I thought Iceland ran on gethermal rather than hydroelectric power. I never said that they ran on hydroelectric power. I said that they were isolated from a larger electric grid, which AFAIK is true. From what I have been able to find however Iceland generates ~24 terawatt-hours of hydroelectricity per 1 million people, which makes it second in the world.
Anyway there are countries where the majority of electric generation is hydro. Electricity is fully capable of crossing into a different country, so you have to look for large regions where most of the power is from hydro. For example Canada makes a good buisness selling electricity to the US, some of that being hydroelectricity. If Canada suddenly had to keep more power at home so they could split water then the US would likely respond by increased use of fossil fuels.
In most places in the world if you wern't using that X kilowatts of electricity from a hydroelectric plant then it would be avaible for distribution on the electric grid where it could be used to replace X kilowatts of electricity generated from a less enviromentally friendly source. So unless you live somewhere that is on an isolated from a larger electric grid (like Iceland) it doesn't mean much that your power is hydroelectric.
While each of these deaths was tragic I think it is misleading to group them into the same category.
Why? They were test pilots, and flying is pretty important for a test pilot. I'm not familiar with what Bassett and Williams were doing when they died but See and Freeman died doing something directly related to their job as astronauts (flying to McDonnell to inspect the Gemini capsul). I can't see why dieing on an inspection is that different then dieing on a test.
NASA did such a good job protecting our astronauts, we lost only three men prior to Challenger, and those three were on the ground when they died. What are you talking about? The US lost seven astronauts durring the Apollo program alone: Elliott See Charles Bassett Theodore Freeman Clifton Williams Virgil I. Grissom Ed White Roger B. Chaffee
We also lost several other astronauts who were working on other projects, includeding Michael J. Adams and Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr.
The US also came very close to killing: The Apollo 13 crew (Jim Lovell, John Swigert & Fred Haise) both durring the launch, and the famous explosion. The Apollo Soyuz Test Project crew (Deke Slayton, Thomas Stafford & Vance Brand)
How many of those had people in them?
The Luna and Zond missions, in addition to being full of problems were unmanned. One of the Zond missions (6?) devolped a problem that would have killed anyone who had been onboard.
Russia is active in space and has been for 50 years.
They have alsi killed several people, and the launch vehicle that they devolped in the 60s cary people to the moon was a TOTAL failure.
Does the texture mod actually ADD the nude skins? I was under the impression that they were in a state similar to the minigame. Specifically that they were already included in the game, but wern't used by anything, and that they were simply activated by a 2nd mod.
That's still bullshit. What if I worked on a search engine, and liked it, and then I tried a new job working on an OS, but hated it because maybe I wasn't as skilled at that stuff?
I have two problems with this argument:
1) You are stupid for leaving a job you liked in the first place.
2) Usually the way these agreements terminate after a specific period. If you find the period specified to be to long then see point 1.
With all the shit that made it into the publically known version of the game, I can't believe the sex part is even an issue for anyone.
I can't speak for anyone else but I really don't care that GTA:SA has sex in it. However, I do think that Rockstar needs to have a huge kick in the ass for lieing about it. Rockstar lied to the ESRB about content and then they lied to the public. And before someone starts don't give me that "it wasn't supposed to be part of the game" BS, if it wasn't supposed to be part of the game, then it shouldn't have been on the CD.
So what? Do you think they would cry if they had huge success selling a $150 OS? (of how much is Mac now...) BTW, windows is like $250 the full versions.
I spent $89 on my copy of Windows XP Professional. A few minutes of searching comes up with XP home for about the same price. Back when I was in college the book store (about the most expensive place to buy anything) has a copy of XP home for less then $200 (before the academic discount). So where does the $250 figure come from?
It isn't?
My understanding was: You have a voltage drop across your wire (V) and a current running through the wire (I). The power that the wire is dissipating is then V*I.
That energy is going somewhere and is lost (mostly to heat) so what exactly is the problem here?
I don't know about HD-DVD, but the Blu-ray companies claim they will eventually support up to 8 layers (200GB), and I belive a 4 layer (100GB) disk has already been produced. In addition recordable disks will likely be limited to one or two layers, where the larger per-layer capacity of Blu-ray will be important.
All you need is a check card. I don't understand why people need credit.
AFAIK if someone steals your check card and they clean out your account and there isn't squat that you can do about it. On the other hand if someone steals your credit card and you report it as soon as you find out then your liability is caped at a very small amount.
Yes, but is the definition of "pesimize" in the OED?
There is a big difference between a word existing, and a word being used properly. Saying that something is in the OED doesn't count for much if they don't tell you what the heck the OED says it means.
Actually three scalers gives you Trilateration. Triangulation as the name suggests works with angles, trilateration works with distances. In addition, you would not need "another set of points" for a third dimension, you would need just one more point, ofcorse assuming that three of your points don't lie on a striaght line.
