Re:It's the power consumption that'll kill ya...
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Dell's Gaming Monster
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· Score: 4, Informative
From the imdb trivia on Back to the Future:
In the films script the word "gigawatt" is spelt "jigowatt". Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis had been to a science seminar and the speaker had pronounced it "jigowatt".
Not sure, feels pretty obvious to us. But we patented it anyway.
Seems to be the trend these days..
Anyways, looks pretty cool. There's just something about analog gauges that's so asthetically pleasing. Like someone mentioned before in the post about analog watches still being used, It's probably that an analog gauge is highly visual, whereas digital is more of numeric processing. Would anyone rather have a digital tach in their car than an analog one? I know I wouldn't.
I agree. The "Good"mail idea seems to be that ISPs will charge spammers a fee to guarantee delivery to the end users. It is 'suggested' that the money collected be paid to the user in some fashion for receiving the e-mail, but that's not likely. What is likely is that some unscrupulous ISPs will sell a spammer the right to send a million emails to its users, keeping the profits for themselves. Granted, it seems this scheme would only work for a webmail type system, where the ISP handles all of the spam filtering, not the end user. Hotmail users, beware!
At our nearby Wegmans they recently replaced all of the produce scales, which you enter the product code and it prints a sticker with the price & UPC, with a new model running some version of Windows. Twice already I have seen them completely lock up. Once when I went to print out the sticker it got jammed, but rather than display a message saying to clear the jam and try again, the application running quit, a typical windows-like error ("the address at 0x0592FC could not be 'read'" or whatever) appeared and the whole thing completely froze. Here's to progress!
In some places, such as Northern Ireland, newly qualified drivers are required to wear special plates on their cars to alert other drivers of their rookie status, further ensuring road safety.
Same as in Japan. They are required to have a wakaba mark (young-leaves color) sticker on their car for 1 year after obtaining their licence. The elderly over 75 are supposed to have a sticker similar, but yellow and orangish (momigi).
It appears that the layout does not work properly with firebird (0.7 at least). I can scroll through the artists, but not the releases... the panel extends past the window border.
Another thing is that I think they need to work out some of their pricing: you can purchase all 3 tracks from the Anti-Pop Consortium's Ghostlawn EP individually for 3*$1.35=$4.05... or buy the whole release at once for $4.29. All in all though, it's a great idea. It seems they are taking after Mille Plateaux who released a large portion of their catalog on eMusic.
Perhaps people would be willing to receive a lower wage if we didn't have to pay $30,000 a year to get the education necessary to obtain said job.
I know I personally will have around $50,000 in student loans to pay off when I graduate, and would find it exceptionally difficult to pay off in an reasonable amount of time if I was only making $10,712 a year. ($5.15*40*52)
Sauraman is already dead. He died an implied death in the movie you already saw last year. Put him out of your mind.
That's not the impression I got. I thought Gandalf implied that Saruman was now powerless, and would be confined to the tower, but not dead. Did I interpret it wrong?
Why not? After all, what are letters besides symbols representing a sound? (In phonetic languages anyways). Granted, you would either need to create a new written language to correspond with the oral one, or define combinations of existing letters to represent specific sounds.
Sure, and the average painter can throw together a Rothko, Mondrian or a Pollock, the average composer can whip up a piece by Reich or Glass and the average architect can create a building a la Frank Lloyd Wright.
In other words, simply because a work lacks complexity, it does not dismiss the genius in creating such an original work.
I have both a 48G and a 49G. I keep the 48G at work, and bring the 49G around with me to school. While I much prefer the 48G's feel (I can can enter keystrokes on the 48G's quick, plastic keys almost twice as fast than on the 49G's hard-to-press rubber keys), I use the 49G exclusively for schoolwork due to it's vastly improved equation editing, algebraic manipulation, calculus handling and unit conversion. The 49G is much better in this regard.
