I'm no expert on the subject, but wouldn't these sort of magnets be necessary to construct any sort of conventional power plant as well?
(Similarly, every hard drive manufactured for the past ~20 yearas has contained two of these magnets each. That sort of quantity makes me think that the supply of these materials is not as scarce as the commenter in that article would have us believe)
Do you include drunk driving incidents? People who later die of their injuries? Assisted suicide? What if a murder gets classified as an accidental death, due to corruption or incompetence?
There was a big hullabaloo in the UK a few years back that got picked up by the gun-rights crowd.
In the 90s, London enacted significantly stricter rules and restrictions regarding knives and firearms. Around the same time, they also changed their definition of 'Violent Crime' to be more inclusive of minor incidents.
Unsurprisingly, the violent crime rate skyrocketed, and the 2nd Ammendment proponents felt vindicated, even though the reality was somewhat different.
The knife crime "epidemic" in Britain was only notable, because violent crimes in the UK are so few and far between. The total number of violent crimes per year in the entire UK is comparable to the number of fatal shootings in Detroit per month.
Apple don't do automatic updates, period. If Mac OS X is updating itself or installing something, you know about it. Up until recently, Microsoft tended to be the only people who would attempt to sneak background crap alongside legitimate apps on OS X.
Windows is the only OS I know of that actually encourages unattended installation of applications and updates.
IIRC, the cancer claims were refuted. DDT's primarily a threat to birds.
Similarly, if we ban the export DDT to 3rd-world nations, we should at least subsidize the cost of alternative chemicals (which are equally effective, but more expensive) so that they cost no more than DDT.
There is no shortage of opportunity. However, as with the early home computer market, there is a shortage of consensus on what a storage system actually does, other than "store stuff". That seems to be a world Wozniak does well in - the lack of standards meant the Apple II did well, the presence of standards meant that NeXT didn't. In the current computing world, where standards are everything (especially if they come with pretty holographic stickers), can he do much with the flexibility in the arena?
I always thought that the Apple ][ did well because it was cheap and versatile, and that NeXT failed because their machines were outlandishly expensive and proprietary.
"Good enough" is not really in Apple's vocabulary, though. I've seen many MP3 phones before the iPhone, and all of them were "good enough". You could drag files onto the memory cards, the music playing app would pick them up. You could play, pause, next, shuffle... all the basic features.
Actually, most current phones that Verizon ships aren't even really capable of this. Proprietary formats galore!
The only bright side is that bluetooth file transfers (finally) seem to work.
It's notable, not because Jack Daniels is good, but because a country widely-known for its Whisky actually favors cheap shit imported from America.
It's not surprising that Bud is the best-selling beer in the US. It's a domestic brand, cheap, widely available, and heavily marketed.
It would be surprising, however, if Tennents or Carling were the most popular beers in the US, given that (despite their overseas popularity) they're fairly unremarkable, and would be comparatively expensive, once import tariffs are added.
Import tariffs aren't exactly cheap, which makes it even more surprising.
Anchorage is a fairly established city, and being near to the sea, its climate isn't terribly different from Chicago's.
Even folks from Fairbanks would balk at your comment!*
*A few of us do indeed still live "off the grid," without public utilities that many of us take for granted. The rest of the population find these people to be completely insane.
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AFAIK, the Morgantown system is nothing more than a light rail system with extremely small vehicles.
It's also extremely small, compared to what's being attempted.
OK, but bear with me..... assume a spherical girlfriend of uniform density.....
Perhaps I should have been more clear.
Virtualization allows you to swap out the underlying hardware without reconfiguring the server's OS.
Granted, you still do need to set up a "host" operating system, although this tends to be a fairly trivial task.
Your situation sounds like a really strong case for virtualization or clustering....
I've been warned that Newton's approach to Calculus is somewhat incomprehensible from the perspective of a modern mathematician.
Leibniz's approach is supposedly much closer to what we use today.
I'm no expert on the subject, but wouldn't these sort of magnets be necessary to construct any sort of conventional power plant as well?
(Similarly, every hard drive manufactured for the past ~20 yearas has contained two of these magnets each. That sort of quantity makes me think that the supply of these materials is not as scarce as the commenter in that article would have us believe)
Just guessing, but 8.04 is a Long-Term-Support release.
Define 'murder'
Do you include drunk driving incidents? People who later die of their injuries? Assisted suicide? What if a murder gets classified as an accidental death, due to corruption or incompetence?
