You can tell that a few people have never had the joy of meeting a non-English keyboard. For example, the person who made ~~~~ the markup for signing a Wikia edit clearly doesn't have to type Alt-Gr-4 Space to type a single tilde. And I struggled for ages with placing a mark in nano, because Ctrl-^ is a bit hard to type when ^ is Shift-` Space. I only just found out that Alt-A is an alternative.
When you say "the EU Constitution", do you mean the Lisbon Treaty? If so, has that entered into force yet? I thought Ireland still had to hold a referendum on it.
I found it easier to see threads of comments with the old version. The indentation used on this page appears to be about 10 pixels, which when the parent is collapsed and not wrapping the child in its border isn't enough for me to easily distinguish. It's better than the first AJAX-enabled version, but I would prefer to have the older, green, style's indentation.
That seems to me like trying to describe an exploding can of aerosol cheese as a cohesive solid, and I dare say we all know from experience how ridiculous that would be. I regret to say that I don't have any experience of exploding cans of aerosol cheese. Do I have to hand in my geek card now?
Before you buy into "$300" you want to ask what the bulb lifetime is and how much the replacements will cost - because it wouldn't surprise me if the replacement bulb were to cost more than the projector and last a year or two. Think ink cartridges: projectors follow a similar economic model.
It's not always obvious afterwards, because editors know that April is approaching and save up their hard-to-believe stories. The only reasonably reliable way of sifting the wheat from the chaff is to compare three major papers - anything which is only in one is likely to be a joke, whereas anything in more than one is either genuine or a joke originating at Reuters or AP.
I seem to recall reading back in 2000 that Cuba boasts of having the best software reverse engineering industry in the world, precisely to be able to pirate all the software which the US developers couldn't export to it.
The US actively joined the war in 1941, but that doesn't mean that from a US perspective it hadn't already started in 1939. The question is really when the set of conflicts became a "World War", and from that point of view 1939, when most of the large colonial powers became involved, is probably the best answer.
But many evenings I'll watch 15 minutes or so of news while I'm cooking or eating dinner. I watch NBC, ABC, or CBS. Local or national, whichever is on. It never ceases to amaze me just how BAD it is.
Living in Europe, I've never seen any US "national" news programmes, but I have seen the occasional ABC World News on the BBC News 24 channel. It's half funny and half depressing how little the world features in "World News". One entire programme included only a single item of news which wasn't about the continental USA - and that was a short about US soldiers in Iraq. On the other hand, the latest admissions to the baseball hall of fame were important enough to make that same programme. It's good to hear that you do receive some programmes which genuinely cover world events.
Is this really a surprise to anyone? They've been watching the faces of people passing through the green (nothing to declare) channel in Customs for decades.
I haven't RTFA, but on my UK RFID passport the only biometric is a digitised version of the photo. That will probably continue to be checked by eyeball for a few years, at least.
Having said that, the range for the UK passports is claimed to be considerably less than 20 feet, so YMMV.
Since that's almost certainly a couple of orders of magnitude more polys than you have pixels in your display, there's no point not downsampling. What you need to do is use adaptive subdivision techniques. Essentially you store a tree whose root is a massively downsampled model, and whose faces have children at higher detail. The tricky bit is working out how to handle boundaries between areas at different resolution. The approach you take there will vary according to the particular properties of your model. I've only done it before with a height-mapped world, where the root was an octahedron and each level subdivided faces into 4.
The best way to change a party is from the inside. If you want a party which closely represents your viewpoint then either find some like-minded people and start a new one or, probably better, pick the one which is closest to your viewpoint, join it, and lobby candidates for party leadership.
I visited a library a few times in 2006, precisely because I have a good Internet connection at home. I was doing a distance learning course, and I wanted somewhere to study where I wouldn't be tempted to check Slashdot. Libraries are quiet places where you can read and write without much in the way of distractions.
So what you're saying is that your dog tastes better than all the others in the neighbourhood? Would you mind giving a rough address? Street would be sufficiently precise.
Over here in the United Kingdom we've had terrorist problems since the 1970s. We've also had a few attacks in the past few years, and the police and security services claim to have prevented several more. We don't fingerprint and iris scan visitors as a matter of course.
Actually I think that's a major factor. How many people run gambling websites or trade with Cuba? IMO it's more that since 11th September 2001 US immigration procedures treat all foreigners in ways which, in Britain at least, we reserve for criminals. That's compounded by a lack of manpower, which means that the queues to have your fingerprints taken can take a very long time. The benefits of cheap goods and hotels don't outweigh the downsides of frustrating travel and insulting treatment.
