Then why is is that every single Flash video I see stutters? [1] Skipping video frames instead of pausing is bloody annoying.
1: on big sites like Youtube and DailyMotion, playing back on my 2012 high-end Macbook Pro with a 100 Mbit internet connection. Which has no trouble at all when I download the video and play it back locally.
In my experience, proper POTS networks are vastly superior to most VoIP solutions I've used. Just today I spent an hour in a conference call (GotoMeeting) where the crappy VoIP insisted on routing my own voice back to my headset with a 1-second delay, so I had to take off the damn headset to be able to talk.
If your documents are large enough that you run into file size limits on 32-bit systems, you're using the wrong tool for the job. Word was painful with 50+ Mb in one document, I shudder to think what a Gb-sized document will do.
There are rail links from China to Europe already, and there are a couple of regular scheduled services. Freight volume is minuscule compared to shipped freight though. Transit time is ~15 days (compared to 30 days for shipping).
If the tab you're looking at is the source of the noise, that's easy enough. But I often have 50+ tabs open in several windows, and then good luck hunting down the culprit. This feature will be a God-send.
One company I occasionally do contract work for seems to have solved this by designing their new engineering office building to be constructed mostly of steel, including metal slats as sun shades on the windows. As a result, it's damn near impossible to connect to a mobile phone network while inside.
In.nl, bricks are only used in older side streets that see little traffic (i.e. they're there because they've been there for a long time and it hasn't been necessary to resurface the road). New construction favors tarmac. Tarmac is cheaper to put down as it's all done with giant machines, while bricklaying takes a lot of manual labor. Tarmac is also safer because you have more grip, and it's a lot more comfortable to drive on.
This plastic road would be easier to put down than bricks because it comes in large sections you can crane into place.
To get an idea of how bright the sun is at Pluto, try Pluto Time.
Sunlight is much weaker there than it is here on Earth, yet it isn't completely dark. In fact, for just a moment near dawn and dusk each day, the illumination on Earth matches that of noon on Pluto.
We call this Pluto Time. If you go outside at this time on a clear day, the world around you will be as bright as the surface of Pluto at noon
No. During the war, the fact they'd cracked Enigma was kept a secret to prevent the Germans from adopting better (potentially unbreakable) encryption. After the war, yes. The British saw Enigma being used by various governments and decided to keep the secret a bit longer.
Colossus was never used to crack Enigma, it was designed for the Lorenz cipher machine which used a different principle.
You say that like it's a good thing. Sure, existing owners may like it, but making housing less affordable has all sorts of undesirable consequences. It forces less affluent people to find housing further away which increases their commute time and increases traffic. It creates an underclass of people who are too rich to live in rent-controlled housing but too poor to buy a house.
My bad; Tomhath was referring to either a Delta IV or an Atlas V and making two errors in the process, the OP was talking about delta-V as in speed change. Serves me right for answering before reading the complete thread.
What can possibly be bad about using a device that helps you to learn to shoot better? Detailed feedback seems to be a more effective method than a scattershot approach of pushups and getting yelled at.
Those "quick scans of the instruments" are quicker when you can glance at the HUD (which can be done without refocusing) instead of having to look down at the dashboard and refocusing your eyes.
"quick scans of the instruments" are the whole reason the HUD was invented.
The battery pack for a Prius is carefully managed to stay in a charge state that allows for the largest possible number of recharge cycles (IIRC it stays between 50 and 80% charge). An electric-only vehicle doesn't have that option at the moment.
The revolution is in being easily able to create complex shapes. Traditional manufacturing methods for these sort of parts fall in one of two categories: 1. Labor-intensive using simple tools. E.g. Welding the frame from stock pipe and plate. 2. Amenable to mass production, but at a huge initial cost (for tools). E.g. casting, forging, stamping.
3D printing allows complex shapes to be created from a CAD model without lots of labor. This is great for small production runs (i.e. runs too small for 2. to be cost-effective).
I see a number of highly-rated comments recommending using Google for mail rather than the ISP's mail service. This surprises me, given the privacy implications. I can reasonably assume my ISP won't read my mail other than for spam filtering. Google, on the other hand, will use your mail as input for their advertising machine.
The main thing that keeps me from buying a smartphone is that I have two choices: pay through the nose or accept an OS made by an advertising company. If these guys find a way to decrapify Android, I'm in.
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For once, the flag waving is a direct quote from TFA.
Then why is is that every single Flash video I see stutters? [1] Skipping video frames instead of pausing is bloody annoying.
