That's the problem with consumers today. They'd rather "lease" a discounted phone and pay more in the longer term with higher locked in rates. But consumers don't have that option. You can buy an unlocked phone and use it on AT&T's network, but you still have to pay the higher rates that you would normally pay if you "leased" the phone. It would be like paying cash to buy a car, and then paying the dealer to lease the car you own. It doesn't make sense.
As I understand it, a quantum entangled photon is very fragile. I don't understand how or why it's fragile, but wouldn't that make this extraordinarily difficult to do? The trip to the ISS is pretty bumpy.
...and cast iron is a lot easier to make than steel which is why it is still used. The graphite in the cast iron makes it a poor conductor of vibrations. It's also more thermally conductive than steel, and has better wear resistance. These properties make it desirable for things like diesel engine blocks, and pump housings.
wood has the highest tensile strength of any building material known to man based either on weight or cross sectional area.
No, steel does. That's why I-beams are steel, not wood. It's also why the cables in suspension bridges are steel, not wood poles. I would like to point out a major difference between steel and wood. With wood, the direction of the grains matter, where with steel it doesn't matter. If the grain is oriented properly, wood outperforms steel. However, if the grains aren't oriented properly, steel is the winner.
In many situations, it is difficult or next to impossible to get the stresses in a structure to be compatible with the grain structure of the wood.
Timber structures have to be heavily engineered to ensure the stresses occur with the proper orientation to the grain. This often makes them too expensive in comparison to steel.
So either they're not going to be able to sell iPhones there, or they have to be sold seperately, which then opens them up for unlocking anyway. I doubt Apple will sell the iPhone in those countries. Because of the laws you stated above, people have access to phones with far superiorcapabilities to the iPhone. Not that the N95 isn't available in the US, but it's not subsidized by the voice and data plan, so you pay a penalty for buying one.
It's not the iPhone's capabilities that make it successful, it's the fact that Apple made a phone as capable as the iPhone compatible with AT&T's business strategy. Was the iPod the first portable MP3 player? No, it was a combination of user interface, styling, and business model, that made it what it is today.
Um, this has always been the case, since the first round of the first models started being resold without contracts Apple instigated this. Old news, non-story, and hasn't actually stopped anyone from doing this. I think this is news to people in Great Briton. For those of us in the US, this is not news at all.
By putting generators in the ground that are moved by people walking on them, it will make it harder to walk. I don't know the specifics, but I'm guessing that parts of the floor will move up and down a little as people walk on it, probably a few milimeters. It might be somewhat akin to walking on sand -- and I have to wonder what it would do to a wheelchair. The cushioning in your shoes already absorbs energy while you walk. You don't mind because it reduces the stress on your joints. The air pockets in your Nikes get slightly warmer when you land on them. The idea is to simply harness that energy.
Where you have a problem is when the owners of these electricity generating floors get greedy. They optimize the floor to generate the maximum amount of electricity without regard for how it effects the people walking on it. Now it feels like walking on sand.
There is good news. If a shopping mall tries to increase the floor's generating capacity to the point that it's noticeable to consumers. The consumers will shop elsewhere.
temperature of the light on the moon's surface was around 135 degrees fahrenheit, whereas the shade of the lunar module was -150 degrees. FYI Large thermal gradients such as this make excellent sources of energy.
I thought the point of prison was to punish and correct the guilty and get them back into working order. In the US, that applies to everything but murder. Person's who commit murder are removed from society completely. It's kinda sad but it's the general consensus in just about every state (that I know of). Most of the debate about the legal system is about how this removal from society should be performed. Should they spend the rest of their lives in prison, or be put to death?
...as plants grow better in richer CO2 atmospheres and that leads to a stronger biosphere all round. Right, but I should point out that humans have a tendency to destroy vast parts of the biosphere by paving it over with massive quantities of barren concrete. Fortunately, this problem has a quick and somewhat easy solution (easy as in easier than going carbon free). Put gardens on the roofs of buildings.
2. It's due to state laws. I don't know where you live, but here, it's not legal to sell that much pseudoephedrine at one time. Even when you buy a 10 day supply they put you on a special government list.
...necessary to protect the country's citizens. It's not protecting Chinese citizens that's the problem. It's protecting the rest of the world from the Chinese citizens that concerns me.
