Why does it matter how much water a dishwater uses? The water comes from a river, goes through the water treatment plant, is piped out to homes, is piped back to the sewage treatment plant, then is returned to the river. If it's cheaper to just process more water than it is to decrease water usage, why not just go that route? This is very different from agricultural uses where much of the water evaporates or is transpired by the plants.
As a percentage of GDP, federal tax revenue has been lower than 2001 spending for every year except 2006 and 2007. Expenses have, of course, been even higher. But this suggests that even sustainable spending at 2001 levels requires raising federal tax revenues.
Or, keep your budget balanced during the good times so you can easily afford to take on debt in a crisis. If the US didn't do into this recession with debt already shaping up to be a serious long-term problem, there'd be a lot less to worry about.
Are CO2 concentrations actually so localized such that it matters where you're trying to remove it from the atmosphere? I thought this was a global problem.
This has been proposed a lot recently. It was the real hope for a grand bargin between Republicans and Democrats. However, the sticking point was whether the change would be revenue neutral. Republicans demanded it be dropped by at least as much as was saved, Democrats wanted to drop the tax rate by less than what would be saved in exemptions and credits.
Bill Gates has built up a lot of wealth, but I'd be surprised if he has much income. I thought he had reached the point where he is now mostly just coasting away on his savings.
A lot of video game companies teeter on the edge of bankruptcy. Sometimes it isn't corporate greed, but a collective failure to develop products that can sell enough to pay the real costs of producing it.
There are a few clever ways you could get around tagging produce items individually. One would be to put an id tag on bags, and track the contents of the bags in the store computer system. You could integrate that with the weighing process, perhaps, to streamline it.
You're right that there's a few tricky spots, and it's not perfectly clear how it would best be handled. Nevertheless, I think if you can get tags cheap enough, it would be a great application.
I find them much more convenient, as I have no need or desire to have a cashier do for me what I can probably do better myself.
One thing I like about them is that they're one step closer to the eventual future. At a certain point, there's going to be no more cashiers, as you'll just be able to walk out of the store without having to individually scan items, as they'll be tagged for remote sensing. Just swipe your credit card on the way out the door, authorise payment, and leave.
is that it does not run Windows legacy software like Windows XP and earlier versions did.
My brother is a Gamer, and he bought a Windows Vista Home Premium Laptop, it would not run his old games like Warlords IV and we tried a VirtualBox machine with Windows XP Pro in it but it had limited 3D support and Warlords IV would not run under it. His only option is to run Warlords IV on his old Windows XP Pro desktop, but then he cannot take the game with him on his laptop.
Have you tried installing in compatibility mode? A post on their forums suggests that it would work. Or, at least up to version 1.05.
Oh the other hand, community-created content is a huge part of Little Big Planet. At launch, there wouldn't have been nearly as much great user-content out there as there is now.
There should be a requirement for ANY use of "non-lethal" weapons to be investigated as if it were the same as a lethal weapon.
Unless the cop would have used lethal force IN THE SAME SITUATION if "non-lethal" weapons were not available then the use of the "non-lethal" weapon should be enough to get said cop suspended.
That doesn't seem right to me. Use of a lethal weapon is definitely more serious, and should be treated as such. It's one thing to expect the use of non-lethal weapons to be treated seriously and investigated, but they shouldn't be treated equally when they are not.
As an analogy, it's important to investigate and punish petty thieves, but requiring an ongoing string of petty thefts to receive equal attention as an ongoing string of serial murders would be silly.
There's a decent number of Wiis with poor disk drives. They became apparent when Smash Bros. Brawl released. It was a popular game and was on a dual-layered DVD, so it exposed latent problems many Wiis.
There's also occasional defective video hardware. But all-in-all, the Wii seems to have had pretty low failure rates.
All significantly sized banks were given TARP funds. Being on the verge of bankruptcy was not a criteria for participation. Even healthy banks were encouraged to join in order to prevent stigmatising participants. Goldman Sachs has already repaid their TARP funds. Go take a look at the Wikipedia page for TARP under "participation criteria" and "participants".
Actually, Goldman Saches did not go bankrupt in 2008. In fact, they did relatively well throughout the crisis. Your response to the other poster explaining that they could have gone bankrupt while still making profit is also irrelevent, because they didn't go brankrupt.
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Why does it matter how much water a dishwater uses? The water comes from a river, goes through the water treatment plant, is piped out to homes, is piped back to the sewage treatment plant, then is returned to the river. If it's cheaper to just process more water than it is to decrease water usage, why not just go that route? This is very different from agricultural uses where much of the water evaporates or is transpired by the plants.
So, what is the problem? I don't get it.
What happens if they enter 'inf' or 'nan' as the quantity?
