You put the keycard (these days its more often chip based I think, but anyway) in the cradle by the door and it has the same effect (turn on/off thelights etc), usually except for one power socket which is used for the fridge. Two guests get two keycards so one is always in the room with them. Simple... works this way across the world.
Someone else with the CPU-hogging Firefox problem. Mostly it seems to be doing some kind of Javascript in the background, but often will spike for no apparent reason. But the tab management is better than any other browser, so I stay...
1214 (no, that is not a typo) across ~20 windows. Documentation, papers to read, stuff to get back to. 8GB Linux. The memory killer is Facebook, close that tab and the rest is fine.
I have an offline dedicated GPS device for that, but where I live cell coverage is pretty good even outside the cities. Mostly I know where I'm going anyway and don't bother with the dedicated GPS, just use the app in my phone for the live traffic.
Once I've entered the destination and it's gone to the map display the destination isn't shown any more, but the trip time is. So misfingering on a list of destinations or an autocomplete error is easy to miss, but the approximate trip time is always visible as a check ("hang on, that can't be right?")
Agreed, I almost always have my GPS muted, just using it as a moving map with live traffic information (Google Maps FTW) and ETA. And I look at the ETA and journey time before I start to see if it looks reasonable.
That said, the Belgian woman was lying and using "GPS made me do it" as cover. No one is that stupid, for one thing you can't drive for two days straight without breaks and rest, which would be a dead give-away to anyone with enough cognitive function to actually be able to drive. Not to mention signposts in several different languages along the way
I wish they would work together; maybe in some countries they do... where I live the lesser coalition partners horse-trade for their particular special interest. Anyway, I agree strongly with term limits, they should be mandatory for any politiician in any democracy (not just the President or whatever). Of course it's the politiicians who would have to pass the law to do that... good luck.
Minor parties and independent candidates would have less chance of being elected and no option for subsequent rounds - by definition an independent candidate would not ave a replacement, and minor parties would run out of money sooner than the larger ones. End result it becomes a race to see who has enough money and candidates to keep fielding them until they are the last party standing. Big parties win.
Plenty of European countries do this and it results in a different set of problems. First, to vote for a party which matches your views such a party has to exist, what happens in practice is that parties which aim at large sections of the population form, because they have the greatest chance of election. Second having a parliament full of multiple parties means none of them usually has a clear majority and so you frequently get weak coalition governments. Third it's almost impossible to get rid of politicians because the established ones make sure they are high on the party lists, so they will get in no matter what. This takes away their connection to their constituency and their sense of responsibiity to their electorate.
The reason expanding wall plugs are called 'rawlplugs' is because they were invented by John Joseph Rawlings in... 1911. Fischer's development was making them from plastic, in 1957.
Complicated yes, but works with every type of powered wheelchair regardless of its internal protocols and without having to take it apart and interface wiring. So it can be fitted by someone not skilled in electronics and without voiding warranties or rental agreements for the chair.
I didn't say "keyboards" I said character encoding. The IBM 704 (on which Fortran was developed) had a 6-bit character set which did not include > or <, for the same reason Fortran did not use square brackets [ ]. Similarly, the 704's word size limit accounts for (original) Fortran's 6-character identifiers.
IBM 704 assembly language didn't have GT, LT or EQ. It had things like CAS (Compare Accumulator with Storage) which worked in one direction only.
Agreed. The symbols are easier because every child learns them in primary school maths class. The mnemonics are a relic from a time when the character encoding on the IBM 704 didn't have the > and < symbols, there is no rational reason for using them today.
The comparison operators > and < have been in use for four hundred years and are (or should have been) learned in primary school. They also work in any (human) language, not just in English, and map directly to what is used in mathematics. No one should be confused by them.
Obviously it is not a supersonic interceptor, though neither is the F-35. How 'modern' the Super Tucano is depends on your definition of modern. Is it stealthy? no. Is it build from composites with fly-by-light or whatever? no. Does (or rather, can) it have modern glass cockpits, comms, datalink, precision munitions, engine and so on? yes. As I said, design on it started at about the same time (mid 1990s) as on the F-35. What they are though is designed for different roles. It's not out of date, it's in a different category. You wouldn't send your racing driver out in an out of date car, but you would send him out in a current model rally car without all the carbon fibre and aero of an F1 car if he was racing in a rally. Sending a pilot out in a Super Tucano makes perfect sense in the right mission.
