I have one of those. Half of his slides are only half-filled out but because he's projecting them on a wall he can't completely fill them out. Of course, the version he puts online (if you can even manage to open the.pptx without breaking everything) isn't complete either. We're just expected to memorize everything he says. And the parts he doesn't say we're also expected to know (he's from another university where apparently Theoretical CS is vastly different from how it is at mine).
Oh, and he tends to confuse himself whenever he writes something on the blackboard. It's not helpful for the students when the lecturer himself has no idea what he's currently doing or why he's doing it.
Yeah, that "fill out the slides as I go along" thing really doesn't work that well nowadays. I'd much prefer a lecturer that completely ignores slides but instead gives you a thorough script.
Depends on the house. My brother currently lives in the States and the two houses he's lived in so far haven't been particularly big. However, they have been of the "wood frame with thin walls" variety (the second one having been upgraded to "mineral wool with wood around it").
The difference in philosophy is pretty striking. Americans coming to Germany marvel over how we can live with our comparatively diminutive fridges, ovens and TV sets while Germans coming to the States marvel over things like leach fields and single-pane windows. Interestingly, both sides end up thinking of each other as backwards.
As for the heat difference: That is true, of course, but I've seen an A/C unit in Indianapolis. Granted, it was installed in a house with a ridiculously large TV set, a ridiculously large fridge, a ridiculously large truck and a ridiculously large homeowner. Maybe they were just trying really hard to be stereotypical...
When properly insulated, the houses loses its shackiness. It's the ones that consist of just wood and single-pane windows that wouldn't pass as a house over here.
As for the temperature: Proper insulation and A/C aren't mutually exclusive. I'd assume that you'd have to spend less energy for actively cooling the house when you don't have lots of heat coming in through every wall and window. For example, according to Wikipedia (and sourced) passive house windows over here have an R value of 1.67, while single-pane windows have 0.16. That's an order of magnitude between them. (Of course triple-pane windows might already be standard in hot climates.)
However, when I hear that many houses in places like California still use antiquated buliding techniques/materials like single-pane windows I wonder how much of that air conditioning is actually neccessary. Double-pane isolated windows and a layer of mineral wool between the facade and the space inside the house could at least increase the effectiveness of the A/C, making you require less of it, thus saving energy. The best part is that there are no upkeep costs as long as you don't go around breaking your windows.
However, it's not just the climate but also the perception of what a house is suposed to be worth. I'm not entirely sure how the Dutch view things but for a German the average American home is a garden shack with a really nice TV set - a wood construction without ~20 cm of insulation doesn't really qualify as a house.
Proper insulation can go a long way towards lowering one's heating/cooling cost and even in the hotter regions of Germany A/C is rarely found in private homes... Unfortunately, building a house out of aerated autoclaved concrete is fairly expensive and I don't think most Americans would be cool with paying 200k dollars for a normal-sized house. Hence active cooling.
Well, People from Ontario are Americans, they just aren't Americans. As long as you don't confuse Americans with Americans there's nothing wrong with saying that some of them (unlike Americans) live in Ontario.
No access if the server goes down? Your service sounds like it's based around streaming. It's a nice idea (I especially like that you apparently charge for overall access and not per-title, which would be ridiculous), however you can't listen to the books while driving your car...
Perhaps the software could pre-buffer, well, however much you can fit into the device's memory. That way at least smartphones could play during travel, compensating for holes in the 3G network.
In other words: Don't shop. At all. I had enough DOAs (even from brands with a good reputation like ASUS) to easily exceed your limit. Fact is, every purchase is hit-and-miss; usually the hit rate far outweight the miss rate but with a bit of bad luck you can easily have a number of articles come in defective/fail shortly after purchase.
There always are scumbags but there also always are people with bad luck. There are rules to attempt and keep the former in line (like you getting back less money if the article is not in perfect condition).
Of course it does get rather suspicious if someone does return an unrealistic amount of goods. However, "two per year" is not quite enough.
Mouse - I can turn mine off with the touch of a button if I want to attach a real mouse. Not really much of a 'feature' but handy for gaming.
