I used to play Day Of Defeat (in good old Iron Fist League...) and was often the team's sniper. Even when camping I would constantly move the mouse; partly because the DoD sniper rifle sight moves to simulate breathing, partly to scan a slightly larger area. If your mouse is idled down you aiming at one point only, not tracking targets or scanning the edges of your field of view, and are a horrible camper anyway.
Off the top of my head:
Solid
Liquid
Critical state
Supercritical matter
Gas
Plasma
Liquid crystal
Glass
Bose-Einstein condensate
Fermionic condensate
Rydberg molecule
Superfluid
Quark-Gluon plasma
My router has a store-and-forward switch. I'd certainly not buy a (home) "router" (really router, access point, DHCP server, caching DNS server, switch, etc embedded server) without one.
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Cassini passed through the gap between the F and G rings.
Firefox has an awesome addons framework. Why not ship a very lightweight browser and add functionality with installed-by-default addons? Put them in a separate first-party addons window, but let people disable them at will. You can add all the features you want, and people who want a faster browser can turn them off.
LN2 is pretty easy to get. Try a welding supply shop (my local one is an AirGas, they're a pretty big chain.) It's pretty cheap, IIRC about $90 for a 180 Liter Dewar.
I had a really excellent rant about how "f" and the long "s" are different, and the short "s" in "supervifion" should be long (being initial and not preceding an "f") but Slashdot's terrible unicode whitelist ruined it. Have a link instead. http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.html
The NY Times reports that an inquiry by the Commerce Department's inspector general has found no evidence that NOAA scientists manipulated climate data (reg. may be required) to buttress evidence in support of global warming after climate change skeptics contended that e-mail messages between climate scientists that were stolen and circulated on the Internet in late 2009 showed that scientists were manipulating or withholding information to advance the theory that the earth is warming as a result of human activity.
The NY Times reports that an inquiry by the Commerce Department's inspector general has found no evidence that NOAA scientists manipulated climate data. Climate change skeptics contended that leaked e-mail messages between climate scientists were manipulating or withholding information to advance the theory that the Earth is warming as a result of human activity.
The only information I have lost is the date of the leaks. There is one main idea per sentence now, and it may be easier to read. The original is not a run-on sentence, merely long. It could probably be broken up even further, but I do not think that is needed. It is often considered poor form to combine many independent clauses into one sentence when there is no benefit by doing so. Good structure and cadence can make a piece easier to read. This can range from short breaks liketheideaofputtingspacesbetweenwords, up through breaks like adding subclauses, into sentence boundaries. The breaks continue into paragraphs, as a "wall of text" is harder to follow visually, and into sections or chapters, and in large works into separate books.
As a kid in 7th grade I took the CTY Spatial Test Battery. One of the tests, the Visual Memory subtest involved memorizing some shapes, then, after taking 2 other 30-minute subtests, picking those shapes out of other groups. The STB is scored like the SATs, I was one of 2 kids in California that year to score over a 610 (I got 690). I missed only one of the visual memory questions. I wouldn't say I have a perfect photographic memory, but I do have a very good visual memory. Perfect memory does seem to be a myth, but some people can get close enough that careless observation makes one think they are perfect.
It does come in useful for remembering non-visual things, just write it out and take a minute to memorize the image of the page. Then read the text back when needed.
Sometimes "I hit every red light on the way here" really does happen. I kept track on my old daily commute, and about once a week (most often on a Wednesday) I would hit either every red or all but the first (out of 14 lights). Probably just due to timing of when I had to go to school on Wednesdays being in a higher traffic period.
Interestingly, this exists, it's called a plotter. Quite useful in many situations, too, since you can replace the pen with, say, a waterjet or laser cutter, or an engraver. It's a 2D CNC machine.
