The really hard storage problems are the 1000+ year ones. Linguistic drift means there's a good chance it would take a specialist to even read any of the info, if anyone knows the language at all (very few people understand Old Church Slavonic, and that was first used in writing around 860 CE). For really long storage the best way is to include things in as many formats and languages as possible.
They can also track what sites a given IP is using to access their "like" button images. It's not as precise as tracking a single browser, but it gives plenty of info about a household and doesn't require anything special client-side.
Can't change keyboard layout. Can't easily type in other languages that need accented characters. Hinges are a moving part, and more likely to break (eg the HTC G2's hinges were quite flimsy, and would get loose rather quickly.)
Now, you may only type in English, and may like thumb-typing on a QWERTY keyboard, but I don't. A software keyboard (I use AnySoftKeyboard) can redefine to allow typing whatever is needed, and to be easier to type on with thumbs.
It was TWO experiments (ATLAS and CMS, both at the LHC) that confirmed a new boson. It is very likely to be a Higgs. Whether it is a Standard Model Higgs or not is the current big question.
Only about 10 here. More as time goes on. Every group I join has a different account. Each of my groups of friends has a different account. And a few accounts for free stuff in non-facebook games (eg League of Legends Tristana.)
Every single page on geocities was guaranteed to have 1 or more of the following: Flashing yellow/orange "UNDER CONSTRUCTION" gif. Tiled background Blink tags Marquee tags Dark grey text on a black background Yellow text on a white background Rainbow text.
Also, not all oxygen needs to come from air. For example, chlorine trifluoride is a better oxidizer than oxygen. Also a better fluorinating agent than fluorine. It will happily burn sand, asbestos, bricks, concrete, and other such substances. Even works in a pure nitrogen atmosphere, or a vacuum. While I'd certainly hope there isn't any in the vicinity of the train there are lots of other oxidizers that will be present. Even aluminum train body + rust on any steel in the tunnels could create a (probably small) thermite reaction.
Just because there's no combustion doesn't mean it isn't exothermic.
It's far more reasonable to believe that there are moles at Intel/AMD. Their designs are not nearly as well vetted, since most governments and educational institutions don't have access to the source. It's also the smart place to put a backdoor, since it's MUCH harder for the target to remove it if found.
I swapped from Qwerty to Dvorak to Colemak. I find Colemak to be a bit less stressful than Dvorak for long typing sessions, and much better than Qwerty. The QWerty-like placement of the wqazxcv keys also helps a lot for using a modern computer.
I use Colemak for both touch typing and on-screen typing. It's a bit more optimized than Dvorak, keeps the common shortcut qwazxcv keys in the same locations, and is easy to install for Windows/Mac/Linux/Android. It is also pretty good for typing accented characters.
Interestingly enough/. showed those perfectly in the preview, but then escaped them in the final post./. really should fix their unicode support, I get that use of RTL and control characters were an issue, but there are better ways to prevent that than whitelisting a very small character set.
Directly, yes, but indirectly no. Einstein's explanation of the photoelectric effect was based off of questions generated by others using rather sophisticated equipment, for example. Many of Newton's greatest discoveries were made when he was secluded on a farm to escape the plague, Einsteins while he was working at a patent office. Both did later work with more direct experimental apparatus.
given the number of Android devices with locked bootloaders, yes. The app store is less closed, the OS isn't. Now, if you (like me) only buy devices with unlocked bootloaders it's quite a lot more open.
I'd normally say Newton was more brilliant, but you really can't tell. Newton had far more insights and discoveries, and worse apparatus to experiment with, but there was also more to discover.
No, it's a valid nitpick. The searches at the LHC now change from "find the Higgs" to "figure out if what we found is really the Higgs, and if it is if it's a Standard Model version or something more complex." They have found something that looks very much like a SM Higgs. The goal is to see if it really is one.
The expected model has not been confirmed. The existence of one or more Higgs bosons is expected in many, many theories. One of these (the simplest) is the Standard Model Higgs, which may or may not be the type of Higgs that actually exists. Having found a Higgs we can safely discard all the theories that don't allow one, and knowing its mass we can also discard those theories that predict a wildly different mass. As we study it more (the rest of this decade, at least) we'll learn which Higgs it is, if it's the only Higgs, and thus which of our current theories gives the most accurate description of reality.
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The really hard storage problems are the 1000+ year ones. Linguistic drift means there's a good chance it would take a specialist to even read any of the info, if anyone knows the language at all (very few people understand Old Church Slavonic, and that was first used in writing around 860 CE). For really long storage the best way is to include things in as many formats and languages as possible.
They can also track what sites a given IP is using to access their "like" button images. It's not as precise as tracking a single browser, but it gives plenty of info about a household and doesn't require anything special client-side.
