While I'm sure you get good harmonics from a chord of wood, I'm not sure a single cord is enough to get through the winter except in a very small or well-insulated house. The latent heat of this volume of wood is much less than the that of a typical winter's worth of oil in my region.
Make every improvement in skill in one area balance with a loss of skill everywhere else. Then you basically end up with two kinds of players - those who focus on maintaining a few abilities to very high levels (a system like this doesn't really need a max if done right, as you can't do one thing only without doing anything else. Even traveling can have a cost - you level your walking skill while everything else deteriorates.), and those who try to balance out the things they do so that they can always do anything at an average level.
The balance of such a system would probably be pretty hard to get right. You want there to be advantages to going the specialist route, but not be so advantageous that no one wants to be a generalist. There should be drawbacks to either choice.
No, that was the setting. If that's all you took out of it, then you would benefit from re-reading the book. One of the first things that the "service equals citizenship" society did was spend a ton of time bullying a peaceful, intelligent alien race.
I think that the "everybody fights" theme from which "service equals citizenship" may have been derived is one of the claims being made. That's not so bad of a goal, though. There shouldn't be a group of "leaders" who make decisions for everyone else, but who aren't really invested in the outcomes or costs.
Usually shortened to "Free as in Beer" and just "Free." By definition, an open source project must be the first kind of free, but need not be the second kind. Things can be the second kind of free as well, or both. A lot of open source projects are both.
A question further down provides insight into that one, but that's not really an excuse.
I think that these questions might make sense given the instruction that is implied to have preceded them, but that doesn't make things better. "Number Sentence"? "Subtraction Story"?! Are the students supposed to write their own word problem about kids eating cookies or something?
Eh.. cheap bidder, high bidder, both are going to scrimp. You have to make your requirements clear and stick to them and have good oversight. I don't think that's what happened with the health care web site, though. There just wasn't enough time to do it right. I'm not sure they had enough time to understand the requirements.
Regardless, there's no evidence either way on the data center. They might have great system. They might have a mediocre system propped by insane hardware investment. They might have a shitty system that barely works despite insane hardware investment. They're not really telling us what they're storing or how they're accessing it. The whole thing might be one giant write-only memory farm that they're planning on figuring out how to access later.
I went to that Kiva site after seeing ads all over Hulu and was, frankly, quite appalled at the usury rates that the local loan sharks are charging when lending the money you donate.
I like the idea of making it a loan rather than a hand-out, but they should be charging normal interest rates, or even no interest. They don't need to cover the risk cost because there isn't any - that's the whole point of donating money, you expect to lose it.
I've got some bad news for you about the selection pressure.
All those ill-gotten gains from graft and corruption only serve to increase the number of reproductive opportunities for the holder. Especially if that person has no inclination toward monogamy.
Sadly, it would. Hopefully not enough to pass, though.
The idea reminds me of the classic pre-election polling technique of comparing an actually candidate to "any democrat" or "any republican." People insert their own ideal version of the "any party" candidate, so it invariably does better than comparisons to actual candidates.
Similarly here - submitter wishes Obama could say generally what he wants and then "any committee" will actually define things.
George Soros makes his money from currency arbitrage. You think he's above attempting to influence the factors that affect the relative value of currency?
Roche limit describes the maximum characteristic length of a gravitationally bound body in orbit of another object based on gravitational gradient. Basically, no larger objects (of similar density) are expected to form at any particular orbit level. It's not a perfect fit for something that is chemically bound, but you can still derive a form of it using other physical constants of the right units. Yield strength, for instance.
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If you're selling less than $120k, you're not a company. You're barely even in business at all. That's revenue, not profits.
While I'm sure you get good harmonics from a chord of wood, I'm not sure a single cord is enough to get through the winter except in a very small or well-insulated house. The latent heat of this volume of wood is much less than the that of a typical winter's worth of oil in my region.
if the payback is over 20 months, shouldn't the power bill savings offset more than 100% of the (amortized over 60 months) payment?
