In the practical world, due to taxes and varying regulations and base tariffs being exchanged on the varying tarif of gas/electricity, I've been able (2 years ago) to lower my gas bill by 350 euros by raising my electricity bill by 36 euros. I left my duron 1200 computer on day&night and thereby saved a lot of cash. You needn't believe it, but I'll just keep the money to myself.
Try Linux, it allows you to tune down all those exceedingly graphical enhancements such as windows (not the OS, the viewport-concept that orders applications). Try the console! It is very resource safe, quick as hell and is well supported and intuitive!
Assuming there is a god, then we have already taken the entire earth (macro-speaking) from him. We've staked out each bit and divided it. We settled on having a few bits as undivided and protected. If god has the copyrights on our dna he's in a pretty bad position to defend them (assuming he's in fact infallible and unprovable, which makes any direct or indirect interference impossible, so there's no "hand of god"-like option for him).
The US of course foresaw it and handed out patents on individual genes.
Fact 1: The moon rotates so that we always see the same side from the earth, IE, along with the earth with rotation time equal (or nearly equal) to its roundtrip time.
Fact 2: Excluding the cases of lunar eclipse and solar eclipse, the moon is "lit" on one half and dark on the other.
Fact 3: We see the moon change "phase" as it goes from a blank moon to a full moon and back.
1+2+3 = There is no dark side of the moon.
Though, there is a "not-this-side" of the moon. It is in fact free from radiointerference from earth and from the ozone layer (which blocks a whole lot of radio waves). There are also poles (those which are at the "top" and "bottom" and that receive little light). These places are probably the coldest and the most likely place for surface ice (you could compare it with the earth).
Will you bring the main content to print at some time, in a form similar to a traditional encyclopedia? That would be around a dozen thick and heavy books containing the most important bit of information.
> Yeah, definitely. There are less providers here in Canada, but of course! There is less population to serve.
Canada has 32,805,041 people. The Netherlands has 16,407,491. In the Netherlands, there are at least a dozen DSL providers country-wide. There are at least 3-4 cable companies as well (although they're still a monopoly, it's being worked on). That's just bullshit.
Go metric (Square Kilometer Array). Those from the US will think it's the biggest ever, will double its size in miles and fail horribly because somebody will have mixed up the miles with inches.
During later testing, we found out that using two metal rings with a rubber bit in between wasn't the best idea either.
(ICE disaster, Eschede, Germany)
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Gmail requires 6 characters before the @-symbol, so that's a lie.
The idea is nice however, I've been thinking about it for a while:
Most people nowadays prefix their email address with "SPAM". They consider it safer because spambots aren't that smart. Now, spambots auto-delete "spam" when it's in an email address.
So, what if you registered dascandyspam@gmail.com (for me) as normal email addy with dascandy@gmail.com as spam address?
> What does the general public think they understand, but really don't?"
That's the main question in this thing, and that's what the book shouldn't be aimed at. These things change over time so if you write them in, your book is as dated as "Learn yourself Windows 3.11 in 24 hours".
Stuff they think they know: Every computer runs Windows. Everybody can install the drivers that come with the hardware, that's what they're for right? All stuff in shops works in Windows on a PC. When your computer slows down it's natural and you just need to reinstall. Computer hackers destroy computers and are only bad guys. Programming is very hard, near impossible. When Windows fails you call out your nearest computer nerd and tell him to fix it. Every computer nerd claims to know a computer, so he should at least know how to fix Windows. Rebooting is considered a way of fixing stuff. Microsoft file formats are accessible for everybody. Computer software is only decent if you have to pay for it, but you shouldn't pay but get it off the intarweb, that's cheaper. Flash websites are better than XHTML websites.
You know, stuff that would make you ignore somebody instead of answering them.
They have a removable keypad that can also be used as a calculator.
Or as most would have it, paperweight.
Comes in two varieties, the desktop version (for $270) or the laptop wireless version with USB dongle (for $120). I'm seriously considering getting one for myself, but they seem to have no idea where the enter exactly is and the left shift button is mangled, so I'm not sure I'm going to mispress a few keys. Seeing the wear on my current keyboard I'm pressing the enter button in the middle so I'd regularly have a \ at the end of my lines.
Also, they appear to have misplaced the insert button.
Of course, I'm a touch typist who worries too much about those things.
What if you view the speed you're going at as a 4-dimensional vector with the basic 3 axis of space and the axis of time. That way, speed would (should) be a constant, where, if you accelerate more in the space domain in any direction, your speed in the time domain would decrease. Now, if you could accept that travelling faster than the speed of light is impossible only due to this vector being constant in size, you could accelerate until it is on the other side of the timeplane, thereby allowing you to travel through time.
Didn't think about what paradoxes you'd need, and you'd probably bump into yourself at the moment of turnaround, but aside from that...
No research done whether this could be true, but it's an idea I've been playing with.
