The repeated attempts to shift the blame away from the taunter irritate me, because it seems to imply it was anyone else but the guy's fault.
The zoo designed the enclosure to contain animals who are not enraged. A lapse of judgment, but not sufficient to implicate them in the guy's death.
The guy caused the death of not just himself but one of about 1000 individuals of a critically endangered species that we have a duty to protect. I submit that he fully deserved the result of his actions.
XP ships with decent fonts, though you wouldn't know by the fonts on display by default. Moreover, XP fonts are almost all TTF, so they scale. Most XP fonts are not optimized for on-screen display and LCD antialiasing/hinting, though. They look fine at some resolutions, and horrible in others. One of my favorite fonts is the Lucida Sans; I like to set it as the default font in Windows. Then people ask me why my Windows desktop looks so much nicer than the default.
XP has a well-hidden GUI scaling mechanism, too, via adjusting the DPI in the screen settings; however that gets very problematic as everyone (including Microsoft) keeps shipping products with no concept of DPI scaling, resulting in horribly aliased scaled-up bitmaps.
Microsoft has developed a set of excellent fonts (the C series) for Vista and/or Office 2007, but that's nowhere near enough to mitigate the trainwreck that Vista otherwise is.
Vista isn't a horrible product, and I'd argue that it's far better than XP was when it was released WHAT???
How can you argue that a bloated piece of shit that takes up literally ten times the disk space and 3 to 4 times the RAM of its predecessor, while offering absolutely nothing new in the way of end-user features, is better than a significant improvement on a smashing success that Windows 2000 was, with lots of UI and performance/reliability improvements (even if a couple of them looked so awful they had to be disabled)?
Sorry, XP - with or without SP2 - was way better in terms of user value than Vista can ever hope to be. Vista may incorporate a lot of good work in the libraries and APIs that might be used in the future for significant improvements, but that is very well hidden behind the mountain of shit that the rest of Vista is.
I recall actually waiting for Windows 2000 and XP with interest and anticipation. Those products fit their install image into 300 MB of space and packed new features by the hundreds. What happened to that?
Circular accelerator = centrifugal acceleration. You run into the exact same problem.
Escape velocity at ground level = insane aerodynamic friction. Your spacecraft will need a massive TPS just to take off, and the moment it leaves the accelerator, the drag itself will impart massive acceleration.
Railgun for anything other than missiles and kinetic projectiles is pretty much intractable.
By "media", most people understand the whole storage unit, not the actual cells on the chip. That means failures in any of the flash chips (which may have nothing to do with the actual memory cells - anything from the power bus transistors to the solder pads on the packages), the bus interface chip, the controller/addressing chip for the flash chips (if any), etc. There's plenty of room for failure.
Hydrazine powers rocket engines/orbital thrusters. RTGs power spacecraft electrical systems. Use of hydrazine in fuel cells is very rare. Nothing prevents a spacecraft from having both on board.
It's not clear, however, why a satellite in a highly elliptical orbit would use RTGs instead of solar panels. It's not like it gets a lot of stealth that way, since apparently it's still very visible by radar and even telescope.
The original poster heard right, and you're spreading misinformation. Windows XP is way better at conserving battery power than Linux. Tools like powertop and tickless have been enabling great improvements in power consumption but it's still nowhere near that of XP.
There are people to whom thinness (and weight) matters the most. The fact that it doesn't matter to you or me is inconsequential if there are enough people in the other category to form a market for the thing.
Please get rid of the stupid window keys Says you. The Windows key is indispensable in Windows and is very useful in Linux. I find myself wishing my old Thinkpad keyboards had them. If you're upset over the smaller Ctrl or Alt, just remap the Windows key to one of them.
and useless finger print readers What's your problem with the fingerprint readers? They cost like 10 dollars extra and you don't have to use them.
don't... get rid of the 14.1 (non widescreen) XGA format. It's not the aspect ratio but the display quality that matters to most people. I personally have no idea why anyone whose vision is not seriously impaired would use a 1024x768 screen on a 14.1" panel. I'm fine with the lower resolution being there as long as there's a high resolution option, but to call it an aspect of "quality" that people "deserve" is a little silly.
