... There is no reason that noon has to be the time of day when the sun is highest overhead. That's just tradition for the sake of useless tradition.
In Iceland the sun is highest around ca 13:30, always. Very nice I think.
Unfortunately now some people want to move this closer to noon in order to make it easier for teenagers to wake up in the morning.
...In English, you capitalize most words in a title. See for example.
I would actually really appreciate if Slashdot would switch to plain sentence case for all article titles. It is usually much easier to read, in particular for technical stuff where it is often difficult today to tell if some word is a company name or some tech thingy.
The 1by1 folder player (http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html) is very minimal and light weight. Probably works best for those who like to listen to whole albums.
When this high intensity laser pulse, which is one billion times brighter than the surface of the sun, strikes the electron, it causes it to behave differently.
Obvious overflow bug in the electron. It's behaviour is only defined between 0 - 99999999.
Sigh... this issue is so bloody simple to resolve.
1. Default to a default set of morals, which include a reasonable (but not excessive) degree of self-sacrifice - based around the sort of decisions a "typical" driver would make.
That sounds anything but simple.
Yes it is, it's all about reusing existing quality code, such as face recognition libraries and Wisconsin's Prison-Sentencing Algorithm.
I wonder how many repeat offenders there are in 10 average pedestrians.
the design team removes all unnecessary design. For example, the pages on Gov.UK – the central portal – don’t have any pictures on them. This is because they distract from the information on the page, and user research showed that they reduced the clarity.
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“It’d be nice if they like it, don’t get me wrong, but liking is not really a useful metric.” Instead his team looked to see if users have completed an online transaction, or stopped halfway through. Equally, did they find the information they needed and leave a webpage, or did they have to search for more information?
As opposed to having graphical designers design web sites.
Here are couple more articles. The level of government sponsored propaganda in Sweden is reaching pretty unprecedented levels...
How on earth can this be tagged as informative? The first article discusses possible responses to real growing tensions with Russia. The second is a neo-nazi website, which either tells something about the poster or that he just blindingly googled some crap.
On an iPad2 with newest iOS, several resource hungry apps will NOT be able to run unless you manually go in and remove all apps from the list. That's with several gb free, so it seems very likely that some RAM must be used.
It's not even as if Java is a huge security problem today. It's effectively been click-to-play by default in all major browsers for a long time, and the plug-in itself then has a bunch more security safeguards before it will trust remote code to do just about anything.
Agree. Expensive enterprise software often relies on applets, that's the way it is and how it will remain for some years.
Now if Java or browsers had the ability to whitelist Java applets, then for an enterprise with control over its own applets, I actually don't see any particular security problem with applets running within a browser. Why not allow enterprises to run software they control and trust?
Good one. But left-alt is easier to reach.
On my main work computer I have swapped L-ctlr and L-alt via registry scancode map.
Prior to that I had started to develop left-pinky-copy-paste syndrome, fixed now.
The four Galilean moons are interesting from an evolutionary POV.
Io - Molten sulphur on the surface, purple volcanoes all over it.
Europa - Deep water ocean, thin crust, very active plate tectonics.
Ganymede - Europa with a deep dish crust and cooler core.
Callisto - A rock.
Yes, I imagine the birds will have quite different types of beaks.
... all of the many small bridges in the region are specifically designed to be washed away easily. It's simply cheaper to build them new ones after every serious flood.
The Icelandic director of transport states in this mornings paper that "bridges are expensive". Just rebuilding two particular bridges that are candidates for being washed away would cost roughly 25 million USD. In addition there's the disruption and inconvenience until some rudimentary bridges have been put in place.
The plan is therefore to try to save the bridges. If necessary, heavy machinery will be used to dig the roads apart the allow the flood to go that way. Rebuilding roads is a comparatively quick and painless process.
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An since it has no numeric keypad, I don't have to reach as far for the mouse! This is basically why I've got it.
Negatives: Having home/end/pgup/dn in the top corner. An occasionally when I remote into this computer, num-lock has changed when I get back to it.
... There is no reason that noon has to be the time of day when the sun is highest overhead. That's just tradition for the sake of useless tradition.
In Iceland the sun is highest around ca 13:30, always. Very nice I think.
Unfortunately now some people want to move this closer to noon in order to make it easier for teenagers to wake up in the morning.
...In English, you capitalize most words in a title. See for example.
I would actually really appreciate if Slashdot would switch to plain sentence case for all article titles. It is usually much easier to read, in particular for technical stuff where it is often difficult today to tell if some word is a company name or some tech thingy.
