But that will begin a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machine, escalating into a war that will decimate a million worlds and exhausting the resources of a galaxy in the struggle for domination...
The Nook Color/Nook Tablet also run Android, and I believe it's closed source although I haven't checked to be sure.
Do you have a source saying the Fire is more popular (assuming you mean largest volume of sales) compared to the Nook Color or other Android tablets? Considering how much longer the Color has been on the market, I would have assumed it'd be more popular even though it hasn't been as hyped as much as the Fire.
No vaccination is perfect, but if the general population is vaccinated, that helps protect those whom the vaccination doesn't work for by limiting their contact with the contagious.
Burden the office? Where I come from, we call that repeat business. As long as they don't burden the hospitals where some patients urgently need care, let them burden the family practitioners all they want. Of course, most of these morons would end up bogging down the hospital once they get too sick for the family doctor's office.
I just re-read Virgin Mobile's announcement. After the 2.5GB mark, you're limited to 256kbps (not 350), but from the sound of it, that's still a better deal than other carriers are offering. Here's a few key points copied from their announcement:
How will it work? Starting March 23, 2012, if you use over 2.5GB of data in a month on your Beyond Talk Plan:
Data speeds may be reduced to 256Kbps or below for the rest of your month. During this time,
you may experience slower page loads and file downloads and lags in streaming media.
If data speeds are reduced, they will return to normal as soon as your next plan month starts.
If you'd rather not wait for your new month to start, you can restart your plan immediately through
My Account
How will I know if my data speeds have been reduced? If you reach 2.5GB of data in a month, you will receive a text message letting you know your data speeds will be reduced for the rest of your plan month.
Virgin Mobile (my provider) recently announced your speed will be throttled to 350kbps once you've downloaded 2.5GB for that billing month. Once the end of the month comes, or if you pay your next bill early, the cap is lifted. I still consider this to be "Unlimited" because I associate the word with how much you're allowed to download - that is, there's no extra charge for going over the "cap". I like Virgin Mobile, although their coverage could be better - but none of the carriers have good coverage in New York.
Sure, you can argue there's technically a cap because you can only download X gigabytes over the course of Y hours when limited to Z speeds, but this is the case on any sort of infrastructure, including roads and pipelines.
Speaking as a citizen of the Empire State, Schumer is a moron. Has always been a moron. The only thing that makes him look like less of a moron is having people like Clinton and Gillibrand as the other senator from NY. One more reason I think NYC should be politically separated from the rest of the state.
Is it possible to request someone of the opposite gender? I'm a guy and I'm a lot more comfortable with the idea of a woman doing the pat down - even if she's old and/or ugly for the much the same reason I prefer female doctors.
The downside of that, other than no other mode of transportation being able to compete with air travel in terms of speed, is that it could shut down the airlines altogether. I haven't been on a flight since the scanners were installed, but once you're past security, I found the entire experience fairly enjoyable, if a little dull. By shifting the hardship to just the TSA rather than the entire airline industry, we can hopefully force the TSA to back off without giving up the conveniences of air travel.
A young adult scifi book I read long ago took advantage of the fact bees can see into the UV spectrum as a plot device to navigate through a forcefield that was invisible to humans, but was "bee purple". Here's a little more information on bees:
"Honey bees and people do not see eye to eye. Humans see the colors of the rainbow; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet (otherwise known as ROY-G-BIV). Although honey bees have a fairly broad color range, they do not see red and can only differentiate between six major categories of color, including yellow, blue-green, blue, violet, and ultraviolet. They also see a color known as "bee's purple," a mixture of yellow and ultraviolet. Differentiation is not equally good throughout the range and is best in the blue-green, violet and bee's purple colors."
Having hearing aids can be much the same, only its possible (but usually very inconvenient) to take them out. Since starting at a medical facility, I've had several instances of my hearing aids picking up incredibly high pitched noise to the point where I had to leave the building. No one else even noticed there was a noise, much less one that powerful.
