I kinda agree, there's not much point in removing it from Help > About, but as long as it's still in Help > Troubleshooting Information I really don't think it's a big deal.
No, in general, US mint American eagle gold and silver bullion coins are also legal tender, like the proof coins are.
Produced from gold mined in the United States, American Eagles are imprinted with their gold content and legal tender "face" value.... When purchased in the form of legal tender bullion coins, gold can be affordable, as well as easy to buy and store.
American Eagle Silver Bullion Coins are affordable investments, beautiful collectibles, thoughtful gifts and memorable incentives or rewards. Above all, as legal tender, they're the only silver bullion coins whose weight and purity are guaranteed by the United States Government. They're also the only silver coins allowed in an IRA.
Now, regarding your other point:
if they were true legal tender, you'd be able to buy a car with a dozen of them and only owe a sales tax on the face-value of the coins
I don't know whether or not that would work, but when the seller of the car tried to convert the coins to their real value (rather than their face value) you can be sure they'd be expected to pay taxes on the increase.
about:config, filter "plugin.expose_full_path", and toggle it to true (double-click it). about:addons, enable all of the plugins (they won't appear in the next step unless you do) about:plugins, check the path of the DLL for each plugin you want to get rid of. Find the DLL file and delete it, or rename it with an extension other than.dll.
You can also check the HKLM\Software\MozillaPlugins registry folder and eliminate plugins from there.
Once you're all done, restart Firefox and the unwanted plugins will be gone. The mozillazine site also recommends resetting "plugin.expose_full_path" to its default value (false).
We're still stuck on 3.6 waiting for the plug-ins to catch up
There is no justifiable excuse for this. First, because the add-on developer should maintain the add-on and update its max-version (currently, the Mozilla add-on website permits max-version all the way up to 8.0a1). Secondly, because you can always override it anyway. It's not likely that the add-on will actually break.
After installing the Add-on Compatibility Reporter, your incompatible extensions will become enabled for you to test whether they still work with the version of Firefox or Thunderbird that you're using. If you notice that one of your add-ons doesn't seem to be working the same way it did in previous versions of the application, just open the Add-ons Manager and click Compatibility next to that add-on to send a report to Mozilla.
Even if your add-ons all work fine, if they're marked incompatible, please let us know that they work fine by submitting a success report so we can encourage the add-on developer to update their compatibility information.
If there weren't so many middlemen between you and the cereal factory, I guarantee you the weight of the boxes and plastic bags would be included in the freight cost of shipping it from the factory to your house. There are no middlemen between you and the DSL provider.
It's not a perfect analogy, but it was good enough to get my point across.
Ok, this analogy has officially been over-extended. The point I was originally trying to make by it was, more or less, that if you tell Joe Public "there's nothing we can do, this is what you get, get used to it", he generally will. A technical user will respond with "but why is that the best you can do", and if there's a good enough answer, he'll generally get used to it too.
The DSL PPPoE overhead is one of those things that just is. It's unavoidable, just as unavoidable as cereal settling during shipping, and people will get used to it. Technical users may lobby for better statistics that allow for comparing DSL and cable on an equal playing field, but that's really beside the point, because it's just a conversion factor. If the DSL companies need to put an asterisk behind the connection speed they claim to provide, I'm sure their lawyers will be able to come up with a disclaimer that indicates they're not factoring in the PPPoE overhead into their claim.
Everything on the box is there for one of two reasons: their marketing department told them to put it there or their legal department told them to put it there. I'll let you figure out which applies here.
Because the nutrition is in the mass, not the air?
People don't normally weigh the serving of cereal when they pour themselves a bowl. Typically, the nutrition facts are stated relative to a serving size given in cups. The weight is put in parentheses as an afterthought. At least, in the US that's typically the case.
The fact that they're making a "guarantee" that, in fact, guarantees nothing is in itself misleading. They're phrasing it as if it's a promise of something, when in fact it doesn't promise anything at all.
Cereal may be sold by weight, but it is consumed by volume. Different cereals have wildly differing densities (e.g. Grape-Nuts vs. Rice Krispies), so the weight of a cereal box is not really a good indicator of how many bowls of cereal the box contains. The consumer's impression of how much cereal they're getting is still going to be based on the size of the box.
Packaging exactly the same amount of cereal in a larger box is still deceptive even if its weight is listed. Perhaps not illegal, but deceptive. One of the selling points of companies that sell cereal in bags (not in boxes) is that you can see exactly what you're getting. And they seem to typically manage to get the bags reasonably full, too.
