Apple calls their new unibody Macbooks "the greenest Macbook ever". That might be true relatively speaking.
But what Apple don't tell you is that they routinely ship units backwards and forwards across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prioritise for US demand.
For example, a New Zealand Apple retailer told my associate that Apple will often recall all NZ stock back to the USA if they run low on stock there. So this means the "green" Macbook you buy in, say, New York City may have flown across the Pacific at least once, maybe even twice or more. I wonder if new stock in NZ comes from California or somewhere in South-East Asia?
It's interesting because Apple make the point that their smaller packaging requires less aircraft space and therefore less aviation fuel - but if they send these things backwards and forwards around the planet, what good is that really?
The annoying thing for New Zealand customers is that the entire country can suddenly run out of stock even though the demand is there but nobody has been able to buy one.
I might be recorded as part of that 3% (maybe) but it's irrelevant since I can't get the application to actually run. I'm in WindowsXP and activating the icon makes the mouse cursor change briefly, and then nothing... no errors, no dialogs, no Chrome.
No, you missed the point - Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin, it doesn't matter. What matters is that the unit is *specified* correctly. A 'degree' unit is a 360th of a single complete angular rotation. Obviously a 'degree C' or 'degree F' is completely different.
There's nothing wrong with specifying a non-standard unit, as long as it's specified accurately. Doing conversions is all part of the fun.
I sent them an email about it once and received a very hostile reply threatening me with 'vigorous legal action' if I tried to use purple in any confectionary context. Sheesh, I was only asking...
At LCA2008 he accidentally 'published' his key with a reader while demonstrating something on the datashow. He quickly covered it up with a terminal window but people saw it and there was some laughter. I wouldn't be surprised if it's visible in the video on the website. Or, yeah, just walk past him with a reader. Silly idea - he obviously didn't think past the initial 'cool' phase.
Silly terms from fluid mechanics. There's no such thing as a solar 'wind'. It's the movement of charged particles in an electric field - an electric current.
Or maybe they are just using the term 'hurricane' as an emotional allusion to a violent storm.
The moment I saw the image - and before reading the text - I noticed that the right-side square looked to be a strange hue compared to the rest of the sphere. It stuck out to me because it looked out of place - more orange in it, amongst the bluer greens. When I visually compared it to the left side I saw why - it's the same colour as the central square on the left side! Note that this is how I *perceived* it initially. They didn't look different to me.
Maybe my past experience at seeing such illusions has trained my brain to pick these 'different but the same' ones properly?
If all computers did was load and unload data from an external hard disk, it would be little more than a glorified video recorder. Data can come from the network, input devices (keyboard, mouse), scanners, all kinds of places. Not to mention that computers *compute* stuff - that means they create new data. Constantly.
If the 'planet' was composed almost entirely of ionised gas particles with the same charge, then wouldn't the electrostatic repulsion be far greater than the gravitational attraction until a certain average distance between particles is achieved? Might this explain the inflated size? The electrostatic force might even be strong enough to maintain a near constant density through the entire 'planet', considering it's many orders of magnitude greater than gravity.
I listened to the eye-witness report on the radio this morning - the pilot watched the debris fall in front and behind (although presumably out to one side as well). Considering 5 nautical miles is about 30 seconds of flight time, it's entirely conceivable that the pilot was able to estimate the distance based on the relative change of position over such a short period, especially if he had two points of reference to look at.
If it was 50 miles away, there wouldn't be much if any noticable change in the aspect over that time.
This reminds me of a book I read recently by Robin Cook called "Abduction" - about a civilisation of humans (who evolved independently from surface humans) who live under the sea - a place they call "InterTerra".
The last set of boss fights at the end of Cave Story, with NO save points, is just way too hard. A real pity because the rest of the game was a fantastic challenge - never hard enough to make me quit in disgust, but not easy either. But the final fights are just insane. Perhaps I just need to learn a technique, but I don't have time to try twenty times from scratch.
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Apple calls their new unibody Macbooks "the greenest Macbook ever". That might be true relatively speaking.
But what Apple don't tell you is that they routinely ship units backwards and forwards across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prioritise for US demand.
For example, a New Zealand Apple retailer told my associate that Apple will often recall all NZ stock back to the USA if they run low on stock there. So this means the "green" Macbook you buy in, say, New York City may have flown across the Pacific at least once, maybe even twice or more. I wonder if new stock in NZ comes from California or somewhere in South-East Asia?
It's interesting because Apple make the point that their smaller packaging requires less aircraft space and therefore less aviation fuel - but if they send these things backwards and forwards around the planet, what good is that really?
The annoying thing for New Zealand customers is that the entire country can suddenly run out of stock even though the demand is there but nobody has been able to buy one.
