Sure it does. If you give him $20, he is now a commercial carrier. Though it is very unlikely anybody would ever bust someone for helping you move once. The real issue here is the guys on craigslist who are offering commercial to the public moving services, or the Burro corporation which is doing the same thing via an app.
What about if you show them the fuel gauge and tell them to replenish only the amount of the fuel they used for the move. Are you still a commercial carrier? Technically, you'd be losing out on the move anyway, since fuel cost doesn't take into account the wear and tear on the vehicle, the insurance, or any other miscellaneous costs.
And also, assuming that you wouldn't make a habit of helping your friends move, and that this is only a one time thing, and only a one-time reimbursement of the fuel used, would you still be considered a commercial carrier then?
In June 2014, senior officials from the FBI, NSA, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence all testified that it would be inappropriate for their agencies to secretly search Senate files without external authorization.
How do the Senators know that he lied? For all we know, they could just have used the webcam on their PC to watch some of the Senators having sex with their interns. And they could just be key logging everything, recording every sound they could, and also recording live screencasts from their computer screens.
As nice as communism sounds, there's an inherent problem with rentals.
That's the real beauty of their business model.
They're not using their own construction equipment, that would be crazy. They're using other's people equipment. This way, there is no inventory to maintain. There is no repairs to make, since you're not the owner -- you're just the agent facilitating the transaction. You're off-loading most of the risks of the transaction unto other people.
In other news, Amazon is renditioning its Cloud Drive servers to Guantanamo, because it's cheaper to comply with CIA/NSA requests from there (and it's technically not even a crime they said). And no-evil Google Drive is moving all its US cloud servers to Saudi Arabia, to save on air conditioning bills (the tax concessions they''ll be receiving are besides the point). It also helped in their decision that Saudi Arabia has a better track record than the Republic of Ireland on freedom of speech, where it comes to central banking and "too big to fail" government bailouts.
Yes, but nobody likes migrant workers. They drive up the price of everything. They work day and night. They bring their own uncivilized subculture. They require earthquake-proof housing. They don't care about octogenarians. They block our views. They take our women. Migrant workers are just horrible-horrible human beings.
I'm just glad that the KKK is making a resurgence in the Seattle mainstream media and on Slashdot thanks to Dice Holdings.
It should be, especially considering that they probably just lost 61.40 British pounds out of the entire transaction.
The seller is probably the one who lost the rest of that amount, and then some, because they probably froze his entire account for a while after that happened.
Thank you. You've just helped further prove my point. That extremely large monetary awards given by juries often get overridden on appeal, or never even get paid in the first place, which makes many of the myths we hear about extremely large judgements very misleading.
Well then she needs to sue the La Times for libel
Who cares? She didn't even work in LA or California. Plus, her income was already gone (or so she claimed). So it's not like she could prove any further losses as a result of the particular spin of the story.
"Katz (the appeals judge) found that the jury, which made the award after less than an hour of deliberation, had disregarded his instructions on the law".
And yes, that part is probably right anyway. Whether they believed she was a psychic, or not, is besides the point. The emotions of the jury probably got the better of them. If you ever had a severe allergic reaction yourself, or if you ever witnessed one in someone else, you should know how serious and painful such a reaction can be.
Getting a judgment is another matter entirely. Of course with the right lawyer and the right jury http://articles.latimes.com/19... You can get a million dollar award for a MRI destroying your psychic abilities.
Come on. This misinformation is 30 years old already. Why can't we let it die already?
Contrary to popular belief, Haimes never claimed that a CAT scan had caused her to lose her psychic powers. In fact, the often alluded-to CAT scan never took place. Haimes only claimed that the headaches resulting from her allergic reaction prevented her from earning a living as a psychic.
Citation: Galanter, Marc (1998). An Oil Strike in Hell: Contemporary Legends About the Civil Justice System. Arizona Law Review, (40 Ariz. L. Rev. 717).
Or maybe draw up a list of Islamic militants and post it. Oh, they won't? Why is that then? A bit scared of what might happen? Boo hoo.
Yes, you're right.
Islamic militants post their resume on LinkedIn in perfect American English with all the right keywords to make sure ISIS's clueless Human Resources minions don't throw their resumes in the trash by mistake.
It also helps that when they decapitate someone in an online video, they hire someone to close caption the video, translate it, and make sure all the names of the participants, from the executioner, down to the make up artists, and the fashion consultants, get clearly written into the credits (because like they say in Hollywood, if my name is not in the credits, I will f___g kill you).
