Yeah, I saw all the UKs in the summary... But I never call christmas the 'holiday season'. In fact I've never heard anyone call it that. I thought it was an American term for Thanksgiving - New Year. Hence my confusion.
Could this be fitted on airplanes as a help to stopping DVT on long flights? It could stow away under the seat if you didn't want it... plus you wouldn't have to watch the silly 'inflight exercises' video.
I'm a teenage girl with Tourette Syndrome you insensitive clod!
And? I am hoping you are trying to be funny with that response and not seriously offended! It was a joke and in no way can be seen as offensive. If you take that point of view then the whole article (and the title) should offend people with dyslexia!
What about a suggestion for speech recognition phones that write what you say, or is that a bad idea because it offends stutterers?
I understand that people with Tourette Syndrome find everyday life difficult but don't go round looking for people who 'might' be offending you, more often than not they are not! Unfortunatly there are a lot out there who are trying to be offesive and insensitive, that's who causes the problems.
If you spend some time and think about everything you say then it can seen as offensive to someone, somewhere, its just the way it is.
Regarding your other comment I regularly see 'text speak' in young students (typed) work. This probably stems down to them being lazy in two areas:
(1) writing the word shorthand in the first place
(2) not proofreading for words that the spell checker still sees as ok, eg: u for you
It's only a matter of time before this works its way into business proposals etc. as you mention.
Well that would be an interesting way of selling intellectual property to netflix for a reduced price. Maybe microsoft should do the same with it's competitors? I would hope you do not work in business...
Plus imdb dont rent out dvds so really they need to stay one up on the competition in another area. Maybe someone should suggest that they start renting them?
"Seems netflix are spending a lot of money on something that they seem to have working ok"
Well I think that shows that I know they have one! I was merely saying that there are better ones in my opinion, and it will be very hard for netflix to match them.
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/ has a recommendation section. Pick a film you like and it gives you a recommendation from their database. Feom experience this works perfectly for me... Plus you can read extensive reviews of films if you like.
Seems netflix are spending a lot of money on something that they seem to have working ok and can be found on other websites anyway.
I think it would be cheaper, and work better if you just bought more RAM. And if it won't fit in your motherboard, then buy a new one... whatever you spend it will probably cost less than this drive. (for about 12 months anyway)
To me this is just a case of try before you buy. Personally, and I assume most people don't want to buy rubbish music that they don't like. P2P lets us try the music out, and if we dont like it we will delete it, at least I do. If I do like it then I'll probably go and buy the CD. Really P2P should be motivation for bands to make better music, and have more than one decent song on an album.
Of course there are the usual people who exploit the whole P2P idea as a way of making money, these are they people the record companies should have grudges against.
Thanks. I see what you are saying. Heat is of course only one type of energy, or flow of energy.
Doe's all the energy have to get out? Will some energy not be used for endothermic reactions or converted into other forms of energy. The sun wouldn't necessarly get hotter, or would it?
By power output are they refering to the power radiated out into space, the power we receive at Earth, or the actual power output of the sun's reactions??
All these number are drastically different. The surface temperature of the sun is ~5000K (I think) whilst the core temperature is something like ~15,000,000K. Obviously temperature is only a measure of heat energy but the output at the core is clearly higher than at the surface. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but the output of the sun is actually only the core where the fusion of hydrogen is going on. This energy must then pass through lots of 'rubbish' in the photosphere to be the energy we see as output at earth...
Anyway, which value are we talking about here because there are about 4 orders of magnitude difference here, in temperature. The pressure at the core would suggest that there is a huge difference in energy released per unit time
Additionally, I cant remember the name of the film (a recent one) but does this not show that we can't make the sun 'start working again' as they like to tell us. Nor the core of the earth for that matter (The Core).. I know they are only films, but it fills the less informed population with stupid ideas or what science is, how things work and what we can do. A pet hate of mine, and I'm sure many others.
I agree with you there to be honest. Firstly I'm pleased that they are offering to contribute back to Wikipedia, as you say most don't, this is good.
