It's interesting that of all the nominees for movies, three of them were based on novels, one on a graphic novel, and only one was an original premise.
If you actually read the article, you'll see that both of these are misconceptions.
Lights for security at night simple cause terrible glare and make it easier for criminals to work. The article mentions a school system that stopped lighting its facilities at night and saw a decrease in vandalism.
Likewise with roads. Lights everywhere simply wash things out. If you instead focus on reflectors, you can highlight the areas that need to be seen and make it easier to drive.
Besides, if I take a lower-max-volume audio stream and turn it up "too loud" it doesn't seem to sound as good as when I have a higher-max-volume stream that I have to turn down the volume.
This is where you're incorrect. If you take the low-volume and high-volume originals, then play them so that the volume you hear is identical, the low-volume will contain much greater dynamic range and will sound much better.
The electricity lost via transmission is about 7%. Considering that a power plant doesn't have to worry about things like being mobile, it's not hard to make that up.
And that's assuming you're getting your power from fossil fuels instead of nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, or solar.
Or you could put solar panels on your roof and charge your car that way.
It's indirectly good for the early adopters. When they lower the price, sales should go up. If sales go up, it has the potential to attract more developer attention. More developer attention means more games being released.
You haven't seen bluetooth headsets? Mics no longer need to be anywhere near your mouth for decent pickups these days. The size of a cell phone these days has nothing to do the size of your face and everything to do with the size of the components, display, and interface.
It doesn't just take a chunk out of oil company profits. It can have high expenses for governments and people, especially those in developing countries who are hoping to bootstrap themselves and can't afford state-of-the-art.
Interestingly, studies have shown that the shift may actually be beneficial to the economies of first-world countries. It'll cost money to expand solar power, improve fuel efficiency, buy CFLs instead of incandescents, of course, but the actual spread of new industry in those fields should be beneficial to the economy as a whole.
The author of this article fails to reference a recent study that reaches completely different results.
An Institute in Australia studied 120 11-15 year-olds and concluded that violent games did affect children who were already predisposed to violence and aggression, but children who were not violent to begin with were unaffected.
The article gives some efficiency numbers, but doesn't explain exactly what they're talking about.
The researchers say the transmission of power happens with 81.4% efficiency -- compared to 93% efficiency in the wired grid network as a whole -- with a "quite low" level of leaked electromagnetic radiation.
Now, I may be wrong, but I believe that 93% is the efficiency of electricity being generated at the power plant and then sent to you, however many miles away. So it's not an either-or thing, it's an extra loss. Instead of losing 7% of the generated electricity, you lose nearly 25%. This is ridiculous compared to the effort of just plugging your damn devices in.
What do you mean by the basic tenets of macroevolution? If you're referring simply to the fact that it occurs or does not, then no, nobody is scientifically questioning this because it has been proven beyond any shadow of a doubt. Evolution happens. Nobody has produced a scrap of scientific evidence to even suggest that it might not happen.
If you mean the rates, mechanisms, and other inner workings of evolution, then there are plenty of scientists questioning every single aspect of that every day. There's still great controversy over phyletic gradualism versus punctuated equilibrium. There's questions about the size of a population you need for speciation to occur, and how severe the barriers between populations need to be.
Scientists are studying every aspect of evolution with the same criticism they bring to everything they study. But telling us that we're being dogmatic for not questioning whether it actually occurs or not is just a cheap tactic of the Creationists that perverts the scientific method.
That's kind of a silly statement. Voyager and Enterprise sure took it down the tubes, but DS9, especially the last half of its run, was as good as TNG ever was, if not better.
MSRP for the 2007 Camry is $18,470-$28,020. MSRP for the 2007 Camry Hybrid is $26,200.
At most, this is less than $8,000. Considering the significant amount of other electronics always included in the Hybrid but optional in the non-hybrid, the difference is much, much less. It's even possible to get a non-hybrid that costs more than the hybrid.
Actually, the Toyota documentation lists the Prius (and the Camry hybrid) as a "Zero Emission Vehicle," and their Highlander hybrid (the small SUV) as a "Super Ultra Low Emission Vehicle" or SULEV.
I'm a professional lifeguard and was just going through a review of all my certifications when I learned of these changes a few days ago. It struck me as interesting, especially since the new 30/2 pattern applies to everyone, including children and infants (who used to be 5 compressions to 1 one breath).
I'd also thought it was just because they were worried that the previous set of guidelines confused some people, but maybe there's good science behind it.
