As far as I can tell, a "small" body orbiting the sun at a period of 27 million years would have a semi-major axis of 1.4 light years. The Oort Cloud is supposed to extend to nearly 1.0 light years. A body with an elliptical orbit and large enough to seriously disrupt the Oort Cloud might perturb the sun to a measurable degree, or occlude stars such that it probably would have been detected by now, if it existed. IANAP though, and so probably have something wrong there.
My absurdly clever ex-housemate was an electronics engineer, and in his spare time would tinker with analog electronics because it was much more 'interesting' than digital.
If the single device turns out to be bad at one of its functions it could be an expensive piece of junk. Separate WAPs are good for upgrading to from G to N for example. It's also good to have your modem down low near the phone line and the AP up high for good reception. An all-in-one item is good for less technical people, but if you're making demands on your network like any respectable Slashdotter, you want more control. And more devices are more fun:-)
According to the excellent article I once found on Slashdot and now can't find, driverless cars will make parking spaces almost redundant. It's fine for a car to park in front of a driveway if another car can signal its intention and the first car can move out of the way. Most cars will be smaller too, designed to carry one person.
Has anyone actually prosecuted two horny teenagers? A law doesn't have teeth if it's never pursued by police, and the knowledge that if it was, the outcry would be enough to get the law changed.
I'm not saying the law is right, just that consenting teenagers probably don't need to worry about this particular one.
If you look at these areas with Google Maps terrain view, once you get to Kazakhstan (close to Urumqi), it's pretty much flat all the way to Europe (as Genghis Khan knew). Pakistan has a mountain range going from its north to the coast, and then it's a choice between Iran and Afghanistan. It could be a battle between the engineers and whoever's talking with India.
What would be interesting is graffiti from the toilet cubicles, with a Slashdot-style way to filter the boring racist and homophobic stuff to -1. And rate stuff like:
"Nothing is more overrated than bad sex. And nothing is more underrated than a good shit" (5: Insightful)
[On a newly painted door]: "Virgin door- not any more" (2: Funny)
Basically, glucose can be metabolised anywhere in the body. Fructose has to be metabolised in the liver, so the more fructose you're eating, the harder your liver is working. For early humans, a feast of fructose from ripe fruit would only have happened a couple of times a year if you were lucky.
Unfortunately for us that don't live in high-fructose-corn-syrup-land, sucrose is a glucose molecule joined to a fructose molecule, which makes 50% glucose to 50% fructose instead of the 45%/55% ratio in high fructose corn syrup. If only sucrose didn't taste so damned good!
Meh, there's a limit to how much carbon we can put into the atmosphere, and plenty of people are buying Hummers.
In this case, and with global warming, I think the stick of IP scarcity/ weather or sea-level disasters will be much more effective than any early adoption by nerds/ environmentally conscious people.
My "traditional" GSM handset works reliably just about anywhere I go, with the exception of a few blackspots. Granted, I only make calls rarely. But when I do it would be 64kbps max (probably less with compression).
Many people in my peer group have iPhones. They will be sitting around a table simultaneously socialising and playing with their iPhones. If this is in a place where lots of trendy people are socialising (Melbourne city [Australia] at Christmas time), that's a lot of connections for each tower, all sucking up data as fast as the tower will send it to them. Upgrade the tower to be twice as fast, and the iPhones will suck up twice as much data, because the internet's configured to the data rates of home broadband.
To give broadband to lots of people in one area seems a tricky task- surely the relevant radio frequencies would reach their maximum information-carrying capacities before long.
In truth, I am not sure that it will shorten the time that it takes to learn, as it will still take time to learn the skills of putting the pieces together.
This reminds me of APIs and wrappers. Almost every framework I've tried to use involves learning another set of object-types and APIs. One layer of abstraction is just the same as another to my mind.
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Ditto. It was fine on Firefox. In my head I have Safari as one of the more compliant browsers, but maybe I’m wrong.
As far as I can tell, a "small" body orbiting the sun at a period of 27 million years would have a semi-major axis of 1.4 light years. The Oort Cloud is supposed to extend to nearly 1.0 light years. A body with an elliptical orbit and large enough to seriously disrupt the Oort Cloud might perturb the sun to a measurable degree, or occlude stars such that it probably would have been detected by now, if it existed. IANAP though, and so probably have something wrong there.
