What about Earth-like life of opposite chirality? As far as I know there's no advantage to our chirality, it's just a spontaneous symmetry-breaking style effect, so it seems plausible that another planet might have identical-seeming biochemistry but be of the opposite chirality.
Looking up Alibaba/Aliexpress on Reseller Ratings is like looking up eBay; both are trading platforms rather than stores in their own right. (Also, you think that Reseller Ratings can be trusted?)
Frankly, unless you're one of those rare companies that still has use for mainframes, I'm not sure what they're good for any more. I can get Dogbert Consulting from anyone.
If you don't count supercomputers as being mainframes, they're still good for that too.
When the kilogram prototype gains mass, this affects the kilogram, pound, liter and fluid ounce equally.
The litre is just another word for cubic decimetre; since the metre is defined in terms of the speed of light and the second (which in turn is defined by atomic properties), and not in terms of the kilogram, the litre will not change volume. Similarly the fluid ounce is defined as a fraction of a gallon; the gallon is defined in terms of cubic inches; the inch is now defined as 25.4mm: again the metre is the only dependence. So again, even though fluid ounce sounds like it should depend on mass, in fact it is a unit of volume and so behaves like one.
No it's not, or at least not with the one I got in the UK. Maybe there's some mail-in programme to get one, but I saw no details of one either in the box or anywhere online before or since.
Yes we do. We just don't have a constitutional document that you can point at and say "That's the constitution" like the US does.
The Government, or to give it its current full title, Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (there's a clue there—the Government belongs to Her Majesty, so she is not a part of it), consists of the ministers, not the monarch, who acts on the advice of the ministers/government.. The word government is also sometimes used casually to refer to all of Parliament, which again sits under the monarch.
I imagine this is historically related to the emergence of Parliament and the Government from the gradual weaning of power away from the monarch, rather than the from-scratch construction of a system of government. If it makes you feel better, think of government in this context as a homonym (or a polyseme if you prefer) with the word that is used elsewhere.
Can you imagine a reporter having their word limit set by the organisation they're covering rather than their own publication? And being asked to write the article as the event occurs, in real time?
I hope someday the BBC allows foreigners to pay for access to its content without having to do VPN hacks.
If they had planned on doing such a thing, removing the geowall for the duration of the Olympics to show the world what they can get would have been a great way to generate interest in it (before replacing the geowall with a paywall after the Olympics)
No, it's paid by those who consume live TV (online, via an aerial, or otherwise). If you don't consume live TV, you aren't required to pay (even if you own a TV used to watch prerecorded materials only). The firm responsible for collecting it, though, will use as much misinformation as possible in making you think you have to pay it, though.
They pay a fee to own a television capable of live reception and display of TV signals
Minor quibble: the fee is paid to use a device for reception of live TV signals; merely owning a device theoretically capable of receiving them doesn't require paying the fee.
The Nexus Q doesn't have a screen either. And the Apple TV has 8GB of flash; neiher 8 nor 16GB is particularly useful for storage of video content. The devices are meant to sit on the network and get the content from there (either from your machines or an online service).
Or you could take the card to a ticket office and exchange it for the remaining credit plus your deposit. I know someone who visits London every couple of months and does this every time.
Nowhere in the article is it said that the student has been "thrown out"; in actuality he's suspended pending the internal disciplinary process (as is, as far as I know, standard whenever a student is arrested).
[For what it's worth I happen to be a postgrad at Swansea]
Oh, I thought it was extra-solar. As in, not part of our solar system. Non-exo planets would be much more exciting to discover (if far less likely, unless you count dwarf planets).
Let's put it this way. If you put your own stuff in a drm-free format inside a blu-ray disc authored by yourself, the PS3 will play it. There goes the openness.
But to distribute content (movies, TV, videos, etc.) on Blu-Ray you HAVE to copy-protect it. As in, you have to pay to license the Blu-Ray format, and then the terms and conditions state that you have to separately pay for the license to AACS, and use it to copy-protect the disc. Thus releasing open content on Blu-Ray is pretty impossible.
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Do you say 'facial tissues', or Kleenex?
Just "tissues".
Too many syllables, and not nearly as catchy.
Sure, DVR is an annoying TLA. My parents refer to their DVR as "the box". (The verb is then "record it [on the box]".)
What about Earth-like life of opposite chirality? As far as I know there's no advantage to our chirality, it's just a spontaneous symmetry-breaking style effect, so it seems plausible that another planet might have identical-seeming biochemistry but be of the opposite chirality.
18650 is the name of the size of cell. See this table.