It'd be pretty amusing if that didn't even bother to check for an internet connection when it said you were getting the full connection speed. You should have unplugged the internet and tried reloading it from the cache.
Why do you think cereal is sold by mass rather than by volume?
Answer: because people complained that their cereal box was half empty. Then the company said, "Well, our machines fill the boxes by weight, not volume. It's unavoidable." Mr. and Mrs. Joe Q Public said, "Oh, it's unavoidable you say? Okie dokie then."
If anything, it's the technically-minded people who'll try to force the company to figure out a way of supplying the full amount that they think the company promised to sell them, not Mr. and Mrs. Joe Q Public. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Q Public will get used to whatever they're getting, as long as it's more or less consistent.
I wondered the same thing. Curiously, I can't seem to find much on the web. It's used in breeder reactors: it captures slow-moving neutrons and turns into a uranium isotope with a much shorter half-life (yielding fissile material, hence the name "breeder" reactor), but I don't see how that has to do with heating it or hitting it with a laser.
I did find a book on Google that suggested a laser could knock gamma rays out of gold foil which in turn could accelerate the decomposition of a uranium isotope, but I don't know if that's related to this.
The Petawatt laser at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has been used to fire at a gold target to generate gamma-rays that in turn have transmuted iodine-129 (half life of 15.7 million years) into iodine-128 (half life of 25 min). The gamma-rays knocked out a neutron to fulfil the reaction.
You don't have to make the decay nonrandom. You just have to make it much more probable.
It's actually grown on spider silk, much like culture grown on a petri dish. They need a suitable substrate to grow it on, but they cultured the skin itself from actual human skin cells.
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I kinda agree, there's not much point in removing it from Help > About, but as long as it's still in Help > Troubleshooting Information I really don't think it's a big deal.
There's also the user-agent string.
Yes, but the about:support and about: pages should still tell what version you're using, presumably.
No, in general, US mint American eagle gold and silver bullion coins are also legal tender, like the proof coins are.
Produced from gold mined in the United States, American Eagles are imprinted with their gold content and legal tender "face" value. ... When purchased in the form of legal tender bullion coins, gold can be affordable, as well as easy to buy and store.
American Eagle Silver Bullion Coins are affordable investments, beautiful collectibles, thoughtful gifts and memorable incentives or rewards. Above all, as legal tender, they're the only silver bullion coins whose weight and purity are guaranteed by the United States Government. They're also the only silver coins allowed in an IRA.
Now, regarding your other point:
if they were true legal tender, you'd be able to buy a car with a dozen of them and only owe a sales tax on the face-value of the coins
I don't know whether or not that would work, but when the seller of the car tried to convert the coins to their real value (rather than their face value) you can be sure they'd be expected to pay taxes on the increase.
about:config, filter "plugin.expose_full_path", and toggle it to true (double-click it). .dll.
about:addons, enable all of the plugins (they won't appear in the next step unless you do)
about:plugins, check the path of the DLL for each plugin you want to get rid of. Find the DLL file and delete it, or rename it with an extension other than
You can also check the HKLM\Software\MozillaPlugins registry folder and eliminate plugins from there.
Once you're all done, restart Firefox and the unwanted plugins will be gone. The mozillazine site also recommends resetting "plugin.expose_full_path" to its default value (false).
We're still stuck on 3.6 waiting for the plug-ins to catch up
There is no justifiable excuse for this. First, because the add-on developer should maintain the add-on and update its max-version (currently, the Mozilla add-on website permits max-version all the way up to 8.0a1). Secondly, because you can always override it anyway. It's not likely that the add-on will actually break.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/
After installing the Add-on Compatibility Reporter, your incompatible extensions will become enabled for you to test whether they still work with the version of Firefox or Thunderbird that you're using. If you notice that one of your add-ons doesn't seem to be working the same way it did in previous versions of the application, just open the Add-ons Manager and click Compatibility next to that add-on to send a report to Mozilla.
Even if your add-ons all work fine, if they're marked incompatible, please let us know that they work fine by submitting a success report so we can encourage the add-on developer to update their compatibility information.
I can't believe someone on slashdot could be so dumb as to *seriously* advocate for sale by volume instead of weight.
I wasn't. You misunderstood.
American eagle gold coins are legal tender.
Next question.. Ever sit down and eat 5 bowls of Gape-Nuts? I would love to see you try.
Nah, I don't eat cereal that resembles rabbit food and tastes like pellets of pressed sawdust.
