It is not just the size of the town that needs to be considered but also the location. Go back to 2000 and 2004 and look at the areas that voted for each candidate. They are *not* equally distributed. One also has to consider past voting biases to get a handle on which areas would be most likely to have independents break for Obama vs McCain.
That is not to say that Deibold machines aren't dodgy, just that this 'analysis' is over simplified.
GE is supposed to release a new incandescent bulb in the next year or two which will have the same
effeciency as those crappy CFL's. Has anyone yet done a study of the cost to produce and dispose of
incandescent vs CFL? I would not be shocked to find what the common bulb gives up in use it gains back
in using less resources.
so what is the acceptable time to get to the rated speed? (or to slow down either one).
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There are really two factors (IMHO) holding back a wider acceptance of ebooks - screen size and material cost. All the current crop except the Iliad are still smaller (in screen) than a standard paperback. the goal should be less buttons/frame and more screen. If you need/want a keyboard, make it slide out like some smart phones.
Second - the cost of books. Amazon has made a big step here but they are only in the pool ankle deep. People just find it objectionable to pay the same price (or more when discounting is considered) for an e-book as they do a regular physical copy. The real thing is still better in most regards and has no issues of longevity (accidental deletion, firm holding 'backup' copy goes under or stops service); can be loaned with no thought and is always accessible. In the textbook area, it is also nice to be able to keep more than one book open when doing problems or research.
This is not to say e-books should be free. The appropriate price should reflect the removal of physical costs and distribution/storage replacing them with the electronic equivalent cost. This still doesn't make them free - authors must be paid as well as editors and publishers.
Amazon has put up a fair number of books at $9.99 or lower but the vast majority of books are still near the regular book price. One could perhaps accept this pricing if you were given the option to buy the physical book + ebook (even with drm) at a slight premium. But they need to lower the prices across the board to really get people interested.
who will Microsoft give this 'feature' to next, willingly or not? They can restrict the update to a target range of IPs and then you won't have nosy people writing stories about mysterious windows updates.
Live or not there is still a significant risk of plutonium contamination should anything happen to that
plane. The warhead used on the ACM uses IHE which reduces the chance of an explosive dispersal, but AFAIK the pit is not fire resistant. Strong arguments were made in the past against flying the weapons needlessly because of the risk of contamination in an accident and the less than stellar record of B-52 operations in the 1960s. I wrote about this in more detail yesterday here.
isn't it a bit off to be comparing a 200" to Hubble's 94" once you have removed atmospheric effects? I'd like to see the same shot off similar sized scopes to see the real improvement over (a) unaltered ground based observation and (b) space based. This is not to say the technique is not useful, of course it is. Just seems the article is doing apples to oranges comparisons.
now at an estimated 94.3 AU or 14.1 billion km (8.8 billion miles). Lets just hope nobody figures out that plaque and decides to build an interplanetary bypass through our solar system.
Not to mention lifestyle choices. Will people that skate or ski pay more (or less) than those that bike? Will owning a motorcycle result in higher premiums? Does an SUV get you a reduction?
many pc cases still come with a lock. if you have an underage child, lock the pc when you are not home. Quite frankly there is no reason at all children need to be on the net - period. Is there something which needs to be taught at a high school or lower level which was discovered since.. oh.. 1990.. which is so critical that is not in a book? Funny how we keep trying to find new ways to 'protect the children' and they fail just like we keep trying to find 'new and improved' teaching methods to help johnny get good grades..and still scores decline. How about a) parents parent and b) go back to the ancient methods of teaching which some how taught kids how to read, write, do math and put a man on the moon.
I think to be totally accurate you would need to total up not just the monies given to the parties, but the money given to each congresscritter - DNC/RNC are seperate from the individual campaigns.
And what plan are you on? With 600-1000 mins + free night/weekends becoming low end, how is adding $15-20 a month for unlimited text messages a saving? Kids are supposed to be in school about 8 hours a day right? There is no need to be calling your friends *before* school since you are probably only waking up half an hour before you are supposed to be in class anyways. So for the amount of time between school end and night billing I'd say standard minutes are way cheaper. Text message on a phone is, with a few exceptions, a complete waste of money. If its important, call and TALK to the person. If not then you might as well be burning mom & pops hard earned money.
If I were a network exec I'd be tossing that FCC license away soon since 80% get cable or sat and the 20% that don't probably aren't valuable to your advertisers.
kinda detracts from its use for video no? and web browsing.. and well basically everything. When you have to wipe it off almost everytime you use it things get tired real fast, not to mention people wont be using specially designed wipes which wont scratch.
