I neither love nor hate Firefox these days. For me it just has become somewhat irrelevant in the past years. Sure Firefox/Mozilla was instrumental in ending the dominance of Internet Explorer, but somewhere along the path it just ceased in general to have momentum of being awesome.
For me it was somewhere around Firefox 3.5-3.6 I stopped using Firefox as my main browser. I got fed of the entire browser freezing with multiple tabs open just because one of the tabs had content that started acting up, usually some heavy Javascript or Flash. So I tried out Chrome and really liked it, even though at the time there wasn't any ad blocking extension available for it.
And here I thought that from what I've heard so far that Earth had possibly some dust or at most some gravel at its L4 and L5 points. This discovery of a sizable asteroid there makes the Earth's L4/L5 points much more interesting. Hopefully there is even more to be found!
Either give all efficiency measurements in joules/meter (or foot-pound force/mile or megajoules/kilometer or something), or separate the figures for when the vehicle is running on pure electricity (J/m would work for that) and when the vehicle is running exclusively with the fuel-consumpting engine (traditional MPG or liter/100km would work, or maybe J/m for this too).
Jumbling it all into a single quasi-MPG is just smoke and mirrors to make the figures look good.
I just store anything saveworthy on the server at home. That way the "client" computers (my main "work"station/gamestation and laptops) contain only relatively expendable data. And if I need to access the stuff from some other location I just SSH into the box.
And backups are handled from the server manually occasionally to an external USB drive. I know, I need to improve on that part.
The 7.1% the Pirate Party got gives them one seat. See http://www.val.se/val/ep2009/valnatt/rike/index.html. It is incredibly unlikely that they'd get another one. Nearly all of the advance votes have already been counted.
The advance votes get sent to the polling station where one would have normally voted on and are counted as part of the normal counting process. See http://www.val.se/in_english/2009_ep_election/index.html. Those advance votes that aren't counted yet are those advance votes that were placed on Sunday, which are relatively few given Sunday was the ordinary election day.
Anyhow the final count will be available on Wednesday.
Where I work, we developers are currently in the process of getting new workstations which have quad core processors and 8 GB of RAM. Quite a step up from the current 3+ year old low-end officeboxes that we have been stuck with. Single-core Pentium 4 or AMD Sempron in them, and 1.5 to 2 GB of RAM.
The operating system will be Vista 64-bit, and also XP 32-bit in a virtual machine to maintain all legacy cruft that doesn't like Vista and/or 64-bit.
Where I work (a small-ish ISV), we still try to have meaningful version numbering.
We use either major.minor.patch.build or major.minor.build depending on nebulous historical reasons.
We only increment the major if there are significant end-user noticeable changes, e.g. re-done the entire GUI. The minor gets incremented when significant improvements are made, e.g. bolting on more features. The patch gets incremented when a collection of bug fixes and/or small improvements are made. The build is perhaps not used in the strict meaning of the word, it gets incremented for every build that has the potential of getting outside the development room (e.g. for internal testing).
This means that for e.g. a planned "3.1.0" release the numbering stays at 3.1.0.0 until the first "alpha", and depending on the number of "alpha", "beta" and "rc" test rounds needed might go up to 3.1.0.15 before the "final" release.
Speed: The "up to" 7.2 Mbit/s is really "up to" as that speed can only be achieved in bursts. If you are lucky, you'll see 3.6 Mbit/s continuous speed at best.
Price: I cannot see any mobile operator here in Sweden that offers "7.2" Mbit/s for merely 99 SEK/month, the 99 SEK/month I see are only 384 kbit/s. The 7.2 Mbit/s ones are in the ballpark of 199 SEK/month ($30 USD; €21 EUR).
Is this patent the reason why the PgUp/PgDn in KPDF works with so substantially inexact increment?;)
As you don't have to go through all that many pages with PgUp/PgDn in KPDF to start noticing that it isn't longer aligned with the page tops and bottoms.
I'd guess a preventive measure is taken, by not mixing industrial garbage with household garbage. Household garbage doesn't typically contain all that much hazardous materials, at least it is not supposed to.
If a household needs to dispose of something environmentally hazardous, it is not supposed to be thrown in the household garbage, instead one drives it to the municipal recycling depot, or if one lives in an apartment building then there typically is a garbage room where one can place bulkier garbage where there usually are also bins for electronic waste, paper recycling, lightbulbs, and so on.
