Removing the ability to do that can't possibly be good for their safety.
These are cattle grown to be eaten. They are often permanently caged, never see the light of the day or meet any other animal other than their neighbouring cow/bull/chicken. Given that their life is guaranteed to be a misery and their mode of death certain, I can't see how this would in any way make it unsafe.
Now if they were farm grown cows, then yes this would be a concern.
No. They had an earlier malfunction which was corrected by pulling the satellite up from a lower orbit. They were flying fine at 100 Km altitude earlier, and they moved it up to 200 km to be safe. They were actively studying gravitational perturbations of the surface, so it is unlikely that they did not plan for such an eventuality.
The Official press release seems to indicate that it was a communications failure this time. The contact was lost abruptly this time. If it was falling I would assume that there would be a good quarter an hour before losing control at 200Km and slamming into the ground.
The whole mission cost only $75 million, about 7 times the Ansari X-Prize (still considerably bigger than Google Lunar X-Prize though). That's pretty cheap for a full moonshot and satellite. So I guess India can afford to lose a few satellites here and there.
Last month they had a malfunction and pulled the satellite up from a 100km orbit to a 200 km one , so the images are of lower quality than planned. I am guessing there will be another moonshot now, considering they just started calling this the "Chandrayan-1" instead of "Chandrayan" with no numbers next to it.
Which is why I think the best way would be to go after the product being peddled rather than the company making the call. The same would work for spam too.
Make a law that says that any product company advertised through spam/robocalls will be investigated and if found in violation of spam/call rules will be fined. That'll stop the contracting out of spamming duties to offshore/multiple shell companies.
I think it would be possible to make Pi equal to 3 legally. The only problem then would be that the common 2*Pi*r formula would have to be changed to 2*Pi*newPie*r where newPie ~3.1415/3.
Changing terms/meaning of terms is something a legal body can sometimes pull off. But mathematical rules are a different story
May be they were trying to save a few bucks and cheaply localizing the picture? Can't find anything racist in it.
Anyway, they have now changed it back which is actually funny. There are only about 4,500 African people in Poland whom wiki funnily enough calls African Americans . Reading the wiki text seems to indicate that 4,500 is indeed the total Black people count in Poland and not African Americans.
At a price of $750 it is more a computer than a phone anyway. BTW, the author did mention that this was not a review but just "first impressions".
I'll ignore the stupid summary and slashvertisement just for the fact that (s)he did not break the article into 10 sub-pages for page count.
It would not matter what a third party thinks as long as i4i thinks it is not infringing. Unlike trademarks, patents do not expire unless enforced. So i4i is within rights to sue Microsoft and not Sun. And anyway the common practice is to sue the ones with most amount of money and who can be convinced to pay -- It is difficult to ask for a cut of sales when OpenOffice is free (for most part). To add to that there is the fact that large Open Office installations are in Europe where the patent won't apply anyway.
Of course things might change when Oracle completes the purchase of Sun.
The real test of Windows 7 won't be users, it would be enterprise customers. There are still a lot of large Windows setups which have not upgraded from XP (Investment Banks and their "excel sheet departments" for ex.). The decision to switch would in that case be taken by Sysadmins and the like.
I'll give you the logo part, it is difficult to make a logo around Chee.
But the "Sexy" part is debatable. I bet that a word that sounds like Kwee "sounds" cheap to Asian ears, while a word that sounds like Chee sounds sophisticated.I'll even bet that Chinese has a nice pictogram for Chee, while Kwee probably has none.
It is only to English speakers ear that Chee sounds cheap (mostly due to the similarity of the sounds), while Kwee sounds like greek Ki or royal (similar to Queen? ).
Wait until people start mis-prounouncing it "Kwee" and it becomes the standard spoken form. Sort of like Linux "Linucks" / "Lye-nucks" debate or the Hyundai "Hayundai"/"Hyoondai"/"Hunday" one..
Anyway, why spell it "Qi" when the Chinese/Japanese language does not use the Latin script ? I could understand it if the company in question was Malaysian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_language#Writing_system) and they spelled the word "Chee" as "Qi" in their language.
Seems like Amazon sells the paper (at least WSJ and Financial Times) by the month. To me that appears closer to subscription than retail. The counter-argument to that I guess is if Amazon thinks of themselves as the old-style delivery boy of newspapers where the distributor sells the subscription and keeps account info to him/herself.
Anyway, seen from an economic sense, can't decide whom to support. If WSJ had the subscription info, I could see them allowing me to continue my membership on other readers (like Sony eReader) if I switched the reading device. It could potentially set-up free market competition and bring down prices. On the other hand, I am worried about the size of News Media Corp and them reselling my account info to other publications (like Fox News) - I'd hate that.
