It's obvious that they're in an experience machine. It's the only theory that fit any of the facts established in the first season while also fitting the producers' claims that everything fits together, and they're not dead.
It neatly ties in why the baby doctor had to be poisoned before arriving on the island, and the events of last week's episode.
I shall be very surprised if it doesn't turn out to be either A) an experience machine or B)the writers have just been makin' stuff willy nilly since episode 3. With a strong bias toward (B).
Don't you find it ironic that a guy named Da' Foe just happens to play so many of Hollywood's villains? (and plays them well. That shit with the dress was supposed to be excruciating to watch)
They don't necessarily stop 'real-damn-quick' but if they aren't fully loaded, they can stop 'quite-a-bit-faster-than-you.' The distinction to a car attempting to draft is purely academic.
Charge it? Just weave a rectenna into the substrate. Power it via microwaves from the ATM itself, or use ambient RF to trickle charge a capacitor. Or leave space for a solar array. eInk only needs power to change state, and it doesn't need to be particularly fast in this application.
"normal driving" in car manufacturer lingo means highway driving. A hybrid will only occasionally dip into the battery during highway driving. Without something clarifying the definition of "normal driving," the most useful information in that article is the two anecdotal taxi drivers.
Because regardless of the quality of the Prius, I can define driving conditions under which the battery will suffer no degradation for unlimited miles.
Woah.. I think you've posted one too low here. I support amateur radio. And hold a license. Though I haven't done much recently; too many other interests to remember to get join a RACES group before hurricane season hits..
My main point was that there's no need for "emergency cell towers" when the existing infrastructure is already configured to work as such; the emergency towers would be just as likely as the existing network to go down, and would have far less coverage or redundancy anyway.
I do however think of my local nets as more of an emergency-chat room. They handle some traffic, and certainly solve a few problems, but the EOC has their own radio links to the professional responders, and their own communications to out of area organizations that they usually* don't need the amateur that sits there for official business anymore. Of course, since the nets are going whether they need them or not, when they do need them they come in handy. No one actually chit-chats during the emergency, but they're kind of a vestige of a less-connected time.
*unless the disaster is utterly disastrous
Of course, my experience could be colored by living in a state where hurricanes happen often enough that the professionals are quite professional, train with the amateurs, and everyone almost secretly hope for a storm to test their skills. It could be different in states where the emergency plan is to wait until after the disaster hits, then wait a little more before calling for federal aid and finding some reason to blame racism.
Actually politics doomed the french. Namely their desire not to appear hostile to Belgium by either completing the Maginot line along the france-belgium border or completing it along the belgium-germany border. The latter of which would have been a fairly obviously hostile act.
Well that and not using their "world's largest army" to invade Germany when they violated the treaty of Versailles by building up forces in the Rhineland. But that doesn't have any implications for modern foreign policy whatsoever.
If PvP is what you're after, why would you buy an RPG anyway? That's like buying a set of pokemon cards because you enjoy paintball.
I do however see a point you've made that Blizzard hadn't addressed, and won't address: Most of the game isn't really very much fun. If it were, people wouldn't be paying good money to avoid it.
That depends on what's failed. Amateur radio has significantly greater range (two or three orders of magnitude with inexpensive equipment) than cellular. Cell towers already have battery backup, and some have generator backup. IIRC, phone companies also have mobile power units as well as mobile cell towers with generators.
Also, Amateur radio nets can function as a kid of "chat room" for emergency responders and volunteers. Issues that might get ignored through normal channels can be addressed by volunteers.
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So.. blizzard should trade millions of people paying over a hundred dollars a year (that's right, with 8 million subscribers, they can gross a billion dollars a year. That's more revenue than some countries.)
No reason at all. The wires are already in the walls. But you do have to poke holes in the wall to get to them. Most houses are built with this in mind, so the contractors pre-poke some holes for you and put a little cover on so you don't have to worry about brushing up against the exposed wiring.
We call those pre-poked holes, "wall outlets."
If you're talking about making the whole wall a charging wall, I suppose you could do that too. But any part of the wall without shelves installed would be useless for charging, and you could damage the pad by installing built-in furniture if you're not careful.
They're not talking about running a refrigerator for these things, they're talking about reducing wall-wart clutter to one wire and one pad. In addition to less clutter, that means that lazy people will leave fewer transformers plugged in without powering anything.
Schools don't even have the desire to allow activities that *are* Olympic events. For instance, most schools in the US have policies directly prohibitive of having a biathlon team.
