That shipping does add cost to the book however it doesn't help small bussiness at all. If people wanted to buy the book locally they would. It would cost the same, and it would be instant delivery. People are ordering the books off amazon with free shipping because it is more easy to do than to go down to a book store and find the book. I myself wouldn't mind paying the extra money to just be able to order a book online just for the fact it wont take me 10 years to locate it. Finding new books isn't hard but when you have to find a old one, it can be a pain to find. Its the small companys fault for not having a different system to make buying books more easy. Book stores in my expereience are horribly layed out and hard to find anything that you are looking for.
You used the wrong like imo. Its more like your driving along and crash into a pole and die because the seat belt failed and came undone smashing your face into the windshield. Faulty PSU or any other hardware that might have caused this SHOULD be held responsible for their low quality. Plus you must remember we live in a world where coffee cups say warning contents might be hot.
Well, Im not sure about you but im my personal VHS and cassette players I never used a cleaning tape to maintain them. Using a cleaning tape on a monthly basis in tape drives seems to have great results. Also there is alot more ware and tare on a VHS or cassette player you are constantly pulling tapes in and out every couple of hours or so. With a tape drive backup its a daily type thing most likely which wouldn't put as much ware. Its all about maintaining them properly.
I don't think so, tapes will still have many uses. They are very reliable for backups more than I would trust a hard drive. They also have the ability to be taken to off site locations like all backups should be. Hard drives would make doing that a little more difficult, even with external Hard drives it would be more of a pain than having the media of a tape. I don't see the tape going away any time soon.
What exactly uses Helium that is all that important?
According to wikipedia the applications of helium
* Because it is lighter than air, airships and balloons are inflated with helium for lift. In airships, helium is preferred over hydrogen because it is not flammable and has 92.64% of the buoyancy (or lifting power) of the alternative hydrogen (see calculation.)
* For its low solubility in water, the major part of human blood, air mixtures of helium with oxygen and nitrogen (Trimix), with oxygen only (Heliox), with common air (heliair), and with hydrogen and oxygen (hydreliox), are used in deep-sea breathing systems to reduce the high-pressure risk of nitrogen narcosis, decompression sickness, and oxygen toxicity.
* At extremely low temperatures, liquid helium is used to cool certain metals to produce superconductivity, such as in superconducting magnets used in magnetic resonance imaging. Helium at low temperatures is also used in cryogenics.
* For its inertness and high thermal conductivity, neutron transparency, and because it does not form radioactive isotopes under reactor conditions, helium is used as a coolant in some nuclear reactors, such as pebble-bed reactors.
* Helium is used as a shielding gas in arc welding processes on materials that are contaminated easily by air. It is especially useful in overhead welding, because it is lighter than air and thus floats, whereas other shielding gases sink.
* Because it is inert, helium is used as a protective gas in growing silicon and germanium crystals, in titanium and zirconium production, in gas chromatography, and as an atmosphere for protecting historical documents. This property also makes it useful in supersonic wind tunnels.
* In rocketry, helium is used as an ullage medium to displace fuel and oxidizers in storage tanks and to condense hydrogen and oxygen to make rocket fuel. It is also used to purge fuel and oxidizer from ground support equipment prior to launch and to pre-cool liquid hydrogen in space vehicles. For example, the Saturn V booster used in the Apollo program needed about 13 million cubic feet (370,000 m) of helium to launch.[2]
* The gain medium of the helium-neon laser is a mixture of helium and neon.
* Because it diffuses through solids at a rate three times that of air, helium is used as a tracer gas to detect leaks in high-vacuum equipment and high-pressure containers, as well as in other applications with less stringent requirements such as heat exchangers, valves, gas panels, etc.
* Because of its extremely low index of refraction, the use of helium reduces the distorting effects of temperature variations in the space between lenses in some telescopes.
* The age of rocks and minerals that contain uranium and thorium, radioactive elements that emit helium nuclei called alpha particles, can be discovered by measuring the level of helium with a process known as helium dating.
