I believe glasses are usually covered by insurance though. Contacts and LASIK are luxury items. Both are more expensive replacements for glasses. So I don't see why they wouldn't pay for this, especially since it might mean fewer expenses for the patient that they WOULD be covering in the long run (since they can do more on their own).
I'm a college student. For us, cell phones provide advantages that make them VERY worthwhile. I didn't have one my first year, so what did I end up with? $60 long distance bills every month to my parents and my girlfriend. Now, I pay about $45 a month, get free long distance, I have the same number every year (which wouldn't be the case otherwise cuz I move every year), I'm available wherever I am (so my mother doesn't call 20 times when I don't answer cuz I'm out all day), etc. Plus, when I have my phone, and my friends have theirs, there's no problem communicating when someone takes the wrong subway and ends up in Queens when the rest of us are in the Village.
I would say that for people who are in unstable living situations (eg a dorm), have to make lots of long distance domestic calls, or whatever else you might think of, I'd say they're worth while.
When you're talking about digital pictures, how do you define what's "photography" and what's not? Is anything that uses a CCD a digital "photograph"? I don't think that's what he means, since there are (for example) HUGE visible light CCD stitched images of the night sky, but you probably wouldn't consider that "photography". I think what he means is that it's a photo taken purely for the photo, not for any other purpose, such as scientific imaging or terrain mapping.
This is a misconception. All of the major mass shootings at schools have been done by people who: 1) were still enrolled as students at their schools 2) were the children of parents who thought they had done all of the right things to keep their kids out of trouble (very actively in some cases) 3) lived in middle class or upper middle class neighborhoods
Maybe you're too young to really remember this, but the Columbine massacre happened when *I* was about 16 (so it was pretty vivid for me, being a high school student at the time), and these were all things that were brought up at the time. The major mass shooting aren't done by poor, uneducated, inner city dropouts (gang shootings are a different story).
I do agree with your point about safe storage of guns however. It's crazy enough to argue your right to bear arms as a point of being able to protect your liberty when the military can bring to bear SO much more firepower than ANY civilian (so it's moot), but if you INSIST on having guns around, it's TOTALLY irresponsible to not secure them enough to even keep your kids from getting at them.
Oh, and I don't know what you're blathering about "games being a side-entertainment in spare time"...;)
"In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder."
(It's from the Poochie episode of the Simpsons, for anyone who didn't get it immediately.)
Soldering irons aren't very efficient. We have a 3 watt (non pulsed) laser at the lab I work in. It's OBSCENELY powerful. At full power, it will burn through a half inch piece of wood in seconds. 0.6 watts is nothing to sneeze at.
However, 120 5mw lasers isn't the same as one 0.6watt laser, because the 120 little lasers aren't going to "lase" together as one, and you'll get cancellation since the photons won't all be perfectly in phase with each other.
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Opus was a penguin from a comic strip from the 80's called Bloom County. He later appeared in another strip called Outland (which was semi-continuous with Bloom County).
Go on google and search for opus and penguin. You'll get an explanation, I'm sure.
To program the computer, or for Kasparov to learn to play as well as he does now? Shouldn't we take into account that he has 3 decades of experience, while the computer was programmed in a matter of years (at most)?
Before someone asks: no, I wouldn't take into account that the programmers had to "teach" the computer chess and so had to learn it themselves. I would regard this as the equivalent of a human reading a book on chess to get the insight of previous players.
Chess has 32 pieces and a MINIMUM of one possible move per piece (after the pawns are out) per turn. If we just talk about until the first piece is taken, we're talking about 32^n possibilities it has to analyze for the nth turn. That gets big FAST. 32^50=2^200, which is about 10^60. Assuming it can do 1 billion operations per second, that's about 10^51 seconds, or about 3*10^43 YEARS. There's no WAY any computer currently in existence can deal with that. I'm not even sure that ANY classical computer could deal with that (a quantum computer could because it could examine every possibility simultaneously, but that's another story...)
I regularly buy the cheapest AGP cards I can get. They go for anywhere from $5 from online discounters to $15 from in town places. Granted that they *suck*, but these are new, still in original box cards.
IBM isn't just a competitor to MS anymore. MS now has a contract to buy chips for the next xBox from IBM. How likely is it that the higher ups at MS are so stupid that they're going to risk being found to have backed a suit against a major supplier for parts they want to use?
Uh, no. Percentages are relative to what you are comparing to. 100 percent better is 2* whatever that is. 2*0=0. Check your damn math before you go insulting other people's.
Drivers just ain't that simple. You have to CORRECTLY do all the stuff you listed and you have to do it QUICKLY. That's why the beta drivers for Radeon and GeForce cards make the cards suck, even though the cards perform fine when used with non-beta drivers. As for examining hardware, we're talking about chips which are fabbed at 130 NANO meters and which are multi-layered. You can't just "look at it under a microscope."
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IANAL, but wouldn't requiring IBM to provide evidence against itself be in violation of the 5th amendment (which bars self incrimination)?
I believe glasses are usually covered by insurance though. Contacts and LASIK are luxury items. Both are more expensive replacements for glasses. So I don't see why they wouldn't pay for this, especially since it might mean fewer expenses for the patient that they WOULD be covering in the long run (since they can do more on their own).
