A penalty kick occurs when the defending team makes a foul in the penalty area, which is the larger of the two rectangles around the goal. (When a foul is committed outside of the penalty area, a free kick is taken from the place where the foul occurred.)
Penalties are also used to decide an otherwise undecided game, but only in world cup-style tournaments. In regular competitions, draws are perfectly acceptable (as in the first round of the world cup).
tying Pele for most goals by a Brazilian in the final
Yes, but must you must take into account that Pele did it with less games. Nowadays, 32 teams enter the world cup, whereas that number was 16 in Pele's time.
Is that an existing expression, in Dutch and/or English and/or another language, or really an invention of Desert Fish (Woestijnvis)?
Just wondering.
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(For instance, if a score 3 comment is posted as a reply to a score -1 comment, you'll have to set your threshold to -1 in order to view the +3 comment.) I'd like to be able to see the +3 response, even if the original -1 post is not shown.
I believe "Reparent Highly Rated Comments" in Comment Options of your user preferences does just that.
I've been testing the thing for a few minutes, and I think it's impressive (though I was quite skeptical in the beginning).
What's more, I noticed it really makes one memorize the order of the letters in the alphabet!!
But gone are the days where changing an IP address or other network settings would require a reboot.
I agree Windows 2000 is a lot better in this regard compared to Windows NT or Windows 98, but you still have to reboot when you change the computer name!
I have no idea why, because if you use DHCP to retrieve the computer name you don't have to reboot when the DHCP-server changes the name.
One main reason for this is with xinerama on screen 1 wont have full HW acceleration from my radeon.
This should really be fixed. Windows has supported this for years. Only when a window is partially on one screen and partially on another, Windows resorts to software 3D rendering; otherwise hardware rendering is fully supported. Quake on one screen while monitoring WinAmp and a mailclient on the other screen, just great.
It's not that simple in Asimov's reasoning. In one of his robot stories, there is a robot who's a judge (or a prosecutor, don't remember).
He even sentenced several people with the death penalty, still obeying Asimov's three laws: he didn't kill them (other people did the dirty job) and though the fact was obviously harming the criminal, it was supposedly more than compensated by the advantage to society as a whole. (IIRC, nobody ever knew whether he was a robot or not; this death penalty thing was used as an argument against him being a robot, but that argument was debunked by the reasoning above).
In another story, the world is administered by a giant electronic brain. The brain took several decisions that seemed to be bad decisions and even against Asimov's first law (because they robbed e.g. a manager of a mining company of his job IIRC), but in the end it turned out he lost his job because it was better in the grand scheme of things, and he wasn't harmed that much since the computer supplied him with another job.
I DID POSSIBLY THE MOST EXCITING THING I HAVE EVER DONE TONIGHT. (OK, technically I finished it THIS MORNING). As some of you may know, I have been gathering data on Martian atmosphere, gravity, surface "texture", and topography for X-Plane from various NASA sites (http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/tharsis/mola.html, for example).
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(Could I be the first human to fly a real-time flight simulaton of Mars? I have seen many "movies" of "flying" over Mars terrain, but NONE have been hooked to an actual realistic FLIGHT MODEL... has NASA done a REAL-TIME simulation of Mars flight in a PILOTED aircraft? Has ANYONE?) Well, I have for the last 6 hours, AND IT IS FRIGGIN FASCINATING.
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So what sort of planes can fly on Mars? Not anything from Earth, that's for sure. Not enough lift or thrust. A Cessna or Boeing will just sit there on the ground without even moving. Put them in the air and they drop like beveled bricks with no wings. Both of my Mars-plane concepts are much like the U-2 Spyplane (designed to operate at around 100,000 ft, in simlar density air) one with a HUGE high-bypass jet engine built AROUND THE FUSELAGE, and another with a smaller rocket engine in the tail, like the X-15. The rocket plane has a lower-thrust engine, with plenty of fuel, for about 30 minutes of flight or so... the JET plane can fly for hours!
