I think you're really missing the point here, this money isn't a 'gift', pocket money is a gift, lunch money is not.
This is no different to my employer giving me petrol money for a business trip, and asking for a receipt to ensure I haven't spent it on imported vodka.
If I have my own money, I can buy that vodka no trouble, but with the company's (in this case parent's) money, I am only to spend it on its intended purpose.
The word TWAIN is not an acronym. It comes from a quote from Rudyard Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" - "...and never the twain shall meet...". It is meant to symbolise the problems of connecting scanners and PC's at the time. The upper case was used to make it more distinctive and this gives it the appearance of an acronym.
A contest was held to find a potential meaning for the acronym but eventually, none were used. "Technology Without An Interesting Name" was one of the entries and has been adopted by popular culture.
"In 1901, at the 3rd CGPM conference, the litre was redefined as the space occupied by 1 kg of pure water at the temperature of its maximum density (3.98 C) under a pressure of 1 atm. This made the litre equal to about 1.000 028 dm (earlier reference works usually put it at 1.000 027 dm)."
IQ is calculated as (Mental Age/Actual Age)*100.
So a perfectly 'normal' person will have a mental age of their actual age (as this is the way to work out the mental age), giving then an IQ of 100.
They do that already, http://www.google.co.uk/services/ offers business solutions for companies, allowing them to set up google within their networks, by the looks of things.
Yup, that's the very first thing I put into it as well (after using Google to find the correct spelling).
I'm going to see how the situation changes over the next few days or weeks, as the engine gets used more and more.
From the result of a minute or so searching about, it seems like typing '$foo' into the address bar, actually directs you to the first result for '$foo' in google.
For example, just typing in "litigious bastards" sends you to the first google result for "litigious bastards", in this case http://www.sco.com/, as shown on http://www.google.com/search?q=litigious%20bastard s.
As the first result for "quicktime" on google is http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/, and the first result for "quicktime.com" is http://www.apple.com/quicktime/, this all seems to make sense.
I'm not the grandparent, but I was in exactly the same situation, I had seen Blade Runner, but not heard any Vangelis on "it's own", so to speak, until I used p2p.
Having used that, I now own 3 of their albums, one on vinyl, which I certainly wouldn't have without having downloaded a few songs off a p2p network.
So in my case, the use of a p2p network has profited the music industry, or at least Vangelis and their record label.
(I will add, just for the sake of completeness, that it was seeing Blade Runner which caused me to download the songs in the first place)
As you said FPS, I'm going to play the Thief card, and say that you could play it as a First Person Shooter, going around killing everything is sight, but you by no means had to, and it was a far more fufilling experience if you didn't.
Also, Deus Ex and System Shock 2, both of which could be played as you describe.
And the first half of Far-Cry, which didn't really feel like you were following the first person mould, although the last two levels really disappointed me.
I made a slight mistake in my statement above, if air resistance is present, the more massive object will reach a faster terminal velocity then the less massive object,
However in the absence of air resistance, they will both fall at the same rate, as without air resistance, there is no terminal velocity, as terminal velocity is reached when the force provided by air resistance air resistance is equal to mg.
So in other words, you are correct, with air resistance, and different masses, the heavier mass will hit first.
Firstly, you don't need that spec to run it, I'm happily running it on a radeon 9700, and the minimum specs are far below even that.
Second, and perhaps most importantly, speaking generally, the 'Gamer Kids' don't spend money on the hardware, that's usually bought by the parents, who will pay x for hardware, which they know can be used for the internet, email, typing and (what they all hope: schoolwork) but not x/20 for software, which they know is only a game.
"No no.. see windows gets more disk clutter, so the hard drive weighs more, therefore it will fall faster..."
Well, assuming the shape is the same, and therefore the same air resistance, it will fall at the same rate.... just like the 'feather and hammer' example.
In fact, we could find ourselves heading for something like when robots started to help in auto-assembley, with the humans who used to do the jobs simply being fired, because it was more efficent to use machines.
So on one hand, I'm interested to see things like this, but on the other, it does worry me a little.
Of course, people will still be needed to create and maintain the machines, but the numbers will be less than were orginally employed.
It depends, you could say that that Xbox is already made, so they are at -$x, and if you buy it, they will be at -$x+y, where is the cost to make the xbox, and y is how much you pay for it.
I guess it depends on weather they end up building another one to replace the one you bought...
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I think you're really missing the point here, this money isn't a 'gift', pocket money is a gift, lunch money is not.
This is no different to my employer giving me petrol money for a business trip, and asking for a receipt to ensure I haven't spent it on imported vodka.
If I have my own money, I can buy that vodka no trouble, but with the company's (in this case parent's) money, I am only to spend it on its intended purpose.
Interestingly enough, it's not actually either:
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The word TWAIN is not an acronym. It comes from a quote from Rudyard Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" - "...and never the twain shall meet...". It is meant to symbolise the problems of connecting scanners and PC's at the time. The upper case was used to make it more distinctive and this gives it the appearance of an acronym.
A contest was held to find a potential meaning for the acronym but eventually, none were used. "Technology Without An Interesting Name" was one of the entries and has been adopted by popular culture.
(Source: http://www.twain.org/ )
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=93885
Actually, many people I know, myself included, use both terms, depending on the product.
