It was the beginning of the first book in the Foundation series, and it wasn't merely a two-hour speech that was analyzed, it was every word the diplomat uttered during his entire visit.
Probably one of the Pacific Northwest utilities that didn't invest in WPPSS. Hydroelectric dams have very low generating costs, and the demand for aluminum in World War II meant that the construction costs for all the dams on the Columbia River and tributaries were paid off by 1945.
On the other hand, RTG rovers have a fixed lifespan. A solar rover can keep going until the mechanical parts fail or funding runs out, while a RTG rover will stop running when the radioactive material decays too far.
Actually, blocking would still be fairly easy. The standard banner ad and tower ad dimensions aren't even close to useful image sizes for anything else, so if you block everything with dimensions +/- 20 pixels of the standard sizes, the vast majority of what you'll hit are ads. Because of content layout restrictions, it would be very hard for advertisers to go outside those bounds without breaking most of the sites they show ads on.
Actually, proper production of a fiction book requires at least three people: the author, the editor who spots the author's mistakes, and the typesetter who formats it for the target medium. It's a rare author who can format a book for printing, and any author needs an outside reader to point out mistakes the author made but can't see because he's too familiar with the story.
An ebook doesn't have the printing and distribution costs of a paper book, but the publisher still needs to advertise it -- even more so than for paper books, since paper gets some free advertising just from being on a shelf in a bookstore. I wouldn't expect the price of ebooks to be lower than 60% of paper for top-sellers, or 40% for older stuff.
Opera for PC is free. Opera for embedded systems like your phone, PDA, or Wii costs money, but usually that cost is hidden in the price of the product.
Who the hell is going to buy a 600$ piece of electronic equipment out of spite with no intention of using it?
I don't know about "spite", but it looks like the Cell processor is going to make a hell of a CPU for certain scientific computing tasks, like SETI or Folding@Home. Buy a half-dozen PS3s, and you can boost your ranking and harm Sony at the same time.
Just because you use something often doesn't mean it's an addiction.
Exactly, which is why two of the seven proposed criteria are related to withdrawl, and four out of the seven are related to the consequences of internet use. If you don't experience withdrawl if you aren't using the internet, and you're not experiencing any of the listed consequences of using the internet, you aren't addicted.
I've got a thousand-file project. Can I collect related source files in folders or other groupings, or does everything get piled into the top level of the project?
Has it improved over the past few years? The last time I tried it, it was the worst IDE I'd ever used, missing certain useful features like the ability to group source files, and the documentation was so bad I actually knew more about using it before I read the fucking manual.
Seriously -- what's the car *behind you* going to do? Ram your bumper? He's going 70, you're going 75, he speeds up and rams you?
The situations I've been involved in, it's been a case of "I'm going 75, he's going well upwards of a hundred." If the guy behind me hits me at that speed, there's no way I'll keep control, and all of a sudden it's "I'm going 90, the bridge abutment is going 0".
Not in the volumes needed to extinguish a burning battery:
* Water may be used to extinguish packaging fires if batteries have not ruptured; water is not an effective extinguishing agent for a battery fire.
As it says, water is not effective if the battery itself is burning.
* For small fires involving the battery [extinguishing] media such as Lith-X or copper powder may be used, but should be applied with a long handled tool. Do not use CO2 or Halon directly on a battery fire as the exposed surface of the contained lithium may react with these materials.
Airplane fire extinguishers are almost universally halon-based, as halons don't corrode aircraft components, and they work at low concentrations: you can do things like discharge an extingusher into a running engine, or put out a fire in the cockpit without suffocating the pilots.
* For larger fires involving lithium batteries, copious amounts of water may be applied, from a safe distance, to control the fire and protect adjacent materials and facilities
Here, "copious amounts of water" means the sort of water flow that a pumper truck attached to a hydrant can provide.
Plain old rope wouldn't last too long. Between the extreme heat, the extreme cold, the vacuum, and the heavy dose of ultraviolet, an ordinary rope would go stiff or brittle within a few days at most.
For similar reasons, I noticed I'm losing the ability to play console RPGs.
I recently picked up Star Ocean 3 on the cheap (I'm a bottom feeder, what can I say?) and I'm not sure I'm going to be able to finish it. I'm still in the first sixth of the game and already there was a dungeon I barely could get to the next save point before I had to stop anyhow. I'm nervous that this game, which I otherwise enjoy so far, is going to throw a required three+ hours to the save point at me, and that's going to require me like blocking out weekend time... if I bother. (At least this doesn't have random battles making the backtrack time to a save point indeterminate, and the enemies do chase you down but they didn't do the cheap shit with them unavoidably jumping at you; look, if you're not doing random encounters, roll with it, don't try to sneak them in the back door!)
That's why I only ever play CRPGs on console emulators. Don't have a savepoint handy? Just pause the emulator and save the current state.
