Around the mediterranean, this is common, and doesn't need fancy photovoltaics. There's a pipe snaked back and forth down an angled black-painted panel on the roof with plexiglass in front, which circulates to the hot water tank in the house (or on the roof). An backup electric water heater is controlled by a switch on the wall for having hot water in the morning.
Bear in mind that the plants are grown with petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides, petroleum-powered vehicles transport the waste to the oil cracker, the heat and immense pressure have to come from somewhere. It's rather inefficient, and a stretch to say that the technology by itself would solve problems.
Tax cuts for the business owners in the US has indeed been followed by job growth for the poor. Unfortunately, those poor are in South Asia.
Also, $61k in assets does sound fairly affluent, when you remember to subtract liabilities such as student loans, mortgage, credit card debt, and car loans from your assets.
The farmers are in the top 10% because they're sitting on increasingly valuable land that can only make so much when used for food production. It's totally nonliquid unless they sell out to ADM or a tract home developer. The federal assistance ensures that we have farmland and farmers around in case we need to stop importing so much of our food for some reason.
How about the difference between Quake 4 and Quake 1? Is that really a decade of progress?
Does Dead Rising allow the same richness of interaction with the environment that any Infocom text adventure did?
Great advancements are being made in gameplay today (the Wii controller being a very visible example among many), but there's a lot of rehashed shiny same-old as well. Sort of like how there are some great films being made today, but a surprising number of outright remakes of old B-movies with better VFX.
Bias and accuracy are connected to the extent that the bias influences the conclusion drawn from a given set of data. It's possible for a biased person to present facts accurately, even when those facts are in domains in which that person is biased. But if there is a significant bias that is relevant to the reasoning process, the conclusion may be incorrect.
The thing is, Groklaw has both sides of the coin - a shrill, unabashedly partisan editorial policy; and an obsessive interest in collating, transcribing, and exhaustively dissecting the original sources (it's thanks to a Groklaw regular that the terms of the original BSD settlement became public, for example). Coupled with the track record of PJ's predictions in the case being not only mostly right on, but several moves ahead of the game, and I tend to take her opinions quite seriously, even when I don't agree with her.
If you have to invest months to be able to finish an otherwise 10 hour game, most people will just get frustrated and hate it.
I've been playing nethack for years and never even gotten to the Quest, with games that take a week to play able to be wiped out in a single bad move. Experts can routinely ascend an arbitrary character in a few hours.
The intent of terrorists is to incite terror in order to bring about change.
Actually, the object of terrorism as spelled out by its ideologues is to provoke increasingly outrageous responses from your enemy, undermining their credibility and political support from their citizens and the community of nations. It appears to be working very well in many parts of the world.
one of their major investors (Canopy Group) has been engaged in a shady-looking shell game with large amounts of cash among its wholly owned subsidiaries
there are large undisclosed sources of funding (PIPE deal)
some of the major visible SCO investors appear to have been coerced into their investements by Microsoft
SCO cut a multi-million dollar UNIX licensing deal with MS of dubious utility towards the beginning of this lawsuit
many observers believe the stock price is being manipulated by insiders on an ongoing basis to prop up the price
SCOSOurce appears to stand a reasonable chance of meeting the standard of criminal fraud
any/all of the following are possible:
The SEC or federal prosecutors go after SCO/Canopy insiders
The SEC or federal prosecutors go after SCO's lawyers
IBM shows sufficient evidence of shenanigans to go after SCO insiders and/or lawyers personally
IBM pierces the corporate veil, follows the money, and goes after SCO's backers in this lawsuit
Furthermore, if Novell's fully-briefed request for a constructive trust of SCO's money is granted, SCO goes immediately into bankruptcy, and the trustees are likely to be a lot more conciliatory towards IBM/Novell/Red Hat, and may provide smoking guns/favorable settlement terms voluntarily.
Picture this (stolen from a previous, inspiring, slashdot comment):
When your lightsaber collides with your opponents', the onscreen avatar's lightsaber stops, while a ghosted version reflecting the controller position is displayed. What happens next is determined by the spatial relationship between the ghosted lightsaber and the real one, by rules TBD in playtesting.
