The method used to find these systems are changes in the star's brightness when the planet passes in front of the star - so systems with large planets in close orbit are the ones to be noticed first. If you have a planet like Jupiter with an orbital period of around 12 years, you're much less likely to catch that event compared to those "unexpected" systems with short periods.
The glass in the CRT is 28% lead, for probably better than 20% lead in the total weight of the monitor. That's why they have to be disposed off as hazardous waste if not recycled, and that's why it's so expensive to do so.
So I always wondered why, you'd think the amount of leaching you get out of a glass is relatively minor compared to all the lead we used to blow into the air as tetraethyllead.
If you have ever gone through the visa process for a true work visa like the H1-B, or even worse, a labor certification for a green card - this IS easy. F1 and J1 application can be done in an hour, without an attorney, and usually have a fast turn around. H1-Bs can only be had in October (the quota for the fiscal year is usually filled within a couple days of opening the new year), and since they toss any even slightly flawed application, is better done by an attorney. Approval takes 3 - 6 months. Labor certs take a year, followed by 2 more years of INS paperwork.
There is a trick to this. I presented at a conference in Germany, and was approached by a student about doing something similar to this at my company. Getting any kind of work visa is way to complicated - but a quick talk at the local university with a professor in the subject got him signed up as a "student exchange/internship", which made him eligible for a F1 student visa - and those (at least at the time) were a minimal time/effort thing to get. My company wrote a "letter of support" to the university, guaranteeing a grad student level stipend, the university send out the I-20, the student took that to the embassy, done.
I agree, VCs want to see a working business plan before they invest. And that usually means that your "idea" is out there for them to see beforehand, so NDA doesn't help.
If you're really convinced of your idea, get a business license, set up a business plan, put up a website - polished enough to show you're a professional - and use copyright to protect your idea, what means you publish it, and hope that either you get the funding fast enough to implement the idea before someone steals it, or that is bright enough for someone to buy the concept off you (what's probably cheaper for them then deal with a law suit and negative publicity).
Oh, and don't forget to think big. Most VCs aren't interested in $50,000 investments to fund your first year of writing. They want to see something that takes $ 5,000,0000 to make a $50,000,000 profit in 5 years.
The biggest issue is not the theater but the actors. You pay minimum wage, you get people that can't hack it at McDonald's.
All the current system can do is prevent you from easily getting a firearm or a large knife on an airplane by yourself.
No, the oxygen from silver oxide migrates to the aluminum, and the newly formed aluminum oxide stays on the aluminum foil. The surface of your silver part will actually contain nothing but pure silver.
This comes down to "do you lock your house?"
Of course you can get fake certificates. Just as a professional thief can probably jimmy your lock faster than you with your key. But I still lock the door, in the hope to keep out at least the junkies looking for an easy grab (or the script kiddies on the internet).
Insecure is less dangerous than encrypted untrusted. How many less-than-savvy users are trained by their more geeky relatives to check for two things - the httpS and the little lock icon. How easy do you want to make it for the phisher if he can safely pretend to be https://cidybank.com/ with the lock icon? Getting "trust" established was one of the hardest thing for e-commerce to do. Anything that undermines it needs to be stamped out.
You're missing the point here. The claim was that you can use your stored hydrogen overnight. Unless you want your personal Hindenburg in the basement (whether it's 10 m^3 or 2 m^2, and don't forget you need an oxygen balloon next to it) the economy of scale eats you up even worse if you're trying to use only 1000 W. You still need the same infrastructure as you need to store enough for 5000 or 50,000 W.
And in regards to the low consumption, if you ever tried to weather a long-term power outage on a 5 kW generator you quickly start learning about power consumption. If AC and freezer kick in at the same time, you blow the fuses.
There is the slight question of where and how you store your hydrogen and oxygen in the meantime so, especially for small scale "localized" applications. Lets say your house needs 5000 W. To get through an 8 h dark period, you need 40 kWhr, or 136,000 BTU. That's roughly the energy in 2 lbs of hydrogen. To store that much hydrogen, you either need a balloon of 11 m^3 size, or you need a compressor that allows you to store the hydrogen as compressed gas (what costs energy to do) or to liquefy the hydrogen (what costs even more energy). Alternatively you can adsorb the hydrogen into certain alloys, but then you need to heat them to get the hydrogen back out, again ruining your energy balance, and driving up the cost.
This development can help with the development of a large scale hydrogen infrastructure, but there we're better of with natural gas (of which we're not running out anytime soon, and which has much less technological hurdles in storage).
I think they'll have problems getting jobs as ditch-diggers now, because what employer would want to hire someone that would sue someone else over insults?
Interestingly, in most of Europe that would be just what they would be doing to you under "incitement to violence" statues. Which mostly were enacted due to fascists' actions, since they were famous for making such statements - and acting on them.
She's probably suing as Doe because if she sues under her real name, all this will not only become trash in the Google search but show up in any professional search of public records like LexisNexis.
