There's often a whoosh sound with wind farms, but it's not exactly unpleasant... however I don't live near one so maybe that's not totally fair. They look nice on the cornish landscape though.
Recently there have been proposals to build big offshore ones, and there have been complaints that those will be ugly too! You can't win.
Oh I agree that there's a problem, I just misunderstood your post to be one of those in support of the status quo.
Reserve plants are certainly an issue, on the other hand initial reserves can often be hydro plants (pumped head plants that is, so effectively big water batteries). Even if you need coal or similar to back it up (and you probably do at the moment at least) then surely an infrequently running backup plant is better than a permanently running primary plant?
Funny, I actually think wind farms are quite attractive. A bit noisy when you're very close up, bu t not as bad as seeing an ugly power station all the time.
Looking at the definition of affiliate they can claim that because they're not. They do clearly have an interest in spf though, which is a slightly different point.
No, what you feel is the force of whatever it is trying to hold you in. There is no force out, it's a force in acting against the direction of travel. When you feel a "centrifugal force" what you feel is the pull in your arms, or the pressure of your seat against you inwards.
And of course the other problem is that randomly branched code often has short code segments between branches and less compile time instruction scheduling, so less use of the 6 ins/cycle static pipeline in the i2. Whether that balances out against the long opteron pipeline and all the pipeline flushes is a different question though.
The i2 also detects branch prediction misses fairly efficiently, so that helps.
That's only true at face value. Let's look at it differently.
US: all evil people with guns, check. Good guys who might use their guns too easily, check.
UK: Some, still very limited numbers of criminals with guns, almost entirely hardened criminals (by that I mean that in a standard mugging you won't get them threatening you with a gun, it's not worth the risk to possess one). Good guys without guns, great! Who needs them. Not like they're self defence weapons anyway.
Not middlesborough, but in Kingston certainly I wouldn't say it feels safe at night. On the other hand knowing that people effectively have to get close to do any damage, a gun isn't necessary.
On the other hand I like the feeling that people are unlikely to be carrying guns around me. If I lived in the US I'd have a gun, as I live in the UK I can't. Which state would I prefer? Somewhere where I need to carry a gun to feel slightly safer, or somewhere where I don't feel that need?
Are we talking market share or raw numbers? Because I'd bet that Microsoft has a lot more customers, buying a lot more per customer.
In the UK I'd have to argue that the BBC *probably* has both more customers, and a higher average purchase per customer. Firstly effectively almost everyone in the UK is a BBC customer (though not all pay, many are children etc etc, but the same applies there to MS). Most MS products are low cost OEM versions, large numbers of people don't pay for MS products anyway... average price per paying customer for the BBC is around 120/year ($200 US as mentioned above).
Have to agree about IE though... non geeks are moving to Firefox in droves around here.
Also on installing a new windows system most people I know can't be bothered with all the reboots necessary to install the updates. If you could get it to just download the lot in one go it wouldn't be so bad, but having to keep going to update is a pain.
Unless I've missed some magic workaround there that someone would be nice enough to inform me of:)
but it's a 3g phone, it's a later version of the cdma standard with more bandwidth per voice call, so that's irrelevent isn't it really.
3g voice quality is certainly good though, honestly I've never found old style tdma gsm to be noticably bad for plain voice (in the UK that is, can't comment on elsewhere).
I'm getting increasingly irritated at the number of complaints that noone watches BBC digital, so apparently that's a good reason to ditch it. Even though when you look at the financing, it costs the BBC next to nothing to run - maybe the fact that it has no good programmes (ie none that they pay a lot for, because there are few viewers) is one reason nonoe watches it?
So much so I watched the simpsons yesterday via Sky rather than the BBC, and noticed that not only did they have ads seconds into the programme, but they appeared to have skipped the title sequence and replaced it with those ads.
1 and 2 are all very well, but the post was about an interplanetary standard, so this is of little consequence, surely?
4) Pardon? I fail to see a major lack of symmetry in, say, a 10 hour day. You'd have halfs at the sides, granted, but I don't see that people wouldn't get used to that? 5) Not quite clear what you mean by this.