The Super Tucano is no more a "WWII-era" plane than the F-35 is, it first flew in the late 1990s, and is derived from the 1980s Tucano. The F-35 began development at about the same time as the Super Tucano...
About all that's "reminiscent" of WWII designs is that is has a prop... but then the first pure jets flew in WWII too.
Most of the elements of Windows 95 were not revolutionary, they were just widespread (in the consumer space), but anyway...
The point is there's no need for these "little languages" (not so little, just not necessarily well-known to the man in the street) to do GUIs, and why would there be when perfectly good GUIs can be built in C/C++/Java/Javascript/whatever. No one in their right mind builds GUIs in Fortran, Erlang, Ada.. doesn't mean they're a time sink.
Perhaps you should consider thinking outside of the box of 'GUIs which can flex across multi-dimensional displays'... there's a lot more to computing than that...
The first study doesn't deal directly with pain, and should never have been published, IMO, it is appallingly bad science. Some (probably not all) of the flaws:
- It mixes a range of quite different chronic conditions including headaches, allergies, dermatitis, rhinitis (all of which can be caused by stress or psychosomatic effects as well as physiology);
- it doesn't present a list of all the conditions studied, only "the most frequent diagnoses";
- the authors "replace" missing data if a patient dropped out (page 3);
- the authors make arbitrary assumptions about the models without any explanations for their reasoning (page 3 again);
- and, most damningly, the patients were allowed to use conventional medications during the study (page 6). In other words no useful conclusions about the efficacy of homeopathy can be drawn from it.
as I said, I'm surprised it was published, but given that BioMed Central recently retracted 43 papers for fake peer review, perhaps I shouldn't be.
The second paper is not about homeopathy but about acupuncture, which is (a) naturopathy and (b) an actual physical process involving sticking needles into specific parts of the body (AFAIK nerve clusters).
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Yep, I use a business card too, that so far has worked in all but one hotel.
You put the keycard (these days its more often chip based I think, but anyway) in the cradle by the door and it has the same effect (turn on/off thelights etc), usually except for one power socket which is used for the fridge. Two guests get two keycards so one is always in the room with them. Simple ... works this way across the world.
Someone else with the CPU-hogging Firefox problem. Mostly it seems to be doing some kind of Javascript in the background, but often will spike for no apparent reason. But the tab management is better than any other browser, so I stay ...
1214 (no, that is not a typo) across ~20 windows. Documentation, papers to read, stuff to get back to. 8GB Linux. The memory killer is Facebook, close that tab and the rest is fine.
Technically there was only one lane which the Google car was already in.
I have an offline dedicated GPS device for that, but where I live cell coverage is pretty good even outside the cities. Mostly I know where I'm going anyway and don't bother with the dedicated GPS, just use the app in my phone for the live traffic.
Once I've entered the destination and it's gone to the map display the destination isn't shown any more, but the trip time is. So misfingering on a list of destinations or an autocomplete error is easy to miss, but the approximate trip time is always visible as a check ("hang on, that can't be right?")
Agreed, I almost always have my GPS muted, just using it as a moving map with live traffic information (Google Maps FTW) and ETA. And I look at the ETA and journey time before I start to see if it looks reasonable.
That said, the Belgian woman was lying and using "GPS made me do it" as cover. No one is that stupid, for one thing you can't drive for two days straight without breaks and rest, which would be a dead give-away to anyone with enough cognitive function to actually be able to drive. Not to mention signposts in several different languages along the way
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This is exactly what happeed in Poland recently.
I wish they would work together; maybe in some countries they do ... where I live the lesser coalition partners horse-trade for their particular special interest. Anyway, I agree strongly with term limits, they should be mandatory for any politiician in any democracy (not just the President or whatever). Of course it's the politiicians who would have to pass the law to do that ... good luck.
