And the final clue is the use of the word 'nuclear' instead of GW's preferred 'nucular'.
I know you're trying to be funny and all, but I just wanted to point out that pronouncing it as 'nucular' isn't exactly incorrect, it's just not as widely used as pronouncing it 'nuclear' (like particular).
usage Though disapproved of by many, pronunciations ending in \-ky&-l&r\ have been found in widespread use among educated speakers including scientists, lawyers, professors, congressmen, U.S. cabinet members, and at least one U.S. president and one vice president. While most common in the U.S., these pronunciations have also been heard from British and Canadian speakers.
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As you can see external hard drivers are cheaper than the iPod and have a much larger storage capacity but you seem to be interested in saving space also, that's where the iPod will be better option for you. If you're willing to compromise storage capacity and are willing to pay a few more $$$ then go with the iPod or another hd-based mp3 player, they definetly look cooler.;)
I don't know which battery lasts the longest or which one performs the greatest, however here are some tips to maximize your current battery's life (most of them are probably very obvious):
- Avoid frequent full discharges (puts strain on battery)
- Turn off wireless networking
- Remove unnecessary PC cards
- Avoid using floppy drive or CD drive if possible
- Dim down your brightness
- Use electrical outlets (where possible)
- Avoid use of media players
- Keep the battery at a moderately cool temperature
According to this article which is about a 1998 experiment done on rats, the rats suffered from the following affects from eating transgenic potatoes:
organ damage
thickening of the small intestine
poor brain development
Other dangers from this this article come to include:
New toxins and allergens in foods
Other damaging effects on health caused by unnatural foods
Increased use of chemicals on crops, resulting in increased contamination of our water supply and food
The creation of herbicide-resistant weeds
The spread of diseases across species barriers
Loss of bio-diversity in crops
The disturbance of ecological balance
Artificially induced characteristics and inevitable side-effects will be passed on to all subsequent generations and to other related organisms. Once released, they can never be recalled or contained. The consequences of this are incalculable.
Here is yet another article that you can read on this topic.
Domain Dynamics is raising the level of security of smart cards by adding voice authenticators that prevent the card from being used by anyone except the approved cardholder.
Smart cards are similar to credit cards and serve the same purpose, but they have a completely different data storage system. Instead of using a magnetic strip to store the user's information, smart cards feature an embedded 8-bit microprocessor with up to 16 kilobytes of programmable-only memory. Smart cards have only recently began to gain popularity in the United States, despite their widespread use in Europe for years.
Domain Dynamics' new TESPAR voice authenticator stores three samples of the user's voice on a template within the Java-based smart card. When users want to make a transaction, they simply enter the card into a terminal at a store and give a speech sample. The card then matches the spoken voice to the recorded voice samples, a process that takes a fraction of the second. The company said that TESPAR is able to handle day-to-day variations in the user's voice and can ignore background noise.
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You're right this isn't unique, in fact they had a mini-computer called the Virtual PC Buddy B-210, but the main difference between the Jetway machine and the PC Buddy, is that the PC Buddy could share it's resources with up to five people, instead of Jetway's two.
The purpose of cryptography is to transmit information in such a way that access to it is restricted entirely to the intended recipient. Originally the security of a cryptotext depended on the secrecy of the entire encrypting and decrypting procedures; however, today we use ciphers for which the algorithm for encrypting and decrypting could be revealed to anybody without compromising the security of a particular cryptogram. In such ciphers a set of specific parameters, called a key, is supplied together with the plaintext as an input to the encrypting algorithm, and together with the cryptogram as an input to the decrypting algorithm.The encrypting and decrypting algorithms are publicly announced; the security of the cryptogram depends entirely on the secrecy of the key, and this key must consist of any randomly chosen, sufficiently long string of bits.
Here is an excerpt about cost from a paper I found:
Which method is cheapest overall?
Reverse osmosis has been shown to be the most economical in many cases due to its lower energy consumption, leading to lower unit water costs. However, the process has higher up-front investment costs compared to thermal processes. Its unit water costs are primarily determined by membrane life and energy cost (Ericsson et al., 1987; Wade, 1987). Reverse osmosis plants have flexibility of operation in the face of fluctuating water demand and benefit a little from economies of size.
