That's the point, isn't it? Hopefully citizens in those countries will wish that they weren't embargoed and put pressure on their government to change.
I understand that not everyplace has a representative democracy with regular, free elections like the US, but except for the worst dictatorships that rule by force, the government must remain popular with the people!
I second that. I learned on regular Basic...I know they are an anachronism but line numbers really helped me - they help bring some order into a bizarre coding universe. GOTO 100 is pretty easy to understand...and once you "get it", getting rid of line numbers in favor of subroutines, etc. is not too tough.
The cavitation damage to the solid rock of the spillway walls was truly incredible.
For an exciting telling of the story, search Google Video for "Challenge at Glen Canyon". (You will be instantly reminded of every National Parks visitors center you have been in.)
I've got a 27" Sony about 16 years old, bought used. It is truly massive - I seriously would not trust one of those wobbly particle-board entertainment centers not to collapse under its weight. Impossible to move, especially since it feels like about 80% of the weight is in the screen, making it very lopsided.
Still running good and looks great though...and 2-tuner PIP TVs went out of style for a while, another great feature.
That's a common misconseption there - prices in a competitive market are based on the consumer's willingness to pay, and nothing else. The cost of manufacturing equipment would only come into play in a monopoly situation, where the seller is able to "set" prices (because she will be sure to set them higher than her per-unit production costs.)
This is the same misconseption people often apply to baseball player salaries - they do NOT drive ticket prices. Baseball ticket prices are set at the highest level the market will bear - a price that is determined as consumers make decisions between countless sources of entertainment and leisure.
What is confusing is that the quality of a product (and therefore the market demand for it, sometimes) is often related to the cost of production, so it looks like production costs set prices. But remember when Homer designed a car? It was $80,000, and no one wanted to buy it at that price! The consumers decided there were better uses for their car-buying dollars. This is a perfect (although fictional) illustration of why costs != prices in a competitive market.
My company (architecture/engineering) uses an open office plan and I like it.
It takes a little getting-used-to; you need a little bit thicker skin when it comes to distractions, but it is not nearly as bad as I first thought it would be - and the benefits in day-to-day workplace communication are significant.
If you can see someone is at their desk by standing up and looking across the office, you are much more likely to walk over and talk than to send an email or call someone who is 20 feet away. It may sound inefficient to a slashdotter, but face-to-face communication is really useful.
"Comrades, what is our research quota this month?"
"2000 science-hours! We have already reached half that!"
"Good, then we will be assured of our grant next month!"
The point is...the free market is best (not perfect, but best) at directing funds to the 'best' research. If research were centrally funded, how would one decide which to fund? How would one pick a decider?
Universal health care is a different order of magnitude from this war:
Medicare spending over the next 5 years is estimated at $2.56 trillion by the CBO (nonpartisan), while 5 years of Iraq war has only cost us $500 billion. (source: a very partisan-looking website)
If you want to expand government (taxpayer) funded health care from the approximately 50 million people Medicare currently covers to everyone, that $2.56 trillion goes up by a factor of about six.
Looks like everyone took the sensationalist bait on this.
Article is pretty light on details but it seems like the judge is trying to understand what a website actually "is"...it seems like an issue in this case is where the defendants' activities took place.
So perhaps he realized he needed to know more than "a window that comes up on your computer" as far as what a website is. It doesn't seem unreasonable for a 59-year-old in a completely non-technical job to not know how a website is put together; "what is a website?" is a feasible way to ask not only "describe this thing to me", but also "what makes up this thing?". Maybe he was asking the latter.
Nice explanation; I'd like to add that climbers don't use steel cables because, like you said, they absorb the energy of the fall over a short distance - very uncomfortable/dangerous to the climber when he or she falls.
With a rope you get a nice "stretch" and bounce rather than jerked to a stop and a possible case of whiplash.
For the same reason, safety lanyards used to tie off in construction have a "bunched" portion that expands under load.
It is pretty obvious that the use of cell phones on planes is possible, without adverse effects on the airplane. Maybe there is some trouble with the ground stations, as a previous poster pointed out, but do you know who else bans cell phones? Greyhound and the other bus lines, and they don't pretend there is a technical reason for it.
Can you imagine being on a plane full of people talking on their phones non-stop? Or even just having to sit next to someone gossiping their head off for an entire 3 hour flight?
The airlines ban cell phones for the comfort of their passengers, and I'm glad they do.
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I still don't think its accurate to say planes with age greater than 10 years undergo "many many many major overhauls, to include electronics"
United's 777's were mostly delivered between 1995-2000 and I bet the only major electronics upgrades were to the passenger entertainment systems.
https://sites.google.com/site/unitedfleetsite/mainline-fleet-tracking
That's the point, isn't it? Hopefully citizens in those countries will wish that they weren't embargoed and put pressure on their government to change.
I understand that not everyplace has a representative democracy with regular, free elections like the US, but except for the worst dictatorships that rule by force, the government must remain popular with the people!
I second that.
I learned on regular Basic...I know they are an anachronism but line numbers really helped me - they help bring some order into a bizarre coding universe. GOTO 100 is pretty easy to understand...and once you "get it", getting rid of line numbers in favor of subroutines, etc. is not too tough.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html
I don't have time to find this exact rule...someone looking for Karma care to reply with it?
The Glen Canyon Dam was almost the site of a much larger flood in 1983, when it was nearly overtopped.
