You're not kidding. I just picked up X-Com UFO Defense. This is a game that could keep me busy all year, if not longer. And that's just the first title.
Why close a tab? Remember, memory that is not used is wasted. I use the tab bar as kind of a stack to keep track of what I've been doing. Need to switch tasks real quick? I'll push a new tab on the stack. When I'm done with that task, I close the tab and pop back to whatever it was I was doing before.
Bookmarks are too much hassle. You actually have to spend time deciding whether a page will be worthy of visiting again. I just end up bookmarking everything just in case, which is just as bad as having no bookmarks at all. When I pop back to a tab I was using, I'm in a much better position to decide whether I want to continue that task then when I interrupted it. Tasks always seem more important when you're leaving them than when you return for some reason.
I have tabs that have been open for over a month quite frequently. I might have half a dozen browser windows open, each with 150 tabs. I never experience any slowdown.
My single core with 1gb memory doesn't slow down when I have 100 tabs open. On XP even. My dual core linux box at home does fine too with 100s of tabs. So I don't know what your problem is.
I mean it took billion years for that light to get here, but who knows what could have happend in the meantime.
Given a known mass, we can predict how long a star will burn. A star with a mass roughly that of the sun will burn for about 10 billion years. So any young suns in this cluster will have burned out by now. Anything less massive will burn more slowly, and anything more massive will burn much faster.
IPA is ok, but a lot of greasy particulate stuff that might have accumulated on your carts is not terribly soluble in alcohol. Better to use some contact cleaner (tv tuner cleaner). It's mostly lightweight hydrocarbons, which will dissolve non-polar material better than IPA, and it evaporates when you're done so there's no residue. I've been using the same can from Radio Shack for the past 10 years, and I have a lot of cartridges.
It's almost empty now. I've heard really good things about Deox-it contact cleaner, so I'm going to give that a try next. In any case, a quick trip to radioshack will do you a lot better than IPA.
What about the drives? All those moving parts to fail, and lasers die eventually. I can still play my Fairchild Channel F over 30 years after the fact. There are lots of people with dead Sega CDs, Turbo Duos, and 3D0s who aren't so lucky. It's even quite common to see PS2s with dead lasers. Thankfully they can load from a hard disk.
I fear the day my last Dreamcast gives up the ghost. Thankfully, I'll always have Atari. Except the Jaguar CD, I guess.
Instead, it has the problem of crappy RF video output. Your best bet these days is just to pick up a new 72 pin connector for your regular NES. They can be had for $10.
Does everyone drive in the right lane, except the people in the left lane who are "passing" a neverending stream of cars? Or, everyone drives in the right lane, and the left is empty except for the occasional person leapfrogging?
Yes, and yes. Depending on the amount of traffic there is. I'm honestly baffled as to the practical working of a "drive in whatever the fuck lane you want" policy. Is faster traffic supposed to just weave in and out of the slower traffic? What happens when two people are driving 55mph in both lanes?
In congested traffic, it sometimes is. Remember, we got to this point because it's not always easy to change lanes when you want to pass someome going slower than you. Same problem with merging traffic in the right lane.
You have other options to make space for someone merging. If you can't move to the left, speed up or slow down.
I wrote "'everyone' seemed to want to go 72". I know not everyone IS going 72. I'm not the dullest radish in the basket, despite your protests to the opposite.
Ooohkay. What seems to happen is irrelevant, what actually happens is what matters.
Until they come across the landsacapers. Or someone who drives like I do. We are not alone. I am not the only obstacle.
Yes, but at least they are not swerving near you anymore. That at least keeps you safer.
No, I can't. I am only one.
Thank god.
My experience so far has been that I have fewer close calls in the left lane than I do in the right-hand lanes.
You must be doing something wrong. I keep to the right unless passing, keep my speed within 5mph of the speed limit, leave plenty of space in front of me, and don't pass at all in congested traffic. I haven't had any close calls worth mentioning.
In my experience the more a driver complains about other people acting unsafely, the greater danger he is. Proper driving means leaving yourself enough distance and time that you can deal with almost any mistake another driver can make.
Please, come over to the right lane and stop forcing aggressive speeders into my lane.
I illegally download The Daily Show, even though it can be legally downloaded for free from their website. Torrents are just easier. My RSS reader drops the torrent files in a directory watched by my torrent client which deposits the video file in a shared directory I can mount from my Xbox. I get to watch it from the couch, and I don't even have to touch the computer.
I'd happily watch an ad laden AVI, or even pay a couple bucks a week if Comedy Central would provide the same easy experience we get from Bittorrent.
From the article: "... it won't matter if PCs are disinfected, swapped out, or replaced with iPads, the bad guys are still control because they own the network below."
But it won't matter if they control the network, if you build a secure encrypted network on top of it. You could root every machine between me and my bank. With the right protocols, you wouldn't be able to sniff or forge any traffic whatsoever. The worst you could do is a DOS.
