"As long as one underscores that it is limited to some fields, that men have equal fields in which they are less good at,"
That's certainly true. There have been cognitive studies that show men are better at navigating and women are better seeing details in scenes. I believe the experiments were respectively blindfolding the subjects and leading them down hallways with turns, and giving subjects a glance at a tabletop full of objects and asking them to describe it. It makes sense if you assume these skills evolved in a hunter-gatherer society where men were the hunters and women were the gatherers and caregivers of children. I know this is unscientific with one data point, but my girlfriend is amazingly quick at finding Waldo books. IMHO, Where's Waldo books are fairly gender neutral, so you can't say girls or boys are conditioned by parents or culture to practice those skills more than the other.
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You might want to pipe it through gpg while you're at it. Hotmail free accounts are up to 250MB now too.
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The difference is that influenza doesn't have a 20% mortality rate in the general population. Influenza rarely kills healthy adults. If SARS were not contained, it could have easily killed a lot more than 10,000. Imagine a respiratory infection that spreads as easily as a cold that kills 1 in 5 of everyone infected. I think we had good reason to be nervous at the time.
That's the catch with hydrogen from electrolysis. Sure, if you had surplus electricity and nothing else to do with it, then yes, making hydrogen makes sense. A lot of impractical things become possible with free electricity. Unfortunately, not many countries have free surplus electricity. Maybe China when they finish that huge hydro dam.
IT and communications are important to the rescue and recovery effort, but privacy is just as important. There have been reports of missing Swedes having their homes burglarized and the families of missing people being contacted by scammers. It's sick how these criminals would take advantage of other people's misery.
Heat transfer by radiation is proportional to the fourth power of the temperature difference. So even with a high temp of maybe 65C, radiation will be insignificant compared to convection or conduction.
It looks like the LCD TVs with built in tuners are closing the price gap to the LCD monitors. Still, I generally see more discounts and better deals on computer monitors than TVs.
"Starbucks is in the business of providing gourmet coffee bean derivatives in a seemingly up-scale environment"
Actually Starbucks follows the tradition of European cafes where you can buy a fancy coffee drink and sit as long as you want to read, socialize or whatever, like a non-alcoholic bar. American restaurants follow more the food service model, and they're more likely to hurry you out after you've finished eating (or at a bar clear away your empties and ask if you want more drinks). One European commented that the waitresses in bars are nice and attentive because they keep coming back to ask if we're OK. I had to explain "Are you OK?" really means "Do you need more drinks?".:-)
In picture quality and price, the CRT wins hands down, but they only go up to about 36" in size. Any bigger and you'll be looking at a rear projection set which, sure enough, also uses CRTs, but the CRT's disadvantages of size, weight and power consumption are multiplied even more in a projection set. If you want a 40" big screen and don't want a huge projection set, $2000 for a plasma is pretty reasonable, but if you're a big time couch potato who'll leave it on a lot of hours, it'll fade noticably in a few years. $2000 for what's essentially a throwaway TV is a little steep for me, but hey, it's not my money. Also remember the plasma screens are power hogs just like CRTs. If I were buying now, I'd say the 32" HDTV CRTs are at the sweet spot in price, under $900. Or I'd get a 20" computer LCD and add a tuner box.
Right, and once you build a spaceship with a plasma scoop to mine the surface of the sun (or Jupiter) we'll be all set for energy. *Terrestrial* hydrogen won't occur naturally. Atmospheric H2 floated off to space long ago. The rest is bound with water, hydrocarbons or some other compound.
The big problem with leaving it on to receive calls is battery life. An idle WiFi link uses almost as much power as an active link. It just takes a lot of power to maintain an 11Mb/s link to a relatively low powered base station. Compare this to cellphones that can last for hours of talktime and days in standby.
Don't think of diesel as just petroleum diesel. Diesel engines will run on a wide variety of fuels. Their combustion is insensitive to fuel properties unlike gasoline engines. City buses here have been converted to run on natural gas. No black clouds or diesel stink at all. The combination of particulate traps, urea injection and low sulphur fuel will pretty much meet all pollution standards for the forseeable future. Biodiesel is naturally low sulphur, and it's attractive in the long term because it's renewable, doesn't put more CO2 in the air, and has minimal switching costs beyond growing and refining. Production and cost is a challenge for now, but oil isn't getting any cheaper. Once the cost curves cross, there's no going back to crude oil. We may have to cut back on our hamburger habit though. Something like 70% of U.S. farmland is used to grow animal feed (not counting grazing land). That's a helluva lot of vegetable oil. And there's species of algae rich in oil that could be grown in salt water too.
I know some are more sporty than others. I wasn't suggesting they were comparable sports cars. It was a list of reasonably sporty cars with the best EPA numbers. The most fuel efficient ones are the lightweights with less power but still sharp handling.
