It's 10M, not 10k. And the EFF award for another prime below 10M digits is zero, no more payouts will occur until someone finds a number with at least 10M digits. But GIMPS was around long before the EFF award was announced. They are systematically testing "all" mersenne numbers, not only those elegible for prizes. Ultimately, it's up to the participants. The client has a checkbox for only downloading assignments big enough to qualify for the prize.
Since they started using freon-free foam every ET, including Columbia's, has been using different kinds of foam for different parts of the tank. With and without freon, respecively. The piece that killed the astronauts was using freon.
Come on now, the EU spends zillions on all kinds of crap. This is nowhere near the top ten most wasteful. I'd rather see the EU spend my money on bringing sunlight to those people, than continue its present strategy of subsidizing tobacco plantations while spending money on anti-smoking campaigns. But I suppose my rulers have deemed our pockets deep enough to pay for all of these fantastic things!
Today I have submitted 15 HITs; 2 matches and 13 "none of the above". Of these 5 are approved, 10 pending and 0 rejected. My earnings for today are thus 15 cents so far.
When we went to Paris, the French charged my girlfriend to a voltage of 300 kV relative to ground. She neither combusted nor started any fires around her!
Just remember that it is not Bush's nazi tendencies that has put America in the mess it is in now. It is the Americans' firm belief that their country is and will always be freer than any other. And that miserable road is wide open for us Europeans too, should we choose to follow it. There are plenty of dark clouds on the horizon here too.
On a positive note though, thanks to France and the Netherlands it seems we won't have (for the next couple of years at least) a constitution that makes arms racing mandatory for all member states.
Money spent on space exploration is not taken away from making our world a better place. The money we should be using for improving everyone's life is being squandered on war, tobacco, pornography, etc.
Space exploration is dirt cheap compared to any one of the top ten Stupid Things we spend zillions on. The Apollo program lasted 15 years and cost about 6 weeks of funding for the US military (the war in Iraq not included).
That's exactly the point. Base-10 is superior regardless of whether "10" means ten, twelve, sixteen or two. What's not superior is mixing one number system with another. If you want base-twelve units, then use base-twelve numbers and go from there.
So why do you call your superior system "base-12" as in "base-(1*10^1+2*10^0)"? Here's why: Because base-12 masochists enjoy mixing base-10 numbers with base-12 units.
If "your media" say taikonaut, you should really get around more. In my experience tabloids use the term taikonaut while real newspapers call them astronauts.
Complaining about the completely unambiguous term "Chinese astrunaut" is simply trolling. And from an aesthetic viewpoint, taikonaut is an abomination of a word, and it's abundantly clear that it did not originate in China. The terms astronaut and cosmonaut both have in common that they are used by the respective space travellers' own nations, and that the languages which they occur in have a tradition of borrowing words and suffixes from Latin, which Chinese does not.
No. The correct term would be yuhangyuan, or in English: astronaut. "Taikonaut" is a play with words by people outside China, which is not any more correct than calling american space travellers "spaceonauts". If you had actually read the link you included you would know this.
A nearly $500 million settlement was reached with the government of India to repair to extend possible. That's 1980's dollars, by the way. That's a lot of money in India.
Over 3000 people died instantly, and about 10000 died in the aftermath. That's people with brown skin, by the way. That's not worth a lot of money in America. And it sure as hell is not worth letting a rich white man stand trial.
With those lax Indian laws as you say, you'd think Union Carbide could have followed them. But NO, not when it costs a few dollars more to build a safe enough plant. Then even the Indian law was too strict to follow when greed rules.
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That's right. The link does not contain that. But the pages it links to do...
It's 10M, not 10k. And the EFF award for another prime below 10M digits is zero, no more payouts will occur until someone finds a number with at least 10M digits. But GIMPS was around long before the EFF award was announced. They are systematically testing "all" mersenne numbers, not only those elegible for prizes. Ultimately, it's up to the participants. The client has a checkbox for only downloading assignments big enough to qualify for the prize.