Here in Sweden, you pick the type of bag yourself and place it on the conveyor belt along with the groceries. (Assuming of course that you didn't bring your own bags or other suitable container with you.)
And then you pack yourself the groceries into the bags.
A plastic bag costs in the ballpark of 25c (US) and a paper bag about 50c (US).
Sweden is a constitutional monarchy. The King of Sweden has no power at all, the last remaining theoretical powers were removed in 1974 with the new Instrument of Government, and the king has had no real power since 1917.
The King is formally the head of state, but only has a ceremonial role. The formal #2 position is held by the Speaker of the Parliament, and the at formal position #3 comes the real seat of power, the Prime Minister.
If they'd actually be manufacturing them here in Sweden, you'd have to modify that price tag by slapping on a zero to the end and change the initial 1 to something higher. As this country is among the last choices on Earth for affordable manufacturing of cheap commodity stuff due to the quite steep cost of labor.
A) The dust is charged (static electricity). Brushing would just shove it around and scratch the solar panels. So some other means of cleaning them would be required, e.g. charging the solar panels so it repels the charged dust?
B) What good are clean solar panels when the sky is opaque with dust? Needs more nuclear power, which is what the upcoming rover will have.
The problem is just that the stability of nspluginwrapper+flash makes the stability of Windows ME look good...
I got rid of quite a lot of annoying browser crashes when I removed the nspluginwrappered flash. Albeit at the cost of losing a bit of video content on the 'net. Sure one can fire up a chrooted 32-bit browser with a 32-bit flash plugin that plays nicely, but it is quite a hassle switching between browser instances depending on the content one is about to view.
Of course, one can just use the 32-bit browser all the time. At which point one has to ask the question: why bother with a 64-bit operating system / apps as quite a few headaches do come up due to that. I keep telling me "because I have a bloody 64-bit system and because I bloody well can", but I am not so convinced anymore after 1½ years of enduring pretty much unnecessary problems with all the various 32-bit binary blobs that don't play nicely with 64-bit stuff..
It has been illegal, just not in the same sense as it now will be, as now it will be covered by the law regarding computer intrusion. The DDoS attacks against the police's website last year were filed under "taking the law into one's own hands" (egenmäktigt förfarande). Which is a bit nebulous of a category for it.
I am very sceptical that this law will have any real effect. Just some sable rattling to give an illusion that the government is in control of these things.
The.eu ccTLD is for the European Union, not Europe. Thus the difference being in that.eu is a ccTLD for an existing political entity whereas the Soviet Union ceased to exist fifteen years ago, therefore the.su ccTLD has no associated relevant entity to it.
But the.eu ccTLD is not entirely uncontroversial either. A ccTLD is used by countries or dependent territories. The EU is neither, it is a supranational/intergovernmental hybrid entity.
While there is no absolutely firm definition of what constitutes a double planet (binary planet), one of the fairly widely accepted criteria is that the barycentre (the common point around which both of the objects orbit around) lies above the surface of both of the objects. This is not the case in the Earth-Moon system, where the barycentre lies roughly 1,700 km beneath the surface of Earth. In the case of Pluto-Charon, the barycentre is clearly above the surface of Pluto, so both Pluto and Charon orbit around a common point in space.
But if we apply this same principle to define a double star, the Sun-Jupiter system would qualify as the barycentre of them is actually above the surface of the Sun.
ITER is not the demonstration power plant. ITER is an experimental research fusion reactor that (hopefully) will lead the way to building real fusion power plants.
So eight years to build ITER, then a couple of decades of research, running tests, tweaking stuff to find out what works out the best. Then when that is done, the demonstration power plant can be start to be built using the knowledge learned by the couple of decades of tinkering with ITER. And by the time the demonstration reactor is done, we are at year 2040 or thereabouts.
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I neither love nor hate Firefox these days. For me it just has become somewhat irrelevant in the past years. Sure Firefox/Mozilla was instrumental in ending the dominance of Internet Explorer, but somewhere along the path it just ceased in general to have momentum of being awesome.
For me it was somewhere around Firefox 3.5-3.6 I stopped using Firefox as my main browser. I got fed of the entire browser freezing with multiple tabs open just because one of the tabs had content that started acting up, usually some heavy Javascript or Flash. So I tried out Chrome and really liked it, even though at the time there wasn't any ad blocking extension available for it.
