Found it; thank you SeanTobin. One gram of antimatter is equivalent to 23 space shuttle fuel tanks, which is apparently equivalent to 0.032 burning Libraries of Congress.
Could I get that in Libraries of Congress per fortnight?
Yes. Yes, you can. Four terabits per second is about 1.2 exabits per fortnight. There are about 10 terabytes, or 80 terabits in the Library of Congress. So do the math, and you get about 16,000 LoC/ftnt.
Anyone else remember the thread in which the thrust generated by the space shuttle's rocket boosters was measured in (burning) Libraries of Congress?
True, his statement was qualified, but the Apple website just simply says that the new MacBook is four times faster. There is no clear context to temper the statement. You have to dig down to get anything resembling an honest statement: Find the little box on the right, read the dark gray text on a black background, see the little footnote indicator—an even darker gray and not hyperlinked to the footnote itself—and then read the paragraph of nearly-black text on a black background. Hasn't Apple been bitten repeatedly in the past for these sorts of misleading statements?
I knew I had looked at NoScript before, but I couldn't remember why I wasn't using it. I installed it again just to see, and now I recall. It's got this list of sites that are permanently whitelisted; a bunch of crap I've never heard of. Very annoying tactic.
Anyway, it turns out you can get around it with a bit of effort. Just open up the directory that the extension lives in, find the file defaults/preferences/noscript.js and the lines that obviously contain domain names. Trim the cruft from the "permanent" setting and the "default" setting. You may need to edit your prefs.js, too; I did things out of order, and so I'm not entirely sure.
Seems to work fine now, and without a bunch of sites that I have no reason to trust.
Fun. The spec details a mechanism for popups during movie playback. Of course there are probably great uses for this--maybe some kind of "Choose Your Own Adventure" action, or possibly something less lame. But this also sounds like a great opportunity for greedy companies to further product placements and such. I picture a "Buy these sunglasses online!" popup every time Neo says "Whoa".
Of course, for a slightly higher price, you'll be able to get a disc with the ads turned off...
I don't know for sure, but I would hope that the MLA standards for online sources dictate that a "date accessed" be appended to the citation. At least with Wikipedia, you can create a link to the exact version that you retrieved information from. Other online sources can easily change without you knowing or having any way to recover the version you cited.
The only inconvenience was having to read CyricZ's worthless post. I'll take a page (like yours) with mildly broken but very legible, maintainable markup over a perfectly valid page with hideous markup anyday. I'll give you one guess which kind has been more common in my experience...;)
Good luck with your work, and don't let the Slashdot trolls get you down!
Though having looked at KeePass, I can't really recommend Password Agent. It looks like KeePass does essentially everything that PA does, only it's free.
Mutt represent! Mutt was my first email client, back when I first started using email in high school in 1994. After getting a job with an internet startup, I was more or less forced into using Outlook. I'm back on mutt now and couldn't be happier. Mutt, postfix, dovecot, maildir, kmail, horde, imp; I can pretty much access my email anywhere through whatever client happens to be most convenient at the time.
My local public radio is still invaluable to me. Granted, you're not going to get the top 40 hits and all that trash, but then... I guess that's not necessarily a bad thing, is it? For that alone, I find it worth having a radio.
If I were in that situation, I sure as hell would not be installing extensions like Greasemonkey. If Microsoft gave you IE without ActiveX, then gave you a plugin for it, would you actually install the plugin?
Thank God! I'm not the only one who wants a "no blogs" option from Google, apparently. Blogs have been creeping into results for a few years now, and it's gotten to the point where some searches are just flooded by blogs linking back and forth to each other.
The problem is that it then can be very difficult to figure out where the information originally came from. For the things I search for (programming references, various science topics, etc.), the primary source is usually not a blog, so I could get by quite well with no blog results in my searches.
If I want commentary on my search results, I can hop over to Blog Search.
Nifty. I hope I'm not the only one here who recognizes that name, though I'm no expert in the field. I've got his and Lindenmayer's (the "L" in L-systems, of course) book The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants. A great read for the mathematician-turned-artist.
I really hope that someone has edited since that message was placed. The indenting is terrible! I can deal with just about any reasonably sane indenting style in any markup or programming language as long as it's applied consistently. This document completely fails that criterion, though it's worlds better than the worst I've seen.
Nice. I've got a set of keys from an identical keyboard that I can try that out on.
My main fear when dealing with keys is that I'm going to break the spring mechanism. I think this keyboard just has some kind of springy rubber layer, though, so maybe that's not an issue (except with the larger keys).
If my typing can wear the symbol decals off of the keyboard, I imagine it can wear off the black paint, too. I'd rather not be getting that all over everything.
I've also heard that sanding off the symbols is more of a pain than you'd expect, at least if you want to do a decent job; something to do with the varying curvature of the keys. I'm sure there was a link that went around about it back when Das Keyboard and the Optimus were actually news, six months ago or so.
You may be interested in Ion. I've been using it for over a year now, though it doesn't get a huge fraction of my desktop time. It discards the notion of overlapping windows and instead just lets you tile the desktop as you please, with windows completely filling those tiles (frames). Each frame is tabbed, so you can basically tab applications that don't offer it built-in.
