No, you don't want moisture in the air when it is hot - you get cooler by evaporating sweat, the wetter the air the harder it is for that water to evaporate, so you then feel uncomfortable.
Yep. It's the evaporation process that makes things cooler. Too much humidity in the air slows the evaporation of sweat (or the minimal moisture from an evap cooler).
It's difficult to reconcile the idea that adding a bit of moisture to the air can cool in some cases and make us feel warmer in others. The key is evaporation. In the winter, temps are low enough that water tends to condense whereas in hotter AND drier climes it tends to evaporate.
Now, if you soak your clothes in water, the water will tend to conduct the winter chill right to your body, but we're not talking about soaking your person, but humidifying the cold, dry air.
You can take the politician out of politics......
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Good grief. Google's not making the works available. They're just making them searchable. The TV taping isn't a good analogy from either viewpoint as the television show will be watched in whole. What Google makes available would be akin to watching a one minute clip of the television show.
I was going to argue against it stifling creativity, but I guess paranoia would keep you from writing new works as it's hard to type while running from imaginary enemies.
The article claims Google has not defined what a "snippet" is. They go on to ask if it's a paragraph, a page or even a chapter..... This is willful ignorance as Google has provided examples of what a snippet will look like. Best to ignore what's out there so we can create the monster to look the way we want it to.....
Depends. Here in Arizona an evap cooler feels icy cold when the humidity levels are sub 10%, but don't do squat when they start rising. Higher humidity in the atmosphere means water cooling is ineffective. I'll also take a 114 degree day here with 8% humidity than 90 degrees with 90% humidity.
Conversely, when I lived in Kansas it always felt warmer in the winter when the house also ran a humidifier on cold but dry winter days (or nights).
I'm not sure what your point is since the major complaint I've heard about SUV's is greater emissions due to greater fuel consumption. With a renewable fuel source let them pay extra for more consumption but be glad that they're not polluting. People buying smaller cars do so for fuel economy and less environmental impact, not because they like being cramped and not having enough cargo space.
Google's not providing books for free. They're making them searchable. It would be more work to compile a book from Google searches than it would be worth (if it's even possible).
The Yahoo thing though sounds different (haven't read the article itself yet).....
Yup, I have seen a Sheriff sent to someones door with a subpoena over overdue library books..
I think I saw that episode of COPS! Man, they chased the bookworm over the fences, guns drawn, "GET ON THE GROUND!" they kept yellin'. Intense stuff. Took the dude's library card on the spot and shredded it too.
(and you amazingly even got modded insightful for it)
By George, I was modded Insightful for that. Gee, thanks for the heads up. What a day brightener! If I weren't sitting I'm sure there'd be a spring in my step now.
Actually you did miss it (and you amazingly even got modded insightful for it) or you wouldn't have posted that at all...
It seems you get tripped up when you start assigning motivations for what someone does....
Hmmm. Let's see.
Installing a copy that someone else gave them without paying (and without authorization) for it...
So far you'd be right....so they can "advertise it for the software company" and claiming it's ok because they are only letting people have access to certain sections of it.
By adding the remainder you muddied the waters. It was that portion of it that I found to be objectionable so I registerd my objection.
Your arguments aren't even internally consistent:
The ends does not justify the means, if Google wants to do this, they should purchase every book they intend to copy in it's entirety.
Technically, it's still illegal for them to copy the works in toto from a purchased copy.
How so? Wouldn't you need to know the content well enough to formulate meaningful search strings? It doesn't appear to me that the snippet shown would give you enough context to use the quotation without getting burned at some point.
I once had a teacher that wouldn't give you more than a C unless you asked for additional work (because the "average" student just does what's required). He assigned a ton of books. I didn't read any of them, found out too late the test on the material would be essay (instead of multiple guess). I guessed enough from cultural references that I got close on some of them and got a B+ for making him laugh on the ones that were obviously pulled from thin air. If I were using this tool for that project I don't see the results being too terribly different.
You cannot check out material without a library card.
Pssst. I think it was intended to be humorous. Obtaining a library card and avoiding fines would be trivial compared to the logistics of visiting every library....
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Hence: There are rare uses of effect as a verb and affect as a noun...
Gee. I thought I made two statements.
Since you appear to be in Strawman 101 this semester, create one for the other statement.....
Heh.... flagellum.... wiggle.... funny.....
...well then certainly god is too complex to have spontaneously sprung into existence.
Except that God didn't "spring" into existence but has always existed.
Or is it matter that didn't spring into existence.....
One of those.
Yeesh. That's so we don't look funny. Kinda like giant GI Joes (the original, not the little bitty new ones)......
It's a fairly small "slew", but yeah.... They're out there.....
Hmmm. I hadn't heard that. It was widely reported at the time that it was explosives. Thanks for the info.
No, you don't want moisture in the air when it is hot - you get cooler by evaporating sweat, the wetter the air the harder it is for that water to evaporate, so you then feel uncomfortable.
