Also just as the cost of the wheat in bread is tiny in proportion to the price of bread in the store. A 100% increase in oil prices probably translates to a 10% increase in the price of polarfleece blankets. It's the 75%+ increase in gas prices that gets at people.
Generally in a reactor the coolant is the safety system. What this is claiming (IANANE) is that the reaction controls itself. Other reactor designs require constant coolant to moderate the speed of the reaction (usually by absorbing neutrons and possibly heat).
Make sure you have a dual or tri mode phone, or you will learn that 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz are not quite compatable. Do they still make any single frequency GSM phones?
Politically the tradeoff has been you have to wire the uneconomic areas to wire the economic ones, this was true for both phone and cable. Blame your local utility commission for making that tradeoff if you want. Because our hugely populated areas pay for the service to all the sparse areas (the FCC's USF) they haven't invested in the infastructure for the densly populated areas. The only reason NYC doesn't have fiber to everyone's door is that the phone company generally offers the same set of services across the state of NY to stay out of regulatory hot water.
If anyone wants the numbers. You can wire 6.3% of Sweeden and reach 80% of the poulation. In the US you would have to wire about 15% of the counties (I couldn't find pop/km data for the US) to reach the same 80% of the population. Wiring 6.3% of the most populated counties only raches about 65% of the US population. The density map of Sweden is here. For the US I grabbed the county stats list from the census bureau and removed the states and then sorted.
Sure average population density is higher in the US, but what about median population density. In the US we have densly populated coasts, and sparcely populated middle of the country. I'd assume that Sweeden has a densly populated southern half and then almost no one in the northern half.
Networks are all driven by houses per mile. In the US a significant portion of the population lives in areas with 1-25 houses per mile (networks are uneconomic) while I'd be surprised if any of the broadband leaders has much of their population in areas under 50 households/mile (or 30 households/km). Part of this is driven by the large amount of habitable space in the flyover states, part is driven by tremendous subsidies given to people in the US to own their own home and the cultural perception that it is very important to have your own bit of land.
It's sex linked. The gene is deficient in the X cromesome and reccessive. I'm sure this is simplified as there isn't one colorblind gene. Girls require two colorblind genes to be colorblind, or they are just carriers. Boys have a 50% chance of being colorblind if their mom is a carrier. Fathers always pass their X chromasome to their female offspring (colorblind or not colorblind, mothers pass one of their two to their offspring. A colorblind father will not pass the gene to his sons but could pass it to his daughter's sons.
The last paper I saw hypothosised that color blindness is an advantage while hunting because everything is camoflaged so motion and shape cues are more important (which is what better hunters rely on normall). A colorblind male could potentially help the hunting group.
Actually baseball isn't salary capped in many ways, which is why Steinbrenner can afford enough talent to make annual playoff runs. Basketball and football do have salary caps (and revenue sharing). The caps are for teams and designed to make teams more comptetitve. Under both you can pay a superstar as much as you want but that leaves you less to hire the remaining team.
Dell's "best deal" system occasionally can be found in the home section as well, it's just rare there. They seem to swap it around, and rarely have exactly the same configuration to get it in both places (memory is usually bundled in the small business while an electronic item is the bundle item in home, but YMMV). I used to follow the changes and try to look at both configs before sending someone out to buy a system.
The other great deal was a PowerEdge server that was the high end XPS without a video card for $299-$399 last winter/spring.
My personal favorite was SUN's java developer systems they auctioned with no reserve to see what the market price was. If you needed the software it was a pretty good deal.
I've heard three good reasons why prices are higher in Europe vs the US. In the US prices are quoted excluding any VAT or sales tax, but European prices include them. Second, manufacturers claim that import duties (and shipping costs) are part of the markup, although now that everything gets made in Asia this might not be as large a factor. Finally, HP has considerably more market share in Europe, and as a result is better able to set prices above competitive levels on there. I'd guess that it's a factor of all three in addition to a fairly recent and rapid reversal in the dollar.
I guess I should clarify, I would have thought that sunflowers would have to grow in fairly valuable farmland, while canola oil can be grown on the scrubbier parts of the north plains (where farmland is very cheap). I guess I was ignorant of the relative yield of sunflowers and growing costs. I'm sure the harvesting methods on sunflowers would reduce their astetic value significantly. Do they chop the heads or remove the seeds from them while standing? We grew all sorts of stuff in eastern washington, but I don't recall enough oilseed sunflowers to see a harvest.
