You would think so but you'd be incorrect. The reason of why the US uses HFCS and other countries don't is because of the sugar lobby and the corn lobby. Sugar is cheap to produce so the sugar lobby had the Gov't slap a tariff on it for sugar imports. Great for US sugar producers, not so great for everyone else including you, me, and Coca-Cola. Corn produces got the government to subsidize the price of corn. So the price you pay for corn is cheaper than it costs to grow. Now farmers are producing lots of corn because they know they'll be getting paid by the government no matter what it costs them. They've been getting more inventive with it too. Alternative fuel, alternative polymers, and alternative sugars like HFCS.
Unfortunately these subsidies only work in the US. So while the UK pays the real price for corn, they also pay the real (inexpensive) price of sugar.
Hence, this is why Coca-Cola in the UK won't be turning to HFCS anytime soon.
There is a standard set of sizes for Li-Ion batteries. I cracked open my laptop pack and what I saw was 6 cells of slightly larger than AA cells. A little bit of searching and I found a supplier where a pack of 10 cost $50 w/ shipping. There was space in the case for 2 more so I upgraded the pack from 6 to 8 and adjusted the wiring and thermal probes to match.
Thank you for being a voice of reason. As a former Miamian I've heard the most ridiculous arguments on both sides about the embargo. One of the things that gets overlooked is why the revolution happened. Cuba was a clusterfuck of violence under bautista. People were tired of getting beatup and killed for the most mundane things. The place was rife with class and race division. And the US contributed a lot to maintaining the status quo. It's not Fidel and his gang of 20 thieves just walked in and took the keys to the capital. They had the majority of the populace on their side and no matter what the US thinks, he still does.
Revolutions don't happen when everyone is happy.
What I read is you train the best (foreign) doctors, have the most (expensive) research institutes, and develop most of the (expensive) new medicines. This things do cost a metric shit ton of money. Except you're the only ones stupid enough to pay for it all.
Believe it or not, most of the world is happy to get by on clean water and antibiotics. That alone solves 90% of the medical problems already. The remainder is spent on the really tough stuff. But US pharmaceuticals aren't interested in those problems. There is no money in 10-cent antibiotics when you can make $100 bottles of Viagra.
To know that you would have to have access to their source code and developers. I had a hackintosh running on a Pentium D that doesn't work in 10.5 or 10.6 but it worked in 10.4. Something changed in the kernel, my PC wasn't supported, but I wouldn't go so far as saying that Apple sabotaged Pentium D owners.
Holy Cow, I was just like you at one point. 3 years at a design firm as the web developer. I was getting fed up with the long hours and abnormally low pay. Then one day I quit. To make ends meet I started doing the roving IT support scheme. Only difference was I wasn't very good at asking people for money. I remember I fixed one lady's PC. It took 10 minutes and I charged her $25 for the service. She gave me $50 because I had a long drive ahead of me.
The money was alright, but I spent my free time volunteering, going to the parks, and basically just getting some fresh air. I lived in this city for years but didn't get to do or see a lot of things because I spent so much time at work.
Its a big empty building. To make it round you would need to create really exotic support system. Cooling towers are designed to move air. You can't build a rocket in the center of one because there is scaffolding inside.
If they did it circular, like the Gerkin tower in London, the wind shear actually twists the building like a rope. So you would have to get into more exotic support systems. Building it square means you can use regular beams for crossbracing.
For the same reason you don't assemble buildings horizontally and raise them. The lateral forces would be great and you would end up creating a lot of supports for one time use.
I'm watching the stream now of them assembling the Ares and I must say the VAB is the most impressive building I've ever seen. I got to tour the inside (way back in the early 90s) and the amount of empty space available, inside a building that can withstand hurricane force winds. It is truly mind-boggling.
I don't see why they couldn't go for the GPGPU and scientific computation market. They've acquired a lot of SGI and Cray IP. The x86 has been done to death. Except for more cores and a faster bus there isn't much more R&D there. And I'm not really sure why they got into the chipset business in the first place. Intel and AMD had it helmed up leaving very little for a third competitor.
Their core competences are in GPUs, they have a lot of IP there. This is valuable for negotiating licenses against the likes of Intel. And Intel's only dominance is in low margin integrated GPUs. Which is great for retailers but not great for the R&D team.
It was a pain to setup because their refusal to send anything important by email, but I guess it's for the best. The only email I receive from my bank is offers for more credit. Anything related to my account is done with registered mail and a phone call.
