What I want to know is: Who is behind the mysterious "Viewers Like You" corporation, what do they manufacture, and why do they feel the need to sponsor almost every single PBS show?
Actually the OP was correct. Dell has figured out how to squeeze even more space out of a building by folding the cubicle into the extra spacial dimensions postulated by string theory.
The part I always find amazing is that it sends the data from that distance on a 23-watt radio transmitter.
I've taken electrical engineering classes on this topic, and I understand how it's done, but I still find mind boggling that we can decode information sent with the power equivalent of a dim light bulb from well beyond the orbit of Pluto.
Or are you saying that everybody who ever sold a product to a government is morally identical to that government creating that product itself?
No, I was just pointing out that this situation is not going to be the rugged individualist libertarian space utopia that the AC was fantasizing about.
First and foremost, SpaceX achieved its funding through voluntary means, quite the opposite from how governments achieve their funding.
That's right: Investors voluntarily invest their money in SpaceX. But they do it mainly based on the expectation that SpaceX will win fat government contracts, so they can repay these same investors with a larger amount of money involuntarily extracted from the taxpayers.
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Even with the proper USB HID driver, USB is still limited to 6 keypresses at once, while PS/2 will handle as many keys as you can press.
Judging from the issues you're having, I'm guessing that you must be a house cat.
Now, please, give me the list of "common mistakes" made by surgeons and aircraft engineers, and compare them with this list of amateurish crap.
If you don't understand the fundamental differences between working with software and working with physical objects, then you must not be much of a software developer.
Here's one small example: A surgeon does the same thing over and over. If your boss came in every morning and told you to rewrite the same quicksort routine every single day, then you probably wouldn't make many mistakes either.
So, how long will this dream last after the first lawsuit to protect some insect local to the area to be covered by solar panels?
It would be kind of hard to argue that the Sahara is an environmentally sensitive area since much of that region wasn't even a desert 10,000 years ago.
This implies that striclty speaking each molecule has been dissociated and recombined with different oxygen and hydrogen atoms.
Actually, liquid water is a constantly changing mixture of H20 molecules, H+ ions and H3O- ions. The hydrogen atoms are continuously shifting between different molecules and ions, in proportions depending on the pH of the sample. No particular group of atoms in liquid water stays together for very long.
Antibacterial soap does not contain antibiotics. It contains simpler chemicals (alcohol, etc) which kill cells on contact.
Alcohol is usually found in hand sanitizers, not soap. Antibacterial soap usually contains triclosan, which is similar to antibiotics in that it gradually interferes with a part of bacterial metabolism that humans don't have. It prevents bacterial growth over time, but doesn't kill instantly. As with antibiotics, some bacteria have evolved resistance to triclosan due to constant exposure.
Hand sanitizers are mostly alcohol, which is immediately highly disruptive of many biological processes. Since it evaporates away after use, long term chronic exposure shouldn't be a problem. At any rate, if alcohol could breed dangerous resistance, then the Jack Daniels distillery would have been ground zero for superbug outbreaks decades ago.
I personally find it highly annoying that almost all liquid hand soaps on the market contain triclosan. (So much for the "wisdom" of free markets. The potential problems with triclosan, and its lack of effectiveness in preventing disease have been common knowledge for many years now.) We go out of our way to only buy Ivory, which is the one brand that seems to not include triclosan (or any annoying scents either), but it's not always easy to find.
There's nothing "special" or evil about the windows registry.
IMO, the stupid thing about the registry is that they made up a bizarre byzantine custom API for it, when it could have been done with the familiar POSIX file API, like the/proc filesystem in Linux. (Having to call atoi() on a retrieved data value is not going to noticeably slow down your app relative to the overall system call overhead.)
It didn't help that the whole thing tended go corrupt and die back in the early days. It's never really shaken that initial reputation.
I personally put more stock in the opinion of one of the main developers of the original system
It seems to me that the original Unix developers would have a vested interest in trying to define the scope of their output in the most expansive terms imaginable, so as to burnish their legacy. So I'd take any such statements with a grain of salt.
On the other side of the coin, the GNU and Linux developers have a vested interest in saying that Linux is *not* Unix.
The truth is more complicated, and I don't think that either of the assertions "Linix is Unix" or "Linux is not Unix" are true. It's best just to avoid making either statement.
The main factor here is probably that unfortunately for buffalo, they are ugly stinky animals. If instead he had killed cute cuddly puppies or pandas, or sleek mustangs, I bet they would have thrown the book at him.
CDE will always mean Common Desktop Environment to me.
I only used CDE briefly, but I remember that it was like a combination of the sheer visual elegance of Tk's widgets with lush the color scheme of a bordello.
Probably because then they'd have to fully document the features and test them thoroughly on each new chip, which would likely cost them quite a bit more than developing the features in the first place.
