Well, you know, Slashdot is commonly considered to be a "news aggregate." I don't know about you, but I expect these to be as objective as possible, and even if the linked article presents a biased opinion, publishing it on the aggregate site, as though it's a fact, is certainly not called for. As someone else said, it would at least be appropriate to include an "as the author says..." to separate opinions from facts.
When opinions are mixed in with facts, in such a way that they are difficult to distinguish, you become Fox News. (And yes, that does reflect my opinions.)
I'm running Opera and Firefox right now, simultaneously, and here are the footprints I'm getting (in WinXP):
Firefox: 31,140K
Opera: 21,584K
This is with the same four tabs open in both windows, and a few extensions enabled on Firefox in an attempt to give it the functionality of Opera (gestures, the nice "Add Bookmark Here..." thing Opera gives you, et cetera), although I'm still not seeing:
- a chat application (I know there's an extension available, but that would have really shot up the memory footprint)
- a mail application
- voice support (again, gigantic memory footprint for the extension)
- a good implementation of keeping ALL browser windows in the current window (in other words, a true MDI browser rather than an SDI one with tabs)
- that nice, incredibly visually appealing interface that Opera gives you with no more memory usage than the Windows Native theme
Don't get me wrong, Firefox is a fantastic browser, and on Linux, I'll admit I prefer it. But well, Opera is just nicer, and much more user-friendly. And Opera is free as in Free Beer, albiet with an ad for the beer on the cup.
To be honest, if it weren't for the ads, Opera would be a much better choice for converting people away from MSIE. My mom, who is less knowledgeable than those who call IE "the internet," loved Opera the first time I got her to try it out, after years of experience with MSIE. But when I tried to introduce her to Firefox, she hated it. Despite all its polish, it's got a long way to go before it has that nice, friendly interface. Opera for Windows is probably the closest thing to the nice interface of Safari on Mac OSX.
Did you purchase Opera at the time version 5 was released? Because one nice thing about Opera, and the only real reason I've been willing to pay for it, is that a single purchase of any version gets you a license for the next version as well.
In other words, if you paid for Opera 6, you can just use your key from that in Opera 7 and you will still be registered. If you paid for Opera 7, ditto for Opera 8, I would assume. It's been this way for years.
According to the article, "the object, now named 2002 EM7, was probably between 40 and 80 meters (130-260 feet) in diameter" and was capable of flattening a whole city.
This isn't like normal weight-sensing or magnetic traffic lights. This system is designed to break the traffic down into chunks in such a way that no two chunks will approach the same light at the same time. This way, it can accomodate large amounts of traffic.
If you want to visualize how this might work, watch the episode of Futurama where they go to the planet of human-hating robots, where Fry and Leela are trampled by the robots going to and fro. The "chunks" of traffic would go past each other the same way the robots do in that scene, but regulated by stoplights.
Okay, first, let's take what a chimera is: it's an organism with more than one genome, caused by the presence of tissue from another organism. In fact, human chimeras are more common than you might imagine: when fraternal twins develop in the womb, one may fail to develop and be "absorbed" into the other's tissue. So that baby would grow up with a big chunk of tissue in his body that is his brother.
Thus, this cannot affect evolution at all; the organism that has the gametes will pass on its genes.
Well, unless of course they graft human genitalea onto a sheep. But I think they have limits, or at least decency.
The look of it isn't what's so innovative about it. The great thing about the Gmail interface is its speed; there is seriously nothing web-based out there that is faster, aside from Google's search engine.
The way that they handle multiple messages is great too. They organize emails from the same address into conversations. And you can easily archive, rather than delete (since you've got a freaking GB), a whole conversation at a time.
Don't be too harsh. First off, those statistics are from Steam, so they're hardly official. They come from people who willingly install the software to purchase games from Valve. In fact, most games on Steam are available at retail. Quite a few gamers have been hesitant to use Steam, and some excercise the option not to send in their specs, since it is not required.
I'm not saying that you're wrong, though; most people probably still use nVidia cards. But among the "hardcore" gamers, ATi is probably the most popular, especially with numerous recent events indicating that nVidia cheats on benchmarks. However, the Geforce 6800U and its SLI capabilities could change that dramatically once nForce4 boards (and anything else with multiple 16x PCI-X slots) become more widespread.
My recommendation is to pay a little (as in $10/mo) extra and get digital cable, or pay another $5 and get digital cable and cable modem service with your local provider. Most companies offer this kind of option these days. My provider (Cox Cable) gives me Discovery Times, Discovery Science, Disc. Wings, and a bunch of other Discovery channels (but not HD, unfortunately) as a free package in addition to the other channels I choose.
The extension doesn't really help. It just loads Windows Update in MSIE. Basically, if you want Windows Update, you're going to have to keep MSIE. Or you can download torrents of all the updates, but that's really more trouble than it's worth, despite what some of the/. crowd may say.
Umm... If I'm not mistaken, an ester is actually the product of a condensation reaction between an alchohol and a carboxylic acid. Thus, it would have the general structure R1-C-O-CO-R2 where R1 is the stuff in the alchohol and R2 is the stuff in the acid.
To get a polyester, the alchohol/acid condensation reaction is repeated over and over using a di-alchohol and a di-carboxylic acid. Essentially, you end up with a monomer that has one hydroxyl end and one carboxyl end and can repeat indefinitely. This gives a polyester the general formula HO-(-C-R1-C-O-CO-R2-COO-)n-H where n is the number of times the monomer is repeated(same R1/R2 as above).
Probably the most important polyester is polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which is used in all kinds of stuff, most notably those 20oz soda bottles.
