It only makes the fonts look smaller because operating systems are designed by people with crappy eyes. Low-resolution fonts were fine back in the day when video memory was at a premium and scan frequencies were low anyway. But fast forward to today, where I can have an 18" (viewable) CRT running at 1600x1200, and the font files are described by vectors that would look good at any resolution.
I want to run my display at the highest resolution possible, with high-resolution fonts sized comfortably. I want the text to look crisp (because of the extra resolution), and I want the dialogue boxes to handle this well. Which means, Stop freaking hard-coding element positioning using pixels.
(also, is it too much to ask for web browsers to use cubic interpolation when resizing images?)
I consider it a failure of operating system and web page designers that using anything other than a 10pt font on Windows and Linux causes problems with menu text, dialogue boxes, web page text flow, and so many other things.
You're missing the point. It's not, "if you can't understand it, write it so you can." It's more like, "If you can understand it, but think it's a little too complicated, don't just whine about it, write something."
In the same vein, all the contrasts between wikipedia and conventional encyclopaedias that compare errors have been flawed. When they describe the wiki's errors they don't say "former errors" because they didn't bother to correct them.
But the wiki is a different kind of resource. If you see an error, fix it. If you can't fix it, write in the talk page so someone with better fixing skills will be aware of it. If everyone that finds errors does something to fix them, and everyone that understands articles but thinks they're too complicated does something to help rewrite part of them, then everyone else will have a good chance of finding an article that they understand and contains few errors.
No, they stopped painting it because the paint didn't do anything useful, while weighing a ton. It's thin, sure, but there's a lot of area. Mass budget wasted on paint is mass that can't carry experiments, or fat astronauts.
They are the same species, as far as we can tell so far. The definition of a species is that members, when bred, produce offspring that is also capable of breeding. Only a really long jump in the timeline could reveal if that part is successful, though.
Finding earth ends the story. Anything after that is ANOTHER story. Which might be interesting, but won't be about a ragtag fleet making its way across the great planes to Oregon, dodging hostile Indians along the way.
But Battlestar Galactica will definitely be a better show with an ending. I mean, how long can they put off finding Earth? and, what'll they do after they've found it? That's the end. A couple episodes for epilogue, but that's pretty much it.
Would you like to watch Hamlet, where instead of his final showdown with Laertes, they just trotted out an endless series of ghost visitations and accidental or nearly accidental deaths of minor characters, never coming any closer to revealing Claudius' sins?
Sounds a lot like the DN3D level editor, except.. more 3d. DN3D had an interesting feature though, for all its faults: You could have rooms that went through where other rooms would be if purely physical. There were quite a few 720-degree turns and such.
Might wanna reread the column headers there. Most of "livin'" falls in the first column, which is labeled, "safe." I would assume safe means safe. I am curious as to why scuba diving would be verboten. It's not electronic, and if it's the pressure thing, then "travel to high-altitude biomes" should also be forbidden. Like, no more trips from LA to Aspen...
Ok, but how much did it weigh? ICE isn't the design of choice because it's the most efficient gasoline engine. It's chosen because it has a good power/weight ratio, which affects total efficiency of a device that must accelerate itself often.
If you consider that wind resistance goes like v^2, coasting to the stop is going to be more efficient that zipping to the stop and regenerating in the short distance before the stop, since your losses to wind are a square in the second case and roughly a triangle in the second case. This is the case even if your regenerative brakes are perfect.
Of course, you have to have the patience to do that, and it has to be safe to do, and you have to have an engine which either doesn't need to idle, or idles very miserly.
Could you explain what that command does to those of us who aren't database monkeys? From context I gather that it changed all the card numbers in the database?
And how do we know that Lucas hasn't been replaced by a sophisticated animatronic to fulfil the will of the com..mit..ee. The only facts we can be certain of is that
A) in light of the ET "guns->walkie talkies" incident and the "Greedo is an exceedingly bad shot" controversy and the "Let's include some comic relief that coincidentally is a derogatory racial reference that we obviously didn't intend" fiasco, his actions have been indistinguishable from those of a committee.
B) His most recent body appears to have enough volume to contain two midgets and a complete animatronic rig
C) there is no footage more recent than ten years showing Lucas standing up and walking on his own.
The conclusion is inescapable: Lucas clearly has been replaced by an elaborate puppet sometime around the filming of the third Indiana Jones movie ("Young Indiana Jones" being the earliest available bit of evidence) and there is currently a power struggle within the committee as to how best to pillage his previous "franchises" before being found out and forced to abandon the ruse.