Actually, that's a feature of OS X, hence Apple doesn't add a physical button for it. System Preferences allows you to set up the touchpad to be deactivated if an external mouse is connected.
They just put so many photons into their laser blasts that the blasts can't move that fast anymore. In fact, if they'd put any more photons in, air friction would cause the blasts to burn up before they reach their target.
I'm not sure if the Justice Department has shroud. If it doesn't, one could hit the lawyer with something nasty like Teferi's Curse or Mana Chains - or perhaps a Mark of the Oni if we feel particularly evil (I expect Slashdot do be predominantly Blue/Green, though). I strongly advise against using Terror-style effects as those are currently banned and will get both the DCI and the DHS on your case.
By the way, does anyone know what kinds of activated effects this lawyer has? Obama didn't declare an attack and we all know that lawyers only produce lawsuits and not mana, so it has to be an activated effect.
And I just realized that a hundred bucks buy you about ten meters of tube with GOST threads so one could just invest a bit and then breathe the air of some other room. Assuming, of course, that the rest of the building is okay with the door to smoker hell being ajar.
I think I would have invested in a gas mask. I'm not sure how expensive it would be to swap out the filters often enough to be reasonably safe from the smoke but hey, better than getting my insides tarred.
I once had a university course in the seventh sub-basement of a faculty that officially doesn't exist. To get there, you'd have to cross the highway by foot, then climb down pitch-black a manhole until you hear faint cricket noises to the left (don't stop when they come from the right; that's how the hot gas vents sound before opening). You'd then have to make a leap of faith to your behind, landing on a platform with razor-sharp edges, ostensibly to keep the rats out. From there, an even darker tunnel you'd have to navigate blindly (for light would have woken the scorpions) would go on for thre and a half miles, leading directly underneath an abandoned nuclear reactor. The heat you'd feel would be from the nuclear fuel that has melted through the reactor bottom -- avoid any metallic looking surfaces. The door at the end of the tunnel would only open after you'd had a meaningful conversation in Hungarian with it, the topic of which would change daily. Finally, after navigating a constantly burning set of stairs, you'd enter the lab where you'd have to dissect a living, conscious African child before the professor would even talk to you.
The horrible part was that the course was about application programming in Visual Basic. It also started at 8:00 AM monday morning, which was a real hassle.
Your problem is not the woman. Your problem is lack of John Travolta. It's been scientifically proven that security analysts are 1000% more efficient when John Travolta is threatening to shoot them in the head while a beautiful woman is fellating them. The same should apply to other IT-type workers, however Mr. Travolta is too busy to do statistically meaningful tests.
Wasn't their business model to fund the development of successively cheaper cars through the more expensive ones? The 100k model funded the 50k model, which in turn is supposed to fund a 30k model according to Wikipedia. That plan might have actually worked if the economy didn't crash and it might be worth the bailout money to see if they can pull it of.
Apparently nobody has yet had the idea of making money by suing them for not slavishly catering to shareholder value. With lawsuits being considered a valid business concept, I'd expect that to change, though.
However, it has been pointed out that it's not sex that gets a book banned, it's homosexual content. As far as I can tell, even fairly tame books with GLBT content get their ranking removed while racier straight books don't.
The smart way would be to put in several filters for adult, violent etc. items and allow registered users to turn them on and off at will. That way it becomes a service and not a questionable practice.
If said political speech is restricted in the area the particular version of Amazon services - yes. As I pointed out in another post, companies shouldn't apply their own arbitrary rules on what's appropriate for minors and what's not. There already are rating systems for that and if Amazon cares about protecting minors they should stick to those.
And in case you mention that unrated articles would break this system: The German USK considers "unrated" to be equivalent to "adults only", a notion which Amazon could apply to everything. Bing, the children are protected and Amazon didn't impose their moral values on everyone.
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I have one of those. Half of his slides are only half-filled out but because he's projecting them on a wall he can't completely fill them out. Of course, the version he puts online (if you can even manage to open the .pptx without breaking everything) isn't complete either. We're just expected to memorize everything he says. And the parts he doesn't say we're also expected to know (he's from another university where apparently Theoretical CS is vastly different from how it is at mine).
