People who believe that the speed of light must have drastically changed over the course of several thousand years are capable of pretty much any type of cognitive dissonance.
Interesting example. A variable speed of light is one answer to the horizon problem, and that is postulating very large changes in the speed of light over a time scale of a tiny fraction of a second just after the Big Bang.
"Be fruitful and multiply" enthusiasts like the grandparent AC are encouraged to experience the logical consequence of their beliefs firsthand by trying to navigate the streets of Dhaka.
When I recently did a Mint XFCE install, I was actually surprised by how much the current look mirrors KDE. It is less resource intensive, but not by much... perhaps 20% less RAM usage.
LXDE is the clear go-to for minimal requirements, too bad Mint doesn't have an offering with it as the default.
Alibaba is doing the IPO in the US because US exchanges will go along with the "sell majority of stock but retain complete control over operations" setup the Alibaba owners wanted to use.
Speaking of things we've "seen enough times"... these markov chain posts appear at least once in nearly every single/. story and have done so for my entire time on the site, surely you've noticed them before?
If they stopped appearing then we could truly say the site had died.:)
There is no reason a calculator cannot offer both RPN and algebraic notation and let the user choose. This isn't like the Querty vs Dvorak keyboard argument.
What's the difference? In both cases the variants are handled entirely in software and thus both should be available.
Since HP basically got out of the calculator business, the HP 50G, which in my opinion is a better calculator anyway, has been available to the public in software form for free. It uses the actual ROM code from the 50G, which HP donated to the public domain.
You have to look around a bit, but versions are available for Mac, PC, and Linux.
Got a link? I'm not seeing any evidence for your claim of public domain'd 50G code.
The closest I found was this uncited part of a Wiki article: In 2003, the CAS source code of the 49G ROM was released under the LGPL. In addition, this release included an interactive geometry program and some commands to allow compatibility with certain programs written for the newer 49g+ calculator. Due to licensing restrictions, the recompiled ROM cannot be redistributed.
Unity was pushed out before it was ready, just like pulseaudio, KDE 4 or Slashdat Beta was. People object to have their personal desktop turned into a dev testing lab. Even when/if the bugs are worked out, the bad first experience colors perceptions permanently.
Unity changed lots of aspects of how Ubuntu worked for no particular reason other than an eye towards touch screen usage. This is the same issue people have with Metro.
Unity's introduction also coincided with the "Amazon lens" feature that sent all local searches to Amazon's servers. This sort of invasive monetization is anathema to Linux users and seem like a blatant money grab by Canonical.
Many games on the Xbone and a smaller but still non-zero number on PS4 don't even run at 1080p@30hz natively.
This may be rectified as the dev tools improve, but since the hardware is so close to PC-based I doubt we will see as large of an in-gen improvement as we did with older custom hardware consoles.
I'd say just a new GPU would be fine. I use an Asus 770GTX and can play everything I've tried on max settings @1440p, so you should fine @1080p.
The 770 doesn't take advantage of the higher power efficiency parts in the newest Nvidia generation, but the price on some of the variants is quite good. Newegg has a Zotac verison for $275: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
The 280X can be picked up for a little less, bit it uses more power and is louder from what I have read.
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People who believe that the speed of light must have drastically changed over the course of several thousand years are capable of pretty much any type of cognitive dissonance.
Interesting example. A variable speed of light is one answer to the horizon problem, and that is postulating very large changes in the speed of light over a time scale of a tiny fraction of a second just after the Big Bang.
"Be fruitful and multiply" enthusiasts like the grandparent AC are encouraged to experience the logical consequence of their beliefs firsthand by trying to navigate the streets of Dhaka.
You've been here how many years and you don't know how AC posting works?
Or perhaps you were struck by lightning during the course of this thread and forgot how it works...
Sonny Bono gave up his physical body so that all copyrighted works could enjoy eternal life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
When I recently did a Mint XFCE install, I was actually surprised by how much the current look mirrors KDE. It is less resource intensive, but not by much... perhaps 20% less RAM usage.
LXDE is the clear go-to for minimal requirements, too bad Mint doesn't have an offering with it as the default.
And yes, they also have a Paypal type service, but it would have to clear a large number of hurdles to become trusted in the US.
Lack of trust certainly hasn't kept Paypal from being popular.