You might want to search a little harder for a good deal. Average around here is 10c/min for normal calls, I found one (limited in number of target phones, but still good enough) with which I can call everybody I know for 60 hours a month for 10,50 in total, including phone and 30 smses a month. Calculate it out, the phone costs 6*24= 216 euros (ok, that's a slight bit more), the smses are 60 euros for in total 720 smses (8.8c each) and the phone calls average to something like 0.06 cents a minute.
Stopped using Norton when it started to include the biggest virus cause of them all - IE - as a prerequisite for its use. How are you going to stop viruses brought in with IE from affecting the system if the virus scanner NEEDS IE?
Where did you learn to count? People count one, two, many.
They'll publish an N-button mouse in tradition of the transition from one to two button mice, for a meager price of $20 + $20 * N, or $60 for a 3-button mouse or only $240 for a 12-button mouse. The traditional two-button mouse will be priced down from $50 to $40 with the one-button mouse staying at $20.
Sad thing is, all Mac software assumes one button so those extra buttons will be doing pretty much nothing the next few... decades or so...
- Correcting teachers after a few weeks just after I started with their course, and being very right (about basic truths where they were stone cold lying). Done this in maths (when I was 13), physics (17), information analysis (18) and probably a few others. - Just being an arse and getting an A without learning. Stopped counting. - Being the only one to finish a course, and not learning. - Having to apologize to friends that they failed a course because I got an A and they couldn't adjust the grades up because of that. - Complaining about my A+ not being raised higher even though the regulations clearly say you can't get better than that. - Not learning (actually, I never learn), intentionally oversleeping 59 minutes on a final exam (chemistry), finishing first (including the rest which was busy for a full hour) and STILL having the best grade (just an A, mixed up one bit). - Skipping an exam because there was a good movie showing in theatre and making the retry only instead. - In an oral test, plain claim to the teacher that since you know more about a certain area some thing he is asking you is plain obsolete and thus not worth explaining, and finishing it with a B+.
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That's true in the greenhouse-only world.
In the practical world, due to taxes and varying regulations and base tariffs being exchanged on the varying tarif of gas/electricity, I've been able (2 years ago) to lower my gas bill by 350 euros by raising my electricity bill by 36 euros. I left my duron 1200 computer on day&night and thereby saved a lot of cash. You needn't believe it, but I'll just keep the money to myself.
Say, going to the www.bankofthevvest.com site...
In a recent research, over 90% of people read that as www.bankofthewest.com and continued to use it...
Doesn't that qualify as a death threat?
Try Linux, it allows you to tune down all those exceedingly graphical enhancements such as windows (not the OS, the viewport-concept that orders applications). Try the console! It is very resource safe, quick as hell and is well supported and intuitive!
> Playboy articles are pretty good, providing good analysis of all the hot topics
And displaying detailed images of the hot topics as well...
> I believe god owns the source code to our dna.
Assuming there is a god, then we have already taken the entire earth (macro-speaking) from him. We've staked out each bit and divided it. We settled on having a few bits as undivided and protected. If god has the copyrights on our dna he's in a pretty bad position to defend them (assuming he's in fact infallible and unprovable, which makes any direct or indirect interference impossible, so there's no "hand of god"-like option for him).
The US of course foresaw it and handed out patents on individual genes.
cat executable | sed -e 's/GenuineIntel/AuthenticAMD/g' >newexecutable; ./newexecutable
Do you really think it helps? Ok, it might claim I have an AMD Pentium 4...
Intels counters with Majin Boo processors, AMD finishes with Goku processors.
Fact 1: The moon rotates so that we always see the same side from the earth, IE, along with the earth with rotation time equal (or nearly equal) to its roundtrip time.
Fact 2: Excluding the cases of lunar eclipse and solar eclipse, the moon is "lit" on one half and dark on the other.
Fact 3: We see the moon change "phase" as it goes from a blank moon to a full moon and back.
1+2+3 = There is no dark side of the moon.
Though, there is a "not-this-side" of the moon. It is in fact free from radiointerference from earth and from the ozone layer (which blocks a whole lot of radio waves). There are also poles (those which are at the "top" and "bottom" and that receive little light). These places are probably the coldest and the most likely place for surface ice (you could compare it with the earth).
Will you bring the main content to print at some time, in a form similar to a traditional encyclopedia? That would be around a dozen thick and heavy books containing the most important bit of information.
> Yeah, definitely. There are less providers here in Canada, but of course! There is less population to serve.
Canada has 32,805,041 people. The Netherlands has 16,407,491. In the Netherlands, there are at least a dozen DSL providers country-wide. There are at least 3-4 cable companies as well (although they're still a monopoly, it's being worked on). That's just bullshit.
> Shaw [www.shaw.ca] and Rogers [www.shaw.ca]
That smells like a monopoly.
Go metric (Square Kilometer Array). Those from the US will think it's the biggest ever, will double its size in miles and fail horribly because somebody will have mixed up the miles with inches.
> is a quantum computer emulator that is capable of detecting vary diverse musical signatures
You can write a quantum computer emulator but you can't be bothered to spellcheck or self-check your typing?
