Right. Why did people take pictures of it at all? If you want pictures, go to a space/astronomy/NASA site after the eclipse and download to your heart's content.
It is the same mentality as those who film a sporting event with their smartphone. Why? It will be broadcast, in better definition and commentary, and they can watch the re-broadcast when they get home.
Disclaimer: Spring-And-Loop Theory is also an alternative model of how things work at all scales.
The theory GP linked to has been discredited. In essence it says there is a push everywhere, and that one atom/mass blocks another from this push, and this is what (somehow) attracts the two things together. Even intuitively this sounds bizarre/non-workable.
Spring-And-Loop Theory also thinks gravity is a push, not a pull. But there the similarities end. Perhaps the introduction is the best place to start.
It uses a tiny amount of RAM, a tiny amount of CPU, supports tons of plugins...Playing an MP3 shouldn't take more than 16 MB of RAM or >0.0% CPU. End of story.
Ultraplayer: 2MB download, 8MB ram, 0% cpu
I went looking for something better when I saw Media Player taking one-third of my CPU (at the time). Found Ultraplayer. Never changed.
And if "you" are a quadraplegic? Well, there is Dragon Dictate, for when you have your laptop up and running. But what about when you are undergoing the hours of daily care it takes to keep you alive and healthy? Alexa is the only game in town -- or the best in that category, anyway.
If you don't want to sit in the car, then park facing backward and sit in the bed of your pickup
The only way I would do this is if I also get access to a porta potty and am given the choice to hand-pump my own water. While wearing a caveman costume.
The notion of keeping 1600+ things open and active is fundamentally flawed.
You have an inbox with 1600+ file folders in it. 1600+ post-its on your whiteboard. 1600+ people lined up outside your office.
Instead, you need a multi-part solution.
- Daily to do list
- Daily/weekly/monthly/yearly reminders
- One or more "workspaces" (i.e. your browser session(s))
- File system/archives/offline/nearline
Maybe Tarani Chandola's definition of stress is wrong.
'Workers in lower status jobs tend to have more stressful working conditions -- they have lower pay, poorer pension arrangements, less control over their work, and report more unsupportive colleagues and managers'
Lower pay doesn't equal more stressful. Poor management of money equals more stressful. "When your outflow exceeds your income, your upkeep becomes your downfall."...Just ask anyone trying to live in San Francisco right now.
Less control of your work is only stressful if you let it be. I worked in the computer section of a part of a University. Dealing with the high average incompetence level of others was stressful until I asked a simple question: "How would someone else deal with this same situation?" Once I realized that they would be fairing worse than I was, I relaxed (and my stress level plummeted).
"and report more unsupportive colleagues"...do you _really_ think that upper mgmt is supportive of each other? If you do, I've got a bridge to sell you.
How does 20 billion gallons of water correspond to 80 billion cubic meters? I think that some of the numbers are off, but I don't know which because I also think that there are some unstated assumptions.
Good catch. This is an error of a factor of 250. Thus driving the final price down by a factor of 250. Making this 125 times cheaper than desal.
Here is an example of the virtue of RSS feeds: your local public library.
(1) They don't publish every book, CD, video, etc. that they add in any way but RSS.
(2) If new DVDs are your thing, then 10 notices for new DVDs is better than some exhaustive list or database (because there are ten times more books added per day than DVDs) -- in short, RSS can be used to sub-divide results/narrow the search. Without having to know how to advance search.
(3) RSS homogenizes stuff, making it easier/faster to parse it all. Newsletters differ. Web pages wildly differ. RSS...title+brief summary+link.
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Right. Why did people take pictures of it at all? If you want pictures, go to a space/astronomy/NASA site after the eclipse and download to your heart's content.
It is the same mentality as those who film a sporting event with their smartphone. Why? It will be broadcast, in better definition and commentary, and they can watch the re-broadcast when they get home.
Monkey see monkey do.
And a hundred other reasons. See the 2012 PBS documentary "Last Will. and Testament".
Disclaimer: Spring-And-Loop Theory is also an alternative model of how things work at all scales.
The theory GP linked to has been discredited. In essence it says there is a push everywhere, and that one atom/mass blocks another from this push, and this is what (somehow) attracts the two things together. Even intuitively this sounds bizarre/non-workable.
Spring-And-Loop Theory also thinks gravity is a push, not a pull. But there the similarities end. Perhaps the introduction is the best place to start.
Except May 4, 2017, apparently.
