I recently visited the Richmond Branch of the Federal Reserve and they said they don't send out $2 bills. Once they hit the Fed they don't go back out (or so I was told, the lady could've been wrong). So while there are in circulation they are no longer printed or distributed (at least not in less than large quantites as the link says) and for the most part "gone".
Wouldn't a problem with that be that you're putting a LOT of trust in the makers of the custom OS? It seems that someone could get access and *sneakily* change results. That would be a lot worse than noticing a hack on a Windows or Linux platform I would think.
Do you really want to have to make a fist to delete something? Twist to open it? I know I don't, double clicking or whatever is plenty. Some stuff (CAD, as you said) might be improved, but for "everyday" wordprocessing etc. the current setup is, in my opinion, much more efficient and easier to use.
Microsoft was sued by Mythic (makers of Dark Age of Camelot) over the similarities between the names "Mythic" and "Mythica". I guess Microsoft thought they'd lose and decided to scrap the project.
I think the time analogy is flawed as nobody uses seconds (in everyday "What time is it?" sorts of ways) so to compare them to something as necessary as the DAY seems odd. Also, would you really have to say: "It's 15 seconds, I mean 16 seconds, and uh, 5 minutes past 4"? No way, it's much easier to say "It's 4:05" and then add the seconds if you want.
The order of MM/DD/YYYY comes when one is speaking out loud. Let's take my birthday. I would rather say I was born on "April 15th" then "15th of April". In English, at least, it makes grammatical sense. (Spanish, the only other language I'm more than passingly familiar with would say "quince del (of) abril" so perhaps that's where the original change came from.
(b) makes much more sense, and I agree fully with that argument. The only problem in its use is that the rest of society wouldn't get it for the early days in early months (i.e. 1/4 or 4/1). I guess America and the rest of the world are going to have to disagree again.
(Though maybe we'll change our date format when we get around to swtiching to the metric system... if we do.)
"the books are simply amazing, probably one of the best pieces of literature written in the 20th century."
One of the best piecies of FANTASY literature, yes. Literature as a whole? No. They're great books, but NOT near the top of best literature of the century.
THAT'S your nightmare? Your nightmare system is way out of wack. The likelihood of this happening is.... basically 0. We'd have to have another nuclear missile standoff, an asteroid hit in exactly the right place to look like a missle hitting our/their country... seem a little unlikely?
Plus our satellites will be watching their country... no launch signature means we'd know it wasn't a missile. So the thing would have to come down over the other country at just the wrong time... preposterous.
I don't really know anything about how it works, BUT I don't think that could happen. THINKING about pinching a coworker's butt and PINCHING a coworker's butt are going to involve different parts of the brain (one for thought, one for moving your arm) so thinking about doing something would make your arm move, you'd have to *move* your arm.
I've heard that the Russians didn't have great success on their early manned launches, but we never heard a lot about them because of the total control of the press over there. Plus we don't have the satellites and what not we do now to really understand what they were doing in the middle of Siberia.
Not for China... they seem to have a relatively low regard for life (compared to the U.S. and other space-faring nations) so I'd bet getting them up is/was more important than getting them back.
I don't know about precursors, ripples and what not, but no matter how much shit the light had to go through we still can't see it till it gets here. If the star is 45,000 lightyears away and it takes the flare etc. 45,001 years to get here because of interference we'll see it in 45,001 not 45,000 years.
Although I don't really know much about the techincal side of the ISS/Hubble I don't think there's anyway to attach it. They weren't designed to be hooked together so chances of something like that working are pretty small. (Unless you taped them together, but I doubt NASA would go for that).
Just a question, no offense intended, but how is this better than than other search engines "Search within these results" button? Narrows the field much like this whittling idea and seems easier, IMO.
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I recently visited the Richmond Branch of the Federal Reserve and they said they don't send out $2 bills. Once they hit the Fed they don't go back out (or so I was told, the lady could've been wrong). So while there are in circulation they are no longer printed or distributed (at least not in less than large quantites as the link says) and for the most part "gone".
Not exactly mundane, they're taken out of circulation when they hit a bank :)
They test for toxins and carcinogens before they let him smell it. RTFA.
Wouldn't a problem with that be that you're putting a LOT of trust in the makers of the custom OS? It seems that someone could get access and *sneakily* change results. That would be a lot worse than noticing a hack on a Windows or Linux platform I would think.