The loss of abdominal thrusts for a choking victim bothers me, though, especially if that victim still has a pulse. Abdominal thrusts give a much, much more powerful thrust of air to dislodge anything stuck piece of food.
Most of our paleoclimate data on Earth comes from ice cores in Anarctica. As the ice freezes, it traps gasses and we can then analyze these gasses for things like Oxygen isotope values (which vary depending on the amount of evaporation going on worldwide), Carbon Dioxide amounts, etc.
Mars has polar ice caps, and we may one day be able to investigate these in some detail. The problem is that Mars does not currently have an active hydrosphere, which is where most of our inferred data about Earth's paleoclimate comes from. It's possible that this new solar cycle may affect the frequency and severity of Martian dust storms, and these will show up in the ice caps, or that we may be able to go deep enough to a point where Mars did have an active hydrosphere.
This can't have been a decision by Cingular. They've already got dozens of phones running several different operating systems that all allow third-party apps.
This is Apple not wanting anyone to play with their ball but trying to shift the blame for a lousy decision.
The sad part is that Apple used to be a lot better at keeping secrets. The big day would come, they'd trot out the new iPod or laptop or whatever, it would often be a near-complete surprise, and then they'd tell you that it's available for purchase that very day. The iPhone doesn't actually becaome available for six months.
Keeping something a secret until six months before release is much, much easier than keeping it a secret until release day.
Not quite. According to the article, the actual supernova ocurred 6-9ka ago. Another line suggests that it might have been observed on Earth 1-2ka ago.
The interesting thing isn't the relativistic factors, it's the simple fact that a single supernova can continue to have a significant effect over the course of a thousand years.
The article mentions that such and such of those who stopped early claimed to be familiar with the prior work.
It's perfectly possible that they asked questions like that after the experiment. That way they get their data and it doesn't put any ideas in the subjects' heads.
Actually, it's been shown that in some cases, PS2 games look significantly worse on the PS3 than they do on the PS2. It's got something to do with the way it upsamples certain resolutions.
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It's interesting that of all the nominees for movies, three of them were based on novels, one on a graphic novel, and only one was an original premise.
If you actually read the article, you'll see that both of these are misconceptions.
Lights for security at night simple cause terrible glare and make it easier for criminals to work. The article mentions a school system that stopped lighting its facilities at night and saw a decrease in vandalism.
Likewise with roads. Lights everywhere simply wash things out. If you instead focus on reflectors, you can highlight the areas that need to be seen and make it easier to drive.
Besides, if I take a lower-max-volume audio stream and turn it up "too loud" it doesn't seem to sound as good as when I have a higher-max-volume stream that I have to turn down the volume.
This is where you're incorrect. If you take the low-volume and high-volume originals, then play them so that the volume you hear is identical, the low-volume will contain much greater dynamic range and will sound much better.
So instead of Washington insiders bought by corporate lobbyists we'd have Tallahassee/Sacramento/Albany/etc insiders? What an improvement.
The electricity lost via transmission is about 7%. Considering that a power plant doesn't have to worry about things like being mobile, it's not hard to make that up.
And that's assuming you're getting your power from fossil fuels instead of nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, or solar.
Or you could put solar panels on your roof and charge your car that way.
It's indirectly good for the early adopters. When they lower the price, sales should go up. If sales go up, it has the potential to attract more developer attention. More developer attention means more games being released.
You haven't seen bluetooth headsets? Mics no longer need to be anywhere near your mouth for decent pickups these days. The size of a cell phone these days has nothing to do the size of your face and everything to do with the size of the components, display, and interface.
This is why many new printeres come with cartridges that are only half full.
It doesn't just take a chunk out of oil company profits. It can have high expenses for governments and people, especially those in developing countries who are hoping to bootstrap themselves and can't afford state-of-the-art.
Interestingly, studies have shown that the shift may actually be beneficial to the economies of first-world countries. It'll cost money to expand solar power, improve fuel efficiency, buy CFLs instead of incandescents, of course, but the actual spread of new industry in those fields should be beneficial to the economy as a whole.
The author of this article fails to reference a recent study that reaches completely different results.
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An Institute in Australia studied 120 11-15 year-olds and concluded that violent games did affect children who were already predisposed to violence and aggression, but children who were not violent to begin with were unaffected.
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So instead of plugging my phone into a wall, I can plug my phone into a box that I set on top of a table that's plugged into a wall.
