I often visit the everglades. 2 meters would be a mountain in the everglades. When walking through the tree islands (called "hammocks" or "heads") I don't recall seeing anything this high in the everglades at all. There are differences in elevation, yes, and they do affect or reflect differences in plant species. But you're mostly talking about a difference of a few inches. Certainly not meters. The park guides always point out how the hardwood hammocks occur in areas maybe a few inches higher than the sawgrass prairie.... maybe a meter if you're comparing their elevation to the floor of a slough...
SBC Communications (formerly Southwestern Bell) bought them in 2005 and renamed themselves AT&T since the name was already better known (as a source of overwhelming evil, sure, but still, better market recognition is better market recognition).
As several have noted, Dances with Dragons is only the 5th of the projected 7 volumes. The last two are still out there.
I plugged in the values of the publication dates of the series so far into an excel spreadsheet and used the forecast function to predict the final two release dates:
publication history, tossed it into excel, and then used the forecast function to predict the next two release dates.
note - this looked a lot better before my tags were stripped out
# Title Published Days Months Years
1 A Game of Thrones Aug-96 0 0.00 0.00
2 A Clash of Kings Nov-98 822 27.40 2.25
3 A Storm of Swords Aug-00 639 21.30 1.75
4 A Feast for Crows Oct-05 1887 62.90 5.17
5 A Dance with Dragons Jul-11 2099 69.97 5.75
6 The Winds of Winter ? 2668 88.94 7.31 (projected)
7 A Dream of Spring ? 3169 105.63 8.68 (projected)
So plugging that in...
We can expect Winds of Winter on the 20th of October in 2018....
And a Dream of Spring on the 24th of July 2027.
You can run 2.0 on those old devices now if you're willing to do a bit of legwork. So I see no reason why they wouldn't do it themselves at some point...
Corwin was last seen after the patternfall war heading for a social function in the Courts of Chaos. He was wearing his typical black and silver garb with a rose boorch, and his blade Grayswandir. If you have any information on his whereabouts please contact Random.
Caine - Caine was last seen walking down a street in Kashfa, heading to a coffee shop. He was wearing black and green, with a rakish hat and feather, and had his jeweled daggers. Note - he has been known to fake dissappearances before.
Fiona - Fiona was last seen in Amber the night Merlin returned, at the main dinner. There are unconfirmed reports that she was later seen at a nightclub in rural upstate New York, and stole a small sedan from a parking lot there. She was wearing a green and lavender dress.
Bleys - Bleys has also been missing since the night Fiona vanished in Amber, they may have left together. Since there a man matching his description was seen on security camera footage selling several expensive rings in a pawn shop in Las Vegas. He was wearing a snazzy red and orange blazer.
Its hard to propose governments funding a scenario which results in the initial settlers leading a revolt against their control... Or at least they'd work real hard to weed out any potential Arkady Bogdanovs in the initial group.
After reaching the level cap, I'd join pug groups and in the role of "healer". I had gear with special effects that did nothing and created all manner of macros to create these effects while at the same time emoting that I was healing my target.
After the wipe, when they'd call me on it (I have yet to find an addon that will monkey with other people's trackers) I'd try to explain that I was doing this strictly for research and they were in the placebo group.
All of Svalbard (where Longyearbyen is located) is farthern north than Hammerfest.
It depends on your definition of what a "town" is. Hammerfest has about 9000 people. Honningsvåg is nearby and farthern north in Norway and has about 2500. Longyearbyen has about 2000 people, and is much farther north than any spot in Norway proper. But as I mentioned in an earlier post, there are small settlements in Svalbard farther north, including Ny-Ålesund which is about 50km north of it, and home to about 35 people year-round (over 120 in summer).
If you make some arbitrary designation on the smallest thing that can be called a town, then you could find one that makes it Hammerfest, I suppose.
There are settlements in Svalbard farther north....
Pyramiden was a longtime soviet mining town in Svalbard that once was home to over a thousand people, it was abandoned in 1998 but is being redeveloped. It is 50km north of Longyearbyen. However since it currently is home to about 8 people we'll bypass that for Ny-Alesund, which is some to about 35 people year-round (over 120 in summer), and also farther north than Longyearbyen. It is listed as the "world's northernmost functional public settlement", whatever that means.
Malaria is not the only mosquito-bourne illness... Yellow Fever, Dengue, etc can also be transmitted via them. If you kill the mosquito, it can't transmit any of these, but if you get it to resist malaria, you've only stopped one... but still I do like the approach, seems better than some methods of the past...
