1. Taking off from LA(?), the family's small plane falls into the Earth as the runway falls into a sinkhole. The plane must avoid falling debris, but eventually climbs out.
2. Taking off from Yellowstone, the family's small plane falls into the Earth as the runway falls into a sinkhole. The plane must avoid falling debris, but eventually climbs out.
3. Taking off from Las Vegas, the family's large plane falls into the Earth as the runway falls into a sinkhole. The plane must avoid falling debris, but eventually climbs out.
It's not the trip itself, but the science that's important. Learning how to send a small group of people to a distant location with limited supplies and not having them all starve/kill each other/go crazy is important, not just for traveling to Mars, but for life on the ISS, or in the Antarctic, or at the bottom of the oceans.
Sure, the net effect is at the macro-scale. But we now have the ability to look at these systems at the nano-scale and investigate why the "damn chemical reaction" gets going in the first place. "Nano" here says more about the equipment used to look at the battery than the battery itself.
Well in our case (and I know it doesn't apply to the original poster), we use Linux, so that saved us even more, because getting Dell to drop Windows on a non-server build is like pulling teeth.
As for the time and pay, I got some overtime pay and got to play with some neat machines. It takes only 30 mins or so to actually build each box and I have our Linux as an image on a USB stick, so it takes another half an hour to copy the image over. All said and done, I probably only spent four hours putting the whole thing together.
I got lucky in that there were no defective parts, although one hard drive went bad about six months later. Other than that though, it's been 18 months since I did this and we haven't had any problems.
Of course, I wouldn't want to scale this process to 1000 machines, but with a little planning and foresight, it's definitely do-able in the tens of machines range.
I did this recently. Not with 1000 machines, mind you, but five. Dell wanted an exorbitant amount for the machines, insisted that since we were getting hex-core processors that we must get discrete graphics, and a bunch of other technologies* that we just didn't need.
By going with Newegg and building it myself over a weekend, the price was cut in a little more than half.
*We do scientific number crunching, but don't have any GPGPU code right now. Our codes fit in an average amount of memory, are CPU intensive, and take up very little hard-drive space. Dell couldn't understand selling us a hex-core CPU with a 80GB hard drive. Further, we couldn't specify the number of PCIE slots (in case we do GPGPU later on), but they did insist on discrete graphics, which we absolutely didn't need. This quote came from their SOHO line. On the true "server" side of things, their prices are astronomical.
I didn't understand that documentary. They never really explained why there is some conspiracy to avoid electric vehicles. I think the real problem with EVs is that gas has been so cheap for so long, it's never really been worth the extra complexity to switch to electric.
Why do people keep saying this? Do you drive 200 miles a day at highway speeds? If not, then what's the problem? Drive it during the day and charge it overnight. It's 5 miles to my work, so I have 10/day there, and another 10 if I run a bunch of errands. So a car with a 30 mile range would let me do my normal routine without any worries and would include a 10 mile backup.
From the reviews I read it sounds like the entire concept was borked. The game itself is buggy, the installation is a mess, the game play is boring and tedious. One review I saw showed a five minute gameplay clip where the character was being relentlessly attacked by butterflies.
I don't know. It seems that in the US, the legal definition of a weapon is something intended to believed to be a weapon. That is, if you take a plastic toy gun to rob a bank, you get the same (or similar) weapons charges that you would have gotten had you just used the real thing.
Similarly, non-functioning replica weapons are not allowed on airplanes (per the TSA).
I'd gladly pay a couple of bucks to watch TV without commercials. I could use a variety of technological solutions to remove the commercials, but I'd rather pay a small sum, avoid the commercials, and still financially support the programs I enjoy.
If you have a "million dollar app", you can either spend $1M advertising it yourself or $1M * 35% (corporate tax rate) = $350K to have them do it for you.
If I have an app that is going to generate sales in excess of $350K (which it is otherwise it won't win the competition), then I'll take their prize and pay the $350K in taxes and think about it like a $650K advertising discount.
Of course, a good accountant should be able to lower your tax burden significantly.
If you're referring to when Apple sells updates for a small amount ($5 or so), that's to satisfy accounting rules, which as a publicly traded company, they have to obey.
Basically, if they sell you a computer and then a year later give you something of value that improves that computer without charging for it, then it assumed that the upgrade was part of the price that you originally paid. In this case, they can't consider that part of the original purchase part as profit until you receive the upgrade. It gets really messy, real quick and it's a lot easier to just charge a token amount later on.
