I've heard of stop-go traffic called "The Centipede Effect" in essence each leg cannot pass the one ahead of beind it but may only open and close gaps around it.
I've found typically the faster drivers go, the sooner they encounter Centipede Effect traffice backups.
Lane weavers exacerbate the situation, and were ticket-able a few decades ago in Michigan (clearly someone knew the cause and effect of lane weaving) Place a few police cars in the mix and amazingly everyone immediately behaves and traffice moves right along.
these things will need power cords roughly the size of the ones you use to connect to a generator or dryer (100A+) to move that many joules of energy that quickly without melting the cord itself. And the AC/DC transformer won't be a little travel wart either.
They'll also likely be very hot while charging. Not something I think I'd want in my laptop.
I under stand some do make landfall. There is one on display, with the car it punctured, in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. There is also documentation of a woman in Russia IIRC, struck by one which passed first through the roof of her house or an outbuilding on a small farm.
My point is, these are extremely rare occurances. 99.999% of metorites break up to dust before landfall. Most of the "shooting stars" we witness are ice particles.
What struck these animals had to be a large body which made it through the atmosphere to ground, like the one metioned landing in South America earlier this year.
Why did they change the name of the brontosaurus? I liked that name better.
C & D letter. It was too close to Brontesaurus, a collection of references to the works of Charlotte Bronte, which though never actually published, might be some day and in the spirit of things as they are these days, they had to give it up rather than fight a long, costly legal battle with Bronte's heirs.
Unfortunately, like many other places on the web, it's prime for disinformation -- not necessarily from mischievious glac elves, but religious nuts, bigots, etc.
You probably already know this, but you can install IE6 as a standalone app and just run it out of a folder with all its DLLs in it. I do this constantly for testing.
Of this I have no doubt, but we are not the majority, we actually know things or at the very least know where to go for answers and may not procede with things until we are satisfied we are covered, one way or the other.
What's the developer to do if most of his target customer base is already on IE7 because they simply don't know any better than to implicitly trust Microsoft and install IE7?
I'd hardly call what they've done 'sneaking it in'. When it finally got pushed down the normal Windows Update, my system popped up an additional dialog box, making it very obvious IE7 wanted to be installed, and giving me the option to not do it. When I put XP SP2 on my Eee this week, it did the same thing. You'd have to either be blind or pathologically incapable of reading to miss the box and have it installed against your will (it's not like one of those EULA boxes...the wording is very clear).
You miss the point -- you, like I am here on slashdot because we have some interest and/or knowledge of tech. If you've been a regular reader for any length of time beyond a month you've developed a healthy distrust of Microsoft and procede with caution when patching and upgrading. You and I are not like the 90% of PC users in the world who have scant to no knowledge and if can't find an answer from someone, simply trust Microsoft and you have IE7 on your PC now.
This is where the developer of a start-up may run into trouble, because much of their market may already be on IE7.
I'm an old hand at tech and learned over 20 years ago from and older hand the wisdom of not upgrading until you absolutely must and then only proceding with caution and leaving yourself an out to revert back should things go awry.
Why do I need IE 7 when IE 6 already works. I know there are security issues, but I would expect that IE 7 will have security issues too.
Unless you know enough to disable automatic updates on Win XP, you already have IE7 installed, thanks to Microsoft's roll-out of IE7, sneaking it in the normal update. I had to disable auto-update to prevent IE7 install which would have sunk me. I have touchy web-apps which would not run in IE7 so I had to hold off. A lot of people, unknowingly were given IE7 and probably wouldn't have clue number 1 how to roll back to IE6.
I thought Slashdot had an article, years ago stating MP3 was dying as other formats were gaining favour. Guess that was another speculator who liked to see his/her name in the news.
In Canada, you might have a case for wrongful dismissal. You stopped the activity from occurring after it occurred. Your not supposed to fire employees after every small infraction occurs. You need to try remedial action first. If you fired everyone that made a small mistake, you would run out of employees pretty quickly.
Sure, but if you're above the people you are sacking, you look like you took corrective action to your own supervisor. The Best Buy around me, whenever I go in there, looks like it is run by kids. I figure those who are on some sort of track stick around for a year to give their resume an entry and move outward and upward.
This is good news for me. I just bought an IBM Thinkpad T61, so I can be extra careful when I buy my new 9-cell batteries. Thanks for the bad news.
When I bought an extra cell for my tablet PC it came with no stickers, though the seller stated it was an HP battery. I wonder now if I'm not using a time-bomb from this company or another like it.
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Photo's, location?
Where's me tin-foil hat?
It's to show another failure at Microsoft in their core markets, while they pursue TV, Magazines, Video Games, etc.
