No, kelvin is defined as 1/273,16 of the difference between absolute zero and triple point of water. This definition does mean that 1 K increment has the same magnitude as 1 Celsius degree increment, but it isn't defined by it.
Yeah, I got your message, it's just the example cracked me up;P
(and BTW...I'd say that your machine is ONE generation behind: P4 -> Core, gf6xxx/7xxx -> gf dx10; the one that's few generations behind would be mine - AthlonXP 1700+ and...Matrox G400:P And yes, plays DVDs perfectly;P)
And how is that different from the way Symbian is currently open for devs?
On my phone I have already different phonebook and camera app, both installed by me. I also toyed a bit with different sms app (threading of messages, Gmail - style).
Then you might be surpised that Nokia does design new "cheap" phones. And it seems it pays off, the first one is both world's best selling phone and best selling consumer electronics device.
Well, yeah, in my case - far enough so that sounds associated with it (as with any industrial installation) won't bother me. But other than that - I don't even mind living close enough to see it, for some reason I don't find cooling towers ugly.;P
House at the same lake where it'll be built would be fine.;) Especially since water in it will get ~10K warmer; yes, another reason for pseudoenviromentalists to boycott the installation...but:
a) water from the lake goes by small river directly to the sea afterwards/won't affect any other like
b) right now it's sort of dead anyway (unregulated fishing was allowed to introduce warm water species later; but it didn't halt after abandoning construction = no fish, rampant flora = no oxygen)
(all of this assuming the new powerplant, French designed this time, will be next to the ruins of the old one. While it's a fair assumption (right now the area have been studied for almost 40 years, and already has pumped storage hydroelectricity), the decisions hasn't been made yet)
I'd be really glad if pro-nuke campaigners would have to deal with people ASKING question. In reality they have to also deal with people DEMANDING immediate cessation of contruction/operation based on MYTHS. Myths immune to solid argumentation apparently.
Everybody looses temper sooner or later in such case.
OTOH hysterical (anti)enviromentalists serve people with outright lies. Like in my country, where one of "ecological" organisations was created with the main goal of blocking any nuclear powerplant. Where almost finished nuclear powerplant was abandonened due to PR campaign among uneducated masses. Yes, they convinced many people that wide area around powerplant WILL become highly radioactive just because of normal operations. Lied that reactors will be identical to the ones in Chernobyl (when in reality they were of modern type widespraed in EU; yes, all 4 of them were ready, and two are working flawlessly to this day in two other countries (sold for price of scrap; the other two were scrapped...). Or some nonsence about "unavoidable tectonic movements" that would destroy powerplant (nvm that Poland is quite calm tectonically, but also the area of construction was extensively studied for 20 years)
And those people don't seem to mind that much that most of our energy comes from coal, and the largest powerplant, supplying 1/4 of energy, uses BROWN coal... But they still have a solution - waterplants. Problem is - they don't mention that, with our energy needs, we'd have to turn all major rivers into concrete waterways, and it still wouldn't be enough.
Perhaps now you see why I used "(anti)enviromentalists" at the beginning - those people do much more harm than good to the enviroment. Not only because of their direct actions, but also because they undermine authority of true enviromentalists.
And yes, I'm bitter. And...yes, YOU might have genuine concerns...but usually the most vocal, the ones pushing PR machine, are extremists with blind agenda (I remember TV show with one of their leaders vs. some academic; the first one painted catastrophic visions of his mind, caused by radiation of course; first question of the second one: "do you even know what radiation is?". Yeah, you call it sarcasm. But guess the answer)
PS. Well, we'll have to build nuclear powerplant anyway in the next 15 years...and you know what, the whole mess assocaited with it might end up pretty good for me - I had an idea of moving as close to it as I can. Not only it's very nice area overall (hilly lakeland very close to sea and one of most culturally interesting aglomerations), but also it's a rule in EU that areas around nuclear powerplants are actually the ones with most pristine enviroment/etc. Perhaps because people are fleeing the area and they are much more harmfull than any nuclear powerplant... And there's bonus: less stupid, ignorant people around.
While it certainly looks better at the stage of energy extraction, are you sure that losses in electrical grid, battery and efficiency of electric motors don't add up to be worse than combustion engine?
Wait, wait...you're seriously comparing Firefox to Opera MINI, which is just a small java app to fetch pages remotelly reformatted to somehow fit on miniature screen and not eat too much bandwith? How about, you know...Opera proper?
(nvm that I have more positive experiences with Opera Mini than you do...and could also mention how "nicely" Minimo compares to Opera Mobile (Mobile != Mini))
Hmm... 200 tabs (Gmail among them, lots from/. and more or less everything you got out there), having similar functionality (at least not different in any way when it comes to impact on browser performamce), and Opera is taking 323,656K, CPU at 3%-10% (counting other processes). On 6-year old AthlonXP 1700+.
Everything out-of-the box.
What were you saying about squashing something? (ok, seriously - probably not a bug, just testament to something...)
