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LIMITATIONS ON USE. All Content is provided for your private non-commercial use and home viewing. You may not display, and the Content may not be viewed, in areas open to the public or in commercial establishments."
And:
"commercial locations require an appropriate licensee agreement"
Shucks, I thought you were going to ask for a link to confirm this flimsy story, which is apparently based on somebody's blog. It really doesn't add up. Unless there is some bad Irish law regulating linking, the worst this could be is some company asking for money, and perhaps backing it up by trying to break inbound links that aren't licensed (which has been tried before, but I think without great success).
The fed can offer bonds at whatever rate it chooses, but it can't make people buy them. Nobody would be willing to buy bonds with such a low yield if they believed that the government was likely to repay them with dollars that will be devalued due to printing too many of them. In other words, the market doesn't believe the dollar will be much weaker in the future than it is now.
Wikipedia's entry lists asteroids among several other options:
Several strategies are being studied for ameliorating the effects of this radiation hazard for planned human interplanetary spaceflight:
Spacecraft can be constructed out of hydrogen-rich plastics, rather than aluminum.[31] Unfortunately, "[S]ome 'galactic cosmic rays are so energetic that no reasonable amount of shielding can stop them,' cautions Frank Cucinotta, NASA's Chief Radiation Health Officer. 'All materials have this problem, including polyethylene.'"[32]
Material shielding has been considered:
Liquid hydrogen, which would be brought along as fuel in any case, tends to give relatively good shielding, while producing relatively low levels of secondary radiation. Therefore, the fuel could be placed so as to act as a form of shielding around the crew. However, as fuel is consumed by the craft, the crew's shielding decreases.
Water, which is necessary to sustain life, could also contribute to shielding. But it too is consumed during the journey unless waste products are utilized.[32]
Asteroids could serve to provide shielding.[33][34]
Magnetic deflection of charged radiation particles and/or electrostatic repulsion is a hypothetical alternative to pure conventional mass shielding under investigation. In theory, power requirements for the case of a 5 meter torus drop from an excessive 10 GW for a simple pure electrostatic shield (too discharged by space electrons) to a moderate 10 kW by using a hybrid design.[30] However, such complex active shielding is untried, with workability and practicalities more uncertain than material shielding.[30]
Then why is the yield on govt. bonds only 1.8%? If they were garbage (compared to whatever else is available, naturally) the government would have to pay much more to borrow money.
You cannot just have a new computing form factor and throw stuff at it to see what sticks.
I don't think there is any other way to do it. Hardware and software advance in lockstep (or maybe a 3 legged race?)
I hate to constantly make comparisons to apple, but if you look at their successful products, you'll see they had a clear focus and vision for it from the software standpoint.
Apple's App Store didn't exist for the first year after the iPhone was released. The iTunes store wasn't opened until a year and a half after the iPod launched.
You have a point, except the GP says the iPad has less CPU and less RAM than the Windows 7 netbook that had worse performance. That certainly sounds like a mismatched hardware/software combo to me. They should have just put XP on there, it is fine.
The basic problem is there is no consensus on how to price the destruction of non-renewable resources, nor generalized damage to the environment. I would not expect a tidy solution to that issue, ever.
an incandescent bulb puts out about 52 lumens per watt.
If only! "An upper limit for incandescent lamp luminous efficacy (LER) is around 52 lumens per watt, the theoretical value emitted by tungsten at its melting point" (wikipedia). In fact a 40W tungsten bulb outputs 12.6 lumens/watt, up to 17.5 for a 100W bulb. Incandescent bulbs aren't even in the ballpark anymore.
As to whether some people assume all light is equal, I suppose some do. But others take it very seriously. It is not an overlooked issue.
It really just depends. Too high, and you're a Johnny-come-lately with no sense of slashdot lore. Too low smacks of moderate-to-severe aspeger's and probable basement dwelling. Really, the ideal UID is a bit over half a million.
Nobody expects you to buy a new $3000 TV instead of plugging in a Roku for $50. It is almost inevitable that any "smart" functions purchased today will soon be obsolete. But they will keep including them, because they are cheap to include, and help to differentiate between products that are otherwise very difficult to differentiate.
Actually a new law took effect earlier this year to curb deceptive airline advertising. I won't claim it's 100% effective, but it does specifically preclude the two cases you mention: "airlines and ticket agents include all mandatory taxes and fees in published airfares and that they disclose baggage fees to consumers buying tickets."
I think Ryan Air is hilarious. I truly believe it's owned by a sadist who lives only to degrade people by proving to them that they will submit to any amount of abuse in exchange for a promised discount, which typically vanishes into a puff of fees.
My beef with that idea is that Amazon has become the default place to read reviews of products - few if any other places have critical mass. So, yes, I have read reviews on Amazon for purchases I ended up making elsewhere, and (more to the point) left reviews for things I purchased elsewhere. If I left my gripe (I mean, review) elsewhere, nobody would have read it, whereas I really hoped the company would feel some pressure to fix the problems and release a software update if they saw they were losing stars on Amazon.
For popular products there are enough reviewers that it doesn't matter, but it's for less popular products where it can be harder to find reviews that having them collected at a single site is really useful.
Gender stereotyping is a subtle thing. My daughter wanted to join the lego club at school until she found out she'd be the only girl; then she was reluctant to. Nobody had said "girls can't do that"; she just didn't want to be the only girl. So we talked about it and she did join and I think is enjoying it. And yet I guess she would enjoy it more if a few more girls her age were to join. I also have an older son, who is/was somewhat interested - but never like my brother and I were - and two older daughters who never took interest at all... so it's not just what gender they are, and also not just whether you encourage them.
