The ISS is never hovering over China because it is never hovering over anywhere. It has an orbital period of 90 minutes. Thus it crosses the longitude of Cape Canaveral more than a dozen times every single day. The trick is in matching up the latitude.
You're just getting yourself in deeper. Solar car college teams are to GM as Rutan is to NASA. The little guys are not doing anything that is in any way similar to what the big guys are doing in either case. Solar car teams and Rutan are performing stunts with no immediate practical value. Stunts are fun, and practical value may come out of it in both cases with A LOT more development, but your comparison is devoid of realism.
But you sure as hell can be forced to do things legally.
Well I could take the part of the last free man and say, you can't be forced to do anything, but you can be punished if you don't do what the man says. But let's just say, in this case, what Indonesian judge and jury do you think would allow Microsoft to win a judgement?
If the average worker makes $100,000 a year (making this figure up, I dont know the real average earnings)...
No issue with your math, but your social sense is a bit lacking. The median salary in California is $27,980, and it is one of the higher states. In 1999, the median salary of US scientists and engineers was $60000.
Dude, at least we didn't instigate and fight four wars against the self same nation whose people you love to hate, getting bitch slapped each time by a numerically VASTLY inferior force supported by a VASTLY smaller industrial base.
In the same way that jail is not punishment, its reluctance to see criminals on the streets?
Not the same. Jail is punishment. We don't like what you did, now take this. Hope you see the light.
Mileage tax is nothing personal. Hey, we like what you did, but you understand, we can't balance the budget if revenue is reduced. Or, it's about "fairness" - hey it's only fair, you're getting off cheap. Or, it's anything that makes the statists feel good. Different principle. It's important to know how the minds of our magnificent public servants work.
The page you referenced, that gives manufacturing energy use, doesn't make it clear whether they have accounted for everything. Did they count the electric lights, heating, and air conditioning in the factory and offices? What about all the supplier and subcontractor factories, recursively? Energy used to create the paper and other office supplies? Paint? Electroplating? What about mining and smelting? Equivalent energy use represented by the hydrocarbon feedstocks going into making the plastics? Etc, etc, etc. It's just not clear.
I'm not claiming the figures are false, just that I have doubts. It would be EXTREMELY difficult to make a real thorough accounting of energy use in the ENTIRE manufacturing phase.
Yes, I read the crappy Anand review, and also several much better ones, but more than that I built a Pentium M desktop. Anand is full of bull. The Pentium M is perfect for desktop, perfect for gaming, and more than adequate for scientific number crunching.
If you want the noise of a freight train and a gust of hot air in your room when you use the computer, and you don't mind wasting petroleum to run it, that's fine. I happen to care about those things. I guess it's why they have chocolate (ugh) and vanilla (yeah!).
Anand reviewed the Pentium M on the desktop and found that it couldn't compete with dedicated desktop chips.
Anand is full of bull. Pentium M at 2.0 is about on a par performancewise with Pentium M at 3.4 or so, at a fraction of the power and with much quieter cooling fans. That includes gaming. It lags somewhat for scientific floating point crunching, but not hopelessly so.
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The ISS is never hovering over China because it is never hovering over anywhere. It has an orbital period of 90 minutes. Thus it crosses the longitude of Cape Canaveral more than a dozen times every single day. The trick is in matching up the latitude.
You're just getting yourself in deeper. Solar car college teams are to GM as Rutan is to NASA. The little guys are not doing anything that is in any way similar to what the big guys are doing in either case. Solar car teams and Rutan are performing stunts with no immediate practical value. Stunts are fun, and practical value may come out of it in both cases with A LOT more development, but your comparison is devoid of realism.
What is so difficult about knowing when to use then and when to use than?
... or is it ...
"Then" and "than" was grammar school stuff back in my day. Maybe that's why they called it grammar school.
Here's one that might have taken until junior high school to master:
"I need a discrete source of discreet components."
"I need a discreet source of discrete components."
For you guys who were trying to get it to compile, I fixed the html formatting bug; this works dandy:
#include <stdio.h>
void main(void) {
int garbage;
while ((garbage = getc(stdin)) != EOF);
printf("Screw over general populace.\n");
return;
}
#include
void main(void) {
printf("Screw over general populace.\n");
return;
}
You forgot to make your program read the legalese input so it could translate it appropriately:
#include
void main(void) {
int garbage;
while ((garbage = getc(stdin)) != EOF);
printf("Screw over general populace.\n");
return;
}
"Fearing copyright infringement complaints from AT&T, Microsoft decided to use backslashes as pathname separators rather than normal forward-slashes."
