Incorporating targeted ads into information in a syndicated, e.g., RSS, presentation format in an automated manner is described. Syndicated material e.g., corresponding to a news feed, search results or web logs, are combined with the output of an automated ad server.
SO, RSS is just one of the mediums described. And it actually does appear to be a pretty specific method.
You do know that the U.S. is considering extending daylight savings time in order to reduce energy consumption, right? That was the whole point in the first place, to conserve energy for the war effort.
Or if you are exactly on the North or South pole, you'd be open for about 4,380 hours a day. I'd imagine a chronomoter would really make a lot more sense for people there, as there is only one sunrise (spring) and one sunset (autumn) in a year. And, trying to figure out what time zone you're in can be a little hairy too.
That's why the archive's administrators signed an affidavit stating that the information was, to the best of their knowledge, not tampered with. And it would be up to the other lawyers to prove that you were falsifying the information, which could lead you into further trouble or at the very least remove any doubt of your guilt from the jury and show that you were indeed acting in bad faith.
Well, the DellComputersSuck.com website actually DESERVED to be sued. Is this a free speach issue? Not really. They were selling another brand of computers, so trademark infringement would actually come into play here.
I think it's not so much that tapes are "imperfect" as you can only make a limited number of them before significant quality loss. With MP3s, after the initial transcoding, there is really no realistic cap to the number of copies that can be made without further degredation.
But if you went to the US, you might have a problem with the strong US vs Canadian dollar. And the price of the trip (well, unless you just pick them up when you happen to be out of the country) would probably outweight the taxes. Now, you may be able to work it out by buying online, not sure if importing would be the same as bringing back for personal use. That, and losing a little money in the deal is worth it to some people just on the princible of the whole thing.
Honestly, his campy over the top style of acting might be well suited for stage rather than screen. On stage the movements and emotions have to be exaggerated quite a bit so the audience can really feel it from a distance. Hmm... or maybe it's just that pro-wrestling basically is a stage play. Usually and old school good vs evil morality play at that. Just with more body slams.
And then there's playing Warioware with friends. I've even seen it done as a drinking game. Ends up being about the right pacing. And less dangerous that making Dance Dance Revolution into a drinking game.
The whiny, angst-filled teen as central character in a video game actually makes sense as viewed through the paradigm of the Hero's Journey Joseph Campbell in his most famouse work The Hero with a Thousand Faces. After having to read the book and analyze it in high school english way back when, and then use it as the basis for literary analysis on a large number of other books, the basic point he is trying to get across is that every hero story is the same story: the story of coming of age, essentially puberty or the transformation from child to adult.
If you accept that a hero story is puberty, that essentially means that every hero is a teenager. The angst that these teenage heroes show is not a result of just being melodramatic, but the result of deep seated fears about the uncertainty that the future presents, primarilly in respect to their relationships with the opposite sex. In video games, as well as movies, comic books, music, novels and pretty much any other story telling medium, this angst is just amplified and used for a dramatic effect against an even more dramatic and fantastic (as in feeling of fantasy and adventure, not as a synonym of "really really good") background.
That, and the fact that RPG and other character driven video games are primarilly marketed to teenage males with a penchance for drama.
In terms of gene flow, the European and Candian terns are actually not completely seperate then. I believe that it only takes something like 1 member of a population (population size didn't matter much) breeding with the other every 3-5 generations to maintain pretty consistant genetics between the groups. It would have to be more often if it's indirectly through a middle population, but it doesn't take much interbreeding to mix up the genes.
However, there are many many ways in which organisms can remain sexually isolated, even if they are geographically not seperated. Chronological seperation is a big one: Nocturnal vs. diurnal. If you get a group that's only awake during the night, they won't mate with a group that's only awake during the night. Or possibly one group mates in early spring, while the other mates in fall... no exchange of DNA. Other things include hormonal incompatibility, where an egg will not allow a sperm to fertalize it if it has the wrong hormonal markers. And occasionally the shape of the reproductive organs change in such a way that interbreeding is unrealistic. Often times these latter reasons come about when two species come together that have been seperated for long enough that their combined offspring have far lower viability than if they bred within their own group. Then when changes arise which prevent crossbreeding, they are evolutionarilly selected for.
And people often udnerstimate the power of inbreeding to create a new species. With plants, they often even have the ability to reproduce parthenogenically or even self-fertilize. This can lead to a new genetic line in a very short period of time.