Several economic trends for multistage flash distillation plants are apparent: a relatively low investment cost, benefits from economies of size (relative to other processes), site specific costs (for example pretreatment requirements, energy costs) have a direct affect on the unit water costs, and low flexibility in response to variable water demand (meaning that freshwater production cannot be adapted to fluctuating demand ) (d'Orival, 1967; California Coastal Commission, 1993). The main economic drivers for multistage flash distillation are costs of materials and energy, and increasing plant capacity to take advantage of economies of size (Water Corporation, 2000).
Comparing multistage flash distillation and reverse osmosis, the distillation process has been the preferred method due to its reputation as a mature and reliable process. However, reverse osmosis plants are replacing the older multistage flash distillation plants of the Middle East and being the first choice for desalination implementation in Australia. This is due to their simpler operation, reductions in energy consumption and ultimately, cheaper unit costs of fresh water (Anon, 1999a; Glueckstern, 1999). The overall cost of fresh water from a reverse osmosis plant is often less than half of that produced by means of distillation (Water Corporation, 2000). As technical advancements of membrane processes improve their costs and efficiency, they will continue to be the preferred choice for countries moving into desalination.
Presently, the reported costs of desalinating water using current technologies fall within the range A$0.80/kL to A$2.10/kL, depending upon the process, location and the potential for blending with marginal quality groundwater (Water Corporation, 2000). These costs do not include disposal or distribution costs.
They're even thinking of building a Nuclear Desalinization Plant in the Mideast. At an estimated cost of $200-300 million it will be able to provide enough water for 3 to 4 million people.
Yes, it is unconstitutional and the sad thing is that if you want to challenge it's constitutionality and the Supreme Court does rule that it is unconstitutional than all Congress needs to do is simply amend the Constitution. The same thing happened with the federal income tax.
Many of you seem to be wondering which states this affects. Well, according to an article posted last month on SlashDot. The following states are collecting Internet taxes:
States with sales tax lines on their tax forms include Alabama, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin, according to the Federation of Tax Administrators.
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Oh my, I meant to say BE, "we're all going to BE robots", NOT "DO robots" you sickos..
All he's trying to say is 10 years from now we're all going to robots.
There is a sudden rise in work-related injuries.
Although there are already ways around this, what's to stop a person from just re-typing whatever they see?
The article in the summary seems to have been /.ed so here is another article I found.
You know you live in the 21st century, when your cell phone is better suited to perform photosynthesis than it is to talk to other people.
I know you're trying to be funny and all, but I just wanted to point out that pronouncing it as 'nucular' isn't exactly incorrect, it's just not as widely used as pronouncing it 'nuclear' (like particular).
from m-w.com:
usage Though disapproved of by many, pronunciations ending in \-ky&-l&r\ have been found in widespread use among educated speakers including scientists, lawyers, professors, congressmen, U.S. cabinet members, and at least one U.S. president and one vice president. While most common in the U.S., these pronunciations have also been heard from British and Canadian speakers.
The flash player isn't exactly the most legible thing to read, so here is the more coherent printable version (PDF).
Fixed link to May story.
"transfer speed of one gigabyte per second (40 times the speed of DVD)"
Read more here.
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As you can see external hard drivers are cheaper than the iPod and have a much larger storage capacity but you seem to be interested in saving space also, that's where the iPod will be better option for you. If you're willing to compromise storage capacity and are willing to pay a few more $$$ then go with the iPod or another hd-based mp3 player, they definetly look cooler. ;)
- Avoid frequent full discharges (puts strain on battery)
- Turn off wireless networking
- Remove unnecessary PC cards
- Avoid using floppy drive or CD drive if possible
- Dim down your brightness
- Use electrical outlets (where possible)
- Avoid use of media players
- Keep the battery at a moderately cool temperature
I have a link for you too.
Username: asspants
Password: streetmeat
Enjoy.
Other dangers from this this article come to include:
Here is yet another article that you can read on this topic.
