You're missing the point. Does windows come with a FREE compiler? Does Windows come with the very source code that was used to compile the whole OS? No. For that reason alone his point is Valid. If you want to learn about how to program is there any better way than digging around in the guts of the code that the OS was built with? Maybe, but not for everyone. There will always be the types that need to have a structured education to learn things, but for the people who learn better by doing there is nothing like an open source Computer to fool around on. Command line interfaces are intuitive. Have you ever noticed how for the most part every computer on star trek:TNG is primarily 'command line' based? no i don't mean a bach shell, I mean "Computer, dim lights." the voice recognition system Is an extention of command line syntax. True, the weapons arrays and engineering consoles all have graphical displays and buttons, but that is because they work better in those places than a 'pure' command line. The reason people don't like command line interfaces is because they have to say "Computer, dim lights" they can't say 'Dim lights' or 'romantic lighting, please' obviously by the 24th century we've worked the kinks out of command lines so they can act how the person expects.
How exactly is someone who is imitating cmdr taco 'informative'? or worthy of a +4. I can understand replying to an imitator, but moding one up as anything (except funny) is just plain insane, and most of the time they don't even qualify as funny. Ah well...
It would be interesting if Mars once held life that invented Nanotech virus that went rampantly out of control and devoured the world. Leaving the planet exhausted of resources, and covered with nanobots that over the millions of years decayed into red dust. The martians could have also had a war with the planet that is currently the asteroid belt and the decisive victory was a planet destroying weapon.
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First off the frogs in Hawaii aren't poisonous, and secondly while cats could 'eat' the frogs, they're far better at being trained to 'hunt' the frogs for rewards. If the cat had to actually eat the frogs is would soon grow sick of hunting them and move on to other prey. But if the cat is rewarded for each frog it brings in, it will bring in many frogs every single day to recieve rewards. A dozen or so trained cats could easily be used to clear a resort of the frogs. Animal trainers in hawaii could make a nice business selling trained cats to homeowners who were sick of the frogs mating calls. Cats have been used for centuries to control pests, and the cost of keeping them is sure to be less (at least for resorts) than using humans. Also cats have great night vision, so they're more effective at hunting the frogs than humans.
Who says the 'moon base' has to be made out of metal? Why can't you ship up some excavation tools, and light weight polymers and build an airtight underground lunar base with the only imported metal being the airlock doors? True, this doesn't provide you with any method for creating food, but We Could have had a lunar base easily. One much larger than any of the space stations we've shipped up, because as you recall all of those ARE made out of tons and tons of metal. There is also a cumulative advantage, the longer you've been building stuff on the moon, the more resources are at your disposal to build more complex projects... Unlike the space stations which all fall back to earth after a few decades. Depending on how far we push nanotech we may not even need to build factories on the moon, we may just need to send up a few machines that recieve power wirelessly and process raw materials into usable resources. The moon is a more practical environment to work in, the low G enables a person to remain there signifigantly longer than in the microgravity of space. The Biosphere projects are partially aiming at researching the viability of building an enclosed, self sustaining habitat on the moon, but even if you build a moon base that requires resupplying like space stations do, it could easily be done for less money as long as you take advantage of the fact that you can always dig a hole use some plastic to make it airtight and cover it with a metal lid. Homsteaders used to build houses out of earth and mud where trees weren't available, so why should we build lunar bases out of 'industrial grade metal' when really the only part that has to be metal is the door.
Why should it deduct minutes? Why not just add VoIP service for an extra flat monthly charge? The only cost to cellular carrier is network bandwith/server costs, and that is far cheaper than wireless spectrum. They already have the telephone side of the network in place. They can have your local phone ring at the same time as your cell phone, and you can just answer on whichever is easier for you.
As all the Lexx fanatics are aware, this seasons final episode involved the complete destruction of an alien vessel 2/3 the size of the earth into a piece of matter the size of a pea. This was done by calculating the exact mass of a higgs-boson particle using a 'portable' super colider. So perhaps the next finale for lexx should involve building a 1 KG device to 'solve' chess in half a second.
