You consider it the same country even after the Normans trounced you, completely changed the government and aristocracy, and even started to change the language almost beyond recognition. Yeah, right.
Technically, yes, historians do consider it to be the same country. William, Duke of Normandy was persuing a claim to the English throne as a relative of Edward the Confessor.
In case you hadn't heard, an EMPIRE is a group of countries with a common ruler.
In the case of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria and Hungary were countries that were PART of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Along with pieces of Germany and Italy and bits of various Balkan places...
Which is exactly the definition of the United Kingdom: a group of countries with a common ruler. They even participate as separate countries in various sporting events...
Also because in today's short-term gain, publicity-driven climate it's difficult to get funding for "checking things", particularly if it's something everyone "knows" or some work someone else has already done but should be verified or expanded to a bigger sample. Funding agencies and review boards are always looking to fund something "new", preferably if it will make the papers. That's also why it's much easier to get funding for whatever's fashionable (say, exoplanets) that for some sub-field which has fallen out of favour.
Yes, and they just send more cleaners round to pick it up. Also at major train stations in London, but in fact the general effect has been less garbage since people know about it and take the garbage with them or dispose of it outside the station.
But actually, GP is wrong: this was not a reaction to 7/7 but dates back to the early 1990s after the IRA bombed London multiple times, including the Underground and train stations. Some of those bombs were indeed hidden in bins. At the time the IRA was detonating bombs in London every few months so it was not an imaginary threat.
Yep, freezer trick worked for me on two drives, and not on a third. Recovered all the data from one drive, and about half off the second. The thing is, it's a one shot, last chance attempt, since the thermal shock is as likely to kill the drive as revive it temporarily. You need patience, and dry air, and dessicant in the bag with the drive.
Two other methods which have worked were running a drive on its side (!) instead of horizontally, and keeping an overheating drive cool with extra fans (well, that one should be obvious).
I just set up a new computer with Ubuntu 12.04. It comes with the latest Firefox.
I had assumed that an Intel Core processor with HT should be able to handle Firefox, but no: It repeatedly maxes out CPU and Ubuntu greys it out (signaling that it's unresponsive).
I struggled with this too, after updates took me to FF 12 a few days ago. Completely useless, click on tab: greyed out; click to scroll: greyed out; click to search: greyed out. Top showed 500MB more RAM usage over FF 11, with the same tabs and plugins (only Adblock and SessionManager).
Finally I gave up and installed FF 13 beta from the Firefox-next PPA and everything went back to normal - reasonable response and CPU load, RAM below 1GB. Either there is something wrong with FF12, or with Ubuntu's build, but it seems fixed with FF13.
Where I think Kodak failed is packaging: Canon, Nikon etc. had vast experience and brand awareness packaging quality _cameras_, Sony the same but with video cameras. Kodak had comparatively little experience of that, except for a few point-and-shoot cameras mostly made as a vehicle for selling more film. Kodak was never going to win a camera mfg. war. They might be able (or might have been able) to hold their own in a sensor mfg. war if they'd played it right. Also, a lot of people do still want to print their pictures - that is, or was, another avenue for them.
I had a similar problem finding ways to teach basic networking such as addresses and masks and routing to non-computing students. Having looked into NS2 and similar things and finding them powerful but way too complicated (for the student's level), I settled on Clack:
It's written in Java, graphical and easy to use and does quite well at showing many of the important things. You can also extend it yourself if necessary (open source).
Since it's astronomers that build and operate the observatories, and we've discovered, among other things, exoplanets from long term monitoring programs at said observatories... your statement makes little sense.
Given the low cost of high end amateur grade scope, if useful science could truly be done on it, where are the ongoing proposals from the astronomers that such things be be built/obtained?
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GP is correct. The long term monitoring for exoplanets was done at professional observatories, but using what are now considered "small" telescopes, equivalent to large-ish amateur telescopes . But there is only so much money and so much professional manpower for these. Amateurs with a good location, telescope and camera and some care can indeed contribute to real, published research, monitoring comets, asteroids, variable stars of all types, exoplanets and stars which might have exoplanets, or looking for supernovae. It's a very good field for amateurs.
