> Don't think for a second that something similar wouldn't happen in the United States or Europe
It already did:
"Two Florida men are in trouble with the law after being arrested last week for agreeing to sell thousands of dollars’ worth of bitcoins to undercover agents."
Assign the colors in the cube numbers from 1 to 6. For conveniences sake we orient the cube so that the side with color 1 is down and whatever color is opposite it is up. Now, any color except 1 could be "up", so that makes 5 different solved states.
I don't know if you've ever played with a Rubik Cube, but the center square of each face is fixed. When you rotate any face, the center of that face remains the center of that face, and only the 8 outside sub-cubes change position.
The color of the face opposite the face with color 1 is constant. There is only one solved cube state, not 30, if you consider rotation in space as not changing the state.
When you twist one of the faces, you're moving 9 of the pieces, but the center one is fixed in place, so that's 8. If you're counting the stickers that move, there are 9 on the face you rotate, and 12 around its outside, making a total of 21, or 20 if again you don't count the center one.
a, b, c, d, e, g, h, i, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, y, ':', '.', '/' and '_' all offer http://youtube.com/subscription_center as the first hit. That seems like a bit of a waste to me.
Only f, j, k, v, w, x and z take me anywhere else.
It used to be that I could type 'g' to get to google, 's' for slashdot, etc, but now almost every letter takes me to youtube.
InstaColl said that it was not infringing copyright because of a legal ruling that concluded that it was not possible to patent the "look and feel" of a computer interface.
Aren't copyright law and patent law two completely different things? The article makes it sound as if the guys who spent millions of dollars developing this thing didn't realise that.
My last laptop died running Ubuntu Feisty. It was 'ticking' every 5 seconds (with the default settings - I didn't edit any/etc/ file, or enable laptop mode). I also mostly ran it off the mains, not the battery.
At one cycle every 5 seconds, the drive will reach its expected limit of 600k cycles in 600000 / (60/5) / 60 / 24 = 34.7 days.
The drive actually lasted for 2 months, but I did switch the laptop off sometimes.
The drive was replaced under the manufacturer's guarantee, and now I've disabled APM using the 'hdparm -B 255' trick, which has stopped the madness.
Also, the text is cut off, in the top navigation, and also in the menus. Seems like you're defining the space available for text in pixels rather than taking the font height into account. Finally, the 'miscellane...' menu is truncated, even though my screen is plenty wide enough for it.
GNU Emacs offers a similar capability. If I edit file.txt, it renames the previous version to file.txt.~337~ then writes a new file.txt. I have it set to keep just the newest 3 old versions, automatically deleting any older versions.
To achieve this, I have the following in ~/.emacs:
(setq delete-old-versions t kept-new-versions 3 version-control t)
I think you've completely missed the point of what was being said:
The Germs. Heh. Haven't listened to them since high school. [...] On a tangent [...] does anyone else find today's breed to pseudo-punk-acting bands just too funny for words?
See? He's not saying The Germs are 'today's breed'. He's acknowledging that they're old, then talking about today's breed "on a tangent".
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> Don't think for a second that something similar wouldn't happen in the United States or Europe
It already did:
"Two Florida men are in trouble with the law after being arrested last week for agreeing to sell thousands of dollars’ worth of bitcoins to undercover agents."
https://www.rt.com/usa/bitcoin...
Because 4 digit personal identification PIN numbers cannot start with a 0, presumably?
People who live in math challenged houses shouldn't throw math challenged accusations.
The hacker runs Firefox with the Firesheep extension, not you.
It doesn't matter what you run, you're still vulnerable if you're sending cookies in the clear.
From TFA:
> [...] SuperSpeed USB, has throughput of up to 5 gigabits per second.
> it would take 14 minutes to transfer 25GB of data over USB 2.0,
> but just four minutes with USB SuperSpeed.
5 gigabits per second
25 gigabits per 5 seconds
25 gigabytes per 5*8 = 40 seconds
no?
Think about the Childs.
If turning the middle layers is allowed, then the middle sides can certainly chance places
Not relative to each other they don't.
The middle squares determine the color of the entire face when the cube is solved, and have fixed positions relative to each other.
The post I was replying to was claiming that there are 30 different solved 3x3x3 cubes modulo rotation, but there's only one really.
