You need to completely remove the 0.9.2 version first (including all the settings folders and possibly the registry entries). Or at least, that's what fixed the same problem for me.
I just installed it on a machine that never had Firefox before and it's working perfectly.
I know the Kinsey Institute exists. The link you gave it to a newspaper that has as its other main story "Man eats Dog". It's like giving a link to The Onion. Can you show me this story appearing anywhere else? Why isn't the study in the Kinsey Institute Catalog? Why does a Google for "Dr. Hosung Lee" AND IQ only give your link and two other sites that link back the the Hoosier?
Re the IQ stuff: I said nothing about the census data. You misunderstood. Please re-read either my post or your own link.
I just thought I should point out that the article about children lowering IQ was in fact satire. There was no such survey. A quick google should reveal this, though the (cruelly funny) comments supposedly made by the Head Researcher should have given it away.
The IQ vs Religion graph is done by country. It's not about individual attitudes. As they say, the USA scored oddly because of the high numbers saying religion was important and yet having a high national average IQ.
Hope this helps... (ps. re my political views: I'm not from the US and I think that all politicians everywhere are wankers.)
If you're really going to give it a shot, here're some recommendations for getting the best out of Firefox:
Use the tabs. Don't open a new window for everything; CTRL+T will give you a new blank tab, and middle click will open a link in a tab (very useful when you're reading a long page; leave the link to open in the background)
Right click on the buttons (forward, back, etc) and choose Customise. Tick "Use small icons". Looks better. Also, under Tools, get the Qute theme: much better than the default.
Get the extension All-in-one-Gestures. You can then use Right mouse + flick left to move back and right to move forward...really good once you get used to it. You can play with the others to see which ones you like.
If you're really going to give it a shot, here're some recommendations for getting the best out of Firefox:
Use the tabs. Don't open a new window for everything; CTRL+T will give you a new bank tab, and middle click will open a link in a tab (very useful when you're reading a long page; leave the link to open in the background)
DOS that guy who has two machine, one running windows that he never touches, and one still running DOS that he does his Real Work on. Mutters under his breath about the good old days when they still had the Novell network in place before that upgrade ("Hah!") to NT...
The article is a news article. They very rarely explain the methodology behind a survey, but since they do talk about a company with its own domain I suspect they didn't just talk to people who "use Yahoo email as their primary email".
And nowhere in the article does it explain where they get this "the average PC is teh broke 9 days a year" business. Methinks they pulled it from their ass.
...or maybe they pulled it from the report from the research company?
Actually, had a quick look at your other posts to this thread. Looks like you're trolling again...oh well...
Not really. 2500 is plenty people; what's more important is that the sample is representative (of whatever group you want to talk about). As long as your sample is representative then 250,000 people will not give you significantly better results than 2500.
I'd say this differs depending upon which measuring system you use. I'd say I use divisions by 2,4 and 5 most.
Well, I suspect that you divide a lot by 5 because it's 10/2. If 10/2 was 6 (ie. Base12) I'm sure you'd use that a lot more.
Other than that, I guess we're not really disagreeing much. I think it would be better if we used base12 but, I suppose, only if we could have a "clean start" at it. The legacy reasons do make it close to impossible.
As far as fractions go, I suspect that if someone doesn't understand them in one base, then another won't make it any easier.
I guess I'll have to wait until no-one remembers how to count any more anyway, and then I'll lobby to have the base changed.;-)
White light is actually lots of frequencies of light. I guess the screen only reflects the red, green and blue from the projector.
As a simple example, imagine that yellow light is shining on the screen. That won't be reflected. But the projector can shine red & green mixed on part of the image and we see that as yellow...
Well, easy division into thirds and quarters is actually a good thing, since they're probably the most common day-to-day divisions people make. The more numbers in a base the more difficult it is to learn. Since I had no trouble learning up to my twelve-times-table in school, I figured twelve was pretty reasonable. Maybe 16 would be reasonable too, but it removes division by thirds and has more digits: ease of conversion into binary is rather an arcane advantage for the majority of people...
