I think this would be a bad thing. I feel that an encylopedia should be impartial. Having ads about what you are currently looking at doesn't seem very impartial it would look like an endorsement.
...that pressure causes smart people to think "Oh no, I can't screw up".
No it talks about high working-memory capacity and says nothing about smart people. The title of the submitted article is a little misleading. This appears to be the original article, while here is some of the other work, includes sports performance as well maths.
If you read the EULA of any MS product, even an update, it disclaims any responsibility whatever. They specifically avow that they are not fit for any purpose.
I've had someone give me god awful beer as payment. He was from Denmark and his computer was in Danish. At one point he asked me if I spoke Danish since I wasn't asking him to translate the dialog boxes, it was then that I decided that I spend too much time with computers.
I think Word has actually gotten better in terms of file size, it is still a complete pain in the arse and the bain of my life. When I did my undergraduate degree the report was around 10 meg, that was on Word 6.0. It was around 100 pages and have very few pictures. Now my PhD thesis is around 300 pages and is full of pictures and is currently about 6.5 meg (Word 2003). I have saved my PhD thesis out to Word 6 format before (to fix problems that word was having) and the resulting file was over 63 meg.
A plane I was on about a year ago had an engine fault which meant they manually had to start the engine, this was a short hop commercial flight. They started the engine with what looked like a long pole. They was odd to watch.
The Navy's point is that if I had said this in a public place, it is OK. However, terrorists can read web pages, so any dissent falls under the Patriot Act.
Hmm I didn't know that terrorists couldn't get into public places.
That isn't proof it is just another article on the matter, but sounds plasible. I was a little shocked when I first heard that he was so I'll accept that it was bad journlisim (and repeating on my part).
No he isn't, Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Ikea is. Gates's fortune took a hit with the slide of the value of the US dollar.
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He also said better. His requirements for a product might not be the same as the design requirements that Apple used. Therefore Apple produce a product which doesn't quite do what he wants. Another company (B) could produce a product which provides precisely what he wants, therefore for him company B produces a better product.
Personally I use an mp3 player when I go jogging, I wanted a solid state storage medium so it didn't die due to the shock. Also I listen to lectures/spoken word books when I go running. I don't want to listen to them several times so deleting them makes sense for me. For me an iPod makes no sense it uses a harddrive and has way too much storage space, I will never have that much data on it. For me there are better products than the iPod regardless of price. It just happens that the mp3 player I bought was much cheaper than an iPod. Better is subjective, someone else might think that what I bought was a piece of crap because it didn't have enough storage space.
Probably depends on the area you live in then. A small fire outside my house would only have a very small chance of setting my house alight, since it is made of stone and there is nothing near enough to catch fire.
I'm 28yo, and have been using computers since I was 8. I can't use the keyboard for much time without feeling pain in my fingers, and my mouse has really screwed up my right index finger.
I've been using computer for over 20 years and I've never had any of the problems with RSI etc. Do you do any form of exercise? I used to do play a lot of tenis but now I mainly go to the gym and go running/rowing/cycling sometimes. I was just wondering if that is what has kept my hand RSI free.
I've never seen it either. When I asked aout this someone mentioned that the speed of your machine plays a part in the bug. I don't know how true that is since I regularly use a 1500 AMD laptop and a 2.8 gig intel desktop and I haven't seen the problem on either of these two machines, of course it could just be that I've been lucky. I stick to the stable builds maybe that plays a part. Sounds like it is a hard bug to fix due to (as you say) odd interactions. Seems like a timing issue to me from the descriptions I've read.
Other people in this discussion have mentioned that it isn't really a fix but a workaround. I don't know how true that is but the comments on how to fix it (#101) indicates that messing with the timing of various features fixes the problems which to me sounds like a work around rather than a fix. I don't know enough about the gecko engine to know if that is a good conclusions though. It could just be as hardware gets faster the problem comes back.
The last time this came up I asked that very question and was pointed to the bug report. Basically the menu on the left and the main content area end up over lapping. There is a screenshot of it happening at the bug report.
Credit to whoever pointed it out, sorry I can't remember your username.
I find that it gets worse the further south you go. Some of the problem could come from that multiple banks are allowed to print money in Scotland so the fiver you got last week could look completely different from the fiver this week which is a little confusing if your not used ot it. I can understand why shopkeepers could want to steer clear of that.
