My dad's case was lung cancer -- even though he was not a smoker -- with a 6% survival rate after 5 years. This happened 10 years ago, I realize our understanding of cancer has improved and more options have become available, but your prospects still don't look great. Sad as it may be, your *should* realize fully that your case may *not* be one with a miraculous happy ending.
On reading back I realize I sound slightly bitter, and I would not want people to just give up hope. My dad's case was lung cancer -- even though he was not a smoker -- with, according to the stats you point to, a 6% survival rate after 5 years. This happened 10 years ago, I realize our understanding of cancer has improved and more options have become available, but your prospects still don't look great.
Most stuff "doesn't work". Cancer is a terrible disease that has *some* medicines that prolong life, by a bit, but few real cures. About the only thing that has been proven to work is chemotherapy, and that's a race -- poison the whole body, hope that you *just* out-poison the cancer and the body has enough resources left to recover. Few win the race.
Given that track record, of the "best the pharmaceutical industry has to offer" I can understand the clutching at straws. My dad, towards the end, signed on for some experimental treatment, hoping to at least add a datapoint to the body of knowledge. A large part though, is simply coming to terms with the fact that, yes, if you've been diagnosed with cancer, you will probably die of the disease.
Great airline if you feel a need to stock up on Irish lottery tickets, sandwiches, cheap perfume, toys. They won't stop paddling you stuff from the second they're in the air until landing sets in.
Those tickets are cheap, but it's incredibly hard to compare their price. The sticker price is not the real price because of "add-on luxuries" -- there's extra fees for online check-in, luggage, paying by creditcard -- and you only get the "final" price once you're 80% thru the booking process.
As a kid, flying felt like a glamorous way to travel. Airports were exotic places you could go to to watch planes come in from foreign lands.
LV bags are expensive -- and the magic aura is created by having chosen celebrities photographed.
I'm not sure how mentioning a brand name is *ever* relevant to the plot of a movie.
Basically LV is getting free mention -- were they too cheap to provide the goods?
It may still be a consistent measurement fault, but they've repeated it 15000 times.
FTFA: "The team measured the travel times of neutrino bunches some 15,000 times, and have reached a level of statistical significance that in scientific circles would count as a formal discovery."
First delivery of A380: 2007, delivered so far: 56, over 4 years is about 14 a year, so far, on average, for this model.
Outstanding orders (your numbers): 236
First delivery of 747: 1970, delivered so far: 1400, over 41 years is about 34 a year, so far, on average, for this model.
Outstanding orders (your numbers): about 214
Note that Boeing's cashcow *really* is the venerable 737 (6819 built since 1968, 158 a year)
and Airbus's cashcow *really* is the A320 (4760 built since 1988, 206 a year)
These planes are about equal size and compete in the same market.
This will *also* disable any early / current news access. The London bus bombings a few years ago were widely reported on by people carrying cellphones w/ photo or video capability. News will still come out, eventually, but if it trickles out *as it happens* both citizens and law enforcement might also get an early heads-up.
> but they still push more phones into the market than any other company
Loads of low-end phones that don't make much profit.
In it's heyday Nokia pushed out over *50* different, new phone models a year. Roughly 30% of those were Symbian phones. Apple pushes out *ONE* model with minor variations. Even with significant re-use, juggling several source trees, porting patches back and forth between them, building multiple releases of the OS with different feature sets is more of a headache than razorsharp focus on *ONE* good phone.
As a software engineer I've tried to make the point that, maybe, people don't want to choose between 19 different models that are minutely different. (Do I want a qwerty keyboard? If I buy the business version it (used to) come with a 2.5mm socket and my standard headphones won't fit. Do I want the business version? Which of the 19 available Nokia qwerty phone models should I get? -- have a play: http://www.nokia.co.uk/find-products/all-phones)
Symbian always had touch-screen capability -- (look up the SonyEricsson P800 or the Psion 5mx for some proof) -- Nokia chose not to implement it on their phones.
The problem with generating electricity is that you can't (normally) store electricity -- so generating capacity is dimensioned for the peak load. A lot of excess capacity is available at night -- some of which you can't just shut off. It takes a long time to power up a coal/nuclear power plant. In mountainous regions the night excess is used e.g. to pump water uphill, back into a lake that is part of a hydroelectric plant.
Charging the car at night when rates are low makes sense, and running a few lightbulbs or a TV set doesn't use the amount of power you need for driving.
The service is worth something to me, running out of power on your phone while on the go is annoying, so I wouldn't mind paying a small amount for it. Why not add a cashbox to it -- if you like the charging tree and appreciate the service, please leave a donation so we can build more.
There's no problem with it being free -- but this would be a way to make the idea spread. Some of the components will cost money to buy, some of the installation work might need to be done by a qualified installer / builder. If the first one allows you to keep some cash, it can be reinvested -- more can follow and more people would be able to enjoy the service.
From TFA: Tesla's next big thing: Tesla's roadster production is coming to halt as the maker of battery-powered cars switches its focus to the upcoming Model S electric sedan. The first sales of the Model S sedan are expected to begin around the middle of 2012.
At a starting price of about $58,000, the base model will have a driving range of 160 miles.
It looks like the Voith Schneider Propeller as used on tugboats:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith_Schneider_Propeller
-- but spinning faster, displacing air instead of water, and rotated so it can generate up/downward thrust.
The wikipedia page also has an animation showing how it works.
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It'll be an overclocked AMD. I had one of those too :)
My dad's case was lung cancer -- even though he was not a smoker -- with a 6% survival rate after 5 years. This happened 10 years ago, I realize our understanding of cancer has improved and more options have become available, but your prospects still don't look great. Sad as it may be, your *should* realize fully that your case may *not* be one with a miraculous happy ending.
