With regards to CO2 tanks, multiple people have already pointed out that this is CO2 that was already in the atmosphere, captured, and bottled.
But if you're really curious about how much CO2 I go through for kegs, I have a 5 pound tank of CO2. That lasts me about 5 homebrewer kegs (at 5 gallons apiece). That gets me both the initial carbonation and all of the pouring. In comparison, burning one gallon of gasoline gets you about 19 pounds of CO2 released into the atmosphere.
I've never put the fermenter on the scale before and after fermentation - I imagine that would be the best way to track CO2 emissions, as the only thing that should leave the fermenter in this time is CO2. However, let's assume the volume of the beer doesn't change that much during fermentation. I start with 5 gallons at a specific gravity (density of the beer / density of water) of 1.06. That's 42.4 pounds. I end up with about 5 gallons at a specific gravity of 1.01. That's 40.4 pounds. So assuming the volume of the beer doesn't increase, that's 2 pounds lost. In reality, since alcohol is less dense than water, there should be a larger volume in the end, and so the final weight is probably above 40.4 pounds.
So in the worst case scenario, there's 3 pounds of CO2 involved in the fermentation and serving of 5 gallons of beer. I bet that having my stove on full blast for 2 hours to boil the water emits much more CO2 than that. Heck, me driving to the homebrew store 6 miles away definitely emits more than that.
So in conclusion - I think it makes much more sense to focus on the costs involved with distributing the beer and heating the water that makes the beer, and much less on the fermentation and kegging systems.
I don't get the same interpretation as you from the summary. I think you're reading into it. In fact, CmdrTaco added the department of the story as "the why-open-source-is-awesome dept." Which very much compliments the creators of this fork.
If you run some of the text on Iron's website through a translator, you get:
The data protection practice, however, criticism, for reasons such as creating a unique user ID or the submission of entries to Google to generate SuchvorschlÃgen. SRWare Iron is a real alternative. The browser is based on the Chromium-source and offers the same features as Chrome - but without the critical points that the privacy concern.
The summary, therefore, is a really great representation of what the project is trying to do.
"An utterly ordinary 2 bedroom, 1 bath house would sell in some places for $300,000." since for $300,000, in Mountain View, you'll get nothing. Not even a crappy 1 bedroom, 1 bath foreclosure.
If you're looking to move here, and are looking to get a better/larger/whatever place *and* you're willing to drive, then you have options. For example, if you want to work in San Jose/Mountain View, you could live in Fremont or Santa Cruz and save a lot of money. Or if you work in San Francisco, you could live in Fremont or Dublin.
Trulia does heat maps for house prices. Check out http://www.trulia.com/home_prices/California/ if you want an idea of a city you might get a good place you can afford. Granted, Trulia gives you house prices and not rental prices, but it will give you relative expensiveness.
Skyhook is a book centered around this concept. The interesting part was that they wouldn't actually deploy this system in commercial aircraft, they'd just have a press release to make people think they had.
(And no, that isn't a referrer link where I get money. I don't know why it has 'ref=')
You just reminded me about the favorite thing about trying to teach my parents about phishing. They get phishing attempts from banks that aren't theirs and delete them, but if they got a phishing attempt from someone impersonating their bank, or eBay, they'd click it an instant.
They can only tell phishing attempts from not having an account.
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Google Calendar can also send notifications to your cell phone. At the bottom of the calendar listings, click "Manage calendars". Then click "Notifications". Enter your cell phone information - it works for me!
You just reminded me of WBZ's Phantom Gourmet, a radio review of Boston area restaurants. The Phantom's reviews gave a 0-100 score, with very few restaurants scoring above 90 or below 65. The reviews were so descriptive (and brutally honest) of how much he (or she) liked the place that my dad and I could guess within a few points what the score would be.
Yeah, I'm off topic, but you reminded me of the importance of anonymity in big name reviews.
Check out Zabihah for halal recommendations for all types of food in the US.
Of course, not all of these places have halal certification in the windows and sometimes it's just the servers saying "yeah, we're halal" when they're not, but you have to try.
What I'm trying to ask is, is GOOG still a buy at $431?
I really dislike when people throw around "Their stock is $431, Microsoft's is $31, so obviously Google's stock price is too high."
When you stop back and think about it, you should look at market caps, and how that is relative to other companies and relative to what you think the money is worth.
If Google had only 100 shares, of course $431 is a good buy per share. If they had 1 trillion shares at $431 per shrare (a market cap of $431 trillion) of course the stocks are overpriced.
So you're asking a good question, but in a weird way. should Google be worth $431 per share, at a market cap of $127.6 billion. But too many people confuse how cheap a share is and how much a company is worth.
Yes, individual investors who like to buy 5 shares at a time won't like to buy Google's shares. But from an academic point of view, the stock price of company X should only be compared to the stock price of company X.
