The last time I was in one of the big chain theaters, I noticed that the movie commercials ended right at the listed showtime. Then the then the theater chain promo ("please go to the snack bar, and dispose of trash in the proper receptacles"), trailers ("Coming Attractions"), and finally the feature.
But more and more, I'm going to my local theater www.by-jo.com. The By-Jo isn't "second run" anymore; they got Shrek 2, the Incredibles, and SpiderMan 2 the weekend they opened (maybe more; I just noticed those), and the tickets and the snack bar are reasonable. Or to the chain second run houses.
I'm not saying wind power isn't advantageous; it is renewable. But it's unsightly, can be costly (suitable areas for wind farms are often near the coast, where land is expensive), and is noisy.
Please rate the sightliness and sound volume of the following energy-related facilities: (a) Strip Mine (b) Oil Spill (c) Nuclear Waste Disposal facility (d) coal-fired power plant (e) Hydropower reservoir
The problems in Fernald aren't related to civilian power plants, power lines, garbage dumps, or cheese factories.
"The Fernald Environmental Management Project is located on 1,050 acres approximately 18 miles northwest of Cincinnati, Ohio. The site produced uranium metals and compounds for nuclear reactor fuel as part of the Nation's defense program from 1953 until 1989, when all production operations stopped."
Military production of Uranium. They didn't understand the risks of radiation for the first decade of the plant's life, and then some. They just dumped waste "out back", and didn't wonder whether it would migrate off the plant and into people's drinking water.
Enron's traders were half the problem. The other half was the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC. FERC insisted that the energy traders weren't doing anything wrong.
But the investigation won't get that high. IOKIYAR.
AMD isn't going to manufacture the devices. AMD is going to license the design to manufacturers/marketers. AMD is going to make money on the processors that go into these devices.
An embedded internet device that locks out java in favor of Microsoft technologies. MS might even be giving this to AMD, with tech support, to get into the specification, planning on charging the actual hardware manufacturers.
Ahh, moral equivalence in action: US abuses at AbuG are just as bad as Saddam torturing/killing tens of thousands of his own people. Gimme a break
Saddam torturing/killing tens of thousands of his own people is despicable. Coalition forces killing tens of thousands of Iraqis, though, is what, exactly?
Worse, because they and Saddam posed no threat to us and we took actions that killed them needlessly?
Not so bad, because we're Right and our actions are Good no matter what happens?
If your needs are growing, do you buy a lot more now, so that you can go longer without needing to replace what you have? Or do you buy just a little more than you currently need, counting on prices to come down so that when you replace the equipment, the extra capacity costs you less.
My guess is that for PC disk drives, the optimal is probably to buy what you need for 12 to 18 months time. If the costs of moving that data to a new drive are high (i.e. you can't take the system down), then buy more (18 to 24?).
A scientific theory is tested by experiments. And is considered valid until new experiments come up with results that the theory cannot explain.
A mathematical theorem, on the other hand, is proven with irrefutable logic from unquestionable postulates. One is always free to disregard or change postulates, and come up with different theorems. That is how "non-euclidean geometry" came about; Riemann and others dropped Euclid's Parallel Postulate, and saw what they could come up with from the changed set of postulates.
I wonder whether the increasing price of gasoline will change people's behavior enough to drastically change the single-occupant vehicle. Will people still buy a house (or take a job) where they have to commute an hour to get there, buring a couple gallons of gas in the process. Would $2/gallon gas curb this appetite? $3/gallon? $4/gallon? $10/gallon?
Are Single-Occupant-Vehicle commutes less common (or simply shorter) where gas is much more expensive (i.e. the whole world outside of the USA and Oil producing countries)?
My wife was somewhat surprised earlier this year; she went to her GP complaining of indigestion and expecting a script for one of the new pills.
What she got, three days later, was a triple bypass operation.
Do you have $60,000 lying around? If your choice is to spend that kind of money, or risk a family member suffering a heart attack at any point in time, which do you choose?
I, as an American, think the world would be much better off if the USA were weaker.
