This laptop bogs down trying to scale video up to full screen in software but coasts along showing little more than disk activity when using DirectX scaling. A decent video driver can make a huge difference.
If the state isn't acting appropriately 100% of the time, you don't have any chance of being free. Exceptional circumstances do not justify abrogating freedom.
You might want things to be that way but that isn't how they are.
Actions that police take because of imminent harm still have to pass a warrant style test to be used in a trial, and in most areas a police officer would be cautioned if he repeatedly failed to act appropriately.
His fortune is probably closer to $10 billion now than the $20 billion in that article, but that's still enough money that 99.9999999% of people are only going to do things that they truly enjoy or think are important. Perhaps he's the exception, but probably not.
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"Deer Hunter: Buck's Revenge" would cause more people to buy it on accident, and it sounds less, well, shitty.
If he doesn't have stuff that he wants to do, giving him the computer isn't going to help much, so make sure that it can at least do web stuff (a 15 year old will surely want a MySpace page and the ability to edit stuff for it) and that it works with pygame so that he can work with visual stuff if he wants to(or javascript for that sort of thing).
On the other hand, if there are projects that he is interested in, it isn't going to matter much if you give him an EEE or something nicer, he will figure out a way to do at least something with it.
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I was a child. I'm sure of it. I don't remember if I ever used my finger as a gun or not(I have vague memories of playing war games, but not what that involved). Are you sure that you remember it, or are you remembering that you remember it even though you don't remember it?
Of course, I got flack for informing my 1 year older brother that there was no Santa Claus, so I may not have had the best imagination.
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No, no, that's what they call having a kid.
(or for some people, getting a very important pet)
Not really, gas taxes are generally fixed amounts per gallon, not percentages of the retail price. So a gallon of gas that cost $2.00 had ~50-75 cents of tax built into the price, and a gallon of gas that costs $3.99 has ~50-75 cents of tax built into the price. See how the tax revenue only depends on the amount of gasoline sold and not the price that it is sold at?
Probably. It depends on how much of the hydrosphere is biologically active in a given period. If 95% of the biological activity involves 1% of the water, the cycle time is going to be much much higher.
Note that I am only pointing out that there is a big if, not trying to speculate on what the numbers really are.
Water is crucial for water based life. We don't have any evidence of life that isn't water based, but we also don't have any evidence that all life is water based (because it is impossible to prove that there isn't any other life out there).
Water based life could be a tiny fraction of the life that is out there.
There is somewhere between 100,000 and 2,000,000 times as much water on earth as there is biomass(go ahead and find a better estimate on how much water there is, biomass is close enough to 2,000 billion tons, which is 6.7*10^14 kg).
Given a million years, not very much of that needs to be cycled each year for most of it to have been organic matter at some point, but it would be interesting to see just how much of the water in a plant is newly created(and the percentages of water that a plant destroys and creates in a given year would be cool too).
I've only seen one preview, and I only saw it a couple of times, but I think a large part of the intent of packing the action onto the screen was to not reveal too much detail about the movie. The preview shots are almost certainly peaks in the action, and almost certainly the tightest shots of the action. If they aren't, it is going to be a very difficult movie to watch.
How is the alarm circuit going to turn off the wall wart?
If the wall wart is sitting there using power, having an ultra low power device hooked up to it isn't going to be a whole lot better than having a low power device hooked up to it.
I doubt that a home router sitting at idle uses a great deal more power than an alarm clock circuit, especially assuming that they both need to draw DC power.
For existing buildings, there are already federal tax credits for energy improvements (and they are probably the best energy dollars being spent at that level).
For new construction, the best way to improve energy efficiency is to make changes to building codes to require that buildings meet certain standards. That puts the improvements in all buildings rather than in the buildings that happen to be built by people who are thinking about it. Rebating things like ground source heat pumps is also a really good idea, the payoff takes 7 years, so a developer isn't going to bother putting them in a subdivision and the costs are higher for a retrofit. If they are rebated, the developer puts them in at no or low cost and gets to advertise the lower energy costs of the development, and everybody wins in about a decade.
Think about all the dollars that get spend subsidizing heating oil and spending money on getting rid of that demand makes a lot of sense as an investment.
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It's probably the compiler or video driver.
This laptop bogs down trying to scale video up to full screen in software but coasts along showing little more than disk activity when using DirectX scaling. A decent video driver can make a huge difference.
If the state isn't acting appropriately 100% of the time, you don't have any chance of being free. Exceptional circumstances do not justify abrogating freedom.
You might want things to be that way but that isn't how they are.
Actions that police take because of imminent harm still have to pass a warrant style test to be used in a trial, and in most areas a police officer would be cautioned if he repeatedly failed to act appropriately.
