The numbers look a whole lot more impressive if you play the statistics game the way the Americans do.
It's because the mind sees patterns where non exist. Mentally you lump them together. It's not often (war aside) that ten people die together, so it sounds like a lot. It's the same reason people are nervous about flying, but not about travelling by road. A plane goes down and it's 300 dead and all over the TV. A car crash kills one here, three there and it never makes it past local news, nor did the one yesterday & the one tomorrow. I'm guessing there's way more people killed in Korea on the roads per day than are killed by computer games a year.
Sad for the individuals and their families, but policy making must look at the overall numbers, and this is barely above rounding errors.
Focusing on materials costs and ignoring operating costs is not a good idea.
It is a good idea if you can shave a few bucks off the cost of the machine. Especially if you don't operate it. Someone eles's problem.
any such savings will probably be quickly overtaken by the cost of handling refund requests for miskeyed purchases.
LOL. I doubt anybody would bother trying to get a refund, becuase it would be more trouble than it's worth. Even if there was a number to contact, chances are you'll get a recorded message saying "Life is hard, cry me a river" - if you get through at all.
Do you have any idea what the difference in magnitude between the amount of CFCs released in total are and the volume of ozone hole that there is/was? It's probably around 10 orders of magnitude.
Do you have any idea what the difference in magnitude between the amount of yeast and the amount of of beer or wine in a fermenting tub is?
From the start, it was painfull obvious that there is something else that causes ozone to have a hole near the poles.
From the start, it was painfull [sic] obvious that there is something else that converts fruit juice or malty water into alcoholic beverages.
Feel stupid yet? You may want to learn what a catalyst is. Especially the bit about how they don't get used up in reactions.
News groups, discussion groups, SIGs, PACs, online communities, word/joke/whatever-of-the-day mailing lists, notification lists, and so on, all depend on free access to email.
You're joking, right? Usenet is not email, nor does it need it.
the probability of a totally stupid jury in at least one case is unusually high...
And that's why there's an appeal process...
Seriously, it's still much more unlikely that twelve people are all crazy or biased (and in the same direction) than a single judge or panel of three would be.
a limit; patents are only allowed to exact a tax of 5% of the economy as a whole.
Great idea.
"Sorry Doc, I'm afraid I can't grant you a patent for your cancer cure cookies. The guy before you tipped us over quota with his automatic WiFi buttwiper."
Then you can have generic biege players to match your generic beige PC. Kind of like pre-iPod players but uglier.
Except the generic ones will work, and you won't have to buy the song four times so you can listen to it on the train, on the bus, while biking and at the gym.
if he took any action regarding the case it would show his intent to be involved in the case
I presume that on your planet saying "Fuck off and leave my alone for ever, you ambulance-chasing carpet-bagging shysters!" doesn't contitute an action.
But he did exist. You don't have to be a Christian, let alone a creationist or a fundamentalist one, to believe that.
As to his legendary (miraculous even) efficiency in catering arrangements and the question of whether he was a threat to the vinicultural industry, that's a different matter.
The title is also misleading because no book will ever turn you into a professional PHP developer. Someone who is new to programming and reads this book is still likely to make newbie mistakes
I agree infinitely. No, double that.
Incorrect data validation; Inappropriate use of resources; Inelegant design; Bad debugging methods; Using the wrong tools for the job. All of these and more are things that you really won't learn from a book. You learn these through experience
I agree even more than infinitely. More than double infinitely. I mean, it's not like you could learn any of that stuff from having 15 years experience in five or so other languages, is it?
Her job is to find vague ideas that have not been patented and patent them in as many countries as possible
Patenting ideas is the root of the problem: you should only be able to patent implementations or inventions. Replicators (like the ones on Star Trek) are an idea. Want to patent a replicator? Well when you show us one that works, then you can. Until then, bugger off.
the basic "inanimate cell" as darwinism says is actually an extremely complication biochemical factory, one which we're still learning about, and something humans have never been able to reproduce.
Your parents seem to have managed it. Which is a pity.
There really aren't that many black people in the UK, even in London. The problem with black Britons is that a great many of them live in shithole ghettos like Harlesden, the murder capital of the UK.
What's (in your opinion) the cause and what's the effect in this case?
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Sad for the individuals and their families, but policy making must look at the overall numbers, and this is barely above rounding errors.
LOL. I doubt anybody would bother trying to get a refund, becuase it would be more trouble than it's worth. Even if there was a number to contact, chances are you'll get a recorded message saying "Life is hard, cry me a river" - if you get through at all.
Feel stupid yet? You may want to learn what a catalyst is. Especially the bit about how they don't get used up in reactions.
The only true infinity is the number of turtles in the stack.
Seriously, it's still much more unlikely that twelve people are all crazy or biased (and in the same direction) than a single judge or panel of three would be.
"Sorry Doc, I'm afraid I can't grant you a patent for your cancer cure cookies. The guy before you tipped us over quota with his automatic WiFi buttwiper."
Scotty out of Star Trek knew that ye canna change the laws o' physics.
Which is the fundamental goal of DRM.
They dragged his name in the mud by involving him in the case without his consent. The bunch of shysters should be disbarred, bankrupted and flogged.
As to his legendary (miraculous even) efficiency in catering arrangements and the question of whether he was a threat to the vinicultural industry, that's a different matter.
Well you got that one right, so here's a harder one: what does "WHOOOSH" normally signify?
See the "up to"? It translates as <=. So "up to 10" could be 10, but it also covers 9,8,7,6...
Your parents seem to have managed it. Which is a pity.