I like to refer back to earlier bits, too. Ebooks are great for that, though, because my bookmarks have a snippet of the actual text I want to be able to snap back to. Sometimes with a note by myself. With physical media, I can't search the text, or have a page of highlights to review and jump to. I don't have a built-in dictionary, either, that's a separate device.
I will say it took me a while to figure out the input model the the touch Nook uses for highlighting. There are endpoints, but you can't drag them both. Instead, the initial word is a pivot, and you can drag to points before or after that word. I think. It definitely does not work like tablets do.
The chart doesn't show "employee or consumer" connecting to the portal / web site, instead connecting directly to the administration interface, customer service, and financial services (last two of which, based on the gradient, I assume have shared responsibilities between carriers and states, which implies another unspecified interface..).
Maybe they just didn't think the web portal was important, because the consumers would hook directly (via implanted electrodes with network port? I assume that would be covered....) to lower level interfaces.
My reading was that his claim is that there are a number of characteristics that may be considered "psychopathic" and it may be beneficial to have each of them in the population, but that it is not advantageous to have members in the population exhibiting all of those characteristics.
Cost of electricity is a red herring. The appropriate thing to do for powered parking spaces is to meter it to the car owner. Much a gasoline pump, you would swipe your card before it would activate. I'm confident that charging stations like this already exist.
Not really. There are factors holding the price at the pump to the $3-4 range. One of them is that uptake of electric cars would be higher if the price of fuel was much past the break-even point on cost for electrics. OPEC wants more money, but they don't want to kill their market.
But why not offer an extended range option (with less trunk space or something)? The MiEV, an affordable electric (after tax subsidy...), has almost the range I currently need for daily commute. With an extra 40 miles, it would become an option for me.
The Tesla S has more than enough range. Sadly, I do not have the kind of income where that vehicle would be possible.
If we're going to get itchy about red billionaires making money from a pipeline, should we ignore blue billionaires who make money from the trains that carry the oil instead?
With net-metering, the pay back to solar panel owners feeding the mains is basically the retail rate for power. By definition, this rate is higher than the utility's cost to produce power. Further, solar is fairly variable, so there the utilities don't get to shut down any plants as a result of the solar electric.
The remaining question is whether they can scale back production to match the solar input, and can do so rapidly enough that the solar panels really are offsetting power production in some fashion, or if the net metering subsidy is really a gimmick.
The problem is the latency - you needed to cmd click all those pages because clicking and hitting the back button to click the next link doesn't work. First, your browser wants to refresh the original page every time because...why again?
Then, each page has a ton of 3rd party includes that break the page layout if they don't load in the right order (and have their own... 4th party, I guess.. includes, which are computed on the fly, so you have to run some of the js before you can even find out you're missing stuff, and it's always the slowest ad servers, too) to slow things down nice and good.
So you did what anyone with half a brain would do upon discovering tab functionality. Abuse it as a pre-fetch and pre-render system to maximize the resource you care most about - your own time.
But a little rudimentary unit analysis suggests that it's bullshit. It's not a dimensionless constant, it's M / L^2. It doesn't even make sense - L^2? Are we paper people? Extruded prisms of constant width?
What's the argument for the factor? What are the physical constants it depends on? What are the other Pi numbers in the system?
Finally, does it even correlate well with anything, meaningfully?
Later the telegraph was invented, and has been improved so much over the years that we can do everything the old mail service did much more efficiently electronically. More securely, too, but everyone seems to think electronic postcards are secure enough, for some reason.
And why should setting up a router be complicated? Why can't I just put my laptop next to a router, push a button on one or the other or both and have them securely paired via near-field or EHF wireless, photometer, ultrasound, or physical link?
Most people aren't IT professionals, but do need some IT infrastructure to accomplish their own goals. The mass-produced products should take this into account and offer default options that are both easy and secure.
The confusing thing is that all these companies exist at all. Shouldn't the credit card processing networks themselves be offering these services? Why should my payment go through a shady pseudo-bank (paypal) AND a credit processing network before getting to the real bank actually disperses the money and which I have promised to pay back?
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I like to refer back to earlier bits, too. Ebooks are great for that, though, because my bookmarks have a snippet of the actual text I want to be able to snap back to. Sometimes with a note by myself. With physical media, I can't search the text, or have a page of highlights to review and jump to. I don't have a built-in dictionary, either, that's a separate device.
I will say it took me a while to figure out the input model the the touch Nook uses for highlighting. There are endpoints, but you can't drag them both. Instead, the initial word is a pivot, and you can drag to points before or after that word. I think. It definitely does not work like tablets do.