Dual core CPUs are useless for notebooks and just suck more battery life with little or no returns for average use. Now you're just being silly. You probably haven't noticed that single-core CPUs are now fringe low-end bin parts which are actually dual-cores with one core disabled and won't be seen in higher-end laptop designs at all anymore. You also probably don't know that dual-core CPUs consume far less than twice their single-core counterparts; that the two cores are kept plenty busy with an average user's workload; that one core takes over the other's cache while the other is idle; and that by working together to run a bunch of threads that are woken all at once by modern kernels, dual-core designs can significantly improve C3/C4 sleep time compared to single core, reducing overall power consumption.
Don't ever even even think about getting rid of the red button mouse but DO seriously concider removing the useless trackpad. Here we go with the "keep the features I want, remove the features most of the market wants" again. If there's space for the trackpad, what's your problem with it? If there's no space, they have been known to remove it.
Dual hotswap (Everything is SATA nowadays anyway) HDD slots for redundancy with some sort of release button with optional locking screw - rather than screws to easily swap HDD. I want to be able to replace a failed drive without rebooting. Almost nobody wants two HDDs in a laptop; nobody will ever hotswap a failed HDD out of a laptop without rebooting. A lot more people have use for an optical drive for a laptop (I usually don't). No screws = lost structural integrity. Guess what happens when that hotswap HDD cage falls corner first from a table 3 feet high onto the office floor? That said, HDD hotswap in Ultrabay has been possible forever, whether PATA or SATA.
My biggest beef with this design is the small form factor HDD instead of the standard 2.5" form factor and the optical drive bay, which I have a use for but which I'd rather not be there at all to save space for the battery and add rigidity to the chassis.
n this age of climate change hysteria... It's not hysteria. It's undeniable based on current research that the sea levels are rising, that human greenhouse gas emissions are contributing to a change in climate, and that unless we start implementing the technology to counter that NOW, the consequences will be far more catastrophic than otherwise. If a bunch of people are being a little loud because of it, well, maybe that's because the leaders are not listening.
if you did research that ended up suggested otherwise would you like to have it out there with your name on it? Yes, of course. That's what research is for. Notice how the previous statement is conditional on the research part? Guess what happens if the body of real data denying global warming starts to outweigh the data confirming global warming?
i'd rather have frank and honest EPA employee's and not be able to read their findings then being able to read a bunch of 1/2 truths that they were forced to self censor to protect their jobs and reputations I don't see anyone requiring them to disclose the employees' names. So their reputations are not at stake, and your argument doesn't work.
And the most important things for me are battery life and durability. And for others, it may be performance and expandability. Everyone has different priorities... so why not thinness? I'd rather have a wide range of slightly imperfect models to choose from which prioritize different things, than one that prioritizes the thing I least care about...
Your feeling of superiority because you're not watching TV is just one manifestation of your cognitive dissonance. Your sanctimoniousness toward all people of a certain age group, as well as those whose media consumer preferences don't match yours, is a much stronger indicator of the fact despite what you think you are, you are in fact an arrogant, ignorant douchebag.
Having a press credential doesn't make an iota of difference. It certainly does. A credentialed journalist carries with them the reputation of their publication. If they do something stupid, and the publication doesn't fire them, their reputation suffers.
Me, I never read gizmodo, and I'm sure not going to start after this.
I sure hope that they make one with a slim optical drive bay. Have you looked at how much space a full-size drive bay occupies in those Shuttle cases? It's easily 1/6 of the entire case's volume. Given that the attraction of Shuttle barebones is high compactness while retaining compatibility with standard desktop parts, there's no excuse to use a humongous optical drive.
(hypothetical language) is infinitely more readable than
(mapcar (lambda (x) (+ x 2)) '(1 2 3))
to anyone who isn't enamored with functional programming and Lisp.
(That includes not just FP but prefix notation and, well, lots of irritating stupid parentheses. The FP concept notwithstanding, I'm hard pressed to think of a language with a more irritating syntax than Lisp.)
rather than more powerful methods from functional programming like map First, you defeat your point to an extent by arguing for the use of a language-independent concept (map/functional programming) in an argument for knowing the strengths of a particular language.
