As a researcher in a good, but not elite, university I also disagree: what's going to happen is that a reduced club will get all the funding and the rest will get nothing. And this is not necessarily related to how good they are, but how good they WERE.
Well, lets make it simple then: amazon is no longer legally able to sell to CA residents. All solved. If you do business with CA then I find it fair that you will collect taxes like any other business. It is highly unfair to those business in CA that they have to collect the taxes bu amazon does not (it effectively gives amazon a ca. 10% discount over the competition).
Never managed to get a reasonable feed even though I can routinely download at 5+ Mbps. The quality of the streams was abysmal, there were no subtitles and it was hard to FF or RR. I am quite happy that my 2 DVD's at a time price is much lower. DVD's come in, I watch them (occasionally I rip them to my ipad), return them and I am a happy camper... and much happier now that I do not have to pay for things I do not use (streaming).
Correction: spin 0 or spin 1 operators only. A spin 1/2 added to a spin 1 can give spin 1/2 or 3/2, hence an operator with spin 1 can have a non-zero matrix element between two spin 1/2 states. Note that two spin 1/2's always add to an integer spin (0 or 1).
For fanboy advertising for apple? What is the technological/scientific/hacker/... importance of a WHITE iphone? It is the same f... device that's been available for months, just white. Why does this deserve/. coverage? This is f* insane.
This is just a post by a self-serving SOAB. So, he wants all but a handful of PhD programs closed. Let me guess, but I bet that he's not advocating by example (i.e., lets close all of Columbia Univ. PhD programs first). This is particularly pathetic coming from a "department of religion" at Columbia University. I really cannot think of a most useless program (compared to biochemistry, physics, math, etc.). If he advocates for that first, then I may take him seriously. Otherwise it is the same self-serving stuff: close everyone else's programs so that my program will benefit from reduced competition. I've seen it before. STFU until you show by example first.
Luckily you can just take your cell phone or pad and use it on another network. Oh, wait! In the retarded US we can't because each company has its own system mutually incompatible with all others (except ATT and T-M, but that fortunately will end soon). Way to go! You are locked in for sure, unless you want to shell another several hundred $$ on a new (and incompatible with anybody else) device. !#@$!@#$
Actually, never buy a first run model ESPECIALLY from Apple. This has been going on for a while, they really do not have very good QC for their first runs. Well known. Happened to me last time with a white macbook (13" first run of intels), would get so freaking hot that I was afraid it would burn the wood of my desk (it even discolored it). Ended up returning it and at that time buying a vaio, which worked quite well (still working 5 years down the road), if you discount the fact that the darn thing is poorly insulated, gives you a mild electric discharge (barely noticeable, but it is there) when on AC power....
Getting tired of how stupid./ stories have become. STOP the iMadness. Who the f* cares if some person write something on an ipad, iphone, ifu*king device or not. It seems the kids got hold of the control of/. and the proportion of interesting/non-interesting stories has gone down a lot. Perhaps it is my time to "retire" to more interesting pastures...
I ran my first linux (slackare 1.3, I believe) on a 486 33MHz with 16 MB of ram (in my office) and on a 386 16 MHz with 8 MB of ram. And in those boxes I could use X11 (though on the 386 it wasn't too pleasant), netscape 1, LaTeX, xdvi, gs. Those were the days!!!
I never said I'd love to do it. However, I need to travel by plane. So what option do you propose? At least if a significant # of people opted for the pat-down, rather than the RADIATION, this could create enough trouble for the policy to be struck down.
I do not actually care if anyone sees me naked (been to nude beaches before). So what?
My concern is RADIATION. HOSPITALS can't get their radiation stuff working as it should (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/when-radiation-treatment-turns-deadly/
& http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/health/24radiation.html), so how am I supposed to trust that TSA will keep the radiation levels in check? No thanks, pat down for me, and hopefully for so many others that the airports will come to a crawl until these scanners are eliminated.
Alas, from the comments I read here and elsewhere, we have a population of big chickens that prefers convenience ("I'd rather go through the scanners than get a pat down"), so probably the scanners are here to stay. They will distort the pictures but still subject millions of people to unneeded radiation for nothing. Well, we evidently have (as a people) the government we deserve.
Come on!
So now the fault for the poor state of US education is that... children don't sit on $1k aeron chairs? Lets just put more $$$ on stupid things (even though the US outspends most other countries and manages to get pathetically low results in any comparison). Want REAL improvement? Put $$ into early education (budget has just been halved for it here in MO) and then provide good support to teachers etc etc.
Chairs... just what we needed.
