The only time I ever use a mouse is when I'm trying to aim for the middle of a line so I can edit something there (I'm sure real programmers have ways to do this really efficiently with a keyboard but I haven't bothered with them, just using gedit myself). For that your only need is accuracy. How high can you score in an FPS with your mouse? Trackpads are, of course, right at the bottom.
I can only think of solar panels absorbing heat that the roof would have otherwise absorbed. That is usually a benefit in the summer and liability in the winter.
I doubt it. Any electricity obtained from solar panels would be used in your home where almost all of the electricity is directly or indirectly converted to heat anyway.
Actually, wind is slightly better for the environment.
ec.europa.eu/research/energy/pdf/externe_en.pdfno-download version
But the point still stands, nuclear is as environmentally friendly as most conventional renewable energy and is the most economically practical of them all.
So license plates and addresses frequently change, often without the consent or even knowledge of the user? There are services which allow you to randomize your car's license plate every time you take a drive? Apartment buildings frequently change the numbers of the apartments inside them?
IP addresses are much less fixed than anything that represents a physical object.
Sorry about replying to myself, but I just found another gem:
Music pirates aren't in the music business, they are in the plastics business. They buy and sell plastic and get consumers to pay them 10 to 20 times their cost for a blank disc by simply loading that plastic up with stolen music.
That argument applies almost verbatim to the music industry itself.
I like the one about "dream compilation" CDs. It's like they're acknowledging that they're making you buy 19 crap songs with each good one in an album.
You still need to accelerate just enough to overcome the friction. Ground friction scales directly with the weight of the object so doubling the weight doubles it, drag force only increases with surface area, so it isn't affected. It should probably be somewhere in between not affecting the mileage and halving it - it depends on the speed, at low speeds ground friction dominates so doubling the weight halves the mileage but at high speeds, since the power needed to overcome the drag scales with v^3 drag dominates so weight matters much less.
And there are no individually wealthy people at the top of the RIAA, right? No people who are running the show while also running a facade that this is about the common people who want their voices heard?
this process is so clean and efficient when the RIAA's the victim but when the RIAA lawyers break rules this stuff, if it happens, gets dragged on and on until it's forgotten.
This might work well. New players would just shove their skill points into what looks like it's good and end up with a hodgepodge of abilities that don't work well, but as they gain experience (human experience, not points) they would start to understand how abilities interact and how the synergies work and they would further and further refine their characters until they get something that perfectly meshes with their playstyle. Or they would look up speccing guides online and grab what the min-maxers say is 0.13% better than anything else and fail utterly as they don't know how their skills work since they're essentially playing someone else's character.
Not elimination, but the worst they can do is take away everything except a minimal amount of personal property and you start with just your knowledge from there. Once you're sufficiently in debt to have that happen to you, anything over the top is irrelevant.
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The only time I ever use a mouse is when I'm trying to aim for the middle of a line so I can edit something there (I'm sure real programmers have ways to do this really efficiently with a keyboard but I haven't bothered with them, just using gedit myself). For that your only need is accuracy. How high can you score in an FPS with your mouse? Trackpads are, of course, right at the bottom.
I agreedis, Slashdot s'editor grammar is superior to most of the other orscontribute on this site-web!
By 9-5, do you mean working hours or sleeping hours?
Alterac Valley ... until they trivialized it into yet another 15-minute game with no strategy beyond rushing to the enemy base.
Only if there's a bunch of crazies with million dollar lawyers enforcing it.
I'm reading this and mere hours ago I bumped into someone commenting about how everyone in an argument about Slashdot seniority says this.
I can only think of solar panels absorbing heat that the roof would have otherwise absorbed. That is usually a benefit in the summer and liability in the winter.
I doubt it. Any electricity obtained from solar panels would be used in your home where almost all of the electricity is directly or indirectly converted to heat anyway.
Actually, wind is slightly better for the environment. ec.europa.eu/research/energy/pdf/externe_en.pdf no-download version But the point still stands, nuclear is as environmentally friendly as most conventional renewable energy and is the most economically practical of them all.
So license plates and addresses frequently change, often without the consent or even knowledge of the user? There are services which allow you to randomize your car's license plate every time you take a drive? Apartment buildings frequently change the numbers of the apartments inside them?
IP addresses are much less fixed than anything that represents a physical object.
Sorry about replying to myself, but I just found another gem:
Music pirates aren't in the music business, they are in the plastics business. They buy and sell plastic and get consumers to pay them 10 to 20 times their cost for a blank disc by simply loading that plastic up with stolen music.
That argument applies almost verbatim to the music industry itself.
I like the one about "dream compilation" CDs. It's like they're acknowledging that they're making you buy 19 crap songs with each good one in an album.
So you throw away a phone every time you download a movie? That's a lot of phones lying around, and the MPAA better hope they're not camera phones...
You still need to accelerate just enough to overcome the friction. Ground friction scales directly with the weight of the object so doubling the weight doubles it, drag force only increases with surface area, so it isn't affected. It should probably be somewhere in between not affecting the mileage and halving it - it depends on the speed, at low speeds ground friction dominates so doubling the weight halves the mileage but at high speeds, since the power needed to overcome the drag scales with v^3 drag dominates so weight matters much less.
The /.attitude in a nutshell:
X is really hard.
Anybody can do Y.
Where X = what I do and Y = anything else.
That sounds like standard procedure for keeping your job secure.
Converting the one in the article gives 554 kilometers per liter. So that car is more than twice as efficient.
Only 56000 atmospheres? Sounds like something too dangerous to put in moving, crashing vehicles.
Hydrogen is only a miracle power source if you perform nuclear fusion on it.
But doubling the mass doubles the force needed to get the same acceleration (F = ma).
Did you mean: No browser - direct HTTP requests: 14.22% HMTL is a format... not a protocol ;)
I meant it as "write a 10 line script to grab the raw html off of webpages and read that instead of having a program interpret it" but that works too.
And there are no individually wealthy people at the top of the RIAA, right? No people who are running the show while also running a facade that this is about the common people who want their voices heard?
Internet Explorer: 0.37%
Firefox: 13.45%
Safari: 4.23%
Chrome: 6.97%
Lynx: 22.43%
Self-created web browser: 23.12%
No browser - reading HTML directly: 14.22%
No browser - interpreting modem signals directly: 15.21%
1.4K? Isn't 1400 degrees enough to melt copper?
this process is so clean and efficient when the RIAA's the victim but when the RIAA lawyers break rules this stuff, if it happens, gets dragged on and on until it's forgotten.
This might work well. New players would just shove their skill points into what looks like it's good and end up with a hodgepodge of abilities that don't work well, but as they gain experience (human experience, not points) they would start to understand how abilities interact and how the synergies work and they would further and further refine their characters until they get something that perfectly meshes with their playstyle. Or they would look up speccing guides online and grab what the min-maxers say is 0.13% better than anything else and fail utterly as they don't know how their skills work since they're essentially playing someone else's character.
Not elimination, but the worst they can do is take away everything except a minimal amount of personal property and you start with just your knowledge from there. Once you're sufficiently in debt to have that happen to you, anything over the top is irrelevant.