Are you entirely certain they allow ANY browser to use JS? Or is it only Webkit that is allowed to use it?
If it's the latter, that's not really an opening for competing apps. All you can do is put another paint-job on the car. In other words - you can get it in any colour as long as it's black.
No interpreting languages means no javascript which will kill off quite a lot of pages. Also means they can't port the Opera Mobile which is a full fledge browser. No setting another default browser means you're corralled into Safari.
Fonts is a bit silly, but that might be because the rendering is done on Opera's servers, and they aren't allowed to use Apple's fonts outside of the iPhone?
No importing bookmarks from Safari - if the API doesn't expose that option, you can't really blame Opera for that restriction. If the API does make it possible, it's silly not to have the option.
I've seen quite a few people complaining, that it's not using the iPhone friendly pages, but... is that a valid complaint? I don't mean "suck it up", but if the webserver doesn't serve up the iPhone pages when Opera Mini on iPhone requests it, that's the server's fault. And to some extent having the server serve up the iPhone page only when Safari/Webkit on iPhone requests the regular page is silly as well. If you can detect Webkit on iPhone, you can probably detect any kind of mobile browser and serve up the mobile page for it. But I have neither a webserver nor an iPhone with Opera on it, so I can't tell you what kind of identifiers Opera Mini gives to the server.
A 15k drive should last a company at least 3 years [...] Can an SSD (that's under high I/O) last that long?
Well, the fastest 15k SAS drive I can find clocks in at just under 400 I/O per second. That's 3.79 × 10^10 operations over its lifetime
Intel's Enterprise drives clock in at 3,300 IOPS for writes and 35,000 for reads. For the same work load, the Intel SSD would only have to survive constant writing for 133 days, or 12.5 days for reads.
Suppose for a moment, that the Intel SSD only lasts for a year before it becomes a read-only device. That's a third the life time of the Seagate Cheetah, but in that time it will have delivered between 1.04 × 10^11 and 1.1 × 10^12 operations. That's between 2.75 and 29.16 times as much work in a third of the life time.
As is obvious, the SSD option is a complete waste of money and resources. I mean - who would ever want to spend more money on something and only get upwards of 30 times the performance?
Not only that, but we're also taught that 1) baby chairs must be facing opposite the direction of travel (i.e. back to front) and 2) the airbags must be disabled when a baby chair is in use (for obvious reasons).
I believe the idea is that not only is it much safer to have your back against the direction of travel when in a crash (IF there's a strong seat-back to support you), but it also reduces the need to take your eyes off the road as much while driving, because the baby is in your field of view.
The important difference is that people voted for Obama, even though they disagreed with many things he called for, because he promised them "change" and "transparency".
Or, possibly, they voted for Obama, because the idea of Sarah Palin being the VP to a 72-year-old president was scarier than having Joe Biden being the VP to a 47-year-old president.
Or possibly they voted for Obama, because the Republicans decided to go for a guy, who was worse than George W. Bush back in 2000? Or maybe they figured the Republicans had already done enough damage to mess up the country, and that anything but a Republican would be good, but the only viable choice was a Democrat? Sometimes it's a matter of picking the lesser of two evils.
o long as it's not something inappropriate for children, is there any reason not to pick proposal A?
Who decides what is inappropriate?
Is it inappropriate to give them candy? How about clothes? Money? Sex? A vacation somewhere nice?
Or how about we bring up the rear instead of advancing the spear-head? Flogging? Detention? Humiliating them? Killing their pets? Shooting their parents?
And there's no reason we can't institute both regimes at once.
Instead of handing out cash (which is the wrong approach, i'll explain in a bit) for good grades you would earn free items at local businesses.
How is that better? If you give a kid cash they can either put it in the back as savings (a good practice) or buy the same items. And suppose you gave the 'french fries' reward to a kid, who didn't like french fries? Or movie tickets to one who would rather have money to put towards something expensive?
First, what happens to these kids when they go to college?
What happens to your kids, when they go to college? The colleges aren't going to hand out free french fries, just because you got an A in a class. Nor are they going to give you free tickets to go see a movie.
All you've done is moved from a cash system to a barter system, but you're still paying/bribing the kids, and you're going to see the same results.