I have, however, probably sat down and eaten 5 bowls of bran flakes or shredded wheat, which are pretty dense. But, your point is well-taken.
I'm pretty sure we've exhausted the usefulness of that analogy.
If there weren't so many middlemen between you and the cereal factory, I guarantee you the weight of the boxes and plastic bags would be included in the freight cost of shipping it from the factory to your house. There are no middlemen between you and the DSL provider.
It's not a perfect analogy, but it was good enough to get my point across.
Ok, this analogy has officially been over-extended. The point I was originally trying to make by it was, more or less, that if you tell Joe Public "there's nothing we can do, this is what you get, get used to it", he generally will. A technical user will respond with "but why is that the best you can do", and if there's a good enough answer, he'll generally get used to it too.
The DSL PPPoE overhead is one of those things that just is. It's unavoidable, just as unavoidable as cereal settling during shipping, and people will get used to it. Technical users may lobby for better statistics that allow for comparing DSL and cable on an equal playing field, but that's really beside the point, because it's just a conversion factor. If the DSL companies need to put an asterisk behind the connection speed they claim to provide, I'm sure their lawyers will be able to come up with a disclaimer that indicates they're not factoring in the PPPoE overhead into their claim.
Because it says so on the box?
Everything on the box is there for one of two reasons: their marketing department told them to put it there or their legal department told them to put it there. I'll let you figure out which applies here.
Because the nutrition is in the mass, not the air?
People don't normally weigh the serving of cereal when they pour themselves a bowl. Typically, the nutrition facts are stated relative to a serving size given in cups. The weight is put in parentheses as an afterthought. At least, in the US that's typically the case.
The fact that they're making a "guarantee" that, in fact, guarantees nothing is in itself misleading. They're phrasing it as if it's a promise of something, when in fact it doesn't promise anything at all.
Cereal may be sold by weight, but it is consumed by volume. Different cereals have wildly differing densities (e.g. Grape-Nuts vs. Rice Krispies), so the weight of a cereal box is not really a good indicator of how many bowls of cereal the box contains. The consumer's impression of how much cereal they're getting is still going to be based on the size of the box.
Packaging exactly the same amount of cereal in a larger box is still deceptive even if its weight is listed. Perhaps not illegal, but deceptive. One of the selling points of companies that sell cereal in bags (not in boxes) is that you can see exactly what you're getting. And they seem to typically manage to get the bags reasonably full, too.
And DSL is sold by bandwidth with PPPoE overhead included, not by useable bandwidth after PPPoE overhead is subtracted.
It'd be pretty amusing if that didn't even bother to check for an internet connection when it said you were getting the full connection speed. You should have unplugged the internet and tried reloading it from the cache.
Why do you think cereal is sold by mass rather than by volume?
Answer: because people complained that their cereal box was half empty. Then the company said, "Well, our machines fill the boxes by weight, not volume. It's unavoidable." Mr. and Mrs. Joe Q Public said, "Oh, it's unavoidable you say? Okie dokie then."
If anything, it's the technically-minded people who'll try to force the company to figure out a way of supplying the full amount that they think the company promised to sell them, not Mr. and Mrs. Joe Q Public. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Q Public will get used to whatever they're getting, as long as it's more or less consistent.
Mr. and Mrs. John Q Public seem to have gotten used to their cereal box being half-full because of settling during shipment.
I'm inclined to agree with someone above and think they meant MWh.
(7,500 gallons) * (132 * (10^6) joules per gallon) in (megawatts * hours): 275 MWh
I wondered the same thing. Curiously, I can't seem to find much on the web. It's used in breeder reactors: it captures slow-moving neutrons and turns into a uranium isotope with a much shorter half-life (yielding fissile material, hence the name "breeder" reactor), but I don't see how that has to do with heating it or hitting it with a laser.
I did find a book on Google that suggested a laser could knock gamma rays out of gold foil which in turn could accelerate the decomposition of a uranium isotope, but I don't know if that's related to this.
Radioactive decay can't be stimulated by lasers.
Stimulated Radioactive Decay
The Petawatt laser at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has been used to fire at a gold target to generate gamma-rays that in turn have transmuted iodine-129 (half life of 15.7 million years) into iodine-128 (half life of 25 min). The gamma-rays knocked out a neutron to fulfil the reaction.
You don't have to make the decay nonrandom. You just have to make it much more probable.
TRON (1982)
They're called blinkenlights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn
It's actually grown on spider silk, much like culture grown on a petri dish. They need a suitable substrate to grow it on, but they cultured the skin itself from actual human skin cells.