Looking up Alibaba/Aliexpress on Reseller Ratings is like looking up eBay; both are trading platforms rather than stores in their own right. (Also, you think that Reseller Ratings can be trusted?)
If they put it on iPad they lose their main "advantage" of Windows tablets over iPads—that they run Office.
Frankly, unless you're one of those rare companies that still has use for mainframes, I'm not sure what they're good for any more. I can get Dogbert Consulting from anyone.
If you don't count supercomputers as being mainframes, they're still good for that too.
When the kilogram prototype gains mass, this affects the kilogram, pound, liter and fluid ounce equally.
The litre is just another word for cubic decimetre; since the metre is defined in terms of the speed of light and the second (which in turn is defined by atomic properties), and not in terms of the kilogram, the litre will not change volume. Similarly the fluid ounce is defined as a fraction of a gallon; the gallon is defined in terms of cubic inches; the inch is now defined as 25.4mm: again the metre is the only dependence. So again, even though fluid ounce sounds like it should depend on mass, in fact it is a unit of volume and so behaves like one.
No it's not, or at least not with the one I got in the UK. Maybe there's some mail-in programme to get one, but I saw no details of one either in the box or anywhere online before or since.
Hollywood accounting: "Oh, but after all our losses from piracy we made no revenue last year or this year; guess we don't owe you anything!"
Yes we do. We just don't have a constitutional document that you can point at and say "That's the constitution" like the US does.
The Government, or to give it its current full title, Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (there's a clue there—the Government belongs to Her Majesty, so she is not a part of it), consists of the ministers, not the monarch, who acts on the advice of the ministers/government.. The word government is also sometimes used casually to refer to all of Parliament, which again sits under the monarch.
I imagine this is historically related to the emergence of Parliament and the Government from the gradual weaning of power away from the monarch, rather than the from-scratch construction of a system of government. If it makes you feel better, think of government in this context as a homonym (or a polyseme if you prefer) with the word that is used elsewhere.
Can you imagine a reporter having their word limit set by the organisation they're covering rather than their own publication? And being asked to write the article as the event occurs, in real time?
Is that even necessary? Couldn't the US Government simply order ICANN to suspend .ga?
I've yet to meet someone that has dumped their smartphone or computer for their tablet and as such they really don't need it.
I've yet to meet someone who has dumped their smartphone or computer for their toaster, guess they don't need that either.
I believe that the link "Montana's rules for self-driving cars" should have read "Nevada's rules for self-driving cars".
I hope someday the BBC allows foreigners to pay for access to its content without having to do VPN hacks.
If they had planned on doing such a thing, removing the geowall for the duration of the Olympics to show the world what they can get would have been a great way to generate interest in it (before replacing the geowall with a paywall after the Olympics)
No, it's paid by those who consume live TV (online, via an aerial, or otherwise). If you don't consume live TV, you aren't required to pay (even if you own a TV used to watch prerecorded materials only). The firm responsible for collecting it, though, will use as much misinformation as possible in making you think you have to pay it, though.
They pay a fee to own a television capable of live reception and display of TV signals
Minor quibble: the fee is paid to use a device for reception of live TV signals; merely owning a device theoretically capable of receiving them doesn't require paying the fee.
The Nexus Q doesn't have a screen either. And the Apple TV has 8GB of flash; neiher 8 nor 16GB is particularly useful for storage of video content. The devices are meant to sit on the network and get the content from there (either from your machines or an online service).
He's a student with a limited income, and claims that he would miss the liquid asset in the interim.
Or you could take the card to a ticket office and exchange it for the remaining credit plus your deposit. I know someone who visits London every couple of months and does this every time.
Microsoft can really be blind about how their product names can be interpreted. This is, after all, the company who brought us Wince (well, WinCE)...
Nowhere in the article is it said that the student has been "thrown out"; in actuality he's suspended pending the internal disciplinary process (as is, as far as I know, standard whenever a student is arrested). [For what it's worth I happen to be a postgrad at Swansea]
At least in the UK, we have an equivalent day on 22/7.
Oh, I thought it was extra-solar. As in, not part of our solar system. Non-exo planets would be much more exciting to discover (if far less likely, unless you count dwarf planets).
Let's put it this way. If you put your own stuff in a drm-free format inside a blu-ray disc authored by yourself, the PS3 will play it. There goes the openness.
But to distribute content (movies, TV, videos, etc.) on Blu-Ray you HAVE to copy-protect it. As in, you have to pay to license the Blu-Ray format, and then the terms and conditions state that you have to separately pay for the license to AACS, and use it to copy-protect the disc. Thus releasing open content on Blu-Ray is pretty impossible.