In the end, it really depends on what you'll be using it for. If you're not going to be doing calculations involving more complex equations (especially calculus or variable isolation involving many instances of the variable -- the 49G beats the 48G hands down here), the 48G (or 48GX) is probably best. Since you've gotten along with your 48S this long, the 49G is probably overkill.
HP will also be releasing a few new calculators soon, including a 48GII & a 49G+. Hopefully they will address the 49G's horrible key action!
The dude who made that picture of a pipe that says it isn't a pipe.
The dude who wrote those books where he was going on and on about all the stuff he was thinking and doing and you couldn't figure out what was fact and what was fiction the grammar didn't work out anyway pretty damn boring book that was.
The gal who made an exposition out of her own dirty bed.
The dude who wrote the book about killing lots of people while using lots of snobby eighties brands.
The dude who was in that black&white film where the front of a house falls over, but he's standing where the window comes down and there's no glass in it.
The authors predict that application of an electric field will cause electrons' spins to flow together collectively in a current. The applied electric force, the spins and the spin current align in three different directions that are all perpendicular to each other
It seems they should be making more comparisons to Ampere's Law than Ohm's Law, as they are suggesting an applied electric field will create a spin current, similar to how Ampere's Law states how an applied magnetic field will create conventional current flow.
The real question is, what is 'spin current', and how does it relate to the conventional definition of electric current.
They're actually encoding music now using a VBR, which averages out to about 192kbs, using the LAME 3.92 encoder w/ -alt-preset (which someone else mentioned I believe).
see The Emusic VBR FAQ for more info
" Sony has not set a price for the PSP, a multi-media unit that also plays movies and music, but analysts expect it to sell for 19,000 to 30,000 yen ($159-$251), well above the 12,500-yen price tag for Game Boy Advance SP, Nintendo's smaller version of its hot-selling device launched in February."
The Free Software Foundation has never sued anyone who was in beach of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as it simply wants them to come into compliance with the license.
I have never heard of this beach before. Where can I find it? Is it a GNUde beach?
Worst.... idea.....ever........
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Making Change
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Any gain in efficiency of number of coins returned is going to be substantially offset by the decrease in efficiency of time required for people to calculate the change. Seriously, the simplest solution is to do away with the penny and round up/down to the nearest nickel.
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Seems to be the trend these days..
Anyways, looks pretty cool. There's just something about analog gauges that's so asthetically pleasing. Like someone mentioned before in the post about analog watches still being used, It's probably that an analog gauge is highly visual, whereas digital is more of numeric processing. Would anyone rather have a digital tach in their car than an analog one? I know I wouldn't.
I agree. The "Good"mail idea seems to be that ISPs will charge spammers a fee to guarantee delivery to the end users. It is 'suggested' that the money collected be paid to the user in some fashion for receiving the e-mail, but that's not likely. What is likely is that some unscrupulous ISPs will sell a spammer the right to send a million emails to its users, keeping the profits for themselves. Granted, it seems this scheme would only work for a webmail type system, where the ISP handles all of the spam filtering, not the end user. Hotmail users, beware!
At our nearby Wegmans they recently replaced all of the produce scales, which you enter the product code and it prints a sticker with the price & UPC, with a new model running some version of Windows. Twice already I have seen them completely lock up. Once when I went to print out the sticker it got jammed, but rather than display a message saying to clear the jam and try again, the application running quit, a typical windows-like error ("the address at 0x0592FC could not be 'read'" or whatever) appeared and the whole thing completely froze. Here's to progress!
In some places, such as Northern Ireland, newly qualified drivers are required to wear special plates on their cars to alert other drivers of their rookie status, further ensuring road safety.
Same as in Japan. They are required to have a wakaba mark (young-leaves color) sticker on their car for 1 year after obtaining their licence. The elderly over 75 are supposed to have a sticker similar, but yellow and orangish (momigi).
It appears that the layout does not work properly with firebird (0.7 at least). I can scroll through the artists, but not the releases... the panel extends past the window border.