And here I thought that from what I've heard so far that Earth had possibly some dust or at most some gravel at its L4 and L5 points. This discovery of a sizable asteroid there makes the Earth's L4/L5 points much more interesting. Hopefully there is even more to be found!
Either give all efficiency measurements in joules/meter (or foot-pound force/mile or megajoules/kilometer or something), or separate the figures for when the vehicle is running on pure electricity (J/m would work for that) and when the vehicle is running exclusively with the fuel-consumpting engine (traditional MPG or liter/100km would work, or maybe J/m for this too).
Jumbling it all into a single quasi-MPG is just smoke and mirrors to make the figures look good.
Well, you can write both those symbols here, it just takes some extra, shouldn't-be-needed-in-this-century, effort to make it happen.
£ = £
€ = €
I just store anything saveworthy on the server at home. That way the "client" computers (my main "work"station/gamestation and laptops) contain only relatively expendable data. And if I need to access the stuff from some other location I just SSH into the box.
And backups are handled from the server manually occasionally to an external USB drive. I know, I need to improve on that part.
The 7.1% the Pirate Party got gives them one seat. See http://www.val.se/val/ep2009/valnatt/rike/index.html. It is incredibly unlikely that they'd get another one. Nearly all of the advance votes have already been counted.
The advance votes get sent to the polling station where one would have normally voted on and are counted as part of the normal counting process. See http://www.val.se/in_english/2009_ep_election/index.html. Those advance votes that aren't counted yet are those advance votes that were placed on Sunday, which are relatively few given Sunday was the ordinary election day.
Anyhow the final count will be available on Wednesday.
Where I work, we developers are currently in the process of getting new workstations which have quad core processors and 8 GB of RAM. Quite a step up from the current 3+ year old low-end officeboxes that we have been stuck with. Single-core Pentium 4 or AMD Sempron in them, and 1.5 to 2 GB of RAM.
The operating system will be Vista 64-bit, and also XP 32-bit in a virtual machine to maintain all legacy cruft that doesn't like Vista and/or 64-bit.
Where I work (a small-ish ISV), we still try to have meaningful version numbering.
We use either major.minor.patch.build or major.minor.build depending on nebulous historical reasons.
We only increment the major if there are significant end-user noticeable changes, e.g. re-done the entire GUI. The minor gets incremented when significant improvements are made, e.g. bolting on more features. The patch gets incremented when a collection of bug fixes and/or small improvements are made. The build is perhaps not used in the strict meaning of the word, it gets incremented for every build that has the potential of getting outside the development room (e.g. for internal testing).
This means that for e.g. a planned "3.1.0" release the numbering stays at 3.1.0.0 until the first "alpha", and depending on the number of "alpha", "beta" and "rc" test rounds needed might go up to 3.1.0.15 before the "final" release.
Speed: The "up to" 7.2 Mbit/s is really "up to" as that speed can only be achieved in bursts. If you are lucky, you'll see 3.6 Mbit/s continuous speed at best.
Price: I cannot see any mobile operator here in Sweden that offers "7.2" Mbit/s for merely 99 SEK/month, the 99 SEK/month I see are only 384 kbit/s. The 7.2 Mbit/s ones are in the ballpark of 199 SEK/month ($30 USD; €21 EUR).
Is this patent the reason why the PgUp/PgDn in KPDF works with so substantially inexact increment? ;)
As you don't have to go through all that many pages with PgUp/PgDn in KPDF to start noticing that it isn't longer aligned with the page tops and bottoms.
This is not even funny. Just pathetic. If you want to go down this path, do it so good. This is just half-arsed.
ISV, 30 employees, one-half IT technician. So a ratio somewhere between 1:30 and 1:60 might be reasonable to say.
Profit for most part, the tax is only the regular VAT of 25%.
The paper bags are usually good, very rare that the handles break off or otherwise tear.
The plastic bags can vary a lot from store to store. Some tear when you just look at them the wrong way...
I'd guess a preventive measure is taken, by not mixing industrial garbage with household garbage. Household garbage doesn't typically contain all that much hazardous materials, at least it is not supposed to.
