Am I missing something? Is there really such a demand for gold on the street that the convenience of being able to purchase it from a vending machine warrants a 30% markup?
The type of person who would make a spontaneous commodities investment at a vending machine probably isn't the type of person who's concerned with those kinds of details.
What is so bleeding hard to stand in a bank line all of at most 10-20 minutes
Agreed! On top of that, what so bleeding difficult about walking the 3-5 miles to the bank? I mean, it's not like walking for miles at a time is outside the ability of any healthy adult. Must your locomotion always be dependent on some shiny car with comfortable, heated seats?!?!?
Not only do people have to work on their patience, people should follow your example and strive to avoid technology all together!
Who are these designers that aren't familiar with the teardrop shape? This is kinda tangential, but a raindrop (which is considered the ideal aerodynamic shape) is shaped like a slightly squashed sphere rather than the traditional teardrop shape.
For comparison, the drag coefficient of a water droplet is 0.04, a Honda Prius is 0.24, an H2 Hummer is 0.57 and an open parachute is 1.75. Smaller numbers represent less drag, obviously.
quoth TFA:
Since the graph is directed, the distance from A to B might be different from the distance from B to A (i.e. A links to B does not necessarily mean B links to A). The aim is to find the "center" article, that is, the article with the minimum average distance to any other article
The author goes onto explain the center finding algorithm and the point to point distance algorithm.
I suggest you go read the article, it explains lots of fun stuff bout graph theory, how he processed the data and the hardware he uses to do the computations.
Determine which is worse, the malignant effects of the botnet, or the inconvenience caused by bunches of people's computers restarting unexpectedly (and the associated loss of unsaved work, etc). Kraken is used to to send spam, which affects many more people than the 400,000 people infected.
By my reasoning, it'd be okay to send out a friendly worm, I just wouldn't brag about it afterwards.
Here's a two sentence summary for the people who don't read articles:
Instead of using a really good conductor to make the electrodes used for electrolysis, these people propose increasing the electrode's surface area 8,000 times by coating an ordinary steel electrode with butt loads of nanoparticles that are optimized for surface area and conductivity.
A doctor's visit that cost $5 when I was a kid (the 60's) is now $90 (18x A doctor's visit today is worth more than one one in the 1960's, so you can't do a straight apples to apples comparison. Today, an ordinary checkup can involve lab work and x-rays that either didn't exist or were prohibitively expensive in the 60's.
fuel is up from 30 cents to three bucks (10x) Once again, you can't make a straight comparison. Today's fuel doesn't use lead to prevent knock, it uses octane. Additionally, global demand for gasoline and other oil derivatives (think plastic) have multiplied many times since the 60's.
cars from a few thousand to tens of thousands (10x to 20x and more) Today's cars are bigger, faster, quieter and more fuel efficient (on average). Today we have remote door locks, air conditioning, cruise control and power windows standard on almost every car. Cars are more expensive today simply because they are worth more. A modern, convertible VW Beetle makes a forty year old beetle look pretty primitive, they just can't be compared because they don't have the same value.
houses... houses are insane
Suburban houses today are bigger, better built, and on larger plots than they were in the sixties, once again, they cost mor because they are worth more.
Your examples demonstrate why we use a consumer price index instead of anecdotal evidence to measure inflation. Things can only be compared with perfectly equivalent products under similar demand.
It's important to note that increasing the money supply is necessary to prevent deflation being caused by the continuing improvements in manufacturing; if a modern car is worth twice as much as an old one, but you only have as much money as you had in olden times, the car will cost twice as much, leaving you with left to buy every thing else (which had also increased in value). This is one of the strength's of fiat money, the money supply can scale with increasing standards of living and the increasing value of all goods and services.
The summary could have linked toPaul's actual post rather than some biased blog.
The note was posted at 10:14 p.m., probably Central Time. It starts with an old-fashioned freedom-loving salutation ("Whoa!") and ends with an angry attack on the very hippies ("socialists") who elevated him from another nobody right-winger congressman running a quixotic presidential campaign to a hilarious national Internet fad.