Just read the countless stories... they can do pracatically anything they want with the money in "your" PP account.
Alibaba is doing the IPO in the US because US exchanges will go along with the "sell majority of stock but retain complete control over operations" setup the Alibaba owners wanted to use.
Speaking of things we've "seen enough times"... these markov chain posts appear at least once in nearly every single /. story and have done so for my entire time on the site, surely you've noticed them before?
If they stopped appearing then we could truly say the site had died. :)
Indeed, Windows 7 does huge amounts of swapping even though I'm almost always using less than half my 16GB of RAM.
Linux runs fine with no swap, but Windows 7 seems to have assumptions that swap will be used at all times.
5960X has worse single-core clockspeeds than a 4770K or 4790K.
It's rather disappointing in that regard.
Why x1200 when x1440 so much better?
16:10 is dead but we've finally got resolution numbers rising again, so you won't miss it much.
This error message appears at /. as well. :)
It's all about the timeframe when talking about this subject. 89 came out a year later than 86, that alone could be the reason.
In my case it was that our textbooks assumed an 86 so that's what we used. One girl used a hand-me-down 85.
The TI-83/86/89 Jr high/Sr high/College market segmentation proved to be too much, with the 86 eventually being squeezed out.
There is no reason a calculator cannot offer both RPN and algebraic notation and let the user choose. This isn't like the Querty vs Dvorak keyboard argument.
What's the difference? In both cases the variants are handled entirely in software and thus both should be available.
Since HP basically got out of the calculator business, the HP 50G, which in my opinion is a better calculator anyway, has been available to the public in software form for free. It uses the actual ROM code from the 50G, which HP donated to the public domain.
You have to look around a bit, but versions are available for Mac, PC, and Linux.
Got a link? I'm not seeing any evidence for your claim of public domain'd 50G code.
The closest I found was this uncited part of a Wiki article:
In 2003, the CAS source code of the 49G ROM was released under the LGPL. In addition, this release included an interactive geometry program and some commands to allow compatibility with certain programs written for the newer 49g+ calculator. Due to licensing restrictions, the recompiled ROM cannot be redistributed.
Pre-Blink Opera must be airbrushed out of history. Opera has always been a Chrome clone, comrade.
Also a NoScript user... I actually don't even know what /. Beta looks like as I have never seen it! :)
64-bit Firefox works perfectly fine on Linux.
3 big issues with Unity as I see it:
Unity was pushed out before it was ready, just like pulseaudio, KDE 4 or Slashdat Beta was. People object to have their personal desktop turned into a dev testing lab. Even when/if the bugs are worked out, the bad first experience colors perceptions permanently.
Unity changed lots of aspects of how Ubuntu worked for no particular reason other than an eye towards touch screen usage. This is the same issue people have with Metro.
Unity's introduction also coincided with the "Amazon lens" feature that sent all local searches to Amazon's servers. This sort of invasive monetization is anathema to Linux users and seem like a blatant money grab by Canonical.
Many games on the Xbone and a smaller but still non-zero number on PS4 don't even run at 1080p@30hz natively.
This may be rectified as the dev tools improve, but since the hardware is so close to PC-based I doubt we will see as large of an in-gen improvement as we did with older custom hardware consoles.
I'd say just a new GPU would be fine. I use an Asus 770GTX and can play everything I've tried on max settings @1440p, so you should fine @1080p.
The 770 doesn't take advantage of the higher power efficiency parts in the newest Nvidia generation, but the price on some of the variants is quite good. Newegg has a Zotac verison for $275: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
The 280X can be picked up for a little less, bit it uses more power and is louder from what I have read.
My Asus Sabertooth Z87 can do the same.
I would actually expect this to be standard in everything now, except maybe the very cheapest boards.
Have pulled. Their Z87 board was the end of the line AFAIK. Newegg has no desktop board listed from them as of now.
Antec cases have the PSU at the bottom, or at least the fanciest ones do.
No, the amount of missing matter is far to great to be contained in such small objects even if they were incredibly numerous.
Consider the entire mass of the asteroid belt is estimated to be only 4% of the Moon's mass, and the Moon's mass is only 1/81 of the Earth's.
Dark matter, meanwhile, is thought to have a total mass more than 5 times greater than that of normal matter.