I think you're partly right that it's gender related cultural differences that cause there to be a better gender ratio for Asian students than White-American students in Computer Science.
But there's also a larger percentage of Asian students whose parents tell them what majors to pick due to the earnings potential. I'd say western parents are more likely to express "Take whatever major you want - we want you to be happy!" when the stereotype about Asian parents is that they dictate majors to their children, and pressure them to be doctors, business-people, and computer scientists.
I'm not saying either side is wrong, but I think it is a bit deeper than Asian gender roles.
I guess the #1 FAQ for people who have left Google is why did you leave. My main reason for leaving was that I was commuting from Los Angeles. I'd fly up on Southwest early Monday morning, fly back on Thursday evening, and telecommute on Fridays and weekends. That regimen was pretty stressful even under the best of circumstances, but when 9/11 happened it became completely untenable. I had already given my notice before 9/11, but I don't think I could have stayed on after that even if I had wanted to. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
So that's why Ron left, I'm pretty sure Doug hasn't said why he left yet. So no, Ron wasn't fired.
I guess the #1 FAQ for people who have left Google is why did you leave. My main reason for leaving was that I was commuting from Los Angeles. I'd fly up on Southwest early Monday morning, fly back on Thursday evening, and telecommute on Fridays and weekends. That regimen was pretty stressful even under the best of circumstances, but when 9/11 happened it became completely untenable. I had already given my notice before 9/11, but I don't think I could have stayed on after that even if I had wanted to. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
So that's why Ron left, I'm not sure if Doug's said why he left yet.
I hear a lot about "there is no use for tablets" and "it's quicker to type and convert it." For taking simple text notes or notes for yourself, I'd never use a Tablet.
I have found a legitimate use for a tablet though - remote tutoring of Computer Science courses. Normally, when I tutor locally, I use a whiteboard or a notebook. But my college has a branch campus in the middle east, and I also tutor for an intermediate course there.
I can't tell you how much easier it is to draw a binary tree (or Huffman tree, or semi complex data structure of your choice) on a tablet than trying to do ASCII.
Would I prefer an electronic whiteboard? Yes, but it's not very practical for one tutor to use, and I wouldn't be able to bring it to my apartment.
I'm not going to rush out and buy a Tablet for myself right now, but they're very useful for one on one remote conceptual communication.
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With regards to CO2 tanks, multiple people have already pointed out that this is CO2 that was already in the atmosphere, captured, and bottled.
But if you're really curious about how much CO2 I go through for kegs, I have a 5 pound tank of CO2. That lasts me about 5 homebrewer kegs (at 5 gallons apiece). That gets me both the initial carbonation and all of the pouring. In comparison, burning one gallon of gasoline gets you about 19 pounds of CO2 released into the atmosphere.
I've never put the fermenter on the scale before and after fermentation - I imagine that would be the best way to track CO2 emissions, as the only thing that should leave the fermenter in this time is CO2. However, let's assume the volume of the beer doesn't change that much during fermentation. I start with 5 gallons at a specific gravity (density of the beer / density of water) of 1.06. That's 42.4 pounds. I end up with about 5 gallons at a specific gravity of 1.01. That's 40.4 pounds. So assuming the volume of the beer doesn't increase, that's 2 pounds lost. In reality, since alcohol is less dense than water, there should be a larger volume in the end, and so the final weight is probably above 40.4 pounds.
So in the worst case scenario, there's 3 pounds of CO2 involved in the fermentation and serving of 5 gallons of beer. I bet that having my stove on full blast for 2 hours to boil the water emits much more CO2 than that. Heck, me driving to the homebrew store 6 miles away definitely emits more than that.
So in conclusion - I think it makes much more sense to focus on the costs involved with distributing the beer and heating the water that makes the beer, and much less on the fermentation and kegging systems.
I don't get the same interpretation as you from the summary. I think you're reading into it. In fact, CmdrTaco added the department of the story as "the why-open-source-is-awesome dept." Which very much compliments the creators of this fork.
If you run some of the text on Iron's website through a translator, you get:
The summary, therefore, is a really great representation of what the project is trying to do.
I was giving prices mostly to counter:
"An utterly ordinary 2 bedroom, 1 bath house would sell in some places for $300,000." since for $300,000, in Mountain View, you'll get nothing. Not even a crappy 1 bedroom, 1 bath foreclosure.
If you're looking to move here, and are looking to get a better/larger/whatever place *and* you're willing to drive, then you have options. For example, if you want to work in San Jose/Mountain View, you could live in Fremont or Santa Cruz and save a lot of money. Or if you work in San Francisco, you could live in Fremont or Dublin.
Trulia does heat maps for house prices. Check out http://www.trulia.com/home_prices/California/ if you want an idea of a city you might get a good place you can afford. Granted, Trulia gives you house prices and not rental prices, but it will give you relative expensiveness.
In Mountain View, a 2 br, 1 ba would cost:
$400k for a condo in a crappy area
$650k for a townhouse
$800k for a standalone home.
