Can someone explain this to me? I didn't think it was ever possible to walk inside a reactor vessel. I didn't even think the "reactor vessel" itself was large enough for a person to "walk inside" I thought the "reactor vessel" was thousands of degrees.
I suspect that the reason you keep saying it is because you autistic. That might explain why you repeat the phrase 50,000 times before you can get out of bed and eat breakfast.
Fn + up arrow = page up, Fn + down arrow = page down
Yes. Any idea why they put spacers where those keys should be? Alternatively those spacers could be home/end so I don't have to do Fn+Left and Fn+Right.
Don't really see what's wrong with more meta keys on the opposite side of the keyboard. My think pad has more than one Ctrl and Alt.
I wouldn't mind if there weren't more important keys missing. (Like delete and insert).
And virtually every PC has a hard eject button on the drive. So what?
That would be fine. My issue is that they put it on the keyboard, not the drive. Also, it is a soft eject key on mine. You can't eject until the OS has booted.:-( On a related note, they made the same decision on the of volume buttons - they are soft volume buttons. It is mildly annoying to hear the BIOS boot sound because I can't mute the laptop until it boots.
Meaning that it's not going to work correctly in Windows without extra work.
The Windows driver for that touchpad supports multitouch. That provides the second-button and scroll-wheel capabilities. It is actually really nice. I have a Dell laptop for work and I soooo miss my Macbook's touchpad. Although it would be even better if it had a dedicated second button, and used multitouch for the 3rd button instead.
Agreed with that advice - Mac laptops are great, but try the keyboard on something real. If you are a coder - write code on that keyboard. If you are an accountant, type numbers on it. Don't just assume you will get used to it because it is very very odd.
I bought a Macbook Pro as a Windows laptop several years ago and it has been a phenomenal computer. But I say that only because I *never* use it without an external keyboard.
1) The keyboard is very small, compared to the size of the laptop Here is why: there are no side air intakes on the Macbook Pro. The air intakes are part of the keyboard, as crazy as that sounds. The keyboard has a 3 inch margin on the left and right side, where the air intakes are. I assume this makes the laptop thinner, at the expense of usability. A classic Apple decision - form over function.
2) Compared to other keyboards of the same size, it is laid out stupidly. - No delete key, but two enter keys. (what???) - Spacers where the pg-up and pg-dn keys should be. - ctrl, alt, and "apple/windows" keys are swapped. - 2 "apple/windows" keys where 1 would be enough. - there is a dedicated "eject" key which wastes a key. - The backspace key is labeled delete (odd but easy to get used to).
There is something wrong with the chair if you need good muscle tone in order to sit in it.:-)
This makes me want to market a chair designed to build muscle. Maybe it would randomly recline without warning, forcing you to suddenly do a sit-up. Improves reflexes too!
This makes perfect sense. My casual observations note that music piracy has been decreasing steadily for years. There is far less reason reason to pirate any longer. Companies are selling music online, cheaper, more easily, without lock-down, and without DRM -- just like people were asking for.
Similarly, anime piracy is down now that you can watch anime online legally. It was pirated most heavily when a series came out in Japan and took 10 years before it was subtitled and released in the US and Europe. Now that they subtitle them and release them within a week, piracy has decreased.
See! Offering a product at a good value really does work!
[1] This bill got fast tracked and bypassed normal debate. [3] Once it was passed,
Whoaa!! Slow down! You missed the step [2] where representatives voted in support of a bill that did not receive any debate. Every person who voted on a piece of legislation, without reading it, without seeing a debate on it, should be impeached. They are not keeping to the oaths they swore.
I wonder if this happened 100 years ago if they probably really would be impeached. Today, this is just standard operating procedure. Truly truly sad.
Stop blaming the RIAA for this stupidity. The law lists a fixed amount of statutory damage per infringement. So their calculations are correct. Even though the RIAA lobbied for these stupid laws, the ultimate blame lies with the "representatives" who voted for it.
