For instance, why would you want your quicklaunch icons to move around all over the taskbar every time you open or close a window?
They move? I haven't noticed this behavior; I click on an icon to launch a program and its tile changes appearance slightly but doesn't move, then I click it again to use it as a task switcher. Are you doing something different than the defaults?
Terrestially, I would not rule out the chance to preserve a nucleus of human specimens. It would be quite easy... at the bottom of ah... some of our deeper mineshafts. The radioactivity would never penetrate a mine some thousands of feet deep. And in a matter of weeks, sufficient improvements in dwelling space could easily be provided.
It would not be difficult....Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plantlife. Animals could be bred and slaughtered. A quick survey would have to be made of all the available mine sites in the country. But I would guess... that ah, dwelling space for several hundred thousands of our people could easily be provided.
It could easily be accomplished with a computer. And a computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross section of necessary skills. Of course it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. But ah with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present gross national product within say, twenty years.... I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
The article invites us to draw conclusions from the fact that there is a dramatically higher percentage of females working in non-free programming as opposed to free software. Then it also throws out the fact that quality is dramatically higher in free software - but I assume we're not supposed to draw any conclusions from that correlation, eh?
The flaw is that entropy is not exactly synonymous with disorder. Sometimes it is, if a disordered state has a lower energy potential than a higher ordered states. But in many cases, such as falling to the bottom of a gravity well, the "ordered" - actually just more compact - state is the lower energy state. Entropy is just the degree to which a system has moved from a higher energy potential to a lower energy potential. If we had more potential energy after falling into a gravity well than before it, then we'd need rockets to blast ourselves from space back to Earth, rather than the other way around.
The IBM-PC may have been a turd in comparison, but it was a turd that cost a tenth of the price while still doing most of what people needed a computer to do. So, it was a cost-efficient turd. That meant that companies could afford to computerize much more of their workforce, sooner, and that more families could get a computer, earlier. And I don't think that's sad at all.
Of course you can. Remote management consoles have been around since NT4, and WMI has been standard since Windows 2000. You still may need remote desktop access for GUI applications though.
You've got a long way to go to convince me that Hate Speech should be protected under Freedom of Speech - or for that matter, that they're even the same thing.
Don't they make people read J.S. Mill in school any more?
Let us suppose, therefore, that the government is entirely at one with the people, and never thinks of exerting any power of coercion unless in agreement with what it conceives to be their voice. But I deny the right of the people to exercise such coercion, either by themselves or by their government. The power itself is illegitimate. The best government has no more title to it than the worst. It is as noxious, or more noxious, when exerted in accordance with public opinion, than when in opposition to it. If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. Were an opinion a personal possession of no value except to the owner; if to be obstructed in the enjoyment of it were simply a private injury, it would make some difference whether the injury was inflicted only on a few persons or on many. But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
Actually you are incorrect. In the U.S. you have every right to advocate taking unlawful action against anybody for any reason. Only when you do so in a situation in which it's reasonably foreseeable that your speech will result in unlawfulness is your speech punishable. E.g., expressing an opinion that X should be shot is not illegal. Saying "let's go shoot X right now!" to an angry crowd is.
The biggest problem of the website is that it fails to disclose the location of these other pending USAs, when they will be available, and whether they have a better class of politicians.
You may have read about Win7 removing the Stereo Mix (WAV) channel from the source channels for recording. I have also read that this is up to the drivers, rather than the OS, but I have been a bit disappointed to discover that the 64-bit drivers for both my HT Omega Striker sound card and my on-board audio are lacking this channel.
Maybe, maybe not. In case you haven't tried this yet, go into the sound control panel and right click one of your recording devices. Make sure that "show disabled devices" and "show disconnected devices" are both checked. Many drivers have a stereo mix device but disable it by default. Right-click and enable and you are good to go.
Which takes less RAM, and which is easier to draw, an 850x525 pixel image, or an 80x24 array of characters? (Bear in mind that you're going to store the 80x24 array anyway.)
If you are using a compositing windowing system and the pixel image is actually a texture stored in video memory, then the pixel image uses no additional system memory and takes far fewer CPU cycles to display.
This is great news. Now that we're able to record the nuanced performance of a touch-typist with decent fidelity, we'll be able play those performances back on actuator-enabled mechanical keyboards to get a reproduction nearly indistinguishable from the live performances. Certainly better than those old-fashioned paper roll macros.
Just yesterday it took me ages (several minutes) of clicking through every 'tab' to find the 'insert file' button (which ironically is hidden in a DROP DOWN MENU)
You have absolutely nobody but yourself to blame for that. Why would you waste time hunting around for something, when you could just press F1, type in "Insert file," and see that the very first listed help topic is "Where is the insert file command?"
Symptoms
You want to insert text from another document into the document that you are working on, but you can't find the Insert File command.
Cause
The Insert File command has been renamed Text from File and moved to the Object menu on the Insert tab in Microsoft Office Word 2007.
Resolution
Use the Insert tab to access the Text from File command.
Total time wasted: 15 seconds. What's the matter, are you afraid you'll be less of a man because you RTFM?
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Did it find out what was wrong with the hyperdrive?
Apple are not suing, AT&T is, and furthermore, obvious parody is a well-entrenched example of fair use.
I think the news in this case is that it's just one interface, one wireless interface.
Android: (exasperated) "Sometimes I just don't understand human behavior! After all, I'm only trying to do my job as best as - POWER OFF"
Coffee?
For instance, why would you want your quicklaunch icons to move around all over the taskbar every time you open or close a window?
