I've said something along those lines before also. There's no technical reason that the DNS has to use TLDs. Why not just have websites use something like http://mcdonalds/ instead of http://mcdonalds.com/, essentially being their own TLD?
TLDs like.es are good because they can narrow down to a specific geographic location and routing is quicker, but it's somewhat useless with TLDs like.com since the servers can be anywhere.
I think it's somewhat important to differentiate between brand names and their generic names. Unless you need the specific brands, you should not be asking for Tylenol when you just want acetaminophen/paracetamol, nor Advil/Nurofen when you just want ibuprofen. Active ingredients and doses differ between brands, so it's important to know what you're taking.
Heh, I like that interpretation. And discussions like that are why I keep visiting Slashdot as opposed to Digg or—*shudder*—Reddit. I've found that MetaFilter usually has good discussions too, though.
By the way, and I think this is the second time I've asked you, but I always forget, what does the Slashdot badge next to your name mean?
The em element provides meaning to the text in that you're emphasizing it, while the i element just makes it italic.
It's like using <h1>Blah</h1> for a header instead of <font size="6"><b>Blah</b></font>, which doesn't mean anything. The first will also be interpreted differently from the surrounding text by text browsers and screen readers, while the second may not.
I think you're right. I remember reading that there is no indication that you've crossed the event horizon and nothing appears to have happened, while to an observer, you'll slowly descend to the center yet never reach it, just like you said. The things happening in the video don't really make sense from what I've learned.
Where the fuck do you live? I'm in the US, and where I live, evening tickets are $8 each. Matinee tickets are $5.
Seriously, I've always been tempted to ask that question myself. In my city, which has a population somewhere between 400 000 and 700 000, tickets run from $6 to $8. It's stupid to assume that just because tickets are $15 in your city, they are $15 everywhere in the United States.
Instead of uploading a paper to a printer, why not email it directly to your professor? If they feel the need to have a printed copy, let them print it.
As a sidenote, I'll say that it is indeed confusing. It's probably best to use units and prefixes recognized as the standard, though. In addition, most standards organizations recommend putting a space between measurements and their units (e.g., 4 kb/s and not 4kb/s).
In any case I think the most important thing you missed is that b is bit and B is byte, though you did multiply by 8. Just get the units right.
Conventionally, clock rates, bitrates, bandwidths, and other networking and data rates are understood to use decimal prefixes (i.e., 1 kb/s = 1000 b/s), RAM is understood to use binary prefixes (i.e., 1 MB/MiB = 1024 kB/KB/KiB), and storage devices use both in different places (the OS or the packaging).
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Holy shit that website is ugly! They use Comic Sans, for FSM's sake.
I know that Will Wright is famous and that appearance isn't always everything, but who would do business with a company with an appearance like that?
Honestly, how do earbuds get tangled up into knots so badly after only five minutes in a bag?
I suggest that they stay away from these pages as well.
Could you link to the individual videos? It's hard to tell when they are all titled similarly.
I've said something along those lines before also. There's no technical reason that the DNS has to use TLDs. Why not just have websites use something like http://mcdonalds/ instead of http://mcdonalds.com/, essentially being their own TLD?
TLDs like .es are good because they can narrow down to a specific geographic location and routing is quicker, but it's somewhat useless with TLDs like .com since the servers can be anywhere.
My neighbor got burns on his scalp and had that done. The funny thing is that his name was already Mr. Forehead.
Time warpin’ with Sun xVM VirtualBox
Set the 'bios' time of the virtual box.
VBoxManage modifyvm <name> -biossystemtimeoffset <ms>
Actually, thanks for having me look that up, because I was wondering myself.
I think it's somewhat important to differentiate between brand names and their generic names. Unless you need the specific brands, you should not be asking for Tylenol when you just want acetaminophen/paracetamol, nor Advil/Nurofen when you just want ibuprofen. Active ingredients and doses differ between brands, so it's important to know what you're taking.
Heh, I like that interpretation. And discussions like that are why I keep visiting Slashdot as opposed to Digg or—*shudder*—Reddit. I've found that MetaFilter usually has good discussions too, though.
By the way, and I think this is the second time I've asked you, but I always forget, what does the Slashdot badge next to your name mean?
Monetization doesn't mean what you think it means.
Childbirth? It's more like stillbirth.
Chrome comes with sh?
I thought that was Lynx.
Separation of presentation and content
The em element provides meaning to the text in that you're emphasizing it, while the i element just makes it italic.
It's like using <h1>Blah</h1> for a header instead of <font size="6"><b>Blah</b></font>, which doesn't mean anything. The first will also be interpreted differently from the surrounding text by text browsers and screen readers, while the second may not.
Since the images are each only 3 to 10 KiB each, I doubt it.
I think you're right. I remember reading that there is no indication that you've crossed the event horizon and nothing appears to have happened, while to an observer, you'll slowly descend to the center yet never reach it, just like you said. The things happening in the video don't really make sense from what I've learned.
Seriously, I've always been tempted to ask that question myself. In my city, which has a population somewhere between 400 000 and 700 000, tickets run from $6 to $8. It's stupid to assume that just because tickets are $15 in your city, they are $15 everywhere in the United States.
Hey, I'm from Omaha, and I resemble that remark. Honestly, though, I think that we have a pretty rhotic accent here from what I can tell.
Depends where they put the toy.
Instead of uploading a paper to a printer, why not email it directly to your professor? If they feel the need to have a printed copy, let them print it.
Read them your sig?
Obsolete versions? Firefox 3 is supported in Windows XP, which was released in 2001, but not in Max OS X 10.3, which was released in 2003?
(Replying to myself)
As a sidenote, I'll say that it is indeed confusing. It's probably best to use units and prefixes recognized as the standard, though. In addition, most standards organizations recommend putting a space between measurements and their units (e.g., 4 kb/s and not 4kb/s).
In any case I think the most important thing you missed is that b is bit and B is byte, though you did multiply by 8. Just get the units right.
Conventionally, clock rates, bitrates, bandwidths, and other networking and data rates are understood to use decimal prefixes (i.e., 1 kb/s = 1000 b/s), RAM is understood to use binary prefixes (i.e., 1 MB/MiB = 1024 kB/KB/KiB), and storage devices use both in different places (the OS or the packaging).
Random sources that back this up:
http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=115
http://www.pcguide.com/intro/fun/bindec-c.html
http://www.cknow.com/refs/BitsBytesandMultipleBytes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rate#Prefixes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Usage_notes
11136 kb/s = 11.136 Mb/s
Bitrates are measured in thousands.
Get your k's, K's, Ki's, b's, and B's straight.
Like from age/2+7 to (age-7)*2 ?