Second, some of the least readable and understandable code I've seen out there is map statements. They simply cannot be parsed in any linguistically easy way and can't be read quickly by any person who hasn't spent a long time using map.
My laptop, and its Ultrabay devices, is 5 years old. It is just over 1 inch thick. I carry it every day in my backpack, etc. and will not buy another laptop thicker than this. The only way to make a laptop as thin as this with an optical drive is to use the 9.5mm form factor. In the 5 years of heavy use, I have not had an optical drive failure nor have I heard of one. It certainly doesn't overheat at all.
On a related note, I'm getting increasingly annoyed with the computer case manufacturers for not including 12mm as the standard optical drive form factor in desktops. Given your apparent lack of appreciation for mobility, you probably don't know that the main limiting factor for further reducing the sizes of MicroATX cases is the need to house a huge optical drive.
So what? Your statement doesn't contradict the one you're replying to. How does the fact that the middle class is taxed excessively negate the fact that the upper and ultra-rich class is disgustingly undertaxed in the US?
Many of this country's problems would be solved by raising the exponent of the progressive taxation curve. Well, that and stopping the mind-boggling fiasco that is the Iraq war.
Columbus has some small centrifuges (in the "biolab") so we'll be able to get a little low gravity information. I don't know if they can squeeze mice into those things. "Hmm, let's see what happens to a mouse if we spin it for a long time at 10000 G... interesting."
"Biolab" centrifuges are usually for pelletting and separating small samples in tubes, etc. Are you sure the ones in Columbus are slow low-grav centrifuges?
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The repeated attempts to shift the blame away from the taunter irritate me, because it seems to imply it was anyone else but the guy's fault.
The zoo designed the enclosure to contain animals who are not enraged. A lapse of judgment, but not sufficient to implicate them in the guy's death.
The guy caused the death of not just himself but one of about 1000 individuals of a critically endangered species that we have a duty to protect. I submit that he fully deserved the result of his actions.
XP ships with decent fonts, though you wouldn't know by the fonts on display by default. Moreover, XP fonts are almost all TTF, so they scale. Most XP fonts are not optimized for on-screen display and LCD antialiasing/hinting, though. They look fine at some resolutions, and horrible in others. One of my favorite fonts is the Lucida Sans; I like to set it as the default font in Windows. Then people ask me why my Windows desktop looks so much nicer than the default.
XP has a well-hidden GUI scaling mechanism, too, via adjusting the DPI in the screen settings; however that gets very problematic as everyone (including Microsoft) keeps shipping products with no concept of DPI scaling, resulting in horribly aliased scaled-up bitmaps.
Microsoft has developed a set of excellent fonts (the C series) for Vista and/or Office 2007, but that's nowhere near enough to mitigate the trainwreck that Vista otherwise is.
How can you argue that a bloated piece of shit that takes up literally ten times the disk space and 3 to 4 times the RAM of its predecessor, while offering absolutely nothing new in the way of end-user features, is better than a significant improvement on a smashing success that Windows 2000 was, with lots of UI and performance/reliability improvements (even if a couple of them looked so awful they had to be disabled)?
Sorry, XP - with or without SP2 - was way better in terms of user value than Vista can ever hope to be. Vista may incorporate a lot of good work in the libraries and APIs that might be used in the future for significant improvements, but that is very well hidden behind the mountain of shit that the rest of Vista is.
I recall actually waiting for Windows 2000 and XP with interest and anticipation. Those products fit their install image into 300 MB of space and packed new features by the hundreds. What happened to that?
Circular accelerator = centrifugal acceleration. You run into the exact same problem.
Escape velocity at ground level = insane aerodynamic friction. Your spacecraft will need a massive TPS just to take off, and the moment it leaves the accelerator, the drag itself will impart massive acceleration.
Railgun for anything other than missiles and kinetic projectiles is pretty much intractable.
By "media", most people understand the whole storage unit, not the actual cells on the chip. That means failures in any of the flash chips (which may have nothing to do with the actual memory cells - anything from the power bus transistors to the solder pads on the packages), the bus interface chip, the controller/addressing chip for the flash chips (if any), etc. There's plenty of room for failure.
