So, targeting your ground-to-air missiles just got a whole bunch easier.
I think this statement is quite silly.
1) Coordinates do not help you if you have a shoulder-launched SAM. You track the target visually, during approach or takeoff.
2) If you want to down a plane that is beyond visual range, you don't need coordinates: your SAM is radar guided, and you work for some country's armed forces. That plane is going down whether it transmits coordinates or not.
A teacher of mine has decided to do the same thing. Andrew Landahl will have us do the same for a course in Quantum Information instead of a final exam. Pick a topic we've seen during the lecture and write an article on it for Wikipedia, assuming it doesn't already exist.
It's certainly a different approach. Considering the article will cover some obscure aspect of quantum info, to be seen mostly by people that know far more about it than we do, I can't say I'm not a bit uneasy about this project.
How about being able to preview items (like in Column view) but have them sorted by date, something apparently only possible in list view? This drives me nuts.
Si, menos mal que tenemos a la ESO en el norte para hacerle la contra a este tipo de noticias. Aunque honestamente, nada puede contra Pinocho y su inexplicable libertad, fuente eterna de bochornos y vergüenza para Chile (como que la gente no cacha lo patético que se ve todo eso desde afuera...)
d.
You're talking about Blogger, right? Its Composer is sort of OK for anything but source code. When you do want to use it for code, it reveals its donkey-penis-sucking nature. I tried every which way, but it is so amazingly dumb that it will turn > into >, and then choke on the spurious HTML-esque tags that are created.
How did I get around this limitation? I turned off "Turn new lines into <br>" in the prefs, and edited the post in HTML mode (I didn't ever click on the Composer or Preview tab). Does this suck? Yes. A lot.
Eventually I think I'll just freak out and take a screenshot of the code or something equally inane, and then I'll be able to turn the newline option back on, as having it off is quite irritating to me.
(...) America is a corrupt regime of facists and that GWB should be impeached for stealing the last 3 elections, and being AWOL, and Katrina, and Plame, and Iraq, and the 9/11 was inside job, yadda fucking yadda. Or that Bill Clinton's Penis (Clenis) is evil and that the Left hates America, is shrill, is on the wrong side of history, is responsible for Wellstone's death, yadda yadda fucking yadda.
Well, like it or not, at least he seems to have managed to get you up to date on current events.
Unless they botched their elemental composition analysis, they appear to be mostly carbon and oxygen. Page 9 of the latest preprint (pardon the formatting):
Element Wt % Atomic % Standards
C 49.53 57.83 CaCO3
O 45.42 39.82 Quartz
Na 0.69 0.42 Albite
Al 0.41 0.21 Al2O3
Si 2.85 1.42 Quartz
Cl 0.12 0.05 KCl
Fe 0.97 0.24 Fe
In any case, the first two preprint's language made me cringe. The whole "life-cycle" section.... [shudder]
I find it easier to find interesting stories this way. If you think about it, it makes sense: a lot of though goes into the layout and heading size of the print version, why not take advantage of this in the online version?
Indeed, Venezuelan Spanish is quite clear, when spoken correctly. Colombian Spanish as well. In fact I believe most of the dubbing done for Latin American networks is done in Venezuela (let us not descend into criticizing the actual quality of the translations though: one would think that translators enter into a trance, in which they translate literally what they hear, regardless of the fact that it is nonsensical).
If you're into flair, go and spend some time in Buenos Aires, or some other part of Argentina. The ability to speak Spanish with an Italian cadence is definitely a plus in my book. The ladies seem to like it, too;-)
Most spanish teaching CDs that I have heard teach Spanish from Spain, español. If you plan on travelling a lot in Latin America, bear in mind that not only will you be a gringo with an accent, you will be a gringo with a very silly accent.
Around here, a Spanish accent is generally heard from two sources: spaniards and people telling Gallego jokes, which would roughly correspond to Irish jokes in English.
Personally I find that Latin American spanish, castellano, is more neutral, if you pick the right national accent. Peruvians, for example, have a particularly neutral and well-pronounced one, while Chilean Spanish is practically incomprehensible. As a native Spanish speaker born in Perú, it took me several years in Chile before I could understand over 90% of what was said to me. Frankly, I don't expect you to come across a Chilean "Aprenda Español" package anytime soon, and personally, I think that's a very good thing!:-)
Self-adhesive feet are a permanent solution. They cease to be useful the minute you close the lid and want to put the thing in a bag or briefcase. The advantage of these (or any other similar) feet is that they are outrageously large for good ventilation but come off as soon as you don't have a use for them.