I disagree. Since the color temperature is closer to solar with the incandescents, I think that most people would prefer the fluorescents in a "blind" test.
The camera's mode, at least in Canon's case, is to show an overlay of the pictures already taken in the matrix or panorama you're taking. It's easier to get good, overlapping, easy-to-stitch images if you use the camera's framework to help you set up the shots, and be sure when you've taken enough to fill the planned matrix. As a bonus, the pictures are all tagged as to their position in the final photograph, and all the camera data is recorded for the stitching program.
IIRC, the actual stitching still happens in software on a PC.
Speaking of which.. is there any prevailing opinion on "burn in?" anymore? Used to be, the local dealers would advertise the time they allegedly ran the computer or something (I never really understood it.) as proof of its not-a-lemon-ness.
Indeed. Also, Matlab runs on linux, and has latex pretty-print modes. So you don't have to get all confused learning the quirky similarities between Octave and Matlab is you don't want to.
And LyX is very convenient. Especially for typesetting those pesky equations. Much less flaky than MS Office, or even OO.org. In fact, I'd classify its equation modes as not flaky at all. Of course, it's convenient that anything they don't support can simply be escaped and typed in pure latex...
My favorite thing about LyX is that even if you have a lot of pictures and included files, when you insert new elements, old elements (like graphics or text-boxes) don't go flying all over the document depending on how you've anchored them.
Cheap, efficient, easily maintianable solar is not hard at all. All you need is mirrors, some slow electric motors, a working fluid, and a conventional turbine. Oh, and a lot of land not near NIMBYs, who for some reason will find a reason to be scared of everything.
There's a really simple solution to this that isn't very elegant:
Take one HD channel to transmit scaled down versions of all available channels for some given area. Keep one tuner constantly on this channel. When switching, briefly show the scaled down version while the main tuner switches over.
Price optimization will happen in a free market, whether by Intelligent Design or the evolutionary optimization referred to by Adam Smith as the "invisible hand."
Of course, if you're a company selling stuff, evolution favors the intelligently designed.
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It's obvious that they're in an experience machine. It's the only theory that fit any of the facts established in the first season while also fitting the producers' claims that everything fits together, and they're not dead.
It neatly ties in why the baby doctor had to be poisoned before arriving on the island, and the events of last week's episode.
I shall be very surprised if it doesn't turn out to be either A) an experience machine or B)the writers have just been makin' stuff willy nilly since episode 3. With a strong bias toward (B).
Don't you find it ironic that a guy named Da' Foe just happens to play so many of Hollywood's villains? (and plays them well. That shit with the dress was supposed to be excruciating to watch)
They don't necessarily stop 'real-damn-quick' but if they aren't fully loaded, they can stop 'quite-a-bit-faster-than-you.' The distinction to a car attempting to draft is purely academic.
Charge it? Just weave a rectenna into the substrate. Power it via microwaves from the ATM itself, or use ambient RF to trickle charge a capacitor. Or leave space for a solar array. eInk only needs power to change state, and it doesn't need to be particularly fast in this application.
"normal driving" in car manufacturer lingo means highway driving. A hybrid will only occasionally dip into the battery during highway driving. Without something clarifying the definition of "normal driving," the most useful information in that article is the two anecdotal taxi drivers.
Because regardless of the quality of the Prius, I can define driving conditions under which the battery will suffer no degradation for unlimited miles.
So.. we should leave Iraq to fend for itself then? That will decrease the number of iraqi civilians killed by terrorists there?
Woah.. I think you've posted one too low here. I support amateur radio. And hold a license. Though I haven't done much recently; too many other interests to remember to get join a RACES group before hurricane season hits..
My main point was that there's no need for "emergency cell towers" when the existing infrastructure is already configured to work as such; the emergency towers would be just as likely as the existing network to go down, and would have far less coverage or redundancy anyway.
I do however think of my local nets as more of an emergency-chat room. They handle some traffic, and certainly solve a few problems, but the EOC has their own radio links to the professional responders, and their own communications to out of area organizations that they usually* don't need the amateur that sits there for official business anymore. Of course, since the nets are going whether they need them or not, when they do need them they come in handy. No one actually chit-chats during the emergency, but they're kind of a vestige of a less-connected time.
*unless the disaster is utterly disastrous
Of course, my experience could be colored by living in a state where hurricanes happen often enough that the professionals are quite professional, train with the amateurs, and everyone almost secretly hope for a storm to test their skills. It could be different in states where the emergency plan is to wait until after the disaster hits, then wait a little more before calling for federal aid and finding some reason to blame racism.
