This is why my proposed solution is to use the correct time for your timezone, and shift the working day back an hour for everyone, all year long. Instead of 9 to 5, you work 8 to 4, and have your extra hour of daylight without having to mess with clocks and whatnot.
Sure, everyone would have to get used to the new schedule, but that happens twice a year now as the times change.
But is it scientific to say 'I am going to do an experiment to see if the neutrino has zero mass, but my margin of error means I'll never know for sure if it really is zero'? That the the point of the post you are replying to, which you seem to have conveniently overlooked.
You can watch Heros on nbc.com? All I get is a message that it is "not available in your viewing area". And I'm in Texas...
I get the same message for ALL of the TV shows available for viewing directly from their site. No clue why, as it used to work and if I'm going to watch their shows I'd much rather do it on my time than when they feel it is best to schedule them (which never seems to be convenient for me due to my work schedule).
Bah... sorry for throwing in the rant. nbc.com has just ticked me off with that.... we now return you to your regularly scheduled Slashdot discussion.
I believe the word you are looking for is 'tactical'.
This is why I've always refered to SC and its genre as being Real Time Tactical games... there isn't much Strategy in "build as fast as you can, then rush the other guy before he can rush you".
Sure, the good players can do more planning (actual strategic decision making) but the vast majority of the game is pure tactical (re)action. If I wanted to play tactical games, I'll stick to Laser Squad Nemesis (speaking of which, I feel like playing that again).
Um... did you read the link you posted about Nuclear Thermal Rockets? The nuclear part is purely a power plant to provide energy to the ship and to heat the fuel enough to create thrust. The fuel never comes in contact with the fission/fusion portion of the drive. The only way it would release radiation is through a crash or other meltdown inducing accident (which is, I admit, something to plan for).
Complaining about a NTR is like complaining about a Radio Thermal Generator, because it uses plutonium. An RTG doesn't even "explode" it just does it normal radio-active decay and the generator portion makes use of that to create electricity. Last I checked the RTG on the Voyager probes are doing fine too.;)
"pwned" ("pwnd" or "pwn3d") is pronounced "owned". As best i could discover, it was originally an IRC typo (the O and P keys being right next to each other on a 'standard' keyboard). A lot of the newer internet generation pronounce it "powned" or "pawned" in my experience, however. (Gods, but I'm feeling old having typed that...)
But if we have yet to successfully detect a gravity wave or graviton, how do you know it travels at c, and not some other speed? I admit I'm not a physicist, but this article has some interesting information that makes me inclined to believe gravity travels significantly faster than c. Admittedly, its mostly he-said-she-said right now, since nobody has measured the speed of gravity yet without a great deal of uncertainty in the results.
In fact the length of the space between the mirrors (and any length whatsoever) is _defined_ as the time light spends traveling between the two. This is the definition of distance in GR. It works because the speed of light is constant for everyone everywhere (in GR); the same thing causes all the other funny effects of relativity, for instance the same object having different lengths for different observers.
So, by the same definition, a piece of space is lengthened or shortened _iff_ light spends a longer or shorter time traveling it. The speed of light never changes, but due to conservation laws its _frequency_ changes.
So, what you are saying is that a Bose-Einstein condensate is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside since light travels slower through it?
And all of the pages I'm looking at go away when that one browser crashes. Nice.
Actually, with Firefox it restores all of the open tabs when you restart the browser after a "crash". If i have pages open I haven't gotten to yet (and I regularly have 5+ tabs going at once, 4 work and 1+ "other"... I've got 9 right now, this reply being a new tab opened from the/. comments, so I don't lose my place) I sometimes intentionally leave the browser running when I shut down the computer. When I restart the computer and log back in FF asks if I want to restore the previous session, and reloads the open pages when I tell it "yes".
There is no need to initialize yet another copy of the ui when you want to see a link without loosing the current page, and destroy it when you'r done
You act as if I'm doing some work; its the computer doing what it does best, running another application.
