The only reason I can think of for this is so that people who advertise cheap laptops can say "Processor: Intel Core Q3720" and nobody will have a clue if that's good or bad. i.e. It doesn't benefit Intel directly, it's what the cheap laptop makers want.
NoScript isn't on/off, has very fine-grained control.
It takes two clicks to permanently (or temporarily) enable scripting on any websites you visit. All the rest of the scripts out there are mostly junk for advertising/tracking. You might not care personally about the privacy aspect of download scripts from doubleclick.net but some people do. There's also the fact that many sites these days will load scripts from a dozen different sites along with every page. That's a dozen unnecessary internet connections every time, it all adds up to more bandwidth/RAM usage. Why upgrade a PC when you can just install a script blocker?
The peel sounds way too thick to me, 7 / 12752 gives 0.05% (five hundredths of one percent). More like the layer of wax they put on it the apple to make it shiny.
The SciFi image of an atmosphere extending into space is very, very wrong, but I bet it's what most people think of when they deny that man can change things..
I don't know what your mental is of the depth of The Earth's atmosphere but it's about about as thick as the layer of varnish on a one-foot globe. There's mountains that you can't survive on if you climb to the top of them.
ie. It's *thin*.
Man is perfectly capable of changing its composition, eg. if we all burn a couple of gallons of gas a day for our lifetimes and burn a few tons of coal per year to run our lights, TVs and computers.
There's still plenty of oil to keep a couple more generations of oil barons in luxury. They'll fight it to the end because being a billionaire isn't enough for these people.
The whole thing is being treated as a PR exercise rather than a cleanup so this sort of thing is to be expected.
Cleanup ships were available, booms were available, the problem should have been attacked with logistics and engineering. Instead we mostly got a lot of bickering over how many barrels a day were leaking out (was 2000, then 5000, now 50000...and still rising) and doing everything possible to stop people making estimates by banning photography and dumping as many dispersants as possible into the mix before it could surface. CYA at its finest.
Dispersants don't make the oil disappear and are quite toxic in themselves so none of that solved anything, it just delayed it. We'll mostl likely be reading stories about new globs of pollution appearing in the gulf for decades to come.
Do you like the weight limit for carry-on? To me that seems totally artificial....and way too low. My old suitcase was sold as being exactly carry-on-size (which it is) but it weighs a third of the today's total limit. I used to be able to use my luggage as a chair but now I'm using a nylon sports bag instead.
If weight is is critical to fuel consumption then why aren't they weighing the passengers?
If what they claim is true they'd be weighing the passengers (and charging by the ounce).
They're not, so...what they're doing is maximizing profits - gouging wherever they can.
I've got no problem with not providing food on flights which are less than four or five hours. It was crap anyway and yeah, it must have cost them a fortune to provide. OTOH the price they charge for luggage is outrageous and why should there be a ridiculously small weight limit for carry-on? I can barely take a couple of t-shirts and a pair of shoes before I go over the limit.
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Every script loaded is a new IP connection.
On many sites that's ten or twenty new connections for each page...bound to slow you down.
(But yeah, 'speed' isn't why I disable scripts...)
I'd like to know if "Resource-blocking" applies to scripts as well.
eg. If Chrome can block both scripts and images from doubleclick.net then this feature could be 99% of what most people want from a junk-blocker.
(No, I can't be bothered to go and investigate for myself)
Yep, it's done to benefit the salesmen, not the customers.
Geeks are free to buy AMD...
The only reason I can think of for this is so that people who advertise cheap laptops can say "Processor: Intel Core Q3720" and nobody will have a clue if that's good or bad. i.e. It doesn't benefit Intel directly, it's what the cheap laptop makers want.
NoScript isn't on/off, has very fine-grained control.
It takes two clicks to permanently (or temporarily) enable scripting on any websites you visit. All the rest of the scripts out there are mostly junk for advertising/tracking. You might not care personally about the privacy aspect of download scripts from doubleclick.net but some people do. There's also the fact that many sites these days will load scripts from a dozen different sites along with every page. That's a dozen unnecessary internet connections every time, it all adds up to more bandwidth/RAM usage. Why upgrade a PC when you can just install a script blocker?
The medieval warm period happened in northern Europe. At a global level there was no "medieval warm period".
Here's the pesky facts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period#By_world_region
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/werent-temperatures-warmer-during-the-medieval-warm-period-than-they-are-today/
Sorry for bursting your cozy little bubble.
The peel sounds way too thick to me, 7 / 12752 gives 0.05% (five hundredths of one percent). More like the layer of wax they put on it the apple to make it shiny.
The SciFi image of an atmosphere extending into space is very, very wrong, but I bet it's what most people think of when they deny that man can change things..
I don't know what your mental is of the depth of The Earth's atmosphere but it's about about as thick as the layer of varnish on a one-foot globe. There's mountains that you can't survive on if you climb to the top of them.
ie. It's *thin*.
Man is perfectly capable of changing its composition, eg. if we all burn a couple of gallons of gas a day for our lifetimes and burn a few tons of coal per year to run our lights, TVs and computers.
There's still plenty of oil to keep a couple more generations of oil barons in luxury. They'll fight it to the end because being a billionaire isn't enough for these people.
The whole thing is being treated as a PR exercise rather than a cleanup so this sort of thing is to be expected.
Cleanup ships were available, booms were available, the problem should have been attacked with logistics and engineering. Instead we mostly got a lot of bickering over how many barrels a day were leaking out (was 2000, then 5000, now 50000...and still rising) and doing everything possible to stop people making estimates by banning photography and dumping as many dispersants as possible into the mix before it could surface. CYA at its finest.
Dispersants don't make the oil disappear and are quite toxic in themselves so none of that solved anything, it just delayed it. We'll mostl likely be reading stories about new globs of pollution appearing in the gulf for decades to come.
...apart from the need to learn LISP.
Yeah, that'll be a useful skill for game programmers later on in life.
That's fine if you write your own software but I suspect most people wouldn't.
Obviously ... but that's no problem. Make the PCB a bit bigger or something.
Presumably the tarballs are solid. Can't they just use a mesh to pick them out before they go into the centrifuge?
So...the dispersants have made it impossible to clean up?
Do you like the weight limit for carry-on? To me that seems totally artificial. ...and way too low. My old suitcase was sold as being exactly carry-on-size (which it is) but it weighs a third of the today's total limit. I used to be able to use my luggage as a chair but now I'm using a nylon sports bag instead.
If weight is is critical to fuel consumption then why aren't they weighing the passengers?
If what they claim is true they'd be weighing the passengers (and charging by the ounce).
They're not, so...what they're doing is maximizing profits - gouging wherever they can.
I've got no problem with not providing food on flights which are less than four or five hours. It was crap anyway and yeah, it must have cost them a fortune to provide. OTOH the price they charge for luggage is outrageous and why should there be a ridiculously small weight limit for carry-on? I can barely take a couple of t-shirts and a pair of shoes before I go over the limit.
That's ok if you've got six weeks to get there. If you've only got a couple of days then ships aren't too practical.
Came here to say this. Why can't they make another, hackable model?
(and make it easy for teachers to recognize - bright red or something...)
Eating less worked for me, too.
The whole 'gym' mentality is broken. The problem is that people eating less doesn't make anybody rich. Gyms and diet products, OTOH...
Reelin' in the little fishies ...
CO2 is denser than air so naturally the atmosphere compacts under gravity as the density increases.
This won't be used in situations where they want to cause death.
Can a solar sail travel towards the Sun? I must be missing something.
(And no, it can't tack, that requires lateral pressure from a fluid medium...)
Good luck being able to read text on that...