* The high thermal conductivity and sound velocity of helium is also desirable in thermoacoustic refrigeration. The inertness of helium adds to the environmental advantage of this technology over conventional refrigeration systems which may contribute to ozone depleting and global warming effects.
* Because helium alone is less dense than atmospheric air, it will change the timbre (not pitch[12]) of a person's voice when inhaled. However, inhaling it from a typical commercial source, such as that used to fill balloons, can be dangerous due to the risk of asphyxiation from lack of oxygen, and the number of contaminants that may be present. These could include trace amounts of other gases, in addition to aerosolized lubricating oil.
Maybe I'm missing the usefulness of some of those but it doesn't seem like a big deal.
There is no sign that his privacy was violated with the stuff from the medical records. For all we know he gave them permission to look there because he knew there was nothing to find. It would just help his point. You know what assuming does right?
I'm not quite sure what you are talking about. I talk with computer illiterate people all the time and they use firefox. Because everyone knows somebody that knows something. They tell them why and they listen. HOWEVER on the corp level its not that simple. Until mozilla does somethings to improve deployment to masses and more easy administration it wont take off on the corp level. Microsoft can be tested and deployed with very little work. On that note I've never know anyone to call firefox "hippy crap".
many keyboards ship without the right windows key. But I dont see how anyone could ever find them useful. All the default short cuts seem to be on the left side of the keyboard. So my guess would be its for those uncordinated people who have to use both hands to do things like windowskey+r for run (my mother being one of them) But I agree that the right windows key / context menu is kinda useless. That being said I dont use right alt,control, or shift.
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That shipping does add cost to the book however it doesn't help small bussiness at all. If people wanted to buy the book locally they would. It would cost the same, and it would be instant delivery. People are ordering the books off amazon with free shipping because it is more easy to do than to go down to a book store and find the book. I myself wouldn't mind paying the extra money to just be able to order a book online just for the fact it wont take me 10 years to locate it. Finding new books isn't hard but when you have to find a old one, it can be a pain to find. Its the small companys fault for not having a different system to make buying books more easy. Book stores in my expereience are horribly layed out and hard to find anything that you are looking for.
If you have ever worked in food services you know this statement is incorrect.
Who ever wrote the article is obviously jealous of the fact that back in his day he had to hand write his plagiarisms and couldn't copy and paste.
Then maybe you shouldn't challenge his math you idiot. Check your math . Check your brain.
check your reading skills he said a 30 day month, not 31.
In wow I get spammed with gold sites but cheats.
Sure it should, if you dont have the common sense to go AC when doing dumb post like that you deserve the negitive karma :)
A HAWKING HOLE!
I love the fact this was modded to 5 for informative when NONE OF THE LINKS WORK.
You used the wrong like imo. Its more like your driving along and crash into a pole and die because the seat belt failed and came undone smashing your face into the windshield. Faulty PSU or any other hardware that might have caused this SHOULD be held responsible for their low quality. Plus you must remember we live in a world where coffee cups say warning contents might be hot.
Ah the price of shopping walmart. But on a serious note, these cases are so small and lacking airflow it doesn't really suprise me.
At least then we would be using natural resources :)
Heres another one to mark troll you trollers!
Well, Im not sure about you but im my personal VHS and cassette players I never used a cleaning tape to maintain them. Using a cleaning tape on a monthly basis in tape drives seems to have great results. Also there is alot more ware and tare on a VHS or cassette player you are constantly pulling tapes in and out every couple of hours or so. With a tape drive backup its a daily type thing most likely which wouldn't put as much ware. Its all about maintaining them properly.
Oh noes im being modded down because there are no real stories to mod! eek! Ive got karma to burn and im bored :D
I don't think so, tapes will still have many uses. They are very reliable for backups more than I would trust a hard drive. They also have the ability to be taken to off site locations like all backups should be. Hard drives would make doing that a little more difficult, even with external Hard drives it would be more of a pain than having the media of a tape. I don't see the tape going away any time soon.
People will keep on trying to reinvent the wheel.
What exactly uses Helium that is all that important?
