At the very least there would be some forensic evidence left over. The watch would have been tracked, the arm found and the hounds unleashed. There would be a blood trail easily tracked by a tracking dog to either the girl or the site in which she was loaded into a vehicle. The condo would have been examined for blood indicative of the act. Their vehicles would have been checked in the same manner. The girl would not have been found alive in the case of her arm being removed, but something would have been found. Dismemberment is just too messy.
How well will 7 run on a netbook? Considering the main purpose (in my mind, anyway) of a netbook is as a thin web client, having an un-patched hole in the TCP/IP stack of an OS makes it "not feasible" for installation on a netbook in my mind. I am not certain anyone with a XP netboook can move on to 7.
On the subject of money, at first blush this appears to be a pretty sweet deal for out-of-print book copyright holders. I linked to wikipedia for the quick-and-dirty version.
This site allows authors and other rights holders of out of print (but copyright) books to submit a claim by January 5, 2010. In return they will receive $60 per full book, or $5 to $15 for partial works. In return, Google will be able to index the books and display snippets in search results, as well as up to 20% of each book in preview mode. Google will also be able to show ads on these pages and make available for sale digital versions of each book. Authors and copyright holders will receive 63 percent of all advertising and e-commerce revenues associated with their works.
So if you are paying attention and actively defending the copyright of your (out-of-print) book, Google will pay you a fee for scanning the book into their database. This will provide your (out-of-print) book with increased visibility, provide a platform for the (out-of-print) book to be sold, create a brand new advertising revenue stream and give the rights holder of the (out-of-print) book a fairly sizable cut.
It is difficult for me to see the drawbacks to someone who's book is now out of print. Not only do they receive financial compensation, but they could reach a new audience and have renewed interest in their book. My concerns are the broad interpretation of fair use Google is using. It is a change from the super narrow view of fair use *AA's have been pushing for years. Of course, there has been no court ruling on Google's interpretation because of the settlement. I think the Author's Guild and the Association of American Publishers stand to make a great deal of money alongside Google in this venture, which is why they relented and settled.
I did not catch on until well after being rid of Chem Lab, but reverse engineering results was the expected practice. Physics Lab was about carefully assembling, conducting and measuring experiments, then performing error analysis to explain differences between experimental results and theory. According to my chemistry major friends, working backwards from the answer was accepted because the lab TAs had no expectations of students performing the experiments well. As a Physics major, I spent a great deal of time in the lab trying to perform the experiment correctly, but could never get the exact answer. Others would phone in the experiment and spend 30 minutes reverse engineering the expected numbers. Since my numbers were always a bit off, I generally earned 75-85% on my labs.
Document you experience, please. I think that would be a most excellent book to add to my shelf, "Language X Was Never Meant to do Y." If that is not enough material, fill in with what it was supposed to be used for.
Just to tack onto the above point, I agree overtly educational games are a waste of energy. Puzzles and resource management games, like Oregon Trail, have a much better chance at successfully completing your requirements.
I think an intellectual hero as the players avatar would be a nice touch. A Susan Calvin or Hari Seldon character that uses knowledge and wisdom (a Tom Swift without the natural genius) to solve problems. Instead of the absent minded professor and his beautiful-yet-intelligent-and-spunky daughter needing rescuing, have the scientist do the rescuing. Or better yet, have the absent minded professor's hard working apprentice do the rescuing. You know, a young man or woman that your target demographic can relate to.
I am a married geek and my sister was married to a geek. Being a geek or a jock or a car salesman are all orthogonal to a challenging marriage. All marriages are challenging to all types of people. You say "spousal sports neglect" has no bearing on your situation, but sports neglect is no different from "lan party neglect." We all do things that segregate us from our spouses in some way because we are different people. A key (there are many keys to making it work) is finding a way to relate to each other across those differences.
Lan party neglect (along with losing job-itis) were contributors to my sister's marriage dissolving. They could never broach that gap in their personalities as he just came to expect her support and understanding for parties lasting till 4:00 AM and pizza boxes and soda cans everywhere the next day. She felt neglected and taken advantage of.
I am not a crafty person, but my wife likes making soaps, etching glassware and such. We went to AFO this past weekend and I opened her eyes to an entirely new realm of crafting. Can she, as an artisan of a certain fashion, replicate trinkets and props from anime? Suddenly one of our differences became another point of connection.
There is no silver bullet to making a marriage work, but there is something that is close. You must manage your marriage expectations. Marriage is not some magical thing that will transform your relationship. All the good and all the bad that existed in your relationship before are still there after getting married. The mind tarnishes the good by thinking a wedding will make the good into spectacular. The mind burnishes the bad by thinking a wedding will make the bad vanish. The tragedy, only the perception of the good and bad in the relationship has changed and a great relationship suddenly seems lackluster in the face of marriage. (Women who have a fairytale view are more susceptible to this than others.) If your relationship is strong enough to get married (and survive the wedding "festivities") it will be as strong afterward, but not magically stronger. Both of you must realize that a wedding will not change the other person.