Possible error: ayh tee tee pee colon slash slash ask dot slash dot dot org = http://ask./..org
Actual test, with Vibrant, google voice search, for "Http://ask.slashdot.org"
1 / slash ask don't stop.org
http: slash slash ask.com stop.org
1/ slash asked pasta
For "ask.slashdot.org"
ask
ask.com start.org
ask.com stop.org
For "slashdot.org"
slashdot.org
For "Http://slashdot.org"
http: slash slash
http: slash
http: slash slash slash dot.org (comes up with slashdot as the first result)
So it works, sometimes, but slashdot has a confusing name. It works much better for "normal" input in English.
Anonymous is the set of all people who are choosing to remain anonymous at any given time. To be a group it would have to have a combination operation and satisfy axioms of associativity, closure, identity and invertibility. Without a group operation Anonymous is not a group.
So you're wrong. You got a math geek instead of an Anonymous fan.
Kernel security updates. Application updates that change their init scripts. Etc. Anything that happens on boot can fail when changed, and it is better to have the failures occur during scheduled downtime than unscheduled. Those changes should be rare, but reboots for security updates aren't that rare. Hardware failures are just one of the many possible failures.
How about this: Copyright is free and automatic for one year. After that it must be registered, for a fee of Ten dollars (to be adjusted for inflation/deflation every ten years) and renewed every year. The renewal fee shall double each year.
1 year = free.
2 years = $10
3 years = $20
4 years = $40
5 years = $80
6 years = 160
etc, etc.
At 19 years it costs over a million dollars a year. If you are making over a million dollars a year from the work society still considers it valuable in its original from. If you have not been able to make a profit in this time, then the work is clearly not profitable, and should be released to the public domain for others to improve upon.
Unless a company is making an exponentially increasing profit such a system will put a soft cap on the length of copyright. That length will be determined by the value of the work to the creator. Furthermore, since the fees increase so much for long-held works there is a strong incentive to create many new works, rather than attempt to keep old works protected.
I'd also like to see a GPL-like or CC-by-SA type option for a period, which would waive the fee.
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This is a consumer drive. The "M" in the X25-M stood for "mainstream". As it is replacing the X25-M it is also a consumer drive.
I used to play Day Of Defeat (in good old Iron Fist League...) and was often the team's sniper. Even when camping I would constantly move the mouse; partly because the DoD sniper rifle sight moves to simulate breathing, partly to scan a slightly larger area. If your mouse is idled down you aiming at one point only, not tracking targets or scanning the edges of your field of view, and are a horrible camper anyway.
Off the top of my head:
Solid
Liquid
Critical state
Supercritical matter
Gas
Plasma
Liquid crystal
Glass
Bose-Einstein condensate
Fermionic condensate
Rydberg molecule
Superfluid
Quark-Gluon plasma
Probably a few others. And now pseudogap.
My router has a store-and-forward switch. I'd certainly not buy a (home) "router" (really router, access point, DHCP server, caching DNS server, switch, etc embedded server) without one.
Cassini passed through the gap between the F and G rings.
TEPCO owns over 70GW of generating capacity. A few hundred MW are not going to make much of a difference, and routing it onshore is a BIG problem.
MP3 decoders are common in CD players.
Buffer overflow attacks are just one way to get a system to treat data as executable code.
They exist. EvilMadScientist wrote a blurb about them a while back. Google for cable tie installation tool for a lot more.
Actually, the "about" box also removes the "RCx" bit.
Firefox has an awesome addons framework. Why not ship a very lightweight browser and add functionality with installed-by-default addons? Put them in a separate first-party addons window, but let people disable them at will. You can add all the features you want, and people who want a faster browser can turn them off.
LN2 is pretty easy to get. Try a welding supply shop (my local one is an AirGas, they're a pretty big chain.) It's pretty cheap, IIRC about $90 for a 180 Liter Dewar.
They are an equal opportunity employer with an innovative approach to affirmative action.
Will finally know if androids dream of electric sheep.
I had a really excellent rant about how "f" and the long "s" are different, and the short "s" in "supervifion" should be long (being initial and not preceding an "f") but Slashdot's terrible unicode whitelist ruined it. Have a link instead. http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.html
I also like that one can use KDE without Kwin. Xmonad + KDE4 is quite nice.
Green on black is the one true terminal colour scheme. Well, maybe amber on black too.