Actually politics doomed the french. Namely their desire not to appear hostile to Belgium by either completing the Maginot line along the france-belgium border or completing it along the belgium-germany border. The latter of which would have been a fairly obviously hostile act.
Well that and not using their "world's largest army" to invade Germany when they violated the treaty of Versailles by building up forces in the Rhineland. But that doesn't have any implications for modern foreign policy whatsoever.
If PvP is what you're after, why would you buy an RPG anyway? That's like buying a set of pokemon cards because you enjoy paintball.
I do however see a point you've made that Blizzard hadn't addressed, and won't address: Most of the game isn't really very much fun. If it were, people wouldn't be paying good money to avoid it.
Yes, though what is the wasted watts for 100 million chargers not charging anything (but plugged in anyway)?
That depends on what's failed. Amateur radio has significantly greater range (two or three orders of magnitude with inexpensive equipment) than cellular. Cell towers already have battery backup, and some have generator backup. IIRC, phone companies also have mobile power units as well as mobile cell towers with generators.
Also, Amateur radio nets can function as a kid of "chat room" for emergency responders and volunteers. Issues that might get ignored through normal channels can be addressed by volunteers.
So.. blizzard should trade millions of people paying over a hundred dollars a year (that's right, with 8 million subscribers, they can gross a billion dollars a year. That's more revenue than some countries.)
No reason at all. The wires are already in the walls. But you do have to poke holes in the wall to get to them. Most houses are built with this in mind, so the contractors pre-poke some holes for you and put a little cover on so you don't have to worry about brushing up against the exposed wiring.
We call those pre-poked holes, "wall outlets."
If you're talking about making the whole wall a charging wall, I suppose you could do that too. But any part of the wall without shelves installed would be useless for charging, and you could damage the pad by installing built-in furniture if you're not careful.
20% of your power.. for LOW POWER DEVICES.
They're not talking about running a refrigerator for these things, they're talking about reducing wall-wart clutter to one wire and one pad. In addition to less clutter, that means that lazy people will leave fewer transformers plugged in without powering anything.
Schools don't even have the desire to allow activities that *are* Olympic events. For instance, most schools in the US have policies directly prohibitive of having a biathlon team.
I disagree. Since the color temperature is closer to solar with the incandescents, I think that most people would prefer the fluorescents in a "blind" test.
The camera's mode, at least in Canon's case, is to show an overlay of the pictures already taken in the matrix or panorama you're taking. It's easier to get good, overlapping, easy-to-stitch images if you use the camera's framework to help you set up the shots, and be sure when you've taken enough to fill the planned matrix. As a bonus, the pictures are all tagged as to their position in the final photograph, and all the camera data is recorded for the stitching program.
IIRC, the actual stitching still happens in software on a PC.
Speaking of which.. is there any prevailing opinion on "burn in?" anymore? Used to be, the local dealers would advertise the time they allegedly ran the computer or something (I never really understood it.) as proof of its not-a-lemon-ness.
Indeed. Also, Matlab runs on linux, and has latex pretty-print modes. So you don't have to get all confused learning the quirky similarities between Octave and Matlab is you don't want to.
And LyX is very convenient. Especially for typesetting those pesky equations. Much less flaky than MS Office, or even OO.org. In fact, I'd classify its equation modes as not flaky at all. Of course, it's convenient that anything they don't support can simply be escaped and typed in pure latex...
My favorite thing about LyX is that even if you have a lot of pictures and included files, when you insert new elements, old elements (like graphics or text-boxes) don't go flying all over the document depending on how you've anchored them.
Footprint.
Cheap, efficient, easily maintianable solar is not hard at all. All you need is mirrors, some slow electric motors, a working fluid, and a conventional turbine. Oh, and a lot of land not near NIMBYs, who for some reason will find a reason to be scared of everything.
There's a really simple solution to this that isn't very elegant:
Take one HD channel to transmit scaled down versions of all available channels for some given area. Keep one tuner constantly on this channel. When switching, briefly show the scaled down version while the main tuner switches over.
I'm sure this isn't the best solution however.
Price optimization will happen in a free market, whether by Intelligent Design or the evolutionary optimization referred to by Adam Smith as the "invisible hand."
Of course, if you're a company selling stuff, evolution favors the intelligently designed.
Indeed. Soda (the geek staple) for instance, is often cheaper at convenience stores and even gas stations than the supermarket or walmart.
In linux, we have a whole glue language.
Meant to say,
Reflectivity < 70%
But the snappiness is all gone now.