I deposited a check recently. The next day, I was surveyed on my banking experience. They wanted to know how helpful the teller was at selling financial products not related to check depositing; whether she smiled, and so on. Each grade less than a 10 was followed up on-- as if her job depended on my unwillingness to cakk her stellar. It's like ebay--anything less than a five star rating results in financial penalties.
Cite this, cite that. It's almost as if slashdotters expect me to maintain thousands of dollars in journal subscriptions just to back up my trolls, flames,jokes and asides.
Blacker blacks, better veiwing angles, more vibrant colors, better coverage of the standard color gamuts?
Also, a high resolution monitor does allow the user to spread out his work. If you're' programming, it's helpful to have enough space for editors/debuggers/IDEs/shells and a couple of web pages/pdfs/dvis for documentation.
More specifically Arrhenius
"On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air Upon the Temperature of the Ground", Philosophical Magazine 1896(41): 237-76 Tyndall "Contributions to Molecular Physics in the Domain of Radiant Heat." 1872
You can buy a barrel,no questions asked. Trying to buy a lower receiver involves background checks, permits, waiting periods and so forth. If you can make your own lower receivers, the state's power to intrude on your life is somewhat diminished.
This paper, in addition to three of the papers posted online in October 2011, have been revised based on input received through the peer review process. A fifth paper has been provisionally accepted for publication,
Provisional acceptance is a post peer review stage associated with getting the paper properly typeset,choosing which graphics to print in color, signing copyright transfer fees and other minutia that don't bear on the scientific value of the work.
Well, from what I remember, I was taught a bit of integration, a bit of differentiation, and so. It would have made more sense had I known Calculus at the time. Apparently, this is in the grand tradition of physicists not caring about general cases
And then, disillusioned, the engineer turns his thoughts to other things.
When Bernard Haykel asked the engineers and scientists among the numerous fundamentalist Islamists he interviewed what it was about Salafi thought that appealed to them, they pointed to its intellectually clean, unambiguous and all- encompassing nature (personal communication, September 2007).
it comes with 2 gb by default? That's insane. I suppose it's cheaper to get the 2 gb version, and buy your 8 gb from someone who charges 66% less than apple.
From what I understand, an amplifier reduces loss at the cable. So, if you can somehow get a clear signal, but only by putting your antenna a hundred metres from your TV, the amplifier will boost the signal so it's not degraded further by running down 100 metres of cable. If your antenna doesn't have the right sort of elements, or it's pointed in the wrong direction,or it's simply too small to receive the signal, the amplifier won't do much.
Poorly made amplifiers also add a certain amount of noise.
There are also distribution amplifiers, but those are made so that several TVs can share the same antenna.
(To put in pseudo numerical terms, let us suppose that your TV's tuner requires a signal strength of "5" to display a clear, signal free of green blocks. The antenna you have will, if it's placed way up in your attic, resolve the signal sufficiently well enough to generate a signal strength of "6". But, the extreme length of the cable reduces it to a "4". By putting a preamp right up near the antenna, the signal will be boosted to "7", which will be attenuated to "5" by the time it reaches your TV, which will be good enough for a clear stable signal.).
They tried "tweaked DVD". It was called HD-DVD, and there was even a scheme to distribute it on DVD-9s.
The problem is that a lot of films were recorded on grainy film, which is difficult to compress. Sure, you can remove the grain, and then compress it more tightly but if the grain removal is too harsh, you can end up with a wax museum.
My eyetv recordings are about 6 GB/hour for just the mpeg2 component. I'm recording them OTA. These are HD. (My local PBS station, because it insists on multicasting, only devotes 4.5 GB per hour to its main subchannel. These rarely look HD.)
A larger and heavier aircraft must displace more air and create more lift to sustain flight, compared with small, light aircraft. Therefore, they will create sonic booms stronger and louder than those of smaller, lighter aircraft. The larger and heavier the aircraft, the stronger the shock waves will be.
The Air Force has restrictions in place such that sonic booms be produced over water at altitudes above 30,000 feet whenever possible. When impossible, aircraft may only fly at supersonic speeds in specially designated areas as dictated by the Headquarters of the United States Air Force, Washington, D.C., and the FAA.
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Some stats on the iphone sales since 2007 Draw your own conclusions
I deposited a check recently. The next day, I was surveyed on my banking experience. They wanted to know how helpful the teller was at selling financial products not related to check depositing; whether she smiled, and so on. Each grade less than a 10 was followed up on-- as if her job depended on my unwillingness to cakk her stellar.
