Not everybody with noise-related hearing loss got it from concerts. I got mine from exposure to outbound shore bombardment back in Tonkin Gulf in '72, making it service connected. Free hearing aids are nice, but I'd rather have my hearing back. I hope they get this working in humans in time for me to benefit, as well as a friend with similar issues from Korea.
It's not so much the filesystem that decides how fast your drive gets fragmented or how badly; it's the OS's algorythm for deciding where to put each new file. Up until Microsoft introduced the NFS file system, their method of stuffing the beginning of each file into the first available cluster without checking to see if it were big enough guaranteed that every disk would get fragmented and need regular defragging. (I don't do Windows any more, and don't know how NFS handles this.) Linux uses a different method that both spreads files out across all of the partition and tries to find a big enough spot from the beginning, so that unless your partition is very close to full there will be few, if any fragmented files. I don't know if Linux does that on a FAT or VFAT drive, but I've got no specific reason to think it doesn't.
Among other, notable Roman inventions was central heating. By the late First Century BCE, they were heating their public baths and richer villas this way. (There may also have been some examples of this in India, centuries earlier, but the Roman invention appears to have been independent.)
1. Baby boomers are the biggest demographic group and they will reject a metric transition.
I'm a boomer; an early boomer, born in '49. I learned metric in school and if I have to do calculations or unit conversions, I'd rather everything were in metric because it's easier. I still think in terms of inches, feet, pounds and so on because I got used to them long before I was exposed to the metric system, but that doesn't mean I think it's better. Gradually, as more and more things that I buy come in metric units only, I'm adapting, and I suspect that most other boomers are too.
I doubt the changes in the sensors occur in a single step or even multiple steps as you seem to believe
Actually, I was more suggesting the possibility because I don't know enough about the subject to know what would probably happen. Thanx for informing me.
I have no objection to apps installing plug-ins so that documents can be opened in the browser. What I object to is having them do it silently, without bothering to tell me. If the plug-in is part of the original installation, the fact should be listed as part of what's getting installed. If the user doesn't bother to read the list, they've got no reason later to object as long as the information's clearly there.
...and aren't malware by any stretch of the imagination.
I don't know about you, but personally I find it hard to believe that any extension that installs itself without notifying the user has that user's best interests at heart. Even if they're not actually malware, they're probably doing something their author doesn't want us to know about and that's enough to make sure that I, for one, would never trust them.
You can't recalibrate a sensor and apply the correction after the fact as you don't know why the sensor lost calibration...
Even more important, you don't know when it happened, or if it all happened in one change or in several small changes. Unless you know that, any corrections you make are going to be honest guesses at best.
I hear crap like yours from women everyday and it is bullshit. If your body metabolizes 1800 calories and you only consume 1700 you *must* lose weight.
Two words: fluid retention. I'm male, and until recently I weighed 169 before breakfast and my blood pressure was about 139/84. Then, I was put on a combination blood pressure/water pill. Less than a week later, my blood pressure was 125/79 and my morning weight was 160.
Science doesn't matter how he "feels" or what he "believes".
I keep trying to tell various AGW fanatics that, but it never penetrates. Maybe seeing it come from somebody they can consider to be on "their side" will make them believe it. Not, of course, that it matters if they believe it or not.
If you'll look at the way things were originally set up, you'll see that the House was directly elected and was intended to represent the people (Which is why they're called Representatives.) and the Senate was elected by the state legislatures and was expected to represent their state's interests. Now, of course, with direct election of senators, there's nobody in DC who's job is to look out for state-wide issues.
I know this is Slasdot, but out of curiosity I took a moment to RTFA: the part quoted as the summary here is the only place in TFA that the phony profile's mentioned. The rest of it's nothing more than a puff piece for the head-hunting firm behind it. Yet Another Case where the "editors" didn't bother to check what they were accepting.
You have considerably less imagination than my friends and I had over twenty years ago back when First Edition Rules were king. It's a perfectly logical extension of what a vorpal blade does on a natural 20: it tries to cut the head off. In the case of a Beholder, there's nothing to cut it off of, so it misses.
The one thing you never use against a Beholder is a Vorpal Sword. If you roll a natural 20, the sword cuts off the monster's head, but a Beholder is nothing but a disembodied head, so the sword goes swish as it goes under the monster.
