Then vote with your wallet and get the Dell. No use bitching on/. about this, is it ? Or am I hearing that you would like to have OS/X instead of Vista ?
Anyway, all sort of apocalyptic things did happen in the 20th century. I remember two world wars in addition to many more localized ones, and I think we got pretty damn near a nuclear holocaust at least once in 1961. Mass starvation? check. Tyranny, oppression, mass murders and genocides ? check. On a scale never seen before.
I would be foolish to think things are fine and dandy right now and will keep on improving forever.
There is quite a bit of difference between the simple-minded view of black-holes s given in introductory texts and what our present understanding of physics tells us.
Not necessarily. The LHC will be colliding streams of particles in opposite directions, so the Black Hole could have a speed of near zero with respect to the LHC's frame of reference.
DIGITAL got bought out though, many times over. Many of its assest were spun off between 1994 and 1998, including things like Digital Linear Tapes (DLT). The company proper was sold to Compaq, soon bought by HP in 2002.
Actually, you also easily get that effect if you exchange word documents between any two installs of Office. Even the very same version. ${DEITY} help you if you try between *different* version of Word, say 2003/2007, mac 2004 or 2008. This will end in tears as well.
The only way to go is to use Word as a word processor, i.e to enter text and structure, but not a desktop publishing platform. That later job is for things like defunct PageMaker, inDesign, Xpress, etc.
In that setting Oo.o is no worse than Word, really, and the two (or more) can interoperate quite well. Even revision marks work now.
Did you publish detailed weaponry specs in antspeak ? At any rate aren't you sure they are not waiting *you* out ? Another few thousand years or less and there might be no humans left on Earth. I would be on ants in the long run.
He did it by studying the results of the experiments of his days : Michelson-Morley, black body radiation, Brownian motion, Photo-electric effect. Today those are well understood.
Frontiers of physics today require access to terabytes of experimental data produced by some of the most expensive and complex machinery build by man.
In the general public's eye perhaps, but to physicists he is far from the only one. Quite a few came close, especially the people working in QM: Heisenberg, Pauli, Dirac, de Broglie, the Curies, Landau, more recently Feynman, Gell-Mann, Weinberg and many others.
Physics has become enormously more complicated now than at the turn of the 20th century. To contribute now requires long years of study to catch up with recent science and enormous budgets to run experiments.
Coming up with a paradigm-shifting theory like relativity was now requires understanding and undoing literally piles upon piles of theory. It's easy to get lost, and most likely no one will understand you.
When Pinatubo erupted a few years ago (1991), temperature dropped worldwide by an average 0.5 degree C.
When mount Tambora exploded in 1816 it caused a global cooling for a year. That year was called "the year without a summer" and caused famines. Abnormally low temperatures lasted at least until 1818.
There is plenty of evidence that a global thermonuclear war featuring ground explosions would have similar or worse effects due to their world-wide distribution. Remember that these volcanoes exploded in a single spot on Earth yet had world-wide, long lasting effects. Retaliation strikes intending to do as much long-lasting effect as possible would feature such blasts.
Actually most of the European directives go in the direction of ensuring free trade, freedom and democracy. Just look at them. All these directives need to go before the European parliament which is democratically elected. The European council is indeed made of national ministers which are not necessarily elected, however they represent the majority in their country of origin.
The proposed constitution would have given more weight to the parliament and less to the council, which is probably good. This is not the reason it was rejected.
Your post illustrates the fact that in Europe member states like to blame Europe for all the ills of their economy. One day it's the Euro being too expensive, another the rules about government spending, some other time it's a rule that say a member cannot locally optimise its fishing laws to the detriment of another neighboring state. You name it. If you repeat something enough time it become "true", so people are starting to blame Europe for everything.
In fact recently the president of Europe, currently Nicolas Sarkozy, complained loudly that Europe was preventing him from doing "politics".
However in crisis times everyone thinks the Euro and its stability is grand and the necessity to harmonize financial policies is a definite bonus. Without the European framework it would be a free-for-all, fuck-your-neighbour disaster.
Exactly, which sort of defeats the whole operator overloading scheme. You need to know when to use vanilla operators and when to use special functions, which is confusing.
Because due process is warranted. Previously only the faintest of indication of evidence was enough to get one's internet access cut off. Now content providers will have to show actual evidence of piracy and financial harm. This is much harder.
So far, when taken to court, in the US, no content provider have been able to convict anybody after appeal.
But you are right, people are interpreting this as a license to pirate, this is the opposite.
The EU is roughly the size of the USA in population and area.
Perhaps it is not so different to think of the EU as a large country with a number of member states?
The EU doesn't have jurisdiction over every elements of members' law, but safekeeping democracy and liberties in all of its member states is part of its charter.
This is good, no? Recently, even in highly technical areas like patents and telecommunications, European representatives have erred on the side of preserving liberties. This is amazing, not?
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Then vote with your wallet and get the Dell. No use bitching on /. about this, is it ? Or am I hearing that you would like to have OS/X instead of Vista ?
Life is full of compromises.
Still not "far warmer". +3C maximum from where we are now, for relatively short periods. GW is predicting more than that.
Anyway, all sort of apocalyptic things did happen in the 20th century. I remember two world wars in addition to many more localized ones, and I think we got pretty damn near a nuclear holocaust at least once in 1961. Mass starvation? check. Tyranny, oppression, mass murders and genocides ? check. On a scale never seen before.