The problem is, very few people are going to buy Downy, or a pizza through a link from Homestar Runner even if they happen to be hungry or have clothes sticking to them while visiting the site and are presented with an ad for a company selling them at a good price.
If they even purchase these items online, it will likely be a completely separate transaction from their visit to HR, yet they may have decided to go with that company as a result of the ad at homestar runner.
So how would you determine the value of the HR ad, then?
Shouldn't your son be the one to do the project? If you're going to do it for him, you might as well just smash open a clapper and put it back together again. (after carefully recording the components for the three-panel display.
I think the problem with science fair projects (at least when I did one) was that way too much emphasis is placed on coming up with a new idea, so the students get the idea that they should actually be doing new science. I know I had a series of terrible "experiments" because I spent a lot of time trying to think of something new, settled for something stupidly hard for a middle-schooler, and ended up without any conclusive results at all.
I'd have been better off going through my science book and looking for something that was already well researched (just not by me), interesting, and seemed like it could be tested with the resources of a 7th grader. I probably could've replicated one of the early measurements of the speed of light, or done some kind of oscillatory motion experiment, even some of Feynman's musings are within reach to a 12 year old: the smell sensitivity one comes to mind as particularly simple to execute in terms of apparatus.
But I stayed away from all that because the contents of my textbook were "Facts, to be learned," and not "facts, to be observed."
Anyway, good luck with your science fair project, stay away from biology though if you have to wait for anything to grow, you don't get an extra month if something goes wrong. Having something you can actually demonstrate, like your son's acoustic light switch, is probably a pretty good idea.
I was going to say that it won't work. You tax it too much and you end up creating a black market in black gold. The free market is like the internet: it sees taxation as damage and routes around it.
But the intriguing idea is that they don't want to simply overtax the energy, but replace all other taxes with an energy tax. That probably has some potential, though it's not nearly progressive enough for the socialistic ninnies.
No, you take the device to the authorities, let them examine them, and say, "I'd like to put these up in these locations for marketing purposes" and give them a map of the locations. You don't just make a mysterious phone call and prominently post the word "bomb" on your menacing devices seeded all over town.
I don't know what the proper authority to submit to is, I imagine the local fire departments would be a good start, but I'm also not running a marketing campaign that is intended to look like a potential terrorist act.
And that's the problem with you hippies. You want to cast blame about to everyone, especially the organizations charged with keeping you safe, except onto the thoughtless individuals who initiated the whole thing. Your first thought was, "oh look how stupid Boston is." and not, "What the hell was Interference Inc. thinking?" They stuck a pixelated video-game monster flipping off the city attached to an otherwise featureless black box to a freeway support. And deliberately withheld information about the nature of the device until after significant tizzy occurred.
It was the responsibility of the marketing company to learn these things, and so they bear the brunt of the responsibility for the broken, contaminated fan.
I should expect that putting signs on a freeway would require a permit of some kind. And if not, it should. Putting them on privately owned shops is a different matter of course, but the ones on shops didn't spark the scare.
It was clearly NOT inadvertent. It went completely unnoticed in the other cities, ignored, NO PRESS.
Boston was the reaction they were looking for, as evidenced by their deliberate holding off of informing the authorities, and complete failure to obtain any permits or otherwise inform any authorities before the event.
Although, frankly, I think the actual artist they convinced to place the devices was intended to be the patsy once everything went down. Sure they can use the excuse that they didn't want to spend a lot of money, but that's a very convenient excuse in light of the unfolding of events. The ad company executives should have had to pay restitution and spend a night or two in detention. (not because their actions were a public nuisance, but because that nuisance appears to have been the goal.)
Well the console has been out for a few months, and the initial blitz has pretty much found everyone it's going to influence. What they need to do right now is keep the name out as cheaply as possible, through some kind of newsvertisement campaign...
Any news will do, as long as it's not absolutely terrible: "PS3 production slows" is still a good headline from the keeping the name out perspective, but "PS3 eats babies, new production halted" is probably not so good.
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It only makes the fonts look smaller because operating systems are designed by people with crappy eyes. Low-resolution fonts were fine back in the day when video memory was at a premium and scan frequencies were low anyway. But fast forward to today, where I can have an 18" (viewable) CRT running at 1600x1200, and the font files are described by vectors that would look good at any resolution.