Most of the navigation among the tabs, frames, and (virtual) desktops is done from the keyboard (I use vim-like bindings), though much of it can also be done with the mouse.
The screenshots, unfortunately, are not too representative (and I can't get fbgrab working properly), but they'll give you a general idea of what Ion can look like.
Whether you over-answered or not, thanks for taking the time to detail all of this information. As someone who has only occasionally dabbled in 3-D art, I'm not very knowledgeable about these sorts of things, and your explanation was excellent. Beautiful render, too, by the way. Best part: the shiny, glowy, "overexposed" bits on right half of the cannon. Very convincing effect!
(P.S.: In case you weren't aware, ferion.net is returning a 403 at the moment.)
I read Slashdot at work (I've got better things to do when I'm not at work;-), where I'm forced to use Windows. My personal machines are a Mac and a Linux / Win2k dual-boot that I use Windows on once every six months or so. I wonder how many/.ers are in a similar situation.
Slashdot Mirror
(Consider it if your mp3s are getting truly huge and your software supports flac...)
Found it; thank you SeanTobin. One gram of antimatter is equivalent to 23 space shuttle fuel tanks, which is apparently equivalent to 0.032 burning Libraries of Congress.
Anyone else remember the thread in which the thrust generated by the space shuttle's rocket boosters was measured in (burning) Libraries of Congress?
True, his statement was qualified, but the Apple website just simply says that the new MacBook is four times faster. There is no clear context to temper the statement. You have to dig down to get anything resembling an honest statement: Find the little box on the right, read the dark gray text on a black background, see the little footnote indicator—an even darker gray and not hyperlinked to the footnote itself—and then read the paragraph of nearly-black text on a black background. Hasn't Apple been bitten repeatedly in the past for these sorts of misleading statements?
Anyway, it turns out you can get around it with a bit of effort. Just open up the directory that the extension lives in, find the file defaults/preferences/noscript.js and the lines that obviously contain domain names. Trim the cruft from the "permanent" setting and the "default" setting. You may need to edit your prefs.js, too; I did things out of order, and so I'm not entirely sure.
Seems to work fine now, and without a bunch of sites that I have no reason to trust.
The idea already has a name, actually. Read about the "God of the gaps".
Of course, for a slightly higher price, you'll be able to get a disc with the ads turned off...
I don't know for sure, but I would hope that the MLA standards for online sources dictate that a "date accessed" be appended to the citation. At least with Wikipedia, you can create a link to the exact version that you retrieved information from. Other online sources can easily change without you knowing or having any way to recover the version you cited.
Good luck with your work, and don't let the Slashdot trolls get you down!
Though having looked at KeePass, I can't really recommend Password Agent. It looks like KeePass does essentially everything that PA does, only it's free.
Yet another Windows recommendation: Password Agent. Does everything I need it to do, as far as I can tell.
Emacs, though? Ick. I'll stick with vim. ;)
My local public radio is still invaluable to me. Granted, you're not going to get the top 40 hits and all that trash, but then... I guess that's not necessarily a bad thing, is it? For that alone, I find it worth having a radio.
If I were in that situation, I sure as hell would not be installing extensions like Greasemonkey. If Microsoft gave you IE without ActiveX, then gave you a plugin for it, would you actually install the plugin?
The problem is that it then can be very difficult to figure out where the information originally came from. For the things I search for (programming references, various science topics, etc.), the primary source is usually not a blog, so I could get by quite well with no blog results in my searches.
If I want commentary on my search results, I can hop over to Blog Search.
Yup, that's the same thing. I got yer neat organic-looking images right here, along with my Java source.
Nifty. I hope I'm not the only one here who recognizes that name, though I'm no expert in the field. I've got his and Lindenmayer's (the "L" in L-systems, of course) book The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants . A great read for the mathematician-turned-artist.
I really hope that someone has edited since that message was placed. The indenting is terrible! I can deal with just about any reasonably sane indenting style in any markup or programming language as long as it's applied consistently. This document completely fails that criterion, though it's worlds better than the worst I've seen.
My main fear when dealing with keys is that I'm going to break the spring mechanism. I think this keyboard just has some kind of springy rubber layer, though, so maybe that's not an issue (except with the larger keys).
I've also heard that sanding off the symbols is more of a pain than you'd expect, at least if you want to do a decent job; something to do with the varying curvature of the keys. I'm sure there was a link that went around about it back when Das Keyboard and the Optimus were actually news, six months ago or so.
Most of the navigation among the tabs, frames, and (virtual) desktops is done from the keyboard (I use vim-like bindings), though much of it can also be done with the mouse.
The screenshots, unfortunately, are not too representative (and I can't get fbgrab working properly), but they'll give you a general idea of what Ion can look like.
(P.S.: In case you weren't aware, ferion.net is returning a 403 at the moment.)
I read Slashdot at work (I've got better things to do when I'm not at work ;-), where I'm forced to use Windows. My personal machines are a Mac and a Linux / Win2k dual-boot that I use Windows on once every six months or so. I wonder how many /.ers are in a similar situation.
Please refer all of your complaints to the second letter of the Greek alphabet.
Err... minor correction: There were also play/pause/stop/fwd/rev buttons. I'm not sure what I was thinking there.