Minor parties and independent candidates would have less chance of being elected and no option for subsequent rounds - by definition an independent candidate would not ave a replacement, and minor parties would run out of money sooner than the larger ones. End result it becomes a race to see who has enough money and candidates to keep fielding them until they are the last party standing. Big parties win.
Plenty of European countries do this and it results in a different set of problems. First, to vote for a party which matches your views such a party has to exist, what happens in practice is that parties which aim at large sections of the population form, because they have the greatest chance of election. Second having a parliament full of multiple parties means none of them usually has a clear majority and so you frequently get weak coalition governments. Third it's almost impossible to get rid of politicians because the established ones make sure they are high on the party lists, so they will get in no matter what. This takes away their connection to their constituency and their sense of responsibiity to their electorate.
It seems to have href-ed itself by magic.
Anyway, thanks for those, I'd been wondering (off the back of hanging stuff off a concrete wall) if something deformable like that existed.
The reason expanding wall plugs are called 'rawlplugs' is because they were invented by John Joseph Rawlings in ... 1911. Fischer's development was making them from plastic, in 1957.
If they were it might make them a bit more careful about who they elect ...
Complicated yes, but works with every type of powered wheelchair regardless of its internal protocols and without having to take it apart and interface wiring. So it can be fitted by someone not skilled in electronics and without voiding warranties or rental agreements for the chair.
I didn't say "keyboards" I said character encoding. The IBM 704 (on which Fortran was developed) had a 6-bit character set which did not include > or <, for the same reason Fortran did not use square brackets [ ]. Similarly, the 704's word size limit accounts for (original) Fortran's 6-character identifiers.
IBM 704 assembly language didn't have GT, LT or EQ. It had things like CAS (Compare Accumulator with Storage) which worked in one direction only.
Agreed. The symbols are easier because every child learns them in primary school maths class. The mnemonics are a relic from a time when the character encoding on the IBM 704 didn't have the > and < symbols, there is no rational reason for using them today.
The comparison operators > and < have been in use for four hundred years and are (or should have been) learned in primary school. They also work in any (human) language, not just in English, and map directly to what is used in mathematics. No one should be confused by them.
Obviously it is not a supersonic interceptor, though neither is the F-35. How 'modern' the Super Tucano is depends on your definition of modern. Is it stealthy? no. Is it build from composites with fly-by-light or whatever? no. Does (or rather, can) it have modern glass cockpits, comms, datalink, precision munitions, engine and so on? yes. As I said, design on it started at about the same time (mid 1990s) as on the F-35. What they are though is designed for different roles. It's not out of date, it's in a different category. You wouldn't send your racing driver out in an out of date car, but you would send him out in a current model rally car without all the carbon fibre and aero of an F1 car if he was racing in a rally. Sending a pilot out in a Super Tucano makes perfect sense in the right mission.
Yes, I know. My point was that the fact that it has a propeller is about the only thing common with a WW2 piston-driven plane.
The Super Tucano is no more a "WWII-era" plane than the F-35 is, it first flew in the late 1990s, and is derived from the 1980s Tucano. The F-35 began development at about the same time as the Super Tucano ...
About all that's "reminiscent" of WWII designs is that is has a prop ... but then the first pure jets flew in WWII too.
Most of the elements of Windows 95 were not revolutionary, they were just widespread (in the consumer space), but anyway ...
The point is there's no need for these "little languages" (not so little, just not necessarily well-known to the man in the street) to do GUIs, and why would there be when perfectly good GUIs can be built in C/C++/Java/Javascript/whatever. No one in their right mind builds GUIs in Fortran, Erlang, Ada .. doesn't mean they're a time sink.
Perhaps you should consider thinking outside of the box of 'GUIs which can flex across multi-dimensional displays' ... there's a lot more to computing than that ...
The first study doesn't deal directly with pain, and should never have been published, IMO, it is appallingly bad science. Some (probably not all) of the flaws:
as I said, I'm surprised it was published, but given that BioMed Central recently retracted 43 papers for fake peer review, perhaps I shouldn't be.
The second paper is not about homeopathy but about acupuncture, which is (a) naturopathy and (b) an actual physical process involving sticking needles into specific parts of the body (AFAIK nerve clusters).