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Potential damaging agents are microorganisms on the banana that kill or displace helpful soil organism or something similar to nitrogen burn (like dog spots in a yard). Generally composts have already been broken down before application.
I'm generally an office guru, but I can never get certain picture elements where I want them to be in Word, one move and they suddenly try to anchor to the border, or leap to a new page. That's probably my largest frustration with MS Office. Excell is one of the only pieces of software that I think MS did an excellent job on (and I use 90%-95% of the features annually.
There is so much good open source software out there (my most recent find was a sweet little bookkeeping package called Lazy8 ledger) that gets very little promotion. I'd guess that there are many, many useful packages and programs that if I knew about I'd use. So I can see significant value in "editing" open source into useful groups. Also, I've long thought that it would be nice to see a "starter's" edition of Linux that reduced the choices of packages available to the "best" pieces of software. Nothing against vi and EMACS ed and the others, but does a first time user really need to choose between 12 or more text editors (or two desktop environments or three office suites, etc). I realize there are tremendous advantages to having diverse software offerings, but it's not as useful for the first time user.
Typically betters to the hard work, the bookie, just sets his odds so that an equal amount is bet both for and against the uncertainty. He generally gets a cut of the pot, and that's where the money comes from. If you were to make a particularly large bet, the odds would move against you to add money to the other side of the bet. If there is a ceiling on the maximum odds the best bet is likely that there is no life on Titan, although the no Nessie bet (66:1) by 2010 appears to be another good one (too much sentemental money driving the odds down. The trick to this sort of betting isn't betting on the most likely winner, its finding a something that's actual odds are far removed from the bookie odds. Similar to the Belmont, so many people bed on Smarty Jones, that the odds were greatly in your favor to play the field (a much more likely outcome than the betting odds were quoting). Anyone who did made out like a bandit, on the back of all the sentimental money for Smarty to win the triple crown.
I've used both, but most programming was done in a Univ. environment (C++) or at work (Visual Basic). As my current project is to get Linux running on an old AlphaStation this might be a fun addition to the project.
Do you have any concept of the amount of infastructure currently devoted to gasoline delivery that would largely be wasted in hydrogen distribution, or the amount of new infastructure required? And that is beside the point that they only way we can currently produce hydrogen on any sort of efficient scale is to strip it from crude or natural gas. I'd put a guess that the new h2 infastructure would cost two orders of magnitude byond your Iraq cost figure, and we would still be getting the h2 from oil (stripping h2 in a factory and burning it in your car produces less polution than burning fossil fuels in your car).
Sweet, I would suppose that all the open source spreadsheets could be compiled with additional rows and columns it would just be a matter of degree of difficulty. I've never compiled anything beyond a few hellow world class programs (I took a C++ class in college and have done some basic things with Visual Basic) is there any hope for me to get Gnumeric working with say 2056/65536 (ie change this variable and all references to it or something similar), or should I keep using open office.
I've yet to see an application with support for more rows and columns than Excel. Personally I bump into the 256 column limit much more frequently than the 65536 row limit.
I realize this may be a difficult to comprehend idea, but there are a few places that play a game similar to football in places besides Green Bay and Chicago.
No the trick wasn't just selling his soon to be worthless company to yahoo, plenty of others did that and don't have the cash for a player's salary now. It's hedging your now large yahoo stake with put options, before the value craters that gets you a basketball team.
Crap I have the same problem with music. I rip all my CDs at 192-265 kbps, mostly so I don't have to swap them in and out of my 5 cd changer (and it get's warm on hot days on random). Of course the computer is connected to the stereo system and you can certainly hear the difference between the occasional downloaded song (I flat can't find a few CDs, I'll buy them the minute I do) and something that was ripped. It is mostly bass, but ocasionally in other regions as well. Usually the bass is either muddled or non-existent. The rips are distinguishable from CDs but close enough not to have to mess with swapping a CD vs making a couple of clicks or letting iTunes do the work with the new party mix or whatever it's called.
Now that you mention it I do recall this, I stand corrected. They do a better job of deploying coverage to their lesser watched channels so they have to do considerably better there. Thanks for the reminder.