...would dictate we look to other methods of input rather than re-engineering the wheel to fit inside a thimble.
I agree completely. And why does it even need to be QWERTY??
Graffiti, which was suggested by the submitter, doesn't satisfy the QWERTY condition. And for good reasons, all the design constraints that were there when the QWERTY keyboard was created, are no longer there when changing to that much smaller form factor.
Non-authoritative answer: 20.202.111.74.in-addr.arpa name = static-74-111-202-20.lsanca.fios.verizon.net.
Since "static" probably means that their ip is static. So here is what Verizon Wireless says about its static ip addresses.
What is Static IP? With Static IP, your device uses the same IP address every time. For companies with secured networks, a device with a static IP address helps the network administrator open their network to the specific address, which gives you access to the company intranet. Medium and large-sized accounts, primarily business accounts, often need static IP addresses. This feature is not for everyone. Individuals and most small-businesses will not require a static IP address.
Do I need Static IP? Static IP is for those who are using an application that requires Static IP addressing. These applications include:
Telemetry SCADA Public Safety Wireless ATM Wireless Point of Sale Machine to machine addressable units
How much does Static IP cost? A one-time setup fee of $500 will be charged at an "account level" for each Static IP account that is set up.
This is definitely not a run-of-the-mill customer.
"It's very sad and tragic. He could have very easily come to one of his counselors and asked for help," said Lt. Glenn Daniel with the Douglas County Sheriff's Department.
My high school counselor would have just told me to set the keyboard on fire. That was the extent of her hacking skills.
It seems that Goldman Sachs may be hoist by its own petard here, if the intent behind this provision was, at least in part, to enable 'aggressive' behavior by its officers and employees (i.e. to flirt with arguably illegal behavior).
Plus it also means that if one day you're accused of doing something illegal on behalf of Goldman Sachs, it means you better select the lawyer Goldman Sachs chooses for you, and you better not name any co-conspirator, or make your employer look bad in any way, because they will most likely stop paying for your legal bills if you do.
Isn't there a law that forbids being trialed more than once for the same events ?
Yes, there is. In fact, his lawyer is going to appeal invoking double jeopardy.
That being said, it looks like that law may not favor him because:
Once again, however, the law is not as simple as it first appears because the statute has an important exception if the earlier case was “terminated by a court order expressly founded upon insufficiency of evidence to establish some element of such offense which is not an element of the other offense, defined by the laws of this state.” Roughly translated, that means Mr. Aleynikov probably can be prosecuted again because the federal case focused on tangible property, while the New York charges cover computer programs.
There is a good chance the latest charges will move forward, which makes Mr. Aleynikov’s demand that Goldman pay his legal fees all the more important because the earlier case essentially bankrupted him. According to a complaint filed in the United States District Court in New Jersey, he claims that the legal fees for the federal case were approximately $2.4 million, and the state case is likely to run up a similar bill.
By the way, here is another weird tidbit about the case:
It seems a bit odd that someone accused of stealing from his employer can demand that it pay for his lawyer, but that is how the law operates for public companies like Goldman that agree to indemnify their employees for legal fees and make advance payments of those costs.
Goldman’s bylaws require it to indemnify an officer for all costs in any proceeding, including a criminal prosecution. As a vice president at Goldman, Mr. Aleynikov appears to come within the scope of the bylaws that entitle him to seek payment of his fees.
The bylaws commit Goldman to pay Mr. Aleynikov’s fees in advance of a resolution of the case as long as he agrees to repay the money if it is determined he is not entitled to it, which he has done.
Fabrice Tourre, who is on leave as a vice president, is having many of his legal expenses covered by Goldman as he faces a securities fraud lawsuit by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Goldman also paid a portion of the legal fees of its former director, Rajat Gupta, to defend him against insider trading charges, even though he was accused (and later convicted) of passing confidential information received from the firm.
Even better for Mr. Aleynikov is a provision of Delaware law, the state in which Goldman is incorporated, that requires a company to pay the legal fees of an officer who “has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding.”
When the appeals court reversed the conviction and ordered a dismissal of the charges, he was successful, even though the court also noted at one point that “Aleynikov stole purely intangible property embodied in a purely intangible format.”