The key is probably not copyrighted. US law usually restricts copyrighted material to original works of authorship. However, the key is most likely the output of some algorithm. In this case, since an algorithm "wrote" the "work", it's probably not covered. It's also highly unlikely that their bitstream is unique. But more importantly, facts are never copyrightable. For example, a phonebook may be copyrighted; you can't take the pages, copy them, and sell them legally. However, the phone numbers (the facts) are not copyrightable; you may copy all of the phone numbers into your own phonebook and sell that. In this case, the fact is the particular digits of the master key. It doesn't represent a work of authorship, but a fact generated by a computer.
"Q: I am color blind. Can I see the stereo 3-D movies?
A: Unfortunately, no. The anaglyph stereo 3-D technique relies on colors to separate the left and right eye images. If one can not see or distinguish between certain colors, then the anaglyph stereo 3-D effect will not work."
That's incorrect. The color of the image and the color of the lens is used to direct a false colored monochrome image to each eye. That is, the left eye receives a blue tinted monochrome image and the right eye receives a red tinted monochrome image (or vice-versa).
For someone who is color blind and can't differentiate red and blue, then they will perceive the color arriving at each eye to be the same. For them, the 3D effect will be even better.
I think that the point of the article is that while it's understandable that they may have forgotten about lefties, Nintendo's return policy makes it impossible to return a game that is practically impossible to play.
*And yes, I managed to use "impossible" twice correctly in the same sentence.
Sure, but we shouldn't put headlines that say something that the poll doesn't just to fit in a space. Make the space larger, or leave a detail out, but don't change the story to fit the space.
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I liked the plane flying through crevice gag:
1. Taking off from LA(?), the family's small plane falls into the Earth as the runway falls into a sinkhole. The plane must avoid falling debris, but eventually climbs out.
2. Taking off from Yellowstone, the family's small plane falls into the Earth as the runway falls into a sinkhole. The plane must avoid falling debris, but eventually climbs out.
3. Taking off from Las Vegas, the family's large plane falls into the Earth as the runway falls into a sinkhole. The plane must avoid falling debris, but eventually climbs out.
Now, I know what a restraining order looks like!
It's not the trip itself, but the science that's important. Learning how to send a small group of people to a distant location with limited supplies and not having them all starve/kill each other/go crazy is important, not just for traveling to Mars, but for life on the ISS, or in the Antarctic, or at the bottom of the oceans.
Sure, the net effect is at the macro-scale. But we now have the ability to look at these systems at the nano-scale and investigate why the "damn chemical reaction" gets going in the first place. "Nano" here says more about the equipment used to look at the battery than the battery itself.
Apparently, you've never owned an Apple product.
Well in our case (and I know it doesn't apply to the original poster), we use Linux, so that saved us even more, because getting Dell to drop Windows on a non-server build is like pulling teeth.
As for the time and pay, I got some overtime pay and got to play with some neat machines. It takes only 30 mins or so to actually build each box and I have our Linux as an image on a USB stick, so it takes another half an hour to copy the image over. All said and done, I probably only spent four hours putting the whole thing together.
I got lucky in that there were no defective parts, although one hard drive went bad about six months later. Other than that though, it's been 18 months since I did this and we haven't had any problems.
Of course, I wouldn't want to scale this process to 1000 machines, but with a little planning and foresight, it's definitely do-able in the tens of machines range.
I did this recently. Not with 1000 machines, mind you, but five. Dell wanted an exorbitant amount for the machines, insisted that since we were getting hex-core processors that we must get discrete graphics, and a bunch of other technologies* that we just didn't need.
By going with Newegg and building it myself over a weekend, the price was cut in a little more than half.
*We do scientific number crunching, but don't have any GPGPU code right now. Our codes fit in an average amount of memory, are CPU intensive, and take up very little hard-drive space. Dell couldn't understand selling us a hex-core CPU with a 80GB hard drive. Further, we couldn't specify the number of PCIE slots (in case we do GPGPU later on), but they did insist on discrete graphics, which we absolutely didn't need. This quote came from their SOHO line. On the true "server" side of things, their prices are astronomical.
I didn't understand that documentary. They never really explained why there is some conspiracy to avoid electric vehicles. I think the real problem with EVs is that gas has been so cheap for so long, it's never really been worth the extra complexity to switch to electric.
Why do people keep saying this? Do you drive 200 miles a day at highway speeds? If not, then what's the problem? Drive it during the day and charge it overnight. It's 5 miles to my work, so I have 10/day there, and another 10 if I run a bunch of errands. So a car with a 30 mile range would let me do my normal routine without any worries and would include a 10 mile backup.
