Well I'm sorry, but a battery-supported standby mode (esp. with automatic recharging) doesn't make a bit of sense. The problem with standby mode is that it eats energy, and battery is never 100% efficient so it would eat more energy. And I don't want unexpected batteries in devices - if I unplug something, I'd like it to be void of voltage unless something warns me otherwise.
I want stand-by on remote-controlled devices - TV, hi-fi set etc. because I don't wanna reach up on the cabinet just to turn the radio on. But the microwave really doesn't need to be in standby all the time, for example - I'm coming to it with the food so I can bother and turn it on manually. So it depends on the use cases.
And of course computer stand-by is a totally different beast - I do want instant-on as opposed to 2 mins all-things-boot.
sure can add more indirection:
5 somebody in Germany blogs about the slashdot post
6 somebody in Japan blogs about the blog post from 5
7 blog post from 6 gets submitted by a Japanese reader of blog 6 and posted on slashdot
I want the hypertext to be the most appropriate 2-3 words that tell you exactly what you're clicking on.
I also like the words to tell me that I may, in fact, click here. That's why I, for one, would make the link from "Article" in a sentence "Article about quantum computing" because I wouldn't want the whole 4 words to be the link. Also, when "quantum computing" is the link, then it's not clear when I'm clicking on it whether I get the newsworty article or a definition of QC.
Yes, "here" and "CNN" are the wrong anchor words, but "article" isn't.
Oh, how I remember speculating about Hexium and Heptium... I'm not a native English speaker, so I hadn't recognized that Hexium would not be a good name... 8-)
I also thought initially that I'd prefer two smaller displays to one big, but then I thought about it and wasn't so sure any more:
Two displays force the boundary on you, so you (even subconsciously) think about where your windows should be and don't make such mess of them.
One display allows more flexibility, like main stuff in the center and then bunch of things on both sides - so it's like triple-head, not dual head, because here you have two side areas.
On the other hand, dual-head means that the displays are both turned towards you, i.e. they are not parallel, but at an angle. This means better visibility.
For watching movies from your couch, one big honking display clearly wins over two smaller, even if the smaller ones may have bigger total area.
So unless you make a mess of it, one display should probably be preferable to two, as long as it doesn't get so big, that the side areas are just too far from you. Or triple-head. Or one huge thing and two smaller ones on the sides. Oh if I had the money. 8-)
Ultimately, though, a foldable big honking display would be best, I'd wager.
I expect that solar collectors in orbit, collecting the energy that wouldn't reach the Earth anyway, and sending it down here somehow, would be as passive as it gets. But then, that would mean more energy incoming to Earth, and in the end more warming.
I think that photovoltaic and wind are the best both in terms of the net effect (energy coming down and not turned to heat immediately but later when it's consumed), and in terms of the environmental impact (a bit of the ground not warmed up, or slightly lower winds).
If we could only gather the heat from the upper ocean layers and not heat up the lower layers, that would be the same thing.
We need as much space experience as we can get. Is it OK up there? So far it looks like that. Does it have some interesting side-effects that haven't yet shown in the small sample of people who've been up there? (Green skin, telepathy, discovering God, or just a better sense of perspective...) That's one bonus of people having money that the organizers judge as adequate compensation.
If the people can actually be actively helpful, that's another bonus, nothing more.
Isn't science about experimentation and testing hypothesises in a laboratory instead of endless mathematical tricks to get theories to fit observations?
Well, you have to have a hypothesis before you can test it; and if nothing simpler comes to your mind, you can try all kinds of mathematical tricks to form a hypothesis that will actually fit the observations.
But you're right, in this case the tricks feel like the spinning and circling crystal balls in the skies on which the planets were located.
The blurb is wrong in implying that melting arctic ice will cause rising sea levels. Arctic ice floats on sea, and we know from Archimedes that a floating body pushes up as much water as it weighs. So a 1000 ton iceberg pushes up 1000 tons of water and when it melts, it turns into 1000 tons of water. No sea level rise here. You can try it with a glass with some floating ice - let it melt and observe the water level staying put.