I love that you got at least one "Insightful" mod.
Cool, thanks. I looked for a "simple link" link, but none was apparent.
Skyhook is a book centered around this concept. The interesting part was that they wouldn't actually deploy this system in commercial aircraft, they'd just have a press release to make people think they had.
(And no, that isn't a referrer link where I get money. I don't know why it has 'ref=')
Where's my "score -1, not well formed" moderation option?
Blogger has audio CAPTCHAs now. Check out my blog for an example.
And they're doing it for accounts too: Check it out.
So yes, now they're doing audio CAPTCHAs.
You just reminded me about the favorite thing about trying to teach my parents about phishing. They get phishing attempts from banks that aren't theirs and delete them, but if they got a phishing attempt from someone impersonating their bank, or eBay, they'd click it an instant.
They can only tell phishing attempts from not having an account.
Google Calendar can also send notifications to your cell phone. At the bottom of the calendar listings, click "Manage calendars". Then click "Notifications". Enter your cell phone information - it works for me!
You just reminded me of WBZ's Phantom Gourmet, a radio review of Boston area restaurants. The Phantom's reviews gave a 0-100 score, with very few restaurants scoring above 90 or below 65. The reviews were so descriptive (and brutally honest) of how much he (or she) liked the place that my dad and I could guess within a few points what the score would be.
Yeah, I'm off topic, but you reminded me of the importance of anonymity in big name reviews.
No discussion on the topic would be complete without a thorough examination of Naked News.
(For once, a post so easy that I figure I don't need preview, and what do I do? I screw it up!)
No discussion on the topic would be complete without a thorough examination of a href="http://www.nakednews.com/">Naked News.
In the middle east they'll all be Halal.
Check out Zabihah for halal recommendations for all types of food in the US.
Of course, not all of these places have halal certification in the windows and sometimes it's just the servers saying "yeah, we're halal" when they're not, but you have to try.
Of course, IANAM, YMMV.
Sadly, the first meal I ate in Qatar was Pizza Hut.
I also saw a Domino's. I know there's a Pizza Inn.
So if they want pizza, they can get the worst of American pie!
I, for one, enjoy good shawarma while hacking sometimes.
The article's really about Google Earth, not Google Maps...
I'd rather take advice from someone with the username "WellFedSE" ;)
What I'm trying to ask is, is GOOG still a buy at $431?
I really dislike when people throw around "Their stock is $431, Microsoft's is $31, so obviously Google's stock price is too high."
When you stop back and think about it, you should look at market caps, and how that is relative to other companies and relative to what you think the money is worth.
If Google had only 100 shares, of course $431 is a good buy per share. If they had 1 trillion shares at $431 per shrare (a market cap of $431 trillion) of course the stocks are overpriced.
So you're asking a good question, but in a weird way. should Google be worth $431 per share, at a market cap of $127.6 billion. But too many people confuse how cheap a share is and how much a company is worth.
Yes, individual investors who like to buy 5 shares at a time won't like to buy Google's shares. But from an academic point of view, the stock price of company X should only be compared to the stock price of company X.
I've got Karma to burn, so I'll bite.
I think you're partly right that it's gender related cultural differences that cause there to be a better gender ratio for Asian students than White-American students in Computer Science.
But there's also a larger percentage of Asian students whose parents tell them what majors to pick due to the earnings potential. I'd say western parents are more likely to express "Take whatever major you want - we want you to be happy!" when the stereotype about Asian parents is that they dictate majors to their children, and pressure them to be doctors, business-people, and computer scientists.
I'm not saying either side is wrong, but I think it is a bit deeper than Asian gender roles.
From the blog (Ron's first post [blogspot.com])
So that's why Ron left, I'm pretty sure Doug hasn't said why he left yet. So no, Ron wasn't fired.
From the blog (Ron's first post)
So that's why Ron left, I'm not sure if Doug's said why he left yet.
I hear a lot about "there is no use for tablets" and "it's quicker to type and convert it." For taking simple text notes or notes for yourself, I'd never use a Tablet.
I have found a legitimate use for a tablet though - remote tutoring of Computer Science courses. Normally, when I tutor locally, I use a whiteboard or a notebook. But my college has a branch campus in the middle east, and I also tutor for an intermediate course there.
I can't tell you how much easier it is to draw a binary tree (or Huffman tree, or semi complex data structure of your choice) on a tablet than trying to do ASCII.
Would I prefer an electronic whiteboard? Yes, but it's not very practical for one tutor to use, and I wouldn't be able to bring it to my apartment.
I'm not going to rush out and buy a Tablet for myself right now, but they're very useful for one on one remote conceptual communication.
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"Helmet , MS-helm of +4 Developers, Developers, Developers!" ?
Man that guy makes me laugh.
Setting, in about:config, image.animation_mode to "once" will finish off the rest!
Hope this helps