For everybody arguing over diesels vs. hybrids I'd suggest reading the frugalympics comparison test by Car and Driver. Jetta TDI vs. Prius vs. Civic Hybrid vs. Toyota Echo. Some interesting results there.
It all depends on how much straight-line performance you want. These are the EPA mileage numbers from a few sports cars. Not bad mileage and not great either.
Toyota MR2 26/33 Toyota Celica GTS 24/33 Acura RSX 23/31 Lotus Elise 23/27 BMW Z4 20/29 Subaru WRX 20/27 Mitsu Lancer Evo 19/26 Chevy Corvette 18/28
Of course, all mileage figures go out the window when you put the hammer down. Expect low teens (or less) on a track day. But if you're commuting in one of these, you'll get decent mileage.
Now motorcycles OTOH, already get 40MPG and have supercar performance (10s 1/4 miles and 180+mph top speeds for under $11000). It does take a bit more skill to use all of its performance and there's no computers to save your ass like most new sports cars have. Don't buy one if you're a beginner motorcyclist and make my insurance go up.
That's the whole point of the Mozilla Calendar (Sunbird) project. It's supposed to be compatible with Apple iCal and it should let you publish your calendar to a webdav http server. Having never used it myself, so I can't say how clunky or seamless it would be to set up.
My big complaint is the sheer number of handhelds that only sync calendar and phonebooks to Outlook. PocketPC's with Activesync, Futuredial Snapsync (for syncing mobile phones), the free Intellisync available for Siemens phones (although the paid version of Intellisync will sync to Groupwise, Notes and ACT!), and a few others I can't remember right now. My killer app would be some connector to sync phonebooks and calendars to PocketPC's and cellphones.
Just because it's possible doesn't mean it should be done. At $500M per Shuttle launch, you'd almost always be better off building a brand new satellite than recovering an old one for repair.
Not really worth buying used off Ebay. A brand new low-end Dell can be had for $599 (look at today's techbargains.com), and it's still faster than any 2 year old used laptop. However, a used one off Ebay would still be better than this C3 1Ghz.
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Again, RTFA more closely. ProCD?
"As long as one underscores that it is limited to some fields, that men have equal fields in which they are less good at,"
That's certainly true. There have been cognitive studies that show men are better at navigating and women are better seeing details in scenes. I believe the experiments were respectively blindfolding the subjects and leading them down hallways with turns, and giving subjects a glance at a tabletop full of objects and asking them to describe it. It makes sense if you assume these skills evolved in a hunter-gatherer society where men were the hunters and women were the gatherers and caregivers of children. I know this is unscientific with one data point, but my girlfriend is amazingly quick at finding Waldo books. IMHO, Where's Waldo books are fairly gender neutral, so you can't say girls or boys are conditioned by parents or culture to practice those skills more than the other.
"have called this Zen stuff anti semitic"
Buddhism is anti-semitic?
How's this for proper use? Mcafee Virusscan 8.0 uses an ActiveX downloader to update its antivirus defs. That's the ONLY way to download antivirus updates for it. Firefox is my default browser so it asked to load a plugin. Now when I update the Mcafee page opens in Firefox, and after I log in an IE window pops up to download the updates. Stay away from Virusscan 8!
You might want to pipe it through gpg while you're at it. Hotmail free accounts are up to 250MB now too.
The difference is that influenza doesn't have a 20% mortality rate in the general population. Influenza rarely kills healthy adults. If SARS were not contained, it could have easily killed a lot more than 10,000. Imagine a respiratory infection that spreads as easily as a cold that kills 1 in 5 of everyone infected. I think we had good reason to be nervous at the time.
That's the catch with hydrogen from electrolysis. Sure, if you had surplus electricity and nothing else to do with it, then yes, making hydrogen makes sense. A lot of impractical things become possible with free electricity. Unfortunately, not many countries have free surplus electricity. Maybe China when they finish that huge hydro dam.
"The point is, since the 4th amendment was written long before cars existed,"
Horse drawn wagons did exist way back when, although there weren't many constitutional debates about police searches of vehicles AFAIK.
IT and communications are important to the rescue and recovery effort, but privacy is just as important. There have been reports of missing Swedes having their homes burglarized and the families of missing people being contacted by scammers. It's sick how these criminals would take advantage of other people's misery.
*mumble* I set fire to the building *mumble*
Heat transfer by radiation is proportional to the fourth power of the temperature difference. So even with a high temp of maybe 65C, radiation will be insignificant compared to convection or conduction.
It looks like the LCD TVs with built in tuners are closing the price gap to the LCD monitors. Still, I generally see more discounts and better deals on computer monitors than TVs.
Bah! By 2017, I'm guessing we'll have displays that jack straight into your optic nerve.
