I always used to think the governor's name was Le Ptomaine, as in the bacterial poison. I found out this weekend that it was in reality Lepetomane, from the French "Le Pétomane" (fart maniac), which means "flatulist", "farteur", or "fartiste" according to the Wikipedia article.
Running a Google search on "infrared contact lens" turns up quite a few videos and sites devoted to "gambling tricks" that shows the backs of the cards are marked with rather large letters, numbers and symbols revealing which card is printed on the obverse side.
My brothers and I each got a plastic model of the Enterprise for Christmas. Wonder whatever happened to them? The models, not my brothers.
Being young boys of that era (one of which I am also), you may have used the models for BB gun target practice or blew them up with fire crackers while performing your own special effects. Or possibly flew them into a simulated star (camp fire?) and watched them burn up.
Not sure what you are asking about here.
Within a state, the state doesn't care if you go somewhere else with a lower municipal sales tax to make a purchase, because the state itself always gets its cut. The one exception I know of is motor vehicles, where you get hit with the tax appropriate to where you live, not where you purchased it, which is enforced because you must interact with the government apparatus to license it. Of course, tax laws being what they are, pretty much everyone is probably guilty of failing to pay some type of tax at some time or another. Businesses make decisions to locate in some states but not others due to inventory or use taxes...
There are quite a few US states that have no sales tax at all, so that explanation doesn't quite work. If I wanted the PS4, I can swing past a store in New Hampshire and pick it up for exactly its $399 price tag, no additional taxes.
Then, of course, being the fine upstanding citizen you are, you dutifully pay the sales tax due in your home state on goods purchased outside the state, so that difference probably evaporates. Oh, wait, no one does that. Never mind...
or we get "Bob worked here between August 2010 and July 2013."..., just getting the latter tends to raise questions.
Unfortunately many places have a policy in place that the period of employment is all they will reveal without a court order. You get no information about the actual employee performance, regardless of what the reality was.
Apparently this was built using a Beowulf cluster of leaf blowers. Your neighbors will be thrilled with you when you jet off at 6 AM. But it sure looks damn cool to fly around in.
The real reason to me to get a kindle over a table for reading is simply the weight difference. The tablets I held would be uncomfortable compared to a 6" kindle which easily weighs the same as or less than a fiction paperback.
Exactly. I recently picked up a Nook HD after B&N slashed the price. It is much heavier than my 2nd gen Kindle. So while the Nook displays color and updates the screen much faster, it is more wearying to hold for extended periods and is harder on my eyes than the Kindle for extended periods of time, and is almost unusable outside in the sun. The upside of the Nook is that I can view PDFs and web pages in a reasonable fashion, where those tasks are just painful on the Kindle.
If the schools are focused on increasing revenue, something along the way is horribly broken.
When I was in elementary school, we were told ahead of time to make sure we were present for certain days because the attendance on those days was used as a base line for certain funding sources. This is not a new thing.
I have doubts about the success of this venture, considering anecdotally almost every MS store I've seen in my travels was nearly empty. Since they all were located near Apple stores, the stark difference in foot traffic was apparent. The only exception was the MS store near Redmond, which had a decent crowd."
Probably local MS employees being forced to get a hand stamp by a physical visit to that MS store to get their paychecks. Thus MS can point to at least one store with a high foot traffic.
What if the preference (or requirement) for doing this on the passenger side is due to the physical location of some wiring or other device that is susceptible to some kind of electronic signal or noise conduction into other circuitry that ends up causing the unlock?
The article says the pictures are from before the reaction (by heating), and after showing various reaction products, including ones not expected. The AFM is too slow to capture the bond rearrangements.
If I'm not mistaken, they mean meticulously proofred by us in reCAPTCHAs.
When I was proofreading on DP, all rounds of proofreading involved examining the scanned images and comparing it to the OCR text and making corrections. The later rounds of proofreading involved increasing attention to various details of correctness and formatting. All of this was done directly in the DP web interface. I didn't see any mention of the use of captchas in the OCR process.
It is obvious, I think. Mr Lynch will continue to destroy iPhones. He will have a squad of Apple goons, who will invade peoples homes to destroy any iPhone older than two years old, so that people will be forced to buy new iPhones to keep the revenue stream up. They tested this concept out with the iPhone prototype debacles, and found that the local police would be willing to look the other way when Constitutional rights were being violated.
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I could see the intended Morse encoded message as reading
TROLLS SEND INVERTED MESSAGE
if a leading T was dropped.
??? - S E N D - I N V E R T E D - M E S S A G E perhaps?
Work around the stupid don't yell filter.
I always used to think the governor's name was Le Ptomaine, as in the bacterial poison. I found out this weekend that it was in reality Lepetomane, from the French "Le Pétomane" (fart maniac), which means "flatulist", "farteur", or "fartiste" according to the Wikipedia article.
Running a Google search on "infrared contact lens" turns up quite a few videos and sites devoted to "gambling tricks" that shows the backs of the cards are marked with rather large letters, numbers and symbols revealing which card is printed on the obverse side.