Now, probably there is plenty of wind out there not to make an impact, but no one has even addressed this. Everyone thinks it is a magical energy source with NO negative consequences. I want to know if there are any, but no one seems to be worried. Is it an issue people are hiding to promote wind power? Or is it really insignificant?
Does it really matter what language they're taught in? They should be learning the concepts of programming, not just a language.
Part of the problem (and I speak from experience) is that in many science/engineering departments the Fortran is taught by scientists/engineers who never learned any modern programming concepts, and who learned Fortran from people who frequently taught themselves Fortran back in the early days when Fortran was limited and many modern ideas didn't exist yet. Which has the effect of propagating many of the bad practices Fortran is (in)famous for.
Other languages are better for teaching because they often enforce (or at least encourage) good practice, and people trained well can then go and write good Fortran in a modern dialect.
When I was in London I never waited more than 5 minutes for a train to arrive and take me somewhere.
All depends. I used to live in London. When I could take the tube, all was well. When I had to take the North London Link rail followed by a bus, it all went downhill. Nominally the journey should have been about half an hour, but between both train and bus running notoriously late or not turning up at all it frequently became 1-2 hours of frustration. I took to driving the car - 25 minutes, every time (no problem with parking).
I don't mind public transport, but it has to be (mostly) reliable.
For me it is simply a question of time - time spent behind the wheel of a car is wasted time as far as I'm concerned.
Funnily enough, for me time spent in public transport is wasted time. On a good day, it takes me twice as long to get to work by public transport as by car, on a bad day four times as long. The transit is also often so crowded that I'm standing and so can't read or sleep, as well as being jostled and crushed by other people. Using a laptop is also out of the question. And this is in a dense European city with nominally good transit. Driving is quicker, more relaxing and more comfortable. It is more expensive, though.
From what I can see there is no hard and fast rule about which is better, public transit or car. Even within one city it can vary depending on location, route and time of day.
What I would like is "smart electronics" so I can push a single button on my way out and be sure I am not wasting electricity, without shutting off my fridge, alarm clock, and PVR.
I'd like this as well.
In a new installation it would be easy enough to arrange the wiring such that the fridge, alarm, and PVR were on separate circuits from the rest. Then the ordinary circuit breakers could be used to shut everything else off. In an existing installation it would be harder.
if you blast it from down here, you're bound to hit something that points towards the earth. That means the materials vaporized will be pushed towards earth, giving whatever you're shooting at a boost towards a higher orbit.
It doesn't work like that. A push directly away from the Earth will not give a 'higher' orbit (one with more angular momentum), it will change the shape of the orbit (the eccentricity). Essentially the orbit will become longer and thinner, and at a different point in the orbit it will be lower and start to brush against the atmosphere, thus invoking atmospheric drag.
It's nice enough, I like the window borders but I have found, trying various themes over the years, that I don't get along with dark grey or black GUI window/menu/dialog box backgrounds. I'm not sure why: text terminals I have always had white text on black - but somehow light buttons and icons on dark don't work for me, I prefer dark on light.
Am I the only one who likes the brown color scheme?
Nope - I like it too, although I never would have thought I would before. As another poster said, it is surprisingly comfortable. Also, it goes well with this Penny Arcade wallpaper.
No, definitely no vacuum. The pressure difference will cause damage. If you think you need to provide more than a stable, not too humid climate, use an inert gas.
Also, vacuum will cause outgassing, particularly of any lubricants or volatile compounds in plastics and rubber, making them go brittle. Not good. So yes, an inert, and dry (think dessicant), atmosphere is much better.
Actually gauntlet is the preferred spelling for both, although the etymology behind the use of gauntlet for punishment is different (the first meaning is from French, the second from Spanish). Gantlet is also correct, although archaic, for both.
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You consider it the same country even after the Normans trounced you, completely changed the government and aristocracy, and even started to change the language almost beyond recognition. Yeah, right.
Technically, yes, historians do consider it to be the same country. William, Duke of Normandy was persuing a claim to the English throne as a relative of Edward the Confessor.
In case you hadn't heard, an EMPIRE is a group of countries with a common ruler.