The important difference between Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates (Y!PP) and a gambling site is that in Y!PP, you only put money into the game, you can't "cash-out".
Of course, you can try to sell doubloons or pieces of eight on eBay, but that's in violation of one of the more enforced bits of the ToS. I've checked eBay for auctions of any in-game items and currency before, but I've only ever seen one, and it disappeared pretty quickly.
my guess this isn't the first time he has fucked with invertebrate mammals Since when is an octupus a mammal?!?! That and there is no such thing as an invertebrate mammal.
How do we really know this isn't so some sort of sick and twisted oceanographer that gets his kicks off luring unsuspecting cephalopods into the ROV engine's thrusts? How did you get to that conclusion, did you watch the video? It doesn't matter if the octopus was attacking the sub or just extending a friendly greeting, the octopus was going to damage the ROV and it's cargo not matter what it's intentions were.
You should know what your talking about before you go around accusing people of being diabolic ceplhapod torturers.
The Taiwanese culture is quite different from the Mainland Chinese culture. The people of Taiwan deserve credit for their achievement
The south western American culture is quite different than the north eastern culture. The people of the south west deserve credit for their achievement.
And what is this achievement anyway? Having culture?
'"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress' -Godwin's Law
The great grandparent made a comparison involving Nazis, and therefore, has lost the thread. There's nothing in Godwin's law about who's making the comparison, all you have to do to invoke Godwin's law is to make "a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler".
The grandparent lost the thread, and we're losers too for taking three comments to explain why.
Umm, iPods are MP3 players, Apple never intended for them to be used as audio recorders, and they have no control over the quality of third party dongles. Your argument is similar to saying Sony has limited the PS2's cookie baking ability so that the cookies taste like garbage even on the best of days. Check out an oven with real cookie baking skillz!
I'm sorry but I don't associate a compass with local searches, The word Local is much better, I can read 10 links in the same time it takes to move the mouse over 1 icon to figure out what it does.
The compass is just a googlified version of the safari icon, googlex is/wasn't made to be usable, it was made to be cute.
"Taking attendance takes time. 10 minutes a day..."
All teachers I've had have taken attendace while the class is doing something else, like checking the answers to homework against a key projected on the wall. And no teacher could possibly spend 10 minutes taking attendance unless the class had say 150 students.
It's science thats neither good or bad, technology is how science is used. If you use the discoveries for science for evil then you have evil technology.
>Would you buy a car that you had to steer with two buttons rather than a wheel? If not, why not?
Interestingly enough, I use the PS2 controller's directional pad instead of the joystick for GTA. For a little turn, more of a change in heading, I do a quick tap or two, for a real turn I tap more. I only hold down a directional button if I need a sharp turn or am spinning out for fun. I guess taps don't require as much dexterity as the joystick. That makes since considering you can only push the stick about a third of an inch to the side, and that 1/3" radius circle covers a lot of directions and magnitude of turny-ness. Hee hee, turnyy-ness.
> It's my opinion that the voting booth is really (short of violence) the ONLY tool that the population has to control their government.
That and civil disobedience, violence is always the last resort. Getting lots of people to use absentee ballots will do much more than slaughtering pollsters.
> It's my opinion that the voting booth is really (short of violence) the ONLY tool that the population has to control their government.
That and civil disobedience, violence is always a lsat resort. Getting lots of people to use absentee ballots will do much more than slaughtering pollsters or what ever.
The problem with "Windows Yardstick Edition" is that it rots and snaps in half after a few weeks of use unless the user coats it with sealant (firewall), and picks out termites and fungus (spyware and viruses). Unfortunately, most users don't know how to properly maintain their yardstick.
With The Laser Assisted Linux Measurement System, it takes more work to get it up and running, but once its going you can use it without more work. If you need to install a new system of measurements however, it usually will be more difficult than drawing new lines onto Windows Yardstick Edition.