There was a big hullabaloo in the UK a few years back that got picked up by the gun-rights crowd.
In the 90s, London enacted significantly stricter rules and restrictions regarding knives and firearms. Around the same time, they also changed their definition of 'Violent Crime' to be more inclusive of minor incidents.
Unsurprisingly, the violent crime rate skyrocketed, and the 2nd Ammendment proponents felt vindicated, even though the reality was somewhat different.
The knife crime "epidemic" in Britain was only notable, because violent crimes in the UK are so few and far between. The total number of violent crimes per year in the entire UK is comparable to the number of fatal shootings in Detroit per month.
Huh?
Apple don't do automatic updates, period. If Mac OS X is updating itself or installing something, you know about it. Up until recently, Microsoft tended to be the only people who would attempt to sneak background crap alongside legitimate apps on OS X.
Windows is the only OS I know of that actually encourages unattended installation of applications and updates.
There are numerous studies out that show that citing your sources make what you say credible.
Care to name some? ;-)
I believe Mono is still missing the actual codec to play back the video.
AFAIK, Netflix streaming uses VC-1, which is the same codec used by Blu-Ray.
IIRC, the cancer claims were refuted. DDT's primarily a threat to birds.
Similarly, if we ban the export DDT to 3rd-world nations, we should at least subsidize the cost of alternative chemicals (which are equally effective, but more expensive) so that they cost no more than DDT.
There is no shortage of opportunity. However, as with the early home computer market, there is a shortage of consensus on what a storage system actually does, other than "store stuff". That seems to be a world Wozniak does well in - the lack of standards meant the Apple II did well, the presence of standards meant that NeXT didn't. In the current computing world, where standards are everything (especially if they come with pretty holographic stickers), can he do much with the flexibility in the arena?
I always thought that the Apple ][ did well because it was cheap and versatile, and that NeXT failed because their machines were outlandishly expensive and proprietary.
Well, that all depends -- is it on top of a fault line?
"Good enough" is not really in Apple's vocabulary, though. I've seen many MP3 phones before the iPhone, and all of them were "good enough". You could drag files onto the memory cards, the music playing app would pick them up. You could play, pause, next, shuffle... all the basic features.
Actually, most current phones that Verizon ships aren't even really capable of this. Proprietary formats galore!
The only bright side is that bluetooth file transfers (finally) seem to work.
I've always seen Wikipedia as the internet's equivalent to NPR.
Finally, an ounce of rationality here (and when the heck did slashdot swing to the extreme right?).
To put things into perspective, the applications for 21,000 H1B visas referenced in TFA represent 0.006% of the population of the US.
There are office buildings in most major cities that could house every single one of these workers, and still have plenty of space left over.
Get over it. The significance of this is literally microscopic in the grand scheme of things.
Let's put this into perspective.
According to TFA, 21,000 visas were requested (not granted).
That's 0.006% of the US population.
Cut me a break. This is xenophobia and sensationalist reporting at its worst.
It's notable, not because Jack Daniels is good, but because a country widely-known for its Whisky actually favors cheap shit imported from America.
It's not surprising that Bud is the best-selling beer in the US. It's a domestic brand, cheap, widely available, and heavily marketed.
It would be surprising, however, if Tennents or Carling were the most popular beers in the US, given that (despite their overseas popularity) they're fairly unremarkable, and would be comparatively expensive, once import tariffs are added.
Import tariffs aren't exactly cheap, which makes it even more surprising.
Anchorage is mostly at risk for an Earthquake. The city basically got leveled by one in 1964.
Anchorage is a fairly established city, and being near to the sea, its climate isn't terribly different from Chicago's.
Even folks from Fairbanks would balk at your comment!*
*A few of us do indeed still live "off the grid," without public utilities that many of us take for granted. The rest of the population find these people to be completely insane.
Have you read the comments on any of the political stories lately?
Make a joke, ask for Obama's impeachment, and watch it get modded to +5 Insightful.
Regardless of your political leanings, the current state of political discourse and debate is absolutely shameful.
I'm actually a bit surprised by this. UAF (where AVO are located) have plenty of computing capacity.
The Highland council is reported to have a population of 217,000.
I tend to doubt that there are 24 people per household.....
I don't have a source for this, but IIRC, Jack Daniels is the best-selling Whisk(e)y in Scotland.
At the very least, it certainly seemed that way when I used to live out near Dundee....