Oh, and he tends to confuse himself whenever he writes something on the blackboard. It's not helpful for the students when the lecturer himself has no idea what he's currently doing or why he's doing it.
Yeah, that "fill out the slides as I go along" thing really doesn't work that well nowadays. I'd much prefer a lecturer that completely ignores slides but instead gives you a thorough script.
Looks like a derivative of Jika-tabi to me.
Depends on the house. My brother currently lives in the States and the two houses he's lived in so far haven't been particularly big. However, they have been of the "wood frame with thin walls" variety (the second one having been upgraded to "mineral wool with wood around it").
The difference in philosophy is pretty striking. Americans coming to Germany marvel over how we can live with our comparatively diminutive fridges, ovens and TV sets while Germans coming to the States marvel over things like leach fields and single-pane windows. Interestingly, both sides end up thinking of each other as backwards.
As for the heat difference: That is true, of course, but I've seen an A/C unit in Indianapolis. Granted, it was installed in a house with a ridiculously large TV set, a ridiculously large fridge, a ridiculously large truck and a ridiculously large homeowner. Maybe they were just trying really hard to be stereotypical...
When properly insulated, the houses loses its shackiness. It's the ones that consist of just wood and single-pane windows that wouldn't pass as a house over here.
As for the temperature: Proper insulation and A/C aren't mutually exclusive. I'd assume that you'd have to spend less energy for actively cooling the house when you don't have lots of heat coming in through every wall and window. For example, according to Wikipedia (and sourced) passive house windows over here have an R value of 1.67, while single-pane windows have 0.16. That's an order of magnitude between them. (Of course triple-pane windows might already be standard in hot climates.)
However, when I hear that many houses in places like California still use antiquated buliding techniques/materials like single-pane windows I wonder how much of that air conditioning is actually neccessary. Double-pane isolated windows and a layer of mineral wool between the facade and the space inside the house could at least increase the effectiveness of the A/C, making you require less of it, thus saving energy. The best part is that there are no upkeep costs as long as you don't go around breaking your windows.
However, it's not just the climate but also the perception of what a house is suposed to be worth. I'm not entirely sure how the Dutch view things but for a German the average American home is a garden shack with a really nice TV set - a wood construction without ~20 cm of insulation doesn't really qualify as a house.
Proper insulation can go a long way towards lowering one's heating/cooling cost and even in the hotter regions of Germany A/C is rarely found in private homes... Unfortunately, building a house out of aerated autoclaved concrete is fairly expensive and I don't think most Americans would be cool with paying 200k dollars for a normal-sized house. Hence active cooling.
Well, People from Ontario are Americans, they just aren't Americans. As long as you don't confuse Americans with Americans there's nothing wrong with saying that some of them (unlike Americans) live in Ontario.
There's a >slightly more up-to-date diagram on the Pirate Party's site that might be interesting to follow over the next few days.
Just look at those numbers! IPRED being implemented in Sweden has caused a considerable increase in members but it's positively dwarfed by this.
No access if the server goes down? Your service sounds like it's based around streaming. It's a nice idea (I especially like that you apparently charge for overall access and not per-title, which would be ridiculous), however you can't listen to the books while driving your car...
Perhaps the software could pre-buffer, well, however much you can fit into the device's memory. That way at least smartphones could play during travel, compensating for holes in the 3G network.
In other words: Don't shop. At all. I had enough DOAs (even from brands with a good reputation like ASUS) to easily exceed your limit. Fact is, every purchase is hit-and-miss; usually the hit rate far outweight the miss rate but with a bit of bad luck you can easily have a number of articles come in defective/fail shortly after purchase.
There always are scumbags but there also always are people with bad luck. There are rules to attempt and keep the former in line (like you getting back less money if the article is not in perfect condition).
Of course it does get rather suspicious if someone does return an unrealistic amount of goods. However, "two per year" is not quite enough.
