Yeah, line-up waits are one of my top priorities in choosing where I shop for groceries.
My friends ask me why I shop at the slightly more expensive smaller grocery store rather than the cheaper warehouse outlet:
It takes me 2 minutes to drive there or 10 to walk, vs 20 minute drive to the outlet
It takes me about half the time to do the shopping, since the store is more compact, and doesn't have random pallets dumped everywhere
They have a policy that no more than three people should wait in a given line, and will call up stockboys and managers to open checkouts if the lineups get long, so I don't have the experience of spending more time in line than actually filling up my cart
They don't have someone checking my receipt after I just paid to make sure that I feel sufficiently like a criminal.
The cashiers actually know their stuff - they have the produce codes memorized, know how to bag things to prevent crushing / leaking / melting
It's not about taking notes with a pen - it's about being able to take notes with a pen, draw diagrams, type with a keyboard, scan images, import pictures and video, record audio notes - and have it ALL indexed, searchable, and re-organizable. After getting used to it at work, it's the only piece of software (other than games) that I've explicity gone out and bought in the past 5 years.
But absorption has to be balanced with water-retention and a host of other factors. If absorbing more of the spectrum is good, then why aren't all plants on earth black? The fact that we see them as green implies that they are reflecting back at least some of the spectrum (it turns out chlorophyll is surprisingly poor at absorbing green light).
I have a 9 year old and a 10 year old, so they're old enough to do homework when they get back from school. But even when I started working from home on a regular basis, they were 5 and 6, and they'd play fine together for hours on end - give them some Lego, or paper, scissors and tape, and they were good. It helps though that they are so close in age that they can keep each other entertained.
Why not? They're at school most of the day, and once home they spend the rest of the afternoon doing homework. Rather than having to find childcare for a couple of hours before and after school each day, I can just make sure they know I'm in my office downstairs if something bad happens. Days when I work from home are significantly quieter than days when I go in to work and have to deal with all the people at the office.
Yup - Given that we were willing to spend $1.3 billion on that boondoggle of a G8/G20 mess, I don't think spending 1/6th of that on an election is that much of a hardship.
If Harper gets another minority, I'd make the bet that the next election will have 4 new party leaders in place (maybe 3 if Duceppe decides he's up for it). Harper's had enough chances that his party is going to be looking for someone less divisive to take his place. Ignatieff is on thin ice, and if he doesn't do something amazing this election you can be the liberals will be dumping him to the curb. Layton just doesn't have the health to keep fighting losing elections.
Now if there's a Conservative majority, or any kind of Liberal government, we'll be stuck with one of the two for a while longer.
With DC power, the electrons get to run laps, and every time they get to your computer, they can do a little bit of work, spreading it out among all the electrons. With AC power you got those electron thingies racing back and forth and back and forth, but never getting anywhere. Only the few electrons near the computer actually do any helpful work, and they get worn down really quickly, so they stop working as efficiently, and the CPU slows down, and it's just generally bad.
I think they're referring to secure meaning less downtime - the individual computers are less likely to have power supplies die, since there aren't any moving parts. Also, part of the system involves a UPS - so less issues there than previously (although there's no reason you need DC for that to work).
The thing that confused me was the statement that the system was "faster". Maybe they're just talking about the fact that they got new computers? The whole article reeks of badly uninformed reporting, glossing over the important parts and seizing on, and exaggerating, little trifles that the reporter happened to understand.
Method 1: Click on the little circle in the bottom left (or hit the "Win" key on your keyboard) and start typing.
Method 2: Open an explorer window and type in the little box on the far top left, just under the "X". (Or hit ctrl-f) Here's an image in case you're having trouble.
Once you're there you can either use a full-text search, or use filters like "Tags:", "Rating:", "Genre:", or "Artist:" to search though metadata.
Manitoba Hydro is looking at spending 2 to 4 billion on a new HVDC line to the north in the next couple years. The idea being that they'll turn around and sell all that extra capacity to the US as premium renewable power.
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Spite - I imagine that any AI we create that is capable of turning on us will have a sense of irony and a capacity for sheer spite and malice.