Interesting - thanks for elaborating. You've obviously put a lot of thought into it.
I'm interested to know how you test this. Is your mail account hosted by a third party, or on your own equipment?
Wow, depends where you're flying that 747 I guess, but I didn't realise it used THAT much fuel in such a short time. Astonishing.
Wow, imagine the carbon offset for that!
I might be recorded as part of that 3% (maybe) but it's irrelevant since I can't get the application to actually run. I'm in WindowsXP and activating the icon makes the mouse cursor change briefly, and then nothing... no errors, no dialogs, no Chrome.
No, you missed the point - Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin, it doesn't matter. What matters is that the unit is *specified* correctly. A 'degree' unit is a 360th of a single complete angular rotation. Obviously a 'degree C' or 'degree F' is completely different.
There's nothing wrong with specifying a non-standard unit, as long as it's specified accurately. Doing conversions is all part of the fun.
The point is the original post didn't specify a unit. 70 degrees what? Fahrenheit is fine, but you always have to give the unit!
it proved so unpopular that banks were effectively forced to reduce their hard-line stance:
http://www.consumer.org.nz/newsitem.asp?docid=5114&category=News&topic=Internet%20banking%20rule%20back-track
At least in NZ, Australia and I think the UK.
I sent them an email about it once and received a very hostile reply threatening me with 'vigorous legal action' if I tried to use purple in any confectionary context. Sheesh, I was only asking...
Those relate only to the combination of the symbols '3' & '7' - i.e. the representation. They do not relate (interestingly) to the *number* 37.
At LCA2008 he accidentally 'published' his key with a reader while demonstrating something on the datashow. He quickly covered it up with a terminal window but people saw it and there was some laughter. I wouldn't be surprised if it's visible in the video on the website. Or, yeah, just walk past him with a reader. Silly idea - he obviously didn't think past the initial 'cool' phase.
A hard drive is technically "memory" - "secondary memory" is more precise, but it's still memory. It remembers stuff doesn't it?
The use of the term is not inaccurate but it is imprecise.
Silly terms from fluid mechanics. There's no such thing as a solar 'wind'. It's the movement of charged particles in an electric field - an electric current.
Or maybe they are just using the term 'hurricane' as an emotional allusion to a violent storm.
The moment I saw the image - and before reading the text - I noticed that the right-side square looked to be a strange hue compared to the rest of the sphere. It stuck out to me because it looked out of place - more orange in it, amongst the bluer greens. When I visually compared it to the left side I saw why - it's the same colour as the central square on the left side! Note that this is how I *perceived* it initially. They didn't look different to me.
Maybe my past experience at seeing such illusions has trained my brain to pick these 'different but the same' ones properly?
Naturally, being a frequently updated image feed, the images mentioned have moved on and those references are now inaccurate.
If all computers did was load and unload data from an external hard disk, it would be little more than a glorified video recorder.
Data can come from the network, input devices (keyboard, mouse), scanners, all kinds of places.
Not to mention that computers *compute* stuff - that means they create new data. Constantly.
If the 'planet' was composed almost entirely of ionised gas particles with the same charge, then wouldn't the electrostatic repulsion be far greater than the gravitational attraction until a certain average distance between particles is achieved? Might this explain the inflated size? The electrostatic force might even be strong enough to maintain a near constant density through the entire 'planet', considering it's many orders of magnitude greater than gravity.
and populated by the Inter-Terrans... wanna press palms?
"behind" means anywhere in the rear hemisphere - it could easily have been visible out to one side and still "behind" the aircraft.
I listened to the eye-witness report on the radio this morning - the pilot watched the debris fall in front and behind (although presumably out to one side as well). Considering 5 nautical miles is about 30 seconds of flight time, it's entirely conceivable that the pilot was able to estimate the distance based on the relative change of position over such a short period, especially if he had two points of reference to look at.
If it was 50 miles away, there wouldn't be much if any noticable change in the aspect over that time.
62 *seconds*, actually...
mplayer works here (Ubuntu 6.10).
This reminds me of a book I read recently by Robin Cook called "Abduction" - about a civilisation of humans (who evolved independently from surface humans) who live under the sea - a place they call "InterTerra".
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http://www.amazon.com/Abduction-Robin-Cook/dp/042
Anyway, the plot is terribly contrived and the writing is bad, but it was strangely compelling and I just had to find out what happened at the end.
So just be careful you don't go and piss off an advanced civilisation with your undersea drilling!
The last set of boss fights at the end of Cave Story, with NO save points, is just way too hard. A real pity because the rest of the game was a fantastic challenge - never hard enough to make me quit in disgust, but not easy either. But the final fights are just insane. Perhaps I just need to learn a technique, but I don't have time to try twenty times from scratch.