Make every improvement in skill in one area balance with a loss of skill everywhere else. Then you basically end up with two kinds of players - those who focus on maintaining a few abilities to very high levels (a system like this doesn't really need a max if done right, as you can't do one thing only without doing anything else. Even traveling can have a cost - you level your walking skill while everything else deteriorates.), and those who try to balance out the things they do so that they can always do anything at an average level.
The balance of such a system would probably be pretty hard to get right. You want there to be advantages to going the specialist route, but not be so advantageous that no one wants to be a generalist. There should be drawbacks to either choice.
How many would ignite if there was a shield that would flex rather than puncture?
Flex where? If it's up against the battery, when it flexes it will compress the cells, causing exactly the kind of damage that causes fires...
Much less expensive for your car budget. How about your whiplash budget?
No, that was the setting. If that's all you took out of it, then you would benefit from re-reading the book. One of the first things that the "service equals citizenship" society did was spend a ton of time bullying a peaceful, intelligent alien race.
I think that the "everybody fights" theme from which "service equals citizenship" may have been derived is one of the claims being made. That's not so bad of a goal, though. There shouldn't be a group of "leaders" who make decisions for everyone else, but who aren't really invested in the outcomes or costs.
I would even be ok with this decline, if they had anything approaching parity in their streaming service.
The only thing worse than gridlock is when they do stuff...
Citibank also has this, but the web interface hasn't worked on my Mac for over a year.
one could argue that Mavericks basically was a "bug fixes" release, though...
Two kinds of free:
Free as in "Free Speech"
Free as in "Free Beer"
Usually shortened to "Free as in Beer" and just "Free." By definition, an open source project must be the first kind of free, but need not be the second kind. Things can be the second kind of free as well, or both. A lot of open source projects are both.
A question further down provides insight into that one, but that's not really an excuse.
I think that these questions might make sense given the instruction that is implied to have preceded them, but that doesn't make things better. "Number Sentence"? "Subtraction Story"?! Are the students supposed to write their own word problem about kids eating cookies or something?
Appalling.
Eh.. cheap bidder, high bidder, both are going to scrimp. You have to make your requirements clear and stick to them and have good oversight. I don't think that's what happened with the health care web site, though. There just wasn't enough time to do it right. I'm not sure they had enough time to understand the requirements.
Regardless, there's no evidence either way on the data center. They might have great system. They might have a mediocre system propped by insane hardware investment. They might have a shitty system that barely works despite insane hardware investment. They're not really telling us what they're storing or how they're accessing it. The whole thing might be one giant write-only memory farm that they're planning on figuring out how to access later.
Who says the storage center is implemented well?
I went to that Kiva site after seeing ads all over Hulu and was, frankly, quite appalled at the usury rates that the local loan sharks are charging when lending the money you donate.
I like the idea of making it a loan rather than a hand-out, but they should be charging normal interest rates, or even no interest. They don't need to cover the risk cost because there isn't any - that's the whole point of donating money, you expect to lose it.
I thought it was comic books...
In that scenario, we'd actually be worse off - the ones with principles wouldn't be working on it...
Haven't quite made it to 2008 yet in your TV and Movie backlog, I see..
I've got some bad news for you about the selection pressure.
All those ill-gotten gains from graft and corruption only serve to increase the number of reproductive opportunities for the holder. Especially if that person has no inclination toward monogamy.
And that made sense to you? Sweeping legislation essentially crafted in secret to take control of 1/8th of the economy?
Sadly, it would. Hopefully not enough to pass, though.
The idea reminds me of the classic pre-election polling technique of comparing an actually candidate to "any democrat" or "any republican." People insert their own ideal version of the "any party" candidate, so it invariably does better than comparisons to actual candidates.
Similarly here - submitter wishes Obama could say generally what he wants and then "any committee" will actually define things.
George Soros makes his money from currency arbitrage. You think he's above attempting to influence the factors that affect the relative value of currency?
Scummy though the internment may have been, the constitution does provide for the suspension of writ of habeas corpus during war time...
Roche limit describes the maximum characteristic length of a gravitationally bound body in orbit of another object based on gravitational gradient. Basically, no larger objects (of similar density) are expected to form at any particular orbit level. It's not a perfect fit for something that is chemically bound, but you can still derive a form of it using other physical constants of the right units. Yield strength, for instance.