My wife and I got married at a courthouse. We did not fly to Vegas, we did not have 500 hundred guests and we did not honeymoon in the Mediterranean. I told my wife we could have a wedding or we could have a housewarming party. $30k will buy you a nice wedding, but it also goes a long way towards a prime mortgage down payment or pays the lease on an apartment for a few months. We both want a house, but we will have our wedding at the house warming party. We both think that is fairytale enough.
Yes, you need to compare energy at the source. What raw material are you using to initially generate the power and what are the losses at the plant, through the lines, at the inverter and in the car system itself. If you want to be really exact, you can factor energy required for mining coal, pumping oil, shipping, refining, etc.
And as for the energy of a gallon of gasoline, there is a simple experiment that involves measuring the raise in temperature of water when heated by burning a material. Since you know the specific heat of the water, you can figure the energy required to raise it X degrees. If the only energy input is the burning material, you have the chemical energy of the material. It may be a little tricky with gasoline. Also, I think 87 octane has a lower energy density.
Are there other reasons besides beam divergence to use a laser to transmit power? Is the atmospheric transmission better (my guess is no) or energy conversion efficiency better for the laser than a microwave?
Now, now, there is no need for insults. Let us give him the benefit of the doubt. Yes, the chemical energy contained in gallon of gasoline is 33.6 kWh, but there is no engine in existence capable of using 100% of that chemical energy. (As I am certain you know, the total energy available in a gallon of gas is probably much higher, E=mc2 and all.) How about we amend the comment to "The amount of energy extracted from a gallon of gas entirely depends on the efficiency of the engine burning it." I think that is much more constructive.
If an EV-1 uses 33.6 kWh of energy, that is equivalent to an internal combustion engine using 100% of the chemical energy in a gallon of gas in the same instance.
The amount of power delivered to the Earth from the sun is more than sufficient. The problem is, and ever has been, efficient conversion of that energy into a useful form.
I might pick this spot to note that "losing a year to school" is not losing working experience. I was credited with two years of experience when I entered my job (Software Engineer, so maybe it does not apply) with a M.S. degree. It got me hired as a level 2 and I have two years on the promotion curve.
But yeah, go back to school and have sex with as many college chicks as possible.
Making later versions of software run more efficiently on a baseline piece of hardware may also make the software run more efficiently on lesser pieces of hardware. Does the increase in possible install base (since your software now runs on hardware slower than your baseline) justify a concerted effort to write software that runs more efficiently?
That is probably true, but their rounds of research cost $2M, not $2B. They are researching technology they do not fully understand, not building a machine they do not understand.
If any project was threatening to come in 5 years late at double in cost, should money just be thrown at it? Do not let the clean energy siren lull you out of common sense and good engineering practices. These delays and cost overruns are a clear signs of an incomplete design. Collect the designs, gather the lessons learned and start over. Return to an earlier stage of development, incorporate the wisdom gained from this project. Fix the gaps in the original design with real solutions, not stop-gap measures. And figure out your supply chain because "an unanticipated increase in staffing to manage procurement" screams extra support staff and middle management flotsam. Nothing makes project costs soar like additional, non-budgeted support staff and middle management. Stop pouring the concrete and fix the blueprints!
It always seemed ITER was started a little early, before enough was known to build a practical device. That is now clearly apparent.
How about the ousting and murder of the Targaryen royal family and the rise and return of its last daughter, Daenerys. Lord Robert Baratheon, Lord Eddard Stark and Lord Tywin Lannister, all betrayers to the Royal House, have all died betrayer deaths. Robert is betrayed and poisoned by his cuckolding wife, Eddard is forced to admit treason and is betrayed by his king and Tywin is betrayed and murdered by his sons, Jaime for freeing Tyrion and Tyrion for committing the deed. The question is whether Daenerys will return in time to kill any traitors left at King's Landing and whether she will be in time to save Westeros, for Winter is coming.
For what it is worth that always struck me as the main story.
If you go to his website, he has a large number of awesome reading selections to tide you over until Winter comes. I would also recommend trying out the Wildcards collection for something completely different.
How is the PVP? Can I get form a band of Merry Men and duke it out with a Nefarious Alliance of Evil? If captured, will my goodie be dragged back to an evil scientists lair for examination? Will my baddie be thrown into an asylum to be drugged and psycho-analyzed? Can I then do an escape quest with my main or run a rescue with my alt? I am just curious, because those elements would be huge selling points for me.