You're very wrong there. While it is true only the most dedicated atrists would remain, without money to pay for editing and polishing a manuscript into a finished product the quality of books would drop drastically. We'd get the raw unfinished novels, or worse the authors would be so conserned ovet the quality they would spend decades trying to polish up a single novel, not knowing what needs to be done, and perhaps butchering it worse than any editor could. Editors can sometime make bad calls on edits, they're only human afterall, but by and far they tend to do good job, or else they find a new line of work. You do however have a good point in there. Open source software has proven that monetary compensation does not need to be a driving force behind developing quality software. And with digital technology artists could easily form self-serving communities that allow a polished finished product to be released without anyone getting paid. That being said, comercially produced books will always be in far greater supply than any community driven effort. Communities will form where the commercial opportunites are nil. Open source software is viable, not because it doesn't cost money to produce software, but because the commercial software comapnies have made an environment where open source software is preferable. If you treat your customers like sheep, then don't be surprised if you can't sell to shepards. Then again it isn't possible to satisfy everyone, so there probably isn't anything any software company could do and remain in buisness that would make an environment in which open source couldn't survive. And once that Djinn is out of the bottle there is no way to get it back in. For those not familiar Djinn are evil spirits that grant wishes, but the wishes they grant always turn out for the worst.
I'd like to point out two things... first of all the cars used are specifically chosen for the popularity with car thieves. Secondly, they are locked and without keys inside them. The thief has to be able to break into the car and hotwire it to steal it. Since the cars chosen take seconds to jimmy the lock, and can easily be hotwired and have the steering lock broken it doesn't provide a real barrier to theft. And since it isn't a stage show it isn't entrapment. if a car left alone and locked is broken into and started without the keys it isn't entrapment. IMO the place to draw the line is when you start to leave unlocked cars with keys in the ignition or whatever... maybe leave the keys under the floor mat or up under the visor, but the car should at least be locked, maybe with a window partially open, although that could tip off a thief if the car sat through a rainstorm or two.
Another thing to keep in mind is that this kind of tool isn't preventing even one person from becoming a criminal. All this tool is doing is making sure that more criminals spend time behind bars for the crimes they commit. Prevention should be the goal of society, because incarceration costs more to society than if that person could have been convinced to never comit a crime in the first place.
I let my nephew play Advance Wars on my laptop through the VirtualBoy Advance Emulator, and since then He's like 'I want a Dell with Advance Wars.' So don't forget the potential of using it as an expensive 4-bit/8-bit/16-bit/32-bit console/handheld/arcade emulator... as long as you own the games that is. If you haven't already you could look over at Jubei which is malda's MAME cabinet he threw together.
I would just like to point out prior art on this. I also learned this method of swinging when i was ~7 or so, since I'm in my mid-twenties now that pretty much counts as prior art. I'm sure you can find hundreds of people who practiced the pulling on one chain then the other for side to side swinging when they were kids. I didn't actually do the oval swinging method though, just the side to side. I'd also like to note that the helix method described in the patent description is more fun when one is lying on the swing with their belly, or is leaning back to look up at the sky. I'm also suprized that the method whereby one stands on the swing instead of sitting and jumps off isn't described. I mean come on there are dozens of ways to use a swing for fun.
No no, you're thinking wrong, how about a solar car that has a set of bicycle pedals for the driver to pedal so that the car can go faster, and rely on batteries less? A pedal assisted solar car could go pretty fast considering it's already sreamlined and recumbant. Or maybe an enclosed recumbant bicycle could be given solar power assist, so that higher speeds could be achieved. True though, the 'concrete' they made a rocket out of is pretty high tech. They could probably make a nerf frisbee out of the stuff, considering the properties. lighter than water, flexible, strong. It probably costs a lot to make it too, considering it's lighter than water though, it's probably ideal for aircraft design too. I wouldn't be too suprized if the military decideed to test to see if they could make stronger jet aircraft with this stuff.
Yes See Microsoft Bob, See Bob in Office and Windows XP where they put the annoying animated character concept that Was Microsoft bob. There is a way to salvage the X-box. I'm thinking last years game of the year the Sims, released on a DVD with all 5 expansion packs for $50. Let's consider this for a minute. Sims doesn't play on linux under wine yet, so there is a segment of the PC market that might like to have the sims on X-box. Also, the X-box is the only console that can hold an 8 gig mp3 library natively that you can listen to while playing any game. The sims is great because it relies on mp3s for the in game music. This makes the X-box the only real choice for a full port of the PC sims game. While X-box could handle the graphics, it just wouldn't be the same without the mp3. Anyways, I think X-box is pretty much doomed, there really isn't room for three consoles in the marketplace. There is room for one portable, and two home consoles. Microsoft has the money to stick it out in third place, and there are some pretty cool features in the X-box. They could also use the X-box experience to find out what works and come back with an X-box 2 console that could really take the market. Of course if the X-box did fail I wouldn't mind picking one up dirt cheap, since it's a pretty decent system, and would make a great personal webserver.
