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  1. Re:Menus obsolete on What Comes After User-Friendly Design? (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Adobe FrameMaker does this. A search field (new in the 2017 version) allows you to search all menu commands and dialog boxes. You can customize menus, move commands around, make new menus, add shortcuts to any command etc.

  2. Re:It's true and here is how I handle it. on Moving Every Half Hour Could Help Limit Effects of Sedentary Lifestyle, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Moving around or not, 15-hour work days will take a toll. Unless you already take 7 hours worth of breaks, of course.

  3. Here's hoping the face scanning technology becomes user accessible as a general-purpose 3D scanner.

  4. Re:Python is the Most Troublesome on Is Python Really the Fastest-Growing Programming Language? (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    Traffic to Stack Overflow is an indication of people having issues with Python. Not it's popularity!

    There's another option: Python is a popular first language for beginning programmers, so the issues people need help with are general programming concepts, not problems with the language itself. Not knowing the difference, the beginning programmer will stick a [python] tag on the question, and hey presto, "lots of Python questions".

  5. So why haven't these other worlds contacted us?

    Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

    (with apologies to Bill Watterson)

  6. No, they're not. I live in the middle of one of those purported no-go zones. I'm no unsafer than anywhere in the country.

  7. Re:same thing happening now on Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World's Oldest Continuously Run Libraries (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    No it isn't. While secularization has reduced the number of Christians in Europe, the notion of "Christian cities dissappearing" due to Muslim immigration is preposterous. Stop spreading lies.

  8. Re:Cyberchondria on How One Writer Is Battling Tech-Induced Attention Disorder (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because it's not been professionally diagnosed doesn't mean the problem isn't real.

  9. Re: Visionary, 65 years later everybody detests Mu on Lost Turing Letters Give Unique Insight Into His Academic Life Prior To Death (manchester.ac.uk) · · Score: 1

    Mass migration has been part and parcel of European life for centuries. The latest wave started in the 1960s with various European countries importing cheap labor, others honoring agreements with former colonies. Since the 1960s, our level of wealth and welfare has skyrocketed, thanks in part to the extra labor provided by those immigrants. We can handle taking in a few more. In fact, immigration is what keeps our demographics right-way-up, avoiding the inverted pyramid e.g. Japan is facing.
    Sure, you get the odd hothead that does not want to assimilate, but the indigenous people have their hotheads too. "millions that do not want to assimilate" is vastly overblown.

  10. Re:If things were different on Lost Turing Letters Give Unique Insight Into His Academic Life Prior To Death (manchester.ac.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    he was the Rockstar of GC&CS until they wanted to 'fix' him

    Note that the "they" in that sentence wasn't GC&CS. Turing quit GC&CS at the end of the war to pursue his ambition to create an electronic computer. Turing had been a civilian for 7 years before his prosecution by civilian courts.

  11. Re:So "Hyperloop" is a 200mph maglev? on 201 MPH Pod Run Wins SpaceX's Second Hyperloop Competition (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2

    At that acceleration, you can walk on the rear wall of the pod. Anyone standing on the floor will fall over. All luggage in overhead racks ends up in a heap at the rear of the pod.

    Braking at 11 m/s^2 is unpleasant if you're strapped into a 4-point seat belt, because the belt straps carry your full weight. Without a belt, you'll be squashed into the seat in front of you. I tried braking at about that deceleration once (emergency stop in a high-performance sportscar). All the loose shit in the cabin went flying. My passenger damn near ended up in the footwell.

  12. Re:We need more information on Ancient Tablet Reveals Babylonians Discovered Trigonometry (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It ran Windows 8. This explains why the Babylonian empire collapsed.

  13. That would have made the probe prohibitively heavier due to the huge amount of propellant needed for the return journey.

    Also, the electronics are obsolete (30 years old) and radiation-damaged, so why bother retrieving them? The only component it'd make sense to recycle is the RTG (which should be at 70% of its original capacity by now).

