...I was part of the group of people who refused to actually use "My Documents" as their place to put their home directory stuff. I just thought the name was stupid. Besides, I had my own habit of creating folders either on the root (leftover from my MS-DOS days) or on the desktop for that sort of thing.
When XP rolled around I eventually gave in. I realized that those folders really are useful. I mean, I'm just gonna end up making my own folder in another location called something like "Docs" and containing all of my personal data in categorized subfolders. I've decided that the location is unimportant since the modern open and save dialogs have tiles or buttons that go directly to your docs dir.
Embrace the [My ]Documents folder. There's no more excuses:-)
Call me nitpicky, but I know I wasn't alone in hating the "My xxx" folders when MS introduced them. It's extraneous information that lengthens the directory path. Perhaps this is a sign that Microsoft is starting to treat users more like adults and less like children that need their hands held as they cross the dangerous street into computer land.
I fail to see how offering creationism as a potential reason for the Big Bang and the Cambrian explosion "undermine[s] the very science you count on to keep you healthy into your nineties."
Naturalistic science fails to explain how the universe could just "begin" out of nothing. An intelligence outside the realm of our existence is a perfectly valid possibility. In fact, a "creator" seems to be exactly what science points us towards because how else could something create itself? And Darwin himself said that evolution must occur slowly. There is no good explanation for the sudden appearance of highly evolved life in the Cambrian period. In terms of evolution as a whole, that evolution occurred in the blink of an eye. Just how fast does evolution have to occur before one must admit something else is going on here?
Because my keyboard does move and wires do get in the way. My keyboard is usually somewhere on my couch or coffee table. My computer is always on the other side of the living room (connected to the HDTV).
About not placing the receiver on a metal surface -- I've had the same problem with the Microsoft Elite Wireless keyboard/mouse. I shelled out $100 for what I thought would be perfect reception. Instead I'm constantly removing my batteries to see why the hell the mouse isn't responding or my words are missing letters. Eventually I tried taking the receiver out from under my couch and setting it on top of my coffee table a foot from my keyboard. The problem went away. This was really disappointing, but I've learned to live with it.
Another quirk -- the mousing surface affects signal strength! And I don't just mean mouse movements. Mouse CLICKS get lost when I try mousing on a non-optical-friendly surface. I can't explain it.
Yes, the creator of the "parody" site says that the site was so obviously phony that you'd have to be an idiot to believe it for a second. Hold on there buddy. Don't just take Dan's word for it. Look at the pdf of the actual cease and desist letter.
If you look at Dan's website, I see nothing utterly ridiculous about it. The only questionable thing about it is the picture of people with picket signs. But seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if people thought it was the real Walmart Foundation site before following any links. His registered URL is only one character different from the actual site's (he stuck a hyphen between the words). And half of the page's space is taken up by graphics that he copied directly from the actual site. Thinking objectively, I can see why Walmart saw this as misleading.
"...regard the Yankee Group's findings with the requisite metric ton of salt in the future."
The whole point of the "take it with salt" phrase is to take something partially untrue (unpalatable) and make it tasty (acceptable). How on earth would a metric ton of salt make something more palatable?
If you really think a pinch of salt isn't enough, perhaps you could recommend some sugar as well.
From TFA: "Which means, for example, Longhorn will automatically clean up, or "defragment," your hard drive, if it is required. You won't even know it's happening."
So you mean Longhorn is going to make the incessant ticking and whirring of my hard drive less annoying? I seriously doubt it.
is to make the consumer want something. An ad should make its audience want the product/service, but a great ad also causes the audience want the ad itself.
Some ads only succeed at one or the other. If a company's advertisements are being blocked, their advertisements are not succeeding at being wanted. If they are complaining, they are complaining about their own shortcomings.
Yeah, I did that with Warty too. It was really easy to install with apt-get; it automatically put the i686 kernel in the boot menu along with the i386 one. I'd like a way to install i686 from CD, though.
You're messing with your timezone? If messing with your timezone doesn't change anything, perhaps that's because gmail is upping the space all around the world at the same GMT. Actually change the time and it should work.
