Braking is the enemy of fuel economy. Simply because you're turning all that energy you've stored as momentum into heat instead of using it to move forward.
Also, I've heard that some cars actually use less gas when coasting than when idling at 0. Basically the computer knows you're not going to stall because you're moving forward so it can reduce the amount of fuel it's injecting even further than it can when you're idling when stationary.
That 35% number comes from comScore Media Metrix's December 2004 survey. They include all the Yahoo owned sites (Altavista, AllTheWeb, Overture, etc) in the Yahoo 32%, but they still separate out the sites that are Google powered, but not Google owned (AOL, Excite). If you include those sites Google is providing results for their share is around 48% of queries, which is still a long way from the 85% guess of the GP.
It's also interesting to compare that data to the Nielsen NetRatings data. That data, from March 2005 shows Google (not including AOL and Excite) as having 47% of the searchs, and Yahoo having only 21% (not including Altavista et al). Again Google is far from a monoploy, but it is about twice the size of it's nearest competitor, and stable for the year. That's a significantly different result compared to the comScore data. The point is to be wary with the data from surveys.
Stop thinking of these shows as being set in the real world, and start thinking of them as being set in an alternate universe where that sort of image enhancement is possible. Then you'll enjoy those programs a lot more.
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Oh, you mean these guys? Yeah, they're doing real well.
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Microsoft is competing on all fronts. You can bet your bottom dollar that's the way Bill Gates sees it and that he likes it that way too.
Not likely. Bill Gates likes to dominate markets, not compete in them. The only reason he tolerates competition at all is to keep the regulators happy, and he certainly doesn't want to see competitors that are actually threatening.
Firefox isn't really much more than an annoyance
Really? So why then has MS restarted IE development? Do you think they just wanted to spend money for the sake of it? No. They feel threatened by Firefox, and they should, it's made a noticeable dent in their market share in a short period of time.
I'm not sure I'd say Microsoft are being attacked on all fronts, but they are certainly being attacked in the browser and search engine markets. And they know it. It's no coincidence that new products have been suddenly announced in both these markets after a long hiatus.
And they are certainly right to worry about Google. Has any company ever risen so quickly?
Because the shadow is illuminated by the light from the lightsaber. This is realistic if the lightsaber is dimmer than the other light source. As someone mentioned, you can create the same effect with a candle and a bright light (or a candle outdoors).
We are up to episode 20, and we still don't know what the thing in the jungle is.
Hiding things is an easy way to generate tension and excitement. Though, personally once it becomes "hiding things from the reader/watcher that are apparent to the characters" I find it annoying. I'm thinking of The Da Vinci Code here.
He's not saying they're SF. He's saying that episodic SF and fantasy need to have series-wide story arcs in the way that Buffy etc do. Of course most every episodic series these days does.
Why single out PG-13... _all_ MPAA ratings are jsut advisory notations with no legal basis.
We're not talking about legal basis. PG-13 is advisory within the confines of the ratings system. A theatre who follows the ratings system is obliged to turn too-young customers away from an R rated movie, but not from a PG-13 movie.
I don't think any of the originals would have qualfied even if there was such a rating (which lies between PG and R, for folks outide of the US)
You'd be right. The films have been rated since PG-13 was introduced: for the Special Edition theatre releases and for the DVD releases last year. They remained PG.
None of that is violent enough for a PG-13 rating?
Correct. The original films have be re-rated a couple of times: for the 25 year Special Edition theatre releases, and for the DVD releases. They have always come back with a PG rating. Do a search.
I know Christians who think that evolution is the tool God used to create us. However, most IDers look at it with something like Occam's Razor in mind - why would God introduce that much extra complexity to his creation process? If you presuppose an infinitely powerful being, evolution seems like so much wasted effort.
Which is more effort:
Create a set of physical laws that result in millions of species developing and evolving on their own, or
Design each one of those species seperately?
If IDers think the second option is the one that best satisfies Occam's Razor, then I can only assume they understand Occam's Razor about as well as the understand evolution (ok, cheap shot, but the point remains).
There's definitely room for more Buffy spinoffs. Spike, Faith, there was a lot of talk about a Giles spinoff at one point. But to do a Buffy spinoff as a movie (before it's proven itself on TV) would be extremely risky - even more than Serenity.
You should read more about foreigners in Iraq. They/all/ go speeding around as fast as possible over the iraqi roads. It's SOP: to do anything else would be suicide. Read up on the security contractors, or how the journalists go around (when they do get out of their hotels)...hell, driving around at breakneck speeds is SOP for american soldiers, fer crying out loud!
That's not the point. The point is that it casts doubt on Sgrena's claims. She claimed they were travelling no more than 30mph. Of course we have to consider whether this evidence is reliable, and also whether it is relevant (how close was the car to the checkpoint in the photos? Maybe they slowed down as they neared the checkpoint).
Saying "the communist reporter" is similar to stating "the black assailant."
The problem with this analogy is that the race of the assailant has nothing to do with what they have done, but the political views of a reporter are certainly relevant to their readers in terms of establishing potential sources of bias.
Buffy and Angel are done. Whedon has done all he wanted with Buffy, and with the cancelling of Angel, he wrapped that up too. Going forward, there's really nothing to make a movie about in either of those franchises. They could make a movie set before the end of those series, but that would rule out any significant character development, and prevent them from having any lasting effect on the Buffy/Angel universe.
Firefly, OTOH, was cancelled mid-season, with plenty of unresolved plot lines. The characters haven't had time to develop to anything like the degree that the characters in Buffy and Angel have. Also, it was Whedon's new and fresh project, so naturally it's the one he is most interested in continuing.
