+2 starting scores are part of the system: "Normally users with high karma post at Score: 2, but you can choose to post down in the Score: 1 gutters with the rest of the user population with this option. "
AIU, the whole point of developing Gmail was to give Google access to the contents of your mail for advertising/profiling purposes. If that's still done, the encryption is mostly pointless.
In a world that is creditcard-only, yes. In a country with saner financial regulation, I've got a debit card that costs a fixed amount per month (actually the bank account it's linked to has a fixed price for debit card+internet banking+all other features of the account) instead of having to pay a % per transaction.
Not many people know this, but a backhoe is a very effective divining rod. Unless directed very carefully, it will find and hit every pipe and cable in the general vicinity.
Prostitution has been legal in.nl for a few years now. Recently a study was done on the effects of that. Result: inconclusive. There was no measurable improvement in the lives of prostitutes. Many still are illegal immigrants (i.e. brought here by prostitution gangs), legalization hasn't enabled them to sever ties with those gangs.
The Shuttle had a maximum mission duration of about 21 days. Using it as a semi-permanent space station would have required major changes. The first things that come to mind: new electric power systems, new flight computers (the ones used had potential issues on the end-of-year rollover), some way to protect the ceramic tiles from micrometeoroid impact, new systems for on-orbit transfer of propellant and other consumables.
Two satellites, plus a number of payloads that were either kept in the cargo bay during the mission (e.g. SpaceLab, various experiment pallets) or ejected and retrieved on later missions.
Spaces between words have been the norm for the last 2000 years or so (barring a few languages like Thai that still don't use them). Disallowing spaces was the outlier.
So you deliberately wrote scrips that supported only a subset of filenames, reducing ease of use in favor of ease of programming. That's not innocent either.
That jerks who decided to violate the then accepted norms of not using white spaces in path names just so that he can laugh and giggle at the unix descendants who have to fix all the scripts, this is for them.
That's part of a longer transition from limited filenames (remem~1.ths?) to human-readable filenames. Allowing spaces was the right thing to do.
I've had a few laptops with trackpoints, and I kept bumping into them while typing. This would inevitably select the last few lines I'd written, then the next keystroke would overwrite the selection. After the first few such errors, every laptop I had had its trackpoint disabled within 5 minutes of the first boot. Placing a joystick in the middle of the keyboard has to be one of the dumbest decisions ever made.
A gas turbine has a big flaw: it's only efficient when running at full power, and a huge fuel hog at lower power settings. So you'd need to install a turbine AND a battery pack, and run the turbine intermittently.
In the mean time, batteries got good enough that you can skip the onboard generator entirely and just install a big battery, saving lots of money on complicated mechanical parts.
No need for yet another job title. "Taikonauts" isn't a Chinese title, by the way, this was thought up by some blogger. The Chinese space agency refers to its spacefaring personnel as "astronauts".
50 years after Australia became the third country to launch a satellite into space,
While it's true that a satellite was launched from Australian soil, this was part of the British space program, with Australian involvement not extending much beyond allowing the British to build their launch site. The launcher and satellite were developed and built in Britain.
All too often, telling the victim "sticks and stones..." doesn't work. The words have already affected the victim. Children in particular can't shrug this off just because you tell them to.
In these cases, telling the victim "sticks and stones..." amounts to denying there is a problem, which makes the problem (being bullied, and the depression/anxiety etc it causes) worse. "words hurt forever" is a reaction to that attitude. An overreaction maybe, but it's time to stop pretending bullying is not a problem.
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AIU, the whole point of developing Gmail was to give Google access to the contents of your mail for advertising/profiling purposes. If that's still done, the encryption is mostly pointless.
For debit card transactions in .nl, the banks don't take 2.5%, they take a flat fee per transaction that can be as low as E0.02.
In a world that is creditcard-only, yes. In a country with saner financial regulation, I've got a debit card that costs a fixed amount per month (actually the bank account it's linked to has a fixed price for debit card+internet banking+all other features of the account) instead of having to pay a % per transaction.
