even if it only reduces the load on the tankers and pipes that would help, besides in the wet season it could be used to refill reservoirs rather than being run off into the river.
I think that also includes industrial usage as well as domestic usage, with the total averaged over the population. Mexico City has also long been a poster child for mismanagement and waste of water resources (something like 40% is lost to leaks, and they don't use rooftop collection systems (they actally have flooding when it rains heavily, because the water isn't collected) and so on...).
It was Columbus who thought the Earth was smaller than it was, people who knew the real size (known since ancient Greek times) also knew he couldn't carry enough to make it. He got lucky coming across America.
FF doesn't shrink them to one letter wide (a horrible "feature" of Chrome), it shrinks them to about 10-12 characters and then scrolls the list horizontally. And there is a drop-down tab list as well.
My computer handles 1000+ tabs [with negligible effort from me. That is not the case for 1000+ post-it notes (on a whiteboard? you know those are for writing on? anyway...) or 1000+ people, and neither is it the case for doing a daily to do list or reminders or workspaces (I have 18 browser windows open, why would I need to create sepearet sessions and then spend time changing between them?) etc.
Why would I take the time to do that when I can have a window with a dozen tabs without having to do any naming of folders or organizing bookmarks (which is painfully inefficient on FF and Chrome).
Yes, because I don't hundreds of tabs on one place but across separate windows which collect them broadly by what I'm doing. Also a search might return a list of tens of hits of which I might pick half a dozen for closer inspection in tabs (open in new tab as I scroll down like AKMarc said above).
(1079 tabs at the moment, only FF can handle this).
Then I hit some key or keys and begin to type what app I want to start, like brow... Or term... Then I pick one with the arrow keys and hit enter.
I start a browser... with one click. On an icon. How is key-type-type-type-type-arrow-enter more efficient??
Anyway, Cinammon and all other menu/toolbar/dock DEs leverage something the brain/hand is good at: remembering relative location and visual cues and pointing at or reaching for them in an instant. Millions of years of evolution. Gnome 3 throws that away (at least without severe tweaking).
A lot of the things above are very familiar (physical text terminals, jumpers, serial ports....) but one I haven't seen mentioned is a bit newer, but still once known but forgotten - the fact that early Macintoshes (and thus MS Excel for Macintosh) used 1 January 1904, rather than 1 January 1900, as the first date (for intresting reasons: Why Do Older Macs Reset to 1904?).
Of course for backwards compatibility MS Excel for Macintosh continued to use this as the default for many years afterwards, causing confusion among those unfamiliar with it when transferring files with dates even quite recently, and there is still an option in Excel to set this.
Indonesia is the most populous (200 million) Muslim-majority country and is a republic with an elected secular legislature and president and freedom or religion in the constitution (and in practice as well).
Before NASA was called NASA it was called NACA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and it did fundamental research into aerodynamics from 1915 onwards. Chuck Yeager's X-1 was a NACA research program.
It was supposed to have released the parachute and made the last part of the descent using retro-rockets for final braking, and only then would you get compression of the struts. In this case it released the parachute at 3+km rather than a few tens of metres... oops.
First, there are plenty of other ways of making cement other than with fly ash (e.g. volcanic ash). Secondly the reason it's called 'fly ash' is because it flies, i.e. escapes with the flue gases, and it's the emission regulations and capture systems which collect the fly ash and make it possible to use in the first place. And third, a lot of fly ash is currently being stored rather than used, as the supply is reduced it will become economical to use those sources.
each tonne of CO2 implying the consumption of about 360 kilograms of oxygen (mostly coal consumption)
Each tonne of CO2 implies the consumption of 720 kg (0.72 tonnes) of oxygen, as there are two oxygen atoms in each molecule of CO2. Burning hydrocarbon fuels however removes even more oxygen than just that which is bound as CO2, since the hydrogen is also burned to H2O. Acyclic (chain) hydrocarbons as commonly found in fuel oils have approximately twice as many hydrogen atoms as carbon atoms, so each tonne of CO2 produced from burning diesel or other fuel oils (or natural gas) will consume 720 kg of oxygen for itself and another 360 kg of oxygen for the H20.
