blu-ray players are down to $100 at newegg. I'll bet they're sub $100 at WalMart this christmas with a $60--$80 "doorbuster" model for people to get trampled over.
So, we're only now even heading into the price point at which the viability of blu-ray will be tested. And since verizon is freaky-slow rolling out FiOS, I'd say blu-ray has a pretty good chance.
memo to verizon: I get that the television ads have to have a wide market and will necessarily cover areas where you're not rolled out yet, but.. could you maybe stop sending me direct mailings touting the great service? My entire county doesn't have it yet, and there is a buffer of two towns all around which your rep said you have to get through before you even start working here, so could you maybe stop wasting money on pointless mailings and run some damn extruded glass already?
Well that depends on whether the average mac user is richer and buying a proportionally more expensive machine, or starts out the same as your average PC user and just ends up poorer after the transaction...
Carter wasn't the most ineffective president ever. That title probably goes to Wilson, Hoover, or Coolige. Carter's only superlative feat was to be the most unremarkable president ever. History will remember him for being so forgettable. Oh, and the nuke ban. Double folley from someone claiming to have actually been a nuclear engineer.
Because Apple stopped selling versions older than 10.5 nearly two years ago and the upgrade to 10.6 is thirty dollars retail. Microsoft is still selling XP licenses.
You know, I never stopped to think about it, but if I ever think I could choke down two of those deceptively delicious* artery cloggers in a single seating, that's definitely how I'm going to order them from now on.
*maybe delicious is too strong a word. But edible-tasting, anyway.
I say it was safe, because the actual incidence of fire-related fatalities resulting from rear-end collision (the failure mode which supposedly was completely ignored by ford in their cost-benefit analysis), turned out to be lower than other cars in its class. The risk was overblown, and ford was correct, in hindsight.
It is a very good example though of getting people worked up over FUD and giving a car company an undeservedly bad reputation. Every car company always weighs the costs of additional measures against the "value" of the lives saved. If they didn't, we'd all drive tanks, and there wouldn't be roads, only railways, and they'd have a built in governor limiting you to 5mph anyway. Oh, and only the five richest people in the country could afford one.
Both of those machines filled their respective niches admirably.
The DC-10, by being an incredibly robust and versatile airframe (Mid-air re-fuelers are typically DC-10s, as well as the microgravity laboratory aircraft (a.k.a. vomit comet)). The pinto by being an affordable, safe, relatively fuel-efficient automobile.
Well, TFA says he had experience specifically programming for the 360 already, so he didn't need to learn another GPU.
Also.. You're missing the possibility of mass production. Imagine including a "free" xbox360 to run your wondrous cardiac software as a turn-key system. It'd be much easier to get some mass-produced consoles in a bulk order with some minor cosmetic changes to send out to doctors as a complete "single-purpose supercomputer" (within the bounds of the cardiac simulation he was working on) than to try to do the same thing by picking all your own components and put it together yourself.
I'm not sure if that actually benefits anyone, but it's not hard to imagine that something like it could benefit a lot of people.
Obviously, the answer here is, "padded tree-spade" You immobilize them by surrounding them with a padded cell and locking the door. Of course, you'll have the environmental impact of all those squad cars designed to carry and manipulate a giant mechanical armature that easily masses more than two crown victoria sedans.
I don't think they are. The odds come out to ~1 in 50 flights having a fatal accident. Now, even with columbia, that makes the Shuttle the safest spacecraft ever, but that's still pretty crappy. Now, the reason I think they're getting smoke blown up their arses about the shuttle specifically is that some of them have families.
1 in 50 is an insane risk for someone with kids to come home to. No sane parent would take those odds. And definitely no one would compound the risk by repeatedly casting the die. Rick Husband was on two flights. His lifetime risk was worse than 1/26.
It would explain it, if it were true. I don't think I've purchased a phone (from sprint) in ten years that didn't have at least a one-minute "voice memo" capability during a call.
Monopoly should only take about a half an hour if you play by the rules. It's "house rules" that bring it up to two or more hours. People make up extra rules to make the game last longer and then complain that it takes too long?
To be fair, it's a lot less restricting than some other board games. "Life" for instance. Or the embarrassment of "sorry." There is a strategy element. Also, games take a lot less time if you play by the official rules. The popular "free parking" free-money deal has been examined in simulations and the games aren't even guaranteed to end if you do that.
