Funny how you can still buy chemistry sets on ebay so easily then isn't it? Yes, and Amazon.com and toys-r-us, and scientificsonline, but why spoil the fun when we're having a good old fashioned "get off my lawn" party?
yeah, now try comparing the contents of a post-2001 set to a nice 1960's set. Now get offa my lawn before my GMO grass with auto-track and venom pumps locks on to you.
The Ribbon is a disaster. Examples (from Office): Excel: wanna add a worksheet: go to home/cells/format . Boy , that was obvious! Or, to Copy Special, go to Paste Special (or is it the other way around?). But more to the point: when you can no longer customize your menus, you can't even move the ribbon to the vertical edge instead of the top of the window, and you can't customize icons for, say, buttons to run your macros, the ribbon's gross failures become quite obvious. The ribbon is eye-candy for the kind of people who never learned about the menu items (in Office 2003 or earlier) that were hidden by default unless you hovered long enough on the menu list. And BTW, using hundreds of new, multicolored, nonintuitive icons for the buttons does not a better interface make.
Except that you are completely wrong. They were providing copyrighted (not illegal) content, and there is no provision in any copyright law that either allows the vendor (Amazon) to pull copies back from owners of Kindles, nor to require said owners to delete the copies they received. More to the point: it should be flat out illegal for any content provider to be able to remove any content from a user's device. Cue the "own vs. license" flame war here...
A better analogy would be Orville and Wilbur carving a wooden wing and running around the bike shop with it to feel that it does indeed produce lift when pushed through a fluid like air. Actually that would be a pretty dumb thing to do. First of all, I'm sure paper airplanes and other gliders had been pretty well established by then. Next, solid-body wings were quite sensibly rejected on lift vs weight vs strength grounds. All early airplanes used cambered single-surface wings. Now, building a small model with an engine of known thrust, and measuring the amount of lift per unit wing area might have been useful.:-)
Something I've always wondered about physical models is, how can you compare them to real situations at different scales? IIRC the folks who design America's Cup sailboats have (had) a rule of thumb that a hull model less than 1/3 scale would not accurately predict the drag of the full-size design. Off-topic: if you think water and fluid dynamics are tough to figure out, take a look at what little we know about how ice skating works -- or to be exact, just how the surface of ice behaves to allow gliding motion.
IIRC some brand-new towns designed their sewer system and waste treatment plants to handle large quantities of food waste, and then required all houses to install dispose-alls in the sinks. (and banned dumping food waste into trash, I think). Dunno how successful they were, but I gotta say the concept is much neater, simpler, and more efficient than setting up a whole separate compostables pick-up system.
If you're trying to spread it deliberately, don't get on a plane, hang out in the airport. No, you can fly -- just show the TSA inspector your empty, sealed test tubes, and open one for him to verify it's empty. Just leave a note about 12 monkeys getting loose while you're about it.
Let me say first off that the local Computer/Network Operators at my company (I refuse to use "IT" because, heck, a paperback book and a slide rule are both "information technology") are competent, helpful, and interact w/ the tech staff well. The overarching group (NorthropGrumman IT *Division*) not so much. Simple example: someone decided that Office2007 should be rolled out. Now, that person may have had worries about document compatibility with customers and vendors, in which case he was wrong, since there are converters which down-convert the _content_ just fine even if the fancy-schmancy eye candy doesn't. Or he may have simply decided (or been bribed) to pay $gazilliion to upgrade all machines. In either case, nobody cared to ask any users whether they were able to work more efficiently with Office03 than Office07. And, yes, I am fully of the opinion that a "power user" knows that speed and efficiency come from minimizing the use of the mouse in favor of keystroke commands, and that being able to customize menus is infinitely better than searching thru "ribbons" with commands placed in unintuitive, seemingly arbitrary sub-menus. Take another example: most employees think python is either a reptile or an old BBC comedy show, but those who actually want to write and use Python code should not be barred from doing so. You just cannot have a common policy applied to factory workers, administrators, software jocks, and science/engineering staff. I, for one, do not ask for "support" for most of the tools I use. I just ask for _permission_ to use and maintain them without coming in to find my machine has been once again rooted by the midnight auto-update patch monster.
