I didn’t know Euro and Farad were related :O
I didn’t know Euro and Farad were related :O
I’m German. If the pages are a comfortable size, why does no publisher ever use A5 or A4 paper? To quote an answer I gave to another comment here:
Let’s check. I grabbed four random German books from my bookshelf. If you’re right, the pages should either be roughly 30cm×21cm (A4) or
15cm×10.5cm[Edit: 21cm × 15cm] (A5).Book 1: 18cm × 11.5; book 2: 19cm×12.5cm; book 3: 20.5cm × 12.5cm; book 4: 24cm × 17cm. None of those conform to the standard.
Another hint that the paper format is weird is that scientific papers on A4 are always either printed in two columns or use the ninths rule for margins, i.e. 1/9 of margin on the inner and upper edges and 2/9 of margin on the outer and bottom edges, essentially throwing away almost half of the page (I’ll admit there are more economic recommendations of 1/11 or 1/13). This is to make the columns narrower to get closer to the target of 60–80 characters per line. Note also that this makes the ‘usable’ area approximately 20cm long, which is much closer to the American’s ‘Legal’ format (216mm).
almost all consumer printers are for a4.
I never said A4 wasn’t the standard. I said it’s not a good one.
books in a4 size actually consist of a3 sheets bound together in the middle. (same with other sized books)
Let’s check. I grabbed four random German books from my bookshelf. If you’re right, the pages should either be roughly 30cm×21cm (A4) or 15cm×10.5cm [Edit: 21cm × 15cm] (A5).
Book 1: 18cm × 11.5; book 2: 19cm×12.5cm; book 3: 20.5cm × 12.5cm; book 4: 24cm × 17cm. None of those conform to the standard.
To be fair, A4 yields unwieldy pages that are too long to comfortably read. And when do you ever need the feature to fold an A4 sheet into A5?
Sounds like a win to me. If making the list gives you motivation, this might help overcome the initial inertia.
If you really do want to do something, but can’t get your limbs to move, try making a list. Crossing things off that helps providing motivation.
The website is quite tight-lipped regarding features. What’s a ‘smart playlist’?
*has a second fucking wall built.
I’m not sure anymore how I got into a state where that was necessary, but do keep a reference around for how to boot Linux or Windows from the Grub command line.
sudo maintains ‘sudo state’ for 15 minutes. After that you need to enter the password again.
Instant messaging is more akin to speech than to writing, at least to me. Look at how colloquial the choice of words is; and how often you get multiple messages, because people type the messages as the thought enter their heads, as opposed to a thought-out statement like you would write down on a piece of paper, or any non-instant message format.
You know your UI sucks ass if users need to tell other users about its features.
Their fault. They removed all the real stressors but didn’t give us brains that can cope with not being stressed. Now we have to pull stress out of thin air—or grapefruit.
That’s still comprehensible. I would’ve thought Wikipedia was bigger.
Sure, act like Wikipedia hasn’t written all your school essays since 5th grade.
14 days ago I tested Ubuntu. I couldn’t access my Wifi. The network was visible, but it refused to accept the password. (Yes, I quintuple-checked that I entered it right.) When I tried Linux Mint, it worked on the first try.
Moral of the story: Drivers are hit-and-miss on Linux, too.
It feels like I’m missing a reference.
You’re right. Sorry for getting my post-7pm arithmetic skills on you. However, my point still stands. ‘Close’ is not ‘conforming’ to the standard.