But all the "good" board games take even longer to play than monopoly. Up to the "ultimate" (notwithistanding the classics like chess, go, mahjong, etc.) of diplomacy, which has been known to end friendships.
If only there were some way of taking a decaying material, and put it together with a bunch of other decaying material (radioactive decay, I mean) and maybe some kind of "helper material" that increases the chance the released particles will hit more of the material and accelerate the decay process to release energy more quickly...
With breeder reactors, you only need uranium to buck it, then you can switch to nice cheap thorium. Of which I believe Australia has the largest proven reserves.
There is a coal plant within 12 miles of my house. In fact, it's within view of my house. If it will close the coal plant, I will support a nuclear power plant IMBY. (of course they'll have to move the highway. Darn. No car noise. what a shame.)
It's time to make NIMBY mean, "Nukes in My Back Yard!"
There are three basic categories of nuclear waste:
High Level waste, which has a high degree of "radioactivity" but usually has very short half-life, so in a few dozen or hundred years, you're back below background levels. Thing like Strontium-90 or Cobalt-60. Which although useless for power generation, are actually very useful in other fields, so some of this isn't even waste.
Low level waste, which has a long half-life, and consequently low radioactivity. Some of the container materials might be affected like this. Keep in mind that Depleted uranium is also technically low-level waste, and makes an excellent radiation shield.
Fuel. Stuff which has enough energy to be harmful for any length of time, has enough energy to be usefully extracted. Whether by further fission in a reactor after processing, or as the active element of a radioisotope thermoelectric generator.
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You know google does the conversion for you: 2*pi*3.5 inches * 15,000 minute^-1 in m/s = 140 m / s
blu-ray players are down to $100 at newegg. I'll bet they're sub $100 at WalMart this christmas with a $60--$80 "doorbuster" model for people to get trampled over.
So, we're only now even heading into the price point at which the viability of blu-ray will be tested. And since verizon is freaky-slow rolling out FiOS, I'd say blu-ray has a pretty good chance.
memo to verizon: I get that the television ads have to have a wide market and will necessarily cover areas where you're not rolled out yet, but.. could you maybe stop sending me direct mailings touting the great service? My entire county doesn't have it yet, and there is a buffer of two towns all around which your rep said you have to get through before you even start working here, so could you maybe stop wasting money on pointless mailings and run some damn extruded glass already?
Well that depends on whether the average mac user is richer and buying a proportionally more expensive machine, or starts out the same as your average PC user and just ends up poorer after the transaction...
Carter wasn't the most ineffective president ever. That title probably goes to Wilson, Hoover, or Coolige. Carter's only superlative feat was to be the most unremarkable president ever. History will remember him for being so forgettable. Oh, and the nuke ban. Double folley from someone claiming to have actually been a nuclear engineer.
Because Apple stopped selling versions older than 10.5 nearly two years ago and the upgrade to 10.6 is thirty dollars retail. Microsoft is still selling XP licenses.
Uh.. how? mobile.slashdot.org for instance justs gets you to a full-graphics page about cell phones...
Good ideas, but the CEO's files ought to be on the active directory / LDAP server like everyone else's.
Every machine should be almost drop-in interchangeable, except your boss's hardware is a little bit better.
You know, I never stopped to think about it, but if I ever think I could choke down two of those deceptively delicious* artery cloggers in a single seating, that's definitely how I'm going to order them from now on.
*maybe delicious is too strong a word. But edible-tasting, anyway.
I say it was safe, because the actual incidence of fire-related fatalities resulting from rear-end collision (the failure mode which supposedly was completely ignored by ford in their cost-benefit analysis), turned out to be lower than other cars in its class. The risk was overblown, and ford was correct, in hindsight.
It is a very good example though of getting people worked up over FUD and giving a car company an undeservedly bad reputation. Every car company always weighs the costs of additional measures against the "value" of the lives saved. If they didn't, we'd all drive tanks, and there wouldn't be roads, only railways, and they'd have a built in governor limiting you to 5mph anyway. Oh, and only the five richest people in the country could afford one.
Even assuming they used GPLv2, They only have to do that if they make modifications and don't include the source with the software.
