Warnings are OK, but I don't want my email provider or anyone in that chain changing my mail for any reason, even if they're trying to be helpful. I'd prefer they also don't read my mail. Whatever happened to the idea of USPS provided email, anyway?
They should contract out to the ARRL, who could send 1e6 names into the sun a lot more cost effectively, using massless photons instead of expensive rockets.
Some of what sells is good, and some of what is good doesn't sell. Some of what's called, "good" that doesn't sell, isn't really good, either, though.
I'd say that "selling" is at worst orthogonal to "being good" but I think there is actually a component of "selling" that's on the "good" axis, since the whole aim of literary arts is permanent and universal interest, and by definition, universal interest will generate a few sales.
Horizontal real estate is always important in a windowed application. UI designers assuming they have the full screen to work with are one of the many problems with UI design these days.
What's annoying is that firefox had "quick bookmarks" over a decade ago, and that functionality is just fine for implementing searching from the URL bar. Just throw in some pre-setup keywords and everything is good.
In the name of looking different? How does "looking different" make every website now have a band of whitespace, a band of color and a huge-ass photo, a hamburger button[1], and no more than three other colorful squares which may or may not be additional buttons.
[1] Is the "hamburger" button supposed to be a vertical ellipsis? An ellipsis button would actually make sense, given the current usage of the symbol to mean "more, not shown"
I thought it was weird that they advised customers to buy solar filters for the event. If you're renting the camera or lens, why would you buy a solar filter? After you return the camera, what would you do with it?
You didn't cancel your order, did you? You can still use the solar filter during all the rest of the time that's not an eclipse and photograph sunspots or other transits. Plus, you'll have it for the next eclipse.
Looks like there will be a Venus transit in December of this year.
The article specifies a choice between two low-scoring products. If they both had an average score of 2 out of 5 then you can be pretty sure that the one with 1000 reviews is crap, but with other one might still be good.
or it might be such utter crap that it isn't even worth 0 stars. You just can't know with such a small sample.
I am ok with the government bulldozing the site afterward to make sure it is not a hazard*. The thing that is odious is the expectation that the government (i.e. everyone who couldn't afford a waterfront house but who nevertheless must pay taxes anyway) will make the owner whole since flood insurance companies won't take the risk, or will but for very high premiums.
* If the property is turned over to the government to be used as open space and a buffer. If the owner wants to keep the property, they can pay for the cleanup.
hint: if flood insurance companies won't take the risk or flood insurance costs "too much" maybe you shouldn't build there.
It's stuff I didn't know, pertaining to history and mathematics. I'd say it counts more as news than some trial baloon or fud about how much the next iPhone will cost.
I'd start by just not providing government-funded flood insurnace in coastal areas known to have a high risk of flooding. If you want to build there, fine, but you insure your own shit or live with the cost of losing your property in the next big storm. We shouldn't have been subsidizing stupid real estate decisions like that all along.
Well, until we have fission, at any rate. If you're anti-fission now, what makes you think you'll be pro-fusion when it is possible? You'll just have some other thing that we need to shoot for that conveniently lets fossil fuel companies keep operating "in the meantime" as always.
I'd watch a version that skipped past Greedo taking time to line up his shot, firing, missing by like 45 degrees, and then Han shooting in unambiguous self defense.
A version where Han just shoots Greedo in the middle of the conversation, leaving it ambiguous as to whether it was justified (probably??) or not would make a lot more sense for that characters arc down through the rest of the episodes. And also skips over Jabba showing up at the space port to try and intimidate Han by getting his tail stepped on and doing nothing about it for some reason?
Basically a version that skips over any alterations from the original that aren't just visual fluff on existing scenes, anything that has plot or character implications diverging from the original.
No, it's a story with audience participation via game elements. A story which ended on a cliffhanger in act 2. People who bought act 2 basically on spec (of the forthcomingness of the final act) have cause to feel insulted by the failure to deliver on the part of the storyteller, as they have the additional investment from the participation in the previous acts.
They have what I want, it's up to date and the produce is fresh.
You have to walk or drive to the store, walk around for half and hour, and walk home. It's not terrible, which is why grocery stores are such a common thing. But on some level, it's wasted time. If you could get somebody to drop it off at the house for the same price, why not
Delivery only addresses part of the grocery buying task, but it diminishes another part of the task, which is the competition in the store itself on qualty:
Do you just pick the first banana or lettuce or whatever off the shelf, or do you pick around to get not-the-worst one in the pile? What do you think will happen to the quality if the store is the chooser and not you?
...especially if one algorithm when used may weaken the second algorithm used after that.
That is a concept I can't wrap my head around. Wouldn't that open up the possibility of using an intermediate encryption before an attack? Or is that just if you re-use the same key for the second algorithm?
Does combining algorithims really combine the keysizes? or does it actually just have the same key size but in a third algorithm you just haven't discovered?
...if I'm taking pictures of my kids, I want something that looks good, not just OK.
Then get a cheap phone and spend the rest of the money on a camera with a good lens. dpreview 2017 compact enthusiast round-up is probably a good place to start for things that will fit in your pocket and still take great pictures. Here are some side-by-side examples by what admittedly looks like a probably camera-biased site smartphone vs camera
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Warnings are OK, but I don't want my email provider or anyone in that chain changing my mail for any reason, even if they're trying to be helpful. I'd prefer they also don't read my mail. Whatever happened to the idea of USPS provided email, anyway?