On reading back I realize I sound slightly bitter, and I would not want people to just give up hope. My dad's case was lung cancer -- even though he was not a smoker -- with, according to the stats you point to, a 6% survival rate after 5 years. This happened 10 years ago, I realize our understanding of cancer has improved and more options have become available, but your prospects still don't look great.
Most stuff "doesn't work". Cancer is a terrible disease that has *some* medicines that prolong life, by a bit, but few real cures. About the only thing that has been proven to work is chemotherapy, and that's a race -- poison the whole body, hope that you *just* out-poison the cancer and the body has enough resources left to recover. Few win the race.
Given that track record, of the "best the pharmaceutical industry has to offer" I can understand the clutching at straws. My dad, towards the end, signed on for some experimental treatment, hoping to at least add a datapoint to the body of knowledge. A large part though, is simply coming to terms with the fact that, yes, if you've been diagnosed with cancer, you will probably die of the disease.
If it was a Razr, the transmitting bit is actually in the mouthpiece.
One roof replacement -- 50.000 dollars
Day value of one used car -- 10.000 dollars
Cheque made out to the claimant, US$ 2.060.000
Great airline if you feel a need to stock up on Irish lottery tickets, sandwiches, cheap perfume, toys. They won't stop paddling you stuff from the second they're in the air until landing sets in.
Those tickets are cheap, but it's incredibly hard to compare their price. The sticker price is not the real price because of "add-on luxuries" -- there's extra fees for online check-in, luggage, paying by creditcard -- and you only get the "final" price once you're 80% thru the booking process.
As a kid, flying felt like a glamorous way to travel. Airports were exotic places you could go to to watch planes come in from foreign lands.
My kids haven't flown yet.
The only way to win, is not to play.
LV bags are expensive -- and the magic aura is created by having chosen celebrities photographed. I'm not sure how mentioning a brand name is *ever* relevant to the plot of a movie. Basically LV is getting free mention -- were they too cheap to provide the goods?
woooosh.
(source: http://www.thelocal.se/discuss/index.php?showtopic=14142)
Cost of GPS widget: 25 U.S. dollars
(source: http://www.focalprice.com/ERW21B/Mini_GPS_Personal_Locator_Tracking_Device_Black.html?utm_source=CS&utm_medium=GM_UK&utm_campaign=CS_GM_UK_ERW21B)
If it saves 2 hours a year per child (2835 / month ~= 100 a day ~= US$ 25 for 2 hrs) , it's worth it.
It may still be a consistent measurement fault, but they've repeated it 15000 times. FTFA: "The team measured the travel times of neutrino bunches some 15,000 times, and have reached a level of statistical significance that in scientific circles would count as a formal discovery."
See also the companion volume Thinking Forth, on http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/
First delivery of 747: 1970, delivered so far: 1400, over 41 years is about 34 a year, so far, on average, for this model. Outstanding orders (your numbers): about 214
Note that Boeing's cashcow *really* is the venerable 737 (6819 built since 1968, 158 a year) and Airbus's cashcow *really* is the A320 (4760 built since 1988, 206 a year)
These planes are about equal size and compete in the same market.
Airbus isn't doing too bad.
This will *also* disable any early / current news access. The London bus bombings a few years ago were widely reported on by people carrying cellphones w/ photo or video capability. News will still come out, eventually, but if it trickles out *as it happens* both citizens and law enforcement might also get an early heads-up.
In it's heyday Nokia pushed out over *50* different, new phone models a year. Roughly 30% of those were Symbian phones. Apple pushes out *ONE* model with minor variations. Even with significant re-use, juggling several source trees, porting patches back and forth between them, building multiple releases of the OS with different feature sets is more of a headache than razorsharp focus on *ONE* good phone.
As a software engineer I've tried to make the point that, maybe, people don't want to choose between 19 different models that are minutely different. (Do I want a qwerty keyboard? If I buy the business version it (used to) come with a 2.5mm socket and my standard headphones won't fit. Do I want the business version? Which of the 19 available Nokia qwerty phone models should I get? -- have a play: http://www.nokia.co.uk/find-products/all-phones)
Symbian always had touch-screen capability -- (look up the SonyEricsson P800 or the Psion 5mx for some proof) -- Nokia chose not to implement it on their phones.
Innovation could have happened, if only they didn't try to "manage" all the fun out of the job. Oh well.
The problem with generating electricity is that you can't (normally) store electricity -- so generating capacity is dimensioned for the peak load. A lot of excess capacity is available at night -- some of which you can't just shut off. It takes a long time to power up a coal/nuclear power plant. In mountainous regions the night excess is used e.g. to pump water uphill, back into a lake that is part of a hydroelectric plant.
Charging the car at night when rates are low makes sense, and running a few lightbulbs or a TV set doesn't use the amount of power you need for driving.
There's no problem with it being free -- but this would be a way to make the idea spread. Some of the components will cost money to buy, some of the installation work might need to be done by a qualified installer / builder. If the first one allows you to keep some cash, it can be reinvested -- more can follow and more people would be able to enjoy the service.
From TFA: Tesla's next big thing: Tesla's roadster production is coming to halt as the maker of battery-powered cars switches its focus to the upcoming Model S electric sedan. The first sales of the Model S sedan are expected to begin around the middle of 2012. At a starting price of about $58,000, the base model will have a driving range of 160 miles.
The wikipedia page also has an animation showing how it works.
Or, you could name them Control, Alt and Del.
Sure. If they're truly additive free -- as practically none are [citation needed].
Sold 10000 copies in it's first hour of publication! Just keep those presses running, if every copy sells he's got a nice little money maker there.