If we have it, it must have evolved for a reason. Currently inactive DNA was active in the past. There's just no evolutionary pressure for it to be removed, so it sticks around.
It may get de-activated if it has side effects. Maybe the anti-viral agents had side effects like allergies or some such and this caused the genes to get shut off ? That sort of thing is pretty common - Prehistoric apes were much stronger than human beings, but we lost a lot of the strength, possibly because it was energy-inefficient. Same goes with loss of body hair -- If we were all covered in hair, it would have been advantageous to surviving in cold climates (and useful in warm weather too).Presumably we lost all of it when we started migrating around and wearing clothes.
Actually the summary seems to say different.
As I understood it -- Running boards on cars are useful, but present day cars don't have them. But they have found that Toyota Prius has built in mounting points for the running boards and they have actually managed to fit a running board on a Prius (oddly they fixed the running boards on to the surface of the exhaust pipe) and actually had FBI men stand on the running board to provide the security. They'll now study how good the FBI agents are at protecting Kennedy.
Actually the summary is Bullshit. And the story ignores a bunch of details.
Look at the graphic associated with the study . They study 3 genes - two of which affects skin/hair color and another that affects the eye color. Then they find that these 3 genes mutate into 3 different groups.
I don't think this study in anyway shows anything more than show a genetic basis to skin/hair/eye color.
Wait, what about Graviational waves caused by moon moving around the earth ? Moon clearly is a massive object and if its wave is reflected by the earth, it should be measurable and observable in the signals from Satellites and Space based Radars ?
Another example is the Lincoln Electric Company. They have a pay-per-parts model where employees are paid by amount of work they do, not seniority or title. They were made famous by a series of Harvard Cases (which are all unfortunately for-pay). They are very largely employee owned and the employees have chipped in to rescue the company more than once (also they were the highest paid in the world for a while)
One free write-up is here
http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Case-Study-of-Lincoln-Electric&id=513953
Gas demand will go up, pollution will go up.
Actually the other way around. There is a limited amount of Gas in the earth. So Gas demand goes up, Americans will drive less and since American cars are less efficient, pollution goes down!
USA was the most polluting until early this year. And Per Capita, US is till the most polluting ( having 1/3rd as many people as India or China). So giving cars to India may actually be better for the environment. Indians have cars, they buy more gas, gas prices go up -> US drives less. This is effect is better for the environment since Indians drive more fuel efficient cars (47 mpg for Nano vs. 23 for the average US car).
So on a miles traveled basis, introducing Nano benefits the world!
Weather may be a better predictor.
There is an interesting story about how Bangalore came to be the hub for India. In the 80's Texas Instruments wanted to set up shop in India. They visited Mumbai, Delhi etc. and stopped over in Bangalore. They liked the weather. So they sent another team headed by an Engineer called something Dickinson. He was walking around Bangalore and spotted a street called Dickinson street. He loved that and decided to set up a TI office on that street. Before that Bangalore was a retirement destination but now started attracting Engineers due to TI.
Meanwhile in Pune(another city in India), Infosys was building its IT center and they heard that all the Engineers were going to Bangalore. The head of Infosys was from Bangalore so he did not need much convincing to move his headquarters there.
And thus India's Silicon Valley was born.
If you are getting a Dell, look at the PowerEdge or some of the Precision lines (Poweredge is server and Precision is workstation). The servers look ugly but are extremely cheap compared to a workstation - What you lose is Audio, Video and stuff like that, but instead you'll get Linux supported RAID, a solid chassis and overall better value for money for Virtualization applications. Oh, and you apparently get US based customer support by phone if that is important for you.
Try and look for an offer, and Dell usually has very similar products for diff. customers at different prices.
That would have been easy if the regular banks had been kept isolated from investment bank/prime brokerage/proprietary trading/insurance.
Us now have the whole mess isolated into 3-4 big companies - if AIG goes bankrupt, Goldman goes bankrupt (they are owed large amounts of money by AIG which they have currently valued at mark-to-market rates - write it down to zero and they are no longer a going concern), Citi goes bankrupt. When all 3 go bankrupt Bank of America goes bankrupt. When that happens, there is no way to give out new loans to anyone.
It was a mistake to let the banks consolidate into big 4-5 and it was a mistake to put credit/savings with stock traders. But now that the situation is where it is at, there is nothing else to do.
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Removing the ability to do that can't possibly be good for their safety.
