The bulk of the value in travel insurance is in the medical cover and repatriation in case of emergency. Luggage loss is mostly covered by the airlines on international flights anyway. If it's domestic flights you're talking about, then yeah, travel insurance is pointless.
I thought so too, but then I looked up the lyrics for the title track, and thought it could just as easily be the song "The Downward Spiral" rather than the album which is being referenced.
Why would people in India, exposed everyday to all manner of unhealthy microorganisms, have a weaker immune system than your average anti-bacterial soap using, immunised against everything possible, Americans?
So, you would want to have cables that were some integer (or half-integer?) multiple of your wavelength to take care of harmonics, right?
No, you want to avoid those integer (or half) multiples of your wavelength to avoid setting up standing waves due to reflections in the cable. So go and trim a couple of picometers off those cables you just built and you'll be good to go.
The key thing for me seems to be no vocals. Depending on the type of work that needs doing, it might be fast paced techno or chilled out dub. Some classical is OK, but the dynamics can sometimes be distracting - the repetitiveness of dance music helps keep it in the background where it basically serves to block out background noise and set the thinking pace - slow for creative work, fast for putting preformed ideas down in code.
When hotels put a nice staircase in the lobby, it's generally only up to the mezzanine bar. Try finding the stairwell up to the rooms - coming down you can look for the fire exit signs, but in the lobby they're generally well hidden.
Perhaps you should look for something that states the official ROC government's position rather than a fringe pro-independence group within Taiwan. Or look at the official positions of the governments of the world ("what they say" rather than "what they do") - all recognize either PRC or ROC, never both, even if in practical terms every country treats Taiwan as if it were an independent nation.
Microsoft have made it virtually impossible for developers to continue supporting older versions of Windows. About a year ago they went through MSDN and changed all the useful "supported since...." statements, into "Supported since Windows 2000", and removed information about Windows 9x derivatives completely.
Microsoft didn't actually leave anything out of the APIs for their version of Java, they just made sure that their implementation of AWT sucked even more than Sun's and provided their own proprietary UI API which they promoted heavily. When Sun introduced Swing, a UI framework that sucked a bit less, in Java 2, MS stuck with Java 1.1 and promoting their own framework. If Microsoft had played along, Windows users at least might have had a version of Swing that didn't suck back in Java 1.3 days instead of having to wait for Sun to improve things in Java 1.6.
The real motive is to shut Google News down, so their competitors can't get an advantage over them if Google is right and they are wrong about the effect of Google's aggregation on page hits and advertising revenue.
The fluorescent tubes in your laundry use magnetic ballasts that work at mains frequency (60Hz, or 50Hz depending on where you live). CFl bulbs use an electronic ballast that works up in the kHz range, so you don't see any flicker.
In the midst of all this are several different sets of copyright, trade, and taxation laws. Lifting the digital restriction on music sales doesn't magically open up a channel for the artist to be paid. Until Apple has an address to mail the cheque to, they'd be pocketing the full $1.29.
If Apple Canada have the address to send the cheque to, then there is a channel right there. I don't blame Apple for this, I blame the record labels and their incestuous exclusive distribution arrangements.
One good thing that might come out of all these witchhunt laws that the media industry mafiaa is purchasing, is that to be enforcable, everyone needs to be using static IP addresses. Roll on exhaustion of IPv4 address space and the rollout at last of IPv6 to the consumer (without tunnelling).
However, I would guess it will still be a good money maker for the airlines.
It wasn't last time around, and with those setup costs, I don't see how it will be any different this time around. The only way wifi in planes is going to become widespread is if the cost of fitting displaces some other cost (like the cost of wiring for the entertainment systems). This might happen eventually, but for now, wifi does not have enough bandwidth to supplant the mass of wires that goes into your seat back.
When I was working in Paris I found that almost everyone spoke English until the tourists arrived, and then nobody did.
In my experiences visiting Paris, I've found that struggling with a few words of French usually gets a smile and the transaction proceeds smoothly in English, while tourists using the "increase the volume" method of making themselves understood in English get treated very coldly - I've seen an American couple sold overpriced train tickets to Versailles on a train that doesn't leave for an hour and a half, while I came up behind them and was sold tickets at a third of the price on a train leaving in 5 minutes - I don't know if they ended up in Versailles or halfway to Lyon, but they definitely didn't get tickets on the next train to Versailles like they asked for. In the rest of France you need fewer words of French, unless you strike someone who genuinely doesn't speak English.
A major differentiator between European countries where English is widely fluently spoken as a second language (Scandanavia, Netherlands...) and countries where English levels are lower (France, Italy, Spain) is whether they dub or subtitle foreign TV content.
"It wasn't until the late 1990s that Windows NT, OS/2 and the Mac OS were able to multitask as well -- and they required vast hardware resources to do it."
...which is absolutely correct.
OS/2 was pretty much dead by the late 90's. It had full multitasking in the early 90's, and Windows NT in about 1994. - for a while it was known for running Windows better than Windows because of this, until win32s started taking off leaving programs incompatible with OS/2's 16-bit DOS VMs.
The lower level simulation is certainly more accurate, and takes all the nuances into consideration, but in the end what does it buy you compared to the higher level simulation?
In a digital circuit, not much, since its outputs are binary and you don't really care about the noise in between that you've omitted from the model. But are neurons binary? Can they really be simplified to a binary model without losing significant information?