Paul
But how could it be standard? At over 1 cm in height, they'd be way too bulky. Or is that not what you meant? Perhaps you're not referring to the raising feet I suggested.
This probably will not solve your issue, but it's kind of neat, so I'll mention it anyway.
You need:
One glue gun.
Several glue sticks.
One small (a bit over 5cc) syringe.
Saliva or some other water-based lubricant (you do have some, I presume?). Glycerine might also work.
Various small items that you'll gather as you go.
Sharp knife.
Take your syringe and cut it in half. My memory is a bit patchy about this bit, I did it a long time ago. 2 to 2.5 cm should be long enough (from the tip). Lubricate the inside of the tube. Again, I can't remember what I lubricated it with, but saliva works well, particularly when it comes to smoothing down imperfections in the glue while it is still hot. Fill the 2 cm of tube. Allow it to cool and pull out the glue plug. Repeat four or 5 times. Cut these cylinders down to size, 1 or 1.5 cm should do it. If for some reason they are not all the same height, instead of hacking away until there's nothing left, take a vice and place them all in it, and tighten slightly. Apply a hairdryer to the whole thing until the glue has adopted it's new shape. Allow to cool and remove the glue feet.
You're done. You now have small, rubbery, cheap feet for your laptop. They will even stick ever so slightly to case if it's warm, convenient if you want to pick it up briefly.
I carry these little feet in my laptop bag, and they help reduce the procesor temp. You don't have to use all four, you can just prop up the back and it will help.
Isn't the term "proportional" assumed to be direct by default?
I've never seen a statement that "A is proportional to B" meaning that "A is inversely proportional to B". In light of this, the world "directly" can surely be safely eliminated, no?
Slashdot Mirror
So, targeting your ground-to-air missiles just got a whole bunch easier.
I think this statement is quite silly.
1) Coordinates do not help you if you have a shoulder-launched SAM. You track the target visually, during approach or takeoff.
2) If you want to down a plane that is beyond visual range, you don't need coordinates: your SAM is radar guided, and you work for some country's armed forces. That plane is going down whether it transmits coordinates or not.
End of story.
d.
It seems to me picking the lock would be a better approach.
A teacher of mine has decided to do the same thing. Andrew Landahl will have us do the same for a course in Quantum Information instead of a final exam. Pick a topic we've seen during the lecture and write an article on it for Wikipedia, assuming it doesn't already exist.
It's certainly a different approach. Considering the article will cover some obscure aspect of quantum info, to be seen mostly by people that know far more about it than we do, I can't say I'm not a bit uneasy about this project.
How about being able to preview items (like in Column view) but have them sorted by date, something apparently only possible in list view? This drives me nuts.
Si, menos mal que tenemos a la ESO en el norte para hacerle la contra a este tipo de noticias. Aunque honestamente, nada puede contra Pinocho y su inexplicable libertad, fuente eterna de bochornos y vergüenza para Chile (como que la gente no cacha lo patético que se ve todo eso desde afuera...)
d.
This is embarrassing. Chile, my home for something like 17 years now, mentioned on Slashdot, and its for this.
Tut tut. I'm all for native peoples getting their act together, but this isn't how you go about it
d.
'One of the biggest challenges... is to fight that perception that old versions of software are good enough,'
... despite the fact that we'd dearly love it to.
A challenge indeed. You must feel identified with these people, surely.
'Our business model of course allows you to keep using Office 2003 - the software doesn't really expire, '
You're talking about Blogger, right? Its Composer is sort of OK for anything but source code. When you do want to use it for code, it reveals its donkey-penis-sucking nature. I tried every which way, but it is so amazingly dumb that it will turn > into >, and then choke on the spurious HTML-esque tags that are created.
How did I get around this limitation? I turned off "Turn new lines into <br>" in the prefs, and edited the post in HTML mode (I didn't ever click on the Composer or Preview tab). Does this suck? Yes. A lot.
Eventually I think I'll just freak out and take a screenshot of the code or something equally inane, and then I'll be able to turn the newline option back on, as having it off is quite irritating to me.
d.
They did not shoot him by accident. As far as I know, they shot him quite intentionally.
d.