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Do you really want to have to make a fist to delete something? Twist to open it? I know I don't, double clicking or whatever is plenty. Some stuff (CAD, as you said) might be improved, but for "everyday" wordprocessing etc. the current setup is, in my opinion, much more efficient and easier to use.
I second this... mostly because it's true, and if you want to lose any job you get quite quickly start by lying during the interview.
Microsoft was sued by Mythic (makers of Dark Age of Camelot) over the similarities between the names "Mythic" and "Mythica". I guess Microsoft thought they'd lose and decided to scrap the project.
Plus "Astromice" sounds cooler and makes sense (in Greek, but still...)
I see your point, but I'm still skeptical.
I think the time analogy is flawed as nobody uses seconds (in everyday "What time is it?" sorts of ways) so to compare them to something as necessary as the DAY seems odd. Also, would you really have to say: "It's 15 seconds, I mean 16 seconds, and uh, 5 minutes past 4"? No way, it's much easier to say "It's 4:05" and then add the seconds if you want.
The order of MM/DD/YYYY comes when one is speaking out loud. Let's take my birthday. I would rather say I was born on "April 15th" then "15th of April". In English, at least, it makes grammatical sense. (Spanish, the only other language I'm more than passingly familiar with would say "quince del (of) abril" so perhaps that's where the original change came from.
(b) makes much more sense, and I agree fully with that argument. The only problem in its use is that the rest of society wouldn't get it for the early days in early months (i.e. 1/4 or 4/1). I guess America and the rest of the world are going to have to disagree again.
(Though maybe we'll change our date format when we get around to swtiching to the metric system... if we do.)
How is DD/MM/YYYY more useful than MM/DD/YYYY? I just see two arbitrarily different systems with no difference in utility.
(Though if pressed, I'd rather have the MM/DD/YYYY because you know first what month-- the general-- and then what day-- the specific.
"the books are simply amazing, probably one of the best pieces of literature written in the 20th century."
One of the best piecies of FANTASY literature, yes. Literature as a whole? No. They're great books, but NOT near the top of best literature of the century.
"poly-" means "many" or "multi" not "Everything"
Ummmm.... because they know what will happen? NASA doesn't have all those computers so they can just stick rockets on stuff and "see what happens".
Airbus is winning contracts because they're getting subsidies from the EU and selling their planes cheaper.... not because of some crash.
THAT'S your nightmare? Your nightmare system is way out of wack. The likelihood of this happening is.... basically 0. We'd have to have another nuclear missile standoff, an asteroid hit in exactly the right place to look like a missle hitting our/their country... seem a little unlikely?
Plus our satellites will be watching their country... no launch signature means we'd know it wasn't a missile. So the thing would have to come down over the other country at just the wrong time... preposterous.
I don't really know anything about how it works, BUT I don't think that could happen. THINKING about pinching a coworker's butt and PINCHING a coworker's butt are going to involve different parts of the brain (one for thought, one for moving your arm) so thinking about doing something would make your arm move, you'd have to *move* your arm.
FYI, it's WAY more expensive to buy liquor in a state run (ABC) store than in a privately run store.
Agreed. Once is an accident, twice a thoughtless mistake... repeatedly? What was she DOING exactly???
I've heard that the Russians didn't have great success on their early manned launches, but we never heard a lot about them because of the total control of the press over there. Plus we don't have the satellites and what not we do now to really understand what they were doing in the middle of Siberia.
Not for China... they seem to have a relatively low regard for life (compared to the U.S. and other space-faring nations) so I'd bet getting them up is/was more important than getting them back.
I don't know about precursors, ripples and what not, but no matter how much shit the light had to go through we still can't see it till it gets here. If the star is 45,000 lightyears away and it takes the flare etc. 45,001 years to get here because of interference we'll see it in 45,001 not 45,000 years.
Although I don't really know much about the techincal side of the ISS/Hubble I don't think there's anyway to attach it. They weren't designed to be hooked together so chances of something like that working are pretty small. (Unless you taped them together, but I doubt NASA would go for that).
Just a question, no offense intended, but how is this better than than other search engines "Search within these results" button? Narrows the field much like this whittling idea and seems easier, IMO.
"Postal workers that walk their deliveries would also find this to be a heart attack saver."
Actually walking would be the heart attack saver. Riding around and getting no exercise is what causes heart attacks.
I hope this is a joke and just didn't get modded "Funny".... that's just email/IM/whatever but less efficient. (I would've modded it Funny though)