I would just love one of these Senators, or their family members, to get hit with one of these lawsuits. As long as they are above the law they can pass this crud without fear.
Is it still the responsibility of the patent office to determine obviousness and search for prior art? I am certain it used to be. But I recall some quote, within the past decade or so, where the head of the patent office stated that these things were not their responsibility. Am I remembering this correctly? Can anyone find such a quote?
But the implementations did change - just not one browser on one platform: Internet Explorer on Windows XP. This is probably another case of Microsoft trying to force people to upgrade. To heck with that platform, many web developers have long since abandoned it anyway.
I live in Baltimore City, MD and I work in Sparks, MD. I get no AT&T cell reception within ~25 feet of my home, but Verizon works great. In Sparks, Verizon works fine but AT&T gets between 0 and 2 bars, depending on where you are standing. Even more pathetic is that Sparks is mostly a big technology park, so there are a lot of Android and iPhones here. I've been to several AT&T stores to complain and they just suggest I buy a microcell. In the building across the street from where I work, the employees pooled their money and bought one. People love their iPhones so much that they actually don't care if they have service or not. And AT&T doesn't care that there are hundreds of iPhones with no service in this area.
Either that, or it is a sign that the animation code isn't written well. Going back to my original post, I was talking about the effect when moving from one photograph to another in the camera roll. There is no other background task slowing the animation, and the iPhone isn't animating more slowly to make it look smoother. For whatever reason, it seems to be coded to look better. Maybe they are adding a blur effect... or maybe as someone pointed out, they customized the routine for the hardware. But it isn't a question of a trade-off between animation quality and performance. In this example, the iPhone has both.
I for one cannot say I have compared browser performance so that may be a completely different issue.
From personal observations, I have noticed that transitions are much smoother on iPhones than on comparable Android phones. For example, if I am browsing photos on an iPhone and I swipe left, I see the image smoothly (60fps or more?) move to the left and the new image smoothly move on. By comparison, every Android phone I have seen implements the same effect, but I see artifacts like tearing or skipping of frames. It looks like it goes at 60fps, then drops down to 5, then back up to 60. I tend to be more sensitive to this type of thing than most people (I see CRT refreshes and tend to get motion sick playing games that bob up and down)
IMHO, this is something Apple has done right all the way back to the original macs, and many other developers don't seem to have a grasp on. Most people don't notice the artifacts directly, but they "feel" it subtly. It makes people just like the iPhone UI more, and they may not be able to put their finger on exactly why.
There is a quote from Linus in the article where he raves that including a kernel header does make the resultant program subject to the GPL.
Did he mean "include" as in #include, or "include" as in "Copying the header file into your own SDK and distributing it." The latter is what Google is supposedly doing. The former something every program does.
Ex: My "Hello World" application may #include <windows.h> but it is not a derivative work of Microsoft Windows so it is not subject to Microsoft's copyright. But if I created the "Super Duper SDK" which included a copy of Windows.h, or even a modified copy, then I am distributing their file and my SDK is a derivative work.
I prefer the Douglas Adams view from "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish." He proposes that politicians don't come from the general public. They come from a select group and the voters have lost perspective and don't even realize it.
[An extraterrestrial robot and spaceship has just landed on earth. The robot steps out of the spaceship...]
"I come in peace," it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me to your Lizard."
Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, as he sat with Arthur and watched the nonstop frenetic news reports on television, none of which had anything to say other than to record that the thing had done this amount of damage which was valued at that amount of billions of pounds and had killed this totally other number of people, and then say it again, because the robot was doing nothing more than standing there, swaying very slightly, and emitting short incomprehensible error messages.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in."
Japanese officials denied that the water is gone from the spent-fuel pool, the Associated Press reported.
Severe structural damage is the only way the fuel pool could be emptied, Helwig said. The 50-foot-deep pools have no outlets at the bottom, thus preventing them from draining in case of an accident.
