Where I'm coming from: back before the Joshua Tree album, even with all of U2's success up to that point, they said in an interview that they "had to tour a lot just to stay solvent."; which surprised me so much that I remember that statement 20 years later. It's not that I'm counting your money or anything, it's more of trying to understand the business. As David Sanborn once said, "People see your face on an album and think you're automatically a millionaire."
It helps when you don't blow your whole royalty check on sunglasses.
No, one of Nocera's previous papers was posted, not the one published yesterday. This one is a lot more in-depth synthetically and has much stronger characterization and shows that it actually works as a full system - the earlier paper was just a communication saying, "Look, we did this first!"
Yeah, only one of the four university emails I've had is still extant, but it's wonderful for signing up for accounts that I expect to get spam from. Between the filtering the university does and the filtering that Yahoo does, I usually don't get anything from that direction. Of course, the two presumably distant relatives I have that share my first initial, but are too retarded to remember their own emails which I assume have digits at the end don't really help that at all. I am not Cheryl OR Colleen, though I get emails about their electric bills and other things.
It's been my regular email for 14 years, and it's my first initial followed by my last name, simple and professional. Just like phone numbers, I don't like to change it, because people never save the new one when you tell them. When I started on my first BS in '99, the university tried to get us to use their university email for everything, but I was one of those people who had the foresight to think to myself, "They're going to make us give up our accounts when we graduate. Why start using something that I won't be able to use in three or four years?" Hell, some major universities STILL don't vet email accounts upon graduation, and just let them die.
I registered my same screenname when GMail opened, and I'll transfer over if Y!M ever shuts down, but for the time being, it serves its purpose: email.
I'm sick of hearing that crap. How do you vote with your feet if there is barely any choice in the so-called "marketplace"? And if you vote with your wallet, will that count against the votes of others whose wallets are rather thicker than yours?
All these "vote with" phrases make a mockery of democracy. Here is my suggestion: vote with your vote. I know, it's pretty damn bold.
"Voting with your vote" still won't work, because of those whose wallets are thicker than yours.
I'm more interested in the impact that ejaculating and getting that oxytocin release right as a maimed dog shows up on the screen is going to have. I wonder if PETA has considered the fact that they might be creating a generation of animal-abusing teenaged boys.
Are you sure that's not just a native Netflix client for these platforms?
Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. I was talking about Netflix's DRM working on those platforms, I thought that was your beef, not the lack of Silverlight porting.
The reason it was published is because it provides an excellent tool for teaching undergraduates about the intricacies of scientific instrument design. It's not ground-breaking, it's not revolutionary, it's simply an experiment to teach sophomores and juniors about voltammetry in a cost-effective way that will hopefully stick with them more than "Here, watch quietly while I use this $75K cyclic voltammeter that we aren't going to let you use because undergrads always screw it up and we can't afford the week it takes to get it calibrated and functioning properly again."
I haven't, and a quick Google search just pulls up stuff that makes me feel crazy even looking at them. You have any documentation that doesn't require an aluminum foil hat?
Science is science? . . . But hey, let's all plunge ourselves into eternal poverty to satisfy the egos of a few climate cultists. Nevermind that CO2 production is inversely correlated with poverty and starvation, and that by instituting all these laws and regulations to "stop" climate change they will instead impoverish nations and starve vast numbers of poor people.
Yes, science is science. It's not scientists making the laws and regulations, it's the politicians. We provide information, and the swindlers and coke fiends in DC decide what to do with it. Show me a cap & trade bill that was first published in Science and we can talk.
Because no one has bothered to preserve the Waterboys of the "classic" film years. They were made, it's just that no one cares about them beyond the MST3K guys. The Baroque period had their versions of Nickelback, too.
In 20 years Nickelback will be as forgotten as Bach's contemporary, Farthingbach.
Presumably they would just try and sue whoever they can. Chuck a couple of letters out to whoever lives there and see who caves or settles first.
If you are renting would the landlord be targetted?
No, because the landlord's name isn't on the cable bill. You expect the MAFIAA to research their case? It's whomever set up the account with the ISP that's fucked.
Also some games seem to slow down no matter what computer you run them on. GTA3, GTA:SA and NFS: Undercover all do this if there are too many cars nearby. You can fiddle with the graphics settings all you want, same behavior.