I want to run my display at the highest resolution possible, with high-resolution fonts sized comfortably. I want the text to look crisp (because of the extra resolution), and I want the dialogue boxes to handle this well. Which means, Stop freaking hard-coding element positioning using pixels.
(also, is it too much to ask for web browsers to use cubic interpolation when resizing images?)
I consider it a failure of operating system and web page designers that using anything other than a 10pt font on Windows and Linux causes problems with menu text, dialogue boxes, web page text flow, and so many other things.
You're missing the point. It's not, "if you can't understand it, write it so you can." It's more like, "If you can understand it, but think it's a little too complicated, don't just whine about it, write something."
In the same vein, all the contrasts between wikipedia and conventional encyclopaedias that compare errors have been flawed. When they describe the wiki's errors they don't say "former errors" because they didn't bother to correct them.
But the wiki is a different kind of resource. If you see an error, fix it. If you can't fix it, write in the talk page so someone with better fixing skills will be aware of it. If everyone that finds errors does something to fix them, and everyone that understands articles but thinks they're too complicated does something to help rewrite part of them, then everyone else will have a good chance of finding an article that they understand and contains few errors.
No, they stopped painting it because the paint didn't do anything useful, while weighing a ton. It's thin, sure, but there's a lot of area. Mass budget wasted on paint is mass that can't carry experiments, or fat astronauts.
They are the same species, as far as we can tell so far. The definition of a species is that members, when bred, produce offspring that is also capable of breeding. Only a really long jump in the timeline could reveal if that part is successful, though.
Finding earth ends the story. Anything after that is ANOTHER story. Which might be interesting, but won't be about a ragtag fleet making its way across the great planes to Oregon, dodging hostile Indians along the way.
You can buy it at Barnes and Noble. If you're that paranoid, pay cash.
No. No matter what planet you picked it just sent you to Mars anyway. Your planet has a theme song, and it repeats over and over and over again.
They already had an army of naked Boomers.
But Battlestar Galactica will definitely be a better show with an ending. I mean, how long can they put off finding Earth? and, what'll they do after they've found it? That's the end. A couple episodes for epilogue, but that's pretty much it.
Would you like to watch Hamlet, where instead of his final showdown with Laertes, they just trotted out an endless series of ghost visitations and accidental or nearly accidental deaths of minor characters, never coming any closer to revealing Claudius' sins?
Sounds a lot like the DN3D level editor, except.. more 3d. DN3D had an interesting feature though, for all its faults: You could have rooms that went through where other rooms would be if purely physical. There were quite a few 720-degree turns and such.
Might wanna reread the column headers there. Most of "livin'" falls in the first column, which is labeled, "safe." I would assume safe means safe. I am curious as to why scuba diving would be verboten. It's not electronic, and if it's the pressure thing, then "travel to high-altitude biomes" should also be forbidden. Like, no more trips from LA to Aspen...
Ok, but how much did it weigh? ICE isn't the design of choice because it's the most efficient gasoline engine. It's chosen because it has a good power/weight ratio, which affects total efficiency of a device that must accelerate itself often.
I.. uh.. meant to do that.. yeah.. that's the ticket.
Now, Why can't I edit my post to more correctly reflect my original vision of an error-free posting.
If you consider that wind resistance goes like v^2, coasting to the stop is going to be more efficient that zipping to the stop and regenerating in the short distance before the stop, since your losses to wind are a square in the second case and roughly a triangle in the second case. This is the case even if your regenerative brakes are perfect.
Of course, you have to have the patience to do that, and it has to be safe to do, and you have to have an engine which either doesn't need to idle, or idles very miserly.
Could you explain what that command does to those of us who aren't database monkeys? From context I gather that it changed all the card numbers in the database?
And how do we know that Lucas hasn't been replaced by a sophisticated animatronic to fulfil the will of the com..mit..ee. The only facts we can be certain of is that
A) in light of the ET "guns->walkie talkies" incident and the "Greedo is an exceedingly bad shot" controversy and the "Let's include some comic relief that coincidentally is a derogatory racial reference that we obviously didn't intend" fiasco, his actions have been indistinguishable from those of a committee.
B) His most recent body appears to have enough volume to contain two midgets and a complete animatronic rig
C) there is no footage more recent than ten years showing Lucas standing up and walking on his own.
