On some of those sites, the rest of the posts are right there, if you scroll far enough down below all the ads (despite the fact that the page often doesn't look like there is useful content).
Can you point me to some numbers on that, since I find it very unlikely.
I do understand that the advantage of hybrids over other cars is highest in city driving, but it seems to me that mileage even in hybrids should still be better on the highway than in city driving.
I have driven a Citroen Xsara Picasso, a small non-sporty family car at speeds of 180 km/h (112 mph). It had a wimpy 2 L 4 cylinder diesel engine which produced only 97 hp IIRC. At that point it was close to its top speed, but apart from more wind noise and noise from the tires everything was completely normal. There was probably more engine noise too, but it got drowned in the wind noise.
And I've once done 200 k/h (124 mph) (measured by GPS, so that's the real speed as opposed to the inflated speed shown on the dasboard) in a Toyota Corolla Verso which was sligthly less non-sporty and had a 2.2 136 hp diesel engine. 200 k/h was above its posted top speed; I guess the road went a bit downhill. I've driven that car at 180 k/h and 190 k/h with no problem whatsoever.
I'm very surprised to learn that Camero's start to act wonky at speeds even lower than that. Maybe next time you should buy a well-build Japanese or European car (which is not intended to mean that all Japanes or European cars are well-built).
No, "I couldn't care less" means "it's not possible to care even less than I already do, even if I wanted to". It means I care the least possible amount. I have reached the bottom.
"I could care less" (but I don't, meaning that I do care a certain amount) means that there is still a margin between the amount I care and the least possible amount of care. I haven't reached the bottom. Nothing is said about the size of that margin, so this statement really doesn't say anything.
It is a completely relevant question. If a quarter of the population never have used the web, but half of the population has Internet access, it follows that either half those with Internet access have never used it, or that the sentence is formulated so poorly that misunderstandings are bound to ensue.
No, it means that half those without Internet access have never used it.
I speak Dutch too (I'm Flemish). I'm often inclined to write "an USB stick" like you do, because I often think of the Dutch pronunciation of USB which indeed starts with a vowel.
But what matters when writing English is, of course, the English pronunciation, not the Dutch one. In English it is pronounced like joe es bie, so the first sound is not a vowel, so it should be "a USB stick".
All the wireless mouses I've used worked perfectly, for about 98% of the time (not counting empty batteries). 2% of the time they would fail. 2% of the time doesn't sound like much, but it's very frustrating.
The wired mouses I use now work perfectly 100% of the time. The cable is not really a problem since I connect it to a USB hub on the desk, or a USB hub in the keyboard (Why is it so hard to find a keyboards with a USB hub? It's damn practical). I never need to charge the batteries. Much better than wireless, in my view.
It's easy to remember, once you know where it comes from. To cite Wikipedia:
The original "Debian Linux" distribution was released in August 1993 by developer Ian Murdock, and was named as a combination of his own given name and the given name of his girlfriend at the time, Debra Lynn.
Not to mention the tidal forces make the Earth's surface flex about 1ft (as evidenced by my GPS) per day.
I find that very hard to believe. If there is any flexing of the Earth's surface, I don't believe it to be more than a fraction of a millimeter (unless shown convincing evidence to the contrary).
GPS is not a good tool to accurately measure heights: GPS isn't very accurate vertically, and even horizontally the errors are normally more than a few feet.
Look at nuclear weapons - despite quite a few countries having them at this point, only a few have been used.
FTFY.
The world is afraid some rogue state like North Korea might launch a nuclear attack, but so far only one state has shown it is willing to go the whole way and actually do it. It's not North Korea, China, Iran, Pakistan,..., but much closer to home (for most Slashdot readers). I'll leave it to others to comment on what that might or might not tell you about the sanity of that state.
I'd rather live at the mercy of the bacteria, which is very natural and is what we've been doing since the very beginning, than live at the mercy of pharmaceutical companies.
As I understand it, the problem is not with the database but with the client library. That library is dual-licensed GPL and something proprietary. There's no problem if you use that library in a GPL application, but otherwise you have to use the proprietary-licensed version. Which costs money.
If I'm right, you could work around the problem by writing your own client library (I have no idea how difficult that would be) and using that instead of theirs.
As I understand it, he proposes a system where each pixel (meaning in the image format, not on the physical display) can be subdivided in two areas, with different possible shapes (two rectangles on top of each other, two rectangles next to each other, two triangles) and different sizes of the two shapes. The best way to subdivide is decided for each pixel, in a way that maximizes the contrast between the two areas.
Or something like that; the text doesn't make it very clear.
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Heineken in bars in Belgium, let alone Heineken-only bars? Where was that?
In Belgium, bars serve beer. That means no Heineken.
Citation please?
Fun fact: wikipedia's side bar provides convenient links to the same article in English (and several other languages).
I think your sig is missing 1101 at the end.