They would also be saddled with supporting backwards compatibility in future chips, since it becomes hard to remove publicly-accessible features in a CPU once they've been added.
Cue the "Performance in browsers isn't just about Javascript!" comments.
Here's an example: I switched from Firefox to Chromium last year, but not because of Javascript performance. I did it because Firefox had a nasty habit of doing a bunch of housecleaning when it shut down (I don't know, but I assume it was doing huge updates on an internal SQL database or something like that.) That could cause it to lock up for many seconds after I hit the close button; sometimes the window manager would pop up a dialog asking me if I wanted to terminate the unresponsive app.
That behavior was infuriating, and Chromium always closes immediately. It was nice that Chromium has snappier page rendering, but it's not such a huge difference that it's totally compelling. If Firefox has addressed the shutdown issue in recent versions, I'd consider going back because the Chromium UI is so "stripped down" that they lack a few handy features that Firefox had.
The internet changed AOL so much that it became unrecognizable as that company that used to clog mailboxes with 3.5" floppies and CDs with their software.
AOL became a useless company once they switched from sending out free reusable floppies to non-useful CD coasters. If they want to make themselves useful again in the 21st century, they need to get back to their roots and start mass mailing something we can use. Maybe free smartphones or something.
Windows 1.0 was a complete joke - it didn't even support overlapping windows. Even Windows 2.0 in 1987 was pretty bad. About the only thing worth getting it for was the new Word-for-Windows, a WYSIWYG upgrade to Word 6.
Windows only became truly useful once the Windows/386 variant of Windows 2.1 came out. I hardly ever used the GUI part of it, but its support for multiple virtual DOS sessions with built-in EMS was a great feature at the time. The early Windows GUI apps were generally a joke. I used mostly DOS apps in virtual consoles until Windows95 came out.
That's good to hear. All I care about is one thing: does "ssh -X" work correctly and transparently out of the box with all included apps. If so, no problem. If not, I'll switch distros.
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What I want to know is: Who is behind the mysterious "Viewers Like You" corporation, what do they manufacture, and why do they feel the need to sponsor almost every single PBS show?
Actually the OP was correct. Dell has figured out how to squeeze even more space out of a building by folding the cubicle into the extra spacial dimensions postulated by string theory.
I doubt that even the expensive Voyager would last through a single season of salt spray and potholes.
The part I always find amazing is that it sends the data from that distance on a 23-watt radio transmitter.
I've taken electrical engineering classes on this topic, and I understand how it's done, but I still find mind boggling that we can decode information sent with the power equivalent of a dim light bulb from well beyond the orbit of Pluto.
Or are you saying that everybody who ever sold a product to a government is morally identical to that government creating that product itself?
No, I was just pointing out that this situation is not going to be the rugged individualist libertarian space utopia that the AC was fantasizing about.
First and foremost, SpaceX achieved its funding through voluntary means, quite the opposite from how governments achieve their funding.
That's right: Investors voluntarily invest their money in SpaceX. But they do it mainly based on the expectation that SpaceX will win fat government contracts, so they can repay these same investors with a larger amount of money involuntarily extracted from the taxpayers.
Even with the proper USB HID driver, USB is still limited to 6 keypresses at once, while PS/2 will handle as many keys as you can press.
Judging from the issues you're having, I'm guessing that you must be a house cat.
Well gee, It must be easy for you to not to make mistakes when you program your little toy programs embedded in your little sandbox devices.
Now why don't you generalize some more of your limited experiences as if they somehow applied to the whole wide world?
Now, please, give me the list of "common mistakes" made by surgeons and aircraft engineers, and compare them with this list of amateurish crap.
If you don't understand the fundamental differences between working with software and working with physical objects, then you must not be much of a software developer.
Here's one small example: A surgeon does the same thing over and over. If your boss came in every morning and told you to rewrite the same quicksort routine every single day, then you probably wouldn't make many mistakes either.
So, how long will this dream last after the first lawsuit to protect some insect local to the area to be covered by solar panels?
It would be kind of hard to argue that the Sahara is an environmentally sensitive area since much of that region wasn't even a desert 10,000 years ago.
That, or bring out your theoretical 0 ohm wire.
You should at least read the article summary at the top of this page. (Hint: the wire *is* 0 ohms.)
Read the sentence I quoted again.
This implies that striclty speaking each molecule has been dissociated
and recombined with different oxygen and hydrogen atoms.
Actually, liquid water is a constantly changing mixture of H20 molecules, H+ ions and H3O- ions. The hydrogen atoms are continuously shifting between different molecules and ions, in proportions depending on the pH of the sample. No particular group of atoms in liquid water stays together for very long.
Antibacterial soap does not contain antibiotics. It contains simpler chemicals (alcohol, etc) which kill cells on contact.