I grew up in the Panama Canal Zone, where malaria had previously devastated an earlier attempt at a canal by the French (DeLesseps). Mosquitos were controlled by basically spraying oil onto any standing water including ponds, lakes, pools, etc, which would klll the mosquito larvae (and many other things) in the water.
Later while I was there as a kid, to keep the populations down, they would drive trucks through residential neighborhoods fogging them with DDT to kill mosquitos. Many kinds would race behind the sprayer trucks on bicycles to get a good dose of the stuff as it would keep mosquitos off of you the rest of the night...
Yes, it was flawed. I liked it in spite of that, perhaps even for some of those flaws. Yes, it could frustrating, yes, much of the characters were not likeable or identifyable (no "everyman" character). But it was trying to do something, really, it was. The acting and production values were top-notch, and they really did delve into all manner of interesting topics for debate, from morality to philosophy to the nature of humanity. And we just got one payoff this week, a nice action sequence with a cylon followed by an iconic phrase ("by your command") at the end. I guess we can re-edit that scene to be syfy headquarters.
I'll miss caprica. It was the last reason I had to tune into the pathetic shell that occupies what was once the Sci-fi channel.
Just like planned obsolescence in other products, there's less money to be made in something that will keep a customer challenged and occupied for months. Better to let them finish it quickly and back to purchase another game (or some DLC to extend it).
I'm with you on webos (especially like what we're glimpsing of 2.0), but the Pre2's hardware is too underwhelming. I can already overclock to that now, and it seems if you don't have some kind of droolworthy screen no one is going to even notice you.... we'll have to keep hoping whatever comes next will grab some attention back...
I do think they're making a mistake by not licensing the OS. They could stick it on a clone of any of the android devices and have an instant hit....
What do you mean "remember". Every day I drive past several dozen outfits that do this, complete with people holding giant signs saying "we buy gold" and pointing to local stores that do this. That business is still booming (at least enough to pay people to stand outside on the street hawking it). Radio and TV ads are also saturated with ads for this.
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To double the amount of time you get before hip replacement..
I often visit the everglades. 2 meters would be a mountain in the everglades. When walking through the tree islands (called "hammocks" or "heads") I don't recall seeing anything this high in the everglades at all. There are differences in elevation, yes, and they do affect or reflect differences in plant species. But you're mostly talking about a difference of a few inches. Certainly not meters. The park guides always point out how the hardwood hammocks occur in areas maybe a few inches higher than the sawgrass prairie.... maybe a meter if you're comparing their elevation to the floor of a slough...
if it weren't for people making illegal copies of wax cylinders on day 2...
SBC Communications (formerly Southwestern Bell) bought them in 2005 and renamed themselves AT&T since the name was already better known (as a source of overwhelming evil, sure, but still, better market recognition is better market recognition).
As several have noted, Dances with Dragons is only the 5th of the projected 7 volumes. The last two are still out there.
I plugged in the values of the publication dates of the series so far into an excel spreadsheet and used the forecast function to predict the final two release dates:
publication history, tossed it into excel, and then used the forecast function to predict the next two release dates.
note - this looked a lot better before my tags were stripped out
# Title Published Days Months Years
1 A Game of Thrones Aug-96 0 0.00 0.00
2 A Clash of Kings Nov-98 822 27.40 2.25
3 A Storm of Swords Aug-00 639 21.30 1.75
4 A Feast for Crows Oct-05 1887 62.90 5.17
5 A Dance with Dragons Jul-11 2099 69.97 5.75
6 The Winds of Winter ? 2668 88.94 7.31 (projected)
7 A Dream of Spring ? 3169 105.63 8.68 (projected)
So plugging that in... We can expect Winds of Winter on the 20th of October in 2018.... And a Dream of Spring on the 24th of July 2027.
even after watching this I have no idea what this does or why I would want one.
So does this mean that Cowboy Neal is screwed?
Yeah I just saw that.
the webos community at precentral is up in arms. Sounds like they achieved ditching what was left of the palm fanbase.
As a pre+ user, it certainly changed my mind about getting one of these. How can I trust them to support these devices down the road?
You can run 2.0 on those old devices now if you're willing to do a bit of legwork. So I see no reason why they wouldn't do it themselves at some point...
Would that be an acceptable alternative? You could even use case to emphasize, as in "appleT".
THRICE!
But once we stop the Joker, you have to destroy this app or I, Morgan Freeman, will not be in the next movie.
Corwin was last seen after the patternfall war heading for a social function in the Courts of Chaos. He was wearing his typical black and silver garb with a rose boorch, and his blade Grayswandir. If you have any information on his whereabouts please contact Random.
Caine - Caine was last seen walking down a street in Kashfa, heading to a coffee shop. He was wearing black and green, with a rakish hat and feather, and had his jeweled daggers. Note - he has been known to fake dissappearances before.