So there's no confirmation that they lost the water, and no one can explain how that could possibly happen. That water shouldn't get hot enough to boil. Supposedly, the earthquake didn't damage the structure. I wouldn't expect a giant wave of water to result in a sudden lack of water...
If the fuel pools are exposed to the air, the radiation doses coming from them could be life-threatening up to 50 yards, Alvarez said.
Assholes like the guy who wrote the following "even if you were standing at the top of the cooling tower you would be fine" and "fukushima is currently safe and will stay safe" should be sent to help maintain the reactors without any protective suit. Link: http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/13/fukushima-simple-explanation/
He wrote that 3 days ago, before the primary containment was breached (or before we knew that it was). All that was happening was steam release at the time.
Suppose an executive says "Make a game that involves X" and the artist thinks about it and comes up with a really cool, unique idea. Maybe it fits the bill but subtly includes a message, or uses an art technique never used before. And in their inspiration they create a unique something beautiful. Then, it gets packaged up and sold.
Do we judge the artist's intent, or the executives? Could it be art to the artist, but not to the executive? Or was it art until the point where it was sold? Or perhaps it isn't art even to the artist because they got paid? Could someone buy the game for the art, but not play the game, so it was art to them? What about in 100 years when some preservationist builds a machine that can run the game, and is wowed by how someone created such beauty with all those technological limitations. Is it art then? Like how a purely functional bowl, dug up by an archaeologist 5000 years later, can be considered art?
I thought "The Net" was the one where the main character hacked into a computer using an actual unix privilege escalation command-line from the time. I thought that movie was fairly accurate. No hacking passwords by magically typing keys, no remotely controlling things that had no internet connection. The most implausible thing was hackers hiding secret links in web pages, which I've known people to do. Or the hackers putting unnecessary animations onto web pages... oh wait, people did that too... especially when the net was new.
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Can someone explain this to me? I didn't think it was ever possible to walk inside a reactor vessel. I didn't even think the "reactor vessel" itself was large enough for a person to "walk inside" I thought the "reactor vessel" was thousands of degrees.
I suspect that the reason you keep saying it is because you autistic. That might explain why you repeat the phrase 50,000 times before you can get out of bed and eat breakfast.
Thanks for the info.
Fn + up arrow = page up, Fn + down arrow = page down
Yes. Any idea why they put spacers where those keys should be? Alternatively those spacers could be home/end so I don't have to do Fn+Left and Fn+Right.
Don't really see what's wrong with more meta keys on the opposite side of the keyboard. My think pad has more than one Ctrl and Alt.
I wouldn't mind if there weren't more important keys missing. (Like delete and insert).
And virtually every PC has a hard eject button on the drive. So what?
That would be fine. My issue is that they put it on the keyboard, not the drive. Also, it is a soft eject key on mine. You can't eject until the OS has booted. :-( On a related note, they made the same decision on the of volume buttons - they are soft volume buttons. It is mildly annoying to hear the BIOS boot sound because I can't mute the laptop until it boots.
Meaning that it's not going to work correctly in Windows without extra work.
The Windows driver for that touchpad supports multitouch. That provides the second-button and scroll-wheel capabilities. It is actually really nice. I have a Dell laptop for work and I soooo miss my Macbook's touchpad. Although it would be even better if it had a dedicated second button, and used multitouch for the 3rd button instead.
Agreed with that advice - Mac laptops are great, but try the keyboard on something real. If you are a coder - write code on that keyboard. If you are an accountant, type numbers on it. Don't just assume you will get used to it because it is very very odd.
I bought a Macbook Pro as a Windows laptop several years ago and it has been a phenomenal computer. But I say that only because I *never* use it without an external keyboard.
1) The keyboard is very small, compared to the size of the laptop
Here is why: there are no side air intakes on the Macbook Pro. The air intakes are part of the keyboard, as crazy as that sounds. The keyboard has a 3 inch margin on the left and right side, where the air intakes are. I assume this makes the laptop thinner, at the expense of usability. A classic Apple decision - form over function.