In the end, if the user can take good care of his yard stick and it gets the job done well enough, he has no reason to switch to Linux.
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Every joule of energy we get on the earth, without tapping geothermal sources, originally comes from the sun.
I guess you haven't heard of nuclear power then. I hear that it's not only more scalable than windmills, but more reliable to boot!
Am I missing something? Is there really such a demand for gold on the street that the convenience of being able to purchase it from a vending machine warrants a 30% markup?
The type of person who would make a spontaneous commodities investment at a vending machine probably isn't the type of person who's concerned with those kinds of details.
What is so bleeding hard to stand in a bank line all of at most 10-20 minutes
Agreed! On top of that, what so bleeding difficult about walking the 3-5 miles to the bank? I mean, it's not like walking for miles at a time is outside the ability of any healthy adult. Must your locomotion always be dependent on some shiny car with comfortable, heated seats?!?!?
Not only do people have to work on their patience , people should follow your example and strive to avoid technology all together!
For comparison, the drag coefficient of a water droplet is 0.04, a Honda Prius is 0.24, an H2 Hummer is 0.57 and an open parachute is 1.75. Smaller numbers represent less drag, obviously.
Here are a couple articles about cars that have been designed to be shaped like water droplets, one from Mechanical Engineering Magazine and one from from Popular Science
Since the graph is directed, the distance from A to B might be different from the distance from B to A (i.e. A links to B does not necessarily mean B links to A). The aim is to find the "center" article, that is, the article with the minimum average distance to any other article
The author goes onto explain the center finding algorithm and the point to point distance algorithm.
I suggest you go read the article, it explains lots of fun stuff bout graph theory, how he processed the data and the hardware he uses to do the computations.
Determine which is worse, the malignant effects of the botnet, or the inconvenience caused by bunches of people's computers restarting unexpectedly (and the associated loss of unsaved work, etc). Kraken is used to to send spam, which affects many more people than the 400,000 people infected.
By my reasoning, it'd be okay to send out a friendly worm, I just wouldn't brag about it afterwards.
The petition can be found here.
Here's a two sentence summary for the people who don't read articles:
Instead of using a really good conductor to make the electrodes used for electrolysis, these people propose increasing the electrode's surface area 8,000 times by coating an ordinary steel electrode with butt loads of nanoparticles that are optimized for surface area and conductivity.
That sounds feasible to me.
fuel is up from 30 cents to three bucks (10x) Once again, you can't make a straight comparison. Today's fuel doesn't use lead to prevent knock, it uses octane. Additionally, global demand for gasoline and other oil derivatives (think plastic) have multiplied many times since the 60's.
cars from a few thousand to tens of thousands (10x to 20x and more) Today's cars are bigger, faster, quieter and more fuel efficient (on average). Today we have remote door locks, air conditioning, cruise control and power windows standard on almost every car. Cars are more expensive today simply because they are worth more. A modern, convertible VW Beetle makes a forty year old beetle look pretty primitive, they just can't be compared because they don't have the same value.
houses... houses are insane
Suburban houses today are bigger, better built, and on larger plots than they were in the sixties, once again, they cost mor because they are worth more.
Your examples demonstrate why we use a consumer price index instead of anecdotal evidence to measure inflation. Things can only be compared with perfectly equivalent products under similar demand.
It's important to note that increasing the money supply is necessary to prevent deflation being caused by the continuing improvements in manufacturing; if a modern car is worth twice as much as an old one, but you only have as much money as you had in olden times, the car will cost twice as much, leaving you with left to buy every thing else (which had also increased in value).
This is one of the strength's of fiat money, the money supply can scale with increasing standards of living and the increasing value of all goods and services.
The important difference between Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates (Y!PP) and a gambling site is that in Y!PP, you only put money into the game, you can't "cash-out".
Of course, you can try to sell doubloons or pieces of eight on eBay, but that's in violation of one of the more enforced bits of the ToS. I've checked eBay for auctions of any in-game items and currency before, but I've only ever seen one, and it disappeared pretty quickly.
my guess this isn't the first time he has fucked with invertebrate mammals
Since when is an octupus a mammal?!?! That and there is no such thing as an invertebrate mammal.
