In fact, a large portion of all sunlight that reaches the surface of the Earth (almost a third) is reflected back into space. By absorbing that energy and using for other purposes, you increase the net heat of the Earth.
This question would be much easier to answer if you could provide us with some insight as to why they dislike VB. Otherwise, we're just guessing.
Personally, I think VB.NET is an excellent beginner's language. It is simply easier to quickly get to the "making windows programs" stage (which is the interesting part) than Perl or Python. The syntax is more human-readable than java or C#, but is instructive for good technique since it supports full proper OOP. Finally, the rich framework and ability to build web apps is icing.
Do not mod parent up. He is a Sony astroturfer. He posts the same reworded BS on *every* *single* story remotely related to the XBox. He is not a developer because no developer could possibly spend so much time monitoring Slashdot and composing posts while still staying employed.
For what it's worth, this is basically what Jeffrey Dahmer did in real life. Since the shows strive for some measure of realism, it's not that far out of bounds to import real-life events into their dramas.
If --as you say-- in a competitive market price approaches cost, and you artificially inflate cost... guess what happens to price?
It's not your costs you would have to artificially inflate, it's the costs of your competitors. Otherwise, they'll stay in the market, pricing their products below yours, and you'll go out of business.
Never took an econ course, did you? In a competitive market, price is a function of two things: supply and demand. It is in no way a function of cost. (In a highly competitive market, price approaches actual cost.) Cost is merely a factor in determining whether the market will be entered at all. What Microsoft is doing is eating into the profits of accessory manufacturers, but the manufacturers can't pass that along unless they all collude to do so, because whichever one doesn't will capture most of the market.
I remember being amazed that Photonix on the IIgs could do a complete disc-to-disc copy with only one disk swap! And it had the awesome Axel F theme song.
Are you approaching both of these languages from a tabula rasa beginning? Otherwise, don't you think that your own background and prior knowledge are a significant factor in you finding one easier/faster to use than the other?
I really think that objectively, they are very evenly matched. (On the issue of cross-platform support, that's really a function in both cases of whether your users have installed your class libraries, whether python/GTK or (mono/MS.NET)/(GTK/Winforms).)
The poster simply pointed out that regardless of what press releases Yahoo may make, people are likely to stick with google.
Why? Before there was Google, a lot of people used Yahoo. Then Google was better, so people used Google. If Yahoo becomes better again, guess what? People will use Yahoo.
Don't be stupid. 12 and 60 are great for division, but they're not as good for multiplication.
You don't get it. That's only because we currently use base10 numbers. For example, suppose you want to multiply 12-base10 by 4-base10. You claim this is inconvenient because it comes to 48-base10. But in base-12 numbering, it would be 40. 12-base10 is written as 10. So then, of course, one Gross, or 144-base10, is 100-base12.
Usually, the proposed additional numerals are "X" (pronounced "dek" or "ten") for 10-base10, and "E" (written like a backwards "3" and pronunced "ell" or "elf" for 11-base10.
Of course, you're right, the path-dependency or "QWERTY" effect would be almost impossible to overcome. It would be better, though. Much better than base10 time.
But the metric system is not as well adapted to fractional operations as the English system, which is based mostly on multiples of 2, 3, 4, and 6. Frankly, base-10 is a crappy number base and we only use it because that's what everyone knows.
The ideal system would be a metric system in base-12, (using base-12 numerals), because it would be as convenient as the current metric system for multiplying by the base, but also evenly divisble by 2, 3, 4, and 6 like the English system.
On a personal note, the thing I find annoying about the metric system is the lack of a standard unit of measurement between centimeters and meters.
Step 1: You need a DV camera that has video pass-through. This feature is only found on some camcorders, though many affordable consumer cams do have it. (I know that my Panasonic PV-GS 120 has it, and it wasn't too expensive.) This feature encodes incoming video from a video input or from the lens and constantly encodes and outputs the signal on the IEE1394 link.
Step 2: Get a laptop with IEEE1394 and install the biggest hard disk that you can. (External hard disks could also be used here.) Use a program like DVIO to capture the incoming DV frames and dump them to a file on your hard disk.
Presto! DV video capture limited only to the size of your disk partition.
What the hell do they do? Some fancy plug-in to run GCC under cygwin instead of CL.exe, get rid of the project and nmake files in favor of some autotool files, and then use VS as a text editor??
Don't forget that MSIL binaries run natively in Linux with mono. Maybe that's what they use. I know I've found it useful.
Deterrance is not the only rationale for punishment. There's also rehabilitation (which is obviously not applicable to the death penalty), incapacitation (you can't commit any more crimes if you're dead, hopefully), and retribution. I think most death penalty supporters care most about the last. The feeling is that our lives are the single most valuable thing that we have, and when one a criminal unjustly takes that from another, it is manifestly unjust for them to suffer any less of a loss. In other words, for justice to be satisfied, the hurt laid upon a criminal in punishment for his crimes must be at least equal in some way to the hurt laid by the criminal upon the victim. In all other cases, we can reach this level of hurt with deprivation of liberty and property, but there is no amount of liberty or property that can equal the value of the victim's life; thus the criminal must be deprived of life itself.
