It didn't occur to you that there could still be a piece of the ocean plate descending at depth did it huh?
Actually, it did occur to me. However, the article states this isn't at a subduction zone (45 degree slope) but rather at a transform fault (nearly vertical slope) and that the mechanism currently believed to cause the tremors in the subduction zones--fluids from seawater saturating the rocks--isn't present at the location.
From the San Francisco Chronicle article:
In California, the most mystifying feature of the unexplained tremors is that they are occurring right on the deepest part of the San Andreas -- a fault that does not involve subduction or volcanic activity.
Furthermore, it should be noted that the activity at the Cascadia Subduction Zone isn't between the Pacific plate and the North American plate--the two plates involved in the San Andreas fault system--but rather between the Juan de Fuca plate and North American plate. So we can't just trace down the North American plate, assuming everything will be the same along it.
It states quite clearly in the Berkley press release:
...are similar to those discovered in the past two years at subduction zones in Japan and the Pacific Northwest.
Now why, you might ask, are they making a big deal out of this? It's because it's not happening on a subduction zone, but instead under a transform fault.
It there weren't remakes, then we'd never have had the Heston version of Ben-Hur or the Garland version of A Star is Born. And, since you bring up Casablanca, would it have been as good if Sydney Greenstreet hadn't been in it, based on his popularity from The Maltese Falcon--which was a remake.
The pear tree online is only $2 more than buying it locally. (Which is well worth it to avoid having to haul it home yourself.) It's the live birds that are expensive to ship--$15 local versus $67.50 over the internet for the partridge.
I kinda think that's the point of the story. People finding the iPod a sufficiently good reason to switch their OS is not a run of the mill event. How many people switch just because there's a neat new scanner out on the market? Or for a new printer? (Not counting high-end RIPs, of course, since they're pretty much stand-alone.)
Stirling engines may be simple, but there's more to these units. Since the entire unit swings around following the sun, you can bet that keeping everything properly lubricated will be important. The motors that control the positioning of the unit are going to require servicing as well. Not to mention the occasional washing/polishing of the mirrors to keep them up to spec.
But it's not like conventional power plants don't employ hordes of mechanics as well. I'm sure it's all been factored in already.
Dude, you need to actually visit DC before raving so much. People protest at the White House
all thetime.
It's been years since anyone could actually enjoy Lafayette Park as a park, not a perpetual eyesore.
Paper money only has value in a transaction if the seller believes he can use it again to make purchases. Gold, however, can have value because the seller will use it for jewelry, or to electroplate his video cables, or even to pound flat and put on an office window.
Now, you're correct that the value of gold would be less if it were only used in this fashion rather than as an easy way smooth out the difficulties of a barter economy. But paper money would be, for all intents, worthless--after all, how often do you need little rectangles of soft paper? (And paper money doesn't come on a convenient roll!)
For GIFs, use
AniDisable. It allows you to switch the animations on and off with an option on the right-click menu. (It's almost on-the-fly...it has to reload the page after enabling the animations.)
And while you're at it, grab
Image Zoom to allow you to enlarge and shrink images.
It's called dysgraphia. You'll note that about halfway down the page is "Some physicians recommend that individuals with dysgraphia use computers to avoid the problems of handwriting."
While the moon doesn't have an atmosphere worth mentioning for heating the probe during descent, it does become boiling hot during the lunar day. And, considering that you'll want to protect many instruments from extremes of heat, it may actually stay much cooler than 'boiling' inside the probe during the landing.
I'd like to see an ameba gradually become multicelled. I just get this image of a far side cartoon of an ameba sitting around with a cup of coffee in the middle of meiosis, saying "I don't care if you haven't finished splitting off, I've got tickets to the ballgame so I'm dragging you along."
and they don't inspect code to determine its origin
You'd have to be pretty dense not to notice the origin of the software if the document the vendor hands you for validation says exactly where it comes from. And even denser to allow a vendor to charge a man-year or two's worth of time for validation efforts if the documentation says the software had already been accreditated by the government for the level of security required by the contract.
On the other hand, if they don't use the pre-validated software, then they're unlikely to win the bid to develop the new system, since the competing vendors can undercut them by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Stepping back, we are not talking at the same level. The article isn't about charging for free software, it's about charging for validating that the free software is secure enough for medical data. Somebody has to do it--either the government does it once and lets the vendors use that accreditation and charge the appropiate amount of fees (which would be measured in man-weeks) or let each and every vendor revalidate the software and pay those vendors for duplicating work over and over again. There isn't some ripoff happening, it's simply the government keeps paying for the same work over and over again because it doesn't reuse the previous validation efforts.
However, if you've never dealt with the government, you may be assuming the vendor would charge just as much for a pre-approved version as a version in which they have to redo the validation effort. Strangely enough, the government has a person, the Contracting Officer, who should monitor the contract and will (o.k., should) disallow this. Instead, the vendor would be allowed a modest fee for the cost of documentation and any further required testing.