That does not mean Goldman will pay the $2.4 million or advance additional money anytime soon, however. Companies loathe this type of claim because it makes them responsible for costs when they consider themselves the victim of a crime, and so there is an incentive to litigate the claim. Given Mr. Aleynikov’s dire financial condition, the firm could try to stall the case in the hope that he will settle for a smaller payment.
supporting the concepts, and understanding the economics on how to give everyone everything for free are 2 different things.
That's the thing, opposing the bank bail outs means that he doesn't want to give everyone everything for free and it also means that he supports the free market to some degree.
Personally, I don't know much about his policies, so I don't even know if I support his positions, but I do know that when someone like yourself is using absolute quantifiers like 'everyone' and 'everything' when speaking about a particular political issue, then it means you've stopped listening rationally to the other side on that particular issue.
In a Washington Post op-ed, Zug, a student at the top-ranked Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, argues that a centerfold does not belong in the classroom.
The thing is, Maddie should have just used a picture of Justin Bieber for her homework (or someone equivalent to Justin Bieber). I am sure that the teacher would have adapted (even if it's not the current standard, it could become one).
And in her op-ed article, she should just have campaigned for that. Making light of the situation by making your own one-sided request sure beats telling everyone not to do something. Nobody likes to be told that they can't do something, even men. Instead of telling someone not to do something, replace it with a positive action they can do instead. And if she wants to win the argument, she should argue (tongue-in-cheek) that everyone, even the heterosexual boys in her class, should be using Justin Bieber from now on for learning image processing.
The first thing that needs to get done is to translate some of the current tutorials on image processing with a picture of Justin Bieber. The second thing that needs to get done is to improve on those tutorials in whatever way possible. If you get a bunch of teenage girls working on those two tasks, I can guarantee you that they'll learn something about Image Processing. And of course, the tutorial examples with Lena Soderberg won't disappear because of this, but at least, you'd be creating alternative materials, so you'd actually be giving high school teachers a choice in which materials to choose.
The term "meteorology" was coined in Ancient Greece. The science of meteorology was studied in Ancient Greece and probably in many older ancient civilizations like India or China under other names.
Weather is such an important and life-threatening phenomenon, you can bet that there were warning systems in place in small fishing villages and/or over large territories.
One of the earliest scientific approaches to weather prediction occurred around 300 B.C.E., documented in Aristotle's work, "Meteorologica." The ancient Greeks invented the term meteorology, which means the study of atmospheric disturbances or meteors. Aristotle tried to explain the weather through the interaction of earth, fire, air, and water. His pupil Theophrastus really went to work and wrote the ultimate weather text The Book of Signs, which contained a collection of weather lore and forecast signs. Amazingly it served as the definitive weather book for 2,000 years! (What if they're still reading this 2,000 years from now?)
Theophrastus's weather lore included colors of the sky, rings and halos, and even sound. Hippocrates—also known as "the Father of Medicine"—was also very much involved with the weather. His work On Airs, Waters, and Places became a medical classic, linking good health with favorable weather conditions. The opening of his work begins with the advice that those who wish to investigate medicine must first begin with an understanding of seasons and weather.
Weather forecasting advanced little from these ancient times to the Renaissance. Then beginning in the fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci designed an instrument for measuring humidity called a hygrometer. Later Galileo Galilei invented the thermometer and his student Evangelista Torricelli came up with the barometer for measuring air pressure. With these tools, people could monitor the atmosphere. Then Sir Isaac Newton derived the physics and mathematics that accurately described the atmosphere. Newton's work on motion remains The Book of Signs of modern meteorology. To this day, his principles form the foundation of all computer analyses and predictions.
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Sure it does. If you give him $20, he is now a commercial carrier. Though it is very unlikely anybody would ever bust someone for helping you move once. The real issue here is the guys on craigslist who are offering commercial to the public moving services, or the Burro corporation which is doing the same thing via an app.
What about if you show them the fuel gauge and tell them to replenish only the amount of the fuel they used for the move. Are you still a commercial carrier? Technically, you'd be losing out on the move anyway, since fuel cost doesn't take into account the wear and tear on the vehicle, the insurance, or any other miscellaneous costs.
And also, assuming that you wouldn't make a habit of helping your friends move, and that this is only a one time thing, and only a one-time reimbursement of the fuel used, would you still be considered a commercial carrier then?
In June 2014, senior officials from the FBI, NSA, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence all testified that it would be inappropriate for their agencies to secretly search Senate files without external authorization.
