See, the thing about the ocean is that in general, it's very, very deep, while our nets are very, very small, and the fish we eat tends to stay relatively near the surface.
Note: I do not know the details of this theory, and what little cosmology I did do was a long time ago and didn't touch on this sort of thing at all.
That said I imagine it may be due to an effect like the Joule-Thomson effect, which is why deodorant feels cold when you spray it on.
(Also as an AC already pointed out, points are zero-dimensional, as they have absolutely no extent (size) whatsoever. Lines are 1D - they have length, but absolutely no thickness or width)
Which of course is what the news media are also doing, only to a rather greater degree (as they are dumbing-down the already dumbed-down information that they have, and are dumbing it down further than you would for the largely technical audience here)
Not a C/C++ programmer, huh? The only way to do that is to include the headers - otherwise your code doesn't know about the system calls and so cannot use them.
It's simple - the slashdot hive mind* hates Facebook.
This story is evidence of Facebook being bad.
Therefore, it gets posted, in the hopes of lots of "zomg lol Facebook is teh l4m3!!!" comments. Simple.
(* Oh yes there is one, in so far as certain opinions are in the overwhelming majority here amongst posters and moderators alike; yes, there are always dissenting opinions, but they are in the minority)
He's compared the latest public releases of the browsers. Firefox 4 is still in beta and may never be formerly released in its current state (unlikely yes, but not impossible).
FB and Twitter are major culprits, they have no business tracking me when I'm visiting some other site, I'm not one of their users and I don't give a sh`t about what they do.
I do use FB, and they still have no business tracking me on other sites.
Some are arguing that allowing cookies in the browser is basically equivalent to giving your consent.
And they would be wrong, as all major browsers that I've used default to allowing cookies without prompting. Even if that were not the case, this regulation requires explicit consent, while that browser setting is almost certainly implicit consent.
"Session cookie" has a specific meaning - the cookie is transient and lasts until the end of the browser session, that is, until the window is closed. (Technically until the executable terminates)
TFS specifically mentions "text files"; session cookies are not written to disk and so are not text files.
My experience is exactly the opposite - I switched to Virgin cable (away from ADSL with another provider) because my phone line was so poor the best I got was 2Mbps and even that suffered frequent drop-outs.
Cable has been absolutely fine for several years. If there have been any outages I've not noticed them, and performance has been excellent even during peak hours.
I have heard some horror stories though, so it does seem to be somewhat hit and miss; guess I got lucky.
What connection speeds have you tried that on? It *might* be a timeout problem with the download (as it's so large) taking longer than some server-side time out. I used to have that problem downloading files from Yahoo groups years ago on dial-up; when I got ADSL the problem went away.
That's completely ridiculous. You think that every kid that owns an iPhone understands things like HTTP, iOS, Bluetooth, and the 802.11 specs? Do they also understand database clusters, content delivery networks, event-based user interfaces and load balancing? Should all Facebook users be expected to understand how memcached works?
No. But absolutely everyone should understand the concept of "something I have a copy of, I have forever; something someone else has that I can look at, I can lose any time they decided to take it away".
My first Linux install was also Slackware from floppies. It sure does make today's installations seem a whole lot easier. The number of failed installs I had because one of the floppies was borked...
Thing is though, "not working" is still "not working", whether you spend hours installing from floppies or half an hour installing from a DVD. Just because it is quicker and easier to get a system that mostly works apart from that one essential thing doesn't make it any better for the person staring at a PC they can't use effectively.
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I haven't had mod points in 7 or 8 years. No idea what my crime was, but I wasn't even able to meta-mod for a few years.
Maybe if I did now I'd get mod points again, but frankly I don't feel like it.
MMmmm, fried children...
Be a shame if anything unfortunate happened to it - oh, wait, too late.
I am sure that in societies such as Briton's
I am a Briton because I was born and live in Britain.
See, the thing about the ocean is that in general, it's very, very deep, while our nets are very, very small, and the fish we eat tends to stay relatively near the surface.
Two points:
1) Printing, binding and shipping are a relatively small part of the cost of producing a hard-copy book, at least when producing them in bulk
2) Publishers can and do specify minimum prices that Amazon cannot go below (in order to make a profit, even if there's nothing contractual in place)
On the prices at least, you are directing your ire at entirely the wrong target.