As a percentage of GDP, federal tax revenue has been lower than 2001 spending for every year except 2006 and 2007. Expenses have, of course, been even higher. But this suggests that even sustainable spending at 2001 levels requires raising federal tax revenues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Revenue_and_Expense_to_GDP_Chart_1993_-_2008.png
Or, keep your budget balanced during the good times so you can easily afford to take on debt in a crisis. If the US didn't do into this recession with debt already shaping up to be a serious long-term problem, there'd be a lot less to worry about.
Are CO2 concentrations actually so localized such that it matters where you're trying to remove it from the atmosphere? I thought this was a global problem.
This has been proposed a lot recently. It was the real hope for a grand bargin between Republicans and Democrats. However, the sticking point was whether the change would be revenue neutral. Republicans demanded it be dropped by at least as much as was saved, Democrats wanted to drop the tax rate by less than what would be saved in exemptions and credits.
Though, they might not appreciate you crushing the drive before you send it in for warranty repair/replacement.
A corporation's mission, it's sole reason to be, is to make money for it's shareholders.
There are plenty of non-profit corporations. Incorporation is fairly common among charities.
Put 'report bug' as an option in the help menu. And make sure your bug-reporting mechanism is the best-tested portion of the entire piece of software.
Bill Gates has built up a lot of wealth, but I'd be surprised if he has much income. I thought he had reached the point where he is now mostly just coasting away on his savings.
They did that. Hence why Stars content will no longer be on Netflix.
Given how the Netflix stock nosedived after his announcement of exiting the DVD business, I don't think this is an accurate assessment.
You should not, however, be allowed to make minor changes, recompile it, and then sell it as your own.
A lot of video game companies teeter on the edge of bankruptcy. Sometimes it isn't corporate greed, but a collective failure to develop products that can sell enough to pay the real costs of producing it.
There are a few clever ways you could get around tagging produce items individually. One would be to put an id tag on bags, and track the contents of the bags in the store computer system. You could integrate that with the weighing process, perhaps, to streamline it.
You're right that there's a few tricky spots, and it's not perfectly clear how it would best be handled. Nevertheless, I think if you can get tags cheap enough, it would be a great application.
I find them much more convenient, as I have no need or desire to have a cashier do for me what I can probably do better myself.
One thing I like about them is that they're one step closer to the eventual future. At a certain point, there's going to be no more cashiers, as you'll just be able to walk out of the store without having to individually scan items, as they'll be tagged for remote sensing. Just swipe your credit card on the way out the door, authorise payment, and leave.
I doubt it. They devote an entire page to explaining why they don't use templates:
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/templates.html
is that it does not run Windows legacy software like Windows XP and earlier versions did.
My brother is a Gamer, and he bought a Windows Vista Home Premium Laptop, it would not run his old games like Warlords IV and we tried a VirtualBox machine with Windows XP Pro in it but it had limited 3D support and Warlords IV would not run under it. His only option is to run Warlords IV on his old Windows XP Pro desktop, but then he cannot take the game with him on his laptop.
Have you tried installing in compatibility mode? A post on their forums suggests that it would work. Or, at least up to version 1.05.
Oh the other hand, community-created content is a huge part of Little Big Planet. At launch, there wouldn't have been nearly as much great user-content out there as there is now.
There should be a requirement for ANY use of "non-lethal" weapons to be investigated as if it were the same as a lethal weapon.
Unless the cop would have used lethal force IN THE SAME SITUATION if "non-lethal" weapons were not available then the use of the "non-lethal" weapon should be enough to get said cop suspended.
That doesn't seem right to me. Use of a lethal weapon is definitely more serious, and should be treated as such. It's one thing to expect the use of non-lethal weapons to be treated seriously and investigated, but they shouldn't be treated equally when they are not.
As an analogy, it's important to investigate and punish petty thieves, but requiring an ongoing string of petty thefts to receive equal attention as an ongoing string of serial murders would be silly.
There's a decent number of Wiis with poor disk drives. They became apparent when Smash Bros. Brawl released. It was a popular game and was on a dual-layered DVD, so it exposed latent problems many Wiis. There's also occasional defective video hardware. But all-in-all, the Wii seems to have had pretty low failure rates.
Gentlemen, start your cloning!
If we outlaw malware, only outlaws will have malware!
All significantly sized banks were given TARP funds. Being on the verge of bankruptcy was not a criteria for participation. Even healthy banks were encouraged to join in order to prevent stigmatising participants. Goldman Sachs has already repaid their TARP funds. Go take a look at the Wikipedia page for TARP under "participation criteria" and "participants".
Goldman sax went bankrupt in 2008 didn't they?
Actually, Goldman Saches did not go bankrupt in 2008. In fact, they did relatively well throughout the crisis. Your response to the other poster explaining that they could have gone bankrupt while still making profit is also irrelevent, because they didn't go brankrupt.