The 1by1 folder player (http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html) is very minimal and light weight. Probably works best for those who like to listen to whole albums.
When this high intensity laser pulse, which is one billion times brighter than the surface of the sun, strikes the electron, it causes it to behave differently.
Obvious overflow bug in the electron. It's behaviour is only defined between 0 - 99999999.
At the end of http://livestream.com/ESA/rose... (1:14:00) they show the very final close-up images, 5 metres above ground.
That sounds anything but simple.
Yes it is, it's all about reusing existing quality code, such as face recognition libraries and Wisconsin's Prison-Sentencing Algorithm. I wonder how many repeat offenders there are in 10 average pedestrians.
the design team removes all unnecessary design. For example, the pages on Gov.UK – the central portal – don’t have any pictures on them. This is because they distract from the information on the page, and user research showed that they reduced the clarity.
...
“It’d be nice if they like it, don’t get me wrong, but liking is not really a useful metric.” Instead his team looked to see if users have completed an online transaction, or stopped halfway through. Equally, did they find the information they needed and leave a webpage, or did they have to search for more information?
As opposed to having graphical designers design web sites.
... CNBC [Consumer News and Business Channel] ...
Here are couple more articles. The level of government sponsored propaganda in Sweden is reaching pretty unprecedented levels ...
How on earth can this be tagged as informative?
The first article discusses possible responses to real growing tensions with Russia. The second is a neo-nazi website, which either tells something about the poster or that he just blindingly googled some crap.
39 digits of pi will let you calculate a sphere the size of the observable universe with an error the width of a single hydrogen atom.
42 digits should have sufficed for God during Creation then.
On an iPad2 with newest iOS, several resource hungry apps will NOT be able to run unless you manually go in and remove all apps from the list.
That's with several gb free, so it seems very likely that some RAM must be used.
One of the most unique features of Picasa is the facial recognition system....
Yes, by now Google recognizes the the face of 20% of the worlds population. I don't know if that is cool or scary. Mission accomplished?
But only 11 mb in packed decimal, which will be more or less as efficient when you write the number to the terminal.
Meaning that it connects through the ps/2 keyboard port of a computer. I had to google that.
It's not even as if Java is a huge security problem today. It's effectively been click-to-play by default in all major browsers for a long time, and the plug-in itself then has a bunch more security safeguards before it will trust remote code to do just about anything.
Agree. Expensive enterprise software often relies on applets, that's the way it is and how it will remain for some years.
Now if Java or browsers had the ability to whitelist Java applets, then for an enterprise with control over its own applets, I actually don't see any particular security problem with applets running within a browser. Why not allow enterprises to run software they control and trust?
I just checked my IP address and it's 192.168.1.102.
That explains my IP address conflicts. Thanks a lot!
Good one. But left-alt is easier to reach.
On my main work computer I have swapped L-ctlr and L-alt via registry scancode map. Prior to that I had started to develop left-pinky-copy-paste syndrome, fixed now.
The first picture seems to be from Fudai that was actually saved thanks to the tsunami wall.
Don't know about the second pic.
The four Galilean moons are interesting from an evolutionary POV. Io - Molten sulphur on the surface, purple volcanoes all over it. Europa - Deep water ocean, thin crust, very active plate tectonics. Ganymede - Europa with a deep dish crust and cooler core. Callisto - A rock.
Yes, I imagine the birds will have quite different types of beaks.
The real problem is that people *want* to see creative, aesthetically pleasing and different designs when browsing the web.
Speak for yourself. When I browse the web I want different types of information.
In August 2015 the comet will be at its closest to the sun, it would be neat if the lander could just go to sleep until then ...
... all of the many small bridges in the region are specifically designed to be washed away easily. It's simply cheaper to build them new ones after every serious flood.
The Icelandic director of transport states in this mornings paper that "bridges are expensive". Just rebuilding two particular bridges that are candidates for being washed away would cost roughly 25 million USD. In addition there's the disruption and inconvenience until some rudimentary bridges have been put in place.
The plan is therefore to try to save the bridges. If necessary, heavy machinery will be used to dig the roads apart the allow the flood to go that way. Rebuilding roads is a comparatively quick and painless process.
Here it is ... http://sci.esa.int/where_is_ro...
Roughly 23 light minutes away.
Frederik Pohl's The World at the End of Time deals with the ejections of solar systems on a grand scale.