You decided to check the facts? That's a no-no when you are trolling and shilling for Rush Limbaugh!
You really don't get it, do you?
Since they started using freon-free foam every ET, including Columbia's, has been using different kinds of foam for different parts of the tank. With and without freon, respecively. The piece that killed the astronauts was using freon.
We don't believe he has magical powers, we only believe that a sufficiently large portion of US citizens are also stupid and/or evil.
Come on now, the EU spends zillions on all kinds of crap. This is nowhere near the top ten most wasteful. I'd rather see the EU spend my money on bringing sunlight to those people, than continue its present strategy of subsidizing tobacco plantations while spending money on anti-smoking campaigns. But I suppose my rulers have deemed our pockets deep enough to pay for all of these fantastic things!
Today I have submitted 15 HITs; 2 matches and 13 "none of the above". Of these 5 are approved, 10 pending and 0 rejected. My earnings for today are thus 15 cents so far.
In the huge efficiency advantage of the big power plant over the car mounted combustion engine?
When we went to Paris, the French charged my girlfriend to a voltage of 300 kV relative to ground. She neither combusted nor started any fires around her!
Because the decade old one is as good as new and costs only 2 or 3 dollars?
You forgot one: XP
Or did Microsoft beat you to it?
Just remember that it is not Bush's nazi tendencies that has put America in the mess it is in now. It is the Americans' firm belief that their country is and will always be freer than any other. And that miserable road is wide open for us Europeans too, should we choose to follow it. There are plenty of dark clouds on the horizon here too.
On a positive note though, thanks to France and the Netherlands it seems we won't have (for the next couple of years at least) a constitution that makes arms racing mandatory for all member states.
The dinosaurs are extinct because they did not have a space program.
Money spent on space exploration is not taken away from making our world a better place. The money we should be using for improving everyone's life is being squandered on war, tobacco, pornography, etc.
Space exploration is dirt cheap compared to any one of the top ten Stupid Things we spend zillions on. The Apollo program lasted 15 years and cost about 6 weeks of funding for the US military (the war in Iraq not included).
That's exactly the point. Base-10 is superior regardless of whether "10" means ten, twelve, sixteen or two. What's not superior is mixing one number system with another. If you want base-twelve units, then use base-twelve numbers and go from there.
So why do you call your superior system "base-12" as in "base-(1*10^1+2*10^0)"? Here's why: Because base-12 masochists enjoy mixing base-10 numbers with base-12 units.
Mac OS X, Linux, BSD = walking near the road
MS Windows = walking in the middle of it
If "your media" say taikonaut, you should really get around more. In my experience tabloids use the term taikonaut while real newspapers call them astronauts.
Complaining about the completely unambiguous term "Chinese astrunaut" is simply trolling. And from an aesthetic viewpoint, taikonaut is an abomination of a word, and it's abundantly clear that it did not originate in China. The terms astronaut and cosmonaut both have in common that they are used by the respective space travellers' own nations, and that the languages which they occur in have a tradition of borrowing words and suffixes from Latin, which Chinese does not.
No. The correct term would be yuhangyuan, or in English: astronaut. "Taikonaut" is a play with words by people outside China, which is not any more correct than calling american space travellers "spaceonauts". If you had actually read the link you included you would know this.
Or maybe DVDs will be #8.
Over 3000 people died instantly, and about 10000 died in the aftermath. That's people with brown skin, by the way. That's not worth a lot of money in America. And it sure as hell is not worth letting a rich white man stand trial.
Wow, $500M in compensation for 500K victims in total, dead and injured? I'M IMPRESSED!
With those lax Indian laws as you say, you'd think Union Carbide could have followed them. But NO, not when it costs a few dollars more to build a safe enough plant. Then even the Indian law was too strict to follow when greed rules.
Score: 5, Fair and Balanced
I think the point is that our usage of solar and wind power does not affect the rate of hydrogen depletion in the sun.