Facebook does have a way of making pictures of you public without your permission by letting others tag you in photos, but I think there's a setting to prevent that.
I don't do any drugs nor have I ever been in the military so I don't need to try any method. I'm just telling you what is happening there, scientifically.
Water has a Median Lethal Dose of 90g/kg. Two gallons is 9000g, therefore lethal for a body weighting 100kg. And it's not about whether you take salt tablets or not, it's about intracranial pressure, which is physics. You can't cheat out of that....Well who knows, maybe your brain is smaller and you don't feel the symptoms:)
I call this bullshit. If you drink two gallons of water, chances are that your electrolytes go awry. You might even die. Second, no mtter how much water you hold, you can only pee so much. Also, hint: average urine density (should be between 1010 and 1025). Lower than 1010, you're a suspect because it means you drink too much water for some reason, so a blood test is requested.
Sure, sure, let me know when Borderlands 2 for Android gets released. Or any of the Triple-A games that got released in 2012. Or 2011. Or 2010. Or 2009, except for Dead Space, which is unplayable on Android anyway.
Egg or Hen? The problems exist because of Linux developers' attitude in the past. Linux started as "8y 1337 4 1337" and continued on that path until fairly recently; started to become more and more user-friendly - and I welcome this trend! However, this advancement is being slowed down by both community and developers' attitude towards newcomers or public's requirements.
You're really pushing assumptions to absurdity. The article you mention places a huge emphasis on TVs. Incidentally, I don't own a TV.
I use this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idle.babytoy on my smartphone because my boy (now 1 year old) is very interested in my phone when I'm talking or checking my e-mail. I only pull out the phone 3-4 times a day, and this app lets him mash the screen with very slim chances of accidentally exiting the app. Touching the Home button does nothing and he gets bored pretty fast. When he was smaller, he would play on this for 10-15 minutes, now he throws the phone away after maybe 2 minutes. The app is now there just because he needs to hold that thing that daddy uses, and this app helps me keep my phone stuff away from being accidentally messed up.
My child develops normally, he has an equal interest in cats, dogs, toys, people, other kids, mashing laptop and desktop keyboards (doesn't matter if the screen is on). He learned how to turn lights on and off, how to push/pull doors, he likes throwing balls more than anything though. 10 minutes per day of mashing a phone screen doesn't do any harm.
The GGGP tried to excuse the...GGGGGP? Anyway, was trying to excuse his typo(s) by referring to Dutch as the guy's native language. Now I know how to differentiate a typo from a possible lack of English knowledge (I ignored "sais" and "incompatability" as having incomplete knowledge as root cause). But "simular" is very, very likely a typo, both on Dvorak and QWERTY keyboards.
I'm Romanian. Your point is, again...? Anyway, I was trying to be funny. Seems that the spirit of Christmas doesn't make people more receptive to jokes. Oh well...
I'm thinking this: I type say 5K characters a day. That's a total of 18250000 characters a year. If I type at the speed of 5 characters per second, just as a baseline, that's 3650000 seconds a year, almost 1014 hours spent typing every year. typing twice as fast would shave off 507 hours of focusing on typing, which I can spend on something else. I'd say it's definitely worthy.
People have an inherent need to be first at "something". They are competitive, and that goes back in history to... the very beginning, I'd say. There's a small hill near Sibiu in my country. On top of that hill there's a small church, built of stones and boulders. The hill itself is mostly made of earth, so the boulders had to be lifted there somehow. Now people wouldn't do that voluntarily so the Church somehow convinced them that in order to show how great their love is for their brides-to-be, they should pick a boulder as big as possible and carry it upwards to the top of the hill. For decades, men of all ages would do that, both to prove their love at first and then to reaffirm it as often as possible.
A brief reference is to be found here: http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biserica_Sf%C3%A2ntul_Mihail_din_Cisn%C4%83dioara. "Exist i o legend a locului care spune c fiecare fecior înainte de nunt trebuia s duc un astfel de bolovan în cetate pentru a-i demonstra puterea." Translation: "There's a local legend saying that each bachelor should carry such a boulder, before the wedding, to the stronghold, to prove his strength". Our tour guide, however, told us more, which is what I mentioned above.
Anyway, point is that people need to compare themselves to others and perfect a skill so that they rise above the mass. Nothing wrong with that, although some "skills" barely fit the definition. Like fastest 100m run on four limbs... seriously?