It's like ebay--anything less than a five star rating results in financial penalties.
Using that standard, 54% is a flunking grade.
And yet, some people are comforted by such nonsense
but if you think it is
Whoosh!
I'm pretty sure that Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia (2011) from the National Academy of Sciences, contains all the gory details on the time to equilibrium. It's on a much larger timescale than you think.
Cite this, cite that. It's almost as if slashdotters expect me to maintain thousands of dollars in journal subscriptions just to back up my trolls, flames ,jokes and asides.
Define stopped.
I'll use it in a sentence.
Global warming stopped in 1998
(The warmest Junes were in 2012, over the land; in 2010, over both land and sea; and in 1998, over the oceans.)
Fourth warmest June since records began Unless things were dramatically different in July, I think it's safe to assume that global warming has "stopped".
Blacker blacks, better veiwing angles, more vibrant colors, better coverage of the standard color gamuts?
Also, a high resolution monitor does allow the user to spread out his work. If you're' programming, it's helpful to have enough space for editors/debuggers/IDEs/shells and a couple of web pages/pdfs/dvis for documentation.
More specifically
Arrhenius
"On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air Upon the Temperature of the Ground", Philosophical Magazine 1896(41): 237-76
Tyndall
"Contributions to Molecular Physics in the Domain of Radiant Heat." 1872
That's not true in any meaningful sense.
You can buy a barrel,no questions asked. Trying to buy a lower receiver involves background checks, permits, waiting periods and so forth. If you can make your own lower receivers, the state's power to intrude on your life is somewhat diminished.
Game theory helps.
What are you talking about? Here are Muller's papers
Provisional acceptance is a post peer review stage associated with getting the paper properly typeset,choosing which graphics to print in color, signing copyright transfer fees and other minutia that don't bear on the scientific value of the work.
Given that Nukes are the only peacekeeping weapons the world has ever known I fail to see how proliferation is a serious problem. A nuclear armed global society is a poilte global society.
It's akin to geometry without proof-- arbitary and incomplete.
Well, from what I remember, I was taught a bit of integration, a bit of differentiation, and so. It would have made more sense had I known Calculus at the time. Apparently, this is in the grand tradition of physicists not caring about general cases
And then, disillusioned, the engineer turns his thoughts to other things.
Shouldn't Physics be based on Calculus?
it comes with 2 gb by default? That's insane. I suppose it's cheaper to get the 2 gb version, and buy your 8 gb from someone who charges 66% less than apple.
From what I understand, an amplifier reduces loss at the cable. So, if you can somehow get a clear signal, but only by putting your antenna a hundred metres from your TV, the amplifier will boost the signal so it's not degraded further by running down 100 metres of cable. If your antenna doesn't have the right sort of elements, or it's pointed in the wrong direction,or it's simply too small to receive the signal, the amplifier won't do much.
Poorly made amplifiers also add a certain amount of noise.
There are also distribution amplifiers, but those are made so that several TVs can share the same antenna.
(To put in pseudo numerical terms, let us suppose that your TV's tuner requires a signal strength of "5" to display a clear, signal free of green blocks. The antenna you have will, if it's placed way up in your attic, resolve the signal sufficiently well enough to generate a signal strength of "6". But, the extreme length of the cable reduces it to a "4". By putting a preamp right up near the antenna, the signal will be boosted to "7", which will be attenuated to "5" by the time it reaches your TV, which will be good enough for a clear stable signal.).
They tried "tweaked DVD". It was called HD-DVD, and there was even a scheme to distribute it on DVD-9s.
The problem is that a lot of films were recorded on grainy film, which is difficult to compress. Sure, you can remove the grain, and then compress it more tightly but if the grain removal is too harsh, you can end up with a wax museum.
My eyetv recordings are about 6 GB/hour for just the mpeg2 component. I'm recording them OTA. These are HD. (My local PBS station, because it insists on multicasting, only devotes 4.5 GB per hour to its main subchannel. These rarely look HD.)
You need some sleep. Ignore the jackhammer.
Indeed. It's better to engineer your way around a problem than it is to simply ignore it.
In America, sonic booms were silenced by public complaint. In Soviet Russia, public complaints were silenced by sonic booms.
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