The question was why it would be more appropriate to use one of those units in an article targeted at a popular audience.
Also, note that it is not necessary to use an absolute scale when you are working with differences. If Ti is negative and Tf is positive, you get the correct difference (Tf - (-Ti) = TF + abs(Ti)) If Tf is negative and Ti is positive, you get the appropriate 'decrease'. If they are both positive, you get the correct increase.
Using an absolute scale means that you can leave out a factor when you are scaling/multiplying by a measured temperature (the factor that would place you on an absolute scale), it doesn't change anything when working with temperature differences.
Of course, all USENET did was make it easier for like minded people to sit around a table, and all the table did was make it more comfortable and give everyone a place to put their beer.
It isn't strictly linear. When Scoble blows his nose, there are 25,000 people that want to know about it. If he blows his nose and takes a wizz within a few minutes of each other, he generates thousands and thousands of messages in the same period of time that many thousands of users generate approximately 2 messages.
First, what the other reply said about workers costing more than their salary (I phrased my comment poorly in this regard, but it is part of what I meant).
Second, what do you think the median wage is for people who spend a significant chunk of their week using a general purpose computer and office software? I don't have any numbers, but I am happy assuming that it is above the overall median.
That's a really strange take on Einstein. I would suggest (unless I am hopeless misinformed) that you look into what he meant when he said that god didn't play dice, you may be pleasantly surprised.
If we get to the point of Bartertown, a few of us are going to be hoping to find food, not all of us going to get gas.
The good news is that we aren't going to get to the point of Bartertown before any of us die. Take a look at the amount of coal and natural gas available if you think I am crazy.
I'm not saying it is a no brainer, but your 'says you' applies just as much to your statement of Windows not having any perceived value as anything I said. What it comes down to (and this is just my opinion) is that software really isn't all that expensive at $500 a pop (especially if you are paying someone to use it). It is worth considering alternatives (because why not), but the alternatives need to be equivalent or better, not almost as good.
I would claim that successful open source projects (Apache, linux on the server, things in that vein) are not only cheap to license but best of breed (Linux is sort of special case, it probably isn't better than Solaris on a big ol' Sun server, but it is best of breed on commodity hardware).
IANALBIARA. The article says that he is getting paid royalties. The contract likely applies to creative works. I don't think software and hardware are really considered such, they are work for hire.
An image hosted on your server and placed inside an anchor tag is called a 'link'. Putting an image hosted on another server inside an image tag is a 'hotlink'.
What kind of data are you able to gather without the satellite?
You are reacting like someone who gets handed a check for 6 gajillion dollars and says "How come the check isn't for 100 gajillion dollars?" without even having any idea of what a gajillion is.
Your stock market analogy suffers from a causality problem. Money that is 'invested' in stocks should only be money that can be lost without significant pain (when you are old you should mostly own bonds, exactly for the price stability). If people suffer because the stock market goes down, they have only themselves to blame (because they took a risk that they could not afford).
What really makes people's lives miserable are the economic issues that lead to the stock market drops, not the drops themselves.
That's why we have a representative democracy. Public elections are more about picking a representative you can stomach than they are about deciding issues in an informed manner (sure, there are all sorts of issues that go to the ballot, but they are rarely more about information than they are about 'feelings').
I notice myself doing this more and more frequently. The hard part is deciding whether I am skipping words more often or noticing more often that I am skipping words. It and is are also frequently interchanged.
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The theory is that Microsoft broke the law and that regulation and scrutiny would be better (for society) than breaking it up or dissolving it.
I have a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
The question was why it would be more appropriate to use one of those units in an article targeted at a popular audience.
Also, note that it is not necessary to use an absolute scale when you are working with differences. If Ti is negative and Tf is positive, you get the correct difference (Tf - (-Ti) = TF + abs(Ti)) If Tf is negative and Ti is positive, you get the appropriate 'decrease'. If they are both positive, you get the correct increase.
Using an absolute scale means that you can leave out a factor when you are scaling/multiplying by a measured temperature (the factor that would place you on an absolute scale), it doesn't change anything when working with temperature differences.