I don't own a TV, I have a computer.
Can't change keyboard layout. Can't easily type in other languages that need accented characters. Hinges are a moving part, and more likely to break (eg the HTC G2's hinges were quite flimsy, and would get loose rather quickly.)
Now, you may only type in English, and may like thumb-typing on a QWERTY keyboard, but I don't. A software keyboard (I use AnySoftKeyboard) can redefine to allow typing whatever is needed, and to be easier to type on with thumbs.
It takes quite a lot to break the modern glass on phones. Far more likely to dent/break the bezel and rear case.
It was TWO experiments (ATLAS and CMS, both at the LHC) that confirmed a new boson. It is very likely to be a Higgs.
Whether it is a Standard Model Higgs or not is the current big question.
Only about 10 here. More as time goes on.
Every group I join has a different account. Each of my groups of friends has a different account. And a few accounts for free stuff in non-facebook games (eg League of Legends Tristana.)
Every single page on geocities was guaranteed to have 1 or more of the following:
Flashing yellow/orange "UNDER CONSTRUCTION" gif.
Tiled background
Blink tags
Marquee tags
Dark grey text on a black background
Yellow text on a white background
Rainbow text.
A significant part of why I switched from Yahoo to Google many years ago was the layout of the front page.
Also, not all oxygen needs to come from air. For example, chlorine trifluoride is a better oxidizer than oxygen. Also a better fluorinating agent than fluorine. It will happily burn sand, asbestos, bricks, concrete, and other such substances. Even works in a pure nitrogen atmosphere, or a vacuum. While I'd certainly hope there isn't any in the vicinity of the train there are lots of other oxidizers that will be present. Even aluminum train body + rust on any steel in the tunnels could create a (probably small) thermite reaction.
Just because there's no combustion doesn't mean it isn't exothermic.
It's far more reasonable to believe that there are moles at Intel/AMD. Their designs are not nearly as well vetted, since most governments and educational institutions don't have access to the source. It's also the smart place to put a backdoor, since it's MUCH harder for the target to remove it if found.
Once the keylogger is on your machine, all passwords are screwed anyway. As is your CC#, billing address, name, CCV2 code, etc.
Indeed, Colemak is a very nice layout.And pretty easy to switch to from Qwerty.
AnySoftKeyboard is an easy app to change the layout.
I swapped from Qwerty to Dvorak to Colemak. I find Colemak to be a bit less stressful than Dvorak for long typing sessions, and much better than Qwerty. The QWerty-like placement of the wqazxcv keys also helps a lot for using a modern computer.
I use Colemak for both touch typing and on-screen typing.
It's a bit more optimized than Dvorak, keeps the common shortcut qwazxcv keys in the same locations, and is easy to install for Windows/Mac/Linux/Android. It is also pretty good for typing accented characters.
AllChars is a windows program to add compose-like functionality.
Interestingly enough /. showed those perfectly in the preview, but then escaped them in the final post. /. really should fix their unicode support, I get that use of RTL and control characters were an issue, but there are better ways to prevent that than whitelisting a very small character set.
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Hyphen, en-dash, and em-dash. On my keyboard (colemak) typed by altgr+- and altgr+shift+-.
Directly, yes, but indirectly no. Einstein's explanation of the photoelectric effect was based off of questions generated by others using rather sophisticated equipment, for example. Many of Newton's greatest discoveries were made when he was secluded on a farm to escape the plague, Einsteins while he was working at a patent office. Both did later work with more direct experimental apparatus.
given the number of Android devices with locked bootloaders, yes. The app store is less closed, the OS isn't.
Now, if you (like me) only buy devices with unlocked bootloaders it's quite a lot more open.
I'd normally say Newton was more brilliant, but you really can't tell. Newton had far more insights and discoveries, and worse apparatus to experiment with, but there was also more to discover.
Unlike many modern forums /. has threaded discussions. You can even collapse the threads you don't want to read.
No, it's a valid nitpick.
The searches at the LHC now change from "find the Higgs" to "figure out if what we found is really the Higgs, and if it is if it's a Standard Model version or something more complex."
They have found something that looks very much like a SM Higgs. The goal is to see if it really is one.
The expected model has not been confirmed.
The existence of one or more Higgs bosons is expected in many, many theories. One of these (the simplest) is the Standard Model Higgs, which may or may not be the type of Higgs that actually exists.
Having found a Higgs we can safely discard all the theories that don't allow one, and knowing its mass we can also discard those theories that predict a wildly different mass. As we study it more (the rest of this decade, at least) we'll learn which Higgs it is, if it's the only Higgs, and thus which of our current theories gives the most accurate description of reality.