These are cattle grown to be eaten. They are often permanently caged, never see the light of the day or meet any other animal other than their neighbouring cow/bull/chicken. Given that their life is guaranteed to be a misery and their mode of death certain, I can't see how this would in any way make it unsafe.
Now if they were farm grown cows, then yes this would be a concern.
No. They had an earlier malfunction which was corrected by pulling the satellite up from a lower orbit. They were flying fine at 100 Km altitude earlier, and they moved it up to 200 km to be safe. They were actively studying gravitational perturbations of the surface, so it is unlikely that they did not plan for such an eventuality.
The Official press release seems to indicate that it was a communications failure this time. The contact was lost abruptly this time. If it was falling I would assume that there would be a good quarter an hour before losing control at 200Km and slamming into the ground.
The whole mission cost only $75 million, about 7 times the Ansari X-Prize (still considerably bigger than Google Lunar X-Prize though). That's pretty cheap for a full moonshot and satellite. So I guess India can afford to lose a few satellites here and there.
Last month they had a malfunction and pulled the satellite up from a 100km orbit to a 200 km one , so the images are of lower quality than planned. I am guessing there will be another moonshot now, considering they just started calling this the "Chandrayan-1" instead of "Chandrayan" with no numbers next to it.
Which is why I think the best way would be to go after the product being peddled rather than the company making the call. The same would work for spam too.
Make a law that says that any product company advertised through spam/robocalls will be investigated and if found in violation of spam/call rules will be fined. That'll stop the contracting out of spamming duties to offshore/multiple shell companies.
I think it would be possible to make Pi equal to 3 legally. The only problem then would be that the common 2*Pi*r formula would have to be changed to 2*Pi*newPie*r where newPie ~3.1415/3.
Changing terms/meaning of terms is something a legal body can sometimes pull off. But mathematical rules are a different story
May be they were trying to save a few bucks and cheaply localizing the picture? Can't find anything racist in it.
Anyway, they have now changed it back which is actually funny. There are only about 4,500 African people in Poland whom wiki funnily enough calls African Americans . Reading the wiki text seems to indicate that 4,500 is indeed the total Black people count in Poland and not African Americans.
At a price of $750 it is more a computer than a phone anyway. BTW, the author did mention that this was not a review but just "first impressions" .
I'll ignore the stupid summary and slashvertisement just for the fact that (s)he did not break the article into 10 sub-pages for page count.
It would not matter what a third party thinks as long as i4i thinks it is not infringing. Unlike trademarks, patents do not expire unless enforced. So i4i is within rights to sue Microsoft and not Sun. And anyway the common practice is to sue the ones with most amount of money and who can be convinced to pay -- It is difficult to ask for a cut of sales when OpenOffice is free (for most part). To add to that there is the fact that large Open Office installations are in Europe where the patent won't apply anyway.
Of course things might change when Oracle completes the purchase of Sun.
The real test of Windows 7 won't be users, it would be enterprise customers. There are still a lot of large Windows setups which have not upgraded from XP (Investment Banks and their "excel sheet departments" for ex.). The decision to switch would in that case be taken by Sysadmins and the like.
I'll give you the logo part, it is difficult to make a logo around Chee.
But the "Sexy" part is debatable. I bet that a word that sounds like Kwee "sounds" cheap to Asian ears, while a word that sounds like Chee sounds sophisticated.I'll even bet that Chinese has a nice pictogram for Chee, while Kwee probably has none.
It is only to English speakers ear that Chee sounds cheap (mostly due to the similarity of the sounds), while Kwee sounds like greek Ki or royal (similar to Queen? ).
Wait until people start mis-prounouncing it "Kwee" and it becomes the standard spoken form. Sort of like Linux "Linucks" / "Lye-nucks" debate or the Hyundai "Hayundai"/"Hyoondai"/"Hunday" one..
Anyway, why spell it "Qi" when the Chinese/Japanese language does not use the Latin script ? I could understand it if the company in question was Malaysian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_language#Writing_system) and they spelled the word "Chee" as "Qi" in their language.
A sledgehammer is a Denial of Service - Unless you aim it at the head of the operator and threaten to use it.
Seems like Amazon sells the paper (at least WSJ and Financial Times) by the month. To me that appears closer to subscription than retail. The counter-argument to that I guess is if Amazon thinks of themselves as the old-style delivery boy of newspapers where the distributor sells the subscription and keeps account info to him/herself. Anyway, seen from an economic sense, can't decide whom to support. If WSJ had the subscription info, I could see them allowing me to continue my membership on other readers (like Sony eReader) if I switched the reading device. It could potentially set-up free market competition and bring down prices. On the other hand, I am worried about the size of News Media Corp and them reselling my account info to other publications (like Fox News) - I'd hate that.
