You can get WindowsPowerPro to minimize the window you want to the system tray. I've been using to get some stuff out of the way. It's free and has plenty of other functionality
The point is not what machine I'm using. OO takes say twice as long to load than a single MSOffice app. It doesn't really matter if it's 10s versus 5s or 1s vs.5s -- it's still twice as long. Point is: Why does it take so long? How can this time be reduced?
And I'll buy the provocation of the PC. I live in a 3rd world country where lots of people are starving and many don't have jobs. Can you really close your eyes to that and keep wasting a lot of money in computers? I buy one every 4 years or so. I don't need a lot of computing power anyway. And I'm in no hurry either. What would I gain from that anyway?
Oh, FYI I can live a full month with $250 (US$). This has been the average I spend including home, food, transportation and all (alone). Better live a month than wasting in computers when you don't have the money to do both.
I know OO takes an age to load on my machine (Duron 700 with loads of RAM and W98). And so does FireFox. Wouldn't such a extension slow the latter even more down?
I didn't fully read this, but laughed a lot with just the first 10 lines. I'm non-native English-speaker, but think I could point out most of the mistakes. I think there could be some native speakers that would miss a lot of them. It's just a question of knowing 'proper' orthography, I think it has to do with a lot of reading. It's not about being native, though it helps.
My 'Ode to a Spell Checker' would be the following: I recently bought and read a nice book about human performance (in Portuguese). The content was pretty good, but there were a lot of grammar and spelling mistakes. I normally forgive two or three misprints, but there were already three in the 'Thanks' page (the rest of the book wasn't that bad). Most of them were errors a spelling checker wouldn't get.
So I wrote the editor an e-mail, saying their revision of the text was shitty. He answered maybe an hour later (which I liked a lot) saying it had been done by a professional outside the company and they couldn't make sure about the content being scientifically correct. So it looks like the revisor did the shitty job. Ran a spelling checker and just gave back the work. They didn't do a second revision (with someone else), they just published it.
The sad part was that the publishers reply contained a lot of grammar errors too. It takes away my confidence that this publisher can do serious work, though it was clearly someone else's fault.
cross-platform -- perhaps php? Take a look at this webcalendar
http://sourceforge.net/projects/webcalendar/
Usese php and MySQL. I find it quite nice, but I'm not sure it has everything you require. Then again, this is open source. You can just add the features or branch the project (but then people might say your project is dying, and Netcraft might confirm that).
I asked a friend this question about Access couple of days ago. He suggested I should get Apache HTTP Server, PHP and MySQL (in this order).
I got them all installed and running in a W98 machine.
I only do thinks locally, so I'm not concerned with security (root password is asdf if you want to know, and it's just to prevent me from doing something stupid. I access as another user with very limited privileges).
But you have to learn quite a lot of stuff to get started. Three different programs.
BTW, this should help: phpMySQLAdmin (in sourceforge).
But I look forward to something such as open source access. It's the last thing that needs replacement in my box.
Notice also that close to the second biggest light source (meaning Jupiter) are several bright dots in a line. For those who have never seen this through a telescope, it was first observed by Galileu in 1610. Those are its four biggest satellites of Jupiter. You can see them well in the last pictures.
It's a prelude to the matrix, you know... "there used to be cities that spent hundreds of miles" -- I wonder why I haven't seen any matrix quotes in this story.
Well, my post is highly offtopic. But might shed some light to your (or your teacher's) thought:
While I live in a colder part of Brazil, there are those to the northern parts (warmer) which are considered very lazy and slow (baianos, for instance). Yes, sleeping after eating in a warm climate is very easy.
But I think that's not the point. I think the point for better tech in cold climates is that if you don't work in the summer, you starve in winter. So you just work a lot... or bears get fat in summer.
Some people have summer the whole year, and plenty of natural growing food too. Why bother to work when you can get _that_ easy life... but then, it's just a thought.
Interesting Nature articles
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Why We Fall Apart
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· Score: 4, Informative
I'm not sure if the texts are available to everyone else (I'm reading from a university with a site-license, I think), but here are two good articles published in Nature some time ago.
Why do we age? (Thomas B. L. Kirkwood, Steven N. Austad) AbstractFull Text
Oxidants, oxidative stress and the biology of ageing (Toren Finkel, Nikki J. Holbrook) AbstractFull text
I regret to announce that, since the moon shows us always its same side, there can be no such thing as Earthrise!! The Earth doesn't move on the Moon's sky. Just think about it.
It's silly, but everywhere in books you find pictures of the Earth in Moon's horizon and a label about the marvellous Earthrise.
A way to get such a thing is to walk on the Moon. If you walk far enough you may see the Earth moving.
