Sorry, the number zero was an created 3700 years ago, and not in India.
Sorry, but you're wrong, racist, and fat.
"By 1740 BCE the Egyptians had a symbol for zero in accounting texts. The symbol nfr, meaning beautiful, was also used to indicate the base level in drawings of tombs and pyramids and distances were measured relative to the base line as being above or below this line." - wikipedia
So Egypt 3,700 years ago.
"The concept of zero as a number and not merely a symbol or an empty space for separation is attributed to India, where, by the 9th century AD, practical calculations were carried out using zero, which was treated like any other number, even in case of division"
Really? I watched an gameshow on a US network once. The format was something like this
[commercials] Previously: [recap asking one question for 3 minutes] Now: ask new question, guy gives new answer, guy founds out if he's right [4 minutes] Next: [preview guy being asked more questions for 2 minutes] [commercials]
And so on. If you trim it down you get about 15 minutes an hour of new material. That's not interesting.
Agreed. For one, I hoped that Microsoft was took over by a woman, which could mean that finally someone who cares about the look-and-feel is in control of the company. By the way, he's Indian, so it looks like it's a normal name there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And people complain management is never outsourced
Typical short term hedgefund approach to companies - earn us some money now by selling off collateral then we'll dump your shares before they tank. Fucking parasites.
Given their terms of service your testing account is almost certainly fake. If you only look at it to "like" stuff that you don't even care enough about to do so publicly, its fake, (as is your "like").
I only know a few people with facebook accounts who don't have a second so-called "testing" account, plus a couple accounts they started and then abandoned.
So I'm thinking the 50% number is closer to the mark than the 10%
I only knew a few people with facebook accounts who have a second "testing" account, so I'm thinking the 1% number is closer to the mark than 10%
But this has long since ceased to be any sort of technical challenge or accomplishment.
Putting a lander on the moon (or, even, for that matter, a human) is not much of a technical challenge, insofar as needing to do anything other than learn how to properly use complex (but well-known) technology.
The U.S. can't rebuild Saturn V rockets. Hell it can't even put someone into low earth orbit.
Ok. So here's a question: it's 2014, not 1965. Which space program would you rather have: the USA's, China's, or Russia's? Which one is having the most success *right now*? Which one is roving Mars? Orbiting Saturn? Exploring interstellar space? Heading to Pluto? Would you really trade even up for Russia's Soyuz? Because it seems like that's about what they have going right now.
Only one way for thee and me to get into space, and that's Russia.
Ok. So here's a question: it's 2014, not 1965. Which space program would you rather have: the USA's, China's, or Russia's? Which one is having the most success *right now*? Which one is roving Mars? Orbiting Saturn? Exploring interstellar space? Heading to Pluto? Would you really trade even up for Russia's Soyuz? Because it seems like that's about what they have going right now.
Only one way for thee and me to get into space, and that's Russia.
My recommendation to you is to stop going to websites without a professional art director. You are hurting your eyes if you do that, and any site that doesn't treat art direction seriously doesn't have useful content anyways, since layout itself is content.
need for a proper layout engine that's flexible and can achieve exactly what graphic designers want.... the closest thing the web had to offer magazine-quality layout
Magazine quality layout is exactly why I haven't subscribed to any magazine in years, and prefer to read it on the web, instead of turning to page 96, then page 102,...
Graphic designers my ass! Clutter-Mongers is a better term.
However I subscribe to the dead wood newspaper because they won't sell me a PDF version, where I can turn to page 42.
An exact copy of the offline paper available on my ipad without having to go downstairs every morning? Brilliant.
The issue that programmatic auto-flow systems like CSS regions try to solve is that the layout/text-flow changes with viewport dimension changes.
Honestly at this point, HTML should be obsoleted and everyone use an XML standard like RSS, or something semantic, and lay that out directly with CSS, since the entire web is converging on an blog-post/article-like data model.
And how does that model apply to amazon.com? Or mac.com? Or wikis? Or google?
The reason is to verify that the number stamped into the plastic is the same as the number encoded on the magstripe. It's really easy to overwrite magstripe data. I have been asked to confirm the last four at grocery stores; they usually ask for the card, but if you recite the last four, it's usually satisfactory.
Both Obama and Clinton qualify. Reagan might qualify too.
Meritocracy means that you can be born poor and become rich or a member of what currently passes for the aristocracy.
It's the ideal of Andrew Carnegie.
Someone mentioned Truman. Eisenhower also came from a precarious working class background.
