You shouldn't be changing batteries, you should be charging them. Buy a mouse with a receiver that doubles as a charging station. Every week or so put the mouse in the charger for a night. No more empty batteries.
Unfortunately, on windows at least, I'm still stuck with 8 or 9 separate taskbar buttons when there really should only be one per document. Why the hell would anyone be working in another program and then decide they want to switch to the history palate? If I'm going back to the gimp, I want the whole damn thing to come back up, not just one toolbar. At this point, after going to another program, I have to either alt-tab through all the palates (which doesn't always work) or select them all in the taskbar and then go back to the document. That's a freaking ridiculous waste of time.
I couldn't agree more.
Along the same lines... why does the tools palate have to have a menu at the top of it? That should be located in a central place as well, like the document's menu bar.
That tool palette is Gimp's main window. The menu there is for stuff that is not specific to one document: open a new document, preferences,...
Functionality specific to a document can be reached via the traditional right mouse click, or recently optionally via a menu in the image window. Suits me fine, really.
Second, on road width. 2.5-3 meters is 8.2 to 9.84 feet. I just drove down a street getting to work that had lanes 8 feet wide. We have just as narrow streets in the US. The "wide lanes" are on the interstates with speeds over 100km/h that have a 3 meter lane width.
I'm not sure, but maybe he meant 2.5-3 meters for both directions.
It reminds me of when people say hydrogen burning cars will solve all emition problems because they produce water. They don't count the emissions that may be needed to produce, compress and ship the hydrogen to the nearest gas station.
The trick with this one is in the may.
Maybe someday we'll find a technology that's clean-burning and energy-efficient to the point where oil is no longer the most cost-effective way to make energy.
True, but IMO putting the focus on the hydrogen-aspect is wrong. The most important thing is better energy sources; I'm pretty confident that finding a good way to transport and store that energy is a smaller problem than finding reliable, clean and safe energy sources in the first place.
But because of the emphasis on the hydrogen aspect, I have a strong feeling that many people, including politicians, think that the whole problem can be solved simply by solving the transport/storage problem.
Proof (if you still don't get it): Starting premises: 1. {Integers} is a subset of {Real numbers}. 2. The intersection of {real numbers} and {imaginary numbers} is the empty set {}: no real numbers are imaginary.
As I understand it, zero is an imaginary number. That makes the intersection of {real numbers} and {imaginary numbers} contain one member, 0 == 0i. Mathworld seems to support that:
An imaginary number is a complex number that has zero real part. An imaginary number can therefore be written as a real number multiplied by the "imaginary unit" i (equal to the square root <picture of square root of -1>).
As all integers are real numbers, no integers are imaginary numbers.
That would be wrong, if I'm right. There would be exactly one integer that's also imaginary.
I suppose they meant backwards from the blade's point of view, i.e. the air is hitting the blade on the blade's back side instead of the blade's front side.
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Good point. It's not the letters that slow me slow me down, but all the:;{}()*&$"'_=+- etc etc that I need to type when programming. I can understand that Dvorak speeds up regular typing, but I'm highly suspect it also speeds up typing C++ code.
What's worse about the tab completion in Windows is this: let's say I'm editing some files in vim, so I've got one open that I just saved called something like happy.txt. If I want to copy it to another location, I hit [windowskey]-R, cmd.exe and then copy hap-[tab] and the first match it brings up is.happy.txt.swp. Seriously, I didn't type a damn period, how does Windows think I want that!?!?
I hate that too. I'm often editing Python scripts in vim and running them from cmd, and the tab completion always picks up the swap copy before the real thing.
What also sucks is that after you tab-complete a directory name it doesn't automagically put a '\' character after the name, you have to type it yourself. And the whole thing with parts of your path appearing in quotes when you're tab-completing, which just looks a lot uglier to me than just escaping out spaces and whatnot (though escaping spaces would have to use some character other than '\'... well, actually, vim's auto-completion (on Windows) uses '\' both as a directory delimiter and escape character, which looks *really* ugly.).
Couldn't agree more. Especially since it's awkward to type backslashes on my laptop's keyboard. I like that keyboard mostly, but there's one thing that annoys me a *lot*: Belgian azerty's have a key with '<', '>' and '\'; you get '<' if you hit that key only, '>' if you use shift and '\' if you use AltGr (which is directly at the right side of the spacebar, where the right Alt is on qwerty's). That '<>\' key is normally on the bottom row to the right of the left shift key, which works good enough. But on my laptop's keyboard that key is on the *left* side of the *right* shift key. I use that key a lot and I mistype it continuously because of the wrong place. Worse, I need to keep my hand in a very awkward position with my tumb on AltGr and my pink on '<>\' to type a backslash.