I wouldn't know. I've never used any version of Windows more recent than XP (and only use it to play a few games on at a club I belong to) and I don't use Ubuntu. I do, however, do support for my sister who used Ubuntu until she got tired of fighting with the Unity DE and switched to Xubuntu. As I wrote, that was my impression of Ubuntu and I won't insist on it if you feel like disagreeing.
I've always felt that Ubuntu is mostly targeting "Windows refugees," that is, people who want to get away from Windows for one reason or another, but don't want to buy a Mac. Unlike some (most?) Linux distros, Ubuntu tries to make everything as easy as possible for the new user including giving it a default look and feel as close to Windows as it can manage. If, as I've seen mentioned elsewhere, Windows 8 is including on-line searches by default, it makes sense for Ubuntu to do the same on the assumption that this is what most of their newest users expect. I'm not saying that this is the right decision, but then, I don't use Ubuntu so I'm not part of their target market.
I am curious to know as well, since uranus has complex rotation. (It rotates on 2 axies; one roughly parallel to the solar ecliptic, and one perpendicular to it.)
I think you're a little confused here because I haven't been able to find any source for what you write. Yes, there are times that one or the other poles points toward the Sun and times that the Sun is over the equator, but that doesn't have anything to do with Uranus rotating on two axes. It's just that it's lying on its side relative to its orbit so different parts of it point toward the Sun at various times.
Clearly, you are very, very unclear on the concept "Theorem." In math, nothing is called a theorem until after it's been proven. That's why, in Plane Geometry, Euclid's infamous Fifth Postulate is a postulate, not a theorem. As far as anybody can tell, it true, but there's absolutely no way to prove it. And, in fact, both forms of non-Euclidean Geometry were developed in an attempt to prove it by showing that all other possibilities generated contradictions.
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Not everybody with noise-related hearing loss got it from concerts. I got mine from exposure to outbound shore bombardment back in Tonkin Gulf in '72, making it service connected. Free hearing aids are nice, but I'd rather have my hearing back. I hope they get this working in humans in time for me to benefit, as well as a friend with similar issues from Korea.
It's not so much the filesystem that decides how fast your drive gets fragmented or how badly; it's the OS's algorythm for deciding where to put each new file. Up until Microsoft introduced the NFS file system, their method of stuffing the beginning of each file into the first available cluster without checking to see if it were big enough guaranteed that every disk would get fragmented and need regular defragging. (I don't do Windows any more, and don't know how NFS handles this.) Linux uses a different method that both spreads files out across all of the partition and tries to find a big enough spot from the beginning, so that unless your partition is very close to full there will be few, if any fragmented files. I don't know if Linux does that on a FAT or VFAT drive, but I've got no specific reason to think it doesn't.
Among other, notable Roman inventions was central heating. By the late First Century BCE, they were heating their public baths and richer villas this way. (There may also have been some examples of this in India, centuries earlier, but the Roman invention appears to have been independent.)
1. Baby boomers are the biggest demographic group and they will reject a metric transition.
I'm a boomer; an early boomer, born in '49. I learned metric in school and if I have to do calculations or unit conversions, I'd rather everything were in metric because it's easier. I still think in terms of inches, feet, pounds and so on because I got used to them long before I was exposed to the metric system, but that doesn't mean I think it's better. Gradually, as more and more things that I buy come in metric units only, I'm adapting, and I suspect that most other boomers are too.
Just have him install User Agent Switcher and have it pretend to be MSIE 10 when he goes there.
I doubt the changes in the sensors occur in a single step or even multiple steps as you seem to believe
Actually, I was more suggesting the possibility because I don't know enough about the subject to know what would probably happen. Thanx for informing me.
I have no objection to apps installing plug-ins so that documents can be opened in the browser. What I object to is having them do it silently, without bothering to tell me. If the plug-in is part of the original installation, the fact should be listed as part of what's getting installed. If the user doesn't bother to read the list, they've got no reason later to object as long as the information's clearly there.
...and aren't malware by any stretch of the imagination.
I don't know about you, but personally I find it hard to believe that any extension that installs itself without notifying the user has that user's best interests at heart. Even if they're not actually malware, they're probably doing something their author doesn't want us to know about and that's enough to make sure that I, for one, would never trust them.
You can't recalibrate a sensor and apply the correction after the fact as you don't know why the sensor lost calibration...