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At the very least there would be some forensic evidence left over. The watch would have been tracked, the arm found and the hounds unleashed. There would be a blood trail easily tracked by a tracking dog to either the girl or the site in which she was loaded into a vehicle. The condo would have been examined for blood indicative of the act. Their vehicles would have been checked in the same manner. The girl would not have been found alive in the case of her arm being removed, but something would have been found. Dismemberment is just too messy.
Does buying a new netbook with XP installed count as a product?
How well will 7 run on a netbook? Considering the main purpose (in my mind, anyway) of a netbook is as a thin web client, having an un-patched hole in the TCP/IP stack of an OS makes it "not feasible" for installation on a netbook in my mind. I am not certain anyone with a XP netboook can move on to 7.
He did not even come close to saying anything of the like.
This site allows authors and other rights holders of out of print (but copyright) books to submit a claim by January 5, 2010. In return they will receive $60 per full book, or $5 to $15 for partial works. In return, Google will be able to index the books and display snippets in search results, as well as up to 20% of each book in preview mode. Google will also be able to show ads on these pages and make available for sale digital versions of each book. Authors and copyright holders will receive 63 percent of all advertising and e-commerce revenues associated with their works.
So if you are paying attention and actively defending the copyright of your (out-of-print) book, Google will pay you a fee for scanning the book into their database. This will provide your (out-of-print) book with increased visibility, provide a platform for the (out-of-print) book to be sold, create a brand new advertising revenue stream and give the rights holder of the (out-of-print) book a fairly sizable cut.
It is difficult for me to see the drawbacks to someone who's book is now out of print. Not only do they receive financial compensation, but they could reach a new audience and have renewed interest in their book. My concerns are the broad interpretation of fair use Google is using. It is a change from the super narrow view of fair use *AA's have been pushing for years. Of course, there has been no court ruling on Google's interpretation because of the settlement. I think the Author's Guild and the Association of American Publishers stand to make a great deal of money alongside Google in this venture, which is why they relented and settled.
Is this a robot or a cyborg? Sounds more like cybernetic gray goo to me. Who knew it would literally be gray goo?
I did not catch on until well after being rid of Chem Lab, but reverse engineering results was the expected practice. Physics Lab was about carefully assembling, conducting and measuring experiments, then performing error analysis to explain differences between experimental results and theory. According to my chemistry major friends, working backwards from the answer was accepted because the lab TAs had no expectations of students performing the experiments well. As a Physics major, I spent a great deal of time in the lab trying to perform the experiment correctly, but could never get the exact answer. Others would phone in the experiment and spend 30 minutes reverse engineering the expected numbers. Since my numbers were always a bit off, I generally earned 75-85% on my labs.
I guess I should have caught on earlier.
Have you found it yet?
In short, for a time Einstein was as correct as Newton was for a time.
Document you experience, please. I think that would be a most excellent book to add to my shelf, "Language X Was Never Meant to do Y." If that is not enough material, fill in with what it was supposed to be used for.
Just to tack onto the above point, I agree overtly educational games are a waste of energy. Puzzles and resource management games, like Oregon Trail, have a much better chance at successfully completing your requirements.
I think an intellectual hero as the players avatar would be a nice touch. A Susan Calvin or Hari Seldon character that uses knowledge and wisdom (a Tom Swift without the natural genius) to solve problems. Instead of the absent minded professor and his beautiful-yet-intelligent-and-spunky daughter needing rescuing, have the scientist do the rescuing. Or better yet, have the absent minded professor's hard working apprentice do the rescuing. You know, a young man or woman that your target demographic can relate to.
I am a married geek and my sister was married to a geek. Being a geek or a jock or a car salesman are all orthogonal to a challenging marriage. All marriages are challenging to all types of people. You say "spousal sports neglect" has no bearing on your situation, but sports neglect is no different from "lan party neglect." We all do things that segregate us from our spouses in some way because we are different people. A key (there are many keys to making it work) is finding a way to relate to each other across those differences.
Lan party neglect (along with losing job-itis) were contributors to my sister's marriage dissolving. They could never broach that gap in their personalities as he just came to expect her support and understanding for parties lasting till 4:00 AM and pizza boxes and soda cans everywhere the next day. She felt neglected and taken advantage of.
I am not a crafty person, but my wife likes making soaps, etching glassware and such. We went to AFO this past weekend and I opened her eyes to an entirely new realm of crafting. Can she, as an artisan of a certain fashion, replicate trinkets and props from anime? Suddenly one of our differences became another point of connection.
There is no silver bullet to making a marriage work, but there is something that is close. You must manage your marriage expectations. Marriage is not some magical thing that will transform your relationship. All the good and all the bad that existed in your relationship before are still there after getting married. The mind tarnishes the good by thinking a wedding will make the good into spectacular. The mind burnishes the bad by thinking a wedding will make the bad vanish. The tragedy, only the perception of the good and bad in the relationship has changed and a great relationship suddenly seems lackluster in the face of marriage. (Women who have a fairytale view are more susceptible to this than others.) If your relationship is strong enough to get married (and survive the wedding "festivities") it will be as strong afterward, but not magically stronger. Both of you must realize that a wedding will not change the other person.
