all my indicators (save sleep) are on the screen. no extra lights needed. who gives a hoot if you can tell your hard drive is actually spinning at any point in time.
They apparently believe in statistics. I went into a center in Worcester MA in the late 70s to see what they would do. They gave me a not-too-long "Free Personality Test", went and scored it, then came back with the results. They showed me a line graph, with connected points (!) illustrating my score on each of about 9 things. Of course, a first question would be how can you rate 9 distinctly different attributes on one scale? You probably can't, so if you bother to look at the Y axis, you see that it was a Z-scale - or normed values. So it merely shows you where you fall in a group for each of those things, regardless of the actual units. But the really cool trick was that besides being all normed values, the Y-axis was scaled to your results' high and low, not +-3z or full scale. So they circle the lowest point, and tell you they have a course to "fix" that. Only $495 or something like that. Great! I can fix the worst thing in my life for a few hundred bucks! Sounds great! But guess what? In a scaled Y-axis, there's always going to be another "low" that magically appears, and well, shouldn't you just go and fix that one too? Repeat ad nauseum, ad bankruptcy.
Yes, tomatoes in their native setting are perennial as well we day-neutral, so you could accomplish that with a greenhouse and leave the rest of us out of it.
"I'm sure we'll find a way to thrive through this."
Yeah, it's gonna get pretty crowded in Saskatchewan.
Really, the title and claims are too vague to even argue about. make "life" "better"? Which species? How many? Better for otters or better for Rush Limbaugh's ego?
We have a payload in that thing. The email we got made it sound like they have a pretty good chance of getting it. The black paint looks cool, but it also looks like a shadow.
The public aren't stopping because it's called "DRM". They're stopping because they don't like what it does to their user experience. It still will. Geeks are stopping because it's called "DRM" but they're smart enought to know when you call it "PDQ" that they should dislike it just as much.
As with many things in life, it provides an opportunity to quote Lewis Carroll:
"... The name of the song is called 'Haddock's Eyes'." "Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to feel interested. "No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little vexed. "That's what the name is called. The name really is 'The Aged Aged Man'." "Then I ought to have said 'That's what the song is called?'" Alice corrected herself. "No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is called 'Ways and Means': but that's only what it's called, you know!" "Well, what is the song, then?" said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered. "I was coming to that," the Knight said. "The song really is 'A-sitting on a Gate': and the tune's my own invention."
(OK - I usually drag that one out to start a lesson on variables and pointers, but the DRM name change should model itself after this as well...)
The UK Ford Focus gets mileage like a Prius. The US Ford Focus gets mileage like a Taurus. They CAN DO THIS ANYWHERE. They choose not to and claim it's too expensive or impossible.
End users should vote with their feet and wallets, well - so should drivers. But in the face of marketing, the disconnect between consumers and decision makers, the resistance to do things right (airbags, abs, etc.) IP issues (intermittent wipers)... Good luck with that.
... we all watched the piece of what was essentially beer cooler foam blow the daylights out of something structurally engineered to survive launch and reentry.
F=ma. The barriers have no "a", the 40-ton semis do, so they need "m" or else they're "F"d.
You want your "m" by tying to the earth's, give it a go. I never said "nothing". Look at their rendering. As designed, it wouldn't take a hit from a Yugo.
It's likely that concrete is simply cheaper than than engineered metal structures and that's the status quo. You can certainly do the math on the engineering needed to make let the all that wind thru to the windmills *AND* able to stop 40 tons at 70 mph, but since we've never built a car that can withstand a hit from another car at that speed, make sure you do the dollar-math, too.
Married people are not bookends, every couple needs time apart. The divorce rate is hovering around 50%, and that's without the stress of interplanetary travel. The CEV won't cut it. This better be a big ship with a spare couch. Half joking, but the only hi-fi interplanetary voyage approximations we have experience with are 3 guys for 3 days per leg of travel (Apollo), and a physical sim called the ISS, where they can be rescued and calmed down soon and nearby. Oh, and assorted scripted melodramas that pop into our heads when this sort of thing comes up. Speaking of which, on a good day you've got Serenity. On a bad day it'll be more like the Overlook Hotel, without the amusing Big Wheel scenes.
these are reinforced concrete (in the north) or even filled with water (in the south). they are supposed to be massive and resist a car crossing between direction lanes. these won't.