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I don't like the other replies to this experiment. They talk about equal distribution of pressures and such, but I think that increasing inside pressure and decreasing outside pressure should create the same effect in that regard. I also don't buy the explanation that it pops "everywhere at once." I would guess that there is always a single starting point for the break. I mean, even if we say that it breaks at TWO points at once, one break probably happens a nanosecond or so before the other. I'm betting that the "everywhere at once" analysis is actually describing a super fast ripple effect that can't be observed in real time.
The pressure differential between the inside of the balloon and the outside is probably identical in both cases when the balloon pops. So the net force acting on the surface of the ballon at the moment of the pop should be the same. The only difference is the absolute pressure. I think this is the key.
The pressure in the jar is so low that when the balloon breaks, there is no force pushing inward on the ballon. The net force is basically equal to the force pushing outward. At regular atmospheric pressure there is more force on the inside but also resistance from the outside. I think the outside pressure affects the rubber after the instant of the pop by slowing it down. Maybe this keeps the rubber stable enough to only break into a few pieces.
I'm currently paying US$108/mo for digital standard cable + high speed cable internet from Time Warner. This seems like way too much to me, but I haven't seen any better deals out there. Has anyone else?
"My feeling is that refusal to provide someone with a podium is not censorship, they can go elsewhere and say whatever they want."
The fact that they can go to a place without censorship makes it not censorship? People said the same thing in segregated Georgia -- it's not racism if the blacks can go to another laundromat. It sounds more like you're saying censorship is OK (which is a valid opinion).
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I knew there had to be a catch: battery life.
These motors draw so much power that no practical (small, cheap, safe) modern battery can power them for very long.
...a list of websites that do this? :-)
... *casting used to be about coding?
...I was part of the group of people who refused to actually use "My Documents" as their place to put their home directory stuff. I just thought the name was stupid. Besides, I had my own habit of creating folders either on the root (leftover from my MS-DOS days) or on the desktop for that sort of thing.
:-)
When XP rolled around I eventually gave in. I realized that those folders really are useful. I mean, I'm just gonna end up making my own folder in another location called something like "Docs" and containing all of my personal data in categorized subfolders. I've decided that the location is unimportant since the modern open and save dialogs have tiles or buttons that go directly to your docs dir.
Embrace the [My ]Documents folder. There's no more excuses
Call me nitpicky, but I know I wasn't alone in hating the "My xxx" folders when MS introduced them. It's extraneous information that lengthens the directory path. Perhaps this is a sign that Microsoft is starting to treat users more like adults and less like children that need their hands held as they cross the dangerous street into computer land.
*ducks*
I know, Libraries of Congress and Number of Songs both fail here... but a simple measurement of the dimensions in miles will do.
I fail to see how offering creationism as a potential reason for the Big Bang and the Cambrian explosion "undermine[s] the very science you count on to keep you healthy into your nineties."
Naturalistic science fails to explain how the universe could just "begin" out of nothing. An intelligence outside the realm of our existence is a perfectly valid possibility. In fact, a "creator" seems to be exactly what science points us towards because how else could something create itself? And Darwin himself said that evolution must occur slowly. There is no good explanation for the sudden appearance of highly evolved life in the Cambrian period. In terms of evolution as a whole, that evolution occurred in the blink of an eye. Just how fast does evolution have to occur before one must admit something else is going on here?
Why would I want a wireless keyboard?
Because my keyboard does move and wires do get in the way. My keyboard is usually somewhere on my couch or coffee table. My computer is always on the other side of the living room (connected to the HDTV).
About not placing the receiver on a metal surface -- I've had the same problem with the Microsoft Elite Wireless keyboard/mouse. I shelled out $100 for what I thought would be perfect reception. Instead I'm constantly removing my batteries to see why the hell the mouse isn't responding or my words are missing letters. Eventually I tried taking the receiver out from under my couch and setting it on top of my coffee table a foot from my keyboard. The problem went away. This was really disappointing, but I've learned to live with it.
