I'm not getting the release until I know for sure it won't crash hard on my Macs, like the beta I tried did. And that it won't delete my cookies, like the beta did.
I'd really like to see continued support for the old style of searching in the url bar, too, but I doubt that will happen. And the new look is just uglier.
The form factor allows for a lot less wasted space below, where the keyboard is, for a device that's overall smaller and easier to carry and stick on small tables. This seems like it was written by someone who never actually carries a laptop around, or just lugs it between desks and plugs it in.
If you're only using it at a desk, why not just buy a desktop and a widescreen monitor that you turn 90 degrees, so you can get full page views? (Actually, there have been laptops offering detachable, rotatable screens, but they have not been that popular)
I just opened my Macbook's terminal window and expanded it to full size. Got 209x53. That's on a 13 inch widescreen, with OSX's nonremoveable menubar and other window dressing, Monaco 10 pt. Unless you've got a cumbersome IDE, is that really not good enough for coding on the go?
Just last week I read an article assuring people that T-wave scans would not show any naughty bits. (Sorry, don't have a link handy) And now this is saying oh, there's naughty bits, but we'll be remote, we can't see your face, and won't keep the images.
Sure. Someone has already commented about being in Heathrow and having a guard right there looking at the scans, knowing who was walking though. Obviously Heathrow isn't a US airport, but can we really believe TSA won't do it that way soon enough? If they are remote and can't see who is which image, how do they know who to tackle?
How do you get data to/from the Earth? You'll need a satellite or repeaters or something. But if you stick it at the pole, maybe you can peek back over:)
For all we know, given how quickly people in certain countries swap for new phones, we may actually have had more cell phones around than the current population.
Although the author of the linked page says he wrote much of the disputed text and released it into public domain, the license governing Wikipedia is GNU FDL, as can be seen by a link at the bottom of every page. The combined work, because it includes work by others, is covered by that license.
If Wiley published this text without citing the FDL, they're in violation of it. Seems pretty clear. Further, the license says that if the work is modified, the resulting document must also be released in FDL, according to section 4. This is where it gets interesting.:)
Does this guy know there are multiple ball sets in these big games, that are "randomly" selected before each drawing?
Looking at statistical weighting of ball frequency in a huge aggregate is fine. But I'm guessing (but not betting) you can't translate it directly into predictions in the short term, because of this random set issue. Now, if you want to make multiple analyses based on the specific historical performance of each set, then you have something more practical. But then you need to buy multiple sets of tickets based on the multiple predictions you get. I don't think his data source will tell him what ball set was used.
(Early on, when Lotto Texas was new, I used to guess 2 or 3 of the numbers based on simple frequency analysis, in every single drawing. But they kept adding ball sets. And Texas did tell people which ball set they used. After the fact, of course. And then I think they changed the number of balls picked. So I gave up my paper trials.)
Anyone who wants to scrap whois servers just for domain ownership privacy reasons obviously doesn't know about its usefulness for getting assignee of record for IP blocks. That's much more useful when dealing with spam or security issues. Instead of getting the domain name owner, you're getting the info for the people who actually use that specific block, as well as the info for whoever assigned them that block. Very important in case you're getting hit by someone who won't respond to your complaints, because you can take it up with their immediate service provider. It's also used for looking up AS (Autonomous System) number information, which is a whole topic itself.
The article failed to mention where can I get some of this poison? I need to cut down on my heating bill this winter.
Ethanol is commonly known to give feelings of warmth, ; in fact, the movie A Time For Drunken Horses is so named because the winter weather is so harsh that the only way the Iranian Kurds can get horses to work is to give them liquor.
I want to point at one more accomplishment over the last few yearsthat really deserves a standing ovation: on 9/11/2001, Slashdot was the only major news feed on the web that didn't crash due to overload, and this on technology and bandwidth that was way way WAY behind what we have now.
I actually found out about the planes from the chat applet on slashdot's languishing sister site, Everything2. Remember when Slashdot used to put superscript on some words in articles, and point to definitions over there?
