As long as tabs are fixed, and delimiters like spaces, periods, and commas are sufficiently large, I prefer proportional fonts while coding. Then again, I don't code 8 hours a day, so YMMV.
Maybe it's my old eyes, but I find serif fonts much harder to read than sans-serif.
Also, I find "ALL CAPS" at least as easy to read than "normal text". That could be because I work in the construction industry where drawings use all caps. (In fact, until several years after we switched from hand drafting to CAD, I found it very difficult to write in anything but all caps.) Also, we use 1/2 size printouts of drawings all the time, and from that experience I can say that all caps is much easier to read than mixed case when the font is small. On the other hand, mixed case probably shows more information when reproductions are blurred or partially obscured.
Finally, to respond to other threads, I can't stand white on black text. It hurts my eyes terribly and is way too hard to read. I won't usually stay on a website with small, serif, white-on-black text, as it's not worth the effort.
Give Microsoft credit where it's due. One of the very first screens you see when you start up Internet Explorer for the first time is the search engine selection menu.
Should I really give Microsoft credit for doing what the anit-trust regulators forced them to do?
. . . but evolution is about the impact that those mutations have on the individual's chance of successful reproduction.
No. Evolution is about the change in characteristics of a species over time. Natural selection is about the impact that those changes have on survival. And an individual's death does not necessarily hurt survival of the changes to a species, if that death aids survival of the group.
Insightful?
Inspections won't matter until there are regulations restricting cadmium in jewelry, which to the best of my knowledge, and the assertions of one of the sellers in TFA,there aren't.
They don't move *that* fast through the system, so it's not like one container could literally destroy another simply from impact.
According to TFA, this system moves the containers at 25 FPS, which is about 17 mph.
That should be enough to cause some damage, except, being a pneumatic system, the collision would be softened by a a cushion of air between the objects.
It's actually pretty common in controls work. Though digital controls have been slowly replacing pneumatic over the last 20 years, there's still quite a few places that use pneumatic controls, including analog and digital functions.
By another possible reading, if "one of them" is heads, then not "two of them" are heads, so there is 0.00% probability that the "other" one is heads.
Really, the problem in comprehension here is in the potentially ambiguous or unclear expression and interpretation of the natural language explanation of the problem, not in the understanding of the statistics.
" "Transubstantiation is official church Doctrine" should read Transubstantiation is official Catholic Doctrine" should read " "Transubstantiation is official church Doctrine" should read Transubstantiation is official Roman Catholic Doctrine"
You're confusing cause and effect. Building the high-rise reduces the price of land.
You may be the one confusing cause and effect. Building high-rises is much more costly than low- or mid-rises. No rational investor is going to build a high-rise anywhere except where the cost of land is already high, where they can expect high rents or sales prices. (unless they have some notion to create something like a tourist atttraction)
Building up is a good approach only up to a point. I've seen the plans for the tower formerly known as Sears (It's been renamed the Willis Tower by its' owner) Between the dozens of elevators, multiple exit stairways, ductwork, piping, and electrical shafts, and the massive structural columns, there's a very low percentage of usable floor area, especially on the lower floors. Very inefficient. The real issue driving building height up (other than the desire for a big phallic symbol) is the ridiculous cost of land in city centers.
Still looks like there would be a lot more than 6 possible mutations, even if they're only counting the mutations that make actual functional changes to the codons. I have a feeling that TFA got something confused or left something out.
I guess scientists should spend years studying and researching and publish their findings for free, and for dinner they can eat the rainbows that shoot out of your butt.
Well, that might be better than the current situation, where in order to get published by a reputable journal they must give up their copyrights for free and agree to not publish their own works elsewhere, and for dinner they eat the funding that they begged for in order to do the research, which funding they will probably not get without the prestige of having articles published in a reputable journal that charges you money for reading but pays no money to the scientist for writing, depending on how good those rainbows taste.
In general, the absolute worst thing you can do for your health is go into the hospital.
The statistic I heard many years ago when I worked in a hosptial was that on average 20% of hospital patients got an infection from their stay at the hospital.
