Right, 1000 or whatever number they end up with will be nothing compared to whatever arbitrary standard we capriciously decide upon from the comfort of our computer chairs. Nevermind that it might be impressive by itself. We are so much wiser and more prescient in our cynicism. Put more generally, nobody should really ever attempt anything, because everything is futile.
I had one of these too. Back when 2GB sticks were high-end I found one on eBay for an insanely low price. Guess what? It was really 32 MB. It appeared that I could write 2GB of data on it but I could never read more than 32MB when I tried, everything else was corrupt. I assumed it was a virus and not a doctored partition table. The seller refunded me and claimed it was his supplier's fault.
FTFA: "And, of course, stories that aggregate falsehoods to support an administration's efforts to take the country into a disastrous, decade-long war based on lies will always remain free."
Just last night I was reading this page, a list of mostly minor planets in the Star Wars canon, so extensive that that one page was just C-D! Someone explain to me why Old Man Murray gets deleted but all this irrelevant stuff is still there. Surely he's more notable than most of these imaginary planets!
The amount of power your hardware uses is not constant, it depends on what you run on it. If you run something that's CPU-intensive then your CPU will consume more power than otherwise.
The power rating on your PSU is not constant, it does not suck the rated power at all times and waste the unused portion as heat. The rating is a maximum.
That said, considering all the power wasted by an OS like Windows and whatever other programs you may have resident in RAM for convenience's sake, and plug-ins like Flash that are ubiquitous even on netbooks, measuring the difference in a browser's power consumption is probably laughable.
Isn't the status quo currently that judges decide whether to allow them or not? Why not let them continue to do so? If you're going to ban them outright, then why? And what possible justification is there for not banning notepads and pens and other recording devices?
Says the stupid trendy person reading who comments on a mediocre technology site for attention and karma. Perhaps you're also doing it from a laptop in a coffee shop. Really though, if you're using anything other than Lynx on FreeBSD on a 486DX tower in your parents' basement then you're just as big of a stupid trend follower.
However, whenever I check for app updates I'll never be able to use the "Update All" button and have to update all my other apps individually, and that annoying little "1" is always going to be there.
Anyone know how to fix this without updating the NYTimes app? (Without jailbreaking your phone?)
More taxes aren't the answer, more government interference is? How do you propose to pay for this expansion of government?
Also, you don't get rid of suburban sprawl by just zoning more parks and greenways, you do it by aggressively enforcing an urban growth boundary, artificially increasing housing prices inside the area and artificially keeping farmland outside it intact. At least that's how Oregon has been doing it. I don't know how all the other countries are doing it.
Start with the 2005 reboot with Christopher Eccleston. It's a nice introduction that doesn't need any background to get in to, and it's recent so you don't have to watch 40 years of stuff to get to the good stuff (good as in not horribly dated and of poor production quality). One thing of note is that if you do start with Eccleston then you will notice they frequently refer to a particular past event (Read backwards for spoiler: RAW EMIT EHT). This event didn't happen in any of the earlier episodes you skipped, but just prior to the 2005 reboot, sort of to distinguish the new series from the old, so you didn't miss anything.
I watched all of the 4th Doctor (Tom Baker) and one thing you'll notice from those older episodes is how poor the production quality is sometimes (rubber monster suits, dialogue that is completely obscured by background noise). So you're better off starting somewhere recent like 2005 then going back and watching the older stuff. I never got around to watching any other old doctors, you probably won't either.
"I have muscle memory from FF3 to move back to the start of history in a tab, which no longer seems to work, epic UI fail to screw the user that way. That's the only UI problem I haven't been able to work around yet."
Hold down on the back button for a few seconds and the tab history will show up like it used to with the down arrow.
If they are trying to teach any of that to freshmen geology or biology students, of course they should be fired. Those religious, non-scientific beliefs have no place in those fields. Academia doesn't try to replace preachers with skeptics, why must the theocrats try to replace scientists with dogmatists?
This is a situation that just doesn't occur... yet. But it's precisely the intention of this bill, which is why we should not be ambivalent about it.
As for "just move somewhere else", that's rather pithy, not everyone has that luxury, least of all high school graduates who can't afford out-of-state tuition.
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Right, 1000 or whatever number they end up with will be nothing compared to whatever arbitrary standard we capriciously decide upon from the comfort of our computer chairs. Nevermind that it might be impressive by itself. We are so much wiser and more prescient in our cynicism. Put more generally, nobody should really ever attempt anything, because everything is futile.
Nihilism FTW!