My wife and I got married at a courthouse. We did not fly to Vegas, we did not have 500 hundred guests and we did not honeymoon in the Mediterranean. I told my wife we could have a wedding or we could have a housewarming party. $30k will buy you a nice wedding, but it also goes a long way towards a prime mortgage down payment or pays the lease on an apartment for a few months. We both want a house, but we will have our wedding at the house warming party. We both think that is fairytale enough.
Yes, you need to compare energy at the source. What raw material are you using to initially generate the power and what are the losses at the plant, through the lines, at the inverter and in the car system itself. If you want to be really exact, you can factor energy required for mining coal, pumping oil, shipping, refining, etc.
And as for the energy of a gallon of gasoline, there is a simple experiment that involves measuring the raise in temperature of water when heated by burning a material. Since you know the specific heat of the water, you can figure the energy required to raise it X degrees. If the only energy input is the burning material, you have the chemical energy of the material. It may be a little tricky with gasoline. Also, I think 87 octane has a lower energy density.
Are there other reasons besides beam divergence to use a laser to transmit power? Is the atmospheric transmission better (my guess is no) or energy conversion efficiency better for the laser than a microwave?
Now, now, there is no need for insults. Let us give him the benefit of the doubt. Yes, the chemical energy contained in gallon of gasoline is 33.6 kWh, but there is no engine in existence capable of using 100% of that chemical energy. (As I am certain you know, the total energy available in a gallon of gas is probably much higher, E=mc2 and all.) How about we amend the comment to "The amount of energy extracted from a gallon of gas entirely depends on the efficiency of the engine burning it." I think that is much more constructive.
If an EV-1 uses 33.6 kWh of energy, that is equivalent to an internal combustion engine using 100% of the chemical energy in a gallon of gas in the same instance.
The amount of power delivered to the Earth from the sun is more than sufficient. The problem is, and ever has been, efficient conversion of that energy into a useful form.
Alaska's fucked.
Wasn't it bad enough when she was in office?
I might pick this spot to note that "losing a year to school" is not losing working experience. I was credited with two years of experience when I entered my job (Software Engineer, so maybe it does not apply) with a M.S. degree. It got me hired as a level 2 and I have two years on the promotion curve.
But yeah, go back to school and have sex with as many college chicks as possible.
Making later versions of software run more efficiently on a baseline piece of hardware may also make the software run more efficiently on lesser pieces of hardware. Does the increase in possible install base (since your software now runs on hardware slower than your baseline) justify a concerted effort to write software that runs more efficiently?
That is probably true, but their rounds of research cost $2M, not $2B. They are researching technology they do not fully understand, not building a machine they do not understand.
If any project was threatening to come in 5 years late at double in cost, should money just be thrown at it? Do not let the clean energy siren lull you out of common sense and good engineering practices. These delays and cost overruns are a clear signs of an incomplete design. Collect the designs, gather the lessons learned and start over. Return to an earlier stage of development, incorporate the wisdom gained from this project. Fix the gaps in the original design with real solutions, not stop-gap measures. And figure out your supply chain because "an unanticipated increase in staffing to manage procurement" screams extra support staff and middle management flotsam. Nothing makes project costs soar like additional, non-budgeted support staff and middle management. Stop pouring the concrete and fix the blueprints!
It always seemed ITER was started a little early, before enough was known to build a practical device. That is now clearly apparent.
How about the ousting and murder of the Targaryen royal family and the rise and return of its last daughter, Daenerys. Lord Robert Baratheon, Lord Eddard Stark and Lord Tywin Lannister, all betrayers to the Royal House, have all died betrayer deaths. Robert is betrayed and poisoned by his cuckolding wife, Eddard is forced to admit treason and is betrayed by his king and Tywin is betrayed and murdered by his sons, Jaime for freeing Tyrion and Tyrion for committing the deed. The question is whether Daenerys will return in time to kill any traitors left at King's Landing and whether she will be in time to save Westeros, for Winter is coming.
For what it is worth that always struck me as the main story.
Does kakro = buf?
If you go to his website, he has a large number of awesome reading selections to tide you over until Winter comes. I would also recommend trying out the Wildcards collection for something completely different.
How is the PVP? Can I get form a band of Merry Men and duke it out with a Nefarious Alliance of Evil? If captured, will my goodie be dragged back to an evil scientists lair for examination? Will my baddie be thrown into an asylum to be drugged and psycho-analyzed? Can I then do an escape quest with my main or run a rescue with my alt? I am just curious, because those elements would be huge selling points for me.