Arbitrary rules reduce respect for the necessary ones. For example: No headphones during take-off? Makes perfect sense - take-off is one of the most sensitive times of the flight. If someone needs to yell directions, you need to hear them. Reading a book on your Kindle? Not so much.
This seems similar to people creating backronyms, insisting there must be a valid reason for these rules even if it's not the one we're told, why do you think it's necessary? Air Canada apparently don't think it's necessary to not wear headphones, they only require that they are connected to the in cabin entertainment systems rather than a personal device, but you are free to wear your headphones and use the entertainment during takeoff and landing.
Yes, the pictures look "quite nice", so what? Do they look significantly better than what Sony, Samsung or Apple have in their top end phones? Not really, and none of those phones are nearly 2cm thick at the camera module. It's an interesting tech demo, but that's really about it at the moment.
I've heard the article, seen the videos, digested the spiel, but I still don't see why I'd want a Google TV box. It's a standalone box that isn't a DVR, isn't a games console and doesn't play physical media like DVDs/BRs. And it was $300 at launch, did they seriously think they had a winner there? It seems to be a solution to a problem that no one else thinks is a problem, if it had a least been integrated with a physical media player, or DVR (and I mean been a DVR, not sort of linked up to an external unit), it could have been justified as a replacement for something I already had, as it was it was just another expensive device wanting one of the limited HDMI ports on my TV.
I've actually considered running for office for these types of laws to be passed (REAL net-neutrality, get rid of software patents, etc).
Unless you can convince large corporate donors, trial lawyers, unions, etc. that this is in their best interest, you haven't a prayer of getting elected, much less enacting any legislation.
If you want to change the way things work, you need to become very rich first. After which, you'll have a vested interest in making sure things don't change. This is true in all democracies.
And even assuming you managed to raise enough funding you then need to convince enough people in a particular area that your one issue stance is so important that they should vote for you ahead of any more rounded candidates, good luck.
Firstly a lot of people in here seem to be confusing Smart Meters with Energy Monitors. The former replaces the old dial meter and it supposed to communicate with other meters in the area and/or directly with the energy supplier for billing and better tracking of consumption.
Energy Monitors are those devices which clamp around lines by your meter and communicate to a box in your house giving you an idea of your realtime energy use.
The displacement number in rotary engines is quite misleading.
So true, it drives me nuts to see people going on about how awesome it is "and only a 1.3 litre engine". When you realise that this measurement for a wankel only gives you one rotation of the output shaft compared to 2 rotations for a 4cyl 4 stroke it doesn't look so great anymore and you see why the fuel economy sucks.
Well do you see a comunist working his ass of after work to make a new cure for a specific cancer type if he doesn't get paid extra for his extra efford?
I'm not sure how it works in the US but here in the UK a subsidised phone is yours to do as you wish with irrespective of the length of the contract. They discount the price (down to free sometimes) obviously based on the expected income from the life of the contract, but the phone is not leased to you during the contract it's wholly yours.
Absolutely untrue. Common law marriages are not recognised for tax purposes, but they are (in certain situations) recognised for deciding ownership of things if you split up.
No, the term does not exist (in the UK), splitting property simply comes down to what you can prove. You paid for it by yourself, it's yours. You paid jointly without something to show how much came from each person you own it jointly. The point is cohabiting with someone you consider your partner confers no benefits or rights beyond cohabiting with friends or random people when you were a student. If you can find anything to the contrary I'll happily recant.
I believe that we quailfy under UK law as a Common Law Couple, though tbh I am not really sure I benifit, I think it just makes it easier for her to get 50% if we split.
There is no recognition under UK Law for anything other than Marriage or Civil Partnership. Neither of you have any more more rights or benefits than two random people who happen to share the same house. "Common Law Marriage" does not exist in the UK.
The other kid had a broken arm set in one of those fiberglass casts before we left the US. After we arrived in the UK and it was time to remove the cast, they didn't know how to deal with it. They started to get out a rotary saw and I told them that it could be removed safely with scissors. They sent us to several different hospitals and then made us come back after they consulted with some doctors in the US. Of course, they removed the cast with scissors...
Actually that rotary saw device you saw vibrates the blade, it doesn't spin it. It's a much better device/method for cutting fibreglass casts than scissors. I mean seriously you thought they were going to use a circular saw on your kid to remove a cast?! That you've never seen these doesn't speak well for the supposed better quality of your health care over there in US.
What? I guess it depends how you define efficiency but for equivalent rotations of the output shaft a Wankel engine sweeps twice it's measured volume compared to 4 stroke 4 pot, that's why they have appalling mpg, they're small but they definitely not efficient.
