutscene engine was included in RotT a year later (but barely utilized). It would have been possible technically, but not with the resources id Software had at the time, and they would probably have been beaten in the market by early BUILD games like TekWar and Witchhaven (in fact, it's possible that Duke Nukem 3D would have been on the market, too, albeit as a very different game—a direct sequel to Duke Nukem 2.)