As a European who has seen a few episodes of Firefly, I have to say I don't understand what all the excitement is about. In my opinion, Firefly is very badly made, with actors that don't seem to have any rough edges at all, characters that never leave their predestined sterotypes, lots of tired old sci-fi and western clichés, and dialogue that seems as if taken straight from a dime novel. Just like Buffy, yeah.
Yeah, last time, my processor's MOV instruction was broken and AMD support was not very helpful! I finally fixed it myself with a piece of string and some glue.
It happens when the previous page is a page that redirects to the current page. So when you press "back", you get back to the page that redirects to the page you came from...
You shouldn't have to cut someone off, other drivers should let you in by themselves. In fact, this is called a "zipper maneuver" in Germany and it's the law. Moving over before the end of the lane is a waste of road space and leads to slowing traffic.
I will not let someone who speeds in a lane that is about to end to get ahead of a couple of cars that had the common sense to move over earlier.
Driving on an ending lane until the end is the most efficient way to drive since it utilizes the available road space best. Just imagine what would happen if everyone drove in the right lane all the time just so they can conveniently exit the highway at any time.
No. Health insurance is mandatory in Germany. And there are none of these "we won't pay anything under $100 or over $105 or recurring more than twice, and we won't pay anything at all if you don't have enough money for a lawyer"-clauses there.
I'd be all for a company that makes 10+% profit a year and returns it to the shareholders.
The problem with that idea is that for most companies, their stock market valuation is so high that their profit is only 1 or 2% of it. So, for investors to have any reasonable return on investment, the company's value on the stock market has to increase, therefore the company's turnover and profit has to increase every year.
Private company founders, however, once invested their first $1000 into their company. When they earn 5 or 10 million $ a year with it, they've had an enormous return on their investment and don't have to look for ways to artificially increase their short-term earnings.
Diesel-fueled cars have a market share of about 40% in Europe, so I'd call them normal. Also, most French and German car manufacturers are about to integrate filters into their cars that will burn existing particles at very high temperatures in the catalytic converter.
...to discourage people from buying fuel-efficient cars. In Europe, gas prices are at about 1 per liter (approx. $4,40 per gallon). Not surprisingly, the average gas consumption of cars is also way lower. There's a model of the Volkswagen Lupo that uses about 3 litres of Diesel fuel for 100 km (0,8 gallons per 62 miles, or 77 miles to the gallon).
I think Europeans are into big image cars as much as Americans. However, in Europe, a BMW 3 series or a Mercedes A class has a much better image than a Ford F150, which people would rather associate with pig farmers or something.
It seems like most posters here are using AOL, Yahoo or MSN. I have the feeling this must be something exclusively American. Here, in Germany, I have about 100 contacts on my ICQ contact list and have never felt the need for some other messaging client, like those mentioned above. Even in my company, everyone's using ICQ; except for the time when the ICQ 8 protocol broke licq compatibility, when we had to use Yahoo for a while to talk to our Linux users. How about you? Why do so many people use AIM? Because it comes pre-installed with AOL? Or MSN? Just because it so annoyingly presents itself in every new Windows XP install? ICQ was there first; long before the others even started to think about it, it has the most features (even if about 90% are useless, childish crap) and there's even plenty of anti-ad cracks;-).
But people randomize data using an unknown kind of distribution (some may always check the first best thing, some always answer yes, etc.). When IBM does the randomizing for you, it can design the process so as to randomize it accordingly to a kind of statistical distribution they choose. When they know, which statistical distribution was used to randomize the data, the can remove its influence from the aggregated data.
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As a European who has seen a few episodes of Firefly, I have to say I don't understand what all the excitement is about. In my opinion, Firefly is very badly made, with actors that don't seem to have any rough edges at all, characters that never leave their predestined sterotypes, lots of tired old sci-fi and western clichés, and dialogue that seems as if taken straight from a dime novel. Just like Buffy, yeah.
Yeah, last time, my processor's MOV instruction was broken and AMD support was not very helpful! I finally fixed it myself with a piece of string and some glue.
Because it's 2 cents, not 0.02000000192383 dollars.