No really, they are publicly scrapping the ID card compulsion, but they are still planning to build and populate the back end database which was the real bad idea behind the ID cards anyway. I imagine they will make it a requirement of new passports or renewals that you have to give the same information they would have requested for the ID cards, they're just hoping enough people fall for the con that because they don't have to have an ID card anymore the problem has gone away.
Speaking of ignorance, in digital cinema terms 2K refers to a horizontal resolution of around 2000 pixels, because of the variability of the projected format (1.85, 2.35 etc) it makes more sense to refer to the horizontal resolution rather than the vertical one.
How so? if two people travel 40 miles @ 40MPG and take separate cars they consume 2 gallons, if they take the same car they only consume 1 gallon. Overall consumption has doubled by them taking their own car vs carpooling.
Basically, there is a correlation between passengers and number of vehicles on the road. If you increase the number of vehicles on the road for the same number of passengers you are obviously increasing consumption for the same distance. I am looking at Average distance over Total Consumption, the reason I do this is to look at everyone's MPG rather than each individual vehicle.
t's best to consider PMPG (Passenger MPG). Also to note, if you have one person per car that average 40MPG you don't have still 40PMPG, you actually have 20PMPG. I get this number by total miles over total gallons used, if two 40MPG cars drive 40 miles you've used a total of 2 gallons, one for each car. thus total fuel consumption per person is 20, not 40.
Really? Are you sure about that? 40 miles / 2 gallons is 20mpg, sure. But you seem to be ignoring the fact that you have two passengers, so 1 person per car is still 40mpg per passenger.
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England? You mean the UK? And no, they don't.
If Iodine-129 is getting released, it has a half life of over 15 million years... get the hell out.
Why? With the half life being that long and it being a low energy beta and gamma emitter which decays to a stable Xenon what's to worry about?
Really? The N900 has a squishy resistive touchscreen that is very easily scratched.
Arbitrary rules reduce respect for the necessary ones. For example: No headphones during take-off? Makes perfect sense - take-off is one of the most sensitive times of the flight. If someone needs to yell directions, you need to hear them. Reading a book on your Kindle? Not so much.
This seems similar to people creating backronyms, insisting there must be a valid reason for these rules even if it's not the one we're told, why do you think it's necessary? Air Canada apparently don't think it's necessary to not wear headphones, they only require that they are connected to the in cabin entertainment systems rather than a personal device, but you are free to wear your headphones and use the entertainment during takeoff and landing.
Yes, the pictures look "quite nice", so what?
Do they look significantly better than what Sony, Samsung or Apple have in their top end phones? Not really, and none of those phones are nearly 2cm thick at the camera module.
It's an interesting tech demo, but that's really about it at the moment.
I've heard the article, seen the videos, digested the spiel, but I still don't see why I'd want a Google TV box.
It's a standalone box that isn't a DVR, isn't a games console and doesn't play physical media like DVDs/BRs. And it was $300 at launch, did they seriously think they had a winner there?
It seems to be a solution to a problem that no one else thinks is a problem, if it had a least been integrated with a physical media player, or DVR (and I mean been a DVR, not sort of linked up to an external unit), it could have been justified as a replacement for something I already had, as it was it was just another expensive device wanting one of the limited HDMI ports on my TV.
Hard drives don't write 1s and 0s to a disk, look up EPRML and tell me how your idea will work.
I've actually considered running for office for these types of laws to be passed (REAL net-neutrality, get rid of software patents, etc).
Unless you can convince large corporate donors, trial lawyers, unions, etc. that this is in their best interest, you haven't a prayer of getting elected, much less enacting any legislation.
If you want to change the way things work, you need to become very rich first. After which, you'll have a vested interest in making sure things don't change. This is true in all democracies.
And even assuming you managed to raise enough funding you then need to convince enough people in a particular area that your one issue stance is so important that they should vote for you ahead of any more rounded candidates, good luck.
Firstly a lot of people in here seem to be confusing Smart Meters with Energy Monitors. The former replaces the old dial meter and it supposed to communicate with other meters in the area and/or directly with the energy supplier for billing and better tracking of consumption.
Energy Monitors are those devices which clamp around lines by your meter and communicate to a box in your house giving you an idea of your realtime energy use.
The displacement number in rotary engines is quite misleading.
So true, it drives me nuts to see people going on about how awesome it is "and only a 1.3 litre engine". When you realise that this measurement for a wankel only gives you one rotation of the output shaft compared to 2 rotations for a 4cyl 4 stroke it doesn't look so great anymore and you see why the fuel economy sucks.
Well do you see a comunist working his ass of after work to make a new cure for a specific cancer type if he doesn't get paid extra for his extra efford?