If a household needs to dispose of something environmentally hazardous, it is not supposed to be thrown in the household garbage, instead one drives it to the municipal recycling depot, or if one lives in an apartment building then there typically is a garbage room where one can place bulkier garbage where there usually are also bins for electronic waste, paper recycling, lightbulbs, and so on.
Here in Sweden, you pick the type of bag yourself and place it on the conveyor belt along with the groceries. (Assuming of course that you didn't bring your own bags or other suitable container with you.)
And then you pack yourself the groceries into the bags.
A plastic bag costs in the ballpark of 25c (US) and a paper bag about 50c (US).
Sweden is a constitutional monarchy. The King of Sweden has no power at all, the last remaining theoretical powers were removed in 1974 with the new Instrument of Government, and the king has had no real power since 1917.
The King is formally the head of state, but only has a ceremonial role. The formal #2 position is held by the Speaker of the Parliament, and the at formal position #3 comes the real seat of power, the Prime Minister.
If they'd actually be manufacturing them here in Sweden, you'd have to modify that price tag by slapping on a zero to the end and change the initial 1 to something higher. As this country is among the last choices on Earth for affordable manufacturing of cheap commodity stuff due to the quite steep cost of labor.
A) The dust is charged (static electricity). Brushing would just shove it around and scratch the solar panels. So some other means of cleaning them would be required, e.g. charging the solar panels so it repels the charged dust?
B) What good are clean solar panels when the sky is opaque with dust? Needs more nuclear power, which is what the upcoming rover will have.
The problem is just that the stability of nspluginwrapper+flash makes the stability of Windows ME look good...
I got rid of quite a lot of annoying browser crashes when I removed the nspluginwrappered flash. Albeit at the cost of losing a bit of video content on the 'net. Sure one can fire up a chrooted 32-bit browser with a 32-bit flash plugin that plays nicely, but it is quite a hassle switching between browser instances depending on the content one is about to view.
Of course, one can just use the 32-bit browser all the time. At which point one has to ask the question: why bother with a 64-bit operating system / apps as quite a few headaches do come up due to that. I keep telling me "because I have a bloody 64-bit system and because I bloody well can", but I am not so convinced anymore after 1½ years of enduring pretty much unnecessary problems with all the various 32-bit binary blobs that don't play nicely with 64-bit stuff..
It has been illegal, just not in the same sense as it now will be, as now it will be covered by the law regarding computer intrusion. The DDoS attacks against the police's website last year were filed under "taking the law into one's own hands" (egenmäktigt förfarande). Which is a bit nebulous of a category for it.
I am very sceptical that this law will have any real effect. Just some sable rattling to give an illusion that the government is in control of these things.
The .eu ccTLD is for the European Union, not Europe. Thus the difference being in that .eu is a ccTLD for an existing political entity whereas the Soviet Union ceased to exist fifteen years ago, therefore the .su ccTLD has no associated relevant entity to it.
But the .eu ccTLD is not entirely uncontroversial either. A ccTLD is used by countries or dependent territories. The EU is neither, it is a supranational/intergovernmental hybrid entity.
While there is no absolutely firm definition of what constitutes a double planet (binary planet), one of the fairly widely accepted criteria is that the barycentre (the common point around which both of the objects orbit around) lies above the surface of both of the objects. This is not the case in the Earth-Moon system, where the barycentre lies roughly 1,700 km beneath the surface of Earth. In the case of Pluto-Charon, the barycentre is clearly above the surface of Pluto, so both Pluto and Charon orbit around a common point in space.
But if we apply this same principle to define a double star, the Sun-Jupiter system would qualify as the barycentre of them is actually above the surface of the Sun.
Now that doesn't sound quite right...
ISO 8601 is a bit closer to being relevant to the matter at hand.
At least when compared to MS. Three Debian releases between XP and Vista. And people say Debian is a slow mover.
Well, at least assuming that both "Etch" and Vista will hold their target dates... Is this a too bold assumption to make? Perhaps.
ITER is not the demonstration power plant. ITER is an experimental research fusion reactor that (hopefully) will lead the way to building real fusion power plants.
So eight years to build ITER, then a couple of decades of research, running tests, tweaking stuff to find out what works out the best. Then when that is done, the demonstration power plant can be start to be built using the knowledge learned by the couple of decades of tinkering with ITER. And by the time the demonstration reactor is done, we are at year 2040 or thereabouts.