Actually which tool for the job is a piece of cake. By definition and when those manner shenanigans actually matter, is you have a separate utensils per course. Forks left, knifes right and spoons above. But you work your way from the outside in. You don't have to remember if it is a salad fork or a normal one or if it is a fish, bread, butter or steak knife, it is the task of the person who sets the table to bother. The only thing you need to guess is not to spoon your steak and fork your soup...
The only fun bit is finger food. But there is a simple clue for that, the moment it is finger food, you get lemon water and towel (or on the cheap a refreshing cloth). The only other finger food, not sitting down.
But then again, few people get into the situation where it really matters.
HAHAHAHA! Funny that. Knigge (a German Nobleman), who wrote "Über den Umgang mit Menschen (On Human Relations)" which is THE base work for any behavior school, has described the "tossing" of the fork from hand to hand as the proper form. You cut your food, one bite at a time, fork in the left, knife in the right, then you set down your knife, fork switches hand to the right side and you eat that bit. Keeping your knife in the right and and the fork in the left is ok too, but that supposedly gives the impression that you are in a hurry...
There is conform and conform. For example, the point of the meat is ridiculous. There are different norms in the world, like hands above the table or below. In Europe you have your hands above the table, but in the US you have your hands blow. Cutting up your meat all in one go is also seen as weird in Europe. But these things are only conventions and when it comes down to it, who cares?
What people will care about are things like talking while eating or eating with your mouth open. These things are universal for a very good reason.
I am a geek, but my parents looked strongly after my manners; as my father said "You should behave as if you where invited to the Queen for Tee." and he is US-American. My advice is simple, be polite, be a nice guy and the rest is just gold plating. It really easy to have the minimal accepted standard, the rest is "character".
The problem are in semantics. You can't have due process in a war. The question is, it the "war on terror" actually a war?
That is what disgusts me most, this "war" on this, "war" on that... A war is a armed conflict between two sovereign nations (or those that want to be). It is definitely not war, when you shoot individuals. That is what I call lynching. I don't care if drones or individuality soldiers do it, it is wrong in both ways.
Actually the stripes problem is a DSLR problem often seen in Cannon cameras and is a great example of a moire pattern at work. There are filters for that, but that would be to difficult for/. editors...
Nevertheless if coupled with a license, programmed obsolescence is a form of DRM, it controls the application of a license by means of software and hardware.
Ok I can only vouch for Germany, France, the UK, Spain and Italy, but if you said "I am American" 95% of the time it is assumed you are US-American. (Not USAian! Nobody uses that term.) This is because a Brazilian will say he is from Brazil and a Canadian will say he is from Canada and a Mexican will say he is from Mexico. Only the US-Americans will say he is from America. The again there are pedants like you that will understand what he means and argue with him about semantics.
But the thing is that when you are asked from where you are from, they want a country not a continent. It is about as useful to answer it with you are from earth. Ask any European where he comes from and you will get, a country not a continent. (Don't get me started with the EU.)
Oh and before I get angry replies from Australians; semantics... I con't care what continent you come from, I care about the country you come from, to bad they have the same name.
Sounds like that other person that is really annoying... Oh yea RMS... Annoying as hell, but free software would not be in such a good position where it is now if it was not form him.
What I like is the Step X of Y types of progress indicators. Sure step 5 of 12 might take way longer then the rest but at least it is honest. It also helps to tell the user what it is currently doing. You know that downloading drivers may take a while when the internet is slow (or down).
Drop the word cloud and you have many existing IT infrastructural. Sure it is called Exchange, Outlook Web Access and Sharepoint for example, but what's the difference? Sure Google Apps is interesting for small companies that can't really provide top notch IT for their company, but the private cloud thing is just empty marketing buzzwords.
The question is would you want to get that old? Sure if you can actually reduce aging and live for 500 years in a body of a 20 something. But as it stands for now, once you are past the 60s it is a downward slope and the last years may not be really worth it. If you have ever seen someone in their 90s or 100s you know what I mean.
