In the case of firefox, the application itself is responsible for getting out of RAM when minimized. I don't know what Mozilla you're running, but it may have the same behavior & fix.
You can change the behavior by modifying the config.trim_on_minimize key (accessible via about:config). See http://windowssecrets.com/041202/) for more info on this.
Makes a big difference - no more two second pauses when restoring firefox.
First prize of £3,000 went to Il Hoon Roh for his reinforced concrete organic modular system that impressed the judges for its visually exciting construction potential. The second prize of £2,000 was awarded to Peter Brewin and Will Crawford for their joint entry of portable emergency concrete tents. The humanitarian potential of this entry was very evident. Phoebe Cummings and Stine Vesperson were awarded the third prize of £1,000 for their delicate pieces that combined lace with concrete. The effect gave concrete, usually seen to be a robust material, a more soft and fragile character.
Kevin Christopher, a senior and resident computer consultant for Faisan, said that he has been using browsers other than Internet Explorer for a few years and distrusts Microsoft's products.
For those wondering just what "Faisan" is, and what it means to be a computer consultant who is both resident and senior, here's the scoop. Faisan is a dorm at Stanford (actually it's a section of a larger dorm, Florence Moore hall, where I spent freshman year about a decade ago). The quoted gentleman is a senior at Stanford, and a "Resident Computer Consultant" which basically means he's the go-to guy for IT questions at that particular dorm.
Apparently the author believed this particular dorm to be so well-known that no explanation was needed.
The next edition of MS SQLServer (2005) will include an
Express Edition which is free subject to similar restrictions - 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 4 GB data.
From a product-line point of view, this replaces the MSDE. From a functionality/power point of view, it's the real SQLServer 2005 code. Last I checked it was at Beta 2.
So it seems all of the "oh great, we can throw out MS and now use free Sybase" arguments - at least, those that are based on the "free" part - don't hold much water. One might even say that this move on Sybase's part is a response to MSFT.
Ooops, that "cave" reference was a misread on my part - the screenshot text said "cafe" but I read it as "cave". And I thought that was just so weird...
This book won't help in any practical fashion, but perhaps some time down the road you might be interested in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, by Julian Jaynes (late professor of psychology at Princeton). The book relates schizophrenia to consciousness as part of Jaynes' overall theory. The arguments he uses are compelling and wide-ranging, drawing from a broad array of disciplines.
Again, this book won't help with any of the more pressing questions you need answered right now. But it does shed light on the possible role of schizophrenia, or something like it, to the development of consciousness. It's very readable, too.
Not that/. is the best forum for writing style nits, but can we talk for a moment about the style of this published document?
...the U.S. has relentlessly pursued business partnerships with countries that are home to relentless intellectual property theft. ...
The relationship is simple: unpunished theft of intellectual property, coupled with IT and IP globalization, has exponentially increased the overall amount of IP theft. Simply put,...
The "green lady" at my junior high wouldn't have let those slip.
Check out this article for a discussion of what the USPTO looks for in determing if something is obvious or not.
A particularly perverse line is this one:
Commercial success shown to be linked to the merits of the invention can be powerful evidence of nonobviousness
This would seem to imply that any patent in a lawsuit must be non-obvious... because if you're suing someone, the patent must have some commercial success. And a commercially successful patent must be non-obvious. QED.
The Nikon FM2 (for "Fully Manual", I believe) is a rock solid manual-focus camera. Back when I was taking photography classes (10 years ago), this camera was regarded as a classic.
I remember the instructor saying that many pros would always carry an FM2 along with all their other hightech gear, because the FM2 always works. Very low power consumption, no chance of mechanical error even in arctic/desert conditions.
Other than observing that the two are very similar, I can't give a detailed comparison of the FM2 versus the Pentax K-1000 which others have mentioned. Either one will do you fine, so just look for the best deal.
Also, if you are most of the way there with a darkroom setup, spend the 20 or so bucks on a manual winder & empty rolls so you can buy film in bulk and load the rolls yourself. The ability to wind your own rolls is great for a couple reasons:
Buying film in bulk is waaaay cheaper.
If you need to switch in the middle of a roll, you can salvage the remaining film with a little snip-snip-reload action. Just make sure to make the cut well AFTER your final shot! (I've screwed that one up before).
With bulk film, it's economical to wind small rolls (10 frames or so). This gives you a lot of freedom to swap different speeds or color vs. b&w without having to always trash the rest of the roll (or salvage it per the above).
Literacy tests & poll taxes -- once of which helps ensure that the voter can read the ballot & the other further forces voters to plan to vote -- were thrown out long ago as infringements on the civil rights of unschooled procrastinators.
Unschooled procrastinators? Both of these were used to keep blacks from voting in the Jim Crow era. But you knew that, right?
Voting is a right of citizenship, not a privilege accruing to whatever ability (literacy, wealth) you care to name. In this way it is very different from a driver's license.
You find out that Earthlink isn't actually changing the dialup speed at the modem level.. they are just reselling Propel software's Accelerator product. Earthlink is charging a $7/month premium over their standard dialup, so Earthlink subscribers get a full $0.95 / month savings over simply buying Propel's offering.
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In the case of firefox, the application itself is responsible for getting out of RAM when minimized. I don't know what Mozilla you're running, but it may have the same behavior & fix.
