I've only just upgraded to FF4.0, although I did use the betas for a while. Thing is, some of my extensions only work with "official" releases, and I don't have time to work out how they should be re-written to work with a beta.
I suspect these materials might not present much of a challenge. I have spent the last 10 years working in cheese factories constructed with steel/foam sandwich panels. Getting any kind of radio signal working in these buildings can be a real problem, usually best solved by good ol' ethernet. I managed to get wifi and mobile signals working at my last workplace with a combination of various repeaters, occasionally with pringles-can antennas, but my new workplace has defeated me, at least for now.
In practice, I can just about live without wifi at work, but it would be nice to get a robust mobile phone signal in there.
If an equasion can be solved in software, it is INSANE to force these poor souls to solve it manually.
Why? The purpose of education is not to give you time to code or download some equation (note spelling) solving utility, it is to get you in the habit of thinking in such a way that you have all the mental tools at your disposal to do so yourself. After all, what will you do if your calculator battery runs flat? (OK, my answer to that when this happened to me was to buy a slide-rule and learn to use it.)
Most of my maths professors (along with most of the others I had over the course of my biotech degree) weren't even interested in the "right" answer, assuming there was one. The process was everything, and after a while I lost interest in answers myself and discovered a tendency to simply write "..." when I knew I was on the right track.
Getting back to the subject of calculators, it is almost trivial to design a calculus paper in such a way that a calculator of any kind is unnecessary. I have a TI-89 which does symbolic integration and differentiation quite comfortably - unlike my HP48G+ which despite its much better build quality (and, of course, RPN) was quite slow and limited - but for a well-designed exam paper, it is actually much quicker to do the work yourself.
It's dumb to call it ALS. People are much better at recognizing people than acronyms.
That is just plain lazy, It really doesn't take that much effort to type "als define" into Google to get a useful response in the first two results. You don't even have to use the "shift" key.
Regardless of whether you are right or wrong with regard to how one "should" spend their end days...
There IS no right or wrong here, since no-one else has any right to make such a judgement for anyone else. Except me, that is;-) I find this effort awe-inspiring and moving.
In this case, the fact the son is obviously so immensely proud of his father is reason enough for the man to spend his last days thus. To decry these efforts is simply churlish.
Nevertheless, the story is gobsmackingly awesome. I doubt if we would ever hear of such dedication (of either father or son) from the stables of Apple or Microsoft.
I'm with you. I'm a cheesemaker (as in "blessed are the..."), and I originally started shaving my head as a way of making the wearing of hairnets redundant. Being a baldie is so much more comfortable, I wouldn't live any other way.
All the ladies I know seem to be cool with this, fortunately including my wife. It's much more attractive (not to mention dignified) to accept and embrace the vagaries of your body's growth than to take ridiculous steps (such as combovers) to mask them.
You neglect to take into account the possibility that some men care [more] about losing their hair than about being impotent.
...While other men (such as myself) have been shaving their heads for years for a variety of reasons, and might welcome a pharmaceutical alternative. I (and my wife) would care more about my being able to maintain a suitable woodie than maintaining a redundant growth of keratin over my cranium.
Even if the code permits doing so as an AC (and I'm too lazy to check whether this is possible), it would be more appropriate to post this under your own ID.
Get real. Bach's music is not about some mechanical music-box reproduction of a sequence of notes. It is about a living, vibrant piece of music that engenders different reactions every time it is played or heard.
Hey, my Burroughs B3700 was a stupendous space heater back in 1976. If the aircon went out, we had about 40 minutes to stop all our batch processes before the temperature hit 55 degrees C...
Handing over the card is faster, but the disadvantage nowadays is that people are not as quick to hunt out cards as they are to look up contacts that are already in their phone.
Decent anti glare will last forever unless you clean with sandpaper.
Incidentally, by far the best way to clean your glasses is not to bother with any of those stupid little spray-bottles or wipes.
