... or not, as it turns out. Clearly all those commercial games really are more addictive than Frozen Bubble. My first first post! Now I can die happy.
That would be me. There is only one set of fonts for grownups: the Computer modern series from TeX. Everything else is for the computer barely-literate.
That (the lagrange points being unstable equilibria) is true of L1, L2 and L3 (all on the Earth-Sun line, L1 between Earth and Sun, L2 outside the Earth's orbit and L3 round the other side of the Sun).
L4 and L5, OTOH, are stable equilibria and junk can collect there. The equivalent points for Jupiter have observable collections of asteroids in them.
Seconded. Over the last half-decade or so, R has gone from feeble and crashy to absolutely rock-solid. I use it all the time. And the graphical output is generally clean and clear by default. Despite coming from a stats background it is not just for biologists and social scientists, it is equally suitable for hard science plotting tasks. Now, if I could only persuade more of my colleagues to accept it. The will insist on being sucked in by MATLAB and the drug-dealer selling tactics of its sellers.
Come on, mods, mod the parent up already. I am an atmospheric scientist and I had read TFA, but until I read the parent post I was completely in the dark as to what the story was actually about. The parent not only explains what the story was, but also has links to other pages which are not just drivel which has passed through too many journalists to mean anything.
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And wasn't Howl's Moving Castle British?
The book was by a British author, but the film was (of course) Japanese.
Remember that the surface air pressure on Mars is very small compared to on Earth. So you need a much lighter and more delicate instrument for the air to be able to move it. Anything resembling a traditional weather vane would probably not respond to the tenuous Martian breezes. Even if it worked at first, it might well get stuck after the first of those Martian dust storms blew dust into its pivot.
Disclaimer: Yes I am a meteorologist. No, I have not been to Mars or worked on any instrument that went there.
Who, exactly, is Don Reisinger?
Whoever he is, he needs to be whacked soundly with a cluebat for superfluous and annoying use of the words "going forward". Possibly the most annoying linguistic tic that the bizness world has started using over the last year or two.
Given what day it is today, should that not be GNU Aaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr?
Seriously, R's graphical output is thoroughly production-quality. I use it all the time and wince with pain to see the nasty looking graphs produced by most spreadsheets.
How long did you have to wait for the wii to come out?
Until you get lucky;) Seriously, I have been going to various stores, every once in a while, asking them when their next batch is due.
If you are in the UK, then GAME make you do this. Those of us who have better things to do than hang around video game stores would be well-advised to try GameStation, who will take a deposit and phone you up when your name reaches the top of the list.
The Wii is a thoroughly well-designed and enjoyable toy. I'd certanly like to see it opened up a bit. How else will we get Wii change-ringing?
Goodness knows. If BBC Radio is to be believed, the nearest country seems to be the UK. And the ship that sank was English (dating back to before the existance of the UK). But the salvage company are American. And the treasure was nicked by the English from the Spanish. Who presumaby nicked the original Ag/Au from the native South Americans before making it into coins. So why it is a federal Judge who gets to decide who can salvage the stuff, I don't know. Because it is a US company, I suppose.
Train wifi should be much easier and cheaper than plane wifi, so why isn't there any interest in it?
Here in the UK (or "Home of the worst railways in Europe" as it is often described) GNER are busy putting Wifi in all their trains. It isn't dazzlingly fast, in fact it feels rather slower than the 225km/h that the trains are supposed to do. And it is only free in first class. Still much more connected than a plane, though.
Someone ought to complsin to Trading Standards about false advertising.
Don't forget, boys and girls, that when you are dealing with the UK retail trade, the phrase "I'll call in the Trading Standards people" is the magic spell that converts "Sorrimate, not our problem" into "Here is your money back, sir." I have seen this demonstrated on at least one occasion.
Are you sure? All the digital cameras I've ever used have been USB Storage devices - so, presuming your Linux distribution is friendly about autodetecting and automounting, downloading photos from cameras can be no more esoteric than reading a file off your hard drive.
