This makes me wonder why my Swedish friend, also called Linus, has never complained about everyone calling him L-eye-nus. Is there a difference between Finnish-Swedish and Swedish pronounciation?
The mantra of most of the media these days is basically "maximum sales, minimum effort". Researching the facts, using statistics correctly - these take effort and don't sell papers/advertising time. So instead, grossly over-simplify the argument, chuck in some spurious statistics and come up with an inflammatory headline that completely misrepresents the story. Maximum sales, minimum effort.
Yes, all plants (nuclear, chemical etc) have "level 0" safety devices - purely mechanical, as few moving parts as possible. Things like bursting discs in pressurised vessels, leading to a dump tank. If pressure gets too high, the first thing to fail is the bursting disc, and all the contents is vented to some very large (probably underground) tank.
So every control level on top of the bottom layer can fail in the worst possible way and level 0 will cause a safe failure. Well, that's the idea anyway.
Precisely - especially as the 'lockup' problem that requires a bang to fix is supposedly caused by the head sticking to the surface of the disk, which will knacker the disk in no time. He's only had the thing a few months and it's had one serious hardware problem already. Who the hell cares about the unit's features if it can't even work for that long reliably?
I've noticed that too. I think it's a factor of the large changes per frame caused by the rapid moving lights requiring too much bandwidth. A better aerial or happening to live near a transmitter should improve things, I don't think it's a fundamental flaw.
I've got a digital terrestrial box and the picture quality is generally worse than the equivalent analogue signal. Apparently, I'm on the edge of the reception area - this is Cambridge, only 60 odd miles from London.
It's fine for most things, but fast moving or detailed pictures (eg. a close up of a fountain) look pretty blocky.
I wasn't suggesting any jealousy at all, just trying to formulate a reason why (AFAIK) HDTV is so much bigger deal in the US than here. I'd love to get HDTV over here.
Yes, it would be nice to get the higher resolution. I can't say I've heard anything at all about it here (UK) outside of US-based websites. My guess at the reason was that PAL resolution is just about good enough for most people, whereas NTSC is just the other side of the acceptability threshold. That, and the fact that American TVs are bigger than most British houses;).
OK, I'm doing PhD research in (basically) Manufacturing Planning and that website has me confused.
It looks like some sort of all-in-one supply chain management system using a (very vague) constraint-based solver to generate production orders and delivery schedules direct from customer orders.
So you add put in all the information about your resources (staff, production lines etc), costs (raw materials, wages etc). Then customers order products from the website and the system automatically spits out what you should do with your resources and how to get the products to the customer.
Why can no one just explain what they do in plain english any more? If it is what I think it is, it's actually quite similar to some research going on in my department and is quite a powerful tool.
A lot of GNOME's problems seem to be caused by GTK. For example, I was looking through bugzilla.gnome.org and came across the fact that GTKTextView (the standard text widget) redraws the entire line of text the cursor is on *for every cursor movement*! Redrawing for every character you insert would be bad enough, but why would anyone possibly want to do it on cursor movement?
Gnome-terminal is painfully slow for me too, and using the scrollbars causes the text to corrupt. I love the GNOME desktop, but it needs some serious efficiency fixes. Maybe I should go help out if I can bear to write in pure C for a bit.
I learn something new every day. Everything I've read has always made Slackware and Patrick synonomous - I didn't realise there were three employees. Still, three full-time staff is hardly an army.
AFAICS, online gaming trains most people to be complete f***tards. In BF1942 it's enough to make me give up - every server seems full of Tkers, plane-campers, cheats, sniper-tards, non-team-players, base-rapers and stats-whores. When you see someone with a 42:1 kill:death put three tank rounds in a row into a panzer *he can't even see* because there's a wall in the way at long range in one game, and then next server have your team of 9 snipers + me overwhelmed by tanks, you start to get a annoyed.
1) Yes - only BBC 1,2,3,4,News 24,CBeebies,CBBC,Parliament,Radio 1,2,3,4,5 and a myriad of local stations are paid for by the licence fee, the rest are commercial. 2) Yes 3) You get the BBC channels on cable, but the licence fee is for owning a TV, not receiving the broadcasts, so the owner of the TV pays, not the companies 4) No 5) No (AFAIK)
I too remember the pain of using old Via motherboards (MVP3's were horrible). But they've come a long way and the reliability (and performance) of their modern stuff is much better.
I always thought that Id 'wasted' their development time on Linux versions because they wanted to get the Linux users playing their games. Linux users are likely to be either server admins who will set up decent multiplayer servers, improving the online game for the Windows gamers or programmers who are more likely to contribute to the mod scene.
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I think the problem is you missed a step:
month 0 : make large donation to Republican party campaign fund
and therefore your plan was doomed to never be accepted.
Quiet! If you say his name three times he'll appear and start flaming.
This makes me wonder why my Swedish friend, also called Linus, has never complained about everyone calling him L-eye-nus. Is there a difference between Finnish-Swedish and Swedish pronounciation?
The mantra of most of the media these days is basically "maximum sales, minimum effort". Researching the facts, using statistics correctly - these take effort and don't sell papers/advertising time.
