It's not the developers. It's the designers who f*cking think that their site should look the same on every browser and every computer no matter what. They were the idiots that used to think that because your screen had n pixels in width then their website could be n pixels wide too. I mean, everybody has their browser maximized right?!?!? They also think that everyone has a high-speed connection to download unoptimized graphic files.
It's HTML, it's going to look slightly different on different browsers and different platforms. Live with it. If it really needs to look the same then make a PDF to download.
Contractors (at least with my experience in computer consulting in the mid-2000's) in Canada also aren't permitted to stay with a specific company for longer than 39 weeks at a time. It doesn't matter if it's with one or more contracts. They must then be away for at least 13 weeks before going back.
This is only true with the private sector. With the federal government for some reason I've seen people sign 5 year contracts and be at the same position for over 20 years as a contractor with no breaks on the contract. A company and person doing that in the private sector would have the CRA on them in no time telling them that the person was an employee.
Even if they could use the DNA to bring a species back to life...
One of each sex isn't a large enough population to bring them back from the dead. There isn't enough genetic variation in two members. They need to have samples of a lot more of each species.
And this is something that I've never heard brought up in science programs that talk about bringing back extinct animals. (I'm not saying nobody has thought about it, I just haven't heard that they have.) All animals have an extensive micro biome in their digestive system. Cloning an animal doesn't do anything to recreate that.
Does the animal brought back going to have a place to live and food to eat? The animal went extinct for a reason. Most likely it's habitat lose (or illegal hunting). Unless we've recreated a safe place for the animals to live there's no point in bringing them back because they will just become extinct again.
An extreme example is the koala. It's diet consists only of eucalyptus leaves which it can only digest due to the bacteria in it's digestive tract. If it were to go extinct having just the DNA of the koala is completely useless because it will starve if brought back.
They eventually want to make roads out of this product if it proves tough enough. Why not try and get driveways and some parking lots made from this instead? Then it doesn't have to put up with the heavy loads a busy road would put on it but still replace asphalt. Then as the product improves it can begin to replace roads.
When you search for something so general like cereal then there are going to be a lot of sponsored items to go along with it. All of my searches are for something specific that I know I want and so the sponsored content goes down dramatically. Usually I see the top row of sponsored items and then search results start.
But even if it was every ten minutes, I wouldn't do it because I want to be productive.
And how productive are you in your car? Why does taking mass transit have to be a situation where you are productive or you aren't taking it? Doesn't the reduction of stress from not driving count for something? Why not do something for yourself on the time the bus or train? Read a book, meditate, look up ideas for a project or holiday, or anything else that you don't seem to have time for during the day.
They should be fixing real problems. For example at Heathrow airport in London, England I had an Uber that didn't show up. I could see that the driver was on the other side of the airport waiting while I was in the designated spot for being picked up. The driver hit me with a £10 charge. Another couple had the same thing happen to them while I was there. Got the money back eventually.
The bezel on the 11" Air is so large because the cover has to be large in order to protect the keyboard and track pad. Unless you want to shrink those in order to make the bezel smaller. If you are going to keep the screen size at 11" then changing the bezel size won't do anything to how much screen you will see. Taking the bezel away will just show you the how the screen is fitted into the laptop cover.
I don't even want a bezel-less laptop screen because when I'm opening it then it means I'm going to get some fingerprints onto the visible area instead of the bezel.
It's time to stop making everything thinner, lighter, with less of this, with more of that just because it's possible. The whole fab of making phones, laptops, and tablets as thin as possible has to stop. Go back a couple of years in thickness and give us the extra space in battery. We'll more than be able to manage in coping with the extra grams it'll add to the phone. And maybe you won't have to need the camera sticking out of the phone.
"A service worker is a script that your browser runs in the background, separate from a web page"
It's not like a transparent proxy at all. I don't know why they don't just let your browser cache the page of search results instead of replicating the functionality with a script.
A video that showed him punching and kicking his then girlfriend 117 times did nothing to stop him getting another girlfriend which he kicked. Somehow I don't think him being in jail isn't going to be much more effective after he gets out.
So did all the boats that were tied up against the docks and some of the boats ended up across the Pacific while others ended up well away from the shoreline. These reactors aren't kilometres away from shore. They are built and then towed into port where they are needed. A big tsunami would toss one of these around like a child's toy.
In Europe some power plants take the heat left over from spinning the turbines and send it out into a neighbourhood hot water system that people and business use to heat their buildings and create hot water. In North America we just see it as a waste and dump it into the air or water. That makes the European systems much more efficient. Unfortunately the North American cities aren't built that way.
As an aside, I know of a couple of cities that have a system to share cold water to cool data centres and then they dump that heat into the nearest water source. It's a shame that they don't use the hot water returned for something useful. It's essentially free heat that could replace natural gas or electricity.
Only six? I have hundreds. Every site I sign up at gets a unique email address. If I start getting spam at that site then I know they either sold it or got hacked. It's an advantage of having your own domain.
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It's not the developers. It's the designers who f*cking think that their site should look the same on every browser and every computer no matter what. They were the idiots that used to think that because your screen had n pixels in width then their website could be n pixels wide too. I mean, everybody has their browser maximized right?!?!? They also think that everyone has a high-speed connection to download unoptimized graphic files.
It's HTML, it's going to look slightly different on different browsers and different platforms. Live with it. If it really needs to look the same then make a PDF to download.