Umm, yes? http://gizmodo.com/5838344/cubas-lung-cancer-vaccine-could-save-your-life
from the FAQ;
'"Maqetta" is a spelling variation of the Spanish word for mock-up ("maqueta"). The team members pronounce the name as if the "q" were a "k".'
So, yes. :)
I'm not sure how it works in the US but here in the UK a subsidised phone is yours to do as you wish with irrespective of the length of the contract. They discount the price (down to free sometimes) obviously based on the expected income from the life of the contract, but the phone is not leased to you during the contract it's wholly yours.
There in a link in the comments section to a much better article that explains why even though these fossils are from Africa they are being linked to primate origins in Asia.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/10/where-did-all-these-primates-come-from-fossil-teeth-may-hint-at-an-asian-origin-for-anthropoid-primates/
Absolutely untrue. Common law marriages are not recognised for tax purposes, but they are (in certain situations) recognised for deciding ownership of things if you split up.
No, the term does not exist (in the UK), splitting property simply comes down to what you can prove. You paid for it by yourself, it's yours. You paid jointly without something to show how much came from each person you own it jointly. The point is cohabiting with someone you consider your partner confers no benefits or rights beyond cohabiting with friends or random people when you were a student. If you can find anything to the contrary I'll happily recant.
I believe that we quailfy under UK law as a Common Law Couple, though tbh I am not really sure I benifit, I think it just makes it easier for her to get 50% if we split.
There is no recognition under UK Law for anything other than Marriage or Civil Partnership. Neither of you have any more more rights or benefits than two random people who happen to share the same house. "Common Law Marriage" does not exist in the UK.
Strictly speaking AMOLED...is TFT; "TFT LCD" in the latter case would be more precise. ;)
TFT, yes. LCD, no. Remind me again where the liquid crystals are in an AMOLED display, oh that's right, there aren't any.
The other kid had a broken arm set in one of those fiberglass casts before we left the US. After we arrived in the UK and it was time to remove the cast, they didn't know how to deal with it. They started to get out a rotary saw and I told them that it could be removed safely with scissors. They sent us to several different hospitals and then made us come back after they consulted with some doctors in the US. Of course, they removed the cast with scissors...
Actually that rotary saw device you saw vibrates the blade, it doesn't spin it. It's a much better device/method for cutting fibreglass casts than scissors. I mean seriously you thought they were going to use a circular saw on your kid to remove a cast?! That you've never seen these doesn't speak well for the supposed better quality of your health care over there in US.
What? I guess it depends how you define efficiency but for equivalent rotations of the output shaft a Wankel engine sweeps twice it's measured volume compared to 4 stroke 4 pot, that's why they have appalling mpg, they're small but they definitely not efficient.
1 pint is technically 568.26ml I think that last 1/4 ml approximation is as close as to not really matter.
No really, they are publicly scrapping the ID card compulsion, but they are still planning to build and populate the back end database which was the real bad idea behind the ID cards anyway. I imagine they will make it a requirement of new passports or renewals that you have to give the same information they would have requested for the ID cards, they're just hoping enough people fall for the con that because they don't have to have an ID card anymore the problem has gone away.
Been a surprising lack of outrageous April Fools on most of the sites I usually visit, unless they're all so subtle I'm just not getting it....
Speaking of ignorance, in digital cinema terms 2K refers to a horizontal resolution of around 2000 pixels, because of the variability of the projected format (1.85, 2.35 etc) it makes more sense to refer to the horizontal resolution rather than the vertical one.
How so? if two people travel 40 miles @ 40MPG and take separate cars they consume 2 gallons, if they take the same car they only consume 1 gallon. Overall consumption has doubled by them taking their own car vs carpooling.
Basically, there is a correlation between passengers and number of vehicles on the road. If you increase the number of vehicles on the road for the same number of passengers you are obviously increasing consumption for the same distance. I am looking at Average distance over Total Consumption, the reason I do this is to look at everyone's MPG rather than each individual vehicle.
Passenger MPG = distance travelled / ( gallons used / passengers )
As you say in your first line consumption doubled, but then you have doubled the number of people travelling, so passenger MPG remains the same.
t's best to consider PMPG (Passenger MPG). Also to note, if you have one person per car that average 40MPG you don't have still 40PMPG, you actually have 20PMPG. I get this number by total miles over total gallons used, if two 40MPG cars drive 40 miles you've used a total of 2 gallons, one for each car. thus total fuel consumption per person is 20, not 40.
Really? Are you sure about that? 40 miles / 2 gallons is 20mpg, sure. But you seem to be ignoring the fact that you have two passengers, so 1 person per car is still 40mpg per passenger.