I would be foolish to think things are fine and dandy right now and will keep on improving forever.
Excellent, thanks :-)
Absolutely, sir ! well said.
Actually a black *can* be observed.
There is quite a bit of difference between the simple-minded view of black-holes s given in introductory texts and what our present understanding of physics tells us.
Not necessarily. The LHC will be colliding streams of particles in opposite directions, so the Black Hole could have a speed of near zero with respect to the LHC's frame of reference.
I agree with the "don't die" bit. It's common to see at universities SUN servers that have been there 6-10 years, almost fully loaded for years on end
DIGITAL got bought out though, many times over. Many of its assest were spun off between 1994 and 1998, including things like Digital Linear Tapes (DLT). The company proper was sold to Compaq, soon bought by HP in 2002.
actually HP or Dell servers running Solaris.
Actually, you also easily get that effect if you exchange word documents between any two installs of Office. Even the very same version. ${DEITY} help you if you try between *different* version of Word, say 2003/2007, mac 2004 or 2008. This will end in tears as well.
The only way to go is to use Word as a word processor, i.e to enter text and structure, but not a desktop publishing platform. That later job is for things like defunct PageMaker, inDesign, Xpress, etc.
In that setting Oo.o is no worse than Word, really, and the two (or more) can interoperate quite well. Even revision marks work now.
add an 'e', as in "If you are DELL, you care a lot"
Did you publish detailed weaponry specs in antspeak ? At any rate aren't you sure they are not waiting *you* out ? Another few thousand years or less and there might be no humans left on Earth. I would be on ants in the long run.
Latin is dead akin to old MS-DOS, not because no one is using it, but because no one is making new Latin.
Yes, because letting business fail worked really well in 1930.
Armchair economy is really easy. You can also try armchair scientific research, or for extra fun, armchair wrestling.
He did it by studying the results of the experiments of his days : Michelson-Morley, black body radiation, Brownian motion, Photo-electric effect. Today those are well understood.
Frontiers of physics today require access to terabytes of experimental data produced by some of the most expensive and complex machinery build by man.
In the general public's eye perhaps, but to physicists he is far from the only one. Quite a few came close, especially the people working in QM: Heisenberg, Pauli, Dirac, de Broglie, the Curies, Landau, more recently Feynman, Gell-Mann, Weinberg and many others.
Physics has become enormously more complicated now than at the turn of the 20th century. To contribute now requires long years of study to catch up with recent science and enormous budgets to run experiments.
Coming up with a paradigm-shifting theory like relativity was now requires understanding and undoing literally piles upon piles of theory. It's easy to get lost, and most likely no one will understand you.
When Pinatubo erupted a few years ago (1991), temperature dropped worldwide by an average 0.5 degree C.
When mount Tambora exploded in 1816 it caused a global cooling for a year. That year was called "the year without a summer" and caused famines. Abnormally low temperatures lasted at least until 1818.
There is plenty of evidence that a global thermonuclear war featuring ground explosions would have similar or worse effects due to their world-wide distribution. Remember that these volcanoes exploded in a single spot on Earth yet had world-wide, long lasting effects. Retaliation strikes intending to do as much long-lasting effect as possible would feature such blasts.
Hello,
No, in Europe we had our wars *before* we did our union :-)
That's innovation for you.
Actually most of the European directives go in the direction of ensuring free trade, freedom and democracy. Just look at them. All these directives need to go before the European parliament which is democratically elected. The European council is indeed made of national ministers which are not necessarily elected, however they represent the majority in their country of origin.
The proposed constitution would have given more weight to the parliament and less to the council, which is probably good. This is not the reason it was rejected.
Your post illustrates the fact that in Europe member states like to blame Europe for all the ills of their economy. One day it's the Euro being too expensive, another the rules about government spending, some other time it's a rule that say a member cannot locally optimise its fishing laws to the detriment of another neighboring state. You name it. If you repeat something enough time it become "true", so people are starting to blame Europe for everything.
In fact recently the president of Europe, currently Nicolas Sarkozy, complained loudly that Europe was preventing him from doing "politics".
However in crisis times everyone thinks the Euro and its stability is grand and the necessity to harmonize financial policies is a definite bonus. Without the European framework it would be a free-for-all, fuck-your-neighbour disaster.
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Exactly, which sort of defeats the whole operator overloading scheme. You need to know when to use vanilla operators and when to use special functions, which is confusing.
Blitz doesn't do what I describe, at least they didn't when I last checked, unfortunately. In spite of what they claim(ed) AXAt are inefficient.
Because due process is warranted. Previously only the faintest of indication of evidence was enough to get one's internet access cut off. Now content providers will have to show actual evidence of piracy and financial harm. This is much harder.
So far, when taken to court, in the US, no content provider have been able to convict anybody after appeal.
But you are right, people are interpreting this as a license to pirate, this is the opposite.
The EU is roughly the size of the USA in population and area.
Perhaps it is not so different to think of the EU as a large country with a number of member states?
The EU doesn't have jurisdiction over every elements of members' law, but safekeeping democracy and liberties in all of its member states is part of its charter.
This is good, no? Recently, even in highly technical areas like patents and telecommunications, European representatives have erred on the side of preserving liberties. This is amazing, not?