Moheeheeko: 'doesn't explain why they're charging such enormous sums for these cards,' 'Because they can.'
They can charge anything they ant to charge. That does not compel anyone to purchase the gizmos. Right now their US sales are zero, and they may stay that way.
Lots of posters above recommend expensive cameras like DSLRs (>$600) or the Canon S100 ($430). My advice would be that the best camera is one you can carry with you, and that you can use easily. All of the major brands produce cameras in the $100 -- $150 range that will take excellent pictures. The current level of specifications for these cameras is easily illustrated:
"For $91, Nikon Coolpix L22 has a 3.0 inch LCD display screen, 12.1mega-pixel sensor, and 3.6x zoom lens (35 mm equivalent 37 â" 134 mm). Its features include built-in electronic Vibration Reduction and Motion Detection, Scene Auto Selector and Easy Auto Mode. It will fit in your pocket and weighs less than 7 oz. Powered by AA batteries, easily available anywhere."
I found the above information at DPReview.com which has some terrific comparison tools as well as detailed reviews of many brands and sizes.
The most important part of photography is not the camera but the eye, the mind, and the heart of the photographer. Learn about lighting, perspective, and composition before you worry about gizmos.
I hate Halloween . It is one my least favorite events of the year.
I began to hate it when I had to cart my kids around to collect their candy. The evening would always end with sugar highs followed by temper tantrums. It was thoroughly unpleasant.
I grew to hate giving away candy to random strangers. I am completely sure that none of the were the children of my neighbors and friends.
Now that our kids are grown, and have left town, we have found a solution. We take yellow caution tape and tie it across the driveway and walking paths. We turn out all the lights in the front of the house, go to the family room in the back, close the blinds, and watch TV for a couple of hours.
Not if you are eating the peppers in curry. Curry has lots of salt. Water kills by draining the sodium out of your body.
However, if you are having chili mouth problems, the antidote is fat not water. Capsaicin, the active ingredient in chili is an oil. Eat butter, drink oil, a high butterfat ice cream might work also.
Putting Everyone on UTC is not really possible. An example. Insurance policies expire at 12:00 noon, for very good reasons. If everyone is is on UTC, That won't work anymore. Furthermore, in the mid-pacific time may not be very different between east and west, but places will have to change dates in the middle of the day. That is really inconvenient and confusing. In Hawaii, you would go to work on Monday, and go home on Tuesday.
My suggestion is to reduce the number of time zones to about 8 across the world. The entire continental US would be on UTC-6 (i.e. Central Standard). No part of the contiguous states would be more than 2 hours out of sync with the sun. You would get some 4 a.m. sun rises in Maine and some 11:00 p.m. sunsets in Washington state, but it would be tolerable. South America would need a zone for the eastern part of the continent, -3 would work well. On the other side of the Andes, they already use -6.
Around the World, Europe and Africa would be on +1, South Asia on +5, East Asia on +9
But, this does give us a chance to recommend the excellent biography of Alan Turing which explains his role in the evolution of computer science and his role in breaking the German cyphers:
"soon after the French Revolution, the French Academy of Sciences chose the meridian definition over the pendulum definition [the length of a pendulum having a half-period of one second] because the force of gravity varies slightly over the surface of the earth, affecting the period of the pendulum. Thus, the meter was intended to equal 10-7 or one ten-millionth of the length of the meridian through Paris from pole to the equator."
"At the end of the 18th century, a kilogram was the mass of a cubic decimeter of water. In 1889, the 1st CGPM sanctioned the international prototype of the kilogram"
Time and length were redefined in terms of a fundamental physical constant the speed of light in a vacuum in 1983 because it became easier and more accurate to measure time with "atomic" clocks.
"There is currently interest in redefining some of the SI units in terms of fundamental constants. For the kilogram this would result in the replacement of the metal prototype standard at the BIPM by a definition based on fixing the value of the Planck constant. In addition, the CCU has recommended that the ampere, kelvin, and mole be redefined by specifying exact values of the elementary charge, the Boltzmann constant, and the Avogadro constant, respectively."
Much closer to what you really need to do to make sure that that the pictures for which you could be indicted are really gone. Although, something like a plasma torch would be better.
"Well I dreamed I saw the silver space ships flying In the yellow haze of the sun There were children crying and colors flying All around the chosen ones All in a dream, all in a dream The loading had begun All in a dream, all in a dream The loading had begun They were flying Mother Nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun"
From what I have read, it is cooling water that has come out of the reactor cores and the spent fuel pools. It is very hot, 1Sv/hour. The radioactivity is apparently fission products picked up from fuel rods that have been damaged by fires and hydrogen explosions. It is apparently mostly I-131 and CS-137, both of which are soluble.
My solution. put it in oil tankers dead heading out of Japan. When they get back to the Persian gulf, pump the hot water into evaporation pans in the Saudi Dessert. In a year or two, clean up the radioactive dirt.
One of the programmers on the original Kermit project at Columbia University was a grad student who had a 2 yro daughter. We lived on the same street and also had a 2 yro daughter. The two girls played together a lot at the neighborhood playground in Riverside Park near Columbia, and we got to know the family pretty well.
The grad student's daughter loved the Muppets and especially Kermit. He named the program he was working on for her favorite Muppet.
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I knew Pons's father, and he was a fraudster, who took some one I know for six figures worth -- and there was no technology involved.
You gonna pay for new hardware for us?
Figured.
Moheeheeko: 'doesn't explain why they're charging such enormous sums for these cards,' 'Because they can.'
They can charge anything they ant to charge. That does not compel anyone to purchase the gizmos. Right now their US sales are zero, and they may stay that way.