7) Hmm, not sure it's a stupid idea in principle, but as soon as you think about it properly it's fairly stupid, and choice would be completely arbitrary, just as much as UTC, and you'd still need local times on planets anyway to relate to the light and dark hours.
I can see that it's an allegory. If that was FULLY intentional, though I'm still not 100% sure it was, concepts taken, certainly, a fully intentional allegory? hmm, have to think about that.
I'm not so sure that sheds light on the plot itself though. You can use the plot and link it to the second coming, fine, that all works. It characterises abstract ideas behind the second coming - that makes it an allegory.
In fact, thinking about it being an allegory, that's all the more reason for it to make sense on its own. Allegories are usually used to explain a concept, make it make more sense. The matrix certainly doesn't do that, what it does do is attempt to apply concepts to a sci-fi storyline with the result that you have to accept far fetched possibilities, based on it being an allegory, that have no real place in the story.
They're working on that in the UK. Be nice if it'd actually happen.
Worst thing here is in my own road I remember it being dug up once, other than the original laying of cable TV cabling. When it was dug up they tried to avoid digging a trench, and instead just dug occasional holes and used drilling techniques to replace the gas piping with a new plastic high pressure main. What then happened was half the road sank 3 inches at a funny angle and they had to resurface the entire thing! Sometimes even digging's better than what happens.
Nono, you'd feed the cows the same way you feed humans. It'd just be easier to keep the cows happy in a matrix that was just a field of grass, than to keep humans happy with all their complexities. I think that was the point being made.
But does understanding that actually lead to a greater understanding of what happens in the films? I don't see it. It provides a link, and explains what they were thinking when they created the films, but it doesn't really improve the understanding of the story itself.
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There's often a whoosh sound with wind farms, but it's not exactly unpleasant... however I don't live near one so maybe that's not totally fair. They look nice on the cornish landscape though.
Recently there have been proposals to build big offshore ones, and there have been complaints that those will be ugly too! You can't win.
Oh I agree that there's a problem, I just misunderstood your post to be one of those in support of the status quo.
Reserve plants are certainly an issue, on the other hand initial reserves can often be hydro plants (pumped head plants that is, so effectively big water batteries). Even if you need coal or similar to back it up (and you probably do at the moment at least) then surely an infrequently running backup plant is better than a permanently running primary plant?
Funny, I actually think wind farms are quite attractive. A bit noisy when you're very close up, bu t not as bad as seeing an ugly power station all the time.
And that's a reason to rely on oil that is guaranteed to not be any good in the long term?
Exactly, so therefore megabyte should be standardised to 1000 to save confusion.
Looking at the definition of affiliate they can claim that because they're not. They do clearly have an interest in spf though, which is a slightly different point.
No, what you feel is the force of whatever it is trying to hold you in. There is no force out, it's a force in acting against the direction of travel. When you feel a "centrifugal force" what you feel is the pull in your arms, or the pressure of your seat against you inwards.
And of course the other problem is that randomly branched code often has short code segments between branches and less compile time instruction scheduling, so less use of the 6 ins/cycle static pipeline in the i2. Whether that balances out against the long opteron pipeline and all the pipeline flushes is a different question though.
The i2 also detects branch prediction misses fairly efficiently, so that helps.
That's only true at face value. Let's look at it differently.
US: all evil people with guns, check. Good guys who might use their guns too easily, check.
UK: Some, still very limited numbers of criminals with guns, almost entirely hardened criminals (by that I mean that in a standard mugging you won't get them threatening you with a gun, it's not worth the risk to possess one). Good guys without guns, great! Who needs them. Not like they're self defence weapons anyway.
Not middlesborough, but in Kingston certainly I wouldn't say it feels safe at night. On the other hand knowing that people effectively have to get close to do any damage, a gun isn't necessary.
On the other hand I like the feeling that people are unlikely to be carrying guns around me. If I lived in the US I'd have a gun, as I live in the UK I can't. Which state would I prefer? Somewhere where I need to carry a gun to feel slightly safer, or somewhere where I don't feel that need?
