I've been using MS Office 2010 now for about a month, and the ribbon is somewhat annoying, but no big deal either way.
First, I disagree that the ribbon provides quick access. Compared to the toolbars I had in MS Office 2003 it seems I often have to click twice or three times now where I clicked once or twice before
You can customize the ribbon somewhat, but not as much as I'd like.
You can add and remove buttons to the quick access toolbar, but the only way you can make the icons a recognizable size is to ":change the resolution of your screen"
You cannot make any changes to the existing groups in the ribbon. For example, I wanted to add a button for strikethrough in Excel, but I couldn't add it to the Font group in the Home tab, I had to make a new group and add it to that.
Odd that they don't simply spread their message by not buying these types of food.
Not odd at all, really, seeing as I know of no food being sold that is marked as GM or not GM. In fact, here in the good ol' USA, it is illegal to label your food as not genetically modified.
Note that the pilot's flight kit is big and easily weighs over 50 lbs. You would be about as likely to "need to get to page 967" as to "need to get to page 10" "really fast".
Science works like this:
Step 1. Formulate a hypothesis.
Step 2. Test the hypothesis.
Step 3.
If hypothesis checks out, repeat step 2. After sufficient iterations call it a theory.
If hypothesis doesn't check out, throw it out and formulate a new hypothesis.
Isn't it more accurate to say
Science works like this:
Step 1. Develop a theory based on what you know so far.
Step 2. Formulate a hypothesis that would be true of the theory is valid and/or would be false if the theory is not valid (or vice-versa).
Step 3. Test the hypothesis.
Step 4a. If hypothesis checks out, repeat step 2.
After sufficient successful iterations call it an established theory.
Step 4b. If hypothesis doesn't check out, modify the theory and go back to step 2.
If that doesn't pan out after sufficient attempts, throw out the theory.
Apple frankly sucks at innovation. They are reasonably good at improving something somebody else has already invented, . . .
You should really find out the definition of innovation, since your sentences I'm quoting contradict each other. And no, innovation does not require invention.
despite all the "poo poo, Macs aren't toys for the rich, poo poo" studies have shown [mashable.com] that not only do mac owners have multiple Macs, they on average pull down $100,000 a year.
TFA you linked to did not say what the average income of Mac owners is.
Fuel is a negligible cost for any modern launcher.
Fuel is a huge cost for a modern launcher - not in the direct cost of buying the fuel, but in the impact on costs of the need to carry the fuel.
Skylon's benefit is not reduced fuel use . . .
the benefit is the reduction in fuel weight, which reduces structural weight, both of which reduce propulsion required, which reduces fuel required, and so on.
The old adage goes - if you want something done right, do it yourself.
Which is why, if you ever suspect you have a tumor, you should get out your scalpel and do a biopsy on yourself, look at the cells under a microscope, and decide what the next step should be. And if you ever get accused of practicing medicine without a license, you should defend yourself in court.
Many CFC replacements are 1000s of times more potent than CO2 in Global Warming Potential. But they generally have a lower Global Warming Potential than the CFCs and HCFCs that they are replacing.
No, the tsunami did not take out the battery backed up pumps, only the emergency generators. The pumps kept working on battery power, reportedly for about 8 hours. The point is that, according to the data released by TEPCO, the water level dropped and exposed the fuel rods in reactor 1 before the pumps stopped working.
Summary:
Apparently, the earthquake had caused a crack in the containment vessel.
I'm not sure how the summary writer came to that conclusion... Shouldn't we wait for an actual report/finding before stating that?
From TFA:
The utility said on Sunday that a review of data from March 11 suggested that the fuel rods in the No. 1 reactor were completely exposed to the air and rapidly heating five hours after the quake.
and
Kyodo news agency quoted an unnamed source at the utility on Sunday as saying that the No. 1 reactor might have suffered structural damage in the earthquake that caused a release of radiation separate from the tsunami.