  14. Re:AutoCAD on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Pay To See Open Sourced? · · Score: 1

    Not libre, but free-as-in-beer: Draftsight, from the same company that produces SolidWorks.

  15. Re:Leaked Political hit job masquerading as "scien on Leaked Federal Climate Report Finds Link Between Climate Change, Human Activity (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Instead of inflicting trillions of dollars in economic damage making the world stop producing, stop progressing, putting millions, if not billions out of work, we should be focusing on dealing with it rather than stopping it,

    You're using a straw man here. Most people aren't advocating anything like that.

    If anything, combating climate change means more work (creating and building new technology), not less. And yes, that's worthwhile. One extra degree of warming (if we don't do anything vs. if we do try to stop climate change) may not sound so much, but it translates to a lot of sea level rise, putting hundreds of millions of people at risk. It means weather extremes get more extreme.

    Stopping the increase in emissions has other advantages. Cleaner air means fewer people die. Reducing reliance on fossil fuels means less power to those who produce the fossil fuels.
    And we're going to have to transition to other fuels anyway as coal, gas and oil run out, so why not now?

    meet in the middle

    There is no middle. One one side you have science, on the other you have people denying the science while not backing up their assertions with facts.

  16. Re:IC engine efficiency is hardly 20% on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    I'd be surprised if that were true. Running rich would soon ruin the catalytic converter.

  17. It's not unusual for a car company to spend this kind of money developing a new car and getting ready for production. The first time I can remember a company publicizing a figure of over $1B was Volvo for the first generation 850, so about 20-25 years ago.

  18. How about implementing Copy and Paste properly? on Microsoft Is Updating the Windows Console Colors For the First Time In 20 Years (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm using an alternative shell because the standard Windows one still doesn't support selection with the mouse, or the standard Ctrl-X/C/V shortcuts.

  19. I can rule out map data. I made a point of buying a navigation app that comes with an offline map, and updating that map before I set off.
    Also, the iPhone keeps track of data usage per application. My navigation app downloaded 10 kb during that trip (traffic data), the System->Time and Location category sits at 134 Mb (again, for a stretch of highway ~100 km long).

  20. The iPhone uses AGPS, which tries to reduce reliance on GPS by triangulating a provisional position based on cell towers and Wifi base stations. This causes a large amount of cellular data traffic (the one time I tried this, 100 Mb/hour or 1 Mb/km). That may be the cause of the power drain.

  21. Re:He must be ugly on Tech Boss Attacks 'Whiners' in Angry Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But if, as society says I should, I suppress them it will cause physical illness and in many cases mental illness as well. I

    Bullshit. There's nothing unhealthy about getting a grip and acting professionally. People do it all the time. It's called impulse control.

  22. Re:What they don't tell you in the article on Google's New Startup Heats Your Home With Energy From Your Lawn (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You can store excess heat in a water tank, but you need a lot of water. I remember seeing an experimental house built around a 50-ton water tank a few decades ago.

    But with a geothermal system, you can store heat without needing a tank: basically you warm up the ground around the well during the summer, and draw heat from it during the winter.
    This makes the geothermal installation more sustainable. Without warming up the ground, you'd eventually (in a few decades) end up with the entire area around your heat source too cold to extract energy from.

  23. Re:60 to 0 in 6 seconds on Tesla Says Its Model 3 Car Will Go On Sale On Friday (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    EVs still have disc brakes in addition to regenerative braking, regenerative braking is not designed to provide emergency stop capability on its own.

  24. Not just pollution on Hanoi Plan To Ban Motorbikes By 2030 To Combat Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone's focusing on the headline, but there is another reason to want to replace motorbikes with public transport: congestion. Every image of modern-day Hanoi I've seen has roads jammed solid with motorbikes, 5 across in each lane. Replacing motorbikes with cleaner motorbikes won't solve that.

  25. Re:Can't Blame Them on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "pay us a ridiculous amount of money, or spend a whole lot of time replicating the system you used to have with another service". Sound familiar? It's the ransomware MO.