The cumulative energy consumption of all the modern electronics and appliances when they're 'off' is about as much as keeping one or two 100W bulbs illuminated all the time.
Why include the comparison? Why not just say "one or two hundred watts" instead of "as much as keeping one or two 100W bulbs illuminated all the time."?
Now, I wonder just how closely they define "electronic communication"? Wonder no longer. From Article 18.20 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure: "(15) "Electronic communication" means a transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic, or photo-optical system. The term does not include:
(A) a wire or oral communication; (B) a communication made through a tone-only paging device; or (C) a communication from a tracking device. "
I'm trying to figure out how you would put 70+ cubic feet of inventory and a family of four into something that shouldn't be classified as a truck or a van.
Given the choice of "Creationism", "Darwinism", or "Intellegent Design" many will choose ID since it sounds cooler, even if they have no idea what it means.
What would you have picked? All three of your choices are ones that I would consider bad. "Darwinism", the theory of evolution by natural selection as propsed by Charles Darwin, was outdated almost as soon as it was proposed. With advances in things like genetics the current theory of evolution differs considerably from Darwins theory.
What exactly would a movie about Apollo 11 be like? If you tried to make it like Apollo 13 you'd have three guys flipping switches for an hour and a half and about 30 minutes of walking around on the moon. If you tried to make it more about just getting to the moon you'd end up with something like "The Right Stuff" or HBOs "From the Earth to the Moon".
I would say both of those are bad comments. Neither of them tells me something that a very basic understanding of the language wouldn't tell me. I would say a good comment (that is, a comment that I would find useful) for that piece of code would tell you why the statement was important, what is it going to accomplish, and if needed why was it writen the way it was. For your code my questions when reading it would be "why 456?" and "what is going to happen in the following block(s) of code?".
I seem to recall hearing on the radio that Iceland is working on using Hydrogen (generated from geothermal energy) for their fishing fleet, so all you have to worry about is airplanes.
Define everywhere. Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century? Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
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I'd like to see some games that are evolutionary like the Diablo series except with better combat rather than more junk in the next version.
Diablo was not evolutionary. Diablo was a Roguelike with a few fancy graphics tacked on. If you are going to count that as "evolutionary" then why not count Doom 3 (which is Doom with fancier graphics) as "evolutionary"?
By the same token, viruses (in the strict definition) also require user interaction to spread and infect hosts - they have to run an infected executable.
Wouldn't a boot-sector virus spread without the user runing an infected executable?
BTW, as an exercise, try looking up viri, cacti, octopi, viruses, cactuses and octopuses in a modern spell checker. (Spell checker, because Dictionaries often carry a wider range of words, even those no longer in active use - a spell checker tends to stick to the core language used today)
The only one that comes up as an error is "viri", all the others look fine. I agree "viri" is a poor choice of plural, but you picked bad examples when you tried to show why.
Also, Octopi may be a correct English word, but it's based on an even more fallacious assumption than 'virii', as it really should have been 'Octopodes' if we're going to do things like that.
But it seems to me that people forget that just because a word came from another language, doesn't mean that we can't use English rules on it once it has become part of our language.
Do things like what? I would say that us->i IS an english rule, so how can you complain about using it in one paragraph because it doesn't follow the rules in some other language, and then complain about people who try to do the same thing?
I bet thermite is probably kinda hard to get your hands onto
Do you really think that aluminum and iron oxide are that hard to get a hold of? Anyone who has passed high school chemistry could make it. In my experience it is harder finding a way to light the thermite then it is to acutally make the stuff.
And they would look at you funny because they wouldn't have any idea what you were talking about. The Romans didn't number years, they named them after the consuls who were in power at the beginning of the year. They didn't start numbering years until some time in the 6th century.
I think they are actually pretty close.
In 2004 coal power was responsible for ~2 billion metric tons of CO2. In 2004 transportation (as a whole, not just oil) was also responsible for ~2 billion metric tons of CO2.
There was no year 0
That depends on who you ask. If you were an Astronomer you would include a year zero. Also the most recent version of ISO 8601 includes a year zero.
Edison was briliant, but yes, IIRC, he was also likely a jerk, a petty one at that.
What I heard was that he wanted to discredit alternating current (AC) power, and electrocuting animals was his way of doing it. Edison favored direct current (DC) power.
Personally, I always thought that his stealing "A Trip to the Moon" was the worst thing that he ever did. For those not familiar with the story in 1902 Georges Méliès releaced the french film Le Voyage dans la lune, which is now considered the first sci-fi film. Méliès had origionally planed to release the film in the US but discovered that some of Edisions employees had copied the film, and that Edison had already released it. The result was that Edison made a fortune off the film and Méliès went bankrupt.
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So what stops someone from demanding a copy of your reciept, and then using that reciept to look up your vote by the ID#?
Remember or learn Ohm's Law: Power (Watts) = Voltage (Volts) times Current (Amperes).
Ohm's Law is: Voltage = Current * Resistance
IIRC what your quoteing is Joule's Law with the time factor canceled out.
The cumulative energy consumption of all the modern electronics and appliances when they're 'off' is about as much as keeping one or two 100W bulbs illuminated all the time.
Why include the comparison? Why not just say "one or two hundred watts" instead of "as much as keeping one or two 100W bulbs illuminated all the time."?