None of this would have seemed magical to someone from the 1980s, as the precursers to all of it already existed and it was a case of developing the technology further, which given the rate of technological progress at the time seemed very likely. And science-fiction authors and moviemakers had been describing many of those things for at least two decades (Star Trek and 2001 are but examples).
KDE used graphics features that should have worked but didn't everywhere. It was single handedly responsible for pulling up graphical support on Linux desktops and resulted in Compiz and all the other comparable Windows and OS X stuff that came about. Without KDE 4 Linux desktops would still have looked like bloody Motif.
Injuries yes, but nothing comparable to that from a full-sized prop or helicopter rotor.
I wasn't thinking so much of laws as the situational awareness needed to operate a much larger machine in a confined and uncontrolled space around people.
Most of that picnic-table sized area are the wings. The fuselage is maybe 10-12 inches across (there is a closeup photo in the article). The spare lifting capacity after batteries is one or two orders of magnitude too low to carry a human. On the other hand it won't do much damage if it hits someone or someone gets too close to the props.
Once you're at the size needed to safely lift a human the requirements for same landing and take off around trees, buildings, animals and people are much more stringent and would need a human operator, at which point a small helicopter will be cheaper and easier (at this time anyway, maybe one day...).
Very well, which is why they are allowed to fly on e.g. transatlantic flights. It is a requirement that these aircraft can fly at least 120 minutes one one engine, most can fly 180 minutes. See ETOPS.
It most likely wouldn't have a pause in spoken speech, "Uncle Jack" being treated as a single unit in this case. Replace it mentally with "Dad" or "little sister" and you'll see there's no pause. If it was "Jack, my uncle," then there would be appropriate pauses.
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Pilot miicroscale rainwater collection has been tried and seems to be successful:
capturing rain could save Mexico City from a water crisis
even if it only reduces the load on the tankers and pipes that would help, besides in the wet season it could be used to refill reservoirs rather than being run off into the river.
I think that also includes industrial usage as well as domestic usage, with the total averaged over the population. Mexico City has also long been a poster child for mismanagement and waste of water resources (something like 40% is lost to leaks, and they don't use rooftop collection systems (they actally have flooding when it rains heavily, because the water isn't collected) and so on ...).
mexico city water crisis
mexico water shortage
It's not new to IT, it's "new" to corporate management and C-level, who always complain when any security inconveniences them or their secretaries.
It was Columbus who thought the Earth was smaller than it was, people who knew the real size (known since ancient Greek times) also knew he couldn't carry enough to make it. He got lucky coming across America.
FF doesn't shrink them to one letter wide (a horrible "feature" of Chrome), it shrinks them to about 10-12 characters and then scrolls the list horizontally. And there is a drop-down tab list as well.
Exactly this.
My computer handles 1000+ tabs [with negligible effort from me. That is not the case for 1000+ post-it notes (on a whiteboard? you know those are for writing on? anyway ...) or 1000+ people, and neither is it the case for doing a daily to do list or reminders or workspaces (I have 18 browser windows open, why would I need to create sepearet sessions and then spend time changing between them?) etc.
Why would I take the time to do that when I can have a window with a dozen tabs without having to do any naming of folders or organizing bookmarks (which is painfully inefficient on FF and Chrome).
Also agree with this, this is exactly how I work. 1079 tabs at the moment across 18 windows.
Yes, because I don't hundreds of tabs on one place but across separate windows which collect them broadly by what I'm doing. Also a search might return a list of tens of hits of which I might pick half a dozen for closer inspection in tabs (open in new tab as I scroll down like AKMarc said above). (1079 tabs at the moment, only FF can handle this).
Then I hit some key or keys and begin to type what app I want to start, like brow... Or term... Then I pick one with the arrow keys and hit enter.
I start a browser ... with one click. On an icon. How is key-type-type-type-type-arrow-enter more efficient??
Anyway, Cinammon and all other menu/toolbar/dock DEs leverage something the brain/hand is good at: remembering relative location and visual cues and pointing at or reaching for them in an instant. Millions of years of evolution. Gnome 3 throws that away (at least without severe tweaking).