There is no risk. You call up your credit card company and tell them not to pay the store in question. It takes all of five minutes. The only way the store could claim it was "lost in the mail" is if you were too stupid to send it using a method that provides delivery confirmation.
Copyright is piss-poor protection for a program. It is generally trivial to mange code that it functions the exact same way but doesn't actually resemble the origional code in any way, the downside is that this will generally destroy readability. If you try to do this in a book you'll end up with a pile of garbage that no one will want to read, but a computer doesn't care if sourecode looks like garbage and even it if is a PITA to maintain it you save a lot of time by not having to come up with the actual solution yourself.
If you want to continue the WWII analogy there wasn't any such thing as a mediocre fighter pilot who survives. In World War II figher piolots generally came in two catagories, aces and targets. Assuming your squadron was treated properly then once you managed to survive long enough to shoot down 5 enemy planes then you were usually able to survive till the end of your tour.
I'd also point out that short of some sort of disaster your 80% turnover scenario is very unlikely. If someone was shot down and killed, then the odds were that his replacement would get shot down on his first mission (IIRC 11% of American fighter piolots were shot down on their first mission). After ten missions what would probably have happened is that most of the squadron would be the same, a few early replacements would still be around, and the rest of the suadron would have been occupied by piolots who wern't good enough to stay flying.
This line of thinking is exactly why cashiers can't give correct change when the power goes out, the network is down
Yeah, because I'm sure these have nothing to do with the fact that the cash registers won't open without power, and it's pretty unlikely that a cashier is going to know what something is worth without the computer telling them. Most things arn't labed with prices now a days, so how exactly is a cashier supposed to know how much your stuff even costs?
Were those things really invented by Bell Labs? I know Unix was devolped there, but I thought the transistor and laser were invented elsewhere.
AFAIK:
The transistor was invented by Julius Lilienfeld in the 1920's.
The first (microwave) laser was built at Columbia University. The first optical laser was built at Hughes Research Laboratories.
Do you really think that fast food outlets cared about anything other then the fact that paper/cardboard wrappers are cheaper then foam wrapers? They may say it was for enviromental reasons, but I persoanlly believe they was an afterthought and that they wouldn't have switched if there hadn't also been a money saving aspect.
My experience has been the opposite. IME moving an optical mouse quickly will result in the pointer moving in random directions, but moving the trackball quickly won't.
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I thought Iceland ran on gethermal rather than hydroelectric power.
I never said that they ran on hydroelectric power. I said that they were isolated from a larger electric grid, which AFAIK is true. From what I have been able to find however Iceland generates ~24 terawatt-hours of hydroelectricity per 1 million people, which makes it second in the world.
Anyway there are countries where the majority of electric generation is hydro.
Electricity is fully capable of crossing into a different country, so you have to look for large regions where most of the power is from hydro. For example Canada makes a good buisness selling electricity to the US, some of that being hydroelectricity. If Canada suddenly had to keep more power at home so they could split water then the US would likely respond by increased use of fossil fuels.
In most places in the world if you wern't using that X kilowatts of electricity from a hydroelectric plant then it would be avaible for distribution on the electric grid where it could be used to replace X kilowatts of electricity generated from a less enviromentally friendly source. So unless you live somewhere that is on an isolated from a larger electric grid (like Iceland) it doesn't mean much that your power is hydroelectric.
While each of these deaths was tragic I think it is misleading to group them into the same category.
Why? They were test pilots, and flying is pretty important for a test pilot. I'm not familiar with what Bassett and Williams were doing when they died but See and Freeman died doing something directly related to their job as astronauts (flying to McDonnell to inspect the Gemini capsul). I can't see why dieing on an inspection is that different then dieing on a test.
NASA did such a good job protecting our astronauts, we lost only three men prior to Challenger, and those three were on the ground when they died.
What are you talking about?
The US lost seven astronauts durring the Apollo program alone:
Elliott See
Charles Bassett
Theodore Freeman
Clifton Williams
Virgil I. Grissom
Ed White
Roger B. Chaffee
We also lost several other astronauts who were working on other projects, includeding Michael J. Adams and Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr.
The US also came very close to killing:
The Apollo 13 crew (Jim Lovell, John Swigert & Fred Haise) both durring the launch, and the famous explosion.
The Apollo Soyuz Test Project crew (Deke Slayton, Thomas Stafford & Vance Brand)
No China changed the exchange rate for their currency slightly (~2%). It is still pegged to the US Doller, just at a different level.
Russia has sent missions to the moon.
How many of those had people in them? The Luna and Zond missions, in addition to being full of problems were unmanned. One of the Zond missions (6?) devolped a problem that would have killed anyone who had been onboard.
Russia is active in space and has been for 50 years. They have alsi killed several people, and the launch vehicle that they devolped in the 60s cary people to the moon was a TOTAL failure.
Thanks for the information. Before this I wasn't aware that the Second Amendment applied to places outside of the United States.
Does the texture mod actually ADD the nude skins? I was under the impression that they were in a state similar to the minigame. Specifically that they were already included in the game, but wern't used by anything, and that they were simply activated by a 2nd mod.