Actually, as I understand it, the speed of light is quite well understood. Nothing with mass can travel faster than the speed of light because the energy required approaches infinity the closer you get to C. But that does not mean we cant build a "faster then light" drive, by sidestepping the actual movement. Just look at the Alcubierre drive, sure we can't muster the energy, figure out that little strange matter problem and may actually sterilize the destination, but FTL is not totally impossible. It may not happen in the next few centuries, but we have an entire solar system to explore fist, so no stress.
Did you actually read the paper? No? Then do that first. It provides very useful advice on policy changes that favor pharmacological innovation without patents. Since there is no evidence that patents foster innovation and indications of the contrary your point is moot. I think you should stop spouting such arrogant phrases as "lack of knowledge" and rather look into actual research instead of your gut feeling.
The numbers you give should rather be phrased "in spite of patents". Patents can delay further innovation, because incremental advance on the basic technique must be held back until the patent expires and the patent holder has little incentive to improve his invention right until the patent expires. Patents may make it possible to grow a business in pharmaceutics, but I am not sure if it is a net win.
And THAT is totally what I don't get. Why did MS not release a full windows for ARM?! They would do themselves a favor. I can totally see a laptop/netbook with ARM for light office work and web surfing. Why does it have to be IA? Do they have a contract with Intel?
I think you are missing the point. OpenGL's API is really stable, even the things they "deprecated" are still there and usable. (Maybe not optimally accelerated.) You build you application with OpenGL once and that's it. With D3D you need to write different code for each version D3D, because the API is not compatible. As developer you win nothing and have much extra effort. If MS would embrace OpenGL it would be really great; not that the current situation is bad...
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Actually which tool for the job is a piece of cake. By definition and when those manner shenanigans actually matter, is you have a separate utensils per course. Forks left, knifes right and spoons above. But you work your way from the outside in. You don't have to remember if it is a salad fork or a normal one or if it is a fish, bread, butter or steak knife, it is the task of the person who sets the table to bother. The only thing you need to guess is not to spoon your steak and fork your soup...
The only fun bit is finger food. But there is a simple clue for that, the moment it is finger food, you get lemon water and towel (or on the cheap a refreshing cloth). The only other finger food, not sitting down.
But then again, few people get into the situation where it really matters.
HAHAHAHA! Funny that. Knigge (a German Nobleman), who wrote "Über den Umgang mit Menschen (On Human Relations)" which is THE base work for any behavior school, has described the "tossing" of the fork from hand to hand as the proper form. You cut your food, one bite at a time, fork in the left, knife in the right, then you set down your knife, fork switches hand to the right side and you eat that bit. Keeping your knife in the right and and the fork in the left is ok too, but that supposedly gives the impression that you are in a hurry...
There is conform and conform. For example, the point of the meat is ridiculous. There are different norms in the world, like hands above the table or below. In Europe you have your hands above the table, but in the US you have your hands blow. Cutting up your meat all in one go is also seen as weird in Europe. But these things are only conventions and when it comes down to it, who cares?
What people will care about are things like talking while eating or eating with your mouth open. These things are universal for a very good reason.
I am a geek, but my parents looked strongly after my manners; as my father said "You should behave as if you where invited to the Queen for Tee." and he is US-American. My advice is simple, be polite, be a nice guy and the rest is just gold plating. It really easy to have the minimal accepted standard, the rest is "character".
The problem are in semantics. You can't have due process in a war. The question is, it the "war on terror" actually a war?
That is what disgusts me most, this "war" on this, "war" on that... A war is a armed conflict between two sovereign nations (or those that want to be). It is definitely not war, when you shoot individuals. That is what I call lynching. I don't care if drones or individuality soldiers do it, it is wrong in both ways.
What the US is doing is bulling at it's best.
I especially like the bit where they guy doges the "Who are your customers?" bit.
Sandboxing? Works in the browser*, should work in the email client.
*proper browsers, not IE...
Actually the stripes problem is a DSLR problem often seen in Cannon cameras and is a great example of a moire pattern at work. There are filters for that, but that would be to difficult for /. editors...