Probably not at 202 mph though.
Which they like to point out on Top Gear every once in a while. I'd like to see what the Stig can do with that one around the track.
Or just ban lego.
Nooooo! Think of the children!
Oh yeah, that's what we want. A bunch of paranoid crazies shooting blindly into the air with high powered rifles.
Isn't that the normal state of affairs in many parts of the world? Why should the US be any different?
... Colorado selling thousands of drone hunting permits ...
The small eastern Colorado plains town that is thinking of selling these permits != the entire state of Colorado.
My brothers and I each got a plastic model of the Enterprise for Christmas. Wonder whatever happened to them? The models, not my brothers.
Being young boys of that era (one of which I am also), you may have used the models for BB gun target practice or blew them up with fire crackers while performing your own special effects. Or possibly flew them into a simulated star (camp fire?) and watched them burn up.
Not sure what you are asking about here. Within a state, the state doesn't care if you go somewhere else with a lower municipal sales tax to make a purchase, because the state itself always gets its cut. The one exception I know of is motor vehicles, where you get hit with the tax appropriate to where you live, not where you purchased it, which is enforced because you must interact with the government apparatus to license it. Of course, tax laws being what they are, pretty much everyone is probably guilty of failing to pay some type of tax at some time or another. Businesses make decisions to locate in some states but not others due to inventory or use taxes...
There are quite a few US states that have no sales tax at all, so that explanation doesn't quite work. If I wanted the PS4, I can swing past a store in New Hampshire and pick it up for exactly its $399 price tag, no additional taxes.
Then, of course, being the fine upstanding citizen you are, you dutifully pay the sales tax due in your home state on goods purchased outside the state, so that difference probably evaporates. Oh, wait, no one does that. Never mind...
or we get "Bob worked here between August 2010 and July 2013."..., just getting the latter tends to raise questions.
Unfortunately many places have a policy in place that the period of employment is all they will reveal without a court order. You get no information about the actual employee performance, regardless of what the reality was.
Apparently this was built using a Beowulf cluster of leaf blowers. Your neighbors will be thrilled with you when you jet off at 6 AM. But it sure looks damn cool to fly around in.
The real reason to me to get a kindle over a table for reading is simply the weight difference. The tablets I held would be uncomfortable compared to a 6" kindle which easily weighs the same as or less than a fiction paperback.
Exactly. I recently picked up a Nook HD after B&N slashed the price. It is much heavier than my 2nd gen Kindle. So while the Nook displays color and updates the screen much faster, it is more wearying to hold for extended periods and is harder on my eyes than the Kindle for extended periods of time, and is almost unusable outside in the sun. The upside of the Nook is that I can view PDFs and web pages in a reasonable fashion, where those tasks are just painful on the Kindle.
How is this not any different then IBM's Cell Processor?
Can you actually buy a single Cell processor or even a dev board for one?
If the schools are focused on increasing revenue, something along the way is horribly broken.
When I was in elementary school, we were told ahead of time to make sure we were present for certain days because the attendance on those days was used as a base line for certain funding sources. This is not a new thing.
I have doubts about the success of this venture, considering anecdotally almost every MS store I've seen in my travels was nearly empty. Since they all were located near Apple stores, the stark difference in foot traffic was apparent. The only exception was the MS store near Redmond, which had a decent crowd."
Probably local MS employees being forced to get a hand stamp by a physical visit to that MS store to get their paychecks. Thus MS can point to at least one store with a high foot traffic.
What if the preference (or requirement) for doing this on the passenger side is due to the physical location of some wiring or other device that is susceptible to some kind of electronic signal or noise conduction into other circuitry that ends up causing the unlock?
The article says the pictures are from before the reaction (by heating), and after showing various reaction products, including ones not expected. The AFM is too slow to capture the bond rearrangements.
Doh, here is the link to the PDF itself.
Here is the article at physics.aps.org with a link to the (free) PDF about the experiment.
when I fire up the gas turbine after using the undoubtedly noisy props to do a vertical take off. I'm sure I'd hate the noise too.
If I'm not mistaken, they mean meticulously proofred by us in reCAPTCHAs.
When I was proofreading on DP, all rounds of proofreading involved examining the scanned images and comparing it to the OCR text and making corrections. The later rounds of proofreading involved increasing attention to various details of correctness and formatting. All of this was done directly in the DP web interface. I didn't see any mention of the use of captchas in the OCR process.
It is obvious, I think. Mr Lynch will continue to destroy iPhones. He will have a squad of Apple goons, who will invade peoples homes to destroy any iPhone older than two years old, so that people will be forced to buy new iPhones to keep the revenue stream up. They tested this concept out with the iPhone prototype debacles, and found that the local police would be willing to look the other way when Constitutional rights were being violated.
While it might be a fitting way for Tom to go, I'd hate to be the one to do that blending, talk about gory. Sounds like the chipper scene in Fargo.