200 pixels is an extremely narrow column; just as a random example, the Guardian website on my browser has just under 500 pixel wide text columns, and it has a reasonably small number of words per line for fast reading; and you can have the pictures wider than the text if you need to.
Having to look up from the bottom of a column to find the start of the next column is an annoyance; a necessary one in newspapers, where you have to fit narrow columns of text on reasonably sized sheets of paper without wasting space. You don't have those constraint with websites, so there's no need for the minor annoyance of columns.
Undocumented workers pay income tax and payroll taxes, too. They're the ones who should be having tea parties - they get taxed, but they don't get the vote.
It's not just the $15 for the hardware, though - there's also the cost of the time to figure out precisely which device you need to buy to get Linux support, and then the time spent combing through shelves or websites to find one of those devices. That's not a huge amount of time, and for me was certainly worth it (aside from not having to spend $99 for Windows, using Linux itself has value). But if spending $99 allows you to avoid the hassle of getting Linux compatible hardware, I can see that might be a reasonable trade-off for some people (that's kind of a big "if," though; I've often had more difficulty getting Windows to work with my hardware than I have had with Linux).
And yet, the UK government spends less money per capita to provide health care for 100% of its population, than the US government spends to cover the 30% in the US who receive some form of government provided care, and no country with universal, government provided healthcare spends anything close to as much on healthcare as the US spends in total. I'll take governments cost control over that of the private sector, thanks.
At this pace you'll be able to enjoy stable and fast R700 hardware support another 3 years from now.
When you say "three years from now," I think you mean "now." The machine I'm posting this from has stable and fast 3D support for its R700-based card from the open source drivers right now.
A 19th century American judge, Justice Bradley, put the point well in the course of delivering his opinion in a case heard in Louisiana in 1873:
“England has no written constitution, it is true; but it has an unwritten one..."
As the parent says, Britain does not have a formal, written constitution - it has an informal constitution which consists of both written statutes and unwritten conventions.
Or they could have made a demo that uses the latest bleeding-edge proposals for HTML5, and let it fail on most people's browsers - perhaps even worse.
Why would that be "worse"? They could include a link to an image of how each demo is supposed to render, and thus show people what they are missing out by not using Safari, which should be great publicity for Safari. Unless HTML5 is equally well supported by other browsers, which would make this HTML5 demo less effective as an advert for Safari. So it might be "worse" for Apple's marketing, but only if it is intended to create a false impression about how much better Safari's HTML5 support is. If it actually demonstrates Safari's superior HTML5 support, it would clearly be better for everyone to allow other browsers to view the demos.
Per-byte pricing still makes sense for data, even though the bytes themselves don't cost anything to produce. The phone companies want to limit the number of people downloading at any one time which, assuming that the time at which people use bandwidth is evenly distributed, is the same as limiting the amount of time people spend downloading. If everyone has the same bandwidth, the amount downloaded is directly proportional to the time spent downloading. So charging per byte puts a price premium on the amount of time people spend downloading, and therefore limits the amount of people downloading at any one time.
Now, the assumption that bandwidth usage is evenly distributed in time isn't true, but you can factor that in by charging more for data at peak times.
I do wonder how the US cell companies managed to persuade their customers that usage over the bundled amount counted as "overages," some kind of terrible transgression that justifies punitive pricing.
The experience of drug consumption is influenced by set (mental state) and setting (environment). If Americans talk and think about caffeine use in a different way from people in some other place, the two groups will experience it differently. That doesn't mean that caffeine doesn't effect the brain chemistry of people outside the US in much the same way, of course, but brain chemistry doesn't map in a simple direct way to experience. It's not really all that implausible that people in a different cultural context might not experience the biochemical changes that come along with a cessation of caffeine intake as "caffeine withdrawal" in the same way that Americans do.
I go between phases where I feel like coffee and drink it like water, and phases where I don't drink any at all. I never felt any negative effects after stopping the coffee, even for weeks.
My experience is very much the same. I suppose, though, that there might be a difference between not drinking coffee because you don't feel like it, and not drinking coffee because you've decided to stop, so whatever independent factor is causing you to not want to drink coffee might also be militating against the symptoms of caffeine withdrawal. For instance, if you are for some reason sleeping better, and therefore don't feel so tired, you may be less inclined to drink coffee; then you presumably wouldn't feel the tiredness that seems to be part of caffeine withdrawal.
Apple did make a new language, intended (thought not actually used) for the Newton. The Dylan language is basically Lisp with a more conventional, Algol-like syntax; it's a pretty gorgeous language, and I wish it had been successful.
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Line based editing? That's just got too many distractions for a real writer.
200 pixels is an extremely narrow column; just as a random example, the Guardian website on my browser has just under 500 pixel wide text columns, and it has a reasonably small number of words per line for fast reading; and you can have the pictures wider than the text if you need to.
Having to look up from the bottom of a column to find the start of the next column is an annoyance; a necessary one in newspapers, where you have to fit narrow columns of text on reasonably sized sheets of paper without wasting space. You don't have those constraint with websites, so there's no need for the minor annoyance of columns.
