If you stay still and face toward one of these storms roughly when the cloud/sky boundry is directly over the beach you will feel the wind do a 180deg flip as if the storm is enhaling warm air and exhaling cold with a slight pause in between.
From some of the research on such phenomena (cloud dynamics), a small thunderstorm consists of a number of cells in which air is either moving upwards or downwards. This explains this visually
I gave up on paying for premium TV on Cable after the Sky/VirginMedia squabble over the payments for Sky One/Sky News channels - these were basically satellite TV channels that were rebroadcast through the cable TV network - Sky One has the one advantage of having the latest episodes of each series (Lost, Battlestar Galactica, SG-1, Farscape).
After those channels got pulled, there was no incentive for me or around 500,000 viewers to continue subscribing. After that, I just realized I was paying for junk channels. So I downsized to the freeview rate (saving 20 pounds/month). Now the same junk channels have reappeared at freeview rates.
OpenOffice can read Microsoft Word.doc files, but the most annoying but trivial thing is that while OpenOffice correctly shows text with a colored background eg. tasks in are color-coded in a table to indicate that they been completed, pending, blocked or cancelled, there is no way of actually picking up a background color or just selecting the exact same color from the palette.
Usually in the poorest areas, people complain about the lack of police presence, that the government officials don't care, and the only time they ever appear is when some new construction work is about to be started or has been completed. Then they completely disappear again.
I was just trying to figure out what the original poster was trying to get at. I'll agree it's hardly a statistical fact - one news agency mentions a couple of countries once, and the other one doesn't.
Google search "fire-fighting aircraft greece site:bbc.co.uk" - BBC national news Google search "firefighting aircraft greece site:bbc.co.uk" - BBC national news
Adding [world] picks up the world news.
So each country gets mentioned in this order - numbers in brackets indicate Google page ranking:
1. Government mismanagement/corruption/favoritism towards special interest groups creates a deficit. 2. So the government raises personal and private taxes. 3. This increases the cost of living and doing business. 4. Consequently, there is less incentive to start new businesses. 5. Existing businesses will be less financial stable, and there will be greater employee insecurity. 6. So workers will prefer safe government jobs that insecure private sector jobs. 7. This creates a greater incentive for everyone to rearrange the finances to reduce their tax burden. 8. Both of which in turn, increases the government costs, creating a deficit, so back to [1]
I can't find a link to it online, but I heard a talk recently about a group that was using geological evidence to try and track the sunspot cycle further back than we have human observations. Not sure quite what the method is, or if it's yielded any results.
There are several ways of looking a past climate records. One way is to look at the growth rings on long living (4000+ years!) species of trees. Another way is to look at the deposit layers of ice/snow at the North and South poles, and on sedimentary layers around river deltas. All of these give some idea of what the local climate was like over the years. Cross-reference together from many locations they can give an idea of what the local climate was back then. Deposits of dust/ash/soot at the poles can indicate some serious volcanic eruptions.
Now, that's funny - I still remember my user ID from my undergraduate course 20 years ago.
Admin and academic staff were assigned numbers in the 200 range Computer science students were initially assigned numbers in the 300 range...
Admin then had the idea that students user-ID's would be incremented by the year they were in, so we all got shuffled up by +100 through each year, but one student left so we were shuffled down by -1
But that become too confusing to maintain and update, as students had group projects all over the network, so the admin just ended up keeping the user-id's and recycling the most senior year.
One another related point, there is no way he would have got elected as an European with his original name if he hadn't been a rich famous movie star. So referring to him in a way that reminds people WHY he was famous in the first point is actually useful in this case.
He got elected because, in the economic downturn of the dot com bust, California's budget went from a surplus to a deficit. So everyone blamed Gray Davis and voted for Schwarznegger instead.
In my high school, if you were in the top two classes (30 students each), the teachers would spend the last two weeks of term covering the next years work . During the summer vacation it would percolate subconsciously through, and give you a framework to slot everything into, once you came back three months later.
And if you weren't in those top two classes, the teachers would just let students play board games for the last two weeks.
The total solar energy available to the earth is approximately 3850 zettajoules (ZJ) per year.
