TFA arriving during the day I was made aware of this quite psychodelic video commemorating Katyn, which depicts also a German (Nazi), well, metaphorical machine, with quite a lot of stabbing and cutting potential.
(lower quality "3rd party" upload, but with translation of the few bits of speech there; and yes, the cawalry charge is metaphorical, horses weren't used in IX 39 in a way how Nazi propaganda depicted it)
Do we really want to let the Germans perform tests of stabbing and cutting humans by (presumably German) robots?;)
If an insect were human sized it would die very quickly of asphyxiation and be unable to move...there is a reason why you don't see insects of such size. And considering how you showed off in the first sentence...
(it wasn't about insects building large dam, but humans; you might have not heard of Egyptian pyramids, look them up - even simpler methods, not requiring any tools (sure, it would be inefficient...but could be done) can be used for a really large dam. That there was no point in it doesn't change that it could be done; and who cares about exact structural equivalent, you said "dam the Colorado River". Also...termites do build a material comparable to concrete in some ways - generally the point was that, taking proportions into consideration, they can do surprisingly much. Or are you also of the position that if/once we come in contact with a highly advanced interstellar civilisation our accomplishments will become null and void? (yeah, surprise, I do value them; but not only ours))
Too bad the scalability of Opera went seriously downhill after 9.27 (releases from 9.5 to pre-10.5 were generally a bit meh IMHO); it was of course necessitated by progress in other areas, can be justified by them and the browser still remains, from my experience, by far the most scalable. But in 9.27 (generally 8.x and early 9.x line) it is so great on limited resources that I decided to go back on one older machine I have around here (except for js heavy sites...)
Though the part with "losing ground" was about "minority languages"; they go simply extinct probably at least as often as adopting Latin alphabet...and I would be surpised if they were adopting Latin script more often than other (how many languages there are on Indian subcontinent? And how many are adopting non-local stripts?) Arabic having some losses doesn't mean it's not vibrant (and as far as number of users goes, perhaps even growing long-term?)
OTOH sizeable number of people would never call WoW "fun".
Heck, "free" could as well be actually an impediment - who knows how many people value their MMORPG, at least partially (but enough for it to be significant), because it costs them.
But I was thinking about the initial circumstances of "IIRC, Intel got their head handed to them by AMD when they "lost" the Mhz race to AMDs Marketing dept." (after all, my post started from the times of PPro & K5) - it wasn't just to AMD Marketing dept., Athlons were clearly more capable vs. P3.
Anyway, as to the later numbers printed next to "Athlon XP", they were quite accurate IIRC, often rather conservative (placing given core under a notch higher number wouldn't be a stretch). If that wouldn't be the case, you can be sure Intel marketing would really take AMD on a bumpy ride.
When was the last time you had to type in a relativelly unknown URL? (not things like google, gmail, your bank, etc.)
For that matter, when was the last time you had to type an URL of a site in a language which is off-limits to you anyway?...
This might help greatly in popularization of the internet in large part of so called "developing countries", especially since the biggest changes can be expected when the common folks get hang of it; they are much more likely to be fluent only in their native language and script. Or - imagine the uptake of the internet in the latin world if all URLs were in, say, the Georgian alphabet.
You said that such dam "could not have been built by hand". I simply disputed it...not only humans did comparable feats almost "by hand", certainly by relying on human muscle power / natural physiology; feats of proportional scale are not even too excessivelly unique. And did you try to miss (and ignore that I surely read it) that termites are actually very weak physically, as far as insects go? Accidentally, very similar to humans.
Look at the termite mounds (also, just below, tunnels and how they are used), then look at a termite...and tell me now that part of your justification which mentions Hoover Dam is convincing.