So instead, grossly over-simplify the argument, chuck in some spurious statistics and come up with an inflammatory headline that completely misrepresents the story. Maximum sales, minimum effort.
Yes, all plants (nuclear, chemical etc) have "level 0" safety devices - purely mechanical, as few moving parts as possible. Things like bursting discs in pressurised vessels, leading to a dump tank. If pressure gets too high, the first thing to fail is the bursting disc, and all the contents is vented to some very large (probably underground) tank.
So every control level on top of the bottom layer can fail in the worst possible way and level 0 will cause a safe failure. Well, that's the idea anyway.
Precisely - especially as the 'lockup' problem that requires a bang to fix is supposedly caused by the head sticking to the surface of the disk, which will knacker the disk in no time.
He's only had the thing a few months and it's had one serious hardware problem already. Who the hell cares about the unit's features if it can't even work for that long reliably?
I've noticed that too. I think it's a factor of the large changes per frame caused by the rapid moving lights requiring too much bandwidth. A better aerial or happening to live near a transmitter should improve things, I don't think it's a fundamental flaw.
I've got a digital terrestrial box and the picture quality is generally worse than the equivalent analogue signal. Apparently, I'm on the edge of the reception area - this is Cambridge, only 60 odd miles from London.
It's fine for most things, but fast moving or detailed pictures (eg. a close up of a fountain) look pretty blocky.
I wasn't suggesting any jealousy at all, just trying to formulate a reason why (AFAIK) HDTV is so much bigger deal in the US than here. I'd love to get HDTV over here.
Most terrestrial analogue TV in the UK is 14:9 now, I think. Kind of a compromise for the 16:9 and 4:3 TVs. The small black bars are kind of annoying.
Yes, it would be nice to get the higher resolution. I can't say I've heard anything at all about it here (UK) outside of US-based websites. ;).
My guess at the reason was that PAL resolution is just about good enough for most people, whereas NTSC is just the other side of the acceptability threshold. That, and the fact that American TVs are bigger than most British houses
It's effectively just higher resolution TV.
I think there's more of a drive for it in the US because their standard TV broadcast is slightly lower resolution than the PAL standard in Europe.
OK, I'm doing PhD research in (basically) Manufacturing Planning and that website has me confused.
It looks like some sort of all-in-one supply chain management system using a (very vague) constraint-based solver to generate production orders and delivery schedules direct from customer orders.
So you add put in all the information about your resources (staff, production lines etc), costs (raw materials, wages etc). Then customers order products from the website and the system automatically spits out what you should do with your resources and how to get the products to the customer.
Why can no one just explain what they do in plain english any more? If it is what I think it is, it's actually quite similar to some research going on in my department and is quite a powerful tool.
Journalism? On Slashdot? The editors seem barely able to string coherent sentences together, let alone check facts.
A lot of GNOME's problems seem to be caused by GTK. For example, I was looking through bugzilla.gnome.org and came across the fact that GTKTextView (the standard text widget) redraws the entire line of text the cursor is on *for every cursor movement*! Redrawing for every character you insert would be bad enough, but why would anyone possibly want to do it on cursor movement?
Gnome-terminal is painfully slow for me too, and using the scrollbars causes the text to corrupt. I love the GNOME desktop, but it needs some serious efficiency fixes. Maybe I should go help out if I can bear to write in pure C for a bit.
I learn something new every day. Everything I've read has always made Slackware and Patrick synonomous - I didn't realise there were three employees. Still, three full-time staff is hardly an army.
especially as Slack is basically a one-man distro. I'd rather have one good desktop than two buggy ones.
AFAICS, online gaming trains most people to be complete f***tards. In BF1942 it's enough to make me give up - every server seems full of Tkers, plane-campers, cheats, sniper-tards, non-team-players, base-rapers and stats-whores.
When you see someone with a 42:1 kill:death put three tank rounds in a row into a panzer *he can't even see* because there's a wall in the way at long range in one game, and then next server have your team of 9 snipers + me overwhelmed by tanks, you start to get a annoyed.
1) Yes - only BBC 1,2,3,4,News 24,CBeebies,CBBC,Parliament,Radio 1,2,3,4,5 and a myriad of local stations are paid for by the licence fee, the rest are commercial.
2) Yes
3) You get the BBC channels on cable, but the licence fee is for owning a TV, not receiving the broadcasts, so the owner of the TV pays, not the companies
4) No
5) No (AFAIK)
Not sure about the rest.
For you, Tommy, ze free ride is over.
The American 'aesthetic' sense rears its ugly head again.
I'm guessing page 3 was a little too far for people to read, so I'll copy it here:
A steel frame absorbs front-end impact - no cockpit crumple. Get hit head-on, and the car collapses behind the doors near the back wheels.So there is a crumple zone, it's just behind you
IIRC, the Kasbar does that on KDE - add it as a panel.
I too remember the pain of using old Via motherboards (MVP3's were horrible). But they've come a long way and the reliability (and performance) of their modern stuff is much better.
I always thought that Id 'wasted' their development time on Linux versions because they wanted to get the Linux users playing their games. Linux users are likely to be either server admins who will set up decent multiplayer servers, improving the online game for the Windows gamers or programmers who are more likely to contribute to the mod scene.