Whether now or in 1200 AD, scratching your finger would not likely doom you. And the increase in life expectancy caused by antibiotics, while not trivial, have been concentrated in the last 75 years or so.
I would say that bigger improvements to life expectancy since the middle ages have been obtained from better diet and plumbing. Having abundant clean water and removing human waste from your environment can make a huge difference in health. And eating vitamin and nutrient rich foods available all year, even outside the growing season can increase your resistance to disease dramatically.
With four different DNA letters, there are six possible changes . . .
Can anyone explain this? Are they saying that a change from, say, for example, T to A is the same as a change from A to T? Are they just wrong? Or is there some good explanation that eludes me?
I've already heard the argument that all the cost and effort to stop the destruction of the ozone layer was a waste since the "predictions about the ozone layer disappearing" didn't come true.
Why should installing a particular spreadsheet program cause my preferences to change so that that program opens.csvs (unless it asks politely, and I say yes)? Also, why would I assume that Firefox automatically knows what program I want to open a web-hosted.csv file with? Do I really want a web browser to automatically run programs based on a file I click on if I haven't explicitly allowed it?
I share your frustration about undos. However, I've had more undo problems in Wordperfect and I've also encountered similar problems in MS Word.
However, I disagree with the GP's assessment of lists in OOo. I find numbered lists and outlines work much better in OOo than in MS Word. In fact, I've had documents become completely unopenable using MS Word. Usually I've been able to open them in OOo and fix them. This seemed to be due to well known problems in MS Word with styles, especially ones that MS Word automatically generates (cutting and pasting should be forbidden when using lists in MS Word). Don't know if they've fixed this in 2007 or 2010, but I'm not going out of my way to find out.
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and "they're"
As long as tabs are fixed, and delimiters like spaces, periods, and commas are sufficiently large, I prefer proportional fonts while coding. Then again, I don't code 8 hours a day, so YMMV.
Maybe it's my old eyes, but I find serif fonts much harder to read than sans-serif.
Also, I find "ALL CAPS" at least as easy to read than "normal text". That could be because I work in the construction industry where drawings use all caps. (In fact, until several years after we switched from hand drafting to CAD, I found it very difficult to write in anything but all caps.) Also, we use 1/2 size printouts of drawings all the time, and from that experience I can say that all caps is much easier to read than mixed case when the font is small. On the other hand, mixed case probably shows more information when reproductions are blurred or partially obscured.
Finally, to respond to other threads, I can't stand white on black text. It hurts my eyes terribly and is way too hard to read. I won't usually stay on a website with small, serif, white-on-black text, as it's not worth the effort.
Discover Card also has a relatively large call center / data center there
I wonder if those sorts of users show up in the statistics
Give Microsoft credit where it's due. One of the very first screens you see when you start up Internet Explorer for the first time is the search engine selection menu.
Should I really give Microsoft credit for doing what the anit-trust regulators forced them to do?
No individual evolves.
correct
. . . but evolution is about the impact that those mutations have on the individual's chance of successful reproduction.
No. Evolution is about the change in characteristics of a species over time. Natural selection is about the impact that those changes have on survival. And an individual's death does not necessarily hurt survival of the changes to a species, if that death aids survival of the group.
Since rules are already in place for this sort of thing, you can't cry out "regulate it!" because it already is regulated.
No.
RTFA
There are no regulations for cadmium in jewelry.
Insightful? ,there aren't.
Inspections won't matter until there are regulations restricting cadmium in jewelry, which to the best of my knowledge, and the assertions of one of the sellers in TFA
They don't move *that* fast through the system, so it's not like one container could literally destroy another simply from impact.
According to TFA, this system moves the containers at 25 FPS, which is about 17 mph.
That should be enough to cause some damage, except, being a pneumatic system, the collision would be softened by a a cushion of air between the objects.
It's actually pretty common in controls work. Though digital controls have been slowly replacing pneumatic over the last 20 years, there's still quite a few places that use pneumatic controls, including analog and digital functions.
By another possible reading, if "one of them" is heads, then not "two of them" are heads, so there is 0.00% probability that the "other" one is heads.