There's no place for reason and nuance on this internet.
He might be doing it for money, but I doubt it, he has been a billionaire since well before he took over:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3715/is_199909/ai_n8870193
His fortune is probably closer to $10 billion now than the $20 billion in that article, but that's still enough money that 99.9999999% of people are only going to do things that they truly enjoy or think are important. Perhaps he's the exception, but probably not.
"Deer Hunter: Buck's Revenge" would cause more people to buy it on accident, and it sounds less, well, shitty.
If he doesn't have stuff that he wants to do, giving him the computer isn't going to help much, so make sure that it can at least do web stuff (a 15 year old will surely want a MySpace page and the ability to edit stuff for it) and that it works with pygame so that he can work with visual stuff if he wants to(or javascript for that sort of thing).
On the other hand, if there are projects that he is interested in, it isn't going to matter much if you give him an EEE or something nicer, he will figure out a way to do at least something with it.
I was a child. I'm sure of it. I don't remember if I ever used my finger as a gun or not(I have vague memories of playing war games, but not what that involved). Are you sure that you remember it, or are you remembering that you remember it even though you don't remember it?
Of course, I got flack for informing my 1 year older brother that there was no Santa Claus, so I may not have had the best imagination.
No, no, that's what they call having a kid.
(or for some people, getting a very important pet)
You didn't say if very clearly:
"we DO know that life on earth cannot"
We don't know that at all. We only know that there has been no publicized discovery of non water based life on Earth.
It's incredibly unlikely that it is here, but it is not possible to rule it out.
Not really, gas taxes are generally fixed amounts per gallon, not percentages of the retail price. So a gallon of gas that cost $2.00 had ~50-75 cents of tax built into the price, and a gallon of gas that costs $3.99 has ~50-75 cents of tax built into the price. See how the tax revenue only depends on the amount of gasoline sold and not the price that it is sold at?
Right, as far as we KNOW, water is very important to life. It's really ARROGANT to assume that we KNOW all that MUCH.
Probably. It depends on how much of the hydrosphere is biologically active in a given period. If 95% of the biological activity involves 1% of the water, the cycle time is going to be much much higher.
Note that I am only pointing out that there is a big if, not trying to speculate on what the numbers really are.
Water is crucial for water based life. We don't have any evidence of life that isn't water based, but we also don't have any evidence that all life is water based (because it is impossible to prove that there isn't any other life out there).
Water based life could be a tiny fraction of the life that is out there.
There is somewhere between 100,000 and 2,000,000 times as much water on earth as there is biomass(go ahead and find a better estimate on how much water there is, biomass is close enough to 2,000 billion tons, which is 6.7*10^14 kg).
Given a million years, not very much of that needs to be cycled each year for most of it to have been organic matter at some point, but it would be interesting to see just how much of the water in a plant is newly created(and the percentages of water that a plant destroys and creates in a given year would be cool too).
I've only seen one preview, and I only saw it a couple of times, but I think a large part of the intent of packing the action onto the screen was to not reveal too much detail about the movie. The preview shots are almost certainly peaks in the action, and almost certainly the tightest shots of the action. If they aren't, it is going to be a very difficult movie to watch.
The Matrix didn't have a sound theme, the basic premise didn't even make sense.
We need the humans as batteries indeed.
It was still a fun movie, and they did a decent job with the brain in the vat, but it wasn't exactly a wonder of consistency.
How is the alarm circuit going to turn off the wall wart?
If the wall wart is sitting there using power, having an ultra low power device hooked up to it isn't going to be a whole lot better than having a low power device hooked up to it.
There is no need to lump the hundreds of millions of people who don't care about the Olympic torch in with the few thousand who caused a ruckus.
If Ogg was good at making axes, I bet he put fractured animal skulls by other Ogg's huts.
Let Ogg hear, Ogg make Ogg axe! Ogg!
I doubt that a home router sitting at idle uses a great deal more power than an alarm clock circuit, especially assuming that they both need to draw DC power.
For existing buildings, there are already federal tax credits for energy improvements (and they are probably the best energy dollars being spent at that level).
For new construction, the best way to improve energy efficiency is to make changes to building codes to require that buildings meet certain standards. That puts the improvements in all buildings rather than in the buildings that happen to be built by people who are thinking about it. Rebating things like ground source heat pumps is also a really good idea, the payoff takes 7 years, so a developer isn't going to bother putting them in a subdivision and the costs are higher for a retrofit. If they are rebated, the developer puts them in at no or low cost and gets to advertise the lower energy costs of the development, and everybody wins in about a decade.
Think about all the dollars that get spend subsidizing heating oil and spending money on getting rid of that demand makes a lot of sense as an investment.
He believes in water carburetors. Don't waste a lot of your time.