How do the Senators know that he lied? For all we know, they could just have used the webcam on their PC to watch some of the Senators having sex with their interns. And they could just be key logging everything, recording every sound they could, and also recording live screencasts from their computer screens.
As nice as communism sounds, there's an inherent problem with rentals.
That's the real beauty of their business model.
They're not using their own construction equipment, that would be crazy. They're using other's people equipment. This way, there is no inventory to maintain. There is no repairs to make, since you're not the owner -- you're just the agent facilitating the transaction. You're off-loading most of the risks of the transaction unto other people.
In other news, Amazon is renditioning its Cloud Drive servers to Guantanamo, because it's cheaper to comply with CIA/NSA requests from there (and it's technically not even a crime they said). And no-evil Google Drive is moving all its US cloud servers to Saudi Arabia, to save on air conditioning bills (the tax concessions they''ll be receiving are besides the point). It also helped in their decision that Saudi Arabia has a better track record than the Republic of Ireland on freedom of speech, where it comes to central banking and "too big to fail" government bailouts.
People have to live somewhere.
Yes, but nobody likes migrant workers. They drive up the price of everything. They work day and night. They bring their own uncivilized subculture. They require earthquake-proof housing. They don't care about octogenarians. They block our views. They take our women. Migrant workers are just horrible-horrible human beings.
I'm just glad that the KKK is making a resurgence in the Seattle mainstream media and on Slashdot thanks to Dice Holdings.
The FBI is on its way to arrest you as we speak.
I guess £1700 is small beer to them.
It should be, especially considering that they probably just lost 61.40 British pounds out of the entire transaction.
The seller is probably the one who lost the rest of that amount, and then some, because they probably froze his entire account for a while after that happened.
May be, that's what those little helicopter landing pads embedded in the tables of Starbucks are really for.
Soon, there won't even be any need for barristas.
Thank you. You've just helped further prove my point. That extremely large monetary awards given by juries often get overridden on appeal, or never even get paid in the first place, which makes many of the myths we hear about extremely large judgements very misleading.
Well then she needs to sue the La Times for libel
Who cares? She didn't even work in LA or California. Plus, her income was already gone (or so she claimed). So it's not like she could prove any further losses as a result of the particular spin of the story.
"Katz (the appeals judge) found that the jury, which made the award after less than an hour of deliberation, had disregarded his instructions on the law".
And yes, that part is probably right anyway. Whether they believed she was a psychic, or not, is besides the point. The emotions of the jury probably got the better of them. If you ever had a severe allergic reaction yourself, or if you ever witnessed one in someone else, you should know how serious and painful such a reaction can be.
Getting a judgment is another matter entirely.
Of course with the right lawyer and the right jury
http://articles.latimes.com/19...
You can get a million dollar award for a MRI destroying your psychic abilities.
Come on. This misinformation is 30 years old already. Why can't we let it die already?
Contrary to popular belief, Haimes never claimed that a CAT scan had caused her to lose her psychic powers. In fact, the often alluded-to CAT scan never took place. Haimes only claimed that the headaches resulting from her allergic reaction prevented her from earning a living as a psychic.
Citation: Galanter, Marc (1998). An Oil Strike in Hell: Contemporary Legends About the Civil Justice System. Arizona Law Review, (40 Ariz. L. Rev. 717).
Or maybe draw up a list of Islamic militants and post it. Oh, they won't? Why is that then? A bit scared of what might happen? Boo hoo.
Yes, you're right.
Islamic militants post their resume on LinkedIn in perfect American English with all the right keywords to make sure ISIS's clueless Human Resources minions don't throw their resumes in the trash by mistake.
It also helps that when they decapitate someone in an online video, they hire someone to close caption the video, translate it, and make sure all the names of the participants, from the executioner, down to the make up artists, and the fashion consultants, get clearly written into the credits (because like they say in Hollywood, if my name is not in the credits, I will f___g kill you).
...would dictate we look to other methods of input rather than re-engineering the wheel to fit inside a thimble.
I agree completely. And why does it even need to be QWERTY??
Graffiti, which was suggested by the submitter, doesn't satisfy the QWERTY condition. And for good reasons, all the design constraints that were there when the QWERTY keyboard was created, are no longer there when changing to that much smaller form factor.
If it costs $26k per student, why do they need $100M in funding? What are they doing with all that money?
