Uh, let's revisit that idea. From the section titled "The Postal Service is self-sufficient" -- there are two columns. One is for 1942-1971 and one is for 1972-2007. Several things wrong. The most grievous is that the numbers have convenient grouped 35 years of operating costs and revenue together. The second is that your stats still show a net loss of $600 million dollars for those 35 years.
But, addressing the more important point, the decline of demand for mail delivery services has happened in the age of the internet. Let's break those out by year instead of grouping them together in a three decade chunk. And instead of citing a website from the National Association of Letter Carriers, let's use the actual financial report from the USPS.
Come on! The Hong Kong subway system is to die for. Fast, clean, convenient. There are stations everywhere, and they place you within walking distance of any destination (except maybe in the New Territories).
That's just nitpicking. Let's look at the facts, most individuals realize that when one refers to "America" or "Americans" in the context of a noun representing a nation of people, they are referring to the United States of America. There is the chance that the speaker may be referring to the Americans of North, Central, and/or South America, but that is usually evident due to the context or an explicit explanation by the speaker.
Likewise, when I talk about the parent poster, I am not referring to a childhood planning placard, but the person who made the post to which this post is a child. Context removes the need for a specific explication of a commonly accepted meaning of word.
What occurs when there are conflicts between the laws of the two countries?
Let us say, for example, Siliconland requires that all hacked computers be sent to the National Siliconland Computer Forensics lab for analysis. However, Synapseland requries that all hacked computers be destroyed immediately in the interests of national Synapseland security. If a webserver in Synapseland was hosting data of a Siliconlander, and the webserver had its data hacked, whose laws would apply?
Using the Italy/US scenario of cross-border situations, whose laws take precedence? The country hosting the content or the country that produced the content? (Country being short for country of the individual.)
While audio and video are at the core of the MPEG-4 specification, MPEG-4 can also support 3D objects, sprites, text and other media types.
Sound familiar? It should. You've been able to mix media with Apple's QuickTime technology for over a decade, storing each new type in a separate track. With this kind of extensibility, it's no surprise that the ISO chose the QuickTime file format as the foundation for the new MPEG-4 standard.
The QuickTime file format will be used to store digital video and audio content displayed using the MPEG-4 video standard being developed by the ISO. Six companies co-authored the QuickTime format.
The six -- Apple, IBM, Netscape, Oracle, Silicon Graphics, and Sun Microsystems -- said in a joint statement they "look forward to collaborating with other companies and industry bodies to further refine the specification and QuickTime file format -- ensuring that MPEG-4 quickly gains market acceptance."
They can always get regular passes. This simply doesn't allow them to get access to the "press" areas. You can just as easily watch the keynote (where all the interesting things usually happen) online.
More Details - His Abstract
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This is a direct quote from his science fair project abstract:
The purpose of this project was to create unbreakable cryptography employing a random number generator for personal and business use on the Internet or for internal communications and data storage. A literature search found that currently used methods have computational security (DES, Public Key) and that only cryptography with "one-time pad" encryption and random keys has unconditional security. The hypothesis for this project was that unconditional cryptography is possible if the random number generator has perfect probability and is mathematically random. A wide range of random number generators (computer built-ins and from the literature) were tested for randomness, speed, range of seed numbers, simplicity, and period length. Randomness was tested for frequency patterns using the chi-square test method.
The best random number generator (from literature) was combined with a shift cipher to produce cryptography that is simple to implement, suitable for personal or networked computers, and has unconditional security. The method uses one time, random keys and modulus arithmetic to make the cipher one-way and unbreakable. Disks containing a large array coordinates of the seed used to generate the one-time, random key can be transmitted publicly. The developed cryptography would be suitable for personal use, business sensitive messages and data, and top-secret military communications.
And the maximum efficiency of a heat engine is 27% [bgsu.edu].
Go learn some thermodynamics. The maximum efficiency of a heat engine is not 27%. It may be for a heat engine operating between a temperature difference of 100 Kelvin degrees, but the theoretical Carnot efficiency varies depending on the temperature difference between the hot and cold reservoirs. For example, an ideal heat engine drawing from a hot reservoir of 300 degrees Celsius and depositing into the cold reservoir at 120 degrees Celsius would yield a theoretical 31.4% Carnot efficiency.
I think they have charging penalities. I am not quite sure of the details, but if a robot detects another robot is approaching it, it must make maneuvers to get out of the way (such as move in a different direction). Likewise, if a robot detects it is moving itself toward another robot, it must change course. If two robots are charging each other, and only one attempts to prevent the collision, a foul/penalty is called on the other robot.
All this is in the rulebook, which probably has a stricter definition of how the whole situation works.
This is not an MSNBC written article. If you look closely, you will see Charles C. Mann of Technology Review credited. In fact, I have the article sitting on my desk. The article is on the front cover of the July/August 2002 issue.
You are reading what the submitter wrote, not what one of the Slashdot editors put in. If you want some definitions, you might try something like this: Sawfish@Everything2.com.
Take a look at the caption on page six, which gives a short summary of why they do not believe the seismic activities are due to earthquakes, but, instead, ton-size strange quark nuggets.
Fascinating. The Milwaukee School of Engineering awarded Mr. Doohan an honorary degree in Engineering after a poll of student body revealed that half of them were inspired to study engineering by Scotty in Star Trek.