Yep. It's the evaporation process that makes things cooler. Too much humidity in the air slows the evaporation of sweat (or the minimal moisture from an evap cooler).
It's difficult to reconcile the idea that adding a bit of moisture to the air can cool in some cases and make us feel warmer in others. The key is evaporation. In the winter, temps are low enough that water tends to condense whereas in hotter AND drier climes it tends to evaporate.
Now, if you soak your clothes in water, the water will tend to conduct the winter chill right to your body, but we're not talking about soaking your person, but humidifying the cold, dry air.
Good grief. Google's not making the works available. They're just making them searchable. The TV taping isn't a good analogy from either viewpoint as the television show will be watched in whole. What Google makes available would be akin to watching a one minute clip of the television show.
I was going to argue against it stifling creativity, but I guess paranoia would keep you from writing new works as it's hard to type while running from imaginary enemies.
The article claims Google has not defined what a "snippet" is. They go on to ask if it's a paragraph, a page or even a chapter..... This is willful ignorance as Google has provided examples of what a snippet will look like. Best to ignore what's out there so we can create the monster to look the way we want it to.....
Depends. Here in Arizona an evap cooler feels icy cold when the humidity levels are sub 10%, but don't do squat when they start rising. Higher humidity in the atmosphere means water cooling is ineffective. I'll also take a 114 degree day here with 8% humidity than 90 degrees with 90% humidity.
Conversely, when I lived in Kansas it always felt warmer in the winter when the house also ran a humidifier on cold but dry winter days (or nights).
Debatable...
The continued burning was most assuredly from the chemicals on the envelope. Hydrogen tends to rise rapidly and to burn in a flash.
Especially when a news agency wires up explosives to get a bigger bang for the video......
I meant "not for vehicles that use hydrogen combustion".
One, hydrogen vehicles are electric vehicles...
That's true for fuel cell, but not for combustible hydrogen. Hydrogen can be burned in current internal combustion engines with a few modifications.
I'm not sure what your point is since the major complaint I've heard about SUV's is greater emissions due to greater fuel consumption. With a renewable fuel source let them pay extra for more consumption but be glad that they're not polluting. People buying smaller cars do so for fuel economy and less environmental impact, not because they like being cramped and not having enough cargo space.
Nah. The "dry" thing only works here in the desert with heat. You need moisture to make the cold feel warmer.
We don't get to many day's below 50 let alone freezing down here.
You seem to be bearing up well considering......
Google's not providing books for free. They're making them searchable. It would be more work to compile a book from Google searches than it would be worth (if it's even possible).
The Yahoo thing though sounds different (haven't read the article itself yet).....
The reason it "only" made that much is because all the die-hards went to see it, but having seen it opted out of going back multiple times.
Yup, I have seen a Sheriff sent to someones door with a subpoena over overdue library books..
I think I saw that episode of COPS! Man, they chased the bookworm over the fences, guns drawn, "GET ON THE GROUND!" they kept yellin'. Intense stuff. Took the dude's library card on the spot and shredded it too.
(and you amazingly even got modded insightful for it)
By George, I was modded Insightful for that. Gee, thanks for the heads up. What a day brightener! If I weren't sitting I'm sure there'd be a spring in my step now.
Actually you did miss it (and you amazingly even got modded insightful for it) or you wouldn't have posted that at all...
...so they can "advertise it for the software company" and claiming it's ok because they are only letting people have access to certain sections of it.
It seems you get tripped up when you start assigning motivations for what someone does....
Hmmm. Let's see.
Installing a copy that someone else gave them without paying (and without authorization) for it...
So far you'd be right.
By adding the remainder you muddied the waters. It was that portion of it that I found to be objectionable so I registerd my objection.
Your arguments aren't even internally consistent:
The ends does not justify the means, if Google wants to do this, they should purchase every book they intend to copy in it's entirety.
Technically, it's still illegal for them to copy the works in toto from a purchased copy.
With this, it's WAY easier.
How so? Wouldn't you need to know the content well enough to formulate meaningful search strings? It doesn't appear to me that the snippet shown would give you enough context to use the quotation without getting burned at some point.
I once had a teacher that wouldn't give you more than a C unless you asked for additional work (because the "average" student just does what's required). He assigned a ton of books. I didn't read any of them, found out too late the test on the material would be essay (instead of multiple guess). I guessed enough from cultural references that I got close on some of them and got a B+ for making him laugh on the ones that were obviously pulled from thin air. If I were using this tool for that project I don't see the results being too terribly different.
I just checked in to see how many dupes of dupes comments have been duped and what the ratio of dupe comments to comment comments is.
Do you use a public library in a modern city?
You cannot check out material without a library card.
Pssst. I think it was intended to be humorous. Obtaining a library card and avoiding fines would be trivial compared to the logistics of visiting every library....