I've been looking to get an MP3 player as a gift for someone for a few weeks now, and I just can't seem to find one model that has the features I want:
Flash-based: she's a runner, so I don't believe the HD based ones could last
FM Tuner
USB 2.0
Voice Recording
256 MB internal, with the ability to expand via a card slot (SD preferable, but others would be considered)
Act as pen drive (in Windows) without additional drivers or the need for a cable.
It seems like relatively simple and low-end requirements, but I can't seem to find a device that fulfills all these. If you know of one specifically, I would appreciate feedback.
Um, I didn't say the amplifier was passive, just that amplifiers are possible. You seem to agree with this.
Secondly, power is not energy, power is energy per unit time. Thus, it is not a violation of conservation of energy to have more power coming out than going in. Rather, the time integral of power, i.e. the energy, must be conserved among all the sources and sinks.
Increase battery life or decrease power consumption, or a combination of the two. The second is largely not consistent with the trend for increasing computing power of mobile devices, which only leaves the first. Not sure what a second Moore's law is supposed to do to help this necessary development.
In high school, a priest once told the class that there were two, count them, two, miracles occuring to the eucharist: ordinary bread and wine were being transformed into the body and blood of christ, and that they still appeared to be still ordinary bread and wine.
I'm a recovering Catholic, too. There ought to be a support group.
Ah, an interesting theory. We'll forget for a moment that the entire nothern region was being patrolled by U.S./British aircraft (remember the no fly zone?). Consequently, he "couldn't" use them there either, for precisely the same reason you offer as to why he didn't use them against invaders.
However, that begs the question of how does that affect U.S. national security, which was the nominal reason for this little adventure? I've been waiting for 18 months for an answer to that one.
So he had WMDs, yet even under the threat of an invading force set out to depose him and, quite possibly, look the other way as he experiences a Mussolini moment, he "could not" use them for strategic purposes. Ok, let's buy that for a moment. Since even these extreme conditions he wouldn't use them, what does it matter if he had them at all? At worst, at the absolute worst, he was a collector, unwilling to take the toys out of the box in fear of decreasing their value.
Absolutely dead-on. Yes, we all want choices, and that includes businesses-spurs competition, accelerates improvements, and reduces price. However, if one is standardizing on a certain distro, it is imperative that distro is going to be around for a while, with support available, software releases continuing, patches, etc.
Consider this: how happy would you be if you were the owner of a smallish company that decided six months ago to standardize on RH 9? You're too small to have in-house programmers keep your systems up to date and compatible with whatever the new "standard" is, but you're big enough that switching to a new standard would be a royal pain. I'm thinking ballpark of 50-100 PCs. Playing the musical chair game of changing distros every six months would get old real fast.
Ultimately, that is why people stick with Microsoft, not so much for the love of the company, but the stability and the wide range of applications and support even after a product has been EOLed. I know places that are still running Windows 95, and a lot of things still work right out of the box. How true is that for a Linux Distro circa 1995, any Linux Distro?
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I've been looking to get an MP3 player as a gift for someone for a few weeks now, and I just can't seem to find one model that has the features I want:
Flash-based: she's a runner, so I don't believe the HD based ones could last
FM Tuner
USB 2.0
Voice Recording
256 MB internal, with the ability to expand via a card slot (SD preferable, but others would be considered)
Act as pen drive (in Windows) without additional drivers or the need for a cable.
It seems like relatively simple and low-end requirements, but I can't seem to find a device that fulfills all these. If you know of one specifically, I would appreciate feedback.
He's Klingon, pretending to be a human, pretending to be a Klingon. Sounds like a movie:
Worf, Worfia
It still hasn't kissed a girl!
Um, I didn't say the amplifier was passive, just that amplifiers are possible. You seem to agree with this. Secondly, power is not energy, power is energy per unit time. Thus, it is not a violation of conservation of energy to have more power coming out than going in. Rather, the time integral of power, i.e. the energy, must be conserved among all the sources and sinks.
Um, there's nothing wrong with having more power come out than went in; it's called an amplifier.
A fan that has no moving parts isn't so much a fan as a piece of curvy metal sculpture.
They would be appropriately called "doilies"
They're making a sequel to that movie?!? That has to be one of the signs of the apocalypse.
Increase battery life or decrease power consumption, or a combination of the two. The second is largely not consistent with the trend for increasing computing power of mobile devices, which only leaves the first. Not sure what a second Moore's law is supposed to do to help this necessary development.
Being impartial in the reporting of a story is certainly possible; deciding what is a newsworthy story is where bias really shows.
If you follow that regimen, you'll never stop drinking coffee. Confer Zeno's paradox.
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No, ".mob" would be much better; has a much better...ring to it.
Me too!
I'm a recovering Catholic, too. There ought to be a support group.
Anarchy isn't a problem, it's the solution.
Since he wrote if for his son, and presumably they would be doing it together, perhaps Extreme Astrolabing would be appropriate.
Just us, the primary duty of any state. We didn't enter WWII until it did concern us, and not one second earlier.
Ah, an interesting theory. We'll forget for a moment that the entire nothern region was being patrolled by U.S./British aircraft (remember the no fly zone?). Consequently, he "couldn't" use them there either, for precisely the same reason you offer as to why he didn't use them against invaders.
However, that begs the question of how does that affect U.S. national security, which was the nominal reason for this little adventure? I've been waiting for 18 months for an answer to that one.
So he had WMDs, yet even under the threat of an invading force set out to depose him and, quite possibly, look the other way as he experiences a Mussolini moment, he "could not" use them for strategic purposes. Ok, let's buy that for a moment. Since even these extreme conditions he wouldn't use them, what does it matter if he had them at all? At worst, at the absolute worst, he was a collector, unwilling to take the toys out of the box in fear of decreasing their value.
Q: How many physicists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Just one, but he needs tenure, 3 graduate students, and an NSF grant for incentive.
And so the apologists start...apologizing. I suppose if we pretend it didn't happen, isn't happening, then everything would be rainbows and kittens.
Absolutely dead-on. Yes, we all want choices, and that includes businesses-spurs competition, accelerates improvements, and reduces price. However, if one is standardizing on a certain distro, it is imperative that distro is going to be around for a while, with support available, software releases continuing, patches, etc.
Consider this: how happy would you be if you were the owner of a smallish company that decided six months ago to standardize on RH 9? You're too small to have in-house programmers keep your systems up to date and compatible with whatever the new "standard" is, but you're big enough that switching to a new standard would be a royal pain. I'm thinking ballpark of 50-100 PCs. Playing the musical chair game of changing distros every six months would get old real fast.
Ultimately, that is why people stick with Microsoft, not so much for the love of the company, but the stability and the wide range of applications and support even after a product has been EOLed. I know places that are still running Windows 95, and a lot of things still work right out of the box. How true is that for a Linux Distro circa 1995, any Linux Distro?
NASA's reputation was destroyed with Challenger back in '86. The latest incident with Columbia just proved the point to any lingering doubters.
You find out that there is a whole subculture devoted to Mallard duck porn. I can imagine the trades on IRC, and the associated checklists:
Mallard Duck heterosexual copulation --check
Mallard Duck homosexual copulation --check
Mallard Duck heterosexual necrophiliac copulation -- check
Mallard Duck homosexual necrophiliac copulation --the holy grail