However, if you were to cover one eye and look at a 3D object, you get a totally different sense of that object
To be honest, I don't. I get exactly the same sense whether I use one eye or both. Reason is that in most circumstances only one eye at a time is focused. My left eye is short sighted, while my right eye is far sighted. Very strange, and as an effect I'm bad at perceiving depth. Good enough for normal life; I have no problems driving a car, but it makes parking more difficult.
I can see stereographic images, but it's very hard to get both of my eyes focused simultaneously (up to 1 m I can see sharp with both eyes, further away only with my right eye; depends on lighting conditions though, on a sunny day it's clearly better). Looking trough a binocular or stereomicroscope gives me full 3D view, since they allow me to adjust the focus separately for each eye.
3D techniques that rely on both eyes getting a different image won't have much effect for me, unless the screen is in the range where both my eyes can adapt and focus enough. Or maybe I should get glasses.
NN6 is based on old versions of Mozilla, with (I think) still debug code in it and not optimized. Newer versions of Mozilla (since about 0.9.7, IIRC) are much faster. Try RC2, it's very fast. Use the 'Modern' theme, the 'Classic' is ugly as hell (in my opinion, at least).
I'd greatly appreciate any recommendations for gecko-based win32 browsers.
K-Meleon. Very fast, but very thin on features; too thin for me to have a pleasant browsing experience with it, but it clearly shows the speed of gecko.
One word (three, actually): customizable key bindings.
I don't really understand why Mozilla doesn't have it yet. Because the design doesn't really allow it, according to some comments on the bugzilla page for the ctrl-tab 'bug', but wasn't the whole point of Mozilla to be extremely customizable?
Mozilla has (since 0.9.9?) a close button to close the active tab. It's not on the tabs themselves though, it's at the far right of the tabs. Which is maybe even a bit more useful, since it's always at the same place.
Well, when I'm working on my own pages, in IE all I have to do is edit the code on the fly, then name and save the file appropriately. IE wins there, IMO.
Well, you can just use File->Edit Page as Neon Spiral Injector said. You don't even really have to save the file, since the source editor has a preview feature.
At first I didn't like it either, but now, once I got used to it, I love it. I've used it and Opera and Mozilla, and I can't live without anymore.
I don't want a full-screen browser window (with its own subwindows for each page) that obscures whatever other apps you have open at the same time.
Most of the time, I have different pages open, but don't want to see them all at the same time. So I don't have the browser full-screen, and the subwindows obscure only each other, not other apps. This saves screen real estate. Note that Mozilla allows you for every link to choose whether to open it in a new tab or a new window; the tabbed browsing doesn't take away any features from the normal multi-window browsing experience.
In theory, this could happen to any bridge in America. Scary stuff, eh?
Not really. Engineers have learned from it, and build much more dampening in bridges now. They won't resonate as much anymore.
Use fetchyahoo, available from Freshmeat. There's another one too, but I forgot the name. Fetches mail from Yahoo and puts it in a mailbox or forwards it to another address.
These are the filters I use, since I don't want any mails on my Hotmail account (I only use it to log in to MSN Messenger - at the time it was the only way). Without those filters, even the most strict setting still lets some mail through (notably from MS itself).
With the filters, not gets through. Ever.
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Penalties are also used to decide an otherwise undecided game, but only in world cup-style tournaments. In regular competitions, draws are perfectly acceptable (as in the first round of the world cup).
Yes, but must you must take into account that Pele did it with less games. Nowadays, 32 teams enter the world cup, whereas that number was 16 in Pele's time.
Is that an existing expression, in Dutch and/or English and/or another language, or really an invention of Desert Fish (Woestijnvis)?
Just wondering.
I believe "Reparent Highly Rated Comments" in Comment Options of your user preferences does just that.
I've been testing the thing for a few minutes, and I think it's impressive (though I was quite skeptical in the beginning).