Ultraplayer: 2MB download, 8MB ram, 0% cpu
I went looking for something better when I saw Media Player taking one-third of my CPU (at the time). Found Ultraplayer. Never changed.
And if "you" are a quadraplegic? Well, there is Dragon Dictate, for when you have your laptop up and running. But what about when you are undergoing the hours of daily care it takes to keep you alive and healthy? Alexa is the only game in town -- or the best in that category, anyway.
Read the GP's post again.
This statement is miles out of whack. One-third of all computer users in the world are running 32 bit Windows. TODAY.
Firefox (and Chrome) choosing to not support XP doesn't make XP go away. It makes their decisions look ostrich-like.
XP and Vista are as unsupported as white males these days.
The only way I would do this is if I also get access to a porta potty and am given the choice to hand-pump my own water. While wearing a caveman costume.
Who runs 32 bit...in 2017? How about (at least) the 140,000,000 people still running Windows XP*.
This Redditer estimates that half of all Windows 7 users (that is, half of 48.5% of 2 billion = some 485 million) are running 32 bit.
tl;dr? One-third of all computer users...some 650M people...are still using 32 bit.
* Windows XP is still the third most popular operating system in the world (as of May, 2017)
Yup, you figured out how to avoid it. Well done.
40,000 motor vehicle deaths in 2016
The notion of keeping 1600+ things open and active is fundamentally flawed.
You have an inbox with 1600+ file folders in it.
1600+ post-its on your whiteboard.
1600+ people lined up outside your office.
Instead, you need a multi-part solution.
- Daily to do list
- Daily/weekly/monthly/yearly reminders
- One or more "workspaces" (i.e. your browser session(s))
- File system/archives/offline/nearline
And this needs to be tuned/tweaked regularly.
Windows 7 has 49.04% marketshare, as of "June, 2017".
One click Control Panel apps in XP:
- make a shortcut for the appropriate CPL
- move them to whatever folder or nested folder makes sense to you
Related... ...when the OS swaps out commonly run things, or doesn't cache them in the first place.
I realize this is how Microsoft convinces us we need the next version, but as annoying as it gets. Nothing like penalizing power users...
Not true that XP doesn't allow this.
xReminder (Pro) steals the focus (on XP). But, more importantly, you can turn this off in preferences. And yes I'm still on XP.
ctrl-A, ctrl-C, ctrl-F6, ctrl-V
How about Janus-faced, or perfidious?
You lead off with "they keep for a fairly long time", yet bananas barely last a week, despite being bought green-yellow.
If you are looking for a perfect food, consider parsley. Keeps two or more weeks, and has ten times the variety of nutrients, including protein.
Even nuts are "more perfect".
So they are using a Fail Unsafe system. If something fails, put the system in an unsafe state. Brilliant.
Love how they say they _designed_ it to work this way. Ah, no you didn't.
What does the country have to do with this? This is a discussion about money bringing (or not bringing) happiness.
Maybe Tarani Chandola's definition of stress is wrong.
Lower pay doesn't equal more stressful. ...Just ask anyone trying to live in San Francisco right now.
Poor management of money equals more stressful.
"When your outflow exceeds your income, your upkeep becomes your downfall."
Less control of your work is only stressful if you let it be.
I worked in the computer section of a part of a University. Dealing with the high average incompetence level of others was stressful until I asked a simple question: "How would someone else deal with this same situation?" Once I realized that they would be fairing worse than I was, I relaxed (and my stress level plummeted).
"and report more unsupportive colleagues"...do you _really_ think that upper mgmt is supportive of each other? If you do, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Good catch. This is an error of a factor of 250. Thus driving the final price down by a factor of 250. Making this 125 times cheaper than desal.
ESPN has been going down hill rapidly.
For me the last straws were -- firing most of the NFL crew last year and then firing Trent Dilfer this year.
Secondarily, they have fired their most experienced hosts of Sportscenter, so that we now have useless children telling us about sports.
Ease up on the gasoline, ESPN, if you want that bonfire to ever go out.
Here is an example of the virtue of RSS feeds: your local public library.
(1) They don't publish every book, CD, video, etc. that they add in any way but RSS.
(2) If new DVDs are your thing, then 10 notices for new DVDs is better than some exhaustive list or database (because there are ten times more books added per day than DVDs) -- in short, RSS can be used to sub-divide results/narrow the search. Without having to know how to advance search.
(3) RSS homogenizes stuff, making it easier/faster to parse it all. Newsletters differ. Web pages wildly differ. RSS...title+brief summary+link.