You forgot to mention that the salesman is paying for lunch after we finish the 18th hole, have you ever seen open source that does that?. -- the Management team
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The bulk of the value in travel insurance is in the medical cover and repatriation in case of emergency. Luggage loss is mostly covered by the airlines on international flights anyway. If it's domestic flights you're talking about, then yeah, travel insurance is pointless.
I thought so too, but then I looked up the lyrics for the title track, and thought it could just as easily be the song "The Downward Spiral" rather than the album which is being referenced.
Why would people in India, exposed everyday to all manner of unhealthy microorganisms, have a weaker immune system than your average anti-bacterial soap using, immunised against everything possible, Americans?
No, you want to avoid those integer (or half) multiples of your wavelength to avoid setting up standing waves due to reflections in the cable. So go and trim a couple of picometers off those cables you just built and you'll be good to go.
I live in the tropics, where it is never cold. Yet we have a flu season - the rainy season when everyone stays indoors together.
The key thing for me seems to be no vocals. Depending on the type of work that needs doing, it might be fast paced techno or chilled out dub. Some classical is OK, but the dynamics can sometimes be distracting - the repetitiveness of dance music helps keep it in the background where it basically serves to block out background noise and set the thinking pace - slow for creative work, fast for putting preformed ideas down in code.
When hotels put a nice staircase in the lobby, it's generally only up to the mezzanine bar. Try finding the stairwell up to the rooms - coming down you can look for the fire exit signs, but in the lobby they're generally well hidden.
Perhaps you should look for something that states the official ROC government's position rather than a fringe pro-independence group within Taiwan. Or look at the official positions of the governments of the world ("what they say" rather than "what they do") - all recognize either PRC or ROC, never both, even if in practical terms every country treats Taiwan as if it were an independent nation.
Taiwan is an island in China. I don't think you'll find any disagreement about that.
Microsoft have made it virtually impossible for developers to continue supporting older versions of Windows. About a year ago they went through MSDN and changed all the useful "supported since ...." statements, into "Supported since Windows 2000", and removed information about Windows 9x derivatives completely.
Microsoft didn't actually leave anything out of the APIs for their version of Java, they just made sure that their implementation of AWT sucked even more than Sun's and provided their own proprietary UI API which they promoted heavily. When Sun introduced Swing, a UI framework that sucked a bit less, in Java 2, MS stuck with Java 1.1 and promoting their own framework. If Microsoft had played along, Windows users at least might have had a version of Swing that didn't suck back in Java 1.3 days instead of having to wait for Sun to improve things in Java 1.6.
If it is just for a temporary cache, wouldn't RAM give you a bigger speed up than Flash?
The real motive is to shut Google News down, so their competitors can't get an advantage over them if Google is right and they are wrong about the effect of Google's aggregation on page hits and advertising revenue.
The fluorescent tubes in your laundry use magnetic ballasts that work at mains frequency (60Hz, or 50Hz depending on where you live). CFl bulbs use an electronic ballast that works up in the kHz range, so you don't see any flicker.
If Apple Canada have the address to send the cheque to, then there is a channel right there. I don't blame Apple for this, I blame the record labels and their incestuous exclusive distribution arrangements.
One good thing that might come out of all these witchhunt laws that the media industry mafiaa is purchasing, is that to be enforcable, everyone needs to be using static IP addresses. Roll on exhaustion of IPv4 address space and the rollout at last of IPv6 to the consumer (without tunnelling).
It wasn't last time around, and with those setup costs, I don't see how it will be any different this time around. The only way wifi in planes is going to become widespread is if the cost of fitting displaces some other cost (like the cost of wiring for the entertainment systems). This might happen eventually, but for now, wifi does not have enough bandwidth to supplant the mass of wires that goes into your seat back.
In my experiences visiting Paris, I've found that struggling with a few words of French usually gets a smile and the transaction proceeds smoothly in English, while tourists using the "increase the volume" method of making themselves understood in English get treated very coldly - I've seen an American couple sold overpriced train tickets to Versailles on a train that doesn't leave for an hour and a half, while I came up behind them and was sold tickets at a third of the price on a train leaving in 5 minutes - I don't know if they ended up in Versailles or halfway to Lyon, but they definitely didn't get tickets on the next train to Versailles like they asked for. In the rest of France you need fewer words of French, unless you strike someone who genuinely doesn't speak English.
A major differentiator between European countries where English is widely fluently spoken as a second language (Scandanavia, Netherlands...) and countries where English levels are lower (France, Italy, Spain) is whether they dub or subtitle foreign TV content.
Some of us prefer Emacs, you insensitive clod!
OS/2 was pretty much dead by the late 90's. It had full multitasking in the early 90's, and Windows NT in about 1994. - for a while it was known for running Windows better than Windows because of this, until win32s started taking off leaving programs incompatible with OS/2's 16-bit DOS VMs.
Just put a twist in them to make a infinitely long Möbius tape.
In a digital circuit, not much, since its outputs are binary and you don't really care about the noise in between that you've omitted from the model. But are neurons binary? Can they really be simplified to a binary model without losing significant information?
You forgot to mention that the salesman is paying for lunch after we finish the 18th hole, have you ever seen open source that does that?. -- the Management team