There used to be an English £1 note but it was phased out sometime in the 80s.
Thanks. Do you know temperature changes that caused the disruption 8200 years ago?
The thing you said about the 11 degree increase reminded me of a radio article I heard this morning on the way to work, web version is still at the BBC news site. The BBC say that 11 degrees is a worse case and the minimum is 2 degrees. They link to climateprediction.net which are the people performing the experiments. I'm not sure if this is the same as your source.
Do you know anything on how long an event like this would take to reverse? From the stuff I've previouly read shutting down the gulf stream is a lot easier than starting it back up again but I don't remember anyone saying how long it would take to restart.
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I think this would be a bad thing. I feel that an encylopedia should be impartial. Having ads about what you are currently looking at doesn't seem very impartial it would look like an endorsement.
I remember seeing an interview with one of the writers of Star Trek and he pretty much admitted that is what happened.
No it talks about high working-memory capacity and says nothing about smart people. The title of the submitted article is a little misleading. This appears to be the original article, while here is some of the other work, includes sports performance as well maths.
They are just telling it as it is.
By covering his ears, closing his eyes and repeatibly shouting "I can't hear you, la la la".
I saw Dylan and thought of a guitar playing rabbit from a kids TV show. It was very odd to think that Jobs was reciting some of his stuff.
I find that the odd friends are generally the ones that work with computers :-)
Hmm that kinda rambled off the topic.
I think Word has actually gotten better in terms of file size, it is still a complete pain in the arse and the bain of my life. When I did my undergraduate degree the report was around 10 meg, that was on Word 6.0. It was around 100 pages and have very few pictures. Now my PhD thesis is around 300 pages and is full of pictures and is currently about 6.5 meg (Word 2003). I have saved my PhD thesis out to Word 6 format before (to fix problems that word was having) and the resulting file was over 63 meg.
A plane I was on about a year ago had an engine fault which meant they manually had to start the engine, this was a short hop commercial flight. They started the engine with what looked like a long pole. They was odd to watch.
Just out of curiosity how many heads do you have? :-)
Hmm I didn't know that terrorists couldn't get into public places.
Done.
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No he isn't, Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Ikea is. Gates's fortune took a hit with the slide of the value of the US dollar.
Personally I use an mp3 player when I go jogging, I wanted a solid state storage medium so it didn't die due to the shock. Also I listen to lectures/spoken word books when I go running. I don't want to listen to them several times so deleting them makes sense for me. For me an iPod makes no sense it uses a harddrive and has way too much storage space, I will never have that much data on it. For me there are better products than the iPod regardless of price. It just happens that the mp3 player I bought was much cheaper than an iPod. Better is subjective, someone else might think that what I bought was a piece of crap because it didn't have enough storage space.
Probably depends on the area you live in then. A small fire outside my house would only have a very small chance of setting my house alight, since it is made of stone and there is nothing near enough to catch fire.
Is there anyone anywhere that has not heard about this and would actually stomp on it? I'm a little skeptical.
I've been using computer for over 20 years and I've never had any of the problems with RSI etc. Do you do any form of exercise? I used to do play a lot of tenis but now I mainly go to the gym and go running/rowing/cycling sometimes. I was just wondering if that is what has kept my hand RSI free.
Other people in this discussion have mentioned that it isn't really a fix but a workaround. I don't know how true that is but the comments on how to fix it (#101) indicates that messing with the timing of various features fixes the problems which to me sounds like a work around rather than a fix. I don't know enough about the gecko engine to know if that is a good conclusions though. It could just be as hardware gets faster the problem comes back.
Credit to whoever pointed it out, sorry I can't remember your username.
No we are more sure that we have to work around thier problems.
They know that they will get their upgrades and patches."
I think he missed the word 'might' out from that sentence.
And your post has an ad for your sig and what is strange is it work, I read your sig :-)
There used to be an English £1 note but it was phased out sometime in the 80s.
The thing you said about the 11 degree increase reminded me of a radio article I heard this morning on the way to work, web version is still at the BBC news site. The BBC say that 11 degrees is a worse case and the minimum is 2 degrees. They link to climateprediction.net which are the people performing the experiments. I'm not sure if this is the same as your source.
Do you know anything on how long an event like this would take to reverse? From the stuff I've previouly read shutting down the gulf stream is a lot easier than starting it back up again but I don't remember anyone saying how long it would take to restart.