The MPAA rating system says that it is more harmful for a child to see a breast that it is to to hear "bad words", and that it is worse for it to hear "bad words" than it is to watch people getting killed.
More important, the ratings say almost nothing about the context in which the breast, "bad words", or killings take place, nor anything that would let you know something about the point of the offending scene(s), nor what the child (or adult) would take away from the movie as a whole.
Which shouldn't be surprising, since the particular reasoning, if any, for the particular rating is not acknowledged by the MPAA.
It can't possibly be open, otherwise people could simply modify it to ignore the DRM flags and export unencrypted.
Wrong, if the DRM encrypts the files, then no amount of ignoring DRM flags will unencrypt it.
Making it not dependant on the continued presence of a server to function is doable though.
Unfortunately, this is actually harder to do without being cracked, since the DRM key must then be on the media and device that the cracker has in their possession. Unfortunately, remote server based schemes are subject to epic failures.
Spyglass was the next, and though they licensed the name Mosaic and technology from NCSA, they never used any of the code and wrote everything from scratch. It's true that Microsoft was the cause of their destruction, but it was because Microsoft out-developed them. They had 1000 Developers on the IE team, and spyglass had 20.
Your forgetting the part where Microsoft bought Spyglass source code for a fee plus a percentage of sales, but then, to head off Netscape, decided to give it away for free, declaring to Spyglass that a percentage of nothing is nothing. Spyglass sued and made $millions, but by no means did they recoup a realistic percentage of the value that Microsoft gained.
Lotus I understand, and BeOS I never used, so I wouldn't know, but Wordperfect?
Wordperfect was for a long time the one of the best word processors as others came and went, and it worked well on probably a dozen different platforms. MS Word was horrible, and it worked only on MS Windows, and maybe Apple. Microsoft purposefully sabatoged Wordperfect on Windows - don't take my word for it, look up the trial transcripts.
Switching to a GUI was a step backwards for anyone familiar with Wordperfect at the time. The GUIs' only advantage then was WYSIWYG, and neither MS Word nor Wordperfect did that very well (understandable, considering the resolutions of screens and printers at the time). Even now MS Word sucks at WSIWYG, it does a terrible job of kerning and the layout shifts slightly every time you print to a different printer, sometimes enough to cause words to end up on different lines or lines to shift from on page to the next. Granted, Wordperfect has stagnated since then, and is no longer as good as it could be, but I use Word every day and I think it still sucks. The breakup of MS just might have resulted in better application products capable of operating on multiple platforms.
- I grant you weapons. But aerospace and heavy construction?
Heavy construction equipment, like Caterpillar, is one of the US' biggest export markets to China. How do you think China "actually builds rail roads, skyscrapers, bridges, roads, tunnels . . . "?
People who have passion about what they are doing are usually much more productive than people who view the job as a way to get a paycheck.
I work in engineering, not software, still, the last time I encountered a passionate IT employee, he got fired for taking long, passionate lunches at the hotel down the street with an electrical engineer and fixing their timesheets to cover up their absence.
On a more serious note, you don't have to choose between passion and apathy. I'll take conscientiousness over passion any work day. Passion can at times be dangerous to objective thinking, partner relations, or a professional standard of care.
However, there is a reason why fracking sites are where they are: it's where there is the highest concentration of gas in the ground, . . .
That's not exactly correct. The "gas" and oil is locked in the shale. In contrast to conventional reservoirs, it is not a gas until the fracturing of the rock and extraction with the magical fluids that Cheney made sure do not need EPA approval. It is entirely possible (though not demonstrated) that the fracking process that releases the gas allows the gas to seep up through the rocks into the groundwater above. (typical gas reservoirs rely on impermeable rock structures above that have trapped the gas. Shales can be underneath porous rock without losing the hydrocarbons they contain.)