I think that's the whole story, basically: the courts said they could have his emails, Yahoo complied, but they've only delivered the "inbox" and not the "sent" folder. Of course the article isn't detailed enough to be sure that I have an accurate idea of the situation, but that's what it sounds like.
No. But neither could the parents insist that any paper letters that the soldier sent to others be given to the them. Aside from the obvious -- the recipient may simply say no or refuse to acknowledge that such a letter even exists, or even claim that it was destroyed -- the parents wouldn't necessarily know that a particular letter was ever sent. Ditto for e-mail, if there is no copy in "Sent" or equivalent.
I agree with that, but they're not asking for copies from recipients. They're asking for the copy the soldier made himself (or at least the copy the system automatically made for him) a.k.a the "sent" folder. It's possible it doesn't exist - maybe the soldier deleted the "sent" folder's contents. But that seems unlikely.
Are you also suggesting that any paper letters the soldier received should be destroyed?
This seems pretty simple to me: the emails, like everything else the soldier owned is part of his estate, which is now owned by his parents. If he didn't want them to inherit his email account, he should have said so, or at least deleted any email he didn't want them to see.
That's a reasonable use for Excel and Access. I never said developing and app in Excel wasn't the answer to some problems, I just debate any claim that those sorts of problems are common.
Well done, you've constructed a scenario that is only solvable with Excel (or one of the other Office components). The question is: how realistic is it? If it's not realistic, all you've done is produced a nice strawman argument. Personally, I can't say I've ever been given 3.5 hours to produce a report system (unless you're talking about something very trivial), and I don't believe I've ever heard anyone suggest such a deadline to be reasonable. A prototype of the final report, maybe. A robust, maintainable system to generate it, no.
In my experience, Excel based applications are fragile and difficult to maintain. I use it as the destination for a report, but not to generate the report. I usually use Perl to pull the data together and to do any necessary manipulation, and then output to Excel via OLE. Perl because it's fast to develop in, though it introduces it's own maintenance headaches if you're not careful. Excel because it's a good format for people to receive tabulated data in. If people need instantly updatable reporting a web based solution might be the way to go.
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Also, I've heard that some cars actually use less gas when coasting than when idling at 0. Basically the computer knows you're not going to stall because you're moving forward so it can reduce the amount of fuel it's injecting even further than it can when you're idling when stationary.
It's also interesting to compare that data to the Nielsen NetRatings data. That data, from March 2005 shows Google (not including AOL and Excite) as having 47% of the searchs, and Yahoo having only 21% (not including Altavista et al). Again Google is far from a monoploy, but it is about twice the size of it's nearest competitor, and stable for the year. That's a significantly different result compared to the comScore data. The point is to be wary with the data from surveys.
Stop thinking of these shows as being set in the real world, and start thinking of them as being set in an alternate universe where that sort of image enhancement is possible. Then you'll enjoy those programs a lot more.
Oh, you mean these guys? Yeah, they're doing real well.
I'm not sure I'd say Microsoft are being attacked on all fronts, but they are certainly being attacked in the browser and search engine markets. And they know it. It's no coincidence that new products have been suddenly announced in both these markets after a long hiatus.
And they are certainly right to worry about Google. Has any company ever risen so quickly?
Because the shadow is illuminated by the light from the lightsaber. This is realistic if the lightsaber is dimmer than the other light source. As someone mentioned, you can create the same effect with a candle and a bright light (or a candle outdoors).
He's not saying they're SF. He's saying that episodic SF and fantasy need to have series-wide story arcs in the way that Buffy etc do. Of course most every episodic series these days does.
- Create a set of physical laws that result in millions of species developing and evolving on their own, or
- Design each one of those species seperately?
If IDers think the second option is the one that best satisfies Occam's Razor, then I can only assume they understand Occam's Razor about as well as the understand evolution (ok, cheap shot, but the point remains).There's definitely room for more Buffy spinoffs. Spike, Faith, there was a lot of talk about a Giles spinoff at one point. But to do a Buffy spinoff as a movie (before it's proven itself on TV) would be extremely risky - even more than Serenity.
Firefly, OTOH, was cancelled mid-season, with plenty of unresolved plot lines. The characters haven't had time to develop to anything like the degree that the characters in Buffy and Angel have. Also, it was Whedon's new and fresh project, so naturally it's the one he is most interested in continuing.
Ah, so there really might not be anything for the parent to have.
I think that's the whole story, basically: the courts said they could have his emails, Yahoo complied, but they've only delivered the "inbox" and not the "sent" folder. Of course the article isn't detailed enough to be sure that I have an accurate idea of the situation, but that's what it sounds like.
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This seems pretty simple to me: the emails, like everything else the soldier owned is part of his estate, which is now owned by his parents. If he didn't want them to inherit his email account, he should have said so, or at least deleted any email he didn't want them to see.
That's a reasonable use for Excel and Access. I never said developing and app in Excel wasn't the answer to some problems, I just debate any claim that those sorts of problems are common.
Ok. I hope they pay you well!
In my experience, Excel based applications are fragile and difficult to maintain. I use it as the destination for a report, but not to generate the report. I usually use Perl to pull the data together and to do any necessary manipulation, and then output to Excel via OLE. Perl because it's fast to develop in, though it introduces it's own maintenance headaches if you're not careful. Excel because it's a good format for people to receive tabulated data in. If people need instantly updatable reporting a web based solution might be the way to go.