I'm saying that science in general leads to conveniences like that. Some modern conveniences that were developed from space tech are scratch resistant lenses, athletic shoes, CAT/MRI scans, cordless drills, etc
Train the welfare people to be astronauts, combine the budgets, cut out administrative overhead and build a permanent Mars colony all in one. Except it would be populated by folks who just want to live on welfare because working is hard (the ones who should be on welfare likely wouldn't be able to make the journey, leaving just the ones who are on welfare and should not be).
Thus why it's just limited to one per person at first... later batches will have a much higher maximum, if any. For now it's more about getting it to as many different people as possible.
This is just the first batch, it's expected to sell out very fast. They've done what they can to get as many people one (IE: limit one per customer until supply catches up with demand) but Slashdot alone likely has 10,000 readers that plan to buy one, never mind the rest of the world.
On the bright side, if there's any glaring flaws, they'll likely be caught in the first batch and corrected in time for the next batch.
I bet when NASA engineers play beer pong, each cup is moving at a different speed with a different path. And you have to aim from the next city over looking through a spyglass.
Light-years are too large for this case and the only thing we really have between light-years and miles are AU, which most people don't really get. Granted, they don't understand exactly what a lightyear is either (especially the "I haven't been there in lightyears" crowd), but its even harder to understand what an AU is.
I think the main reason they use miles is people can relate to it. "Grandma's house is 12 miles away. California is 3,000 miles away. Hey, it takes a while to drive to California, I know because I've done it! A billion miles must be reaaallly big". It's a lot harder for Common Joe to relate to AU or lightyears, nevermind trying to explain that 1 billion miles is a little over 5,368 lightseconds.
They could easily double their funding if they told the US military there may be a way to weaponize the Higgs. Or at least they could call it a black hole gun. It might be hard to find a ship large enough to mobilize it.
Slashdot Mirror
But that will begin a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machine, escalating into a war that will decimate a million worlds and exhausting the resources of a galaxy in the struggle for domination...
The Nook Color/Nook Tablet also run Android, and I believe it's closed source although I haven't checked to be sure.
Do you have a source saying the Fire is more popular (assuming you mean largest volume of sales) compared to the Nook Color or other Android tablets? Considering how much longer the Color has been on the market, I would have assumed it'd be more popular even though it hasn't been as hyped as much as the Fire.
No vaccination is perfect, but if the general population is vaccinated, that helps protect those whom the vaccination doesn't work for by limiting their contact with the contagious.
Burden the office? Where I come from, we call that repeat business. As long as they don't burden the hospitals where some patients urgently need care, let them burden the family practitioners all they want. Of course, most of these morons would end up bogging down the hospital once they get too sick for the family doctor's office.
I just re-read Virgin Mobile's announcement. After the 2.5GB mark, you're limited to 256kbps (not 350), but from the sound of it, that's still a better deal than other carriers are offering. Here's a few key points copied from their announcement:
How will it work?
Starting March 23, 2012, if you use over 2.5GB of data in a month on your Beyond Talk Plan:
Data speeds may be reduced to 256Kbps or below for the rest of your month. During this time,
you may experience slower page loads and file downloads and lags in streaming media.
If data speeds are reduced, they will return to normal as soon as your next plan month starts.
If you'd rather not wait for your new month to start, you can restart your plan immediately through
My Account
How will I know if my data speeds have been reduced?
If you reach 2.5GB of data in a month, you will receive a text message letting you know your data speeds
will be reduced for the rest of your plan month.
Virgin Mobile (my provider) recently announced your speed will be throttled to 350kbps once you've downloaded 2.5GB for that billing month. Once the end of the month comes, or if you pay your next bill early, the cap is lifted. I still consider this to be "Unlimited" because I associate the word with how much you're allowed to download - that is, there's no extra charge for going over the "cap". I like Virgin Mobile, although their coverage could be better - but none of the carriers have good coverage in New York.
Sure, you can argue there's technically a cap because you can only download X gigabytes over the course of Y hours when limited to Z speeds, but this is the case on any sort of infrastructure, including roads and pipelines.
There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the heavens with tribes of humans...