It's for a for-profit venture that develops proprietary materials.
In other words, that $100M is designed to make its own little children and eventually turn into $10 billion dollars.
But fear not, there is probably a form of financial assistance for Facebook employees.
The beginning of the headline is a tad misleading
Led By Zuckerberg, Billionaires Give $100M To Fund Private Elementary Schools
Would the same wording have been used in this instance.
Led By Zuckerberg, Billionaires Give $100M To Fund Uber
No, right? This isn't a gift. It's an investment. Also, the fund is going to a single company called AltSchool.
Non-authoritative answer:
20.202.111.74.in-addr.arpa name = static-74-111-202-20.lsanca.fios.verizon.net.
Since "static" probably means that their ip is static. So here is what Verizon Wireless says about its static ip addresses.
What is Static IP?
With Static IP, your device uses the same IP address every time. For companies with secured networks, a device with a static IP address helps the network administrator open their network to the specific address, which gives you access to the company intranet. Medium and large-sized accounts, primarily business accounts, often need static IP addresses. This feature is not for everyone. Individuals and most small-businesses will not require a static IP address.
Do I need Static IP?
Static IP is for those who are using an application that requires Static IP addressing. These applications include:
Telemetry
SCADA
Public Safety
Wireless ATM
Wireless Point of Sale
Machine to machine addressable units
How much does Static IP cost?
A one-time setup fee of $500 will be charged at an "account level" for each Static IP account that is set up.
This is definitely not a run-of-the-mill customer.
A story for those who don't understand orders of magnitude?
To be fair, Dice Holdings is located in Urbandale, Iowa. It's not like they get many earthquakes in that part of the US.
"It's very sad and tragic. He could have very easily come to one of his counselors and asked for help," said Lt. Glenn Daniel with the Douglas County Sheriff's Department.
My high school counselor would have just told me to set the keyboard on fire. That was the extent of her hacking skills.
I don't think that would have helped.
It seems that Goldman Sachs may be hoist by its own petard here, if the intent behind this provision was, at least in part, to enable 'aggressive' behavior by its officers and employees (i.e. to flirt with arguably illegal behavior).
Plus it also means that if one day you're accused of doing something illegal on behalf of Goldman Sachs, it means you better select the lawyer Goldman Sachs chooses for you, and you better not name any co-conspirator, or make your employer look bad in any way, because they will most likely stop paying for your legal bills if you do.
Isn't there a law that forbids being trialed more than once for the same events ?
Yes, there is. In fact, his lawyer is going to appeal invoking double jeopardy.
That being said, it looks like that law may not favor him because:
Once again, however, the law is not as simple as it first appears because the statute has an important exception if the earlier case was “terminated by a court order expressly founded upon insufficiency of evidence to establish some element of such offense which is not an element of the other offense, defined by the laws of this state.” Roughly translated, that means Mr. Aleynikov probably can be prosecuted again because the federal case focused on tangible property, while the New York charges cover computer programs.
There is a good chance the latest charges will move forward, which makes Mr. Aleynikov’s demand that Goldman pay his legal fees all the more important because the earlier case essentially bankrupted him. According to a complaint filed in the United States District Court in New Jersey, he claims that the legal fees for the federal case were approximately $2.4 million, and the state case is likely to run up a similar bill.
source
By the way, here is another weird tidbit about the case:
It seems a bit odd that someone accused of stealing from his employer can demand that it pay for his lawyer, but that is how the law operates for public companies like Goldman that agree to indemnify their employees for legal fees and make advance payments of those costs.
Goldman’s bylaws require it to indemnify an officer for all costs in any proceeding, including a criminal prosecution. As a vice president at Goldman, Mr. Aleynikov appears to come within the scope of the bylaws that entitle him to seek payment of his fees.
The bylaws commit Goldman to pay Mr. Aleynikov’s fees in advance of a resolution of the case as long as he agrees to repay the money if it is determined he is not entitled to it, which he has done.
Fabrice Tourre, who is on leave as a vice president, is having many of his legal expenses covered by Goldman as he faces a securities fraud lawsuit by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Goldman also paid a portion of the legal fees of its former director, Rajat Gupta, to defend him against insider trading charges, even though he was accused (and later convicted) of passing confidential information received from the firm.
Even better for Mr. Aleynikov is a provision of Delaware law, the state in which Goldman is incorporated, that requires a company to pay the legal fees of an officer who “has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding.”
