The other advantage is that you can snuggle the photoreceptors up to these cells that have a direct connection (diffusion) to a vascular layer. If it were backwards, the blood vessels would get in the way of the image formation and cast shadows.
Blood vessels do get in the way of image formation, but your brain edits them out. Some people can see the reverse shadows cast by white blood cells, as they allow light through, but block blood flow, so the brain tries to edit out blood that isn't there, showing up as a white dot. When the optician shines the little light in your eye, and wiggles it around, you get an afterimage of a kind of cracked-glass pattern - the blood vessels in your retina.
I was aware that the hiding had been ceased, and I also managed to turn it off in my copy, so no big deal there. For the moment, I rarely need a powerful wordprocessor, and openoffice, if not abiword, is fine.
Probably a similar, although non-identical, population to those who would benefit from a top-performance PC. That means gamers and techies. The two often go together, and where they do not, a gamer often has enough knowledge due to his enthusiasm, peers and so on, that it's not too much of a problem.
You do have to question just how effective advertisement is. At the very least, it can't have much effect on people who are wise to it, because they (we) will at first ignore them, and then, as they get more invasive, purposefully stop buying irritatingly advertised products. Like the DVD players, which apparently have to stop you forwarding through the "DON'T COPY ME!" stuff. You do wonder why they think that forcing people to wait equals forcing people to watch, much worse, forcing people to obey. Even worse is when you have to sit through all the foreign ones. I just leave until they're finished, or play them on my computer where Xine can skip them. (You used to be able to skip directly, now you have to use the navigator thing)
The point of the ramble was that until ads are directly beamed into our brain, companies will be unable to really make us pay attention, and even then, they appear not to realise that the reason we're not listening is because we don't want to know. Hence, we will stop buying your crap.
What you're suggesting seems to be a non-retarded version of Excel's menu-hiding. Which, although a step in the right direction was, well... retarded. It generally resulted in half of the useful menus disappearing, and the speed and memory usage not changing, because it still had to load the gubbins into memory. Perhaps dynamic loading of function-modules is the answer, whereby you have a core set of features, a set which the user selects to automatically load (with preset, customisable user-types) and the rest can be loaded on-demand with some nifty shortcut, dialog and various other methods (so the power user can load modules as fast as possible, but the rookie doesn't need to memorise things he or she may be uncomfortable with.)
According to Mr Geldoff, after a certain percentage of a country is connected by mobile phone, dictatorships fail. I would imagine this is the same with (non-censored) internet.
This is correct, but the GP is correct that activists such as these do not tend to get any kind of free ride, or at least, not in England. They are treated as the criminals that they are.
we are messing with DNA strands which might alter our genetic makeup and cause a global birth defect problem.
OK, how to put this. I dunno, "dumbass" springs to mind, but there we are. We are altering the plant's DNA, not ours.
There is little that is different between crossbreeding wheats to form a new wheat, and inserting a different plant gene into a wheat genome. The thing is that you can't do the latter normally when two species are involved.
The problem is that then the temptation exists to check emails, play sudoku or whatever games you have on the PDA, and a hundred other little time-eating things. Obviously people can resist temptation, but there it remains.
A proper chemist will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe there is any elemental lithium in a Li-ion battery, only lithium ions or bonded lithium, which won't react. Besides, lithium merely sets alight if you drop it in water, and is not very reactive compared to the other alkali metals.
More than this, what would be good for the toolkits, i.e. GTK, QT and so on, would be an abstraction layer, whereby the program would load a generic "interface" library, and would make generic calls to it, and the user could select between toolkits, but retain their programs. There would be interesting problems to overcome when one toolkit offers a function that another doesn't, but I'm sure there's a way around it:)
On acceptability, I would expect it to be something again, to do with proximity. We naturally flag something big in the middle of nothingness as "important" but if, somewhere further out, there are load of similarly big things stuck next to each other, they're not so important.
How about you just get the physics teachers to start teaching the new system, and not replace the textbooks? Our physics textbooks were out of date at high school; it's no big deal. As long as the teacher teaches the stuff to the kids, then it's not too big a problem. I mean, there'll be boundary conditions like kids who were off sick, but if a school can't afford to be new textbooks, it's not going to siphon funds from elsewhere just to correct a single change.
I wonder whether a definition in terms of both size/mass, and proximity of other, similar objects. The problem here is that Pluto is a lump of rock in the middle of nowhere, in solar terms. If you go out further to the Kuiper belt, then you have a load of other, similar objects in (relatively) close proximity. Just like how we wouldn't term the rocks in planet rings moons, even though, to my knowledge, there's no definition in terms of size.
The proximity would have to be defined as a percentage of distance from the sun, or something similar, because what is "close" is different if you're further away, with everything spread out.
Slashdot didn't "fall" for it; if you read the blurb at the top there is an equally skeptical slant. Slashdot simply reports the presence of certain unlikely claims.
But where it is used, capital letters provide visual cues which do aid in fast reading. Many people, myself included, can be quite thrown if something is written entirely in one case.