Google their names, and guess what you find - their description in endearing terms on those boards. I'm sure that this will greatly harm their career in a business where quiet professionalism is the order of the day (unless your defending OJ Simson).
And people do Google their applicant's names; I do it all the time, even if I'm just trying to find published papers. But I'd sure notice if the first page results are littered with odd stuff like it must be in this case.
As long as the anonymous troll trolls with other anonymous trolls, everything is fine. These idiots were smearing the real names of future competitors in order to ruin their careers before they even have started.
I personally can't wait until the top entry in google on their names will be "got sued by Jane Doe for defamation", together with a link to their highly professional statements. I'm sure it will greatly enhance their careers in the fast food industry.
I'm pretty sure that if they terminate you "for cause", that somewhere, in sub paragraph 31 c clause III on page 49 of the contract, it states that they are allowed to get their early termination fees. Or worse, that you still owe them the rest of the contract without them providing you with anything.
In the civil service, there is a clear line between "professionals" and "political appointees". The idea being, while the head of the justice department, and probably most of his deputies, change every administration, the people who actually understand the inner workings stay on.
If the search is used to vest someone's political position for a "political appointee" position, that's fine. If it's used the screen "technical/professional" candidates it's probably a violation of civil service provisions and most likely some statutes.
Actually, the most pressing sensor application for the DHS is explosive detectors at airports. The big "puffer" devices they introduced are an utter failure; the "stand still for 30 sec" is an impossible hold-up in security line processing. Anything you can use for spectroscopic identification of chemicals without the need for contact gets funded.
You don't have to be convicted of anything to receive a presidential pardon (see Nixon, Richard). One good option for him is to win reelection, then resign to allow the Republican Governor to appoint another Republican to serve out his term. For that Bush will grant him a pardon on the last day "for the 40 years of service to the country", and he will fade away.
The reason you have the layout issues in Word is that you're using the program differently. In Word (or any other WYSIWYG editor) most of us try to fix stuff on the fly, with all the known issues. If you'd used Word like a document editor - write the text, do a "select all, copy, paste special unformated text, into new document", then apply your styles, you get pretty decent results (as long as you stay away from NTR).
Now if someone would just write a new equation editor for Word...
It's funny, you could replace Tex with Word in this thread, and get a reasonable MS rant out of it.
Forced backwards compatibility kills any program in the long run, but then, I still can open my thesis written in WinWord in the early 90's.
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The method used to find these systems are changes in the star's brightness when the planet passes in front of the star - so systems with large planets in close orbit are the ones to be noticed first. If you have a planet like Jupiter with an orbital period of around 12 years, you're much less likely to catch that event compared to those "unexpected" systems with short periods.
The glass in the CRT is 28% lead, for probably better than 20% lead in the total weight of the monitor. That's why they have to be disposed off as hazardous waste if not recycled, and that's why it's so expensive to do so.
So I always wondered why, you'd think the amount of leaching you get out of a glass is relatively minor compared to all the lead we used to blow into the air as tetraethyllead.
If you have ever gone through the visa process for a true work visa like the H1-B, or even worse, a labor certification for a green card - this IS easy. F1 and J1 application can be done in an hour, without an attorney, and usually have a fast turn around. H1-Bs can only be had in October (the quota for the fiscal year is usually filled within a couple days of opening the new year), and since they toss any even slightly flawed application, is better done by an attorney. Approval takes 3 - 6 months. Labor certs take a year, followed by 2 more years of INS paperwork.
There is a trick to this. I presented at a conference in Germany, and was approached by a student about doing something similar to this at my company. Getting any kind of work visa is way to complicated - but a quick talk at the local university with a professor in the subject got him signed up as a "student exchange/internship", which made him eligible for a F1 student visa - and those (at least at the time) were a minimal time/effort thing to get.
My company wrote a "letter of support" to the university, guaranteeing a grad student level stipend, the university send out the I-20, the student took that to the embassy, done.
I agree, VCs want to see a working business plan before they invest. And that usually means that your "idea" is out there for them to see beforehand, so NDA doesn't help.
If you're really convinced of your idea, get a business license, set up a business plan, put up a website - polished enough to show you're a professional - and use copyright to protect your idea, what means you publish it, and hope that either you get the funding fast enough to implement the idea before someone steals it, or that is bright enough for someone to buy the concept off you (what's probably cheaper for them then deal with a law suit and negative publicity). Oh, and don't forget to think big. Most VCs aren't interested in $50,000 investments to fund your first year of writing. They want to see something that takes $ 5,000,0000 to make a $50,000,000 profit in 5 years.
You can buy ceramic knives which don't set off the metal detector. Just remember, the sky marshals bring guns to your knife fight.
The biggest issue is not the theater but the actors. You pay minimum wage, you get people that can't hack it at McDonald's.
All the current system can do is prevent you from easily getting a firearm or a large knife on an airplane by yourself.
No, the oxygen from silver oxide migrates to the aluminum, and the newly formed aluminum oxide stays on the aluminum foil. The surface of your silver part will actually contain nothing but pure silver.
