Can someone knowledgeable about AWD systems break down the differences between XWD, previous Haldex AWD and other AWD (say, Subaru's) systems? Most of us can look up the Wikipedia article for technical details, so actual performance in real life driving would be neat.
No need to go overboard into off road 4WD or competitive driving, thanks.
The one person who uses his NDS Lite more than any other person I know is my 63 year old father. He likes to play all those brain games as well as card/puzzle games and those My Language Coach series. His only complaint - the size of the screen and the size of the stylus.
Nintendo knows EXACTLY what they're doing. Giving "casual" gamers exactly what they want.
What do you think I'm trying to say? I gave four instances of where the mass killing of civilians was justified for a greater military purpose. What I didn't give you was my opinion on whether or not it was.
BTW, what is it that you think Curtis LeMay was saying in those quotes? That he feels that he committed a war crime or that if he was on the losing side, he would have been found guilty of war crimes? There's a subtle difference between them.
Nope, mass murder of civilians is basically not justifiable at all.
Despite denying his claim, you couched your statement with "basically." I don't think that was accidental or a slip of the tongue.
I don't believe in "the ends justify the means" as a general principle because doing so is simply too dangerous. At the same time, I think that there are (rarely) situations where doing a horrible thing helps you to prevent even more horrible things from happening--and though I may be inferring far too much from one word, I think you do as well.
Sometimes the situations are really contrived; that's usually what you would get if you give a "oh yeah? Name one!" response.
In other words, while "less evil" and such are oft-abused responses, sometimes you really are in a situation where even the least of the evil choices you have are horrible.
Firebombing of Dresden Firebombing of Tokyo Hiroshima Nagasaki
Your use of the word speculation indicate to me that to you, science is nothing more than highly organized magic.
Our understanding make this no more or less speculation than what makes your GPS function accurately or the semiconductors in the computer on which you wrote sending electrons in the right direction. This is done through observation, experimentation, et al.
This is a rigorous process and not just speculation. Because YOU can't understand or wrap your mind around supercluster scale structures and size doesn't mean there are others than can't.
As for the observable universe, please review your definition of "universe" because I fear we're not on the same page and don't have much of a basis for a meaningful discussion.
That's also a misunderstanding what the term "observable universe" means as well as a strange definition for the term "speculation." And no, that's not how it works with the "big bang," either.
Although the universe is only 13.5 billion yrs old, the universe is bigger than 13.5 billion light years due to the expansion of space itself.
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Good summary. Here are the random thoughts that popped into my head during the premiere:
- That ship traveled the distance of about ~50 galaxies in 10,000 years. According to scientists there's about 3 million LYs between each galaxy, so the ship covered that's 150 million lightyears. FLAW: It's only about 50 million LYs from here to the edge of the universe. (suspension of disbelief just broke)
O RLY?
The lower bound for the diameter size of the universe is 78 BILLION LYs.
The VISIBLE (observable) universe is a little under 50 (again) BILLION LYs in any direction.
I may be wrong about the integrated graphics, but the greater point remains.
No, they don't. They're just as poorly reasoned, researched and thought out as the rest of your post.
I have Macs, Thinkpads and a bunch of build my own machines so I'm not really on a OS crusade. On the other hand, from reading your parroting of the same old anti Apple shit, it seems like you got a hard on about not like Apple.
Ignoring history (or hiding from it) seems to be the basis of these laws. It strikes me as hugely contradictory to outlaw both denying the holocaust and displaying a swastika. It's an unfortunate historical relic - Deal with it...
The irony here is that if you had a broader sense of history, you'd understand that of all the Axis powers of WWII that committed massive, systemized and widespread atrocities, only the Germans fully own up to their past and their history. While the Japanese have almost managed to sanitize their own history books, the Germans made a field trip to a concentration/extermination camp a mandatory part of their national education system, at least when I was there.
Ouch! I never understood the need for all of this specialized "server-class" hardware when cheap-o commodity hardware and a little elbow grease works just as well. Maybe most people don't want to put the work into it, considering the huge jump in price between retail consumer and server pricing, I've never been able to justify shelling out those kind of bucks.
I can't decide if you're a troll or an amateur. If you're the latter, I meant that in the nicest possible way.
If you don't understand that there's a difference between "cheap-o commodity hardware" and server hardware, you don't understand nearly as well as you think you do.
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Didn't that chica Fiorella Terenzi already do this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiorella_Terenzi
She's also much better to look at.
Can someone knowledgeable about AWD systems break down the differences between XWD, previous Haldex AWD and other AWD (say, Subaru's) systems? Most of us can look up the Wikipedia article for technical details, so actual performance in real life driving would be neat.
No need to go overboard into off road 4WD or competitive driving, thanks.
Many, if not most wastewater (sewage) treatment plants in the US produce a net energy surplus, which is then returned to the grid.
Hey genius, where do you think the thermal energy that's being collected came from and went to in the first place?
In the long run, it'll work out better for everyone else involved. The only loser here is Oklahoma State.
You are looking at either the Linux or Win versions. Your advice does not apply the OS X version.
VLC OSX does not have checkbox multiple instances.
Hey, even though no one else is responding, this is good stuff.
Hey, quit projecting your pompassitude.
How do you know who does and who doesn't think the Voynich manuscript was a hoax? You haven't heard what I think about it.