But notice that days exist on the Moon. Meaning, the same thing doesn't happen with the Sun.
Why am I typing so many things in capitals!? Feels like german.
Not to be an asshole, but isn't there anyone in the audience that could shoot the pictures? I mean, you can't be all soooo entertained by a wedding!? (from my part, I get bored to death, so shooting pics is a good excuse to be walking around) Besides, are you going to sell those pictures? For my part, I just wish to be able to remember what the people looked like at that time, and for that I don't need a pro. Just gimme 600$, I get the super latest digital camera and shoot the pics.
This is part of being a scientist. You create an hypothesis and you live to prove it right. But you must always be ready throw it away when you find an experiment that proves it wrong.
All I want to know is about the bet of nude singularities... that was one with Kip Thorne. The one who loses will have to give the other clothes to hide their nudity.
For some time I wondered about the possibility of using a Michelson & Morley interferometer for measuring distances. You can get 250 nanometer of precision easily, just count those rings. Using shorter wavelengths, it can get a lot better. But never tried putting such idea to work. (most probably someone else thought about this too...)
I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you MULTIPLY and MULTIPLY until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism that follows the same pattern. A VIRUS. Spammers are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague. We're the cure.
(all we need to find out now is who said that, no more spam!)
That'd be the definitions of someone who sells HDs for them to look bigger. To reach a decent Petabyte I think it requires 1 073 741 824 Megabytes (2^30), not the 1 007...... as pointed out in the article or 10^9 as in the parent. (all in MB)
I also think people should remember that 10^6 bytes is just close to a megabyte. No need to alter the definitions. Most of the times, you just need approximations anyway. When you need the exact amount of bytes (like, when you want to say: I passed a PB!) you do the math.
Maybe it's time to take a look again at dark matter. This newly found ring has probably some good mass, however I don't know if it really goes for all the missing matter. I guess there is research on velocity inside our galazy, not only Doppler shift in other galaxies.
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I have a tought. Why don't we fork the government?
Yeah, I know. It's called separatism.
You can get WindowsPowerPro to minimize the window you want to the system tray. I've been using to get some stuff out of the way. It's free and has plenty of other functionality
http://powerpro.webeddie.com/
The point is not what machine I'm using. OO takes say twice as long to load than a single MSOffice app. It doesn't really matter if it's 10s versus 5s or 1s vs .5s -- it's still twice as long. Point is: Why does it take so long? How can this time be reduced?
And I'll buy the provocation of the PC. I live in a 3rd world country where lots of people are starving and many don't have jobs. Can you really close your eyes to that and keep wasting a lot of money in computers? I buy one every 4 years or so. I don't need a lot of computing power anyway.
And I'm in no hurry either. What would I gain from that anyway?
Oh, FYI I can live a full month with $250 (US$). This has been the average I spend including home, food, transportation and all (alone). Better live a month than wasting in computers when you don't have the money to do both.
I know OO takes an age to load on my machine (Duron 700 with loads of RAM and W98). And so does FireFox. Wouldn't such a extension slow the latter even more down?
I didn't fully read this, but laughed a lot with just the first 10 lines. I'm non-native English-speaker, but think I could point out most of the mistakes. I think there could be some native speakers that would miss a lot of them. It's just a question of knowing 'proper' orthography, I think it has to do with a lot of reading. It's not about being native, though it helps.
My 'Ode to a Spell Checker' would be the following: I recently bought and read a nice book about human performance (in Portuguese). The content was pretty good, but there were a lot of grammar and spelling mistakes. I normally forgive two or three misprints, but there were already three in the 'Thanks' page (the rest of the book wasn't that bad). Most of them were errors a spelling checker wouldn't get.
So I wrote the editor an e-mail, saying their revision of the text was shitty. He answered maybe an hour later (which I liked a lot) saying it had been done by a professional outside the company and they couldn't make sure about the content being scientifically correct. So it looks like the revisor did the shitty job. Ran a spelling checker and just gave back the work. They didn't do a second revision (with someone else), they just published it.
The sad part was that the publishers reply contained a lot of grammar errors too. It takes away my confidence that this publisher can do serious work, though it was clearly someone else's fault.
I'll probably tell him that in a couple of days.
Yeah, I wanted to quote that... but looks like I wasn't the only one. It's from Fight Club. I think it says it all.
If just a few people get their faces burned, we (companies) don't care. If it costs us less than a recall, we don't do it.
Come on! Is that a nice world to live in? Capitalist scum.
cross-platform -- perhaps php? Take a look at this webcalendar
http://sourceforge.net/projects/webcalendar/
Usese php and MySQL. I find it quite nice, but I'm not sure it has everything you require. Then again, this is open source. You can just add the features or branch the project (but then people might say your project is dying, and Netcraft might confirm that).
