Auto makers in the US are required to keep the average mileage of their vehicles below a certain standard. This means that, to produce a lot of inefficient vehicles (trucks, SUVs, etc.) they need to produce a quantity of fuel efficient vehicles.
Producing vehicles that use 0 gallons per mile has the added benefit of allowing them to make more gas hogs. This probably isn't a huge part of the reason they made the volt, but it would be a contributing reason.
Staying relevant and in the press would be another factor.
If you are going to have to make arcane gestures for each letter, you might as well go the route of optical character recognition. At least that way, you don't have to learn a whole new way to write each letter for your mobile device.
The engine's compressor is used and pumped into the cabin to replace escaping air.
So, no it's not airtight. Minus 10 geek points for not watching the Mythbusters episode where they had to seal the heck out of the cabin to run their explosive decompression test.
Seriously, thank you for noticing that money spent on space exploration is actually spent here on earth and therefore doesn't simply disappear from the economy.
I've seen too many negative comments about how spending money on space exploration is a waste when we have problems here on earth. The way some people talk, you would think we were proposing taking billions of dollars and sending it all into space.
Every single penny he makes comes from someone else's pocket
You just described everyone except the places that mint pennies.
he simply monopolizes a resource and profiteers from it,
Monopolizes? Please clarify, is he preventing other people from also buying books in the book stores? Or is he preventing people from going to other bookstores?
contributing absolutely nothing to the economy.
Actually, he's filling a demand by increasing the flow of supply. If anything, the more books brought to the global market, the less they cost. If books that are in demand, collecting dust on a shelf, that contributes nothing to the economy.
Seriously, anyone in the book business that can't be bothered to check on the value of their inventory deserves to have their... what was happening again?.... oh yeah, deserves to have their books bought. What?
1. Open a book store 2. Have a customer scan your books 3. Have them give you money for some of the books 4. Profit.
And only the logic deficient and the religious crazies are left arguing the options.
Really? You are absolutely certain you are correct and anyone else is either logic deficient or a religious crazy?
To everyone who isn't massively close minded, I posit that is would be possible that, the first creature that we would have identified as.... 'yup, that's a chicken', could have been born without the benefit of an egg. Or, the egg could have predated such a 'first chicken', with the precursor to the chicken already having egg-laying capability.
Anyway, the point of any such 'chicken and egg' debate isn't about the chicken or the egg. It's about applying reason to a problem as an exercise in reason.
Now, if you will excuse me, I think I'm just going to pop into my time machine and find out if the first egg-laying chicken-like creature does, in fact, taste like chicken.
Seriously... if Alice alters Bob's machine to steal money from Trent, you want the bank to be on the hook?
The problem with that is the bank isn't in a position to oversee any of this transaction. You can easily hook Alice for the crime. You can argue fault for Bob (if physical security of the machines is lax), as he needs to keep his machines secure. Trent should only be 'on the hook' for pursuing legal action. But the bank.... what did they do wrong? Process a transaction from Trent? How do you secure that while actually letting Trent buy his gas?
If you read.... and understand.... the summary. The data they have won't be identifiable. They will have the DNA and a barcode. They won't know who it belongs to. Presumably, the student will be able to access some result of the data through the use of their barcode.
Now, if they wanted to find out who the DNA belonged to, they would have to clone the individual using their DNA and then.... wait.... Kids, DO NOT DO THIS!!! Ever!
Don't let go of the wheel to shift gears, that's what your knee is for. Whichever leg isn't engaging the clutch can steady the wheel.
But seriously, the summary states, "undertaking studies to see if the efforts curb behavior and attitudes." Notice that it doesn't mention safety. Apparently, the important part of enforcing the law isn't to see if it does anything useful, but simply to make sure the people are properly obedient to the law.
I thought his first regeneration was forced upon him by the Time Lords. Something along the lines that he was long overdue.
I found it intriguing that the story got tagged with both timeywimey and dontblink. That was my favourite episode out of the new seasons.
Any way, about changing leaders in a project, it's not like they would just pick a random hacker off the street. Presumably, someone working on the project, who already knew the project well enough to lead it, would step up. This is one of the strengths of community development. People can stay in a project long enough to 'scratch their itch', and then exit gracefully without felling like the project is going to fall over and sink into the swamp.
I don't see a very practical use for all this motion control in turn-based strategy games - you know, the sort of games that work the mind, but not the reflexes. They will entice kids to "think with their hands" in addition to their heads.
There. I fixed it for you.