Mod parent up! I also had a mac mini hooked up to a 40" HDTV and from the canonical 10 feet (actually more like 12 or 14) the fonts in Snow Leopard are completely illegible for dialog boxes et al. Unfortunately there is no way to make them bigger, even with 3rd party utilities (which make SOME fonts bigger but then things "fall off the box"). Apple's implementation is quite primitive, indeed. Steve: stop being so damn controlling and instead fix what's broken!!!!!!!!!!
The problem is that a typical car engine is producing tens of kW of power (e.g., easily 30-40 kW when running at reasonable speeds, much more when accelerating). A 1 m^2 solar panel produces 0.1 kW of electricity. Not quite a relevant amount of energy in relative terms. It will improve your km/l by less than a few %.
Used to have a mac mini for the home theater, but it died suddenly last week.
Now, I was waiting for the ipad to be something it is not: a simple entertaining device that would also be used to work on the go (edit documents, etc). Alas the ipad is simply an ipod on steroids. Useless for anything other than entertainment. PASS. I went and bought an HP 2740p notebook/tablet. Yes, it is expensive ($1500), but it is a real computer. Got me back to try Win 7 (had last used XP and switched to mac some years ago). You know what? Win7 ain't that bad. Had apple produced a decent tablet I'd never be back to the dark empire of MS. Perhaps now I will never be able to justify to myself spending 3* more to get a desktop machine from apple when Win7 is half-decent.
Clarin is a monopoly pro-dictatorship. Its unfair advantage over other news organizations was cemented during Videla's dictatorship in the 1970's. At that time Clarin, along with the right-wing La Nacion got access to Papel Prensa, a very large paper producer that made newspaper only for these two organizations. Other papers needed to buy their material from other sources at significantly higher prices. Guess then how Clarin and La Nacion got to grow so much?
Mrs. Noble (chief of Clarin) toasts to the establishment of Papel Prensa, the nation's main newsprint maker, with the President, General Jorge Videla, in 1978.
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As a researcher in a good, but not elite, university I also disagree: what's going to happen is that a reduced club will get all the funding and the rest will get nothing. And this is not necessarily related to how good they are, but how good they WERE.
Well, lets make it simple then: amazon is no longer legally able to sell to CA residents. All solved. If you do business with CA then I find it fair that you will collect taxes like any other business. It is highly unfair to those business in CA that they have to collect the taxes bu amazon does not (it effectively gives amazon a ca. 10% discount over the competition).
I am not sure either, but it has never worked for me... In any case, I prefer the DVD's and the plan is now cheaper for me.
Never managed to get a reasonable feed even though I can routinely download at 5+ Mbps. The quality of the streams was abysmal, there were no subtitles and it was hard to FF or RR. I am quite happy that my 2 DVD's at a time price is much lower. DVD's come in, I watch them (occasionally I rip them to my ipad), return them and I am a happy camper... and much happier now that I do not have to pay for things I do not use (streaming).
Correction: spin 0 or spin 1 operators only. A spin 1/2 added to a spin 1 can give spin 1/2 or 3/2, hence an operator with spin 1 can have a non-zero matrix element between two spin 1/2 states. Note that two spin 1/2's always add to an integer spin (0 or 1).
For fanboy advertising for apple? What is the technological/scientific/hacker/... importance of a WHITE iphone? It is the same f... device that's been available for months, just white. Why does this deserve /. coverage? This is f* insane.
This is just a post by a self-serving SOAB. So, he wants all but a handful of PhD programs closed. Let me guess, but I bet that he's not advocating by example (i.e., lets close all of Columbia Univ. PhD programs first). This is particularly pathetic coming from a "department of religion" at Columbia University. I really cannot think of a most useless program (compared to biochemistry, physics, math, etc.). If he advocates for that first, then I may take him seriously. Otherwise it is the same self-serving stuff: close everyone else's programs so that my program will benefit from reduced competition. I've seen it before. STFU until you show by example first.
Luckily you can just take your cell phone or pad and use it on another network. Oh, wait! In the retarded US we can't because each company has its own system mutually incompatible with all others (except ATT and T-M, but that fortunately will end soon). Way to go! You are locked in for sure, unless you want to shell another several hundred $$ on a new (and incompatible with anybody else) device. !#@$!@#$
Actually, never buy a first run model ESPECIALLY from Apple. This has been going on for a while, they really do not have very good QC for their first runs. Well known. Happened to me last time with a white macbook (13" first run of intels), would get so freaking hot that I was afraid it would burn the wood of my desk (it even discolored it). Ended up returning it and at that time buying a vaio, which worked quite well (still working 5 years down the road), if you discount the fact that the darn thing is poorly insulated, gives you a mild electric discharge (barely noticeable, but it is there) when on AC power....