Um, because you'll get to go to Russia? Have you been there? Or you'll get to sample all those great Russian products? I got to shop at the Tzum in Sofia even after the fall - it was the size of Macy's with as much merchandise as a 7-11. And that was just Bulgaria, propserous compared to Russia. Knock yerself out.
Depends on the jurisdiction. Federal law says one party has to know it's happening. 38 states plus DC say the same. 12 states say both parties must know. It's still unclear if federal law trumps state law in this area, there's no clear established precedent.
But most people forget that, just like most teams forget what the actual prize is - by the time the finals roll around, the kids are so pumped to be doing this the actual prize is almost an afterthought.
Returning from our first FIRST regional in NH in 97, my boss asked me how it went. I told him I'd been teaching for 17 years, and this was the first time I had to sit down and put my head between my knees becasue I was about to pass out watching my students do something academic.
In retrospect, it is the single most effective thing I've seen in now 27 years of teaching to get kids to "do their darndest, no holds barred" like we always imagine kids should do in school.
well, schoolblock - so that only registered users can edit from on site. As a teacher I have no problem with them using it - as a staff we agree it can't be their sole source and there has to be some corroboration (not too hard as most articles link to supporting info.)
CA super glues have highly variable quality and composition. Methyl Ethyl Ketone is what we've used to make LEGO devices (including a waldo for our FIRST robotics controller) permanent. It's nasty stuff we don't let the kids use tho. (for instance ABS Weld-On is 60% MEK)
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all my indicators (save sleep) are on the screen.
no extra lights needed.
who gives a hoot if you can tell your hard drive is actually spinning at any point in time.
They apparently believe in statistics. I went into a center in Worcester MA in the late 70s to see what they would do. They gave me a not-too-long "Free Personality Test", went and scored it, then came back with the results. They showed me a line graph, with connected points (!) illustrating my score on each of about 9 things. Of course, a first question would be how can you rate 9 distinctly different attributes on one scale? You probably can't, so if you bother to look at the Y axis, you see that it was a Z-scale - or normed values. So it merely shows you where you fall in a group for each of those things, regardless of the actual units. But the really cool trick was that besides being all normed values, the Y-axis was scaled to your results' high and low, not +-3z or full scale. So they circle the lowest point, and tell you they have a course to "fix" that. Only $495 or something like that. Great! I can fix the worst thing in my life for a few hundred bucks! Sounds great! But guess what? In a scaled Y-axis, there's always going to be another "low" that magically appears, and well, shouldn't you just go and fix that one too? Repeat ad nauseum, ad bankruptcy.
They used a kajillion dollar instrument to find out the side near the sun is hotter than the rest?
Yes, tomatoes in their native setting are perennial as well we day-neutral, so you could accomplish that with a greenhouse and leave the rest of us out of it.
"I'm sure we'll find a way to thrive through this."
Yeah, it's gonna get pretty crowded in Saskatchewan.
Amputees find they save money on socks.
Really, the title and claims are too vague to even argue about. make "life" "better"? Which species? How many? Better for otters or better for Rush Limbaugh's ego?
We have a payload in that thing. The email we got made it sound like they have a pretty good chance of getting it. The black paint looks cool, but it also looks like a shadow.
The public aren't stopping because it's called "DRM". They're stopping because they don't like what it does to their user experience. It still will.
Geeks are stopping because it's called "DRM" but they're smart enought to know when you call it "PDQ" that they should dislike it just as much.
As with many things in life, it provides an opportunity to quote Lewis Carroll:
"... The name of the song is called 'Haddock's Eyes'."
"Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to feel interested.
"No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little vexed. "That's what the name is called. The name really is 'The Aged Aged Man'."
"Then I ought to have said 'That's what the song is called?'" Alice corrected herself.
"No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is called 'Ways and Means': but that's only what it's called, you know!"
"Well, what is the song, then?" said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.
"I was coming to that," the Knight said. "The song really is 'A-sitting on a Gate': and the tune's my own invention."
