We claim to be one of the most scientifically advanced countries in the world, but we can't adopt a useful standard that the _rest_ of the scientific community uses.
The American scientific community does use metric, regardless of whether or not the layperson measures things in inches or centimeters (or centimetres!).
Sure, the government could AGAIN throw many at trying to get Joe and Jane American to measure their fuel economy in kilometers per liter, but the effect on the scientific community would be practically negligible.
Those LA bank robbers WEREN'T SUPPOSED to have soft body armor in the first place. If they managed to get contraband armor, bet your ass they'd be capable of getting some of that new metal-piercing ammunition.
How do you bring down a criminal when they're firing rounds at you that can stop an armored tank?
"The big sacrifice is leaving MIT," he says. "I am prepared to make that sacrifice."
I hope he does. Perhaps he'll understand the drawbacks of the Free Software model a little better when he can't rely on Academia to finance his software development and basic living expenses for him anymore...
Perhaps not quite as limited as the FCC would have you believe.
In Europe, FM radio frequencies are assigned 0.05Hz apart, so there might be a station at 99.10, 99.15, 99.20, etc... here in North America, the spacing is a full 0.2Hz apart. From 99.1, the next station is at 99.3. Why is this?
70 cents goes to the record label, but of that, 50 cents goes to executive salaries, and three cents goes to the artists, leaving only 17 cents profit! That's not even twice the profit of Apple, the entity actually doing all the work of running the service!
You'll find 60 or 70 year old records that sound and play just fine.
The moral of the story? Store all your important data on vinyl! Reading the data is easy if you hook up your phonograph to the cassette port of your Commodore PET!
At ~600bps data transfer rate and ~25 minutes per LP side, it only requires 5,000 discs per gigabyte!
I'd agree with this. Nintendo has PWNED the portable gaming industry for the past 25 years, from the early Game & Watches through the original GameBoy to GB Color, GB Pocket, GB Advance, GB Advance SP. It'll take drastic changes in the industry for that momentum to be disturbed.
I don't see a portable PlayStation being such a change.
I don't think scales that are used in warehouses to weigh entire pallets of product are going to be precise enough to discern the difference between a 12-ounce can of Coke and a 13-ounce can with a phone contained inside it -- especially when each can's fluid contents may have a few mililiters' variance as it is.
I have heard from my friends in the automotive industry (take that vague description FWIW) that the trend is for all vehicles, not just hybrid and electric vehicles, to move towards drive-by-wire systems over the next ten years or so. So any rescue problems that a Prius will have, so could any other motor vehicle. This isn't going to stop me from buying a Prius or Civic Hybrid next time I'm in the market for a car.
Yet another wonderful idea from the Sales Prevention Team at Sony!
The same team that brought us SACD, Memory Stick, Minidisc, and Betamax! They're just like DVD-A, CompactFlash, CD-RW and VHS, except not quite as good and only 1% of the devices on the market support them!
Why are you comparing incremental updates to OS X against major versions of Windows? Apple hasn't released a MAJOR OS upgrade since the original OS X -- if they had, it would have been version 11, not 10.1, 10.2, etc.
And which ONE version of XP are you referring to? There are at least five distinct flavors: Home, Professional, Server, Media Center, Tablet PC Edition...
Blocking port 445 from inbound traffic secures the computer against this worm.
Does anyone know if the built-in NT Personal Firewall blocks this port, or does it secretly leave it open "for my convenience"?
Re:Cone of Silence? More like cone of annoyance.
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Seriously, marketers will be in heaven, able to target ads at passerbys.
Targeting specific people in a crowd doesn't make any sense advertising-wise or cost-wise, especially if it costs more than broadcasting a message to the entire crowd.
If marketers had any interest whatsoever in this type of advertising, there would be bullhorns in public places already constantly exhorting everyone to Drink Coke or Join The Army or whatever. As it stands, only political candidates and ice cream trucks are willing to do this.
Gates only makes around $180,000 per hour in interest
Or he would, if the entirety of his $40Billion in assets were liquid. In reality, most of his worth is tied up in (M$ and other) stock, which he can't touch without paradoxically causing it to lose value.
[That fine is] the equivalent of almost two hundred bucks for someone making $100K a year.
And if someone making $100K a year got a $200 parking ticket, do you think they'd start being more careful about where they park, or would they write it off as "the cost of parking" and keep parking in front of the hospital?
Also, the patent office needs to be held accountable as well. Maybe they could fire the examiner that issued the patent.
Yes, this would be a great way to reduce the patent examination backlog -- by giving patent examiners increased personal liability, there's bound to be an influx of intelligent people eager to work for the patent office!
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Square root of two? Big deal. ALl of MY paper has an aspect ratio of square root of NEGATIVE ONE!
Saves a lot of toner that way.
504 gallons to go 1 mile!
Yep, sounds like a True American car to me.
We claim to be one of the most scientifically advanced countries in the world, but we can't adopt a useful standard that the _rest_ of the scientific community uses.
The American scientific community does use metric, regardless of whether or not the layperson measures things in inches or centimeters (or centimetres!).
Sure, the government could AGAIN throw many at trying to get Joe and Jane American to measure their fuel economy in kilometers per liter, but the effect on the scientific community would be practically negligible.
Look at the negatives of the whole argument, too.
