I wasted money on a dictionary that has tens of thousands of words but have only ever looked up a few hundred. I should have bought one that just had the words I would actually need.
My 12" Thinkpad is very portable with an extended battery that gives it 8+ hours of power. I take it to go work in a library, cafe, on the train, outdoors, etc. for a long stretch, and really don't need or want the extra weight of a power supply. The cable to the brick also acts as an extension--I have about 10' of tethering to the wall when I plug in, including the cable from the brick, but I'd need an extra-long power cable to plug in that far away (as happens in some rooms). So no thanks.
I agree that Verizon is taking their "early termination" clause to a ridiculous extreme. The purpose of an early termination fee is that it is a penalty which makes it difficult for you to switch carriers, and clearly the deceased has other reasons for dropping service. But still - the contract is valid and binding even after death.
Actually the ETF has two purposes, to make switching hard but also to spread the sunk cost of the hardware over the contract period. If the phone is a relatively expensive device that the user receives at a subsidized price (or free), he's paying for it (in part) over the course of the contract, and the ETF is a way for the provider to recapture that cost.
No, if you die it remains enforceable against your estate. If I borrow a million dollars from the bank and I die tomorrow, my family doesn't automatically get to keep the money (or whatever I bought with it)--the estate still owes whatever principal and interest are due.
That said, this bulb will run for two hours? I don't care how long it takes to charge, if it can't run for more than two hours then what's the point? A lightbulb that only functions a little bit after dark isn't going to help anyone do anything in the dark.
Get three of them. Switch one on. When it peters out, switch the next one on. Repeat. Six hours of light.
The "dummy phone" control sounds like it was done stupidly. (A) it wasn't blind (the researchers knew which hive had the dummy) and (B) if it didn't "ring" -- light up, warm up, make a sound, just not transmit and receive radio transmissions -- the experiment isn't separating the effect of having an active electronic device inside the hive from one specifically that transmits radio waves.
Do you force people to move to rural areas? What if they have kids, do we forcibly separate them from their kids? Their spouses? How are you supposed to look for a job if you are enslaved (call it what it is) and transported around the country pollinating plants?
Most knowledge about evolutionary biology is based on evidence like this, and there are lots of ways to be pretty confident about such conclusions, even if there's no way to 100% rule out chance. If this gene and/or others like it are widespread in fungi, that's a hint that it developed in fungi--and under some conditions you might be able to show that the gene evolved in fungi before aphids even existed. Conversely, if no other aphids or related species have anything like this gene, it's a good bet that it came from outside. If the gene evolved suddenly in one lineage of aphids and transferred to a fungus, you would expect only a limited range of fungi, and only those that evolved after aphids did, to have the gene.
That's why a lot of the initial "hmmm" results are disproven or modified when a larger sample group is tested. But negative findings are much less interesting so they don't make news.
The FTA claims that the gut bacteria were producing an enzyme normally produced by aquatic organisms, which would mean that a gene was transferred into the gut bacteria, which then continued to produce them, perhaps being passed down from mothers to kid in utero. That's different from acquiring new microflora from your food, and would mean that eating a lot of seaweed, by itself, is unlikely to produce this result in an individual.
Thanks, I didn't know that. But what if you know you won't need your computer for several days, but don't want the battery to drain in sleep mode (e.g., you're leaving your cabin in the woods to go fight grizzlies)? Can you intentionally hibernate?
The biggest extra hassle for me would be the need to log in to my wireless network. I have a long random string as my router's WPA2 password, and would need to type the whole damn thing in every time I booted this thing up, since the CD would have no way of remembering it. Or make the network less secure by choosing a simpler password.
Usually when people refer to using sleep/hibernate as a reliable and quicker alternative to booting, the Mac is implied.
Do Macs even have a hibernate function? I thought they only slept. In any case, my ThinkPad is a sound sleeper/hibernater and wakes up refreshed and ready 99% of the time.
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And using the terms "truth" and "SCO" in one sentence... well, it just feels wrong.
The why did you do it?
I wasted money on a dictionary that has tens of thousands of words but have only ever looked up a few hundred. I should have bought one that just had the words I would actually need.
My 12" Thinkpad is very portable with an extended battery that gives it 8+ hours of power. I take it to go work in a library, cafe, on the train, outdoors, etc. for a long stretch, and really don't need or want the extra weight of a power supply. The cable to the brick also acts as an extension--I have about 10' of tethering to the wall when I plug in, including the cable from the brick, but I'd need an extra-long power cable to plug in that far away (as happens in some rooms). So no thanks.