(OK - I usually drag that one out to start a lesson on variables and pointers, but the DRM name change should model itself after this as well...)
"I'd say it'd be useful for robotic secretaries new on the job"
As they get chased around the desk by their robot bosses? It's pretty much left, left, left, left... etc...
Put people in a room with a 2-ft ceiling, they're going to get damned resourceful, and fast.
The UK Ford Focus gets mileage like a Prius.
The US Ford Focus gets mileage like a Taurus.
They CAN DO THIS ANYWHERE.
They choose not to and claim it's too expensive or impossible.
End users should vote with their feet and wallets, well - so should drivers. But in the face of marketing, the disconnect between consumers and decision makers, the resistance to do things right (airbags, abs, etc.) IP issues (intermittent wipers)... Good luck with that.
This island has a generator, right?
... we all watched the piece of what was essentially beer cooler foam blow the daylights out of something structurally engineered to survive launch and reentry.
F=ma. The barriers have no "a", the 40-ton semis do, so they need "m" or else they're "F"d.
You want your "m" by tying to the earth's, give it a go. I never said "nothing". Look at their rendering. As designed, it wouldn't take a hit from a Yugo.
It's likely that concrete is simply cheaper than than engineered metal structures and that's the status quo. You can certainly do the math on the engineering needed to make let the all that wind thru to the windmills *AND* able to stop 40 tons at 70 mph, but since we've never built a car that can withstand a hit from another car at that speed, make sure you do the dollar-math, too.
"...it looks like Apple is agreeing to do most of what Greenpeace has been demanding..."
"...it looks like Apple is doing some good stuff that Greenpeace is also very vocal about..."
Correlation does not imply causation.
Married people are not bookends, every couple needs time apart.
The divorce rate is hovering around 50%, and that's without the stress of interplanetary travel.
The CEV won't cut it. This better be a big ship with a spare couch.
Half joking, but the only hi-fi interplanetary voyage approximations we have experience with are 3 guys for 3 days per leg of travel (Apollo), and a physical sim called the ISS, where they can be rescued and calmed down soon and nearby.
Oh, and assorted scripted melodramas that pop into our heads when this sort of thing comes up. Speaking of which, on a good day you've got Serenity. On a bad day it'll be more like the Overlook Hotel, without the amusing Big Wheel scenes.
these are reinforced concrete (in the north) or even filled with water (in the south). they are supposed to be massive and resist a car crossing between direction lanes. these won't.
...and their decision to make a "ZunePhone".
Industry analysts just figured out how much lipstick they'd have to put on this pig...
That's just sick and ... what? Oh. Oh! "Learning". Sorry. I read it "Leering".
What does Russia offer Alaska in trade / commerce?
Um, because you'll get to go to Russia? Have you been there? Or you'll get to sample all those great Russian products? I got to shop at the Tzum in Sofia even after the fall - it was the size of Macy's with as much merchandise as a 7-11. And that was just Bulgaria, propserous compared to Russia. Knock yerself out.
Depends on the jurisdiction. Federal law says one party has to know it's happening. 38 states plus DC say the same. 12 states say both parties must know. It's still unclear if federal law trumps state law in this area, there's no clear established precedent.
But most people forget that, just like most teams forget what the actual prize is - by the time the finals roll around, the kids are so pumped to be doing this the actual prize is almost an afterthought.
Returning from our first FIRST regional in NH in 97, my boss asked me how it went. I told him I'd been teaching for 17 years, and this was the first time I had to sit down and put my head between my knees becasue I was about to pass out watching my students do something academic.
In retrospect, it is the single most effective thing I've seen in now 27 years of teaching to get kids to "do their darndest, no holds barred" like we always imagine kids should do in school.
well, schoolblock - so that only registered users can edit from on site. As a teacher I have no problem with them using it - as a staff we agree it can't be their sole source and there has to be some corroboration (not too hard as most articles link to supporting info.)
mod -5 absent-the-day-they-covered-fallacies
CA super glues have highly variable quality and composition.
Methyl Ethyl Ketone is what we've used to make LEGO devices (including a waldo for our FIRST robotics controller) permanent.
It's nasty stuff we don't let the kids use tho. (for instance ABS Weld-On is 60% MEK)