I grew up in an earthquake prone zone. The threshold for rattling plates is at least 4.0, maybe even 4.5. Real damage doesn't really occur until 6.0, maybe 5.5 in areas where houses aren't built for it. And the Richter scale is logarithmic - 3.4 really is inconsequential, most people wouldn't even feel it.
The money paid for the assets will go towards paying creditors, though creditors are usually ranked so that a lender with a fixed security (e.g. bank loan) get paid first, then it's the employees, and down it goes. The order is broadly as fair as possible in the circumstances (not to say that it's satisfactory to anybody who doesn't get their money, but the money simply isn't there to do so).
Secured creditors are third - after the Government and the accountants and lawyers who handle the winding up.
It depends on the policies of the registrar for those top level domains. Some countries allow free for all registration of domain names, others restrict registration to local companies and citizens only. Also many country tlds require specific sub-domains such as.com.co, which reduce the usefulness of those domains for typo-squatters.
That was my first thought (from Malaysia, I can't even get access to free apps on the Android Marketplace - which I consider downright EVIL of Google), but Australia is listed as one of the few countries where paid apps are available.
Except "life" means about 14 years with time off for good behaviour. If you keep committing crimes because you think you've got nothing to lose, you'll end up with life with a minimum of 30 years stipulated, or something along those lines.
The poison in Fugu (the only poisonous species that is eaten in Japan) is localised and easily removed by the specially trained chefs who are licensed to prepare it. Escolar has its oil spread throughout the flesh, so for people who are sensitive to it, it is unavoidable.
In many Western countries, the health authorities specify that fish served raw must be frozen first to kill certain types of parasite, so what you get in the middle of the country probably doesn't differ much from what you get on the coast. If you go to Japan, they rely on the chefs being trained to recognize and remove the parasites, so you get much better tasting fish and much higher chance of contracting food poisoning due to an untrained chef.
a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official testified before Congress that the agency had worked on the operating system. 'Microsoft has not and will not put "backdoors" into Windows'
I am sure he is being honest in his statement that Microsoft has not put backdoors in, but he has avoided answering the question of whether the NSA has put backdoors in Windows 7.
Mass produced vinyl back in the 1980's was pretty rubbish, but the vinyl pressing plants still operating today are producing for a specialist market - DJs and audiophiles, so they use thicker vinyl with deeper grooves that can easily handle the low end bass of the most demanding dance music.
NZ was a British Colony only between 1840 and 1907 (from 1853 it was a self-governing colony).
I don't think the Queen would approve of splitting atoms in London
Victoria died while Rutherford was still in the early stages of developing his theories about transmutation of elements at McGill University, but apparently the King didn't really care what might happen to Manchester either.
Personally I think you've got the WHAT and HOW around the wrong way. The code itself perfectly documents the HOW, but the bigger picture of WHAT the code is actually doing in the scheme of things is not always obvious.
The standard platform for phones is the.NET Compact Framework. What is the Micro Framework intended for anyway? My guess is that this is Microsoft abandoning a product that has no market, and trying to look good in the process.
Alcohol, for all its ills, is very easy to use and very easy to dose correctly.
This is mainly due to the fact that it is commercially available and regulated. If you were buying your alcohol in unmarked bottles from a guy on a street corner in an unsavoury neighbourhood, and could never be sure whether you were getting pure meths, urine or hopefully something in between, then you might have a few more problems with correct dosing.
It's hard because in most cases you want strings to be efficient in terms of both memory and performance, so it is best if they are fixed size - easiest if they are immutable. So you have a separate class (StringBuilder in C#, StringBuffer in C++) which is a mutable string with all the inefficiencies of having to reallocate its storage as the string grows, and an efficient conversion into an immutable String object for when you've finished building it and want it to be efficient in terms of storage size and operations carried out on it.
Sirius and XM affect only US consumers, so the EU has no interest in getting involved. In the case of Sun and Oracle, you are talking about two large US based companies that already dwarf most European competitors in their own market (if there are any left that Oracle doesn't own yet), so there is incentive for the EU to make sure that the new even larger company is not going to disadvantage European companies. It isn't the EU's concern if Sun cannot survive if keeping it alive by merging with Oracle is going to result in half a dozen European companies going out of business.
it would read a 20 then a 1 and then give you $21 in change.
Sounds like an urban myth to me. Would it add 20 and 20 from the corners of a normal $20 bill and give you $40 change?
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Freevo is similarly stagnated, they've been working towards 2.0 for years. VDR handles the backend, but is lacking a nice 10-ft frontend. Moovida looks promising but is currently lacking a TV recording backend (combined with VDR, it may be the ideal solution).
I'm currently using Freevo, but starting to become frustrated at the broken plugins and limitations in its input (can't assign events to Ctrl key sequences which are generated by some of the Windows Media Centre oriented media keys on my wireless keyboard). The fact that MythTV requires MySQL and Qt and apparently is even more difficult to set up than Freevo (hard to believe) has kept me from considering a switch to MythTV seriously, though it does seem to have more of a following than any of the other contenders.
something which requires a separate amp, speakers and PC in each room and requires a keyboard to control is right out.
