People have multiple different role plays in their lives and have had for ages. This predates computer games. Success or failure in one role can bleed through to others.
Sportsmen/women have known this for ages. So have people with hobbies. etc etc.
Many weight control programs, for instance, will suggest that people join social groups etc and feel better about how they are *now*. That improved self image then helps people work towards their goals.
If he wanted to verify authenticity he should have gone further than just following the cable. He should have run this with the case open.
Here are the instructions to make your own. Acquire Mac Mini, PC case, screwdriver. You might need some extension cables too. Open case. Put Mac Mini inside. Close case. Profit!! Err, I mean loss!
Unless we're talking murder or some serious crime, you're probably going to have a hard time getting the police interested in investing the resources to try to identify the perp and hunt them down and arrest them.
Whether it is some wifi firmware, BIOS, or the VHDL used to describe the chips in your computer you're using some closed source code. Even if you build a whole computer using OpenCores, the FPGAs you run them on use close source tools and their internal architecture is closed source. Same deal the RAM etc.
Unless, of course you've built up a whole computer from transistors etc, but that probably limits you to an 8008 doing less than 1MHz.
If they land anything more on mars it will be gridlock.
But your main point is valid. Solar radiation is only one of the earth's heat sources. Internal radioactive decay contributes a lot, so does gravitational/tidal friction and the magnetic dynamo effects on the iron core.
Only goodwill with investors matters. MS does not really consider goodwill with OEMs or customers. They screw them around. The "install base" is just considered a corporate asset not worthy of goodwill.
To quote The Clash: "You have the right to free speech, so long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it."
News media are very careful to keep onside with the Whitehouse, Pentagon etc. If they don't then they get poor treatment from the media relations people. Instead of having their reporters embedded with frontline troops sending home eye (and advertising) catching footage, they get embedded in the transport depot and they get to film grunts washing trucks.
Instead of getting confirmation for some scoop, the staffers return their call an hour too late, making them miss a deadline.
For that reason, the news companies keep their reporters in check and fire those that do any true investigation. Look what happened to Peter Arnett: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Arnett.
Science has always had jealousy and competition for funding etc, but that is far more prevalent than it ever was. Most research establishments are funded by people with a vested interest. That prevents free thinking science. Can't publish stuff that might offend the funders. Can't do research that offends them.
Unless this funding model changes, the new openness will never happen.
If you're making a long-term commitment to using a tool then spending a few hours to get a productive interface is worthwhile.
It depends a lot on the type of application, but making something easy to learn should not make it harder for the power user. This is particularly true for applications like blender where learning the application is only a small part of learning the skills required for doing the job.
My son got a reasonable grip on blender after a couple of hours of fiddling around. He had used 3D studio before and can now use both.
From FCC's website: "The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent United States government agency, directly responsible to Congress. The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable."
They don't claim light, but I guess fiber optic cables would loosely fall under "cable". Nor do they claim authority over intrastate traffic.
Developing a standard without having a working example is very foolish. Stuff that looks cool in a standard often does not work out well in real life (theory != practice). Technically, it is far better to survey the landscape for things that work well and standardise those. There are problems with this approach: the companies that have implemented the winning standards often have a competitive advantage,lobbying can wreck the process and the standards might be burdened with patents (and standards users need to pay royalties to the patent holders).
For one example where this has worked well, consider vehicle networking. Bosch invented/designed the Control Area Network (CAN). This was standardised by SAE as part of the in vehicle networking specification. ISO then just adopted the SAE stuff and extended it in some new areas. The stuff all works well and is based on proven technology (ie. the technology existed before the standards).
Norway is in 9th slot with a score of 8.7. USA in 20th with 7.2. A higher score means a lower perceived corruption.
Of course ranking tables are not as important as the actual scores. The first six are all within a +-1% band (9.3 +- 1%) meaning that any ranking within that band is really pointless since the margin of error is likely wider than 1%. Norway is slightly below this first band, USA is significantly below, but still above most others.
Are boxed copies being used within China or are they exported? I'd expect that most piracy within China is far more flagrant than that, for which you don't need any box.