40 people? thats not that many. its just as likely that they got the really good drivers drunk and all the shiat drivers were handed cell phones.
not that i doubt the conclusion, or anything. i hate cellphone-talking drivers. i'm just saying that 40 is kind of a small sample size for something being touted so much by the anti-cellphone-while-driving peoples.
If you look at the study methodology, it's quite large enough. They didn't divide it up into several smaller groups, they tested each participant under four different conditions: undistracted, talking on a hand-held phone, talking on a hands-free phone, and drunk.
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It was the beginning of the first book in the Foundation series, and it wasn't merely a two-hour speech that was analyzed, it was every word the diplomat uttered during his entire visit.
Probably one of the Pacific Northwest utilities that didn't invest in WPPSS. Hydroelectric dams have very low generating costs, and the demand for aluminum in World War II meant that the construction costs for all the dams on the Columbia River and tributaries were paid off by 1945.
It's in the FAQ: Crossfire produces a slight slowdown right now. In the future, it might be possible to use the GPUs independantly.
But if you're saying where you want the thousand pounds of grammar textbooks to be dropped, it's "Here! Here!"
On the other hand, RTG rovers have a fixed lifespan. A solar rover can keep going until the mechanical parts fail or funding runs out, while a RTG rover will stop running when the radioactive material decays too far.
Actually, blocking would still be fairly easy. The standard banner ad and tower ad dimensions aren't even close to useful image sizes for anything else, so if you block everything with dimensions +/- 20 pixels of the standard sizes, the vast majority of what you'll hit are ads. Because of content layout restrictions, it would be very hard for advertisers to go outside those bounds without breaking most of the sites they show ads on.
The disconnect for an ebook is eyestrain from the backlight. Which is why my chosen ebook reader (a Zire 21) doesn't have a backlight.
Actually, proper production of a fiction book requires at least three people: the author, the editor who spots the author's mistakes, and the typesetter who formats it for the target medium. It's a rare author who can format a book for printing, and any author needs an outside reader to point out mistakes the author made but can't see because he's too familiar with the story.
An ebook doesn't have the printing and distribution costs of a paper book, but the publisher still needs to advertise it -- even more so than for paper books, since paper gets some free advertising just from being on a shelf in a bookstore. I wouldn't expect the price of ebooks to be lower than 60% of paper for top-sellers, or 40% for older stuff.
Opera for PC is free. Opera for embedded systems like your phone, PDA, or Wii costs money, but usually that cost is hidden in the price of the product.
I don't know about "spite", but it looks like the Cell processor is going to make a hell of a CPU for certain scientific computing tasks, like SETI or Folding@Home. Buy a half-dozen PS3s, and you can boost your ranking and harm Sony at the same time.
Exactly, which is why two of the seven proposed criteria are related to withdrawl, and four out of the seven are related to the consequences of internet use. If you don't experience withdrawl if you aren't using the internet, and you're not experiencing any of the listed consequences of using the internet, you aren't addicted.
You can view via TOR all you want, you just can't edit -- and that may change in the future, so that already-registered users can edit via TOR.
I've got a thousand-file project. Can I collect related source files in folders or other groupings, or does everything get piled into the top level of the project?
Has it improved over the past few years? The last time I tried it, it was the worst IDE I'd ever used, missing certain useful features like the ability to group source files, and the documentation was so bad I actually knew more about using it before I read the fucking manual.
It's all fun and games until someone hits a stack underflow.
The situations I've been involved in, it's been a case of "I'm going 75, he's going well upwards of a hundred." If the guy behind me hits me at that speed, there's no way I'll keep control, and all of a sudden it's "I'm going 90, the bridge abutment is going 0".
It can't possibly be electronic music. That would require it to be music in the first place.
The law has this concept called "intent". It's not just what you do that matters, it's why you do it.
Your kernel doesn't use modular drivers? Is that normal for SUSE?
Got a link to the virus? Running Opera on Linux always means I miss out on the good stuff. :-)
Not in the volumes needed to extinguish a burning battery:
As it says, water is not effective if the battery itself is burning.
Airplane fire extinguishers are almost universally halon-based, as halons don't corrode aircraft components, and they work at low concentrations: you can do things like discharge an extingusher into a running engine, or put out a fire in the cockpit without suffocating the pilots.
Here, "copious amounts of water" means the sort of water flow that a pumper truck attached to a hydrant can provide.
Plain old rope wouldn't last too long. Between the extreme heat, the extreme cold, the vacuum, and the heavy dose of ultraviolet, an ordinary rope would go stiff or brittle within a few days at most.
That's why I only ever play CRPGs on console emulators. Don't have a savepoint handy? Just pause the emulator and save the current state.
No, but the previous owner did, and removing the trailer hitch would have been too much effort.
If you look at the study methodology, it's quite large enough. They didn't divide it up into several smaller groups, they tested each participant under four different conditions: undistracted, talking on a hand-held phone, talking on a hands-free phone, and drunk.