I've decided to stick to FF 3.6 for now, but I know you're right, at some point it will become unusable. I've known situations like that in the past, and have switched to Opera several times, a few months at a time.
I'd love to fly in one of these, and I'd love to see them being adopted massively. As far as I understand Zeppelins were abandoned because of the war and bad mojo after the Hindenburg, in any case they seem to make perfect sense nowadays.
That would be fine, but apparently some people have lost access to other google stuff (gmail, calendar, docs...) after some misunderstanding regarding their identity. That's not acceptable.
Absolutely. I endured 4 and 5 for a while but it kept freezing and crashing, I eventually switched all my pcs back to the last 3.x version and am very pleased I did.
TFA doesn't imply that it's simple to make ; merely that anything containing carbon can be used as raw material. The reason graphene is so valuable is precisely because it is so difficult to make on an industrial scale.
Thanks a lot for your very informative reply - I would argue that if I should need medical assistance I can go to any random doctor (and will be taken to the nearest hospital in case of emergency), and that society as a whole benefits from the protection of people's health just as it does from the protection of their rights, property, physical integrity etc., so I'm not sure I agree with your distinction - but I now have a much better understanding of how and why the US healthcare system is the way it is.
Is it though? I'm quoting from Wikipedia, so take with a grain of salt, but:
The carcinogenic properties of nicotine in standalone form, separate from tobacco smoke, have not been evaluated by the IARC, and it has not been assigned to an official carcinogen group. The currently available literature indicates that nicotine, on its own, does not promote the development of cancer in healthy tissue and has no mutagenic properties. However, nicotine and the increased cholinergic activity it causes have been shown to impede apoptosis, which is one of the methods by which the body destroys unwanted cells (programmed cell death). Since apoptosis helps to remove mutated or damaged cells that may eventually become cancerous, the inhibitory actions of nicotine may create a more favourable environment for cancer to develop, though this also remains to be proven
In most developed countries (not in the U.S.A.) what it buys you is early treatment, hopefully leading to a longer lifespan. If however I guess correctly that you have the misfortune to live in a country where being ill basically deprives you of the opportunity to get treated, and where if you wish to survive you better have amassed enough wealth to pay for it, well... that's tough:-/
Or, if that's possible for him, he could move to one of the many available more civilised countries where people live rather happily in the knowledge that if they should get ill or injured, they will be treated regardless of their financial situation.
It is always puzzling, even shocking, to me as a European to read about people thinking of disease or injury in terms of cost. There is of course a cost, but why should it be borne by the citizen? Everyone pays for police, so that everyone can benefit from their protection. It seems very strange to me not to apply the same approach to medical care.
Agreed, this is very irritating. I signed up for e-mail, not for some other stuff. Now I have people tagging me in pictures, and I received e-mail notifications in the middle of the night about a service I don't want and never asked for.
I might have given it a try otherwise, but since it's forced on me like that, I won't touch it.
How many people do you know that smoke? How many people do you know that do heroin?
That's not the point. You're comparing apples and oranges here. The point is that the "war on drugs" has cost a lot to society while failing to decrease (for example) heroin usage. Attempts at banning alcohol are usually unsuccessful and short-lived too. Banning cigarettes is probably impossible - that's because, to go back to your flawed comparison, nicotine is massively harmless compared to heroin, and people know that so most don't do heroin.
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It's not like you can show up in McDonalds with an Academy Award and they will give you free McNuggets or something.
I fully agree in principle, but real-life has been somewhat contradictory. Since I upgraded to 2.2 I have never used a task killer or felt the need for it. Everything is smooth and there is no way to know if an app was already running or has been relaunched. It's odd coming from PCs but very pleasant. However, back when I was using android 1.5, my htc magic was becoming badly unresponsive from too many apps in memory, and task killer made a world of difference.
Perhaps the problem is that the implementation was not perfect at first, leading to a need for task control, and now things have improved but people have caught the habit?
If you like RPN but don't need the advanced capabilities of the 48, try RealCalc - its UI is really nice and the keyboard is very comfortable even on the smallest screens.
All the comments in this thread are just a big flamewar over creationism and the like. While I am an atheist myself, I find it a bit sad that we're not discussing the technical details instead.
I highly doubt that. Both the pharma & tobacco industries would be very happy to sell pot if it were legal. They don't need to fear competition and lobby against it, they would be the purveyors ; there'd be no competition.
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I've decided to stick to FF 3.6 for now, but I know you're right, at some point it will become unusable. I've known situations like that in the past, and have switched to Opera several times, a few months at a time.