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Could you rewrite that after taking your tablets? At the moment I'm struggling to make sense of it.
You can tell that a few people have never had the joy of meeting a non-English keyboard. For example, the person who made ~~~~ the markup for signing a Wikia edit clearly doesn't have to type Alt-Gr-4 Space to type a single tilde. And I struggled for ages with placing a mark in nano, because Ctrl-^ is a bit hard to type when ^ is Shift-` Space. I only just found out that Alt-A is an alternative.
When you say "the EU Constitution", do you mean the Lisbon Treaty? If so, has that entered into force yet? I thought Ireland still had to hold a referendum on it.
I couldn't help but think of Hans Reiser when I first noticed that ad.
I found it easier to see threads of comments with the old version. The indentation used on this page appears to be about 10 pixels, which when the parent is collapsed and not wrapping the child in its border isn't enough for me to easily distinguish. It's better than the first AJAX-enabled version, but I would prefer to have the older, green, style's indentation.
Before you buy into "$300" you want to ask what the bulb lifetime is and how much the replacements will cost - because it wouldn't surprise me if the replacement bulb were to cost more than the projector and last a year or two. Think ink cartridges: projectors follow a similar economic model.
It's not always obvious afterwards, because editors know that April is approaching and save up their hard-to-believe stories. The only reasonably reliable way of sifting the wheat from the chaff is to compare three major papers - anything which is only in one is likely to be a joke, whereas anything in more than one is either genuine or a joke originating at Reuters or AP.
If you think $15 is too much, spare a thought for we Europeans. Over here an album costs twice that, for no obvious reason.
I seem to recall reading back in 2000 that Cuba boasts of having the best software reverse engineering industry in the world, precisely to be able to pirate all the software which the US developers couldn't export to it.
It's like driving on the right side of the road. As a Brit, I consider that the right side of the road on which to drive is the left side.
Beaten to it by some projector (and maybe that memory foam stuff as well - I didn't read that one, so I'm not sure whether it's about a product).
The US actively joined the war in 1941, but that doesn't mean that from a US perspective it hadn't already started in 1939. The question is really when the set of conflicts became a "World War", and from that point of view 1939, when most of the large colonial powers became involved, is probably the best answer.
Is this really a surprise to anyone? They've been watching the faces of people passing through the green (nothing to declare) channel in Customs for decades.
Having said that, the range for the UK passports is claimed to be considerably less than 20 feet, so YMMV.
Since that's almost certainly a couple of orders of magnitude more polys than you have pixels in your display, there's no point not downsampling. What you need to do is use adaptive subdivision techniques. Essentially you store a tree whose root is a massively downsampled model, and whose faces have children at higher detail. The tricky bit is working out how to handle boundaries between areas at different resolution. The approach you take there will vary according to the particular properties of your model. I've only done it before with a height-mapped world, where the root was an octahedron and each level subdivided faces into 4.
The best way to change a party is from the inside. If you want a party which closely represents your viewpoint then either find some like-minded people and start a new one or, probably better, pick the one which is closest to your viewpoint, join it, and lobby candidates for party leadership.
I visited a library a few times in 2006, precisely because I have a good Internet connection at home. I was doing a distance learning course, and I wanted somewhere to study where I wouldn't be tempted to check Slashdot. Libraries are quiet places where you can read and write without much in the way of distractions.
So what you're saying is that your dog tastes better than all the others in the neighbourhood? Would you mind giving a rough address? Street would be sufficiently precise.
Over here in the United Kingdom we've had terrorist problems since the 1970s. We've also had a few attacks in the past few years, and the police and security services claim to have prevented several more. We don't fingerprint and iris scan visitors as a matter of course.
You know, you're starting sound worryingly familiar. You're not a Harvard postgraduate, by any chance?
My fifth computer was the first one to have a hard drive, and I've got a way to go before I hit 30.
Surely you should say "There's very little in this world...". Otherwise all /.ers would have girlfriends.
Actually I think that's a major factor. How many people run gambling websites or trade with Cuba? IMO it's more that since 11th September 2001 US immigration procedures treat all foreigners in ways which, in Britain at least, we reserve for criminals. That's compounded by a lack of manpower, which means that the queues to have your fingerprints taken can take a very long time. The benefits of cheap goods and hotels don't outweigh the downsides of frustrating travel and insulting treatment.