Even more important, you don't know when it happened, or if it all happened in one change or in several small changes. Unless you know that, any corrections you make are going to be honest guesses at best.
I hear crap like yours from women everyday and it is bullshit. If your body metabolizes 1800 calories and you only consume 1700 you *must* lose weight.
Two words: fluid retention. I'm male, and until recently I weighed 169 before breakfast and my blood pressure was about 139/84. Then, I was put on a combination blood pressure/water pill. Less than a week later, my blood pressure was 125/79 and my morning weight was 160.
You misunderstand. I'm trying to get AGW fanbois to understand that Science isn't about beliefs and feelings.
Science doesn't matter how he "feels" or what he "believes".
I keep trying to tell various AGW fanatics that, but it never penetrates. Maybe seeing it come from somebody they can consider to be on "their side" will make them believe it. Not, of course, that it matters if they believe it or not.
People can too settle criminal charges with a load of cash. They do it by pleading guilty and agreeing to pay a fine to avoid going to prison.
If you'll look at the way things were originally set up, you'll see that the House was directly elected and was intended to represent the people (Which is why they're called Representatives.) and the Senate was elected by the state legislatures and was expected to represent their state's interests. Now, of course, with direct election of senators, there's nobody in DC who's job is to look out for state-wide issues.
The way the comment was written, it looked like it was saying that only Union casualties should be counted.
I know this is Slasdot, but out of curiosity I took a moment to RTFA: the part quoted as the summary here is the only place in TFA that the phony profile's mentioned. The rest of it's nothing more than a puff piece for the head-hunting firm behind it. Yet Another Case where the "editors" didn't bother to check what they were accepting.
Or are we only counting Americans?
In one sense, all of them were Americans, although a good number of them didn't want to be.
You have considerably less imagination than my friends and I had over twenty years ago back when First Edition Rules were king. It's a perfectly logical extension of what a vorpal blade does on a natural 20: it tries to cut the head off. In the case of a Beholder, there's nothing to cut it off of, so it misses.
The one thing you never use against a Beholder is a Vorpal Sword. If you roll a natural 20, the sword cuts off the monster's head, but a Beholder is nothing but a disembodied head, so the sword goes swish as it goes under the monster.
Ubuntu doesn't look a whole lot like Windows.
I wouldn't know. I've never used any version of Windows more recent than XP (and only use it to play a few games on at a club I belong to) and I don't use Ubuntu. I do, however, do support for my sister who used Ubuntu until she got tired of fighting with the Unity DE and switched to Xubuntu. As I wrote, that was my impression of Ubuntu and I won't insist on it if you feel like disagreeing.
I've always felt that Ubuntu is mostly targeting "Windows refugees," that is, people who want to get away from Windows for one reason or another, but don't want to buy a Mac. Unlike some (most?) Linux distros, Ubuntu tries to make everything as easy as possible for the new user including giving it a default look and feel as close to Windows as it can manage. If, as I've seen mentioned elsewhere, Windows 8 is including on-line searches by default, it makes sense for Ubuntu to do the same on the assumption that this is what most of their newest users expect. I'm not saying that this is the right decision, but then, I don't use Ubuntu so I'm not part of their target market.
I am curious to know as well, since uranus has complex rotation. (It rotates on 2 axies; one roughly parallel to the solar ecliptic, and one perpendicular to it.)
I think you're a little confused here because I haven't been able to find any source for what you write. Yes, there are times that one or the other poles points toward the Sun and times that the Sun is over the equator, but that doesn't have anything to do with Uranus rotating on two axes. It's just that it's lying on its side relative to its orbit so different parts of it point toward the Sun at various times.
Clearly, you are very, very unclear on the concept "Theorem." In math, nothing is called a theorem until after it's been proven. That's why, in Plane Geometry, Euclid's infamous Fifth Postulate is a postulate, not a theorem. As far as anybody can tell, it true, but there's absolutely no way to prove it. And, in fact, both forms of non-Euclidean Geometry were developed in an attempt to prove it by showing that all other possibilities generated contradictions.
Actually, Georges MéliÃs accidentally discovered the stop trick in 1896 and used it to create magic tricks in his films. Later, he also invented a number of other classic special effects techniques, decades before Metropolis was made. The film history shown in the movie Hugo was quite accurate, as was its depiction in his later life as a toy salesman.
All I know is, if they were pinging, you'd have known it. When our sonar was active, you could hear it all over the ship.