I usually don't log in to post, but I haven't seen anyone point this out yet: Lenovos have high list prices, but there are ALWAYS coupons with >10% off of list price - frequently the coupons go up to 15 or even 20%. If you manage to get them at the outlet, you can often get them for even more off - 30-40%, and if you go for refurbs, the savings are even higher. While I know it's possible to get mac refurbs for under the list price, the savings on thinkpads are undeniably more plentiful.
That's one point - the other is general design. A lot of people in this thread are discussing features that only macs have. However, there are plenty of features that are matched (or exceeded) by thinkpads. For example, thinkpads also stop the hard drive automatically if acceleration is detected, and also have a spill-proof keyboard (which macs lack) as well as a significantly stronger chassis (aluminum frame INSIDE a magnesium-composite clad exterior).
Hey, things aren't always so bad. When I was in 6th grade (not terribly long ago, actually) I built an electrolysis apparatus that used two big pieces of copper pipe, a car battery, and some pool water. Not only did the teacher let me explode the hydrogen IN CLASS, but shortly after that incident they moved me up to the 7th grade science class.
I doubt, however, that such shenanigans would be allowed any more.
Keep in mind, too, that a breakthrough of this magnitude wouldn't be treated the same way by the world, either; I mean, countries like Brazil were already threatening to take away the patents for some aids medications as is, in order that lower cost care could be provided.
I'm sure that the drug companies wouldn't try to sit on a possible AIDS vaccine, not only because they can make a large profit by getting it out the door, not only because there would be a huge publicity backlash against any company trying to do so, but also because a great many governments (If not the US, then certainly others) probably wouldn't respect any claimed "right" to withhold a vaccine.
It's probably due to the fact that (at least as it seems to me) very few WoW users seed their torrents; they view it as a traditional patcher, and they download the material and then don't leave the thing running. Any torrent without any seeds is sure to move slower than a "healthy" torrent with a high seed:leecher ratio.
The lessons taught don't need to be specific to technology or anything; I was always taught, for example, the whole "Don't go with adults you don't know" line of reasoning, and it just seemed natural to obscure my information from the outside world at first. Now, obviously, my information is a lot more accessible, but I have less to be afraid of.
My point, though, is that if the children learn a basic framework for what is and isn't a good idea, the parents don't have to teach them individual applications within the framework.
And heck, there's not any definitive proof that I know of that organisms have to be primarily carbon-based. Sure, it makes the most sense given the properties of the carbon atom, but it would be theoretically possible to have an organism based on something else.
Except you can't STEP DOWN in time for the election. You have to be doing a hell of a lot of work and campaigning, especially considering that he's not a politician... he definitely has the CASH resources, no doubt about that, to fund the entire thing probably out of his own pocket. On the other hand, he'd have to get started RIGHT NOW in order to be an effective candidate at all. I can't exactly see him getting the democratic or republican nod at this point, and he won't win as an independent.
Are you guys kidding? Did you even get halfway through the summary?
Again:
"Unlike the high-tech demo homes we've discussed in the past, 100 of these units have already been built. Another 30,000 high-tech flats are in the planning stages, to be completed by 2008."
They are definitely implementing these advances - or at least proving that they CAN be implemented.
In terms of "where is your smart home..."
Well, with enough money, you can have one too. This is prove that the technology DOES exist and CAN be implemented. It will, however, cost you.
Um, you can always ask other teachers/students in the given situation what was going on. Heck, someone can always press charges and the justice system would take care of it. It would probably set a precedent either way discouraging the use of these phones.
I sort of skimmed TFA and the abstract (GASP!), and they made it seem as if they could create nanostructures with different properties based on the frequency, intensity, and duration of a given pulse. While I find it unlikely that they've created something that effectively absorbs basically any sort of radiation, it's likely that with a little tweaking they can get it to absorb specific wavelengths.
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I usually don't log in to post, but I haven't seen anyone point this out yet: Lenovos have high list prices, but there are ALWAYS coupons with >10% off of list price - frequently the coupons go up to 15 or even 20%. If you manage to get them at the outlet, you can often get them for even more off - 30-40%, and if you go for refurbs, the savings are even higher. While I know it's possible to get mac refurbs for under the list price, the savings on thinkpads are undeniably more plentiful.