Put your trust in Microsoft, because they're gonna kill off every other competitor anywayI've heard of stop-go traffic called "The Centipede Effect" in essence each leg cannot pass the one ahead of beind it but may only open and close gaps around it.
I've found typically the faster drivers go, the sooner they encounter Centipede Effect traffice backups.
Lane weavers exacerbate the situation, and were ticket-able a few decades ago in Michigan (clearly someone knew the cause and effect of lane weaving) Place a few police cars in the mix and amazingly everyone immediately behaves and traffice moves right along.
They'll also likely be very hot while charging. Not something I think I'd want in my laptop.
I under stand some do make landfall. There is one on display, with the car it punctured, in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. There is also documentation of a woman in Russia IIRC, struck by one which passed first through the roof of her house or an outbuilding on a small farm.
My point is, these are extremely rare occurances. 99.999% of metorites break up to dust before landfall. Most of the "shooting stars" we witness are ice particles.
What struck these animals had to be a large body which made it through the atmosphere to ground, like the one metioned landing in South America earlier this year.
Small meteors usually don't make it to the ground with enough velocity to knock over a blade of grass.
C & D letter. It was too close to Brontesaurus, a collection of references to the works of Charlotte Bronte, which though never actually published, might be some day and in the spirit of things as they are these days, they had to give it up rather than fight a long, costly legal battle with Bronte's heirs.
it's sommat to do wid dem bars wid de amor plats fiting wid de tartans and dat brass spinny thing.
Mushroom clouds be in order, beeyach!
Imagine eating so many pies you look like him!
Unfortunately, like many other places on the web, it's prime for disinformation -- not necessarily from mischievious glac elves, but religious nuts, bigots, etc.
We must be cautious.
You've clearly never read Dave Barry and his reference to armor-piercing stealth mosquitoes.
At last! We could find who has eaten all the pies .. the fat bastard.
Sutures necessary from the failure of the cloth?
Read the label "Resists, not Proof!"
The concept makes my head want to explode, but when you see it in action it actually makes sense."D'oh!"
"At least we can use the remainder of your suit to stitch you up!"
You should wear a hat made of this material, if not for you, than for those around you.
"I wear fashions from Yves St. Rongbad, in case anything around me asplode!"
this missive is stored on a secure server.
My name is Milo T. Farnsworth, D.O.B 27/07/1974 My Switch number is 3975-4438-0098-2310, expry 04/09
Please take care of this, I will be on an extended trip for the next 2 months, during which I will require great use of my $10,000 credit limit.
Of this I have no doubt, but we are not the majority, we actually know things or at the very least know where to go for answers and may not procede with things until we are satisfied we are covered, one way or the other.
What's the developer to do if most of his target customer base is already on IE7 because they simply don't know any better than to implicitly trust Microsoft and install IE7?
You miss the point -- you, like I am here on slashdot because we have some interest and/or knowledge of tech. If you've been a regular reader for any length of time beyond a month you've developed a healthy distrust of Microsoft and procede with caution when patching and upgrading. You and I are not like the 90% of PC users in the world who have scant to no knowledge and if can't find an answer from someone, simply trust Microsoft and you have IE7 on your PC now.
This is where the developer of a start-up may run into trouble, because much of their market may already be on IE7.
I'm an old hand at tech and learned over 20 years ago from and older hand the wisdom of not upgrading until you absolutely must and then only proceding with caution and leaving yourself an out to revert back should things go awry.
Unless you know enough to disable automatic updates on Win XP, you already have IE7 installed, thanks to Microsoft's roll-out of IE7, sneaking it in the normal update. I had to disable auto-update to prevent IE7 install which would have sunk me. I have touchy web-apps which would not run in IE7 so I had to hold off. A lot of people, unknowingly were given IE7 and probably wouldn't have clue number 1 how to roll back to IE6.
Pride goeth before a fall. They should have checked more carefully before trumpeting their success. That egg on the face is mixed with Krazy Glue.
I thought Slashdot had an article, years ago stating MP3 was dying as other formats were gaining favour. Guess that was another speculator who liked to see his/her name in the news.
Don't want it shown, then hide it. Lazy fuckers should learn about structuring content rather than bitch about search engines.
Sure, but if you're above the people you are sacking, you look like you took corrective action to your own supervisor. The Best Buy around me, whenever I go in there, looks like it is run by kids. I figure those who are on some sort of track stick around for a year to give their resume an entry and move outward and upward.
So at Best Buy you show your management potential by collecting scalps. How is this different from too many other places?
And yet Slashdot still has a spam (note lowercase 's') icon which looks like a piggy with a brick of presumably Spam as part of its body, where formerly the icon was indeed a can of Spam.
Well played Slasdot!
When I bought an extra cell for my tablet PC it came with no stickers, though the seller stated it was an HP battery. I wonder now if I'm not using a time-bomb from this company or another like it.