As to ipod comparision - thats a bogus comparison as ipod (at least the first 3 versions) did only one thing and did it well - play music. They also had decent (perhaps not leading) battery life. So lets see some real world testing of this iphone as iphone is not ipod.
well.. having been out of school 20 yrs with a near complete BS physics (degree awarded in another field) I
didn't think the first few paragraphs were that hard. However I can see the point that it would be helpful if wiki took a position of supporting a link for a sort of layman's synopsis of the topic. This would probably not be appropriate for all topics, and some topics are simply too complex to provide a true easy to understand introduction - though perhaps a 'non-specialist' summary would work in those cases.
local school district: 205 days, less 23 days vactaion with possible 2 more if snow days not used = 182. Standard day 8-3
average joe: 52 weeks, less 3 vacation and up to 2 for federal holidays = 235 days. Standard day 9-5
last checked: 235 > 182 by 29%
Teach gets lunch; many 'average' workers eat at desk or take short (less than one hour) lunch break. Many office workers, in particular, work longer than 9-5 and take work home. So lets give teach an extra 4 hours a day. 9-5ers work at least an extra hour leaving at most 3 hours more and I'm willing to wager at least half of that is made up by 9-5ers as well, nobody works 9-5 if they want to keep their job or get a raise. As noted by the other poster, many teachers have at least one free period a day and other time to do grading/planning/admin work. As to class planning - what about the paid summer time off? Is it unreasonable to expect a teacher to do their class planning then? And how much does the class plan for geometry or freshman english change each year?
Teachers also get two full months of the summer off during which they can work, take classes or generally slack off. Thus one can view any 'shortage' of salary (of which I believe there is little, if any) as partly a lifestyle choice.
But my whole point was not to just single out teachers. The whole system is a waste of resources. We keep spending money because it makes parents some how feel good - not because of a real need. The problems begin at home and end with the school administrators. Instead of continuing to throw money down the pit we have dug maybe we should try going back to a point when things seemed to work reasonably well?
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We (Boohoo) will settle for $36. They will get their money but probably with a few more caveats on control.
It is not just the size of the town that needs to be considered but also the location. Go back to 2000 and 2004 and look at the areas that voted for each candidate. They are *not* equally distributed. One also has to consider past voting biases to get a handle on which areas would be most likely to have independents break for Obama vs McCain.
That is not to say that Deibold machines aren't dodgy, just that this 'analysis' is over simplified.
GE is supposed to release a new incandescent bulb in the next year or two which will have the same effeciency as those crappy CFL's. Has anyone yet done a study of the cost to produce and dispose of incandescent vs CFL? I would not be shocked to find what the common bulb gives up in use it gains back in using less resources.
so what is the acceptable time to get to the rated speed? (or to slow down either one).
There are really two factors (IMHO) holding back a wider acceptance of ebooks - screen size and material
cost. All the current crop except the Iliad are still smaller (in screen) than a standard paperback.
the goal should be less buttons/frame and more screen. If you need/want a keyboard, make it slide out
like some smart phones.
Second - the cost of books. Amazon has made a big step here but they are only in the pool ankle deep.
People just find it objectionable to pay the same price (or more when discounting is considered) for an
e-book as they do a regular physical copy. The real thing is still better in most regards and has no
issues of longevity (accidental deletion, firm holding 'backup' copy goes under or stops service); can
be loaned with no thought and is always accessible. In the textbook area, it is also nice to be able
to keep more than one book open when doing problems or research.
This is not to say e-books should be free. The appropriate price should reflect the removal of physical
costs and distribution/storage replacing them with the electronic equivalent cost. This still doesn't
make them free - authors must be paid as well as editors and publishers.
Amazon has put up a fair number of books at $9.99 or lower but the vast majority of books are still
near the regular book price. One could perhaps accept this pricing if you were given the option to
buy the physical book + ebook (even with drm) at a slight premium. But they need to lower the prices
across the board to really get people interested.
the beam was not 'powerful' it was intense. And then they don't even state the luminosity. Next they will write the press release in crayons.
who will Microsoft give this 'feature' to next, willingly or not? They can restrict the update to a
target range of IPs and then you won't have nosy people writing stories about mysterious windows updates.
Live or not there is still a significant risk of plutonium contamination should anything happen to that plane. The warhead used on the ACM uses IHE which reduces the chance of an explosive dispersal, but AFAIK the pit is not fire resistant. Strong arguments were made in the past against flying the weapons needlessly because of the risk of contamination in an accident and the less than stellar record of B-52 operations in the 1960s. I wrote about this in more detail yesterday here.
isn't it a bit off to be comparing a 200" to Hubble's 94" once you have removed atmospheric effects? I'd like to see the same shot off similar sized scopes to see the real improvement over (a) unaltered ground based observation and (b) space based. This is not to say the technique is not useful, of course it is. Just seems the article is doing apples to oranges comparisons.
will the opera sync allow you to do so on your own private server? I've a plugin for firefox to allow for that.
