If you're carrying a 50lb pack and you're not in the military, you're badly overloaded. My standard pack load is 30 pounds, not counting food and water. Add two pounds for each day's food, and two pounds for each quart of water.
It's to prove you have physical possession of the card: 1) It's on the back, so you can't get it by photographing the card 2) It's not in the magstripe, so you can't get it from a reader 3) It's not in raised numbers, so you can't get it by making a carbon impression of the card
River silt is a very low-density material, with a high percentage of water. As long as the river floods on a regular basis, fresh silt deposits will more than replace erosional losses, and will keep the water content up. New Orleans was originally built at the mouth of the Mississippi River, but 300+ years of silt has extended the river almost a hundred miles past it.
Wall off the plains with a dike and start building on them, and the land will start sinking. Since the river no longer floods, the silt will start to dry out and compact. Building makes this go faster: the extra weight squeezes water out, and pumps to keep basements dry also remove water from the soil. The net result for something like New Orleans is that the city sinks, possibly as fast as an inch or two per year.
As a side effect, silt will only be deposited at the mouth of the river, and the river delta will get longer but not wider, reducing the protection against storm surge.
It varies a great deal by location. When I was in elementary school in Washington state, kindergarten was entirely optional, and it was only by third grade that you had to be registered with a public school, private school, or homeschooling.
Actually, this is quite good for the "extreme cooling" types. Right now, if you want peltier+watercooling, you need two power supplies: one for the peltier element, and one for the rest of the computer. A thousand-watt PSU will be able to power the entire system at the same time.
The search algorithm is just a minor part of running a search engine. The key part, which Google has down pat, is getting the results from a metric buttload of web pages, doing it fast, and doing it for a very large number of people at once.
Well, one obvious use is for open-heart surgery -- that goes a whole lot easier if you can stop the heart, and heart-lung machines aren't perfect. I think the first human trials will be volunteers who are additionally undergoing major surgery.
I've got a Zire 21 (black and white screen, no backlight), and it's quite good for ebooks. The lack of a backlight means that it gets 12-18 hours of reading off a single charge, and the black-and-white screen looks crisper than a color display. I've got an LED headlamp I use if I need extra lighting.
I read ebooks on a PDA, so 20-30 pages per minute is quite reasonable. Of course, that also means that books are between 5000 and 15,000 pages long....
Those will run 68k Classic apps. The problem is PPC Classic apps: anything compiled explicitly for MacOS 8 or MacOS 9 will not run - PearPC is just too slow.
If I'm mugged, the guy now has a $99 PDA with a few ebooks on it. Without the master password, it's not practical to access the encrypted usernames and passwords. I go to ebay and buy a new PDA, and upload my password list to it from the encrypted backup on my computer hard drive.
I went high-tech. I'm using software called "Keyring" on a Palm Zire 21 PDA. It protects my password list using triple-DES encryption, and I'm using a 25-character passphrase.
It's also smaller and easier to carry around than a notebook.
My experience with grocery stores is that it runs the other way: the store in the poor neighborhood charges *more*, as a poorer customer either doesn't have the time or doesn't have the tranportation to shop around.
The Jedi will, using the Force, notice that all three are about to fire. At this point, he has a number of options: 1) Jump. The average Joe can't jump high enough to clear three bullets. A Jedi can, easily. 2) Block. A Jedi using the Force is fast -- easily fast enough to deflect three bullets before they hit. 3) Dodge. Again, a Jedi is fast. Given the warning the Force provides, he can move to a point that all three bullets will miss. 4) Stop the guns from firing. One of the abilities the Force provides is telekinesis. If he can keep the triggers from moving, three guys carrying small hunks of metal can't do much. I'm sure there are other solutions, as well.
Cauterizing was the treatment of choice for traumatic amputation for several hundred years. It was very effective at stopping bleeding, and the extreme heat would kill any infection.
And yes, that means it works to seal off arteries.
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If you're carrying a 50lb pack and you're not in the military, you're badly overloaded. My standard pack load is 30 pounds, not counting food and water. Add two pounds for each day's food, and two pounds for each quart of water.
It's to prove you have physical possession of the card:
1) It's on the back, so you can't get it by photographing the card
2) It's not in the magstripe, so you can't get it from a reader
3) It's not in raised numbers, so you can't get it by making a carbon impression of the card
River silt is a very low-density material, with a high percentage of water. As long as the river floods on a regular basis, fresh silt deposits will more than replace erosional losses, and will keep the water content up. New Orleans was originally built at the mouth of the Mississippi River, but 300+ years of silt has extended the river almost a hundred miles past it.