Worldwide energy consumption was 0.471 Zettajoules in 2004.
So, maybe you could have the size of your solar farm. But you would have to keep part of it rotating in step with the Earth's rotation, so that it always faced the Sun.
This discussion comes up every now again on Slashdot, especially when comparing the cost of living between the West Coast (Seattle, Los Angeles), the East Coast (New York, Boston, Washington D.C), the South/Central (Dallas, Austin) and everywhere else.
Minimum wage is about $12,000 year.
About a third goes on taxes. Another third will probably go on rent (sharing a two bedroom flat would be around $325/month) That leaves you with around $4000
A car would cost the second hand car price + licensing/smog tests + gas ($1000 + $300 + $1 every 30 miles). Unless you are in a city and can take public transit. Then that would cost you a monthly pass. That's another $1200
Now, a single person's food bill is probably around $35/week, or around $1800/year
But clothing/electricity/water bills would probably take up the rest.
You could probably break even, but not save anything. As they say, welcome to renter's hell.
Which begs (for) the question: What about if eye-candy is turned off? That's how we'd figure out if the problem is the eye candy or the DRM?
When the eye-candy is turned off, the applications run perfectly as they did before on XP.
This is no surprise to any 3D device driver developer. Having two or more 3D applications running at the same time (Desktop + Application) is going to required context switching between the two 3D visuals. This is going to include texture maps stored in the hardware texture units, rendering settings, and all the associated vertex/fragment programs. This is going to happen every frame update.
This guy is so bad that he wastes HOURS of other people's time on researching his speech.
That depends how much he is paying them - if someone were to pay me $100/hour to look up cheesy phrases for their speech, I'd be quite happy to do it. If they're paying less than $4/hour, on the other hand, I'd prefer to be looking up the cheesy menu for Extra Large McBurgers.
It's not the eye-candy which eats processor cycles, RAM and network bandwidth. It's the DRM.
Our research lab has some high-demand 3D graphics applications. With XP they run at a decent frame rate. With Vista, if the eye-candy is turned on, they run like molasses. That's with all the standard optimisations (display lists, triangle strips, texture atlases etc...)
According to the "Gnome sensors applet" on my laptop, idle temperature for the CPU/GPU are 61C. Running any type of GPU applications can push the temperature up to the high 80's . Above 91C, the system shuts down.
That was the mathematical explanation of how the twirl algorithm works. If you are an image processing freak, you would write your own algorithm, but if you had a copy of photoshop, then you would use that.
Ummm...if that's the goal, then how is that law not "rational"? Seems a pretty rational way of approaching things.
Because by definition it creates ambiguity... VoIP = Voice over Internet Protocol
Now, how many applications allows people to record speech, transfer it between computers, and play it on another system in real-time?
Telephone internet services like Skype are the obvious target, but Multiplayer games could also fall under that category with speech use. Basically, anything that transfers audio data (compressed or not) in real-time, or both audio and video in real-time (eg. future translation services).
If you write a subscription based application that allows people to communicate in real-time using text, that's not taxable. Similarly with video. But as soon as you use audio data, that's taxable.
What happens if someone creates a system that converts to audio to one end into text at the other (for deaf people), or a system that converts text to audio (for blind people). If the conversion from audio to text is done at the originating end, that's not taxable, but if it was done at the opposite end, it would be, due to the transfer of audio data.
Same in Europe - everyone argues about whether Internet gambling should be allowed/licensed/banned, but the reality is that there are already satellite channels that take bets for games like Roulette, and virtual horse-racing.
Slashdot Mirror
The Cloud Appreciation Society have an interesting gallery on unusual cloud formations.
If you stay still and face toward one of these storms roughly when the cloud/sky boundry is directly over the beach you will feel the wind do a 180deg flip as if the storm is enhaling warm air and exhaling cold with a slight pause in between.
From some of the research on such phenomena (cloud dynamics), a small thunderstorm consists of a number of cells in which air is either moving upwards or downwards. This explains this visually
I gave up on paying for premium TV on Cable after the Sky/VirginMedia squabble over the payments for Sky One/Sky News channels - these were basically satellite TV channels that were rebroadcast through the cable TV network - Sky One has the one advantage of having the latest episodes of each series (Lost, Battlestar Galactica, SG-1, Farscape).