It's better when working in Unix because I need to type less backslashes then, but even then it's annoying. And editing HTML or XML always sucks with that keyboard.
(Acer, if you're reading this, please switch that key in future models back to it's normal place!)
Well, I'm sorry but I find it fair. When you install your WinXp system, how do you process images? The only tool you got is MS Paint, unless you want to pay some £500+ for photoshop.
Or install The GIMP.
On the other hand, on Linux you got Gimp which is included on your installation, is on par with photoshop and costs nothing. Sure you could install Gimp on WinXP, but you'd need to compile and install GTK+ and then compile and install Gimp. That's too much for most average users.
While we're on the subject of Holocaust movies that should be present, I'd like to add "Life is Beautiful". This movie managed to be uplifting and fun while still revealing the horrors of the holocaust(I know that doesn't sound right, but watch it and you'll understand). It is definately a top film of the subject and should also be up there with the top 100 list.
I agree 100% (though it took me a second before realizing which movie you were talking about: I'm only used to seeing it refered to with its Italian name, "La vita è bella"). It is one of the best movies I ever saw. Certainly fun at moments, but very touching too.
My rule-of-thumb to tell Delphi programs is (apart from using Spy++): when you right-click on a Delphi app's tab in the taskbar, you get only a Restore/Minimize/Close menu, not the usual Windows-standard Restore/Move/Size/Minimize/Maximize menu that Microsoft's IDEs use as the default. I was told this was something that's baked into Delphi's Forms implementation, I'd appreciate it if any Delphi gurus could correct me on this.
Delphi and C++Builder use the same GUI code (they both use VCL), so they should behave the same with respect to the system menu. Knowing that, I was going to refute you because I had never seen that behavior, while my company sells a C++Builder application.
Fortunately I checked it first; it turns out you're right. Apparently I had never tried that before. Nice piece of trivia!
I'm not sure about that: I would expect all the water to freeze.
Assuming the water is colder than 4 degrees Celsius, which it will be after a while, colder water will be less dense so the coldest water will always be at the top; the hottest water will be at the bottom where it is cooled by the snow.
I didn't actually do the experiment, so I might be wrong.
Letting the air out isn't urban legend. The purpose of letting *some* air out is to give the tire greater surface area to get grip. You're not deflating the tire completely, just taking out about 10-15lbs psi.
Hummers (and perhaps other all-terrain vehicles?) even have a system that allows the driver to increase or decrease the pressure of the tires with a push on a button.
Ah yes, Cmax... it rings a bell, and I know I've studied that quite extensively, but since I've all but abandoned the field of biology I don't know anything about it anymore.
The speed of light is now known to be controllable. One major university laboratory recently was able to actually stop light from moving. That kind of blows the constant out of the water.
No it doesn't. The speed of light and the speed of light are actually two different things.
One is a constant, the maximum speed at which anything can travel. For example, light travels at that speed in a vacuum.
The other is the actual value of light in specified circumstances, for example the speed of light in air or the speed of light in glass. Light travels slower through material compared to a vacuum, but that doesn't mean that the constant as mentioned above changes. It just means that the speed is bounded by the constant.
I have a collection of about 15 GB legit music myself, mostly ripped from my CD collection. I don't even have that much CD's, so 40 GB isn't that much of a stretch.
It would be kinda funny if they used GTK for it -- after all, GTK was originally written as part of The GIMP. It has been separate project for quite some time now, but it's still called The GIMP Toolkit.
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You shouldn't be changing batteries, you should be charging them. Buy a mouse with a receiver that doubles as a charging station. Every week or so put the mouse in the charger for a night. No more empty batteries.
I couldn't agree more.
That tool palette is Gimp's main window. The menu there is for stuff that is not specific to one document: open a new document, preferences,
Functionality specific to a document can be reached via the traditional right mouse click, or recently optionally via a menu in the image window. Suits me fine, really.
I'm not sure, but maybe he meant 2.5-3 meters for both directions.
True, but IMO putting the focus on the hydrogen-aspect is wrong. The most important thing is better energy sources; I'm pretty confident that finding a good way to transport and store that energy is a smaller problem than finding reliable, clean and safe energy sources in the first place.
But because of the emphasis on the hydrogen aspect, I have a strong feeling that many people, including politicians, think that the whole problem can be solved simply by solving the transport/storage problem.