Fast typing, however, is an useful skill. I wish I could do that, because it would greatly help channel my literary ideas faster. I sometimes write a couple pages than give up because my train of thought goes too far ahead and I get bored of putting all that in writing.
Exactly this. I know a (very large) Data Center belonging to a (very large) company which started replacing their HDDs with SSDs. The price difference isn't even that large; price-per-GB for a server-grade 15K RPM SAS was negligibly close to SSD price. And the advantages are really there: (much) lower heat produced, less noise, less space taken, less energy consumed. Even with a similar failure rate, the advantages are there.
Nope. SSDs are reliable enough to be used in server-grade implementations. The only issue with them is that they're highly specialized. If your regular HDDs become the bottleneck, you will need SSDs. Also, if you have some small implementations where you need fast access to read/write/modify data (some MMOs come to mind) and need to protect it against a power failure or RAM going awry, you should use SSDs.
On a more general note: I never move important data. What I do is: I copy data from old HDD to new HDD and then use KLS Backup to set up incremental back-up. I still use old HDD until it fails. When that happens, the old HDD is taken out of the system, the "new" HDD becomes the "old" HDD and a brand new HDD becomes... yes, you guessed it: new HDD:)
Unimportant data never gets backed up (e.g. installed games or large ISOs I keep for some reason, music, uncompressed video captures, etc). It goes straight to the new HDD because that's usually larger than the old one.
I feel you, man. Point is a convicted person should indeed be monitored, but by a specific government branch-only. Nobody else should be aware of what happened in the past.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know how to explain. Slashdot fonts: good. Skulpture screenshots fonts: bad. I am looking at this screenshot: http://skulpture.maxiom.de/images/skulpture-sample-2.png - observe how the "d" has a small protrusion at top, the "p" has a small protrusion at the bottom, etc. Each letter looks crappy, there's a tiny bit of extra information in each letter. Overall, it annoys me.
Take this screenshot: http://skulpture.maxiom.de/images/skulpture-newcheck.png - kerning is messed up. Hint: look at "Text Edit" and "tri-state".
This screenshot: http://skulpture.maxiom.de/images/skulpture-beton-1.png - bold + shadow + heavy text = ugly.
Et caetera.
Facebook does have a way of making pictures of you public without your permission by letting others tag you in photos, but I think there's a setting to prevent that.
Please share. I'm a noob and I can't find it.
Nope, still butt-ugly. It's a matter of taste, agreed, but those KDE fonts... man, they suck. ...And what's with the constant battleship-grey?
I don't do any drugs nor have I ever been in the military so I don't need to try any method. I'm just telling you what is happening there, scientifically.
Water has a Median Lethal Dose of 90g/kg. Two gallons is 9000g, therefore lethal for a body weighting 100kg. And it's not about whether you take salt tablets or not, it's about intracranial pressure, which is physics. You can't cheat out of that. ...Well who knows, maybe your brain is smaller and you don't feel the symptoms :)
I call this bullshit. If you drink two gallons of water, chances are that your electrolytes go awry. You might even die. Second, no mtter how much water you hold, you can only pee so much. Also, hint: average urine density (should be between 1010 and 1025). Lower than 1010, you're a suspect because it means you drink too much water for some reason, so a blood test is requested.
Sure, sure, let me know when Borderlands 2 for Android gets released. Or any of the Triple-A games that got released in 2012. Or 2011. Or 2010. Or 2009, except for Dead Space, which is unplayable on Android anyway.
Egg or Hen?
The problems exist because of Linux developers' attitude in the past. Linux started as "8y 1337 4 1337" and continued on that path until fairly recently; started to become more and more user-friendly - and I welcome this trend! However, this advancement is being slowed down by both community and developers' attitude towards newcomers or public's requirements.
...also, 2013 will be the year of Desktop Linux. Suuure...
With this attitude, no wonder Linux ain't a gaming platform yet.
Why compare a fairly basic murder with 'extreme' porn (is that even still porn?)?
Because only imbalanced comparisons would help his argument, doh!
You're really pushing assumptions to absurdity.
The article you mention places a huge emphasis on TVs. Incidentally, I don't own a TV.
I use this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idle.babytoy on my smartphone because my boy (now 1 year old) is very interested in my phone when I'm talking or checking my e-mail. I only pull out the phone 3-4 times a day, and this app lets him mash the screen with very slim chances of accidentally exiting the app. Touching the Home button does nothing and he gets bored pretty fast. When he was smaller, he would play on this for 10-15 minutes, now he throws the phone away after maybe 2 minutes. The app is now there just because he needs to hold that thing that daddy uses, and this app helps me keep my phone stuff away from being accidentally messed up.