And I call your Dan Brown and raise you an Umberto Eco.
http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/02/17/edith-sherwoods-anagram-cipher
The one person who uses his NDS Lite more than any other person I know is my 63 year old father. He likes to play all those brain games as well as card/puzzle games and those My Language Coach series. His only complaint - the size of the screen and the size of the stylus.
Nintendo knows EXACTLY what they're doing. Giving "casual" gamers exactly what they want.
What do you think I'm trying to say? I gave four instances of where the mass killing of civilians was justified for a greater military purpose. What I didn't give you was my opinion on whether or not it was.
BTW, what is it that you think Curtis LeMay was saying in those quotes? That he feels that he committed a war crime or that if he was on the losing side, he would have been found guilty of war crimes? There's a subtle difference between them.
To me, it's indicative of the lack of literacy in the general population. There's people who think they can read when in fact, they can't.
Despite denying his claim, you couched your statement with "basically." I don't think that was accidental or a slip of the tongue.
I don't believe in "the ends justify the means" as a general principle because doing so is simply too dangerous. At the same time, I think that there are (rarely) situations where doing a horrible thing helps you to prevent even more horrible things from happening--and though I may be inferring far too much from one word, I think you do as well.
Sometimes the situations are really contrived; that's usually what you would get if you give a "oh yeah? Name one!" response.
In other words, while "less evil" and such are oft-abused responses, sometimes you really are in a situation where even the least of the evil choices you have are horrible.
Firebombing of Dresden
Firebombing of Tokyo
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
That's 4.
I liked it better when you could move the hossies and use them as cover. Strategically placed hostages could really screw up otherwise good CT plans.
After all these years, Sun knows how to cover themselves. ZFS engineers can't just cross the road to Apple and work on a directly comparable product.
Also, the "lead engineers" are still at Sun, if the ZFS list is anything to go by. In particular Jeff Bonwick.
Non compete clauses are not enforceable in California except in a very narrow set of circumstances. This includes out of state agreements.
Your use of the word speculation indicate to me that to you, science is nothing more than highly organized magic.
Our understanding make this no more or less speculation than what makes your GPS function accurately or the semiconductors in the computer on which you wrote sending electrons in the right direction. This is done through observation, experimentation, et al.
This is a rigorous process and not just speculation. Because YOU can't understand or wrap your mind around supercluster scale structures and size doesn't mean there are others than can't.
As for the observable universe, please review your definition of "universe" because I fear we're not on the same page and don't have much of a basis for a meaningful discussion.
That's also a misunderstanding what the term "observable universe" means as well as a strange definition for the term "speculation." And no, that's not how it works with the "big bang," either.
Citation needed and you site a wiki page? Why don't you just type "wiki size of universe" into your location bar?
Oh, fuck it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#Size.2C_age.2C_contents.2C_structure.2C_and_laws
Although the universe is only 13.5 billion yrs old, the universe is bigger than 13.5 billion light years due to the expansion of space itself.
Good summary. Here are the random thoughts that popped into my head during the premiere:
- That ship traveled the distance of about ~50 galaxies in 10,000 years. According to scientists there's about 3 million LYs between each galaxy, so the ship covered that's 150 million lightyears. FLAW: It's only about 50 million LYs from here to the edge of the universe. (suspension of disbelief just broke)
O RLY?
The lower bound for the diameter size of the universe is 78 BILLION LYs.
The VISIBLE (observable) universe is a little under 50 (again) BILLION LYs in any direction.
I may be wrong about the integrated graphics, but the greater point remains.
No, they don't. They're just as poorly reasoned, researched and thought out as the rest of your post.
I have Macs, Thinkpads and a bunch of build my own machines so I'm not really on a OS crusade. On the other hand, from reading your parroting of the same old anti Apple shit, it seems like you got a hard on about not like Apple.
Interesting? How about -1 uninformed?
The only Apple laptop that you can't get without a discrete graphics card is the 17" MBP.
The only Apple laptop that you can't get a matte screen on is the 13" MB/MBP. Both 15" and 17" are available with "anti-glare."
So just about every one of your "facts" are wrong.
Which only demonstrates that you're talking out your ass. More horizontal space = more multiple side by side windows.
Ignoring history (or hiding from it) seems to be the basis of these laws. It strikes me as hugely contradictory to outlaw both denying the holocaust and displaying a swastika. It's an unfortunate historical relic - Deal with it...
The irony here is that if you had a broader sense of history, you'd understand that of all the Axis powers of WWII that committed massive, systemized and widespread atrocities, only the Germans fully own up to their past and their history. While the Japanese have almost managed to sanitize their own history books, the Germans made a field trip to a concentration/extermination camp a mandatory part of their national education system, at least when I was there.
Ouch! I never understood the need for all of this specialized "server-class" hardware when cheap-o commodity hardware and a little elbow grease works just as well. Maybe most people don't want to put the work into it, considering the huge jump in price between retail consumer and server pricing, I've never been able to justify shelling out those kind of bucks.
I can't decide if you're a troll or an amateur. If you're the latter, I meant that in the nicest possible way.
If you don't understand that there's a difference between "cheap-o commodity hardware" and server hardware, you don't understand nearly as well as you think you do.
BeFS.