We should be able to do this in CSS 3, at last.
Your browser has a scrollbar - why would it need columns?
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Yeah, you're 311 years out of date there (or maybe 795 years). The UK is constitutional monarchy; the monarch doesn't have absolute power.
The depression of wages is pretty damn obvious if you look at it
And yet, people who have actually looked find out that immigration does not depress wages or harm the employment chances of citizens.
Undocumented workers pay income tax and payroll taxes, too. They're the ones who should be having tea parties - they get taxed, but they don't get the vote.
It's not just the $15 for the hardware, though - there's also the cost of the time to figure out precisely which device you need to buy to get Linux support, and then the time spent combing through shelves or websites to find one of those devices. That's not a huge amount of time, and for me was certainly worth it (aside from not having to spend $99 for Windows, using Linux itself has value). But if spending $99 allows you to avoid the hassle of getting Linux compatible hardware, I can see that might be a reasonable trade-off for some people (that's kind of a big "if," though; I've often had more difficulty getting Windows to work with my hardware than I have had with Linux).
And yet, the UK government spends less money per capita to provide health care for 100% of its population, than the US government spends to cover the 30% in the US who receive some form of government provided care, and no country with universal, government provided healthcare spends anything close to as much on healthcare as the US spends in total. I'll take governments cost control over that of the private sector, thanks.
Why can't something that is a reflection of social change be studied in order to give students a greater idea about society?
I don't know about a whole degree in porn, but classes on porn (which, obviously, include screenings) are pretty common in film programs.
At this pace you'll be able to enjoy stable and fast R700 hardware support another 3 years from now.
When you say "three years from now," I think you mean "now." The machine I'm posting this from has stable and fast 3D support for its R700-based card from the open source drivers right now.
Which taxes are increasing in the US, exactly? The economic stimulus involved hundreds of billions of dollars of tax cuts .
Which page concludes with:
A 19th century American judge, Justice Bradley, put the point well in the course of delivering his opinion in a case heard in Louisiana in 1873:
“England has no written constitution, it is true; but it has an unwritten one..."
As the parent says, Britain does not have a formal, written constitution - it has an informal constitution which consists of both written statutes and unwritten conventions.
MeeGo uses X11, it seems.
You can download the official spec from ISO, or from you national standards body.
Really? How do you reflow the text in a PDF so that it fits on a narrower display with larger text?
Or they could have made a demo that uses the latest bleeding-edge proposals for HTML5, and let it fail on most people's browsers - perhaps even worse.
Why would that be "worse"? They could include a link to an image of how each demo is supposed to render, and thus show people what they are missing out by not using Safari, which should be great publicity for Safari. Unless HTML5 is equally well supported by other browsers, which would make this HTML5 demo less effective as an advert for Safari. So it might be "worse" for Apple's marketing, but only if it is intended to create a false impression about how much better Safari's HTML5 support is. If it actually demonstrates Safari's superior HTML5 support, it would clearly be better for everyone to allow other browsers to view the demos.
Per-byte pricing still makes sense for data, even though the bytes themselves don't cost anything to produce. The phone companies want to limit the number of people downloading at any one time which, assuming that the time at which people use bandwidth is evenly distributed, is the same as limiting the amount of time people spend downloading. If everyone has the same bandwidth, the amount downloaded is directly proportional to the time spent downloading. So charging per byte puts a price premium on the amount of time people spend downloading, and therefore limits the amount of people downloading at any one time.
Now, the assumption that bandwidth usage is evenly distributed in time isn't true, but you can factor that in by charging more for data at peak times.
So you charge more for usage at peak times than at off-peak times, encouraging some to shift their usage to off-peak times.
I do wonder how the US cell companies managed to persuade their customers that usage over the bundled amount counted as "overages," some kind of terrible transgression that justifies punitive pricing.
The experience of drug consumption is influenced by set (mental state) and setting (environment). If Americans talk and think about caffeine use in a different way from people in some other place, the two groups will experience it differently. That doesn't mean that caffeine doesn't effect the brain chemistry of people outside the US in much the same way, of course, but brain chemistry doesn't map in a simple direct way to experience. It's not really all that implausible that people in a different cultural context might not experience the biochemical changes that come along with a cessation of caffeine intake as "caffeine withdrawal" in the same way that Americans do.
I go between phases where I feel like coffee and drink it like water, and phases where I don't drink any at all. I never felt any negative effects after stopping the coffee, even for weeks.
My experience is very much the same. I suppose, though, that there might be a difference between not drinking coffee because you don't feel like it, and not drinking coffee because you've decided to stop, so whatever independent factor is causing you to not want to drink coffee might also be militating against the symptoms of caffeine withdrawal. For instance, if you are for some reason sleeping better, and therefore don't feel so tired, you may be less inclined to drink coffee; then you presumably wouldn't feel the tiredness that seems to be part of caffeine withdrawal.
Apple did make a new language, intended (thought not actually used) for the Newton. The Dylan language is basically Lisp with a more conventional, Algol-like syntax; it's a pretty gorgeous language, and I wish it had been successful.