Films are generally meant to be of a higher 'quality', rather than a blockbuster made purely for mass consumption, to earn large amounts of money.
Movies tend to be your standard Hollywood fare, big explosions and popular actors doing nothing really innovative.
To put it bluntly, films aspire to be art, movies aspire to be money-makers.
Not a coincidence, from wikipedia:
"In 1901, at the 3rd CGPM conference, the litre was redefined as the space occupied by 1 kg of pure water at the temperature of its maximum density (3.98 C) under a pressure of 1 atm. This made the litre equal to about 1.000 028 dm (earlier reference works usually put it at 1.000 027 dm)."
So the litre is defined by the kilogram.
I work in England, and judging by one of the tills left on before me, at least one person has used the large silver £5 coin for a transaction.
I don't think I'd have had much luck in giving it to someone as change however, so we just sent it off to the bank.
IQ is calculated as (Mental Age/Actual Age)*100. So a perfectly 'normal' person will have a mental age of their actual age (as this is the way to work out the mental age), giving then an IQ of 100.
They do that already, http://www.google.co.uk/services/ offers business solutions for companies, allowing them to set up google within their networks, by the looks of things.
The sun however can be, ban lenses and convex mirrors!!!
Why stop at that? Maybe Mr Burns had the right idea.... even if he got shot for it.
I'm going to make the educated guess that the grandparent (cnewmark) is Craig Newmark, owner of cnewmark.com and craigslist.org.
Question answered?
But won't that lead to a problem on putting fingerprints on the disc 1/2 of the time, before finding the correct side?
Yup, that's the very first thing I put into it as well (after using Google to find the correct spelling). I'm going to see how the situation changes over the next few days or weeks, as the engine gets used more and more.
From the result of a minute or so searching about, it seems like typing '$foo' into the address bar, actually directs you to the first result for '$foo' in google.
d s.
For example, just typing in "litigious bastards" sends you to the first google result for "litigious bastards", in this case http://www.sco.com/, as shown on http://www.google.com/search?q=litigious%20bastar
As the first result for "quicktime" on google is http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/, and the first result for "quicktime.com" is http://www.apple.com/quicktime/, this all seems to make sense.
IIRC, It was to do with a book deal that went all wrong, rather than someone sueing them.
As a result though, it is unlikely we will see another PA book, at least for some time.
I'm not the grandparent, but I was in exactly the same situation, I had seen Blade Runner, but not heard any Vangelis on "it's own", so to speak, until I used p2p.
Having used that, I now own 3 of their albums, one on vinyl, which I certainly wouldn't have without having downloaded a few songs off a p2p network.
So in my case, the use of a p2p network has profited the music industry, or at least Vangelis and their record label.
(I will add, just for the sake of completeness, that it was seeing Blade Runner which caused me to download the songs in the first place)
This is just...... perfect.
;)
Did you have any idea you were going for it when you posted?
We need to know....
This is slashdot, who knows how old the original link is?
I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. I better post this anon.
As you said FPS, I'm going to play the Thief card, and say that you could play it as a First Person Shooter, going around killing everything is sight, but you by no means had to, and it was a far more fufilling experience if you didn't.
Also, Deus Ex and System Shock 2, both of which could be played as you describe.
And the first half of Far-Cry, which didn't really feel like you were following the first person mould, although the last two levels really disappointed me.
I made a slight mistake in my statement above, if air resistance is present, the more massive object will reach a faster terminal velocity then the less massive object,
However in the absence of air resistance, they will both fall at the same rate, as without air resistance, there is no terminal velocity, as terminal velocity is reached when the force provided by air resistance air resistance is equal to mg.
So in other words, you are correct, with air resistance, and different masses, the heavier mass will hit first.
Firstly, you don't need that spec to run it, I'm happily running it on a radeon 9700, and the minimum specs are far below even that.
Second, and perhaps most importantly, speaking generally, the 'Gamer Kids' don't spend money on the hardware, that's usually bought by the parents, who will pay x for hardware, which they know can be used for the internet, email, typing and (what they all hope: schoolwork) but not x/20 for software, which they know is only a game.
Hope the above helps.
Well, assuming the shape is the same, and therefore the same air resistance, it will fall at the same rate.... just like the 'feather and hammer' example.
Ahhh, the Datadocktor link, wonderful stuff. ;)
In fact, we could find ourselves heading for something like when robots started to help in auto-assembley, with the humans who used to do the jobs simply being fired, because it was more efficent to use machines.
So on one hand, I'm interested to see things like this, but on the other, it does worry me a little.
Of course, people will still be needed to create and maintain the machines, but the numbers will be less than were orginally employed.
I'm not in the US, but from what I've gathered, these can only be found in the multipacks of coke, not single cans.
So you'd have to open up all the multipacks to find the winning cans.
It depends, you could say that that Xbox is already made, so they are at -$x, and if you buy it, they will be at -$x+y, where is the cost to make the xbox, and y is how much you pay for it.
I guess it depends on weather they end up building another one to replace the one you bought...
I had trouble reading those sections as well, and I was eventually put on track by my dad, who had problems back when he read it as well.
The solution? Just forget about trying to read the words, and speak the syllables as you get to them, and listen to what you say.
What, even the milking part?
'Round here, I think they just break your kneecaps.