What's more, I noticed it really makes one memorize the order of the letters in the alphabet!!
I agree Windows 2000 is a lot better in this regard compared to Windows NT or Windows 98, but you still have to reboot when you change the computer name!
I have no idea why, because if you use DHCP to retrieve the computer name you don't have to reboot when the DHCP-server changes the name.
This should really be fixed. Windows has supported this for years. Only when a window is partially on one screen and partially on another, Windows resorts to software 3D rendering; otherwise hardware rendering is fully supported. Quake on one screen while monitoring WinAmp and a mailclient on the other screen, just great.
Now that you mention, I seem to remember something like that. It's been quite some time since I read Asimov.
In another story, the world is administered by a giant electronic brain. The brain took several decisions that seemed to be bad decisions and even against Asimov's first law (because they robbed e.g. a manager of a mining company of his job IIRC), but in the end it turned out he lost his job because it was better in the grand scheme of things, and he wasn't harmed that much since the computer supplied him with another job.
Quite an interesting read. Some excerpts:
To be honest, I don't. I get exactly the same sense whether I use one eye or both. Reason is that in most circumstances only one eye at a time is focused. My left eye is short sighted, while my right eye is far sighted. Very strange, and as an effect I'm bad at perceiving depth. Good enough for normal life; I have no problems driving a car, but it makes parking more difficult.
I can see stereographic images, but it's very hard to get both of my eyes focused simultaneously (up to 1 m I can see sharp with both eyes, further away only with my right eye; depends on lighting conditions though, on a sunny day it's clearly better). Looking trough a binocular or stereomicroscope gives me full 3D view, since they allow me to adjust the focus separately for each eye.
3D techniques that rely on both eyes getting a different image won't have much effect for me, unless the screen is in the range where both my eyes can adapt and focus enough. Or maybe I should get glasses.
You might have better luck at http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Undoubtedly, they taped it.
Ah, thanks, I'll have a look at it.
NN6 is based on old versions of Mozilla, with (I think) still debug code in it and not optimized. Newer versions of Mozilla (since about 0.9.7, IIRC) are much faster. Try RC2, it's very fast. Use the 'Modern' theme, the 'Classic' is ugly as hell (in my opinion, at least).
K-Meleon. Very fast, but very thin on features; too thin for me to have a pleasant browsing experience with it, but it clearly shows the speed of gecko.
One word (three, actually): customizable key bindings.
I don't really understand why Mozilla doesn't have it yet. Because the design doesn't really allow it, according to some comments on the bugzilla page for the ctrl-tab 'bug', but wasn't the whole point of Mozilla to be extremely customizable?
Mozilla has (since 0.9.9?) a close button to close the active tab. It's not on the tabs themselves though, it's at the far right of the tabs. Which is maybe even a bit more useful, since it's always at the same place.
In theory, this could happen to any bridge in America. Scary stuff, eh?
Not really. Engineers have learned from it, and build much more dampening in bridges now. They won't resonate as much anymore.
Use fetchyahoo, available from Freshmeat. There's another one too, but I forgot the name. Fetches mail from Yahoo and puts it in a mailbox or forwards it to another address.
- if subject contains "abc" -> send to trash
- if subject doesn't contain "abc" -> send to trash
These are the filters I use, since I don't want any mails on my Hotmail account (I only use it to log in to MSN Messenger - at the time it was the only way). Without those filters, even the most strict setting still lets some mail through (notably from MS itself).With the filters, not gets through. Ever.
Even more off topic:
$ wget http://www.madcow404.com
--13:41:45-- http://www.madcow404.com/
=> `index.html'
Resolving www.madcow404.com... done.
Connecting to www.madcow404.com[130.104.18.126]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 504 Gateway Time-out
13:43:00 ERROR 504: Gateway Time-out.
I might be wrong of course, but isn't that where the name soap opera comes from? Weren't soap commercials the origin of the genre?