Not many people know this, but a backhoe is a very effective divining rod. Unless directed very carefully, it will find and hit every pipe and cable in the general vicinity.
Prostitution has been legal in .nl for a few years now. Recently a study was done on the effects of that. Result: inconclusive. There was no measurable improvement in the lives of prostitutes. Many still are illegal immigrants (i.e. brought here by prostitution gangs), legalization hasn't enabled them to sever ties with those gangs.
The Shuttle had a maximum mission duration of about 21 days. Using it as a semi-permanent space station would have required major changes. The first things that come to mind: new electric power systems, new flight computers (the ones used had potential issues on the end-of-year rollover), some way to protect the ceramic tiles from micrometeoroid impact, new systems for on-orbit transfer of propellant and other consumables.
Two satellites, plus a number of payloads that were either kept in the cargo bay during the mission (e.g. SpaceLab, various experiment pallets) or ejected and retrieved on later missions.
Ring systems had already been found around asteroid Chariklo and Chiron. So Haumea is the 7th object in the solar system known to have rings.
The current road tax system in .nl is based on emissions (more CO2 = more tax). No reason to assume this new plan will be implemented differently.
Spaces between words have been the norm for the last 2000 years or so (barring a few languages like Thai that still don't use them). Disallowing spaces was the outlier.
The old comment system is still available. Look for 'D1' in the preferences.
Sometimes breaking backwards compatibility is necessary. More readable filenames were a good reason to change the guideline.
So you deliberately wrote scrips that supported only a subset of filenames, reducing ease of use in favor of ease of programming. That's not innocent either.
That jerks who decided to violate the then accepted norms of not using white spaces in path names just so that he can laugh and giggle at the unix descendants who have to fix all the scripts, this is for them.
That's part of a longer transition from limited filenames (remem~1.ths?) to human-readable filenames. Allowing spaces was the right thing to do.
I've had a few laptops with trackpoints, and I kept bumping into them while typing. This would inevitably select the last few lines I'd written, then the next keystroke would overwrite the selection.
After the first few such errors, every laptop I had had its trackpoint disabled within 5 minutes of the first boot. Placing a joystick in the middle of the keyboard has to be one of the dumbest decisions ever made.
That graph shows efficiency vs. nominal power output. It compares large vs. small turbines. It says nothing about running turbines at off-nominal rpm!
The link you gave has no information on efficiency vs. rpm, just peak efficiency.
A gas turbine has a big flaw: it's only efficient when running at full power, and a huge fuel hog at lower power settings. So you'd need to install a turbine AND a battery pack, and run the turbine intermittently.
In the mean time, batteries got good enough that you can skip the onboard generator entirely and just install a big battery, saving lots of money on complicated mechanical parts.
Consumer Reports looks at crash survivability, not how user-friendly the controls are.
My apologies, I was thinking of Prospero, launched on a Black Arrow rocket from Woomera in 1971. No idea an Australian satellite preceded it.
No need for yet another job title. "Taikonauts" isn't a Chinese title, by the way, this was thought up by some blogger. The Chinese space agency refers to its spacefaring personnel as "astronauts".
50 years after Australia became the third country to launch a satellite into space,
While it's true that a satellite was launched from Australian soil, this was part of the British space program, with Australian involvement not extending much beyond allowing the British to build their launch site. The launcher and satellite were developed and built in Britain.
the $428 million euros spent investigating the harm of piracy?" certainly has a conclusion.
The conclusion being that you're off by 3 orders of magnitude. We're talking about Euros, not lire.
All too often, telling the victim "sticks and stones..." doesn't work. The words have already affected the victim. Children in particular can't shrug this off just because you tell them to.
In these cases, telling the victim "sticks and stones..." amounts to denying there is a problem, which makes the problem (being bullied, and the depression/anxiety etc it causes) worse. "words hurt forever" is a reaction to that attitude. An overreaction maybe, but it's time to stop pretending bullying is not a problem.