It's right up there in the "damn this world sucks" department, although not quite as depressing as the first time I read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy straight through. That may have been sleep deprivation, though, but the effect was that in the beginning everything was a stroll through the Shire even when the Ringwraiths were after the hobbits and by the end it was gloom and doom and depression even when Aragorn was being crowned. Impressive effect.
I think the last system I saw with CDE on it was a Sun desktop about ten years ago. Since the same machine also had KDE installed, I CDE might have been removed at some point and I wouldn't have known.
The IT crew at work insist that IE is the only browser they support. Except, of course, when their own official sites don't work with it. Then they point users at Chrome. Which doesn't work with other of their sites, not to mention doing a bad job of rendering XHTML content uploaded by users. Not enough Safari users to say, FWIW.
Meanwhile, FF renders them all reliably. IT can suck LN2.
90 degrees with 70-80% humidity is way worse than 100 degrees and 10-20% humidity, champ.
90F and 80% RH is a dew point of 84F. Not many places in North America where that happens, or we'd be seeing a lot more fog in the evenings when the temperature dropped below that 90F peak.
Meanwhile, 110F and a dew point of 72F (like we had here last week) is 30% humidity. Sounds dry, but only because 110F air can hold a LOT of water. At 90F that same dew point is 55% and nothing much evaporates. Including, most importantly, sweat.
As I post this, St. Louis Misery has 103F with a dew point of 68F, a nice dry RH of 33%. Somehow I don't think they feel "dry."
If you say so. However, I've lived in Maricopa County for 60 years, grew up with swamp coolers, and have one now in addition to the AC.
And the fool things, for all their virtues, don't work when the dew point is 70F like it was recently. For that matter, they're pretty wretched when the dew point is 55F, which it generally is from the beginning of June until well into September.
And as one native to another, can you really see this happening? I mean, seriously: attempting to replace Standford with ASU? Getting people to choose Maricopa over the Bay Area? GMAFB.
Sky Harbor (Phoenix airport) doesn't use asphalt runways for precisely this reason: archaeologists would be digging the bones of widebodied aircraft out of the tarpit centuries from now.
FWIW, the record temperature at Sky Harbor was 50C. They had to shut down the airport until it cooled off because the standard tables for flap settings didn't go that high. Now they do.
You can read more at Starts With A Bang, but the bullet cluster galaxy collision is a good demonstration: the electronic matter of the two galaxies is slowed by the collision, and the dark matter of the two keeps on keeping on. If the dark matter could lose energy in a collision the two dark masses would not continue unaffected.
... is the observations that dark matter not only doesn't interrupt with electronic matter (except gravitationally) but also doesn't interact with itself.
... that's the end of the standards. They'll have to go back to JC-42 and JC-45 to be redone.
JEDEC has been down this road before and I'll be astonished if they make an exception in this case. And, yes, I know JC-42 and JC-45. I spent years on them.
If they're drafted by private parties and then copyright transferred to the US Gov't, Uncle Sam can hold the copyright.
Since the majority of bills are drafted by lobbyists, there's nothing in principle stopping Congress from blocking distribution on the grounds of protecting the copyright on the original special-interest draft and any derivative works.
I am pretty sure that the majority of people on slashdot agree that being able to better understand how the various bills being considered by Congress interact would be good for this country.
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It's right up there in the "damn this world sucks" department, although not quite as depressing as the first time I read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy straight through. That may have been sleep deprivation, though, but the effect was that in the beginning everything was a stroll through the Shire even when the Ringwraiths were after the hobbits and by the end it was gloom and doom and depression even when Aragorn was being crowned. Impressive effect.
I think the last system I saw with CDE on it was a Sun desktop about ten years ago. Since the same machine also had KDE installed, I CDE might have been removed at some point and I wouldn't have known.
Firefox, IE<whatever>, Chrome, Konqueror ...
The IT crew at work insist that IE is the only browser they support. Except, of course, when their own official sites don't work with it. Then they point users at Chrome. Which doesn't work with other of their sites, not to mention doing a bad job of rendering XHTML content uploaded by users. Not enough Safari users to say, FWIW.
Meanwhile, FF renders them all reliably. IT can suck LN2.