My absurdly clever ex-housemate was an electronics engineer, and in his spare time would tinker with analog electronics because it was much more 'interesting' than digital.
If the single device turns out to be bad at one of its functions it could be an expensive piece of junk. Separate WAPs are good for upgrading to from G to N for example. It's also good to have your modem down low near the phone line and the AP up high for good reception. An all-in-one item is good for less technical people, but if you're making demands on your network like any respectable Slashdotter, you want more control. And more devices are more fun :-)
In fact, here it is!
According to the excellent article I once found on Slashdot and now can't find, driverless cars will make parking spaces almost redundant. It's fine for a car to park in front of a driveway if another car can signal its intention and the first car can move out of the way. Most cars will be smaller too, designed to carry one person.
Their biggest selling point is that they "work", which is a good indicator that they probably don't work.
On macs at least, you can require an administrator password to be able to change access points.
Here's Corona's view on this issue. I hope they're right.
Has anyone actually prosecuted two horny teenagers? A law doesn't have teeth if it's never pursued by police, and the knowledge that if it was, the outcry would be enough to get the law changed.
I'm not saying the law is right, just that consenting teenagers probably don't need to worry about this particular one.
If you look at these areas with Google Maps terrain view, once you get to Kazakhstan (close to Urumqi), it's pretty much flat all the way to Europe (as Genghis Khan knew). Pakistan has a mountain range going from its north to the coast, and then it's a choice between Iran and Afghanistan. It could be a battle between the engineers and whoever's talking with India.
You could always put together your rows, rotate them 90 degrees and put them together for your columns
I had a little giggle in Denmark at a 2-hour parking spot labelled "2 timer"
I remember wondering what you could ever do with a colour display. If I recall, the Mac B&W UI looked better than the colour Windows UI...
Ah, the warm fuzzy feeling I have knowing that I could color-manage my Mac any time I choose. Once I learn what it means.
Surely Google would lose some big existing or potential accounts if they were caught.
What would be interesting is graffiti from the toilet cubicles, with a Slashdot-style way to filter the boring racist and homophobic stuff to -1. And rate stuff like:
"Nothing is more overrated than bad sex. And nothing is more underrated than a good shit"
(5: Insightful)
[On a newly painted door]: "Virgin door- not any more"
(2: Funny)
Fanta went downhill after real juice was introduced. If I wanted juice in my soda, I'd get Sunkist.
Basically, glucose can be metabolised anywhere in the body. Fructose has to be metabolised in the liver, so the more fructose you're eating, the harder your liver is working. For early humans, a feast of fructose from ripe fruit would only have happened a couple of times a year if you were lucky.
Unfortunately for us that don't live in high-fructose-corn-syrup-land, sucrose is a glucose molecule joined to a fructose molecule, which makes 50% glucose to 50% fructose instead of the 45%/55% ratio in high fructose corn syrup. If only sucrose didn't taste so damned good!
Meh, there's a limit to how much carbon we can put into the atmosphere, and plenty of people are buying Hummers.
In this case, and with global warming, I think the stick of IP scarcity/ weather or sea-level disasters will be much more effective than any early adoption by nerds/ environmentally conscious people.
My "traditional" GSM handset works reliably just about anywhere I go, with the exception of a few blackspots. Granted, I only make calls rarely. But when I do it would be 64kbps max (probably less with compression).
Many people in my peer group have iPhones. They will be sitting around a table simultaneously socialising and playing with their iPhones. If this is in a place where lots of trendy people are socialising (Melbourne city [Australia] at Christmas time), that's a lot of connections for each tower, all sucking up data as fast as the tower will send it to them. Upgrade the tower to be twice as fast, and the iPhones will suck up twice as much data, because the internet's configured to the data rates of home broadband.
To give broadband to lots of people in one area seems a tricky task- surely the relevant radio frequencies would reach their maximum information-carrying capacities before long.
Maybe sullen teenagers with hoodies are on to something...
This reminds me of APIs and wrappers. Almost every framework I've tried to use involves learning another set of object-types and APIs. One layer of abstraction is just the same as another to my mind.
...and somewhere between halting and incompleteness, Omega sits, mocking us.
On the way home I read that "Google was also targeted but was able to fend off the assault", but now that I'm home, Gmail is timing out.
Of course I'd normally be broadcasting this information on Twitter, but I don't have an account.