Remember, he spent 18 months getting just the OpenSSL libraries accredidated. If a company had two people assigned to the task of accrediting both product and the incorporated OpenSSL for a year; and if we assume 50K/year per person--that's a hundred-thousand before the company makes any profit. (And we're skipping the overhead of the manager, their office space, etc.)
The fault here is in the government not having a pre-approved solution for the vendors to use.
Otherwise the company slowly accululates huge on-book liabilities
But only after slowly accumulating a huge on-book asset of all that cash they've taken in. Put that money in the bank and never touch it until a gift certificate comes back in, then you'll always have the cash to offset that liability--plus the interest for free.
I'm not sure what overpowered means in this context.
The corners are easier to defend and create a base for expansion along the sides, true. But they lack influence in the center. You can do just as well pinning your opponent's stones in the corner and grabbing a chunk of the center.
Now, as a double-digit
kyu, I like to try for corners. But that's because I still can't estimate influence from other stones worth diddly so I have difficulty building towards the center. Having a corner
This process is designed to after the leftovers--the ore that isn't worth processing with the current technology. The company has already sunk a set amount of money into each mine for such things as buying the land and setting up the infrastructure; so even if this new process isn't all that productive it can still be cost effective.
Commercial production will begin by 2007, according to Codelco.
Of course it's modest. Pilot plants aren't supposed to produce commercial levels of output. A pilot plant is basically a sanity check, where you find the mistakes and hidden problems in a new process before spending the cash to build a full-scale plant.
Plus, it's a bit strange to compare a single plant--pilot or production--to the output of an entire country.
The classic spatial example is driving. There are probably tons of places you go on a daily basis on which you have no idea what the road names are.
But that only works because roadways are relatively static. You don't have to worry about someone suddenly adding twelve stoplights, three left turns, and a stretch of one-way road between the last time you drove and when you're giving instructions.
With a shared data environment, though, you don't have that control. What was the forth folder down alphabetically is now the sixth as a new project comes in; or management decides your folders should be subfolders to match the latest reorg. (Or someone not in management--some people can't resist making improvements regardless of how much of a hassle it is for the rest of the team.)
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Intel branded Solar Panels, anyone?
Intel Outside!that Canadians don't read articles even after being called on it.
The san andreas is a remnant of the subduction of the pacific spreading ridge.
Okay, let's go to Plate Tectonics and Volcanoes and the San Andreas Fault for a quick lesson on the differences between subduction zones and transform faults.
It didn't occur to you that there could still be a piece of the ocean plate descending at depth did it huh?
Actually, it did occur to me. However, the article states this isn't at a subduction zone (45 degree slope) but rather at a transform fault (nearly vertical slope) and that the mechanism currently believed to cause the tremors in the subduction zones--fluids from seawater saturating the rocks--isn't present at the location. From the San Francisco Chronicle article:
Furthermore, it should be noted that the activity at the Cascadia Subduction Zone isn't between the Pacific plate and the North American plate--the two plates involved in the San Andreas fault system--but rather between the Juan de Fuca plate and North American plate. So we can't just trace down the North American plate, assuming everything will be the same along it.
Canadians don't read the articles either.
It states quite clearly in the Berkley press release:
Now why, you might ask, are they making a big deal out of this? It's because it's not happening on a subduction zone, but instead under a transform fault.It there weren't remakes, then we'd never have had the Heston version of Ben-Hur or the Garland version of A Star is Born. And, since you bring up Casablanca, would it have been as good if Sydney Greenstreet hadn't been in it, based on his popularity from The Maltese Falcon--which was a remake.
The pear tree online is only $2 more than buying it locally. (Which is well worth it to avoid having to haul it home yourself.) It's the live birds that are expensive to ship--$15 local versus $67.50 over the internet for the partridge.
I kinda think that's the point of the story. People finding the iPod a sufficiently good reason to switch their OS is not a run of the mill event. How many people switch just because there's a neat new scanner out on the market? Or for a new printer? (Not counting high-end RIPs, of course, since they're pretty much stand-alone.)
Stirling engines may be simple, but there's more to these units. Since the entire unit swings around following the sun, you can bet that keeping everything properly lubricated will be important. The motors that control the positioning of the unit are going to require servicing as well. Not to mention the occasional washing/polishing of the mirrors to keep them up to spec.
But it's not like conventional power plants don't employ hordes of mechanics as well. I'm sure it's all been factored in already.
Dude, you need to actually visit DC before raving so much. People protest at the White House all the time. It's been years since anyone could actually enjoy Lafayette Park as a park, not a perpetual eyesore.
It's a fixer-upper, but it gets excellent satellite reception.
Paper money only has value in a transaction if the seller believes he can use it again to make purchases. Gold, however, can have value because the seller will use it for jewelry, or to electroplate his video cables, or even to pound flat and put on an office window.