Yep, it can do anything. In fact Texas Instruments is using it in their next-gen calculators. You'll soon be able to buy a.... . . . wait.... Graphene Calculator!
Anyone here who does NOT know at least one person who types URLs into search engines instead of the address line of their browser? Heck, who uses a browser with a separate search line? These days all the good ones (flame war!) parse the address line and dump the contents to a search engine if it's not a valid URL
You also dont get the option to loan your book to friends. That crap system they call loaning is nothing of the sort. So we are expected to pay more for less. cough.. ignoblekeygen.py... ignobleepub.py...
Not only that, even if it were deleted, then the electrons that make up his copy are clearly different electrons. Depends: if you subscribe to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe theory that there's only one electron in the universe which exists all over the place in different quantum states (hence Pauli exclusion), then you're only creating new quantum states of the One Electron.
It means the previous poster was a douche of the sort who thinks 'consensus of opinion' is English. In this case, the intended word probably was "flout."
Protip: if 5% of a species survives, it's not extinct. But even 50% of humans dying would be considered bad. Depends: which 50% is my mother-in-law in?
At least the software follows the model of the rest of the car. Its a jag, everything breaks down. And here they come up with a fix that makes sure the car keeps going (i.e. does NOT break down and stop), and people complain!
DO you notice a trend that the US government seems to think that the more money we put into something (and fail), the more ADDITIONAL funding is used to push ourselves deeper into the void...? FBI --> Peanuts. You should see that modus operandi in action over at the DoD.
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If things were always like that, I imagine we'd still think there were only four elements.
Wait! When did they find the fifth one?
It was wrapped in a long orange ribbon-y sort of thing.
Funny how you can still buy chemistry sets on ebay so easily then isn't it?
Yes, and Amazon.com and toys-r-us, and scientificsonline, but why spoil the fun when we're having a good old fashioned "get off my lawn" party?
yeah, now try comparing the contents of a post-2001 set to a nice 1960's set.
Now get offa my lawn before my GMO grass with auto-track and venom pumps locks on to you.
The Ribbon is a disaster. Examples (from Office): Excel: wanna add a worksheet: go to home/cells/format . Boy , that was obvious!
Or, to Copy Special, go to Paste Special (or is it the other way around?).
But more to the point: when you can no longer customize your menus, you can't even move the ribbon to the vertical edge instead of the top of the window, and you can't customize icons for, say, buttons to run your macros, the ribbon's gross failures become quite obvious. The ribbon is eye-candy for the kind of people who never learned about the menu items (in Office 2003 or earlier) that were hidden by default unless you hovered long enough on the menu list.
And BTW, using hundreds of new, multicolored, nonintuitive icons for the buttons does not a better interface make.
Except that you are completely wrong. They were providing copyrighted (not illegal) content, and there is no provision in any copyright law that either allows the vendor (Amazon) to pull copies back from owners of Kindles, nor to require said owners to delete the copies they received.
More to the point: it should be flat out illegal for any content provider to be able to remove any content from a user's device. Cue the "own vs. license" flame war here...
A better analogy would be Orville and Wilbur carving a wooden wing and running around the bike shop with it to feel that it does indeed produce lift when pushed through a fluid like air. :-)
Actually that would be a pretty dumb thing to do. First of all, I'm sure paper airplanes and other gliders had been pretty well established by then. Next, solid-body wings were quite sensibly rejected on lift vs weight vs strength grounds. All early airplanes used cambered single-surface wings. Now, building a small model with an engine of known thrust, and measuring the amount of lift per unit wing area might have been useful.
Something I've always wondered about physical models is, how can you compare them to real situations at different scales?
IIRC the folks who design America's Cup sailboats have (had) a rule of thumb that a hull model less than 1/3 scale would not accurately predict the drag of the full-size design. Off-topic: if you think water and fluid dynamics are tough to figure out, take a look at what little we know about how ice skating works -- or to be exact, just how the surface of ice behaves to allow gliding motion.