"Starbucks is in the business of providing gourmet coffee bean derivatives in a seemingly up-scale environment"
:-)
Actually Starbucks follows the tradition of European cafes where you can buy a fancy coffee drink and sit as long as you want to read, socialize or whatever, like a non-alcoholic bar. American restaurants follow more the food service model, and they're more likely to hurry you out after you've finished eating (or at a bar clear away your empties and ask if you want more drinks). One European commented that the waitresses in bars are nice and attentive because they keep coming back to ask if we're OK. I had to explain "Are you OK?" really means "Do you need more drinks?".
In picture quality and price, the CRT wins hands down, but they only go up to about 36" in size. Any bigger and you'll be looking at a rear projection set which, sure enough, also uses CRTs, but the CRT's disadvantages of size, weight and power consumption are multiplied even more in a projection set. If you want a 40" big screen and don't want a huge projection set, $2000 for a plasma is pretty reasonable, but if you're a big time couch potato who'll leave it on a lot of hours, it'll fade noticably in a few years. $2000 for what's essentially a throwaway TV is a little steep for me, but hey, it's not my money. Also remember the plasma screens are power hogs just like CRTs. If I were buying now, I'd say the 32" HDTV CRTs are at the sweet spot in price, under $900. Or I'd get a 20" computer LCD and add a tuner box.
On average about once every three years. Usually it's from a nail on the road.
"Ahem. Hydrogen fusion powers the sun."
Right, and once you build a spaceship with a plasma scoop to mine the surface of the sun (or Jupiter) we'll be all set for energy. *Terrestrial* hydrogen won't occur naturally. Atmospheric H2 floated off to space long ago. The rest is bound with water, hydrocarbons or some other compound.
The big problem with leaving it on to receive calls is battery life. An idle WiFi link uses almost as much power as an active link. It just takes a lot of power to maintain an 11Mb/s link to a relatively low powered base station. Compare this to cellphones that can last for hours of talktime and days in standby.
Don't think of diesel as just petroleum diesel. Diesel engines will run on a wide variety of fuels. Their combustion is insensitive to fuel properties unlike gasoline engines. City buses here have been converted to run on natural gas. No black clouds or diesel stink at all. The combination of particulate traps, urea injection and low sulphur fuel will pretty much meet all pollution standards for the forseeable future. Biodiesel is naturally low sulphur, and it's attractive in the long term because it's renewable, doesn't put more CO2 in the air, and has minimal switching costs beyond growing and refining. Production and cost is a challenge for now, but oil isn't getting any cheaper. Once the cost curves cross, there's no going back to crude oil. We may have to cut back on our hamburger habit though. Something like 70% of U.S. farmland is used to grow animal feed (not counting grazing land). That's a helluva lot of vegetable oil. And there's species of algae rich in oil that could be grown in salt water too.
I know some are more sporty than others. I wasn't suggesting they were comparable sports cars. It was a list of reasonably sporty cars with the best EPA numbers. The most fuel efficient ones are the lightweights with less power but still sharp handling.
For everybody arguing over diesels vs. hybrids I'd suggest reading the frugalympics comparison test by Car and Driver. Jetta TDI vs. Prius vs. Civic Hybrid vs. Toyota Echo. Some interesting results there.
It all depends on how much straight-line performance you want. These are the EPA mileage numbers from a few sports cars. Not bad mileage and not great either.
Toyota MR2 26/33
Toyota Celica GTS 24/33
Acura RSX 23/31
Lotus Elise 23/27
BMW Z4 20/29
Subaru WRX 20/27
Mitsu Lancer Evo 19/26
Chevy Corvette 18/28
Of course, all mileage figures go out the window when you put the hammer down. Expect low teens (or less) on a track day. But if you're commuting in one of these, you'll get decent mileage.
Now motorcycles OTOH, already get 40MPG and have supercar performance (10s 1/4 miles and 180+mph top speeds for under $11000). It does take a bit more skill to use all of its performance and there's no computers to save your ass like most new sports cars have. Don't buy one if you're a beginner motorcyclist and make my insurance go up.
That's the whole point of the Mozilla Calendar (Sunbird) project. It's supposed to be compatible with Apple iCal and it should let you publish your calendar to a webdav http server. Having never used it myself, so I can't say how clunky or seamless it would be to set up.
My big complaint is the sheer number of handhelds that only sync calendar and phonebooks to Outlook. PocketPC's with Activesync, Futuredial Snapsync (for syncing mobile phones), the free Intellisync available for Siemens phones (although the paid version of Intellisync will sync to Groupwise, Notes and ACT!), and a few others I can't remember right now. My killer app would be some connector to sync phonebooks and calendars to PocketPC's and cellphones.
Just because it's possible doesn't mean it should be done. At $500M per Shuttle launch, you'd almost always be better off building a brand new satellite than recovering an old one for repair.
Not really worth buying used off Ebay. A brand new low-end Dell can be had for $599 (look at today's techbargains.com), and it's still faster than any 2 year old used laptop. However, a used one off Ebay would still be better than this C3 1Ghz.