You didn't know that Jesus posts as Anonymous Coward?
Speaking as a citizen of the Empire State, Schumer is a moron. Has always been a moron. The only thing that makes him look like less of a moron is having people like Clinton and Gillibrand as the other senator from NY. One more reason I think NYC should be politically separated from the rest of the state.
Is it possible to request someone of the opposite gender? I'm a guy and I'm a lot more comfortable with the idea of a woman doing the pat down - even if she's old and/or ugly for the much the same reason I prefer female doctors.
The downside of that, other than no other mode of transportation being able to compete with air travel in terms of speed, is that it could shut down the airlines altogether. I haven't been on a flight since the scanners were installed, but once you're past security, I found the entire experience fairly enjoyable, if a little dull. By shifting the hardship to just the TSA rather than the entire airline industry, we can hopefully force the TSA to back off without giving up the conveniences of air travel.
A young adult scifi book I read long ago took advantage of the fact bees can see into the UV spectrum as a plot device to navigate through a forcefield that was invisible to humans, but was "bee purple". Here's a little more information on bees:
"Honey bees and people do not see eye to eye. Humans see the colors of the rainbow; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet (otherwise known as ROY-G-BIV). Although honey bees have a fairly broad color range, they do not see red and can only differentiate between six major categories of color, including yellow, blue-green, blue, violet, and ultraviolet. They also see a color known as "bee's purple," a mixture of yellow and ultraviolet. Differentiation is not equally good throughout the range and is best in the blue-green, violet and bee's purple colors."
Source: http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/insects/ahb/inf6.html
Having hearing aids can be much the same, only its possible (but usually very inconvenient) to take them out. Since starting at a medical facility, I've had several instances of my hearing aids picking up incredibly high pitched noise to the point where I had to leave the building. No one else even noticed there was a noise, much less one that powerful.
I prefer the situation where everybody is watching the government with missiles locked on those in command. Just in case.
I'm saying that science in general leads to conveniences like that. Some modern conveniences that were developed from space tech are scratch resistant lenses, athletic shoes, CAT/MRI scans, cordless drills, etc
Nope. I was in primary school then. However, I know people that have lived off the system for 20 years and continue to do so.
It's ok. The TSA agents will be divying those up and taking them home later.
They'll stop ignoring it once it turns into the next must-have appliance, like a refrigerator or microwave oven.
Train the welfare people to be astronauts, combine the budgets, cut out administrative overhead and build a permanent Mars colony all in one. Except it would be populated by folks who just want to live on welfare because working is hard (the ones who should be on welfare likely wouldn't be able to make the journey, leaving just the ones who are on welfare and should not be).
Thus why it's just limited to one per person at first... later batches will have a much higher maximum, if any. For now it's more about getting it to as many different people as possible.
This is just the first batch, it's expected to sell out very fast. They've done what they can to get as many people one (IE: limit one per customer until supply catches up with demand) but Slashdot alone likely has 10,000 readers that plan to buy one, never mind the rest of the world.
On the bright side, if there's any glaring flaws, they'll likely be caught in the first batch and corrected in time for the next batch.
You've got a point.
I bet when NASA engineers play beer pong, each cup is moving at a different speed with a different path. And you have to aim from the next city over looking through a spyglass.
Do retro rockets count? Surely they're DMV approved.
Light-years are too large for this case and the only thing we really have between light-years and miles are AU, which most people don't really get. Granted, they don't understand exactly what a lightyear is either (especially the "I haven't been there in lightyears" crowd), but its even harder to understand what an AU is.
I think the main reason they use miles is people can relate to it. "Grandma's house is 12 miles away. California is 3,000 miles away. Hey, it takes a while to drive to California, I know because I've done it! A billion miles must be reaaallly big". It's a lot harder for Common Joe to relate to AU or lightyears, nevermind trying to explain that 1 billion miles is a little over 5,368 lightseconds.
They could easily double their funding if they told the US military there may be a way to weaponize the Higgs. Or at least they could call it a black hole gun. It might be hard to find a ship large enough to mobilize it.