To clarify, it's not the electron itself that traverses the chlorophyll molecule(s), but the energy of the electron You say this as if there is a difference between electron and the "electron's energy"...
Funny, but an earlier version of firefox caused a similar condition on my IBM x40. Browser would randomly freeze, peg cpu at 100, and remain completely impossible to close or change priority. After a few minutes of this, it would take explorer down with it, and the only way to restore order would be a reboot. Hasn't happened since I upgraded to a newest version.
Powerpoint 2003 (w/ servicepack) on one particular desktop I use has an even more interesting problem. Nudging (ctrl-arrow) a high res image in the same direction repeatedly will completely foobar the system. Even the mouse stops responding. In every other respect the system is rock stable.
Look at these happy faces they are staring at your smart bombs. Give me a break. You want to see the precursors to smart bombs??? Just take a look at pictures of Warsaw or Berlin after WWII...
I am against war. But the sad fact is that people will find reasons to kill each other and fight wars irrespective of the weapons used, even if they have to resort to sticks and stones. I, for one, am glad we are using smart bombs to achieve our objectives instead of dropping anything and everything that goes boom out of wave after wave of bombers.
I use medium-large fonts on all of my PC's depending on the pixel pitch of the display. I have NEVER had a problem with any dialog displaying incorrectly in any software application (and i've easily used hundreds of different applications). Having programmed a few GUI's myself, I definitely see where the potential for mishaps exists, but it's simply a non-existent problem in my experience.
Most people do not use native resolution anyhow in my experience. Native resolution is too hard to read for most people because the default fonts are too small under it. Most people suffer from a serious disease called stupid... Enlarging the fonts in windows is trivial and works seamlessly in my experience. Just change Display Properties -> Font Size : Large Fonts
The text in your screenshot DOES look blurry past the first line or two... Going to the microsoft page ALL of the cleartype RGB text looks crystal clear on my Dell 2001FP with cleartype enabled. Same on my IBM x40 laptop.
My guess is that your OSX computer is scaling the image in some weird way that doesn't quite line up with your physical LCD pixels.
Any time I've turned on cleartype on a fresh install of windows, my first impression has always been that it just made fonts look "blurrier", for lack of a better word.
However, after using it for a day or two, turning it off is absolutely painful. IMHO, it really DOES make text MUCH easier to read on an LCD.
You are happy? What government services? Are you high or have you really never been outside of New Jersey?
I lived there for over 20 years in every part of North Jersey from Newark (body bag included with rent) to Madison (small town... two Jaguar dealerships... you figure out what kind of demographic lives there), and many places in between. I am convinced that the entire state is nothing but one huge cesspool of mismanagement and corruption. I have yet to see a single government-run project (state or city/township) in NJ that hasn't been completely botched in every respect possible and as crooked as a bucket of snakes.
I am EAGER to hear all about the wonderful specific government services are you referring to!
Rochester, NY has recently been upgraded from 5 to 10megabits as well (still 384 down). No FIOS (Rochester is served by Frontier, so no verizon), and the DSL isn't even remotely competitive in terms of price or speed. I guess they really did upgrade just to kick ass!
I have also downloaded easily over 300Gb a month and never heard a peep from Time Warner. Speedwise the service is identical to my brothers 10mbit FIOS in NJ (on downloads). In my book, they get an A+ for reliability and service. I just wish they would raise the upload speed.
Really, because a fresh copy of windows XP went from POST to Start menu in 13 seconds on my C2Duo 6400 with WD Raptor drive (most of that time being spent in post and the bootloader). I have a video, but I'm sure a quick google search will pull up similar results from other people...
Half a year later it feels like it takes 20 minutes to load... so what I'm saying is, give your vista install some time to crud up...
The first sentence of my post says that it depends on the ultimate use for the slides. Keep that in mind as you read my reply.
This, however, is the problem in many ways. The small amount of text in these sorts of slides is hardly enough to actually communicate the point. Reading someone's powerpoint slides and trying to infer or remember what they were saying is usually rather difficult. I disagree completely!!! From my experience slides that are shared among people with a common background are usually trivial to decipher with very minimal text. When one of my colleagues or coworkers either presents or sends me a set of slides, chances are good that I will know immediately what they were getting at. ESPECIALLY, if they provide me with a sentence or two on that slide to reaffirm my initial assumptions.
Furthermore, once I have taken a class, and sat in on the lectures, I find that I am easily able to decipher the powerpoint slides afterwards if the presenter gave me a bullet or two to jog my memory. In fact, I have taken several extremely technical classes for which there exist very little published works, and NO TEXTBOOKS. NONE! ANYWHERE! The bulk of the knowledge in these subjects exists only as a set of slides and the experience of the presenter(s).