2) Compared to other keyboards of the same size, it is laid out stupidly.
- No delete key, but two enter keys. (what???)
- Spacers where the pg-up and pg-dn keys should be.
- ctrl, alt, and "apple/windows" keys are swapped.
- 2 "apple/windows" keys where 1 would be enough.
- there is a dedicated "eject" key which wastes a key.
- The backspace key is labeled delete (odd but easy to get used to).
There is something wrong with the chair if you need good muscle tone in order to sit in it. :-)
This makes me want to market a chair designed to build muscle. Maybe it would randomly recline without warning, forcing you to suddenly do a sit-up. Improves reflexes too!
This makes perfect sense. My casual observations note that music piracy has been decreasing steadily for years. There is far less reason reason to pirate any longer. Companies are selling music online, cheaper, more easily, without lock-down, and without DRM -- just like people were asking for.
Similarly, anime piracy is down now that you can watch anime online legally. It was pirated most heavily when a series came out in Japan and took 10 years before it was subtitled and released in the US and Europe. Now that they subtitle them and release them within a week, piracy has decreased.
See! Offering a product at a good value really does work!
We can't stop the devil himself from writing laws. But we can choose representatives who won't pass it.
[1] This bill got fast tracked and bypassed normal debate. [3] Once it was passed,
Whoaa!! Slow down! You missed the step [2] where representatives voted in support of a bill that did not receive any debate. Every person who voted on a piece of legislation, without reading it, without seeing a debate on it, should be impeached. They are not keeping to the oaths they swore.
I wonder if this happened 100 years ago if they probably really would be impeached. Today, this is just standard operating procedure. Truly truly sad.
Stop blaming the RIAA for this stupidity. The law lists a fixed amount of statutory damage per infringement. So their calculations are correct. Even though the RIAA lobbied for these stupid laws, the ultimate blame lies with the "representatives" who voted for it.
I would just love one of these Senators, or their family members, to get hit with one of these lawsuits. As long as they are above the law they can pass this crud without fear.
Is it still the responsibility of the patent office to determine obviousness and search for prior art? I am certain it used to be. But I recall some quote, within the past decade or so, where the head of the patent office stated that these things were not their responsibility. Am I remembering this correctly? Can anyone find such a quote?
This is why patents are supposed to only cover implementations, not ideas.
But the implementations did change - just not one browser on one platform: Internet Explorer on Windows XP. This is probably another case of Microsoft trying to force people to upgrade. To heck with that platform, many web developers have long since abandoned it anyway.
The reason is that the name of what is being requested is also encrypted in the SSL data.
The protocol was changed in 2005 to address this.
Server Name Indication
Sparks, MD
Verizon works here, but AT&T does not.
I live in Baltimore City, MD and I work in Sparks, MD. I get no AT&T cell reception within ~25 feet of my home, but Verizon works great. In Sparks, Verizon works fine but AT&T gets between 0 and 2 bars, depending on where you are standing. Even more pathetic is that Sparks is mostly a big technology park, so there are a lot of Android and iPhones here. I've been to several AT&T stores to complain and they just suggest I buy a microcell. In the building across the street from where I work, the employees pooled their money and bought one. People love their iPhones so much that they actually don't care if they have service or not. And AT&T doesn't care that there are hundreds of iPhones with no service in this area.
Either that, or it is a sign that the animation code isn't written well. Going back to my original post, I was talking about the effect when moving from one photograph to another in the camera roll. There is no other background task slowing the animation, and the iPhone isn't animating more slowly to make it look smoother. For whatever reason, it seems to be coded to look better. Maybe they are adding a blur effect... or maybe as someone pointed out, they customized the routine for the hardware. But it isn't a question of a trade-off between animation quality and performance. In this example, the iPhone has both.