From the reviews I read it sounds like the entire concept was borked. The game itself is buggy, the installation is a mess, the game play is boring and tedious. One review I saw showed a five minute gameplay clip where the character was being relentlessly attacked by butterflies.
To be clear: None of them have a GPS chip.
The Wifi ones use the nearby Wifi hotspots to locate you, while the Wifi+3G ones use the hotspots plus the cell towers to find you.
Directly paid or indirectly paid, you still paid.
I've never paid for an Office license period thanks to OpenOffice and it's predecessors (StarOffice, etc).
I don't know. It seems that in the US, the legal definition of a weapon is something intended to believed to be a weapon. That is, if you take a plastic toy gun to rob a bank, you get the same (or similar) weapons charges that you would have gotten had you just used the real thing.
Similarly, non-functioning replica weapons are not allowed on airplanes (per the TSA).
I'd gladly pay a couple of bucks to watch TV without commercials. I could use a variety of technological solutions to remove the commercials, but I'd rather pay a small sum, avoid the commercials, and still financially support the programs I enjoy.
From TFA:
"We came up with this idea of best friends, which I think is a really cool, innovative concept."
You had better patent this "best friends" idea before Jeff Bezos does!
Dear everyone,
Please stop taking every so damned seriously.
Thank you,
Byron
If you have a "million dollar app", you can either spend $1M advertising it yourself or $1M * 35% (corporate tax rate) = $350K to have them do it for you.
If I have an app that is going to generate sales in excess of $350K (which it is otherwise it won't win the competition), then I'll take their prize and pay the $350K in taxes and think about it like a $650K advertising discount.
Of course, a good accountant should be able to lower your tax burden significantly.
If you're referring to when Apple sells updates for a small amount ($5 or so), that's to satisfy accounting rules, which as a publicly traded company, they have to obey.
Basically, if they sell you a computer and then a year later give you something of value that improves that computer without charging for it, then it assumed that the upgrade was part of the price that you originally paid. In this case, they can't consider that part of the original purchase part as profit until you receive the upgrade. It gets really messy, real quick and it's a lot easier to just charge a token amount later on.
There is a finite amount of money.
Thus, if $1000 more is spent on software, $1000 less is spent elsewhere. Roughly speaking, 6000 new software jobs equals 6000 fewer other jobs.
This is approximately a zero sum game.
There are benefits to reducing piracy, but their argument doesn't hold water.
The key is probably not copyrighted. US law usually restricts copyrighted material to original works of authorship. However, the key is most likely the output of some algorithm. In this case, since an algorithm "wrote" the "work", it's probably not covered. It's also highly unlikely that their bitstream is unique. But more importantly, facts are never copyrightable. For example, a phonebook may be copyrighted; you can't take the pages, copy them, and sell them legally. However, the phone numbers (the facts) are not copyrightable; you may copy all of the phone numbers into your own phonebook and sell that. In this case, the fact is the particular digits of the master key. It doesn't represent a work of authorship, but a fact generated by a computer.
From TFA:
"Q: I am color blind. Can I see the stereo 3-D movies?
A: Unfortunately, no. The anaglyph stereo 3-D technique relies on colors to separate the left and right eye images. If one can not see or distinguish between certain colors, then the anaglyph stereo 3-D effect will not work."
That's incorrect. The color of the image and the color of the lens is used to direct a false colored monochrome image to each eye. That is, the left eye receives a blue tinted monochrome image and the right eye receives a red tinted monochrome image (or vice-versa).
For someone who is color blind and can't differentiate red and blue, then they will perceive the color arriving at each eye to be the same. For them, the 3D effect will be even better.
The 3D YouTube player allows the user to decide if they want to watch a 2D version, a cyan/red version, a real 3D version (i.e. shutter glasses), etc.
It looks like it could be neat, but without the glasses, it's just a red/blue mess.
I think that the point of the article is that while it's understandable that they may have forgotten about lefties, Nintendo's return policy makes it impossible to return a game that is practically impossible to play.
*And yes, I managed to use "impossible" twice correctly in the same sentence.
All of the wasted space at the top where the title bar should be is annoying. Imagine all those pixels gone on a netbook.
Sure, but we shouldn't put headlines that say something that the poll doesn't just to fit in a space. Make the space larger, or leave a detail out, but don't change the story to fit the space.
I would have preferred:
"Majority support ultraviolent game restrictions"
That would have fit and is factually accurate.