But I must say that I still just see taking free content from Wikipedia and using it for anything other than information is not right. I'm not talking about the legalities here though, don't get me wrong, it's just the morals. Ok, Wikipedia chose a free distribution and reproduction license, so they are allowed to do it... but that is beacuse it's the most practical way to distribute the free information which wikipeadia stands for. Any other license would put people off using it for the purpose that it is intended.
I see what you are saying but no matter how I look at it Veropedia are making money from the work of the Wikipedia community by using it's content and additional advertisments. Without the content no-one would visit the site and see the adverts, they are no really in it for the dessemination of inforamtion, only the money. I believe if Veropedia were for the good of free information then they would not be a profitable company and thats the underlying issue here.
If they want to make some kind of super Wikipedia where everything is 'correct' then they should have no weblinks in references anyway. Books and published papers should be the only references.... but then reading things from paper seems to be a lost art these days.
Am I the only one who worries this miniscule supercomputing power will be used in a future version of FURBY?!!!
An annoying toy with more intellect than its owner... it'll plot against us all... we'll be overun by a mob of attention seeking robotic creatures that just recite Pi to ten billion decimal places, over and over and over again!!
Does this not defeat the point of Wikipedia, and will Wikipedia see any of the profits made? Why do we even need this site? It's just for some unimaginative loser to make some money whilst pretending to be behind the information for all ideals of Wikipedia!
Furthermore, is there an expert in every field working in this 12 year olds garage too? How can they vet sites and say that they are correct? Encylopedia Brittanca is incorrect in places and look at the people there! No citation needed, no bad link is the most feeble and unarticulated way of deciding if a page is 'correct'!
User changes are the way of Wikipedia, and they progess to make a page as correct and informative as it can be. Taking this away and telling everyone that this is the definitive page on the subject is not going to help at all. Wikipedia blocks pages that are prone to vandelism anyway... So really??? What is the point??? Money I guess... do these people have morals? Why don't they go open a for profit branch of Oxfam or something?
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Yeah, I saw all the UKs in the summary... But I never call christmas the 'holiday season'. In fact I've never heard anyone call it that. I thought it was an American term for Thanksgiving - New Year. Hence my confusion.
Oh dear, oh dear...
No thanksgiving in UK, and the July 4th thing is independence day in USA, again nothing in the UK
Does the holiday season not start today? If so, I cant see it being dropped, erm... yesterday. Or am I wrong?
Did it lose suction when it got full? Or does it have dual cyclone technology?
Could this be fitted on airplanes as a help to stopping DVT on long flights?
It could stow away under the seat if you didn't want it... plus you wouldn't have to watch the silly 'inflight exercises' video.
Really all depends on whether it's his baby or not doesn't it!
I'm a teenage girl with Tourette Syndrome you insensitive clod!
And? I am hoping you are trying to be funny with that response and not seriously offended! It was a joke and in no way can be seen as offensive. If you take that point of view then the whole article (and the title) should offend people with dyslexia!
What about a suggestion for speech recognition phones that write what you say, or is that a bad idea because it offends stutterers?
I understand that people with Tourette Syndrome find everyday life difficult but don't go round looking for people who 'might' be offending you, more often than not they are not! Unfortunatly there are a lot out there who are trying to be offesive and insensitive, that's who causes the problems.
If you spend some time and think about everything you say then it can seen as offensive to someone, somewhere, its just the way it is.
Thank you for defending my comment :-)
Regarding your other comment I regularly see 'text speak' in young students (typed) work. This probably stems down to them being lazy in two areas:
(1) writing the word shorthand in the first place
(2) not proofreading for words that the spell checker still sees as ok, eg: u for you
It's only a matter of time before this works its way into business proposals etc. as you mention.
Well that would be an interesting way of selling intellectual property to netflix for a reduced price. Maybe microsoft should do the same with it's competitors? I would hope you do not work in business...
Plus imdb dont rent out dvds so really they need to stay one up on the competition in another area. Maybe someone should suggest that they start renting them?
I don't have an iPHone so I don't know. But maybe the backspace is in a awkward place so people can't be bothered to change mistakes?
"Seems netflix are spending a lot of money on something that they seem to have working ok"
Well I think that shows that I know they have one! I was merely saying that there are better ones in my opinion, and it will be very hard for netflix to match them.
They didn't win a million dollars, or a cigar... so really it doesn't matter.
