23, but I'm working hard on my curmudgeon skills. Now that you mention it, I think I read several Andy Rooney books when I was 23. He's probably the world's foremost professional curmudgeon.
Maybe people should just realize that "he" is the gender-neutral pronoun in English! How old are you?
English textbooks are probably complaining it's wrong, but sometime in the last 10-15 years, "they" became completely acceptable for casual use. The textbooks will come around to accepting "they" as both singular and plural sooner or later, just like they did when "you" replaced "thee".
I work for nvidia. My employment contract said: nVidia is based in California, which has labor laws basically saying that what you described is all that's enforcible.
Just sell me a player that reads both formats. They exist. They just happen to currently cost as much as a BluRay player plus an HD-DVD player.
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The B-29s that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were Boeing, as were the B-17s that bombed Germany for several years. Even those weren't the first, but they are the most famous.
The fuses do blow from time to time, especially with the microwave, so I think we would have run into trouble before now if they were too big. And the grocery stores in this neighborhood sell them in the checkout lines, so I think they're pretty common here.
And it is, of course, possible that the wiring has been replaced, but I think it would have been in the 60s at the absolute latest, because the whole house has four circuits, on fuses, with only a few three-prong outlets I'm not at all confident are actually grounded.
To recharge current laptop batteries in 1 minute on 120V would require a 30 amp outlet, while standard outlets max-out at 15 The circuits in my house max out at 15 amps, but the wiring is probably 80 years old. My 15 amp vacuum cleaner (that I don't run more than 3-4 minutes at a time) leads me to believe that higher capacity home circuits are common. That and the fact that I know most people can run their microwave longer than 90 seconds at a time.
It is clear that the police have significant evidence to pin the crime on her Hardly. The most important witness in a murder is dead, and it's a big enough deal that nobody wants to admit to an unsolved case, so entirely circumstantial cases are common.
Essentially, if your spouse winds up murdered, and they can't find anyone else they think did it, you're getting convicted. They were probably last seen with you, somebody's seen you fight, you're the insurance beneficiary, maybe you wanted out of the marriage without child support or alimony, maybe you caught them cheating...
What sort of efficiency can we get out of focusing sunlight on water (using cheap Fresnel lenses), making steam, and using it to turn a turbine? You're talking power plants, now. Photovoltaics are good for rooftops, and when somebody has an acre of land they're not using somewhere. These are usually a lot closer to where the electricity is going to be used, so you save in transmission losses.
If you're just using the sunlight for heat, most of the newer projects use something other than water to collect heat, because they can get hotter, and may be able to store enough heat to keep producing electricity a while after the sun goes down.
it's not a docking station, it's not a port replicator, but holy christ it's got wheels!!! For my robotics programming class a year or two ago, we had laptop stands with wheels, motors, a motorcycle battery and a controller plugged into a serial port. Just stick a webcam on top and do a little programming, and your laptop can drive around following markers on the floor. Those were fun.
But you seem to have a problem with physics No, you seem to have a problem with communication. You made the absurd claim that there is no such thing as instantaneous velocity. You then attempted to back it up by arguing that instantaneous velocity cannot be directly measured, which is obvious.
Just because you can't measure it perfectly, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
His only good 'performance' was as Johnny Mnemonic, and that pretty much only because he had to play himself. Parenthood was a great movie and he was great in it (if not in a terribly big role). That was, of course, still just playing himself, though.
Most of you will be too young to remember "computer literacy" classes which strove to teach students how to use computers. Last I checked, most colleges required a class like that for all majors, but CS and IT majors got it excused more often than not.
There was one of those for my first attempt at college at Western Michigan U. in 1994, with either the literacy class, Computer Science 1, or a few other major-specific choices fulfilling the requirement. I'll be graduating from Lawrence Tech. in December after going part time since 2001, and my transcript has an official "Excused" listed for the computer applications class.
However, as an atheist against abortion, I resent your suggestion that one has to have a religious conviction to be against abortion.
As an agnostic-to-atheist, I'm mystified how a non-religious person would conclude that there's a moral difference between early-term abortion and just not getting pregnant in the first place.
No, running it under VMware won't suffice--it has to be a Mac. Apple forbids it from running on any other hardware (or emulation or virtualization). When you put it this way, a Mac sounds like a really big dongle.