This comes down to "do you lock your house?"
Of course you can get fake certificates. Just as a professional thief can probably jimmy your lock faster than you with your key. But I still lock the door, in the hope to keep out at least the junkies looking for an easy grab (or the script kiddies on the internet).
Insecure is less dangerous than encrypted untrusted. How many less-than-savvy users are trained by their more geeky relatives to check for two things - the httpS and the little lock icon. How easy do you want to make it for the phisher if he can safely pretend to be https://cidybank.com/ with the lock icon? Getting "trust" established was one of the hardest thing for e-commerce to do. Anything that undermines it needs to be stamped out.
You're missing the point here. The claim was that you can use your stored hydrogen overnight. Unless you want your personal Hindenburg in the basement (whether it's 10 m^3 or 2 m^2, and don't forget you need an oxygen balloon next to it) the economy of scale eats you up even worse if you're trying to use only 1000 W. You still need the same infrastructure as you need to store enough for 5000 or 50,000 W.
And in regards to the low consumption, if you ever tried to weather a long-term power outage on a 5 kW generator you quickly start learning about power consumption. If AC and freezer kick in at the same time, you blow the fuses.
There is the slight question of where and how you store your hydrogen and oxygen in the meantime so, especially for small scale "localized" applications.
Lets say your house needs 5000 W. To get through an 8 h dark period, you need 40 kWhr, or 136,000 BTU. That's roughly the energy in 2 lbs of hydrogen. To store that much hydrogen, you either need a balloon of 11 m^3 size, or you need a compressor that allows you to store the hydrogen as compressed gas (what costs energy to do) or to liquefy the hydrogen (what costs even more energy). Alternatively you can adsorb the hydrogen into certain alloys, but then you need to heat them to get the hydrogen back out, again ruining your energy balance, and driving up the cost.
This development can help with the development of a large scale hydrogen infrastructure, but there we're better of with natural gas (of which we're not running out anytime soon, and which has much less technological hurdles in storage).
And I was now expecting something interesting from the European Space Agency...
I think they'll have problems getting jobs as ditch-diggers now, because what employer would want to hire someone that would sue someone else over insults?
Lawyers
Interestingly, in most of Europe that would be just what they would be doing to you under "incitement to violence" statues. Which mostly were enacted due to fascists' actions, since they were famous for making such statements - and acting on them.
She's probably suing as Doe because if she sues under her real name, all this will not only become trash in the Google search but show up in any professional search of public records like LexisNexis.
Google their names, and guess what you find - their description in endearing terms on those boards. I'm sure that this will greatly harm their career in a business where quiet professionalism is the order of the day (unless your defending OJ Simson).
And people do Google their applicant's names; I do it all the time, even if I'm just trying to find published papers. But I'd sure notice if the first page results are littered with odd stuff like it must be in this case.
As long as the anonymous troll trolls with other anonymous trolls, everything is fine. These idiots were smearing the real names of future competitors in order to ruin their careers before they even have started.
I personally can't wait until the top entry in google on their names will be "got sued by Jane Doe for defamation", together with a link to their highly professional statements. I'm sure it will greatly enhance their careers in the fast food industry.
I'm pretty sure that if they terminate you "for cause", that somewhere, in sub paragraph 31 c clause III on page 49 of the contract, it states that they are allowed to get their early termination fees. Or worse, that you still owe them the rest of the contract without them providing you with anything.
In the civil service, there is a clear line between "professionals" and "political appointees". The idea being, while the head of the justice department, and probably most of his deputies, change every administration, the people who actually understand the inner workings stay on.
If the search is used to vest someone's political position for a "political appointee" position, that's fine. If it's used the screen "technical/professional" candidates it's probably a violation of civil service provisions and most likely some statutes.
Plasmon != Plasma. One is a cool electric wave, the other a bunch of hot gas.
Actually, the most pressing sensor application for the DHS is explosive detectors at airports. The big "puffer" devices they introduced are an utter failure; the "stand still for 30 sec" is an impossible hold-up in security line processing. Anything you can use for spectroscopic identification of chemicals without the need for contact gets funded.
You don't have to be convicted of anything to receive a presidential pardon (see Nixon, Richard).
One good option for him is to win reelection, then resign to allow the Republican Governor to appoint another Republican to serve out his term. For that Bush will grant him a pardon on the last day "for the 40 years of service to the country", and he will fade away.
The reason you have the layout issues in Word is that you're using the program differently. In Word (or any other WYSIWYG editor) most of us try to fix stuff on the fly, with all the known issues. If you'd used Word like a document editor - write the text, do a "select all, copy, paste special unformated text, into new document", then apply your styles, you get pretty decent results (as long as you stay away from NTR). ...
Now if someone would just write a new equation editor for Word
It's funny, you could replace Tex with Word in this thread, and get a reasonable MS rant out of it.
Forced backwards compatibility kills any program in the long run, but then, I still can open my thesis written in WinWord in the early 90's.