I think that child labor laws are out of date. When they were written they weren't meant to stop kids from working at all! They were meant to make sure that kids weren't used as a cheap disposable labor for the coal mines. We've perverted the original intention of the laws to make sure that very few kids actually learn to pick up a trade until they're old enough not to ever want to work. We weren't meant to spend the first 17 years of our life in a bubble. If I had started working at 12 I might have started learning the values of saving money etc. When I was 12 I was constantly trying to find ways to get money for the stuff I wanted, but by the time I was 16 I really didn't want to work at a fast food for a few bucks to get stuff I wanted. Right now I'm unemployed and looking for a job seems more depressing than it's worth. Especially since I'd be forced to degrade myself and accept a job that any trained chimp could do. I can understand that kids should be protected moreso than adults, but we should let them make an honest living, especially if they're too smart for their own good. Let's face it, if this kid is smart enough at 12 to be seriously contributing to OS code, do you think he's going to make friends with people half his intellectual age? Sure, he could do the homework for them, or maybe help them ace tests, but that's not the same as really making friends. Exceptionally bright kids Are being hurt by the 'child labor' laws, and maybe they're even hurting the work ethic of normal kids too.
Does this mean that a minor can revoke the EULA and Sue say Microsoft for selling them a 'broken' product? This could be pure gold. Computers are most popular with teenagers anyways, even though it's generally the parents who own them. If anyone under 18 can revoke EULA fitness protection then there could be multi-billion dollar class action for companies selling broken software.
Better still, it is illegal to track or collect the personal information of anyone under 13 years of age online. Yeah, I haven't 'registered' software as a person over 13 years of age in about 5 years. And as a 'person under 13' I refuse to give any personally identifying information to anyone who seeks to force me to register. Very handy, since this prevents companys from getting any useful information on me, online.
Of course you can factor a grocery clerk. The grocery Clerk factor is perhaps the broadest of the retail clerk factors, since nearly everyone at some time or another must go to a grocery store to purchase food. The grocery clerk factor is a a basic method of calculating how long you'll have to wait in line, based on the time you go to checkout. since this factor can vary greatly, it can impact the entire day, by making you late for each subsequent appointment. Based on my local research the worst times to approach a checkout are between 4pm and 8pm.
Corny But Dumb Terribly Poor Accronym I have no problem remembering the CBDTPA. but yeah Slimey Sneaky Snakes Control Accronyms SSSCA is a little better.
New From NERF the frisby you can cook in! Really though, this foam is expensive. Even using the foam as a conductive pad between the heatsink and CPU would be extremely expensive. Although it would help prevent cracking the chips. Besides, there is a lot more than just conductivity to think about in designing pots and pans. If the pan conducts the heat too effeciently the food will burn where the pan and heat source come in contact, and not cook entirely the rest of the way through. This is why some people still prefer cast iron to aluminum any day. Aluminum pans almost always burn the food unless they're constantly stired.
Not only does the Van allen radiation belt shelter the earth, the particles get funneled towards the poles. DNA generally has a pretty good track record for error correction, but yes, a chance collision with a high energy particle can cause a shift. This isn't always bad, but it's about the equivalent of growing corn in a field of uranium and hoping for mutations that cause a desireable effect. If you want a better genome the only way is to engineer it yourself.
The value CN adds is getting the next generation of anime addicts hooked early. I was hooked on anime at an early age from TV and never knew it was anime until I rediscovered anime later. Yes, you can get anime on P2P but in my experience noone ever has enough slots or bandwith. It takes me about 3 hours to find one poor quality anime when I'm looking for a specific episode. Which is why I Don't bother with p2p except when I'm depsperate. CN I don't have to put any effort into watching it, if you buy anime, download it, or rent it it takes a higher cost in energy than switching on the TV. There aren't any hard numbers, but every anime fan I've ever met either had started liking the stuff young from TV or else picked up the habit from a roommate or Signifigant Other. So without seeding the next generation there won't be anyone to convice roommates or SOs into watching anime. Since CN has been doing the best editing of any production company translating into english for TV they're doing a big service. Unfortunately they aren't going to keep on editing shows in-house from the last article about CN I read. A real shame if they end up cutting more scenes because the producer doesn't want to paint bikini's on the characters etc.
