So you use electricity to heat/cool your home? No wonder. We just use natural gas and put up with a warmer house when its hot outside (and really, I wouldn't want to walk into an airco'd house at 20C from outside where it's 35C -- that hurts).
What? We used 7,100 kWh over 2007. We have a electric range, 2 fridges, a freezer, one computer always on and 5 persons in this house. Heat and warm tap water are natural gas though, and we don't have an airco.
How on earth can you use 11,000 kWh with 2 persons?
But he didn't claim the eye can't see millions of colors. What he said was that the eye has a lower resolution for color than for intensity (spatial resolution), which, AFAIK is true.
User Interface Design and Evaluation by Stone, Jarrett, Woodroffe and Minocha. It's the book my university uses for its course titled Interface and Interaction Design. I like it, but then again, I haven't actually seen any of the other books.
Yes and no. While the cafeterias do charge a lot for some articles (.30 or so eurocent for a slice of bread, at University of Twente, where I'm at), you are not required to eat there. Other things are more mundanely priced. A big subway-style sandwich (the length of a French "flute" bread) with generous filling runs you about 2,20 euro. Which I think is reasonable. Coffee and tea is at.25 cents a cup,.20 cent if you reuse your previous (disposable) cup or bring your own cup. For prices in dollars, multiply by 1.4.
However, tuiton for a full year is only 1500 euro (the rest is covered by the government). Foreign students pay around 7000 euro, I think. By law, by the way, so every university is that price.
So why not push for an actual training before you get a license? That's how it works here in.nl. Take driving lessons (in a clearly marked lesson vehicle with an instructor with an extra set of pedals), take a theoretical exam and after those two, take a practical exam where you have to show to an other instructor that you are worth the license.
Zipper traffic is covered in these lessons. And while there are still enough assholes on the road, at least there are less.
No, IIRC, GPS sattelites constantly hum a tune (their own pseudorandom number). The receiver generates the same tune and sees how far off it is. There's also some other data (ephemeris updates).
That, however, doesn't block you from putting something else on it too.
True. We don't force people to stop for that reason. They usually stop voluntarily, because it is hard to remove the tags without damaging the goods if you don't have the proper tool. Again, the error is usually on our side, not the customer's, so we apologize for the inconvenience. We do have shoplifters, but they found a way to remove the tags in the shop so they can just walk out. The paying customer doesn't steal (at least, that's the assumption we make) so we do not hassle them or accuse them of stealing. In our view, it's our fault and we should do everything to make the process of removing the tag as easy as possible for the customer. We want them back in the store again.:)
I work in a budget shoestore. Occasionally the cassiers there (not me;)) forget to remove the anti-theft tag from some item. The alarm sounds, the customer stops, we ask to check the bag with stuff he just bought and remove the label we forgot (and apologize for our error). If he declines and walks (or just runs) away, he gets to walk away. We'll file a report with the police, if we thought it was theft. Our store's reputation, even if it's only a budget store, is too good to ruin by pulling stunts like assault to prevent a $40 theft.
People usually don't mind to hand back the bag we just gave them. Even totally unrelated customers who just happened to walk through the alarm gate when the customer with the item walked through don't really mind to stick around until it's resolved. We usually know what item we forgot to take the tag off. It's usually expensive brand-name shoes (they have both shoes tagged, cheap ones only the left shoe) or a piece of clothing where we couldn't see the tag.
Smells like a simple money-grab to me. Those devices are low power and thus only locally change the radio spectrum significantly. Licensed radio was implemented to keep the long range spectrum usable.
PSU wattage (of course) has nothing to do with the speed of the machine. And while Vista is a power hungry beast, I don't think you can specify it's performance needs by stating the minimum wattage of the PSU. One can easily spec out a machine with a (say) 400W PSU that will run Vista just fine. You just need to pick speedy hardware that doesn't eat too much power. That means staying of the uber-high end stuff, which historically always had a bad power to performance ratio.
Besides, in a few months we'll have (more) budget-end PC's with the performance of today's mainstream ones which will run Vista, using an even smaller PSU.
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But you quoted me $0.000000005 cents!
So you use electricity to heat/cool your home? No wonder. We just use natural gas and put up with a warmer house when its hot outside (and really, I wouldn't want to walk into an airco'd house at 20C from outside where it's 35C -- that hurts).
What? We used 7,100 kWh over 2007. We have a electric range, 2 fridges, a freezer, one computer always on and 5 persons in this house. Heat and warm tap water are natural gas though, and we don't have an airco. How on earth can you use 11,000 kWh with 2 persons?
No, but that is not what is happening. If google displayed a microsoft ad, then fine.
Silly boy. Iran doesn't have ice!
The point still stands. That machine won't run Vista either.
But he didn't claim the eye can't see millions of colors. What he said was that the eye has a lower resolution for color than for intensity (spatial resolution), which, AFAIK is true.