That's still bullshit. What if I worked on a search engine, and liked it, and then I tried a new job working on an OS, but hated it because maybe I wasn't as skilled at that stuff?
I have two problems with this argument:
1) You are stupid for leaving a job you liked in the first place.
2) Usually the way these agreements terminate after a specific period. If you find the period specified to be to long then see point 1.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Try Newegg, its where I got XP. .2 E16837102151
2 E16837102153
Home: $90
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N8
Pro: $150
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N8
With all the shit that made it into the publically known version of the game, I can't believe the sex part is even an issue for anyone.
I can't speak for anyone else but I really don't care that GTA:SA has sex in it. However, I do think that Rockstar needs to have a huge kick in the ass for lieing about it. Rockstar lied to the ESRB about content and then they lied to the public. And before someone starts don't give me that "it wasn't supposed to be part of the game" BS, if it wasn't supposed to be part of the game, then it shouldn't have been on the CD.
So what? Do you think they would cry if they had huge success selling a $150 OS? (of how much is Mac now...) BTW, windows is like $250 the full versions.
I spent $89 on my copy of Windows XP Professional. A few minutes of searching comes up with XP home for about the same price. Back when I was in college the book store (about the most expensive place to buy anything) has a copy of XP home for less then $200 (before the academic discount). So where does the $250 figure come from?
It isn't?
My understanding was: You have a voltage drop across your wire (V) and a current running through the wire (I). The power that the wire is dissipating is then V*I.
That energy is going somewhere and is lost (mostly to heat) so what exactly is the problem here?
I don't know about HD-DVD, but the Blu-ray companies claim they will eventually support up to 8 layers (200GB), and I belive a 4 layer (100GB) disk has already been produced. In addition recordable disks will likely be limited to one or two layers, where the larger per-layer capacity of Blu-ray will be important.
I doubt it works the same everywhere, but in the US courts never prove someones innocence.
All you need is a check card. I don't understand why people need credit.
AFAIK if someone steals your check card and they clean out your account and there isn't squat that you can do about it. On the other hand if someone steals your credit card and you report it as soon as you find out then your liability is caped at a very small amount.
Yes, but is the definition of "pesimize" in the OED? There is a big difference between a word existing, and a word being used properly. Saying that something is in the OED doesn't count for much if they don't tell you what the heck the OED says it means.
Actually three scalers gives you Trilateration. Triangulation as the name suggests works with angles, trilateration works with distances. In addition, you would not need "another set of points" for a third dimension, you would need just one more point, ofcorse assuming that three of your points don't lie on a striaght line.
There is no risk. You call up your credit card company and tell them not to pay the store in question. It takes all of five minutes. The only way the store could claim it was "lost in the mail" is if you were too stupid to send it using a method that provides delivery confirmation.
Copyright is piss-poor protection for a program. It is generally trivial to mange code that it functions the exact same way but doesn't actually resemble the origional code in any way, the downside is that this will generally destroy readability. If you try to do this in a book you'll end up with a pile of garbage that no one will want to read, but a computer doesn't care if sourecode looks like garbage and even it if is a PITA to maintain it you save a lot of time by not having to come up with the actual solution yourself.
If you want to continue the WWII analogy there wasn't any such thing as a mediocre fighter pilot who survives. In World War II figher piolots generally came in two catagories, aces and targets. Assuming your squadron was treated properly then once you managed to survive long enough to shoot down 5 enemy planes then you were usually able to survive till the end of your tour.
I'd also point out that short of some sort of disaster your 80% turnover scenario is very unlikely. If someone was shot down and killed, then the odds were that his replacement would get shot down on his first mission (IIRC 11% of American fighter piolots were shot down on their first mission). After ten missions what would probably have happened is that most of the squadron would be the same, a few early replacements would still be around, and the rest of the suadron would have been occupied by piolots who wern't good enough to stay flying.
This line of thinking is exactly why cashiers can't give correct change when the power goes out, the network is down
Yeah, because I'm sure these have nothing to do with the fact that the cash registers won't open without power, and it's pretty unlikely that a cashier is going to know what something is worth without the computer telling them. Most things arn't labed with prices now a days, so how exactly is a cashier supposed to know how much your stuff even costs?
Were those things really invented by Bell Labs? I know Unix was devolped there, but I thought the transistor and laser were invented elsewhere.
AFAIK:
The transistor was invented by Julius Lilienfeld in the 1920's.
The first (microwave) laser was built at Columbia University.
The first optical laser was built at Hughes Research Laboratories.
Do you really think that fast food outlets cared about anything other then the fact that paper/cardboard wrappers are cheaper then foam wrapers? They may say it was for enviromental reasons, but I persoanlly believe they was an afterthought and that they wouldn't have switched if there hadn't also been a money saving aspect.
My experience has been the opposite. IME moving an optical mouse quickly will result in the pointer moving in random directions, but moving the trackball quickly won't.