Hope to god they don't read Slashdot! :-)
I too prefer the runner-up. What's the problem with giving us two or three choices?
Well, like it or not, at least he seems to have managed to get you up to date on current events.
I am not sure I want to know what a man-man probe is...
d.
Unless they botched their elemental composition analysis, they appear to be mostly carbon and oxygen. Page 9 of the latest preprint (pardon the formatting):
Element Wt % Atomic % Standards
C 49.53 57.83 CaCO3
O 45.42 39.82 Quartz
Na 0.69 0.42 Albite
Al 0.41 0.21 Al2O3
Si 2.85 1.42 Quartz
Cl 0.12 0.05 KCl
Fe 0.97 0.24 Fe
In any case, the first two preprint's language made me cringe. The whole "life-cycle" section.... [shudder]
One interesting alternative is to publish the whole newspaper, page by page, online.
For example, Chile's Las Últimas Noticias does this.
I find it easier to find interesting stories this way. If you think about it, it makes sense: a lot of though goes into the layout and heading size of the print version, why not take advantage of this in the online version?
d.
Indeed, Venezuelan Spanish is quite clear, when spoken correctly. Colombian Spanish as well. In fact I believe most of the dubbing done for Latin American networks is done in Venezuela (let us not descend into criticizing the actual quality of the translations though: one would think that translators enter into a trance, in which they translate literally what they hear, regardless of the fact that it is nonsensical).
;-)
If you're into flair, go and spend some time in Buenos Aires, or some other part of Argentina. The ability to speak Spanish with an Italian cadence is definitely a plus in my book. The ladies seem to like it, too
p.
Nah :-)
I figured it was obvious enough, left in the same paragraph, that it didn't need any explaining.
d.
Most spanish teaching CDs that I have heard teach Spanish from Spain, español. If you plan on travelling a lot in Latin America, bear in mind that not only will you be a gringo with an accent, you will be a gringo with a very silly accent.
:-)
Around here, a Spanish accent is generally heard from two sources: spaniards and people telling Gallego jokes, which would roughly correspond to Irish jokes in English.
Personally I find that Latin American spanish, castellano, is more neutral, if you pick the right national accent. Peruvians, for example, have a particularly neutral and well-pronounced one, while Chilean Spanish is practically incomprehensible. As a native Spanish speaker born in Perú, it took me several years in Chile before I could understand over 90% of what was said to me. Frankly, I don't expect you to come across a Chilean "Aprenda Español" package anytime soon, and personally, I think that's a very good thing!
p.
Amen brotha!
Me Too!
Self-adhesive feet are a permanent solution. They cease to be useful the minute you close the lid and want to put the thing in a bag or briefcase. The advantage of these (or any other similar) feet is that they are outrageously large for good ventilation but come off as soon as you don't have a use for them. Paul
But how could it be standard? At over 1 cm in height, they'd be way too bulky. Or is that not what you meant? Perhaps you're not referring to the raising feet I suggested.
You need:
Take your syringe and cut it in half. My memory is a bit patchy about this bit, I did it a long time ago. 2 to 2.5 cm should be long enough (from the tip). Lubricate the inside of the tube. Again, I can't remember what I lubricated it with, but saliva works well, particularly when it comes to smoothing down imperfections in the glue while it is still hot. Fill the 2 cm of tube. Allow it to cool and pull out the glue plug. Repeat four or 5 times. Cut these cylinders down to size, 1 or 1.5 cm should do it. If for some reason they are not all the same height, instead of hacking away until there's nothing left, take a vice and place them all in it, and tighten slightly. Apply a hairdryer to the whole thing until the glue has adopted it's new shape. Allow to cool and remove the glue feet.
You're done. You now have small, rubbery, cheap feet for your laptop. They will even stick ever so slightly to case if it's warm, convenient if you want to pick it up briefly.
I carry these little feet in my laptop bag, and they help reduce the procesor temp. You don't have to use all four, you can just prop up the back and it will help.
Hope someone finds this useful.
Paul
Nitpick^2:
Isn't the term "proportional" assumed to be direct by default?
I've never seen a statement that "A is proportional to B" meaning that "A is inversely proportional to B". In light of this, the world "directly" can surely be safely eliminated, no?
Bad spelling and grammar, less than average-joe-sixpack grasp of the principles involved.
If only the quality of the article were proportional to the amount of traffic he received today...