I am definitely not arguing for doing away with formal written works. I AM arguing that slides have their place, and in my experience are actually a highly efficient method of communication between colleagues AND in a student-teacher relationship. That is simply the opinion of someone who uses powerpoint slides as a reference on a daily basis, and has actually been a student most of their lives.
A set of slides is no substitute for a good written presentation of the material. If you want slides make slides, and if you want people (including yourself) to remember the details of what was presented then provide a proper written document as well. That is perfect in the fairytale world where everyone has unlimited time to do nothing but write formal reports to each other. In the real world, very few of my ideas make it past my whiteboard to even get into a presentation. Even fewer of those get written up in any formal way. My collection of powerpoints outweighs my stack of peer-reviewed papers, formal reports, and patents, by several orders of magnitude. Very little of the stuff that is highly compelling or mostly speculative is ever formally written up until it enters the realm of the mundane. In short, if you want to read about the stuff that was exciting 5 years ago, I have a few carefully written papers for you. If you want the latest and greatest results from me, you are getting a powerpoint with a few bullets, and maybe a brief e-mail or conversation in the hallway. I know many will argue that this state of affairs sucks, but that's just the way real life works...
It depends on the ultimate use for the slides. I have dozens of binders, and gigs of powerpoint presentations on everything from classes that I took, conferences that I went too, and projects that I worked on. I VERY frequently refer back to them. I create and give presentations to others every week or so, and frequently use my own slides as a reference for myself in future work. If the slides had nothing but pictures and figures on them, they would be absolutely worthless. There HAS to be at least a sentence or two on each slide in order to jog your memory about what the presenter was saying, and give the context to the content.
Ultimately, in my experience in academia and industry, powerpoint serves a dual purpose as both a presentation tool and a communication/archival tool. In fact, for every formal report I submit to or receive from NASA, a dozen or more powerpoints have zipped back and forth. I usually find the content of those slides exchanged and presented informally WAY more useful than the contents of any actual report.
yawn... call it hunch, but based on your post, I'd wager that you don't have any background whatsoever in a real scientific discipline.
Slashdot is funny that way... There are people here that could melt you with their brain just by thinking about it, and then there are the people that read an article in a tabloid at the supermarket checkout and believe that this experience qualifies them to have an informed opinion on matters of nuclear physics. Which are you?
FYI, a friend of mind was looking for a laptop a month or two ago. Based on prior experience, I would have bet that the apples would be more expensive. It turns out that for all the configurations we tried, Macbooks and Thinkpads were pretty much neck and neck when it came to price/specs. Still a far cry in price from your cheapo budget Dells with stackable coupons, but I'd say that the build quality of macs and thinkpads is on the same level.
Fantastic. You are 20, so you still have plenty of time to readjust your perverted vision of the American Dream and come down from your ivory tower of entitlement before reality hands your ass to you.
My parents came to the USA from a communist country 20 years ago with literally the clothes on their back. They knew nobody, didn't speak English, and had absolutely no marketable skills whatsoever. They absolutely worked their ass off at every menial job they could find, working several jobs, night shifts, weekends... whatever it took. When they got fired or laid off, they went out and found another, often better job. They never looked for a handout or a gimme, and growing up I NEVER heard them complain. They saved every penny that they possibly could, and now they own property in several states and their annual income is an order of magnitude above the American average. The American Dream is not about a good life for ALL of us, the American Dream is about boundless opportunity for those willing to work for it.
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -Thomas Edison
Why do people feel an entitlement to profit? In capitalism, there is no guarantee that you HAVE to make money... So your store isn't working out.. boo hoo... Regardless of the reasons, own up to facts, and for the sake of your family find a realistic way to fix it or another way to put bread on the table. There is no lack of opportunity out there (especially if you are writing this from the USA)
Otherwise, check back in a few years, and let us know how that absurd blacklist idea worked out for you.. ok?
You either have interference, broken equipment, and/or perhaps you should dial down the power from 200mW... most commercial wifi radios just aren't happy at those powers...
In my experience, the standard 28mW output from my wrt54g is more than enough to completely cover a two story 2,000 sq ft house with excellent signal, even if the ap is at one extreme corner of the house.
Funny... most the NASA stuff that I have ever seen (even the most trivial) has ITAR (think Export Controlled) status by default. That means NO collaboration with foreign members of my own research group, much less other countries.
Could prevent pileups at the least. Of course anyone with such a system could potentially be tracked. Or cause pileups?? Most of the people currently on the road barely know how to use their turn signals, much less their FM radios...
That's the most absurd thing I've read in quite a while. Let me replace a few words for you...
