The plot from the core was that the B-field collapsed, and as a result the sun's microwave death beam was able to slice through the golden gate bridge.
Also, engineers are apparently so stupid that despite a readily available power source so robust you can literally access it by soldering wires to the hull, not only failed to make this robust power source the primary one, but failed to even provision its use as a backup system....
As long as were spreading out into complaining about slashdot's formatting, I really hate how the comments' widths are determined:
It looks like they're dynamically adjusted by some javascript code when you resize the browser window*, and said code also has a minimum width that is in the high 700s. This guarantees that comments not only have way more than the recommended 70ish characters, but that I cannot resize the column to a more appropriate size. Also, if I don't want to have to side-scroll, I have to use 2/3s of my screen real estate for the column (on my laptop), when I really only want to use maybe 1/3 and have some other stuff on the rest of the screen.
*Even worse, It looks like it walks the DOM and adjusts the min-width of every comment on the page, to account for nesting. Rather than the far more reasonable action of using CSS styles and letting the nested comments take care of themselves.
I can see how that might be a problem. I'd like ideas to be shared. I wonder if there's something we could do to encourage people to share their ideas. Perhaps we could agree to let them have the sole right to sell copies of their ideas for a limited time.
Presuming of course, that the natural convection you create doesn't move the cooled but still-liquid lava away, replacing it with hotter, liquid lava from below.
The trick is to limit your extraction to the quantity that can be replaced by natural convection/conduction processes, keeping your well nice and liquid.
I've always wondered why we have to pretend the time is different, rather than just try to encourage businesses to simply start an hour earlier. Further, the real energy sop is the traffic during the commute, which is not helped by simply shifting everyone to a new hour. Spreading out the commute would be a far more commendable goal.
Anyway, when we in the US moved up DST by months, I thought we finally proved once and for all that the only bit of the economy stimulated by the change is the software companies who provide updated time zone data to their clients.
The problem is that BCC should have been the default, and CC should've been the special one. Because if everyone sends to everyone all the time and the reply-all list grows with every forward, it doesn't take many hops before everyone's valid emails get sent to a spambot. Not to mention the plenty of situations where you might want to send something to a bunch of people, but you don't necessarily want everyone to know who everyone else is. And the bigger the list, the bigger the chance that some dumbass is going to f' it up and forward the whole thing to the wrong person.
How big a chance? It's already High when N = 1. I suspected it approaches certainty before leaving the single digits.
The default should've been the behavior of BCC, unless some kind of deliberate, "let everyone see everyone else" flag is enabled, for those few times where the information you want to send everyone IS the address of everyone else.
Well, I suppose they are, in a way, if they expect to hold on to their early-adopted equipment long past the time to be early adopters for the next thing....
I thought the whole point of being an early adopter was that you know you're going to have to upgrade again shortly, but you don't care because you want it now.
Bring on All-Vid and let me run Ethernet to the TV.
Which brings up another question: Post-digital transition, we've all got sets with perfectly acceptable h.264 video decoders. Especially, pretty much every set capable of rendering Blu-Ray content in all it's glory has a built-in processor that performs adequately well to the set's capabilities.
Why therefore, should we expect to buy blu-ray players with the decoders built-in there as well? We're buying the same freakin' piece of equipment twice, for what?
The problem with HDMI is that there's really no reason why we should need to transmit an uncompressed signal to a television from another device. About the only place where that's relevant would be computer monitors, where the lag to compress and then decompress the signal would be noticeable and detract from user experience. Monitors which conspicuously do NOT typically include video processors, lowering the price.
Y'know, I've often wondered what a B&W LCD/LED screen would look like. Without the need for color filters, Presumably the resolution could be 3x as much in one dimension. Or a similar-complexity device produced with the resolution improvement distributed over both dimensions.
Thanks for weighing in, area man who doesn't do [popular thing]. Although, I cannot help but wonder why this discussion holds any interest at all for you...
I'm pretty sure that the subjects of your video also have rights, and they don't disappear just because YOU chose to click accept to terms you didn't actually have sufficient license to agree to.
