It's also the final explanation for grammar cops like me. I rely on sentence structure to extract meaning faster, so when I encounter unexpected punctuation or syntax I have to re-read. In the worst cases I have to "sound it out".
About speed-reading, the whole resolution + from your eyes *is* available with a few ms of exposure to allow for saccades and other neat tricks. I posit that speed-readers take an accurate snapshot and hold it long enough for a fast, highly efficient recognition of whole words.
Just to clarify a bit: those radio telescopes can be used like radar guns, sending out short pulses of focused radio waves. These pulses are aimed at the asteroid and move at the speed of light, hitting the rock and bouncing back.
Gnome 3 is shiny, elegant and modern looking. It’s a sleek desktop but it comes with a few problems:
It changes the way people use their computer
It’s application-centric, not task-centric (you switch between applications, not windows)
It doesn’t do multi-tasking well (you can’t see opened windows, system tray icons, etc..)
[...] So with this in mind, Gnome 3 in Linux Mint 12 needs to let you interact with your computer in two different ways: the traditional way, and the new way, and it’s up to you to decide which way you want to use.
For this, we developed “MGSE” (Mint Gnome Shell Extensions), which is a desktop layer on top of Gnome 3 that makes it possible for you to use Gnome 3 in a traditional way. You can disable all components within MGSE to get a pure Gnome 3 experience, or you can enable all of them to get a Gnome 3 desktop that is similar to what you’ve been using before. Of course you can also pick and only enable the components you like to design your own desktop.
The main features in MGSE are:
The bottom panel
The application menu
The window list
A task-centric desktop (i.e. you switch between windows, not applications)
The B53 was 12-foot-6-inch (3.81 m) long with a diameter of 50 inches (1.27 m). It weighed 8,850 pounds (4,010 kg), including the 800-to-900 lb (360-to-410 kg) parachute system and the honeycomb aluminum nose cone to enable the bomb to survive laydown delivery. [...] Chute deployment depends on delivery mode, with the main chutes used only for laydown delivery. For free-fall delivery, the entire system was jettisoned.
[...]
It was intended as a bunker buster weapon, using a surface blast after laydown deployment to transmit a shock wave through the earth to collapse its target. Attacks against the Soviet deep underground leadership shelters in the Chekhov/Sharapovo area south of Moscow envisaged multiple B53/W53 exploding at ground level. It has since been supplanted in such roles by the earth-penetrating B61 Mod 11, a bomb that penetrates the surface to deliver much more of its explosive energy into the ground, and therefore needs a much smaller yield to produce the same effects.
At any rate, one big bad sword less. When do we get the plowshares?:)
Sorry pal,/. is not known for timeliness. Consider that all the material comes from us readers, who must first see it in other media and submit it, and then editors have to pick it from the "Firehose". Look at how long it takes since big news like Gadafi's death hit the big media and it shows up on/.'s front page.
(Libre|Open)Office is well known to be a bit heavy for most office PCs. I'd be quite happy to move that load to a medium-sized server of my own, with the benefits that derive from shared libraries loaded once for all instances/threads, and that CPU load in a office app is impulsive so a few cores can serve a large number of seats.
OTOH, I expect to lose some functionality in areas such as graphs, at least in not-quite-HTML5-compliant browsers. * looks at IE9 >_> *
Credit is more accurately due to "the CyanogenMod team", who run the project started (led?) by Steve Kondik a.k.a. Cyanogenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyanogenMod
I know you're (mostly) kidding, but the bricks would basically suck. I learned recently that Lego parts are molded out of ABS at ~150 PSI, and the tolerance is ~ 2 micrometers. That's why they fit so well and "Lego compatible" bricks don't.
But yes, as a kid I dreamed up custom Lego parts myself:)
The big problem is that the drones keep ordering refueling boom enlargement kits, and four of them tried to fly to Nigeria to collect on a half-million gallons of jet fuel that was left there by a former Minister of Aviation.
Actually we'd never get the NO CARRIER notification from your modem, and even then you'd need to be on a plain-text BBS without PPP+TCP.
There's more: to get the unfinished message, it'd have to be a char-by-char chat protocol like ICQ or the olden Unix chat. Otherwise, how did you hit [Submit] ?
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He showed how tight control could lead to great end results. Now others are scrambling to achieve the same in a freer, more diverse ecosystem. In the end the consumers win.
Don't. It's increasingly harder to be a polymath, even if you confine your domain to technology, perhaps even in CS.
You may have inferred that Scheme is related to Lisp; they call it a "dialect", stretching a bit the analogy with human languages. Common Lisp is another, and I had brief run-ins with both while peeking under the hood of two great projects: Maxima and the gEDA suite. They left me impressed and determined to learn the language, as soon as I had the mood/time to wrap my easily-distracted brain around it.
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It's also the final explanation for grammar cops like me. I rely on sentence structure to extract meaning faster, so when I encounter unexpected punctuation or syntax I have to re-read. In the worst cases I have to "sound it out".
About speed-reading, the whole resolution + from your eyes *is* available with a few ms of exposure to allow for saccades and other neat tricks. I posit that speed-readers take an accurate snapshot and hold it long enough for a fast, highly efficient recognition of whole words.
"B-but, it's about Apple, and an iPhone! It's what geeks care about, isn't it?"