Sounds like it might be a CPU issue, not graphical. I would see the same thing running L4D on my 1201N, the ION was perfectly happy running at reasonable settings, but as soon as a horde came, the poor little Atom N330 choked and I'd be running at 10 FPS, no matter what the graphical settings were.
For the vast majority of consumer products, labor is not the largest expense.
I don't think you're thinking big enough. True, components are often a large part of cost. But if labor costs go up across the board, costs of components go up, too. Those rare-earth ores don't mine themselves, the equipment used to mine the ores don't build and maintain themselves, the ores don't refine themselves, the metals don't dope themselves, etc.
Well, the other part that's exciting is that GaN is a heavily-studied semiconductor, so hopefully achieving the desired 2% Sb doping won't be difficult. But you're right, theoretical papers like this are a dime a dozen.
I'm too lazy to install VPN software to get article access from my couch, but the abstract only discusses the 2.0 eV absorption, which is about 620 nm. That is certainly one of the wavelengths of interest, being near the solar spectrum max irradiance, but if the catalyst doesn't absorb at any other wavelengths, it'll not be of much use at all. The other thing to consider, of course, is that Nocera's catalysts are already made and just being industrialized, while the controlled doping of this particular Sb-doped GaN catalyst may or may not have already been studied - I'm guessing it hasn't, or they would have collaborated with a synthetic chemist to produce physical data.
Material-wise, Nocera's catalyst is cobalt, nickel, and. . . something, I forget. GaN isn't really going to save much, if anything, over Nocera's.
So, in short, uh, I dunno. I still think Nocera's has a lot of promise, though.
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Much to my dismay, there are no accordions available that work with Rock Band.
Sounds like there's an opportunity for money to be made on peripherals!
Where I'm coming from: back before the Joshua Tree album, even with all of U2's success up to that point, they said in an interview that they "had to tour a lot just to stay solvent."; which surprised me so much that I remember that statement 20 years later. It's not that I'm counting your money or anything, it's more of trying to understand the business. As David Sanborn once said, "People see your face on an album and think you're automatically a millionaire."
It helps when you don't blow your whole royalty check on sunglasses.
No, one of Nocera's previous papers was posted, not the one published yesterday. This one is a lot more in-depth synthetically and has much stronger characterization and shows that it actually works as a full system - the earlier paper was just a communication saying, "Look, we did this first!"
Maybe they're cellphone- and car audio-heavy locations. The Microcenter near my house is half console games now.
There's a lot of aerospace in Phoenix, isn't there? Those employees are probably the ones supporting the Fry's.
Pffft. The bones of Raptor Jesus were placed by God to test our faith!
Yeah, only one of the four university emails I've had is still extant, but it's wonderful for signing up for accounts that I expect to get spam from. Between the filtering the university does and the filtering that Yahoo does, I usually don't get anything from that direction. Of course, the two presumably distant relatives I have that share my first initial, but are too retarded to remember their own emails which I assume have digits at the end don't really help that at all. I am not Cheryl OR Colleen, though I get emails about their electric bills and other things.
It's been my regular email for 14 years, and it's my first initial followed by my last name, simple and professional. Just like phone numbers, I don't like to change it, because people never save the new one when you tell them. When I started on my first BS in '99, the university tried to get us to use their university email for everything, but I was one of those people who had the foresight to think to myself, "They're going to make us give up our accounts when we graduate. Why start using something that I won't be able to use in three or four years?" Hell, some major universities STILL don't vet email accounts upon graduation, and just let them die.
I registered my same screenname when GMail opened, and I'll transfer over if Y!M ever shuts down, but for the time being, it serves its purpose: email.
I'm sick of hearing that crap. How do you vote with your feet if there is barely any choice in the so-called "marketplace"? And if you vote with your wallet, will that count against the votes of others whose wallets are rather thicker than yours?
All these "vote with" phrases make a mockery of democracy. Here is my suggestion: vote with your vote. I know, it's pretty damn bold.
"Voting with your vote" still won't work, because of those whose wallets are thicker than yours.
I'm more interested in the impact that ejaculating and getting that oxytocin release right as a maimed dog shows up on the screen is going to have. I wonder if PETA has considered the fact that they might be creating a generation of animal-abusing teenaged boys.