About how it's just as hard for you to convert from UTC to your local timezone as it is to convert from one local timezone to another?
Look, in case you don't realise, to convert from UTC you how to know only one timezone - yours. Not so with converting from PST/EST/PDT/EDT...
This is exactly like metric/English dichotomy - using UTC is much easier for THE WHOLE FVCKING WORLD vs. straightforward to you and much more complicated for the rest of the word.
(and actually I'm slightly surprised if Mozilla went with US-centric timezone, seeing as US is NOT their biggest market)
But that doesn't change that there are noticeable differences between browsers. (you might play a bit with Opera, preferably on some old machine to see the difference more clearly)
But it's not really better than what we've had bofore it. Even if, in more positive cases, you have to use a stopwatch and look at CPU utilisation to notice any real difference (USB2 vs. Firewire HDDs)
But when it's not so good...oh boy, once I tried to force USB connectivity in digital camera that had both Firewire and USB (my advice: don't, just buy the damn Firewire card). And even when it comes to webcams, the one I consider "best ever" is on...Firewire. Which also would serve us well if pendrives were using it instead of USB.
Thing is...your examples are easily served by USB 1, without even taking us into area of USB 2. Which is usefull basically only when dealing with large storage and video devices, and those areas are very well covered by eSATA and Firewire.
So...with USB 3 we have a case of extending USB into areas which it wasn't really meant to serve...and which already are served very well.
That wouldn't necessarily be at odds with the interpratation from the article - so that red would not only intimidate you, but also could send a message of submission/beeing in control/etc., perhaps? (causing you to underestimate your enemy)
But anyway, if what I just wrote is more or less correct, I'd guess it would be very gender/situation specific, so it doesn't really mess with original interpreation.
Also, wearing red doesn't help Polish representation much - in major sporting events they typically win only in third game, the one that's solely for "honor";P
Well, if really discussing (unlikely?) Google-Yahoo merger...IMHO Flickr would survive, it has a different target audience than Picasaweb (which is perfect for sharing photos with your family (you know, those people easily confused by Flickr features), but not much more), and actually has a community around it.
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But unfortunatelly in many cases it's simply replaced with "works best with IE and Firefox"...
No, kelvin is defined as 1/273,16 of the difference between absolute zero and triple point of water. This definition does mean that 1 K increment has the same magnitude as 1 Celsius degree increment, but it isn't defined by it.
Yeah, I got your message, it's just the example cracked me up ;P
(and BTW...I'd say that your machine is ONE generation behind: P4 -> Core, gf6xxx/7xxx -> gf dx10; the one that's few generations behind would be mine - AthlonXP 1700+ and...Matrox G400 :P And yes, plays DVDs perfectly ;P)
And how is that different from the way Symbian is currently open for devs?
On my phone I have already different phonebook and camera app, both installed by me. I also toyed a bit with different sms app (threading of messages, Gmail - style).
Then you might be surpised that Nokia does design new "cheap" phones. And it seems it pays off, the first one is both world's best selling phone and best selling consumer electronics device.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_1100
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_1110
Do you realise how ridiculous "But, even my old Pentium 4 3.4 GHz box with a GeForce 6800 could play DVDs" sounds? ;P
I mean...Celeron 366 with Matrox G400 definatelly could play DVDs...
Well, yeah, in my case - far enough so that sounds associated with it (as with any industrial installation) won't bother me. But other than that - I don't even mind living close enough to see it, for some reason I don't find cooling towers ugly. ;P
;) Especially since water in it will get ~10K warmer; yes, another reason for pseudoenviromentalists to boycott the installation...but:
House at the same lake where it'll be built would be fine.
a) water from the lake goes by small river directly to the sea afterwards/won't affect any other like
b) right now it's sort of dead anyway (unregulated fishing was allowed to introduce warm water species later; but it didn't halt after abandoning construction = no fish, rampant flora = no oxygen)
(all of this assuming the new powerplant, French designed this time, will be next to the ruins of the old one. While it's a fair assumption (right now the area have been studied for almost 40 years, and already has pumped storage hydroelectricity), the decisions hasn't been made yet)
I'd be really glad if pro-nuke campaigners would have to deal with people ASKING question. In reality they have to also deal with people DEMANDING immediate cessation of contruction/operation based on MYTHS. Myths immune to solid argumentation apparently.
Everybody looses temper sooner or later in such case.
OTOH hysterical (anti)enviromentalists serve people with outright lies. Like in my country, where one of "ecological" organisations was created with the main goal of blocking any nuclear powerplant. Where almost finished nuclear powerplant was abandonened due to PR campaign among uneducated masses. Yes, they convinced many people that wide area around powerplant WILL become highly radioactive just because of normal operations. Lied that reactors will be identical to the ones in Chernobyl (when in reality they were of modern type widespraed in EU; yes, all 4 of them were ready, and two are working flawlessly to this day in two other countries (sold for price of scrap; the other two were scrapped...). Or some nonsence about "unavoidable tectonic movements" that would destroy powerplant (nvm that Poland is quite calm tectonically, but also the area of construction was extensively studied for 20 years)
And those people don't seem to mind that much that most of our energy comes from coal, and the largest powerplant, supplying 1/4 of energy, uses BROWN coal... But they still have a solution - waterplants. Problem is - they don't mention that, with our energy needs, we'd have to turn all major rivers into concrete waterways, and it still wouldn't be enough.