Press release at http://www.esrf.eu/news/general/inauguration-ID24/index_html/
Oh, is it that bad?
Just to clarify a bit: those radio telescopes can be used like radar guns, sending out short pulses of focused radio waves. These pulses are aimed at the asteroid and move at the speed of light, hitting the rock and bouncing back.
It's radar
Gnome 3 is shiny, elegant and modern looking. It’s a sleek desktop but it comes with a few problems:
[...] So with this in mind, Gnome 3 in Linux Mint 12 needs to let you interact with your computer in two different ways: the traditional way, and the new way, and it’s up to you to decide which way you want to use.
For this, we developed “MGSE” (Mint Gnome Shell Extensions), which is a desktop layer on top of Gnome 3 that makes it possible for you to use Gnome 3 in a traditional way. You can disable all components within MGSE to get a pure Gnome 3 experience, or you can enable all of them to get a Gnome 3 desktop that is similar to what you’ve been using before. Of course you can also pick and only enable the components you like to design your own desktop.
The main features in MGSE are:
"But Brain, we already have plenty of Boron. "
It was also meant for designed for surface detonation, which is not as good as sticking it into the ground but better than a shock wave from above:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B53_nuclear_bomb#Specifications
The B53 was 12-foot-6-inch (3.81 m) long with a diameter of 50 inches (1.27 m). It weighed 8,850 pounds (4,010 kg), including the 800-to-900 lb (360-to-410 kg) parachute system and the honeycomb aluminum nose cone to enable the bomb to survive laydown delivery. [...] Chute deployment depends on delivery mode, with the main chutes used only for laydown delivery. For free-fall delivery, the entire system was jettisoned.
[...]
It was intended as a bunker buster weapon, using a surface blast after laydown deployment to transmit a shock wave through the earth to collapse its target. Attacks against the Soviet deep underground leadership shelters in the Chekhov/Sharapovo area south of Moscow envisaged multiple B53/W53 exploding at ground level. It has since been supplanted in such roles by the earth-penetrating B61 Mod 11, a bomb that penetrates the surface to deliver much more of its explosive energy into the ground, and therefore needs a much smaller yield to produce the same effects.
At any rate, one big bad sword less. When do we get the plowshares? :)
Umm, medicine, specifically epidemiology? Y'know, not every geek is exclusively interested in computing, electronics and astronomy.
Recently there was a story on /. about an actress suing a company for revealing her age, on a website.
Sorry pal, /. is not known for timeliness. Consider that all the material comes from us readers, who must first see it in other media and submit it, and then editors have to pick it from the "Firehose". Look at how long it takes since big news like Gadafi's death hit the big media and it shows up on /.'s front page.
Iran recentyl claimed to have discovered massive helium reserves:
http://www.google.com/search?q=iran+helium+reserve&site=universal&tbs=cdr%3A1&cd_min=9%2F1%2F2011&cd_max=
Allegedly the estimate is 10 billion cubic meters. That was in September, but there's still no mention in major Western media.
At least not if you want others to even read it. My eyes hurt.
[Most] politicians claim to consider themselves public servants, and in reality consider themselves "winners", which is code for "sociopaths".
(Libre|Open)Office is well known to be a bit heavy for most office PCs. I'd be quite happy to move that load to a medium-sized server of my own, with the benefits that derive from shared libraries loaded once for all instances/threads, and that CPU load in a office app is impulsive so a few cores can serve a large number of seats.
OTOH, I expect to lose some functionality in areas such as graphs, at least in not-quite-HTML5-compliant browsers. * looks at IE9 >_> *
(This time)
Credit is more accurately due to "the CyanogenMod team", who run the project started (led?) by Steve Kondik a.k.a. Cyanogen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyanogenMod
Thanks! I was aware of other projects but this looks very nice.
naw, I just started dreaming up non-Lego stuff in abs/steel/aluminium. One day imma get a cnc mill :D
Tim Minchin would approve: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOuqEzmg304
Got it: http://thetartan.org/2008/2/11/scitech/work
I know you're (mostly) kidding, but the bricks would basically suck. I learned recently that Lego parts are molded out of ABS at ~150 PSI, and the tolerance is ~ 2 micrometers. That's why they fit so well and "Lego compatible" bricks don't.
But yes, as a kid I dreamed up custom Lego parts myself :)
The big problem is that the drones keep ordering refueling boom enlargement kits, and four of them tried to fly to Nigeria to collect on a half-million gallons of jet fuel that was left there by a former Minister of Aviation.
Actually we'd never get the NO CARRIER notification from your modem, and even then you'd need to be on a plain-text BBS without PPP+TCP.
There's more: to get the unfinished message, it'd have to be a char-by-char chat protocol like ICQ or the olden Unix chat. Otherwise, how did you hit [Submit] ?
He showed how tight control could lead to great end results. Now others are scrambling to achieve the same in a freer, more diverse ecosystem. In the end the consumers win.
Don't. It's increasingly harder to be a polymath, even if you confine your domain to technology, perhaps even in CS.
You may have inferred that Scheme is related to Lisp ; they call it a "dialect", stretching a bit the analogy with human languages. Common Lisp is another, and I had brief run-ins with both while peeking under the hood of two great projects: Maxima and the gEDA suite. They left me impressed and determined to learn the language, as soon as I had the mood/time to wrap my easily-distracted brain around it.