A lot of the things above are very familiar (physical text terminals, jumpers, serial ports ....) but one I haven't seen mentioned is a bit newer, but still once known but forgotten - the fact that early Macintoshes (and thus MS Excel for Macintosh) used 1 January 1904, rather than 1 January 1900, as the first date (for intresting reasons: Why Do Older Macs Reset to 1904?).
Of course for backwards compatibility MS Excel for Macintosh continued to use this as the default for many years afterwards, causing confusion among those unfamiliar with it when transferring files with dates even quite recently, and there is still an option in Excel to set this.
Differences between the 1900 and the 1904 date system in Excel
Indonesia is the most populous (200 million) Muslim-majority country and is a republic with an elected secular legislature and president and freedom or religion in the constitution (and in practice as well).
Before NASA was called NASA it was called NACA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and it did fundamental research into aerodynamics from 1915 onwards. Chuck Yeager's X-1 was a NACA research program.
It was supposed to have released the parachute and made the last part of the descent using retro-rockets for final braking, and only then would you get compression of the struts. In this case it released the parachute at 3+km rather than a few tens of metres ... oops.
First, there are plenty of other ways of making cement other than with fly ash (e.g. volcanic ash). Secondly the reason it's called 'fly ash' is because it flies, i.e. escapes with the flue gases, and it's the emission regulations and capture systems which collect the fly ash and make it possible to use in the first place. And third, a lot of fly ash is currently being stored rather than used, as the supply is reduced it will become economical to use those sources.
each tonne of CO2 implying the consumption of about 360 kilograms of oxygen (mostly coal consumption)
Each tonne of CO2 implies the consumption of 720 kg (0.72 tonnes) of oxygen, as there are two oxygen atoms in each molecule of CO2. Burning hydrocarbon fuels however removes even more oxygen than just that which is bound as CO2, since the hydrogen is also burned to H2O. Acyclic (chain) hydrocarbons as commonly found in fuel oils have approximately twice as many hydrogen atoms as carbon atoms, so each tonne of CO2 produced from burning diesel or other fuel oils (or natural gas) will consume 720 kg of oxygen for itself and another 360 kg of oxygen for the H20.
Exactly. Watching the video the explosion seems to start near the top just below the satellite fairing, not in the first stage.
None of this would have seemed magical to someone from the 1980s, as the precursers to all of it already existed and it was a case of developing the technology further, which given the rate of technological progress at the time seemed very likely. And science-fiction authors and moviemakers had been describing many of those things for at least two decades (Star Trek and 2001 are but examples).
KDE used graphics features that should have worked but didn't everywhere. It was single handedly responsible for pulling up graphical support on Linux desktops and resulted in Compiz and all the other comparable Windows and OS X stuff that came about. Without KDE 4 Linux desktops would still have looked like bloody Motif.
Compiz predates KDE4 by about 2 years.
Injuries yes, but nothing comparable to that from a full-sized prop or helicopter rotor.
I wasn't thinking so much of laws as the situational awareness needed to operate a much larger machine in a confined and uncontrolled space around people.
Most of that picnic-table sized area are the wings. The fuselage is maybe 10-12 inches across (there is a closeup photo in the article). The spare lifting capacity after batteries is one or two orders of magnitude too low to carry a human. On the other hand it won't do much damage if it hits someone or someone gets too close to the props.
Once you're at the size needed to safely lift a human the requirements for same landing and take off around trees, buildings, animals and people are much more stringent and would need a human operator, at which point a small helicopter will be cheaper and easier (at this time anyway, maybe one day ...).
I bet BIC have sold more than a billion Biros. And disposable razors.
Exactly ... 100 billion BIC crystal biros (ballpoints) as of about 10 years ago ... that is probably the best-selling "single product" of all time ..
Bic over the moon as sales top 100bn
Very well, which is why they are allowed to fly on e.g. transatlantic flights. It is a requirement that these aircraft can fly at least 120 minutes one one engine, most can fly 180 minutes. See ETOPS.
It most likely wouldn't have a pause in spoken speech, "Uncle Jack" being treated as a single unit in this case. Replace it mentally with "Dad" or "little sister" and you'll see there's no pause. If it was "Jack, my uncle," then there would be appropriate pauses.