I don't think 54 episodes are enough to finish the majin buu saga.. they left off at episode 221(235j) and episode ?257(271j) Majin buu is still around and pretty powerful. From what I understand the Buu saga goes all the way to episode 291j of DBZ after which DBGT takes over after the saga is resolved. But I could be horribly mistaken as I've only seen scattered episodes between 221us and 271j. If anyone knows for certain where the buu saga it would be helpful. I know i'm going to be watching the new episodes when they come out mmmm... I'm watching the episodes the brought out last season for about the 7th time just because there is nothing better on TV that I know of.
It's my understanding from friends in california that CN only runs one feed. I could be wrong, but at least two of my online friends from california get the shows at the same time I do. Either they have DSS systems and only have an easten feed or else your local cable broadcaster is running on a 3 hour taped delay. AFAIK the website has never had diferent time listings for eastern/pacific in the last 6 months. If you're right either all the web guys for CN are busy making java games for the kids or they can't debug a simple thing like a listings guide(I should hope it's the former though).
If you sell 18% of the ad banners that are currently displayed and 23% of readers may purchase a subscription then you're eliminating 23% from the 72% of ad views that are Unpaid. Thus they aren't loosing any ad revenue and are Still collecting the subscription fee. Unfortunately it means fewer freebie ads for animefu and the like for those of us who don't subscribe. 18% * 100 = 18 (72% - 23%)* 100 = 49 18 / (18 + 49) ~= 27% So if everyone who said they had subscribed and everyone who said they would subscribe (if the banners got annoying enough) then the paid banner rate could hit 27% This is a win-win situation for a site that isn't selling enough banner ads.
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You're missing the point. Does windows come with a FREE compiler? Does Windows come with the very source code that was used to compile the whole OS?
No. For that reason alone his point is Valid.
If you want to learn about how to program is there any better way than digging around in the guts of the code that the OS was built with? Maybe, but not for everyone. There will always be the types that need to have a structured education to learn things, but for the people who learn better by doing there is nothing like an open source Computer to fool around on.
Command line interfaces are intuitive.
Have you ever noticed how for the most part every computer on star trek:TNG is primarily 'command line' based? no i don't mean a bach shell, I mean "Computer, dim lights." the voice recognition system Is an extention of command line syntax. True, the weapons arrays and engineering consoles all have graphical displays and buttons, but that is because they work better in those places than a 'pure' command line.
The reason people don't like command line interfaces is because they have to say "Computer, dim lights" they can't say 'Dim lights' or 'romantic lighting, please' obviously by the 24th century we've worked the kinks out of command lines so they can act how the person expects.
How exactly is someone who is imitating cmdr taco 'informative'? or worthy of a +4.
I can understand replying to an imitator, but moding one up as anything (except funny) is just plain insane, and most of the time they don't even qualify as funny. Ah well...
It would be interesting if Mars once held life that invented Nanotech virus that went rampantly out of control and devoured the world. Leaving the planet exhausted of resources, and covered with nanobots that over the millions of years decayed into red dust.
The martians could have also had a war with the planet that is currently the asteroid belt and the decisive victory was a planet destroying weapon.
First off the frogs in Hawaii aren't poisonous, and secondly while cats could 'eat' the frogs, they're far better at being trained to 'hunt' the frogs for rewards. If the cat had to actually eat the frogs is would soon grow sick of hunting them and move on to other prey. But if the cat is rewarded for each frog it brings in, it will bring in many frogs every single day to recieve rewards. A dozen or so trained cats could easily be used to clear a resort of the frogs. Animal trainers in hawaii could make a nice business selling trained cats to homeowners who were sick of the frogs mating calls. Cats have been used for centuries to control pests, and the cost of keeping them is sure to be less (at least for resorts) than using humans. Also cats have great night vision, so they're more effective at hunting the frogs than humans.