He only said he "appreciates" this feature in one webcam he has; but no mention when specifically asking for something better...and is pan-tilt really that usefull for watching grass and birds grow? (zoom can be certainly controlled, too)
Sure, current Logitech webcams are rather decent (though at most quality levels you can get something cheaper usually (*)); but don't forget that Logitech, being the longtime "leader" of webcams, is almost single-handedly responsible for their stagnation which lasted almost a decade and was interrupted only recently. For almost 10 years they sold to people the same entry level (and most people will of course pick that one) basic design, price and poor quality. Leaving people disgusted with what can be "achieved" by their new webcam...
(*)unless of course you want to use Skype HQ; which is, with willing cooperation of Logitech, restricted to only few webcam of the latter; which only makes things worse in my eyes. Otherwise it's often a safe bet that, say, a Creative webcam will have better quality/price ratio (and understand fully what it means for me to recommend something from Creative - I will never forgive them for Aureal)
Some routers have external USB ports (typically meant for storage); some of them have the possibility of using quite "normal" Linux, and hence all the drivers it has. So just connect a good quality webcam (note: you might need powered USB hub)
Or even connect Canon digicam with modified firmware and/or use app or script (there are *nix CLI ones) which can control such cheap camera.
(cheap & energy efficient Atom nettop would be fine too, of course...but WiFi routers are somewhat closer to the "independent" webcams you mentioned)
And those resurfacing events possibly have their part in replenishing the atmosphere. Plus the lack of plate tectonics is itself related to the initial inability of Venus to retain its water...
Generally, it seems the Earth was just barely a big enough planet to remain hospitable to organic life.
Don't equate nuclear reactions = bad radiation so readily in this case. Photons which start as gamma rays in the Sun core are in the spectrum around visible light when finally emitted towards us. Sure, also quite a lot of UV there...but that's not the most problematic element of "space radiation".
That would be the stream of energetic particles; "solar wind". Mostly a result of good old heating and interactions with magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere.
It just feels weird to use as an example a review of Opera Mini made on iPhone; from quickly looking at this list there is some number of mobile phones which cost 60-70 bucks, without contract, and...give essentially the same functionality with Opera Mini.
And a review which forgets that you don't have to use Mini for few sites where privacy is of any importance; and that you already trust many parties...
Broader meaning; values don't have to be easily assignable for the difference between them to be only of quantity which does not really change the essential nature of the phenomena. But at some point the difference becomes so great that the essential qualities differ vastly.
For an extreme example - consider two objects moving in the atmosphere a) one has the speed of, say, 430km/h and the second - 470. Yup, quite noticeable difference...only it doesn't really change that much b) one has 30km/h and the other - mach 10 (or: we all have our worse days; but only from certain point, from certain notable mood change and/or sustained chemical inbalances in the brain we call it "depression"; how would you assign really reliable, not at all arbitrary values in this case? And yet qualitative vs. quantitative change is often used when talking about mood swings, then disorders, then illnesses)
The scrollable tab bar is, arguably, not only not the best idea necessarily...but, most importantly, redundant if you have drop-down list of open tabs - potentially much more clear with much less action required if you really have lots of tabs open. But that's the thing, "potentially"...because the way FF implements it totally blows - it shouldn't be a scrolling menu if the list doesn't fit, it should be a nested menu; much faster again, much more clear. FF also has problems with those elements of the interface, also needs fixes.
BTW, funny thing with dropping ie6 on yt - I have one old machine around here, on which I keep also an older Opera version, 9.27 (typically works even better than recent releases on ram restricted machine). Recently, around the time of changes which supposedly broke ie6, I noticed that this old version suddenly started working better on yt... (and I doubt it was tested / optimized for; it will be quite cute if, with sites going more and more towards proper web standards, this old Opera will continue to "improve";p )
Though, at some point, the change in degree of control becomes qualitative, not merely quantitative. And heck, we have just fine CentOS/Scientific Linux plus RedHat funds and links to Fedora from its homesite.
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TFA arriving during the day I was made aware of this quite psychodelic video commemorating Katyn, which depicts also a German (Nazi), well, metaphorical machine, with quite a lot of stabbing and cutting potential.