Percentages? Are you sure you understand bases? No offense meant, it's just this is such a strange argument to make! Rather obviously, if we couldn't in base12 then percentages would still go up to 100%.
I'm not really interested in legacy reasons as I've already said they're a problem and will in all likelyhood prevent a switch ever taking place.
I don't get what you mean about fractions. That making them easier will mean people won't understand them?
Not all people did use base10. There are various historical reasons why it's used now. Mostly because we have 10 fingers. That's not a reason for keeping it now.
This isn't a new projector. It's a new type of screen that only reflects the projector light, absorbing the ambient light, so the image remains clear even in a bright room. It works with regular projectors. I'd at least expect the submitter to RTFA...
I already said it would be very difficult to implement. I thought the reasons for that were obvious.
I never learned how to count using my fingers (does anyone really?) so I don't see what difference that makes. Get them twelve blocks to count with. Other than "number of fingers" and the switchover (which I acknowledged in my original post) you don't seem to have any other real arguments against having base12.
I still think it would be good to have but it'll probably never happen because base10 is so established.
The kooky site you link to is all about how counting in base-12 is the way to go. I mean, you can take a step back to the way Germanic tribes did it, but I think base-10 is the way to go. Metric's just an outgrowth of it.
I'm not sure you understand what a number base is. A metric system works with the base. If we counted in base-12, the metric system would use twelves rather than tens, because twelve would be written "10" and twelve times twelve would be "100".
It would actually be really good, combining the benefits of the imperial and metric systems (and allowing an easy switch to metric time!), but I suspect it would be incredibly difficult to implement....
If the planet has lost about 1 meter worth of material since 1974 then at that rate it would have lost about 937 miles worth of material at a constant rate since its "birth" "4.5 billion" years ago.
Firstly, it's not a planet, it's a comet.
Secondly, as the article says, "In 1974 it had a close encounter with Jupiter and was thrown onto a new orbit that brings it closer to the Sun. A comet loses material when it approaches the Sun"
Thirdly, if it had been a constant rate, it would have been 93210 miles, not 937.
"It can easily do flights three times as long, which may show up some problems before we hit them with the big vehicle."
Yeah, you missed the bolded bit above. The small prototype can do up to 400 feet so they can spot problems with the design. The "big vehicle" is the one that will go for the prize (assuming Scaled Composites don't get there first...)
...where they took off from, all without ablating,...
I want to see some form of "ablate" used in Doom3. As in, "you have been ablated by dylan_-'s rocket" or something...basically "First use of Ablate in a Computer Game".
That's the kind of thing people really care about...
Harry Potter is for people who haven't found Terry Pratchett yet.
No, I've read all of TP's books. I read the Harry Potter series just after I finished what's been released of "A Song of Ice and Fire", and simultaneously with re-reading "Godel, Escher, Bach". Afterwards I read "My Name is Asher Lev" and then "The Collector".
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You need to completely remove the 0.9.2 version first (including all the settings folders and possibly the registry entries). Or at least, that's what fixed the same problem for me.
I just installed it on a machine that never had Firefox before and it's working perfectly.
I know the Kinsey Institute exists. The link you gave it to a newspaper that has as its other main story "Man eats Dog". It's like giving a link to The Onion. Can you show me this story appearing anywhere else? Why isn't the study in the Kinsey Institute Catalog? Why does a Google for "Dr. Hosung Lee" AND IQ only give your link and two other sites that link back the the Hoosier?
Re the IQ stuff: I said nothing about the census data. You misunderstood. Please re-read either my post or your own link.
I just thought I should point out that the article about children lowering IQ was in fact satire. There was no such survey. A quick google should reveal this, though the (cruelly funny) comments supposedly made by the Head Researcher should have given it away.
The IQ vs Religion graph is done by country. It's not about individual attitudes. As they say, the USA scored oddly because of the high numbers saying religion was important and yet having a high national average IQ.
Hope this helps...
(ps. re my political views: I'm not from the US and I think that all politicians everywhere are wankers.)
Huh! Spoke too quickly was obviously the right choice of topic. See the other post...
