Just to be safe, send all your gold and platinum possessions to me and I will store them for you. Then wrap yourself in foil starting with your neck (I heard they don't eat aluminum and I assume your head is already protected by your hat) to protect your personal carbon reserves.
Not to be a stickler but both of those pages you pointed to were vanadium trioxide, not the vanadium dioxide that the article mentions. Hard to say what the difference in toxicity might be. I did a brief search for a MSDS for vanadium dioxide but was unsuccessful.
Which opens up a whole new can of worms... to use the analogy above, that would be like Ford including a "terms of use" with your car saying you can only install Ford parts in it. Would you understand the ruling in that case?
In that case, I would not buy a Ford in the first place (not that I would anyway).
The effiency of the original system comes from the fact that the escaping water carries its heat of vaporization with it. If you instead condense the liquid you need a way to dissipate the heat, which will either require a large surface area or active cooling, i.e. a fan.
If algae were the only concern the system could easily be built with opaque materials in a manner which reduced light entering the water.
Really, it's great to have a study that confirms the mechanism, but given the number of brilliant blind musicians, it's no surprise.
I think that there would be some question as to whether it was an increased sense of hearing that made them great musicians or did their lack of sight motivate them to excel in the art of one of their remaining senses?
My 15 year old brother and his friends had some fun when they got hold of one of the disposable cameras at my wedding. They started off pretending (at least I hope) to take advantage of the open bar and ended in the bathroom with a picture of one of them bending over the toilet.
We got a few other interesting shots from the table cameras, but they were mostly just of the other guests sitting around their tables. The professional photog took many more interesting photos (probably because he was getting paid to do so) and of better quality (lighting and composition). With the variety of lenses he had available he was also able to get close in shots without getting in our faces and get some cool wide-angle shots as well. Of course, some professional photogs will just do the minimum formal and "candid" shots no better than a guest could, so it all depends on who you hire.
But isn't there an extra lag involved with WiFi? Throughput is one thing, lag another...
I currently live in an apartment complex that provides internet service via a wireless network throughout the complex. In general, my ping has seemed about as good as anyone elses on the servers I have played on. Occasionally I will get some big lag spikes although I can't say for sure if it is me, the server, or somewhere in between.
Nah, cell phones took care of this problem a long time ago. Cell phones are good at helping people keep in touch with the people they are away from but also make them less in touch with the people they are around. Most people who are alone and bored in a public place are more likely to whip out their cell and bug a friend than to strike up a conversation with a stranger.
Four minutes per day. Times 365 days. That's 1460 minutes, or 24.33333 hours. Wow, that's a whole day of slippage every four years!
Bzzzt! Re-read what you wrote. 24.333 hours in 365 days equals one day of slippage a year. The correct answer was explained several times in the posts above yours. Due to its revolution around the sun the earth effectively does one more rotation than the number of days in the year. There's your 24 hours of slippage.
Right. If we were "missing" four minutes every day then we would need a "leap hour" every 15 days. Otherwise, we would soon find the sun rising earlier and earlier as our clocks got further off.
In fact, if I recall correctly, we did have one or two leap seconds a few years back to correct for slowing of the Earth's rotation (or something like that).
I found that recent cell company ad featuring the guy with the cell phone that doubled as a cheese grater to be amusing. The top of their list of features you "need": ringtones and games. I guess we don't think alike.
Saving money means that the business can either spend more on employees, invest in better equipment, new tech, etc, or just give the shareholders a nice return. If they give it to the shareholders, then those SH's will either spend it or reinvest it. Both of these outcomes will help the economy.
Oh, I see, and if that money were used to pay an American worker instead of offshoring, he would just put it all in a big pile and burn it. Meanwhile, by offshoring you have sent part of that salary overseas to stimulate that other country's economy.
If it is planet-wide extinction events that you are worried about, I think the money would be better spent developing ways to prevent those events from happening in the first place. Knowing that a few thousand people would carry on the human race in a colony on Mars would probably bring little solace to the 6+ billion people left to die on Earth when the next asteroid hits. If we can figure out a way to get a self-sustaining colony on another planet, we should be able to figure out a way to divert an incoming asteroid or comet.