I'd love to fly in one of these, and I'd love to see them being adopted massively. As far as I understand Zeppelins were abandoned because of the war and bad mojo after the Hindenburg, in any case they seem to make perfect sense nowadays.
That would be fine, but apparently some people have lost access to other google stuff (gmail, calendar, docs...) after some misunderstanding regarding their identity. That's not acceptable.
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Absolutely. I endured 4 and 5 for a while but it kept freezing and crashing, I eventually switched all my pcs back to the last 3.x version and am very pleased I did.
TFA doesn't imply that it's simple to make ; merely that anything containing carbon can be used as raw material. The reason graphene is so valuable is precisely because it is so difficult to make on an industrial scale.
Thanks a lot for your very informative reply - I would argue that if I should need medical assistance I can go to any random doctor (and will be taken to the nearest hospital in case of emergency), and that society as a whole benefits from the protection of people's health just as it does from the protection of their rights, property, physical integrity etc., so I'm not sure I agree with your distinction - but I now have a much better understanding of how and why the US healthcare system is the way it is.
The carcinogenic properties of nicotine in standalone form, separate from tobacco smoke, have not been evaluated by the IARC, and it has not been assigned to an official carcinogen group. The currently available literature indicates that nicotine, on its own, does not promote the development of cancer in healthy tissue and has no mutagenic properties. However, nicotine and the increased cholinergic activity it causes have been shown to impede apoptosis, which is one of the methods by which the body destroys unwanted cells (programmed cell death). Since apoptosis helps to remove mutated or damaged cells that may eventually become cancerous, the inhibitory actions of nicotine may create a more favourable environment for cancer to develop, though this also remains to be proven
In most developed countries (not in the U.S.A.) what it buys you is early treatment, hopefully leading to a longer lifespan. If however I guess correctly that you have the misfortune to live in a country where being ill basically deprives you of the opportunity to get treated, and where if you wish to survive you better have amassed enough wealth to pay for it, well... that's tough :-/
Or, if that's possible for him, he could move to one of the many available more civilised countries where people live rather happily in the knowledge that if they should get ill or injured, they will be treated regardless of their financial situation.
It is always puzzling, even shocking, to me as a European to read about people thinking of disease or injury in terms of cost. There is of course a cost, but why should it be borne by the citizen? Everyone pays for police, so that everyone can benefit from their protection. It seems very strange to me not to apply the same approach to medical care.
electronic cigarettes FTW :)
Agreed, this is very irritating. I signed up for e-mail, not for some other stuff. Now I have people tagging me in pictures, and I received e-mail notifications in the middle of the night about a service I don't want and never asked for.
I might have given it a try otherwise, but since it's forced on me like that, I won't touch it.
And I dearly hope we as a society don't forget how important that is yet again.
That's not the point. You're comparing apples and oranges here. The point is that the "war on drugs" has cost a lot to society while failing to decrease (for example) heroin usage. Attempts at banning alcohol are usually unsuccessful and short-lived too. Banning cigarettes is probably impossible - that's because, to go back to your flawed comparison, nicotine is massively harmless compared to heroin, and people know that so most don't do heroin.
Well put. I might quote you on that :-)
I haven't tried it but apparently the OSX calculator has an RPN mode. Pretty awesome imho.
I fully agree in principle, but real-life has been somewhat contradictory. Since I upgraded to 2.2 I have never used a task killer or felt the need for it. Everything is smooth and there is no way to know if an app was already running or has been relaunched. It's odd coming from PCs but very pleasant. However, back when I was using android 1.5, my htc magic was becoming badly unresponsive from too many apps in memory, and task killer made a world of difference.
Perhaps the problem is that the implementation was not perfect at first, leading to a need for task control, and now things have improved but people have caught the habit?
Exactly. The important thing is to know where it is, you don't need to carry it with you if you don't plan on doing any hitchhiking.
If you like RPN but don't need the advanced capabilities of the 48, try RealCalc - its UI is really nice and the keyboard is very comfortable even on the smallest screens.
All the comments in this thread are just a big flamewar over creationism and the like. While I am an atheist myself, I find it a bit sad that we're not discussing the technical details instead.
It is a rather well-done hommage to the TimeCube website linked earlier. I'd mod it up, but I'm out of mod points.
Not true. The default is reply to all, but there's a tiny "Reply" link next to each message, which allows you to reply just to the sender.
I always preferred arj - better compression, and much better at handling multi-disk archives.
I highly doubt that. Both the pharma & tobacco industries would be very happy to sell pot if it were legal. They don't need to fear competition and lobby against it, they would be the purveyors ; there'd be no competition.