The idea of "no code duplication" has important limits. Function calls have overhead, and in some cases that overhead can cause disastrous speed penalties.
Because the higher level languages I'm familiar with don't allow functions with multiple entry points (without extraordinary grief), many things that could benefit from consolidation into a single function can't be consolidated.
This is (for me) an important problem. My problem was mplayerplug-in overriding RealPlayer. Fortunately, searching the net yielded a workaround which involved editing some config files.
about:plugins shows mimes and should be the place to change things, but I've been unable to edit it.
The edit->preferences section that deals with mimes only allows deleting a very limited range of stuff, not adding anything. No help there.
Sensitivity to particular foods tends to increase with age (as youthful vitality declines) and damage may be cumulative. So stay alert; what you can get away with now may become a problem later.
To get a paragraph break, type less_than, P, greater_than (three characters total). The first time you do this in a post, you must do it twice to get a line-space.
I live 50 minutes from the nearest Best Buy. I see a good price, drive there, find out they won't honor the price, drive home. As far as I'm concerned, their fraud has cost me about $100 of my time and the use of my car.
Oh good, the paranoid conspiracy theorist shows up.
Regularly scheduled mass transit cannot be profitable in competition with cheap individual transit in sparsely settled areas. Most small towns can't even have a profitable taxi service
There was no incentive for "the auto and petroleum industries bought them up to shut them down." The small town public transit companies would have failed anyway. If not, there would have been an economic incentive for someone to replace them, which didn't happen.
We don't need the government to buy and save surplusses, individuals can and will do it if prices are high enough to make it a worthwhile enterprise. The fact that prices are low is due to excess supply, in turn due to the centuries-old trend to high-productivity farming. The U.S. has too many farmers.
Corn-fed cattle may produce tasty, tender, and cheap beef, but it's high in unhealthy varieties of saturated fats. Cows naturally feed on grass, and grass-fed cows produce healthier beef.
It's not so simple. Mexico has its own oil industry, and if Chavez boosts production oil prices will fall, which will hurt Mexico's economy. Mexico's predominant problem is Mexico, its corruption, weak property rights, and bureaucratic roadblocks to economic activity. Because the government has so weakened the economy, external events that would hardly be noticed in a healthy country are disasters.
It's been decades since there has been any significant amount of above-ground power cables in Manhattan. The city is honeycombed with tunnels; it's unlikely they'll have to do much new digging.
I've read my favorite books as many as 6 times. When I'm down, there's not much that beats reading a dependable funny adventure.
I frequently read library books because I want to read the book NOW, but I'm unwilling to pay for or transport large numbers of hardcover books. I'll buy it when it comes out in paperback, or when it's available used.
Interesting link, but the aluminum-air battery appears to be only about twice as power-dense as zinc-air, which is an established technology used primarily in hearing-aid batteries. Neither seems likely candidates as secondary cells, which is what we really want.
Read more carefully. The gallium prevents the formation of an aluminun oxide skin which would prevent the formation of more aluminum oxide. I guess the oxide is dissolved in the gallium, so very little of the oxide remains on the surface.
This is completely different. The "hydrogen sponge" materials store hydogen. This new development is a material that pulls the oxygen out of water, leaving the water's hydrogen to be burned.
Save a step. Add metallic sodium (or potassium) to water; it generates hydrogen and plenty of heat - explosively. Cheap, lots of danger and toxic byproducts. What more could you possibly ask for?
30 or 40 years ago in Analog there was a story with a title like "Hawk among the Doves" about a modern jet fighter transported in time back to WWI. The fighter's heat and radar guided missiles were useless against wooden airplanes, and it was hard to get enough pure kerosene to fuel it. They finally used the sonic boom to break up the wooden aircraft.
You apply a substance that increases expression of the repair gene, and do something to make your cells think they need to do repair work. The latter might be something as simple as a chemical irritant like pepper extract.
Hair protects your skin from the sun and helps keep you warm. A bald person, to stay warm, must either raise the thermostat or wear a hat indoors. If you believe the claptrap that humans are causing global warming by burning fuel, then curing baldness fights global warming.
$6000 on repairs in 30,000 miles for my Corvette nearly bankrupted me. My Tercel has 175,000 miles and repairs beyond normal wear have not exceeded a few dollars. I can have a lot of fun with the money I've saved.