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I just did it off the estimated 2.6/year from one of the last official posts. thanks for the link
now at an estimated 94.3 AU or 14.1 billion km (8.8 billion miles). Lets just hope nobody figures out that
plaque and decides to build an interplanetary bypass through our solar system.
The only thing that will make the US more competitve with China is for American workers to suddenly work for 1/10 their current wage.
yes.. and leaves your browsers with lots of annoying messages
about ads not loading. How to avoid those?
Not to mention lifestyle choices. Will people that skate or ski pay more (or less) than those that bike? Will owning a motorcycle result in higher premiums? Does an SUV get you a reduction?
many pc cases still come with a lock. if you have an underage child, lock the pc when you are not home. Quite frankly there is no reason at all children need to be on the net - period. Is there something which needs to be taught at a high school or lower level which was discovered since.. oh .. 1990.. which is so critical that is not in a book? Funny how we keep trying to find new ways to 'protect the children' and they fail just like we keep trying to find 'new and improved' teaching methods to help johnny get good grades..and still scores decline. How about a) parents parent and b) go back to the ancient methods of teaching which some how taught kids how to read, write, do math and put a man on the moon.
I think to be totally accurate you would need to total up not just the monies given to the parties, but the money given to each congresscritter - DNC/RNC are seperate from the individual campaigns.
And what plan are you on? With 600-1000 mins + free night/weekends becoming low end, how is adding $15-20 a month for unlimited text messages a saving? Kids are supposed to be in school about 8 hours a day right? There is no need to be calling your friends *before* school since you are probably only waking up half an hour before you are supposed to be in class anyways. So for the amount of time between school end and night billing I'd say standard minutes are way cheaper. Text message on a phone is, with a few exceptions, a complete waste of money. If its important, call and TALK to the person. If not then you might as well be burning mom & pops hard earned money.
And will /. er's pummel them like they do the R's?
If I were a network exec I'd be tossing that FCC license away soon since 80% get cable or sat and the 20% that don't probably aren't valuable to your advertisers.
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kinda detracts from its use for video no? and web browsing.. and well basically everything. When you
have to wipe it off almost everytime you use it things get tired real fast, not to mention people wont
be using specially designed wipes which wont scratch.
As to ipod comparision - thats a bogus comparison as ipod (at least the first 3 versions) did only
one thing and did it well - play music. They also had decent (perhaps not leading) battery life. So
lets see some real world testing of this iphone as iphone is not ipod.
In order of increasing import:
1) most people dont need/want all it (supposedly) can do
2) battery life - not very useful if using it for tunes ends
up meaning you get 30 mins talk time
3) greasy fingers. touch screens + greasy fingers = eventual dissatisfaction
well.. having been out of school 20 yrs with a near complete BS physics (degree awarded in another field) I didn't think the first few paragraphs were that hard. However I can see the point that it would be helpful if wiki took a position of supporting a link for a sort of layman's synopsis of the topic. This would probably not be appropriate for all topics, and some topics are simply too complex to provide a true easy to understand introduction - though perhaps a 'non-specialist' summary would work in those cases.
someone else followed up but I would add to it:
local school district: 205 days, less 23 days vactaion with possible 2
more if snow days not used = 182. Standard day
8-3
average joe: 52 weeks, less 3 vacation and up to 2 for federal holidays
= 235 days. Standard day 9-5
last checked: 235 > 182 by 29%
Teach gets lunch; many 'average' workers eat at desk or take short (less than one hour) lunch break. Many office workers, in particular, work longer than 9-5 and take work home. So lets give teach an extra 4 hours a day. 9-5ers work at least an extra hour leaving at most 3 hours more and I'm willing to wager at least half of that is made up by 9-5ers as well, nobody works 9-5 if they want to keep their job or get a raise. As noted by the other poster, many teachers have at least one free period a day and other time to do grading/planning/admin work. As to class planning - what about the paid summer time off? Is it unreasonable to expect a teacher to do their class planning then? And how much does the class plan for geometry or freshman english change each year?
Teachers also get two full months of the summer off during which they can work, take classes or generally slack off. Thus one can view any 'shortage' of salary (of which I believe there is little, if any) as partly a lifestyle choice.
But my whole point was not to just single out teachers. The whole system is a waste of resources. We keep spending money because it makes parents some how feel good - not because of a real need. The problems begin at home and end with the school administrators. Instead of continuing to throw money down the pit we have dug maybe we should try going back to a point when things seemed to work reasonably well?