Obviously, it's touching sheetmetal that does the trick. When I open my door and get out of my car, I only touch non-conductive plastic and vinyl. Then, when I close the door, I often feel a shock.
Perhaps the people starting fires do not close their doors. If they're just putting the pump handle back, this is plausible.
Give it a decade or two - start by making it mandatory that all cars show their speed in both Imperial and Proper units, and after a few years, start changing the signs.
Which US-market cars don't show both mph and km/h? Every car we've had for a decade or two has had a speedometer with both scales.
No, there is nothing sudden about a Dodgers game a university commencement, a church service, or an Audubon outing. These things are planned out months, if not a year in advance. Mob, yes. Flash mob, no. When this thing was in fashion, times of notice were measured in hours.
But the gathering is sudden, which is what the definition said. If you were outside Dodger Stadium, you would see people all arriving at about the same time. It's the planning that you're saying is sudden. My point was that the definition is poor, and doesn't clearly convey what makes a flash mob.
The costs of sending junk snail has no effect to the countless bouts of the crap clogging up mailboxes everywhere.
I disagree. My e-mail spam outnumbers my postal spam by more than 100-to-1. If this difference is not attributable to the cost of postal mail, then to what is it?
Certainly the cost of postal mail does not eliminate junk mail, but it certainly seems to keep it under more control than spam.
Give me Tango or Tzero over any hydrogen creation anytime. Simpler, saner, better performer. Check out Michelins Challenge Bibendum results, EVs routinely kick those hybrids asses in every relevant category.
The Tango will get me 1/3 or 1/2 way to my fiancée's house before running out of juice. That's a relevant category to me.
Nowadays, you're going to have to deal with phobic people who will complain that having the same piece of equipment touching the ears of everyone who walks by simply *must* be a health issue.
Actually, the music chain "The Wall" used to advertise a lifetime guarantee on their CDs. If one broke, scratched beyond playablity, or other such damages, you could take it back to the store and they would replace it free.
This was incredibly handy in the days of cassette tapes, and evil tape-eating players.
So, the point is pretty subjective, but assuming that a lot of people are used to MDI...
Gimp is great to learn from if you've be nursed off mspaint.exe for too long...
Sounds like you're coming from a Windows perspective. Since most Windows apps use MDI, your points make sense in that environment. I'm a Unix user, exclusively for about 10 years, and an MDI-like environment is not the norm for me. I have no quarrel with software reflecting what's normal for the environment it's running on.
That said, I hate the multiple window thing too. It's ugly and cluttered. (yeah,I understand that GTK doesn't do MDI... it should.)
I love the multiple window thing. I hate MDI. This isn't a "foo is inherently better than bar" thing, it's a personal preference. I've got my window manager set up how I like it, with key bindings I like for controlling windows, and I can work efficiently that way. I don't like applications faking "windows" and acting differently from my WM.
I've never really understood all the griping about the GIMP's interface. It's always seemed fine to me. I have a feeling that it's because I have virtually no experience with Photoshop--people expect it to act like Photoshop, even though it isn't. Starting from zero, like I did, I found the controls to be generally straightforward. I like the tear-off menus (and, yes, the many little windows that results).
GIMP gripe #1 for me is 16-bit support, and unsharp mask with radius less than 1 pixel.
Why is it that digital photos are not legal evidence in a court case
What makes you think that?
Keep in mind that evidence, photographic or otherwise, does not stand on its own. A witness must testify as to its accuracy, and that witness is subject to cross-examination on the topic. Whether on film or digital, a photograph must be vouched for before it's evidence.
Here is a discussion of some relevant issues. "Some even believe digital photographs are not admissible in court."
I've often wondered what someone could piece together from just reading my e-mail.
They'd find out about your small penis and your trouble getting it up. They'd learn which stocks are about to skyrocket, and how to obtain prescription drugs. They'd know you have good credit, because you're approved for a new mortgage. And they'd find out about your weakness for pictures of sisters/girlfriends/ex-girlfriends with piercings/big titties/animals/shaved pussies/vegetables.
Respect your employer a bit, for god's sakes. surf on your own time.
Employers often forget about the concept of "your own time" when it's convenient to them. You'd never expect a salaried employee to work late or finish something up at home, would you?
If not, good for you. But with all the employers out there who expect people to "live to work," the employees should be allowed to do a little living at work.
On the topic of "respect your employer," that also goes both ways. Installing porn filters doesn't exactly indicate respect for their good judgment and maturity.
Thermos is in _exactly_ the same boat as Kleenex; there's no other word, no suitable synonym for "thermos"
Sure there is: "Dewar." Shorter, same number of syllables. Yeah, nobody uses it to describe ordinary "thermos" (and similar) bottles, but it's a perfectly good and appropriate word.
And "tissue" is a good word for "Kleenex" and is in common use where I live. What your people call "tissue" is called "tissue paper" by everyone I know, and that's what it says on the package. Likewise, you don't have to choose between "soda" and "sodium bicarbonate." You can call it "baking soda," just like it says on the box, and just like everyone I know does.
You seem to be confusing "There's no good word..." with "People around me don't bother using another word..."
I would make some program include some GPL stuff and let it be known that it contains GPL code. Force the FSF's(or whoever's) hand and go to court on your terms. Duke it out once and for all.
Would that really force the FSF's hand? Trademarks have to be vigorously defended, but I've never heard that about licenses. I would think that the FSF could decline to pursue the matter, if it were in their best interests.
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Perhaps the people starting fires do not close their doors. If they're just putting the pump handle back, this is plausible.
Or maybe they drive Corvettes or Saturns.
Doesn't OpenBSD already provide this functionality, on existing i386 processors?
Certainly the cost of postal mail does not eliminate junk mail, but it certainly seems to keep it under more control than spam.
I've never really understood all the griping about the GIMP's interface. It's always seemed fine to me. I have a feeling that it's because I have virtually no experience with Photoshop--people expect it to act like Photoshop, even though it isn't. Starting from zero, like I did, I found the controls to be generally straightforward. I like the tear-off menus (and, yes, the many little windows that results).
GIMP gripe #1 for me is 16-bit support, and unsharp mask with radius less than 1 pixel.
Keep in mind that evidence, photographic or otherwise, does not stand on its own. A witness must testify as to its accuracy, and that witness is subject to cross-examination on the topic. Whether on film or digital, a photograph must be vouched for before it's evidence.
Here is a discussion of some relevant issues. "Some even believe digital photographs are not admissible in court."
(Yes, I read it and enjoyed it.)
If not, good for you. But with all the employers out there who expect people to "live to work," the employees should be allowed to do a little living at work.
On the topic of "respect your employer," that also goes both ways. Installing porn filters doesn't exactly indicate respect for their good judgment and maturity.
And "tissue" is a good word for "Kleenex" and is in common use where I live. What your people call "tissue" is called "tissue paper" by everyone I know, and that's what it says on the package. Likewise, you don't have to choose between "soda" and "sodium bicarbonate." You can call it "baking soda," just like it says on the box, and just like everyone I know does.
You seem to be confusing "There's no good word..." with "People around me don't bother using another word..."