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Also just as the cost of the wheat in bread is tiny in proportion to the price of bread in the store. A 100% increase in oil prices probably translates to a 10% increase in the price of polarfleece blankets. It's the 75%+ increase in gas prices that gets at people.
The 7E7 is a smaller quick hop jet. Airbus is making the monster hauler.
Generally in a reactor the coolant is the safety system. What this is claiming (IANANE) is that the reaction controls itself. Other reactor designs require constant coolant to moderate the speed of the reaction (usually by absorbing neutrons and possibly heat).
Make sure you have a dual or tri mode phone, or you will learn that 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz are not quite compatable. Do they still make any single frequency GSM phones?
Politically the tradeoff has been you have to wire the uneconomic areas to wire the economic ones, this was true for both phone and cable. Blame your local utility commission for making that tradeoff if you want. Because our hugely populated areas pay for the service to all the sparse areas (the FCC's USF) they haven't invested in the infastructure for the densly populated areas. The only reason NYC doesn't have fiber to everyone's door is that the phone company generally offers the same set of services across the state of NY to stay out of regulatory hot water.
If anyone wants the numbers. You can wire 6.3% of Sweeden and reach 80% of the poulation. In the US you would have to wire about 15% of the counties (I couldn't find pop/km data for the US) to reach the same 80% of the population. Wiring 6.3% of the most populated counties only raches about 65% of the US population. The density map of Sweden is here. For the US I grabbed the county stats list from the census bureau and removed the states and then sorted.
Sure average population density is higher in the US, but what about median population density. In the US we have densly populated coasts, and sparcely populated middle of the country. I'd assume that Sweeden has a densly populated southern half and then almost no one in the northern half.
Networks are all driven by houses per mile. In the US a significant portion of the population lives in areas with 1-25 houses per mile (networks are uneconomic) while I'd be surprised if any of the broadband leaders has much of their population in areas under 50 households/mile (or 30 households/km). Part of this is driven by the large amount of habitable space in the flyover states, part is driven by tremendous subsidies given to people in the US to own their own home and the cultural perception that it is very important to have your own bit of land.
It's sex linked. The gene is deficient in the X cromesome and reccessive. I'm sure this is simplified as there isn't one colorblind gene. Girls require two colorblind genes to be colorblind, or they are just carriers. Boys have a 50% chance of being colorblind if their mom is a carrier. Fathers always pass their X chromasome to their female offspring (colorblind or not colorblind, mothers pass one of their two to their offspring. A colorblind father will not pass the gene to his sons but could pass it to his daughter's sons.
The last paper I saw hypothosised that color blindness is an advantage while hunting because everything is camoflaged so motion and shape cues are more important (which is what better hunters rely on normall). A colorblind male could potentially help the hunting group.
Actually baseball isn't salary capped in many ways, which is why Steinbrenner can afford enough talent to make annual playoff runs. Basketball and football do have salary caps (and revenue sharing). The caps are for teams and designed to make teams more comptetitve. Under both you can pay a superstar as much as you want but that leaves you less to hire the remaining team.
Dell's "best deal" system occasionally can be found in the home section as well, it's just rare there. They seem to swap it around, and rarely have exactly the same configuration to get it in both places (memory is usually bundled in the small business while an electronic item is the bundle item in home, but YMMV). I used to follow the changes and try to look at both configs before sending someone out to buy a system.
The other great deal was a PowerEdge server that was the high end XPS without a video card for $299-$399 last winter/spring.
My personal favorite was SUN's java developer systems they auctioned with no reserve to see what the market price was. If you needed the software it was a pretty good deal.
I've heard three good reasons why prices are higher in Europe vs the US. In the US prices are quoted excluding any VAT or sales tax, but European prices include them. Second, manufacturers claim that import duties (and shipping costs) are part of the markup, although now that everything gets made in Asia this might not be as large a factor. Finally, HP has considerably more market share in Europe, and as a result is better able to set prices above competitive levels on there. I'd guess that it's a factor of all three in addition to a fairly recent and rapid reversal in the dollar.
I guess I should clarify, I would have thought that sunflowers would have to grow in fairly valuable farmland, while canola oil can be grown on the scrubbier parts of the north plains (where farmland is very cheap). I guess I was ignorant of the relative yield of sunflowers and growing costs. I'm sure the harvesting methods on sunflowers would reduce their astetic value significantly. Do they chop the heads or remove the seeds from them while standing? We grew all sorts of stuff in eastern washington, but I don't recall enough oilseed sunflowers to see a harvest.