Oh come now; no one but whoever wrote that nonsense believe it.
/b would be the file in the ROOT directory of the current volume, not the CURRENT directory. ./b (or just b) is the file b in the current directory.
But you sure as hell can be forced to do things legally.
Well I could take the part of the last free man and say, you can't be forced to do anything, but you can be punished if you don't do what the man says. But let's just say, in this case, what Indonesian judge and jury do you think would allow Microsoft to win a judgement?
If the average worker makes $100,000 a year (making this figure up, I dont know the real average earnings)...
No issue with your math, but your social sense is a bit lacking. The median salary in California is $27,980, and it is one of the higher states. In 1999, the median salary of US scientists and engineers was $60000.
The paper presented the findings using phrases with politically overt connotations
Could you provide some examples?
[racist medieval conspiracy theory snipped]
Dude, at least we didn't instigate and fight four wars against the self same nation whose people you love to hate, getting bitch slapped each time by a numerically VASTLY inferior force supported by a VASTLY smaller industrial base.
In the same way that jail is not punishment, its reluctance to see criminals on the streets?
Not the same. Jail is punishment. We don't like what you did, now take this. Hope you see the light.
Mileage tax is nothing personal. Hey, we like what you did, but you understand, we can't balance the budget if revenue is reduced. Or, it's about "fairness" - hey it's only fair, you're getting off cheap. Or, it's anything that makes the statists feel good. Different principle. It's important to know how the minds of our magnificent public servants work.
The page you referenced, that gives manufacturing energy use, doesn't make it clear whether they have accounted for everything. Did they count the electric lights, heating, and air conditioning in the factory and offices? What about all the supplier and subcontractor factories, recursively? Energy used to create the paper and other office supplies? Paint? Electroplating? What about mining and smelting? Equivalent energy use represented by the hydrocarbon feedstocks going into making the plastics? Etc, etc, etc. It's just not clear.
I'm not claiming the figures are false, just that I have doubts. It would be EXTREMELY difficult to make a real thorough accounting of energy use in the ENTIRE manufacturing phase.
states start punishing people for having too efficient cars so they tax them by the mile instead
It's not punishment. It's reluctance to see the stream of money they get from gas taxes diminish.
Now, if they did have a descent SUV (that wasn't dog ass slow getting on the highway) that was energy effecient, I would get one in a heartbeat.
There are some.
Toyota Highlander hybrid, 31/27 mpg, 7.2 0-60
Ford Escape hybrid, 36/31 mpg, 9 0-60
VW Touareg diesel, 17/23, 7.5 0-60
I'd like to know in which field America is leading the world.
Weapons.
Colliding two pieces of >90% enriched U-235 ... at high speeds, will give you a nuclear explosion (even if low yield) ...
I would hardly call around 15,000 tons of TNT "low yield" and neither would the inhabitants of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
Pssst, bourgeois oppressor, Lindt makes these great white "chocolate" candy bars ...
So where is the FBI and the DHS when you need them?
Having a doughnut.
The people will police themselves when the law cannot.
Or WILL not.
Yes, I read the crappy Anand review, and also several much better ones, but more than that I built a Pentium M desktop. Anand is full of bull. The Pentium M is perfect for desktop, perfect for gaming, and more than adequate for scientific number crunching.
If you want the noise of a freight train and a gust of hot air in your room when you use the computer, and you don't mind wasting petroleum to run it, that's fine. I happen to care about those things. I guess it's why they have chocolate (ugh) and vanilla (yeah!).
You are not the only one.
Anand reviewed the Pentium M on the desktop and found that it couldn't compete with dedicated desktop chips.
Anand is full of bull. Pentium M at 2.0 is about on a par performancewise with Pentium M at 3.4 or so, at a fraction of the power and with much quieter cooling fans. That includes gaming. It lags somewhat for scientific floating point crunching, but not hopelessly so.
I told them to use KABOOMS, not just plain old feeble booms. Bleh.
That chart doesn't have any Pentium M's in it. What I'm looking forward to is the Yonah.