To make that comic safe for work, always include this variant. Besides being upbeat, it's a better reflection of what's really going on -- the stationary rover was just involved in finding evidence of subsurface water.
Polaroid cameras were never Kodak products. Back in the day, Kodak and Polaroid were the two dominant players in the consumer point-and-shoot market. When Kodak introduced an instant-print camera, Polaroid used a patent lawsuit to shut down the whole product line.
And the network is one of the reasons I went with Sprint, with a plan that lets me roam free on Verizon's network. I get a decent phone instead of a crippled VZW device and the best coverage in the country.
I took my laptop from Oregon to London last summer so I could send email to my family and log my geocaches.
No problem with wi-fi. It worked for me exactly as it does in the states. Channel selection is made by the access point, not by the laptop, so it's not your worry.
Your laptop charger has a label telling what input voltages it will accept. All of my chargers (and my electric razor) take 100-240 VAC and 50 or 60 Hz. That means they don't need a transformer to work with England's 240/50 power, just a cheap mechanical adapter which I picked up for a few bucks.
I can recommend the The American Museum of Radio and Electricity in Bellingham, Washington. My daughter and I dropped by for an hour and found ourselves staying until closing time.
Yes, just like the Catholic church "converted" the natives living in the Americas. Oh, where are they today, anyway? That's right, most of them chose to die rather than be "converted".
That's true only if dying from smallpox is "by choice." The natives that survived the new diseases chose to convert and intermingle.
This supercluster is so massive that its gravity pulls our galaxy toward it at a velocity of about 200 kilometers per second.
(Huh? Gravity pull is an acceleration, not a velocity.)
The space between galaxies is not empty. It's actually full of rarefied hot gas. As our galaxy falls into the Local Supercluster, it should disturb this gas and create a shock wave, like the bow shock of a jet plane.
I don't follow this. If the supercluster is pulling us in, it's also pulling in the intergalactic gas. We should be flowing along with that gas, not blasting through it.
Sprint asks you to confirm the last four digits of your SSN when you call customer service.
I've called them several times in the last two years, including one call this month, and they're never asked for this. Instead, they ask for the PIN number that I defined when I opened my account.
Standard laser-printer toner is made up of tiny specs of carbon black and plastic. When you print with this toner, you're fixing carbon onto paper. Point out how green this is.
Adobe did add this dialog -- but it only appears if you have disabled Javascript! (Which you can do with Edit / Preferences, no need for the registry hack.)
Here's the exact dialog:
? This document contains JavaScripts. Do you want to enable JavaScripts from now on? The document may not behave correctly if they're disabled.
[ ] Don't show this message again until this document is reopened
PDF is not PostScript. It shares some concepts (such as the imaging model and a good many keywords), but it is not a programming language. It has no control constructs, for example.
Ya need to read your Tom Clancy. The article is wrong to talk about using SONAR... just about all submarine driving these days is done through passive listening.
Which Tom Clancy, and everybody else, calls passive sonar.
That second linked article doesn't actually say this is the first version of Windows that makes computers run faster, and in fact it's not true. Windows 3.1 ran significantly faster than 3.0.
The odds are zero. USB is a master/slave protocol, not peer-to-peer, and you cannot connect two USB host ports.
You could invent a gadget that connects to both ports, design a new non-standard USB class specification for target-mode-on-a-host, and implement an OS X driver for it. I don't see that happening.
At the just-concluded Linux Plumbers Conference, Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok demonstrated a netbook that went from powered off to GUI up in five seconds. Jaws dropped around the room. I haven't seen a formal write-up yet -- maybe LWN will cover it? -- but you can get a taste from the conference notes.
High points that I remember:
Eliminate silly time-wasters. Starting X involved running the compiler (!) to preprocess a config file.
Determine which files are needed to boot, then start the boot by kicking off a super read-ahead program to suck those files into the page cache.
Boot to a stripped-down GUI, not to full-up Gnome.
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I know a bunch of people who make 3D photos.
That law never went into effect.
To make that comic safe for work, always include this variant. Besides being upbeat, it's a better reflection of what's really going on -- the stationary rover was just involved in finding evidence of subsurface water.
I keep Flash under control with the Flashblock add-on. Until I click on it, a Flash element just shows an image of the Flash icon.