If you do need to know the index, you should write
It pays off to spend some time learning not only the syntax when you learn a new language, but also often used idioms in that language.
Contacts and calendar yes, but I've never seen apps sync. I always have to reinstall them all.
Can you tell me what I should do to have the apps sync too? That would be very helpful.
1024x768 then (IIRC), 1920x1280 now (from 0.78 megapixels to 2.46 megapixels, not even one order of magnitude!)
On some of those sites, the rest of the posts are right there, if you scroll far enough down below all the ads (despite the fact that the page often doesn't look like there is useful content).
Can you point me to some numbers on that, since I find it very unlikely.
I do understand that the advantage of hybrids over other cars is highest in city driving, but it seems to me that mileage even in hybrids should still be better on the highway than in city driving.
In Europe it shows 0 L/100 km in that situation.
But it shows 99.9 or somesuch when idling.
I have driven a Citroen Xsara Picasso, a small non-sporty family car at speeds of 180 km/h (112 mph). It had a wimpy 2 L 4 cylinder diesel engine which produced only 97 hp IIRC. At that point it was close to its top speed, but apart from more wind noise and noise from the tires everything was completely normal. There was probably more engine noise too, but it got drowned in the wind noise.
And I've once done 200 k/h (124 mph) (measured by GPS, so that's the real speed as opposed to the inflated speed shown on the dasboard) in a Toyota Corolla Verso which was sligthly less non-sporty and had a 2.2 136 hp diesel engine. 200 k/h was above its posted top speed; I guess the road went a bit downhill. I've driven that car at 180 k/h and 190 k/h with no problem whatsoever.
I'm very surprised to learn that Camero's start to act wonky at speeds even lower than that. Maybe next time you should buy a well-build Japanese or European car (which is not intended to mean that all Japanes or European cars are well-built).
No, "I couldn't care less" means "it's not possible to care even less than I already do, even if I wanted to". It means I care the least possible amount. I have reached the bottom.
"I could care less" (but I don't, meaning that I do care a certain amount) means that there is still a margin between the amount I care and the least possible amount of care. I haven't reached the bottom. Nothing is said about the size of that margin, so this statement really doesn't say anything.
No, it means that half those without Internet access have never used it.
I speak Dutch too (I'm Flemish). I'm often inclined to write "an USB stick" like you do, because I often think of the Dutch pronunciation of USB which indeed starts with a vowel.
But what matters when writing English is, of course, the English pronunciation, not the Dutch one. In English it is pronounced like joe es bie, so the first sound is not a vowel, so it should be "a USB stick".
All the wireless mouses I've used worked perfectly, for about 98% of the time (not counting empty batteries). 2% of the time they would fail. 2% of the time doesn't sound like much, but it's very frustrating.
The wired mouses I use now work perfectly 100% of the time. The cable is not really a problem since I connect it to a USB hub on the desk, or a USB hub in the keyboard (Why is it so hard to find a keyboards with a USB hub? It's damn practical). I never need to charge the batteries. Much better than wireless, in my view.
The size of the flash unit was given in gigabits, not gigabytes.
32 * 512 Gb = 16384 Gb = 2048 GB.
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It's easy to remember, once you know where it comes from. To cite Wikipedia:
I stand corrected. It surprises me that I never heard of it before.
I find that very hard to believe. If there is any flexing of the Earth's surface, I don't believe it to be more than a fraction of a millimeter (unless shown convincing evidence to the contrary).
GPS is not a good tool to accurately measure heights: GPS isn't very accurate vertically, and even horizontally the errors are normally more than a few feet.
Look at nuclear weapons - despite quite a few countries having them at this point, only a few have been used.
FTFY.
The world is afraid some rogue state like North Korea might launch a nuclear attack, but so far only one state has shown it is willing to go the whole way and actually do it. It's not North Korea, China, Iran, Pakistan, ..., but much closer to home (for most Slashdot readers). I'll leave it to others to comment on what that might or might not tell you about the sanity of that state.
I'd rather live at the mercy of the bacteria, which is very natural and is what we've been doing since the very beginning, than live at the mercy of pharmaceutical companies.
Don't you mean the ambiguity of the answer?
Is that a clever pun on Godwins' law, or is it just a very fortunate coincidence?
As I understand it, the problem is not with the database but with the client library. That library is dual-licensed GPL and something proprietary. There's no problem if you use that library in a GPL application, but otherwise you have to use the proprietary-licensed version. Which costs money.
If I'm right, you could work around the problem by writing your own client library (I have no idea how difficult that would be) and using that instead of theirs.
As I understand it, he proposes a system where each pixel (meaning in the image format, not on the physical display) can be subdivided in two areas, with different possible shapes (two rectangles on top of each other, two rectangles next to each other, two triangles) and different sizes of the two shapes. The best way to subdivide is decided for each pixel, in a way that maximizes the contrast between the two areas.
Or something like that; the text doesn't make it very clear.