Simply use warm dihydrogen monoxide straight from the tap with a good hand soap and your fingers to clean lenses and frames, rinse and wipe off gently with a Kleenex (and NOT scratchy recycled paper loo-roll).
When I bought my current Specsavers glasses I asked about warranty protection...
I nearly stopped reading at that point, but courtesy prevailed.:-)
Specsavers, Just Spectacles and all those other two-for-the-price-of-one bandits are the biggest lot of crooks unhung. A few years back when I was more ignorant as to what to expect from an optometrist, I went to Just Spectacles (in Hay St., Perth Western Australia), when I realised my vision wasn't so great. Since my health insurance is generous, I returned the next year and bought a new set of glasses, new lenses for the old frames and a pair of prescription sunglasses.
They fucked up every single pair. Some lenses arrived scratched, and others just did not fit the frames properly. I sent them all back twice, with the same result, then gave up and went to Abernethy Owens nearby.
It was then that I found out that their prescription wasn't all that accurate, and that the optometrist had not performed any of the usual checks for health of the eyes. They do charge like a wounded bull for your glasses, but the prescription is better and they look after you.
I've looked at buying glasses online occasionally, but while the choice of frames is sometimes adequate (never great), the choice of lens material is poor. I know it is unfashionable to say so, but you get what you pay for.
For unbreakable and perfect formatting for a printed page, sure, TeX and its spinoffs are stupendous, but I don't know anybody who actually uses them to render output for a screen, except via a postscript renderer.
Slashdot Mirror
But the company confirmed that IE10 won't even run on Vista
...with some remark along the lines of "if it runs at all".
I've only just upgraded to FF4.0, although I did use the betas for a while. Thing is, some of my extensions only work with "official" releases, and I don't have time to work out how they should be re-written to work with a beta.
I suspect these materials might not present much of a challenge. I have spent the last 10 years working in cheese factories constructed with steel/foam sandwich panels. Getting any kind of radio signal working in these buildings can be a real problem, usually best solved by good ol' ethernet. I managed to get wifi and mobile signals working at my last workplace with a combination of various repeaters, occasionally with pringles-can antennas, but my new workplace has defeated me, at least for now.
In practice, I can just about live without wifi at work, but it would be nice to get a robust mobile phone signal in there.
Look for government agencies investing in counter tinfoil surveillance technology.
Google will probably be in on it too. But only unofficially, and by mistake - or so we are told. :-/
If an equasion can be solved in software, it is INSANE to force these poor souls to solve it manually.
Why? The purpose of education is not to give you time to code or download some equation (note spelling) solving utility, it is to get you in the habit of thinking in such a way that you have all the mental tools at your disposal to do so yourself. After all, what will you do if your calculator battery runs flat? (OK, my answer to that when this happened to me was to buy a slide-rule and learn to use it.)
Most of my maths professors (along with most of the others I had over the course of my biotech degree) weren't even interested in the "right" answer, assuming there was one. The process was everything, and after a while I lost interest in answers myself and discovered a tendency to simply write "..." when I knew I was on the right track.
Getting back to the subject of calculators, it is almost trivial to design a calculus paper in such a way that a calculator of any kind is unnecessary. I have a TI-89 which does symbolic integration and differentiation quite comfortably - unlike my HP48G+ which despite its much better build quality (and, of course, RPN) was quite slow and limited - but for a well-designed exam paper, it is actually much quicker to do the work yourself.
It's dumb to call it ALS. People are much better at recognizing people than acronyms.
That is just plain lazy, It really doesn't take that much effort to type "als define" into Google to get a useful response in the first two results. You don't even have to use the "shift" key.
Regardless of whether you are right or wrong with regard to how one "should" spend their end days...
There IS no right or wrong here, since no-one else has any right to make such a judgement for anyone else. Except me, that is ;-) I find this effort awe-inspiring and moving.