If installing an amp and speakers in each room is out of the question, then perhaps the best solution is a hardware mod to your existing amp so the volume goes to 11. That way you'll be able to hear it all over your house, and as a bonus, you can extend it to your neighbours' houses at no additional cost.
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I grew up in an earthquake prone zone. The threshold for rattling plates is at least 4.0, maybe even 4.5. Real damage doesn't really occur until 6.0, maybe 5.5 in areas where houses aren't built for it. And the Richter scale is logarithmic - 3.4 really is inconsequential, most people wouldn't even feel it.
Secured creditors are third - after the Government and the accountants and lawyers who handle the winding up.
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It depends on the policies of the registrar for those top level domains. Some countries allow free for all registration of domain names, others restrict registration to local companies and citizens only. Also many country tlds require specific sub-domains such as .com.co, which reduce the usefulness of those domains for typo-squatters.
Which is why you use a Javascript Debugger. Even if you're developing some IE specific abomination, Microsoft has the tools you need.
That was my first thought (from Malaysia, I can't even get access to free apps on the Android Marketplace - which I consider downright EVIL of Google), but Australia is listed as one of the few countries where paid apps are available.
"American copyrights" is an obscure religion in China.
Except "life" means about 14 years with time off for good behaviour. If you keep committing crimes because you think you've got nothing to lose, you'll end up with life with a minimum of 30 years stipulated, or something along those lines.
But the original patent examiner who rejected the application had. See Houston and Hill, referenced in the rejection letter.
The poison in Fugu (the only poisonous species that is eaten in Japan) is localised and easily removed by the specially trained chefs who are licensed to prepare it. Escolar has its oil spread throughout the flesh, so for people who are sensitive to it, it is unavoidable.
In many Western countries, the health authorities specify that fish served raw must be frozen first to kill certain types of parasite, so what you get in the middle of the country probably doesn't differ much from what you get on the coast. If you go to Japan, they rely on the chefs being trained to recognize and remove the parasites, so you get much better tasting fish and much higher chance of contracting food poisoning due to an untrained chef.
I am sure he is being honest in his statement that Microsoft has not put backdoors in, but he has avoided answering the question of whether the NSA has put backdoors in Windows 7.
Mass produced vinyl back in the 1980's was pretty rubbish, but the vinyl pressing plants still operating today are producing for a specialist market - DJs and audiophiles, so they use thicker vinyl with deeper grooves that can easily handle the low end bass of the most demanding dance music.
It's a basic law of commerce, the bits are richer because you are poorer.
A quick look at a 19th century map of the world might show otherwise.
NZ was a British Colony only between 1840 and 1907 (from 1853 it was a self-governing colony).
Victoria died while Rutherford was still in the early stages of developing his theories about transmutation of elements at McGill University, but apparently the King didn't really care what might happen to Manchester either.
Personally I think you've got the WHAT and HOW around the wrong way. The code itself perfectly documents the HOW, but the bigger picture of WHAT the code is actually doing in the scheme of things is not always obvious.
The standard platform for phones is the .NET Compact Framework. What is the Micro Framework intended for anyway? My guess is that this is Microsoft abandoning a product that has no market, and trying to look good in the process.
This is mainly due to the fact that it is commercially available and regulated. If you were buying your alcohol in unmarked bottles from a guy on a street corner in an unsavoury neighbourhood, and could never be sure whether you were getting pure meths, urine or hopefully something in between, then you might have a few more problems with correct dosing.
Doh! I meant Java
It's hard because in most cases you want strings to be efficient in terms of both memory and performance, so it is best if they are fixed size - easiest if they are immutable. So you have a separate class (StringBuilder in C#, StringBuffer in C++) which is a mutable string with all the inefficiencies of having to reallocate its storage as the string grows, and an efficient conversion into an immutable String object for when you've finished building it and want it to be efficient in terms of storage size and operations carried out on it.
Sirius and XM affect only US consumers, so the EU has no interest in getting involved. In the case of Sun and Oracle, you are talking about two large US based companies that already dwarf most European competitors in their own market (if there are any left that Oracle doesn't own yet), so there is incentive for the EU to make sure that the new even larger company is not going to disadvantage European companies. It isn't the EU's concern if Sun cannot survive if keeping it alive by merging with Oracle is going to result in half a dozen European companies going out of business.
Sounds like an urban myth to me. Would it add 20 and 20 from the corners of a normal $20 bill and give you $40 change?
Freevo is similarly stagnated, they've been working towards 2.0 for years. VDR handles the backend, but is lacking a nice 10-ft frontend. Moovida looks promising but is currently lacking a TV recording backend (combined with VDR, it may be the ideal solution).
I'm currently using Freevo, but starting to become frustrated at the broken plugins and limitations in its input (can't assign events to Ctrl key sequences which are generated by some of the Windows Media Centre oriented media keys on my wireless keyboard). The fact that MythTV requires MySQL and Qt and apparently is even more difficult to set up than Freevo (hard to believe) has kept me from considering a switch to MythTV seriously, though it does seem to have more of a following than any of the other contenders.
If installing an amp and speakers in each room is out of the question, then perhaps the best solution is a hardware mod to your existing amp so the volume goes to 11. That way you'll be able to hear it all over your house, and as a bonus, you can extend it to your neighbours' houses at no additional cost.