(lower quality "3rd party" upload, but with translation of the few bits of speech there; and yes, the cawalry charge is metaphorical, horses weren't used in IX 39 in a way how Nazi propaganda depicted it)
Do we really want to let the Germans perform tests of stabbing and cutting humans by (presumably German) robots? ;)
If an insect were human sized it would die very quickly of asphyxiation and be unable to move...there is a reason why you don't see insects of such size.
And considering how you showed off in the first sentence...
(it wasn't about insects building large dam, but humans; you might have not heard of Egyptian pyramids, look them up - even simpler methods, not requiring any tools (sure, it would be inefficient...but could be done) can be used for a really large dam. That there was no point in it doesn't change that it could be done; and who cares about exact structural equivalent, you said "dam the Colorado River". Also...termites do build a material comparable to concrete in some ways - generally the point was that, taking proportions into consideration, they can do surprisingly much. Or are you also of the position that if/once we come in contact with a highly advanced interstellar civilisation our accomplishments will become null and void? (yeah, surprise, I do value them; but not only ours))
BTW, do you know how many of those people actually switched? (and how permanent that switch might be...)
Too bad the scalability of Opera went seriously downhill after 9.27 (releases from 9.5 to pre-10.5 were generally a bit meh IMHO); it was of course necessitated by progress in other areas, can be justified by them and the browser still remains, from my experience, by far the most scalable. But in 9.27 (generally 8.x and early 9.x line) it is so great on limited resources that I decided to go back on one older machine I have around here (except for js heavy sites...)
A bit over 100 tabs? That's a small number ;p
Though the part with "losing ground" was about "minority languages"; they go simply extinct probably at least as often as adopting Latin alphabet...and I would be surpised if they were adopting Latin script more often than other (how many languages there are on Indian subcontinent? And how many are adopting non-local stripts?)
Arabic having some losses doesn't mean it's not vibrant (and as far as number of users goes, perhaps even growing long-term?)
From my exposure to "dedicated" WoW players, it's mostly a (very) glorified chatroom; and one for group of people you already know.
OTOH sizeable number of people would never call WoW "fun".
Heck, "free" could as well be actually an impediment - who knows how many people value their MMORPG, at least partially (but enough for it to be significant), because it costs them.
"Most"? Sources, please. Plus you yourself gave an example of one area with vibrant script that is quite distinct from Latin ones.
But I was thinking about the initial circumstances of "IIRC, Intel got their head handed to them by AMD when they "lost" the Mhz race to AMDs Marketing dept." (after all, my post started from the times of PPro & K5) - it wasn't just to AMD Marketing dept., Athlons were clearly more capable vs. P3.
Anyway, as to the later numbers printed next to "Athlon XP", they were quite accurate IIRC, often rather conservative (placing given core under a notch higher number wouldn't be a stretch). If that wouldn't be the case, you can be sure Intel marketing would really take AMD on a bumpy ride.
When was the last time you had to type in a relativelly unknown URL? (not things like google, gmail, your bank, etc.)
For that matter, when was the last time you had to type an URL of a site in a language which is off-limits to you anyway?...
This might help greatly in popularization of the internet in large part of so called "developing countries", especially since the biggest changes can be expected when the common folks get hang of it; they are much more likely to be fluent only in their native language and script. Or - imagine the uptake of the internet in the latin world if all URLs were in, say, the Georgian alphabet.
You said that such dam "could not have been built by hand". I simply disputed it...not only humans did comparable feats almost "by hand", certainly by relying on human muscle power / natural physiology; feats of proportional scale are not even too excessivelly unique. And did you try to miss (and ignore that I surely read it) that termites are actually very weak physically, as far as insects go? Accidentally, very similar to humans.
Look at the termite mounds (also, just below, tunnels and how they are used), then look at a termite...and tell me now that part of your justification which mentions Hoover Dam is convincing.
Plus isn't it being done, and even in a "better" way, on...the ISS?