Those LA bank robbers WEREN'T SUPPOSED to have soft body armor in the first place. If they managed to get contraband armor, bet your ass they'd be capable of getting some of that new metal-piercing ammunition.
How do you bring down a criminal when they're firing rounds at you that can stop an armored tank?
Just because we are (inevitably) steeped in Christian culture
Speak for yourself, asshole.
Like another poster said, you should be able to determine /something/ from the timestamps on the files.
Yeah, you can determine the parameter used by the last person to run touch on that file. Not altogether helpful, that.
"The big sacrifice is leaving MIT," he says. "I am prepared to make that sacrifice."
I hope he does. Perhaps he'll understand the drawbacks of the Free Software model a little better when he can't rely on Academia to finance his software development and basic living expenses for him anymore...
Analog FM bandwidth is a very limited resource.
Perhaps not quite as limited as the FCC would have you believe.
In Europe, FM radio frequencies are assigned 0.05Hz apart, so there might be a station at 99.10, 99.15, 99.20, etc... here in North America, the spacing is a full 0.2Hz apart. From 99.1, the next station is at 99.3. Why is this?
they're making a $0.70 profit on each song sold
No, they're not.
70 cents goes to the record label, but of that, 50 cents goes to executive salaries, and three cents goes to the artists, leaving only 17 cents profit! That's not even twice the profit of Apple, the entity actually doing all the work of running the service!
(disclaimer: these numbers are entirely made up.)
People should not be investigated for suspicion of being somebody who might commit a crime.
Conspiring to commit a crime IS a crime.
You'll find 60 or 70 year old records that sound and play just fine.
The moral of the story? Store all your important data on vinyl! Reading the data is easy if you hook up your phonograph to the cassette port of your Commodore PET!
At ~600bps data transfer rate and ~25 minutes per LP side, it only requires 5,000 discs per gigabyte!
If history is any indicator, Nintendo.
I'd agree with this. Nintendo has PWNED the portable gaming industry for the past 25 years, from the early Game & Watches through the original GameBoy to GB Color, GB Pocket, GB Advance, GB Advance SP. It'll take drastic changes in the industry for that momentum to be disturbed.
I don't see a portable PlayStation being such a change.
I don't think scales that are used in warehouses to weigh entire pallets of product are going to be precise enough to discern the difference between a 12-ounce can of Coke and a 13-ounce can with a phone contained inside it -- especially when each can's fluid contents may have a few mililiters' variance as it is.
I know of several who refused to by The Two Towers since they knew they'd release the box set later.
And I know of several MILLION who bought it anyway.
I have heard from my friends in the automotive industry (take that vague description FWIW) that the trend is for all vehicles, not just hybrid and electric vehicles, to move towards drive-by-wire systems over the next ten years or so. So any rescue problems that a Prius will have, so could any other motor vehicle. This isn't going to stop me from buying a Prius or Civic Hybrid next time I'm in the market for a car.
Yet another wonderful idea from the Sales Prevention Team at Sony!
The same team that brought us SACD, Memory Stick, Minidisc, and Betamax! They're just like DVD-A, CompactFlash, CD-RW and VHS, except not quite as good and only 1% of the devices on the market support them!
Why are you comparing incremental updates to OS X against major versions of Windows? Apple hasn't released a MAJOR OS upgrade since the original OS X -- if they had, it would have been version 11, not 10.1, 10.2, etc.
And which ONE version of XP are you referring to? There are at least five distinct flavors: Home, Professional, Server, Media Center, Tablet PC Edition...
Blocking port 445 from inbound traffic secures the computer against this worm.
Does anyone know if the built-in NT Personal Firewall blocks this port, or does it secretly leave it open "for my convenience"?
Seriously, marketers will be in heaven, able to target ads at passerbys.
Targeting specific people in a crowd doesn't make any sense advertising-wise or cost-wise, especially if it costs more than broadcasting a message to the entire crowd.
If marketers had any interest whatsoever in this type of advertising, there would be bullhorns in public places already constantly exhorting everyone to Drink Coke or Join The Army or whatever. As it stands, only political candidates and ice cream trucks are willing to do this.
the article mentions that you have to stay on the page for ~60 seconds.
How is this measured? HTTP is stateless.
And, finally, it's "CPM", not "CPC".
Only in Marketing could you find people clueless enough to abbreviate "cost per thousand" as "CPM"...
Gates only makes around $180,000 per hour in interest
Or he would, if the entirety of his $40Billion in assets were liquid. In reality, most of his worth is tied up in (M$ and other) stock, which he can't touch without paradoxically causing it to lose value.
[That fine is] the equivalent of almost two hundred bucks for someone making $100K a year.
And if someone making $100K a year got a $200 parking ticket, do you think they'd start being more careful about where they park, or would they write it off as "the cost of parking" and keep parking in front of the hospital?
No, the moral of the story is that if I'm pirating media online, I should use YOUR access point. What's your MAC address again?
Got a great idea that you want to patent but don't have $2000 to file a patent application? This is what venture capitalists are for.
If you can't get a VC to give you $2K for it, your invention probably isn't worth patenting.
Also, the patent office needs to be held accountable as well. Maybe they could fire the examiner that issued the patent.
Yes, this would be a great way to reduce the patent examination backlog -- by giving patent examiners increased personal liability, there's bound to be an influx of intelligent people eager to work for the patent office!
I'M BEING SARCASTIC.