Fortunately, the Bush Administration is pursuing fiscal policy aimed at this goal. Cutting the deficit in half by increasing military spending and cutting taxes. We fell for that before. Now the chickens are coming home to roost.
That branch of the "Fitch" family also goes back to the retailer who joined up with Mr. Abercrombie way back when. And sold out to Mr. Abercrombie shortly thereafter, long before the catalogs featured the clothes over here and the teenagers over there.
I forget... Triumph of the Nerds, perhaps. The Machine that Changed the World. I do recall video (possibly a reenactment) where the "author" of QDOS was writing code, referring to an open CP/M manual for (IIRC) interrupt definitions, and copying them into QDOS. What did the "D" in QDOS stand for, again?
At some point in time, I'm going to go through the box full of floppies from my 1983 Apple//e, and copy them onto 800K 3.5" floppies.
Then I'll carry the 800K 3.5" floppies to my 1994 PowerMac, and copy them all onto 95MB Zip Disks. Then I'll take the 95 MB Zip Disks to my current machine (1999 iMac purchased in 2000), and archive them all to a CD-R or two.
And then fire up a Apple// emulator and play all those games and reread all the letters I wrote in college.
And that crisis has been made much worse by the policies of the President of the United States, the current President's father, and the current President's father's predecessor.
And it won't get better until someone who understands that 3 - 2 != 5 is running the country.
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The last time I was in one of the big chain theaters, I noticed that the movie commercials ended right at the listed showtime. Then the then the theater chain promo ("please go to the snack bar, and dispose of trash in the proper receptacles"), trailers ("Coming Attractions"), and finally the feature.
But more and more, I'm going to my local theater www.by-jo.com. The By-Jo isn't "second run" anymore; they got Shrek 2, the Incredibles, and SpiderMan 2 the weekend they opened (maybe more; I just noticed those), and the tickets and the snack bar are reasonable. Or to the chain second run houses.
It's an uncounted negative externality.
Please rate the sightliness and sound volume of the following energy-related facilities:
(a) Strip Mine
(b) Oil Spill
(c) Nuclear Waste Disposal facility
(d) coal-fired power plant
(e) Hydropower reservoir
The problems in Fernald aren't related to civilian power plants, power lines, garbage dumps, or cheese factories.
"The Fernald Environmental Management Project is located on 1,050 acres approximately 18 miles northwest of Cincinnati, Ohio. The site produced uranium metals and compounds for nuclear reactor fuel as part of the Nation's defense program from 1953 until 1989, when all production operations stopped."
Military production of Uranium. They didn't understand the risks of radiation for the first decade of the plant's life, and then some. They just dumped waste "out back", and didn't wonder whether it would migrate off the plant and into people's drinking water.
Enron's traders were half the problem. The other half was the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC. FERC insisted that the energy traders weren't doing anything wrong.
But the investigation won't get that high. IOKIYAR.
AMD isn't going to manufacture the devices. AMD is going to license the design to manufacturers/marketers. AMD is going to make money on the processors that go into these devices.
An embedded internet device that locks out java in favor of Microsoft technologies. MS might even be giving this to AMD, with tech support, to get into the specification, planning on charging the actual hardware manufacturers.
Ahh, moral equivalence in action: US abuses at AbuG are just as bad as Saddam torturing/killing tens of thousands of his own people. Gimme a break
Saddam torturing/killing tens of thousands of his own people is despicable. Coalition forces killing tens of thousands of Iraqis, though, is what, exactly?
Worse, because they and Saddam posed no threat to us and we took actions that killed them needlessly?
Not so bad, because we're Right and our actions are Good no matter what happens?
It's an interesting Operations Research question.
If your needs are growing, do you buy a lot more now, so that you can go longer without needing to replace what you have? Or do you buy just a little more than you currently need, counting on prices to come down so that when you replace the equipment, the extra capacity costs you less.
My guess is that for PC disk drives, the optimal is probably to buy what you need for 12 to 18 months time. If the costs of moving that data to a new drive are high (i.e. you can't take the system down), then buy more (18 to 24?).