That's one point - the other is general design. A lot of people in this thread are discussing features that only macs have. However, there are plenty of features that are matched (or exceeded) by thinkpads. For example, thinkpads also stop the hard drive automatically if acceleration is detected, and also have a spill-proof keyboard (which macs lack) as well as a significantly stronger chassis (aluminum frame INSIDE a magnesium-composite clad exterior).
Hey, things aren't always so bad. When I was in 6th grade (not terribly long ago, actually) I built an electrolysis apparatus that used two big pieces of copper pipe, a car battery, and some pool water. Not only did the teacher let me explode the hydrogen IN CLASS, but shortly after that incident they moved me up to the 7th grade science class.
I doubt, however, that such shenanigans would be allowed any more.
http://xkcd.com/326/
Keep in mind, too, that a breakthrough of this magnitude wouldn't be treated the same way by the world, either; I mean, countries like Brazil were already threatening to take away the patents for some aids medications as is, in order that lower cost care could be provided.
I'm sure that the drug companies wouldn't try to sit on a possible AIDS vaccine, not only because they can make a large profit by getting it out the door, not only because there would be a huge publicity backlash against any company trying to do so, but also because a great many governments (If not the US, then certainly others) probably wouldn't respect any claimed "right" to withhold a vaccine.
It's probably due to the fact that (at least as it seems to me) very few WoW users seed their torrents; they view it as a traditional patcher, and they download the material and then don't leave the thing running. Any torrent without any seeds is sure to move slower than a "healthy" torrent with a high seed:leecher ratio.
What if you put out stock spam TELLING people to invest in spam filters?
I might fall for that one...
Right, but if someone gets trampled or hit with something heavy while NOT in this suit, their weight is going to be the least of their concerns.
Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers' Guide, iirc.
The lessons taught don't need to be specific to technology or anything; I was always taught, for example, the whole "Don't go with adults you don't know" line of reasoning, and it just seemed natural to obscure my information from the outside world at first. Now, obviously, my information is a lot more accessible, but I have less to be afraid of.
My point, though, is that if the children learn a basic framework for what is and isn't a good idea, the parents don't have to teach them individual applications within the framework.
The RIAA and MPAA are businesses =)
More importantly, pets make a MESS. This is probably a deal-breaker for the seriously old and almost incapacitated with age.
And heck, there's not any definitive proof that I know of that organisms have to be primarily carbon-based. Sure, it makes the most sense given the properties of the carbon atom, but it would be theoretically possible to have an organism based on something else.
Except you can't STEP DOWN in time for the election. You have to be doing a hell of a lot of work and campaigning, especially considering that he's not a politician... he definitely has the CASH resources, no doubt about that, to fund the entire thing probably out of his own pocket. On the other hand, he'd have to get started RIGHT NOW in order to be an effective candidate at all. I can't exactly see him getting the democratic or republican nod at this point, and he won't win as an independent.
Are you guys kidding? Did you even get halfway through the summary?
Again:
"Unlike the high-tech demo homes we've discussed in the past, 100 of these units have already been built. Another 30,000 high-tech flats are in the planning stages, to be completed by 2008."
They are definitely implementing these advances - or at least proving that they CAN be implemented.
In terms of "where is your smart home..."
Well, with enough money, you can have one too. This is prove that the technology DOES exist and CAN be implemented. It will, however, cost you.
Because sports are outside and not in air-conditioned comfort, and require specialized equipment and other people to play with, I suppose.
Um, you can always ask other teachers/students in the given situation what was going on. Heck, someone can always press charges and the justice system would take care of it. It would probably set a precedent either way discouraging the use of these phones.
Looks like someone decided to Supersize that order.
Not to mention that that would be the blingest thing EVER.
I, for one, welcome our new Vicar overlords.
I sort of skimmed TFA and the abstract (GASP!), and they made it seem as if they could create nanostructures with different properties based on the frequency, intensity, and duration of a given pulse. While I find it unlikely that they've created something that effectively absorbs basically any sort of radiation, it's likely that with a little tweaking they can get it to absorb specific wavelengths.
Well, what can you say? The French like their women Open-source.
His point is that we can't just burn the methane, because that would produce water vapor and carbon dioxide, which hardly makes the problem better...
That's the point...
Maybe it's simply because Google hasn't been around for that long, but has done so much.
I'm sure analysts were doing the same sort of things during the first 24 months of MSFT or so.
So, uh, that's why japanese dating-sims are so successful?