Implying a causal relationship is way off base. It could just as easily indicate that Finland's low murder rates imply that strict punishments are not necessary.
To use the obligatory car analogy, it's like a small rural town not having any emissions laws for vehicles because the net pollution from a dozen cars isn't worth the effort of enforcement while a dense metropolis may require strict emissions laws to limit pollution.
I'd say it's more likely that the Li-Ion mowers have a very strong competitor: gasoline powered motors. They are cheap, simple, and reliable. You can easily get 10+ years out of a gas mower with only some basic maintenance, something that can not be said for any battery powered mower.
Neither laptops nor hand tools can reasonably operate on anything other than Li-Ion (unless they're tethered to the wall). With no viable alternative, they can get away with charging a higher premium. The margins on mower batteries have likely been pushed to almost nothing.
And of course, some enterprising person could start a company that disassembles mower batteries and repackages them in laptop-friendly formats and make some money off the price differential. Of course, this would then drive up the demand for mower batteries, raising the price until there is very little margin left for them either.
A friend of mine gets tagged in somebody's album. I get a nifty notification in my Feed. I click on it to see their pictures. Guess what, I'm able to look through the entire album. I'm not friends with the owner of the album. I could never have navigated to it on my own. It's only because a friend was tagged that I had access to it. I got to see pictures of my friend at a party, and then some pictures of a random half-naked girl. Based on the image tags of that person, she was also not the owner of the album. In this case, it was just some random person, so no harm no foul to her I guess, but given they way social networks tend to cluster, it could just as easily have been somebody I work with.
To summarize: Person A gets crazy at a party Person B takes picture of person A and puts on Facebook Person B takes picture of person C and puts on Facebook, in the same album Everybody who is friends with C gets to see Person A going crazy.
These numbers compound quickly. What you thought was information only shared with a few friends becomes visible to a LOT of people if they want to see it.
That's very short-sighted. Maybe his current manager is a complete jerk and deserves it. Even so, the manager isn't the one who will take the pain while they scramble to find somebody to fill his spot. It will be one of the guys he worked with taking on two people's jobs for at least a couple of weeks. And lord help him if he does well at it. He may get stuck at the workload for a long time, since management will have no incentive to hire--they're getting the same work for less money. Then in a few years, when he's looking into a new job, that same guy he screwed over may be in a position to affect whether or not he's hired. A simple "I don't know if we should hire him, he bailed on his last job by quitting with no notice because he was offered a promotion" would be enough to sabotage any chance he had. Quitting without notice would require VERY extenuating circumstances to be acceptable. Like if your manager was killing hookers and storing them in the break room freezer. I'd probably quit without notice then.
I picked up a netbook not too long ago that has proved quite suited to the task. Granted, it does consume more power and weigh more than a Kindle/Nook/eReader, but the numbers aren't bad.
Weight: 3 lbs. I have plain old dead-tree books that are this heavy. Battery life: 6-11 hours of actual use. The 6 hours is with the screen brightness all the way up, Wifi on, and doing enough work to keep the CPU and hard drives cranking. I treat it kind of like a cell phone, use it all day, plug it in to charge overnight.
And on an actual computer, you don't have to worry about weird formatting issues. You can zoom in and scroll around without having to wait for the screen to refresh. The display is significantly larger, and in color.
And to top it all of, the price was about the same. eBooks may still have a future, but from what I've seen they still have a ways to go.
There are a couple of places I can think of where font-control can be useful for the writer.
Technical books -- particularly programming books. They will frequently use the font to separate code from text visually. Various forms of fiction that may make use of flashbacks, multiple plot threads, etc, using various fonts to separate the pieces without having to explicitly state what context they are jumping to.
Yeah. IP addresses are wrong too. So are revision numbers. And URLs. There is NO precedent for multiple dots in a single item, and a sentence is the most natural analogy for a number.
If you insist on equating numbers with language, then a single number most closely matches a single word. In this case, you have exactly one choice for in-word punctuation: '
This kind of business model is where I think companies like TiVo are missing the boat. They are currently trying to sell themselves as a hardware company selling a platform that is going to eventually be crushed by the extremely low-cost option provided by cable and satellite providers. Where they would stand to do well is as a replacement for Nielsen ratings. They have unprecedented access into not only what people are watching, but when, where they skip, pause, replay. Advertisers could get real feedback on which commercials actually get watched when the viewer has the option not to watch altogether. Networks can improve their program schedules by getting a feel for when people actually prefer to watch a particular program. They may notice that a program that airs at 9pm is often watched late afternoon. Or maybe there are a significant number of people TiVo'ing The Tonight Show, and then watching it mid-morning the next day. This kind of info could help them design their schedules to get better ratings with non-TiVo users. I know TiVo is doing this to some extent, but not anywhere they could be.
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So he could fit a Mac into his car. What's the big deal?
In the US, imprisonment is not about rehabilitation or punishment. It's about revenge.
Implying a causal relationship is way off base. It could just as easily indicate that Finland's low murder rates imply that strict punishments are not necessary.
To use the obligatory car analogy, it's like a small rural town not having any emissions laws for vehicles because the net pollution from a dozen cars isn't worth the effort of enforcement while a dense metropolis may require strict emissions laws to limit pollution.
Head's gonna file assault charges now...
I wonder how many of those Viagra spelling variations are valid Perl code...
At least in the case of the octopus, there is absolutely no question of how he grips it.
I'd say it's more likely that the Li-Ion mowers have a very strong competitor: gasoline powered motors. They are cheap, simple, and reliable. You can easily get 10+ years out of a gas mower with only some basic maintenance, something that can not be said for any battery powered mower.
