I dunno. USB keys have a far superior form factor, and the installed players need only have a USB port and whatever processing is needed to actually view the movie.
You could have media players smaller than a Nintendo Wii, far better future compatibility (both the players and the disks are likely to be backwards compatible in a way that either could work with the other for quite some time)
The media is far less susceptible to scratching, impact, and even heat and chemicals: I've put USB sticks through the washer AND drier and what came out has worked perfectly for over five years.
It's also more portable. You can grab a handful of films and stick 'em in your back pocket before visiting friends (so they're also likely to be lost easily.. a big win for Hollywood!)
The only drawbacks are capacity at the moment (it's not anywhere near as cheap as optical disk. Although I wonder how expensive 30GB mask roms would be for a print run the size of a typical hollywood film (if anyone was making mask rom of anywhere near that size, that is)) and DRM: a usb stick can have active crypto circuitry, which really changes the game quite significantly.
An interesting assumption, but in fact, public school teachers tend to be paid more.
Also, National Sports Leagues have been clever about minimizing their capital expenses: they blackmail cities and towns into building their stadiums for them, and demand tax breaks for the privilege!
Most recommendations I've seen hold that 15%-20% is a good range, and 12%.
OTOH, A friend of mine who moonlights as a waitress, balked when I stated that I never tip less than 15% and rarely more than 20%. Apparently, I'm a "bad tipper." How rich should you expect to get, though, on carrying food 30' from the real artists in the kitchen?
Uh.. why not just give directly to the Red Cross, then? It's not like they don't have a website.
It has the advantage that if so many people send money for the storm that they have way more money than they know what to do with, the remainder can go for preparing for the next disaster.*
*Please don't stipulate that they can't do this. The cryogenic blood storage facilities they wanted to build with the surplus 9/11 money would have been extremely useful for future disasters, especially considering the razor thin surplus of blood and it's short viability with current storage techniques. But because of the shortsighted specificity of a huge number of people's altruism, that money was instead used to make a few financially well off people who suffered a tragic loss even more financially well off.
Trees only grow out. You only have to worry about your house getting smaller if you formed it by fusing a ring of trees together. If you hollow out a single tree, you're fine.
You may have to trim the doors and windows, though.
That's vertical growth. But how far does the cambium layer move over that time? Thickness is what you need for home construction. It's much more important than height: hypothetically it might be possible to form cambium with a thin layer of wood into an appropriate shape, supply it with nutrients, and have a tree of any shape.
Unfortunately, the hardwoods that happen to be good for support also happen to be the slower growers.
Uh.. you do know that meat packing facilities DO test for the presence of metal shards, and IIRC, they test 100% of the meat.
It's actually not that hard for flakes from the processing equipment to become lodged in the product, and the testing ensures they don't send out products with a sharp little surprise, as well as giving an additional indicator to equipment that needs servicing.
Jeez man, watch an episode of "How-it's made" once in a while, will ya?
And.. the same shady statistics that "prove" the link between CJD and BSE.
But.. If someone wants to offer some kind of 100% tested beef (for a premium, of course) what's the freakin' problem?
If BSE really is the culprit behind CJD (or the culprit for something else that's also nasty) then 100% tested & certified BSE free beef is certainly a selling point. It's just one more way for product differentiation, even if it doesn't provide any meaningful improvement over 1% tested.
People buy into BS foodmongering all the time. "Organic" for instance. Of course it's organic, what else are they going to make them out of? Silicon?
That's because a nuclear bomb shelter isn't what your uncle thought it was. As long as the tank was sealed, there's no problem. A shelter in the basement is a *fallout* shelter. You seal it and filter the air to keep out things like radioactive iodine, which will be present in the fallout for some time.
If a bomb goes off close enough to collapse the building, the shelter in the basement isn't going to protect anyone, anyway.
Now.. a shelter 3km below the basement.. that might work. Of course, you also need some advance warning about the impending nuke. And a tunnel boring machine to escape, since the entrance tunnel plug will probably get cold welded to the shaft. On the plus side, you don't need an elevator if you've got a powerful enough fan.
No, he means the carrier frequency. or perhaps just band.
If your bandwidth is 10% of your carrier frequency (quite a lot, actually, and the bigger the percent, the less gain you're gonna get on your antenna), then a 60hz carrier will be like 6 baud. Not a very high data rate, even with quadrature.
I think the point is to convince other people not to vote.
It's actually a sound idea, couched in cynicism. Some people really shouldn't vote. For instance, everyone that doesn't care enough to find their own way to the polls. If they have to be dragged kicking and screaming all the way by volunteers, I don't want their crappy, underinformed vote influencing the election.
Right now, the elections are basically a coin toss, in part because of all the misguided "get out the vote" programs. Yes, you have a right and a duty to participate, but if you're derelict in your duty, you should be punished, not prodded along. That punishment should be that your voice gets unheard.
Turning the election into a random event with nearly equal probability (partially an effect of McCain's very legislation) was not a good road to go down for this country.
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I dunno. USB keys have a far superior form factor, and the installed players need only have a USB port and whatever processing is needed to actually view the movie.
You could have media players smaller than a Nintendo Wii, far better future compatibility (both the players and the disks are likely to be backwards compatible in a way that either could work with the other for quite some time)
The media is far less susceptible to scratching, impact, and even heat and chemicals: I've put USB sticks through the washer AND drier and what came out has worked perfectly for over five years.
It's also more portable. You can grab a handful of films and stick 'em in your back pocket before visiting friends (so they're also likely to be lost easily.. a big win for Hollywood!)