Some of us, such as myself, have crippled senses of smell. Often I can't smell anything
I've always been interested by the fact that there's no common equivalent of "blind" or "deaf" that refers to a deficient sense of smell. Do you find that not being able to smell interferes much with your ability to get around in the world, aside from enjoyment of food?
An olfaction researcher recently told me the technical term is "anosmia," which is a pretty cool word.
Funny, PC games seem to have nice HD-res graphics and fit on a DVD or two. Unless we're talking about 1080p cutscenes, and that doesn't really have much to do with the game itself.
Yea, that cute lil panda WWF sticker on your 20 year old carbon beltching Volvo is really saving the world there asshole.
You get those panda stickers when you donate moeny to the WWF, which uses it to buy land and run research and conservation programs. At least pick on something totally useless, like "Practice random senseless acts" bumper stickers.
It does, under Windows. And for $800 less than Dell for Dual 2.6 Woodcrests, your aftermarket video card, OEM Windows license, and 10k SATA drive budget is built right in.
Nope, their fees were capped to a flat rate some time ago. Some observers have noted that this was accompanied by a precipitous drop in the quality of writing evident in their motion papers.
1. They WON US vs. MS. It was the justice dept. that backed off.
2. Granted. However, I don't know that any lawyers would have won in that specific set of circumstances. I think that Gore took entirely the wrong approach out of the gate, though - a position of "look, 500 votes one way or the other is a sampling error, and the people have spoken through the popular vote." would have gotten him a lot more traction than wussing out.
3. As I've said in my other comments, it's precisely the sleaziness, and their success in keeping SCO in court, that makes them so good. It takes skill and cojones to defy three court orders to hand over evidence and state your allegations over a period of years. Yes, they'll lose, and SCO will go down in flames. Hopefully, criminal charges against officers, disbarment for the lawyers, piercing of the Canopy corporate veil, revelation of the PIPE fairy's identity, SEC action, and salting of the fields of Linden will result eventually. That it didn't happen in 2004/2005 is the win.
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Around the mediterranean, this is common, and doesn't need fancy photovoltaics. There's a pipe snaked back and forth down an angled black-painted panel on the roof with plexiglass in front, which circulates to the hot water tank in the house (or on the roof). An backup electric water heater is controlled by a switch on the wall for having hot water in the morning.
Bear in mind that the plants are grown with petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides, petroleum-powered vehicles transport the waste to the oil cracker, the heat and immense pressure have to come from somewhere. It's rather inefficient, and a stretch to say that the technology by itself would solve problems.
If you type on that $2200 laptop while sitting on a $500k mortgage, you have ($497,800) in assets.
Also, $61k in assets does sound fairly affluent, when you remember to subtract liabilities such as student loans, mortgage, credit card debt, and car loans from your assets.
The farmers are in the top 10% because they're sitting on increasingly valuable land that can only make so much when used for food production. It's totally nonliquid unless they sell out to ADM or a tract home developer. The federal assistance ensures that we have farmland and farmers around in case we need to stop importing so much of our food for some reason.
Does Dead Rising allow the same richness of interaction with the environment that any Infocom text adventure did?
Great advancements are being made in gameplay today (the Wii controller being a very visible example among many), but there's a lot of rehashed shiny same-old as well. Sort of like how there are some great films being made today, but a surprising number of outright remakes of old B-movies with better VFX.
The thing is, Groklaw has both sides of the coin - a shrill, unabashedly partisan editorial policy; and an obsessive interest in collating, transcribing, and exhaustively dissecting the original sources (it's thanks to a Groklaw regular that the terms of the original BSD settlement became public, for example). Coupled with the track record of PJ's predictions in the case being not only mostly right on, but several moves ahead of the game, and I tend to take her opinions quite seriously, even when I don't agree with her.
Because of the fifth amendment, what you report on those forms cannot be used against you.
I've been playing nethack for years and never even gotten to the Quest, with games that take a week to play able to be wiped out in a single bad move. Experts can routinely ascend an arbitrary character in a few hours.