But tell me, when was the last time you copied 16,400 files using XP's built in copier? Successfully, never. WinXP's Explorer doesn't work worth a damn for copying any significant number of files, either. The last time I attempted was February, and I ended up using SQL Server to generate a batch file to explicitly copy every file.
The American constitution was copied almost word for word from certain French documents. Could you be more specific? I think you're thinking of Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, but that's a book of recommendations by a political philosopher / historian, not any sort of legal document.
Hopefully they have checks and balances built in to prevent such abuse. Here in the States, we call it the Constitution. YMMV. Our mileage here may vary, too, as the Republican party seems to be opposed to judicial review ("activist judges"), and is appointing accordingly when they have the chance. With jury nullification out off favor, that leaves nothing to enforce the constitution.
What would traditional American food be, by the way? I don't think there's anything nationwide (maybe there isn't in England, either -- I don't know), but southwest/Text-Mex food like chili and fajitas is American, albeit heavily influenced by Mexican food. In the northeast, there are a lot of baked goods invented by German immigrants ("Pennsylvania Dutch"), along with spinach salad. American pizza doesn't bear much resemblance to Italian pizza. Ranch dressing is definitely American.
I'm sure there's more, but on the whole, we're an awful lot like the British and use everyone else's food ideas.
For example, allowing blanket freedom of speech without any responsibility for the consequences is naive. But if you don't spell out what the restrictions are, then you really don't have any guarantee of free speech. I would say not protecting these would be a reasonable start: * Speech where it can be proved you are deliberately lying * Spending more to get your speech out than an average person makes in a year * Purely mechanical instructions on how to do something destructive -- I'm skittish about this one.
I never knew watching the guys wash your car counted as a performance. All the carwash fundraisers cheerleading squads like to do are pretty clearly performances, even if they wouldn't like to admit it.
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23, but I'm working hard on my curmudgeon skills.
Now that you mention it, I think I read several Andy Rooney books when I was 23. He's probably the world's foremost professional curmudgeon.
You know what I hate?....
Maybe people should just realize that "he" is the gender-neutral pronoun in English!
How old are you?
English textbooks are probably complaining it's wrong, but sometime in the last 10-15 years, "they" became completely acceptable for casual use. The textbooks will come around to accepting "they" as both singular and plural sooner or later, just like they did when "you" replaced "thee".
I work for nvidia. My employment contract said:
nVidia is based in California, which has labor laws basically saying that what you described is all that's enforcible.
Just sell me a player that reads both formats.
They exist. They just happen to currently cost as much as a BluRay player plus an HD-DVD player.
The B-29s that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were Boeing, as were the B-17s that bombed Germany for several years. Even those weren't the first, but they are the most famous.
The fuses do blow from time to time, especially with the microwave, so I think we would have run into trouble before now if they were too big. And the grocery stores in this neighborhood sell them in the checkout lines, so I think they're pretty common here.
And it is, of course, possible that the wiring has been replaced, but I think it would have been in the 60s at the absolute latest, because the whole house has four circuits, on fuses, with only a few three-prong outlets I'm not at all confident are actually grounded.
How did you determine they can handle 15amps?
The fuzes say "15 amp" on them.
To recharge current laptop batteries in 1 minute on 120V would require a 30 amp outlet, while standard outlets max-out at 15
The circuits in my house max out at 15 amps, but the wiring is probably 80 years old. My 15 amp vacuum cleaner (that I don't run more than 3-4 minutes at a time) leads me to believe that higher capacity home circuits are common. That and the fact that I know most people can run their microwave longer than 90 seconds at a time.
It is clear that the police have significant evidence to pin the crime on her
Hardly. The most important witness in a murder is dead, and it's a big enough deal that nobody wants to admit to an unsolved case, so entirely circumstantial cases are common.
Essentially, if your spouse winds up murdered, and they can't find anyone else they think did it, you're getting convicted. They were probably last seen with you, somebody's seen you fight, you're the insurance beneficiary, maybe you wanted out of the marriage without child support or alimony, maybe you caught them cheating...
I was assuming that meant discs. I expect BluRay players outsold HD-DVD players by a lot more than that if you include the PS3.