The NY Times reports that an inquiry by the Commerce Department's inspector general has found no evidence that NOAA scientists manipulated climate data. Climate change skeptics contended that leaked e-mail messages between climate scientists were manipulating or withholding information to advance the theory that the Earth is warming as a result of human activity.
The only information I have lost is the date of the leaks. There is one main idea per sentence now, and it may be easier to read. The original is not a run-on sentence, merely long. It could probably be broken up even further, but I do not think that is needed.
It is often considered poor form to combine many independent clauses into one sentence when there is no benefit by doing so. Good structure and cadence can make a piece easier to read. This can range from short breaks liketheideaofputtingspacesbetweenwords, up through breaks like adding subclauses, into sentence boundaries. The breaks continue into paragraphs, as a "wall of text" is harder to follow visually, and into sections or chapters, and in large works into separate books.
As a kid in 7th grade I took the CTY Spatial Test Battery. One of the tests, the Visual Memory subtest involved memorizing some shapes, then, after taking 2 other 30-minute subtests, picking those shapes out of other groups. The STB is scored like the SATs, I was one of 2 kids in California that year to score over a 610 (I got 690). I missed only one of the visual memory questions. I wouldn't say I have a perfect photographic memory, but I do have a very good visual memory. Perfect memory does seem to be a myth, but some people can get close enough that careless observation makes one think they are perfect.
It does come in useful for remembering non-visual things, just write it out and take a minute to memorize the image of the page. Then read the text back when needed.
Sometimes "I hit every red light on the way here" really does happen. I kept track on my old daily commute, and about once a week (most often on a Wednesday) I would hit either every red or all but the first (out of 14 lights). Probably just due to timing of when I had to go to school on Wednesdays being in a higher traffic period.
Interestingly, this exists, it's called a plotter. Quite useful in many situations, too, since you can replace the pen with, say, a waterjet or laser cutter, or an engraver. It's a 2D CNC machine.
Possible error: ayh tee tee pee colon slash slash ask dot slash dot dot org = http://ask./..org
Actual test, with Vibrant, google voice search, for "Http://ask.slashdot.org"
1 / slash ask don't stop.org
http: slash slash ask.com stop.org
1/ slash asked pasta
For "ask.slashdot.org"
ask
ask.com start.org
ask.com stop.org
For "slashdot.org"
slashdot.org
For "Http://slashdot.org"
http: slash slash
http: slash
http: slash slash slash dot.org (comes up with slashdot as the first result)
So it works, sometimes, but slashdot has a confusing name. It works much better for "normal" input in English.
Anonymous is the set of all people who are choosing to remain anonymous at any given time. To be a group it would have to have a combination operation and satisfy axioms of associativity, closure, identity and invertibility. Without a group operation Anonymous is not a group.
So you're wrong. You got a math geek instead of an Anonymous fan.
Preferably put it towards education, so as to help people learn to create new content.
Kernel security updates. Application updates that change their init scripts. Etc. Anything that happens on boot can fail when changed, and it is better to have the failures occur during scheduled downtime than unscheduled. Those changes should be rare, but reboots for security updates aren't that rare. Hardware failures are just one of the many possible failures.
How about this: Copyright is free and automatic for one year. After that it must be registered, for a fee of Ten dollars (to be adjusted for inflation/deflation every ten years) and renewed every year. The renewal fee shall double each year.
1 year = free.
2 years = $10
3 years = $20
4 years = $40
5 years = $80
6 years = 160
etc, etc.
At 19 years it costs over a million dollars a year. If you are making over a million dollars a year from the work society still considers it valuable in its original from. If you have not been able to make a profit in this time, then the work is clearly not profitable, and should be released to the public domain for others to improve upon.
Unless a company is making an exponentially increasing profit such a system will put a soft cap on the length of copyright. That length will be determined by the value of the work to the creator. Furthermore, since the fees increase so much for long-held works there is a strong incentive to create many new works, rather than attempt to keep old works protected.
I'd also like to see a GPL-like or CC-by-SA type option for a period, which would waive the fee.