Assign the colors in the cube numbers from 1 to 6. For conveniences sake we orient the cube so that the side with color 1 is down and whatever color is opposite it is up. Now, any color except 1 could be "up", so that makes 5 different solved states.
I don't know if you've ever played with a Rubik Cube, but the center square of each face is fixed. When you rotate any face, the center of that face remains the center of that face, and only the 8 outside sub-cubes change position.
The color of the face opposite the face with color 1 is constant. There is only one solved cube state, not 30, if you consider rotation in space as not changing the state.
12? Why 12?
When you twist one of the faces, you're moving 9 of the pieces, but the center one is fixed in place, so that's 8. If you're counting the stickers that move, there are 9 on the face you rotate, and 12 around its outside, making a total of 21, or 20 if again you don't count the center one.
But 12?
a, b, c, d, e, g, h, i, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, y, ':', '.', '/' and '_' all offer http://youtube.com/subscription_center as the first hit. That seems like a bit of a waste to me.
Only f, j, k, v, w, x and z take me anywhere else.
It used to be that I could type 'g' to get to google, 's' for slashdot, etc, but now almost every letter takes me to youtube.
In Firefox 3, ff is "Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters".
The new bar is really very useful once you get used to it.
> Can't they just save their contacts in a file
No, I don't think the client offers that feature.
InstaColl said that it was not infringing copyright because of a legal ruling that concluded that it was not possible to patent the "look and feel" of a computer interface.
Aren't copyright law and patent law two completely different things? The article makes it sound as if the guys who spent millions of dollars developing this thing didn't realise that.
Looks like they did produce things, but couldn't compete:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2001_Feb_19/ai_70701155
Also, search e-bay for "wi-lan" - there are a couple of big ugly wi-lan boxes currently being auctioned.
My last laptop died running Ubuntu Feisty. It was 'ticking' every 5 seconds (with the default settings - I didn't edit any /etc/ file, or enable laptop mode). I also mostly ran it off the mains, not the battery.
At one cycle every 5 seconds, the drive will reach its expected limit of 600k cycles in
600000 / (60/5) / 60 / 24 = 34.7 days.
The drive actually lasted for 2 months, but I did switch the laptop off sometimes.
The drive was replaced under the manufacturer's guarantee, and now I've disabled APM using the 'hdparm -B 255' trick, which has stopped the madness.
Someone moderated this as 'troll' for describing his experience? My experience is exactly the same.
I too see the textarea partially hidden.
Also, the text is cut off, in the top navigation, and also in the menus. Seems like you're defining the space available for text in pixels rather than taking the font height into account. Finally, the 'miscellane...' menu is truncated, even though my screen is plenty wide enough for it.
Here's a screenshot:
http://dooglus.rincevent.net/random/yale.png
Do any modern OSes come with a decent text editor by default?
In Windows, all I get is notepad, right?
I recently installed Ubuntu 7.04, which came with gedit as the default editor. That's not much more capable than notepad.
GNU Emacs offers a similar capability. If I edit file.txt, it renames the previous version to file.txt.~337~ then writes a new file.txt. I have it set to keep just the newest 3 old versions, automatically deleting any older versions.
To achieve this, I have the following in ~/.emacs:
(setq delete-old-versions t kept-new-versions 3 version-control t)
The guy I replied to was asking what those 2 numbers were, so I replied, telling him.
(I think he may have meant "I give up", not "I give", but maybe "I give" means something in some version of English I'm unaware of).
I realise the answer is pretty obvious, but he didn't know it, so I tried helping.
What's your point?
You missed the "c56356" bit.
They are the same number, only in base 10 and base 2 respectively.
"Punks Not Dead" - but the apostrophe is on its last leg's
I think you've completely missed the point of what was being said:
The Germs. Heh. Haven't listened to them since high school. [...]
On a tangent [...] does anyone else find today's breed to pseudo-punk-acting bands just too funny for words?
See? He's not saying The Germs are 'today's breed'. He's acknowledging that they're old, then talking about today's breed "on a tangent".
we need to be strapped to chairs and have our eyes forced open to watch Big Brother ala 1984
Aren't you getting mixed up with Clockwork Orange?
Try to keep up. It was claimed the Maps shows pre-flood pictures and Earth shows post-flood. The GP is saying that Earth is also pre-flood.