Neither laptops nor hand tools can reasonably operate on anything other than Li-Ion (unless they're tethered to the wall). With no viable alternative, they can get away with charging a higher premium. The margins on mower batteries have likely been pushed to almost nothing.
And of course, some enterprising person could start a company that disassembles mower batteries and repackages them in laptop-friendly formats and make some money off the price differential. Of course, this would then drive up the demand for mower batteries, raising the price until there is very little margin left for them either.
And to be clear, that does NOT have to be an exclusive or.
Agreed. I was using these kits around that age.
Depending on how advanced and ambitious they are, they have some like that one but with microcontrollers as well.
There's also ready-made robotics kits like Lego Mindstorms and Boe Bot http://www.parallax.com/tabid/411/Default.aspx
Forgive him his typos when searching for info on the LHC.
Exactly. An easy to understand example Photos.
A friend of mine gets tagged in somebody's album. I get a nifty notification in my Feed.
I click on it to see their pictures. Guess what, I'm able to look through the entire album.
I'm not friends with the owner of the album. I could never have navigated to it on my own.
It's only because a friend was tagged that I had access to it. I got to see pictures of my friend at a party, and then some pictures of a random half-naked girl. Based on the image tags of that person, she was also not the owner of the album. In this case, it was just some random person, so no harm no foul to her I guess, but given they way social networks tend to cluster, it could just as easily have been somebody I work with.
To summarize:
Person A gets crazy at a party
Person B takes picture of person A and puts on Facebook
Person B takes picture of person C and puts on Facebook, in the same album
Everybody who is friends with C gets to see Person A going crazy.
These numbers compound quickly. What you thought was information only shared with a few friends becomes visible to a LOT of people if they want to see it.
How much of that is redirected to /dev/null?
Those responsible for the llama escape have been sacked.
The LHC will come back online in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.
That's very short-sighted. Maybe his current manager is a complete jerk and deserves it. Even so, the manager isn't the one who will take the pain while they scramble to find somebody to fill his spot. It will be one of the guys he worked with taking on two people's jobs for at least a couple of weeks. And lord help him if he does well at it. He may get stuck at the workload for a long time, since management will have no incentive to hire--they're getting the same work for less money. Then in a few years, when he's looking into a new job, that same guy he screwed over may be in a position to affect whether or not he's hired. A simple "I don't know if we should hire him, he bailed on his last job by quitting with no notice because he was offered a promotion" would be enough to sabotage any chance he had. Quitting without notice would require VERY extenuating circumstances to be acceptable. Like if your manager was killing hookers and storing them in the break room freezer. I'd probably quit without notice then.
What Do *I* Look For In a Conference?
The exit to the buffet / bar.
I read this as "The exit to the buffet /. bar"
Would that be all the CmdrTaco you can eat?
I picked up a netbook not too long ago that has proved quite suited to the task. Granted, it does consume more power and weigh more than a Kindle/Nook/eReader, but the numbers aren't bad.
Weight: 3 lbs. I have plain old dead-tree books that are this heavy.
Battery life: 6-11 hours of actual use. The 6 hours is with the screen brightness all the way up, Wifi on, and doing enough work to keep the CPU and hard drives cranking. I treat it kind of like a cell phone, use it all day, plug it in to charge overnight.
And on an actual computer, you don't have to worry about weird formatting issues. You can zoom in and scroll around without having to wait for the screen to refresh. The display is significantly larger, and in color.
And to top it all of, the price was about the same. eBooks may still have a future, but from what I've seen they still have a ways to go.
Dude, you can't embiggen an inanimate object. Learn English already, geez.
I don't know if I care for the fonts. A little too tall and skinny. I'm an American. I like things to be a little more...squat.
You can draw information from self-assessment, just not the information they were trying to get here.
For instance, the interesting study that found that 67% of people think they are above average.
At least they are smart enough to know they can't communicate in writing.
Too bad they're too stupid to realize they can do something about it.
There are a couple of places I can think of where font-control can be useful for the writer.
Technical books -- particularly programming books. They will frequently use the font to separate code from text visually.
Various forms of fiction that may make use of flashbacks, multiple plot threads, etc, using various fonts to separate the pieces without having to explicitly state what context they are jumping to.
No, you offered a mnemonic device as a proof of superiority.
There are plenty of other competing standards.
123 456.00 (space as thousands, dot or comma as decimal)
123456.00 (no thousands marker, dot or comma as decimal)
If you only have one marker, there's no ambiguity.
Yeah. IP addresses are wrong too. So are revision numbers. And URLs. There is NO precedent for multiple dots in a single item, and a sentence is the most natural analogy for a number.
If you insist on equating numbers with language, then a single number most closely matches a single word. In this case, you have exactly one choice for in-word punctuation: '
I propose:
PI ~= 3'14
1/4 = 0'25
It should read: "Man arrested for being a twat"
This kind of business model is where I think companies like TiVo are missing the boat. They are currently trying to sell themselves as a hardware company selling a platform that is going to eventually be crushed by the extremely low-cost option provided by cable and satellite providers. Where they would stand to do well is as a replacement for Nielsen ratings. They have unprecedented access into not only what people are watching, but when, where they skip, pause, replay. Advertisers could get real feedback on which commercials actually get watched when the viewer has the option not to watch altogether. Networks can improve their program schedules by getting a feel for when people actually prefer to watch a particular program. They may notice that a program that airs at 9pm is often watched late afternoon. Or maybe there are a significant number of people TiVo'ing The Tonight Show, and then watching it mid-morning the next day. This kind of info could help them design their schedules to get better ratings with non-TiVo users. I know TiVo is doing this to some extent, but not anywhere they could be.