The slow lane on that road is where people enter and exit. More dangerous than the right lane.
Move to the left when someone enters. Not that hard.
For the record, I've learned that 'your preferred speed' is often just a little faster than the prevailing average... Not yours personally, but time and again, when I travelled in the left lane at 70, 'everyone' seemed to want to go 72.
Confirmation bias, you're only going to notice those who are passing you. You never see all the people going the same speed as you, because you never pass them.
I know full well the impact of hanging in the left lane at the speed limit, and having people swerve by.
Then why do you do it? Stay in the right lane and people will zip past without swerving making it safer for everyone.
And driving 80 through traffic doing 65 is not as safe as driving 65 with the traffic doing 65.
Since you can't control the speed at which others drive, that's irrelevant. What you can do is make them drive 80 *past* traffic that's driving 65, instead of *through*.
Be honest, it's not about time. It's about getting your way.
I agree. Aggressive speeders are jackasses. But so are you. Be honest, it's not about safety. It's about you getting your way.
Actually, it will cut a hot dog. But it won't cut the hot dog if it's grounded. The system is pretty simple, there is a current applied to the blade, if it discharges somewhere, it'll stop. You can't use it to cut very wet wood, or other material with good conductivity.
So what you're saying is, better change out of those rubber boots before you use the table saw.
What does that have to do with anything? Article 9 of the constitution reads in part, "No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.". That's it. None. There is no "unless the subject of the law is a corporation".
1) take any old book (older than 100 years, or in any case old enough to have its copyright expired).
This is unnecessary. You can't copyright the shape of a letter. This is why fonts are essentially programs that describe the shape of a letter, instead of just the shape of a letter. You can copyright the program.
They often don't come with lower case numerals, proper small-caps, decent contextual ligature support, multiple weights, properly prepared bold, oblique, and bold-oblique forms, proper hinting at small sizes, and variations of different optical sizes. All of which SOMEONE has to come up with
They dont HAVE to. We could easily do without all that.
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You're not kidding. I just picked up X-Com UFO Defense. This is a game that could keep me busy all year, if not longer. And that's just the first title.
Actually, the US did it 6 separate times. And there were deaths, they were just on earth during testing.
I don't think we have any orbital nukes. We would have to nuke it from orbit, as it's the only way to be sure.
Why close a tab? Remember, memory that is not used is wasted. I use the tab bar as kind of a stack to keep track of what I've been doing. Need to switch tasks real quick? I'll push a new tab on the stack. When I'm done with that task, I close the tab and pop back to whatever it was I was doing before.
Bookmarks are too much hassle. You actually have to spend time deciding whether a page will be worthy of visiting again. I just end up bookmarking everything just in case, which is just as bad as having no bookmarks at all. When I pop back to a tab I was using, I'm in a much better position to decide whether I want to continue that task then when I interrupted it. Tasks always seem more important when you're leaving them than when you return for some reason.
I have tabs that have been open for over a month quite frequently. I might have half a dozen browser windows open, each with 150 tabs. I never experience any slowdown.
My single core with 1gb memory doesn't slow down when I have 100 tabs open. On XP even. My dual core linux box at home does fine too with 100s of tabs. So I don't know what your problem is.
You've got to admit, lynx seems pretty fast these days.
Why rotate the words? You'll just have to tilt your head to read them, and you won't be able to fit as many on the task bar.
You can hardly do anything in OpenOffice without using the mouse. You can do everything in Vim without taking your hands off the keyboard.
I mean it took billion years for that light to get here, but who knows what could have happend in the meantime.
Given a known mass, we can predict how long a star will burn. A star with a mass roughly that of the sun will burn for about 10 billion years. So any young suns in this cluster will have burned out by now. Anything less massive will burn more slowly, and anything more massive will burn much faster.
VCITDIFUMS, perfect.
IPA is ok, but a lot of greasy particulate stuff that might have accumulated on your carts is not terribly soluble in alcohol. Better to use some contact cleaner (tv tuner cleaner). It's mostly lightweight hydrocarbons, which will dissolve non-polar material better than IPA, and it evaporates when you're done so there's no residue. I've been using the same can from Radio Shack for the past 10 years, and I have a lot of cartridges.
It's almost empty now. I've heard really good things about Deox-it contact cleaner, so I'm going to give that a try next. In any case, a quick trip to radioshack will do you a lot better than IPA.
What about the drives? All those moving parts to fail, and lasers die eventually. I can still play my Fairchild Channel F over 30 years after the fact. There are lots of people with dead Sega CDs, Turbo Duos, and 3D0s who aren't so lucky. It's even quite common to see PS2s with dead lasers. Thankfully they can load from a hard disk.
I fear the day my last Dreamcast gives up the ghost. Thankfully, I'll always have Atari. Except the Jaguar CD, I guess.