What sort of efficiency can we get out of focusing sunlight on water (using cheap Fresnel lenses), making steam, and using it to turn a turbine?
You're talking power plants, now. Photovoltaics are good for rooftops, and when somebody has an acre of land they're not using somewhere. These are usually a lot closer to where the electricity is going to be used, so you save in transmission losses.
If you're just using the sunlight for heat, most of the newer projects use something other than water to collect heat, because they can get hotter, and may be able to store enough heat to keep producing electricity a while after the sun goes down.
it's not a docking station, it's not a port replicator, but holy christ it's got wheels!!!
For my robotics programming class a year or two ago, we had laptop stands with wheels, motors, a motorcycle battery and a controller plugged into a serial port. Just stick a webcam on top and do a little programming, and your laptop can drive around following markers on the floor. Those were fun.
But will it cut my lawn?
It would have to fly upside down to do that; be patient.
But you seem to have a problem with physics
No, you seem to have a problem with communication. You made the absurd claim that there is no such thing as instantaneous velocity. You then attempted to back it up by arguing that instantaneous velocity cannot be directly measured, which is obvious.
Just because you can't measure it perfectly, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
His only good 'performance' was as Johnny Mnemonic, and that pretty much only because he had to play himself.
Parenthood was a great movie and he was great in it (if not in a terribly big role). That was, of course, still just playing himself, though.
Most of you will be too young to remember "computer literacy" classes which strove to teach students how to use computers.
Last I checked, most colleges required a class like that for all majors, but CS and IT majors got it excused more often than not.
There was one of those for my first attempt at college at Western Michigan U. in 1994, with either the literacy class, Computer Science 1, or a few other major-specific choices fulfilling the requirement. I'll be graduating from Lawrence Tech. in December after going part time since 2001, and my transcript has an official "Excused" listed for the computer applications class.
However, as an atheist against abortion, I resent your suggestion that one has to have a religious conviction to be against abortion.
As an agnostic-to-atheist, I'm mystified how a non-religious person would conclude that there's a moral difference between early-term abortion and just not getting pregnant in the first place.
No, running it under VMware won't suffice--it has to be a Mac. Apple forbids it from running on any other hardware (or emulation or virtualization).
When you put it this way, a Mac sounds like a really big dongle.
Pop quiz: How do you calculate the remaining time?
Don't. It's going to be wrong, anyway.
How do you handle infinitely recursing soft links?
Does Windows even support soft links?
But tell me, when was the last time you copied 16,400 files using XP's built in copier?
Successfully, never. WinXP's Explorer doesn't work worth a damn for copying any significant number of files, either. The last time I attempted was February, and I ended up using SQL Server to generate a batch file to explicitly copy every file.
The American constitution was copied almost word for word from certain French documents.
Could you be more specific? I think you're thinking of Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, but that's a book of recommendations by a political philosopher / historian, not any sort of legal document.
Hopefully they have checks and balances built in to prevent such abuse. Here in the States, we call it the Constitution. YMMV.
Our mileage here may vary, too, as the Republican party seems to be opposed to judicial review ("activist judges"), and is appointing accordingly when they have the chance. With jury nullification out off favor, that leaves nothing to enforce the constitution.
What would traditional American food be, by the way?
I don't think there's anything nationwide (maybe there isn't in England, either -- I don't know), but southwest/Text-Mex food like chili and fajitas is American, albeit heavily influenced by Mexican food. In the northeast, there are a lot of baked goods invented by German immigrants ("Pennsylvania Dutch"), along with spinach salad. American pizza doesn't bear much resemblance to Italian pizza. Ranch dressing is definitely American.
I'm sure there's more, but on the whole, we're an awful lot like the British and use everyone else's food ideas.
For example, allowing blanket freedom of speech without any responsibility for the consequences is naive.
But if you don't spell out what the restrictions are, then you really don't have any guarantee of free speech. I would say not protecting these would be a reasonable start:
* Speech where it can be proved you are deliberately lying
* Spending more to get your speech out than an average person makes in a year
* Purely mechanical instructions on how to do something destructive -- I'm skittish about this one.
I never knew watching the guys wash your car counted as a performance.
All the carwash fundraisers cheerleading squads like to do are pretty clearly performances, even if they wouldn't like to admit it.