Consider electrical outlets. These may potentially have high voltages present. A user unaware of the behavior of electrical outlets may run around sticking forks in them. Hell, they may even do it while standing in a puddle. etc. etc..
Now repeat after me.. AS AN ADULT, I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR MY OWN ACTIONS. If you don't know what it is or how it works, I firmly believe that it is solely YOUR (not societies) responsibility to make damn sure that it won't hurt you.
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Funny, but an earlier version of firefox caused a similar condition on my IBM x40. Browser would randomly freeze, peg cpu at 100, and remain completely impossible to close or change priority. After a few minutes of this, it would take explorer down with it, and the only way to restore order would be a reboot. Hasn't happened since I upgraded to a newest version.
Powerpoint 2003 (w/ servicepack) on one particular desktop I use has an even more interesting problem. Nudging (ctrl-arrow) a high res image in the same direction repeatedly will completely foobar the system. Even the mouse stops responding. In every other respect the system is rock stable.
I am against war. But the sad fact is that people will find reasons to kill each other and fight wars irrespective of the weapons used, even if they have to resort to sticks and stones. I, for one, am glad we are using smart bombs to achieve our objectives instead of dropping anything and everything that goes boom out of wave after wave of bombers.
This guy is free to set up all the open proxies that he wants... you are free to block all of the open proxies you want on your internet connection...
Where is the problem again?
I use medium-large fonts on all of my PC's depending on the pixel pitch of the display. I have NEVER had a problem with any dialog displaying incorrectly in any software application (and i've easily used hundreds of different applications). Having programmed a few GUI's myself, I definitely see where the potential for mishaps exists, but it's simply a non-existent problem in my experience.
-Tom
The text in your screenshot DOES look blurry past the first line or two... Going to the microsoft page ALL of the cleartype RGB text looks crystal clear on my Dell 2001FP
with cleartype enabled. Same on my IBM x40 laptop.
My guess is that your OSX computer is scaling the image in some weird way that doesn't quite line up with your physical LCD pixels.
-Tom
Any time I've turned on cleartype on a fresh install of windows, my first impression has always been that it just made fonts look "blurrier", for lack of a better word.
However, after using it for a day or two, turning it off is absolutely painful. IMHO, it really DOES make text MUCH easier to read on an LCD.
-Tom
You are happy? What government services? Are you high or have you really never been outside of New Jersey?
I lived there for over 20 years in every part of North Jersey from Newark (body bag included with rent) to Madison (small town... two Jaguar dealerships... you figure out what kind of demographic lives there), and many places in between. I am convinced that the entire state is nothing but one huge cesspool of mismanagement and corruption. I have yet to see a single government-run project (state or city/township) in NJ that hasn't been completely botched in every respect possible and as crooked as a bucket of snakes.
I am EAGER to hear all about the wonderful specific government services are you referring to!
Rochester, NY has recently been upgraded from 5 to 10megabits as well (still 384 down). No FIOS (Rochester is served by Frontier, so no verizon), and the DSL isn't even remotely competitive in terms of price or speed. I guess they really did upgrade just to kick ass!
I have also downloaded easily over 300Gb a month and never heard a peep from Time Warner. Speedwise the service is identical to my brothers 10mbit FIOS in NJ (on downloads). In my book, they get an A+ for reliability and service. I just wish they would raise the upload speed.
-Tom
Really, because a fresh copy of windows XP went from POST to Start menu in 13 seconds on my C2Duo 6400 with WD Raptor drive (most of that time being spent in post and the bootloader). I have a video, but I'm sure a quick google search will pull up similar results from other people...
Half a year later it feels like it takes 20 minutes to load... so what I'm saying is, give your vista install some time to crud up...
-Tom
Furthermore, once I have taken a class, and sat in on the lectures, I find that I am easily able to decipher the powerpoint slides afterwards if the presenter gave me a bullet or two to jog my memory. In fact, I have taken several extremely technical classes for which there exist very little published works, and NO TEXTBOOKS. NONE! ANYWHERE! The bulk of the knowledge in these subjects exists only as a set of slides and the experience of the presenter(s).