The obvious solution is to put a 10-inch stake pointing out the steering wheel. This would not only solve texting, but a whole lot of other problems with aggressive driving.
Deaths would be high the first month, but that's just Darwin cleaning up the gene pool.
If you mean cultivated to be tasty and edible, then yes it took a long, long time to get there. But the GM stuff available now is tasteless and unappetizing. If your tomato leaves you thirsty after the first bite, the it's not a juicy tomato. If your strawberries are red on the outside and white and tasteless on the inside, then you've run into the magnificence of GM foods.
Unfortunately, GM foods weren't designed to taste better, but to last longer. If you have the opportunity to buy at a farmers market than you won't have so much GM foods. But at Walmart, that tomato has been carried halfway around the planet, kept in warehouses, by the time it gets to the store it's barely edible, but as long as it looks fresh for most shoppers that's all that matters.
As for pets, they've been inbred for so long that most purebreeds are thoroughly retarded.
I lived there! Really. on the couches by the soda machines. Bus service stops at 2am and sometimes I didn't feel like walking from the Empo.
Some people would get really comfortable in there; pillows, blankets, and a coffee mug.
This works on CSI, in reality it's much more difficult than that. Unlike TVs the evidence to get a strong conviction doesn't really on a smoking. The evidence is used to build a case against you. If you leave the cellphone behind the prosecution will skip it and rely on other evidence like CC receipts, security cameras, witness testimony, etc. The only thing a cellphone can do is say you are in the area. It doesn't report which building you might have entered, what you possibly said, or what you were thinking.
The burden of proof in a criminal case is much higher than a civil case (the ones the RIAA is fond of). Because one means you could go to prison, lose your job, and way of life, the other just means you'll lose some money and probably be a little uncomfortable, temporarily.
The arguments slashdot users are making here are the same arguments a decent defense attorney also makes. The prosecutor doesn't like to be blind-sided because he/she relied on a single piece of evidence that could be disqualified or disputed. So they would never rely on just a security camera, or just a cellphone location report. Together they paint a strong picture. Add more evidence and you've got a compelling case.
So it can do something LaTex so what? It can also do HTML but I don't see Adobe or any other web writing tool throwing in the towel.
The big question is can it write it effectively. Word already has the tendency of turning a basic document into a code of spaghetti when saved as HTML. Somehow I don't see this being any different
I don't work for any school but I did attended a private school (briefly) and you know what? It was also a good school and the teachers had a union. So your corollary to unions and teachers doesn't add up.
How about this, find a public school without a union and see where it sits on the performance curve. Because you base your data on a private school doesn't amount to anything. Private schools have the benefit of screening out unfit students and parents. This is something public schools don't have an option of. And there is way more evidence stating a disruptive student can destroy class cohesion than there is on the performance of teachers.
When talking to a friend of mine that left teaching after three years, it wasn't the union, the district, or even the students that made him leave. It was the fact that over the years he was asked to do more than teach. For 125 students he has to be psychologist, parent, and bureaucrat. He had to prepare them for standardize tests, evaluate their emotional well-being, and prepare class material.
In my opinion, anyone that can be a teacher in this day and age I say {$Diety} bless 'em
Actually, that doesn't make sense. If you are backing things up it means you are in the habit of backing things up. If you stop paying for a backup service it means you either don't care or went with plan B. It's like smoking, either you continue to use the brand you always used, you found another, or you stopped completely. But Marlboro isn't going to keep a 6 months supply just for you incase you fallback.
The graveyard option wastes resources that could be allocated to current paying customers. And most likely their will be a lot of backup data from former customers who don't want the data or don't think it was important enough to keep a backup
The reason it got this far was because they passed it with only a few members (~12) of the assemblee present. By trying to rush it through at 9pm on a friday night they wanted to avoid debating the bill.
The next time the bill is presented it will be under more a scrutiny and even less popular since everyone has learned what the Sarkozy gov't has tried to do.
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Japan is unique in the fact that it's a sizeable market. Most western companies have attempted to market products there and failed. The only market that does well is American and European fashion.
I think this has to do with a little bit of NIH (not invented here) and poor understanding of the country. Hell even Microsoft with billions of dollars sunk into the XBox marketing can't make a dent there and there is only 2 competitors.
On the other hand Sony did so poorly in the international mobile market they had to team up with Ericcson to bail them out. Product marketing in Japan is like the LOST bubble. We can't seem to get in and they can't seem to get out.
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For the love of $DIETY.