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=%22the+1983+flood+at+glen+canyon%22&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2003-03/water-vapor-almost-busts-dam
The cavitation damage to the solid rock of the spillway walls was truly incredible.
For an exciting telling of the story, search Google Video for "Challenge at Glen Canyon". (You will be instantly reminded of every National Parks visitors center you have been in.)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1358563539762136744
I've got a 27" Sony about 16 years old, bought used. It is truly massive - I seriously would not trust one of those wobbly particle-board entertainment centers not to collapse under its weight. Impossible to move, especially since it feels like about 80% of the weight is in the screen, making it very lopsided.
Still running good and looks great though...and 2-tuner PIP TVs went out of style for a while, another great feature.
That's a common misconseption there - prices in a competitive market are based on the consumer's willingness to pay, and nothing else. The cost of manufacturing equipment would only come into play in a monopoly situation, where the seller is able to "set" prices (because she will be sure to set them higher than her per-unit production costs.)
This is the same misconseption people often apply to baseball player salaries - they do NOT drive ticket prices. Baseball ticket prices are set at the highest level the market will bear - a price that is determined as consumers make decisions between countless sources of entertainment and leisure.
What is confusing is that the quality of a product (and therefore the market demand for it, sometimes) is often related to the cost of production, so it looks like production costs set prices. But remember when Homer designed a car? It was $80,000, and no one wanted to buy it at that price! The consumers decided there were better uses for their car-buying dollars. This is a perfect (although fictional) illustration of why costs != prices in a competitive market.
My company (architecture/engineering) uses an open office plan and I like it.
It takes a little getting-used-to; you need a little bit thicker skin when it comes to distractions, but it is not nearly as bad as I first thought it would be - and the benefits in day-to-day workplace communication are significant.
If you can see someone is at their desk by standing up and looking across the office, you are much more likely to walk over and talk than to send an email or call someone who is 20 feet away. It may sound inefficient to a slashdotter, but face-to-face communication is really useful.
"Comrades, what is our research quota this month?"
"2000 science-hours! We have already reached half that!"
"Good, then we will be assured of our grant next month!"
The point is...the free market is best (not perfect, but best) at directing funds to the 'best' research.
If research were centrally funded, how would one decide which to fund? How would one pick a decider?
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/earthquake_sets_japan_back_to_2147
Universal health care is a different order of magnitude from this war: Medicare spending over the next 5 years is estimated at $2.56 trillion by the CBO (nonpartisan), while 5 years of Iraq war has only cost us $500 billion. (source: a very partisan-looking website)
If you want to expand government (taxpayer) funded health care from the approximately 50 million people Medicare currently covers to everyone, that $2.56 trillion goes up by a factor of about six.
Looks like everyone took the sensationalist bait on this.
Article is pretty light on details but it seems like the judge is trying to understand what a website actually "is"...it seems like an issue in this case is where the defendants' activities took place.
So perhaps he realized he needed to know more than "a window that comes up on your computer" as far as what a website is. It doesn't seem unreasonable for a 59-year-old in a completely non-technical job to not know how a website is put together; "what is a website?" is a feasible way to ask not only "describe this thing to me", but also "what makes up this thing?". Maybe he was asking the latter.
I recommend books.
Nice explanation; I'd like to add that climbers don't use steel cables because, like you said, they absorb the energy of the fall over a short distance - very uncomfortable/dangerous to the climber when he or she falls.
With a rope you get a nice "stretch" and bounce rather than jerked to a stop and a possible case of whiplash.
For the same reason, safety lanyards used to tie off in construction have a "bunched" portion that expands under load.
What about Rosella? (Kings Quest IV anyone)
First female videogame main character?
The article also doesn't mention Roberta Williams who I seem to remember being pretty instrumental down at Sierra.
In related news, NIF has ordered 192 sharks.
Slight sidebar perhaps...
In the article it says that GPS would not be possible without the use of Relativity Theory.
Why is this? Is it due to time dilation effects at the speed of the satellites?
Or something else I'm not thinking of?
Everyone here is talking about CS fundamentals this and that...I don't know what assembly is.
College students should be taught CS basics like MP5 usage, burst firing, and not to camp.
But can they make a new non-stick pan surface out of it?
Yeah, I watched Contact on TV last night too.
In case you're wondering what it looks like
http://www.voynich.nu/
Hey, the only reason I clicked on this article was to read some good ol' nerd jokes.
I wasn't surprised to find the first thread was exactly what I was looking for.
Ok I got one:
Does this mean the Enterprise OS comes with a 20 digit license number written in marker on each isolinear chip?
Hilarious.
Not to be arguementative, I have only ridden the bus once or twice...
but the bus driver made it very clear NO PHONES....one lady disreguarded this and he pulled the bus over and tried to make her get off.
This was a Boston to NYC bus, and it was in the wee hours of the morning...
It is pretty obvious that the use of cell phones on planes is possible, without adverse effects on the airplane. Maybe there is some trouble with the ground stations, as a previous poster pointed out, but do you know who else bans cell phones? Greyhound and the other bus lines, and they don't pretend there is a technical reason for it.
Can you imagine being on a plane full of people talking on their phones non-stop? Or even just having to sit next to someone gossiping their head off for an entire 3 hour flight?
The airlines ban cell phones for the comfort of their passengers, and I'm glad they do.
FYI, there is no Chicago airport code "CHI".
O'Hare is ORD, Midway is MDW.