Oh, and speaking of losing mod ability, my original account, artifex (uid 18308) seemingly was blocked from moderating, though I could still metamod. So I started this one. They know, but don't care, sort of proving the arbitrariness. I wasn't one of the 400, I was one of the ones in the scandal where some editor just started doing that to people who complained about others being blocked, or something.
People here are laughing about this guy because he neglected sleep and nutrition to compete in this contest. They are saying "darwin award." Where was this same sentiment when Microsoft caused students to do the same thing for a different contest?
If staying up 24 hours eating junk food put people at serious risk of dying all by itself, hardly anyone would outlive their teen or college years. But there's a difference between a programming competition, where you're free to get up and move around, take a break or something, and sitting hunched over in a chair for the whole time. While they may call it exhaustion in this case, in other deaths it's been attributed to things like Deep Vein Thrombosis. Depending on the environment of that game center, he may have not been able to leave on a break without losing his seat, etc. He almost certainly lost track of time, and didn't have breaks. Yes, health can be affected, but if you're healthy and you make sure you take activity breaks, you can minimize it. It's a matter of management, not complete avoidance, of risk.
Nice little entry, there. I agree that another system in place at the other end is probably the best. Anything else either reduces efficiency (not going faster) or makes you add weight (drives, sails) to the craft, taking away from the payload, which again reduces efficiency. The craft is also less complicated this way. It's just more difficult to track it remotely and send a beam up to it. And the big problem is, what to do until that system gets set up:)
I'm thinking an interim solution would be to push the first crafts just enough to get them into the "stellar superhighways" where they drift along to other Lagrange points in the system without too much effort, then have them drop payloads from Martian orbit or something. Though any mission requiring multiple payloads is going to be a pain to get assembled on the planet.
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I'm not getting the release until I know for sure it won't crash hard on my Macs, like the beta I tried did. And that it won't delete my cookies, like the beta did.
I'd really like to see continued support for the old style of searching in the url bar, too, but I doubt that will happen. And the new look is just uglier.
My G4 Mini (ATI, of course) got the 200 meg update (was it that big?), but the reboot time was faster than when it moved from 10.5.1 to 10.5.2.
I don't see how they can inspect content like this and retain their common carrier status.
The form factor allows for a lot less wasted space below, where the keyboard is, for a device that's overall smaller and easier to carry and stick on small tables. This seems like it was written by someone who never actually carries a laptop around, or just lugs it between desks and plugs it in.
If you're only using it at a desk, why not just buy a desktop and a widescreen monitor that you turn 90 degrees, so you can get full page views? (Actually, there have been laptops offering detachable, rotatable screens, but they have not been that popular)
I just opened my Macbook's terminal window and expanded it to full size. Got 209x53. That's on a 13 inch widescreen, with OSX's nonremoveable menubar and other window dressing, Monaco 10 pt. Unless you've got a cumbersome IDE, is that really not good enough for coding on the go?
Just last week I read an article assuring people that T-wave scans would not show any naughty bits. (Sorry, don't have a link handy) And now this is saying oh, there's naughty bits, but we'll be remote, we can't see your face, and won't keep the images.
Sure. Someone has already commented about being in Heathrow and having a guard right there looking at the scans, knowing who was walking though. Obviously Heathrow isn't a US airport, but can we really believe TSA won't do it that way soon enough? If they are remote and can't see who is which image, how do they know who to tackle?
I can't wait to see what they claim next.
and that's why I should be asleep right now :)
Thanks for the reminder. Looks like it actually took, too.
omgNOTponies!
As in, surely it's an April Fool's joke! Except it's not!
Got any links? I want something at least as broad spectrum as my little Verilux desk lamp.
Thanks!
How do you get data to/from the Earth? You'll need a satellite or repeaters or something. But if you stick it at the pole, maybe you can peek back over :)
You could use all of that free wireless bandwidth the OLPCs rely on, though.
Isn't the idea that, if you start policing for some material, you become responsible for policing all material?
Making babies is bad for the environment.
The commentary says cell accounts.