Contractors (at least with my experience in computer consulting in the mid-2000's) in Canada also aren't permitted to stay with a specific company for longer than 39 weeks at a time. It doesn't matter if it's with one or more contracts. They must then be away for at least 13 weeks before going back.
This is only true with the private sector. With the federal government for some reason I've seen people sign 5 year contracts and be at the same position for over 20 years as a contractor with no breaks on the contract. A company and person doing that in the private sector would have the CRA on them in no time telling them that the person was an employee.
Even if they could use the DNA to bring a species back to life...
One of each sex isn't a large enough population to bring them back from the dead. There isn't enough genetic variation in two members. They need to have samples of a lot more of each species.
And this is something that I've never heard brought up in science programs that talk about bringing back extinct animals. (I'm not saying nobody has thought about it, I just haven't heard that they have.) All animals have an extensive micro biome in their digestive system. Cloning an animal doesn't do anything to recreate that.
Does the animal brought back going to have a place to live and food to eat? The animal went extinct for a reason. Most likely it's habitat lose (or illegal hunting). Unless we've recreated a safe place for the animals to live there's no point in bringing them back because they will just become extinct again.
An extreme example is the koala. It's diet consists only of eucalyptus leaves which it can only digest due to the bacteria in it's digestive tract. If it were to go extinct having just the DNA of the koala is completely useless because it will starve if brought back.
They eventually want to make roads out of this product if it proves tough enough. Why not try and get driveways and some parking lots made from this instead? Then it doesn't have to put up with the heavy loads a busy road would put on it but still replace asphalt. Then as the product improves it can begin to replace roads.
Does the same thing happen if you go to install other application that Microsoft has applications for such as LibreOffice?
There's a lot more than a model name that he'd be weeping about.
When you search for something so general like cereal then there are going to be a lot of sponsored items to go along with it. All of my searches are for something specific that I know I want and so the sponsored content goes down dramatically. Usually I see the top row of sponsored items and then search results start.
I'm doing my diet by buying credits from other people. I figure it will work just as well as carbon credits. (So not at all.)
But even if it was every ten minutes, I wouldn't do it because I want to be productive.
And how productive are you in your car? Why does taking mass transit have to be a situation where you are productive or you aren't taking it? Doesn't the reduction of stress from not driving count for something? Why not do something for yourself on the time the bus or train? Read a book, meditate, look up ideas for a project or holiday, or anything else that you don't seem to have time for during the day.
You're confusing the units. Football pitches measure area while Library of Congresses measure amount of data.
They don't always use football pitches. For very large areas it's number of Wales.
For some more interesting conversions see The Reg online standards convertor
Maybe Kim sent someone over to do the job because he wanted to know what was going to be in the next Grand Theft Auto?
They should be fixing real problems. For example at Heathrow airport in London, England I had an Uber that didn't show up. I could see that the driver was on the other side of the airport waiting while I was in the designated spot for being picked up. The driver hit me with a £10 charge. Another couple had the same thing happen to them while I was there. Got the money back eventually.
The bezel on the 11" Air is so large because the cover has to be large in order to protect the keyboard and track pad. Unless you want to shrink those in order to make the bezel smaller. If you are going to keep the screen size at 11" then changing the bezel size won't do anything to how much screen you will see. Taking the bezel away will just show you the how the screen is fitted into the laptop cover.
I don't even want a bezel-less laptop screen because when I'm opening it then it means I'm going to get some fingerprints onto the visible area instead of the bezel.
It's time to stop making everything thinner, lighter, with less of this, with more of that just because it's possible. The whole fab of making phones, laptops, and tablets as thin as possible has to stop. Go back a couple of years in thickness and give us the extra space in battery. We'll more than be able to manage in coping with the extra grams it'll add to the phone. And maybe you won't have to need the camera sticking out of the phone.
If I was better with English then I wouldn't have gone into Computer Science.
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"A service worker is a script that your browser runs in the background, separate from a web page"
It's not like a transparent proxy at all. I don't know why they don't just let your browser cache the page of search results instead of replicating the functionality with a script.
A video that showed him punching and kicking his then girlfriend 117 times did nothing to stop him getting another girlfriend which he kicked. Somehow I don't think him being in jail isn't going to be much more effective after he gets out.
You're going to love the F-35!
Meltdown proof until one actually melts down. :)
The latest reactors are safer but no reactor is meltdown proof, just less likely to meltdown. And they are not immune from natural disasters.
So did all the boats that were tied up against the docks and some of the boats ended up across the Pacific while others ended up well away from the shoreline. These reactors aren't kilometres away from shore. They are built and then towed into port where they are needed. A big tsunami would toss one of these around like a child's toy.
In Europe some power plants take the heat left over from spinning the turbines and send it out into a neighbourhood hot water system that people and business use to heat their buildings and create hot water. In North America we just see it as a waste and dump it into the air or water. That makes the European systems much more efficient. Unfortunately the North American cities aren't built that way.
As an aside, I know of a couple of cities that have a system to share cold water to cool data centres and then they dump that heat into the nearest water source. It's a shame that they don't use the hot water returned for something useful. It's essentially free heat that could replace natural gas or electricity.
Maybe he's switched to Google Canada because he's getting no love up here at the minute.
Don't worry, they will in the movie.
Or fixing the bugs?
Only six? I have hundreds. Every site I sign up at gets a unique email address. If I start getting spam at that site then I know they either sold it or got hacked. It's an advantage of having your own domain.