Who says the 'moon base' has to be made out of metal? Why can't you ship up some excavation tools, and light weight polymers and build an airtight underground lunar base with the only imported metal being the airlock doors? True, this doesn't provide you with any method for creating food, but We Could have had a lunar base easily. One much larger than any of the space stations we've shipped up, because as you recall all of those ARE made out of tons and tons of metal. There is also a cumulative advantage, the longer you've been building stuff on the moon, the more resources are at your disposal to build more complex projects... Unlike the space stations which all fall back to earth after a few decades. Depending on how far we push nanotech we may not even need to build factories on the moon, we may just need to send up a few machines that recieve power wirelessly and process raw materials into usable resources.
The moon is a more practical environment to work in, the low G enables a person to remain there signifigantly longer than in the microgravity of space.
The Biosphere projects are partially aiming at researching the viability of building an enclosed, self sustaining habitat on the moon, but even if you build a moon base that requires resupplying like space stations do, it could easily be done for less money as long as you take advantage of the fact that you can always dig a hole use some plastic to make it airtight and cover it with a metal lid. Homsteaders used to build houses out of earth and mud where trees weren't available, so why should we build lunar bases out of 'industrial grade metal' when really the only part that has to be metal is the door.
Why should it deduct minutes? Why not just add VoIP service for an extra flat monthly charge?
The only cost to cellular carrier is network bandwith/server costs, and that is far cheaper than wireless spectrum. They already have the telephone side of the network in place. They can have your local phone ring at the same time as your cell phone, and you can just answer on whichever is easier for you.
As all the Lexx fanatics are aware, this seasons final episode involved the complete destruction of an alien vessel 2/3 the size of the earth into a piece of matter the size of a pea. This was done by calculating the exact mass of a higgs-boson particle using a 'portable' super colider.
So perhaps the next finale for lexx should involve building a 1 KG device to 'solve' chess in half a second.
You're very wrong there. While it is true only the most dedicated atrists would remain, without money to pay for editing and polishing a manuscript into a finished product the quality of books would drop drastically. We'd get the raw unfinished novels, or worse the authors would be so conserned ovet the quality they would spend decades trying to polish up a single novel, not knowing what needs to be done, and perhaps butchering it worse than any editor could.
Editors can sometime make bad calls on edits, they're only human afterall, but by and far they tend to do good job, or else they find a new line of work.
You do however have a good point in there. Open source software has proven that monetary compensation does not need to be a driving force behind developing quality software. And with digital technology artists could easily form self-serving communities that allow a polished finished product to be released without anyone getting paid. That being said, comercially produced books will always be in far greater supply than any community driven effort. Communities will form where the commercial opportunites are nil.
Open source software is viable, not because it doesn't cost money to produce software, but because the commercial software comapnies have made an environment where open source software is preferable. If you treat your customers like sheep, then don't be surprised if you can't sell to shepards. Then again it isn't possible to satisfy everyone, so there probably isn't anything any software company could do and remain in buisness that would make an environment in which open source couldn't survive. And once that Djinn is out of the bottle there is no way to get it back in. For those not familiar Djinn are evil spirits that grant wishes, but the wishes they grant always turn out for the worst.
I'd like to point out two things... first of all the cars used are specifically chosen for the popularity with car thieves. Secondly, they are locked and without keys inside them. The thief has to be able to break into the car and hotwire it to steal it. Since the cars chosen take seconds to jimmy the lock, and can easily be hotwired and have the steering lock broken it doesn't provide a real barrier to theft. And since it isn't a stage show it isn't entrapment. if a car left alone and locked is broken into and started without the keys it isn't entrapment. IMO the place to draw the line is when you start to leave unlocked cars with keys in the ignition or whatever... maybe leave the keys under the floor mat or up under the visor, but the car should at least be locked, maybe with a window partially open, although that could tip off a thief if the car sat through a rainstorm or two.
Another thing to keep in mind is that this kind of tool isn't preventing even one person from becoming a criminal. All this tool is doing is making sure that more criminals spend time behind bars for the crimes they commit. Prevention should be the goal of society, because incarceration costs more to society than if that person could have been convinced to never comit a crime in the first place.
