Seriously? You've really had that level of torment? You didn't just read it in a book or see it in a movie?
I really do not recall anything more severe than a few insults and the occasional not-really-serious fight, which as often as not, I was the instigator. I certainly was not emotionally toyed with by the parents of one of my schoolmates in disguise.
The advantages of BluRay over upconverted DVD is minimal at best.
Yeah, but not for the reason you're suggesting. The extra sharpness on the BluRay disk far surpasses your vaunted "upconverted" dvd.
The downside, though, is that they're not using the right compression scheme. Artifacts which I would not have noticed on DVD are readily apparent on BluRay disk. Either they need a better algorithm or a lot more bits.
Which is why many of us believed that HD-DVD was the better option: it was ostensibly cheaper than blu-ray, and both are really transition formats: just enough capacity to make the digital/HD TV revolution possible, but not quite enough to be the end-all storage media for the long haul.
Erm.. It doesn't matter what you're using for photon counting. You're going to have to chill it to cut the noise down. Of course, for some applications, the noise might be below an acceptable level.
I'm pretty sure everything that isn't a "witness" is circumstantial evidence. So.. like all forensic evidence falls under that category.
Which is why it's actually pretty bass-ackwards to dismiss circumstantial evidence as if it's less reliable, considering the wildly varying stories two trustworthy witnesses will tell of the exact same event.
Indeed, you have found a subset of the multiplication table which is sufficient for you: as much as you want to remember, and the calculations aren't slowed down too much.
Just because many would atrophy down to the same subset as you does not mean that drilling the tables was not useful to them or yourself. It merely means that once you made the connections you needed, you allowed the less useful data to fade away.
If someone were to learn your *exact* method, they'd have to memorize not only your abbreviated tables, but also your ad-hoc ruleset for mixing the tables to get the rest.
It might be easier to learn than memorizing 100 (or 144 or whatever) numbers, but that ignores the fact that learning to memorize itself is a useful tool.
"more teachers" does not improve schools any more than "more gristle" improves a meal. It is quality of teachers that is important, and class-size limitations hurt this effort:
Some teachers and classes are naturally better suited to larger class sizes than others. If everyone teaches 30 kids, you can't take advantage of the ones that could handle 200, and you can't use that advantage to support the ones that can handle only 12.
For example, there's no reason why phys.ed. must be limited to only thirty students (except the very early grades where school is as much babysitting as anything). On the other hand, some grammar or math classes might require more individual attention than one thirtieth of a period can represent.
"Plus, being a live CD everything is going to be run as root."
Where, exactly did you get this idea?
Just because there is often no root password does NOT mean that the default user is root. In fact, come to think of it, my installed distribution doesn't have a root password.
Uranium, due to it's huge number of electronic states, actually makes a pretty good radiation shield. It also makes decent fishing weights, armor plates.. a number of uses of uranium are listed here
Well.. the important question in breaking down the pricing is whether or not the fees are separable.
You can buy a car without paying for registration OR insurance. But you can't drive it on public roads. Further, those fees don't even go to Toyota. Their part of the transaction is done when then give you the car. So in that case, the holistic approach isn't warranted.
alias is also your friend. It can prevent you from making such mistakes. (frankly, given Ubuntu's "user friendly" goal, I'm surprised alias rm="rm -i" isn't in the profile by default. It was in mandrake back in the day.)
They're moving to digital. In my area, at least, the stations are doing a mix of SD and HD. During the day they don't bother (or they broadcast SD programming upscaled to HD.. I can't tell the difference from the info my TV gives me), But all the new prime-time shows are in either 720(er.. something) or 1080p30.
PBS seems to have a number of "extra" SD channels in addition to its sometime HD offering as well. To more than treble my total number of available streams of content over what I got over the air before.
So.. it would be incorrect to characterize the switch as "SD transmitted digitally" although that is an option that some stations are taking.
Seriously.. I don't know either, and I've added quite a few stupid misspellings. Why the hell is the "add" option so close to the bottom "word" option, anyway? and with no confirmation dialog.
Problem is.. Boortz is a little dumb here. He seems to understand politcs well enough, but then again, anyone who can watch a "soap opera" can understand american politics at the moment.
Physics and engineering.. not so much.
The Manhattan project was a secret research and design project whose success was in large part due to the influx of foreign scientists.. who very well might have solved the issues for Hitler had they not been recruited by us. (or Stalin.)
The energy difficulties are not so easily soluble. Boortz's proposal involves principles that are neither known, nor presently postulated. That's not a near-term solution. That's not even a solution we can rely on at all. Appropriate exploitable principles might be just around the corner, but they might be an unknown distance into the future.
We do need some clever solutions.. but it needs to be clever solutions using today's technology., because only today's technology has any hope of mass implementation in a short (decades) timescale.