It's the Greenland ice, the Canadian and Siberian ice (and even permafrost) that, by melting, can add water to the ocean, resulting in rising sea level.
That was sooo cool, especially building your own tracks and then racing on them; building the longest possible jumps and then designing a way to approach them with the highest possible speed to be able to jump them; or just racing with a formula against the small and slow jeep - doing circles around it. 8-)
What was the best about stunts was that you were not constrained by the track, instead you were constrained only to stay within the boundaries of the world. And it had nice physics. 8-)
I got a blog when I decided that updating my homepage was just plain stupid - nobody would be re-checking and it didn't show what's the new bits and what's been there forever.
So I also view blogs as personal homepages, and there may be hype about them, but they seem they are here to stay, whereas the original personal homepages really didn't make all that much sense in the way they were hyped so many years ago.
But blogs will stay alongside with the business - that's the nice thing about the web - everything can be there, the worhless stuff gets ignored.
I gotta object to my own statement here: schools don't only teach sciences, they also teach physical education (give the kids some exercise) because otherwise the kids won't exercise.
Schools also teach sexual education, in hopes that where parents might be shy or even misleading, the teachers will be frank and there will be less problems like sexual diseases and unwanted pregnancies. There should also be general health classes, but this material can easily be folded into phys.ed. and biology, I guess.
Schools also teach (at least in the Czech Republic) "social sciences", i.e. politics, economics etc. so that the kids learn about the functioning of their society. We also had some material on the various religions in these kind of classes.
In conclusion, school is not only about science, but also about equipping the kids for real life, and religions are part of real life so the kids should know about them. It is a mistake that "intelligent design" is put side-by-side with "evolution", as the belong to different aspects of education. But I'm not so opposed to teaching religions in schools.
All of physics etc. are just theories, i.e. something that can be supported by evidence, that can predict the results of experiments, and that can be disproved by new evidence. We cannot really prove these theories, on the contrary by disproving them (like Newtonian Gravity) we generally improve (accepting Einstein's Relativity).
So, perhaps ironically, we should teach in schools only stuff that's disprovable, in the hope that the pupils will grow to disprove all that stuff.
I believe the other word commonly used is falsifiable, in case this rings a bell.
Scott, I'm short-sighted and I like my fonts nice and big, with the best readable font about 18pt on my current display. Why exactly does your site require me to use 180% zoom to get the text that I'm supposed to read there to the font size that I prefer to read? If you could, would you disable my browser's zoom capability (or window resize capability) so that your site always looks exactly as you want?
The author controls what the site looks like by default, but the user may want to set the font size, the fonts themselves, the colors or indeed the layout as they wish, within their abilities of course. Those users know what they're doing and they don't affect your site's presentation for other users that don't do any tweaking. I expect that the ability to disable Greasemonkey like you do is a bug and will be fixed. 8-)
And the preview and submit buttons should be switched, this is not the first time I wanted to preview but submitted instead - I think previewing should be encouraged and thus get the more prominent button position.
Really, is the stress and bullshit worth the money? If it's gonna be a month or so, put your expenses on a credit card for a month (keep 'em reasonable), and just pay it off when you get the new job.
Ugh, I'm off-topic, but is it just me or should living at least one month without pay be covered by a buffer of savings from the 6 or 7 years he said he had a not-so-bad job? I know people who don't have such guffer and I franky have no idea what they are doing or in fact how they are doing it.
I run a server off a Pentium 120Mhz box -- do I need anything more for a minor WWW server that doubles as a border router for a small company LAN and an ISDN dial-in box for several employees?
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The statement that "science is/isn't better than religion" is not scientific, it's rather religious.
Well I'm sorry, but a battery-supported standby mode (esp. with automatic recharging) doesn't make a bit of sense. The problem with standby mode is that it eats energy, and battery is never 100% efficient so it would eat more energy. And I don't want unexpected batteries in devices - if I unplug something, I'd like it to be void of voltage unless something warns me otherwise.