Actually I believe many people these days would indeed write "I 8 breakfast 2day".
Anyway, all of that still doesn't make 3i an integer of course.
As I understand it, zero is an imaginary number. That makes the intersection of {real numbers} and {imaginary numbers} contain one member, 0 == 0i. Mathworld seems to support that:
That would be wrong, if I'm right. There would be exactly one integer that's also imaginary.
I suppose they meant backwards from the blade's point of view, i.e. the air is hitting the blade on the blade's back side instead of the blade's front side.
Good point. It's not the letters that slow me slow me down, but all the :;{}()*&$"'_=+- etc etc that I need to type when programming. I can understand that Dvorak speeds up regular typing, but I'm highly suspect it also speeds up typing C++ code.
I hate that too. I'm often editing Python scripts in vim and running them from cmd, and the tab completion always picks up the swap copy before the real thing.
Couldn't agree more. Especially since it's awkward to type backslashes on my laptop's keyboard. I like that keyboard mostly, but there's one thing that annoys me a *lot*: Belgian azerty's have a key with '<', '>' and '\'; you get '<' if you hit that key only, '>' if you use shift and '\' if you use AltGr (which is directly at the right side of the spacebar, where the right Alt is on qwerty's). That '<>\' key is normally on the bottom row to the right of the left shift key, which works good enough. But on my laptop's keyboard that key is on the *left* side of the *right* shift key. I use that key a lot and I mistype it continuously because of the wrong place. Worse, I need to keep my hand in a very awkward position with my tumb on AltGr and my pink on '<>\' to type a backslash.
It's better when working in Unix because I need to type less backslashes then, but even then it's annoying. And editing HTML or XML always sucks with that keyboard.
(Acer, if you're reading this, please switch that key in future models back to it's normal place!)
Me. Granted I haven't used Word very much in the past, and even less nowadays.
The only time Word wasn't able to open a Word document was when it was corrupted. Luckily OpenOffice opened it without any problem.
That's because it's rendering the images on the fly.
Or install The GIMP.
Actually it's much easier than that. Download and install two files from http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html, one for GTK and one for The GIMP, and you're ready.
I agree 100% (though it took me a second before realizing which movie you were talking about: I'm only used to seeing it refered to with its Italian name, "La vita è bella"). It is one of the best movies I ever saw. Certainly fun at moments, but very touching too.
Delphi and C++Builder use the same GUI code (they both use VCL), so they should behave the same with respect to the system menu. Knowing that, I was going to refute you because I had never seen that behavior, while my company sells a C++Builder application.
Fortunately I checked it first; it turns out you're right. Apparently I had never tried that before. Nice piece of trivia!
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That's still nothing! My copy of WinXP fails to continue if no kind of CPU is detected!
Incidentally, the same can be said of my copy of the favorite-Debian-based-distro of the day.
I'm not sure about that: I would expect all the water to freeze.
Assuming the water is colder than 4 degrees Celsius, which it will be after a while, colder water will be less dense so the coldest water will always be at the top; the hottest water will be at the bottom where it is cooled by the snow.
I didn't actually do the experiment, so I might be wrong.
Letting the air out isn't urban legend. The purpose of letting *some* air out is to give the tire greater surface area to get grip. You're not deflating the tire completely, just taking out about 10-15lbs psi.
Hummers (and perhaps other all-terrain vehicles?) even have a system that allows the driver to increase or decrease the pressure of the tires with a push on a button.
Ah yes, Cmax... it rings a bell, and I know I've studied that quite extensively, but since I've all but abandoned the field of biology I don't know anything about it anymore.
No it doesn't. The speed of light and the speed of light are actually two different things.
One is a constant, the maximum speed at which anything can travel. For example, light travels at that speed in a vacuum.
The other is the actual value of light in specified circumstances, for example the speed of light in air or the speed of light in glass. Light travels slower through material compared to a vacuum, but that doesn't mean that the constant as mentioned above changes. It just means that the speed is bounded by the constant.
I seriously doubt you own 40 legit gigs.
I have a collection of about 15 GB legit music myself, mostly ripped from my CD collection. I don't even have that much CD's, so 40 GB isn't that much of a stretch.
no functioning reference implementation
They do have Amaya, though I have no idea how complete its CSS-support is.
Hey thanks for that, until now I've always given upon seeing 'Sign Up to See This Solution'.
It would be kinda funny if they used GTK for it -- after all, GTK was originally written as part of The GIMP. It has been separate project for quite some time now, but it's still called The GIMP Toolkit.