But seriously, while I am disappointed the direction arcades, in general, have gone (all fps/racing/fighting; hardly any variation on themes), I don't think adding motion means that the games are going to be any more mindless. If you go from "A = Punch; B = Kick; C = Dodge" to "Thrust High = Punch; Thrust Low = Kick; Point up = Dodge", the game is just about as mindless, but it is at least more active.
Motion sensing opens up a whole new range of game possibilities. How much they suck is up to the people who make the games and the people who buy them.
I was playing a puzzle game on the Wii called Boom Blox. It's an idea similar to Jenga. You could have some something basic without motion sensing. But instead, you can have something with a rather impressive physics engine, such that understanding a thing or two about weight distribution and leverage can give you an edge. Here is a simple game where understanding and thought can give you a competitive edge.
As far as turn-based games go, I enjoy them a lot. There is nothing in a motion sensing controller that would prevent someone from making a turn-based game, and there are turn-based games for the current motion-sensing platforms.
As far as your subject, 'No use for TSB games'. There is still more possibilities with motion-sensing controls when it comes to giving your turns input. How much they make use of it depends on the developer and the game they are developing.
It doesn't help that my town (actually, every town I've ever lived in) has let the water supply get all awful-tasting.
You might have more luck dropping soda if you learn to make you own beverages where you can control the amount of sugar, if any. My staples are iced-tea and lemonade, as well as hot tea. I like my iced-tea unsweetened, but I will sweeten it, slightly, for my wife. Lemonade requires a bit more sugar. Hot tea needs none (for my tastes).
However, the important part here is that you can gradually reduce the sugar over time until you get to a point where very low to no sugar drinks are fine without having to go to nothing but water. I'll put a 1/4 cup of sugar in a gallon of iced-tea. I'm not sure how this compares to soda. If it isn't sweet enough at first, start with more and decrease the amount over time. Lemonade, made from lemon juice, water and sugar tends to get twice that amount, but I'm not trying to give up sugar, just to have control over the amount.
Iced Tea
One family-sized tea bag per quart of water. Refrigerate for 24-hours. Remove tea-bags and enjoy.
Lemonade
1.5 cups of lemon juice and a 1/2 cup sugar in a gallon container. Fill remainder of container with water.
I saw the comment how you saw it. If another country were poised to field a viable space elevator, the U.S. would increase their efforts to be the first.
However, more likely, if another country were to try to field a space elevator, the U.S. would probably be caught playing catch-up and achieve the status of second place. At this point, they would probably find some other challenge to be first at and spin that as the important milestone.
Ask the average American who was the first man in space, and their response is more likely to be Neil Armstrong than Yuri Gagarin.
The article doesn't say that the open WAP is enough for sufficient cause. The child porn being sent from the IP was the sufficient cause. What the article says is that the defendant claimed that, since the open WAP means that it didn't necessarily come from _him_ that they shouldn't have searched his place and therefore his stack of child porn CDs should be inadmissible.
I'm of the opinion that if a crime is committed over someone's open WAP, they should be subject to a search warrant.
I usually don't read the articles either, but then again, I don't comment about something I didn't read.
Sorry if this was already pointed out. The comment nesting is so deep that I can't determine if anyone else responded directly to you.
If that $525M gets split evenly into 10 movies, that means $52.5M goes to Ant Man's production. A $20M take means a $32.5M loss...
Your conclusion is based on an arbitrary assumption. I doubt that they would divide the money evenly. It is more likely that the titles which have more earning potential will receive more for production, advertising, etc.
Also, given Ant Man's ability (shrinking, IIRC), they shouldn't need the same special effects budget as some of the more special effects.
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When you decrease the atmospheric pressure, you change the freezing and boiling point of water. Under pressure, water favors being a liquid. Without such pressure, the melting point and boiling point would come closer together.
For more info see this PDF (in particular, figure 5.1). It illustrates the triple point.
to specify whether you want the clock to observe DST
(Yes--four--go count if you don't believe me: once to compensate for DST starting before the device thinks it should; again to un-compensate upon the traditional DST start; once more to compensate upon the traditional DST end; and finally yet again to un-compensate for the real end of DST.)
Turn off DST and you reduce this to twice a year.
The thing that gets to me is how, whenever I read quotes about the reasons behind changing DST, they make it sound like we will have MORE hours of daylight. Everyone loves the idea of more daylight. If you want an extra hour of daylight, get up an hour earlier and go to sleep an hour earlier.
If you want the sun to rise earlier and set later in the same day, you need to drink the congressional kool-aid.
Re:The typical things Slashdot users will say:
by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25, @03:24AM (#12044301)
That's because Linux and MacOS are pure crap. It would probably break. Or, you would have to edit a shitload of files just to get it to work. Support world domination. Buy Microsoft products.