The issue with non-profits in the US is not about accruing "private profits" but about the type of activities pursued for the non-profit's "public benefit purpose"
The only thing this would jeopardize is your status as a charitable nonprofit, donations to which are tax deductible. You could still be a nonprofit corporation even if you were no longer a charitable organization.
Goodwill is an interesting example. They manage to do everything they do, and yet are still a nonprofit corporation, which is what Mozilla is right now. I guess I'm just not clear exactly what Mozilla plans to do as a commercial corporation that they felt they could not do as a nonprofit. Maybe they did it just for convenience, to keep the lawyers from having to figure out what is and is not succeptible to UBIT. But then the penalty is they may end up paying taxes they don't need to.
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It's not!
In fact, a large portion of all sunlight that reaches the surface of the Earth (almost a third) is reflected back into space. By absorbing that energy and using for other purposes, you increase the net heat of the Earth.
Personally, I think VB.NET is an excellent beginner's language. It is simply easier to quickly get to the "making windows programs" stage (which is the interesting part) than Perl or Python. The syntax is more human-readable than java or C#, but is instructive for good technique since it supports full proper OOP. Finally, the rich framework and ability to build web apps is icing.
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For what it's worth, this is basically what Jeffrey Dahmer did in real life. Since the shows strive for some measure of realism, it's not that far out of bounds to import real-life events into their dramas.
It's not your costs you would have to artificially inflate, it's the costs of your competitors. Otherwise, they'll stay in the market, pricing their products below yours, and you'll go out of business.
Never took an econ course, did you? In a competitive market, price is a function of two things: supply and demand. It is in no way a function of cost. (In a highly competitive market, price approaches actual cost.) Cost is merely a factor in determining whether the market will be entered at all. What Microsoft is doing is eating into the profits of accessory manufacturers, but the manufacturers can't pass that along unless they all collude to do so, because whichever one doesn't will capture most of the market.
I remember being amazed that Photonix on the IIgs could do a complete disc-to-disc copy with only one disk swap! And it had the awesome Axel F theme song.
I really think that objectively, they are very evenly matched. (On the issue of cross-platform support, that's really a function in both cases of whether your users have installed your class libraries, whether python/GTK or (mono/MS.NET)/(GTK/Winforms).)
Don't forget XBox 360 Server Edition and XBox 360 Datacenter Edition, rumored to be headlessly operable for remote text-based gaming.
Plus, since mp3s are smaller than uncompressed audio, the files weigh less.
Why? Before there was Google, a lot of people used Yahoo. Then Google was better, so people used Google. If Yahoo becomes better again, guess what? People will use Yahoo.
You don't get it. That's only because we currently use base10 numbers. For example, suppose you want to multiply 12-base10 by 4-base10. You claim this is inconvenient because it comes to 48-base10. But in base-12 numbering, it would be 40. 12-base10 is written as 10. So then, of course, one Gross, or 144-base10, is 100-base12.
Of course, you're right, the path-dependency or "QWERTY" effect would be almost impossible to overcome. It would be better, though. Much better than base10 time.
Of course. My point was that you can say the exact same thing about base-10 numbers. It's totally arbitrary and decidedly non-optimal.
Oooh! There's a penguin on the television!
They're on the shoulders, above the triggers.
The ideal system would be a metric system in base-12, (using base-12 numerals), because it would be as convenient as the current metric system for multiplying by the base, but also evenly divisble by 2, 3, 4, and 6 like the English system.
On a personal note, the thing I find annoying about the metric system is the lack of a standard unit of measurement between centimeters and meters.
Microsoft?
Step 2: Get a laptop with IEEE1394 and install the biggest hard disk that you can. (External hard disks could also be used here.) Use a program like DVIO to capture the incoming DV frames and dump them to a file on your hard disk.
Presto! DV video capture limited only to the size of your disk partition.
Don't forget that MSIL binaries run natively in Linux with mono. Maybe that's what they use. I know I've found it useful.
Deterrance is not the only rationale for punishment. There's also rehabilitation (which is obviously not applicable to the death penalty), incapacitation (you can't commit any more crimes if you're dead, hopefully), and retribution. I think most death penalty supporters care most about the last. The feeling is that our lives are the single most valuable thing that we have, and when one a criminal unjustly takes that from another, it is manifestly unjust for them to suffer any less of a loss. In other words, for justice to be satisfied, the hurt laid upon a criminal in punishment for his crimes must be at least equal in some way to the hurt laid by the criminal upon the victim. In all other cases, we can reach this level of hurt with deprivation of liberty and property, but there is no amount of liberty or property that can equal the value of the victim's life; thus the criminal must be deprived of life itself.
I wouldn't gripe, but as a practical consumer, I'm still going to buy the Civic.
The only thing this would jeopardize is your status as a charitable nonprofit, donations to which are tax deductible. You could still be a nonprofit corporation even if you were no longer a charitable organization.
Goodwill is an interesting example. They manage to do everything they do, and yet are still a nonprofit corporation, which is what Mozilla is right now. I guess I'm just not clear exactly what Mozilla plans to do as a commercial corporation that they felt they could not do as a nonprofit. Maybe they did it just for convenience, to keep the lawyers from having to figure out what is and is not succeptible to UBIT. But then the penalty is they may end up paying taxes they don't need to.
It still needs a fun rack in the back of the cockpit area. Preferably with some multi-billion dollar laser pulse rifles. And a pump shotty.