Won't happen, not because of this. The most they can do is force Amazon to stop calling it the App Store.
Note: I do not know the details of this theory, and what little cosmology I did do was a long time ago and didn't touch on this sort of thing at all.
That said I imagine it may be due to an effect like the Joule-Thomson effect, which is why deodorant feels cold when you spray it on.
(Also as an AC already pointed out, points are zero-dimensional, as they have absolutely no extent (size) whatsoever. Lines are 1D - they have length, but absolutely no thickness or width)
But was trying not to get too technical.
Which of course is what the news media are also doing, only to a rather greater degree (as they are dumbing-down the already dumbed-down information that they have, and are dumbing it down further than you would for the largely technical audience here)
Not a C/C++ programmer, huh? The only way to do that is to include the headers - otherwise your code doesn't know about the system calls and so cannot use them.
like providing alt text for your images AND LINKS
You mean a title attribute on links, not an alt one.
Just to echo lime-burner's comment, you should use display: none; not display: hidden; which I know from experience works.
It's simple - the slashdot hive mind* hates Facebook.
This story is evidence of Facebook being bad.
Therefore, it gets posted, in the hopes of lots of "zomg lol Facebook is teh l4m3!!!" comments. Simple.
(* Oh yes there is one, in so far as certain opinions are in the overwhelming majority here amongst posters and moderators alike; yes, there are always dissenting opinions, but they are in the minority)
That might be more accurate, but it wouldn't fit in the space for the headline...
Heh - I'm complaining that the headline is sensationalist and not representative of the actual story.
Headline: "Physicists Develop Quantum Public Key Encryption"
Summary: "...This asymmetry, they say, could form the basis of a new kind of quantum public key cryptography."
So, they've not developed quantum public key encryption, they've discovered an effect that could let someone develop it one day.
(Yes, I know that's also the headline of TFA; that's no excuse)
He's compared the latest public releases of the browsers. Firefox 4 is still in beta and may never be formerly released in its current state (unlikely yes, but not impossible).
FB and Twitter are major culprits, they have no business tracking me when I'm visiting some other site, I'm not one of their users and I don't give a sh`t about what they do.
I do use FB, and they still have no business tracking me on other sites.
Some are arguing that allowing cookies in the browser is basically equivalent to giving your consent.
And they would be wrong, as all major browsers that I've used default to allowing cookies without prompting. Even if that were not the case, this regulation requires explicit consent, while that browser setting is almost certainly implicit consent.
"Session cookie" has a specific meaning - the cookie is transient and lasts until the end of the browser session, that is, until the window is closed. (Technically until the executable terminates)
TFS specifically mentions "text files"; session cookies are not written to disk and so are not text files.
My experience is exactly the opposite - I switched to Virgin cable (away from ADSL with another provider) because my phone line was so poor the best I got was 2Mbps and even that suffered frequent drop-outs.
Cable has been absolutely fine for several years. If there have been any outages I've not noticed them, and performance has been excellent even during peak hours.
I have heard some horror stories though, so it does seem to be somewhat hit and miss; guess I got lucky.
What connection speeds have you tried that on? It *might* be a timeout problem with the download (as it's so large) taking longer than some server-side time out. I used to have that problem downloading files from Yahoo groups years ago on dial-up; when I got ADSL the problem went away.
That's completely ridiculous. You think that every kid that owns an iPhone understands things like HTTP, iOS, Bluetooth, and the 802.11 specs? Do they also understand database clusters, content delivery networks, event-based user interfaces and load balancing? Should all Facebook users be expected to understand how memcached works?
No. But absolutely everyone should understand the concept of "something I have a copy of, I have forever; something someone else has that I can look at, I can lose any time they decided to take it away".
My first Linux install was also Slackware from floppies. It sure does make today's installations seem a whole lot easier. The number of failed installs I had because one of the floppies was borked...
Thing is though, "not working" is still "not working", whether you spend hours installing from floppies or half an hour installing from a DVD. Just because it is quicker and easier to get a system that mostly works apart from that one essential thing doesn't make it any better for the person staring at a PC they can't use effectively.
wget? I still telnet to port 80 and issue HTTP GETs by hand from time to time; it can be invaluable in diagnosing problems.
Now get off my lawn.