Actually I don't like the implementation of tabbed browsing in Firefox, because I'm used to Opera's readily configurable implementation. Although I could probably download an extension that can actually configure how tabbed browsing works in firefox and make it more like Opera's.
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Well, you can already buy programs that make specialized, streamlined, winXP isos. Why shouldn't they be able to make a specialized Mac-hardware Vista version? One version more or less of Vista doesn't matter anymore anyway.
SCO all over again, eh? Might become interesting indeed. Biggest difference will be that MS has an unlimited amount of money to pour into the big drain called 'lawyer costs'. And it's just a question if IBM and co will join in the game a next time.
Or "assembly of proteins", which is a more accurate description of what is achieved. And it's no wonder it maintains its structure, as you would need far far longer timescales of simulation to see structural changes in systems of this size. The main achievement of this research is getting the research group into the main press, being on slashdot twice, and showing the people that fund your work how important it is for you to have this immense-mega-super-duper $$$ cluster. I was a bit more critical the first time this came on slashdot, but now I've rethought it and I guess it makes sense to pull a stunt like this every once in a while:)
Ah, what the heck, I think I will stop my current simulations right away and set in a complete Ribosomal system, ah, the creation of the key of life simulated, I can see the headlines already!;)
The links in Roland's slashdot posts are not anymore to his own blog, but directly to the original article. And he has a special tag. Really, no one is plugging anything here, what do you want more? You can just skip it if you don't want to read it.
Maybe not so much because the manufacturer decided it, but more because the manufacturer could forget all possiblities to use and sell MS if they wouldn't install it. Alternatively, people will buy it because all security updates to previous versions will be scrapped and because software/hardware developers will be required to have their new stuff vista-supported only. Now if there only would be a way to make the use of the Office versions (this is what Windows is mostly used for anyway) that will run on pre-vista OS-es illegal, the success of vista will be immense!
It is a common and long-standing principle in Western countries that providing aid and comfort to the enemy, most especially in terms of technical assistance, is a crime.
Define 'enemy'. Any allied regiment previously provided with "aid and comfort" as well as "technical assistance" by these Western countries may become an enemy if there are enough political and economical interests that would require that.
This has been like this for decades, nothing new there, but I'd hoped that by now it should be clear to anyone that it works that way. Maybe if the majority of the public will realize this there will be a halt to public support for a lot of useless wars to come. You'll need a well-educated public to have them realize this, so maybe public support can be kept up by keeping everyone from thinking for themselves. Now back to Jerry Springer in the studio, who'll show a man who started a relationship with his two goldfishes!!!
The eszet isn't completely abolished, but they changed the rules and now the letter is applicable in less cases. Of course, there is a nice wikipedia article on this:)
And why do Ì see a microsoft logo in the bottom right of the PGR shot? Is that in the game as well? Sure makes it look like a shot from the PR department, rather than a real screenshot. And even then, what do I car, I just want a simple cool car game, where I can ride my car and crash it a little bit. If they had the right priority: first make sure you can drive the car easily, and then add nicely rendered crashing effects, I'd get it...
Their network seems to be a pretty basic 1Gb network. If you want to do parallel jobs that need really fast communication, this will not be suitable for you.
Let them put infiniband on those systems and it becomes interesting. In the meantime I'd say it's nice for single CPU jobs only.
In holland there was one politician who, way time back, asked how to break a laptop-password on a usegroup. Name and e-mail address all written down for eternity on google groups. Didn't want to say how he 'found' the laptop. Oops!
Test it yourself before you start applying! Just look on google with your e-mail address and your name in various combinations, to see what you can find about yourself, and be sure your employer will find the same. So change what you can change, and for the things you can't change (maillists, for example), just make sure you either don't make a habit writing stupid stuff, or use a special e-mail address that cannot be coupled to you.
Never thought it would come to this, that someone came up even with this idea!
There are a lot of mechanisms in a human body, and often there are several ways to have medicines interact with malfunction systems, you can block certain receptors, or stimulate others, with more or less the same outcome. Often it is good to have medicines at hand with different working mechanisms, because not everyone will react the same. What the heck, sometimes even the formulation (coated capsule, prolonged release tablet, etc) can change a lot in the effect! There are at leat 10 mechanisms to prevent high blood pressure, for example, all using superficially similar, but in the end pretty different methods. It takes a lot of effort to figure all these mechanisms out!
If this patenting of a link between two biological levels would be defended successfully, you can forget new medicines coming. No way that any company will start investing on new medicines on anything, since most vague descriptions on how medicines work will be patented already, and there's just no money to get. You can extend this to any field, actually. Plasma screens, LEDs, OLEDS, all ways to show images without a CRT, would be idiotic of someone held the patent on them all just because he thought out one of those techniques.
