<quote>the western Norse of that period had relatively little contact with the Mediterranean world</quote>
So whole America was contaminated by the touch of a finger, but various Viking groups spreading from Constantinople to North America avoided interacting over a number of centuries?
<quote>I'd much rather the Opera people make their browser work with my bank's online banking system </quote>
Times are changing, there was a time that my bank asked to use IE6 for security reasons and I had to cheat my way past the gate, but nowadays I am free to choose.
<quote>So we can laugh at this judge who probably looks pretty stupid right now, making rules for what he so clearly does not understand, but the deeper problems it brings up are neither easy to solve nor limited to Belgium.</quote>
Or most probably it is a clever judge: You want us to stop piratebay. We should, but how on earth are we going to do that?..... Those URL's, are you sure? OK granted, next case.
Even if the zero-turn is very impressive it is not the mathematical model. When turning the width of the combined blades and the average speed will be reduced, making each turn sub optimal. As a boy I used a(n unsafe, think of the children) mower on a rope turning perfect spirals with a distant supervisor and finished off the in betweens in direct supervision mode.
Is a superinjunction sent to a company not likely to create a communication problem? "To all of you the list of what you and I can't say has now three extra items numbered 173, 84bis and 174. No single item on the list may be mentioned or written down"
<quote> <p>The "correlation is not causation" argument is valid, but I tend to think it's overused; it's only really valid if you read the original paper and the limitations, assumptions and methodology within.</p></quote>
" So residents' trash may have helped the island grow, but it didn't get the ball rolling, he says.... it's just as likely, if not more so, that the phosphorous that nourishes a tree island's vegetation comes from the prodigious amounts of guano left by birds attracted to the ecosystem there....."
Calling him a rapist was not a serious problem, it was the bipolar allegation that triggered an expulsion. Surprisingly as bipolar is a perception where raping is an offense. Sounds bipolar to me.
Business as usual, like 50 years ago, it is not done to "... reporting' allegations of inappropriate behavior by a school employee toward a student" but now it is official.
<quote><p>the reason that IE got to have so much dominance was not because it was bundled with the operating system, but that for far too long it had no real competition.</p></quote>
Switched to Opera years ago, did I know it was no real competitor.
<quote><p> "Better to live one minute standing up than a century on your knees"</p></quote>
Other people agree. When I lost my last job, one of the reasons stated was my habit of kneeling (to spare my back) when looking over the shoulder of someone to his desktop screen. With an Aikido background, I had no problem kneeling, as long as th floor is clean..
<quote>Doesn't General Relativity postulate that an object with mass would acquire infinite mass and require infinite energy to travel at the speed of light? </quote>
To keep the discussion onto its classical path: no. (see Cherenkov radiation)
<quote><p>Your naivete is almost endearing but the reality is this: it's insane to think that you are immune from the consequences of a home invasion.</p></quote>
Guns at home are used to: 1 kill yourself (30%) 2 kill your wife 3 kill your or your wife friends 4 kill your children 5 kill your neighbors ... 10 kill trespassers (5%)
Once those fast typist have produced all those shitloads of code, the program goes in maintenance. And there you are happy to produce five lines of code at the end of the day, thinking that the same amount of thought on ten times less code would have produced better results.
<quote><p>-In Opera, it's ridiculous: Right click on a link. Then you have to release the button to get the menu to show. After the menu shows, "Open in Background Tab" is the 3rd option. Caution, though, don't try to click it with the same finger you just used to right-click. You have to left-click it or it doesn't take.</p></quote>
I agree that Chrome is better, but is this not the standard Windows behaviour for a contextual menu, probably Opera is trying to reach 'all the people'
For people not living in cellars feeding large computers, it was an early spring Sunday on the western hemisphere. Even the smallest amount of sun makes such a day great.
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<quote>To: the government of France></quote>
It's a court's decision, not the government. Based on privacy laws, those come from the parliament.
<quote>the first mechanicians in the world</quote>
... again
That's 100+ year ago, now it's the Chinese
In my world specialised professional software doesn't sell at 299$
<quote>the western Norse of that period had relatively little contact with the Mediterranean world</quote>
So whole America was contaminated by the touch of a finger, but various Viking groups spreading from Constantinople to North America avoided interacting over a number of centuries?