Interesting, I'm impressed. I see the background of typical industry leaders being private schools, ivy league (not scholarships) and, coupled with the Bush and Kennedy dynasties, and assumed.
Very hard to break into politics in the UK unless you're born with a silver spoon in your mouth (or a union whore). Thatcher and Major did it, but in the last 20 years it's returned to the Eton brigade.
Yep, Boehner will be lead to shut down the government, even though he knew it wouldn't work out well, he knew it would be more costly, and he knew the people making him do it wouldn't be pacified.
We're headed for a third-world nation banana-republic where the military has everything and the citizens live in mud huts.
Score -1: uncomfortable truth
However as is always the case in america, 45% of the country will blame the republicans and their supporters, 45% will blame the democrats and their supporters.
$200,000 is not that much anymore, and the price will likely come down,keep in mind a 100+ day around the world cruise on a nice cruise ship like the QM2 already runs around $30,000 - $70,000 per person depending on cabin catagory, and they seem to have no problem selling tickets.
Quite. A return ticket on a plane New York to London costs $20k
I would be happy if BT could give me the off peak speed I can get during the night of 73Mb/s during peak times where it drops to 8 - 10 Mb/s.
Well as your copper from your house to the cabinet can do 73mbit, increasing bandwidth on the second-to-last mile from cabinet to linx is the only solution.
Fortunately thats exactly what this technology promises.
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Sorry, the number zero was an created 3700 years ago, and not in India.
Sorry, but you're wrong, racist, and fat.
"By 1740 BCE the Egyptians had a symbol for zero in accounting texts. The symbol nfr, meaning beautiful, was also used to indicate the base level in drawings of tombs and pyramids and distances were measured relative to the base line as being above or below this line." - wikipedia
So Egypt 3,700 years ago.
"The concept of zero as a number and not merely a symbol or an empty space for separation is attributed to India, where, by the 9th century AD, practical calculations were carried out using zero, which was treated like any other number, even in case of division"
So India 1,100 years ago
Sorry, the decimal system was being used in other places than India over 3000 years ago.
And india is hardly a great use of numbers -- paying 10,00,000 rather than 1,000,000 rupees for something. Non standard and confusing.
Gameshows are supposed to be interesting to watch
Really? I watched an gameshow on a US network once. The format was something like this
[commercials]
Previously: [recap asking one question for 3 minutes]
Now: ask new question, guy gives new answer, guy founds out if he's right [4 minutes]
Next: [preview guy being asked more questions for 2 minutes]
[commercials]
And so on. If you trim it down you get about 15 minutes an hour of new material. That's not interesting.
(C) He thinks that being made CEO is a punishment for some mistake he's made in his current job.
Being made CEO of a dead end company with almost no help for salvation that's been run into the ground for the last 10+ years is Punishment
Agreed. For one, I hoped that Microsoft was took over by a woman, which could mean that finally someone who cares about the look-and-feel is in control of the company. By the way, he's Indian, so it looks like it's a normal name there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And people complain management is never outsourced
Typical short term hedgefund approach to companies - earn us some money now by selling off collateral then we'll dump your shares before they tank. Fucking parasites.
Noo, you're wrong. Liquidity! Trickle Down! Hookers!
What's a fake account?
Given their terms of service your testing account is almost certainly fake. If you only look at it to "like" stuff that you don't even care enough about to do so publicly, its fake, (as is your "like").
I only know a few people with facebook accounts who don't have a second so-called "testing" account, plus a couple accounts they started and then abandoned.
So I'm thinking the 50% number is closer to the mark than the 10%
I only knew a few people with facebook accounts who have a second "testing" account, so I'm thinking the 1% number is closer to the mark than 10%
See how the plural of anecdote is not data?
Well, Russia plus 20 million dollars. Good luck with that.
It's called capitalism. Something the USA doesn't have (you do have corporatism though, like 1930s Germany)
But this has long since ceased to be any sort of technical challenge or accomplishment.
Putting a lander on the moon (or, even, for that matter, a human) is not much of a technical challenge, insofar as needing to do anything other than learn how to properly use complex (but well-known) technology.
The U.S. can't rebuild Saturn V rockets. Hell it can't even put someone into low earth orbit.
Space is still hard.
Ok. So here's a question: it's 2014, not 1965. Which space program would you rather have: the USA's, China's, or Russia's? Which one is having the most success *right now*? Which one is roving Mars? Orbiting Saturn? Exploring interstellar space? Heading to Pluto? Would you really trade even up for Russia's Soyuz? Because it seems like that's about what they have going right now.