Wall off the plains with a dike and start building on them, and the land will start sinking. Since the river no longer floods, the silt will start to dry out and compact. Building makes this go faster: the extra weight squeezes water out, and pumps to keep basements dry also remove water from the soil. The net result for something like New Orleans is that the city sinks, possibly as fast as an inch or two per year.
As a side effect, silt will only be deposited at the mouth of the river, and the river delta will get longer but not wider, reducing the protection against storm surge.
It varies a great deal by location. When I was in elementary school in Washington state, kindergarten was entirely optional, and it was only by third grade that you had to be registered with a public school, private school, or homeschooling.
Actually, this is quite good for the "extreme cooling" types. Right now, if you want peltier+watercooling, you need two power supplies: one for the peltier element, and one for the rest of the computer. A thousand-watt PSU will be able to power the entire system at the same time.
The British version works better:
"Weapons of Maths Instruction"
This isn't exactly news, either. I recall seeing reports of this in magazines like Scientific American at least fifteen years ago.
The search algorithm is just a minor part of running a search engine. The key part, which Google has down pat, is getting the results from a metric buttload of web pages, doing it fast, and doing it for a very large number of people at once.
Forget knife vs. spoon, what's important is which end you crack! Clearly, one should eat starting at the large end!
Since both countries use the metric system, the obvious choice is metric football.
I say the settle it with a friendly game of Risk and call it a day.
The Canadian article describes the island as "little larger than a football field". Clearly, the issue should be settled by a game of football.
This from the guy who has a link to a matrix scheme in his signature?
There are usually a few millimeters of unused board around the edges. Those can be cut off (carefully!) to fit the board in.
Well, one obvious use is for open-heart surgery -- that goes a whole lot easier if you can stop the heart, and heart-lung machines aren't perfect. I think the first human trials will be volunteers who are additionally undergoing major surgery.
I've got a Zire 21 (black and white screen, no backlight), and it's quite good for ebooks. The lack of a backlight means that it gets 12-18 hours of reading off a single charge, and the black-and-white screen looks crisper than a color display. I've got an LED headlamp I use if I need extra lighting.
I read ebooks on a PDA, so 20-30 pages per minute is quite reasonable. Of course, that also means that books are between 5000 and 15,000 pages long....
I checked the combined overlays. There's no obvious correlation between sex offenders and Superfund sites.
Those will run 68k Classic apps. The problem is PPC Classic apps: anything compiled explicitly for MacOS 8 or MacOS 9 will not run - PearPC is just too slow.
That's why my PDA is never connected to the internet, and all synching is done through Linux-based opensource software.
If I'm mugged, the guy now has a $99 PDA with a few ebooks on it. Without the master password, it's not practical to access the encrypted usernames and passwords. I go to ebay and buy a new PDA, and upload my password list to it from the encrypted backup on my computer hard drive.
I went high-tech. I'm using software called "Keyring" on a Palm Zire 21 PDA. It protects my password list using triple-DES encryption, and I'm using a 25-character passphrase.
It's also smaller and easier to carry around than a notebook.
My experience with grocery stores is that it runs the other way: the store in the poor neighborhood charges *more*, as a poorer customer either doesn't have the time or doesn't have the tranportation to shop around.
Nice math there. I wish it worked.
I live in the downtown area of a city of a quarter-million people. I have two options for internet access:
1) $56/mo for cable internet
2) Dialup
$300 will pay the *connection costs* of cable.
The Jedi will, using the Force, notice that all three are about to fire. At this point, he has a number of options:
1) Jump. The average Joe can't jump high enough to clear three bullets. A Jedi can, easily.
2) Block. A Jedi using the Force is fast -- easily fast enough to deflect three bullets before they hit.
3) Dodge. Again, a Jedi is fast. Given the warning the Force provides, he can move to a point that all three bullets will miss.
4) Stop the guns from firing. One of the abilities the Force provides is telekinesis. If he can keep the triggers from moving, three guys carrying small hunks of metal can't do much.
I'm sure there are other solutions, as well.
Cauterizing was the treatment of choice for traumatic amputation for several hundred years. It was very effective at stopping bleeding, and the extreme heat would kill any infection.
And yes, that means it works to seal off arteries.