The later... It should be obvious. Oh and they are "designers"... so artsy!
Nevertheless if coupled with a license, programmed obsolescence is a form of DRM, it controls the application of a license by means of software and hardware.
Well, for French and and German schools this is the same...
Ok I can only vouch for Germany, France, the UK, Spain and Italy, but if you said "I am American" 95% of the time it is assumed you are US-American. (Not USAian! Nobody uses that term.) This is because a Brazilian will say he is from Brazil and a Canadian will say he is from Canada and a Mexican will say he is from Mexico. Only the US-Americans will say he is from America. The again there are pedants like you that will understand what he means and argue with him about semantics.
But the thing is that when you are asked from where you are from, they want a country not a continent. It is about as useful to answer it with you are from earth. Ask any European where he comes from and you will get, a country not a continent. (Don't get me started with the EU.)
Oh and before I get angry replies from Australians; semantics... I con't care what continent you come from, I care about the country you come from, to bad they have the same name.
Sounds like that other person that is really annoying... Oh yea RMS... Annoying as hell, but free software would not be in such a good position where it is now if it was not form him.
Um...
My Account -> Change Email Address
"Joy of Cooking" the ends all cookbook.
What I like is the Step X of Y types of progress indicators. Sure step 5 of 12 might take way longer then the rest but at least it is honest. It also helps to tell the user what it is currently doing. You know that downloading drivers may take a while when the internet is slow (or down).
Drop the word cloud and you have many existing IT infrastructural. Sure it is called Exchange, Outlook Web Access and Sharepoint for example, but what's the difference? Sure Google Apps is interesting for small companies that can't really provide top notch IT for their company, but the private cloud thing is just empty marketing buzzwords.
Nemo, is that not a trademark of Pixar? ^_^
The question is would you want to get that old? Sure if you can actually reduce aging and live for 500 years in a body of a 20 something. But as it stands for now, once you are past the 60s it is a downward slope and the last years may not be really worth it. If you have ever seen someone in their 90s or 100s you know what I mean.
Actually, as I understand it, the speed of light is quite well understood. Nothing with mass can travel faster than the speed of light because the energy required approaches infinity the closer you get to C. But that does not mean we cant build a "faster then light" drive, by sidestepping the actual movement. Just look at the Alcubierre drive, sure we can't muster the energy, figure out that little strange matter problem and may actually sterilize the destination, but FTL is not totally impossible. It may not happen in the next few centuries, but we have an entire solar system to explore fist, so no stress.
Did you actually read the paper? No? Then do that first. It provides very useful advice on policy changes that favor pharmacological innovation without patents. Since there is no evidence that patents foster innovation and indications of the contrary your point is moot. I think you should stop spouting such arrogant phrases as "lack of knowledge" and rather look into actual research instead of your gut feeling.
The numbers you give should rather be phrased "in spite of patents". Patents can delay further innovation, because incremental advance on the basic technique must be held back until the patent expires and the patent holder has little incentive to improve his invention right until the patent expires. Patents may make it possible to grow a business in pharmaceutics, but I am not sure if it is a net win.
Not necessarily. There is a school of thought that says if you want to stay in business you need to be "at home good".
And THAT is totally what I don't get. Why did MS not release a full windows for ARM?! They would do themselves a favor. I can totally see a laptop/netbook with ARM for light office work and web surfing. Why does it have to be IA? Do they have a contract with Intel?
Not if you think about government spending. First spend the money, then see if you can do something useful with it.
I think you are missing the point. OpenGL's API is really stable, even the things they "deprecated" are still there and usable. (Maybe not optimally accelerated.) You build you application with OpenGL once and that's it. With D3D you need to write different code for each version D3D, because the API is not compatible. As developer you win nothing and have much extra effort. If MS would embrace OpenGL it would be really great; not that the current situation is bad...
Nor really, they just need to put a price point that is more reasonable. That is why Russian imports of steam games at half price are very attractive.