Perhaps the snap-together models of today are not the true spiritual descendants of the original Lego, but Mindstorms are! Still lots of generic beams and bars... plus (if you want) programming too. You say lego has nothing unique, but what is MegaBlock's answer to Mindstorms? You may say Mindstorms are only for older kids, but my 7 year old daughter enjoyes them. Today she makes boxcarts mostly, but she was also pretty fascinated by the pneumatic pump and cylinder. Lots of room to grow into it.
By the way, I am not claiming by any means that murdering these health workers was justified. I hope Pakistan is able to track them down and throw them in jail. And the future cases of polio that will now occur are an additional tragedy of ignorance.
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LIMITATIONS ON USE. All Content is provided for your private non-commercial use and home viewing. You may not display, and the Content may not be viewed, in areas open to the public or in commercial establishments."
And: "commercial locations require an appropriate licensee agreement"
Well, there are sports. They are produced for TV, so they have big long pauses where there is nothing to do BUT watch ads.
Speaking of which, those of you who pay $299.95 for one season of NFL Sunday Ticket Max(!!) what do they show during all the commercial game delays?
Shucks, I thought you were going to ask for a link to confirm this flimsy story, which is apparently based on somebody's blog. It really doesn't add up. Unless there is some bad Irish law regulating linking, the worst this could be is some company asking for money, and perhaps backing it up by trying to break inbound links that aren't licensed (which has been tried before, but I think without great success).
The fed can offer bonds at whatever rate it chooses, but it can't make people buy them. Nobody would be willing to buy bonds with such a low yield if they believed that the government was likely to repay them with dollars that will be devalued due to printing too many of them. In other words, the market doesn't believe the dollar will be much weaker in the future than it is now.
Then why is the yield on govt. bonds only 1.8%? If they were garbage (compared to whatever else is available, naturally) the government would have to pay much more to borrow money.
Looks to me like like core inflation (which doesn't include gas) also averaged 2.1% or very near that.
I don't think there is any other way to do it. Hardware and software advance in lockstep (or maybe a 3 legged race?)
Apple's App Store didn't exist for the first year after the iPhone was released. The iTunes store wasn't opened until a year and a half after the iPod launched.
You have a point, except the GP says the iPad has less CPU and less RAM than the Windows 7 netbook that had worse performance. That certainly sounds like a mismatched hardware/software combo to me. They should have just put XP on there, it is fine.
So an iPad can mount a SMB share and play videos etc from it no problem? (I get the impression this requires 3rd party software at least?)
The basic problem is there is no consensus on how to price the destruction of non-renewable resources, nor generalized damage to the environment. I would not expect a tidy solution to that issue, ever.
No, but outputting a mixture of just 4 pure wavelengths works well in initial studies.
If only! "An upper limit for incandescent lamp luminous efficacy (LER) is around 52 lumens per watt, the theoretical value emitted by tungsten at its melting point" (wikipedia). In fact a 40W tungsten bulb outputs 12.6 lumens/watt, up to 17.5 for a 100W bulb. Incandescent bulbs aren't even in the ballpark anymore.
As to whether some people assume all light is equal, I suppose some do. But others take it very seriously. It is not an overlooked issue.
Are you in the US? Few if any domestic flights have power (DC or AC), in cattle class anyways. (Maybe I just fly the wrong airlines? Nope.)
WiFi on Southwest is only $5 per day right now, which is less than gogo charges for WiFi in the airport!
It really just depends. Too high, and you're a Johnny-come-lately with no sense of slashdot lore. Too low smacks of moderate-to-severe aspeger's and probable basement dwelling. Really, the ideal UID is a bit over half a million.
Nobody expects you to buy a new $3000 TV instead of plugging in a Roku for $50. It is almost inevitable that any "smart" functions purchased today will soon be obsolete. But they will keep including them, because they are cheap to include, and help to differentiate between products that are otherwise very difficult to differentiate.
Actually a new law took effect earlier this year to curb deceptive airline advertising. I won't claim it's 100% effective, but it does specifically preclude the two cases you mention: "airlines and ticket agents include all mandatory taxes and fees in published airfares and that they disclose baggage fees to consumers buying tickets."
I think Ryan Air is hilarious. I truly believe it's owned by a sadist who lives only to degrade people by proving to them that they will submit to any amount of abuse in exchange for a promised discount, which typically vanishes into a puff of fees.
For me it's that and Outline View. (Not OpenOffice Navigator).
For popular products there are enough reviewers that it doesn't matter, but it's for less popular products where it can be harder to find reviews that having them collected at a single site is really useful.
Gender stereotyping is a subtle thing. My daughter wanted to join the lego club at school until she found out she'd be the only girl; then she was reluctant to. Nobody had said "girls can't do that"; she just didn't want to be the only girl. So we talked about it and she did join and I think is enjoying it. And yet I guess she would enjoy it more if a few more girls her age were to join. I also have an older son, who is/was somewhat interested - but never like my brother and I were - and two older daughters who never took interest at all... so it's not just what gender they are, and also not just whether you encourage them.
Perhaps the snap-together models of today are not the true spiritual descendants of the original Lego, but Mindstorms are! Still lots of generic beams and bars... plus (if you want) programming too. You say lego has nothing unique, but what is MegaBlock's answer to Mindstorms? You may say Mindstorms are only for older kids, but my 7 year old daughter enjoyes them. Today she makes boxcarts mostly, but she was also pretty fascinated by the pneumatic pump and cylinder. Lots of room to grow into it.
By the way, I am not claiming by any means that murdering these health workers was justified. I hope Pakistan is able to track them down and throw them in jail. And the future cases of polio that will now occur are an additional tragedy of ignorance.