For all we know, given how quickly people in certain countries swap for new phones, we may actually have had more cell phones around than the current population.
Although the author of the linked page says he wrote much of the disputed text and released it into public domain, the license governing Wikipedia is GNU FDL, as can be seen by a link at the bottom of every page. The combined work, because it includes work by others, is covered by that license.
:)
If Wiley published this text without citing the FDL, they're in violation of it. Seems pretty clear. Further, the license says that if the work is modified, the resulting document must also be released in FDL, according to section 4. This is where it gets interesting.
Does this guy know there are multiple ball sets in these big games, that are "randomly" selected before each drawing?
Looking at statistical weighting of ball frequency in a huge aggregate is fine. But I'm guessing (but not betting) you can't translate it directly into predictions in the short term, because of this random set issue. Now, if you want to make multiple analyses based on the specific historical performance of each set, then you have something more practical. But then you need to buy multiple sets of tickets based on the multiple predictions you get. I don't think his data source will tell him what ball set was used.
(Early on, when Lotto Texas was new, I used to guess 2 or 3 of the numbers based on simple frequency analysis, in every single drawing. But they kept adding ball sets. And Texas did tell people which ball set they used. After the fact, of course. And then I think they changed the number of balls picked. So I gave up my paper trials.)
Anyone who wants to scrap whois servers just for domain ownership privacy reasons obviously doesn't know about its usefulness for getting assignee of record for IP blocks. That's much more useful when dealing with spam or security issues. Instead of getting the domain name owner, you're getting the info for the people who actually use that specific block, as well as the info for whoever assigned them that block. Very important in case you're getting hit by someone who won't respond to your complaints, because you can take it up with their immediate service provider. It's also used for looking up AS (Autonomous System) number information, which is a whole topic itself.
You're joking, but.
Ethanol is commonly known to give feelings of warmth, ; in fact, the movie A Time For Drunken Horses is so named because the winter weather is so harsh that the only way the Iranian Kurds can get horses to work is to give them liquor.
Did they prove anyone actually downloaded any of those files?
Or was infringement proven just because they were sitting there on an open computer?
I actually found out about the planes from the chat applet on slashdot's languishing sister site, Everything2. Remember when Slashdot used to put superscript on some words in articles, and point to definitions over there?
Oh, and speaking of losing mod ability, my original account, artifex (uid 18308) seemingly was blocked from moderating, though I could still metamod. So I started this one. They know, but don't care, sort of proving the arbitrariness. I wasn't one of the 400, I was one of the ones in the scandal where some editor just started doing that to people who complained about others being blocked, or something.
Technocrat re-rolled a while back. The old numbers went away.
These were mentioned here in April, and also in June, as mentioned on slashdot in this article.
If staying up 24 hours eating junk food put people at serious risk of dying all by itself, hardly anyone would outlive their teen or college years. But there's a difference between a programming competition, where you're free to get up and move around, take a break or something, and sitting hunched over in a chair for the whole time. While they may call it exhaustion in this case, in other deaths it's been attributed to things like Deep Vein Thrombosis. Depending on the environment of that game center, he may have not been able to leave on a break without losing his seat, etc. He almost certainly lost track of time, and didn't have breaks. Yes, health can be affected, but if you're healthy and you make sure you take activity breaks, you can minimize it. It's a matter of management, not complete avoidance, of risk.
I'm now enjoying the situation where I can't mod you up funny because I commented, but if I had not commented, you wouldn't have said that.
Nice little entry, there. I agree that another system in place at the other end is probably the best. :)
Anything else either reduces efficiency (not going faster) or makes you add weight (drives, sails) to the craft, taking away from the payload, which again reduces efficiency. The craft is also less complicated this way. It's just more difficult to track it remotely and send a beam up to it. And the big problem is, what to do until that system gets set up
I'm thinking an interim solution would be to push the first crafts just enough to get them into the "stellar superhighways" where they drift along to other Lagrange points in the system without too much effort, then have them drop payloads from Martian orbit or something. Though any mission requiring multiple payloads is going to be a pain to get assembled on the planet.