Why not coat the barrel in silicon carbide? The sublimation temperature is 2700C (SiC doesn't melt) and there's already a patent for using it in the manufacture of highly wear resistant gun barrels so it's at least been tested in the target application =)
They might not have had a sink but I'm pretty sure they had access to running water from some point, it's kind of impossible to have 3.2M people in an area with just near surface wells.
Considering a single fiber optic plant has a capacity of 720,000km per year that's really not much if we can come up with a material that's strong enough.
With something like this Constellation might make sense, use Ares I to reach orbit and then take a vehicle to Mars that was built using parts blasted into orbit at a fraction of the cost.
If your contributions are less than $500 in noncash value or any amount in cash you use 1040 schedule A, otherwise you use Form 8283. For any single contribution over $250 you need "a contemporaneous written acknowledgment" though a receipt should satisfy that requirement for a cash donation.
Uh, that means a C-17 can fly 20,000 gallons of water, to supply the 10 quarts of water per person per day needed to double their survival time to 15 days you would need over 450 flights a day. I doubt the airport can support that many unloads a day.
There has been no water service since the quake, that means no water to clean the wounded, no water to drink, no water to clear human refuse, etc. That's a very serious problem and waiting is *not* the thing to do. An average male in good health can only survive about 7 days without water in the ~90 degree conditions in Haiti right now which means a LOT of those 3.2M people are going to start dying soon.
Huh, I just add up all my charitable donations and add it to the appropriate line on whatever schedule it is put on. I keep all my receipts for such things in case I get audited so I would just keep a copy of the phone bill showing the donation. There is no requirement that the donation total 1% of your income.
Dude, it's the poorest place in the hemisphere, the freaking presidential palace collapsed for gods sake, there IS no money to support proper building standards. The only areas largely unaffected anywhere near Port au Prince were the hills where the houses were basically sitting directly on bedrock, any soil that could undergo liquification did so and basically none of the buildings were anchored to the bedrock since that's very expensive.
90% of fiscal year 2008 expenses went to program costs, 4% to fund-raising, and 6% to administrative expenses, so 90c of every dollar you donate go directly to the people they serve. (source)
Uh, most 501c3's operate with an overhead between 5 and 15% with a total average of 13.6% according to this paper I found with a quick Google. The Red Cross appears to have higher than average expenses at 18% of funds raised, but only ~10% of total expenses (non-donations account for the discrepancy) according to this.
Uh, they need things like water *yesterday*, but I'm not sure if any amount of money can get the basics they need in time, only so many flights can land at the airport per day (and they can't fly in the big boys like the C5 Galaxy) and the port has no cranes to unload ships. Supplying water to ~3.2M people is a huge order even with nearly unlimited resources, for instance the Nimitz class carrier the navy brought to the area can make ~400k gallons of fresh water a day, but that's just a drop in the bucket compared to what's needed.
In general modern compilers are good enough that you are much more likely to get better performance by spending the time finding a better algorithm then you are hand optimizing the code. Obviously for things like H.264 where the algorithm is already set this is not true, but that's a very small fraction of the code out there.
And if that's what the patent was for it would be fine, but it's not it's for a digital camera with live preview. Oh and the iPhone fails on claim 10, no removable storage. I also have to wonder if either camera uses an ASIC per claim 8 or if they do everything in software (probably cheaper since they have CPU's fast enough to do it with ease).
No, it wasn't, it's an obvious feature of a digital camera. Since digital camera's are basically an extension of the camcorder which had live review since at least the 80's it should be obvious to someone not skilled in the arts, let alone someone who is. Besides the Casio QV-11 had LCD preview in 1995 and the Kodak patent wasn't filed until 1997.
There aren't. Males occur at ~51.3% of live births, females become more common over time as they die at an older age and die less frequently in their youth.
Yes, but the Lenovo standalone keyboards tend to be derivatives of the Thinkpad keyboard. Personally I am still waiting for a Bluetooth keyboard with trackpoint as I think that would be the ultimate HTPC keyboard.
scroll-scroll is the defacto key combo to bring up the OSD for KVM's. Pause/Break is great for stopping that information window that scrolls by during POST, but on modern computer's it's largely unneeded since PCI resource sharing generally just works.
You can use numlock and the accessibility feature to use the number pad as a mouse, I do that with my wireless keyboard as using a wireless mouse on furniture sucks.
Avatar cost about $3-400M to make and about $150 to advertise and has pulled in $1.37B so far, I'd expect about $2B once it's all said and done, or an ROI of about 400%.
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Why not coat the barrel in silicon carbide? The sublimation temperature is 2700C (SiC doesn't melt) and there's already a patent for using it in the manufacture of highly wear resistant gun barrels so it's at least been tested in the target application =)
They might not have had a sink but I'm pretty sure they had access to running water from some point, it's kind of impossible to have 3.2M people in an area with just near surface wells.