Perhaps now you see why I used "(anti)enviromentalists" at the beginning - those people do much more harm than good to the enviroment. Not only because of their direct actions, but also because they undermine authority of true enviromentalists.
And yes, I'm bitter. And...yes, YOU might have genuine concerns...but usually the most vocal, the ones pushing PR machine, are extremists with blind agenda (I remember TV show with one of their leaders vs. some academic; the first one painted catastrophic visions of his mind, caused by radiation of course; first question of the second one: "do you even know what radiation is?". Yeah, you call it sarcasm. But guess the answer)
PS. Well, we'll have to build nuclear powerplant anyway in the next 15 years...and you know what, the whole mess assocaited with it might end up pretty good for me - I had an idea of moving as close to it as I can. Not only it's very nice area overall (hilly lakeland very close to sea and one of most culturally interesting aglomerations), but also it's a rule in EU that areas around nuclear powerplants are actually the ones with most pristine enviroment/etc. Perhaps because people are fleeing the area and they are much more harmfull than any nuclear powerplant... And there's bonus: less stupid, ignorant people around.
While it certainly looks better at the stage of energy extraction, are you sure that losses in electrical grid, battery and efficiency of electric motors don't add up to be worse than combustion engine?
Wait, wait...you're seriously comparing Firefox to Opera MINI, which is just a small java app to fetch pages remotelly reformatted to somehow fit on miniature screen and not eat too much bandwith? How about, you know...Opera proper?
(nvm that I have more positive experiences with Opera Mini than you do...and could also mention how "nicely" Minimo compares to Opera Mobile (Mobile != Mini))
Hmm... 200 tabs (Gmail among them, lots from /. and more or less everything you got out there), having similar functionality (at least not different in any way when it comes to impact on browser performamce), and Opera is taking 323,656K, CPU at 3%-10% (counting other processes). On 6-year old AthlonXP 1700+.
Everything out-of-the box.
What were you saying about squashing something? (ok, seriously - probably not a bug, just testament to something...)
So how come my session of Opera with ~300 tabs opened eats only 400MB and remains perfectly responsive?
About how it's just as hard for you to convert from UTC to your local timezone as it is to convert from one local timezone to another?
Look, in case you don't realise, to convert from UTC you how to know only one timezone - yours. Not so with converting from PST/EST/PDT/EDT...
This is exactly like metric/English dichotomy - using UTC is much easier for THE WHOLE FVCKING WORLD vs. straightforward to you and much more complicated for the rest of the word.
(and actually I'm slightly surprised if Mozilla went with US-centric timezone, seeing as US is NOT their biggest market)
But that doesn't change that there are noticeable differences between browsers. (you might play a bit with Opera, preferably on some old machine to see the difference more clearly)
Opera will run great on such hardware.
Failure...no, of course not.
But it's not really better than what we've had bofore it. Even if, in more positive cases, you have to use a stopwatch and look at CPU utilisation to notice any real difference (USB2 vs. Firewire HDDs)
But when it's not so good...oh boy, once I tried to force USB connectivity in digital camera that had both Firewire and USB (my advice: don't, just buy the damn Firewire card). And even when it comes to webcams, the one I consider "best ever" is on...Firewire. Which also would serve us well if pendrives were using it instead of USB.
Same exception as compact disc and 3,5 inch floppy?
Sooo...you're still waiting for HD-DVD to win?
Thing is...your examples are easily served by USB 1, without even taking us into area of USB 2. Which is usefull basically only when dealing with large storage and video devices, and those areas are very well covered by eSATA and Firewire.
So...with USB 3 we have a case of extending USB into areas which it wasn't really meant to serve...and which already are served very well.
That wouldn't necessarily be at odds with the interpratation from the article - so that red would not only intimidate you, but also could send a message of submission/beeing in control/etc., perhaps? (causing you to underestimate your enemy)
But anyway, if what I just wrote is more or less correct, I'd guess it would be very gender/situation specific, so it doesn't really mess with original interpreation.
Also, wearing red doesn't help Polish representation much - in major sporting events they typically win only in third game, the one that's solely for "honor" ;P
Opera? ;)
(also: it syncs between your PC and mobile phone)
Only that (well, at least in few parts of EU) carrier is obliged to unlock your phone for free after contract ends.
Well, if really discussing (unlikely?) Google-Yahoo merger...IMHO Flickr would survive, it has a different target audience than Picasaweb (which is perfect for sharing photos with your family (you know, those people easily confused by Flickr features), but not much more), and actually has a community around it.