Lots of posters above recommend expensive cameras like DSLRs (>$600) or the Canon S100 ($430). My advice would be that the best camera is one you can carry with you, and that you can use easily. All of the major brands produce cameras in the $100 -- $150 range that will take excellent pictures. The current level of specifications for these cameras is easily illustrated:
"For $91, Nikon Coolpix L22 has a 3.0 inch LCD display screen, 12.1mega-pixel sensor, and 3.6x zoom lens (35 mm equivalent 37 â" 134 mm). Its features include built-in electronic Vibration Reduction and Motion Detection, Scene Auto Selector and Easy Auto Mode. It will fit in your pocket and weighs less than 7 oz. Powered by AA batteries, easily available anywhere."
I found the above information at DPReview.com which has some terrific comparison tools as well as detailed reviews of many brands and sizes.
The most important part of photography is not the camera but the eye, the mind, and the heart of the photographer. Learn about lighting, perspective, and composition before you worry about gizmos.
Put a pool in my back yard, and look forward to floating through the hot afternoons.
Mod it up. Very funny.
You didn't spend time with my kids.
I hate Halloween . It is one my least favorite events of the year.
I began to hate it when I had to cart my kids around to collect their candy. The evening would always end with sugar highs followed by temper tantrums. It was thoroughly unpleasant.
I grew to hate giving away candy to random strangers. I am completely sure that none of the were the children of my neighbors and friends.
Now that our kids are grown, and have left town, we have found a solution. We take yellow caution tape and tie it across the driveway and walking paths. We turn out all the lights in the front of the house, go to the family room in the back, close the blinds, and watch TV for a couple of hours.
That I enjoy.
Not if you are eating the peppers in curry. Curry has lots of salt. Water kills by draining the sodium out of your body.
However, if you are having chili mouth problems, the antidote is fat not water. Capsaicin, the active ingredient in chili is an oil. Eat butter, drink oil, a high butterfat ice cream might work also.
"the hardware that replaces it may not run the old operating system."
Will not, because the new hardware will not have driver support in the old software.
Putting Everyone on UTC is not really possible. An example. Insurance policies expire at 12:00 noon, for very good reasons. If everyone is is on UTC, That won't work anymore. Furthermore, in the mid-pacific time may not be very different between east and west, but places will have to change dates in the middle of the day. That is really inconvenient and confusing. In Hawaii, you would go to work on Monday, and go home on Tuesday.
My suggestion is to reduce the number of time zones to about 8 across the world. The entire continental US would be on UTC-6 (i.e. Central Standard). No part of the contiguous states would be more than 2 hours out of sync with the sun. You would get some 4 a.m. sun rises in Maine and some 11:00 p.m. sunsets in Washington state, but it would be tolerable. South America would need a zone for the eastern part of the continent, -3 would work well. On the other side of the Andes, they already use -6.
Around the World, Europe and Africa would be on +1,
South Asia on +5, East Asia on +9
Actually, he trying to prove that he is funnier than his cousin.
"the Winkelvoss twins will be the ones who came out ahead."
Only if they cash out before the crash.
"Timing is Everything" -- Andre Agassi
But, this does give us a chance to recommend the excellent biography of Alan Turing which explains his role in the evolution of computer science and his role in breaking the German cyphers:
"Alan Turing: The Enigma" by Andrew Hodges
mod it up. Very Funny
"I can go to school and play Xbox with all my friends"
Think of all the money you will save by flunking out in your first semester.
I tried to warn slashdotters about smart meters, a year ago, and my comment got modded troll.
Containing far too much CO2.
SI is described by NIST at this link.
"soon after the French Revolution, the French Academy of Sciences chose the meridian definition over the pendulum definition [the length of a pendulum having a half-period of one second] because the force of gravity varies slightly over the surface of the earth, affecting the period of the pendulum. Thus, the meter was intended to equal 10-7 or one ten-millionth of the length of the meridian through Paris from pole to the equator."
"At the end of the 18th century, a kilogram was the mass of a cubic decimeter of water. In 1889, the 1st CGPM sanctioned the international prototype of the kilogram"
Time and length were redefined in terms of a fundamental physical constant the speed of light in a vacuum in 1983 because it became easier and more accurate to measure time with "atomic" clocks.
More:
"There is currently interest in redefining some of the SI units in terms of fundamental constants. For the kilogram this would result in the replacement of the metal prototype standard at the BIPM by a definition based on fixing the value of the Planck constant. In addition, the CCU has recommended that the ampere, kelvin, and mole be redefined by specifying exact values of the elementary charge, the Boltzmann constant, and the Avogadro constant, respectively."
Much closer to what you really need to do to make sure that that the pictures for which you could be indicted are really gone. Although, something like a plasma torch would be better.
"Microsoft just don't care any more."
I did not think Microsoft ever cared about anything other than Microsoft's profits.
"Well I dreamed I saw the silver
space ships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun
There were children crying
and colors flying
All around the chosen ones
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun
They were flying Mother Nature's
silver seed to a new home in the sun"
"After the Gold Rush" by Neil Young
From what I have read, it is cooling water that has come out of the reactor cores and the spent fuel pools. It is very hot, 1Sv/hour. The radioactivity is apparently fission products picked up from fuel rods that have been damaged by fires and hydrogen explosions. It is apparently mostly I-131 and CS-137, both of which are soluble.
My solution. put it in oil tankers dead heading out of Japan. When they get back to the Persian gulf, pump the hot water into evaporation pans in the Saudi Dessert. In a year or two, clean up the radioactive dirt.
One of the programmers on the original Kermit project at Columbia University was a grad student who had a 2 yro daughter. We lived on the same street and also had a 2 yro daughter. The two girls played together a lot at the neighborhood playground in Riverside Park near Columbia, and we got to know the family pretty well.
The grad student's daughter loved the Muppets and especially Kermit. He named the program he was working on for her favorite Muppet.
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