Potential damaging agents are microorganisms on the banana that kill or displace helpful soil organism or something similar to nitrogen burn (like dog spots in a yard). Generally composts have already been broken down before application.
I'm generally an office guru, but I can never get certain picture elements where I want them to be in Word, one move and they suddenly try to anchor to the border, or leap to a new page. That's probably my largest frustration with MS Office. Excell is one of the only pieces of software that I think MS did an excellent job on (and I use 90%-95% of the features annually.
There is so much good open source software out there (my most recent find was a sweet little bookkeeping package called Lazy8 ledger) that gets very little promotion. I'd guess that there are many, many useful packages and programs that if I knew about I'd use. So I can see significant value in "editing" open source into useful groups. Also, I've long thought that it would be nice to see a "starter's" edition of Linux that reduced the choices of packages available to the "best" pieces of software. Nothing against vi and EMACS ed and the others, but does a first time user really need to choose between 12 or more text editors (or two desktop environments or three office suites, etc). I realize there are tremendous advantages to having diverse software offerings, but it's not as useful for the first time user.
Typically betters to the hard work, the bookie, just sets his odds so that an equal amount is bet both for and against the uncertainty. He generally gets a cut of the pot, and that's where the money comes from. If you were to make a particularly large bet, the odds would move against you to add money to the other side of the bet. If there is a ceiling on the maximum odds the best bet is likely that there is no life on Titan, although the no Nessie bet (66:1) by 2010 appears to be another good one (too much sentemental money driving the odds down. The trick to this sort of betting isn't betting on the most likely winner, its finding a something that's actual odds are far removed from the bookie odds. Similar to the Belmont, so many people bed on Smarty Jones, that the odds were greatly in your favor to play the field (a much more likely outcome than the betting odds were quoting). Anyone who did made out like a bandit, on the back of all the sentimental money for Smarty to win the triple crown.
I've used both, but most programming was done in a Univ. environment (C++) or at work (Visual Basic). As my current project is to get Linux running on an old AlphaStation this might be a fun addition to the project.
Do you have any concept of the amount of infastructure currently devoted to gasoline delivery that would largely be wasted in hydrogen distribution, or the amount of new infastructure required? And that is beside the point that they only way we can currently produce hydrogen on any sort of efficient scale is to strip it from crude or natural gas. I'd put a guess that the new h2 infastructure would cost two orders of magnitude byond your Iraq cost figure, and we would still be getting the h2 from oil (stripping h2 in a factory and burning it in your car produces less polution than burning fossil fuels in your car).
I would have thought that canola or soybeans would be tough oilseed competition. Unless you were growing for florists (which has to pay bank).
Sweet, I would suppose that all the open source spreadsheets could be compiled with additional rows and columns it would just be a matter of degree of difficulty. I've never compiled anything beyond a few hellow world class programs (I took a C++ class in college and have done some basic things with Visual Basic) is there any hope for me to get Gnumeric working with say 2056/65536 (ie change this variable and all references to it or something similar), or should I keep using open office.
I've yet to see an application with support for more rows and columns than Excel. Personally I bump into the 256 column limit much more frequently than the 65536 row limit.
I realize this may be a difficult to comprehend idea, but there are a few places that play a game similar to football in places besides Green Bay and Chicago.
No the trick wasn't just selling his soon to be worthless company to yahoo, plenty of others did that and don't have the cash for a player's salary now. It's hedging your now large yahoo stake with put options, before the value craters that gets you a basketball team.
Crap I have the same problem with music. I rip all my CDs at 192-265 kbps, mostly so I don't have to swap them in and out of my 5 cd changer (and it get's warm on hot days on random). Of course the computer is connected to the stereo system and you can certainly hear the difference between the occasional downloaded song (I flat can't find a few CDs, I'll buy them the minute I do) and something that was ripped. It is mostly bass, but ocasionally in other regions as well. Usually the bass is either muddled or non-existent. The rips are distinguishable from CDs but close enough not to have to mess with swapping a CD vs making a couple of clicks or letting iTunes do the work with the new party mix or whatever it's called.
Now that you mention it I do recall this, I stand corrected. They do a better job of deploying coverage to their lesser watched channels so they have to do considerably better there. Thanks for the reminder.