The conclusion is inescapable: Lucas clearly has been replaced by an elaborate puppet sometime around the filming of the third Indiana Jones movie ("Young Indiana Jones" being the earliest available bit of evidence) and there is currently a power struggle within the committee as to how best to pillage his previous "franchises" before being found out and forced to abandon the ruse.
The problem is, very few people are going to buy Downy, or a pizza through a link from Homestar Runner even if they happen to be hungry or have clothes sticking to them while visiting the site and are presented with an ad for a company selling them at a good price.
If they even purchase these items online, it will likely be a completely separate transaction from their visit to HR, yet they may have decided to go with that company as a result of the ad at homestar runner.
So how would you determine the value of the HR ad, then?
The petunias was just that guy that kept getting killed by Arthur's carelessness every reincarnation, wasn't it?
Shouldn't your son be the one to do the project? If you're going to do it for him, you might as well just smash open a clapper and put it back together again. (after carefully recording the components for the three-panel display.
I think the problem with science fair projects (at least when I did one) was that way too much emphasis is placed on coming up with a new idea, so the students get the idea that they should actually be doing new science. I know I had a series of terrible "experiments" because I spent a lot of time trying to think of something new, settled for something stupidly hard for a middle-schooler, and ended up without any conclusive results at all.
I'd have been better off going through my science book and looking for something that was already well researched (just not by me), interesting, and seemed like it could be tested with the resources of a 7th grader. I probably could've replicated one of the early measurements of the speed of light, or done some kind of oscillatory motion experiment, even some of Feynman's musings are within reach to a 12 year old: the smell sensitivity one comes to mind as particularly simple to execute in terms of apparatus.
But I stayed away from all that because the contents of my textbook were "Facts, to be learned," and not "facts, to be observed."
Anyway, good luck with your science fair project, stay away from biology though if you have to wait for anything to grow, you don't get an extra month if something goes wrong. Having something you can actually demonstrate, like your son's acoustic light switch, is probably a pretty good idea.
I was going to say that it won't work. You tax it too much and you end up creating a black market in black gold. The free market is like the internet: it sees taxation as damage and routes around it.
But the intriguing idea is that they don't want to simply overtax the energy, but replace all other taxes with an energy tax. That probably has some potential, though it's not nearly progressive enough for the socialistic ninnies.
No, you take the device to the authorities, let them examine them, and say, "I'd like to put these up in these locations for marketing purposes" and give them a map of the locations. You don't just make a mysterious phone call and prominently post the word "bomb" on your menacing devices seeded all over town.
I don't know what the proper authority to submit to is, I imagine the local fire departments would be a good start, but I'm also not running a marketing campaign that is intended to look like a potential terrorist act.
And that's the problem with you hippies. You want to cast blame about to everyone, especially the organizations charged with keeping you safe, except onto the thoughtless individuals who initiated the whole thing. Your first thought was, "oh look how stupid Boston is." and not, "What the hell was Interference Inc. thinking?" They stuck a pixelated video-game monster flipping off the city attached to an otherwise featureless black box to a freeway support. And deliberately withheld information about the nature of the device until after significant tizzy occurred.
It was the responsibility of the marketing company to learn these things, and so they bear the brunt of the responsibility for the broken, contaminated fan.
I should expect that putting signs on a freeway would require a permit of some kind. And if not, it should. Putting them on privately owned shops is a different matter of course, but the ones on shops didn't spark the scare.
It was clearly NOT inadvertent. It went completely unnoticed in the other cities, ignored, NO PRESS.
Boston was the reaction they were looking for, as evidenced by their deliberate holding off of informing the authorities, and complete failure to obtain any permits or otherwise inform any authorities before the event.
Although, frankly, I think the actual artist they convinced to place the devices was intended to be the patsy once everything went down. Sure they can use the excuse that they didn't want to spend a lot of money, but that's a very convenient excuse in light of the unfolding of events. The ad company executives should have had to pay restitution and spend a night or two in detention. (not because their actions were a public nuisance, but because that nuisance appears to have been the goal.)
Well the console has been out for a few months, and the initial blitz has pretty much found everyone it's going to influence. What they need to do right now is keep the name out as cheaply as possible, through some kind of newsvertisement campaign...
Any news will do, as long as it's not absolutely terrible: "PS3 production slows" is still a good headline from the keeping the name out perspective, but "PS3 eats babies, new production halted" is probably not so good.
Act one in the revolution will be the revocation of all warning labels.
So.. Europe's inability to keep its war off its neighbour's doorstep is the neighbour's failing?