They created an incredibly expensive weapon that could only be used to very accurately kill single person per shot, but through several layers of armor.
The only possible effect of such a weapon on the nature of warfare would be to change war from a bloody activity in which thousands or millions of commoners sacrifice their lives for the goals of a few powerful elite, to one in which the powerful elite are the targets: A B-1 bomber with a single-shot laser is not exactly the kind of equipment whose expense is justified against infantry.
It's hard to believe that peace lovers would be opposed to the very kind of weapon that would reduce the bloodshed and put pressure on the very causes of wars...
If you choose your iPhone, the book will automatically be downloaded the next time you open the Kindle app (honestly, it's pretty slick)
Not really. If you buy an e-book from Barnes and Noble, it automatically gets delivered to the Nook associated with your account. And any other internet-connected devices running Nook software associated with the account have the option to download it at will. When said devices are connected to the internet, they will sync the last page read across all devices. (with a small time-lag)
Amazon's slick thing is that the kindle is substantially smaller and lighter than the Nook, as they're on their third generation device already, and didn't waste precious developer resources building a "brookstone" version of the iPad...
Close. But a better question would be, "How is this budget best allocated to minimize the chance of service discontinuities and mitigate the effects of any such downtime."
A simple system that you can re-start easily, and which fails in a way that doesn't corrupt the data may very well be superior solution to a complicated one which cuts the chance of downtime by 99%, but has major difficulties coming back online after an event. Your budget is always limited, and you want to make sure you optimize on the the thing you want, not just the thing you think you need to get the thing you want.
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Um.. you do realize that radiation doesn't carry a charge, and so is completely unaffected by a magnetic field...
No, that wasn't it.
The plot from the core was that the B-field collapsed, and as a result the sun's microwave death beam was able to slice through the golden gate bridge.
Also, engineers are apparently so stupid that despite a readily available power source so robust you can literally access it by soldering wires to the hull, not only failed to make this robust power source the primary one, but failed to even provision its use as a backup system....
Well, Mars is pretty irony. That's why it's red, y'know.
As long as were spreading out into complaining about slashdot's formatting, I really hate how the comments' widths are determined:
It looks like they're dynamically adjusted by some javascript code when you resize the browser window*, and said code also has a minimum width that is in the high 700s. This guarantees that comments not only have way more than the recommended 70ish characters, but that I cannot resize the column to a more appropriate size. Also, if I don't want to have to side-scroll, I have to use 2/3s of my screen real estate for the column (on my laptop), when I really only want to use maybe 1/3 and have some other stuff on the rest of the screen.
*Even worse, It looks like it walks the DOM and adjusts the min-width of every comment on the page, to account for nesting. Rather than the far more reasonable action of using CSS styles and letting the nested comments take care of themselves.
I can see how that might be a problem. I'd like ideas to be shared. I wonder if there's something we could do to encourage people to share their ideas. Perhaps we could agree to let them have the sole right to sell copies of their ideas for a limited time.
Presuming of course, that the natural convection you create doesn't move the cooled but still-liquid lava away, replacing it with hotter, liquid lava from below.
The trick is to limit your extraction to the quantity that can be replaced by natural convection/conduction processes, keeping your well nice and liquid.
That episode was very depressing.
But they did it backwards. Now it will always be 11:00 at astronomical noon..
I've always wondered why we have to pretend the time is different, rather than just try to encourage businesses to simply start an hour earlier. Further, the real energy sop is the traffic during the commute, which is not helped by simply shifting everyone to a new hour. Spreading out the commute would be a far more commendable goal.
Anyway, when we in the US moved up DST by months, I thought we finally proved once and for all that the only bit of the economy stimulated by the change is the software companies who provide updated time zone data to their clients.
In nature there's also no right to not get eaten by bears, or murdered by you neighbor....
The problem is that BCC should have been the default, and CC should've been the special one. Because if everyone sends to everyone all the time and the reply-all list grows with every forward, it doesn't take many hops before everyone's valid emails get sent to a spambot. Not to mention the plenty of situations where you might want to send something to a bunch of people, but you don't necessarily want everyone to know who everyone else is. And the bigger the list, the bigger the chance that some dumbass is going to f' it up and forward the whole thing to the wrong person.
