But the earth doesn't catch 100% of the sun light/"radiation" hitting earth either.
Clouds, ice and reflects more, and eventually the heat radiating from whatever uses the electricity may not go into space again as easily.
I guess it's hard to predict the end result of such things anyway. Good point -- I hadn't thought of that. Though gut instinct tells me that the sun directly sending energy to the earth's surface would be much more efficient than solar cells collecting energy, transforming it into another form of radiation, then passing that to the earth's surface.
Uhm, but using up energy which came from space here will probably heat stuff... So no;) That would be true assuming the energy conversion process is 100% efficient... which it is nowhere near.
I think it's funny that the story is about marriage, yet most of the comments here immediately and unthinkingly equate marriage with sex, as if a wife were a sexual convenience and not a person. There is a lot of twisted thinking in here. Twisted thinking indeed... everybody knows it's the husband that is the sexual convenience.
I'm going to laugh myself unconscious when the United States Military solves the problem of clean, renewable energy for the world. Take that, hippies! Muahahahahaaaaa! And with a vast enough array of collectors blocking the sunlight, they could also solve global warming.
Companies can go out and install Scalix to replace Exchange. However, if they want all the cool features such as an Outlook connector they need to pay beyond 25 users (afaik, the connector is closed source). I've been considering moving to Scalix for our company but, right now, the pain of migration doesn't seem worth it. We have less than 25 actual human users, but their Exchange migration only works for the premium users (that's the 25 max) and we have many hundreds of accounts, groups, etc. One of these days I'll take a harder look but at the moment if it ain't broke, don't fix it.:)
I think it was awfully big of Pogue to openly admit the prices were wrong (despite it not being his fault that the company essentially lied to him), and address the issue, rather than submitting a correction that would get filed on the back page.
He could have also put his hands in his pockets and whistled while rocking back and forth, and hoped no one noticed or said anything. The problem with that approach is that, as he wrote in his column, everybody did notice -- he was getting a barrage of emails and other sites had picked up the discrepancies and were starting to take him to task. With that in mind, his column correcting the misinformation was an attempt to save face.
He was impressed when IU's Ask a Librarian service found the quote, from former Harvard President James Bryant Conant, within hours. So he wasted at least TWO HOURS of someone's time looking up a quote? I'm replying to your post two hours after you made it. Even though I'm responding "within hours", do you think I spent two hours writing this?
Whaever.. please tell me , back in 1995 which OS my grandma could use? Isn't that a bit like asking which government Europeans could use back when the Roman Empire was busy slaying everyone? Without the "abuse issues" as you put it, there would have been more choice. Who knows what the competitive landscape would have been in 1995 had the playing field been level prior to that.
Funny how the powers than be concentrate on the infamious "MS monopoly (whatever that is) and close their eyes on the more serious Google issue. The difference, of course, is that Microsoft achieved its position by leveraging its dominant position in order to strong-arm other companies. Google, even though it was late to the game, achieved its position because users found its product to be superior even though its competition had the dominant position at the time.
So the Belgians who currently pay $100 for a product from the US will pay $150 after the tariff or pay $110 to buy the product from Australia or pay $125 to make it in Belgium itself. Yeah that'll show them!! The idea is that you raise the prices on something that's already manufactured by Belgians. For example, if Belgian chocolate or Belgian beer has to compete with American chocolate or beer, you jack the price on the American goods by imposing a tariff. Those who still really want it can buy it, but the majority will simply buy the Belgian products which benefits the local economy and balances out the unfair situation in another market.
Congress passes a law to protect US citizens from unscrupulous gambling operations that are not subject to the same kind of regulations that Casinos in the U.S. must meet -- and the world responds via the WTO by trying to extort $100 Billion dollars from the U.S. -- which means taking money from every citizen and company in the U.S. that pays taxes to support offshore companies right to not live up to regulations that make it more difficult to cheat the gamblers out of all their money -- and each of us will pay for that whether we as individuals or companies gamble or not. By that logic, do you think that the US should ban products coming from China since unscrupulous manufacturing operations are not subject to the same kinds of labor standards that employers in the US must meet? That way, at least you knew you'd be buying from honest, reputable Hecho-in-Americano companies whether you shop at Walmart or not.
I think that their success in part parallels the rise of the non-geek gamer. Pretty much my thoughts exactly. EA has made their fortunes by delivering to the market exactly what it wants in a highly-profitable way.
While there possibly were traders with inside knowledge, it's also highly probable that the majority were speculators. Either the stock goes up a fair bit, it drops a fair bit, or it stays relatively even money. Your odds of coming out ahead are 50/50 -- better than the horse races.
And as I mentioned, my interests aren't necesarrily in line with the keywords that may or may not be in the contents of the email that I send/receive. I personally just don't like being profiled. Especially from a shoot-from-your-hip style communication medium like email. Now that's a valid point -- perhaps you subscribe to a Standard C Library mailing list where people post their source code and Google may profile you as having a sexually transmitted disease just because they always see #include <std.h> in your email. However, Google's privacy policy states that they won't release such information (assuming they do profile rather than just use the information in a transient manner), just as Microsoft's privacy policy has the same effect. So you're really trusting two corporations which, as part of the terms and conditions offered, can change their terms and conditions at any time.