If you're a cashier at Walmart and your boss asks you to clean up aisle 10 because a kid puked, you do it, but these kids are going to think they should get extra $$$ because the boss asked them to do a little extra.
As opposed to the ones who think they should be getting free fries or movie tickets for doing it?
Obviously you need a gravity to hold an atmosphere in place. But it's not the gravity that decides how much you get - you only need to compare Mars, Venus, Earth to see that. Mars, 1/3rd gravity of Earth, 1% of the atmosphere and Venus 90% of Earth's gravity, 90 times as thick an atmosphere. After all, it makes little sense that two such closely related planets as Earth and Venus to have such hugely differing atmospheres, if gravity and radius were the primary contributors.
It's not a matter of the magnetic field protecting the atmosphere from being swept away, as Venus barely has a magnetic field. The Venus Orbiter placed the magnetic field at 10^-5 of that of Earth's.
But it'd be an interesting thought experiment to know, what kind of atmospheric pressure the Earth would have, if we vaporized our oceans. The oceans contains something like 1.35 × 10^21 kg water. Compare that to the atmosphere which only weighs in at 5 × 10^18 kg. It'd have an effect, definitely, but how much?
It's been quite a while since I studied physics (high school), but I'm fairly certain that the density of an atmosphere isn't a function of the gravity of the body.
Compare Venus and Earth Gravity: Earth: 1g, Venus: 0.904 g
Atmospheric pressure at surface Earth: 1.013.25 hPa Venus: 93,000 hPa
Mean surface temperature: Earth: 287K Venus: 735K
Water's boiling point at surface: Earth: 373K Venus: 556K (I think. Had to calculate it, as I couldn't find any easy look-up tables for it)
Anyway, the point is that an atmosphere's density is not a function of the body's gravitational field, but of the gasses that surround it.
That's only ~127 Celsius, 27 degrees above water's boiling point.
Unless the surface of it just happens to have an atmospheric pressure of 1,013.25 hectopascals that is incorrect. Water boils at 100C at our sea-level atmospheric pressure. At the top of Mount Everest it's only 69C.
While the temperature may be survivable, there's no guarantee that water will be anything but gas at the surface.
The moon does not orbit the earth [...] The earth/moon system orbits its barycenter
And where, pray tell, is the Earth/Moon barycenter?
Why, Nadaka, it's 1,710 km below the surface of the Earth. I'm pretty sure that qualifies as "The Earth".
The Earth/Sun barycenter is below the surface of the Sun (449 km from the center), and I'm pretty sure that qualifies as "The Sun".
So you're not technically correct in saying that the Moon doesn't orbit the Earth or the Earth doesn't orbit the Sun. But you are, technically, an idiot.
Since Australia was originally used as a penal colony
Well, this does explain quite a lot.
The warden doesn't want his inmates running wild, so he has to limit their access. Also, it's really bad prison management to let your prisoners run amok all over the neighbouring areas.
It's not a firewall - it's the outer wall of a prison. Moat and all.
Actually, a fun and ironic way of handling this issue is extending copyright to 500 years, retroactively. Add a clause that breach of copyright on works where no direct descendent can be found, the infringing party will be subject to a fine equalling 200% of all sales (pre tax) on the items in question AND the infringing work becomes public domain.
At the very least it'd give Disney such a kick in the balls, that they'd shut up about copyright extensions
from the Apple event. Unlike certain other unnamed and unashamed websites out there, who feel they need to make a new article just to tell us that Jobs went to the bathroom and came back with slightly moist hands.
The reductio ad Hitler issue is the fallacy that "if Hitler likes something, it must be bad" or "if Hitler disliked something, it must be good", and you're doing the same thing with Rupert Murdoch.
That's the problem though, there is this misguided belief that telling teens not to have sex is effective sex education.
It is just as effective as telling kids to stay away from drugs, stay away from alcohol, not speed, do their home work, not ditch classes, stay away from 'that group of kids', cheer up, don't watch bad movies, don't watch so much TV, not spend all day on the computer, get up in the morning, go to bed before midnight and a thousand other things that kids don't do.
But hey - it's about par for that particular course.
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Are you entirely certain they allow ANY browser to use JS? Or is it only Webkit that is allowed to use it?