In fact, SyFy Portal has corrected their previous article with this new update:
UPDATE (05-06-2002, 4:05 p.m. ET):
Zap2it has talked with Steve Stephens, James Doohan's agent, and said that the actor is not comatose, and actually is home undergoing extensive rehabilitation after being confined to bed for 13 weeks for pneumonia.
The Zap2it report comes following a source report that the 82-year-old was in worse shape than previously reported. SyFy Portal, which is a news and rumors site, had been working on confirming the report which stated that doctors did not anticipate a recovery. The We did note in our initial report that details were still in the rumor stage.
In the case of a "normal" fire, the supply pipes probably would not have been severed. That means that the sprinkler system and the standpipes would still be functioning.
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Uh, let's revisit that idea. From the section titled "The Postal Service is self-sufficient" -- there are two columns. One is for 1942-1971 and one is for 1972-2007. Several things wrong. The most grievous is that the numbers have convenient grouped 35 years of operating costs and revenue together. The second is that your stats still show a net loss of $600 million dollars for those 35 years.
But, addressing the more important point, the decline of demand for mail delivery services has happened in the age of the internet. Let's break those out by year instead of grouping them together in a three decade chunk. And instead of citing a website from the National Association of Letter Carriers, let's use the actual financial report from the USPS.
Financial Highlights -- FY2009
Observe net loss.
Hm. Hidden message.
At T+82, Shuttle speed was approx 2550fps (feet per second).
Come on! The Hong Kong subway system is to die for. Fast, clean, convenient. There are stations everywhere, and they place you within walking distance of any destination (except maybe in the New Territories).
The article is from CNET. It has just been reported again by MSNBC.
That's just nitpicking. Let's look at the facts, most individuals realize that when one refers to "America" or "Americans" in the context of a noun representing a nation of people, they are referring to the United States of America. There is the chance that the speaker may be referring to the Americans of North, Central, and/or South America, but that is usually evident due to the context or an explicit explanation by the speaker.
Likewise, when I talk about the parent poster, I am not referring to a childhood planning placard, but the person who made the post to which this post is a child. Context removes the need for a specific explication of a commonly accepted meaning of word.
What occurs when there are conflicts between the laws of the two countries?
Let us say, for example, Siliconland requires that all hacked computers be sent to the National Siliconland Computer Forensics lab for analysis. However, Synapseland requries that all hacked computers be destroyed immediately in the interests of national Synapseland security. If a webserver in Synapseland was hosting data of a Siliconlander, and the webserver had its data hacked, whose laws would apply?
Using the Italy/US scenario of cross-border situations, whose laws take precedence? The country hosting the content or the country that produced the content? (Country being short for country of the individual.)
Apple - MPEG-4: Or, how about this TechWeb article from 1998?
Actually, Firewire is the official brand identity for IEEE1394 now.
They can always get regular passes. This simply doesn't allow them to get access to the "press" areas. You can just as easily watch the keynote (where all the interesting things usually happen) online.
Go learn some thermodynamics. The maximum efficiency of a heat engine is not 27%. It may be for a heat engine operating between a temperature difference of 100 Kelvin degrees, but the theoretical Carnot efficiency varies depending on the temperature difference between the hot and cold reservoirs. For example, an ideal heat engine drawing from a hot reservoir of 300 degrees Celsius and depositing into the cold reservoir at 120 degrees Celsius would yield a theoretical 31.4% Carnot efficiency.
(Hot Temp - Cool Temp) / (Hot Temp) = Efficiency
(573.15 - 393.15) / 573.15 = 0.314
"And Sherlock Holmes was a character."
Ah, that's what you think. They may have already gotten to you.
Don't worry! Recent advances in network hardware uses cutting-edge DVD discs, with 4.7 GB capacity!
I think they have charging penalities. I am not quite sure of the details, but if a robot detects another robot is approaching it, it must make maneuvers to get out of the way (such as move in a different direction). Likewise, if a robot detects it is moving itself toward another robot, it must change course. If two robots are charging each other, and only one attempts to prevent the collision, a foul/penalty is called on the other robot.
All this is in the rulebook, which probably has a stricter definition of how the whole situation works.
We would call them ribosomes. :)
This is not an MSNBC written article. If you look closely, you will see Charles C. Mann of Technology Review credited. In fact, I have the article sitting on my desk. The article is on the front cover of the July/August 2002 issue.
You are reading what the submitter wrote, not what one of the Slashdot editors put in. If you want some definitions, you might try something like this: Sawfish@Everything2.com.
Not quite. If you read the report by the researchers (Two Seismic Events with the Properties for the Passage of Strange Quark Matter Through the Earth), you will see that they are basing their findings on much more than "just two small medium-small quakes each," as you say.
Take a look at the caption on page six, which gives a short summary of why they do not believe the seismic activities are due to earthquakes, but, instead, ton-size strange quark nuggets.
Fascinating. The Milwaukee School of Engineering awarded Mr. Doohan an honorary degree in Engineering after a poll of student body revealed that half of them were inspired to study engineering by Scotty in Star Trek.
Eddy's in space? Why didn't you tell me?
(Apologies to the HHGTG fans out there.)
I have the ad sitting on my desk right now. The magazine is from GameDeveloper, a monthly magazine with topics on game development.
I must say I was quite surprised when I first saw it too. Interesting choice of icons on the Dock, including the X Window System.
In the case of a "normal" fire, the supply pipes probably would not have been severed. That means that the sprinkler system and the standpipes would still be functioning.
And I'll start laughing when your robotic lawnmower starts assaulting your mailbox. ;)