And real touch typists don't look at the keys. The letter keys, no. But it takes a good while with a new laptop to learn where things like PgUp/Dn, delete, insert, home, end, the F-keys, and the Fn key live. Keyboard lights or backlit keyboards are nice. Of course, the ability to turn them off is important, too.
The world isn't divided between corporate users and gamers. Scientists and academics value a capable, durable, no-nonsense machine like the Thinkpad series, and often need a fair bit of graphical horsepower for visualizations.
So, the Sterling engine runs on the temperature gradient between the chip and the ambient environment. It uses this energy to...do what...increase the gradient some more? By pulling in cooler air from outside the case I guess?
Seems like it would work best when it's needed least, and vice-versa.
the equation Bank Julius Baer = Money Laundering is now firmly cemented in the minds of everyone who has encountered this story, regardless of whether it's true.
If it is true, and if they can continue to get away with it, then that's some great advertising.
That's per gallon of crude, not per pound. Crude weighs about 6.6 pounds per gallon, so we're really talking about a 3.2:1 increase in "stuff". I'm not a chemist, but since the oxygen is coming from the air, and not the oil, that might be reasonable.
But aside from that, your first ratio is dealing in mass, and your second is volume, so you can't really compare them that way.
I have a set of headphones with a tiny cloth storage bag...I had the same trouble, but eventually I figured out that not wrapping them at all, but rather stuffing the cables into the bag, solved it.
A more accurate number is about 900 micro SD cards to the pound, so 1,800,000 to the ton. Multiply that by 4 gigs, and you have about a shitload (or "un chingo" in the metric system).
In order to get your $35, not only do you have to say, under penalty of perjury, that you bought the game, but that you also would NOT have bought it if you knew there was third party unlockable content of this sort... Well, the first one is so trivial to confirm that probably everyone who got the money was already vetted.
The second is so impossible to disprove that it would be total waste of money trying.
Man, I'm tired of all these complicated new password schemes...my bank uses "security code", a "password", and an image, plus they ask you personal questions that half of us don't even have a definite answer to, such as, "what was your favorite candy as a child" or "what's your favorite vacation spot?" Even if I do remember the answer, I have to remember whether I capitalized, and exactly how I typed it. What a pain in the ass. I get locked out of my bank all the time.
God dammit, just let me pick a nice strong password. I can remember passwords.
But as the precision of the scale goes up, the top score becomes more and more like an endorsement of "perfection".
Rating on a percentage (or equivalently, a 10-point scale with one decimal place) is really only good for wanking around at the top of the scale, making sure that X game has a higher rating than Y, which is better than Z (totally independent of the kegs, gadgets, or bags of money, right?). That's what gets tossed out with, for example, a five-star system. Is it really important to me whether this or that excellent game is some tiny fraction better than another? No! That's going to depend on the reviewer, anyway, and is not useful information.
You didn't even need to RTFA to see the alternative; it's right there in the summary. A simpler four- or five-star rating system, like what's used for movies, restaurants, hotels, etc.
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The world isn't divided between corporate users and gamers. Scientists and academics value a capable, durable, no-nonsense machine like the Thinkpad series, and often need a fair bit of graphical horsepower for visualizations.
The source of coolness is the air outside the case, circulated in by the fan?
So, the Sterling engine runs on the temperature gradient between the chip and the ambient environment. It uses this energy to...do what...increase the gradient some more? By pulling in cooler air from outside the case I guess?
Seems like it would work best when it's needed least, and vice-versa.
Which laptop is that? IMO 12" is a really sweet size for a laptop (I love my Dell XPS m1210), but I feel cramped at 1280x800.
I was trying to load this thing all day yesterday, but it was too busy. And today it's on Slashdot...dammit!
Outdoor hospitals, I presume.
If it is true, and if they can continue to get away with it, then that's some great advertising.
They might debug the name, too. "Breathalyzers" detect alcohol, not breath. A "deathalyzer" sounds like it would be used for autopsies.
That's per gallon of crude, not per pound. Crude weighs about 6.6 pounds per gallon, so we're really talking about a 3.2:1 increase in "stuff". I'm not a chemist, but since the oxygen is coming from the air, and not the oil, that might be reasonable.
But aside from that, your first ratio is dealing in mass, and your second is volume, so you can't really compare them that way.
Who says they're simulating *us*? Maybe we're some unrecognized emergent property of the simulation of some problem that's of interest to "them".
I have a set of headphones with a tiny cloth storage bag...I had the same trouble, but eventually I figured out that not wrapping them at all, but rather stuffing the cables into the bag, solved it.
Yeah, but even assuming the tires were tough and grippy enough for that kind of deceleration, what kind of road could withstand it?
Or does the new KITT have retrorockets?
Seconded. Far and away the most detailed game I've ever played. And it's free.
A more accurate number is about 900 micro SD cards to the pound, so 1,800,000 to the ton. Multiply that by 4 gigs, and you have about a shitload (or "un chingo" in the metric system).
10667 cards / 2000 pounds = 5.33 micro SD cards to the pound?
Mine are significantly lighter--I don't know what brand you're using.
The second is so impossible to disprove that it would be total waste of money trying.
Man, I'm tired of all these complicated new password schemes...my bank uses "security code", a "password", and an image, plus they ask you personal questions that half of us don't even have a definite answer to, such as, "what was your favorite candy as a child" or "what's your favorite vacation spot?" Even if I do remember the answer, I have to remember whether I capitalized, and exactly how I typed it. What a pain in the ass. I get locked out of my bank all the time.
God dammit, just let me pick a nice strong password. I can remember passwords.
I wasn't familiar with the "50/50 draw", and I interpreted it as a description of a hypothetical situation, rather than the name of a real one.
My bad!
For this problem, you think about your chances of not winning:
One ticket: chance of not winning = 1/2
Two tickets: chance of not winning = (1/2)^2 = 1/4
N tickets: chance of not winning = (1/2)^N
So, even with 100 tickets, you still have a (1/2)^100, or about a one in a thousand billion billion billion, chance to still not win.
But as the precision of the scale goes up, the top score becomes more and more like an endorsement of "perfection".
Rating on a percentage (or equivalently, a 10-point scale with one decimal place) is really only good for wanking around at the top of the scale, making sure that X game has a higher rating than Y, which is better than Z (totally independent of the kegs, gadgets, or bags of money, right?). That's what gets tossed out with, for example, a five-star system. Is it really important to me whether this or that excellent game is some tiny fraction better than another? No! That's going to depend on the reviewer, anyway, and is not useful information.
You didn't even need to RTFA to see the alternative; it's right there in the summary. A simpler four- or five-star rating system, like what's used for movies, restaurants, hotels, etc.
Bingo.