I'm a college student. For us, cell phones provide advantages that make them VERY worthwhile. I didn't have one my first year, so what did I end up with? $60 long distance bills every month to my parents and my girlfriend. Now, I pay about $45 a month, get free long distance, I have the same number every year (which wouldn't be the case otherwise cuz I move every year), I'm available wherever I am (so my mother doesn't call 20 times when I don't answer cuz I'm out all day), etc. Plus, when I have my phone, and my friends have theirs, there's no problem communicating when someone takes the wrong subway and ends up in Queens when the rest of us are in the Village.
I would say that for people who are in unstable living situations (eg a dorm), have to make lots of long distance domestic calls, or whatever else you might think of, I'd say they're worth while.
When you're talking about digital pictures, how do you define what's "photography" and what's not? Is anything that uses a CCD a digital "photograph"? I don't think that's what he means, since there are (for example) HUGE visible light CCD stitched images of the night sky, but you probably wouldn't consider that "photography". I think what he means is that it's a photo taken purely for the photo, not for any other purpose, such as scientific imaging or terrain mapping.
Seems like most bikers ARE over 50 these days...
This is a misconception. All of the major mass shootings at schools have been done by people who:
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1) were still enrolled as students at their schools
2) were the children of parents who thought they had done all of the right things to keep their kids out of trouble (very actively in some cases)
3) lived in middle class or upper middle class neighborhoods
Maybe you're too young to really remember this, but the Columbine massacre happened when *I* was about 16 (so it was pretty vivid for me, being a high school student at the time), and these were all things that were brought up at the time. The major mass shooting aren't done by poor, uneducated, inner city dropouts (gang shootings are a different story).
I do agree with your point about safe storage of guns however. It's crazy enough to argue your right to bear arms as a point of being able to protect your liberty when the military can bring to bear SO much more firepower than ANY civilian (so it's moot), but if you INSIST on having guns around, it's TOTALLY irresponsible to not secure them enough to even keep your kids from getting at them.
Oh, and I don't know what you're blathering about "games being a side-entertainment in spare time"
I should have been more clear. I was referring to the gaffes article.
"In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder."
(It's from the Poochie episode of the Simpsons, for anyone who didn't get it immediately.)
Soldering irons aren't very efficient. We have a 3 watt (non pulsed) laser at the lab I work in. It's OBSCENELY powerful. At full power, it will burn through a half inch piece of wood in seconds. 0.6 watts is nothing to sneeze at.
However, 120 5mw lasers isn't the same as one 0.6watt laser, because the 120 little lasers aren't going to "lase" together as one, and you'll get cancellation since the photons won't all be perfectly in phase with each other.
Opus was a penguin from a comic strip from the 80's called Bloom County. He later appeared in another strip called Outland (which was semi-continuous with Bloom County).
Go on google and search for opus and penguin. You'll get an explanation, I'm sure.
Straight from the author. [berkeleybreathed.com]
Top=Truth and Bottom=Beauty. The six quarks are top, bottom, charm, strange, up and down.
What about all those great kung fu movies they make in Hong Kong?!
To program the computer, or for Kasparov to learn to play as well as he does now? Shouldn't we take into account that he has 3 decades of experience, while the computer was programmed in a matter of years (at most)?
Before someone asks: no, I wouldn't take into account that the programmers had to "teach" the computer chess and so had to learn it themselves. I would regard this as the equivalent of a human reading a book on chess to get the insight of previous players.
Chess has 32 pieces and a MINIMUM of one possible move per piece (after the pawns are out) per turn. If we just talk about until the first piece is taken, we're talking about 32^n possibilities it has to analyze for the nth turn. That gets big FAST. 32^50=2^200, which is about 10^60. Assuming it can do 1 billion operations per second, that's about 10^51 seconds, or about 3*10^43 YEARS. There's no WAY any computer currently in existence can deal with that. I'm not even sure that ANY classical computer could deal with that (a quantum computer could because it could examine every possibility simultaneously, but that's another story...)
The website lists that as the fastest speed of any car, not the land speed record. They make a very clear distinction, probably for this very reason.
I regularly buy the cheapest AGP cards I can get. They go for anywhere from $5 from online discounters to $15 from in town places. Granted that they *suck*, but these are new, still in original box cards.
Hard to buy liquor, but high speed internet... that's a tough one. I guess you can egg SCO hq more convieniently too...
Only $20 for a full century? I guess he knows he can't get much, what with it being so far from the popular sites and all...
They don't want to discriminate against those with multiple personalities.
IBM isn't just a competitor to MS anymore. MS now has a contract to buy chips for the next xBox from IBM. How likely is it that the higher ups at MS are so stupid that they're going to risk being found to have backed a suit against a major supplier for parts they want to use?
You'll need it in that future version of X where you'll be able to have true transparent window overlays!
Uh, no. Percentages are relative to what you are comparing to. 100 percent better is 2* whatever that is. 2*0=0. Check your damn math before you go insulting other people's.
Hey! Don't be knocking aalib! Ascii porn is one of the greatest things ever!
Drivers just ain't that simple. You have to CORRECTLY do all the stuff you listed and you have to do it QUICKLY. That's why the beta drivers for Radeon and GeForce cards make the cards suck, even though the cards perform fine when used with non-beta drivers. As for examining hardware, we're talking about chips which are fabbed at 130 NANO meters and which are multi-layered. You can't just "look at it under a microscope."