In the case of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria and Hungary were countries that were PART of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Along with pieces of Germany and Italy and bits of various Balkan places...
Which is exactly the definition of the United Kingdom: a group of countries with a common ruler. They even participate as separate countries in various sporting events ...
There is also a Crunchbang-inspired derivative for the Raspberry Pi, called PiBang. I find it much more pleasant than the gaudy Raspbian ...
Because it's a fucking long drive from Sydney to Singapore or LA where my friends live?
Also, wet.
Indeed.
Also because in today's short-term gain, publicity-driven climate it's difficult to get funding for "checking things", particularly if it's something everyone "knows" or some work someone else has already done but should be verified or expanded to a bigger sample. Funding agencies and review boards are always looking to fund something "new", preferably if it will make the papers. That's also why it's much easier to get funding for whatever's fashionable (say, exoplanets) that for some sub-field which has fallen out of favour.
Yes, and they just send more cleaners round to pick it up. Also at major train stations in London, but in fact the general effect has been less garbage since people know about it and take the garbage with them or dispose of it outside the station.
But actually, GP is wrong: this was not a reaction to 7/7 but dates back to the early 1990s after the IRA bombed London multiple times, including the Underground and train stations. Some of those bombs were indeed hidden in bins. At the time the IRA was detonating bombs in London every few months so it was not an imaginary threat.
... and is actually priced at $1.28.
... for a pack of two. $0.64 per bulb.
Another question: Do halogens have the same problem as CFLs where they suffer if not used more than a few minutes at a time?
No.
Yep, freezer trick worked for me on two drives, and not on a third. Recovered all the data from one drive, and about half off the second. The thing is, it's a one shot, last chance attempt, since the thermal shock is as likely to kill the drive as revive it temporarily. You need patience, and dry air, and dessicant in the bag with the drive.
Two other methods which have worked were running a drive on its side (!) instead of horizontally, and keeping an overheating drive cool with extra fans (well, that one should be obvious).
I just set up a new computer with Ubuntu 12.04. It comes with the latest Firefox.
I had assumed that an Intel Core processor with HT should be able to handle Firefox, but no: It repeatedly maxes out CPU and Ubuntu greys it out (signaling that it's unresponsive).
I struggled with this too, after updates took me to FF 12 a few days ago. Completely useless, click on tab: greyed out; click to scroll: greyed out; click to search: greyed out. Top showed 500MB more RAM usage over FF 11, with the same tabs and plugins (only Adblock and SessionManager).
Finally I gave up and installed FF 13 beta from the Firefox-next PPA and everything went back to normal - reasonable response and CPU load, RAM below 1GB. Either there is something wrong with FF12, or with Ubuntu's build, but it seems fixed with FF13.
It exists, or close enough[*] - it's called SIMBAD:
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/
* - new objects are added all the time, so it takes a while for that information to make it into SIMBAD
Actually Kodak do make their own chips, and have done so successfully for years: many cameras and webcams use Kodak-branded chips.
Kodak image sensor solutions
Where I think Kodak failed is packaging: Canon, Nikon etc. had vast experience and brand awareness packaging quality _cameras_, Sony the same but with video cameras. Kodak had comparatively little experience of that, except for a few point-and-shoot cameras mostly made as a vehicle for selling more film. Kodak was never going to win a camera mfg. war. They might be able (or might have been able) to hold their own in a sensor mfg. war if they'd played it right. Also, a lot of people do still want to print their pictures - that is, or was, another avenue for them.
I had a similar problem finding ways to teach basic networking such as addresses and masks and routing to non-computing students. Having looked into NS2 and similar things and finding them powerful but way too complicated (for the student's level), I settled on Clack:
Clack Graphical Router Project
It's written in Java, graphical and easy to use and does quite well at showing many of the important things. You can also extend it yourself if necessary (open source).