Only one way for thee and me to get into space, and that's Russia.
And China of course. India may well be next.
Ok. So here's a question: it's 2014, not 1965. Which space program would you rather have: the USA's, China's, or Russia's? Which one is having the most success *right now*? Which one is roving Mars? Orbiting Saturn? Exploring interstellar space? Heading to Pluto? Would you really trade even up for Russia's Soyuz? Because it seems like that's about what they have going right now.
Only one way for thee and me to get into space, and that's Russia.
My recommendation to you is to stop going to websites without a professional art director. You are hurting your eyes if you do that, and any site that doesn't treat art direction seriously doesn't have useful content anyways, since layout itself is content.
Yet here you are on slashdot.
need for a proper layout engine that's flexible and can achieve exactly what graphic designers want. ...
the closest thing the web had to offer magazine-quality layout
Magazine quality layout is exactly why I haven't subscribed to any magazine in years, and prefer to read it on the web, instead of turning to page 96, then page 102, ...
Graphic designers my ass! Clutter-Mongers is a better term.
However I subscribe to the dead wood newspaper because they won't sell me a PDF version, where I can turn to page 42.
An exact copy of the offline paper available on my ipad without having to go downstairs every morning? Brilliant.
Postscript is for fixed devices.
The issue that programmatic auto-flow systems like CSS regions try to solve is that the layout/text-flow changes with viewport dimension changes.
Honestly at this point, HTML should be obsoleted and everyone use an XML standard like RSS, or something semantic, and lay that out directly with CSS, since the entire web is converging on an blog-post/article-like data model.
And how does that model apply to amazon.com? Or mac.com? Or wikis? Or google?
It would be VERY hard to break into a Google account using social engineering. First you'd have to find an actual person at Google.
That's easy, just find an active google-plus account
The reason is to verify that the number stamped into the plastic is the same as the number encoded on the magstripe. It's really easy to overwrite magstripe data. I have been asked to confirm the last four at grocery stores; they usually ask for the card, but if you recite the last four, it's usually satisfactory.
Chips are hard to overwrite.
You do use chips on your cards right?
In what way does Obama quality? He went to a private high school and college.
On a scholarship
> Who was the last poor president?
Both Obama and Clinton qualify. Reagan might qualify too.
Meritocracy means that you can be born poor and become rich or a member of what currently passes for the aristocracy.
It's the ideal of Andrew Carnegie.
Someone mentioned Truman. Eisenhower also came from a precarious working class background.
Interesting, I'm impressed. I see the background of typical industry leaders being private schools, ivy league (not scholarships) and, coupled with the Bush and Kennedy dynasties, and assumed.
Very hard to break into politics in the UK unless you're born with a silver spoon in your mouth (or a union whore). Thatcher and Major did it, but in the last 20 years it's returned to the Eton brigade.
Sorry, did I read that correctly?
Tenure? In state-funded primary and secondary schools? In a country as brutally meritocratic as the US?
Who was the last poor president?
Yep, Boehner will be lead to shut down the government, even though he knew it wouldn't work out well, he knew it would be more costly, and he knew the people making him do it wouldn't be pacified.
But damn if he's going to lose out on his bacon.
Is America planning on invading Denmark?
We're headed for a third-world nation banana-republic where the military has everything and the citizens live in mud huts.
Score -1: uncomfortable truth
However as is always the case in america, 45% of the country will blame the republicans and their supporters, 45% will blame the democrats and their supporters.
In China, people don't commonly use eBay, Facebook, or Twitter, and they also rarely use email (even elderly people would typically use QQ instead).
No shit. that's because they're blocked (well not ebay)
The great firewall of china is brilliant -- it blocks facebook and twitter, but lets slashdot through.
$200,000 is not that much anymore, and the price will likely come down,keep in mind a 100+ day around the world cruise on a nice cruise ship like the QM2 already runs around $30,000 - $70,000 per person depending on cabin catagory, and they seem to have no problem selling tickets.
Quite. A return ticket on a plane New York to London costs $20k
I would be happy if BT could give me the off peak speed I can get during the night of 73Mb/s during peak times where it drops to 8 - 10 Mb/s.
Well as your copper from your house to the cabinet can do 73mbit, increasing bandwidth on the second-to-last mile from cabinet to linx is the only solution.
Fortunately thats exactly what this technology promises.