If it's the latter, that's not really an opening for competing apps. All you can do is put another paint-job on the car. In other words - you can get it in any colour as long as it's black.
No interpreting languages means no javascript which will kill off quite a lot of pages. Also means they can't port the Opera Mobile which is a full fledge browser.
No setting another default browser means you're corralled into Safari.
Fonts is a bit silly, but that might be because the rendering is done on Opera's servers, and they aren't allowed to use Apple's fonts outside of the iPhone?
No importing bookmarks from Safari - if the API doesn't expose that option, you can't really blame Opera for that restriction. If the API does make it possible, it's silly not to have the option.
I've seen quite a few people complaining, that it's not using the iPhone friendly pages, but ... is that a valid complaint? I don't mean "suck it up", but if the webserver doesn't serve up the iPhone pages when Opera Mini on iPhone requests it, that's the server's fault. And to some extent having the server serve up the iPhone page only when Safari/Webkit on iPhone requests the regular page is silly as well. If you can detect Webkit on iPhone, you can probably detect any kind of mobile browser and serve up the mobile page for it. But I have neither a webserver nor an iPhone with Opera on it, so I can't tell you what kind of identifiers Opera Mini gives to the server.
Well, the fastest 15k SAS drive I can find clocks in at just under 400 I/O per second. That's 3.79 × 10^10 operations over its lifetime
Intel's Enterprise drives clock in at 3,300 IOPS for writes and 35,000 for reads. For the same work load, the Intel SSD would only have to survive constant writing for 133 days, or 12.5 days for reads.
Suppose for a moment, that the Intel SSD only lasts for a year before it becomes a read-only device. That's a third the life time of the Seagate Cheetah, but in that time it will have delivered between 1.04 × 10^11 and 1.1 × 10^12 operations. That's between 2.75 and 29.16 times as much work in a third of the life time.
As is obvious, the SSD option is a complete waste of money and resources. I mean - who would ever want to spend more money on something and only get upwards of 30 times the performance?
Not only that, but we're also taught that 1) baby chairs must be facing opposite the direction of travel (i.e. back to front) and 2) the airbags must be disabled when a baby chair is in use (for obvious reasons).
I believe the idea is that not only is it much safer to have your back against the direction of travel when in a crash (IF there's a strong seat-back to support you), but it also reduces the need to take your eyes off the road as much while driving, because the baby is in your field of view.
Don't blame me. I'm not eligible to vote in US elections.
Or, possibly, they voted for Obama, because the idea of Sarah Palin being the VP to a 72-year-old president was scarier than having Joe Biden being the VP to a 47-year-old president.
Or possibly they voted for Obama, because the Republicans decided to go for a guy, who was worse than George W. Bush back in 2000? Or maybe they figured the Republicans had already done enough damage to mess up the country, and that anything but a Republican would be good, but the only viable choice was a Democrat? Sometimes it's a matter of picking the lesser of two evils.
If you look at Adjustment Team, we see that it is in the public domain.
As is The Variable Man, The Golden Man, The Last of the Masters, Meddler, Shell Game, The Turning Wheel and possibly a number of other stories.
But obviously this just proves, that without never ending copyright claims, the world will never see great art again.
What happens to the shows you recorded on Comcast's equipment, when you move somewhere that they don't cover?
Who decides what is inappropriate?
Is it inappropriate to give them candy?
How about clothes?
Money?
Sex?
A vacation somewhere nice?
Or how about we bring up the rear instead of advancing the spear-head?
Flogging?
Detention?
Humiliating them?
Killing their pets?
Shooting their parents?
And there's no reason we can't institute both regimes at once.
But really - who decides what is inappropriate?
How is that better? If you give a kid cash they can either put it in the back as savings (a good practice) or buy the same items. And suppose you gave the 'french fries' reward to a kid, who didn't like french fries? Or movie tickets to one who would rather have money to put towards something expensive?
What happens to your kids, when they go to college? The colleges aren't going to hand out free french fries, just because you got an A in a class. Nor are they going to give you free tickets to go see a movie.
All you've done is moved from a cash system to a barter system, but you're still paying/bribing the kids, and you're going to see the same results.
As opposed to the ones who think they should be getting free fries or movie tickets for doing it?