CDMA != WCDMA. You might as well be saying you can't connect to the internet unless you have RJ-45
You would think so but you'd be incorrect. The reason of why the US uses HFCS and other countries don't is because of the sugar lobby and the corn lobby. Sugar is cheap to produce so the sugar lobby had the Gov't slap a tariff on it for sugar imports. Great for US sugar producers, not so great for everyone else including you, me, and Coca-Cola. Corn produces got the government to subsidize the price of corn. So the price you pay for corn is cheaper than it costs to grow. Now farmers are producing lots of corn because they know they'll be getting paid by the government no matter what it costs them. They've been getting more inventive with it too. Alternative fuel, alternative polymers, and alternative sugars like HFCS. Unfortunately these subsidies only work in the US. So while the UK pays the real price for corn, they also pay the real (inexpensive) price of sugar. Hence, this is why Coca-Cola in the UK won't be turning to HFCS anytime soon.
There is a standard set of sizes for Li-Ion batteries. I cracked open my laptop pack and what I saw was 6 cells of slightly larger than AA cells. A little bit of searching and I found a supplier where a pack of 10 cost $50 w/ shipping. There was space in the case for 2 more so I upgraded the pack from 6 to 8 and adjusted the wiring and thermal probes to match.
0 Saudi oil fields are owned by Aramco. They explore, drill, and refine their own oil.
Thank you for being a voice of reason. As a former Miamian I've heard the most ridiculous arguments on both sides about the embargo. One of the things that gets overlooked is why the revolution happened. Cuba was a clusterfuck of violence under bautista. People were tired of getting beatup and killed for the most mundane things. The place was rife with class and race division. And the US contributed a lot to maintaining the status quo. It's not Fidel and his gang of 20 thieves just walked in and took the keys to the capital. They had the majority of the populace on their side and no matter what the US thinks, he still does. Revolutions don't happen when everyone is happy.
You should see what they do to photographers. who take pictures. in public of all places.
What I read is you train the best (foreign) doctors, have the most (expensive) research institutes, and develop most of the (expensive) new medicines. This things do cost a metric shit ton of money. Except you're the only ones stupid enough to pay for it all. Believe it or not, most of the world is happy to get by on clean water and antibiotics. That alone solves 90% of the medical problems already. The remainder is spent on the really tough stuff. But US pharmaceuticals aren't interested in those problems. There is no money in 10-cent antibiotics when you can make $100 bottles of Viagra.
Try connecting to their online server. because I'm still............waiting.
To know that you would have to have access to their source code and developers. I had a hackintosh running on a Pentium D that doesn't work in 10.5 or 10.6 but it worked in 10.4. Something changed in the kernel, my PC wasn't supported, but I wouldn't go so far as saying that Apple sabotaged Pentium D owners.
Holy Cow, I was just like you at one point. 3 years at a design firm as the web developer. I was getting fed up with the long hours and abnormally low pay. Then one day I quit. To make ends meet I started doing the roving IT support scheme. Only difference was I wasn't very good at asking people for money. I remember I fixed one lady's PC. It took 10 minutes and I charged her $25 for the service. She gave me $50 because I had a long drive ahead of me. The money was alright, but I spent my free time volunteering, going to the parks, and basically just getting some fresh air. I lived in this city for years but didn't get to do or see a lot of things because I spent so much time at work.
Its a big empty building. To make it round you would need to create really exotic support system. Cooling towers are designed to move air. You can't build a rocket in the center of one because there is scaffolding inside.
If they did it circular, like the Gerkin tower in London, the wind shear actually twists the building like a rope. So you would have to get into more exotic support systems. Building it square means you can use regular beams for crossbracing.
For the same reason you don't assemble buildings horizontally and raise them. The lateral forces would be great and you would end up creating a lot of supports for one time use.
I'm watching the stream now of them assembling the Ares and I must say the VAB is the most impressive building I've ever seen. I got to tour the inside (way back in the early 90s) and the amount of empty space available, inside a building that can withstand hurricane force winds. It is truly mind-boggling.
I don't see why they couldn't go for the GPGPU and scientific computation market. They've acquired a lot of SGI and Cray IP. The x86 has been done to death. Except for more cores and a faster bus there isn't much more R&D there. And I'm not really sure why they got into the chipset business in the first place. Intel and AMD had it helmed up leaving very little for a third competitor.
Their core competences are in GPUs, they have a lot of IP there. This is valuable for negotiating licenses against the likes of Intel. And Intel's only dominance is in low margin integrated GPUs. Which is great for retailers but not great for the R&D team.