How big a chance? It's already High when N = 1. I suspected it approaches certainty before leaving the single digits.
The default should've been the behavior of BCC, unless some kind of deliberate, "let everyone see everyone else" flag is enabled, for those few times where the information you want to send everyone IS the address of everyone else.
So.. you're saying they'd rather have an excuse than money?
and...?
Analog inputs still suck.
Early adopters are schmucks.
Well, I suppose they are, in a way, if they expect to hold on to their early-adopted equipment long past the time to be early adopters for the next thing....
I thought the whole point of being an early adopter was that you know you're going to have to upgrade again shortly, but you don't care because you want it now.
Bring on All-Vid and let me run Ethernet to the TV.
Which brings up another question: Post-digital transition, we've all got sets with perfectly acceptable h.264 video decoders. Especially, pretty much every set capable of rendering Blu-Ray content in all it's glory has a built-in processor that performs adequately well to the set's capabilities.
Why therefore, should we expect to buy blu-ray players with the decoders built-in there as well? We're buying the same freakin' piece of equipment twice, for what?
The problem with HDMI is that there's really no reason why we should need to transmit an uncompressed signal to a television from another device. About the only place where that's relevant would be computer monitors, where the lag to compress and then decompress the signal would be noticeable and detract from user experience. Monitors which conspicuously do NOT typically include video processors, lowering the price.
Y'know, I've often wondered what a B&W LCD/LED screen would look like. Without the need for color filters, Presumably the resolution could be 3x as much in one dimension. Or a similar-complexity device produced with the resolution improvement distributed over both dimensions.
I bet that it would look pretty sharp.
Thanks for weighing in, area man who doesn't do [popular thing]. Although, I cannot help but wonder why this discussion holds any interest at all for you...
Our debt to china is not a US asset held in China. It is a Chinese asset held by the US...
I'm pretty sure that the subjects of your video also have rights, and they don't disappear just because YOU chose to click accept to terms you didn't actually have sufficient license to agree to.
Hmm. What's your offer?
The plot was stupid.
They created an incredibly expensive weapon that could only be used to very accurately kill single person per shot, but through several layers of armor.
The only possible effect of such a weapon on the nature of warfare would be to change war from a bloody activity in which thousands or millions of commoners sacrifice their lives for the goals of a few powerful elite, to one in which the powerful elite are the targets: A B-1 bomber with a single-shot laser is not exactly the kind of equipment whose expense is justified against infantry.
It's hard to believe that peace lovers would be opposed to the very kind of weapon that would reduce the bloodshed and put pressure on the very causes of wars...
If you choose your iPhone, the book will automatically be downloaded the next time you open the Kindle app (honestly, it's pretty slick)
Not really. If you buy an e-book from Barnes and Noble, it automatically gets delivered to the Nook associated with your account. And any other internet-connected devices running Nook software associated with the account have the option to download it at will. When said devices are connected to the internet, they will sync the last page read across all devices. (with a small time-lag)
Amazon's slick thing is that the kindle is substantially smaller and lighter than the Nook, as they're on their third generation device already, and didn't waste precious developer resources building a "brookstone" version of the iPad...
Close. But a better question would be, "How is this budget best allocated to minimize the chance of service discontinuities and mitigate the effects of any such downtime."
A simple system that you can re-start easily, and which fails in a way that doesn't corrupt the data may very well be superior solution to a complicated one which cuts the chance of downtime by 99%, but has major difficulties coming back online after an event. Your budget is always limited, and you want to make sure you optimize on the the thing you want, not just the thing you think you need to get the thing you want.
According to wikipedia, Linux has >60% of the server market. Is that parity enough for you to make comparisons with?
That sounds more like "World of Rockstar" than "World of Blizzard"...
As a non-subscriber, to me it looks like an excerpt from the abstract, and lo, the abstracts are visible to non-subscribers!