I had one of these too. Back when 2GB sticks were high-end I found one on eBay for an insanely low price. Guess what? It was really 32 MB. It appeared that I could write 2GB of data on it but I could never read more than 32MB when I tried, everything else was corrupt. I assumed it was a virus and not a doctored partition table. The seller refunded me and claimed it was his supplier's fault.
Craigslist. It has its drawbacks but it's dead simple.
Can one be considered great if every single one of his "inventions" fails spectacularly?
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FTFA: "And, of course, stories that aggregate falsehoods to support an administration's efforts to take the country into a disastrous, decade-long war based on lies will always remain free."
Zing!
The Vatican's secrets have been intercepted by Wikileaks!
Just last night I was reading this page, a list of mostly minor planets in the Star Wars canon, so extensive that that one page was just C-D! Someone explain to me why Old Man Murray gets deleted but all this irrelevant stuff is still there. Surely he's more notable than most of these imaginary planets!
The amount of power your hardware uses is not constant, it depends on what you run on it. If you run something that's CPU-intensive then your CPU will consume more power than otherwise.
The power rating on your PSU is not constant, it does not suck the rated power at all times and waste the unused portion as heat. The rating is a maximum.
That said, considering all the power wasted by an OS like Windows and whatever other programs you may have resident in RAM for convenience's sake, and plug-ins like Flash that are ubiquitous even on netbooks, measuring the difference in a browser's power consumption is probably laughable.
And this is a summary of what, exactly?
Isn't the status quo currently that judges decide whether to allow them or not? Why not let them continue to do so? If you're going to ban them outright, then why? And what possible justification is there for not banning notepads and pens and other recording devices?
Says the stupid trendy person reading who comments on a mediocre technology site for attention and karma. Perhaps you're also doing it from a laptop in a coffee shop. Really though, if you're using anything other than Lynx on FreeBSD on a 486DX tower in your parents' basement then you're just as big of a stupid trend follower.
Good to know. I expected this very thing.
However, whenever I check for app updates I'll never be able to use the "Update All" button and have to update all my other apps individually, and that annoying little "1" is always going to be there.
Anyone know how to fix this without updating the NYTimes app? (Without jailbreaking your phone?)
More taxes aren't the answer, more government interference is? How do you propose to pay for this expansion of government?
Also, you don't get rid of suburban sprawl by just zoning more parks and greenways, you do it by aggressively enforcing an urban growth boundary, artificially increasing housing prices inside the area and artificially keeping farmland outside it intact. At least that's how Oregon has been doing it. I don't know how all the other countries are doing it.
Whatever happened to those guys? What were the results of their research?
"the movie version of "Starship Troopers" was much better than the book. There, I said it."
Of course it was; it had Denise Richards.
Start with the 2005 reboot with Christopher Eccleston. It's a nice introduction that doesn't need any background to get in to, and it's recent so you don't have to watch 40 years of stuff to get to the good stuff (good as in not horribly dated and of poor production quality). One thing of note is that if you do start with Eccleston then you will notice they frequently refer to a particular past event (Read backwards for spoiler: RAW EMIT EHT). This event didn't happen in any of the earlier episodes you skipped, but just prior to the 2005 reboot, sort of to distinguish the new series from the old, so you didn't miss anything.
I watched all of the 4th Doctor (Tom Baker) and one thing you'll notice from those older episodes is how poor the production quality is sometimes (rubber monster suits, dialogue that is completely obscured by background noise). So you're better off starting somewhere recent like 2005 then going back and watching the older stuff. I never got around to watching any other old doctors, you probably won't either.
Three: Earthquakes. I'd think. It's already a problem with tapping into the crust for geothermal power.
I'm already in the solar system.
We're going to destroy ourselves with asteroids?
"One last delay"? Really, Slashdot?
"I have muscle memory from FF3 to move back to the start of history in a tab, which no longer seems to work, epic UI fail to screw the user that way. That's the only UI problem I haven't been able to work around yet."
Hold down on the back button for a few seconds and the tab history will show up like it used to with the down arrow.
"Those smartphone users who stayed likely have other priorities (like having an antenna that works?)."
It was so very hard to make the decision to switch in 2009 knowing that in 2010 Apple would release a phone with a bad antenna.
If they are trying to teach any of that to freshmen geology or biology students, of course they should be fired. Those religious, non-scientific beliefs have no place in those fields. Academia doesn't try to replace preachers with skeptics, why must the theocrats try to replace scientists with dogmatists?
This is a situation that just doesn't occur... yet. But it's precisely the intention of this bill, which is why we should not be ambivalent about it.
As for "just move somewhere else", that's rather pithy, not everyone has that luxury, least of all high school graduates who can't afford out-of-state tuition.
Blasphemer!