After those channels got pulled, there was no incentive for me or around 500,000 viewers to continue subscribing. After that, I just realized I was paying for junk channels. So I downsized to the freeview rate (saving 20 pounds/month). Now the same junk channels have reappeared at freeview rates.
OpenOffice can read Microsoft Word .doc files, but the most annoying but trivial thing is that while OpenOffice correctly shows text with a colored background eg. tasks in are color-coded in a table to indicate that they been completed, pending, blocked or cancelled, there is no way of actually picking up a background color or just selecting the exact same color from the palette.
Usually in the poorest areas, people complain about the lack of police presence, that the government officials don't care, and the only time they ever appear is when some new construction work is about to be started or has been completed. Then they completely disappear again.
I was just trying to figure out what the original poster was trying to get at. I'll agree it's hardly a statistical fact - one news agency mentions a couple of countries once, and the other one doesn't.
Oddly enough, I thought that read 'Name ten PS3 executives that you would consider worth paying 60 dollars for.'
Here's a better example:
Google search "fire-fighting aircraft greece site:bbc.co.uk" - BBC national news
Google search "firefighting aircraft greece site:bbc.co.uk" - BBC national news
Adding [world] picks up the world news.
So each country gets mentioned in this order - numbers in brackets indicate Google page ranking:
Greece(1), Russia(1), Spain(4), Netherlands(4), Turkey(5), Italy(5), France(5), Norway(12), Israel(20)
Google search "fire-fighting aircraft greece site:reuters.com"
Greece(10, France(1), Germany(1), Israel(5), Austria(5), Norway(6)
The BBC don't mention Austria, and don't particularly wish to mention Israel, so it would seem.
It's a vicious cycle.
1. Government mismanagement/corruption/favoritism towards special interest groups creates a deficit.
2. So the government raises personal and private taxes.
3. This increases the cost of living and doing business.
4. Consequently, there is less incentive to start new businesses.
5. Existing businesses will be less financial stable, and there will be greater employee insecurity.
6. So workers will prefer safe government jobs that insecure private sector jobs.
7. This creates a greater incentive for everyone to rearrange the finances to reduce their tax burden.
8. Both of which in turn, increases the government costs, creating a deficit, so back to [1]
Isn't there a proxy server somewhere that could convert PDF back to the equivalent HTML?
I can't find a link to it online, but I heard a talk recently about a group that was using geological evidence to try and track the sunspot cycle further back than we have human observations. Not sure quite what the method is, or if it's yielded any results.
There are several ways of looking a past climate records. One way is to look at the growth rings on long living (4000+ years!) species of trees. Another way is to look at the deposit layers of ice/snow at the North and South poles, and on sedimentary layers around river deltas. All of these give some idea of what the local climate was like over the years. Cross-reference together from many locations they can give an idea of what the local climate was back then. Deposits of dust/ash/soot at the poles can indicate some serious volcanic eruptions.
Maybe it is one of these?
Try some Diesel Therapy, as experience by George Hansen.
Now, that's funny - I still remember my user ID from my undergraduate course 20 years ago.
Admin and academic staff were assigned numbers in the 200 range
Computer science students were initially assigned numbers in the 300 range...
Admin then had the idea that students user-ID's would be incremented by the year they were in, so we all got shuffled up by +100 through each year, but one student left so we were shuffled down by -1
But that become too confusing to maintain and update, as students had group projects all over the network, so the admin just ended up keeping the user-id's and recycling the most senior year.
Try again :-)
One another related point, there is no way he would have got elected as an European with his original name if he hadn't been a rich famous movie star. So referring to him in a way that reminds people WHY he was famous in the first point is actually useful in this case.
He got elected because, in the economic downturn of the dot com bust, California's budget went from a surplus to a deficit. So everyone blamed Gray Davis and voted for Schwarznegger instead.
