I don't know what it is about corn prices, but this year there's a record high crop, record high stock piles, and several credible sources say that the amount going to ethanol isn't enough to cause a problem. Ethanol is just being used as a scapegoat, a distraction from other problems.
One guest of Science Friday has contended that corn ethanol has gotten a bit much of a bad rap. That ethanol production really takes out the part of the corn that cattle can't digest anyway. Most corn in the US isn't suitable for direct human consumption, it's mostly grown as food for cattle. The by-product of ethanol production is still just as good as the original corn for feed, which I've also seen corroborated in the corn exposé documentary "King Corn".
I don't see how POSIX is even introduced as a reason it should work, at least for Windows. I've never heard of it being useful in Windows except for command line software, that it precluded even using a GUI. I recall it was put in to satisfy a checklist for government purchases, only rarely being useful for anything other than that.
And it's not as if the companies are the only source of legal music.
Just because one label has the exclusive rights to Madonna's music doesn't prevent someone else from making their own music in the same style and selling it.
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Maybe, but I don't think so.
The point of a hybrid is two fold, one is that energy wasted during braking is recovered and reused, and the charging is done at an RPM where the engine at its most efficient. It can be a smaller engine with less gas to produce a certain amount of energy.
A plug-in hybrid can use a more efficient power source on the grid. Even if it's from a coal plant, it's still considerably more efficient than an internal combustion engine.
The tools, welding and so on, are really a pittance compared to the amount of energy consumed in a gas engine. Think of it this way, one horsepower is about 3/4ths of a kilowatt. If you're getting 100hp on a car engine, that's 75 kilowatts. And a lot of people drive an hour a day, 20 days a month, 1,500 kWhr of energy produced in a month.
Junk DNA doesn't exist. It's just DNA we don't understand.
As far as I understand it, the term was a complete misnomer. Maybe the people that coined the term used it as specific jargon meaning something, if so, they didn't seem to understand how it might be misleading.
You mean synthetic random access benchmarks? Several of those tests there weren't sequential reads, Windows booting and Photo Gallery are almost likely not simple sequental reads, I really doubt that all the photos are lined up in order to make it a pseudo sequential read much larger than a few photos.
Yes. If you've looked at their redesign that will be implemented soon, you know what I mean. They basically split the functions of the site across 4 or 5 pages instead of just the one, so now you have to click more to see the same amount of content. The whole redesign is made to get more page views of their ads.
And overclocked from 300MHz to 450MHz without blinking, and were actually faster than a PII450 as I recall, due to the cache being overclocked too on the 300A, but not on a real PII.
I really don't understand that, given that the Xeons had full clock caches and weren't much faster, if at any faster, than the Pentium branded version of the same chip. The Pentium version had half-clock caches.
I think it can happen under states of emergency, and a weather disaster qualifies. When there was a huge snowstorm a few years ago, I think it was 10" of snow in a state that barely gets any at all. If you were on the road without a good reason, you were ticketed. Why? Because emergency personnel would have to risk their own lives digging you out. They had enough problems already before having to deal with people that thought they could expect to be dug out of their own mistakes.
The problem here is that the destination markets don't seem to care, they've already been taken in by the FUD. I doubt those foreign markets are going to accept a lecture or correction from the USDA.
Being unwilling to allow exporters a means to comply with the demands of the destination markets, however stupid those demands may be, seems pretty silly to me.
The part I don't understand is that losing those markets means that meat producers lose more due to not testing the product than the cost of testing.
It looks like that the big producers are preventing small ones exploiting markets left wide open due to their own stubbornness. It may well be that they're afraid that people in the US and larger markets would start demanding wider testing. Maybe I should switch to chicken now.
The part I don't understand is that it looks like the markets they lose due to not testing the meant that goes to those markets costs a lot more than the costs of the testing. It looks like that the big producers are preventing small ones exploiting markets left wide open due to their own stubbornness.
Of course, now that the story is propagating all over the Net, pretty soon everyone will know about the alleged security flaws (if not the details), and the CC companies and their legal eagles will look quite villainous
By race, Obama is African-American, or half African-American. Not sharing all of the same cultural heritage doesn't change that. From my experience, racists don't even care about the cultural heritage, all they need to see is the color and racial traits.
In terms of poor social treatment, being mixed race is generally worse than being black.