As a Canadian of German decent - I agree. Try bringing blood sausage and cow-tongue sandwiches to school for lunch...
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You just need a really tiny man to sift through the molecules and sort them by energy level.
Yeah, line-up waits are one of my top priorities in choosing where I shop for groceries.
My friends ask me why I shop at the slightly more expensive smaller grocery store rather than the cheaper warehouse outlet:
hexane, or hydroxilic acid or Oxygen dihydride
Two of these thing belong together...
I think AC was refering to this bit:
if their using IE6
Yes, you can. Just not on 64-bit Windows 7.
It's not about taking notes with a pen - it's about being able to take notes with a pen, draw diagrams, type with a keyboard, scan images, import pictures and video, record audio notes - and have it ALL indexed, searchable, and re-organizable. After getting used to it at work, it's the only piece of software (other than games) that I've explicity gone out and bought in the past 5 years.
But absorption has to be balanced with water-retention and a host of other factors. If absorbing more of the spectrum is good, then why aren't all plants on earth black? The fact that we see them as green implies that they are reflecting back at least some of the spectrum (it turns out chlorophyll is surprisingly poor at absorbing green light).
How, exactly does this help?
I have a 9 year old and a 10 year old, so they're old enough to do homework when they get back from school. But even when I started working from home on a regular basis, they were 5 and 6, and they'd play fine together for hours on end - give them some Lego, or paper, scissors and tape, and they were good. It helps though that they are so close in age that they can keep each other entertained.
Why not? They're at school most of the day, and once home they spend the rest of the afternoon doing homework. Rather than having to find childcare for a couple of hours before and after school each day, I can just make sure they know I'm in my office downstairs if something bad happens. Days when I work from home are significantly quieter than days when I go in to work and have to deal with all the people at the office.
The Pirate Party stands for selling out to consumers.
Yup - Given that we were willing to spend $1.3 billion on that boondoggle of a G8/G20 mess, I don't think spending 1/6th of that on an election is that much of a hardship.
If Harper gets another minority, I'd make the bet that the next election will have 4 new party leaders in place (maybe 3 if Duceppe decides he's up for it). Harper's had enough chances that his party is going to be looking for someone less divisive to take his place. Ignatieff is on thin ice, and if he doesn't do something amazing this election you can be the liberals will be dumping him to the curb. Layton just doesn't have the health to keep fighting losing elections.
Now if there's a Conservative majority, or any kind of Liberal government, we'll be stuck with one of the two for a while longer.
And the accompanying number of hookers will probably rival the population count of several smaller nations.
No, no, it will probably be the populations of several smaller nations. Why think small? ;)
Smaller nations? They could give $125,000 to each woman between 18 and 30 on the planet.
No, the RIAA doesn't pay taxes - they operate at a continual loss.
According to Google it's $58 trillion. So yes.
running much faster
With DC power, the electrons get to run laps, and every time they get to your computer, they can do a little bit of work, spreading it out among all the electrons. With AC power you got those electron thingies racing back and forth and back and forth, but never getting anywhere. Only the few electrons near the computer actually do any helpful work, and they get worn down really quickly, so they stop working as efficiently, and the CPU slows down, and it's just generally bad.
I think they're referring to secure meaning less downtime - the individual computers are less likely to have power supplies die, since there aren't any moving parts. Also, part of the system involves a UPS - so less issues there than previously (although there's no reason you need DC for that to work).
The thing that confused me was the statement that the system was "faster". Maybe they're just talking about the fact that they got new computers? The whole article reeks of badly uninformed reporting, glossing over the important parts and seizing on, and exaggerating, little trifles that the reporter happened to understand.
Seriously?
Once you're there you can either use a full-text search, or use filters like "Tags:", "Rating:", "Genre:", or "Artist:" to search though metadata.
I had already looked, but decided that it was out of my range - the ad happened to have a coupon code in it though.
Yup, the cooling's practically free.
Manitoba Hydro is looking at spending 2 to 4 billion on a new HVDC line to the north in the next couple years. The idea being that they'll turn around and sell all that extra capacity to the US as premium renewable power.