If we have it, it must have evolved for a reason. Currently inactive DNA was active in the past. There's just no evolutionary pressure for it to be removed, so it sticks around. It may get de-activated if it has side effects. Maybe the anti-viral agents had side effects like allergies or some such and this caused the genes to get shut off ? That sort of thing is pretty common - Prehistoric apes were much stronger than human beings, but we lost a lot of the strength, possibly because it was energy-inefficient. Same goes with loss of body hair -- If we were all covered in hair, it would have been advantageous to surviving in cold climates (and useful in warm weather too) .Presumably we lost all of it when we started migrating around and wearing clothes.
Actually the summary seems to say different. As I understood it -- Running boards on cars are useful, but present day cars don't have them. But they have found that Toyota Prius has built in mounting points for the running boards and they have actually managed to fit a running board on a Prius (oddly they fixed the running boards on to the surface of the exhaust pipe) and actually had FBI men stand on the running board to provide the security. They'll now study how good the FBI agents are at protecting Kennedy.
Actually the summary is Bullshit. And the story ignores a bunch of details. Look at the graphic associated with the study . They study 3 genes - two of which affects skin/hair color and another that affects the eye color. Then they find that these 3 genes mutate into 3 different groups. I don't think this study in anyway shows anything more than show a genetic basis to skin/hair/eye color.
Actually I think the picture on that page is of a Lynx. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx
Wait, what about Graviational waves caused by moon moving around the earth ? Moon clearly is a massive object and if its wave is reflected by the earth, it should be measurable and observable in the signals from Satellites and Space based Radars ?
Another example is the Lincoln Electric Company. They have a pay-per-parts model where employees are paid by amount of work they do, not seniority or title. They were made famous by a series of Harvard Cases (which are all unfortunately for-pay). They are very largely employee owned and the employees have chipped in to rescue the company more than once (also they were the highest paid in the world for a while)
One free write-up is here http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Case-Study-of-Lincoln-Electric&id=513953
Gas demand will go up, pollution will go up.
Actually the other way around. There is a limited amount of Gas in the earth. So Gas demand goes up, Americans will drive less and since American cars are less efficient, pollution goes down!
single button in the centre of the dashboard which steers you in a random direction.
Perfectly suited for a drive in an Indian metro, then.
USA was the most polluting until early this year. And Per Capita, US is till the most polluting ( having 1/3rd as many people as India or China). So giving cars to India may actually be better for the environment. Indians have cars, they buy more gas, gas prices go up -> US drives less. This is effect is better for the environment since Indians drive more fuel efficient cars (47 mpg for Nano vs. 23 for the average US car).
So on a miles traveled basis, introducing Nano benefits the world!
Weather may be a better predictor.
There is an interesting story about how Bangalore came to be the hub for India. In the 80's Texas Instruments wanted to set up shop in India. They visited Mumbai, Delhi etc. and stopped over in Bangalore. They liked the weather. So they sent another team headed by an Engineer called something Dickinson. He was walking around Bangalore and spotted a street called Dickinson street. He loved that and decided to set up a TI office on that street. Before that Bangalore was a retirement destination but now started attracting Engineers due to TI.
Meanwhile in Pune(another city in India), Infosys was building its IT center and they heard that all the Engineers were going to Bangalore. The head of Infosys was from Bangalore so he did not need much convincing to move his headquarters there.
And thus India's Silicon Valley was born.
If you are getting a Dell, look at the PowerEdge or some of the Precision lines (Poweredge is server and Precision is workstation). The servers look ugly but are extremely cheap compared to a workstation - What you lose is Audio, Video and stuff like that, but instead you'll get Linux supported RAID, a solid chassis and overall better value for money for Virtualization applications. Oh, and you apparently get US based customer support by phone if that is important for you.
Try and look for an offer, and Dell usually has very similar products for diff. customers at different prices.
That would have been easy if the regular banks had been kept isolated from investment bank/prime brokerage/proprietary trading/insurance.
Us now have the whole mess isolated into 3-4 big companies - if AIG goes bankrupt, Goldman goes bankrupt (they are owed large amounts of money by AIG which they have currently valued at mark-to-market rates - write it down to zero and they are no longer a going concern), Citi goes bankrupt. When all 3 go bankrupt Bank of America goes bankrupt. When that happens, there is no way to give out new loans to anyone.
It was a mistake to let the banks consolidate into big 4-5 and it was a mistake to put credit/savings with stock traders. But now that the situation is where it is at, there is nothing else to do.