Are you sure it's not that "finished goods" are less valuable than their components due to the skills-xp factor?
The actual amount of money in the world doesn't matter, unless it overflows or detracts from the experience of new players. The current way of things means that players must take the "beat up animals for money" track over the "make tools for other players" route.
It's actually a clever idea, since you could photocopy the problems off of the reference books in the library.
The question is whether the professor chose the book just to have a new book, or because he actually believes it will help you learn calculus better. Not all calculus books are equally able to teach, and it's certainly possible that some are actually wrong.
My big worry would be that some passenger between me and the exit slows down the flow, preventing me from escaping before I am overcome by fumes or heat.
There are many ways in which this could happen. For instance they could try to fetch a carry-on they think is important. This should be a capital offense. They could also just panic. This could be the result of overexposure to potential threats regarding airframe decomposition. It should be noted that aluminum also burns, and burns quite hotly, and the fumes aren't exactly good for you either.
No, once our money drops to yours, phase one of the North American Union will be complete. Next, both of us will nosedive toward peso parity. I see no reason to trust Canadian politicians any more than US politicians wrt carefully orchestrated treason.
Yeah, I was happy to see that. Obviously someone was thinking along the same lines. Though it was only two lightsabers, and they weren't very creatively controlled. (couldn't be, it was a simple ai controlling them, not a movie animator). That fight was pretty tedious once you figured out the secret. I actually don't see the point of it in jedi v. jedi combat, but in jedi v. crapload of redshirts, it probably would've saved the blue hottie.
there should be a "junk off" option, and web developers should delimit what is the interesting part and what is the crap so that browsers can slice a page apart
There already is such an option. It's called javascript. Web developers always put all the crap behind a javascript wrapper. Occasionally they also use the "Flash delimiter" but it's often behind a javascript wrapper too, for good measure.
If you have the force, you don't need to attach them. In fact, it always struck me as silly that everyone has just one or two. If I was a Jedi, I'd have about two dozen, and they'd all surround me in some kind of deadly sphere of force-controlled prescient deflection dance. I'd look.. well pretty stupid, actually...
It shouldn't. The SRB propellant requires high pressure to maintain combustion. Simply blowing the nozzle off should be sufficient (but just) to turn them off.
It is "safe" to smoke cigarettes around the unassembled cylinders. But I still wouldn't do it.
You're looking at it the wrong way, as a fine for violating a restriction. You have to look at it the way the wealthy waterer looks at it: It's just a higher cost on the extra water, a higher price which he can well afford.
What you do is institute airline-pricing to find the real price of the water without pricing the small guy out of the market: each additional gallon over the first hundred (or thousand, or whatever you pick) costs more than the last by an exponential function. You choose the parameters and the cutoff such that everyone can afford a minimum amount of water and your pond dries up at an acceptable rate.
If you don't have enough water to supply the minimum plus a little bit more for luxury-use then you need to either encourage people to leave or find another source of water.
That is the capitalist way to manage a limited resource.
That's true, but it's also true that bittorrent is a generalization of the concept of P2P. Instead of having files distributed in multiple copies across many peers and downloading from the closest one, files are broken up into N sub-chunks which are up-to-simultaneously downloaded from many peers.
In a very real sense, P2P is a subset of Bittorrent where N -> 1.
No one believes that the left wing conspiracy will transfer all our wealth to the third world. Many believe that the left wing conspiracy's stated goal of doing just that is at odds with it's demonstrated capacity of only the first half of the transfer.
It's an advanced concepts grant though. They just throw around money here and there on wacked-out, pie-in-the-sky star trek projects so they can say, "Yeah, we're working on that" to just about any question.
Besides, most of the projects are of the nature that if even one of them turns out to not be total crackpot ramblings, it would change everything (or at least one thing, very dramatically).
That doesn't mean they have any confidence at all of getting useful results. Fortunately, the budget for advanced concepts grants is small and shrinking, I believe.
Little less than that actually, since you're rising out of the sun's gravity well. It comes to about 300 MJ/kg over the trip which is small, but I'm not sure it's quite negligible.
Since you're using photon pressure, the reaction mass is zero. With sufficient energy, you could travel anywhere in the universe. But unfortunately, Thrust = Power / speed of light.
Even a 1 Newton thruster requires 300 MW at 100% efficiency.
You've gotta scale up the power plant to get more thrust, and it's already going to be pretty massive (I believe that puts it on the order of a medium sized commercial nuke plant.) so I just don't see you reaching Mars in a week. Proxima Centauri in a lifetime, perhaps, but no way on the mars thing.
Of course, since he's talking about a laser, it's possible he means to have the equipment on the ground (or moon, or earth orbit) and propel a much smaller craft. With sufficiently focused optics, you could propel a small probe the whole way to mars (in a week? My envelope just ran out of space...), though it would require some pretty heat-resistant mirrors. Fortunately, the energy requirements for that Newton drop by half when you factor reflection into the equation.
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Is that the problem?
Are you sure it's not that "finished goods" are less valuable than their components due to the skills-xp factor?
The actual amount of money in the world doesn't matter, unless it overflows or detracts from the experience of new players. The current way of things means that players must take the "beat up animals for money" track over the "make tools for other players" route.
Indeed, although I'll mention that the people in the apple line didn't look like they had $600 to spend frivolously.
It's actually a clever idea, since you could photocopy the problems off of the reference books in the library.