Getting tired of how stupid ./ stories have become. STOP the iMadness. Who the f* cares if some person write something on an ipad, iphone, ifu*king device or not. It seems the kids got hold of the control of /. and the proportion of interesting/non-interesting stories has gone down a lot. Perhaps it is my time to "retire" to more interesting pastures...
I ran my first linux (slackare 1.3, I believe) on a 486 33MHz with 16 MB of ram (in my office) and on a 386 16 MHz with 8 MB of ram. And in those boxes I could use X11 (though on the 386 it wasn't too pleasant), netscape 1, LaTeX, xdvi, gs. Those were the days!!!
Reads like an advertisement for apple. Come on, even with all the fanboys there should be some decency here... This is getting tiresome.
Like 90% (or more) of those in congress/whitehouse, and at least 2 in the SC (Scalia, Thomas).
I think that octopus Paul has a better record.
Mod parent up!
I never said I'd love to do it. However, I need to travel by plane. So what option do you propose? At least if a significant # of people opted for the pat-down, rather than the RADIATION, this could create enough trouble for the policy to be struck down.
I do not actually care if anyone sees me naked (been to nude beaches before). So what?
My concern is RADIATION. HOSPITALS can't get their radiation stuff working as it should (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/when-radiation-treatment-turns-deadly/ & http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/health/24radiation.html), so how am I supposed to trust that TSA will keep the radiation levels in check? No thanks, pat down for me, and hopefully for so many others that the airports will come to a crawl until these scanners are eliminated.
Alas, from the comments I read here and elsewhere, we have a population of big chickens that prefers convenience ("I'd rather go through the scanners than get a pat down"), so probably the scanners are here to stay. They will distort the pictures but still subject millions of people to unneeded radiation for nothing. Well, we evidently have (as a people) the government we deserve.
Gosh! I am now so glad that I cannot add memory to my iphone :-)
Come on! So now the fault for the poor state of US education is that... children don't sit on $1k aeron chairs? Lets just put more $$$ on stupid things (even though the US outspends most other countries and manages to get pathetically low results in any comparison). Want REAL improvement? Put $$ into early education (budget has just been halved for it here in MO) and then provide good support to teachers etc etc. Chairs... just what we needed.
Mod parent up! I also had a mac mini hooked up to a 40" HDTV and from the canonical 10 feet (actually more like 12 or 14) the fonts in Snow Leopard are completely illegible for dialog boxes et al. Unfortunately there is no way to make them bigger, even with 3rd party utilities (which make SOME fonts bigger but then things "fall off the box"). Apple's implementation is quite primitive, indeed. Steve: stop being so damn controlling and instead fix what's broken!!!!!!!!!!
Very nice, I will try. Saw a 10v for only $200!
The problem is that a typical car engine is producing tens of kW of power (e.g., easily 30-40 kW when running at reasonable speeds, much more when accelerating). A 1 m^2 solar panel produces 0.1 kW of electricity. Not quite a relevant amount of energy in relative terms. It will improve your km/l by less than a few %.
Mac Pro, 8 cores Xeon 3GHz, 5 GB Ram, 1TB hd, 24" monitor
iMac, Core 2 duo, 2.4 GHz, 2 GB ram, 300 GB gd, 20"
Iphone 3G 8G
Ipod touch 8G
Used to have a mac mini for the home theater, but it died suddenly last week.
Now, I was waiting for the ipad to be something it is not: a simple entertaining device that would also be used to work on the go (edit documents, etc). Alas the ipad is simply an ipod on steroids. Useless for anything other than entertainment. PASS. I went and bought an HP 2740p notebook/tablet. Yes, it is expensive ($1500), but it is a real computer. Got me back to try Win 7 (had last used XP and switched to mac some years ago). You know what? Win7 ain't that bad. Had apple produced a decent tablet I'd never be back to the dark empire of MS. Perhaps now I will never be able to justify to myself spending 3* more to get a desktop machine from apple when Win7 is half-decent.
Where are the editors/moderators???
Now on a more "serious" tone... Scientific accuracy in SW? Like:
Jet engines with intakes (so that they can suck what? neutrinos?)
X-fighters banking on curves (I guess their x-wings generate some lift in the vacuum of space)
Things in orbit that start falling to on side and people inside them start falling too (yahoo!!!)
Screaming jets as they fly by in space (if only they had seen the movie 2001...)
Here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brindis_Noble_Videla.jpg
Mrs. Noble (chief of Clarin) toasts to the establishment of Papel Prensa, the nation's main newsprint maker, with the President, General Jorge Videla, in 1978.
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernestina_Herrera_de_Noble