So there is the potential for a selection effect to come into play here: it may be that wells drilled in the vicinity of localities that are good candidates for fracking have higher levels of methane than those that do not
However, the study did analyze water from sites at various distances from the gas extraction wells and found that the closest ones had more methane and had a composition matching fossil fuel, while those sites farther from the gas production had much less methane and had markers for recent biological origin. The underlying shale formations do not change drastically over the horizontal distances involved in the measurements. So it seems pretty obvious, if not absolutely proven, that the methane in the water comes from the operations of the extraction companies.
Contact your senators and congressmen and ask them to stop this
First of all - it is the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission who enforce antitrust laws. Doesn't anybody know how our government works? You know - three branches of government - legislative, judicial, and executive. What did they teach you in school?
They taught me that it is the senators and congressmen that make the laws that the DOJ and the FTC enforce.
I also learned that the President is in charge of the DOJ and the FTC, and that, if up for re-election, he may change his policies and priorities when there is an outcry about some issue.
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I've been using MS Office 2010 now for about a month, and the ribbon is somewhat annoying, but no big deal either way.
First, I disagree that the ribbon provides quick access. Compared to the toolbars I had in MS Office 2003 it seems I often have to click twice or three times now where I clicked once or twice before
You can customize the ribbon somewhat, but not as much as I'd like.
You can add and remove buttons to the quick access toolbar, but the only way you can make the icons a recognizable size is to ":change the resolution of your screen" You cannot make any changes to the existing groups in the ribbon. For example, I wanted to add a button for strikethrough in Excel, but I couldn't add it to the Font group in the Home tab, I had to make a new group and add it to that.
Not odd at all, really, seeing as I know of no food being sold that is marked as GM or not GM. In fact, here in the good ol' USA, it is illegal to label your food as not genetically modified.
does not even come close to implying
Note that the pilot's flight kit is big and easily weighs over 50 lbs. You would be about as likely to "need to get to page 967" as to "need to get to page 10" "really fast".
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Isn't it more accurate to say
Science works like this:
Step 1. Develop a theory based on what you know so far.
Step 2. Formulate a hypothesis that would be true of the theory is valid and/or would be false if the theory is not valid (or vice-versa).
Step 3. Test the hypothesis.
Step 4a. If hypothesis checks out, repeat step 2.
After sufficient successful iterations call it an established theory.
Step 4b. If hypothesis doesn't check out, modify the theory and go back to step 2.
If that doesn't pan out after sufficient attempts, throw out the theory.
You should really find out the definition of innovation, since your sentences I'm quoting contradict each other. And no, innovation does not require invention.
TFA you linked to did not say what the average income of Mac owners is.
Fuel is a huge cost for a modern launcher - not in the direct cost of buying the fuel, but in the impact on costs of the need to carry the fuel.
the benefit is the reduction in fuel weight, which reduces structural weight, both of which reduce propulsion required, which reduces fuel required, and so on.
Which is why, if you ever suspect you have a tumor, you should get out your scalpel and do a biopsy on yourself, look at the cells under a microscope, and decide what the next step should be. And if you ever get accused of practicing medicine without a license, you should defend yourself in court.
Alos, pronunciations evolve over time.
Actually, HCFCs are being phased out, too. (e.g. R-22, which is no longer being shipped in new equipment in the US)
Many CFC replacements are 1000s of times more potent than CO2 in Global Warming Potential. But they generally have a lower Global Warming Potential than the CFCs and HCFCs that they are replacing.
Everything is a file, including every object.
Everything is an object, including every file.
No difference, except in syntax .
No, the tsunami did not take out the battery backed up pumps, only the emergency generators. The pumps kept working on battery power, reportedly for about 8 hours. The point is that, according to the data released by TEPCO, the water level dropped and exposed the fuel rods in reactor 1 before the pumps stopped working.