You can turn of AVG's update reporting. I don't have AVG on this machine, but my other PC has it, and I'm certain I've turned it off.
User Interface Design and Evaluation by Stone, Jarrett, Woodroffe and Minocha. It's the book my university uses for its course titled Interface and Interaction Design. I like it, but then again, I haven't actually seen any of the other books.
Yes and no. While the cafeterias do charge a lot for some articles (.30 or so eurocent for a slice of bread, at University of Twente, where I'm at), you are not required to eat there. Other things are more mundanely priced. A big subway-style sandwich (the length of a French "flute" bread) with generous filling runs you about 2,20 euro. Which I think is reasonable. Coffee and tea is at .25 cents a cup, .20 cent if you reuse your previous (disposable) cup or bring your own cup. For prices in dollars, multiply by 1.4.
However, tuiton for a full year is only 1500 euro (the rest is covered by the government). Foreign students pay around 7000 euro, I think. By law, by the way, so every university is that price.
So why not push for an actual training before you get a license? That's how it works here in .nl. Take driving lessons (in a clearly marked lesson vehicle with an instructor with an extra set of pedals), take a theoretical exam and after those two, take a practical exam where you have to show to an other instructor that you are worth the license.
Zipper traffic is covered in these lessons. And while there are still enough assholes on the road, at least there are less.
Eight bosses, Bob. (You fail Office Space)
In Holland, natural gas price is coupled to oil price. And natural gas is used for electricity. (Not much, only for those quick-on turbines).
You fail at watching Fox. It's epic lulz.
No, IIRC, GPS sattelites constantly hum a tune (their own pseudorandom number). The receiver generates the same tune and sees how far off it is. There's also some other data (ephemeris updates).
That, however, doesn't block you from putting something else on it too.
True. We don't force people to stop for that reason. They usually stop voluntarily, because it is hard to remove the tags without damaging the goods if you don't have the proper tool. :)
Again, the error is usually on our side, not the customer's, so we apologize for the inconvenience. We do have shoplifters, but they found a way to remove the tags in the shop so they can just walk out. The paying customer doesn't steal (at least, that's the assumption we make) so we do not hassle them or accuse them of stealing. In our view, it's our fault and we should do everything to make the process of removing the tag as easy as possible for the customer. We want them back in the store again.
I work in a budget shoestore. Occasionally the cassiers there (not me ;)) forget to remove the anti-theft tag from some item. The alarm sounds, the customer stops, we ask to check the bag with stuff he just bought and remove the label we forgot (and apologize for our error). If he declines and walks (or just runs) away, he gets to walk away. We'll file a report with the police, if we thought it was theft. Our store's reputation, even if it's only a budget store, is too good to ruin by pulling stunts like assault to prevent a $40 theft.
People usually don't mind to hand back the bag we just gave them. Even totally unrelated customers who just happened to walk through the alarm gate when the customer with the item walked through don't really mind to stick around until it's resolved. We usually know what item we forgot to take the tag off. It's usually expensive brand-name shoes (they have both shoes tagged, cheap ones only the left shoe) or a piece of clothing where we couldn't see the tag.
For a project replacement, try Open Workbench. I think it's opensource (it's at least free beer). The company I intern at uses it for its projects.
Well, do you know how much space regular fuel production takes? I don't but I'm guessing it'll be a lot too.
That's just not how it should work. RIAA* sued, RIAA were wrong, RIAA pay. The woman did nothing wrong and thus should not have to pay for anything.
* Yes, I know it's not the RIAA that's doing the sueing...
Smells like a simple money-grab to me. Those devices are low power and thus only locally change the radio spectrum significantly. Licensed radio was implemented to keep the long range spectrum usable.
In the Netherlands, a CD is 20 euro. That's about 25 dollars. Even for CD's that were released in 1995. Popular, non-popular, doesn't matter.
I live about 10 miles from the German border. If I get in the car and buy the same album in Germany, I pay 11 euros.
And then the Dutch RIAA-look-a-like complains that we collectively almost stopped buying CDs. Well, no shit sherlock.
Sorry, I disagree.
PSU wattage (of course) has nothing to do with the speed of the machine. And while Vista is a power hungry beast, I don't think you can specify it's performance needs by stating the minimum wattage of the PSU. One can easily spec out a machine with a (say) 400W PSU that will run Vista just fine. You just need to pick speedy hardware that doesn't eat too much power. That means staying of the uber-high end stuff, which historically always had a bad power to performance ratio.
Besides, in a few months we'll have (more) budget-end PC's with the performance of today's mainstream ones which will run Vista, using an even smaller PSU.
TFA is /.ed and wikipedia doesn't help me. What's so good about the SLUB allocater?
I don't really lift the droop out, but I do shake the droplets off and into my tank.
But that's more because I feel it's not good for the environment to have gasoline/diesel dripping on the earth.
I'm not even sure it helps though.