It happens when the previous page is a page that redirects to the current page. So when you press "back", you get back to the page that redirects to the page you came from...
It says right there in the headline: Caltech and JPL Build Soft Robot.
What are you talking about? Philipp Reis invented the telephone.
Why should anyone care about what you have to say about anything other than programming?
They'll go `oh, we're not backing the leader any more`
Which, generally, is a pretty stupid thing to do in the first place. Why would you want to take pride in paying monopoly rents to the market leader?
You shouldn't have to cut someone off, other drivers should let you in by themselves. In fact, this is called a "zipper maneuver" in Germany and it's the law. Moving over before the end of the lane is a waste of road space and leads to slowing traffic.
I will not let someone who speeds in a lane that is about to end to get ahead of a couple of cars that had the common sense to move over earlier.
Driving on an ending lane until the end is the most efficient way to drive since it utilizes the available road space best. Just imagine what would happen if everyone drove in the right lane all the time just so they can conveniently exit the highway at any time.
No. Health insurance is mandatory in Germany. And there are none of these "we won't pay anything under $100 or over $105 or recurring more than twice, and we won't pay anything at all if you don't have enough money for a lawyer"-clauses there.
Wow, I gotta tell these people at the mall about that, when I get there on Saturday at 7pm. I suppose they just didn't know!
A company with USD 7500 turnover per employee is by no definition healthy.
I'd be all for a company that makes 10+% profit a year and returns it to the shareholders.
The problem with that idea is that for most companies, their stock market valuation is so high that their profit is only 1 or 2% of it. So, for investors to have any reasonable return on investment, the company's value on the stock market has to increase, therefore the company's turnover and profit has to increase every year.
Private company founders, however, once invested their first $1000 into their company. When they earn 5 or 10 million $ a year with it, they've had an enormous return on their investment and don't have to look for ways to artificially increase their short-term earnings.
Hercules was black/white, but at 720x350 "HiRes".
Maybe that is where projects like OpenOffice need to have "boxed" releases that the public can SEE the choice on the shelves.
They have: StarOffice.
But you don't *need* them.
Diesel-fueled cars have a market share of about 40% in Europe, so I'd call them normal. Also, most French and German car manufacturers are about to integrate filters into their cars that will burn existing particles at very high temperatures in the catalytic converter.
...to discourage people from buying fuel-efficient cars.
In Europe, gas prices are at about 1 per liter (approx. $4,40 per gallon). Not surprisingly, the average gas consumption of cars is also way lower. There's a model of the Volkswagen Lupo that uses about 3 litres of Diesel fuel for 100 km (0,8 gallons per 62 miles, or 77 miles to the gallon).
woohoo, a 500.000 marketing campaign. That's, like, one TV ad per country?
I think Europeans are into big image cars as much as Americans. However, in Europe, a BMW 3 series or a Mercedes A class has a much better image than a Ford F150, which people would rather associate with pig farmers or something.
Porsche does not belong to VW.
I'd rather ride the train than be living in a country where your max speed on highways is 55 (and maybe 90 in the desert).
It seems like most posters here are using AOL, Yahoo or MSN. I have the feeling this must be something exclusively American. ;-).
Here, in Germany, I have about 100 contacts on my ICQ contact list and have never felt the need for some other messaging client, like those mentioned above. Even in my company, everyone's using ICQ; except for the time when the ICQ 8 protocol broke licq compatibility, when we had to use Yahoo for a while to talk to our Linux users.
How about you? Why do so many people use AIM? Because it comes pre-installed with AOL? Or MSN? Just because it so annoyingly presents itself in every new Windows XP install?
ICQ was there first; long before the others even started to think about it, it has the most features (even if about 90% are useless, childish crap) and there's even plenty of anti-ad cracks
But people randomize data using an unknown kind of distribution (some may always check the first best thing, some always answer yes, etc.). When IBM does the randomizing for you, it can design the process so as to randomize it accordingly to a kind of statistical distribution they choose. When they know, which statistical distribution was used to randomize the data, the can remove its influence from the aggregated data.