The question is whether the professor chose the book just to have a new book, or because he actually believes it will help you learn calculus better. Not all calculus books are equally able to teach, and it's certainly possible that some are actually wrong.
My big worry would be that some passenger between me and the exit slows down the flow, preventing me from escaping before I am overcome by fumes or heat.
There are many ways in which this could happen. For instance they could try to fetch a carry-on they think is important. This should be a capital offense. They could also just panic. This could be the result of overexposure to potential threats regarding airframe decomposition. It should be noted that aluminum also burns, and burns quite hotly, and the fumes aren't exactly good for you either.
Is anyone else a tad nonplussed that 1,000,000 people thought it would be a good idea to pay nearly $600 for a phone?
No, once our money drops to yours, phase one of the North American Union will be complete. Next, both of us will nosedive toward peso parity. I see no reason to trust Canadian politicians any more than US politicians wrt carefully orchestrated treason.
I'm afraid you are incorrect. Your tinfoil armor will get really freakin' hot and spark. Both burning and shocking you.
Yeah, I was happy to see that. Obviously someone was thinking along the same lines. Though it was only two lightsabers, and they weren't very creatively controlled. (couldn't be, it was a simple ai controlling them, not a movie animator). That fight was pretty tedious once you figured out the secret. I actually don't see the point of it in jedi v. jedi combat, but in jedi v. crapload of redshirts, it probably would've saved the blue hottie.
There already is such an option. It's called javascript. Web developers always put all the crap behind a javascript wrapper. Occasionally they also use the "Flash delimiter" but it's often behind a javascript wrapper too, for good measure.
If you have the force, you don't need to attach them. In fact, it always struck me as silly that everyone has just one or two. If I was a Jedi, I'd have about two dozen, and they'd all surround me in some kind of deadly sphere of force-controlled prescient deflection dance. I'd look.. well pretty stupid, actually...
Why RAID? Why not just 10 different devices with the approximate bandwidth requirements of a single HDD?
it could be 10 separate hard disks, or some other combination of devices. Storage isn't the only thing you attach to a USB, you know.
Do you have to take classes in curmudgeonry or can you just claim equivalent experience and take the test?
It shouldn't. The SRB propellant requires high pressure to maintain combustion. Simply blowing the nozzle off should be sufficient (but just) to turn them off.
It is "safe" to smoke cigarettes around the unassembled cylinders. But I still wouldn't do it.
Would you say that you "Live for the Swarm?"
You're looking at it the wrong way, as a fine for violating a restriction. You have to look at it the way the wealthy waterer looks at it: It's just a higher cost on the extra water, a higher price which he can well afford.
What you do is institute airline-pricing to find the real price of the water without pricing the small guy out of the market: each additional gallon over the first hundred (or thousand, or whatever you pick) costs more than the last by an exponential function. You choose the parameters and the cutoff such that everyone can afford a minimum amount of water and your pond dries up at an acceptable rate.
If you don't have enough water to supply the minimum plus a little bit more for luxury-use then you need to either encourage people to leave or find another source of water.
That is the capitalist way to manage a limited resource.
I don't have an apple key, you insensitive clod.
It's kind of silly to assume that everyone who downloads iTunes will buy an entire Macintosh computer to run it on.
That's true, but it's also true that bittorrent is a generalization of the concept of P2P. Instead of having files distributed in multiple copies across many peers and downloading from the closest one, files are broken up into N sub-chunks which are up-to-simultaneously downloaded from many peers.
In a very real sense, P2P is a subset of Bittorrent where N -> 1.
No one believes that the left wing conspiracy will transfer all our wealth to the third world. Many believe that the left wing conspiracy's stated goal of doing just that is at odds with it's demonstrated capacity of only the first half of the transfer.
No, I think they probably got a lot of advertising out of that scandal.
Ok, but how would that change the mass
It's an advanced concepts grant though. They just throw around money here and there on wacked-out, pie-in-the-sky star trek projects so they can say, "Yeah, we're working on that" to just about any question.
Besides, most of the projects are of the nature that if even one of them turns out to not be total crackpot ramblings, it would change everything (or at least one thing, very dramatically).
That doesn't mean they have any confidence at all of getting useful results. Fortunately, the budget for advanced concepts grants is small and shrinking, I believe.
Little less than that actually, since you're rising out of the sun's gravity well. It comes to about 300 MJ/kg over the trip which is small, but I'm not sure it's quite negligible.
Since you're using photon pressure, the reaction mass is zero. With sufficient energy, you could travel anywhere in the universe. But unfortunately, Thrust = Power / speed of light.
Even a 1 Newton thruster requires 300 MW at 100% efficiency.
You've gotta scale up the power plant to get more thrust, and it's already going to be pretty massive (I believe that puts it on the order of a medium sized commercial nuke plant.) so I just don't see you reaching Mars in a week. Proxima Centauri in a lifetime, perhaps, but no way on the mars thing.
Of course, since he's talking about a laser, it's possible he means to have the equipment on the ground (or moon, or earth orbit) and propel a much smaller craft. With sufficiently focused optics, you could propel a small probe the whole way to mars (in a week? My envelope just ran out of space...), though it would require some pretty heat-resistant mirrors. Fortunately, the energy requirements for that Newton drop by half when you factor reflection into the equation.
The infrastructure required to move 1 million people is drastically lower when contaminated water has made all of their stuff toxic.
I blame global warming, myself. If only the US had ratified Kyoto, this wouldn't be happening.