<quote>I'd much rather the Opera people make their browser work with my bank's online banking system </quote>
Times are changing, there was a time that my bank asked to use IE6 for security reasons and I had to cheat my way past the gate, but nowadays I am free to choose.
<quote>So we can laugh at this judge who probably looks pretty stupid right now, making rules for what he so clearly does not understand, but the deeper problems it brings up are neither easy to solve nor limited to Belgium.</quote>
..... Those URL's, are you sure? OK granted, next case.
Or most probably it is a clever judge: You want us to stop piratebay. We should, but how on earth are we going to do that?
<quote><p>confined to North America</p></quote>
There was also something called the Philippine War of Independence, part of the white man's burden.
Archimede (9,300 m), as of 2008, it is on operational reserve, at Toulon
<quote><p>If they tell me to call</p></quote>
But they don't, "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You"
<quote>
<p>Tabs were first in Firefox (through an extension)</p></quote>
"Firefox 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004" Did I use Opera in a parallel universe where it started life with a MDI?
Even if the zero-turn is very impressive it is not the mathematical model. When turning the width of the combined blades and the average speed will be reduced, making each turn sub optimal. As a boy I used a(n unsafe, think of the children) mower on a rope turning perfect spirals with a distant supervisor and finished off the in betweens in direct supervision mode.
<quote><p>The only real thing he did wrong was he made assumptions about what they were up to.</p></quote>
I assume you are assuming he is assuming?
Is a superinjunction sent to a company not likely to create a communication problem? "To all of you the list of what you and I can't say has now three extra items numbered 173, 84bis and 174. No single item on the list may be mentioned or written down"
Maybe not trash, but old cultures did create raised fields. Like in "Raised Fields for Sustainable Agriculture in the Bolivian Amazon"
<quote>
... it's just as likely, if not more so, that the phosphorous that nourishes a tree island's vegetation comes from the prodigious amounts of guano left by birds attracted to the ecosystem there. ...."
<p>The "correlation is not causation" argument is valid, but I tend to think it's overused; it's only really valid if you read the original paper and the limitations, assumptions and methodology within.</p></quote>
" So residents' trash may have helped the island grow, but it didn't get the ball rolling, he says.
Calling him a rapist was not a serious problem, it was the bipolar allegation that triggered an expulsion. Surprisingly as bipolar is a perception where raping is an offense. Sounds bipolar to me.
Business as usual, like 50 years ago, it is not done to " ... reporting' allegations of inappropriate behavior by a school employee toward a student" but now it is official.
<quote><p>the reason that IE got to have so much dominance was not because it was bundled with the operating system, but that for far too long it had no real competition.</p></quote>
Switched to Opera years ago, did I know it was no real competitor.
<quote><p> "Better to live one minute standing up than a century on your knees"</p></quote>
Other people agree. When I lost my last job, one of the reasons stated was my habit of kneeling (to spare my back) when looking over the shoulder of someone to his desktop screen. With an Aikido background, I had no problem kneeling, as long as th floor is clean..
<quote>Doesn't General Relativity postulate that an object with mass would acquire infinite mass and require infinite energy to travel at the speed of light?
</quote>
To keep the discussion onto its classical path: no. (see Cherenkov radiation)
<quote><p>Your naivete is almost endearing but the reality is this: it's insane to think that you are immune from the consequences of a home invasion.</p></quote>
Guns at home are used to:
1 kill yourself (30%)
2 kill your wife
3 kill your or your wife friends
4 kill your children
5 kill your neighbors
...
10 kill trespassers (5%)
But that's 20 year ago, now it is OK
Look at what you have done , not only it is shifting, but it is molten now (The solid inner core was discovered in 1936 by Inge Lehmann ..... )
Once those fast typist have produced all those shitloads of code, the program goes in maintenance. And there you are happy to produce five lines of code at the end of the day, thinking that the same amount of thought on ten times less code would have produced better results.
<quote><p>-In Opera, it's ridiculous: Right click on a link. Then you have to release the button to get the menu to show. After the menu shows, "Open in Background Tab" is the 3rd option. Caution, though, don't try to click it with the same finger you just used to right-click. You have to left-click it or it doesn't take.</p></quote>
I agree that Chrome is better, but is this not the standard Windows behaviour for a contextual menu, probably Opera is trying to reach 'all the people'
For people not living in cellars feeding large computers, it was an early spring Sunday on the western hemisphere. Even the smallest amount of sun makes such a day great.