In this case, the fact the son is obviously so immensely proud of his father is reason enough for the man to spend his last days thus. To decry these efforts is simply churlish.
Nevertheless, the story is gobsmackingly awesome. I doubt if we would ever hear of such dedication (of either father or son) from the stables of Apple or Microsoft.
You DO realize that infants are, technically, human beings, right?
Only by the loosest of definitions. They don't really become human until the age of 32.
I'm with you. I'm a cheesemaker (as in "blessed are the..."), and I originally started shaving my head as a way of making the wearing of hairnets redundant. Being a baldie is so much more comfortable, I wouldn't live any other way.
All the ladies I know seem to be cool with this, fortunately including my wife. It's much more attractive (not to mention dignified) to accept and embrace the vagaries of your body's growth than to take ridiculous steps (such as combovers) to mask them.
You neglect to take into account the possibility that some men care [more] about losing their hair than about being impotent.
...While other men (such as myself) have been shaving their heads for years for a variety of reasons, and might welcome a pharmaceutical alternative. I (and my wife) would care more about my being able to maintain a suitable woodie than maintaining a redundant growth of keratin over my cranium.
Well, speaking as a cheesemaker (but not any other kind of dairy worker), I fart in the general direction of the Romans who never did go home...
undoing bad mod.
Even if the code permits doing so as an AC (and I'm too lazy to check whether this is possible), it would be more appropriate to post this under your own ID.
...while any atheist can readily turn wine into water after a party.
Get real. Bach's music is not about some mechanical music-box reproduction of a sequence of notes. It is about a living, vibrant piece of music that engenders different reactions every time it is played or heard.
Hey, my Burroughs B3700 was a stupendous space heater back in 1976. If the aircon went out, we had about 40 minutes to stop all our batch processes before the temperature hit 55 degrees C...
[Affects Yorkshire accent:] Them were the days...
Handing over the card is faster, but the disadvantage nowadays is that people are not as quick to hunt out cards as they are to look up contacts that are already in their phone.
If the person is working for somebody else's company, s/he will usually have no input whatsoever into their visual style.
Anti-fog for motorcycle face shields is a SUPER must have in any weather at about 50 or colder.
My face shield almost never fogs up at 50 degrees C.
Decent anti glare will last forever unless you clean with sandpaper.
Incidentally, by far the best way to clean your glasses is not to bother with any of those stupid little spray-bottles or wipes.
Simply use warm dihydrogen monoxide straight from the tap with a good hand soap and your fingers to clean lenses and frames, rinse and wipe off gently with a Kleenex (and NOT scratchy recycled paper loo-roll).
When I bought my current Specsavers glasses I asked about warranty protection...
I nearly stopped reading at that point, but courtesy prevailed. :-)
Specsavers, Just Spectacles and all those other two-for-the-price-of-one bandits are the biggest lot of crooks unhung. A few years back when I was more ignorant as to what to expect from an optometrist, I went to Just Spectacles (in Hay St., Perth Western Australia), when I realised my vision wasn't so great. Since my health insurance is generous, I returned the next year and bought a new set of glasses, new lenses for the old frames and a pair of prescription sunglasses.
They fucked up every single pair. Some lenses arrived scratched, and others just did not fit the frames properly. I sent them all back twice, with the same result, then gave up and went to Abernethy Owens nearby.
It was then that I found out that their prescription wasn't all that accurate, and that the optometrist had not performed any of the usual checks for health of the eyes. They do charge like a wounded bull for your glasses, but the prescription is better and they look after you.
I've looked at buying glasses online occasionally, but while the choice of frames is sometimes adequate (never great), the choice of lens material is poor. I know it is unfashionable to say so, but you get what you pay for.
Maybe she was right. [Sigh.]
Or even better, LaTeX.
For unbreakable and perfect formatting for a printed page, sure, TeX and its spinoffs are stupendous, but I don't know anybody who actually uses them to render output for a screen, except via a postscript renderer.