Tone is very important and I don't know if you can read that from lips. OTH Cantonese speakers who I know use a lot of gestures so that may make them easier to read.
Yes its like that in Cantonese as well. I gave up trying to learn my wife's language when I found out that the words for Aunt and Vagina sound exactly the same to me.
Where I live urban trains and trams run on overhead electric power. Country trains run on diesel power. The infrastructure for electricity delivery is expensive so it is not economic to use where load factors are lower.
If vehicles could store power it might be possible to save money on electricity delivery. You could save money on cable by not having to supply such a high peak current. Additionally you might be able to get away with not supplying power to some parts of the track.
Its just another area where local storage of energy can help save on infrastructure.
A lot of it doesn't. My wife told me about a female relative in Malaysia who died. Her husband left their child with her relatives, disappeared and never returned. And that is expected behavior.
All the Chinese movies with ghosts in my experience present the ghost a bit like in the Sixth Sense. As an intact body but not with the same behaviour as a living person. Of course the special effects are cheaper that way;)
It is a problem with death generally. Its a bit like in western culture there are things people prefer not to discuss in polite company like what you do in the toilet but in other cultures people are more open.
My wife is Malaysian Chinese. The Chinese are a bit weird about death. They avoid the number 4 (sounds like death in Mandarin). They avoid cemeteries. For them, death is kind of a shameful thing. Not to be discussed in public.
Say you have a train or tram which draws power from the grid to accelerate then turns kinetic energy into heat to stop. If it can dump power into batteries fast it can save power overall.
Once the application calls close() the data is out of its hands. The application shouldn't be required to take another step to ensure that the storage systems have correctly handled the data. Doing that would make implementations too hardware specific.
So, POSIX never guarantees your data is safe unless you do fsync().
I always had the impression that closing a file descriptor does an fsync(). Surely if KDE is writing multiple small files it will be closing each file in turn?
They cannot be used for complex calculation problems
Who in this world does "complex calculation problems? Do you mean people running spreadsheets? A netbook can handle that okay. I can't see anybody running seti@home on one though.
Obviously I am not in the market for one of these netbooks, but, I'm just wondering, WHO is the large target audience for these small screened, underpowered computers?
I see a lot being used by back packers. They use 3G internet adapters. I assume they get used for email, organizing photos etc.
I have an asus eeepc. I run ubuntu on it. I take it away on holidays for watching movies, organizing the data on our various cameras, connecting to my GPS and doing some coding if I get some quiet time.
Because it's an aspect of chimpanzee intelligence that hadn't previously been observed, apparently.
Years ago I read about some animal sanctuary where they were trying to keep chimpanzees in captivity. They had to run the place like a real jail for humans. If you forget to lock a door in (say) the elephant enclosure at the zoo you would be okay for a while. Not so with chimps.
I am surprised that anybody is surprised by this. Chimpanzees are nasty scheming vicious murderous animals. Just like us.
In many cases the reality is that new things were invented by many people working in parallel and sharing the use of public knowledge. It might be better if patents recognise this by being granted to multiple people.
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There Ain't No Such Thing As SMS From... what? Latvia?
..A Free Lunch.
...except that inner fence have presumably sold a lot of now useless copies of their tool. So they are ahead a few bucks.
Tone is very important and I don't know if you can read that from lips. OTH Cantonese speakers who I know use a lot of gestures so that may make them easier to read.
Yes its like that in Cantonese as well. I gave up trying to learn my wife's language when I found out that the words for Aunt and Vagina sound exactly the same to me.
Neuromancer 1982
Tron 1982
A Dream of Wessex 1977
Maybe tomtom could just use linux with 8.3 filename support?
Okay but can microsoft sue the vendor of every linux laptop which supports vfat?
Monkeys teach offspring to floss their teeth
Even better. You only need to mouth the words.
I thought it meant the Amalgamated Regional Militia
Where I live urban trains and trams run on overhead electric power. Country trains run on diesel power. The infrastructure for electricity delivery is expensive so it is not economic to use where load factors are lower.
If vehicles could store power it might be possible to save money on electricity delivery. You could save money on cable by not having to supply such a high peak current. Additionally you might be able to get away with not supplying power to some parts of the track.
Its just another area where local storage of energy can help save on infrastructure.
The latter makes no sense to me.
A lot of it doesn't. My wife told me about a female relative in Malaysia who died. Her husband left their child with her relatives, disappeared and never returned. And that is expected behavior.
All the Chinese movies with ghosts in my experience present the ghost a bit like in the Sixth Sense. As an intact body but not with the same behaviour as a living person. Of course the special effects are cheaper that way ;)
What exactly is the problem with skeletons?
It is a problem with death generally. Its a bit like in western culture there are things people prefer not to discuss in polite company like what you do in the toilet but in other cultures people are more open.
My wife is Malaysian Chinese. The Chinese are a bit weird about death. They avoid the number 4 (sounds like death in Mandarin). They avoid cemeteries. For them, death is kind of a shameful thing. Not to be discussed in public.
It might be possible to spend less on electricity infrastructure (overhead cables, transformers, etc) if batteries take the peak load.
No doubt female orangutans are given similar warnings about human males...
All you need is a wall socket that can deliver 25,000W!
Note to self: pick up some 100A fuses on the way home.
Have a big battery in the house as a cache. Good for backups as well.
Say you have a train or tram which draws power from the grid to accelerate then turns kinetic energy into heat to stop. If it can dump power into batteries fast it can save power overall.
Once the application calls close() the data is out of its hands. The application shouldn't be required to take another step to ensure that the storage systems have correctly handled the data. Doing that would make implementations too hardware specific.
So, POSIX never guarantees your data is safe unless you do fsync().
I always had the impression that closing a file descriptor does an fsync(). Surely if KDE is writing multiple small files it will be closing each file in turn?
They cannot be used for complex calculation problems
Who in this world does "complex calculation problems? Do you mean people running spreadsheets? A netbook can handle that okay. I can't see anybody running seti@home on one though.
Obviously I am not in the market for one of these netbooks, but, I'm just wondering, WHO is the large target audience for these small screened, underpowered computers?
I see a lot being used by back packers. They use 3G internet adapters. I assume they get used for email, organizing photos etc.
I have an asus eeepc. I run ubuntu on it. I take it away on holidays for watching movies, organizing the data on our various cameras, connecting to my GPS and doing some coding if I get some quiet time.
Because it's an aspect of chimpanzee intelligence that hadn't previously been observed, apparently.
Years ago I read about some animal sanctuary where they were trying to keep chimpanzees in captivity. They had to run the place like a real jail for humans. If you forget to lock a door in (say) the elephant enclosure at the zoo you would be okay for a while. Not so with chimps.
I am surprised that anybody is surprised by this. Chimpanzees are nasty scheming vicious murderous animals. Just like us.
In many cases the reality is that new things were invented by many people working in parallel and sharing the use of public knowledge. It might be better if patents recognise this by being granted to multiple people.