Uh... don't you want to get the most out of your system? I prefer my computer to work efficiently, not churn on stuff because it lacks resources.
Basicaly, MDI (and tabs are a kind of MDI) UIs were invented for a reason, and have their use cases
And i find it irritating that many other applycations switched from MDI to SDI in the last years (eg: ms office, nero)... grrr...
MDI sucks, there's a reason everyone is pushing to get rid of it. Even MS is encouraging we leave MDI behind.
MDI has its place. its not for everything, and even for those it works with, its not for everyone. With a browser you have teh choice.
Its probably too late for people to actually see this, but I had to post.
Your reasoning is very badly flawed. SMTP, JPEG, PNG and TCP *ARE* the standards. MS Exchange Server and the library used by MS Paint are *implementations* of that standard. The complaint everyone here but you (based on the posts) have is that while most people are at least attempting to create implementations that meet the standards (a JPEG created by me on my program can be viewed by you using your program, or an email sent from my STMP server is readable by yours) it seems that Microsoft is intentionally *failing* to match the standard implementation and in fact breaking the standard in a number of cases specifically so a file you create is only readable/viewable/usable by someone who is using the exact same program you used.
A program to create emails (or text document, or spreadsheet, etc.) that can only be viewed by that program is not a standards compliant application; it is a proprietary program. Did you happen to administer email servers back in the late '80s, early '90s? That is an example of what happens when different servers follow different standards (gods, but it was annoying to get messages to work consistently between Exchange 1.0 and CC-Mail... but it could be done, if you filtered both through an SMTP complient mailserver; both sides lost a bit of data used for their proprietary "standard" but the important part, the message body, would usually make it through intact).
I fully acknowledge your right to choose what applications you work with and use, and thus what applications your customers end up using in order to benefit from your work. Please don't try to pretend that your choice to use proprietary, closed, and one might even say anti-competitive applications makes your choice better than mine (to use standards compliant applications so it will, usually, work on anyones system). I'm not trying to say my choice is necessarily better than yours either, just that my choice is much more likely to work for the majority of users regardless of their choice in email clients, or mail servers, or routers and network cards, or graphics programs, etc. Your choice will work for anyone, but only if they use the same programs you do... and that is not really a choice.
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This is why my proposed solution is to use the correct time for your timezone, and shift the working day back an hour for everyone, all year long. Instead of 9 to 5, you work 8 to 4, and have your extra hour of daylight without having to mess with clocks and whatnot.
Sure, everyone would have to get used to the new schedule, but that happens twice a year now as the times change.
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but ... ... you are familiar with full spectrum lighting, right?
But, wouldn't you have gone shopping, hit Starbucks and done errands even if you worked that 5th day? I know I would have ...
Of course, that means you're only saving 10 to 15 percent of the gas instead of 20, but its still a savings.
Of course, to work 4 days, you have to be there 10 hours. That gets old pretty quickly unless you happen to enjoy your job.
Of course, the Flat Earthers are in denial about a fact that was proved over two thousand years ago: we live on the outside of a sphere.
Don't forget the wallhack.
But is it scientific to say 'I am going to do an experiment to see if the neutrino has zero mass, but my margin of error means I'll never know for sure if it really is zero'? That the the point of the post you are replying to, which you seem to have conveniently overlooked.
Six, thank you very much. :)
Actually, that was my first thought reading the title, before actually looking at the text right below that. ;)
The fact that it is 'non sanctioned'.
I'd say that was your general contempt getting -better-. ;)
Sure it does. It asks you to verify you have installed a legal copy. ;)
Its amazing what can when you type too fast.
You can watch Heros on nbc.com? All I get is a message that it is "not available in your viewing area". And I'm in Texas ...
I get the same message for ALL of the TV shows available for viewing directly from their site. No clue why, as it used to work and if I'm going to watch their shows I'd much rather do it on my time than when they feel it is best to schedule them (which never seems to be convenient for me due to my work schedule).