Yes, I view advertisers and advertising as primarily being targeted to be used against the consumer. Your viewpoint comes as a shock to me as your username would never suggest any such views.
Your argument is a crock. By "read" he means that they actually process the contents, not libc read(2). There's a big difference between transforming your mail into html and sending it through an AD engine. Isn't the use of "read" obvious in this context? I don't see a big difference between the two. Both operations happen on Google's servers, both involve transient reading of my mail in order to do something. Personally, I don't have a problem that my message was sent to both a rendering engine and an ad engine rather than just a rendering engine before the message was freed from the server memory.
Yes, Google "reads" your email in order to serve up context-sensitive advertisements. Microsoft also "reads" your email because if they didn't read your email, they wouldn't be able to transmit it to your browser to be displayed on-screen. That Microsoft chooses to read your email but still serves up irrelevant, obtrusive advertisements is their problem.
Very nice. One suggestion: rather than have each side's dots fall off at the bottom of the opposite side, how about matching up serving requests with the originating referral so that the dots go to the corresponding spot on the right? Also, if you're not familiar with Flight Patterns it's along the same lines. Borrowing from that, it'd be quite interesting to show a 2D map arranged in a hub and spoke model with the center being the site(s) and the spokes representing the top 10 (or 20... configurable) referring sites with a special case for search engines.
Well, perhaps I'll have to learn Ruby and hack this myself. The script certainly looks clean enough.
Please, it's bad enough that 'podcast' is trying to become a noun. Don't let it move in on verb territory too. How can one not make it a verb after you've gone and anthropomorphized it?
What kind of crack is the guy who said coins have sharp edges smoking? Or is their some country where they do have sharp-edged coins. You do realize there's a continuum between dull as a sphere and sharp as a razor, right? If you can carve your initials into a tree with the aid of a newly minted 50 cent coin, for example, some might call that sharp even though you won't be able to shave with it.
Another? Oh, as for credit. There are these things called "bar codes" - believe it or not, they are not magnetic! Brilliant idea! Because barcodes are so difficult to forge, nobody will take a picture of someone else's barcode from across the room, print up their own barcode, and then spend the other person's money.
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Clouds, ice and reflects more, and eventually the heat radiating from whatever uses the electricity may not go into space again as easily.
I guess it's hard to predict the end result of such things anyway. Good point -- I hadn't thought of that. Though gut instinct tells me that the sun directly sending energy to the earth's surface would be much more efficient than solar cells collecting energy, transforming it into another form of radiation, then passing that to the earth's surface.
Companies can go out and install Scalix to replace Exchange. However, if they want all the cool features such as an Outlook connector they need to pay beyond 25 users (afaik, the connector is closed source). I've been considering moving to Scalix for our company but, right now, the pain of migration doesn't seem worth it. We have less than 25 actual human users, but their Exchange migration only works for the premium users (that's the 25 max) and we have many hundreds of accounts, groups, etc. One of these days I'll take a harder look but at the moment if it ain't broke, don't fix it. :)
He could have also put his hands in his pockets and whistled while rocking back and forth, and hoped no one noticed or said anything. The problem with that approach is that, as he wrote in his column, everybody did notice -- he was getting a barrage of emails and other sites had picked up the discrepancies and were starting to take him to task. With that in mind, his column correcting the misinformation was an attempt to save face.
This kernel has virtual Linux on Linux action! Why would you even want to sleep?
While there possibly were traders with inside knowledge, it's also highly probable that the majority were speculators. Either the stock goes up a fair bit, it drops a fair bit, or it stays relatively even money. Your odds of coming out ahead are 50/50 -- better than the horse races.
Yes, Google "reads" your email in order to serve up context-sensitive advertisements. Microsoft also "reads" your email because if they didn't read your email, they wouldn't be able to transmit it to your browser to be displayed on-screen. That Microsoft chooses to read your email but still serves up irrelevant, obtrusive advertisements is their problem.
Google Scholar search results for "MDA904": about 2300
Google Scholar search results for "NSA Grant": about 1720
Doesn't look like many are trying to hide, especially since anybody familiar with the NSA grant code would already know what MDA904 is.
Very nice. One suggestion: rather than have each side's dots fall off at the bottom of the opposite side, how about matching up serving requests with the originating referral so that the dots go to the corresponding spot on the right? Also, if you're not familiar with Flight Patterns it's along the same lines. Borrowing from that, it'd be quite interesting to show a 2D map arranged in a hub and spoke model with the center being the site(s) and the spokes representing the top 10 (or 20... configurable) referring sites with a special case for search engines.
Well, perhaps I'll have to learn Ruby and hack this myself. The script certainly looks clean enough.