I for one cannot say I have compared browser performance so that may be a completely different issue.
From personal observations, I have noticed that transitions are much smoother on iPhones than on comparable Android phones. For example, if I am browsing photos on an iPhone and I swipe left, I see the image smoothly (60fps or more?) move to the left and the new image smoothly move on. By comparison, every Android phone I have seen implements the same effect, but I see artifacts like tearing or skipping of frames. It looks like it goes at 60fps, then drops down to 5, then back up to 60. I tend to be more sensitive to this type of thing than most people (I see CRT refreshes and tend to get motion sick playing games that bob up and down)
IMHO, this is something Apple has done right all the way back to the original macs, and many other developers don't seem to have a grasp on. Most people don't notice the artifacts directly, but they "feel" it subtly. It makes people just like the iPhone UI more, and they may not be able to put their finger on exactly why.
There is a quote from Linus in the article where he raves that including a kernel header does make the resultant program subject to the GPL.
Did he mean "include" as in #include, or "include" as in "Copying the header file into your own SDK and distributing it." The latter is what Google is supposedly doing. The former something every program does.
Ex: My "Hello World" application may #include <windows.h> but it is not a derivative work of Microsoft Windows so it is not subject to Microsoft's copyright. But if I created the "Super Duper SDK" which included a copy of Windows.h, or even a modified copy, then I am distributing their file and my SDK is a derivative work.
I prefer the Douglas Adams view from "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish." He proposes that politicians don't come from the general public. They come from a select group and the voters have lost perspective and don't even realize it.
Perhaps both men are right to some degree.
Japanese officials denied that the water is gone from the spent-fuel pool, the Associated Press reported.
Severe structural damage is the only way the fuel pool could be emptied, Helwig said. The 50-foot-deep pools have no outlets at the bottom, thus preventing them from draining in case of an accident.
So there's no confirmation that they lost the water, and no one can explain how that could possibly happen. That water shouldn't get hot enough to boil. Supposedly, the earthquake didn't damage the structure. I wouldn't expect a giant wave of water to result in a sudden lack of water...
If the fuel pools are exposed to the air, the radiation doses coming from them could be life-threatening up to 50 yards, Alvarez said.
Yards... not miles. :-)
That isn't a great comparison though. Compare that to a coal or gas plant. *boom*
Assholes like the guy who wrote the following "even if you were standing at the top of the cooling tower you would be fine" and "fukushima is currently safe and will stay safe" should be sent to help maintain the reactors without any protective suit. Link: http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/13/fukushima-simple-explanation/
He wrote that 3 days ago, before the primary containment was breached (or before we knew that it was). All that was happening was steam release at the time.
Fair enough. So whose intent?
Suppose an executive says "Make a game that involves X" and the artist thinks about it and comes up with a really cool, unique idea. Maybe it fits the bill but subtly includes a message, or uses an art technique never used before. And in their inspiration they create a unique something beautiful. Then, it gets packaged up and sold.
Do we judge the artist's intent, or the executives? Could it be art to the artist, but not to the executive? Or was it art until the point where it was sold? Or perhaps it isn't art even to the artist because they got paid? Could someone buy the game for the art, but not play the game, so it was art to them? What about in 100 years when some preservationist builds a machine that can run the game, and is wowed by how someone created such beauty with all those technological limitations. Is it art then? Like how a purely functional bowl, dug up by an archaeologist 5000 years later, can be considered art?
If the robot just thought the info, then the audience wouldn't be able to perceive it.
I thought "The Net" was the one where the main character hacked into a computer using an actual unix privilege escalation command-line from the time. I thought that movie was fairly accurate. No hacking passwords by magically typing keys, no remotely controlling things that had no internet connection. The most implausible thing was hackers hiding secret links in web pages, which I've known people to do. Or the hackers putting unnecessary animations onto web pages... oh wait, people did that too... especially when the net was new.