Alcohol is usually found in hand sanitizers, not soap. Antibacterial soap usually contains triclosan, which is similar to antibiotics in that it gradually interferes with a part of bacterial metabolism that humans don't have. It prevents bacterial growth over time, but doesn't kill instantly. As with antibiotics, some bacteria have evolved resistance to triclosan due to constant exposure.
Hand sanitizers are mostly alcohol, which is immediately highly disruptive of many biological processes. Since it evaporates away after use, long term chronic exposure shouldn't be a problem. At any rate, if alcohol could breed dangerous resistance, then the Jack Daniels distillery would have been ground zero for superbug outbreaks decades ago.
I personally find it highly annoying that almost all liquid hand soaps on the market contain triclosan. (So much for the "wisdom" of free markets. The potential problems with triclosan, and its lack of effectiveness in preventing disease have been common knowledge for many years now.) We go out of our way to only buy Ivory, which is the one brand that seems to not include triclosan (or any annoying scents either), but it's not always easy to find.
There's nothing "special" or evil about the windows registry.
IMO, the stupid thing about the registry is that they made up a bizarre byzantine custom API for it, when it could have been done with the familiar POSIX file API, like the /proc filesystem in Linux. (Having to call atoi() on a retrieved data value is not going to noticeably slow down your app relative to the overall system call overhead.)
It didn't help that the whole thing tended go corrupt and die back in the early days. It's never really shaken that initial reputation.
I personally put more stock in the opinion of one of the main developers of the original system
It seems to me that the original Unix developers would have a vested interest in trying to define the scope of their output in the most expansive terms imaginable, so as to burnish their legacy. So I'd take any such statements with a grain of salt.
On the other side of the coin, the GNU and Linux developers have a vested interest in saying that Linux is *not* Unix.
The truth is more complicated, and I don't think that either of the assertions "Linix is Unix" or "Linux is not Unix" are true. It's best just to avoid making either statement.
Think about it: Novell hold the copyrights and trademarks to UNIX. They would make for a nice addition to Microsoft's portfolio, don't you think?
It's hard to see how that wouldn't stir up a hornet's nest of antitrust issues.
The main factor here is probably that unfortunately for buffalo, they are ugly stinky animals. If instead he had killed cute cuddly puppies or pandas, or sleek mustangs, I bet they would have thrown the book at him.
CDE will always mean Common Desktop Environment to me.
I only used CDE briefly, but I remember that it was like a combination of the sheer visual elegance of Tk's widgets with lush the color scheme of a bordello.
don't they reveal this to the users?
Probably because then they'd have to fully document the features and test them thoroughly on each new chip, which would likely cost them quite a bit more than developing the features in the first place.
They would also be saddled with supporting backwards compatibility in future chips, since it becomes hard to remove publicly-accessible features in a CPU once they've been added.
Cue the "Performance in browsers isn't just about Javascript!" comments.
Here's an example: I switched from Firefox to Chromium last year, but not because of Javascript performance. I did it because Firefox had a nasty habit of doing a bunch of housecleaning when it shut down (I don't know, but I assume it was doing huge updates on an internal SQL database or something like that.) That could cause it to lock up for many seconds after I hit the close button; sometimes the window manager would pop up a dialog asking me if I wanted to terminate the unresponsive app.
That behavior was infuriating, and Chromium always closes immediately. It was nice that Chromium has snappier page rendering, but it's not such a huge difference that it's totally compelling. If Firefox has addressed the shutdown issue in recent versions, I'd consider going back because the Chromium UI is so "stripped down" that they lack a few handy features that Firefox had.
"It's a solid propellant missile," he told the Times. "You can tell from the efflux [smoke]."
So this raises the question: Who attached a solid rocket booster to US Airways flight 808, and more ominously, why?
The internet changed AOL so much that it became unrecognizable as that company that used to clog mailboxes with 3.5" floppies and CDs with their software.
AOL became a useless company once they switched from sending out free reusable floppies to non-useful CD coasters. If they want to make themselves useful again in the 21st century, they need to get back to their roots and start mass mailing something we can use. Maybe free smartphones or something.
Windows 1.0 was a complete joke - it didn't even support overlapping windows. Even Windows 2.0 in 1987 was pretty bad. About the only thing worth getting it for was the new Word-for-Windows, a WYSIWYG upgrade to Word 6.
Windows only became truly useful once the Windows/386 variant of Windows 2.1 came out. I hardly ever used the GUI part of it, but its support for multiple virtual DOS sessions with built-in EMS was a great feature at the time. The early Windows GUI apps were generally a joke. I used mostly DOS apps in virtual consoles until Windows95 came out.
That's good to hear. All I care about is one thing: does "ssh -X" work correctly and transparently out of the box with all included apps. If so, no problem. If not, I'll switch distros.