That didn't help the PSP.
Instead, it has the problem of crappy RF video output. Your best bet these days is just to pick up a new 72 pin connector for your regular NES. They can be had for $10.
Does everyone drive in the right lane, except the people in the left lane who are "passing" a neverending stream of cars? Or, everyone drives in the right lane, and the left is empty except for the occasional person leapfrogging?
Yes, and yes. Depending on the amount of traffic there is. I'm honestly baffled as to the practical working of a "drive in whatever the fuck lane you want" policy. Is faster traffic supposed to just weave in and out of the slower traffic? What happens when two people are driving 55mph in both lanes?
In congested traffic, it sometimes is. Remember, we got to this point because it's not always easy to change lanes when you want to pass someome going slower than you. Same problem with merging traffic in the right lane.
You have other options to make space for someone merging. If you can't move to the left, speed up or slow down.
I wrote "'everyone' seemed to want to go 72". I know not everyone IS going 72. I'm not the dullest radish in the basket, despite your protests to the opposite.
Ooohkay. What seems to happen is irrelevant, what actually happens is what matters.
Until they come across the landsacapers. Or someone who drives like I do. We are not alone. I am not the only obstacle.
Yes, but at least they are not swerving near you anymore. That at least keeps you safer.
No, I can't. I am only one.
Thank god.
My experience so far has been that I have fewer close calls in the left lane than I do in the right-hand lanes.
You must be doing something wrong. I keep to the right unless passing, keep my speed within 5mph of the speed limit, leave plenty of space in front of me, and don't pass at all in congested traffic. I haven't had any close calls worth mentioning.
In my experience the more a driver complains about other people acting unsafely, the greater danger he is. Proper driving means leaving yourself enough distance and time that you can deal with almost any mistake another driver can make.
Please, come over to the right lane and stop forcing aggressive speeders into my lane.
I illegally download The Daily Show, even though it can be legally downloaded for free from their website. Torrents are just easier. My RSS reader drops the torrent files in a directory watched by my torrent client which deposits the video file in a shared directory I can mount from my Xbox. I get to watch it from the couch, and I don't even have to touch the computer.
I'd happily watch an ad laden AVI, or even pay a couple bucks a week if Comedy Central would provide the same easy experience we get from Bittorrent.
From the article: "... it won't matter if PCs are disinfected, swapped out, or replaced with iPads, the bad guys are still control because they own the network below."
But it won't matter if they control the network, if you build a secure encrypted network on top of it. You could root every machine between me and my bank. With the right protocols, you wouldn't be able to sniff or forge any traffic whatsoever. The worst you could do is a DOS.
Root my desktop however, and it's game over.
Just wait until that guy falls asleep from the boredom and plows into a few construction workers.
The slow lane on that road is where people enter and exit. More dangerous than the right lane.
Move to the left when someone enters. Not that hard.
For the record, I've learned that 'your preferred speed' is often just a little faster than the prevailing average... Not yours personally, but time and again, when I travelled in the left lane at 70, 'everyone' seemed to want to go 72.
Confirmation bias, you're only going to notice those who are passing you. You never see all the people going the same speed as you, because you never pass them.
I know full well the impact of hanging in the left lane at the speed limit, and having people swerve by.
Then why do you do it? Stay in the right lane and people will zip past without swerving making it safer for everyone.
And driving 80 through traffic doing 65 is not as safe as driving 65 with the traffic doing 65.
Since you can't control the speed at which others drive, that's irrelevant. What you can do is make them drive 80 *past* traffic that's driving 65, instead of *through*.
Be honest, it's not about time. It's about getting your way.
I agree. Aggressive speeders are jackasses. But so are you. Be honest, it's not about safety. It's about you getting your way.
Then don't use it. I've had slashdot blocked with noscript for at least a year and it's been performing quite nicely for me.
Actually, it will cut a hot dog. But it won't cut the hot dog if it's grounded. The system is pretty simple, there is a current applied to the blade, if it discharges somewhere, it'll stop. You can't use it to cut very wet wood, or other material with good conductivity.
So what you're saying is, better change out of those rubber boots before you use the table saw.
What does that have to do with anything? Article 9 of the constitution reads in part, "No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.". That's it. None. There is no "unless the subject of the law is a corporation".
1) take any old book (older than 100 years, or in any case old enough to have its copyright expired).
This is unnecessary. You can't copyright the shape of a letter. This is why fonts are essentially programs that describe the shape of a letter, instead of just the shape of a letter. You can copyright the program.
They often don't come with lower case numerals, proper small-caps, decent contextual ligature support, multiple weights, properly prepared bold, oblique, and bold-oblique forms, proper hinting at small sizes, and variations of different optical sizes. All of which SOMEONE has to come up with
They dont HAVE to. We could easily do without all that.