Sure, the Scandinavian countries have exactly that tradition. Read about it here.
Xerox never came out with a GUI product
The first Xerox GUI product was the Xerox Star in 1981.
Polaroid cameras were never Kodak products. Back in the day, Kodak and Polaroid were the two dominant players in the consumer point-and-shoot market. When Kodak introduced an instant-print camera, Polaroid used a patent lawsuit to shut down the whole product line.
And the network is one of the reasons I went with Sprint, with a plan that lets me roam free on Verizon's network. I get a decent phone instead of a crippled VZW device and the best coverage in the country.
Yeah. Which is why he used RSS instead of scraping the web pages, and cached the data to avoid pounding the servers.
I took my laptop from Oregon to London last summer so I could send email to my family and log my geocaches.
No problem with wi-fi. It worked for me exactly as it does in the states. Channel selection is made by the access point, not by the laptop, so it's not your worry.
Your laptop charger has a label telling what input voltages it will accept. All of my chargers (and my electric razor) take 100-240 VAC and 50 or 60 Hz. That means they don't need a transformer to work with England's 240/50 power, just a cheap mechanical adapter which I picked up for a few bucks.
The Boingboing discussion of "Geek Atlas: 128 nerdy must-sees and an education in science, technology and geek history" describes a good reference.
I can recommend the The American Museum of Radio and Electricity in Bellingham, Washington. My daughter and I dropped by for an hour and found ourselves staying until closing time.
Yes, just like the Catholic church "converted" the natives living in the Americas. Oh, where are they today, anyway? That's right, most of them chose to die rather than be "converted".
That's true only if dying from smallpox is "by choice." The natives that survived the new diseases chose to convert and intermingle.
From TFA:
(Huh? Gravity pull is an acceleration, not a velocity.)
I don't follow this. If the supercluster is pulling us in, it's also pulling in the intergalactic gas. We should be flowing along with that gas, not blasting through it.
Sprint asks you to confirm the last four digits of your SSN when you call customer service.
I've called them several times in the last two years, including one call this month, and they're never asked for this. Instead, they ask for the PIN number that I defined when I opened my account.
Standard laser-printer toner is made up of tiny specs of carbon black and plastic. When you print with this toner, you're fixing carbon onto paper. Point out how green this is.
In fact, TFA doesn't even use the words "Linux" or "Windows."
Adobe did add this dialog -- but it only appears if you have disabled Javascript! (Which you can do with Edit / Preferences, no need for the registry hack.)
Here's the exact dialog:
? This document contains JavaScripts. Do you want to enable JavaScripts from now on? The document may not behave correctly if they're disabled.
[ ] Don't show this message again until this document is reopened
[[Yes]] [[No]]
PDF is not PostScript. It shares some concepts (such as the imaging model and a good many keywords), but it is not a programming language. It has no control constructs, for example.
Ya need to read your Tom Clancy. The article is wrong to talk about using SONAR ... just about all submarine driving these days is done through passive listening.
Which Tom Clancy, and everybody else, calls passive sonar .
That second linked article doesn't actually say this is the first version of Windows that makes computers run faster, and in fact it's not true. Windows 3.1 ran significantly faster than 3.0.
In the 1980s, I ran a mail-order operation. I shipped everything USPS "media rate" and bought insurance (about $1.50.)
One day, a customer called to complain that his package had not arrived. I immediately shipped a replacement and filed the insurance claim.
It was denied with proof of delivery. But the proven delivery was the replacement package, not the original.
From then on, I was self-insured. As apparently I had been from the beginning.
Tools / Password manager / Manage Stored Passwords / Show Passwords. Sorted. I trust my family not to screw with me.
The odds are zero. USB is a master/slave protocol, not peer-to-peer, and you cannot connect two USB host ports.
You could invent a gadget that connects to both ports, design a new non-standard USB class specification for target-mode-on-a-host, and implement an OS X driver for it. I don't see that happening.
TFA is just a crude summary of the actual interview in the Daily Telegraph.
At the just-concluded Linux Plumbers Conference, Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok demonstrated a netbook that went from powered off to GUI up in five seconds. Jaws dropped around the room. I haven't seen a formal write-up yet -- maybe LWN will cover it? -- but you can get a taste from the conference notes.
High points that I remember: