The numpad is set up for accounting types and other number crunchers that do 10-key adding machine so fast you can't see their fingers move. I'm not quite that fast, but I do numerical data entry much faster on the numpad. I really wish Apple would do a wireless keyboard with one.
No, they don't. In science fiction, or at least hard SF, which this purports to be, you get to posit a coupe of unknown things, like faster than light travel, inertia dampers, anti-gravity lifts, space elevators, and such. After that, though, real science has to work. Two plus two still has to equal four. You can't split molecules of H2O and get some left over He as a bonus. As the GP poster notes, the amount of insolation has to be right. The fiction part, and the good writing part, comes in seeing how that characters react to the situations they are in. There are a large number of really good planetary colonization/survival stories that have been written since the 1950s. This book is not one of them.
You can always posit that magic works, but then you've crossed over into fantasy, not SF. Or, you can blur the lines a bit, as Heinlein did in Stranger In A Strange Land, which is ultimately about ethics and morals and how we treat those who are different. Whatever you do, once you set up the rules, you have to play by them. If you're going to get way more insolation than Mars actually gets, you have to tell us how, or it's a major fail with anyone who has a decent science education.
I agree. If these people are in academic positions, they should be fired immediately. If they work in private industry, that's probably too much to hope for.
>With Sourceforge, however, they were basically caught injecting malware/crapware into downloads. That's about as shady as it gets, and it's going to be extremely hard to get anyone to trust code from there in the future.
In order to "maximize the synergy", they should sell SourceForge to Sony. You'd know exactly what you were getting with their products.
While I appreciate that Adobe endlessly updates Flash, the fact that they can't manage to write a functional updater for OS X makes me wary of the value of the updated code. When you have to completely uninstall Flash every time and reinstall it, I decided to stop after the uninstall.
One of the great reasons to use Adblock Plus or equivalent is that you can write custom scripts in addition to the stock lists that it uses. All mention the Kardashians, Kanye West, and their ilk has vanished from my screens. Life is good.
Prop 8 was of the people, as are all the constitutional amendments passed in many states explicitly defining what marriage is or isn't. Isn't that independence of the people? Who is it that's against independence now?
The 14th Amendment reads in part, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Note that the only two descriptors of people are "persons" and "citizens." It doesn't talk about white, black, native, asian, gay, straight, or anything else. The only thing that counts is "citizen." So even if your state passed an amendment to its constitution that said black people couldn't drive on Sunday, it would be unconstitutional. This is the same reason the court invalidated laws prohibiting inter-racial marriages in Loving v. Virginia in 1968, a point which seems to have been lost on Justice Thomas.
I have a work email, a gmail account and a couple of ISP-based accounts that I've had for years. The gmail account blocks about 85% of spam, but blocks a lot of non-spam. The big problem is that the gmail account draws a tremendous amount of spam, so the volume of garbage to look through searching for the legitimate emails that were blocked is huge. Because of this, I have given up using gmail for anything that matters. Additionally, I consistently get gmail intended for at least four people who share my uncommon last name, two of whom share my first initial and two of whom don't. Some of this is quite personal and some is financial. The bottom line is that I don't trust gmail at all anymore. All I use it for now is getting grocery store coupons
My personal opinion is that webmail sucks. I know other use it happily, but I'm not one of them. Right now I'mm happy with IMAP, and I will probably switch to my own hosted solution eventually.
So if you're in the newspaper business, it is somehow bad if millions of extra people see the front page of your paper? Because none of those people would conceivably think of actually going to the NYT site? Ah well, it used to be a good paper before NewsCorpse got ahold of it.
It's not like they were used to doing business in Kansas and moved to France for the atmosphere and got surprised by the laws. From the very start, they have been a French company, and all of the principals are French. They knew exactly what they were doing and what the labor laws were.
Best dumb phone I've ever had. I still have one that travels with me for using cheap burner chips. Dead reliable and still available for around $40.00 new.
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B is centered. 6 falls to the left of B, so 6 should be on the left half.
This. Just looked at three keyboards and they are consistent. (Breaking my rule of never responding to ACs.)
The numpad is set up for accounting types and other number crunchers that do 10-key adding machine so fast you can't see their fingers move. I'm not quite that fast, but I do numerical data entry much faster on the numpad. I really wish Apple would do a wireless keyboard with one.
Apple wireless keyboard was made for you.
No, they don't. In science fiction, or at least hard SF, which this purports to be, you get to posit a coupe of unknown things, like faster than light travel, inertia dampers, anti-gravity lifts, space elevators, and such. After that, though, real science has to work. Two plus two still has to equal four. You can't split molecules of H2O and get some left over He as a bonus. As the GP poster notes, the amount of insolation has to be right. The fiction part, and the good writing part, comes in seeing how that characters react to the situations they are in. There are a large number of really good planetary colonization/survival stories that have been written since the 1950s. This book is not one of them.