Shouldn't that subject be The typical things Anonymous Cowards will say?
Slashdot Mirror
Auto makers in the US are required to keep the average mileage of their vehicles below a certain standard. This means that, to produce a lot of inefficient vehicles (trucks, SUVs, etc.) they need to produce a quantity of fuel efficient vehicles.
Producing vehicles that use 0 gallons per mile has the added benefit of allowing them to make more gas hogs. This probably isn't a huge part of the reason they made the volt, but it would be a contributing reason.
Staying relevant and in the press would be another factor.
It makes sense when you remember to start counting from zero.
If you are going to have to make arcane gestures for each letter, you might as well go the route of optical character recognition. At least that way, you don't have to learn a whole new way to write each letter for your mobile device.
The engine's compressor is used and pumped into the cabin to replace escaping air.
So, no it's not airtight. Minus 10 geek points for not watching the Mythbusters episode where they had to seal the heck out of the cabin to run their explosive decompression test.
Seriously, thank you for noticing that money spent on space exploration is actually spent here on earth and therefore doesn't simply disappear from the economy.
I've seen too many negative comments about how spending money on space exploration is a waste when we have problems here on earth. The way some people talk, you would think we were proposing taking billions of dollars and sending it all into space.
You just described everyone except the places that mint pennies.
Monopolizes? Please clarify, is he preventing other people from also buying books in the book stores? Or is he preventing people from going to other bookstores?
Actually, he's filling a demand by increasing the flow of supply. If anything, the more books brought to the global market, the less they cost. If books that are in demand, collecting dust on a shelf, that contributes nothing to the economy.
Seriously, anyone in the book business that can't be bothered to check on the value of their inventory deserves to have their ... what was happening again? .... oh yeah, deserves to have their books bought. What?
1. Open a book store
2. Have a customer scan your books
3. Have them give you money for some of the books
4. Profit.
Really? You are absolutely certain you are correct and anyone else is either logic deficient or a religious crazy?
To everyone who isn't massively close minded, I posit that is would be possible that, the first creature that we would have identified as.... 'yup, that's a chicken', could have been born without the benefit of an egg. Or, the egg could have predated such a 'first chicken', with the precursor to the chicken already having egg-laying capability.
Anyway, the point of any such 'chicken and egg' debate isn't about the chicken or the egg. It's about applying reason to a problem as an exercise in reason.
Now, if you will excuse me, I think I'm just going to pop into my time machine and find out if the first egg-laying chicken-like creature does, in fact, taste like chicken.
Seriously... if Alice alters Bob's machine to steal money from Trent, you want the bank to be on the hook?
The problem with that is the bank isn't in a position to oversee any of this transaction. You can easily hook Alice for the crime. You can argue fault for Bob (if physical security of the machines is lax), as he needs to keep his machines secure. Trent should only be 'on the hook' for pursuing legal action. But the bank.... what did they do wrong? Process a transaction from Trent? How do you secure that while actually letting Trent buy his gas?
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http://xkcd.com/123/
If you read.... and understand.... the summary. The data they have won't be identifiable. They will have the DNA and a barcode. They won't know who it belongs to. Presumably, the student will be able to access some result of the data through the use of their barcode.
Now, if they wanted to find out who the DNA belonged to, they would have to clone the individual using their DNA and then .... wait .... Kids, DO NOT DO THIS!!! Ever!
Don't let go of the wheel to shift gears, that's what your knee is for. Whichever leg isn't engaging the clutch can steady the wheel.
But seriously, the summary states, "undertaking studies to see if the efforts curb behavior and attitudes." Notice that it doesn't mention safety. Apparently, the important part of enforcing the law isn't to see if it does anything useful, but simply to make sure the people are properly obedient to the law.
Anyway, drive safe everyone.
de- duplication
Speak for yourself. For those of us who don't RTFA, refuting the imaginary article is indistinguishable from that of which you speak.
I thought his first regeneration was forced upon him by the Time Lords. Something along the lines that he was long overdue.
I found it intriguing that the story got tagged with both timeywimey and dontblink. That was my favourite episode out of the new seasons.
Any way, about changing leaders in a project, it's not like they would just pick a random hacker off the street. Presumably, someone working on the project, who already knew the project well enough to lead it, would step up. This is one of the strengths of community development. People can stay in a project long enough to 'scratch their itch', and then exit gracefully without felling like the project is going to fall over and sink into the swamp.
