Even if the hibernation would work perfectly, you've got a dozen applications that use constant internet connections, those are not there after resume and apps start to act funny.
Maybe I am just lucky, but I don't have any problem with this either. I frequently change the network I'm wired to while the machine is hibernated and I don't have problems resuming. I also use wireless a fair bit and don't have problems with that either. I'm not running servers on anything on it though.
I was actually shocked that so many people described the firing process so emotionally...and took it so personally.
It's human nature. Being fired is an implied indictment on your abilities and naturally people take that personally. People are also often adverse to change (especially change forced on them) and uncertainty. And if you've got a family and financial obligations it can be a major problem, one that from your point of view has been inflicted on you for little or no reason.
i think a definition of planet should be:
-round, with a significant atmosphere
-this is distinct from a gas giant, which should be considered closer to stars than to planets (round, mostly gas: really just stars without enough critical mass to ignite fusion)
-and distinct from a moon (no atmosphere, but still round)
-asteroids, comets, etc make up the miscellany
What constitutes a "significant" atmosphere? What does "mostly gas" actually mean? (i.e. what separates "planet" from "gas giant"?) Do you really want to be changing moons to planets as new facts about their atmosphere are discovered?
The suspend and sleep features are fairly crappy for Windows; at least not on par with Mac.
I used to use the sleep feature on my Win laptop (used to travel around and install and configure routers and such) and it's fine for a few awakenings but you can't keep a bunch of apps loaded without the system being buggy. I eventually would reboot in the morning and load the essential before venturing out and do it daily. Daily reboots that is.
FUD. I use sleep and hibernate on my XP laptop all the time without any issues. I reboot maybe once a month.
But by your own logic the US is a democracy anytime the president is a democrat (or the senate if you prefer, or maybe the house). If Kerala is currently a communist state then the US was a democracy 10 years ago and the UK is current a "labourist" state, whatever that means.
I called them communist because they are run by the communist party.
At the moment, I'm 86% unfair meta-moderated, so I am feeling like I need to be a bit more cautious, I'm not sure at what threshold I'll lose mod rights.
Ah, that's a slightly higher percentage than I had anticipated. According to the FAQ, you only need "positive" karma so I think you'll be ok, but you're probably right about being cautious.
Also, I believe you can lose moderation privileges even with relatively good karma, if your moderations exceed a certain percentage of unfair meta-moderation.
Right. You'll stop being asked to moderate well before you lose enough karma to affect your posting bonus, so why should negative karma from m2 reduce your desire to moderate? Wouldn't it be better to continue to moderate normally until you stop getting mod points?
like all community based moderation systems, both meta moderation and regular moderation primarily function as a means to draw the most commonly held beliefs of the community to the surface, while burrying less common beliefs.
Of course. All communities tend towards "thinking alike". They wouldn't stay together as communities if it were otherwise. I don't think the "group think" that people occasionally complain about is really that bad here, and certainly a wide range of opinions are moderated up, even within contentious topics.
The unfortunate side effect of me using the moderation system as I believe it was intended to be used (rather than the way it's actually used by most of the mods) is that I get periodic unfair moderation metamoderations, which comes with a karma hit =(. This actually disencourages me from moderating
It's good that you moderate that way, but why do you care so much about the karma? If you're still getting asked to moderate it's not that bad...
At least one airline, QANTAS, has banned using dell laptops on battery power in flight for this very reason.
That's not quite accurate according to the Sydney Morning Herald (and covered on Slashdot). You must either use your Dell laptop on battery power or on the plane supply with the battery removed. They just don't want the battery charging in flight, that's all.
Only 10% voted? Mabye because most astronomers just don't care as much as the summer-starved media is hyping this?
You're probably right about many astronomers just not caring, but the 10% figure is also misleading. The congress was 10 days long and the vote was held on the last day. Not everyone who had been at the congress was still there on the last day to vote.
Well, classifications should also be decided by evidence and inquiry. No one votes on the definition of an electron. Do taxonomists vote on moving a species from one genus to another genus?
Things are not always so black and white that clear classification is possible. And yes, biologists do vote on issues of taxonomy. Check out the ICZN, and the IBC. How did you think it was handled? Did you really think it was all just obvious to everyone?
Classifications should also have scientific value. What's the scientific value of classifying something as a dwarf planet vs classifying it as a planet?
Can you really not see how the new definitions of planet and dwarf planet are more precise and useful than the previous adhoc definition? They may not be a precise or useful as they could be, but they are a clear improvement.
The point is that once scientists step into the realm of "voting for a definition", they've stepped outside the realm of science.
Why? Someone has to come up with definitions. Often that's a single person or small group and the definition is simply accepted by others, but what is wrong with a larger group voting on the definition they want to use? And that's all this is. The IAU have simply voted on the definition they want to use for "planet". No one is forcing anyone (not even their own members) to adopt their definition.
In science tradition does not matter at all. Scientists have to be prepared to fix mistakes and change how things are defined and categorised. If anything tradition is something to be consciously wary of.
There are nine planets. Everybody knows that.
A vast majority of the population knows that God exists. Do you consider that to be scientific fact as well? Science by public opinion. Great.
"Wood for sheep" would probably be an offer to give sheep cards in exchange for wood cards (although from the wording it could be either way) - something which has almost NO chance of success in the early game where sheep are almost entirely useless and wood is very valuable, and yet seems likely to be a frequent utterance from random clueless noobs on Xbox Live. Oh they joy of voice chat;)
You've forgotten to explain the joke, which is that "wood" is slang for an erection (at least in some parts of the world). Thus "wood for sheep" is an admission of zoophilia.
Forget the Internet. Let's build up the Sneakernet.
I don't want to have to carry unnecessary hardware around. A USB thumbdrive, maybe. A portable 3.5" drive, definitely not. Ideally I'd want this sort of thing integrated into something I already carry around: my phone.
Those coordinates will be in whatever system is used for large scale maps in Egypt. The Valley of the Kings is at 25 degrees 44'25" N 32 degrees 36'05" E.
According to this, the P3/P4 truss will be attached to the P1 truss on this mission. I don't think they are going to move the P6 truss from it's current temporary location at this time.
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Good to see they didn't forget the Commodore Amiga.
Those coordinates will be in whatever system is used for large scale maps in Egypt. The Valley of the Kings is at 25 degrees 44'25" N 32 degrees 36'05" E.
According to this, the P3/P4 truss will be attached to the P1 truss on this mission. I don't think they are going to move the P6 truss from it's current temporary location at this time.