Like most people at my office, I am a huge fan of the Head First series of books by O'Reilly. A number of people at our office have gone from not knowing anything about computers (we have a number of hardcore theoretical mathematicians) to being proficient java programmers with these books.
To help with the first point, I found out from a verizon CSR a couple of years back that when sign a contract with them, it's not for a $40/month plan, but a contract for a schedule of rates. the CSR told me that half way through a month, if you think you are going to go over (or have gone over) you can call and switch your plan to a higher level in the rate schedule without extending your contract or locking into the higher plan for more than the current month (though you have to call them again to lower it).
of course, you can also go prepaid. with t-mobile it's $0.10/min (in $100 blocks) which don't expire for a year. that's comparable to the prime time per minute rate if you discount night&weekend and in-network options. it's not a perfect comparison, but since i don't use my cell all that much, this has saved me a bundle.
No matter what you do, realise the Mathematics is not a spectator sport. Ever seen deal or no deal? 10 million people tuning in to watch someone solve an expected value problem.
God made mud. God got lonesome. So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!" "See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars." And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done. Nice going God.
But you said that you might be disqualified. If that happens, how does the person hunting you find out and get his next target? Do you know who is hunting you?
What you've missed is that horsepower and torque in engines continues to rise while our gas milage stays somewhat constant. It would be realatively easy to trade a few horsepower for better gas milage. Of course then some people would have to wait an extra 1/10 second to get to 60 mph and clearly that would just be unacceptable and nobody would ever buy a new car again.
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so heinous that only people without the sense to drink freshly ground coffee are susceptible to this travesty
For the best taste you gotta roast your own. Nothing else even comes close.
What about world jump day? all that is neeeded is for 600,000,000 people to jump at the same time in july of next and we can fix global warming. check it out and sign up!
For 12,500 miles per year, your Echo produces 6585 lb CO2, 330.7 lb CO, 17.5 lb NOx, 7.4 lb HC vs. 4363 lb CO2, 208.3 lb CO, 7.2 lb NOx, 5.5 lb HC for the new Prius. That's a pretty big difference especially in CO and NOx.
I know of an organic indoor composter that uses 0W. It's called vermiculture. essentially you have a bin of worms in your home (basement, under the sink, heated garage...). You place the organic waste in the top and the worms crawl around and eat it and produce very rich soil.
You can build the bin yourself or buy one from a place such as this one that I picked semirandomly from google: composters.com
My in-laws run a small business out of their home and hired a person to come in and help them set up a new computer. The person they hired charges $75/hour for consulting work.
Of course, one might take into consideration that monitors are generally not square, but a 4:3 ratio (ever notice that resolutions aren't squre?). A 17" LCD monitor is roughly 13.6"x10.2".
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I just tried throwing "bugmenot.com" into my status update and it showed up on my wife's account.
perhaps the best way to unblock things is to submit them to /.
Like most people at my office, I am a huge fan of the Head First series of books by O'Reilly. A number of people at our office have gone from not knowing anything about computers (we have a number of hardcore theoretical mathematicians) to being proficient java programmers with these books.
To help with the first point, I found out from a verizon CSR a couple of years back that when sign a contract with them, it's not for a $40/month plan, but a contract for a schedule of rates. the CSR told me that half way through a month, if you think you are going to go over (or have gone over) you can call and switch your plan to a higher level in the rate schedule without extending your contract or locking into the higher plan for more than the current month (though you have to call them again to lower it).
of course, you can also go prepaid. with t-mobile it's $0.10/min (in $100 blocks) which don't expire for a year. that's comparable to the prime time per minute rate if you discount night&weekend and in-network options. it's not a perfect comparison, but since i don't use my cell all that much, this has saved me a bundle.
God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!"
"See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars."
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going God.
IANAB (I am not a Brit), but wouldn't that be "gaoling" them?
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~ Benjamin Franklin
But you said that you might be disqualified. If that happens, how does the person hunting you find out and get his next target? Do you know who is hunting you?
So what happens if you knock off someone and your name in in their envelope? It doesn't necessarily mean that your the last man standing.
The field of Ops Research (OR) started in WWII to find shipping routes that minimized encounters with U-boats. While it is typically considered a more applied field, it relies heavily on theoretical mathematics for its basis and many of the good OR companies employ a lot of theoretical math phd's. some companies to check out:
SPA: http://www.spa.com/
ILOG: http://www.ilog.com/
Metron: http://www.metsci.com/
DA: http://www.decisive-analytics.com/
MITRE: http://www.mitre.org/
LMI: http://www.lmi.org/
There are plenty of others. these are just a few off the top of my head.
What you've missed is that horsepower and torque in engines continues to rise while our gas milage stays somewhat constant. It would be realatively easy to trade a few horsepower for better gas milage. Of course then some people would have to wait an extra 1/10 second to get to 60 mph and clearly that would just be unacceptable and nobody would ever buy a new car again.
so heinous that only people without the sense to drink freshly ground coffee are susceptible to this travesty
For the best taste you gotta roast your own. Nothing else even comes close.
What about world jump day? all that is neeeded is for 600,000,000 people to jump at the same time in july of next and we can fix global warming. check it out and sign up!
10 mb limit on any given file...
I agree with your solution of just keep on walking. Thankfully the Fourth Amendment protects us in the USA from illegal search and seizure.
Ban camera phones and then hand out usb pen drives and laptops to employees and provide them with huge pipes to the internet.
That's the solution of the very large company for which I work, anyway.
If you want to see some numbers check out http://www.environmentaldefense.org/TailpipeTally/ . You can compare vehicals based on annual milage.
For 12,500 miles per year, your Echo produces 6585 lb CO2, 330.7 lb CO, 17.5 lb NOx, 7.4 lb HC vs. 4363 lb CO2, 208.3 lb CO, 7.2 lb NOx, 5.5 lb HC for the new Prius. That's a pretty big difference especially in CO and NOx.
I know of an organic indoor composter that uses 0W. It's called vermiculture. essentially you have a bin of worms in your home (basement, under the sink, heated garage...). You place the organic waste in the top and the worms crawl around and eat it and produce very rich soil.
You can build the bin yourself or buy one from a place such as this one that I picked semirandomly from google: composters.com
*jackass became fmaxwell
"All models are wrong, but some are useful"
For the record, I'm employed in the modeling and simulation business and, yes, I think this quote is quite true.
My in-laws run a small business out of their home and hired a person to come in and help them set up a new computer. The person they hired charges $75/hour for consulting work.
Of course, one might take into consideration that monitors are generally not square, but a 4:3 ratio (ever notice that resolutions aren't squre?). A 17" LCD monitor is roughly 13.6"x10.2".
Actually it's up through www.electoral-vote9.com/
When I was taking physics for the first time in high school, a EE from MIT taught me the following:
twinkle twinkle little star
power equals I squared R
I remembered it.
yeah i was just gonna make the same comment. at 3,000 cubic feet, it's about 85 cubic meters which is almost 42% bigger.