How do we really know this isn't so some sort of sick and twisted oceanographer that gets his kicks off luring unsuspecting cephalopods into the ROV engine's thrusts?
How did you get to that conclusion, did you watch the video? It doesn't matter if the octopus was attacking the sub or just extending a friendly greeting, the octopus was going to damage the ROV and it's cargo not matter what it's intentions were.
You should know what your talking about before you go around accusing people of being diabolic ceplhapod torturers.
The Taiwanese culture is quite different from the Mainland Chinese culture. The people of Taiwan deserve credit for their achievement
The south western American culture is quite different than the north eastern culture. The people of the south west deserve credit for their achievement.
And what is this achievement anyway? Having culture?
I've installed firefox twelve times from one download put onto a thumbdrive, we're even ;)
'"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress' -Godwin's Law
The great grandparent made a comparison involving Nazis, and therefore, has lost the thread. There's nothing in Godwin's law about who's making the comparison, all you have to do to invoke Godwin's law is to make "a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler".
The grandparent lost the thread, and we're losers too for taking three comments to explain why.
Umm, iPods are MP3 players, Apple never intended for them to be used as audio recorders, and they have no control over the quality of third party dongles.
Your argument is similar to saying Sony has limited the PS2's cookie baking ability so that the cookies taste like garbage even on the best of days. Check out an oven with real cookie baking skillz!
I'm sorry but I don't associate a compass with local searches, The word Local is much better, I can read 10 links in the same time it takes to move the mouse over 1 icon to figure out what it does.
The compass is just a googlified version of the safari icon, googlex is/wasn't made to be usable, it was made to be cute.
"Taking attendance takes time. 10 minutes a day..."
All teachers I've had have taken attendace while the class is doing something else, like checking the answers to homework against a key projected on the wall. And no teacher could possibly spend 10 minutes taking attendance unless the class had say 150 students.
IRC, we humans use only a small percentage of our brains.
Thats asolute bullcrap, check this out. Why would we evolve such a big brain if it was mostly deadweight?
It's science thats neither good or bad, technology is how science is used. If you use the discoveries for science for evil then you have evil technology.
They just get larger then most chimps, which is not totally uncommon.
In fact about half of all chimps are larger than most chimps!
>Would you buy a car that you had to steer with two buttons rather than a wheel? If not, why not?
Interestingly enough, I use the PS2 controller's directional pad instead of the joystick for GTA. For a little turn, more of a change in heading, I do a quick tap or two, for a real turn I tap more. I only hold down a directional button if I need a sharp turn or am spinning out for fun. I guess taps don't require as much dexterity as the joystick. That makes since considering you can only push the stick about a third of an inch to the side, and that 1/3" radius circle covers a lot of directions and magnitude of turny-ness. Hee hee, turnyy-ness.
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> It's my opinion that the voting booth is really (short of violence) the ONLY tool that the population has to control their government.
That and civil disobedience, violence is always the last resort. Getting lots of people to use absentee ballots will do much more than slaughtering pollsters.
> It's my opinion that the voting booth is really (short of violence) the ONLY tool that the population has to control their government. That and civil disobedience, violence is always a lsat resort. Getting lots of people to use absentee ballots will do much more than slaughtering pollsters or what ever.
The problem with "Windows Yardstick Edition" is that it rots and snaps in half after a few weeks of use unless the user coats it with sealant (firewall), and picks out termites and fungus (spyware and viruses). Unfortunately, most users don't know how to properly maintain their yardstick.
With The Laser Assisted Linux Measurement System, it takes more work to get it up and running, but once its going you can use it without more work. If you need to install a new system of measurements however, it usually will be more difficult than drawing new lines onto Windows Yardstick Edition.
In the end, if the user can take good care of his yard stick and it gets the job done well enough, he has no reason to switch to Linux.