You can always posit that magic works, but then you've crossed over into fantasy, not SF. Or, you can blur the lines a bit, as Heinlein did in Stranger In A Strange Land, which is ultimately about ethics and morals and how we treat those who are different. Whatever you do, once you set up the rules, you have to play by them. If you're going to get way more insolation than Mars actually gets, you have to tell us how, or it's a major fail with anyone who has a decent science education.
I agree. If these people are in academic positions, they should be fired immediately. If they work in private industry, that's probably too much to hope for.
>They are closing down and you get your files back AND a refund.
Of course copies your files may go to various government agencies as well.
>With Sourceforge, however, they were basically caught injecting malware/crapware into downloads. That's about as shady as it gets, and it's going to be extremely hard to get anyone to trust code from there in the future.
In order to "maximize the synergy", they should sell SourceForge to Sony. You'd know exactly what you were getting with their products.
While I appreciate that Adobe endlessly updates Flash, the fact that they can't manage to write a functional updater for OS X makes me wary of the value of the updated code. When you have to completely uninstall Flash every time and reinstall it, I decided to stop after the uninstall.
One of the great reasons to use Adblock Plus or equivalent is that you can write custom scripts in addition to the stock lists that it uses. All mention the Kardashians, Kanye West, and their ilk has vanished from my screens. Life is good.
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Did you read his dissent? It missed a great deal, including the point and coherence.
Prop 8 was of the people, as are all the constitutional amendments passed in many states explicitly defining what marriage is or isn't. Isn't that independence of the people? Who is it that's against independence now?
The 14th Amendment reads in part, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Note that the only two descriptors of people are "persons" and "citizens." It doesn't talk about white, black, native, asian, gay, straight, or anything else. The only thing that counts is "citizen." So even if your state passed an amendment to its constitution that said black people couldn't drive on Sunday, it would be unconstitutional. This is the same reason the court invalidated laws prohibiting inter-racial marriages in Loving v. Virginia in 1968, a point which seems to have been lost on Justice Thomas.
I have a work email, a gmail account and a couple of ISP-based accounts that I've had for years. The gmail account blocks about 85% of spam, but blocks a lot of non-spam. The big problem is that the gmail account draws a tremendous amount of spam, so the volume of garbage to look through searching for the legitimate emails that were blocked is huge. Because of this, I have given up using gmail for anything that matters. Additionally, I consistently get gmail intended for at least four people who share my uncommon last name, two of whom share my first initial and two of whom don't. Some of this is quite personal and some is financial. The bottom line is that I don't trust gmail at all anymore. All I use it for now is getting grocery store coupons My personal opinion is that webmail sucks. I know other use it happily, but I'm not one of them. Right now I'mm happy with IMAP, and I will probably switch to my own hosted solution eventually.
I'm not really clear on how you ban encryption. Do you lock up all the mathematicians?
Ask Phil Zimmerman about that. The US didn't lock him up, but it wasn't for lack of trying.
So if you're in the newspaper business, it is somehow bad if millions of extra people see the front page of your paper? Because none of those people would conceivably think of actually going to the NYT site? Ah well, it used to be a good paper before NewsCorpse got ahold of it.
What, you didn't get any answers last week? :-)
"I'm genuinely baffled as to why Batteroo would need to resort to claims like 8 times life."
Really? You are genuinely baffled why a company might exaggerate their claims? Really?
Smiling Bob is their ad agent. And, I'm sure the "shipping and handling" charges will be quite reasonable.
There are multiple wineries in Alaska (and they all seem to be new).
You can make bad wine anywhere.
Go not to /. for intelligent discussion of evolutionary biology.
My microscope is machined steel and a bit of plastic. I never heard of one made of fermions.
Of course they should be identified. How else can we hunt them down and castrate them?
It's not like they were used to doing business in Kansas and moved to France for the atmosphere and got surprised by the laws. From the very start, they have been a French company, and all of the principals are French. They knew exactly what they were doing and what the labor laws were.
TrueHD needs to die in a fire. DTS is CD-quality audio...
With very, very few exceptions "CD-quality audio" sucks. Ripping crap gives you more or less lossy crap.
I used various versions of Mandrake up through 10.x or so. It was rock solid and a great workhorse. Fond memories.
Best dumb phone I've ever had. I still have one that travels with me for using cheap burner chips. Dead reliable and still available for around $40.00 new.