And the caffeine in coffee and chocolate ISN'T natural? Natural != healthy. The nicotine found in tobacco is perfectly natural: the plant makes it as an insecticide. And even though it's perfectly natural, I doubt snake venom beer would be very good for you (okay, okay, it has been found that small doses of certain snake venoms can actually help patients overcome certain disorders, but in general, not a good idea.) Or how about a nice tetrodotoxin saki? It's made from the all natural pufferfish, a Japanese delicacy.
And then there's the fact that guarana has not been evaluated by the FDA for safety, effectiveness, or purity. All potential risks and/or advantages of guarana may not be known. Additionally, there are no regulated manufacturing standards in place.
Now, the caffeine in guarana beans is generally disgested much slower than in, say, a cup of coffee. However the effect when you grind up the bean and mix it with a carbonated alcoholic beverage would probably be to extract the caffeine directly into the liquid, where it can be digested quicker. Not that I'm against mixing caffeine and alcohol within moderation... just as long as you know what's going on and understand that, yes, you are taking risks.
Creative Commons liscenses allows "open sourcing" just about any IP you want: music, visual arts, writing... it's just a license that you have to print the license and the recipie if you want to distribute the beer.
The womb is one of the more recently evolved structures, too. I mean, there are even mammals that still lay eggs (okay, the platypus and the echidna. And they are so primitive that they urinate, deficate and reproduce with the same hole. But then again we are so primitive that we still have teeth as adults, just like lizards, so...)
Actually, it makes sense. Flight is very energy intensive, and growing the wings with fantastic color displays (most likely used to attract mates) is very energy intensive. Rather than grow them bit by bit, the butterfly has a life stage which simply eats and eats, storing energy and protein. Then there comes a time when it makes a cocoon, sleeps for a bit and wakes up with wings, the ability to fly, and the ability to reproduce. At this time the butterfly can turn to more energy rich but nutrient poor food sources such as sugary pollen as it is no longer growing, but simply expending energy.
Actually, in nature the multiple life cycle thing is very common, as the ideal form for growth is often very different from the ideal form for reproduction. The life cycles of slime molds and algae. Some algae have three different life cycles, which without genetic tests or watching the actual breeding appear to be different species. To make things more confusing they can often reproduce parthenogenically skipping over other cycles for a while, only to turn back to sexual reproduction once the environment has changed in a certain way. These life cycles are often times even somewhat genetically different from each other, to an extent (basically one life cycle will have diploidy, the full compliment of chromosomes, while another will be haploid, having half of the chromosomes.) Picture if sperm and eggs were able to grow up and reproduce on their own, only coming together when they felt like it. Society and our image of individuality would be very different from what it is now.
No No No... god INTENDED for us to have a blind spot, um... so that we can cast aside our gaze from the devil without actually having to turn our heads. Yeah, cause otherwise he might tempt us into things like drugs and HOMOSEXUALITY!!!! Those who are tempted simply don't have the faith to use their divinely granted blind spot!
I mean, there are some lines of reasoning you just can't argue against. I'm not saying they're correct, just that you can't productively form an argument that they'll listen to.
By western culture I suppose I meant USA. I know france has special horse butchers, etc. But then again in the US the horse has a special iconic status thanks to the image of the cowboy.
Basing HP needs on cruising speeds is not going to give you a valid estimate. In most large cities (where we'd be first using this tech anyways) the majority of traffic is stop and go, often times emphasis on the stop. I've timed it out before... often times when commuting a vehicle spends more time idling than it does driving.
But in many places peak energy consumption is often when the sun is pretty much its brightest... think air conditioning. True, Solar wouldn't completely replace standard grid power, but it can effectively shave the peak usage in some circumstances. And IIRC most powerplants run at their optimal efficiency when running at peak levels, so rounding off the curves would indeed improve efficiency.
However, solar does have some major drawbacks that many people do not know of. Most photovoltaic cells use some relatively rare metals that are environmentally nasty to mine. And then once their usefull lifetime is up, they must be disposed of as toxic waste. Granted, recycling programs and better materials could help mitigate the problem, solar really isn't an environmental panacea to our energy need problems. But it could end up being a small part of a larger puzzle.
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Incorporating targeted ads into information in a syndicated, e.g., RSS, presentation format in an automated manner is described. Syndicated material e.g., corresponding to a news feed, search results or web logs, are combined with the output of an automated ad server.
SO, RSS is just one of the mediums described. And it actually does appear to be a pretty specific method.
In Soviet Russia... e-mail users send unsolicited message to spammers???
Labor day is actually in celebration of a victory of the unions over corporations, so it actually does make sense that you celebrate by not working.