I don't see a very practical use for all this motion control in turn-based strategy games - you know, the sort of games that work the mind, but not the reflexes. They will entice kids to "think with their hands" in addition to their heads.
There. I fixed it for you.
But seriously, while I am disappointed the direction arcades, in general, have gone (all fps/racing/fighting; hardly any variation on themes), I don't think adding motion means that the games are going to be any more mindless. If you go from "A = Punch; B = Kick; C = Dodge" to "Thrust High = Punch; Thrust Low = Kick; Point up = Dodge", the game is just about as mindless, but it is at least more active.
Motion sensing opens up a whole new range of game possibilities. How much they suck is up to the people who make the games and the people who buy them.
I was playing a puzzle game on the Wii called Boom Blox. It's an idea similar to Jenga. You could have some something basic without motion sensing. But instead, you can have something with a rather impressive physics engine, such that understanding a thing or two about weight distribution and leverage can give you an edge. Here is a simple game where understanding and thought can give you a competitive edge.
As far as turn-based games go, I enjoy them a lot. There is nothing in a motion sensing controller that would prevent someone from making a turn-based game, and there are turn-based games for the current motion-sensing platforms.
As far as your subject, 'No use for TSB games'. There is still more possibilities with motion-sensing controls when it comes to giving your turns input. How much they make use of it depends on the developer and the game they are developing.
You might have more luck dropping soda if you learn to make you own beverages where you can control the amount of sugar, if any. My staples are iced-tea and lemonade, as well as hot tea. I like my iced-tea unsweetened, but I will sweeten it, slightly, for my wife. Lemonade requires a bit more sugar. Hot tea needs none (for my tastes).
However, the important part here is that you can gradually reduce the sugar over time until you get to a point where very low to no sugar drinks are fine without having to go to nothing but water. I'll put a 1/4 cup of sugar in a gallon of iced-tea. I'm not sure how this compares to soda. If it isn't sweet enough at first, start with more and decrease the amount over time. Lemonade, made from lemon juice, water and sugar tends to get twice that amount, but I'm not trying to give up sugar, just to have control over the amount.
Iced Tea
One family-sized tea bag per quart of water. Refrigerate for 24-hours. Remove tea-bags and enjoy.
Lemonade
1.5 cups of lemon juice and a 1/2 cup sugar in a gallon container. Fill remainder of container with water.
You miss the point. Because the Zune can network with other Zune, this now means that people have a way to pirate songs over a network.
Oh, wait. Never mind.
I saw the comment how you saw it. If another country were poised to field a viable space elevator, the U.S. would increase their efforts to be the first.
However, more likely, if another country were to try to field a space elevator, the U.S. would probably be caught playing catch-up and achieve the status of second place. At this point, they would probably find some other challenge to be first at and spin that as the important milestone.
Ask the average American who was the first man in space, and their response is more likely to be Neil Armstrong than Yuri Gagarin.
In fact, their IDs are both in the 3800's (3872 and 3800). I think that makes them cousins. ;)
The article doesn't say that the open WAP is enough for sufficient cause. The child porn being sent from the IP was the sufficient cause. What the article says is that the defendant claimed that, since the open WAP means that it didn't necessarily come from _him_ that they shouldn't have searched his place and therefore his stack of child porn CDs should be inadmissible.
I'm of the opinion that if a crime is committed over someone's open WAP, they should be subject to a search warrant.
I usually don't read the articles either, but then again, I don't comment about something I didn't read.
Sorry if this was already pointed out. The comment nesting is so deep that I can't determine if anyone else responded directly to you.
Your conclusion is based on an arbitrary assumption. I doubt that they would divide the money evenly. It is more likely that the titles which have more earning potential will receive more for production, advertising, etc.
Also, given Ant Man's ability (shrinking, IIRC), they shouldn't need the same special effects budget as some of the more special effects.
When you decrease the atmospheric pressure, you change the freezing and boiling point of water. Under pressure, water favors being a liquid. Without such pressure, the melting point and boiling point would come closer together.
For more info see this PDF (in particular, figure 5.1). It illustrates the triple point.
Turn off DST and you reduce this to twice a year.
The thing that gets to me is how, whenever I read quotes about the reasons behind changing DST, they make it sound like we will have MORE hours of daylight. Everyone loves the idea of more daylight. If you want an extra hour of daylight, get up an hour earlier and go to sleep an hour earlier.
If you want the sun to rise earlier and set later in the same day, you need to drink the congressional kool-aid.
The ellipse is unfortunatly placed at the exact point where the error begins.
The origin of the saying is a question that translates best as "I could care less?"
I has, through common use, become the nonsensical statement commonly used today.