Err... I think it's like water waves in that sense. No thing is moving in the same direction as the wave. The water molecules only move up and down, but the combined movement becomes this thing we call a wave.
It's a perceived distortion of time space?
It's perceived as a change in the distortion of spacetime. I'm not sure if we've been able to measure static distortions of spacetime yet (not directly, anyway; we can see gravitational lensing for example, and of course falling is a direct consequence of spacetime distortion).
It does leave you permanently vulnerable to any flaws in the particular version of the library you linked against, or such is my understanding. At least with dynamic linking you can blame the user for not keeping up to date!
I still static link though because whenever I upload something (using a video filtering plugin) at least one person won't have the right runtime installed at all.
Damn. All those idiots with their engineering degrees wasting their time when they all had to do was listen to Some Guy On The Internet to realise the error of their ways.
An anonymous reader writes with Yahoo's report that the makers of Adblock Plus are "looking to reach out to advertisers and identify an 'acceptable' level and form of advertising on the net."
Isn't this what they've been doing for months? It's how they make their money.
I didn't mean to suggest it wasn't a realistic number, just that "any individual is connected to any other via six network nodes" is a big oversimplification.
How is it an upper limit? You can't check the connections between every pair of people on the planet. You can't even do that for 1% of 1% of the entire population. In all likelihood there are pairs of people who have a minimum of 7, 8 or 9 steps between them. 6 may be the mode, but it's highly unlikely to be an upper limit.
Six degrees of separation is the, already well established, idea that any individual is connected to any other via six network nodes.
How is it "well established"? As far as I can see "six degrees" was never meant to be taken as much of a concrete fact; it's more of an allegory for our counter-intuitively connected world. There are still plenty of remote or even completely uncontacted tribes in the world, and those are just the extreme examples. At best, six is a very rough average.
It's funny how apologising for a personal preference manages to come off as smug and superior. Is it because you hope that anyone reading about your anti-establishment trend-defying quirks will be incandescent with impotent rage at how much more awesome you are than them, and at how this issue doesn't even affect you?
Sorry, I don't own a TV. Sorry, I only drink yak's milk. Sorry, I only wipe my bum with Egyptian cotton.
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It's not something that moves along is it?
Err... I think it's like water waves in that sense. No thing is moving in the same direction as the wave. The water molecules only move up and down, but the combined movement becomes this thing we call a wave.
It's a perceived distortion of time space?
It's perceived as a change in the distortion of spacetime. I'm not sure if we've been able to measure static distortions of spacetime yet (not directly, anyway; we can see gravitational lensing for example, and of course falling is a direct consequence of spacetime distortion).
I'm a mute polyglot, you insensitive clod!
Look at the 7510, then.
at least thats what its hoping its doing
Come ooooon.
without them taking it the wrong way.
Well, if they move when you're trying to do it, accidents will happen.
Uborne Children's Books has put online 15 of its children books from the '80s to learn how to code games.
"Children books"?
The books have been put online so that they (the books) can learn how to code games?
Also it's Usborne, not "Uborne." Yeesh.
Windmill Blade Molds 3D Printed By National Labs
That does sound a lot friendlier than "wind turbine."
LIGO Will Make Gravitational Waves Announcement on Thursday
This is all so sudden! They should have pre-announced this pre-announcement. I mean, officially.
We have known for a while that other animals have regional accents.
That's right. In Europe, cows say "shazoo."
You're an idiot.
I'm not gonna bother googling it, but I'm pretty sure 15 million K is lower (much, much lower) than absolute 0.
You really should've googled it.
It does leave you permanently vulnerable to any flaws in the particular version of the library you linked against, or such is my understanding. At least with dynamic linking you can blame the user for not keeping up to date!
I still static link though because whenever I upload something (using a video filtering plugin) at least one person won't have the right runtime installed at all.
Damn. All those idiots with their engineering degrees wasting their time when they all had to do was listen to Some Guy On The Internet to realise the error of their ways.
Seems to happen a lot round here.
Or, or... you can install uBlock and (with any luck) not see any ads.
It's a tricky one...
An anonymous reader writes with Yahoo's report that the makers of Adblock Plus are "looking to reach out to advertisers and identify an 'acceptable' level and form of advertising on the net."
Isn't this what they've been doing for months? It's how they make their money.
Why would anyone even care about your Skype conversations?
Just because your Skype conversations are inane and intrinsically worthless, doesn't mean everyone else's are.
The technical problems with this are immense
What has Elon Musk done lately where this wasn't the case?
Batteries do not have the energy density of jet fuel.
Good place to start. To the science-a-torium!
C'mon, people. PMA.
Thirty Meter Telescope Likely Never Gets Built ... In Hawaii
Yeesh, what tense is that?
I didn't mean to suggest it wasn't a realistic number, just that "any individual is connected to any other via six network nodes" is a big oversimplification.
Six is not an average but an upper limit.
How is it an upper limit? You can't check the connections between every pair of people on the planet. You can't even do that for 1% of 1% of the entire population. In all likelihood there are pairs of people who have a minimum of 7, 8 or 9 steps between them. 6 may be the mode, but it's highly unlikely to be an upper limit.
Six degrees of separation is the, already well established, idea that any individual is connected to any other via six network nodes.
How is it "well established"? As far as I can see "six degrees" was never meant to be taken as much of a concrete fact; it's more of an allegory for our counter-intuitively connected world. There are still plenty of remote or even completely uncontacted tribes in the world, and those are just the extreme examples. At best, six is a very rough average.
PS My Bacon number is 3.
and a REALLY BIG dust problem.
Is that much of a problem? Doesn't it just stay on the ground?
Indeed, this would only be helpful to someone who could neither type nor speak.
Nor move any part of their body including their eyes.
It seems that writing this way would be very time consuming.
If the alternative is "not communicating at all" I don't think it matters.
Sorry, I only read serif fonts.
It's funny how apologising for a personal preference manages to come off as smug and superior. Is it because you hope that anyone reading about your anti-establishment trend-defying quirks will be incandescent with impotent rage at how much more awesome you are than them, and at how this issue doesn't even affect you?
Sorry, I don't own a TV.
Sorry, I only drink yak's milk.
Sorry, I only wipe my bum with Egyptian cotton.
up to 30,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year.
Enough of this science jibber-jabber. What's that in homes?