Really, the problem in comprehension here is in the potentially ambiguous or unclear expression and interpretation of the natural language explanation of the problem, not in the understanding of the statistics.
I agree.
I refuse to read thru something as "pretty" and content-sparse as that. Much worse than a regular text article with a couple of page clicks.
" "Transubstantiation is official church Doctrine" should read Transubstantiation is official Catholic Doctrine" should read " "Transubstantiation is official church Doctrine" should read Transubstantiation is official Roman Catholic Doctrine"
Interestingly, the Normans who invaded the island previoously invaded by the Nordic raiders were descendants of those same Viking peoples.
.SVG will really open up the CAD market as well, so watch out for Autodesk, in fact they will suffer farm more harm than M$.
SVG, if wildly successful, will have no impact on AutoCAD, very little impact on any other Autdesk product.
Anyone working with $s should consider using BCD.
You're confusing cause and effect. Building the high-rise reduces the price of land.
You may be the one confusing cause and effect. Building high-rises is much more costly than low- or mid-rises. No rational investor is going to build a high-rise anywhere except where the cost of land is already high, where they can expect high rents or sales prices. (unless they have some notion to create something like a tourist atttraction)
Building up is a good approach only up to a point. I've seen the plans for the tower formerly known as Sears (It's been renamed the Willis Tower by its' owner) Between the dozens of elevators, multiple exit stairways, ductwork, piping, and electrical shafts, and the massive structural columns, there's a very low percentage of usable floor area, especially on the lower floors. Very inefficient. The real issue driving building height up (other than the desire for a big phallic symbol) is the ridiculous cost of land in city centers.
Still looks like there would be a lot more than 6 possible mutations, even if they're only counting the mutations that make actual functional changes to the codons. I have a feeling that TFA got something confused or left something out.
I guess scientists should spend years studying and researching and publish their findings for free, and for dinner they can eat the rainbows that shoot out of your butt.
Well, that might be better than the current situation, where in order to get published by a reputable journal they must give up their copyrights for free and agree to not publish their own works elsewhere, and for dinner they eat the funding that they begged for in order to do the research, which funding they will probably not get without the prestige of having articles published in a reputable journal that charges you money for reading but pays no money to the scientist for writing, depending on how good those rainbows taste.
In general, the absolute worst thing you can do for your health is go into the hospital.
The statistic I heard many years ago when I worked in a hosptial was that on average 20% of hospital patients got an infection from their stay at the hospital.
Whether now or in 1200 AD, scratching your finger would not likely doom you. And the increase in life expectancy caused by antibiotics, while not trivial, have been concentrated in the last 75 years or so.
I would say that bigger improvements to life expectancy since the middle ages have been obtained from better diet and plumbing. Having abundant clean water and removing human waste from your environment can make a huge difference in health. And eating vitamin and nutrient rich foods available all year, even outside the growing season can increase your resistance to disease dramatically.
With four different DNA letters, there are six possible changes . . .
Can anyone explain this? Are they saying that a change from, say, for example, T to A is the same as a change from A to T? Are they just wrong? Or is there some good explanation that eludes me?
I've already heard the argument that all the cost and effort to stop the destruction of the ozone layer was a waste since the "predictions about the ozone layer disappearing" didn't come true.
Why should installing a particular spreadsheet program cause my preferences to change so that that program opens .csvs (unless it asks politely, and I say yes)? Also, why would I assume that Firefox automatically knows what program I want to open a web-hosted .csv file with? Do I really want a web browser to automatically run programs based on a file I click on if I haven't explicitly allowed it?
I share your frustration about undos. However, I've had more undo problems in Wordperfect and I've also encountered similar problems in MS Word.
However, I disagree with the GP's assessment of lists in OOo. I find numbered lists and outlines work much better in OOo than in MS Word. In fact, I've had documents become completely unopenable using MS Word. Usually I've been able to open them in OOo and fix them. This seemed to be due to well known problems in MS Word with styles, especially ones that MS Word automatically generates (cutting and pasting should be forbidden when using lists in MS Word). Don't know if they've fixed this in 2007 or 2010, but I'm not going out of my way to find out.