I asked a friend this question about Access couple of days ago. He suggested I should get Apache HTTP Server, PHP and MySQL (in this order). I got them all installed and running in a W98 machine. I only do thinks locally, so I'm not concerned with security (root password is asdf if you want to know, and it's just to prevent me from doing something stupid. I access as another user with very limited privileges). But you have to learn quite a lot of stuff to get started. Three different programs. BTW, this should help: phpMySQLAdmin (in sourceforge). But I look forward to something such as open source access. It's the last thing that needs replacement in my box.
Yeah, really nice pictures.
Notice also that close to the second biggest light source (meaning Jupiter) are several bright dots in a line. For those who have never seen this through a telescope, it was first observed by Galileu in 1610. Those are its four biggest satellites of Jupiter. You can see them well in the last pictures.
It's a prelude to the matrix, you know... "there used to be cities that spent hundreds of miles" -- I wonder why I haven't seen any matrix quotes in this story.
Well, my post is highly offtopic. But might shed some light to your (or your teacher's) thought:
While I live in a colder part of Brazil, there are those to the northern parts (warmer) which are considered very lazy and slow (baianos, for instance). Yes, sleeping after eating in a warm climate is very easy.
But I think that's not the point. I think the point for better tech in cold climates is that if you don't work in the summer, you starve in winter. So you just work a lot... or bears get fat in summer.
Some people have summer the whole year, and plenty of natural growing food too. Why bother to work when you can get _that_ easy life... but then, it's just a thought.
I'm not sure if the texts are available to everyone else (I'm reading from a university with a site-license, I think), but here are two good articles published in Nature some time ago. Why do we age? (Thomas B. L. Kirkwood, Steven N. Austad)
Abstract Full Text
Oxidants, oxidative stress and the biology of ageing (Toren Finkel, Nikki J. Holbrook)
Abstract Full text
"No (...) internet transmission... "
;-)
Including P2P?
John: Garfield, you can be very destructive...
Garfield: I can?
John: I wasn't giving you permission!
Garfield: too late, I already broke something...
I regret to announce that, since the moon shows us always its same side, there can be no such thing as Earthrise!! The Earth doesn't move on the Moon's sky. Just think about it.
It's silly, but everywhere in books you find pictures of the Earth in Moon's horizon and a label about the marvellous Earthrise.
A way to get such a thing is to walk on the Moon. If you walk far enough you may see the Earth moving.
But notice that days exist on the Moon. Meaning, the same thing doesn't happen with the Sun.
Why am I typing so many things in capitals!? Feels like german.
Not to be an asshole, but isn't there anyone in the audience that could shoot the pictures? I mean, you can't be all soooo entertained by a wedding!? (from my part, I get bored to death, so shooting pics is a good excuse to be walking around) Besides, are you going to sell those pictures? For my part, I just wish to be able to remember what the people looked like at that time, and for that I don't need a pro. Just gimme 600$, I get the super latest digital camera and shoot the pics.
This is part of being a scientist. You create an hypothesis and you live to prove it right. But you must always be ready throw it away when you find an experiment that proves it wrong.
All I want to know is about the bet of nude singularities... that was one with Kip Thorne. The one who loses will have to give the other clothes to hide their nudity.
And make sure to look for other cameras at Digital Photography Review
Thank you for pointing that out!! I was just looking for this problem among the replies.
For some time I wondered about the possibility of using a Michelson & Morley interferometer for measuring distances. You can get 250 nanometer of precision easily, just count those rings. Using shorter wavelengths, it can get a lot better. But never tried putting such idea to work. (most probably someone else thought about this too...)
Below, you=spammer
I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you MULTIPLY and MULTIPLY until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism that follows the same pattern. A VIRUS. Spammers are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague. We're the cure.
(all we need to find out now is who said that, no more spam!)
The spelling makes /. look like picnic... ;-)
That'd be the definitions of someone who sells HDs for them to look bigger. To reach a decent Petabyte I think it requires 1 073 741 824 Megabytes (2^30), not the 1 007 ... ... as pointed out in the article or 10^9 as in the parent. (all in MB)
I also think people should remember that 10^6 bytes is just close to a megabyte. No need to alter the definitions. Most of the times, you just need approximations anyway. When you need the exact amount of bytes (like, when you want to say: I passed a PB!) you do the math.
WindowsPowerPro ;-)
It's free and is little shell-embedded... real lots of features to really waste your time with...
Maybe it's time to take a look again at dark matter. This newly found ring has probably some good mass, however I don't know if it really goes for all the missing matter. I guess there is research on velocity inside our galazy, not only Doppler shift in other galaxies.