Actually, the object of terrorism as spelled out by its ideologues is to provoke increasingly outrageous responses from your enemy, undermining their credibility and political support from their citizens and the community of nations. It appears to be working very well in many parts of the world.
- the lawyers were partially paid in stock,
- one of their major investors (Canopy Group) has been engaged in a shady-looking shell game with large amounts of cash among its wholly owned subsidiaries
- there are large undisclosed sources of funding (PIPE deal)
- some of the major visible SCO investors appear to have been coerced into their investements by Microsoft
- SCO cut a multi-million dollar UNIX licensing deal with MS of dubious utility towards the beginning of this lawsuit
- many observers believe the stock price is being manipulated by insiders on an ongoing basis to prop up the price
- SCOSOurce appears to stand a reasonable chance of meeting the standard of criminal fraud
any/all of the following are possible:- The SEC or federal prosecutors go after SCO/Canopy insiders
- The SEC or federal prosecutors go after SCO's lawyers
- IBM shows sufficient evidence of shenanigans to go after SCO insiders and/or lawyers personally
- IBM pierces the corporate veil, follows the money, and goes after SCO's backers in this lawsuit
Furthermore, if Novell's fully-briefed request for a constructive trust of SCO's money is granted, SCO goes immediately into bankruptcy, and the trustees are likely to be a lot more conciliatory towards IBM/Novell/Red Hat, and may provide smoking guns/favorable settlement terms voluntarily.Scratch that, _hell no_.
You've been watching too many cop shows. "Getting off on a technicality" is what keeps the police honest, and needs to be vigorously defended.
a little tan in a can, hair dye, and 5 minutes with some clippers will get you close enough that nobody's going to look beyond the uniform.
yes.
When your lightsaber collides with your opponents', the onscreen avatar's lightsaber stops, while a ghosted version reflecting the controller position is displayed. What happens next is determined by the spatial relationship between the ghosted lightsaber and the real one, by rules TBD in playtesting.
I've always been interested by the fact that there's no common equivalent of "blind" or "deaf" that refers to a deficient sense of smell. Do you find that not being able to smell interferes much with your ability to get around in the world, aside from enjoyment of food?
An olfaction researcher recently told me the technical term is "anosmia," which is a pretty cool word.
Funny, PC games seem to have nice HD-res graphics and fit on a DVD or two. Unless we're talking about 1080p cutscenes, and that doesn't really have much to do with the game itself.
...but the mine with the properly contaminated ore would still be exhausted, and we still wouldn't be able to make any.
You get those panda stickers when you donate moeny to the WWF, which uses it to buy land and run research and conservation programs. At least pick on something totally useless, like "Practice random senseless acts" bumper stickers.
No, we need an educated ELECTORATE, and an end to the social more against talking politics if you're not on TV.
You don't juggle, do you?
Thanks, I'll be here all week.
Not necessarily. I know some guys developing an XBox live arcade game on the cheap after work, and the part where MS said OK already happened.
It does, under Windows. And for $800 less than Dell for Dual 2.6 Woodcrests, your aftermarket video card, OEM Windows license, and 10k SATA drive budget is built right in.
Nope, their fees were capped to a flat rate some time ago. Some observers have noted that this was accompanied by a precipitous drop in the quality of writing evident in their motion papers.
2. Granted. However, I don't know that any lawyers would have won in that specific set of circumstances. I think that Gore took entirely the wrong approach out of the gate, though - a position of "look, 500 votes one way or the other is a sampling error, and the people have spoken through the popular vote." would have gotten him a lot more traction than wussing out.
3. As I've said in my other comments, it's precisely the sleaziness, and their success in keeping SCO in court, that makes them so good. It takes skill and cojones to defy three court orders to hand over evidence and state your allegations over a period of years. Yes, they'll lose, and SCO will go down in flames. Hopefully, criminal charges against officers, disbarment for the lawyers, piercing of the Canopy corporate veil, revelation of the PIPE fairy's identity, SEC action, and salting of the fields of Linden will result eventually. That it didn't happen in 2004/2005 is the win.
SCO vs. world was a sacrifice bunt.