Another quirk -- the mousing surface affects signal strength! And I don't just mean mouse movements. Mouse CLICKS get lost when I try mousing on a non-optical-friendly surface. I can't explain it.
Officials promise to protect the confidentiality of the fingerprint records.
Ok, well as long as they promise.
Yes, the creator of the "parody" site says that the site was so obviously phony that you'd have to be an idiot to believe it for a second. Hold on there buddy. Don't just take Dan's word for it. Look at the pdf of the actual cease and desist letter.
If you look at Dan's website, I see nothing utterly ridiculous about it. The only questionable thing about it is the picture of people with picket signs. But seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if people thought it was the real Walmart Foundation site before following any links. His registered URL is only one character different from the actual site's (he stuck a hyphen between the words). And half of the page's space is taken up by graphics that he copied directly from the actual site. Thinking objectively, I can see why Walmart saw this as misleading.
"...regard the Yankee Group's findings with the requisite metric ton of salt in the future."
The whole point of the "take it with salt" phrase is to take something partially untrue (unpalatable) and make it tasty (acceptable). How on earth would a metric ton of salt make something more palatable?
If you really think a pinch of salt isn't enough, perhaps you could recommend some sugar as well.
From TFA: "Which means, for example, Longhorn will automatically clean up, or "defragment," your hard drive, if it is required. You won't even know it's happening."
So you mean Longhorn is going to make the incessant ticking and whirring of my hard drive less annoying? I seriously doubt it.
For a better map of ocean currents, look here.
It looks to me like the shortest route is directly against the North Atlantic Drift.
No, drysuit. A wetsuit means the chilling water is still rushing over parts of your skin.
Thanks for the URL, but it doesn't work with lektora in Firefox or IE. I might have to switch to sage now for Firefox.
hehe, "complexifies". You're complicating the word "complicates." :-)
At any rate, what other forms of holographic multiplexing exist besides patial?
is to make the consumer want something. An ad should make its audience want the product/service, but a great ad also causes the audience want the ad itself.
Some ads only succeed at one or the other. If a company's advertisements are being blocked, their advertisements are not succeeding at being wanted. If they are complaining, they are complaining about their own shortcomings.
Yeah, I did that with Warty too. It was really easy to install with apt-get; it automatically put the i686 kernel in the boot menu along with the i386 one. I'd like a way to install i686 from CD, though.
on a i686 build?
You're messing with your timezone? If messing with your timezone doesn't change anything, perhaps that's because gmail is upping the space all around the world at the same GMT. Actually change the time and it should work.
I don't like the other replies to this experiment. They talk about equal distribution of pressures and such, but I think that increasing inside pressure and decreasing outside pressure should create the same effect in that regard. I also don't buy the explanation that it pops "everywhere at once." I would guess that there is always a single starting point for the break. I mean, even if we say that it breaks at TWO points at once, one break probably happens a nanosecond or so before the other. I'm betting that the "everywhere at once" analysis is actually describing a super fast ripple effect that can't be observed in real time.
The pressure differential between the inside of the balloon and the outside is probably identical in both cases when the balloon pops. So the net force acting on the surface of the ballon at the moment of the pop should be the same. The only difference is the absolute pressure. I think this is the key.
The pressure in the jar is so low that when the balloon breaks, there is no force pushing inward on the ballon. The net force is basically equal to the force pushing outward. At regular atmospheric pressure there is more force on the inside but also resistance from the outside. I think the outside pressure affects the rubber after the instant of the pop by slowing it down. Maybe this keeps the rubber stable enough to only break into a few pieces.
I'm currently paying US$108/mo for digital standard cable + high speed cable internet from Time Warner. This seems like way too much to me, but I haven't seen any better deals out there. Has anyone else?
"My feeling is that refusal to provide someone with a podium is not censorship, they can go elsewhere and say whatever they want." The fact that they can go to a place without censorship makes it not censorship? People said the same thing in segregated Georgia -- it's not racism if the blacks can go to another laundromat. It sounds more like you're saying censorship is OK (which is a valid opinion).