They move? I haven't noticed this behavior; I click on an icon to launch a program and its tile changes appearance slightly but doesn't move, then I click it again to use it as a task switcher. Are you doing something different than the defaults?
Who needs to be off-planet?
Terrestially, I would not rule out the chance to preserve a nucleus of human specimens. It would be quite easy... at the bottom of ah ... some of our deeper mineshafts. The radioactivity would never penetrate a mine some thousands of feet deep. And in a matter of weeks, sufficient improvements in dwelling space could easily be provided.
It would not be difficult....Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plantlife. Animals could be bred and slaughtered. A quick survey would have to be made of all the available mine sites in the country. But I would guess... that ah, dwelling space for several hundred thousands of our people could easily be provided.
It could easily be accomplished with a computer. And a computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross section of necessary skills. Of course it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. But ah with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present gross national product within say, twenty years.... I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Stick it in a cave, neglected and unmaintained for seventy years, and oh, suddenly it breaks down...
You forgot "strike it with lightning!"
Mr. Fusion powers the time circuits and the flux capacitor. But the internal combustion engine runs on ordinary gasoline; it always has.
The article invites us to draw conclusions from the fact that there is a dramatically higher percentage of females working in non-free programming as opposed to free software. Then it also throws out the fact that quality is dramatically higher in free software - but I assume we're not supposed to draw any conclusions from that correlation, eh?
The flaw is that entropy is not exactly synonymous with disorder. Sometimes it is, if a disordered state has a lower energy potential than a higher ordered states. But in many cases, such as falling to the bottom of a gravity well, the "ordered" - actually just more compact - state is the lower energy state. Entropy is just the degree to which a system has moved from a higher energy potential to a lower energy potential. If we had more potential energy after falling into a gravity well than before it, then we'd need rockets to blast ourselves from space back to Earth, rather than the other way around.
The IBM-PC may have been a turd in comparison, but it was a turd that cost a tenth of the price while still doing most of what people needed a computer to do. So, it was a cost-efficient turd. That meant that companies could afford to computerize much more of their workforce, sooner, and that more families could get a computer, earlier. And I don't think that's sad at all.
I'm curious, what exactly?
How about a proper "blend if" for layers? Or any "blend if" for layers?
Of course you can. Remote management consoles have been around since NT4, and WMI has been standard since Windows 2000. You still may need remote desktop access for GUI applications though.
You've got a long way to go to convince me that Hate Speech should be protected under Freedom of Speech - or for that matter, that they're even the same thing.
Don't they make people read J.S. Mill in school any more?
Let us suppose, therefore, that the government is entirely at one with the people, and never thinks of exerting any power of coercion unless in agreement with what it conceives to be their voice. But I deny the right of the people to exercise such coercion, either by themselves or by their government. The power itself is illegitimate. The best government has no more title to it than the worst. It is as noxious, or more noxious, when exerted in accordance with public opinion, than when in opposition to it. If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. Were an opinion a personal possession of no value except to the owner; if to be obstructed in the enjoyment of it were simply a private injury, it would make some difference whether the injury was inflicted only on a few persons or on many. But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
-J.S. Mill, On Liberty
Of course! If ONLY what Hitler had done would have violated some minor law! THAT would surely have stopped him!
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Actually you are incorrect. In the U.S. you have every right to advocate taking unlawful action against anybody for any reason. Only when you do so in a situation in which it's reasonably foreseeable that your speech will result in unlawfulness is your speech punishable. E.g., expressing an opinion that X should be shot is not illegal. Saying "let's go shoot X right now!" to an angry crowd is.
I've also heard that Real has an iPhone App for streaming from Rhapsody pending approval.
The biggest problem of the website is that it fails to disclose the location of these other pending USAs, when they will be available, and whether they have a better class of politicians.
You may have read about Win7 removing the Stereo Mix (WAV) channel from the source channels for recording. I have also read that this is up to the drivers, rather than the OS, but I have been a bit disappointed to discover that the 64-bit drivers for both my HT Omega Striker sound card and my on-board audio are lacking this channel.
Maybe, maybe not. In case you haven't tried this yet, go into the sound control panel and right click one of your recording devices. Make sure that "show disabled devices" and "show disconnected devices" are both checked. Many drivers have a stereo mix device but disable it by default. Right-click and enable and you are good to go.
Which takes less RAM, and which is easier to draw, an 850x525 pixel image, or an 80x24 array of characters? (Bear in mind that you're going to store the 80x24 array anyway.)
If you are using a compositing windowing system and the pixel image is actually a texture stored in video memory, then the pixel image uses no additional system memory and takes far fewer CPU cycles to display.
This is great news. Now that we're able to record the nuanced performance of a touch-typist with decent fidelity, we'll be able play those performances back on actuator-enabled mechanical keyboards to get a reproduction nearly indistinguishable from the live performances. Certainly better than those old-fashioned paper roll macros.
If there are particular functions you use frequently that are inconvenient to access from the ribbon, you add them to your quick-access toolbar.
Just yesterday it took me ages (several minutes) of clicking through every 'tab' to find the 'insert file' button (which ironically is hidden in a DROP DOWN MENU)
You have absolutely nobody but yourself to blame for that. Why would you waste time hunting around for something, when you could just press F1, type in "Insert file," and see that the very first listed help topic is "Where is the insert file command?"
Symptoms
You want to insert text from another document into the document that you are working on, but you can't find the Insert File command.
Cause
The Insert File command has been renamed Text from File and moved to the Object menu on the Insert tab in Microsoft Office Word 2007.
Resolution
Use the Insert tab to access the Text from File command.
Total time wasted: 15 seconds. What's the matter, are you afraid you'll be less of a man because you RTFM?