1: on big sites like Youtube and DailyMotion, playing back on my 2012 high-end Macbook Pro with a 100 Mbit internet connection. Which has no trouble at all when I download the video and play it back locally.
that this won't take the shape of 2 metal strips along the centerline of each lane.
In my experience, proper POTS networks are vastly superior to most VoIP solutions I've used. Just today I spent an hour in a conference call (GotoMeeting) where the crappy VoIP insisted on routing my own voice back to my headset with a 1-second delay, so I had to take off the damn headset to be able to talk.
What makes a 'drone' a drone is that it's autonomous. Purpose doesn't come into it.
If your documents are large enough that you run into file size limits on 32-bit systems, you're using the wrong tool for the job. Word was painful with 50+ Mb in one document, I shudder to think what a Gb-sized document will do.
There are rail links from China to Europe already, and there are a couple of regular scheduled services. Freight volume is minuscule compared to shipped freight though. Transit time is ~15 days (compared to 30 days for shipping).
a good use for the HCF instruction
If the tab you're looking at is the source of the noise, that's easy enough. But I often have 50+ tabs open in several windows, and then good luck hunting down the culprit. This feature will be a God-send.
An interesting subject, foot-long essays for answers, no hedging or evasion and no clickbait drivel.
One company I occasionally do contract work for seems to have solved this by designing their new engineering office building to be constructed mostly of steel, including metal slats as sun shades on the windows. As a result, it's damn near impossible to connect to a mobile phone network while inside.
In .nl, bricks are only used in older side streets that see little traffic (i.e. they're there because they've been there for a long time and it hasn't been necessary to resurface the road). New construction favors tarmac. Tarmac is cheaper to put down as it's all done with giant machines, while bricklaying takes a lot of manual labor. Tarmac is also safer because you have more grip, and it's a lot more comfortable to drive on.
This plastic road would be easier to put down than bricks because it comes in large sections you can crane into place.
To get an idea of how bright the sun is at Pluto, try Pluto Time.
Sunlight is much weaker there than it is here on Earth, yet it isn't completely dark. In fact, for just a moment near dawn and dusk each day, the illumination on Earth matches that of noon on Pluto.
We call this Pluto Time. If you go outside at this time on a clear day, the world around you will be as bright as the surface of Pluto at noon
No. During the war, the fact they'd cracked Enigma was kept a secret to prevent the Germans from adopting better (potentially unbreakable) encryption.
After the war, yes. The British saw Enigma being used by various governments and decided to keep the secret a bit longer.
Colossus was never used to crack Enigma, it was designed for the Lorenz cipher machine which used a different principle.
Property values are going up
You say that like it's a good thing. Sure, existing owners may like it, but making housing less affordable has all sorts of undesirable consequences. It forces less affluent people to find housing further away which increases their commute time and increases traffic. It creates an underclass of people who are too rich to live in rent-controlled housing but too poor to buy a house.
My bad; Tomhath was referring to either a Delta IV or an Atlas V and making two errors in the process, the OP was talking about delta-V as in speed change. Serves me right for answering before reading the complete thread.
He meant either a Delta IV or an Atlas V, the heaviest rockets available in the US today.
What can possibly be bad about using a device that helps you to learn to shoot better? Detailed feedback seems to be a more effective method than a scattershot approach of pushups and getting yelled at.
Those "quick scans of the instruments" are quicker when you can glance at the HUD (which can be done without refocusing) instead of having to look down at the dashboard and refocusing your eyes.
"quick scans of the instruments" are the whole reason the HUD was invented.
So, it's the spiritual successor to Lotus Notes, then?
The battery pack for a Prius is carefully managed to stay in a charge state that allows for the largest possible number of recharge cycles (IIRC it stays between 50 and 80% charge). An electric-only vehicle doesn't have that option at the moment.
The revolution is in being easily able to create complex shapes. Traditional manufacturing methods for these sort of parts fall in one of two categories:
1. Labor-intensive using simple tools. E.g. Welding the frame from stock pipe and plate.
2. Amenable to mass production, but at a huge initial cost (for tools). E.g. casting, forging, stamping.
3D printing allows complex shapes to be created from a CAD model without lots of labor. This is great for small production runs (i.e. runs too small for 2. to be cost-effective).
I see a number of highly-rated comments recommending using Google for mail rather than the ISP's mail service.
This surprises me, given the privacy implications. I can reasonably assume my ISP won't read my mail other than for spam filtering. Google, on the other hand, will use your mail as input for their advertising machine.
Interesting, thanks!
The main thing that keeps me from buying a smartphone is that I have two choices: pay through the nose or accept an OS made by an advertising company. If these guys find a way to decrapify Android, I'm in.