cninja

The environmental conditions that are good for the formation of fossils are not the sort of conditions that are good for living a long and peaceful life. Outcast males are the ones more likely to be wandering around in those sorts of places.

Every star has the force of gravity that is pressing all the gas to collapse, and heat from fusion that is pushing all the gas apart. These forces are balanced in a stable star: fusion reaction provides the energy that prevents the gas from collapsing. In comparison to our sun, a larger star like Betelgeuse needs to sustain a higher level of fusion to fight off the effects of the higher gravitational force. Larger stars have shorter lifespans because they burn through their fuel faster.

Is there any resource from the other side that provides reasons why restrictions should be placed on community broadband? The explanation "Evil Monopoly wants all the money" seems too simple for the complex nuanced world we live in.

Takedown notices on Youtube are not handled under DCMA. DCMA has protections against false accusations.

This isn't a puff piece. This is an advertisement for the calendar.

They crunch the numbers here: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/11/pump-up-the-stor...

The energy in one gallon of gasoline is equivalent to the potential energy stored in 13 tons of water one kilometer up

No heroin addict thought they might become addicted. That is one of the main dangers of heroin specifically.

Might as well add my Lisp in PHP: https://github.com/cninja/pEigthP

The original article was more informative: http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/08/oddworld-new-n-tasty-preview-a...

Opera did something similar back in 2010 in v11 with the opera:config#UserPrefs|HideURLParameter configuration variable. I found I was wanting the URL information often enough that I turned the feature off. I wonder the old Opera team had any metrics they gathered.

I can't say what is is about your comment or the article, but something about the combination gives off the vibe that this is an astroturfing effort to promote Google Comsumer Surveys.

I couldn't agree more. Writing my own interpreter https://github.com/cninja/pEigthP provided many challenges but I think it was one of the most enjoyable "toy projects" that I have done. Also seeing the look on someones face when I say I wrote something to allow me to embed lisp into PHP is priceless.

The problem not time in school, the discussion should be about motivating students. As long as the student is motivated to learn on their own, then more time in school might result in less learning, in the same way that continual 80 hour work weeks result in a drop in productivity.

My wife taught school in a lower income area. For students that could care less about learning, the parents treat school like free day care, and the students forgot a lot of their newly acquired knowledge over the 2 week winter break.

Here is my speculation about what really happened: YouTube has its infringing content tool designed to detect copyrighted content and notify the rights holder. That tool erroneously flagged the Megaupload video as being owned by UMG. UMG just does what it always does when it receives a notification of infringing content: it pressed the button to take it down. Now, UMG is saying the agreement it has with youtube is that if its youtube tool flags a video as infringing, then it is ok to take down the video, even if the identification was erroneous.

Intel doesn't have a monopoly on the technique, just a big technological head start. From the Anandtech article on this:"Intel isn't expecting its competitors to move to a similar technology until 14nm."

My guess: no.

Apple's policies involve dictating the terms of outside services being used in their garden.

Facebook's policies involved dictating the terms of their own services being used in their garden.

I see Opera as being flexible like FF but has the speed and UI polish of Chrome. That way, I only need to use one browser.

Top feature that no other browser offers: fully customizable UI. Right click on any UI element of the browser and select Customize->Appearance. The Toolbars and Buttons tabs allow full control over the browser UI so I can move buttons and toolbars to my heart's content.

Fully customizable keyboard navigation. Customizable using the interface at Settings->Preferences->Advanced->Shortcuts->Keyboard setup->Edit. Make sure to check the "Enable Single Key Shortcuts" option on the "Keyboard setup" pane to get the most out of it. Check out http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/nomouse/

Fast history navigation: This one isnt actually enabled by default; set the following preference to 3 opera:config#UserPrefs|HistoryNavigationMode The history is fully cached so there is absolutely no delay between pressing the back button and viewing the previous page in history and it comes up exactly at the point you left it.

This seemed to be the main excuse that people had for not trying out Opera in the past, but people already have their favorite browser by this point. Without a significant marketing campaign, I don't see Opera's browser share changing significantly with version 11.

Opera runs well on Windows 2000

It depends on the size and type of project.

When you compile, does your computer's hard drive thrash, or is the CPU pegged at 100%?

The article provided "universal" and Ars specific stats. All the % are drastically different between the two, except Opera.

One thing I always find interesting is that the % of Opera users on Ars is always close to the universal %. I always assumed that Opera users were more technical, and therefore more likely to visit the Ars site, than the average user.

Statistics are always misleading, especially when politics are involved.

Not trying to detract from IE9 here, but Opera already has a similar ability:

http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2009/02/04/vega

The interesting parts of the article are the implementation details about the sandbox.

The relationship between marriage and culture and society is complex. A majority of the society in California voted for Proposition 8.

Both gender and relationship to the potential spouse are attributes of a person that cannot be changed. Why is it ok to discriminate based on one but not the other?

Absolutely, it is about discrimination. Gays marriage choices are discriminated against based solely on the gender of their desired spouse. As ridiculous as it is, the law allows a gay woman to marry any man that they want.

However, the law discriminates against polygamous relationships based on the number of people involved and incestuous relationships based solely on who their relatives are.

The argument is, why is discrimination against gender bad, but discrimination against relatives is ok. If two brothers want to get married, why should that relationship be denied by the law?

The main one I have heard is the slippery slope argument. If marriage is redefined as something other than a legal union between a man and a woman, where does definition of marriage come from?

In other words, if someone is for gay marriage, then on what grounds can they forbid polygamous or incestuous relationships or incestuous relationships?

Of course, this assumes that these other less popular alternative lifestyles should be forbidden as well.

What are the difficulties in using some sort of compression algorithm like LZJB on the disk's page file?

If, as you say, data can be that easily compressible, the IO speedups from reading the compressed data from disk and space savings would outweigh the CPU cycles necessary to do the decode, but my brief Google search for compressed page file implementations came up with nothing.

Fish feed is harder to produce than cow feed, but it is not an insurmountable obstacle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_farming#Intensive_aquacult...