I am definitely not arguing for doing away with formal written works. I AM arguing that slides have their place, and in my experience are actually a highly efficient method of communication between colleagues AND in a student-teacher relationship. That is simply the opinion of someone who uses powerpoint slides as a reference on a daily basis, and has actually been a student most of their lives. A set of slides is no substitute for a good written presentation of the material. If you want slides make slides, and if you want people (including yourself) to remember the details of what was presented then provide a proper written document as well. That is perfect in the fairytale world where everyone has unlimited time to do nothing but write formal reports to each other. In the real world, very few of my ideas make it past my whiteboard to even get into a presentation. Even fewer of those get written up in any formal way. My collection of powerpoints outweighs my stack of peer-reviewed papers, formal reports, and patents, by several orders of magnitude. Very little of the stuff that is highly compelling or mostly speculative is ever formally written up until it enters the realm of the mundane. In short, if you want to read about the stuff that was exciting 5 years ago, I have a few carefully written papers for you. If you want the latest and greatest results from me, you are getting a powerpoint with a few bullets, and maybe a brief e-mail or conversation in the hallway. I know many will argue that this state of affairs sucks, but that's just the way real life works...
It depends on the ultimate use for the slides. I have dozens of binders, and gigs of powerpoint presentations on everything from classes that I took, conferences that I went too, and projects that I worked on. I VERY frequently refer back to them. I create and give presentations to others every week or so, and frequently use my own slides as a reference for myself in future work. If the slides had nothing but pictures and figures on them, they would be absolutely worthless. There HAS to be at least a sentence or two on each slide in order to jog your memory about what the presenter was saying, and give the context to the content.
Ultimately, in my experience in academia and industry, powerpoint serves a dual purpose as both a presentation tool and a communication/archival tool. In fact, for every formal report I submit to or receive from NASA, a dozen or more powerpoints have zipped back and forth. I usually find the content of those slides exchanged and presented informally WAY more useful than the contents of any actual report.
yawn... call it hunch, but based on your post, I'd wager that you don't have any background whatsoever in a real scientific discipline.
Slashdot is funny that way... There are people here that could melt you with their brain just by thinking about it, and then there are the people that read an article in a tabloid at the supermarket checkout and believe that this experience qualifies them to have an informed opinion on matters of nuclear physics. Which are you?
oh wait... you want someone looking at $500 budget laptops to buy one with vista and then PAY for a 2000/XP license? Brilliant!
FYI, a friend of mind was looking for a laptop a month or two ago. Based on prior experience, I would have bet that the apples would be more expensive. It turns out that for all the configurations we tried, Macbooks and Thinkpads were pretty much neck and neck when it came to price/specs. Still a far cry in price from your cheapo budget Dells with stackable coupons, but I'd say that the build quality of macs and thinkpads is on the same level.
-Tom
Fantastic. You are 20, so you still have plenty of time to readjust your perverted vision of the American Dream and come down from your ivory tower of entitlement before reality hands your ass to you.
My parents came to the USA from a communist country 20 years ago with literally the clothes on their back. They knew nobody, didn't speak English, and had absolutely no marketable skills whatsoever. They absolutely worked their ass off at every menial job they could find, working several jobs, night shifts, weekends... whatever it took. When they got fired or laid off, they went out and found another, often better job. They never looked for a handout or a gimme, and growing up I NEVER heard them complain. They saved every penny that they possibly could, and now they own property in several states and their annual income is an order of magnitude above the American average. The American Dream is not about a good life for ALL of us, the American Dream is about boundless opportunity for those willing to work for it.
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
-Thomas Edison
What happens when we assume? .....
Unless you are privy to some magical laws of electromagnetics that I am not...
IIRC, a landlord can't legally prevent you from installing and using a small satellite dish in the US.
Why do people feel an entitlement to profit? In capitalism, there is no guarantee that you HAVE to make money... So your store isn't working out.. boo hoo... Regardless of the reasons, own up to facts, and for the sake of your family find a realistic way to fix it or another way to put bread on the table. There is no lack of opportunity out there (especially if you are writing this from the USA)
Otherwise, check back in a few years, and let us know how that absurd blacklist idea worked out for you.. ok?
You either have interference, broken equipment, and/or perhaps you should dial down the power from 200mW... most commercial wifi radios just aren't happy at those powers...
In my experience, the standard 28mW output from my wrt54g is more than enough to completely cover a two story 2,000 sq ft house with excellent signal, even if the ap is at one extreme corner of the house.
-Tom
Funny... most the NASA stuff that I have ever seen (even the most trivial) has ITAR (think Export Controlled) status by default. That means NO collaboration with foreign members of my own research group, much less other countries.
-Tom
-Tom
That's the most absurd thing I've read in quite a while. Let me replace a few words for you...
Consider electrical outlets. These may potentially have high voltages present. A user unaware of the behavior of electrical outlets may run around sticking forks in them. Hell, they may even do it while standing in a puddle. etc. etc..
Now repeat after me.. AS AN ADULT, I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR MY OWN ACTIONS. If you don't know what it is or how it works, I firmly believe that it is solely YOUR (not societies) responsibility to make damn sure that it won't hurt you.