You can change the behavior by modifying the config.trim_on_minimize key (accessible via about:config). See http://windowssecrets.com/041202/) for more info on this.
Makes a big difference - no more two second pauses when restoring firefox.
I know parent is modded funny, but I wondered the same thing. From the British Cement Association site:
First prize of £3,000 went to Il Hoon Roh for his reinforced concrete organic modular system that impressed the judges for its visually exciting construction potential. The second prize of £2,000 was awarded to Peter Brewin and Will Crawford for their joint entry of portable emergency concrete tents. The humanitarian potential of this entry was very evident. Phoebe Cummings and Stine Vesperson were awarded the third prize of £1,000 for their delicate pieces that combined lace with concrete. The effect gave concrete, usually seen to be a robust material, a more soft and fragile character.
Yo, read the article. Yesterday marked the anniversary of the high, not today. Easy for me to remember, b/c 10 March is my birthday.
Kevin Christopher, a senior and resident computer consultant for Faisan, said that he has been using browsers other than Internet Explorer for a few years and distrusts Microsoft's products.
For those wondering just what "Faisan" is, and what it means to be a computer consultant who is both resident and senior, here's the scoop. Faisan is a dorm at Stanford (actually it's a section of a larger dorm, Florence Moore hall, where I spent freshman year about a decade ago). The quoted gentleman is a senior at Stanford, and a "Resident Computer Consultant" which basically means he's the go-to guy for IT questions at that particular dorm.
Apparently the author believed this particular dorm to be so well-known that no explanation was needed.
The next edition of MS SQLServer (2005) will include an Express Edition which is free subject to similar restrictions - 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 4 GB data.
From a product-line point of view, this replaces the MSDE. From a functionality/power point of view, it's the real SQLServer 2005 code. Last I checked it was at Beta 2.
So it seems all of the "oh great, we can throw out MS and now use free Sybase" arguments - at least, those that are based on the "free" part - don't hold much water. One might even say that this move on Sybase's part is a response to MSFT.
For those who would like a shorter essay by the same author on the same topic, he wrote an article entitled Against School in the September 2003 issue of Harper's Magazine.
Ooops, that "cave" reference was a misread on my part - the screenshot text said "cafe" but I read it as "cave". And I thought that was just so weird...
This book won't help in any practical fashion, but perhaps some time down the road you might be interested in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, by Julian Jaynes (late professor of psychology at Princeton). The book relates schizophrenia to consciousness as part of Jaynes' overall theory. The arguments he uses are compelling and wide-ranging, drawing from a broad array of disciplines.
Again, this book won't help with any of the more pressing questions you need answered right now. But it does shed light on the possible role of schizophrenia, or something like it, to the development of consciousness. It's very readable, too.
Not that /. is the best forum for writing style nits, but can we talk for a moment about the style of this published document?
...the U.S. has relentlessly pursued business partnerships with countries that are home to relentless intellectual property theft.
...
...
The relationship is simple: unpunished theft of intellectual property, coupled with IT and IP globalization, has exponentially increased the overall amount of IP theft. Simply put,
The "green lady" at my junior high wouldn't have let those slip.
Can no one else smell the BS? This is almost as stupid as when Wired's "jargonwatch" claimed that people all over the US were saying "jithead".
.. that's just 4,000 clicks, or 150 per day. Right.
Who is paying 25 cents per click? With programmers at WiPro earning, say, $1000 US per month
The article's claim that searching for earn rupees clicking ads returns 25,000 results is off by a factor of 10.
And, finally, it's "CPM", not "CPC".
Check out this article for a discussion of what the USPTO looks for in determing if something is obvious or not.
... because if you're suing someone, the patent must have some commercial success. And a commercially successful patent must be non-obvious. QED.
A particularly perverse line is this one:
Commercial success shown to be linked to the merits of the invention can be powerful evidence of nonobviousness
This would seem to imply that any patent in a lawsuit must be non-obvious
urgh.
I remember the instructor saying that many pros would always carry an FM2 along with all their other hightech gear, because the FM2 always works. Very low power consumption, no chance of mechanical error even in arctic/desert conditions.
Check out the Nikon Page for more details.
Other than observing that the two are very similar, I can't give a detailed comparison of the FM2 versus the Pentax K-1000 which others have mentioned. Either one will do you fine, so just look for the best deal.
Also, if you are most of the way there with a darkroom setup, spend the 20 or so bucks on a manual winder & empty rolls so you can buy film in bulk and load the rolls yourself. The ability to wind your own rolls is great for a couple reasons:
Literacy tests & poll taxes -- once of which helps ensure that the voter can read the ballot & the other further forces voters to plan to vote -- were thrown out long ago as infringements on the civil rights of unschooled procrastinators.
Unschooled procrastinators? Both of these were used to keep blacks from voting in the Jim Crow era. But you knew that, right?
Voting is a right of citizenship, not a privilege accruing to whatever ability (literacy, wealth) you care to name. In this way it is very different from a driver's license.
You find out that Earthlink isn't actually changing the dialup speed at the modem level .. they are just reselling Propel software's Accelerator product. Earthlink is charging a $7/month premium over their standard dialup, so Earthlink subscribers get a full $0.95 / month savings over simply buying Propel's offering.
'Line 6 uses a technology called modeling'
Modeling, eh? I imagine that might have applications throughout science.