Yeah, I want to pay to be able to do that.
Now, I may be wrong, but I believe that 93% is the efficiency of electricity being generated at the power plant and then sent to you, however many miles away. So it's not an either-or thing, it's an extra loss. Instead of losing 7% of the generated electricity, you lose nearly 25%. This is ridiculous compared to the effort of just plugging your damn devices in.
What do you mean by the basic tenets of macroevolution? If you're referring simply to the fact that it occurs or does not, then no, nobody is scientifically questioning this because it has been proven beyond any shadow of a doubt. Evolution happens. Nobody has produced a scrap of scientific evidence to even suggest that it might not happen.
If you mean the rates, mechanisms, and other inner workings of evolution, then there are plenty of scientists questioning every single aspect of that every day. There's still great controversy over phyletic gradualism versus punctuated equilibrium. There's questions about the size of a population you need for speciation to occur, and how severe the barriers between populations need to be.
Scientists are studying every aspect of evolution with the same criticism they bring to everything they study. But telling us that we're being dogmatic for not questioning whether it actually occurs or not is just a cheap tactic of the Creationists that perverts the scientific method.
That's kind of a silly statement. Voyager and Enterprise sure took it down the tubes, but DS9, especially the last half of its run, was as good as TNG ever was, if not better.
MSRP for the 2007 Camry is $18,470-$28,020.
MSRP for the 2007 Camry Hybrid is $26,200.
At most, this is less than $8,000. Considering the significant amount of other electronics always included in the Hybrid but optional in the non-hybrid, the difference is much, much less. It's even possible to get a non-hybrid that costs more than the hybrid.
Numbers from: http://www.edmunds.com/new/toyota/index.html
Actually, the Toyota documentation lists the Prius (and the Camry hybrid) as a "Zero Emission Vehicle," and their Highlander hybrid (the small SUV) as a "Super Ultra Low Emission Vehicle" or SULEV.
I'm a professional lifeguard and was just going through a review of all my certifications when I learned of these changes a few days ago. It struck me as interesting, especially since the new 30/2 pattern applies to everyone, including children and infants (who used to be 5 compressions to 1 one breath).
I'd also thought it was just because they were worried that the previous set of guidelines confused some people, but maybe there's good science behind it.
The loss of abdominal thrusts for a choking victim bothers me, though, especially if that victim still has a pulse. Abdominal thrusts give a much, much more powerful thrust of air to dislodge anything stuck piece of food.
As of now? No. Is it possible? Maybe.
Most of our paleoclimate data on Earth comes from ice cores in Anarctica. As the ice freezes, it traps gasses and we can then analyze these gasses for things like Oxygen isotope values (which vary depending on the amount of evaporation going on worldwide), Carbon Dioxide amounts, etc.
Mars has polar ice caps, and we may one day be able to investigate these in some detail. The problem is that Mars does not currently have an active hydrosphere, which is where most of our inferred data about Earth's paleoclimate comes from. It's possible that this new solar cycle may affect the frequency and severity of Martian dust storms, and these will show up in the ice caps, or that we may be able to go deep enough to a point where Mars did have an active hydrosphere.
That's like saying a belief in murder is ridiculous because people die all the time from natural causes.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
This can't have been a decision by Cingular. They've already got dozens of phones running several different operating systems that all allow third-party apps.
This is Apple not wanting anyone to play with their ball but trying to shift the blame for a lousy decision.
The sad part is that Apple used to be a lot better at keeping secrets. The big day would come, they'd trot out the new iPod or laptop or whatever, it would often be a near-complete surprise, and then they'd tell you that it's available for purchase that very day. The iPhone doesn't actually becaome available for six months.
Keeping something a secret until six months before release is much, much easier than keeping it a secret until release day.
Not quite. According to the article, the actual supernova ocurred 6-9ka ago. Another line suggests that it might have been observed on Earth 1-2ka ago.
The interesting thing isn't the relativistic factors, it's the simple fact that a single supernova can continue to have a significant effect over the course of a thousand years.
The article mentions that such and such of those who stopped early claimed to be familiar with the prior work.
It's perfectly possible that they asked questions like that after the experiment. That way they get their data and it doesn't put any ideas in the subjects' heads.
Games look almost as good as on the PS3.
Actually, it's been shown that in some cases, PS2 games look significantly worse on the PS3 than they do on the PS2. It's got something to do with the way it upsamples certain resolutions.