Not so. A minority (Sonys, mostly) are USB-storage, the rest are mostly PTP, which requires an app like gphoto2 to extract your pictures from the camera. Having had one of each type, my opinion is that USB-storage is good and PTP sucks dead donkeys through a straw. (It is not just gphoto2 either: dealing with a full PTP camera from WinXP was painful the one time I tried.) However one rarely chooses a digital camera based on whether it is PTP or USB-storage.
Bah. Golden delicious are tastless mush and Granny smiths are tasteless mush with extra acid, just not enough acid to be a good cooker. Best cooker: Bramley's seedling, of course, with Howgate wonder as one among many alternatives. Best eaters: Egremont russet, Braeburn and Cox (but only if they have not gone wooly).
Golden delicious? Fit only for throwing at French farmers. And don't get me started on those horrid Pink lady things. Ugh!
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For example, MS Equation Editor is a dog, so even though at work I have to use Offie, I do all my equation editing in OpenOffice, because the equation editor is much nicer.
The OOo equation editor is awful in 1.1.x . Are you talking about OOo 2.0-beta/rc1 here, and if so, has the equation editor improved?
Big Ben broke almost immediately after being struck for the first time and was recast. The new bell (in use today) has a large crack in it, again from early in its use, which was filled in and the bell rotated so the clapper wouldn't strike the weak point.
If solaris 10 is like this I'm not touching it:)
Heh. Clearly we need to send Solaris to John Taylors to be re-cast. While they are at it they could fit a proper packaging system and replace those canons and cast-in crown staples with modern headstock fitt.... Oh heck, I'm mixing up two different on-line forums again.
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... or not, as it turns out. Clearly all those commercial games really are more addictive than Frozen Bubble. My first first post! Now I can die happy.
I would have tried for a Frost Piste, but I was too addicted to Frozen Bubble ....
That would be me.
There is only one set of fonts for grownups: the Computer modern series from TeX. Everything else is for the computer barely-literate.
That (the lagrange points being unstable equilibria) is true of L1, L2 and L3 (all on the Earth-Sun line, L1 between Earth and Sun, L2 outside the Earth's orbit and L3 round the other side of the Sun). L4 and L5, OTOH, are stable equilibria and junk can collect there. The equivalent points for Jupiter have observable collections of asteroids in them.
"no va" is "doesnt go") see Chevrolet Nova for more details.
You could for example look here
http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
and discover that the whole "Nova == doesn't go" thing is an urban legend.
Seconded. Over the last half-decade or so, R has gone from feeble and crashy to absolutely rock-solid. I use it all the time. And the graphical output is generally clean and clear by default. Despite coming from a stats background it is not just for biologists and social scientists, it is equally suitable for hard science plotting tasks. Now, if I could only persuade more of my colleagues to accept it. The will insist on being sucked in by MATLAB and the drug-dealer selling tactics of its sellers.
Come on, mods, mod the parent up already. I am an atmospheric scientist and I had read TFA, but until I read the parent post I was completely in the dark as to what the story was actually about. The parent not only explains what the story was, but also has links to other pages which are not just drivel which has passed through too many journalists to mean anything.
And wasn't Howl's Moving Castle British?
The book was by a British author, but the film was (of course) Japanese.
A well-known IT professional has been advocating this policy for some years now. http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html
Of course it was. Although everyone with an acoustic guitar in the late '60s did a cover version of it, so that may well include Simon and Garfunkel.
Remember that the surface air pressure on Mars is very small compared to on Earth. So you need a much lighter and more delicate instrument for the air to be able to move it. Anything resembling a traditional weather vane would probably not respond to the tenuous Martian breezes. Even if it worked at first, it might well get stuck after the first of those Martian dust storms blew dust into its pivot. Disclaimer: Yes I am a meteorologist. No, I have not been to Mars or worked on any instrument that went there.