When the appeals court reversed the conviction and ordered a dismissal of the charges, he was successful, even though the court also noted at one point that “Aleynikov stole purely intangible property embodied in a purely intangible format.”
That does not mean Goldman will pay the $2.4 million or advance additional money anytime soon, however. Companies loathe this type of claim because it makes them responsible for costs when they consider themselves the victim of a crime, and so there is an incentive to litigate the claim. Given Mr. Aleynikov’s dire financial condition, the firm could try to stall the case in the hope that he will settle for a smaller payment.
source
Hopefully this is a sign the space race is back on.
I agree. It's either that, or admit defeat to the Russians.
Phrased like that, no self-respecting US politician can say 'no' to it.
supporting the concepts, and understanding the economics on how to give everyone everything for free are 2 different things.
That's the thing, opposing the bank bail outs means that he doesn't want to give everyone everything for free and it also means that he supports the free market to some degree.
Personally, I don't know much about his policies, so I don't even know if I support his positions, but I do know that when someone like yourself is using absolute quantifiers like 'everyone' and 'everything' when speaking about a particular political issue, then it means you've stopped listening rationally to the other side on that particular issue.
In a Washington Post op-ed, Zug, a student at the top-ranked Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, argues that a centerfold does not belong in the classroom.
The thing is, Maddie should have just used a picture of Justin Bieber for her homework (or someone equivalent to Justin Bieber). I am sure that the teacher would have adapted (even if it's not the current standard, it could become one).
And in her op-ed article, she should just have campaigned for that. Making light of the situation by making your own one-sided request sure beats telling everyone not to do something. Nobody likes to be told that they can't do something, even men. Instead of telling someone not to do something, replace it with a positive action they can do instead. And if she wants to win the argument, she should argue (tongue-in-cheek) that everyone, even the heterosexual boys in her class, should be using Justin Bieber from now on for learning image processing.
The first thing that needs to get done is to translate some of the current tutorials on image processing with a picture of Justin Bieber. The second thing that needs to get done is to improve on those tutorials in whatever way possible. If you get a bunch of teenage girls working on those two tasks, I can guarantee you that they'll learn something about Image Processing. And of course, the tutorial examples with Lena Soderberg won't disappear because of this, but at least, you'd be creating alternative materials, so you'd actually be giving high school teachers a choice in which materials to choose.
The article was pure-navel-gazing for the BBC.
The term "meteorology" was coined in Ancient Greece. The science of meteorology was studied in Ancient Greece and probably in many older ancient civilizations like India or China under other names.
Weather is such an important and life-threatening phenomenon, you can bet that there were warning systems in place in small fishing villages and/or over large territories.
One of the earliest scientific approaches to weather prediction occurred around 300 B.C.E., documented in Aristotle's work, "Meteorologica." The ancient Greeks invented the term meteorology, which means the study of atmospheric disturbances or meteors. Aristotle tried to explain the weather through the interaction of earth, fire, air, and water. His pupil Theophrastus really went to work and wrote the ultimate weather text The Book of Signs, which contained a collection of weather lore and forecast signs. Amazingly it served as the definitive weather book for 2,000 years! (What if they're still reading this 2,000 years from now?)
Theophrastus's weather lore included colors of the sky, rings and halos, and even sound. Hippocrates—also known as "the Father of Medicine"—was also very much involved with the weather. His work On Airs, Waters, and Places became a medical classic, linking good health with favorable weather conditions. The opening of his work begins with the advice that those who wish to investigate medicine must first begin with an understanding of seasons and weather.
Weather forecasting advanced little from these ancient times to the Renaissance. Then beginning in the fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci designed an instrument for measuring humidity called a hygrometer. Later Galileo Galilei invented the thermometer and his student Evangelista Torricelli came up with the barometer for measuring air pressure. With these tools, people could monitor the atmosphere. Then Sir Isaac Newton derived the physics and mathematics that accurately described the atmosphere. Newton's work on motion remains The Book of Signs of modern meteorology. To this day, his principles form the foundation of all computer analyses and predictions.
Read more: Weather: Forecasting from the Beginning http://www.infoplease.com/cig/...
You didn't check the link I posted. It was for "Nokia by Microsoft" phone.
Yes, now those five poor bastards who bought Windows 8 phones might...
I think you meant to say Microsoft 10 phones.
Once their phones are compatible with Android, they're planning to ditch the Windows name.