Your reasoning assumes that none of that donated software would have been purchased anyways. For every million dollars of software they give away they are potentially losing hundreds of thousands in sales. Also the taxes would be based on the overall profit shown by the company not the per item profit.
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Just to be safe, send all your gold and platinum possessions to me and I will store them for you. Then wrap yourself in foil starting with your neck (I heard they don't eat aluminum and I assume your head is already protected by your hat) to protect your personal carbon reserves.
Just to be safe, send all your gold and platinum possessions to me for safe keeping.
Think of all the africans who can't afford gazoline... But they can afford a solar powered car?
Not to be a stickler but both of those pages you pointed to were vanadium trioxide, not the vanadium dioxide that the article mentions. Hard to say what the difference in toxicity might be. I did a brief search for a MSDS for vanadium dioxide but was unsuccessful.
But is a virus alive?
In that case, I would not buy a Ford in the first place (not that I would anyway).
If algae were the only concern the system could easily be built with opaque materials in a manner which reduced light entering the water.
Yet those bastards won't wipe off the rover solar panels for us.
I think that there would be some question as to whether it was an increased sense of hearing that made them great musicians or did their lack of sight motivate them to excel in the art of one of their remaining senses?
We got a few other interesting shots from the table cameras, but they were mostly just of the other guests sitting around their tables. The professional photog took many more interesting photos (probably because he was getting paid to do so) and of better quality (lighting and composition). With the variety of lenses he had available he was also able to get close in shots without getting in our faces and get some cool wide-angle shots as well. Of course, some professional photogs will just do the minimum formal and "candid" shots no better than a guest could, so it all depends on who you hire.
While everyone knows that this is actually the work of Arctic-based terrorists!
I currently live in an apartment complex that provides internet service via a wireless network throughout the complex. In general, my ping has seemed about as good as anyone elses on the servers I have played on. Occasionally I will get some big lag spikes although I can't say for sure if it is me, the server, or somewhere in between.
Nah, cell phones took care of this problem a long time ago. Cell phones are good at helping people keep in touch with the people they are away from but also make them less in touch with the people they are around. Most people who are alone and bored in a public place are more likely to whip out their cell and bug a friend than to strike up a conversation with a stranger.
Bzzzt! Re-read what you wrote. 24.333 hours in 365 days equals one day of slippage a year. The correct answer was explained several times in the posts above yours. Due to its revolution around the sun the earth effectively does one more rotation than the number of days in the year. There's your 24 hours of slippage.
In fact, if I recall correctly, we did have one or two leap seconds a few years back to correct for slowing of the Earth's rotation (or something like that).
Or you could just order their Atkins-friendly, low-fat, high-fiber burger now.
I found that recent cell company ad featuring the guy with the cell phone that doubled as a cheese grater to be amusing. The top of their list of features you "need": ringtones and games. I guess we don't think alike.
"I didn't get this rich by writing a lot of checks"
I can just see a family sitting around in a darkened, argon filled room breathing compressed air through a hose while enjoying a movie.
Oh, I see, and if that money were used to pay an American worker instead of offshoring, he would just put it all in a big pile and burn it. Meanwhile, by offshoring you have sent part of that salary overseas to stimulate that other country's economy.
If it is planet-wide extinction events that you are worried about, I think the money would be better spent developing ways to prevent those events from happening in the first place. Knowing that a few thousand people would carry on the human race in a colony on Mars would probably bring little solace to the 6+ billion people left to die on Earth when the next asteroid hits. If we can figure out a way to get a self-sustaining colony on another planet, we should be able to figure out a way to divert an incoming asteroid or comet.
Yeah and you thought P4's ran hot!
Your reasoning assumes that none of that donated software would have been purchased anyways. For every million dollars of software they give away they are potentially losing hundreds of thousands in sales. Also the taxes would be based on the overall profit shown by the company not the per item profit.
My wife helps me with my time trials at home, but I often get called for *ahem* "false starts".
Shoot! I was hoping that this was finally going to fill all my "The Sims" playing needs!