Are you sure that's not just a native Netflix client for these platforms?
Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. I was talking about Netflix's DRM working on those platforms, I thought that was your beef, not the lack of Silverlight porting.
While Silverlight is a theoretically open standard, the DRM Netflix uses with it is not, and only works on Windows.
And Android, iOS, Wii, Xbox, PS3, etc., etc. . . . Pretty much the only thing it doesn't run on is Linux. And OS/2.
The reason it was published is because it provides an excellent tool for teaching undergraduates about the intricacies of scientific instrument design. It's not ground-breaking, it's not revolutionary, it's simply an experiment to teach sophomores and juniors about voltammetry in a cost-effective way that will hopefully stick with them more than "Here, watch quietly while I use this $75K cyclic voltammeter that we aren't going to let you use because undergrads always screw it up and we can't afford the week it takes to get it calibrated and functioning properly again."
Actually, after I made that post, I found a PopMech article debunking several of the more popular internet stories.
I haven't, and a quick Google search just pulls up stuff that makes me feel crazy even looking at them. You have any documentation that doesn't require an aluminum foil hat?
Science is science?
. . .
But hey, let's all plunge ourselves into eternal poverty to satisfy the egos of a few climate cultists. Nevermind that CO2 production is inversely correlated with poverty and starvation, and that by instituting all these laws and regulations to "stop" climate change they will instead impoverish nations and starve vast numbers of poor people.
Yes, science is science. It's not scientists making the laws and regulations, it's the politicians. We provide information, and the swindlers and coke fiends in DC decide what to do with it. Show me a cap & trade bill that was first published in Science and we can talk.
Because no one has bothered to preserve the Waterboys of the "classic" film years. They were made, it's just that no one cares about them beyond the MST3K guys. The Baroque period had their versions of Nickelback, too.
In 20 years Nickelback will be as forgotten as Bach's contemporary, Farthingbach.
Myself, I don't associate very closely with lawbreakers.
You must be unemployed.
Presumably they would just try and sue whoever they can. Chuck a couple of letters out to whoever lives there and see who caves or settles first.
If you are renting would the landlord be targetted?
No, because the landlord's name isn't on the cable bill. You expect the MAFIAA to research their case? It's whomever set up the account with the ISP that's fucked.
Also some games seem to slow down no matter what computer you run them on. GTA3, GTA:SA and NFS: Undercover all do this if there are too many cars nearby. You can fiddle with the graphics settings all you want, same behavior.
Sounds like it might be a CPU issue, not graphical. I would see the same thing running L4D on my 1201N, the ION was perfectly happy running at reasonable settings, but as soon as a horde came, the poor little Atom N330 choked and I'd be running at 10 FPS, no matter what the graphical settings were.
For the vast majority of consumer products, labor is not the largest expense.
I don't think you're thinking big enough. True, components are often a large part of cost. But if labor costs go up across the board, costs of components go up, too. Those rare-earth ores don't mine themselves, the equipment used to mine the ores don't build and maintain themselves, the ores don't refine themselves, the metals don't dope themselves, etc.
Well, the other part that's exciting is that GaN is a heavily-studied semiconductor, so hopefully achieving the desired 2% Sb doping won't be difficult. But you're right, theoretical papers like this are a dime a dozen.
I'm too lazy to install VPN software to get article access from my couch, but the abstract only discusses the 2.0 eV absorption, which is about 620 nm. That is certainly one of the wavelengths of interest, being near the solar spectrum max irradiance, but if the catalyst doesn't absorb at any other wavelengths, it'll not be of much use at all. The other thing to consider, of course, is that Nocera's catalysts are already made and just being industrialized, while the controlled doping of this particular Sb-doped GaN catalyst may or may not have already been studied - I'm guessing it hasn't, or they would have collaborated with a synthetic chemist to produce physical data.
Material-wise, Nocera's catalyst is cobalt, nickel, and. . . something, I forget. GaN isn't really going to save much, if anything, over Nocera's.
So, in short, uh, I dunno. I still think Nocera's has a lot of promise, though.
American Telephone & Tard Mobile?
It's actually the same group from IBM, expanding upon their earlier work.