With a good hosts file the vast majority of ads are blocked anyway. Only the ones that are hosted on normal servers are loaded. I found that even without Adblock, very few showed.
If you never see more than 100% CPU in top, it probably doesn't, and I've never seen that, and it doesn't run multiple processes either. Chrome, however, runs several processes, even for plugins (often called "exe" because Chrome spawns/proc/$$/exe.)
Please, name something you can remove from the default install of Firefox.
Something they need to work on is XUL. People in the know say that that's where FF burns the most cycles, especially during startup. It needs some kind of JIT compilation. Also, why is it that FF just sitting there doing exactly nothing always sucks up a couple percent of the CPU? One other thing that needs improving is multithreading. Why is the GUI slow while multiple other tabs are loading?
I read an article that an increasing number of American students go to Europe because it's more cost effective to study there. Can't remember where, alas.
Where I work, about a third of the engineering positions are people from abroad - foreigners or (by now) immigrants, most of them from Europe and India.
A HR person told me once that the process of moving somebody to the US and all the immigration paperwork costs between $70k and $100k and that is considered a fair deal to get somebody who is good.
That was in 2000 IIRC. The people who have been moved to the US by the company are the ones who tend to stick around and survive layoffs, so the percentage of foreigners has increased since then. I haven't seen any new foreign faces in a couple of years. It's probably no longer cost effective to hire people from abroad.
The main purpose of Atom is low power consumption. Sure, Intel could make them faster, but only at the expense of higher power. Since its competition is ARM, there's no use doing that until ARM has caught up. The footprint of a 10" netbook is hardly bigger than the smaller models. A halfway decent keyboard and the much nicer screen make them the sweet spot, that's why they completely replaced the 7"/9" models. If people bought them in droves they'd still be around.
No time passes for a particle that moves at c. A photon that was emitted shortly after the Big Bang experiences 0 time passing until it is received here. That's a direct consequence of Special Relativity. So, it can not change. Light doesn't change frequency during its flight. Only if you look at it from a different rest frame you see a different momentum/energy; that's the relativistic Doppler effect, the source of red shift. If you're in the same rest frame as the one where the photon was emitted, it will never change.
Just download the PDF file from the Web or P2P after you paid. Then you have the best of both worlds: Peace of mind and a book that nobody can take away from you.
I keep wondering what infrastructure and financing you need if you're not dealing in dead trees and brick-and-mortar any more. Editing can be contracted out at the responsibility of the author who would just deliver a document in a specific format. Amazon would tally the sales and pay the author. That's it. I think publishing as a business is dead, they just don't know it yet.
If neutrinos traveled at the speed of light, they wouldn't have time (literally) to oscillate. This is independent of rest mass. However, if they travel at less than c, they have to have rest mass or their energy and momentum would be zero.
Phil says further down in the comments that the ISS was behind the earth when the main pulse hit. If it had been in front, the astronauts would have gotten the equivalent of a dental X-ray.
FWIW, some bacteria can divide about every 20 minutes given enough nutrients. Add a high mutation rate and you can see what our immune system is up against.
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I can haz Visual Basic for Firefox?
Removing extensions from Firefox is like removing the guns from a tank.
But what if the gun drags behind in the mud, almost stopping the tank?
Advanced physics is all a big hoax. I have some emails to prove that they forged all their data. Frauds!
So advanced math is like hand grenades or horseshoes?
You just download one and paste it to the end of your file. When you start to see too many ads, you download a new one.
With a good hosts file the vast majority of ads are blocked anyway. Only the ones that are hosted on normal servers are loaded. I found that even without Adblock, very few showed.
One day Terahertz imagers will be cheap, what then?
If you never see more than 100% CPU in top, it probably doesn't, and I've never seen that, and it doesn't run multiple processes either. /proc/$$/exe.)
Chrome, however, runs several processes, even for plugins (often called "exe" because Chrome spawns
Chrome's Adblock together with a decent hosts file work well enough for me. And it's a lot faster than FF 3.5, especially on a slow CPU like Atom.
If you eat ground dead cow, you eat hormones, antibiotics etc. Just sayin'.
Oh and way too much saturated fat too.
Then they are chopped up and ground together,
And you eat that?
It's your own fault.
Please, name something you can remove from the default install of Firefox.
Something they need to work on is XUL. People in the know say that that's where FF burns the most cycles, especially during startup. It needs some kind of JIT compilation.
Also, why is it that FF just sitting there doing exactly nothing always sucks up a couple percent of the CPU?
One other thing that needs improving is multithreading. Why is the GUI slow while multiple other tabs are loading?
Or imperial Spain. Or tsarist Russia. Or pre-WWII Germany, which was highly religious. And the two major churches endorsed Hitler at first. Oops.
American universities should focus on Americans first.
Foreign students are a profit center for American universities. Their higher fees subsidize American students.
I read an article that an increasing number of American students go to Europe because it's more cost effective to study there. Can't remember where, alas.
Where I work, about a third of the engineering positions are people from abroad - foreigners or (by now) immigrants, most of them from Europe and India.
A HR person told me once that the process of moving somebody to the US and all the immigration paperwork costs between $70k and $100k and that is considered a fair deal to get somebody who is good.
That was in 2000 IIRC. The people who have been moved to the US by the company are the ones who tend to stick around and survive layoffs, so the percentage of foreigners has increased since then.
I haven't seen any new foreign faces in a couple of years. It's probably no longer cost effective to hire people from abroad.
The main purpose of Atom is low power consumption. Sure, Intel could make them faster, but only at the expense of higher power. Since its competition is ARM, there's no use doing that until ARM has caught up.
The footprint of a 10" netbook is hardly bigger than the smaller models. A halfway decent keyboard and the much nicer screen make them the sweet spot, that's why they completely replaced the 7"/9" models. If people bought them in droves they'd still be around.
Now, the fact that homo sapiens have intelligence has proven to be very beneficial in our survival
... for a time that so far is hardly a blip on the radar on an evolutionary/palaeontologic scale.
No time passes for a particle that moves at c. A photon that was emitted shortly after the Big Bang experiences 0 time passing until it is received here. That's a direct consequence of Special Relativity. So, it can not change.
Light doesn't change frequency during its flight. Only if you look at it from a different rest frame you see a different momentum/energy; that's the relativistic Doppler effect, the source of red shift. If you're in the same rest frame as the one where the photon was emitted, it will never change.
Just download the PDF file from the Web or P2P after you paid. Then you have the best of both worlds: Peace of mind and a book that nobody can take away from you.
I keep wondering what infrastructure and financing you need if you're not dealing in dead trees and brick-and-mortar any more. Editing can be contracted out at the responsibility of the author who would just deliver a document in a specific format. Amazon would tally the sales and pay the author. That's it.
I think publishing as a business is dead, they just don't know it yet.
If neutrinos traveled at the speed of light, they wouldn't have time (literally) to oscillate.
This is independent of rest mass.
However, if they travel at less than c, they have to have rest mass or their energy and momentum would be zero.
Phil says further down in the comments that the ISS was behind the earth when the main pulse hit.
If it had been in front, the astronauts would have gotten the equivalent of a dental X-ray.
2. Figure out how they broke in. If they broke in then someone else likely could too.
Load a CD and reset the box. Not all that hard if you have physical access.
FWIW, some bacteria can divide about every 20 minutes given enough nutrients. Add a high mutation rate and you can see what our immune system is up against.