Err, not exactly. It's smooth muscle works like a valve, when it's contracted it closes the blood flow, when it's relaxed it opens the blood flow to the penis. The "pump" doing the work is actually the pump doing blood flow everywhere: your heart. And, training your heart does not readily help you with your erection, although it might be good to have some condition for all the other things you need to do during sex. I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader;)
I'm living in Germany at the moment, and I'm actually pretty afraid that when I'm ready here, I won't be able to speak neither German, English, or Dutch correctly:) There are a lot of expressions that are similar but e.g. common use in one language and old-fashioned in the other. Actually I once read the play "Nathan der Weise" by Lessing (1779), and noticed that he used a lot of words that had to be annotated to be understandable in German at this time, but make perfect sence as dutch words. Example from the first page: 'Küssen', you still pronounce it like that in Dutch, in German you now say: Kissen.
I often confuse my dutch friends by using awkward German-like expressions. As long as I still write down nouns in Dutch without a capital I'm still ok I guess;)
Thank you for pointing that out, from now on I'll do a complete grammatical check of all my slashdot posts before submitting. NOT!
Anyway, I (not a native speaker) met a lot of US native speaking students online who had a lot more problems with writing correctly than I do. Furthermore I'm using 3 different languages simultaneously in my daily life, so I apologize for messing up the expressions and sentence constructions from these languages every now and then.
I have a friend who didn't own a PC in the first 24 years of her life, she e-mailed a bit, but only now she started using her own PC. From what I experienced with her, mixed with eductating 11-13 year olds in general, I'd say the following:
The operating system doesn't matter that much. Teach them how to use the internet in a responsible way, avoinding obviously dangerous websites, how to write e-mails in a matter people will appreciate, etc.
Learn them how to use the mostly used things: word processor (a typing course would help as well), spreadsheet, even the stupid slideshow creation:) Any office suite will do, it's not that much of a difference when they got the main points.
Learn them how to install software! How to deal with all the popups you get when installing this, it really is something you should get a hang of, and you'll need it often later on.
Learn them to use html, make a website, get to understand the stuff that's behind it.
And the coolest would be: learn them to program a bit! I played with LOGO when I was a kid, it really helped me later on.
I'm pretty sure people won't talk about my code when I pass away! And if they do, they won't be talking very nicely about it anyway;)
To Ivarsoy: thank you Sir! I'm a opera user for years now, and I'm really happy with it, saves a lot of nerves, so you're even helping my health I guess! Furthermore, you helped to make a lucrative business idea using free (though not "open") software, which is an example to others out there, it's possible!
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Actually I don't like the implementation of tabbed browsing in Firefox, because I'm used to Opera's readily configurable implementation. Although I could probably download an extension that can actually configure how tabbed browsing works in firefox and make it more like Opera's.
Well, you can already buy programs that make specialized, streamlined, winXP isos. Why shouldn't they be able to make a specialized Mac-hardware Vista version? One version more or less of Vista doesn't matter anymore anyway.
He always dresses in the same way! How should that appeal to creative people? :)
SCO all over again, eh? Might become interesting indeed. Biggest difference will be that MS has an unlimited amount of money to pour into the big drain called 'lawyer costs'. And it's just a question if IBM and co will join in the game a next time.
Ah, what the heck, I think I will stop my current simulations right away and set in a complete Ribosomal system, ah, the creation of the key of life simulated, I can see the headlines already! ;)
The links in Roland's slashdot posts are not anymore to his own blog, but directly to the original article. And he has a special tag. Really, no one is plugging anything here, what do you want more? You can just skip it if you don't want to read it.
Maybe not so much because the manufacturer decided it, but more because the manufacturer could forget all possiblities to use and sell MS if they wouldn't install it. Alternatively, people will buy it because all security updates to previous versions will be scrapped and because software/hardware developers will be required to have their new stuff vista-supported only. Now if there only would be a way to make the use of the Office versions (this is what Windows is mostly used for anyway) that will run on pre-vista OS-es illegal, the success of vista will be immense!
Define 'enemy'. Any allied regiment previously provided with "aid and comfort" as well as "technical assistance" by these Western countries may become an enemy if there are enough political and economical interests that would require that.
This has been like this for decades, nothing new there, but I'd hoped that by now it should be clear to anyone that it works that way. Maybe if the majority of the public will realize this there will be a halt to public support for a lot of useless wars to come. You'll need a well-educated public to have them realize this, so maybe public support can be kept up by keeping everyone from thinking for themselves. Now back to Jerry Springer in the studio, who'll show a man who started a relationship with his two goldfishes!!!
