Nope, eBooks are actually more expensive to produce. The cost of publishing books is in the editing and layout, not eBooks increase the cost because while the cost of paper is saved, the cost of having to do layout and editing in such a way that you support lots of different screen sizes, fonts, and sizes makes the actual publishing step much more complex.
What incredible horseshit. What, you think the publisher's software team takes each book and hand-tweaks the author's original submission? Once you've developed a tool [cough cough Calibre cough] there's zero cost to spitting out soft copies compatible with each and every device.
How is this any different from a Social Security card, which is also a federally-issued, unique identification card? How does issuing everyone a passport solve any problem?
Dunno how to break it to you youngsters, but my SSN is being **used** as a unique ID, but in fact it is not a traceable identification number. Like everyone born in the antediluvian epoch (more or less pre-Reagan), I walked into a federal office one day and asked for a SSN. They asked my name, typed up a card, and there I was. Basically same procedure as happens now if you want to pull an EIN for a trust. Just like phone numbers, SSNs are being misused for something they were not intended.
I remember reading, maybe in "Veeck as in Wreck," or maybe "Ball Four," about one umpire who tended to make first-base calls by watching the runner and listening for the sound of the ball hitting the first-baseman's glove. The players caught on to this, and the first-baseman would slap his glove just before the ball got there to fool the ump into calling close plays "out."
On the other side, an umpire from the 70s and 80s published an autobiography in which he bragged about deliberately trying to distract ballplayers he disliked, so as to mess up their at-bats.
So, at some point, tradition or not, is it really worth keeping human umps with guaranteed biases and egos?
Until the single touchscreen dies or the LED backlight goes out and the entire [Tesla] car can't be driven.
Sigh... If you blooming geniuses would stop thinking that knowing Javascript means you know shit about anything else, you'd take the time to learn that Teslas drive just fine with both displays hung or rebooting. I've rebooted the main panel more than once while the car's in motion.
What illiterate journalist pulled that word out? The proper term is "defeated" or "disabled." "Deadened" is correctly used when, e.g., lowering sound pressure by 80 dB. Or, I suppose, getting rid of a pesky relative, "... took a gun and deadened him"
Teslas have the equivalent of Windows' "three finger salute": foot on the brake, press and hold the two scroll wheels until the display goes blank and then shows the "T" logo.
It is not necessary to apply the brake pedal. I've reset the main console while driving, with foot on the accelerator.
We've been sold on the idea that brick-'n'-mortar are going the way of the dinosaur, and that eventually everything will be online only, with physical product only existing in huge distribution centers.
What wasn't foreseen, maybe, is a time when a high percentage of what's available online is garbage, made to sell rather than use, supported by fake reviews, and that the percentage is increasing. Maybe there will come a time when brick-'n'-mortar comes back in style, for the simple reason that you can verify for yourself that it's an actual, useful product and not a cracker-jacks prize.
Maybe or maybe not. Remember all those stories about people picking something out at Best Buy or Circuit City only to get home and find the "sealed" package didn't have the item inside?
In more survivable applications, the US Navy is investigating electromagnetic catapults on their carriers: The EMALS' 300-foot (91 m) LIM will accelerate a 100,000-pound (45,000 kg) aircraft to 130 kn (240 km/h; 150 mph).
If you extend its length to 600 m, it'll be able to reach 900 mph (400 m/s) while carrying the weight of a fully-loaded fighter jet.
Not arguing with the math there, but I rather doubt anyone ever wants to hit Mach 1.2 on the flight deck.
there are people who design slaughter houses to make the animals less stressed, because it makes the meat a better quality.
You might be referring to Temple Grandin, but I strongly recommend instead the Turkey Processing Room. (Apologies -that's obviously a camera pointed at a CRT)
C'mon, must be a few people besides me that remember the "difficult transition" users had to deal with when you couldn't just hit the power switch on your PC: you had to run "Shutdown." Almost as though there was a real OS (cough Unix cough) inside that wanted to do logging and cleanup before killing power. Sure, you can yank the plug on your OSX or Win10 machine but it will quite properly reprimand you on the next boot sequence, and with reason.
Same goes for ALL drives, whether USB or not, that you want to physically disconnect.
While I believe your statement about probable cause on four legs, the dog did find enough of a controlled substance to arrest.
COrrelation is not causality.