In my high school, if you were in the top two classes (30 students each), the teachers would spend the last two weeks of term covering the next years work . During the summer vacation it would percolate subconsciously through, and give you a framework to slot everything into, once you came back three months later.
And if you weren't in those top two classes, the teachers would just let students play board games for the last two weeks.
But you forget that there is a lot of scattering/absorption of sunlight/a> through the Earth's atmosphere. So a solar farm orbit could be smaller than the one down on the ground. (taking into account both reflection, diffusion and absorption, this amounts to around 60%).
The total solar energy available to the earth is approximately 3850 zettajoules (ZJ) per year.
Worldwide energy consumption was 0.471 Zettajoules in 2004.
So, maybe you could have the size of your solar farm. But you would have to keep part of it rotating in step with the Earth's rotation, so that it always faced the Sun.
This discussion comes up every now again on Slashdot, especially when comparing the cost of living between the West Coast (Seattle, Los Angeles), the East Coast (New York, Boston, Washington D.C), the South/Central (Dallas, Austin) and everywhere else.
Minimum wage is about $12,000 year.
About a third goes on taxes. Another third will probably go on rent (sharing a two bedroom flat would be around $325/month)
That leaves you with around $4000
A car would cost the second hand car price + licensing/smog tests + gas ($1000 + $300 + $1 every 30 miles).
Unless you are in a city and can take public transit. Then that would cost you a monthly pass.
That's another $1200
Now, a single person's food bill is probably around $35/week, or around $1800/year
But clothing/electricity/water bills would probably take up the rest.
You could probably break even, but not save anything. As they say, welcome to renter's hell.
Which begs (for) the question: What about if eye-candy is turned off? That's how we'd figure out if the problem is the eye candy or the DRM?
When the eye-candy is turned off, the applications run perfectly as they did before on XP.
This is no surprise to any 3D device driver developer. Having two or more 3D applications running at the same time (Desktop + Application) is going to required context switching between the two 3D visuals. This is going to include texture maps stored in the hardware texture units, rendering settings, and all the associated vertex/fragment programs. This is going to happen every frame update.
This guy is so bad that he wastes HOURS of other people's time on researching his speech.
That depends how much he is paying them - if someone were to pay me $100/hour to look up cheesy phrases for their speech, I'd be quite happy to do it. If they're paying less than $4/hour, on the other hand, I'd prefer to be looking up the cheesy menu for Extra Large McBurgers.
It's not the eye-candy which eats processor cycles, RAM and network bandwidth. It's the DRM.
Our research lab has some high-demand 3D graphics applications. With XP they run at a decent frame rate. With Vista, if the eye-candy is turned on, they run like molasses. That's with all the standard optimisations (display lists, triangle strips, texture atlases etc...)
According to the "Gnome sensors applet" on my laptop, idle temperature for the CPU/GPU are 61C. Running any type of GPU applications can push the temperature up to the high 80's . Above 91C, the system shuts down.
That was the mathematical explanation of how the twirl algorithm works. If you are an image processing freak, you would write your own algorithm, but if you had a copy of photoshop, then you would use that.
Ummm...if that's the goal, then how is that law not "rational"? Seems a pretty rational way of approaching things.
... VoIP = Voice over Internet Protocol
Because by definition it creates ambiguity
Now, how many applications allows people to record speech, transfer it between computers, and play it on another system in real-time?
Telephone internet services like Skype are the obvious target, but Multiplayer games could also fall under that category with speech use. Basically, anything that transfers audio data (compressed or not) in real-time, or both audio and video in real-time (eg. future translation services).
If you write a subscription based application that allows people to communicate in real-time using text, that's not taxable. Similarly with video. But as soon as you use audio data, that's taxable.
What happens if someone creates a system that converts to audio to one end into text at the other (for deaf people), or a system that converts text to audio (for blind people). If the conversion from audio to text is done at the originating end, that's not taxable, but if it was done at the opposite end, it would be, due to the transfer of audio data.
Same in Europe - everyone argues about whether Internet gambling should be allowed/licensed/banned, but the reality is that there are already satellite channels that take bets for games like Roulette, and virtual horse-racing.