Fiona - Fiona was last seen in Amber the night Merlin returned, at the main dinner. There are unconfirmed reports that she was later seen at a nightclub in rural upstate New York, and stole a small sedan from a parking lot there. She was wearing a green and lavender dress.
Bleys - Bleys has also been missing since the night Fiona vanished in Amber, they may have left together. Since there a man matching his description was seen on security camera footage selling several expensive rings in a pawn shop in Las Vegas. He was wearing a snazzy red and orange blazer.
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Its hard to propose governments funding a scenario which results in the initial settlers leading a revolt against their control... Or at least they'd work real hard to weed out any potential Arkady Bogdanovs in the initial group.
After reaching the level cap, I'd join pug groups and in the role of "healer". I had gear with special effects that did nothing and created all manner of macros to create these effects while at the same time emoting that I was healing my target.
After the wipe, when they'd call me on it (I have yet to find an addon that will monkey with other people's trackers) I'd try to explain that I was doing this strictly for research and they were in the placebo group.
Somehow, this did not seem to appease them.
All of Svalbard (where Longyearbyen is located) is farthern north than Hammerfest.
It depends on your definition of what a "town" is. Hammerfest has about 9000 people. Honningsvåg is nearby and farthern north in Norway and has about 2500. Longyearbyen has about 2000 people, and is much farther north than any spot in Norway proper. But as I mentioned in an earlier post, there are small settlements in Svalbard farther north, including Ny-Ålesund which is about 50km north of it, and home to about 35 people year-round (over 120 in summer).
If you make some arbitrary designation on the smallest thing that can be called a town, then you could find one that makes it Hammerfest, I suppose.
There are settlements in Svalbard farther north....
Pyramiden was a longtime soviet mining town in Svalbard that once was home to over a thousand people, it was abandoned in 1998 but is being redeveloped. It is 50km north of Longyearbyen. However since it currently is home to about 8 people we'll bypass that for Ny-Alesund, which is some to about 35 people year-round (over 120 in summer), and also farther north than Longyearbyen. It is listed as the "world's northernmost functional public settlement", whatever that means.
If you cash it, you might get an NSF fee....
Malaria is not the only mosquito-bourne illness... Yellow Fever, Dengue, etc can also be transmitted via them. If you kill the mosquito, it can't transmit any of these, but if you get it to resist malaria, you've only stopped one... but still I do like the approach, seems better than some methods of the past... I grew up in the Panama Canal Zone, where malaria had previously devastated an earlier attempt at a canal by the French (DeLesseps). Mosquitos were controlled by basically spraying oil onto any standing water including ponds, lakes, pools, etc, which would klll the mosquito larvae (and many other things) in the water. Later while I was there as a kid, to keep the populations down, they would drive trucks through residential neighborhoods fogging them with DDT to kill mosquitos. Many kinds would race behind the sprayer trucks on bicycles to get a good dose of the stuff as it would keep mosquitos off of you the rest of the night...
Yes, it was flawed. I liked it in spite of that, perhaps even for some of those flaws. Yes, it could frustrating, yes, much of the characters were not likeable or identifyable (no "everyman" character). But it was trying to do something, really, it was. The acting and production values were top-notch, and they really did delve into all manner of interesting topics for debate, from morality to philosophy to the nature of humanity. And we just got one payoff this week, a nice action sequence with a cylon followed by an iconic phrase ("by your command") at the end. I guess we can re-edit that scene to be syfy headquarters. I'll miss caprica. It was the last reason I had to tune into the pathetic shell that occupies what was once the Sci-fi channel.
Just like planned obsolescence in other products, there's less money to be made in something that will keep a customer challenged and occupied for months. Better to let them finish it quickly and back to purchase another game (or some DLC to extend it).
I'm with you on webos (especially like what we're glimpsing of 2.0), but the Pre2's hardware is too underwhelming. I can already overclock to that now, and it seems if you don't have some kind of droolworthy screen no one is going to even notice you.... we'll have to keep hoping whatever comes next will grab some attention back... I do think they're making a mistake by not licensing the OS. They could stick it on a clone of any of the android devices and have an instant hit....
Its not harmful. Gold flake was put in food by royalty since the middle ages.
Some even argue it has health benefits.
Ever drunk Goldschlager? It has gold in it.
What do you mean "remember". Every day I drive past several dozen outfits that do this, complete with people holding giant signs saying "we buy gold" and pointing to local stores that do this. That business is still booming (at least enough to pay people to stand outside on the street hawking it). Radio and TV ads are also saturated with ads for this.