If you're really going to give it a shot, here're some recommendations for getting the best out of Firefox:
Use the tabs. Don't open a new window for everything; CTRL+T will give you a new blank tab, and middle click will open a link in a tab (very useful when you're reading a long page; leave the link to open in the background)
Right click on the buttons (forward, back, etc) and choose Customise. Tick "Use small icons". Looks better. Also, under Tools, get the Qute theme: much better than the default.
Get the extension All-in-one-Gestures. You can then use Right mouse + flick left to move back and right to move forward...really good once you get used to it. You can play with the others to see which ones you like.
Get FLST, undoclosetab and ieview extensions.
Hope this helps.
Use the tabs. Don't open a new window for everything; CTRL+T will give you a new bank tab, and middle click will open a link in a tab (very useful when you're reading a long page; leave the link to open in the background)
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It's this ease of use that has made Windows the most popular operating system on the planet...
They're not "blown away"...they're "ablated"...
You forgot:
DOS that guy who has two machine, one running windows that he never touches, and one still running DOS that he does his Real Work on. Mutters under his breath about the good old days when they still had the Novell network in place before that upgrade ("Hah!") to NT...
Actually, had a quick look at your other posts to this thread. Looks like you're trolling again...oh well...
Not really. 2500 is plenty people; what's more important is that the sample is representative (of whatever group you want to talk about). As long as your sample is representative then 250,000 people will not give you significantly better results than 2500.
Other than that, I guess we're not really disagreeing much. I think it would be better if we used base12 but, I suppose, only if we could have a "clean start" at it. The legacy reasons do make it close to impossible.
As far as fractions go, I suspect that if someone doesn't understand them in one base, then another won't make it any easier.
I guess I'll have to wait until no-one remembers how to count any more anyway, and then I'll lobby to have the base changed.
White light is actually lots of frequencies of light. I guess the screen only reflects the red, green and blue from the projector.
As a simple example, imagine that yellow light is shining on the screen. That won't be reflected. But the projector can shine red & green mixed on part of the image and we see that as yellow...
Well, easy division into thirds and quarters is actually a good thing, since they're probably the most common day-to-day divisions people make. The more numbers in a base the more difficult it is to learn. Since I had no trouble learning up to my twelve-times-table in school, I figured twelve was pretty reasonable. Maybe 16 would be reasonable too, but it removes division by thirds and has more digits: ease of conversion into binary is rather an arcane advantage for the majority of people...
Percentages? Are you sure you understand bases? No offense meant, it's just this is such a strange argument to make! Rather obviously, if we couldn't in base12 then percentages would still go up to 100%.
I'm not really interested in legacy reasons as I've already said they're a problem and will in all likelyhood prevent a switch ever taking place.
I don't get what you mean about fractions. That making them easier will mean people won't understand them?
Not all people did use base10. There are various historical reasons why it's used now. Mostly because we have 10 fingers. That's not a reason for keeping it now.
This isn't a new projector. It's a new type of screen that only reflects the projector light, absorbing the ambient light, so the image remains clear even in a bright room. It works with regular projectors. I'd at least expect the submitter to RTFA...
I already said it would be very difficult to implement. I thought the reasons for that were obvious.
I never learned how to count using my fingers (does anyone really?) so I don't see what difference that makes. Get them twelve blocks to count with. Other than "number of fingers" and the switchover (which I acknowledged in my original post) you don't seem to have any other real arguments against having base12.
I still think it would be good to have but it'll probably never happen because base10 is so established.
It would actually be really good, combining the benefits of the imperial and metric systems (and allowing an easy switch to metric time!), but I suspect it would be incredibly difficult to implement....
Secondly, as the article says, "In 1974 it had a close encounter with Jupiter and was thrown onto a new orbit that brings it closer to the Sun. A comet loses material when it approaches the Sun"
Thirdly, if it had been a constant rate, it would have been 93210 miles, not 937.
Hope this helps...
Me too, so afterwards I always go here to make myself feel better. Of course then I end up feeling guilty. You can't win...
That's the kind of thing people really care about...
(ps. Congrats on the rocket thing...)
Don't presume.