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Because the higher level languages I'm familiar with don't allow functions with multiple entry points (without extraordinary grief), many things that could benefit from consolidation into a single function can't be consolidated.
about:plugins shows mimes and should be the place to change things, but I've been unable to edit it.
The edit->preferences section that deals with mimes only allows deleting a very limited range of stuff, not adding anything. No help there.
Even small coal fires smell awful (unless they're very low sulphur?) A coal-based transportation system would not be a good thing.
Sensitivity to particular foods tends to increase with age (as youthful vitality declines) and damage may be cumulative. So stay alert; what you can get away with now may become a problem later.
The implied claim that conservatives won't vote for a black is a big lie that the left has been promoting for half a century.
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I live 50 minutes from the nearest Best Buy. I see a good price, drive there, find out they won't honor the price, drive home. As far as I'm concerned, their fraud has cost me about $100 of my time and the use of my car.
The mideast has been losing relevance to civilization for centuries. And it wasn't a boogy man that collapsed the World Trade Center.
Regularly scheduled mass transit cannot be profitable in competition with cheap individual transit in sparsely settled areas. Most small towns can't even have a profitable taxi service
There was no incentive for "the auto and petroleum industries bought them up to shut them down." The small town public transit companies would have failed anyway. If not, there would have been an economic incentive for someone to replace them, which didn't happen.
Corn-fed cattle may produce tasty, tender, and cheap beef, but it's high in unhealthy varieties of saturated fats. Cows naturally feed on grass, and grass-fed cows produce healthier beef.
It's not so simple. Mexico has its own oil industry, and if Chavez boosts production oil prices will fall, which will hurt Mexico's economy. Mexico's predominant problem is Mexico, its corruption, weak property rights, and bureaucratic roadblocks to economic activity. Because the government has so weakened the economy, external events that would hardly be noticed in a healthy country are disasters.
Your "walkable streets" link is an informative summary of NYC. A quick summary is: people who live in cesspools don't use much electricity.
It's been decades since there has been any significant amount of above-ground power cables in Manhattan. The city is honeycombed with tunnels; it's unlikely they'll have to do much new digging.
I frequently read library books because I want to read the book NOW, but I'm unwilling to pay for or transport large numbers of hardcover books. I'll buy it when it comes out in paperback, or when it's available used.
Interesting link, but the aluminum-air battery appears to be only about twice as power-dense as zinc-air, which is an established technology used primarily in hearing-aid batteries. Neither seems likely candidates as secondary cells, which is what we really want.
Read more carefully. The gallium prevents the formation of an aluminun oxide skin which would prevent the formation of more aluminum oxide. I guess the oxide is dissolved in the gallium, so very little of the oxide remains on the surface.
This is completely different. The "hydrogen sponge" materials store hydogen. This new development is a material that pulls the oxygen out of water, leaving the water's hydrogen to be burned.
Save a step. Add metallic sodium (or potassium) to water; it generates hydrogen and plenty of heat - explosively. Cheap, lots of danger and toxic byproducts. What more could you possibly ask for?
30 or 40 years ago in Analog there was a story with a title like "Hawk among the Doves" about a modern jet fighter transported in time back to WWI. The fighter's heat and radar guided missiles were useless against wooden airplanes, and it was hard to get enough pure kerosene to fuel it. They finally used the sonic boom to break up the wooden aircraft.
You apply a substance that increases expression of the repair gene, and do something to make your cells think they need to do repair work. The latter might be something as simple as a chemical irritant like pepper extract.
Generic 5% minoxidil is $8 a month at WalMart.
Hair protects your skin from the sun and helps keep you warm. A bald person, to stay warm, must either raise the thermostat or wear a hat indoors. If you believe the claptrap that humans are causing global warming by burning fuel, then curing baldness fights global warming.
The commonest form of cancer is skin cancer, generally caused by excessive exposure to the sun. Guess what hair blocks? This is cancer prevention.
$6000 on repairs in 30,000 miles for my Corvette nearly bankrupted me. My Tercel has 175,000 miles and repairs beyond normal wear have not exceeded a few dollars. I can have a lot of fun with the money I've saved.
So use aluminum instead of copper.