During later testing, we found out that using two metal rings with a rubber bit in between wasn't the best idea either.
(ICE disaster, Eschede, Germany)
Gmail requires 6 characters before the @-symbol, so that's a lie.
The idea is nice however, I've been thinking about it for a while:
Most people nowadays prefix their email address with "SPAM". They consider it safer because spambots aren't that smart. Now, spambots auto-delete "spam" when it's in an email address.
So, what if you registered dascandyspam@gmail.com (for me) as normal email addy with dascandy@gmail.com as spam address?
> These indicate that major changes to the moderation system are also to be expected.
Finally, now I won't get modded down as much.
> What does the general public think they understand, but really don't?"
That's the main question in this thing, and that's what the book shouldn't be aimed at. These things change over time so if you write them in, your book is as dated as "Learn yourself Windows 3.11 in 24 hours".
Stuff they think they know:
Every computer runs Windows.
Everybody can install the drivers that come with the hardware, that's what they're for right?
All stuff in shops works in Windows on a PC.
When your computer slows down it's natural and you just need to reinstall.
Computer hackers destroy computers and are only bad guys.
Programming is very hard, near impossible.
When Windows fails you call out your nearest computer nerd and tell him to fix it. Every computer nerd claims to know a computer, so he should at least know how to fix Windows.
Rebooting is considered a way of fixing stuff.
Microsoft file formats are accessible for everybody.
Computer software is only decent if you have to pay for it, but you shouldn't pay but get it off the intarweb, that's cheaper.
Flash websites are better than XHTML websites.
You know, stuff that would make you ignore somebody instead of answering them.
They have a removable keypad that can also be used as a calculator.
Or as most would have it, paperweight.
Comes in two varieties, the desktop version (for $270) or the laptop wireless version with USB dongle (for $120). I'm seriously considering getting one for myself, but they seem to have no idea where the enter exactly is and the left shift button is mangled, so I'm not sure I'm going to mispress a few keys. Seeing the wear on my current keyboard I'm pressing the enter button in the middle so I'd regularly have a \ at the end of my lines.
Also, they appear to have misplaced the insert button.
Of course, I'm a touch typist who worries too much about those things.
What if you view the speed you're going at as a 4-dimensional vector with the basic 3 axis of space and the axis of time. That way, speed would (should) be a constant, where, if you accelerate more in the space domain in any direction, your speed in the time domain would decrease. Now, if you could accept that travelling faster than the speed of light is impossible only due to this vector being constant in size, you could accelerate until it is on the other side of the timeplane, thereby allowing you to travel through time.
Didn't think about what paradoxes you'd need, and you'd probably bump into yourself at the moment of turnaround, but aside from that...
No research done whether this could be true, but it's an idea I've been playing with.
> Why else would we routinely drop $50 on the latest iteration of games like Madden, Final Fantasy and Unreal Tournament
We don't. We're still trying to find the amulet of Yendor, you insensitive clod.
You might want to search a little harder for a good deal. Average around here is 10c/min for normal calls, I found one (limited in number of target phones, but still good enough) with which I can call everybody I know for 60 hours a month for 10,50 in total, including phone and 30 smses a month. Calculate it out, the phone costs 6*24= 216 euros (ok, that's a slight bit more), the smses are 60 euros for in total 720 smses (8.8c each) and the phone calls average to something like 0.06 cents a minute.
Stopped using Norton when it started to include the biggest virus cause of them all - IE - as a prerequisite for its use. How are you going to stop viruses brought in with IE from affecting the system if the virus scanner NEEDS IE?
Where did you learn to count? People count one, two, many.
They'll publish an N-button mouse in tradition of the transition from one to two button mice, for a meager price of $20 + $20 * N, or $60 for a 3-button mouse or only $240 for a 12-button mouse. The traditional two-button mouse will be priced down from $50 to $40 with the one-button mouse staying at $20.
Sad thing is, all Mac software assumes one button so those extra buttons will be doing pretty much nothing the next few... decades or so...
I just don't learn either.
I've done (and yes, it's become a sport for me):
- Correcting teachers after a few weeks just after I started with their course, and being very right (about basic truths where they were stone cold lying). Done this in maths (when I was 13), physics (17), information analysis (18) and probably a few others.
- Just being an arse and getting an A without learning. Stopped counting.
- Being the only one to finish a course, and not learning.
- Having to apologize to friends that they failed a course because I got an A and they couldn't adjust the grades up because of that.
- Complaining about my A+ not being raised higher even though the regulations clearly say you can't get better than that.
- Not learning (actually, I never learn), intentionally oversleeping 59 minutes on a final exam (chemistry), finishing first (including the rest which was busy for a full hour) and STILL having the best grade (just an A, mixed up one bit).
- Skipping an exam because there was a good movie showing in theatre and making the retry only instead.
- In an oral test, plain claim to the teacher that since you know more about a certain area some thing he is asking you is plain obsolete and thus not worth explaining, and finishing it with a B+.