My child develops normally, he has an equal interest in cats, dogs, toys, people, other kids, mashing laptop and desktop keyboards (doesn't matter if the screen is on). He learned how to turn lights on and off, how to push/pull doors, he likes throwing balls more than anything though. 10 minutes per day of mashing a phone screen doesn't do any harm.
The GGGP tried to excuse the ...GGGGGP? Anyway, was trying to excuse his typo(s) by referring to Dutch as the guy's native language. Now I know how to differentiate a typo from a possible lack of English knowledge (I ignored "sais" and "incompatability" as having incomplete knowledge as root cause). But "simular" is very, very likely a typo, both on Dvorak and QWERTY keyboards.
I had to videotape accident scenes (police work, contractor). By comparison this guy takes pictures of fluffy puppies.
Anonymous Cowards teaching morality. On Slashdot, no less. Now THAT's a joke!
I'm Romanian. Your point is, again...?
Anyway, I was trying to be funny. Seems that the spirit of Christmas doesn't make people more receptive to jokes. Oh well...
I'm thinking this:
I type say 5K characters a day. That's a total of 18250000 characters a year.
If I type at the speed of 5 characters per second, just as a baseline, that's 3650000 seconds a year, almost 1014 hours spent typing every year. typing twice as fast would shave off 507 hours of focusing on typing, which I can spend on something else. I'd say it's definitely worthy.
People have an inherent need to be first at "something". They are competitive, and that goes back in history to... the very beginning, I'd say.
There's a small hill near Sibiu in my country. On top of that hill there's a small church, built of stones and boulders. The hill itself is mostly made of earth, so the boulders had to be lifted there somehow. Now people wouldn't do that voluntarily so the Church somehow convinced them that in order to show how great their love is for their brides-to-be, they should pick a boulder as big as possible and carry it upwards to the top of the hill. For decades, men of all ages would do that, both to prove their love at first and then to reaffirm it as often as possible.
A brief reference is to be found here: http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biserica_Sf%C3%A2ntul_Mihail_din_Cisn%C4%83dioara. "Exist i o legend a locului care spune c fiecare fecior înainte de nunt trebuia s duc un astfel de bolovan în cetate pentru a-i demonstra puterea." Translation: "There's a local legend saying that each bachelor should carry such a boulder, before the wedding, to the stronghold, to prove his strength". Our tour guide, however, told us more, which is what I mentioned above.
Anyway, point is that people need to compare themselves to others and perfect a skill so that they rise above the mass. Nothing wrong with that, although some "skills" barely fit the definition. Like fastest 100m run on four limbs... seriously?
Fast typing, however, is an useful skill. I wish I could do that, because it would greatly help channel my literary ideas faster. I sometimes write a couple pages than give up because my train of thought goes too far ahead and I get bored of putting all that in writing.
Another Dvorak disadvantage is that sometimes you type "simular" instead of "similar".
Exactly this.
I know a (very large) Data Center belonging to a (very large) company which started replacing their HDDs with SSDs. The price difference isn't even that large; price-per-GB for a server-grade 15K RPM SAS was negligibly close to SSD price. And the advantages are really there: (much) lower heat produced, less noise, less space taken, less energy consumed. Even with a similar failure rate, the advantages are there.
Nope. SSDs are reliable enough to be used in server-grade implementations. The only issue with them is that they're highly specialized. If your regular HDDs become the bottleneck, you will need SSDs. Also, if you have some small implementations where you need fast access to read/write/modify data (some MMOs come to mind) and need to protect it against a power failure or RAM going awry, you should use SSDs.
On a more general note: I never move important data. What I do is: I copy data from old HDD to new HDD and then use KLS Backup to set up incremental back-up. I still use old HDD until it fails. When that happens, the old HDD is taken out of the system, the "new" HDD becomes the "old" HDD and a brand new HDD becomes... yes, you guessed it: new HDD :)
Unimportant data never gets backed up (e.g. installed games or large ISOs I keep for some reason, music, uncompressed video captures, etc). It goes straight to the new HDD because that's usually larger than the old one.
I feel you, man. Point is a convicted person should indeed be monitored, but by a specific government branch-only. Nobody else should be aware of what happened in the past.
This is not funny. It's insightful.
Add in plans for steampunk gizmos.