Bah ... sorry for throwing in the rant. nbc.com has just ticked me off with that. ... we now return you to your regularly scheduled Slashdot discussion.
Um ... I think you are confusing 'amoral' with 'immoral' ... Amoral is not having morality (good or bad).
So yes, profits are amoral. The use of those profits, on the other hand ...
I believe the word you are looking for is 'tactical'.
This is why I've always refered to SC and its genre as being Real Time Tactical games ... there isn't much Strategy in "build as fast as you can, then rush the other guy before he can rush you".
Sure, the good players can do more planning (actual strategic decision making) but the vast majority of the game is pure tactical (re)action. If I wanted to play tactical games, I'll stick to Laser Squad Nemesis (speaking of which, I feel like playing that again).
Doesn't it. ;)
Um ... did you read the link you posted about Nuclear Thermal Rockets? The nuclear part is purely a power plant to provide energy to the ship and to heat the fuel enough to create thrust. The fuel never comes in contact with the fission/fusion portion of the drive. The only way it would release radiation is through a crash or other meltdown inducing accident (which is, I admit, something to plan for).
;)
Complaining about a NTR is like complaining about a Radio Thermal Generator, because it uses plutonium. An RTG doesn't even "explode" it just does it normal radio-active decay and the generator portion makes use of that to create electricity. Last I checked the RTG on the Voyager probes are doing fine too.
"pwned" ("pwnd" or "pwn3d") is pronounced "owned". As best i could discover, it was originally an IRC typo (the O and P keys being right next to each other on a 'standard' keyboard). A lot of the newer internet generation pronounce it "powned" or "pawned" in my experience, however. (Gods, but I'm feeling old having typed that ...)
I'm not sure where League City is, but Grande might be an option for you.
But if we have yet to successfully detect a gravity wave or graviton, how do you know it travels at c, and not some other speed? I admit I'm not a physicist, but this article has some interesting information that makes me inclined to believe gravity travels significantly faster than c. Admittedly, its mostly he-said-she-said right now, since nobody has measured the speed of gravity yet without a great deal of uncertainty in the results.
Don't forget you can use CTRL+left_click to open in a new tab as well (if you are forced to use a 2 button mouse for some reason ... or a touch pad).
Its probably too late for people to actually see this, but I had to post.
... but it could be done, if you filtered both through an SMTP complient mailserver; both sides lost a bit of data used for their proprietary "standard" but the important part, the message body, would usually make it through intact).
... and that is not really a choice.
Your reasoning is very badly flawed. SMTP, JPEG, PNG and TCP *ARE* the standards. MS Exchange Server and the library used by MS Paint are *implementations* of that standard. The complaint everyone here but you (based on the posts) have is that while most people are at least attempting to create implementations that meet the standards (a JPEG created by me on my program can be viewed by you using your program, or an email sent from my STMP server is readable by yours) it seems that Microsoft is intentionally *failing* to match the standard implementation and in fact breaking the standard in a number of cases specifically so a file you create is only readable/viewable/usable by someone who is using the exact same program you used.
A program to create emails (or text document, or spreadsheet, etc.) that can only be viewed by that program is not a standards compliant application; it is a proprietary program. Did you happen to administer email servers back in the late '80s, early '90s? That is an example of what happens when different servers follow different standards (gods, but it was annoying to get messages to work consistently between Exchange 1.0 and CC-Mail
I fully acknowledge your right to choose what applications you work with and use, and thus what applications your customers end up using in order to benefit from your work. Please don't try to pretend that your choice to use proprietary, closed, and one might even say anti-competitive applications makes your choice better than mine (to use standards compliant applications so it will, usually, work on anyones system). I'm not trying to say my choice is necessarily better than yours either, just that my choice is much more likely to work for the majority of users regardless of their choice in email clients, or mail servers, or routers and network cards, or graphics programs, etc. Your choice will work for anyone, but only if they use the same programs you do