I let my nephew play Advance Wars on my laptop through the VirtualBoy Advance Emulator, and since then He's like 'I want a Dell with Advance Wars.' So don't forget the potential of using it as an expensive 4-bit/8-bit/16-bit/32-bit console/handheld/arcade emulator... as long as you own the games that is. If you haven't already you could look over at Jubei which is malda's MAME cabinet he threw together.
I would just like to point out prior art on this.
I also learned this method of swinging when i was ~7 or so, since I'm in my mid-twenties now that pretty much counts as prior art. I'm sure you can find hundreds of people who practiced the pulling on one chain then the other for side to side swinging when they were kids. I didn't actually do the oval swinging method though, just the side to side. I'd also like to note that the helix method described in the patent description is more fun when one is lying on the swing with their belly, or is leaning back to look up at the sky. I'm also suprized that the method whereby one stands on the swing instead of sitting and jumps off isn't described. I mean come on there are dozens of ways to use a swing for fun.
No no, you're thinking wrong, how about a solar car that has a set of bicycle pedals for the driver to pedal so that the car can go faster, and rely on batteries less? A pedal assisted solar car could go pretty fast considering it's already sreamlined and recumbant. Or maybe an enclosed recumbant bicycle could be given solar power assist, so that higher speeds could be achieved.
True though, the 'concrete' they made a rocket out of is pretty high tech. They could probably make a nerf frisbee out of the stuff, considering the properties. lighter than water, flexible, strong. It probably costs a lot to make it too, considering it's lighter than water though, it's probably ideal for aircraft design too. I wouldn't be too suprized if the military decideed to test to see if they could make stronger jet aircraft with this stuff.
Yes See Microsoft Bob, See Bob in Office and Windows XP where they put the annoying animated character concept that Was Microsoft bob.
There is a way to salvage the X-box. I'm thinking last years game of the year the Sims, released on a DVD with all 5 expansion packs for $50. Let's consider this for a minute. Sims doesn't play on linux under wine yet, so there is a segment of the PC market that might like to have the sims on X-box. Also, the X-box is the only console that can hold an 8 gig mp3 library natively that you can listen to while playing any game. The sims is great because it relies on mp3s for the in game music. This makes the X-box the only real choice for a full port of the PC sims game. While X-box could handle the graphics, it just wouldn't be the same without the mp3.
Anyways, I think X-box is pretty much doomed, there really isn't room for three consoles in the marketplace. There is room for one portable, and two home consoles. Microsoft has the money to stick it out in third place, and there are some pretty cool features in the X-box. They could also use the X-box experience to find out what works and come back with an X-box 2 console that could really take the market. Of course if the X-box did fail I wouldn't mind picking one up dirt cheap, since it's a pretty decent system, and would make a great personal webserver.
I think that child labor laws are out of date. When they were written they weren't meant to stop kids from working at all! They were meant to make sure that kids weren't used as a cheap disposable labor for the coal mines. We've perverted the original intention of the laws to make sure that very few kids actually learn to pick up a trade until they're old enough not to ever want to work.
We weren't meant to spend the first 17 years of our life in a bubble. If I had started working at 12 I might have started learning the values of saving money etc. When I was 12 I was constantly trying to find ways to get money for the stuff I wanted, but by the time I was 16 I really didn't want to work at a fast food for a few bucks to get stuff I wanted.
Right now I'm unemployed and looking for a job seems more depressing than it's worth. Especially since I'd be forced to degrade myself and accept a job that any trained chimp could do.
I can understand that kids should be protected moreso than adults, but we should let them make an honest living, especially if they're too smart for their own good. Let's face it, if this kid is smart enough at 12 to be seriously contributing to OS code, do you think he's going to make friends with people half his intellectual age? Sure, he could do the homework for them, or maybe help them ace tests, but that's not the same as really making friends. Exceptionally bright kids Are being hurt by the 'child labor' laws, and maybe they're even hurting the work ethic of normal kids too.
Does this mean that a minor can revoke the EULA and Sue say Microsoft for selling them a 'broken' product? This could be pure gold. Computers are most popular with teenagers anyways, even though it's generally the parents who own them. If anyone under 18 can revoke EULA fitness protection then there could be multi-billion dollar class action for companies selling broken software.