As others already said, the dogs nearly ALWAYS indicate positive, as they know that's what their handler wants, and will reward them for. The fact that in this case there was some pot in the car is entirely coincidental.
I don't even use Box. Not like they'd have my trust to begin with
Depends on what you wanted to use Box, or Dropbox, or Google+, or.. whatever, for.
In the case of Box, I posted up things that I specifically want to be distributed to anyone who might be interested - resume, some classic statistics charts, and so on. When I have stuff I don't want distributed to the known galaxy, I send it direct to the intended recipient. Of course, once I do that, I"m still at the mercy of said recipient -- and all of us always have been, ever since people learned how to copy things.
I get dozens of calls weekly from cold-call recruiters who find my name on linkedin or indeed or whatever. Apparently they're incapable of reading anything else, since I get calls for:
-- positions requiring active clearance, when my CV clearly says I don't. -- positions for SQL, network maintenance, embedded software, etc., for which I have nothing even close listed. -- insurance sales positions -- customer package pickup window positions (really)
For the record, I'm a physicist w/ optics and radar experience, plus data analysis/statistics. A clear match for the above. So I am highly skeptical that this new shiny tool will help.
That judge may or may not have the law interpreted correctly, but his spew about politicians making decisions about science rather strongly suggests the majority of his income derives from ExxonMobil or the equivalent Putin-owned company.
One more example of why judges should be required to accept the input of nonlegals like, you know, scientists and software professionals.
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Nope, eBooks are actually more expensive to produce.
The cost of publishing books is in the editing and layout, not
eBooks increase the cost because while the cost of paper is saved, the cost of having to do layout and editing in such a way that you support lots of different screen sizes, fonts, and sizes makes the actual publishing step much more complex.
What incredible horseshit. What, you think the publisher's software team takes each book and hand-tweaks the author's original submission? Once you've developed a tool [cough cough Calibre cough] there's zero cost to spitting out soft copies compatible with each and every device.
How is this any different from a Social Security card, which is also a federally-issued, unique identification card? How does issuing everyone a passport solve any problem?
Dunno how to break it to you youngsters, but my SSN is being **used** as a unique ID, but in fact it is not a traceable identification number. Like everyone born in the antediluvian epoch (more or less pre-Reagan), I walked into a federal office one day and asked for a SSN. They asked my name, typed up a card, and there I was. Basically same procedure as happens now if you want to pull an EIN for a trust.
Just like phone numbers, SSNs are being misused for something they were not intended.
I remember reading, maybe in "Veeck as in Wreck," or maybe "Ball Four," about one umpire who tended to make first-base calls by watching the runner and listening for the sound of the ball hitting the first-baseman's glove. The players caught on to this, and the first-baseman would slap his glove just before the ball got there to fool the ump into calling close plays "out."
On the other side, an umpire from the 70s and 80s published an autobiography in which he bragged about deliberately trying to distract ballplayers he disliked, so as to mess up their at-bats.
So, at some point, tradition or not, is it really worth keeping human umps with guaranteed biases and egos?
Until the single touchscreen dies or the LED backlight goes out and the entire [Tesla] car can't be driven.
Sigh...
If you blooming geniuses would stop thinking that knowing Javascript means you know shit about anything else, you'd take the time to learn that Teslas drive just fine with both displays hung or rebooting. I've rebooted the main panel more than once while the car's in motion.
this control becomes "deadened,"
What illiterate journalist pulled that word out? The proper term is "defeated" or "disabled." "Deadened" is correctly used when, e.g., lowering sound pressure by 80 dB. Or, I suppose, getting rid of a pesky relative, " ... took a gun and deadened him"
There is no such thing as an ATM machine. That would be an automated teller machine machine.
which you can access with your PIN number to get money to buy a pizza pie after getting a consensus of opinion as to toppings.
So, what's your point?
You have not lived in a house with four females.
Were you mating with all four?
He's from West Virginia and they are his wife, mother-in-law, and two daughters.
Teslas have the equivalent of Windows' "three finger salute": foot on the brake, press and hold the two scroll wheels until the display goes blank and then shows the "T" logo.
It is not necessary to apply the brake pedal. I've reset the main console while driving, with foot on the accelerator.
Screw it. Weâ(TM)re going straight to 5^H ELEVEN notches.