As I understand it, Obama did grow up poor, it doesn't sound as if he's always been in the elite. He got there by means other than just having been born elite.
I too wish that problems with respect to race would go away, though I'm not finding any specific plan to fix racial problems, just the same lament of same. It's sad that social problems from past generations still echo so strongly today.
And I have not problem with creationism being taught as long as it is taught as science.
Maybe you left out a "not"? Given that it's not testable and can't be falsified, it's not a science anyway, and shouldn't be taught as such, except maybe as part of a footnote on the history of science.
So every bad fact they have can be pointed out.
That's not going to work that way at all in at least the "reddest" states. Many highly conservative communities are going to take it and run as hard as they can. I'm sure most of that kind of community will either conveniently leave out evolution altogether or present it with at least a strong suggestion that it is a falsehood.
I'm typing this on an ASUS eeePC 901. It gets quite a bit better battery life than the comparable MSI Wind, mostly because it uses an SSD drive.
How is that possibly a good comparison? There are many possible variables. The screens are different, the batteries are different, and who knows how many other differences there may be on the board, in the power regulators and what not, even if it might use the same CPU. You need to try both kinds of drives in the same system.
I thought many of those hyped benefits haven't panned out, or are taken out of proportion. Power consumption even on a good drive isn't significantly lot lower, the real-world speed generally isn't there yet, and the noise? I think first you'll need to deal with CPU power consumption. Notebook hard drives consume 1-2 watts of power, standard notebook CPUs go for 30W. Then there's the fan that's needed to cool the CPU. I personally don't need silent, and I am not really bothered by the noise a good computer emits, the noise level is so low that the money is much better spent on sound treatments for the house or quieter appliances.
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The prices of all grains are high.
I don't know what it is about corn prices, but this year there's a record high crop, record high stock piles, and several credible sources say that the amount going to ethanol isn't enough to cause a problem. Ethanol is just being used as a scapegoat, a distraction from other problems.
One guest of Science Friday has contended that corn ethanol has gotten a bit much of a bad rap. That ethanol production really takes out the part of the corn that cattle can't digest anyway. Most corn in the US isn't suitable for direct human consumption, it's mostly grown as food for cattle. The by-product of ethanol production is still just as good as the original corn for feed, which I've also seen corroborated in the corn exposé documentary "King Corn".
I found the story: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93636627
I haven't found anything that shows he's connected with the corn lobbies, though it's still possible.
And only 11 inches across
That's under bright lights. They said it was a lot larger with the lights turned down, but they didn't say how big of a picture it was.
It's a step. Projectors for decent home theater are priced pretty nicely now. I think a good 720p projector can be had for about $1000 these days.
I think you overestimate the intelligence of the typical consumer and their willingness to take responsibility for their actions.
I don't see how POSIX is even introduced as a reason it should work, at least for Windows. I've never heard of it being useful in Windows except for command line software, that it precluded even using a GUI. I recall it was put in to satisfy a checklist for government purchases, only rarely being useful for anything other than that.
Monopolies are not illegal.
Certain abuses of monopoly are illegal.
And it's not as if the companies are the only source of legal music.
Just because one label has the exclusive rights to Madonna's music doesn't prevent someone else from making their own music in the same style and selling it.
Maybe, but I don't think so.
The point of a hybrid is two fold, one is that energy wasted during braking is recovered and reused, and the charging is done at an RPM where the engine at its most efficient. It can be a smaller engine with less gas to produce a certain amount of energy.
A plug-in hybrid can use a more efficient power source on the grid. Even if it's from a coal plant, it's still considerably more efficient than an internal combustion engine.
The tools, welding and so on, are really a pittance compared to the amount of energy consumed in a gas engine. Think of it this way, one horsepower is about 3/4ths of a kilowatt. If you're getting 100hp on a car engine, that's 75 kilowatts. And a lot of people drive an hour a day, 20 days a month, 1,500 kWhr of energy produced in a month.
Why just five years? The average life of a car is around 9 years now.
http://www.autospies.com/news/Can-You-Guess-the-Average-Life-Of-Vehicle-12646/
I thought they usually ran longer than that, but there it is.
Junk DNA doesn't exist. It's just DNA we don't understand.
As far as I understand it, the term was a complete misnomer. Maybe the people that coined the term used it as specific jargon meaning something, if so, they didn't seem to understand how it might be misleading.