How about backups? It's a digital format so I expect to be able to format-shift.
Actually, that's a feature of OS X, hence Apple doesn't add a physical button for it. System Preferences allows you to set up the touchpad to be deactivated if an external mouse is connected.
I'll try to condense it for you.
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They just put so many photons into their laser blasts that the blasts can't move that fast anymore. In fact, if they'd put any more photons in, air friction would cause the blasts to burn up before they reach their target.
Die, rebel scum.
I'm not sure if the Justice Department has shroud. If it doesn't, one could hit the lawyer with something nasty like Teferi's Curse or Mana Chains - or perhaps a Mark of the Oni if we feel particularly evil (I expect Slashdot do be predominantly Blue/Green, though). I strongly advise against using Terror-style effects as those are currently banned and will get both the DCI and the DHS on your case.
By the way, does anyone know what kinds of activated effects this lawyer has? Obama didn't declare an attack and we all know that lawyers only produce lawsuits and not mana, so it has to be an activated effect.
And I just realized that a hundred bucks buy you about ten meters of tube with GOST threads so one could just invest a bit and then breathe the air of some other room. Assuming, of course, that the rest of the building is okay with the door to smoker hell being ajar.
I think I would have invested in a gas mask. I'm not sure how expensive it would be to swap out the filters often enough to be reasonably safe from the smoke but hey, better than getting my insides tarred.
It also gives you a good, solid freak image.
I once had a university course in the seventh sub-basement of a faculty that officially doesn't exist. To get there, you'd have to cross the highway by foot, then climb down pitch-black a manhole until you hear faint cricket noises to the left (don't stop when they come from the right; that's how the hot gas vents sound before opening). You'd then have to make a leap of faith to your behind, landing on a platform with razor-sharp edges, ostensibly to keep the rats out. From there, an even darker tunnel you'd have to navigate blindly (for light would have woken the scorpions) would go on for thre and a half miles, leading directly underneath an abandoned nuclear reactor. The heat you'd feel would be from the nuclear fuel that has melted through the reactor bottom -- avoid any metallic looking surfaces. The door at the end of the tunnel would only open after you'd had a meaningful conversation in Hungarian with it, the topic of which would change daily. Finally, after navigating a constantly burning set of stairs, you'd enter the lab where you'd have to dissect a living, conscious African child before the professor would even talk to you.
The horrible part was that the course was about application programming in Visual Basic. It also started at 8:00 AM monday morning, which was a real hassle.
Your problem is not the woman. Your problem is lack of John Travolta. It's been scientifically proven that security analysts are 1000% more efficient when John Travolta is threatening to shoot them in the head while a beautiful woman is fellating them. The same should apply to other IT-type workers, however Mr. Travolta is too busy to do statistically meaningful tests.
Wasn't their business model to fund the development of successively cheaper cars through the more expensive ones? The 100k model funded the 50k model, which in turn is supposed to fund a 30k model according to Wikipedia. That plan might have actually worked if the economy didn't crash and it might be worth the bailout money to see if they can pull it of.
Apparently nobody has yet had the idea of making money by suing them for not slavishly catering to shareholder value. With lawsuits being considered a valid business concept, I'd expect that to change, though.
For me the artifacts completely ruin the 3D effect. It's almost plastic but just almost. Actually it's a bit weird to look at.
However, it has been pointed out that it's not sex that gets a book banned, it's homosexual content. As far as I can tell, even fairly tame books with GLBT content get their ranking removed while racier straight books don't.
The smart way would be to put in several filters for adult, violent etc. items and allow registered users to turn them on and off at will. That way it becomes a service and not a questionable practice.
If said political speech is restricted in the area the particular version of Amazon services - yes. As I pointed out in another post, companies shouldn't apply their own arbitrary rules on what's appropriate for minors and what's not. There already are rating systems for that and if Amazon cares about protecting minors they should stick to those.
And in case you mention that unrated articles would break this system: The German USK considers "unrated" to be equivalent to "adults only", a notion which Amazon could apply to everything. Bing, the children are protected and Amazon didn't impose their moral values on everyone.