Who, exactly, is Don Reisinger?
Whoever he is, he needs to be whacked soundly with a cluebat for superfluous and annoying use of the words "going forward". Possibly the most annoying linguistic tic that the bizness world has started using over the last year or two.
Oh no, I didn't. More darn. New technology baffles pissed old hack[er] again.
What! I got a F1r5t P05t and I forgot to say F1r5t P05t. Darn!
... welcome our small squeaking high-powered overlords.
(It had to be done)
Given what day it is today, should that not be GNU Aaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr?
Seriously, R's graphical output is thoroughly production-quality. I use it all the time and wince with pain to see the nasty looking graphs produced by most spreadsheets.
How long did you have to wait for the wii to come out?
Until you get lucky ;) Seriously, I have been going to various stores, every once in a while, asking them when their next batch is due.
If you are in the UK, then GAME make you do this. Those of us who have better things to do than hang around video game stores would be well-advised to try GameStation, who will take a deposit and phone you up when your name reaches the top of the list.
The Wii is a thoroughly well-designed and enjoyable toy. I'd certanly like to see it opened up a bit. How else will we get Wii change-ringing?
Goodness knows. If BBC Radio is to be believed, the nearest country seems to be the UK. And the ship that sank was English (dating back to before the existance of the UK). But the salvage company are American. And the treasure was nicked by the English from the Spanish. Who presumaby nicked the original Ag/Au from the native South Americans before making it into coins. So why it is a federal Judge who gets to decide who can salvage the stuff, I don't know. Because it is a US company, I suppose.
Here in the UK (or "Home of the worst railways in Europe" as it is often described) GNER are busy putting Wifi in all their trains. It isn't dazzlingly fast, in fact it feels rather slower than the 225km/h that the trains are supposed to do. And it is only free in first class. Still much more connected than a plane, though.
Don't forget, boys and girls, that when you are dealing with the UK retail trade, the phrase "I'll call in the Trading Standards people" is the magic spell that converts "Sorrimate, not our problem" into "Here is your money back, sir." I have seen this demonstrated on at least one occasion.
Not so. A minority (Sonys, mostly) are USB-storage, the rest are mostly PTP, which requires an app like gphoto2 to extract your pictures from the camera. Having had one of each type, my opinion is that USB-storage is good and PTP sucks dead donkeys through a straw. (It is not just gphoto2 either: dealing with a full PTP camera from WinXP was painful the one time I tried.) However one rarely chooses a digital camera based on whether it is PTP or USB-storage.
Bah. Golden delicious are tastless mush and Granny smiths are tasteless mush with extra acid, just not enough acid to be a good cooker. Best cooker: Bramley's seedling, of course, with Howgate wonder as one among many alternatives. Best eaters: Egremont russet, Braeburn and Cox (but only if they have not gone wooly).
Golden delicious? Fit only for throwing at French farmers. And don't get me started on those horrid Pink lady things. Ugh!
[treefrog said] For example, MS Equation Editor is a dog, so even though at work I have to use Offie, I do all my equation editing in OpenOffice, because the equation editor is much nicer.
The OOo equation editor is awful in 1.1.x . Are you talking about OOo 2.0-beta/rc1 here, and if so, has the equation editor improved?
Surely, a benign thought compared to Steve Ballmer as Robin. Not to mention Linus as (duck now, you can hear it coming) the penguin.
Big Ben broke almost immediately after being struck for the first time and was recast. The new bell (in use today) has a large crack in it, again from early in its use, which was filled in and the bell rotated so the clapper wouldn't strike the weak point. If solaris 10 is like this I'm not touching it :)
Heh. Clearly we need to send Solaris to John Taylors to be re-cast. While they are at it they could fit a proper packaging system and replace those canons and cast-in crown staples with modern headstock fitt.... Oh heck, I'm mixing up two different on-line forums again.