Mutt. It worked in 1997, and it still works today. Sure, it has more features, but it's the same basic mail client that worked over dial up with a Pentium 100 box with 8 megs of RAM, and now on my 100Mb net connection with my dual-Xeon workstation with 16 gigs of RAM.
Not really. Most pickup trucks are in active use only for short periods of time -going to and from a job site, hauling tools and materials, etc. They still sit for most of the day while their owners do things. One with a couple hundred mile range would be sufficient for most needs. The trick would be how the range is impacted by the load.
And when it comes time to back up that loaded trailer on the job site, instant torque will be amazing. My guess is a lot of construction sites would love to see a truck with instant torque.
In other news, Enlightenment 0.20.0-alpha includes full support for Wayland. Since 0.20.0 is coming soon(-ish), removing support from 0.19.x is simply an acknowledgment that all Wayland effort is being directed at 0.20 rather than the existing 0.19.x series.
Luckily western society tends to be more secular, but the government that, say, ISIS is setting up, is not like this. Christians here in America would like to have a government like that, where unbelievers are imprisoned or executed. Christians in the middle ages were exactly like this.
I spend a lot of time around Christians, both conservative and liberal. I have literally never heard a single Christian articulate anything like a desire to have unbelievers imprisoned and/or executed. Nothing even close to that.
In 1997 a friend told me about Linux so I checked out a book from the library (the book had a CD with Slackware). I installed Slackware (XFree86 worked out of the box*!) because it was free. Soon I was using Linux because it was Free. Eighteen years later I continue to run Linux because it is Better.
* I later switched from Slackware to RedHat because I could not figure out how to get rid of panning!
"Everyone trying to manipulate search results"
Yep. Don't like it? Use duckduckgo.com. Meh. A non-story.
4k absolutely will solve the problem with blockiness in fonts—depending on the screen size. My phone (HTC One) has a 1920x1080 display that is absolutely stunning in its clarity. Can't tell with my eyes that the images are just dots; it's truly a beautiful display. I see no blockiness in any image or in text. Zero. Then again it's only a 4.7" display with that many pixels. I saw an 80" TV in the store the other day (also 1920x1080) and was stunned by the distance I had to be from it before I could no longer make out the individual pixels—several feet. Right next to it was a 65" 4k display; I had to get within a foot or so to make out the individual pixels. Granted, I wear corrective lenses, but the difference was remarkable. I would love to have a 4k display as my primary monitor.
"The hypothetical creature, not found in the fossil record but inferred from it..." I know this is
Did you read the Nature article and look at figures 2 and 3? The trend is only down until the 19th century, then it's a steep upwards trend.
Sure did. You can pick several 100-year windows and see a similar upward trend. Long, sustained increase around 0. One similar to the one you reference around the year 600. Again, the TWO-THOUSAND-YEAR trend is downward, despite the several sharp-upticks along the way. The brief upticks are outweighed by the long drops.
As has been pointed out the window size used makes all the difference. For example, yesterday morning represented a 40 drop in temperature where I live. Oh noes! Global COOLING! That's compared to last week, though.
Are we aping our planet in pursuit of the American god named Profit? Yep. Should we be concerned about the dangers of coastal flooding? Yep. Does that justify the alarmist use of the hockey stick? Nope.
Slowly FALLING temperatures... up until 200 years ago or so, then sharply rising. There's your blade. Look at the graphs in the Nature article.
The temperature graph shows a higher jump between 500 and 1000. The linear trend is still downward for 2,000 years.
I couldn't care less about what you get to see, but I would like a filter flag that allows me to ensure my kids are not exposed to gratuitous violence and/or pornography until they are mature enough to deal with it.
To me it seems almost intentionally obtuse to not understand the use case for this.
I am flabbergasted that so many are finding this objectionable. The issue is a voluntary flag that screens out certain material that some find inappropriate, whether for themselves or for the children. The issue is not banning such material from Wikipedia or making it impossible—or even difficult—to access. This is not censorship (no one is suggesting the government control this flag). This is providing a tool to enable Wikipedia users to determine the kind of content they can access for themselves.
Much worse, though, is that the court seems to find that the other factors all weigh strongly in favor of the defendant: the use is scholarly, it is of factual material, it has no material impact on the value or market for the works. Fair use isn't a matter of tallying up factors and giving the win to whoever has the most. The analysis is just supposed to help determine if the use is fair; courts can consider other evidence too, and can weight factors unevenly, or do basically anything else if it helps to decide the issue.
This is
FTA:
"We can reduce the size of the haystack when we are looking for that one-in-a-billion terrorist"
I hate it when people thoughtlessly mention large numbers in conversation when they clearly have no concept whatsoever of scale.
There are approximately 7 billion people in the world... so by the above gentleman's assessment, there would be only 7 terrorists, worldwide.
Seriously?
Sorry... pet peeve of mine.
I agree. If I've said it once, I've said it a trillion times: people shouldn't exaggerate.
And while we're at it, would DuckDuckGo's "small following on Slashdot" please enter and sign in with a few posts?
I've been using DuckDuckGo for some time, primarily for the privacy and lack of filtering based on my previous queries (finding political articles that are *not* slanted toward my bias, for example). However, during this time I've discovered that if I really need to find an answer to something I'm entering a `!google' into my search (which forces DuckDuckGo to use Google).
The next time there's a hurricane coming up Galveston Bay, I want Ron Paul to be out in the middle of it. Outside. Naked.
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BMO
I don't want Ron Paul outside naked *anywhere*.
Some people claim that the UNIX learning curve is steep, but at least you only have to climb it once.