And of course computer stand-by is a totally different beast - I do want instant-on as opposed to 2 mins all-things-boot.
sure can add more indirection: 5 somebody in Germany blogs about the slashdot post
6 somebody in Japan blogs about the blog post from 5 7 blog post from 6 gets submitted by a Japanese reader of blog 6 and posted on slashdot
I also like the words to tell me that I may, in fact, click here. That's why I, for one, would make the link from "Article" in a sentence "Article about quantum computing" because I wouldn't want the whole 4 words to be the link. Also, when "quantum computing" is the link, then it's not clear when I'm clicking on it whether I get the newsworty article or a definition of QC.
Yes, "here" and "CNN" are the wrong anchor words, but "article" isn't.
Oh, how I remember speculating about Hexium and Heptium... I'm not a native English speaker, so I hadn't recognized that Hexium would not be a good name... 8-)
I also thought initially that I'd prefer two smaller displays to one big, but then I thought about it and wasn't so sure any more:
So unless you make a mess of it, one display should probably be preferable to two, as long as it doesn't get so big, that the side areas are just too far from you. Or triple-head. Or one huge thing and two smaller ones on the sides. Oh if I had the money. 8-)
Ultimately, though, a foldable big honking display would be best, I'd wager.
I think that photovoltaic and wind are the best both in terms of the net effect (energy coming down and not turned to heat immediately but later when it's consumed), and in terms of the environmental impact (a bit of the ground not warmed up, or slightly lower winds).
If we could only gather the heat from the upper ocean layers and not heat up the lower layers, that would be the same thing.
There you have it! 8-)
If the people can actually be actively helpful, that's another bonus, nothing more.
Does anyone remember who now owns Commodore, by the way? It's been awfully quiet on that front, should expect a story any day now.
But you're right, in this case the tricks feel like the spinning and circling crystal balls in the skies on which the planets were located.
It's the Greenland ice, the Canadian and Siberian ice (and even permafrost) that, by melting, can add water to the ocean, resulting in rising sea level.
Flying cars? When?!?
That was sooo cool, especially building your own tracks and then racing on them; building the longest possible jumps and then designing a way to approach them with the highest possible speed to be able to jump them; or just racing with a formula against the small and slow jeep - doing circles around it. 8-)
What was the best about stunts was that you were not constrained by the track, instead you were constrained only to stay within the boundaries of the world. And it had nice physics. 8-)
So I also view blogs as personal homepages, and there may be hype about them, but they seem they are here to stay, whereas the original personal homepages really didn't make all that much sense in the way they were hyped so many years ago.
But blogs will stay alongside with the business - that's the nice thing about the web - everything can be there, the worhless stuff gets ignored.
Schools also teach sexual education, in hopes that where parents might be shy or even misleading, the teachers will be frank and there will be less problems like sexual diseases and unwanted pregnancies. There should also be general health classes, but this material can easily be folded into phys.ed. and biology, I guess.
Schools also teach (at least in the Czech Republic) "social sciences", i.e. politics, economics etc. so that the kids learn about the functioning of their society. We also had some material on the various religions in these kind of classes.
In conclusion, school is not only about science, but also about equipping the kids for real life, and religions are part of real life so the kids should know about them. It is a mistake that "intelligent design" is put side-by-side with "evolution", as the belong to different aspects of education. But I'm not so opposed to teaching religions in schools.
So, perhaps ironically, we should teach in schools only stuff that's disprovable, in the hope that the pupils will grow to disprove all that stuff.
I believe the other word commonly used is falsifiable, in case this rings a bell.
The move is years late, but I gotta admit they've done it with style. 8-)
by putting a lot of stickers on it. It sure is one of the cooler laptops in the meetings I attend. 8-)
The author controls what the site looks like by default, but the user may want to set the font size, the fonts themselves, the colors or indeed the layout as they wish, within their abilities of course. Those users know what they're doing and they don't affect your site's presentation for other users that don't do any tweaking. I expect that the ability to disable Greasemonkey like you do is a bug and will be fixed. 8-)
And the preview and submit buttons should be switched, this is not the first time I wanted to preview but submitted instead - I think previewing should be encouraged and thus get the more prominent button position.