I don't get it. Restart Firefox every few hours?
I run mine for weeks at a stretch with seven or eight windows each with a bunch of tabs. Currently using about 840 MB.
I have my complaints (the idiot release cycle being high on the list) but memory hogging isn't anywhere near the top.
Where the heck do you live?
"The Valley" he refers to is "Silicon Valley," not "the Valley of the Sun."
Then you have unfriendly weather climates (hello 120+ degrees).
Now, now. We only hit 50C once, although 115F comes around about once a year on average.
90 degrees with 70-80% humidity is way worse than 100 degrees and 10-20% humidity, champ.
90F and 80% RH is a dew point of 84F. Not many places in North America where that happens, or we'd be seeing a lot more fog in the evenings when the temperature dropped below that 90F peak.
Meanwhile, 110F and a dew point of 72F (like we had here last week) is 30% humidity. Sounds dry, but only because 110F air can hold a LOT of water. At 90F that same dew point is 55% and nothing much evaporates. Including, most importantly, sweat.
As I post this, St. Louis Misery has 103F with a dew point of 68F, a nice dry RH of 33%. Somehow I don't think they feel "dry."
If you say so. However, I've lived in Maricopa County for 60 years, grew up with swamp coolers, and have one now in addition to the AC.
And the fool things, for all their virtues, don't work when the dew point is 70F like it was recently. For that matter, they're pretty wretched when the dew point is 55F, which it generally is from the beginning of June until well into September.
I don't call a dew point of 70F "mostly dry." If you can't use an evaporative cooler, it's not humid, it's freaking soggy.
Well, you and this old white guy Arizona native.
And as one native to another, can you really see this happening? I mean, seriously: attempting to replace Standford with ASU? Getting people to choose Maricopa over the Bay Area? GMAFB.
Well, it's the fifth-largest city in the USA. Apparently, someone has not only been there but is still there.
That's about when I'll be building a house from scratch.
The original Interstate system was also concrete-paved.
FSVO "original." Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Tucson was asphalt in the late 60s, and that was original material.
Sky Harbor (Phoenix airport) doesn't use asphalt runways for precisely this reason: archaeologists would be digging the bones of widebodied aircraft out of the tarpit centuries from now.
FWIW, the record temperature at Sky Harbor was 50C. They had to shut down the airport until it cooled off because the standard tables for flap settings didn't go that high. Now they do.
We're having 114F in Phoenix today, peeps. It's routine this time of year.
Having aircraft sink into the pavement is no surprise when you're used to feeling the stuff squish under your shoes.
Care to cite a source to that effect?
You can read more at Starts With A Bang, but the bullet cluster galaxy collision is a good demonstration: the electronic matter of the two galaxies is slowed by the collision, and the dark matter of the two keeps on keeping on. If the dark matter could lose energy in a collision the two dark masses would not continue unaffected.
... is the observations that dark matter not only doesn't interrupt with electronic matter (except gravitationally) but also doesn't interact with itself.
As Steve Ballmer has taught us, hardware will be free and only software will cost money.
That helps clear up the mystery of why MSFT raised the price of RT for OEMs.
... that's the end of the standards. They'll have to go back to JC-42 and JC-45 to be redone.
JEDEC has been down this road before and I'll be astonished if they make an exception in this case. And, yes, I know JC-42 and JC-45. I spent years on them.
perhaps allowing them to one day be as common in labs as electron microscopes are.
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And back in my day, electron microscopes were big-ticket gear that only a few big labs could afford.
Now, get off of my lawn!
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I bet if people drink lots of Coca Cola everyday the odds of them getting Alzheimer's go way down. The higher the dose the stronger the effect.
Even reduces the odds of dying of cancer.
Not to mention reducing the odds of death from auto collision, gunshot, malaria, HIV, ...
If they're drafted by private parties and then copyright transferred to the US Gov't, Uncle Sam can hold the copyright.
Since the majority of bills are drafted by lobbyists, there's nothing in principle stopping Congress from blocking distribution on the grounds of protecting the copyright on the original special-interest draft and any derivative works.
I am pretty sure that the majority of people on slashdot agree that being able to better understand how the various bills being considered by Congress interact would be good for this country.
And that explains why it must be prevented.