Still, I don't quite understand how an ISP could "charge" a website for the services it provides. I mean, youtube doesn't shove videos down the pipes, they get transmitted because users deliberately requests them. How does this work legally?
It's still pretty clever though, taking advantage of sub-pixel resolution in the design itself. The same trick should work in any orientation and pixel order, as long as the font is changed and reworked to match.
Well hey, you're definitely not the only one around here with this problem. I basically feel bad about procrastinating, so to avoid that feeling I put it out of my mind, obviously leading to some more procrastination!
Cue Benny Hill music here...
The upshot is that it only applies to certain areas. In other areas I'm still procrastinating some (as normal), but always finishing before deadline and with very good results to boot. My problem is transferring this skill between areas of work.
I think having a specific plan helps. Not just a mindmap, but actual steps to be taken when and where, that lead to a certain goal without fail. Of course, life itself doesn't have very many maps about, so in that case pick a partial goal, and remember the first pair of pics from this comic. Or to put it in more work-related terms, a situation that is not yet completely FUBARed can still be salvaged, and with skill, nobody will even notice. And even if someone notices, at least the situation is salvaged.
Incidentally, I can recommend reading through that entire webcomic, it's made me realise many important things.
My conclusion: This is a storm in a teapot. The guy duped everyone by using the wrong terminology; he's actually traveling upwind (into the wind) by everyone else's definition. This is confirmed by the direction of the streamers in the video embedded in TFA.
Wrong reasoning, wrong conclusion. The cart is indeed travelling downwind, i.e. in the same direction relative to the ground. Moreover, physics do not state that energy cannot be extracted from the wind when going faster than the wind, because you also need to think about the wind moving relative to the ground. That is the energy difference being extracted. The ultimate theoretical point where the cart cannot possibly accelerate any longer is when the wind speed relative to ground in the wake of the cart is zero.
And finally, this experiment is not hard to do on your own in a small scale test.
But likewise, these same laws are the reason you don't see boxes of milk on store shelves, outside of refrigeration units. I was confused the first time I was in France at my wife's house and I had some cereal for breakfast. She had me pull a box of milk from the pantry. I thought all milk had to be kept refrigerated.
Actually, ultra-high temperature pasteurization makes the milk go sterile enough that the expiry date is at least three months ahead, at room temperature. There's still regular refrigerated milk, of course. Wikipedia says the reason it's generally not US stores is simply that consumers are uneasy about non-refrigerated milk.
Your DS probably went off at the wrong time either because the alarm didn't care about the time but rather the time left until it should go off, or it didn't adjust for daylight saving at all, or because it wanted to ring at the same solar time and adjusted the alarm too. The summary is a mystery, because TFA says that's what the iphone did as well. Lie-in in this case meant one extra hour of sleep after the alarm went off an hour early.
Except the only difference is that at the end of a word/sentence/paragraph, you hit space, check for typos, then move on. That's it. Still not difficult, and you should probably try it before commenting. Find a japanese phrase with both a (phonetic) transliteration and the japanese original. Use the IME key to switch between Japanese and QWERTY, type in the transliteration and press space.
Then you have all these math professors with "Doctorates" going around saying.9999... repeating really = 1. Except 1/3 !=.333...repeating, we just have no real way to represent it in base10.
Argh, this again. There are many perfectly good and precise ways of representing that number in base10. Here's three:
More like a big nuke missile, but with the warhead removed. It's still big, bulky, and not very nimble, but it goes exactly where you want it to go, and it doesn't blow everything up.
No, it doesn't get closer or farther from anything. Any 9's you add to the end of the number were already there, included in the "...". Those dots are important, they are not for just convenience.
There is an unambiguous way of writing exactly that: 0.(9) means an endless concatenation of nines. I'm not sure what mathematical operations would be problematic with this notation.
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Or even better, the GF2 or Olympus PEN, which both look exactly like a P&S but can take that same 100-300mm lens (600mm equiv).
Nothing wrong with the metamod system, still there.
Airplanes aren't affected, you need to go up to twice the altitude.
Still, I don't quite understand how an ISP could "charge" a website for the services it provides. I mean, youtube doesn't shove videos down the pipes, they get transmitted because users deliberately requests them. How does this work legally?
