I live in Victoria BC, and for years, I would roam onto AT&T out of Port Angeles every time I went near the water on that side. I don't know how many bills I had to get sorted before they stopped charging.
The reason people want expensive cars and private planes beyond convenience is as an outward sign of Reputation within a community and culture that revolves around money. The article points to a shift away from that mentality.
Nintendo has been teasing us with the 3DS, and you wonder why people stopped buying the DS?
Another reason people are buying phone games over DS/PSP games is price. The handheld games are between 3 and 50 times as much as their iPhone cousins, when the iPhone games are not free.
A third possible explanation is that there has been no significant hardware change/upgrade in the DS/PSP lineup to drive buzz and sales.
The article is pretty weak on analysis or looking for alternative explanations for the drop in sales.
As I have written several distance calculators I am curious about your "new algorithm that greatly improves the performance over existing algorithms" I have frequently traded-off accuracy for speed, and have even re-invented a few that turned out to be hybrids of existing algorithms. I would be curious as to what kind of performance gains you are getting, and whether or not accuracy suffers. Also for sufficiently distant points, do you use the great-circle or rhumb-line calculations i.e. do you allow for bearing to change over the course between the two points?
While I completely agree with the parent, I wonder at the feasibility of producing biofuels on such a scale. I would love to see a super efficient production of biofuels from non-food sources.
On a slight tangent I have a real problem with the hydrogen fuel cells and even hybrids for vehicles when we can produce perfectly viable electric cars now. With the addition of new efficiencies in solar panels and personal windmills, we could conceivably make enough of our own electricity to charge our own cars.
I haven't played Civilization IV yet, but what benifit will the Greeks get when The Super Mosquito Wonder is built in Athens? Some sort of increase in the effectiveness of bioweapons?
As a seldom user of Word Processors (both Word and OpenOffice) I have to say that I hate how much digging I have to do to find things on the menus. Where do I look to add footnotes? where do I change the Footers? How do I turn this into columns again? At least if there was some sense to where these tools were buried, I might be able to find them. The changes to the Word menus is enough to make me consider using MS-Office again. (for the 1 document a month that I produce).
It is not a slashvertisment because it runs a Transmeta CPU. Anything that SlashGod Linus has touched is relevant to everyone that reads Slashdot. The news is that the device has been improved, and makes Linus' work look even better.
Ever watched how quickly soldiers setup and take down a camp?
Yes, I have, and they do it at approximately 1/4 the speed of the forest service setting up a fire camp for a project fire... Those are the guys you should learn from.
I write proprietary code. Usually with incredibly tight deadlines, so my code is riddled with comments like:
//TODO this is a kludge, so come back and fix this
//WTF was HE thinking when he wrote this. rewrite this.
/* if I see another IF statement used to assign a static value to a boolean I will go postal. i.e.: if(condition) {
myBoolean = true; } else {
myBoolean = false; } */
I have a Dell that has been running and continues to run and be used that I bought in 1998. I paid nearly $7000 as it was was the first day that they offered the 300MHz PII. I have since killed 3 other PC's so I can see your argument, but I also bought those machines for less than 1/2 the price of an equivalent Mac. So I guess you get what you pay for.
Is your PowerMac G3 still in use? or did it die before you upgraded?
As to the argument; no matter how it is presented, a fact is a fact. I am not saying that they did or did not demonstrate Cold Fusion, if their research turns out to be correct, who cares how it is presented?
The most likely reason Huck Finn was challenged was because it is politically incorrect. Watch out, reading the N-word will destroy your innocence! If you know the N-word I refer to, how did you learn it? Read The Catcher in the Rye for some insight into the confusion making words taboo, dirty and wrong can do to someone.
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I live in Victoria BC, and for years, I would roam onto AT&T out of Port Angeles every time I went near the water on that side. I don't know how many bills I had to get sorted before they stopped charging.
Housing: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha... - check
Transportation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - check
The reason people want expensive cars and private planes beyond convenience is as an outward sign of Reputation within a community and culture that revolves around money. The article points to a shift away from that mentality.