It looks pretty much like... Paint.
You've won! We can't get any more nerdy than this. Slashdot can close now...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eszet
A disadvantage of the new rule is that various words should now be written with three 's'-s after eachother, with as most nasty example:
Schussserie instead of Schußserie (can you read the ß there? Incompatibility with some fonts is a bit of a disadvantage of this letter)
I solved the problem for myself by just writing this beautiful letter wherever I think it looks nice :)
And why do Ì see a microsoft logo in the bottom right of the PGR shot? Is that in the game as well? Sure makes it look like a shot from the PR department, rather than a real screenshot. And even then, what do I car, I just want a simple cool car game, where I can ride my car and crash it a little bit. If they had the right priority: first make sure you can drive the car easily, and then add nicely rendered crashing effects, I'd get it...
Let them put infiniband on those systems and it becomes interesting. In the meantime I'd say it's nice for single CPU jobs only.
I agree! What happened to this world that I can't even get a job as a cab driver in India anymore!
Test it yourself before you start applying! Just look on google with your e-mail address and your name in various combinations, to see what you can find about yourself, and be sure your employer will find the same. So change what you can change, and for the things you can't change (maillists, for example), just make sure you either don't make a habit writing stupid stuff, or use a special e-mail address that cannot be coupled to you.
There are a lot of mechanisms in a human body, and often there are several ways to have medicines interact with malfunction systems, you can block certain receptors, or stimulate others, with more or less the same outcome. Often it is good to have medicines at hand with different working mechanisms, because not everyone will react the same. What the heck, sometimes even the formulation (coated capsule, prolonged release tablet, etc) can change a lot in the effect! There are at leat 10 mechanisms to prevent high blood pressure, for example, all using superficially similar, but in the end pretty different methods. It takes a lot of effort to figure all these mechanisms out!
If this patenting of a link between two biological levels would be defended successfully, you can forget new medicines coming. No way that any company will start investing on new medicines on anything, since most vague descriptions on how medicines work will be patented already, and there's just no money to get. You can extend this to any field, actually. Plasma screens, LEDs, OLEDS, all ways to show images without a CRT, would be idiotic of someone held the patent on them all just because he thought out one of those techniques.
A very good website on this stuff: http://health.howstuffworks.com/viagra.htm
Yeah, and when can be buy a kit to grow this stuff on Thinkgeek! It's the perfect geek accessory!
I'm living in Germany at the moment, and I'm actually pretty afraid that when I'm ready here, I won't be able to speak neither German, English, or Dutch correctly :) There are a lot of expressions that are similar but e.g. common use in one language and old-fashioned in the other. Actually I once read the play "Nathan der Weise" by Lessing (1779), and noticed that he used a lot of words that had to be annotated to be understandable in German at this time, but make perfect sence as dutch words. Example from the first page: 'Küssen', you still pronounce it like that in Dutch, in German you now say: Kissen.
I often confuse my dutch friends by using awkward German-like expressions. As long as I still write down nouns in Dutch without a capital I'm still ok I guess ;)
The corpora cavernosa is not a muscle!
Thank you, this sounds like what I was looking for! Hope you get modded up!
Thanks anyway, I really didn't see where the error was, I'll keep it in mind for next time, ok!
P.S. In Dutch it's the same, for those wondering where the error came from.
Anyway, I (not a native speaker) met a lot of US native speaking students online who had a lot more problems with writing correctly than I do. Furthermore I'm using 3 different languages simultaneously in my daily life, so I apologize for messing up the expressions and sentence constructions from these languages every now and then.
The operating system doesn't matter that much. Teach them how to use the internet in a responsible way, avoinding obviously dangerous websites, how to write e-mails in a matter people will appreciate, etc.
Learn them how to use the mostly used things: word processor (a typing course would help as well), spreadsheet, even the stupid slideshow creation :) Any office suite will do, it's not that much of a difference when they got the main points.
Learn them how to install software! How to deal with all the popups you get when installing this, it really is something you should get a hang of, and you'll need it often later on.
Learn them to use html, make a website, get to understand the stuff that's behind it.
And the coolest would be: learn them to program a bit! I played with LOGO when I was a kid, it really helped me later on.
To Ivarsoy: thank you Sir! I'm a opera user for years now, and I'm really happy with it, saves a lot of nerves, so you're even helping my health I guess! Furthermore, you helped to make a lucrative business idea using free (though not "open") software, which is an example to others out there, it's possible!