Surely it's more due to lobbyists corrupting the anti-corruption measures demanded by taxpayer groups.
The chart doesn't show "employee or consumer" connecting to the portal / web site, instead connecting directly to the administration interface, customer service, and financial services (last two of which, based on the gradient, I assume have shared responsibilities between carriers and states, which implies another unspecified interface..).
Maybe they just didn't think the web portal was important, because the consumers would hook directly (via implanted electrodes with network port? I assume that would be covered....) to lower level interfaces.
My reading was that his claim is that there are a number of characteristics that may be considered "psychopathic" and it may be beneficial to have each of them in the population, but that it is not advantageous to have members in the population exhibiting all of those characteristics.
Cost of electricity is a red herring. The appropriate thing to do for powered parking spaces is to meter it to the car owner. Much a gasoline pump, you would swipe your card before it would activate. I'm confident that charging stations like this already exist.
Not really. There are factors holding the price at the pump to the $3-4 range. One of them is that uptake of electric cars would be higher if the price of fuel was much past the break-even point on cost for electrics. OPEC wants more money, but they don't want to kill their market.
But why not offer an extended range option (with less trunk space or something)? The MiEV, an affordable electric (after tax subsidy...), has almost the range I currently need for daily commute. With an extra 40 miles, it would become an option for me.
The Tesla S has more than enough range. Sadly, I do not have the kind of income where that vehicle would be possible.
Why is off-road in your list of requirements for a family of five's daily driver?
How do you lock silverlight to a whitelist?
"Rare earths" come from mines in China not because the minerals are more abundant, but because the miners are less expensive.
With China's rising standard of living, that seems unlikely to be a permanent condition.
If we're going to get itchy about red billionaires making money from a pipeline, should we ignore blue billionaires who make money from the trains that carry the oil instead?
Do you realize the kind of life you have to live in order to "never, ever put compromising info in the control of someone else?"
Interesting hole in the map from New York to Boston...
Google voice will give you a phone number for "free." It has many interesting options for routing your calls...
So, a record low? That's still a record...
With net-metering, the pay back to solar panel owners feeding the mains is basically the retail rate for power. By definition, this rate is higher than the utility's cost to produce power. Further, solar is fairly variable, so there the utilities don't get to shut down any plants as a result of the solar electric.
The remaining question is whether they can scale back production to match the solar input, and can do so rapidly enough that the solar panels really are offsetting power production in some fashion, or if the net metering subsidy is really a gimmick.
Why not? It works for Facebook.
I wonder if you could use a System on a Chip (SoC) to manage your state of charge....
The problem is the latency - you needed to cmd click all those pages because clicking and hitting the back button to click the next link doesn't work. First, your browser wants to refresh the original page every time because...why again?
Then, each page has a ton of 3rd party includes that break the page layout if they don't load in the right order (and have their own... 4th party, I guess.. includes, which are computed on the fly, so you have to run some of the js before you can even find out you're missing stuff, and it's always the slowest ad servers, too) to slow things down nice and good.
So you did what anyone with half a brain would do upon discovering tab functionality. Abuse it as a pre-fetch and pre-render system to maximize the resource you care most about - your own time.
But a little rudimentary unit analysis suggests that it's bullshit. It's not a dimensionless constant, it's M / L^2. It doesn't even make sense - L^2? Are we paper people? Extruded prisms of constant width?
What's the argument for the factor? What are the physical constants it depends on? What are the other Pi numbers in the system?
Finally, does it even correlate well with anything, meaningfully?
That would be possible, if you could find a very-short-range communication method that would work with any laptop. I don't know of any.
Bluetooth?
Yes, we needed it for communication.
Later the telegraph was invented, and has been improved so much over the years that we can do everything the old mail service did much more efficiently electronically. More securely, too, but everyone seems to think electronic postcards are secure enough, for some reason.
but.. is it the same 2-3%? It only works if everyone is using a different 2-3% slice...
And why should setting up a router be complicated? Why can't I just put my laptop next to a router, push a button on one or the other or both and have them securely paired via near-field or EHF wireless, photometer, ultrasound, or physical link?
Most people aren't IT professionals, but do need some IT infrastructure to accomplish their own goals. The mass-produced products should take this into account and offer default options that are both easy and secure.
The confusing thing is that all these companies exist at all. Shouldn't the credit card processing networks themselves be offering these services? Why should my payment go through a shady pseudo-bank (paypal) AND a credit processing network before getting to the real bank actually disperses the money and which I have promised to pay back?