USENET doesn't have a 160 character limit.
Of course, all USENET did was make it easier for like minded people to sit around a table, and all the table did was make it more comfortable and give everyone a place to put their beer.
It isn't strictly linear. When Scoble blows his nose, there are 25,000 people that want to know about it. If he blows his nose and takes a wizz within a few minutes of each other, he generates thousands and thousands of messages in the same period of time that many thousands of users generate approximately 2 messages.
For the masses?
Please explain why Kelvin or Rankine would be more appropriate.
Or "I'm hungry" or "This coffee is awful".
First, what the other reply said about workers costing more than their salary (I phrased my comment poorly in this regard, but it is part of what I meant).
Second, what do you think the median wage is for people who spend a significant chunk of their week using a general purpose computer and office software? I don't have any numbers, but I am happy assuming that it is above the overall median.
That's a really strange take on Einstein. I would suggest (unless I am hopeless misinformed) that you look into what he meant when he said that god didn't play dice, you may be pleasantly surprised.
If we get to the point of Bartertown, a few of us are going to be hoping to find food, not all of us going to get gas.
The good news is that we aren't going to get to the point of Bartertown before any of us die. Take a look at the amount of coal and natural gas available if you think I am crazy.
It's about -56 C, which is pretty much just another meaningless number as far as most people's experience goes. Also, ask the monster:
http://www.google.com/search?q=-70+F+in+C
How does a moth ball joke go?
Toivo forgot to put moth balls in his clothes and then they all had holes in them! Hilarious!
Your question is its own answer, the ice is not in it yet.
Hardware support? I kid...
I'm not saying it is a no brainer, but your 'says you' applies just as much to your statement of Windows not having any perceived value as anything I said. What it comes down to (and this is just my opinion) is that software really isn't all that expensive at $500 a pop (especially if you are paying someone to use it). It is worth considering alternatives (because why not), but the alternatives need to be equivalent or better, not almost as good.
I would claim that successful open source projects (Apache, linux on the server, things in that vein) are not only cheap to license but best of breed (Linux is sort of special case, it probably isn't better than Solaris on a big ol' Sun server, but it is best of breed on commodity hardware).
IANALBIARA. The article says that he is getting paid royalties. The contract likely applies to creative works. I don't think software and hardware are really considered such, they are work for hire.
They aren't trying to inform you, they are trying to paint the ground. If people in Mass. start thinking that the law is costing them jobs...
GAAH!
http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/24/1335258
You didn't goof (with your first post...). Click on the parent link in your post, it takes you here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=591533&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=nested&cid=23895345
It isn't a hotlink:
http://images.slashdot.org/articles/08/06/voorwerp-wht1.jpg
An image hosted on your server and placed inside an anchor tag is called a 'link'. Putting an image hosted on another server inside an image tag is a 'hotlink'.
What kind of data are you able to gather without the satellite?
You are reacting like someone who gets handed a check for 6 gajillion dollars and says "How come the check isn't for 100 gajillion dollars?" without even having any idea of what a gajillion is.
Your stock market analogy suffers from a causality problem. Money that is 'invested' in stocks should only be money that can be lost without significant pain (when you are old you should mostly own bonds, exactly for the price stability). If people suffer because the stock market goes down, they have only themselves to blame (because they took a risk that they could not afford).
What really makes people's lives miserable are the economic issues that lead to the stock market drops, not the drops themselves.
The overwhelming majority of people see title case when they see 'Open', not a specific, nuanced definition of the word.
That's why we have a representative democracy. Public elections are more about picking a representative you can stomach than they are about deciding issues in an informed manner (sure, there are all sorts of issues that go to the ballot, but they are rarely more about information than they are about 'feelings').
I notice myself doing this more and more frequently. The hard part is deciding whether I am skipping words more often or noticing more often that I am skipping words. It and is are also frequently interchanged.
It would be fascinating if the actual intent of having the key input was to make it seem more valuable.