Mathematics is not science.
A scientific theory is tested by experiments. And is considered valid until new experiments come up with results that the theory cannot explain.
A mathematical theorem, on the other hand, is proven with irrefutable logic from unquestionable postulates. One is always free to disregard or change postulates, and come up with different theorems. That is how "non-euclidean geometry" came about; Riemann and others dropped Euclid's Parallel Postulate, and saw what they could come up with from the changed set of postulates.
That's one possibility. The more likely one is that the poster is a male, and married to the mother of his step-children, who has custody.
Cow farts are the number 3 contributor of Methane gas to the atmosphere (Oil & Gas production is #1; rice cultivation is #2).
Methane is nearly as significant in the greenhouse effect as carbon dioxide.
Not sexy, but important. Senator Proxmire be damned.
I wonder whether the increasing price of gasoline will change people's behavior enough to drastically change the single-occupant vehicle. Will people still buy a house (or take a job) where they have to commute an hour to get there, buring a couple gallons of gas in the process. Would $2/gallon gas curb this appetite? $3/gallon? $4/gallon? $10/gallon?
Are Single-Occupant-Vehicle commutes less common (or simply shorter) where gas is much more expensive (i.e. the whole world outside of the USA and Oil producing countries)?
My wife was somewhat surprised earlier this year; she went to her GP complaining of indigestion and expecting a script for one of the new pills.
What she got, three days later, was a triple bypass operation.
Do you have $60,000 lying around? If your choice is to spend that kind of money, or risk a family member suffering a heart attack at any point in time, which do you choose?
I, as an American, think the world would be much better off if the USA were weaker.
Fortunately, the Bush Administration is pursuing fiscal policy aimed at this goal. Cutting the deficit in half by increasing military spending and cutting taxes. We fell for that before. Now the chickens are coming home to roost.
Five picture deal, right?
(1) Toy Story
(2) A Bug's Life
(1a) Toy Story 2
(3) Monster's Inc
(4) Finding Nemo
(5) The Incredibles
So why are people saying
(6) Cars
Is the last picture from the five-picture deal? Or is this something like the five-book Hitchhiker's Trilogy?
Off by two... six generations back.
That branch of the "Fitch" family also goes back to the retailer who joined up with Mr. Abercrombie way back when. And sold out to Mr. Abercrombie shortly thereafter, long before the catalogs featured the clothes over here and the teenagers over there.
I forget... Triumph of the Nerds, perhaps. The Machine that Changed the World. I do recall video (possibly a reenactment) where the "author" of QDOS was writing code, referring to an open CP/M manual for (IIRC) interrupt definitions, and copying them into QDOS. What did the "D" in QDOS stand for, again?
Given enough time, the earth and everything on it will be consumed by the sun.
I would expect that turning into a plasma will cause most devices to fail, and most recording media to become unreadable.
At some point in time, I'm going to go through the box full of floppies from my 1983 Apple //e, and copy them onto 800K 3.5" floppies.
// emulator and play all those games and reread all the letters I wrote in college.
Then I'll carry the 800K 3.5" floppies to my 1994 PowerMac, and copy them all onto 95MB Zip Disks. Then I'll take the 95 MB Zip Disks to my current machine (1999 iMac purchased in 2000), and archive them all to a CD-R or two.
And then fire up a Apple
The problem is that Seattle Computer Products ripped off Digital Research's CP/M.
And that crisis has been made much worse by the policies of the President of the United States, the current President's father, and the current President's father's predecessor.
And it won't get better until someone who understands that 3 - 2 != 5 is running the country.
Socail Security has all the authority they need to write checks until 2040 or so. Then the problem starts.
Of course, the _rest_ of the federal budget will be in much bigger fertilizer when SS stops subsidising the rest of the government.
When enough people stop buying the expensive groceries, the supermarkets will drop their prices.
But not until then.
If I'm counting right, John Fitch was either my Great-Great-Grandfather, or my Great-Great-Great-Uncle.