Hydrazine powers rocket engines/orbital thrusters. RTGs power spacecraft electrical systems. Use of hydrazine in fuel cells is very rare. Nothing prevents a spacecraft from having both on board.
It's not clear, however, why a satellite in a highly elliptical orbit would use RTGs instead of solar panels. It's not like it gets a lot of stealth that way, since apparently it's still very visible by radar and even telescope.
The original poster heard right, and you're spreading misinformation. Windows XP is way better at conserving battery power than Linux. Tools like powertop and tickless have been enabling great improvements in power consumption but it's still nowhere near that of XP.
My point flew right over your head.
There are people to whom thinness (and weight) matters the most. The fact that it doesn't matter to you or me is inconsequential if there are enough people in the other category to form a market for the thing.
My biggest beef with this design is the small form factor HDD instead of the standard 2.5" form factor and the optical drive bay, which I have a use for but which I'd rather not be there at all to save space for the battery and add rigidity to the chassis.
And the most important things for me are battery life and durability. And for others, it may be performance and expandability. Everyone has different priorities... so why not thinness? I'd rather have a wide range of slightly imperfect models to choose from which prioritize different things, than one that prioritizes the thing I least care about...
Your feeling of superiority because you're not watching TV is just one manifestation of your cognitive dissonance. Your sanctimoniousness toward all people of a certain age group, as well as those whose media consumer preferences don't match yours, is a much stronger indicator of the fact despite what you think you are, you are in fact an arrogant, ignorant douchebag.
Me, I never read gizmodo, and I'm sure not going to start after this.
I sure hope that they make one with a slim optical drive bay. Have you looked at how much space a full-size drive bay occupies in those Shuttle cases? It's easily 1/6 of the entire case's volume. Given that the attraction of Shuttle barebones is high compactness while retaining compatibility with standard desktop parts, there's no excuse to use a humongous optical drive.
The problem is in the fact that
x = [1, 2, 3]
for y in x {
push(z, y+2)
}
(hypothetical language) is infinitely more readable than
(mapcar (lambda (x) (+ x 2)) '(1 2 3))
to anyone who isn't enamored with functional programming and Lisp.
(That includes not just FP but prefix notation and, well, lots of irritating stupid parentheses. The FP concept notwithstanding, I'm hard pressed to think of a language with a more irritating syntax than Lisp.)
Your second snippet is far easier to understand. Functional programming can be very cool, but readable it certainly isn't.
Second, some of the least readable and understandable code I've seen out there is map statements. They simply cannot be parsed in any linguistically easy way and can't be read quickly by any person who hasn't spent a long time using map.
Can you explain why can't the laser be used to home on jam?
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My laptop, and its Ultrabay devices, is 5 years old. It is just over 1 inch thick. I carry it every day in my backpack, etc. and will not buy another laptop thicker than this. The only way to make a laptop as thin as this with an optical drive is to use the 9.5mm form factor. In the 5 years of heavy use, I have not had an optical drive failure nor have I heard of one. It certainly doesn't overheat at all.
On a related note, I'm getting increasingly annoyed with the computer case manufacturers for not including 12mm as the standard optical drive form factor in desktops. Given your apparent lack of appreciation for mobility, you probably don't know that the main limiting factor for further reducing the sizes of MicroATX cases is the need to house a huge optical drive.
So what? Your statement doesn't contradict the one you're replying to. How does the fact that the middle class is taxed excessively negate the fact that the upper and ultra-rich class is disgustingly undertaxed in the US?
Many of this country's problems would be solved by raising the exponent of the progressive taxation curve. Well, that and stopping the mind-boggling fiasco that is the Iraq war.
Halo 2 soundtrack - Unforgotten, In Amber Clad by Martin O'Donnell
That is absolutely right. Yuki Kajiura is a great composer, but her game soundtracks are by far not her best work.
aww... I'm one of them too ;_;
"Biolab" centrifuges are usually for pelletting and separating small samples in tubes, etc. Are you sure the ones in Columbus are slow low-grav centrifuges?