You seem to be missing the fact that RPGs are not high-precision weapons. It would take a skilled soldier to hit the same location twice. And I would expect this thing to be separate from the tank's main electrical system.
And as she does this, a computer aboard the boat will be running an OpenGL application in PHP. If she succeeds, she will break world impracticality records.
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When opinions are mixed in with facts, in such a way that they are difficult to distinguish, you become Fox News. (And yes, that does reflect my opinions.)
I didn't see any ads either. Well, except for that "500 Internal" company. For some reason, a lot of the sites Slashdot links to have their ads. :P
Celcius or Fahrenheit?
First one, then the other. :P
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Firefox: 31,140K
Opera: 21,584K
This is with the same four tabs open in both windows, and a few extensions enabled on Firefox in an attempt to give it the functionality of Opera (gestures, the nice "Add Bookmark Here..." thing Opera gives you, et cetera), although I'm still not seeing:
- a chat application (I know there's an extension available, but that would have really shot up the memory footprint)
- a mail application
- voice support (again, gigantic memory footprint for the extension)
- a good implementation of keeping ALL browser windows in the current window (in other words, a true MDI browser rather than an SDI one with tabs)
- that nice, incredibly visually appealing interface that Opera gives you with no more memory usage than the Windows Native theme
Don't get me wrong, Firefox is a fantastic browser, and on Linux, I'll admit I prefer it. But well, Opera is just nicer, and much more user-friendly. And Opera is free as in Free Beer, albiet with an ad for the beer on the cup.
To be honest, if it weren't for the ads, Opera would be a much better choice for converting people away from MSIE. My mom, who is less knowledgeable than those who call IE "the internet," loved Opera the first time I got her to try it out, after years of experience with MSIE. But when I tried to introduce her to Firefox, she hated it. Despite all its polish, it's got a long way to go before it has that nice, friendly interface. Opera for Windows is probably the closest thing to the nice interface of Safari on Mac OSX.
In other words, if you paid for Opera 6, you can just use your key from that in Opera 7 and you will still be registered. If you paid for Opera 7, ditto for Opera 8, I would assume. It's been this way for years.
I'm terribly sorry; I confused the two linked articles. I hate to reply to myself, but I figured I should say this now. My fault.
According to the article, "the object, now named 2002 EM7, was probably between 40 and 80 meters (130-260 feet) in diameter" and was capable of flattening a whole city.
This isn't like normal weight-sensing or magnetic traffic lights. This system is designed to break the traffic down into chunks in such a way that no two chunks will approach the same light at the same time. This way, it can accomodate large amounts of traffic.
If you want to visualize how this might work, watch the episode of Futurama where they go to the planet of human-hating robots, where Fry and Leela are trampled by the robots going to and fro. The "chunks" of traffic would go past each other the same way the robots do in that scene, but regulated by stoplights.
Okay, first, let's take what a chimera is: it's an organism with more than one genome, caused by the presence of tissue from another organism. In fact, human chimeras are more common than you might imagine: when fraternal twins develop in the womb, one may fail to develop and be "absorbed" into the other's tissue. So that baby would grow up with a big chunk of tissue in his body that is his brother.
Thus, this cannot affect evolution at all; the organism that has the gametes will pass on its genes.
Well, unless of course they graft human genitalea onto a sheep. But I think they have limits, or at least decency.
The way that they handle multiple messages is great too. They organize emails from the same address into conversations. And you can easily archive, rather than delete (since you've got a freaking GB), a whole conversation at a time.
I'm not saying that you're wrong, though; most people probably still use nVidia cards. But among the "hardcore" gamers, ATi is probably the most popular, especially with numerous recent events indicating that nVidia cheats on benchmarks. However, the Geforce 6800U and its SLI capabilities could change that dramatically once nForce4 boards (and anything else with multiple 16x PCI-X slots) become more widespread.
It's in the first comment on the "NYT Firefox Campaign Raises $250,000" article.
My recommendation is to pay a little (as in $10/mo) extra and get digital cable, or pay another $5 and get digital cable and cable modem service with your local provider. Most companies offer this kind of option these days. My provider (Cox Cable) gives me Discovery Times, Discovery Science, Disc. Wings, and a bunch of other Discovery channels (but not HD, unfortunately) as a free package in addition to the other channels I choose.
That is, provided it doesn't contact the original tinfoil one.
The extension doesn't really help. It just loads Windows Update in MSIE. Basically, if you want Windows Update, you're going to have to keep MSIE. Or you can download torrents of all the updates, but that's really more trouble than it's worth, despite what some of the /. crowd may say.
And for those not interested, you can help /. their site.
To get a polyester, the alchohol/acid condensation reaction is repeated over and over using a di-alchohol and a di-carboxylic acid. Essentially, you end up with a monomer that has one hydroxyl end and one carboxyl end and can repeat indefinitely. This gives a polyester the general formula HO-(-C-R1-C-O-CO-R2-COO-)n-H where n is the number of times the monomer is repeated(same R1/R2 as above).
Probably the most important polyester is polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which is used in all kinds of stuff, most notably those 20oz soda bottles.
I would suggest these. Way better than anything MS could offer. Although, at $89, they're probably nowhere near as good a deal.
But I like Perl!
You seem to be missing the fact that RPGs are not high-precision weapons. It would take a skilled soldier to hit the same location twice. And I would expect this thing to be separate from the tank's main electrical system.
And as she does this, a computer aboard the boat will be running an OpenGL application in PHP. If she succeeds, she will break world impracticality records.
Except the monkeys are smarter.
Well, as long as it's not a Trash Can on a non-Apple system, I'd say I agree.