IIRC some brand-new towns designed their sewer system and waste treatment plants to handle large quantities of food waste, and then required all houses to install dispose-alls in the sinks. (and banned dumping food waste into trash, I think). Dunno how successful they were, but I gotta say the concept is much neater, simpler, and more efficient than setting up a whole separate compostables pick-up system.
As long as we're at it: how many people know that 12 Monkeys is based on La Jetee?
If you're trying to spread it deliberately, don't get on a plane, hang out in the airport.
No, you can fly -- just show the TSA inspector your empty, sealed test tubes, and open one for him to verify it's empty. Just leave a note about 12 monkeys getting loose while you're about it.
"From now on, all employees must replace email with posts to a slashdot forum. Warning: never mod your boss's posts down!"
It would take a lot of effort and money to disturb this sleeping dog. Why go to the trouble?
Because it might possibly, you know, lead to the production of beta-hemoth (sorry I don't know the sekrit coding to write a "beta" there).
Let me say first off that the local Computer/Network Operators at my company (I refuse to use "IT" because, heck, a paperback book and a slide rule are both "information technology") are competent, helpful, and interact w/ the tech staff well. The overarching group (NorthropGrumman IT *Division*) not so much. Simple example: someone decided that Office2007 should be rolled out. Now, that person may have had worries about document compatibility with customers and vendors, in which case he was wrong, since there are converters which down-convert the _content_ just fine even if the fancy-schmancy eye candy doesn't. Or he may have simply decided (or been bribed) to pay $gazilliion to upgrade all machines. In either case, nobody cared to ask any users whether they were able to work more efficiently with Office03 than Office07. And, yes, I am fully of the opinion that a "power user" knows that speed and efficiency come from minimizing the use of the mouse in favor of keystroke commands, and that being able to customize menus is infinitely better than searching thru "ribbons" with commands placed in unintuitive, seemingly arbitrary sub-menus. Take another example: most employees think python is either a reptile or an old BBC comedy show, but those who actually want to write and use Python code should not be barred from doing so. You just cannot have a common policy applied to factory workers, administrators, software jocks, and science/engineering staff. I, for one, do not ask for "support" for most of the tools I use. I just ask for _permission_ to use and maintain them without coming in to find my machine has been once again rooted by the midnight auto-update patch monster.
I'm amazed that nobody has either tagged or posted WCPGW yet. :-)
Because maybe, just maybe, they'll delve too deeply and have bigger problems to deal with.
Like waking a Balrog?
Yep, it can do anything. In fact Texas Instruments is using it in their next-gen calculators. You'll soon be able to buy a ....
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wait....
Graphene Calculator!
Anyone here who does NOT know at least one person who types URLs into search engines instead of the address line of their browser?
Heck, who uses a browser with a separate search line? These days all the good ones (flame war!) parse the address line and dump the contents to a search engine if it's not a valid URL
If only China were capitalist, the Invisible Hand would take care of those poisoned people right snappy.
or maybe...
You also dont get the option to loan your book to friends. That crap system they call loaning is nothing of the sort. So we are expected to pay more for less. ... ignobleepub.py ...
cough.. ignoblekeygen.py
I propose cruxifiction.
Best new word of the year. How well it applies to the entire religion!
Not only that, even if it were deleted, then the electrons that make up his copy are clearly different electrons.
Depends: if you subscribe to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe theory that there's only one electron in the universe which exists all over the place in different quantum states (hence Pauli exclusion), then you're only creating new quantum states of the One Electron.
It means the previous poster was a douche of the sort who thinks 'consensus of opinion' is English. In this case, the intended word probably was "flout."
Protip: if 5% of a species survives, it's not extinct. But even 50% of humans dying would be considered bad.
Depends: which 50% is my mother-in-law in?
At least the software follows the model of the rest of the car. Its a jag, everything breaks down.
And here they come up with a fix that makes sure the car keeps going (i.e. does NOT break down and stop), and people complain!
Old news -- maybe you youngsters can't remember:
yes they do
DO you notice a trend that the US government seems to think that the more money we put into something (and fail), the more ADDITIONAL funding is used to push ourselves deeper into the void...?
FBI --> Peanuts. You should see that modus operandi in action over at the DoD.