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/ has a recommendation section. Pick a film you like and it gives you a recommendation from their database. Feom experience this works perfectly for me... Plus you can read extensive reviews of films if you like.
Seems netflix are spending a lot of money on something that they seem to have working ok and can be found on other websites anyway.
I think it would be cheaper, and work better if you just bought more RAM. And if it won't fit in your motherboard, then buy a new one... whatever you spend it will probably cost less than this drive. (for about 12 months anyway)
To me this is just a case of try before you buy. Personally, and I assume most people don't want to buy rubbish music that they don't like. P2P lets us try the music out, and if we dont like it we will delete it, at least I do. If I do like it then I'll probably go and buy the CD. Really P2P should be motivation for bands to make better music, and have more than one decent song on an album.
Of course there are the usual people who exploit the whole P2P idea as a way of making money, these are they people the record companies should have grudges against.
Thanks. I see what you are saying. Heat is of course only one type of energy, or flow of energy.
Doe's all the energy have to get out? Will some energy not be used for endothermic reactions or converted into other forms of energy. The sun wouldn't necessarly get hotter, or would it?
I quesiton myself too much I feel
By power output are they refering to the power radiated out into space, the power we receive at Earth, or the actual power output of the sun's reactions??
All these number are drastically different. The surface temperature of the sun is ~5000K (I think) whilst the core temperature is something like ~15,000,000K. Obviously temperature is only a measure of heat energy but the output at the core is clearly higher than at the surface. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but the output of the sun is actually only the core where the fusion of hydrogen is going on. This energy must then pass through lots of 'rubbish' in the photosphere to be the energy we see as output at earth...
Anyway, which value are we talking about here because there are about 4 orders of magnitude difference here, in temperature. The pressure at the core would suggest that there is a huge difference in energy released per unit time
Additionally, I cant remember the name of the film (a recent one) but does this not show that we can't make the sun 'start working again' as they like to tell us. Nor the core of the earth for that matter (The Core).. I know they are only films, but it fills the less informed population with stupid ideas or what science is, how things work and what we can do. A pet hate of mine, and I'm sure many others.
I agree with you there to be honest. Firstly I'm pleased that they are offering to contribute back to Wikipedia, as you say most don't, this is good.
But I must say that I still just see taking free content from Wikipedia and using it for anything other than information is not right. I'm not talking about the legalities here though, don't get me wrong, it's just the morals. Ok, Wikipedia chose a free distribution and reproduction license, so they are allowed to do it... but that is beacuse it's the most practical way to distribute the free information which wikipeadia stands for. Any other license would put people off using it for the purpose that it is intended.
I see what you are saying but no matter how I look at it Veropedia are making money from the work of the Wikipedia community by using it's content and additional advertisments. Without the content no-one would visit the site and see the adverts, they are no really in it for the dessemination of inforamtion, only the money. I believe if Veropedia were for the good of free information then they would not be a profitable company and thats the underlying issue here.
If they want to make some kind of super Wikipedia where everything is 'correct' then they should have no weblinks in references anyway. Books and published papers should be the only references.... but then reading things from paper seems to be a lost art these days.
Am I the only one who worries this miniscule supercomputing power will be used in a future version of FURBY?!!!
An annoying toy with more intellect than its owner... it'll plot against us all... we'll be overun by a mob of attention seeking robotic creatures that just recite Pi to ten billion decimal places, over and over and over again!!
The horror!
Does this not defeat the point of Wikipedia, and will Wikipedia see any of the profits made? Why do we even need this site? It's just for some unimaginative loser to make some money whilst pretending to be behind the information for all ideals of Wikipedia!
Furthermore, is there an expert in every field working in this 12 year olds garage too? How can they vet sites and say that they are correct? Encylopedia Brittanca is incorrect in places and look at the people there! No citation needed, no bad link is the most feeble and unarticulated way of deciding if a page is 'correct'!
User changes are the way of Wikipedia, and they progess to make a page as correct and informative as it can be. Taking this away and telling everyone that this is the definitive page on the subject is not going to help at all. Wikipedia blocks pages that are prone to vandelism anyway... So really??? What is the point??? Money I guess... do these people have morals? Why don't they go open a for profit branch of Oxfam or something?