I seem to remember seeing something similar in the movie Demolition Man. However, the version in the movie wasn't on wheels. Rather, they were fixed around a conference table, but were able to pivot around the vertical axis.
I would also like to add that not only has the ban, illicit production, and enforcement ruined the chemistry set for millions of people. It has also destroyed the ability to get inexpensive allergy medication with a built in decongestant. For example, Loratadine (claritin) is sold at Wal-Mart for $4 for a 30 day supply. For those of us who require a decongestant, it's 2-4 times more expensive to get a measly 10 day supply of Loratadine-D (Claritin-D), and you have to sign over your soul to get it.
My HP desktop takes 30 seconds just to get through the BIOS startup. My at home Dell does the same thing. I don't know what the grandparent is smoking, but when I boot up my work machine in the morning, I go get a cup of coffee and come back to it still loading. It's a Dual processor dual core Xenon with 8GB RAM running XP-64.
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Did they determine those specs using the same calculations Mac used.
Helio Ocean then? To be honest, I don't know what they have in Europe, but I hear it's better.
As I understand it, a quantum entangled photon is very fragile. I don't understand how or why it's fragile, but wouldn't that make this extraordinarily difficult to do? The trip to the ISS is pretty bumpy.
...and cast iron is a lot easier to make than steel which is why it is still used. The graphite in the cast iron makes it a poor conductor of vibrations. It's also more thermally conductive than steel, and has better wear resistance. These properties make it desirable for things like diesel engine blocks, and pump housings.In many situations, it is difficult or next to impossible to get the stresses in a structure to be compatible with the grain structure of the wood.
Timber structures have to be heavily engineered to ensure the stresses occur with the proper orientation to the grain. This often makes them too expensive in comparison to steel.
It's not the iPhone's capabilities that make it successful, it's the fact that Apple made a phone as capable as the iPhone compatible with AT&T's business strategy. Was the iPod the first portable MP3 player? No, it was a combination of user interface, styling, and business model, that made it what it is today.
I mean Great Britain. Not Great Briton. Which, is apparently recognized by Firefox's spell check.
Where you have a problem is when the owners of these electricity generating floors get greedy. They optimize the floor to generate the maximum amount of electricity without regard for how it effects the people walking on it. Now it feels like walking on sand.
There is good news. If a shopping mall tries to increase the floor's generating capacity to the point that it's noticeable to consumers. The consumers will shop elsewhere.
...as plants grow better in richer CO2 atmospheres and that leads to a stronger biosphere all round. Right, but I should point out that humans have a tendency to destroy vast parts of the biosphere by paving it over with massive quantities of barren concrete. Fortunately, this problem has a quick and somewhat easy solution (easy as in easier than going carbon free). Put gardens on the roofs of buildings.1. I don't have a Costco membership
2. It's due to state laws. I don't know where you live, but here, it's not legal to sell that much pseudoephedrine at one time. Even when you buy a 10 day supply they put you on a special government list.
...necessary to protect the country's citizens. It's not protecting Chinese citizens that's the problem. It's protecting the rest of the world from the Chinese citizens that concerns me.It would be more useful if it had one or two arms. If you are going to put wheels on it, an arm is only ~$500 and some lines of code more.
Sorry for the slashvertisement, but seriously.
I seem to remember seeing something similar in the movie Demolition Man. However, the version in the movie wasn't on wheels. Rather, they were fixed around a conference table, but were able to pivot around the vertical axis.
I would also like to add that not only has the ban, illicit production, and enforcement ruined the chemistry set for millions of people. It has also destroyed the ability to get inexpensive allergy medication with a built in decongestant. For example, Loratadine (claritin) is sold at Wal-Mart for $4 for a 30 day supply. For those of us who require a decongestant, it's 2-4 times more expensive to get a measly 10 day supply of Loratadine-D (Claritin-D), and you have to sign over your soul to get it.
As some have mentioned you run a risk of being targeted as a terrorist by your local law enforcement if they discover such a lab in one's posession.
However, I think one is far more likely local law enforcement will suspect production of methamphetamine.
....it might change things. Legislators in the US and EU, for example. I don't like to name names, but...*Cough*Cough*
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So you're saying there's a chance.
too bad the folks at Capcom already beat them to it.
Acer is going to ruin Linux's reputation with their crappy hardware! Only one company is clever enough to think of a scheme as devious as this one.
Microsoft!
more people need to buy the Microsoft Natural Keyboard.