And we need to tap some wells while we wait, so that in five years, gas is only $6/gallon instead of $26.
If they cost ($3k--$5k), then even a lower middle-class family could afford one or two of 'em for commuting in addition to a practical family-sized vehicle.
But they have to own the family-sized vehicle, even if it's just a modest sedan, so the one+bitch seating configuration is a non-starter for everyone who isn't an unloved bachelor.
Consider this: A pharmaceutical monopoly could hold the second state. But there is such a strong incentive for a single company to destroy the others to it's own benefit (they could presumably charge as much for the one-month treatment as the lifetime-of-treatment the other companies provide, and people would pay it. They'd pay in installments if they had to) that even a two-company coalition would find it very difficult to hold together.
Furthermore, the countries which centrally plan their pharmaceutical industry have also not found a cure for HIV.
Conclusion: No matter how much you bellyache and whine about some percieved wrong on the part of pharmaceutical companies, The reason we don't have a cure for HIV is that curing HIV is very difficult.
In the meantime, you're just going to have to deal with the consequences of your hedonistic lifestyle. Be very careful with the butt-sex (or avoid it entirely) and try to keep your fluid swapping within monogamous relationships.
And not just for yourself. By becoming infected, there is a minute but non-zero chance your fluids could become part of the blood supply, or taint an improperly cleaned dental instrument, or somesuch, and therefore affect someone who didn't get to enjoy the acts which lead to the consequences.
AIDS is only a problem because there are lot of selfish mofos out there. And not just the greedy pharma companies, either.
I think the wiki made pretty clear that it's not a new theory. It intends to be a kind of "relativity-lite" in the sense that relativity proved that the existence of an aether was not necessary to explain the wave-like effects, MOND demonstrates that the existence of "dark" matter might not be necessary to explain astronomical observations.
Surely you can agree that postulating the existence of matter that doesn't behave anything like anything we can observe in the lab, except gravitational interaction, AND that this matter composes 90% of the universe is somewhat less than ideal.
Further, I fail to see how what was described in the wiki would be incompatible with relativity.
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Seriously? You've really had that level of torment? You didn't just read it in a book or see it in a movie?
I really do not recall anything more severe than a few insults and the occasional not-really-serious fight, which as often as not, I was the instigator. I certainly was not emotionally toyed with by the parents of one of my schoolmates in disguise.
How long have you been using Ubuntu?
Yeah, but not for the reason you're suggesting. The extra sharpness on the BluRay disk far surpasses your vaunted "upconverted" dvd.
The downside, though, is that they're not using the right compression scheme. Artifacts which I would not have noticed on DVD are readily apparent on BluRay disk. Either they need a better algorithm or a lot more bits.
Which is why many of us believed that HD-DVD was the better option: it was ostensibly cheaper than blu-ray, and both are really transition formats: just enough capacity to make the digital/HD TV revolution possible, but not quite enough to be the end-all storage media for the long haul.
Your waste is bigger than your length. Stop bitching about those "other" fat guys...
And learn to hem, you lazy bastard.
Erm.. It doesn't matter what you're using for photon counting. You're going to have to chill it to cut the noise down. Of course, for some applications, the noise might be below an acceptable level.
I'm surprised the guards didn't moisten his bunk with a firehose.. you know.. to make him more comfortable.
I'm pretty sure everything that isn't a "witness" is circumstantial evidence. So.. like all forensic evidence falls under that category.
Which is why it's actually pretty bass-ackwards to dismiss circumstantial evidence as if it's less reliable, considering the wildly varying stories two trustworthy witnesses will tell of the exact same event.
That depends upon how many wives you've had.
Well, hopefully, the vast majority of those "ten to fifteen percent" erroneous verdicts are false negatives, as judge William Blackstone intended.
Indeed, you have found a subset of the multiplication table which is sufficient for you: as much as you want to remember, and the calculations aren't slowed down too much.
Just because many would atrophy down to the same subset as you does not mean that drilling the tables was not useful to them or yourself. It merely means that once you made the connections you needed, you allowed the less useful data to fade away.
If someone were to learn your *exact* method, they'd have to memorize not only your abbreviated tables, but also your ad-hoc ruleset for mixing the tables to get the rest.
It might be easier to learn than memorizing 100 (or 144 or whatever) numbers, but that ignores the fact that learning to memorize itself is a useful tool.
"more teachers" does not improve schools any more than "more gristle" improves a meal. It is quality of teachers that is important, and class-size limitations hurt this effort:
Some teachers and classes are naturally better suited to larger class sizes than others. If everyone teaches 30 kids, you can't take advantage of the ones that could handle 200, and you can't use that advantage to support the ones that can handle only 12.
For example, there's no reason why phys.ed. must be limited to only thirty students (except the very early grades where school is as much babysitting as anything). On the other hand, some grammar or math classes might require more individual attention than one thirtieth of a period can represent.