Not everyone is for sale. And if you're making half a million a year, does that extra half million really make that much of a difference to you?
Obviously you need a gravity to hold an atmosphere in place. But it's not the gravity that decides how much you get - you only need to compare Mars, Venus, Earth to see that. Mars, 1/3rd gravity of Earth, 1% of the atmosphere and Venus 90% of Earth's gravity, 90 times as thick an atmosphere. After all, it makes little sense that two such closely related planets as Earth and Venus to have such hugely differing atmospheres, if gravity and radius were the primary contributors.
It's not a matter of the magnetic field protecting the atmosphere from being swept away, as Venus barely has a magnetic field. The Venus Orbiter placed the magnetic field at 10^-5 of that of Earth's.
But it'd be an interesting thought experiment to know, what kind of atmospheric pressure the Earth would have, if we vaporized our oceans. The oceans contains something like 1.35 × 10^21 kg water. Compare that to the atmosphere which only weighs in at 5 × 10^18 kg. It'd have an effect, definitely, but how much?
That's entirely a matter of taste, and not all of us enjoy fish (of any kind).
It's been quite a while since I studied physics (high school), but I'm fairly certain that the density of an atmosphere isn't a function of the gravity of the body.
Compare Venus and Earth
Gravity:
Earth: 1g,
Venus: 0.904 g
Atmospheric pressure at surface
Earth: 1.013.25 hPa
Venus: 93,000 hPa
Mean surface temperature:
Earth: 287K
Venus: 735K
Water's boiling point at surface:
Earth: 373K
Venus: 556K (I think. Had to calculate it, as I couldn't find any easy look-up tables for it)
Anyway, the point is that an atmosphere's density is not a function of the body's gravitational field, but of the gasses that surround it.
Unless the surface of it just happens to have an atmospheric pressure of 1,013.25 hectopascals that is incorrect. Water boils at 100C at our sea-level atmospheric pressure. At the top of Mount Everest it's only 69C.
While the temperature may be survivable, there's no guarantee that water will be anything but gas at the surface.
And where, pray tell, is the Earth/Moon barycenter?
Why, Nadaka, it's 1,710 km below the surface of the Earth. I'm pretty sure that qualifies as "The Earth".
The Earth/Sun barycenter is below the surface of the Sun (449 km from the center), and I'm pretty sure that qualifies as "The Sun".
So you're not technically correct in saying that the Moon doesn't orbit the Earth or the Earth doesn't orbit the Sun. But you are, technically, an idiot.
Well, this does explain quite a lot.
The warden doesn't want his inmates running wild, so he has to limit their access. Also, it's really bad prison management to let your prisoners run amok all over the neighbouring areas.
It's not a firewall - it's the outer wall of a prison. Moat and all.
Sure it's a knife. It's a cheese knife. It'll make light work of this brie!
Russel Howard, I believe.
Actually, a fun and ironic way of handling this issue is extending copyright to 500 years, retroactively. Add a clause that breach of copyright on works where no direct descendent can be found, the infringing party will be subject to a fine equalling 200% of all sales (pre tax) on the items in question AND the infringing work becomes public domain.
At the very least it'd give Disney such a kick in the balls, that they'd shut up about copyright extensions
Sure, but it's using the Apple iFM iP*d/iPhone attachment!
Because if it was on Earth it'd cover everything. Just look at what happened to Mars!
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from the Apple event. Unlike certain other unnamed and unashamed websites out there, who feel they need to make a new article just to tell us that Jobs went to the bathroom and came back with slightly moist hands.
Similar experiment, opposite conclusions.
2006: Faster speeds, more sides
2010: Faster speeds, fewer sides
Well, that is a Godwin-ish comment.
The reductio ad Hitler issue is the fallacy that "if Hitler likes something, it must be bad" or "if Hitler disliked something, it must be good", and you're doing the same thing with Rupert Murdoch.
It is just as effective as telling kids to stay away from drugs, stay away from alcohol, not speed, do their home work, not ditch classes, stay away from 'that group of kids', cheer up, don't watch bad movies, don't watch so much TV, not spend all day on the computer, get up in the morning, go to bed before midnight and a thousand other things that kids don't do.
But hey - it's about par for that particular course.