But as what you want has been available for years, why not allow more advanced phones now?
Are we talking market share or raw numbers? Because I'd bet that Microsoft has a lot more customers, buying a lot more per customer.
In the UK I'd have to argue that the BBC *probably* has both more customers, and a higher average purchase per customer. Firstly effectively almost everyone in the UK is a BBC customer (though not all pay, many are children etc etc, but the same applies there to MS). Most MS products are low cost OEM versions, large numbers of people don't pay for MS products anyway... average price per paying customer for the BBC is around 120/year ($200 US as mentioned above). Have to agree about IE though... non geeks are moving to Firefox in droves around here.
Also on installing a new windows system most people I know can't be bothered with all the reboots necessary to install the updates. If you could get it to just download the lot in one go it wouldn't be so bad, but having to keep going to update is a pain.
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Unless I've missed some magic workaround there that someone would be nice enough to inform me of
but it's a 3g phone, it's a later version of the cdma standard with more bandwidth per voice call, so that's irrelevent isn't it really.
3g voice quality is certainly good though, honestly I've never found old style tdma gsm to be noticably bad for plain voice (in the UK that is, can't comment on elsewhere).
It did actually say uplink... for which I'd assume they'd take 256k or so as the common speed.
Peroxide is O2 2-, Superoxide is O2 1- and a radical.
Hydrogen peroxide is used in low concentrations to disinfect contact lenses, and is EXTREMELY unpleasant if you don't neutralise it properly.
I know a number of people who have asked me to help them move from xp back to 2k because xp was too confusing for them. So... not smooth?
I'm getting increasingly irritated at the number of complaints that noone watches BBC digital, so apparently that's a good reason to ditch it. Even though when you look at the financing, it costs the BBC next to nothing to run - maybe the fact that it has no good programmes (ie none that they pay a lot for, because there are few viewers) is one reason nonoe watches it?
So much so I watched the simpsons yesterday via Sky rather than the BBC, and noticed that not only did they have ads seconds into the programme, but they appeared to have skipped the title sequence and replaced it with those ads.
1 and 2 are all very well, but the post was about an interplanetary standard, so this is of little consequence, surely?
4) Pardon? I fail to see a major lack of symmetry in, say, a 10 hour day. You'd have halfs at the sides, granted, but I don't see that people wouldn't get used to that?
5) Not quite clear what you mean by this.
7) Hmm, not sure it's a stupid idea in principle, but as soon as you think about it properly it's fairly stupid, and choice would be completely arbitrary, just as much as UTC, and you'd still need local times on planets anyway to relate to the light and dark hours.
I can see that it's an allegory. If that was FULLY intentional, though I'm still not 100% sure it was, concepts taken, certainly, a fully intentional allegory? hmm, have to think about that.
I'm not so sure that sheds light on the plot itself though. You can use the plot and link it to the second coming, fine, that all works. It characterises abstract ideas behind the second coming - that makes it an allegory.
In fact, thinking about it being an allegory, that's all the more reason for it to make sense on its own. Allegories are usually used to explain a concept, make it make more sense. The matrix certainly doesn't do that, what it does do is attempt to apply concepts to a sci-fi storyline with the result that you have to accept far fetched possibilities, based on it being an allegory, that have no real place in the story.
They're working on that in the UK. Be nice if it'd actually happen.
Worst thing here is in my own road I remember it being dug up once, other than the original laying of cable TV cabling. When it was dug up they tried to avoid digging a trench, and instead just dug occasional holes and used drilling techniques to replace the gas piping with a new plastic high pressure main. What then happened was half the road sank 3 inches at a funny angle and they had to resurface the entire thing! Sometimes even digging's better than what happens.
Nono, you'd feed the cows the same way you feed humans. It'd just be easier to keep the cows happy in a matrix that was just a field of grass, than to keep humans happy with all their complexities. I think that was the point being made.
But does understanding that actually lead to a greater understanding of what happens in the films? I don't see it. It provides a link, and explains what they were thinking when they created the films, but it doesn't really improve the understanding of the story itself.