Considering a single fiber optic plant has a capacity of 720,000km per year that's really not much if we can come up with a material that's strong enough.
With something like this Constellation might make sense, use Ares I to reach orbit and then take a vehicle to Mars that was built using parts blasted into orbit at a fraction of the cost.
If your contributions are less than $500 in noncash value or any amount in cash you use 1040 schedule A, otherwise you use Form 8283. For any single contribution over $250 you need "a contemporaneous written acknowledgment" though a receipt should satisfy that requirement for a cash donation.
Uh, that means a C-17 can fly 20,000 gallons of water, to supply the 10 quarts of water per person per day needed to double their survival time to 15 days you would need over 450 flights a day. I doubt the airport can support that many unloads a day.
There has been no water service since the quake, that means no water to clean the wounded, no water to drink, no water to clear human refuse, etc. That's a very serious problem and waiting is *not* the thing to do. An average male in good health can only survive about 7 days without water in the ~90 degree conditions in Haiti right now which means a LOT of those 3.2M people are going to start dying soon.
Huh, I just add up all my charitable donations and add it to the appropriate line on whatever schedule it is put on. I keep all my receipts for such things in case I get audited so I would just keep a copy of the phone bill showing the donation. There is no requirement that the donation total 1% of your income.
Dude, it's the poorest place in the hemisphere, the freaking presidential palace collapsed for gods sake, there IS no money to support proper building standards. The only areas largely unaffected anywhere near Port au Prince were the hills where the houses were basically sitting directly on bedrock, any soil that could undergo liquification did so and basically none of the buildings were anchored to the bedrock since that's very expensive.
90% of fiscal year 2008 expenses went to program costs, 4% to fund-raising, and 6% to administrative expenses, so 90c of every dollar you donate go directly to the people they serve. (source)
Uh, most 501c3's operate with an overhead between 5 and 15% with a total average of 13.6% according to this paper I found with a quick Google. The Red Cross appears to have higher than average expenses at 18% of funds raised, but only ~10% of total expenses (non-donations account for the discrepancy) according to this.
Uh, they need things like water *yesterday*, but I'm not sure if any amount of money can get the basics they need in time, only so many flights can land at the airport per day (and they can't fly in the big boys like the C5 Galaxy) and the port has no cranes to unload ships. Supplying water to ~3.2M people is a huge order even with nearly unlimited resources, for instance the Nimitz class carrier the navy brought to the area can make ~400k gallons of fresh water a day, but that's just a drop in the bucket compared to what's needed.
The symptoms must be caused by something else.
Yeah, hypochondria and/or fraud. The defendant should countersue for lawyers fees for such a frivolous suit.
In general modern compilers are good enough that you are much more likely to get better performance by spending the time finding a better algorithm then you are hand optimizing the code. Obviously for things like H.264 where the algorithm is already set this is not true, but that's a very small fraction of the code out there.
And if that's what the patent was for it would be fine, but it's not it's for a digital camera with live preview. Oh and the iPhone fails on claim 10, no removable storage. I also have to wonder if either camera uses an ASIC per claim 8 or if they do everything in software (probably cheaper since they have CPU's fast enough to do it with ease).
No, it wasn't, it's an obvious feature of a digital camera. Since digital camera's are basically an extension of the camcorder which had live review since at least the 80's it should be obvious to someone not skilled in the arts, let alone someone who is. Besides the Casio QV-11 had LCD preview in 1995 and the Kodak patent wasn't filed until 1997.
Touchpads SUCK, I'm patiently waiting for Lenovo to produce a Bluetooth keyboard with Trackpoint.
There aren't. Males occur at ~51.3% of live births, females become more common over time as they die at an older age and die less frequently in their youth.
Yes, but the Lenovo standalone keyboards tend to be derivatives of the Thinkpad keyboard. Personally I am still waiting for a Bluetooth keyboard with trackpoint as I think that would be the ultimate HTPC keyboard.
scroll-scroll is the defacto key combo to bring up the OSD for KVM's. Pause/Break is great for stopping that information window that scrolls by during POST, but on modern computer's it's largely unneeded since PCI resource sharing generally just works.
You can use numlock and the accessibility feature to use the number pad as a mouse, I do that with my wireless keyboard as using a wireless mouse on furniture sucks.
But it DOES have an affect on the speed which is why there are slightly more males born than females.
Evolution does not require speciation, it requires adaptation to accommodate changing niches which may, but not necessarily will lead to speciation.
Dude, go back and read the papers and transcripts of the talks by the MS researchers who were working on Palladium before the media circus took over.
Avatar cost about $3-400M to make and about $150 to advertise and has pulled in $1.37B so far, I'd expect about $2B once it's all said and done, or an ROI of about 400%.