From TFA:
The utility said on Sunday that a review of data from March 11 suggested that the fuel rods in the No. 1 reactor were completely exposed to the air and rapidly heating five hours after the quake.
and
Kyodo news agency quoted an unnamed source at the utility on Sunday as saying that the No. 1 reactor might have suffered structural damage in the earthquake that caused a release of radiation separate from the tsunami.
More important, the ratings say almost nothing about the context in which the breast, "bad words", or killings take place, nor anything that would let you know something about the point of the offending scene(s), nor what the child (or adult) would take away from the movie as a whole.
Which shouldn't be surprising, since the particular reasoning, if any, for the particular rating is not acknowledged by the MPAA.
Wrong, if the DRM encrypts the files, then no amount of ignoring DRM flags will unencrypt it.
Unfortunately, this is actually harder to do without being cracked, since the DRM key must then be on the media and device that the cracker has in their possession. Unfortunately, remote server based schemes are subject to epic failures.
Your forgetting the part where Microsoft bought Spyglass source code for a fee plus a percentage of sales, but then, to head off Netscape, decided to give it away for free, declaring to Spyglass that a percentage of nothing is nothing. Spyglass sued and made $millions, but by no means did they recoup a realistic percentage of the value that Microsoft gained.
Lotus I understand, and BeOS I never used, so I wouldn't know, but Wordperfect?
Wordperfect was for a long time the one of the best word processors as others came and went, and it worked well on probably a dozen different platforms. MS Word was horrible, and it worked only on MS Windows, and maybe Apple. Microsoft purposefully sabatoged Wordperfect on Windows - don't take my word for it, look up the trial transcripts.
Switching to a GUI was a step backwards for anyone familiar with Wordperfect at the time. The GUIs' only advantage then was WYSIWYG, and neither MS Word nor Wordperfect did that very well (understandable, considering the resolutions of screens and printers at the time). Even now MS Word sucks at WSIWYG, it does a terrible job of kerning and the layout shifts slightly every time you print to a different printer, sometimes enough to cause words to end up on different lines or lines to shift from on page to the next. Granted, Wordperfect has stagnated since then, and is no longer as good as it could be, but I use Word every day and I think it still sucks.
The breakup of MS just might have resulted in better application products capable of operating on multiple platforms.
Heavy construction equipment, like Caterpillar, is one of the US' biggest export markets to China. How do you think China "actually builds rail roads, skyscrapers, bridges, roads, tunnels . . . "?
US technology doesn't originate from the US government. It originates from bright individuals that live in the US.
What brought you to that non-sequitor? poptones didn't even mention the government.
I work in engineering, not software, still, the last time I encountered a passionate IT employee, he got fired for taking long, passionate lunches at the hotel down the street with an electrical engineer and fixing their timesheets to cover up their absence.
On a more serious note, you don't have to choose between passion and apathy. I'll take conscientiousness over passion any work day. Passion can at times be dangerous to objective thinking, partner relations, or a professional standard of care.
That's not exactly correct. The "gas" and oil is locked in the shale. In contrast to conventional reservoirs, it is not a gas until the fracturing of the rock and extraction with the magical fluids that Cheney made sure do not need EPA approval. It is entirely possible (though not demonstrated) that the fracking process that releases the gas allows the gas to seep up through the rocks into the groundwater above. (typical gas reservoirs rely on impermeable rock structures above that have trapped the gas. Shales can be underneath porous rock without losing the hydrocarbons they contain.)
However, the study did analyze water from sites at various distances from the gas extraction wells and found that the closest ones had more methane and had a composition matching fossil fuel, while those sites farther from the gas production had much less methane and had markers for recent biological origin. The underlying shale formations do not change drastically over the horizontal distances involved in the measurements. So it seems pretty obvious, if not absolutely proven, that the methane in the water comes from the operations of the extraction companies.
They taught me that it is the senators and congressmen that make the laws that the DOJ and the FTC enforce.
I also learned that the President is in charge of the DOJ and the FTC, and that, if up for re-election, he may change his policies and priorities when there is an outcry about some issue.