They should contract out to the ARRL, who could send 1e6 names into the sun a lot more cost effectively, using massless photons instead of expensive rockets.
Some of what sells is good, and some of what is good doesn't sell.
Some of what's called, "good" that doesn't sell, isn't really good, either, though.
I'd say that "selling" is at worst orthogonal to "being good" but I think there is actually a component of "selling" that's on the "good" axis, since the whole aim of literary arts is permanent and universal interest, and by definition, universal interest will generate a few sales.
Horizontal real estate is always important in a windowed application. UI designers assuming they have the full screen to work with are one of the many problems with UI design these days.
What's annoying is that firefox had "quick bookmarks" over a decade ago, and that functionality is just fine for implementing searching from the URL bar. Just throw in some pre-setup keywords and everything is good.
Not if they're making everything look like each other they're not.
In the name of looking different? How does "looking different" make every website now have a band of whitespace, a band of color and a huge-ass photo, a hamburger button[1], and no more than three other colorful squares which may or may not be additional buttons.
[1] Is the "hamburger" button supposed to be a vertical ellipsis? An ellipsis button would actually make sense, given the current usage of the symbol to mean "more, not shown"
I thought it was weird that they advised customers to buy solar filters for the event. If you're renting the camera or lens, why would you buy a solar filter? After you return the camera, what would you do with it?
You didn't cancel your order, did you? You can still use the solar filter during all the rest of the time that's not an eclipse and photograph sunspots or other transits. Plus, you'll have it for the next eclipse.
Looks like there will be a Venus transit in December of this year.
If you liked fight club, you should give Atomic Blond a try. It's a lot more gritty than the Bond-like film the trailer advertized.
You can't take back weld-work. The only thing you can do is more weld-work in the same place.
The article specifies a choice between two low-scoring products. If they both had an average score of 2 out of 5 then you can be pretty sure that the one with 1000 reviews is crap, but with other one might still be good.
or it might be such utter crap that it isn't even worth 0 stars. You just can't know with such a small sample.
I am ok with the government bulldozing the site afterward to make sure it is not a hazard*. The thing that is odious is the expectation that the government (i.e. everyone who couldn't afford a waterfront house but who nevertheless must pay taxes anyway) will make the owner whole since flood insurance companies won't take the risk, or will but for very high premiums.
* If the property is turned over to the government to be used as open space and a buffer. If the owner wants to keep the property, they can pay for the cleanup.
hint: if flood insurance companies won't take the risk or flood insurance costs "too much" maybe you shouldn't build there.
It's a truism, if they were the first, that their way was entirely new.
It's stuff I didn't know, pertaining to history and mathematics. I'd say it counts more as news than some trial baloon or fud about how much the next iPhone will cost.
I'd start by just not providing government-funded flood insurnace in coastal areas known to have a high risk of flooding. If you want to build there, fine, but you insure your own shit or live with the cost of losing your property in the next big storm. We shouldn't have been subsidizing stupid real estate decisions like that all along.
Well, until we have fission, at any rate. If you're anti-fission now, what makes you think you'll be pro-fusion when it is possible? You'll just have some other thing that we need to shoot for that conveniently lets fossil fuel companies keep operating "in the meantime" as always.
I'd watch a version that skipped past Greedo taking time to line up his shot, firing, missing by like 45 degrees, and then Han shooting in unambiguous self defense.
A version where Han just shoots Greedo in the middle of the conversation, leaving it ambiguous as to whether it was justified (probably??) or not would make a lot more sense for that characters arc down through the rest of the episodes. And also skips over Jabba showing up at the space port to try and intimidate Han by getting his tail stepped on and doing nothing about it for some reason?
Basically a version that skips over any alterations from the original that aren't just visual fluff on existing scenes, anything that has plot or character implications diverging from the original.
No, it's a story with audience participation via game elements. A story which ended on a cliffhanger in act 2. People who bought act 2 basically on spec (of the forthcomingness of the final act) have cause to feel insulted by the failure to deliver on the part of the storyteller, as they have the additional investment from the participation in the previous acts.
They have what I want, it's up to date and the produce is fresh.
You have to walk or drive to the store, walk around for half and hour, and walk home. It's not terrible, which is why grocery stores are such a common thing. But on some level, it's wasted time. If you could get somebody to drop it off at the house for the same price, why not
Delivery only addresses part of the grocery buying task, but it diminishes another part of the task, which is the competition in the store itself on qualty:
Do you just pick the first banana or lettuce or whatever off the shelf, or do you pick around to get not-the-worst one in the pile? What do you think will happen to the quality if the store is the chooser and not you?
...especially if one algorithm when used may weaken the second algorithm used after that.
That is a concept I can't wrap my head around. Wouldn't that open up the possibility of using an intermediate encryption before an attack? Or is that just if you re-use the same key for the second algorithm?
Pretty sure the powershot series has wifi support, and some of those are under $100.
Ok, not sub $100, but the Powershot S120 has been out for a while and it has wifi support.
Does combining algorithims really combine the keysizes? or does it actually just have the same key size but in a third algorithm you just haven't discovered?
...if I'm taking pictures of my kids, I want something that looks good, not just OK.
Then get a cheap phone and spend the rest of the money on a camera with a good lens. dpreview 2017 compact enthusiast round-up is probably a good place to start for things that will fit in your pocket and still take great pictures. Here are some side-by-side examples by what admittedly looks like a probably camera-biased site smartphone vs camera
Well, hang on.. are the magicians' tricks published?