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GP is correct. The long term monitoring for exoplanets was done at professional observatories, but using what are now considered "small" telescopes, equivalent to large-ish amateur telescopes . But there is only so much money and so much professional manpower for these. Amateurs with a good location, telescope and camera and some care can indeed contribute to real, published research, monitoring comets, asteroids, variable stars of all types, exoplanets and stars which might have exoplanets, or looking for supernovae. It's a very good field for amateurs.
here are some (non-exhaustive) examples and discussion:
http://www.aavso.org/aavso/about/pro_am.pdf
(disclaimer: I am a professional astronomer)
Now, probably there is plenty of wind out there not to make an impact, but no one has even addressed this. Everyone thinks it is a magical energy source with NO negative consequences. I want to know if there are any, but no one seems to be worried. Is it an issue people are hiding to promote wind power? Or is it really insignificant?
It is insignificant.
Does it really matter what language they're taught in? They should be learning the concepts of programming, not just a language.
Part of the problem (and I speak from experience) is that in many science/engineering departments the Fortran is taught by scientists/engineers who never learned any modern programming concepts, and who learned Fortran from people who frequently taught themselves Fortran back in the early days when Fortran was limited and many modern ideas didn't exist yet. Which has the effect of propagating many of the bad practices Fortran is (in)famous for.
Other languages are better for teaching because they often enforce (or at least encourage) good practice, and people trained well can then go and write good Fortran in a modern dialect.
When I was in London I never waited more than 5 minutes for a train to arrive and take me somewhere.
All depends. I used to live in London. When I could take the tube, all was well. When I had to take the North London Link rail followed by a bus, it all went downhill. Nominally the journey should have been about half an hour, but between both train and bus running notoriously late or not turning up at all it frequently became 1-2 hours of frustration. I took to driving the car - 25 minutes, every time (no problem with parking).
I don't mind public transport, but it has to be (mostly) reliable.
For me it is simply a question of time - time spent behind the wheel of a car is wasted time as far as I'm concerned.
Funnily enough, for me time spent in public transport is wasted time. On a good day, it takes me twice as long to get to work by public transport as by car, on a bad day four times as long. The transit is also often so crowded that I'm standing and so can't read or sleep, as well as being jostled and crushed by other people. Using a laptop is also out of the question. And this is in a dense European city with nominally good transit. Driving is quicker, more relaxing and more comfortable. It is more expensive, though.
From what I can see there is no hard and fast rule about which is better, public transit or car. Even within one city it can vary depending on location, route and time of day.
What I would like is "smart electronics" so I can push a single button on my way out and be sure I am not wasting electricity, without shutting off my fridge, alarm clock, and PVR.
I'd like this as well.
In a new installation it would be easy enough to arrange the wiring such that the fridge, alarm, and PVR were on separate circuits from the rest. Then the ordinary circuit breakers could be used to shut everything else off. In an existing installation it would be harder.
If they do name it Serenity (got my vote) they should paint the Serenity logo on the side :)
if you blast it from down here, you're bound to hit something that points towards the earth. That means the materials vaporized will be pushed towards earth, giving whatever you're shooting at a boost towards a higher orbit.
It doesn't work like that. A push directly away from the Earth will not give a 'higher' orbit (one with more angular momentum), it will change the shape of the orbit (the eccentricity). Essentially the orbit will become longer and thinner, and at a different point in the orbit it will be lower and start to brush against the atmosphere, thus invoking atmospheric drag.
Try the Ubuntu Studio theme
It's nice enough, I like the window borders but I have found, trying various themes over the years, that I don't get along with dark grey or black GUI window/menu/dialog box backgrounds. I'm not sure why: text terminals I have always had white text on black - but somehow light buttons and icons on dark don't work for me, I prefer dark on light.
Am I the only one who likes the brown color scheme?
Nope - I like it too, although I never would have thought I would before. As another poster said, it is surprisingly comfortable. Also, it goes well with this Penny Arcade wallpaper.
No, definitely no vacuum. The pressure difference will cause damage. If you think you need to provide more than a stable, not too humid climate, use an inert gas.
Also, vacuum will cause outgassing, particularly of any lubricants or volatile compounds in plastics and rubber, making them go brittle. Not good. So yes, an inert, and dry (think dessicant), atmosphere is much better.
Actually gauntlet is the preferred spelling for both, although the etymology behind the use of gauntlet for punishment is different (the first meaning is from French, the second from Spanish). Gantlet is also correct, although archaic, for both.
See: gauntlet.