It's still pretty clever though, taking advantage of sub-pixel resolution in the design itself. The same trick should work in any orientation and pixel order, as long as the font is changed and reworked to match.
You mean if someone is a chronic liar, they might be responsible for all crimes? Lay off the weed...
The only problem being it's not actually an insightful comment, for the reasons given by other posts...
Cue Benny Hill music here...
The upshot is that it only applies to certain areas. In other areas I'm still procrastinating some (as normal), but always finishing before deadline and with very good results to boot. My problem is transferring this skill between areas of work.
I think having a specific plan helps. Not just a mindmap, but actual steps to be taken when and where, that lead to a certain goal without fail. Of course, life itself doesn't have very many maps about, so in that case pick a partial goal, and remember the first pair of pics from this comic. Or to put it in more work-related terms, a situation that is not yet completely FUBARed can still be salvaged, and with skill, nobody will even notice. And even if someone notices, at least the situation is salvaged.
Incidentally, I can recommend reading through that entire webcomic, it's made me realise many important things.
That would be this guy's type of design then? Nope, still doesn't work, even 750 years later.
My conclusion: This is a storm in a teapot. The guy duped everyone by using the wrong terminology; he's actually traveling upwind (into the wind) by everyone else's definition. This is confirmed by the direction of the streamers in the video embedded in TFA.
Wrong reasoning, wrong conclusion. The cart is indeed travelling downwind, i.e. in the same direction relative to the ground. Moreover, physics do not state that energy cannot be extracted from the wind when going faster than the wind, because you also need to think about the wind moving relative to the ground. That is the energy difference being extracted. The ultimate theoretical point where the cart cannot possibly accelerate any longer is when the wind speed relative to ground in the wake of the cart is zero. And finally, this experiment is not hard to do on your own in a small scale test.
But likewise, these same laws are the reason you don't see boxes of milk on store shelves, outside of refrigeration units. I was confused the first time I was in France at my wife's house and I had some cereal for breakfast. She had me pull a box of milk from the pantry. I thought all milk had to be kept refrigerated.
Actually, ultra-high temperature pasteurization makes the milk go sterile enough that the expiry date is at least three months ahead, at room temperature. There's still regular refrigerated milk, of course. Wikipedia says the reason it's generally not US stores is simply that consumers are uneasy about non-refrigerated milk.
Even if that were the case, there's still no need for the app to hide itself.
You don't need to hide it either.
Yes, but you hardly need to keep that hidden from yourself. I think that's the sticking point, not the app as such.
It's malicious as in illegal. Your freedoms do not extend to covert snooping on other peoples conversations.
Your DS probably went off at the wrong time either because the alarm didn't care about the time but rather the time left until it should go off, or it didn't adjust for daylight saving at all, or because it wanted to ring at the same solar time and adjusted the alarm too. The summary is a mystery, because TFA says that's what the iphone did as well. Lie-in in this case meant one extra hour of sleep after the alarm went off an hour early.
Sure, except for all that stuff you just wrote.
Except the only difference is that at the end of a word/sentence/paragraph, you hit space, check for typos, then move on. That's it. Still not difficult, and you should probably try it before commenting. Find a japanese phrase with both a (phonetic) transliteration and the japanese original. Use the IME key to switch between Japanese and QWERTY, type in the transliteration and press space.
Then you have all these math professors with "Doctorates" going around saying .9999... repeating really = 1. Except 1/3 != .333...repeating, we just have no real way to represent it in base10.
Argh, this again. There are many perfectly good and precise ways of representing that number in base10. Here's three:
There you go.
I recall a virtual idol as an NPC in Deus Ex 2 as well.
It's also terribly pedestrian to say that this could lead to "speedier, bootless computers"
They're just saying that computers can run faster without boots on.
One might say the difference between e.g. you and the throat-crammers you mention is that you have faith, while they merely believe.
More like a big nuke missile, but with the warhead removed. It's still big, bulky, and not very nimble, but it goes exactly where you want it to go, and it doesn't blow everything up.
No, it doesn't get closer or farther from anything. Any 9's you add to the end of the number were already there, included in the "...". Those dots are important, they are not for just convenience.
There is an unambiguous way of writing exactly that: 0.(9) means an endless concatenation of nines. I'm not sure what mathematical operations would be problematic with this notation.