If anything, the Chinese will just learn whatever magic sauce the MS/Novell alliance can offer and then just do it themselves. If yo
With the long history of testing we know exactly how these materials will perform 1000 years from now.
You suggest that recycling the fissionable material will eliminate, or greatly reduce, waste. Not so. The problem is that the fissionable material is only a very small percentage of the waste stream. Almost verything that has been through a plant is treated as waste. The bulk of this is low level waste with no recycling potential.
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Sportsmen/women have known this for ages. So have people with hobbies. etc etc.
Many weight control programs, for instance, will suggest that people join social groups etc and feel better about how they are *now*. That improved self image then helps people work towards their goals.
Here are the instructions to make your own.
Acquire Mac Mini, PC case, screwdriver. You might need some extension cables too.
Open case. Put Mac Mini inside.
Close case.
Profit!! Err, I mean loss!
Until I've seen one with my own eyes, and I've played with it, and I'm sober, nothing is proven.
Have you stopped beating your wife: [ ] yes I have stopped [ ] no I still beat her. So how do you answer if you've never beaten her?
All I can see here is that he tried to answer a broken set of questions.
Unless we're talking murder or some serious crime, you're probably going to have a hard time getting the police interested in investing the resources to try to identify the perp and hunt them down and arrest them.
Keep the games boring so that the kids read some books!
Yeah, that's going to be useful. Thank God they stopped this. I wonder how long Zune will last.
Add up all the Linux desktops and servers out there. Compare that to the number of Linux phones.
2000 person orgy to save the species.
If they'd want to use WinCE, then they should have used ARM too. Most WinCE devices are ARM.
Unless, of course you've built up a whole computer from transistors etc, but that probably limits you to an 8008 doing less than 1MHz.
But your main point is valid. Solar radiation is only one of the earth's heat sources. Internal radioactive decay contributes a lot, so does gravitational/tidal friction and the magnetic dynamo effects on the iron core.
Interfering with a terrorist investigation? Guantánamo Bay has nice weather.
Only goodwill with investors matters. MS does not really consider goodwill with OEMs or customers. They screw them around. The "install base" is just considered a corporate asset not worthy of goodwill.
Fsck the customers, they are merely corporate assets.
News media are very careful to keep onside with the Whitehouse, Pentagon etc. If they don't then they get poor treatment from the media relations people. Instead of having their reporters embedded with frontline troops sending home eye (and advertising) catching footage, they get embedded in the transport depot and they get to film grunts washing trucks.
Instead of getting confirmation for some scoop, the staffers return their call an hour too late, making them miss a deadline.
For that reason, the news companies keep their reporters in check and fire those that do any true investigation. Look what happened to Peter Arnett: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Arnett.
Unless this funding model changes, the new openness will never happen.
It depends a lot on the type of application, but making something easy to learn should not make it harder for the power user. This is particularly true for applications like blender where learning the application is only a small part of learning the skills required for doing the job.
My son got a reasonable grip on blender after a couple of hours of fiddling around. He had used 3D studio before and can now use both.
They don't claim light, but I guess fiber optic cables would loosely fall under "cable". Nor do they claim authority over intrastate traffic.
Remember when XP SP3 was impossible which was why everyone had to change to Vista?
For one example where this has worked well, consider vehicle networking. Bosch invented/designed the Control Area Network (CAN). This was standardised by SAE as part of the in vehicle networking specification. ISO then just adopted the SAE stuff and extended it in some new areas. The stuff all works well and is based on proven technology (ie. the technology existed before the standards).
You just use this conversion tool called Open Office
Of course ranking tables are not as important as the actual scores. The first six are all within a +-1% band (9.3 +- 1%) meaning that any ranking within that band is really pointless since the margin of error is likely wider than 1%. Norway is slightly below this first band, USA is significantly below, but still above most others.
If anything, the Chinese will just learn whatever magic sauce the MS/Novell alliance can offer and then just do it themselves. If yo
You suggest that recycling the fissionable material will eliminate, or greatly reduce, waste. Not so. The problem is that the fissionable material is only a very small percentage of the waste stream. Almost verything that has been through a plant is treated as waste. The bulk of this is low level waste with no recycling potential.