He only said he "appreciates" this feature in one webcam he has; but no mention when specifically asking for something better...and is pan-tilt really that usefull for watching grass and birds grow? (zoom can be certainly controlled, too)
Sure, current Logitech webcams are rather decent (though at most quality levels you can get something cheaper usually (*)); but don't forget that Logitech, being the longtime "leader" of webcams, is almost single-handedly responsible for their stagnation which lasted almost a decade and was interrupted only recently. For almost 10 years they sold to people the same entry level (and most people will of course pick that one) basic design, price and poor quality. Leaving people disgusted with what can be "achieved" by their new webcam...
(*)unless of course you want to use Skype HQ; which is, with willing cooperation of Logitech, restricted to only few webcam of the latter; which only makes things worse in my eyes. Otherwise it's often a safe bet that, say, a Creative webcam will have better quality/price ratio (and understand fully what it means for me to recommend something from Creative - I will never forgive them for Aureal)
Some routers have external USB ports (typically meant for storage); some of them have the possibility of using quite "normal" Linux, and hence all the drivers it has. So just connect a good quality webcam (note: you might need powered USB hub)
Or even connect Canon digicam with modified firmware and/or use app or script (there are *nix CLI ones) which can control such cheap camera.
(cheap & energy efficient Atom nettop would be fine too, of course...but WiFi routers are somewhat closer to the "independent" webcams you mentioned)
And those resurfacing events possibly have their part in replenishing the atmosphere. Plus the lack of plate tectonics is itself related to the initial inability of Venus to retain its water...
Generally, it seems the Earth was just barely a big enough planet to remain hospitable to organic life.
Don't equate nuclear reactions = bad radiation so readily in this case. Photons which start as gamma rays in the Sun core are in the spectrum around visible light when finally emitted towards us. Sure, also quite a lot of UV there...but that's not the most problematic element of "space radiation".
That would be the stream of energetic particles; "solar wind". Mostly a result of good old heating and interactions with magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere.
It just feels weird to use as an example a review of Opera Mini made on iPhone; from quickly looking at this list there is some number of mobile phones which cost 60-70 bucks, without contract, and...give essentially the same functionality with Opera Mini.
And a review which forgets that you don't have to use Mini for few sites where privacy is of any importance; and that you already trust many parties...
Broader meaning; values don't have to be easily assignable for the difference between them to be only of quantity which does not really change the essential nature of the phenomena. But at some point the difference becomes so great that the essential qualities differ vastly.
For an extreme example - consider two objects moving in the atmosphere
a) one has the speed of, say, 430km/h and the second - 470. Yup, quite noticeable difference...only it doesn't really change that much
b) one has 30km/h and the other - mach 10
(or: we all have our worse days; but only from certain point, from certain notable mood change and/or sustained chemical inbalances in the brain we call it "depression"; how would you assign really reliable, not at all arbitrary values in this case? And yet qualitative vs. quantitative change is often used when talking about mood swings, then disorders, then illnesses)
I was all the time writing about that old version of Opera.
The scrollable tab bar is, arguably, not only not the best idea necessarily...but, most importantly, redundant if you have drop-down list of open tabs - potentially much more clear with much less action required if you really have lots of tabs open. But that's the thing, "potentially"...because the way FF implements it totally blows - it shouldn't be a scrolling menu if the list doesn't fit, it should be a nested menu; much faster again, much more clear.
FF also has problems with those elements of the interface, also needs fixes.
You're misinformed. That's just a (off by default) recently introduced function; Opera always was damn snappy overall.
BTW, funny thing with dropping ie6 on yt - I have one old machine around here, on which I keep also an older Opera version, 9.27 (typically works even better than recent releases on ram restricted machine). Recently, around the time of changes which supposedly broke ie6, I noticed that this old version suddenly started working better on yt... (and I doubt it was tested / optimized for; it will be quite cute if, with sites going more and more towards proper web standards, this old Opera will continue to "improve" ;p )
Though, at some point, the change in degree of control becomes qualitative, not merely quantitative. And heck, we have just fine CentOS/Scientific Linux plus RedHat funds and links to Fedora from its homesite.