I agree that Verizon is taking their "early termination" clause to a ridiculous extreme. The purpose of an early termination fee is that it is a penalty which makes it difficult for you to switch carriers, and clearly the deceased has other reasons for dropping service. But still - the contract is valid and binding even after death.
Actually the ETF has two purposes, to make switching hard but also to spread the sunk cost of the hardware over the contract period. If the phone is a relatively expensive device that the user receives at a subsidized price (or free), he's paying for it (in part) over the course of the contract, and the ETF is a way for the provider to recapture that cost.
No, if you die it remains enforceable against your estate. If I borrow a million dollars from the bank and I die tomorrow, my family doesn't automatically get to keep the money (or whatever I bought with it)--the estate still owes whatever principal and interest are due.
No, I just assumed he was coming from Colombia. My bad.
That, and in a hotel I just stayed at in China the minibar fridge was on the same circuit, so you couldn't even get a cold drink.
My great uncle drove down to Brazil about thirty years back, and most central American rural natives would drive without headlights at night.
Apparently they were also lost, since Brazil is a long way from Central America.
That said, this bulb will run for two hours? I don't care how long it takes to charge, if it can't run for more than two hours then what's the point? A lightbulb that only functions a little bit after dark isn't going to help anyone do anything in the dark.
Get three of them. Switch one on. When it peters out, switch the next one on. Repeat. Six hours of light.
Was that so hard?
No, just the front part.
The "dummy phone" control sounds like it was done stupidly. (A) it wasn't blind (the researchers knew which hive had the dummy) and (B) if it didn't "ring" -- light up, warm up, make a sound, just not transmit and receive radio transmissions -- the experiment isn't separating the effect of having an active electronic device inside the hive from one specifically that transmits radio waves.
Do you force people to move to rural areas? What if they have kids, do we forcibly separate them from their kids? Their spouses? How are you supposed to look for a job if you are enslaved (call it what it is) and transported around the country pollinating plants?
Most knowledge about evolutionary biology is based on evidence like this, and there are lots of ways to be pretty confident about such conclusions, even if there's no way to 100% rule out chance. If this gene and/or others like it are widespread in fungi, that's a hint that it developed in fungi--and under some conditions you might be able to show that the gene evolved in fungi before aphids even existed. Conversely, if no other aphids or related species have anything like this gene, it's a good bet that it came from outside. If the gene evolved suddenly in one lineage of aphids and transferred to a fungus, you would expect only a limited range of fungi, and only those that evolved after aphids did, to have the gene.
Your picture should also show the internet truck that carries all the information on it.
Bull.
That's why a lot of the initial "hmmm" results are disproven or modified when a larger sample group is tested. But negative findings are much less interesting so they don't make news.
The FTA claims that the gut bacteria were producing an enzyme normally produced by aquatic organisms, which would mean that a gene was transferred into the gut bacteria, which then continued to produce them, perhaps being passed down from mothers to kid in utero. That's different from acquiring new microflora from your food, and would mean that eating a lot of seaweed, by itself, is unlikely to produce this result in an individual.
That's great and all, but kind of irrelevant to the purpose of making a simple, secure Live CD for online banking.
Thanks, I didn't know that. But what if you know you won't need your computer for several days, but don't want the battery to drain in sleep mode (e.g., you're leaving your cabin in the woods to go fight grizzlies)? Can you intentionally hibernate?
The biggest extra hassle for me would be the need to log in to my wireless network. I have a long random string as my router's WPA2 password, and would need to type the whole damn thing in every time I booted this thing up, since the CD would have no way of remembering it. Or make the network less secure by choosing a simpler password.
I think the parent meant that when you open a CD account the bank sends you a netbook.
Standard Modular System? Security through obscurity indeed!
Usually when people refer to using sleep/hibernate as a reliable and quicker alternative to booting, the Mac is implied.
Do Macs even have a hibernate function? I thought they only slept. In any case, my ThinkPad is a sound sleeper/hibernater and wakes up refreshed and ready 99% of the time.
But if the VM is used only to access the bank site, they'll have a pretty good guess of what the user is visiting.
Nice, a vague treason law. Those are always conducive to the free expression of opinion in a democracy.