It was a pain to setup because their refusal to send anything important by email, but I guess it's for the best. The only email I receive from my bank is offers for more credit. Anything related to my account is done with registered mail and a phone call.
The obvious solution is to put a 10-inch stake pointing out the steering wheel. This would not only solve texting, but a whole lot of other problems with aggressive driving. Deaths would be high the first month, but that's just Darwin cleaning up the gene pool.
If you mean cultivated to be tasty and edible, then yes it took a long, long time to get there. But the GM stuff available now is tasteless and unappetizing. If your tomato leaves you thirsty after the first bite, the it's not a juicy tomato. If your strawberries are red on the outside and white and tasteless on the inside, then you've run into the magnificence of GM foods. Unfortunately, GM foods weren't designed to taste better, but to last longer. If you have the opportunity to buy at a farmers market than you won't have so much GM foods. But at Walmart, that tomato has been carried halfway around the planet, kept in warehouses, by the time it gets to the store it's barely edible, but as long as it looks fresh for most shoppers that's all that matters. As for pets, they've been inbred for so long that most purebreeds are thoroughly retarded.
I lived there! Really. on the couches by the soda machines. Bus service stops at 2am and sometimes I didn't feel like walking from the Empo. Some people would get really comfortable in there; pillows, blankets, and a coffee mug.
This works on CSI, in reality it's much more difficult than that. Unlike TVs the evidence to get a strong conviction doesn't really on a smoking. The evidence is used to build a case against you. If you leave the cellphone behind the prosecution will skip it and rely on other evidence like CC receipts, security cameras, witness testimony, etc. The only thing a cellphone can do is say you are in the area. It doesn't report which building you might have entered, what you possibly said, or what you were thinking.
The burden of proof in a criminal case is much higher than a civil case (the ones the RIAA is fond of). Because one means you could go to prison, lose your job, and way of life, the other just means you'll lose some money and probably be a little uncomfortable, temporarily.
The arguments slashdot users are making here are the same arguments a decent defense attorney also makes. The prosecutor doesn't like to be blind-sided because he/she relied on a single piece of evidence that could be disqualified or disputed. So they would never rely on just a security camera, or just a cellphone location report. Together they paint a strong picture. Add more evidence and you've got a compelling case.
So it can do something LaTex so what? It can also do HTML but I don't see Adobe or any other web writing tool throwing in the towel.
The big question is can it write it effectively. Word already has the tendency of turning a basic document into a code of spaghetti when saved as HTML. Somehow I don't see this being any different
I don't work for any school but I did attended a private school (briefly) and you know what? It was also a good school and the teachers had a union. So your corollary to unions and teachers doesn't add up.
How about this, find a public school without a union and see where it sits on the performance curve. Because you base your data on a private school doesn't amount to anything. Private schools have the benefit of screening out unfit students and parents. This is something public schools don't have an option of. And there is way more evidence stating a disruptive student can destroy class cohesion than there is on the performance of teachers.
When talking to a friend of mine that left teaching after three years, it wasn't the union, the district, or even the students that made him leave. It was the fact that over the years he was asked to do more than teach. For 125 students he has to be psychologist, parent, and bureaucrat. He had to prepare them for standardize tests, evaluate their emotional well-being, and prepare class material.
In my opinion, anyone that can be a teacher in this day and age I say {$Diety} bless 'em
Actually, that doesn't make sense. If you are backing things up it means you are in the habit of backing things up. If you stop paying for a backup service it means you either don't care or went with plan B. It's like smoking, either you continue to use the brand you always used, you found another, or you stopped completely. But Marlboro isn't going to keep a 6 months supply just for you incase you fallback.
The graveyard option wastes resources that could be allocated to current paying customers. And most likely their will be a lot of backup data from former customers who don't want the data or don't think it was important enough to keep a backup
The reason it got this far was because they passed it with only a few members (~12) of the assemblee present. By trying to rush it through at 9pm on a friday night they wanted to avoid debating the bill.
The next time the bill is presented it will be under more a scrutiny and even less popular since everyone has learned what the Sarkozy gov't has tried to do.
Japan is unique in the fact that it's a sizeable market. Most western companies have attempted to market products there and failed. The only market that does well is American and European fashion.
I think this has to do with a little bit of NIH (not invented here) and poor understanding of the country. Hell even Microsoft with billions of dollars sunk into the XBox marketing can't make a dent there and there is only 2 competitors. On the other hand Sony did so poorly in the international mobile market they had to team up with Ericcson to bail them out. Product marketing in Japan is like the LOST bubble. We can't seem to get in and they can't seem to get out.