Now, you're correct that the value of gold would be less if it were only used in this fashion rather than as an easy way smooth out the difficulties of a barter economy. But paper money would be, for all intents, worthless--after all, how often do you need little rectangles of soft paper? (And paper money doesn't come on a convenient roll!)
For GIFs, use AniDisable. It allows you to switch the animations on and off with an option on the right-click menu. (It's almost on-the-fly...it has to reload the page after enabling the animations.)
And while you're at it, grab Image Zoom to allow you to enlarge and shrink images.
Using "Coke day" "Pepsi shirt" school gives you a page full of relevant results.
It's called dysgraphia. You'll note that about halfway down the page is "Some physicians recommend that individuals with dysgraphia use computers to avoid the problems of handwriting."
During the Apollo 12 mission, they recovered material from the Surveyor 3 probe. Examination of one of the recovered pieces showed that microbes had survived for over two years on the moon.
While the moon doesn't have an atmosphere worth mentioning for heating the probe during descent, it does become boiling hot during the lunar day. And, considering that you'll want to protect many instruments from extremes of heat, it may actually stay much cooler than 'boiling' inside the probe during the landing.
I'd like to see an ameba gradually become multicelled. I just get this image of a far side cartoon of an ameba sitting around with a cup of coffee in the middle of meiosis, saying "I don't care if you haven't finished splitting off, I've got tickets to the ballgame so I'm dragging you along."
and they don't inspect code to determine its origin
You'd have to be pretty dense not to notice the origin of the software if the document the vendor hands you for validation says exactly where it comes from. And even denser to allow a vendor to charge a man-year or two's worth of time for validation efforts if the documentation says the software had already been accreditated by the government for the level of security required by the contract.
On the other hand, if they don't use the pre-validated software, then they're unlikely to win the bid to develop the new system, since the competing vendors can undercut them by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Stepping back, we are not talking at the same level. The article isn't about charging for free software, it's about charging for validating that the free software is secure enough for medical data. Somebody has to do it--either the government does it once and lets the vendors use that accreditation and charge the appropiate amount of fees (which would be measured in man-weeks) or let each and every vendor revalidate the software and pay those vendors for duplicating work over and over again. There isn't some ripoff happening, it's simply the government keeps paying for the same work over and over again because it doesn't reuse the previous validation efforts.
That's exactly what I am suggesting.
However, if you've never dealt with the government, you may be assuming the vendor would charge just as much for a pre-approved version as a version in which they have to redo the validation effort. Strangely enough, the government has a person, the Contracting Officer, who should monitor the contract and will (o.k., should) disallow this. Instead, the vendor would be allowed a modest fee for the cost of documentation and any further required testing.
Remember, he spent 18 months getting just the OpenSSL libraries accredidated. If a company had two people assigned to the task of accrediting both product and the incorporated OpenSSL for a year; and if we assume 50K/year per person--that's a hundred-thousand before the company makes any profit. (And we're skipping the overhead of the manager, their office space, etc.)
The fault here is in the government not having a pre-approved solution for the vendors to use.
In their Best Practices Guide for the E10000 (written back in 2000) metions zink whiskers in 2.3.0.
Otherwise the company slowly accululates huge on-book liabilities
But only after slowly accumulating a huge on-book asset of all that cash they've taken in. Put that money in the bank and never touch it until a gift certificate comes back in, then you'll always have the cash to offset that liability--plus the interest for free.
Ultraviolet comparison. Interesting for the brightest UV location being in shadow in the visible light photo.
I'm not sure what overpowered means in this context.
The corners are easier to defend and create a base for expansion along the sides, true. But they lack influence in the center. You can do just as well pinning your opponent's stones in the corner and grabbing a chunk of the center.
Now, as a double-digit kyu, I like to try for corners. But that's because I still can't estimate influence from other stones worth diddly so I have difficulty building towards the center. Having a corner
This process is designed to after the leftovers--the ore that isn't worth processing with the current technology. The company has already sunk a set amount of money into each mine for such things as buying the land and setting up the infrastructure; so even if this new process isn't all that productive it can still be cost effective.
Commercial production will begin by 2007, according to Codelco.
Of course it's modest. Pilot plants aren't supposed to produce commercial levels of output. A pilot plant is basically a sanity check, where you find the mistakes and hidden problems in a new process before spending the cash to build a full-scale plant.
Plus, it's a bit strange to compare a single plant--pilot or production--to the output of an entire country.
The classic spatial example is driving. There are probably tons of places you go on a daily basis on which you have no idea what the road names are.
But that only works because roadways are relatively static. You don't have to worry about someone suddenly adding twelve stoplights, three left turns, and a stretch of one-way road between the last time you drove and when you're giving instructions.
With a shared data environment, though, you don't have that control. What was the forth folder down alphabetically is now the sixth as a new project comes in; or management decides your folders should be subfolders to match the latest reorg. (Or someone not in management--some people can't resist making improvements regardless of how much of a hassle it is for the rest of the team.)