Another thing is that I think they need to work out some of their pricing: you can purchase all 3 tracks from the Anti-Pop Consortium's Ghostlawn EP individually for 3*$1.35=$4.05... or buy the whole release at once for $4.29. All in all though, it's a great idea. It seems they are taking after Mille Plateaux who released a large portion of their catalog on eMusic.
Not really. The elderly often have problems with 'leaks'. Hence the need for a whole line of adult incontinence products.
Perhaps people would be willing to receive a lower wage if we didn't have to pay $30,000 a year to get the education necessary to obtain said job.
I know I personally will have around $50,000 in student loans to pay off when I graduate, and would find it exceptionally difficult to pay off in an reasonable amount of time if I was only making $10,712 a year. ($5.15*40*52)
That's really weird.... I picked the exact same day, and I swear I didn't see your post
Sauraman is already dead. He died an implied death in the movie you already saw last year. Put him out of your mind.
That's not the impression I got. I thought Gandalf implied that Saruman was now powerless, and would be confined to the tower, but not dead. Did I interpret it wrong?
Why not? After all, what are letters besides symbols representing a sound? (In phonetic languages anyways). Granted, you would either need to create a new written language to correspond with the oral one, or define combinations of existing letters to represent specific sounds.
I compared one book I needed for this quarter with the listing at the UK site and I noticed this.
Pretty soon books will be like DVD's, and will have a region code to ensure they're only available where the corporations want them to be.
The riddle's already been solved!
First furniture porn, now ancient stone porn... what's next?
no really... what's next? I want in!!
Sure, and the average painter can throw together a Rothko, Mondrian or a Pollock, the average composer can whip up a piece by Reich or Glass and the average architect can create a building a la Frank Lloyd Wright.
In other words, simply because a work lacks complexity, it does not dismiss the genius in creating such an original work.
I have both a 48G and a 49G. I keep the 48G at work, and bring the 49G around with me to school. While I much prefer the 48G's feel (I can can enter keystrokes on the 48G's quick, plastic keys almost twice as fast than on the 49G's hard-to-press rubber keys), I use the 49G exclusively for schoolwork due to it's vastly improved equation editing, algebraic manipulation, calculus handling and unit conversion. The 49G is much better in this regard.
In the end, it really depends on what you'll be using it for. If you're not going to be doing calculations involving more complex equations (especially calculus or variable isolation involving many instances of the variable -- the 49G beats the 48G hands down here), the 48G (or 48GX) is probably best. Since you've gotten along with your 48S this long, the 49G is probably overkill.
HP will also be releasing a few new calculators soon, including a 48GII & a 49G+. Hopefully they will address the 49G's horrible key action!
No one else got this one, so I will: The dude who started off those dotty paintings.
Roy Lichtenstein
I didn't know these ones:
The dude who made that picture of a pipe that says it isn't a pipe.
The dude who wrote those books where he was going on and on about all the stuff he was thinking and doing and you couldn't figure out what was fact and what was fiction the grammar didn't work out anyway pretty damn boring book that was.
The gal who made an exposition out of her own dirty bed.
The dude who wrote the book about killing lots of people while using lots of snobby eighties brands.
The dude who was in that black&white film where the front of a house falls over, but he's standing where the window comes down and there's no glass in it.
" Have they taken foot casts...? "
yes"
The real question is, what is 'spin current', and how does it relate to the conventional definition of electric current.
So in other words, it won't actually scroll horizontally, but instead will glide to one side or the other based on the direction of the tilt?
They're actually encoding music now using a VBR, which averages out to about 192kbs, using the LAME 3.92 encoder w/ -alt-preset (which someone else mentioned I believe).
see The Emusic VBR FAQ for more info
source: Forbes.com
Any gain in efficiency of number of coins returned is going to be substantially offset by the decrease in efficiency of time required for people to calculate the change. Seriously, the simplest solution is to do away with the penny and round up/down to the nearest nickel.
I'm not dismissing it outright. I just try to take things like this with a grain of salt; especially when the source isn't that reputable.