Replace the batteries right before midnight New Year's Eve. Everyone then tests as the clock hits midnight. Wow... that somehow seems... wrong.
You do know that the U.S. is considering extending daylight savings time in order to reduce energy consumption, right? That was the whole point in the first place, to conserve energy for the war effort.
Or if you are exactly on the North or South pole, you'd be open for about 4,380 hours a day. I'd imagine a chronomoter would really make a lot more sense for people there, as there is only one sunrise (spring) and one sunset (autumn) in a year. And, trying to figure out what time zone you're in can be a little hairy too.
That's why the archive's administrators signed an affidavit stating that the information was, to the best of their knowledge, not tampered with. And it would be up to the other lawyers to prove that you were falsifying the information, which could lead you into further trouble or at the very least remove any doubt of your guilt from the jury and show that you were indeed acting in bad faith.
Well, the DellComputersSuck.com website actually DESERVED to be sued. Is this a free speach issue? Not really. They were selling another brand of computers, so trademark infringement would actually come into play here.
I think it's not so much that tapes are "imperfect" as you can only make a limited number of them before significant quality loss. With MP3s, after the initial transcoding, there is really no realistic cap to the number of copies that can be made without further degredation.
But if you went to the US, you might have a problem with the strong US vs Canadian dollar. And the price of the trip (well, unless you just pick them up when you happen to be out of the country) would probably outweight the taxes. Now, you may be able to work it out by buying online, not sure if importing would be the same as bringing back for personal use. That, and losing a little money in the deal is worth it to some people just on the princible of the whole thing.
Honestly, his campy over the top style of acting might be well suited for stage rather than screen. On stage the movements and emotions have to be exaggerated quite a bit so the audience can really feel it from a distance. Hmm... or maybe it's just that pro-wrestling basically is a stage play. Usually and old school good vs evil morality play at that. Just with more body slams.
Let's see... "some famous guys play football." Well, people have been able to watch that with the live or telvised mediums, so why not.
"A scantily clad woman shoots things." Nope. Haven't seen that in the movies ever. And wouldn't pay to see it again.
"A blonde man has angst and a big sword." Man, that sounds like a terrible premise for a story. Now where's my Conan books?
And then there's playing Warioware with friends. I've even seen it done as a drinking game. Ends up being about the right pacing. And less dangerous that making Dance Dance Revolution into a drinking game.
The whiny, angst-filled teen as central character in a video game actually makes sense as viewed through the paradigm of the Hero's Journey Joseph Campbell in his most famouse work The Hero with a Thousand Faces. After having to read the book and analyze it in high school english way back when, and then use it as the basis for literary analysis on a large number of other books, the basic point he is trying to get across is that every hero story is the same story: the story of coming of age, essentially puberty or the transformation from child to adult.
If you accept that a hero story is puberty, that essentially means that every hero is a teenager. The angst that these teenage heroes show is not a result of just being melodramatic, but the result of deep seated fears about the uncertainty that the future presents, primarilly in respect to their relationships with the opposite sex. In video games, as well as movies, comic books, music, novels and pretty much any other story telling medium, this angst is just amplified and used for a dramatic effect against an even more dramatic and fantastic (as in feeling of fantasy and adventure, not as a synonym of "really really good") background.
That, and the fact that RPG and other character driven video games are primarilly marketed to teenage males with a penchance for drama.
I don't know... this is a lawsuit over hot coffe. Companies should know by now to use extreme caution with anyhthing with that moniker.
GP was just saying that it wasn't stolen FROM GOOGLE. Yeah, they forced someone else to give it to em, but...
In terms of gene flow, the European and Candian terns are actually not completely seperate then. I believe that it only takes something like 1 member of a population (population size didn't matter much) breeding with the other every 3-5 generations to maintain pretty consistant genetics between the groups. It would have to be more often if it's indirectly through a middle population, but it doesn't take much interbreeding to mix up the genes.
However, there are many many ways in which organisms can remain sexually isolated, even if they are geographically not seperated. Chronological seperation is a big one: Nocturnal vs. diurnal. If you get a group that's only awake during the night, they won't mate with a group that's only awake during the night. Or possibly one group mates in early spring, while the other mates in fall... no exchange of DNA. Other things include hormonal incompatibility, where an egg will not allow a sperm to fertalize it if it has the wrong hormonal markers. And occasionally the shape of the reproductive organs change in such a way that interbreeding is unrealistic. Often times these latter reasons come about when two species come together that have been seperated for long enough that their combined offspring have far lower viability than if they bred within their own group. Then when changes arise which prevent crossbreeding, they are evolutionarilly selected for.