FTFY
We've been sold on the idea that brick-'n'-mortar are going the way of the dinosaur, and that eventually everything will be online only, with physical product only existing in huge distribution centers.
What wasn't foreseen, maybe, is a time when a high percentage of what's available online is garbage, made to sell rather than use, supported by fake reviews, and that the percentage is increasing. Maybe there will come a time when brick-'n'-mortar comes back in style, for the simple reason that you can verify for yourself that it's an actual, useful product and not a cracker-jacks prize.
Maybe or maybe not. Remember all those stories about people picking something out at Best Buy or Circuit City only to get home and find the "sealed" package didn't have the item inside?
In more survivable applications, the US Navy is investigating electromagnetic catapults on their carriers:
The EMALS' 300-foot (91 m) LIM will accelerate a 100,000-pound (45,000 kg) aircraft to 130 kn (240 km/h; 150 mph).
If you extend its length to 600 m, it'll be able to reach 900 mph (400 m/s) while carrying the weight of a fully-loaded fighter jet.
Not arguing with the math there, but I rather doubt anyone ever wants to hit Mach 1.2 on the flight deck.
there are people who design slaughter houses to make the animals less stressed, because it makes the meat a better quality.
You might be referring to Temple Grandin, but I strongly recommend instead the Turkey Processing Room.
(Apologies -that's obviously a camera pointed at a CRT)
C'mon, must be a few people besides me that remember the "difficult transition" users had to deal with when you couldn't just hit the power switch on your PC: you had to run "Shutdown." Almost as though there was a real OS (cough Unix cough) inside that wanted to do logging and cleanup before killing power.
Sure, you can yank the plug on your OSX or Win10 machine but it will quite properly reprimand you on the next boot sequence, and with reason.
Same goes for ALL drives, whether USB or not, that you want to physically disconnect.
No military bases, of any country, on the Moon, again for obvious reasons.
Ok, you volunteering to remove the secret Space Nazi base on the dark side of the moon? Anyone?
So what the hell is a "shea" and how do you make butter from it anyhow?
Oh, ghee, I'm not sure.
While I believe your statement about probable cause on four legs, the dog did find enough of a controlled substance to arrest.
COrrelation is not causality.
As others already said, the dogs nearly ALWAYS indicate positive, as they know that's what their handler wants, and will reward them for. The fact that in this case there was some pot in the car is entirely coincidental.
Its previous largest qualified space part is an electronics enclosure that's around the size of a toaster.
Two or four slice?
Neither.
Wow you can predict precisely where the laser will hit and have the mirror at the ready?
"After reflection, the enemy succumbed" -- Bullard: Tales of the Patrol
I don't even use Box. Not like they'd have my trust to begin with
Depends on what you wanted to use Box, or Dropbox, or Google+, or.. whatever, for.
In the case of Box, I posted up things that I specifically want to be distributed to anyone who might be interested - resume, some classic statistics charts, and so on.
When I have stuff I don't want distributed to the known galaxy, I send it direct to the intended recipient. Of course, once I do that, I"m still at the mercy of said recipient -- and all of us always have been, ever since people learned how to copy things.
Trump, reign these people in.
Rein. If you can't spell it, don't use it.
Dunno - the original seems to describe his fundamental plan pretty accuractely.
Calling these guys clowns are an insult to clowns. This group needs jail time and a ban from the internet.
So do clowns. Ick Yuck Scary.
Let alone dealing with Pennywise, who keeps trying to get us to float.
I get dozens of calls weekly from cold-call recruiters who find my name on linkedin or indeed or whatever. Apparently they're incapable of reading anything else, since I get calls for:
-- positions requiring active clearance, when my CV clearly says I don't.
-- positions for SQL, network maintenance, embedded software, etc., for which I have nothing even close listed.
-- insurance sales positions
-- customer package pickup window positions (really)
For the record, I'm a physicist w/ optics and radar experience, plus data analysis/statistics. A clear match for the above. So I am highly skeptical that this new shiny tool will help.
The answer is almost always "not far enough"
That judge may or may not have the law interpreted correctly, but his spew about politicians making decisions about science rather strongly suggests the majority of his income derives from ExxonMobil or the equivalent Putin-owned company.
One more example of why judges should be required to accept the input of nonlegals like, you know, scientists and software professionals.
I asked my fembot and she said the robot referees really get her hot.