Both of those machines filled their respective niches admirably.
The DC-10, by being an incredibly robust and versatile airframe (Mid-air re-fuelers are typically DC-10s, as well as the microgravity laboratory aircraft (a.k.a. vomit comet)). The pinto by being an affordable, safe, relatively fuel-efficient automobile.
I fail to see what the point of that was.
Well, TFA says he had experience specifically programming for the 360 already, so he didn't need to learn another GPU.
Also.. You're missing the possibility of mass production. Imagine including a "free" xbox360 to run your wondrous cardiac software as a turn-key system. It'd be much easier to get some mass-produced consoles in a bulk order with some minor cosmetic changes to send out to doctors as a complete "single-purpose supercomputer" (within the bounds of the cardiac simulation he was working on) than to try to do the same thing by picking all your own components and put it together yourself.
I'm not sure if that actually benefits anyone, but it's not hard to imagine that something like it could benefit a lot of people.
Obviously, the answer here is, "padded tree-spade" You immobilize them by surrounding them with a padded cell and locking the door. Of course, you'll have the environmental impact of all those squad cars designed to carry and manipulate a giant mechanical armature that easily masses more than two crown victoria sedans.
Yeah it definitely would not be a good tool for LE or riot control. The un-aimed barbs would have serious eye-injury potential.
I don't think they are. The odds come out to ~1 in 50 flights having a fatal accident. Now, even with columbia, that makes the Shuttle the safest spacecraft ever, but that's still pretty crappy. Now, the reason I think they're getting smoke blown up their arses about the shuttle specifically is that some of them have families.
1 in 50 is an insane risk for someone with kids to come home to. No sane parent would take those odds. And definitely no one would compound the risk by repeatedly casting the die. Rick Husband was on two flights. His lifetime risk was worse than 1/26.
Easily circumvented: Burka.
It would explain it, if it were true. I don't think I've purchased a phone (from sprint) in ten years that didn't have at least a one-minute "voice memo" capability during a call.
Monopoly should only take about a half an hour if you play by the rules. It's "house rules" that bring it up to two or more hours. People make up extra rules to make the game last longer and then complain that it takes too long?
To be fair, it's a lot less restricting than some other board games. "Life" for instance. Or the embarrassment of "sorry." There is a strategy element. Also, games take a lot less time if you play by the official rules. The popular "free parking" free-money deal has been examined in simulations and the games aren't even guaranteed to end if you do that.
But all the "good" board games take even longer to play than monopoly. Up to the "ultimate" (notwithistanding the classics like chess, go, mahjong, etc.) of diplomacy, which has been known to end friendships.
If only there were some way of taking a decaying material, and put it together with a bunch of other decaying material (radioactive decay, I mean) and maybe some kind of "helper material" that increases the chance the released particles will hit more of the material and accelerate the decay process to release energy more quickly...
Gall. Guile implies deceitfulness, which might help you hide the appropriations, but won't help the engineers design the plane.
Look at the context of the star trek episode where you learned the word....
With breeder reactors, you only need uranium to buck it, then you can switch to nice cheap thorium. Of which I believe Australia has the largest proven reserves.
There is a coal plant within 12 miles of my house. In fact, it's within view of my house. If it will close the coal plant, I will support a nuclear power plant IMBY. (of course they'll have to move the highway. Darn. No car noise. what a shame.)
It's time to make NIMBY mean, "Nukes in My Back Yard!"
There are three basic categories of nuclear waste:
High Level waste, which has a high degree of "radioactivity" but usually has very short half-life, so in a few dozen or hundred years, you're back below background levels. Thing like Strontium-90 or Cobalt-60. Which although useless for power generation, are actually very useful in other fields, so some of this isn't even waste.
Low level waste, which has a long half-life, and consequently low radioactivity. Some of the container materials might be affected like this. Keep in mind that Depleted uranium is also technically low-level waste, and makes an excellent radiation shield.
Fuel. Stuff which has enough energy to be harmful for any length of time, has enough energy to be usefully extracted. Whether by further fission in a reactor after processing, or as the active element of a radioisotope thermoelectric generator.
I'm an American. Could a European please explain why a majority of europe does not have public restaurantcare and computer insurance?