According to wikipedia the applications of helium
* Because it is lighter than air, airships and balloons are inflated with helium for lift. In airships, helium is preferred over hydrogen because it is not flammable and has 92.64% of the buoyancy (or lifting power) of the alternative hydrogen (see calculation.)
* For its low solubility in water, the major part of human blood, air mixtures of helium with oxygen and nitrogen (Trimix), with oxygen only (Heliox), with common air (heliair), and with hydrogen and oxygen (hydreliox), are used in deep-sea breathing systems to reduce the high-pressure risk of nitrogen narcosis, decompression sickness, and oxygen toxicity.
* At extremely low temperatures, liquid helium is used to cool certain metals to produce superconductivity, such as in superconducting magnets used in magnetic resonance imaging. Helium at low temperatures is also used in cryogenics.
* For its inertness and high thermal conductivity, neutron transparency, and because it does not form radioactive isotopes under reactor conditions, helium is used as a coolant in some nuclear reactors, such as pebble-bed reactors.
* Helium is used as a shielding gas in arc welding processes on materials that are contaminated easily by air. It is especially useful in overhead welding, because it is lighter than air and thus floats, whereas other shielding gases sink.
* Because it is inert, helium is used as a protective gas in growing silicon and germanium crystals, in titanium and zirconium production, in gas chromatography, and as an atmosphere for protecting historical documents. This property also makes it useful in supersonic wind tunnels.
* In rocketry, helium is used as an ullage medium to displace fuel and oxidizers in storage tanks and to condense hydrogen and oxygen to make rocket fuel. It is also used to purge fuel and oxidizer from ground support equipment prior to launch and to pre-cool liquid hydrogen in space vehicles. For example, the Saturn V booster used in the Apollo program needed about 13 million cubic feet (370,000 m) of helium to launch.[2]
* The gain medium of the helium-neon laser is a mixture of helium and neon.
* Because it diffuses through solids at a rate three times that of air, helium is used as a tracer gas to detect leaks in high-vacuum equipment and high-pressure containers, as well as in other applications with less stringent requirements such as heat exchangers, valves, gas panels, etc.
* Because of its extremely low index of refraction, the use of helium reduces the distorting effects of temperature variations in the space between lenses in some telescopes.
* The age of rocks and minerals that contain uranium and thorium, radioactive elements that emit helium nuclei called alpha particles, can be discovered by measuring the level of helium with a process known as helium dating.
* The high thermal conductivity and sound velocity of helium is also desirable in thermoacoustic refrigeration. The inertness of helium adds to the environmental advantage of this technology over conventional refrigeration systems which may contribute to ozone depleting and global warming effects.
* Because helium alone is less dense than atmospheric air, it will change the timbre (not pitch[12]) of a person's voice when inhaled. However, inhaling it from a typical commercial source, such as that used to fill balloons, can be dangerous due to the risk of asphyxiation from lack of oxygen, and the number of contaminants that may be present. These could include trace amounts of other gases, in addition to aerosolized lubricating oil.
Maybe I'm missing the usefulness of some of those but it doesn't seem like a big deal.
There is no sign that his privacy was violated with the stuff from the medical records. For all we know he gave them permission to look there because he knew there was nothing to find. It would just help his point. You know what assuming does right?
I'm not quite sure what you are talking about. I talk with computer illiterate people all the time and they use firefox. Because everyone knows somebody that knows something. They tell them why and they listen. HOWEVER on the corp level its not that simple. Until mozilla does somethings to improve deployment to masses and more easy administration it wont take off on the corp level. Microsoft can be tested and deployed with very little work. On that note I've never know anyone to call firefox "hippy crap".
many keyboards ship without the right windows key. But I dont see how anyone could ever find them useful. All the default short cuts seem to be on the left side of the keyboard. So my guess would be its for those uncordinated people who have to use both hands to do things like windowskey+r for run (my mother being one of them) But I agree that the right windows key / context menu is kinda useless. That being said I dont use right alt,control, or shift.
Just generate some SECRETE CODES
Oh I don't know... Maybe because it was published in the NYtimes?