The only drawbacks are capacity at the moment (it's not anywhere near as cheap as optical disk. Although I wonder how expensive 30GB mask roms would be for a print run the size of a typical hollywood film (if anyone was making mask rom of anywhere near that size, that is)) and DRM: a usb stick can have active crypto circuitry, which really changes the game quite significantly.
What the hell are you talking about? There are way more homeschooling parents than there are "people qualified to create curriculum from scratch."
There's no way it could work if it weren't for the tremendous number of resources available to people who want to go down that road.
Say what now? The whole of "common law" was cribbed entirely from another country's jurisprudence.
So.. you're suggesting that the top marginal tax rate and the highest marginal tax rate are not the same?
An interesting assumption, but in fact, public school teachers tend to be paid more.
Also, National Sports Leagues have been clever about minimizing their capital expenses: they blackmail cities and towns into building their stadiums for them, and demand tax breaks for the privilege!
Most recommendations I've seen hold that 15%-20% is a good range, and 12%.
OTOH, A friend of mine who moonlights as a waitress, balked when I stated that I never tip less than 15% and rarely more than 20%. Apparently, I'm a "bad tipper." How rich should you expect to get, though, on carrying food 30' from the real artists in the kitchen?
Ah, but as income increases, the total tax rate asymptotically approaches the top marginal tax rate. Assuming no fraud.
That's a good point. Eventually, the inflation you create will catch up to the new minimum, and those jobs will be profitable again.
Uh.. why not just give directly to the Red Cross, then? It's not like they don't have a website.
It has the advantage that if so many people send money for the storm that they have way more money than they know what to do with, the remainder can go for preparing for the next disaster.*
*Please don't stipulate that they can't do this. The cryogenic blood storage facilities they wanted to build with the surplus 9/11 money would have been extremely useful for future disasters, especially considering the razor thin surplus of blood and it's short viability with current storage techniques. But because of the shortsighted specificity of a huge number of people's altruism, that money was instead used to make a few financially well off people who suffered a tragic loss even more financially well off.
That depends on whether you work for Verizon or not.
Trees only grow out. You only have to worry about your house getting smaller if you formed it by fusing a ring of trees together. If you hollow out a single tree, you're fine.
You may have to trim the doors and windows, though.
That's vertical growth. But how far does the cambium layer move over that time? Thickness is what you need for home construction. It's much more important than height: hypothetically it might be possible to form cambium with a thin layer of wood into an appropriate shape, supply it with nutrients, and have a tree of any shape.
Unfortunately, the hardwoods that happen to be good for support also happen to be the slower growers.
Google sells search appliances, perhaps they sell mail appliances, too?
Indeed. Perhaps some kind of company with expertise in financial matters. One with experience in keeping peoples money and valuables safe.
Something like a bank really...
Wait.. what kind of F'd up white racism would lead you to *claim* you're voting for the white candidate, then actually vote for the non-white one?
The signature is not a security feature. Unless you want to train tens of millions of clerks in precision handwriting analysis techniques.
It's merely a token of accession to contract terms. Having people write, "yes" would be just as effective.
Crash testing is destructive. If they tested 100%, they'd never sell a single car.
Uh.. you do know that meat packing facilities DO test for the presence of metal shards, and IIRC, they test 100% of the meat.
It's actually not that hard for flakes from the processing equipment to become lodged in the product, and the testing ensures they don't send out products with a sharp little surprise, as well as giving an additional indicator to equipment that needs servicing.
Jeez man, watch an episode of "How-it's made" once in a while, will ya?
And.. the same shady statistics that "prove" the link between CJD and BSE.
But.. If someone wants to offer some kind of 100% tested beef (for a premium, of course) what's the freakin' problem?
If BSE really is the culprit behind CJD (or the culprit for something else that's also nasty) then 100% tested & certified BSE free beef is certainly a selling point. It's just one more way for product differentiation, even if it doesn't provide any meaningful improvement over 1% tested.
People buy into BS foodmongering all the time. "Organic" for instance. Of course it's organic, what else are they going to make them out of? Silicon?
That's because a nuclear bomb shelter isn't what your uncle thought it was. As long as the tank was sealed, there's no problem. A shelter in the basement is a *fallout* shelter. You seal it and filter the air to keep out things like radioactive iodine, which will be present in the fallout for some time.
If a bomb goes off close enough to collapse the building, the shelter in the basement isn't going to protect anyone, anyway.
Now.. a shelter 3km below the basement.. that might work. Of course, you also need some advance warning about the impending nuke. And a tunnel boring machine to escape, since the entrance tunnel plug will probably get cold welded to the shaft. On the plus side, you don't need an elevator if you've got a powerful enough fan.
No, he means the carrier frequency. or perhaps just band.
If your bandwidth is 10% of your carrier frequency (quite a lot, actually, and the bigger the percent, the less gain you're gonna get on your antenna), then a 60hz carrier will be like 6 baud. Not a very high data rate, even with quadrature.
a 6Ghz carrier however...
Uh.. when was our music better than anyone else's?
Just don't leave gum on the seats.
If he makes it part of his campaign, it's fair game. If there are claims he'd rather not have investigated, he shouldn't make them.
I think the point is to convince other people not to vote.
It's actually a sound idea, couched in cynicism. Some people really shouldn't vote. For instance, everyone that doesn't care enough to find their own way to the polls. If they have to be dragged kicking and screaming all the way by volunteers, I don't want their crappy, underinformed vote influencing the election.
Right now, the elections are basically a coin toss, in part because of all the misguided "get out the vote" programs. Yes, you have a right and a duty to participate, but if you're derelict in your duty, you should be punished, not prodded along. That punishment should be that your voice gets unheard.
Turning the election into a random event with nearly equal probability (partially an effect of McCain's very legislation) was not a good road to go down for this country.