Display output would be -107
Nintendo has been teasing us with the 3DS, and you wonder why people stopped buying the DS?
Another reason people are buying phone games over DS/PSP games is price. The handheld games are between 3 and 50 times as much as their iPhone cousins, when the iPhone games are not free.
A third possible explanation is that there has been no significant hardware change/upgrade in the DS/PSP lineup to drive buzz and sales.
The article is pretty weak on analysis or looking for alternative explanations for the drop in sales.
As I have written several distance calculators I am curious about your "new algorithm that greatly improves the performance over existing algorithms" I have frequently traded-off accuracy for speed, and have even re-invented a few that turned out to be hybrids of existing algorithms. I would be curious as to what kind of performance gains you are getting, and whether or not accuracy suffers. Also for sufficiently distant points, do you use the great-circle or rhumb-line calculations i.e. do you allow for bearing to change over the course between the two points?
http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
I have found however that for most purposes that require a moderately high degree of accuracy the vincenty algorithm is fast enough:
http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong-vincenty.html
Where accuracy is not important at all using an average 1 minute = 1 nm or an approximation based on distance from the equator
good luck
USB devices are commonly referred to as "keys", so you too can own a key to the internet I think Sprint even has a 4G key.
I smell a Disney Adventure movie. I hope they're in talked to his agent.
Maybe to install the English spell-checker?
In Italy, there is horse-meat (cavallo) babyfood. The first real culture-shock experience I had while grocery shopping.
Both my wife and I are named Terry, and yes, she took my last name. The running joke is that I get all the bills, and she gets all the cheques.
OK? How could it have failed to achieve that status when you found out that the main character's name is Hiro Protagonist?
While I completely agree with the parent, I wonder at the feasibility of producing biofuels on such a scale. I would love to see a super efficient production of biofuels from non-food sources.
On a slight tangent I have a real problem with the hydrogen fuel cells and even hybrids for vehicles when we can produce perfectly viable electric cars now. With the addition of new efficiencies in solar panels and personal windmills, we could conceivably make enough of our own electricity to charge our own cars.
I haven't played Civilization IV yet, but what benifit will the Greeks get when The Super Mosquito Wonder is built in Athens? Some sort of increase in the effectiveness of bioweapons?
Remove your lenses/glasses and press until you can read this post. It is not like you do any work anyway.
As a seldom user of Word Processors (both Word and OpenOffice) I have to say that I hate how much digging I have to do to find things on the menus. Where do I look to add footnotes? where do I change the Footers? How do I turn this into columns again? At least if there was some sense to where these tools were buried, I might be able to find them. The changes to the Word menus is enough to make me consider using MS-Office again. (for the 1 document a month that I produce).
It is not a slashvertisment because it runs a Transmeta CPU. Anything that SlashGod Linus has touched is relevant to everyone that reads Slashdot. The news is that the device has been improved, and makes Linus' work look even better.
The real reason for the trip to Phobos is to photograph the Leather Goddesses
Does this not scare anyone else? When Google becomes self-aware...
I once saw a japanese gameshow where the man had to eat a scorpion, and said it tastes just like penguin.
I have a Dell that has been running and continues to run and be used that I bought in 1998. I paid nearly $7000 as it was was the first day that they offered the 300MHz PII. I have since killed 3 other PC's so I can see your argument, but I also bought those machines for less than 1/2 the price of an equivalent Mac. So I guess you get what you pay for.
Is your PowerMac G3 still in use? or did it die before you upgraded?
3 hours has got to be some kind of record! anyone track the min max amount of time between /. dupes?
It is libel, not slander.
As to the argument; no matter how it is presented, a fact is a fact. I am not saying that they did or did not demonstrate Cold Fusion, if their research turns out to be correct, who cares how it is presented?
The most likely reason Huck Finn was challenged was because it is politically incorrect. Watch out, reading the N-word will destroy your innocence! If you know the N-word I refer to, how did you learn it? Read The Catcher in the Rye for some insight into the confusion making words taboo, dirty and wrong can do to someone.