Indeed it is... IF you've got the multiplication tables memorized...
Learning is about making connections. Memorizing is about having the bits in place to connect. Education requires both.
What is this "real Islam" of which you speak, and can it be taught to Muslims?
"Plus, being a live CD everything is going to be run as root."
Where, exactly did you get this idea?
Just because there is often no root password does NOT mean that the default user is root. In fact, come to think of it, my installed distribution doesn't have a root password.
Yes, but their angular velocity is low enough that they do not disappear due to persistance of vision.
Uranium, due to it's huge number of electronic states, actually makes a pretty good radiation shield. It also makes decent fishing weights, armor plates.. a number of uses of uranium are listed here
Well.. the important question in breaking down the pricing is whether or not the fees are separable.
You can buy a car without paying for registration OR insurance. But you can't drive it on public roads. Further, those fees don't even go to Toyota. Their part of the transaction is done when then give you the car. So in that case, the holistic approach isn't warranted.
They're moving to digital. In my area, at least, the stations are doing a mix of SD and HD. During the day they don't bother (or they broadcast SD programming upscaled to HD.. I can't tell the difference from the info my TV gives me), But all the new prime-time shows are in either 720(er.. something) or 1080p30.
PBS seems to have a number of "extra" SD channels in addition to its sometime HD offering as well. To more than treble my total number of available streams of content over what I got over the air before.
So.. it would be incorrect to characterize the switch as "SD transmitted digitally" although that is an option that some stations are taking.
Delete the file from the Firefox directory?
Seriously.. I don't know either, and I've added quite a few stupid misspellings. Why the hell is the "add" option so close to the bottom "word" option, anyway? and with no confirmation dialog.
Problem is.. Boortz is a little dumb here. He seems to understand politcs well enough, but then again, anyone who can watch a "soap opera" can understand american politics at the moment.
Physics and engineering.. not so much.
The Manhattan project was a secret research and design project whose success was in large part due to the influx of foreign scientists.. who very well might have solved the issues for Hitler had they not been recruited by us. (or Stalin.)
The energy difficulties are not so easily soluble. Boortz's proposal involves principles that are neither known, nor presently postulated. That's not a near-term solution. That's not even a solution we can rely on at all. Appropriate exploitable principles might be just around the corner, but they might be an unknown distance into the future.
We do need some clever solutions.. but it needs to be clever solutions using today's technology., because only today's technology has any hope of mass implementation in a short (decades) timescale.
And we need to tap some wells while we wait, so that in five years, gas is only $6/gallon instead of $26.
What are you.. a moron?
Whatever options you "take off the table," you will eventually be forced to put back on the table, and actually exercise.
The best way to avoid war is to appear to be ready for it.
Which is hardly ideal for the price ($30k--$40k)
If they cost ($3k--$5k), then even a lower middle-class family could afford one or two of 'em for commuting in addition to a practical family-sized vehicle.
But they have to own the family-sized vehicle, even if it's just a modest sedan, so the one+bitch seating configuration is a non-starter for everyone who isn't an unloved bachelor.
Consider this: A pharmaceutical monopoly could hold the second state. But there is such a strong incentive for a single company to destroy the others to it's own benefit (they could presumably charge as much for the one-month treatment as the lifetime-of-treatment the other companies provide, and people would pay it. They'd pay in installments if they had to) that even a two-company coalition would find it very difficult to hold together.
Furthermore, the countries which centrally plan their pharmaceutical industry have also not found a cure for HIV.
Conclusion: No matter how much you bellyache and whine about some percieved wrong on the part of pharmaceutical companies, The reason we don't have a cure for HIV is that curing HIV is very difficult.
In the meantime, you're just going to have to deal with the consequences of your hedonistic lifestyle. Be very careful with the butt-sex (or avoid it entirely) and try to keep your fluid swapping within monogamous relationships.
And not just for yourself. By becoming infected, there is a minute but non-zero chance your fluids could become part of the blood supply, or taint an improperly cleaned dental instrument, or somesuch, and therefore affect someone who didn't get to enjoy the acts which lead to the consequences.
AIDS is only a problem because there are lot of selfish mofos out there. And not just the greedy pharma companies, either.
I think the wiki made pretty clear that it's not a new theory. It intends to be a kind of "relativity-lite" in the sense that relativity proved that the existence of an aether was not necessary to explain the wave-like effects, MOND demonstrates that the existence of "dark" matter might not be necessary to explain astronomical observations.
Surely you can agree that postulating the existence of matter that doesn't behave anything like anything we can observe in the lab, except gravitational interaction, AND that this matter composes 90% of the universe is somewhat less than ideal.
Further, I fail to see how what was described in the wiki would be incompatible with relativity.