And people often udnerstimate the power of inbreeding to create a new species. With plants, they often even have the ability to reproduce parthenogenically or even self-fertilize. This can lead to a new genetic line in a very short period of time.
And the caffeine in coffee and chocolate ISN'T natural? Natural != healthy. The nicotine found in tobacco is perfectly natural: the plant makes it as an insecticide. And even though it's perfectly natural, I doubt snake venom beer would be very good for you (okay, okay, it has been found that small doses of certain snake venoms can actually help patients overcome certain disorders, but in general, not a good idea.) Or how about a nice tetrodotoxin saki? It's made from the all natural pufferfish, a Japanese delicacy.
And then there's the fact that guarana has not been evaluated by the FDA for safety, effectiveness, or purity. All potential risks and/or advantages of guarana may not be known. Additionally, there are no regulated manufacturing standards in place.
Now, the caffeine in guarana beans is generally disgested much slower than in, say, a cup of coffee. However the effect when you grind up the bean and mix it with a carbonated alcoholic beverage would probably be to extract the caffeine directly into the liquid, where it can be digested quicker. Not that I'm against mixing caffeine and alcohol within moderation... just as long as you know what's going on and understand that, yes, you are taking risks.
Creative Commons liscenses allows "open sourcing" just about any IP you want: music, visual arts, writing... it's just a license that you have to print the license and the recipie if you want to distribute the beer.
The womb is one of the more recently evolved structures, too. I mean, there are even mammals that still lay eggs (okay, the platypus and the echidna. And they are so primitive that they urinate, deficate and reproduce with the same hole. But then again we are so primitive that we still have teeth as adults, just like lizards, so...)
Actually, it makes sense. Flight is very energy intensive, and growing the wings with fantastic color displays (most likely used to attract mates) is very energy intensive. Rather than grow them bit by bit, the butterfly has a life stage which simply eats and eats, storing energy and protein. Then there comes a time when it makes a cocoon, sleeps for a bit and wakes up with wings, the ability to fly, and the ability to reproduce. At this time the butterfly can turn to more energy rich but nutrient poor food sources such as sugary pollen as it is no longer growing, but simply expending energy.
Actually, in nature the multiple life cycle thing is very common, as the ideal form for growth is often very different from the ideal form for reproduction. The life cycles of slime molds and algae. Some algae have three different life cycles, which without genetic tests or watching the actual breeding appear to be different species. To make things more confusing they can often reproduce parthenogenically skipping over other cycles for a while, only to turn back to sexual reproduction once the environment has changed in a certain way. These life cycles are often times even somewhat genetically different from each other, to an extent (basically one life cycle will have diploidy, the full compliment of chromosomes, while another will be haploid, having half of the chromosomes.) Picture if sperm and eggs were able to grow up and reproduce on their own, only coming together when they felt like it. Society and our image of individuality would be very different from what it is now.
No No No... god INTENDED for us to have a blind spot, um... so that we can cast aside our gaze from the devil without actually having to turn our heads. Yeah, cause otherwise he might tempt us into things like drugs and HOMOSEXUALITY!!!! Those who are tempted simply don't have the faith to use their divinely granted blind spot!
I mean, there are some lines of reasoning you just can't argue against. I'm not saying they're correct, just that you can't productively form an argument that they'll listen to.
By western culture I suppose I meant USA. I know france has special horse butchers, etc. But then again in the US the horse has a special iconic status thanks to the image of the cowboy.
Basing HP needs on cruising speeds is not going to give you a valid estimate. In most large cities (where we'd be first using this tech anyways) the majority of traffic is stop and go, often times emphasis on the stop. I've timed it out before... often times when commuting a vehicle spends more time idling than it does driving.
But in many places peak energy consumption is often when the sun is pretty much its brightest... think air conditioning. True, Solar wouldn't completely replace standard grid power, but it can effectively shave the peak usage in some circumstances. And IIRC most powerplants run at their optimal efficiency when running at peak levels, so rounding off the curves would indeed improve efficiency.
However, solar does have some major drawbacks that many people do not know of. Most photovoltaic cells use some relatively rare metals that are environmentally nasty to mine. And then once their usefull lifetime is up, they must be disposed of as toxic waste. Granted, recycling programs and better materials could help mitigate the problem, solar really isn't an environmental panacea to our energy need problems. But it could end up being a small part of a larger puzzle.