You mean synthetic random access benchmarks? Several of those tests there weren't sequential reads, Windows booting and Photo Gallery are almost likely not simple sequental reads, I really doubt that all the photos are lined up in order to make it a pseudo sequential read much larger than a few photos.
If it uses the British spelling, it must be good!
Yes. If you've looked at their redesign that will be implemented soon, you know what I mean. They basically split the functions of the site across 4 or 5 pages instead of just the one, so now you have to click more to see the same amount of content. The whole redesign is made to get more page views of their ads.
Does any advertiser pay by pageviews anymore?
And overclocked from 300MHz to 450MHz without blinking, and were actually faster than a PII450 as I recall, due to the cache being overclocked too on the 300A, but not on a real PII.
I really don't understand that, given that the Xeons had full clock caches and weren't much faster, if at any faster, than the Pentium branded version of the same chip. The Pentium version had half-clock caches.
I thought there was work using gravitational lensing to show that there is a halo around many galaxies, and a few galaxies showed no such halo.
I think it can happen under states of emergency, and a weather disaster qualifies. When there was a huge snowstorm a few years ago, I think it was 10" of snow in a state that barely gets any at all. If you were on the road without a good reason, you were ticketed. Why? Because emergency personnel would have to risk their own lives digging you out. They had enough problems already before having to deal with people that thought they could expect to be dug out of their own mistakes.
Sorry, I meant to say:
When do lawyers NOT look villainous?
I missed that paragraph.
The problem here is that the destination markets don't seem to care, they've already been taken in by the FUD. I doubt those foreign markets are going to accept a lecture or correction from the USDA.
Being unwilling to allow exporters a means to comply with the demands of the destination markets, however stupid those demands may be, seems pretty silly to me.
Sorry, here is a redo, that was badly worded.
The part I don't understand is that losing those markets means that meat producers lose more due to not testing the product than the cost of testing.
It looks like that the big producers are preventing small ones exploiting markets left wide open due to their own stubbornness. It may well be that they're afraid that people in the US and larger markets would start demanding wider testing. Maybe I should switch to chicken now.
The part I don't understand is that it looks like the markets they lose due to not testing the meant that goes to those markets costs a lot more than the costs of the testing. It looks like that the big producers are preventing small ones exploiting markets left wide open due to their own stubbornness.
Of course, now that the story is propagating all over the Net, pretty soon everyone will know about the alleged security flaws (if not the details), and the CC companies and their legal eagles will look quite villainous
When to lawyers NOT look villainous?
By race, Obama is African-American, or half African-American. Not sharing all of the same cultural heritage doesn't change that. From my experience, racists don't even care about the cultural heritage, all they need to see is the color and racial traits.
In terms of poor social treatment, being mixed race is generally worse than being black.
As I understand it, Obama did grow up poor, it doesn't sound as if he's always been in the elite. He got there by means other than just having been born elite.
I too wish that problems with respect to race would go away, though I'm not finding any specific plan to fix racial problems, just the same lament of same. It's sad that social problems from past generations still echo so strongly today.
And I have not problem with creationism being taught as long as it is taught as science.
Maybe you left out a "not"? Given that it's not testable and can't be falsified, it's not a science anyway, and shouldn't be taught as such, except maybe as part of a footnote on the history of science.
So every bad fact they have can be pointed out.
That's not going to work that way at all in at least the "reddest" states. Many highly conservative communities are going to take it and run as hard as they can. I'm sure most of that kind of community will either conveniently leave out evolution altogether or present it with at least a strong suggestion that it is a falsehood.
I'm typing this on an ASUS eeePC 901. It gets quite a bit better battery life than the comparable MSI Wind, mostly because it uses an SSD drive.
How is that possibly a good comparison? There are many possible variables. The screens are different, the batteries are different, and who knows how many other differences there may be on the board, in the power regulators and what not, even if it might use the same CPU. You need to try both kinds of drives in the same system.
I thought many of those hyped benefits haven't panned out, or are taken out of proportion. Power consumption even on a good drive isn't significantly lot lower, the real-world speed generally isn't there yet, and the noise? I think first you'll need to deal with CPU power consumption. Notebook hard drives consume 1-2 watts of power, standard notebook CPUs go for 30W. Then there's the fan that's needed to cool the CPU. I personally don't need silent, and I am not really bothered by the noise a good computer emits, the noise level is so low that the money is much better spent on sound treatments for the house or quieter appliances.