Smart cards are similar to credit cards and serve the same purpose, but they have a completely different data storage system. Instead of using a magnetic strip to store the user's information, smart cards feature an embedded 8-bit microprocessor with up to 16 kilobytes of programmable-only memory. Smart cards have only recently began to gain popularity in the United States, despite their widespread use in Europe for years.
Domain Dynamics' new TESPAR voice authenticator stores three samples of the user's voice on a template within the Java-based smart card. When users want to make a transaction, they simply enter the card into a terminal at a store and give a speech sample. The card then matches the spoken voice to the recorded voice samples, a process that takes a fraction of the second. The company said that TESPAR is able to handle day-to-day variations in the user's voice and can ignore background noise.
Read more here.
Monthly bills? Oh you meant religiously..
Yeah, but the real question is will I still be safe from Catholic Priests?
Well it's not exactly the same thing, the article posted before was about Purdue's shape searching engine while this article is about Princeton's 3D model search. Same topic, different search engines.
You're right this isn't unique, in fact they had a mini-computer called the Virtual PC Buddy B-210, but the main difference between the Jetway machine and the PC Buddy, is that the PC Buddy could share it's resources with up to five people, instead of Jetway's two.
The purpose of cryptography is to transmit information in such a way that access to it is restricted entirely to the intended recipient. Originally the security of a cryptotext depended on the secrecy of the entire encrypting and decrypting procedures; however, today we use ciphers for which the algorithm for encrypting and decrypting could be revealed to anybody without compromising the security of a particular cryptogram. In such ciphers a set of specific parameters, called a key, is supplied together with the plaintext as an input to the encrypting algorithm, and together with the cryptogram as an input to the decrypting algorithm.The encrypting and decrypting algorithms are publicly announced; the security of the cryptogram depends entirely on the secrecy of the key, and this key must consist of any randomly chosen, sufficiently long string of bits.
Read more here
Which method is cheapest overall?
Reverse osmosis has been shown to be the most economical in many cases due to its lower energy consumption, leading to lower unit water costs. However, the process has higher up-front investment costs compared to thermal processes. Its unit water costs are primarily determined by membrane life and energy cost (Ericsson et al., 1987; Wade, 1987). Reverse osmosis plants have flexibility of operation in the face of fluctuating water demand and benefit a little from economies of size.
Several economic trends for multistage flash distillation plants are apparent: a relatively low investment cost, benefits from economies of size (relative to other processes), site specific costs (for example pretreatment requirements, energy costs) have a direct affect on the unit water costs, and low flexibility in response to variable water demand (meaning that freshwater production cannot be adapted to fluctuating demand ) (d'Orival, 1967; California Coastal Commission, 1993). The main economic drivers for multistage flash distillation are costs of materials and energy, and increasing plant capacity to take advantage of economies of size (Water Corporation, 2000).
Comparing multistage flash distillation and reverse osmosis, the distillation process has been the preferred method due to its reputation as a mature and reliable process. However, reverse osmosis plants are replacing the older multistage flash distillation plants of the Middle East and being the first choice for desalination implementation in Australia. This is due to their simpler operation, reductions in energy consumption and ultimately, cheaper unit costs of fresh water (Anon, 1999a; Glueckstern, 1999). The overall cost of fresh water from a reverse osmosis plant is often less than half of that produced by means of distillation (Water Corporation, 2000). As technical advancements of membrane processes improve their costs and efficiency, they will continue to be the preferred choice for countries moving into desalination.
Presently, the reported costs of desalinating water using current technologies fall within the range A$0.80/kL to A$2.10/kL, depending upon the process, location and the potential for blending with marginal quality groundwater (Water Corporation, 2000). These costs do not include disposal or distribution costs.
Read more here.
They're even thinking of building a Nuclear Desalinization Plant in the Mideast. At an estimated cost of $200-300 million it will be able to provide enough water for 3 to 4 million people.
Yes, it is unconstitutional and the sad thing is that if you want to challenge it's constitutionality and the Supreme Court does rule that it is unconstitutional than all Congress needs to do is simply amend the Constitution. The same thing happened with the federal income tax.
States with sales tax lines on their tax forms include Alabama, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin, according to the Federation of Tax Administrators.
Read more about it here.