Look at: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/CR/co ntent/htm/cr.001.00.000018.00.htm
In particular you want to go to "Art. 18.20. Interception and use of wire, oral, or electronic communications". It should contain all the definitions you want. "Oral Communication" and "Wire communication" are the first two listed.
Now, I wonder just how closely they define "electronic communication"?
Wonder no longer.
From Article 18.20 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure:
"(15) "Electronic communication" means a transfer of signs, signals,
writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature
transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electromagnetic,
photoelectronic, or photo-optical system. The term does not
include:
(A) a wire or oral communication;
(B) a communication made through a tone-only paging device; or
(C) a communication from a tracking device. "
I'm trying to figure out how you would put 70+ cubic feet of inventory and a family of four into something that shouldn't be classified as a truck or a van.
Given the choice of "Creationism", "Darwinism", or "Intellegent Design" many will choose ID since it sounds cooler, even if they have no idea what it means.
What would you have picked? All three of your choices are ones that I would consider bad. "Darwinism", the theory of evolution by natural selection as propsed by Charles Darwin, was outdated almost as soon as it was proposed. With advances in things like genetics the current theory of evolution differs considerably from Darwins theory.
My understanding was that cartrages (like the NES used) had a significant hardware cost associated with them.
There is no such thing as a free lunch. You're still paying extra for the game, even if you don't realize it.
What exactly would a movie about Apollo 11 be like? If you tried to make it like Apollo 13 you'd have three guys flipping switches for an hour and a half and about 30 minutes of walking around on the moon. If you tried to make it more about just getting to the moon you'd end up with something like "The Right Stuff" or HBOs "From the Earth to the Moon".
I would say both of those are bad comments. Neither of them tells me something that a very basic understanding of the language wouldn't tell me.
I would say a good comment (that is, a comment that I would find useful) for that piece of code would tell you why the statement was important, what is it going to accomplish, and if needed why was it writen the way it was. For your code my questions when reading it would be "why 456?" and "what is going to happen in the following block(s) of code?".
I seem to recall hearing on the radio that Iceland is working on using Hydrogen (generated from geothermal energy) for their fishing fleet, so all you have to worry about is airplanes.
Define everywhere.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
You're off by a factor of 100.
2/114 = 1.75% failure rate.
What exactly is your idea of "a lot farther north"?
Both San Francisco and Syracuse (Italy) are both between 37 and 38 degrees north latitude.
Comsumer Reports has ads. They happen to be for other services offered by the same company, but they are still ads.
I'd like to see some games that are evolutionary like the Diablo series except with better combat rather than more junk in the next version.
Diablo was not evolutionary. Diablo was a Roguelike with a few fancy graphics tacked on. If you are going to count that as "evolutionary" then why not count Doom 3 (which is Doom with fancier graphics) as "evolutionary"?
The high gain antenna needs to be aimed. From what I understand this isn't possible when in "safe mode".
By the same token, viruses (in the strict definition) also require user interaction to spread and infect hosts - they have to run an infected executable. Wouldn't a boot-sector virus spread without the user runing an infected executable?
BTW, as an exercise, try looking up viri, cacti, octopi, viruses, cactuses and octopuses in a modern spell checker. (Spell checker, because Dictionaries often carry a wider range of words, even those no longer in active use - a spell checker tends to stick to the core language used today)
The only one that comes up as an error is "viri", all the others look fine.
I agree "viri" is a poor choice of plural, but you picked bad examples when you tried to show why.
Also, Octopi may be a correct English word, but it's based on an even more fallacious assumption than 'virii', as it really should have been 'Octopodes' if we're going to do things like that.
But it seems to me that people forget that just because a word came from another language, doesn't mean that we can't use English rules on it once it has become part of our language.
Do things like what? I would say that us->i IS an english rule, so how can you complain about using it in one paragraph because it doesn't follow the rules in some other language, and then complain about people who try to do the same thing?
I bet thermite is probably kinda hard to get your hands onto
Do you really think that aluminum and iron oxide are that hard to get a hold of? Anyone who has passed high school chemistry could make it.
In my experience it is harder finding a way to light the thermite then it is to acutally make the stuff.
And they would look at you funny because they wouldn't have any idea what you were talking about. The Romans didn't number years, they named them after the consuls who were in power at the beginning of the year. They didn't start numbering years until some time in the 6th century.
I think they are actually pretty close. In 2004 coal power was responsible for ~2 billion metric tons of CO2. In 2004 transportation (as a whole, not just oil) was also responsible for ~2 billion metric tons of CO2.
There was no year 0 That depends on who you ask. If you were an Astronomer you would include a year zero. Also the most recent version of ISO 8601 includes a year zero.
Edison was briliant, but yes, IIRC, he was also likely a jerk, a petty one at that.
What I heard was that he wanted to discredit alternating current (AC) power, and electrocuting animals was his way of doing it. Edison favored direct current (DC) power.
Personally, I always thought that his stealing "A Trip to the Moon" was the worst thing that he ever did. For those not familiar with the story in 1902 Georges Méliès releaced the french film Le Voyage dans la lune, which is now considered the first sci-fi film. Méliès had origionally planed to release the film in the US but discovered that some of Edisions employees had copied the film, and that Edison had already released it. The result was that Edison made a fortune off the film and Méliès went bankrupt.