Better still, it is illegal to track or collect the personal information of anyone under 13 years of age online. Yeah, I haven't 'registered' software as a person over 13 years of age in about 5 years. And as a 'person under 13' I refuse to give any personally identifying information to anyone who seeks to force me to register. Very handy, since this prevents companys from getting any useful information on me, online.
You're forgetting after z come aa ab ac ad... all the way to zz.
Of course you can factor a grocery clerk. The grocery Clerk factor is perhaps the broadest of the retail clerk factors, since nearly everyone at some time or another must go to a grocery store to purchase food. The grocery clerk factor is a a basic method of calculating how long you'll have to wait in line, based on the time you go to checkout. since this factor can vary greatly, it can impact the entire day, by making you late for each subsequent appointment.
Based on my local research the worst times to approach a checkout are between 4pm and 8pm.
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SSSCA is a little better.
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I have no problem remembering the CBDTPA.
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New From NERF the frisby you can cook in!
Really though, this foam is expensive. Even using the foam as a conductive pad between the heatsink and CPU would be extremely expensive. Although it would help prevent cracking the chips.
Besides, there is a lot more than just conductivity to think about in designing pots and pans. If the pan conducts the heat too effeciently the food will burn where the pan and heat source come in contact, and not cook entirely the rest of the way through. This is why some people still prefer cast iron to aluminum any day. Aluminum pans almost always burn the food unless they're constantly stired.
Not only does the Van allen radiation belt shelter the earth, the particles get funneled towards the poles. DNA generally has a pretty good track record for error correction, but yes, a chance collision with a high energy particle can cause a shift. This isn't always bad, but it's about the equivalent of growing corn in a field of uranium and hoping for mutations that cause a desireable effect.
If you want a better genome the only way is to engineer it yourself.
The value CN adds is getting the next generation of anime addicts hooked early. I was hooked on anime at an early age from TV and never knew it was anime until I rediscovered anime later.
Yes, you can get anime on P2P but in my experience noone ever has enough slots or bandwith. It takes me about 3 hours to find one poor quality anime when I'm looking for a specific episode. Which is why I Don't bother with p2p except when I'm depsperate.
CN I don't have to put any effort into watching it, if you buy anime, download it, or rent it it takes a higher cost in energy than switching on the TV.
There aren't any hard numbers, but every anime fan I've ever met either had started liking the stuff young from TV or else picked up the habit from a roommate or Signifigant Other. So without seeding the next generation there won't be anyone to convice roommates or SOs into watching anime.
Since CN has been doing the best editing of any production company translating into english for TV they're doing a big service. Unfortunately they aren't going to keep on editing shows in-house from the last article about CN I read. A real shame if they end up cutting more scenes because the producer doesn't want to paint bikini's on the characters etc.
I don't think 54 episodes are enough to finish the majin buu saga.. they left off at episode 221(235j) and episode ?257(271j) Majin buu is still around and pretty powerful.
From what I understand the Buu saga goes all the way to episode 291j of DBZ after which DBGT takes over after the saga is resolved. But I could be horribly mistaken as I've only seen scattered episodes between 221us and 271j.
If anyone knows for certain where the buu saga it would be helpful. I know i'm going to be watching the new episodes when they come out mmmm... I'm watching the episodes the brought out last season for about the 7th time just because there is nothing better on TV that I know of.
It's my understanding from friends in california that CN only runs one feed. I could be wrong, but at least two of my online friends from california get the shows at the same time I do. Either they have DSS systems and only have an easten feed or else your local cable broadcaster is running on a 3 hour taped delay. AFAIK the website has never had diferent time listings for eastern/pacific in the last 6 months. If you're right either all the web guys for CN are busy making java games for the kids or they can't debug a simple thing like a listings guide(I should hope it's the former though).
If you sell 18% of the ad banners that are currently displayed and 23% of readers may purchase a subscription then you're eliminating 23% from the 72% of ad views that are Unpaid. Thus they aren't loosing any ad revenue and are Still collecting the subscription fee. Unfortunately it means fewer freebie ads for animefu and the like for those of us who don't subscribe.
18% * 100 = 18
(72% - 23%)* 100 = 49
18 / (18 + 49) ~= 27%
So if everyone who said they had subscribed and everyone who said they would subscribe (if the banners got annoying enough) then the paid banner rate could hit 27%
This is a win-win situation for a site that isn't selling enough banner ads.