In my opinion, and that's all it is, the difference between XMMS and a player like Amarok (which I'd damn well use, but I'm on GNOME and don't want the overheads) is well worthwhile. Not to mention that Amarok is simultaneously more usable and prettier than XMMS. Not that I'm trying to convert anyone, I just find it personally irritating that the one player I find that provides the combination of features and ease of use (and, coincidentally, prettiness) is not really practical, while the most well-known player is a rusting and old (GTK 1.2, I mean, what?!)
Quite possibly because XMMS is practically stagnant. I don't even use it, but Amarok is by far the best audio app I've tried for Linux, quite possibly because the people developing it have some idea of which decade they're in.
Sure, but you can't blame someone with musical talent for wanting to make music as a career. You can, however, blame the industry for screwing them over when they try to do so.
On the other hand, I'm sure some people like to walk around with signs saying, "rape me," stuck to their back. It's all the same really - it sounded like a good idea at the time, but you just end up getting screwed.
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I thought it was one... to bitch about how the man doing the elbow work is doing it wrong ;)
I was aware that the hiding had been ceased, and I also managed to turn it off in my copy, so no big deal there. For the moment, I rarely need a powerful wordprocessor, and openoffice, if not abiword, is fine.
Probably a similar, although non-identical, population to those who would benefit from a top-performance PC. That means gamers and techies. The two often go together, and where they do not, a gamer often has enough knowledge due to his enthusiasm, peers and so on, that it's not too much of a problem.
The point of the ramble was that until ads are directly beamed into our brain, companies will be unable to really make us pay attention, and even then, they appear not to realise that the reason we're not listening is because we don't want to know. Hence, we will stop buying your crap.
What you're suggesting seems to be a non-retarded version of Excel's menu-hiding. Which, although a step in the right direction was, well... retarded. It generally resulted in half of the useful menus disappearing, and the speed and memory usage not changing, because it still had to load the gubbins into memory. Perhaps dynamic loading of function-modules is the answer, whereby you have a core set of features, a set which the user selects to automatically load (with preset, customisable user-types) and the rest can be loaded on-demand with some nifty shortcut, dialog and various other methods (so the power user can load modules as fast as possible, but the rookie doesn't need to memorise things he or she may be uncomfortable with.)
According to Mr Geldoff, after a certain percentage of a country is connected by mobile phone, dictatorships fail. I would imagine this is the same with (non-censored) internet.
This is correct, but the GP is correct that activists such as these do not tend to get any kind of free ride, or at least, not in England. They are treated as the criminals that they are.
The problem is that then the temptation exists to check emails, play sudoku or whatever games you have on the PDA, and a hundred other little time-eating things. Obviously people can resist temptation, but there it remains.
A proper chemist will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe there is any elemental lithium in a Li-ion battery, only lithium ions or bonded lithium, which won't react. Besides, lithium merely sets alight if you drop it in water, and is not very reactive compared to the other alkali metals.
More than this, what would be good for the toolkits, i.e. GTK, QT and so on, would be an abstraction layer, whereby the program would load a generic "interface" library, and would make generic calls to it, and the user could select between toolkits, but retain their programs. There would be interesting problems to overcome when one toolkit offers a function that another doesn't, but I'm sure there's a way around it :)
On acceptability, I would expect it to be something again, to do with proximity. We naturally flag something big in the middle of nothingness as "important" but if, somewhere further out, there are load of similarly big things stuck next to each other, they're not so important.
How about you just get the physics teachers to start teaching the new system, and not replace the textbooks? Our physics textbooks were out of date at high school; it's no big deal. As long as the teacher teaches the stuff to the kids, then it's not too big a problem. I mean, there'll be boundary conditions like kids who were off sick, but if a school can't afford to be new textbooks, it's not going to siphon funds from elsewhere just to correct a single change.
The proximity would have to be defined as a percentage of distance from the sun, or something similar, because what is "close" is different if you're further away, with everything spread out.
What happens if you answer yes to that question, though?
Slashdot didn't "fall" for it; if you read the blurb at the top there is an equally skeptical slant. Slashdot simply reports the presence of certain unlikely claims.
But where it is used, capital letters provide visual cues which do aid in fast reading. Many people, myself included, can be quite thrown if something is written entirely in one case.
I'm sure there is an extremely tight correlation between playing WoW and job satisfaction.
Ctrl-L = cumbersome? Or was that not what you were referring to. Besides, that's not technically GTK 2, that's GTK 2.6 or something, IIRC.
But I go off topic.
What are they teaching kids nowadays?
Quite possibly because XMMS is practically stagnant. I don't even use it, but Amarok is by far the best audio app I've tried for Linux, quite possibly because the people developing it have some idea of which decade they're in.
Sure, but you can't blame someone with musical talent for wanting to make music as a career. You can, however, blame the industry for screwing them over when they try to do so.
On the other hand, I'm sure some people like to walk around with signs saying, "rape me," stuck to their back. It's all the same really - it sounded like a good idea at the time, but you just end up getting screwed.