I don't have any recommendation for the algebra and trigonometry books, but the classic self-teaching text for calculus is Calculus Made Easy, by Silvanus P. Thompson.
RTFA. The claim is that turbines don't scale down very well, which they don't. 30x efficiency over a turbine that generates the same (very small) amount of power isn't an unreasonable claim at all.
The only sure way to help countries of the third world is for countries like the US to open up their subsidized markets.
That's not the biggest problem that most of the third world has, not by a long shot. Sure, they'd benefit even more than we would if our tax money wasn't spent on keeping farmers growing more of a given crop than the market wants them to, but the biggest drag on any third world country today is the local kleptocrats who hand out monopolies to their cronies, and use aid money to buy weapons.
I want that no company sells locked phones in France.
So, you don't get the iPhone, as I stated higher up in the thread. The upshot is that the French government keeps a product from those who do want it in France.
I will gladly agree with you that Clinton did lie about Monica Lewinsky. However, I find it absurd that you do not mention GW Bush's lies..
Whether Bush lied or was mistaken has no bearing on whether Clinton lied under oath, and your attempt to deflect the question at hand is rather disingenuous, to say the least.
Yeah, Bill Clinton really fucked him over by wasting the incumbent advantage. If Gore hadn't been roped into defending that perjurer, he would have won with a very comfortable margin.
In the "famous" 74 days that sold a million iPhones, there were 3.5 million Windows Mobile phones sold
Wow. So, from a standing start, by your figures, selling only in one country, Apple grabbed between a quarter and a third of the whole smart phone market, from a competitor who's had their product out there for several years?
They're far and away the biggest creditor, at least until IBM's counterclaims are adjudicated. They should be able to get the court to appoint a receiver to liquidate SCO, shouldn't they?
I voided the warranty on dozens of 128K and 512K Macs in my day, and I knew damned well that if I broke one, I was on my own. The warranty is contingent on certain terms. If the user breaches those terms and the device breaks, it's nobody's fault but his own.
wine aficionados are fooling themselves in much the same way as audiophiles.
Even worse than that, are people who blather on about the taste of a cigar, even though it's very well established that tobacco desensitizes the sense of taste.
I think you, and at least four other people in this thread, are getting confused and talking about amplifiers like you'd use in your home stereo system, as opposed to the kind that you'd plug a guitar into.
Yes, that's what I was talking about. Why do you say that I'm confused?
Overdriving the signal from a guitar to one degree or another is how nearly every player with an electric guitar gets the sound they want.
Right, and that's why most electric guitar performances sound like crap.
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I don't have any recommendation for the algebra and trigonometry books, but the classic self-teaching text for calculus is Calculus Made Easy, by Silvanus P. Thompson.
-jcr
RTFA. The claim is that turbines don't scale down very well, which they don't. 30x efficiency over a turbine that generates the same (very small) amount of power isn't an unreasonable claim at all.
-jcr
The only sure way to help countries of the third world is for countries like the US to open up their subsidized markets.
That's not the biggest problem that most of the third world has, not by a long shot. Sure, they'd benefit even more than we would if our tax money wasn't spent on keeping farmers growing more of a given crop than the market wants them to, but the biggest drag on any third world country today is the local kleptocrats who hand out monopolies to their cronies, and use aid money to buy weapons.
-jcr
Hear, hear! Well said, AC.
-jcr
I want that no company sells locked phones in France.
So, you don't get the iPhone, as I stated higher up in the thread. The upshot is that the French government keeps a product from those who do want it in France.
-jcr
I will gladly agree with you that Clinton did lie about Monica Lewinsky. However, I find it absurd that you do not mention GW Bush's lies..
Whether Bush lied or was mistaken has no bearing on whether Clinton lied under oath, and your attempt to deflect the question at hand is rather disingenuous, to say the least.
-jcr
For the record, he did not commit perjury
He lied under oath. The fact that prosecutors didn't charge him with it doesn't change the fact of his perjury.
-jcr
He was screwed on the election
Yeah, Bill Clinton really fucked him over by wasting the incumbent advantage. If Gore hadn't been roped into defending that perjurer, he would have won with a very comfortable margin.
-jcr
They're going to sell it in the UK, and that obligates them to sell it in all of Europe
Nope. There's no law that says that if you sell a product in in any EU country, that you must sell it in all of them.
-jcr
As a French citizen, I want phones to be unlocked
I want a free ice cream and a pony. You can't always get what you want, and Apple is under no obligation at all to offer it to you at all.
-jcr
The RIAA started out as a technical standards committee. How they ended up in the copyright vigilante business is something I'd like to know.
-jcr
In the "famous" 74 days that sold a million iPhones, there were 3.5 million Windows Mobile phones sold
Wow. So, from a standing start, by your figures, selling only in one country, Apple grabbed between a quarter and a third of the whole smart phone market, from a competitor who's had their product out there for several years?
-jcr
They're far and away the biggest creditor, at least until IBM's counterclaims are adjudicated. They should be able to get the court to appoint a receiver to liquidate SCO, shouldn't they?
-jcr
Apple was in negotiations to cut production in half [thestreet.com] just a month after the launch.
According to an unfounded rumor by Scott Moritz. Sorry, that doesn't hold water.
-jcr
Thanks for stopping by, Mr. Ballmer. How's that Xbox recall coming along?
-jcr
In the end, the iPhone has turned out to be a real disaster.
It sold a million units in 75 days. How can I make my next product a "disaster" like that?
-jcr
good news for consumers!
No, it means they can't get a product they want. It doesn't mean that they can get the product on different terms than the rest of the world can.
-jcr
they were still working 100% fine until Apple released an "update" that bricked them
If they were rendered unable to accept the update, they weren't "working 100% fine", QED.
-jcr
Apple deliberately made the update brick the phone
Nope.
-jcr
I voided the warranty on dozens of 128K and 512K Macs in my day, and I knew damned well that if I broke one, I was on my own. The warranty is contingent on certain terms. If the user breaches those terms and the device breaks, it's nobody's fault but his own.
-jcr
wine aficionados are fooling themselves in much the same way as audiophiles.
Even worse than that, are people who blather on about the taste of a cigar, even though it's very well established that tobacco desensitizes the sense of taste.
-jcr
I think you, and at least four other people in this thread, are getting confused and talking about amplifiers like you'd use in your home stereo system, as opposed to the kind that you'd plug a guitar into.
Yes, that's what I was talking about. Why do you say that I'm confused?
Overdriving the signal from a guitar to one degree or another is how nearly every player with an electric guitar gets the sound they want.
Right, and that's why most electric guitar performances sound like crap.
-jcr
Think about what you know, and how much of it you got in school.
One of the biggest problems with schools in the USA is that they do not reward learning, they reward docility.
-jcr
Google for them.
They figured out that making kids sit and pay attention for hours on end isn't a very good way to teach.
-jcr
Different? Sure, but it's all rancid grape juice when you get right down to it.
-jcr